“Incredibly enough, when decades ago I first swooned for the Soft Boys and their shambolic leader, I said to myself and anyone who’d listen, ‘This is the sole psychedelic musician I can imagine writing not one, but actually two witty, self-effacing, phantasmagorical autofictional memoirs in quick succession as he rounds into late middle age.’ Even more incredibly, I have been completely vindicated in this left-field speculation, and we are all the better for it, as Stranded in the Future has capitalized on the opportunities opened by 1967’s close focus on that single year of boyish self-invention and vaulted us into the next act, in which mannish boy becomes boyish man. Now our correspondent only has to repeat this astonishing trick ten more times to complete his imperishable twelve-volume epic A Dance to the Music of Hitchcock.”
—Jonathan Lethem, author of Brooklyn Crime Novel

“I first saw Robyn Hitchcock and the Soft Boys in 1978 at London’s Hope & Anchor. They were the most psychedelic band I’d seen since Pink Floyd in 1968—and they covered Elvis Presley’s ‘Mystery Train,’ a perfect metaphor for this wild, intimate memory ride as one of Britain’s greatest songwriters finds his voice and Technicolor mission in the perpetual winter of the 1970s. Gather your late-night reading hours and give ’em to the Soft Boys.”
—David Fricke, MOJO, Sirius XM Radio

“Stranded in the Future is filled with keen, brilliant, totally original observations about what it feels like to be at the start of your quest for first love, your first band, and your elusive idol who keeps mysteriously crossing your path. Robyn Hitchcock’s mind, his writing, this book—it’s a trolleybus ride straight to the essence of being alive.”
—Jennifer Belle, author of Swanna in Love