Hub City Press to publish Thomas Pierce's collection Do You Miss Earth?

Hub City Press is thrilled to announce it will publish Thomas Pierce's collection, Do You Miss Earth?, in the spring of 2028.

United by an inimitable wit, imagination, and empathy for the spiritually dislocated, the stories in Do You Miss Earth? prove a hilarious corrective to humanity's most foolhardy wish: escaping the world, and each other. Whether in outer space, inner space, or cyberspace, Pierce's characters all long for the connections that other people—which is to say, humans—often seem incapable of making. For fans of Ted Chiang, Ed Park, and Marie-Helene Bertino.

Thomas Pierce is the author of a novel, The Afterlives, and a short story collection, Hall of Small Mammals, for which he was honored with the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 Award.  He holds an MFA from the University of Virginia, where he was a Poe/Faulkner Fellow.  His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Zoetrope, The Oxford American, and Virginia Quarterly Review and been anthologized in The Best American Non-Required Reading and O. Henry Prize Stories.  He has reported for NPR and National Geographic Magazine. Along with his wife and daughters, he currently lives outside of Charlottesville, VA.