The novel is a humorous musical farce and Pythonesque romp among the most famous composers of modern western classical music confronting the difficulties of converting musical notes into bank notes, recast as leading bar bands and performing on instruments which have no counterparts in our current musical world while composing and performing for well-known commercial producers of films and cartoons. PRAISE FOR MAGIC FOR MARTIANS: 49 SHORT FICTIONS "...delightfully strange, fresh ... DeAnnuntis has mastered the art of fabricating ridiculousness with relevance... literature that feels new and current and will surely retain its contemporary feel... Each story... is the perfect length...astute, imaginative, and incredibly fun to read." -MID-AMERICAN REVIEW PRAISE FOR THE MYSTERIOUS ISLANDS AND OTHER STORIES ". . . stories that feel like dreams within a dream within a nightmare... eloquent language and out of this realm imagery...wildly imaginative and bordering on the creepy..." -NEWPAGES PRAISE FOR THE FINAL DEATH OF ROCK-AND-ROLL AND OTHER STORIES "...surreal journeys to other worlds. . . a stunning glimpse into what a marvelous writer can do when he gives free rein to his truly original, quirky mind." -FORWARD REVIEWS PRAISE FOR MASTER SIGER'S DREAM "If you like your 13th century philosophy and philosophers stoned, drunk and mish-mashed with anachronistic technology...makes the heady intellectualism go down like candy...the novel is a tease, flirting both with entertainment and (the) burden of great ideas." -THE BROADKILL REVIEW "This is a really engaging book!" -GOODREADS "Reading A.W. DeAnnuntis' debut novel, Master Siger's Dream, put me in mind of the John Kennedy Toole masterpiece A Confederacy of Dunces. . . such a wonderful character that we can't help hoping Siger figures out a way to circumvent his fate, (and) that somehow he finds his way to a better outcome." -MOSTLYFICTION REVIEWS