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Working at the local grocery store and surviving high school used to be the hard part. Now the real problem? Time and space keep breaking. The JackSkip Detective Agency (and bait shop—long story) is way out of its depth. Reality is cracking open: demons are slipping through, alternate selves keep showing up, and something big, furious, and cosmic is behind it all. Skip and Jack (careful, that’s trademarked by the Tuna Conglomerate) and Annabelle, aka A.B., are the victims of a bizarre pivotal location, a town that is at the center of a Universal Conflux of Doom.

The past has returned to haunt Evelyn. Having put aside matters of a family larger than she ever conceived of, Evelyn must now confront the consequences of past choices, both hers and those of others. Though she returned for a specific purpose, civil war ravages Peldra, and Evelyn finds herself...

It's back to school for Cat Leblanc, where the cyborg samurai gets high marks in ultraviolence against both gangsters and aliens, in this cyberpunk adventure. Things are quiet in the megacity of New Montreal. Too quiet for Catherine Leblanc. Earth is safe, the extraterrestrial Antithesis are...

Famen Striker was never supposed to be captain. But when the rest of the crew dies in a spectacular fireball, she needs cash to fix her busted-up starship or she’ll lose the only home she has left. Her best option? Con the most dangerous magistrate in the galaxy. To pull off the impossible heist, Famen needs a crew. Unfortunately, all she’s got is Burt, a genetically engineered pilot with four thumbs and no clue, and L-Mac, her devoted companion-bot, whose recent glitches suggest he might secretly be a weapon of mass destruction.

Thursday 1st September 2039. On the centenary of the Second World War, atheist scientist Chris Deckers exploits the planet's most powerful computer to reveal something so cataclysmic it makes five thousand years of recorded human history–wars, empires, revolutions, the lot–look like an underwhelming warm-up act.

Tedd helped build an army to take the fight to Phoenix. But Wyatt Voss has other ideas. Ambushed, attacked and bleeding out across the desert, Tedd's only move left is the one nobody saw coming—fighting alongside the enemy. The endgame is here. No rules. No mercy. And no way back.

One Hundred Million Energy Credits! The largest bounty ever recovered by Starfire Security. That should gain Ben Frost the respect he desires. If it doesn't kill him and destroy the company in the meantime . . . Yeah, it seemed like a good idea at the time: going after the largest energy credit...

John MacAlister finally has a respectable life. Naturally, he's about to ruin it. Steady work. A budding relationship. A reason to stay put. None of it's enough to kill the itch. When an encrypted message arrives from Bernie Jennison—the scientist who built Alvis and vanished years ago—John can't help seeing it as a sign that his days as a space adventurer aren't over. Bernie is alive. He's in trouble. And Castor—the rogue AI everyone believed destroyed —was never gone. The Star Corps won't intervene. John sees a mission too important to ignore.

From the beloved creator of the wildly popular Sam O’Nella Academy YouTube channel, an irreverent and timely science fiction collection that offers a wry look at the not-so-distant future Sam A. Miller, the creator behind Sam O'Nella Academy, has spent ten years teaching his 4.8 million...

A sharp collection of Robert Sheckley’s classic satirical science fiction, blending clever humor, strange futures, social commentary, and imaginative twists. Featuring Ask a Foolish Question, Keep Your Shape, and Cost of Living, this volume showcases Sheckley’s witty, inventive take on...

The Uniform Light takes you on a journey outside the norm with religious overtones that just might explain some of those "Is that why?" questions. Part science fiction, part fantasy, throw in some theology all with a sense of humor. The Uniform Light hopes to lead away from the obsolete toward the perception of a better future.

"When humanity went to the stars, dragons came with them. Many prospered and became pillars of the new colonies. Others fared rather poorly..." In a distant future, a dragon in exile from his own body gets dragged into a plot to keep a young girl safe from assassins. Using his strength (what's...

Lezi McGyver: Dos Sex Machina is a hilariously unhinged, sex-positive fever dream about a genius inventor put on trial by her own subconscious. Featuring sentient gadgets, a cartoon courtroom, and the uncomfortable question of why it’s easier to fix everyone else than yourself. Equal parts absurd comedy and emotional gut-punch.

Old flames, new rivals, and one droid who refuses to stop watching. Sam Kretcher finally meets someone worth losing his composure over — right as an old Academy buddy with an unfair amount of charm checks in and starts stealing her attention without even trying. Captain Vorn is doing her best impression of a woman who is absolutely not starstruck by a guest she's quietly adored since childhood.

First contact was a bug. Saving humanity is going to ruin his nap schedule. For Fitzwilliam 'Fitz' Chen, the biggest bug in his life was a misplaced comma, not an intergalactic distress signal. His perfectly calibrated world of naps and minimal effort shatters when a clueless alien race, the Phlibb, mistake his smart-home glitch for a cry for help. Now, as Earth's accidental First Contact Liaison, Fitz faces the ultimate disruption: saving humanity from well-meaning cosmic chaos.