Zombie Spaceship Wasteland: A Book by Patton Oswalt

Prepare yourself for a journey through the world of Patton Oswalt, one of the most creative, insightful, and hysterical voices on the entertain­ment scene today. Widely known for his roles in the films Big Fan and Ratatouille, as well as the television hit The King of Queens, Patton Oswalt--a staple of Comedy Central--has been amusing audiences for decades. Now, with Zombie Spaceship Wasteland, he offers a fascinating look into his most unusual, and lovable, mindscape.

Oswalt combines memoir with uproarious humor, from snow forts to Dungeons & Dragons to gifts from Grandma that had to be explained. He remem­bers his teen summers spent working in a movie Cineplex and his early years doing stand-up. Readers are also treated to several graphic elements, includ­ing a vampire tale for the rest of us and some greeting cards with a special touch. Then there's the book's centerpiece, which posits that before all young creative minds have anything to write about, they will home in on one of three story lines: zom­bies, spaceships, or wastelands.

Oswalt chose wastelands, and ever since he has been mining our society's wasteland for perversion and excess, pop culture and fatty foods, indie rock and single-malt scotch. Zombie Spaceship Wasteland is an inventive account of the evolution of Patton Oswalt's wildly insightful worldview, sure to indulge his legion of fans and lure many new admirers to his very entertaining "wasteland."

Now in paperback, the New York Times bestselling “thoughtful, hilarious, quasi-memoir that puts the standard-issue comedy-routine-in-book-form to shame” ( Spin ) from one of the most creative, insightful, and sharpest voices on the entertainment scene today.

Widely known for his roles in the films Big Fan and Ratatouille, as well as the television hit The King of Queens, Patton Oswalt—a staple of Comedy Central—has been amusing audiences for decades. Now, he offers a fascinating look into his most unusual and lovable mindscape.

In Zombie Spaceship Wasteland, Oswalt combines memoir with uproarious humor, from snow forts to Dungeons and Dragons to gifts from Grandma that had to be explained. Then there’s the book’s centerpiece, which posits that before all young creative minds have anything to write about, they will hone in on one of three story lines: zom­bies, spaceships, or wastelands. Oswalt chose wastelands, and ever since he has been mining our culture for perversion and excess, pop culture and fatty foods, indie rock and single-malt scotch.

An inventive account of the evolution of Patton Oswalt’s wildly insightful worldview, this incisive book—featured everywhere from The Daily Show to The Huffington Post, from Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to NPR—is an open invitation to a very entertaining “wasteland.”

Patton Oswalt is the author of the New York Times bestseller Zombie Spaceship Wasteland. He has released four TV specials and four critically acclaimed comedy albums, including the Grammy-nominated My Weakness Is Strong. He put together the Comedians of Comedy tour and television series. Oswalt has also appeared on many television shows and in more than twenty films, including Young Adult, Big Fan, and Ratatouille. He lives in Los Angeles, California.