SK Morton;
the Stanley Kubric of Humor Writers
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SK’s Latest Novella
SK Morton has made it his mission to produce an entertaining, thoughtful, humorous tome in every genre of literature (except the dirty stuff), and make it a solid read - though most of his attempts so far have collpsed under mild scrutiny.
He’s the kind of writer who makes you feel like you’re in on something slightly smarter than you’d expect from a knuckle-dragger like him, but slightly dumber than anything you’ve previously used to line a birdcage. His tone sits somewhere between informed and intentionally unhelpful.
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There’s a consistent thread of, ‘intelligence slipping on a banana peel.’ Readers tend to notice, right away that the writing has structure, ideas, actual points of view—but then it quietly undermines itself with Melvilesque tangents and unfledged scenarios. It’s not loud humor. It’s the kind that sneaks in, makes its case, and then leaves you wondering if you were just enriched or insulted.
What stands out is how much of it is rooted in real observation -particularly the human condition (as explained to him by film appreciation students). This he presents with the confidence of someone who has heard it explained twice and chosen the more convenient version..
And there’s a discipline to it that people don’t always clock at first. Even when it feels rambling, the humor is doing exactly what it’s supposed to do. Reviews tend to land on the same idea: “It’s funny, yes—but also oddly thoughtful, a little intellectual, and just self-aware enough to keep you from trusting it completely.”
If you had to sum it up, you’d say he writes like someone who understands how things work and finds that deeply inconvenient.
Looking Forward: 2012 - 2087
In Looking Forward, his first novella, SK Morton considers what it might mean to finally get things right. Gilbert Rochdale Eastman—scientist, inventor, and increasingly confident man—develops a system capable of modeling possible outcomes for any decision with remarkable accuracy, and then, somewhat inevitably, begins improving the world with it. The results are immediate, measurable, and difficult to argue with.
When he finds that he can communicate with a woman from the future who informs him that some of his views from his own time are no longer considered moral in her time, he makes adjustments. He improves the adjustments. He continues.
The more effective the system becomes, the less room there seems to be for the people using it. The result is a growing dependence on certainty, a shrinking tolerance for error, and the quiet sense that everday being solved out of existence.
Looking Forward is a darkly comic sci-fi satire about moral perfection and unintended consequences.
Out July 6th, 2026, but you can pre-order now.
About SK Morton
SK Morton is a humor writer, comedian, and reluctant historian. He is the author of multiple humor books including Grandpa’s Cheese, his latest, Looking Forward, his childish series: Mortonpiece Theater Presents, featuring new takes on enduring children’s classics like Little Red Hen, Ugly Duckling, Billy Goats Gruff, and the forthcoming Ants and the Grasshopper. He is the creator of SK Morton’s Lousy San Francisco Walking Tour, and will be releasing the tour’s companion city guide, I Left My Heart in San Francisco and All I Got Was This Lousy Rash, late next year.
His work focuses on humor, history, and other preventable outcomes.
