The Happy Mutant Handbook

The Happy Mutant Handbook: Mischievous Fun for Higher Primates (1995), is an offbeat self-help book that advises the reader how to engage the world's absurdity by mutating into a surrealist dada cyber-reality hacker.

Mark Frauenfelder, Carla Sinclair , Gareth Branwyn , and Will Kreth edited this small anthology of independent articles, including notable contributions from Bruce Sterling, Rudy Rucker, Richard Kadrey , and R. U. Sirius.

Many underground and subculture scenes are chronicled, including comix, zines, cults such as SubGenius and Discordianism, reality hacking, the Billboard Liberation Front, Schwa, and quite a bit more. The book exists primarily as a celebration of weirdness.

Sinclair and Frauenfelder were editors of the popular bOING bOING zine (now a blog), and this book is an extension of that enterprise. An odd batch of stickers was included in the publication.

Reference

Frauenfelder, Mark; Sinclair, Carla; Branwyn, Gareth; Kreth, Will editors. (1995). The Happy Mutant Handbook: Mischievous Fun for Higher Primates. New York, Riverhead Books (Penguin Group). ISBN 1573225029