A review by brucefarrar
He Laughed with His Other Mouths by M.T. Anderson, Kurt Cyrus

4.0

In a dream, Jasper Dash, Boy Technonaut, gets an inspiration for an instantaneous teleportation device that can could send him into the depths of intergalactic space. Stinging from the humiliation that he’d received at the school science fair for his atomic powered mobile telephone.* So, against his mother’s wishes, he decides to send himself to a planet deep in the Horsehead Nebula in the hope of finding a being more accepting of his unique talents. Alas, that is not whom he finds.

*It was mobile, but it was also “as big as a lunch cart and had an antenna on top. It had huge metal wheels. It had a little door on the side with an atom painted on it. It had some kind of dial and a headset on it.”