★《紐約時報》非文學暢銷書排行榜No.15

In Zombie Spaceship Wasteland Patton Oswalt, one of the most creative, insightful, and hysterical voices on the entertainment scene today, offers not so much a memoir, but a collection of hilarity. From a pitch-perfect depiction of an adolescence spent reading everyone from Beverly Cleary to Anthony Burgess to a history of the world as told through internet comments, Oswalt dishes out autobiography and the incredible comedy for which he has become well known. The book’s centerpiece is the title essay, which posits that all young creative minds, before they have anything to write about, hone in on one of three storylines: zombies, spaceships, or wastelands. Oswalt chose wastelands, and ever since he’s been mining our society’s wasteland—of perversion and excess, pop culture and fatty foods, indie rock and single malt scotch—for the greatest jokes he can find. Patton Oswalt has released three TV specials and three critically-acclaimed comedy albums. He provided the voice for Remy the rat in Pixar’s Oscar-winning Ratatouille and spent nine years on the sitcom The King of Queens. He has appeared in more than twenty films, including Magnolia, The Informant, and The Fan.

Patton Oswalt has released three TV specials and three critically-acclaimed comedy albums. His most recent, My Weakness Is Strong, was released in February 2009. He is also well-known for putting together the “Comedians of Comedy” tour and television series, which has included comedians such as Zach Galifinakis, David Cross, and Eugene Mirman. Oswalt provided the voice for Remy the rat in Pixar's Oscar-winning Ratatouille, and spent nine years on The King of Queens. He has appeared in more than twenty films, including Magnolia, The Informant, and this fall's critcally-acclaimed The Fan, in which he played the leading role. A regular commentator on Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Real Time with Bill Maher, and Late Night (now the Tonight Show) with Conan O'Brien, Patton lives in Los Angeles, California.