Showing results for "Cosmos" in Genre Fiction

“[A] striking debut. . . funny, heartbreaking, and real.”––SAM LANSKY, author of Broken People Prep meets The Secret History in this searing debut novel about a tragic scandal at an American prep school, told in the form of a literary investigation through a distinctly...

He straightened his spine, raised his head, and extended his gun arm towards me in a slow, vertical arc. I saw then what he was, and stood still in front of him, for he was here on business. He was a small, serious, stone-eyed angel of mercy. Janet is a skeptic, a journalist; Maxine revels in New Age fantasies; and Ray, a drifter, is a born-again Christian. The common ground is the house they share. But their fragile domestic balance is about to explode amid the smashing of ukeleles, the unexpected ascension of an angel and a sudden shower of jonquils.

Actor Matthew McConaughey descends into a surreal desert of the soul, an admirer of Miley Cyrus performs a 3,000-word sentence in defense of his passion, an aging porn star dons a dinosaur costume to film the sex scene of a lifetime, and Leonard Cohen shills for Subway: these mercurial and wildly varied stories explode the conventions of short fiction.

Are you ready to be transported to a world beyond your wildest imagination? The Lord of the Cosmos, written by the talented Felipe Chavarro Polanía, is an audiobook experience like no other. With independent actors and state-of-the-art SFX, this audiobook will take you on a journey through the cosmos that will leave you breathless.

Author of Markman's Home, Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr., has created characters as memorable as any in the realm of magic realism. Set in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1976, the writer recounts what-ifs with spectacular scenes in a rail yard, through hidden tunnels, and in old abandoned buildings. From the beginning when a visitor from another world pops up in a downtown Louisville ad agency, until the spectacular finale, the action ratchets up at a dizzying rate.

Juan Bonilla recupera la figura de Nahui Olin, una de las mujeres más carismáticas del arte mexicano del siglo XX, para una obra merecedora del Premio Nacional de Narrativa 2020. Esta es una historia de amor y fantasmas. Nahui Olin fue, durante los veinte años, la musa de todo el mundo en...

Bold - Suspenseful - Dramatic. An epic tale of an asteroid that is about to wreak havoc on the inhabitants of earth as everyone tries to survive. Trouble in the Cosmos is the story of Amelia who is living a modest life, struggling with her mental health issues derived from being bullied as a child, and Zoe, the megalomaniac daughter of a billionaire who is fighting her way into inheriting her family’s fortune. This post-apocalyptic fantasy creates wild scenarios that portray a journey of struggle and hardship.

American culture is strange, and it appears even stranger after a hiatus. Cue Everett, back in Chicagoland after living in China. His head is spinning. His father has just died, plus basic reentry to the life he once knew is increasingly taxing and complicated. On top of that, it seems that while he was abroad, everyone Everett cared about dove off the deep end into some particular madness.

"Auto Antenna" is a pulp fiction memoir about art, personhood, and an Insider's Guide to Santa Fe. It's a hip metaphysical journey full of liberating insights, from an unusually alluring and free-spirited adventurer on the verge of her sixth decade; a mysterious transplant to Santa Fe, who it turns out may not be from this world at all. She

After solving one impossible mystery, Deirdre Green remains stumped by the remaining clues left by her late father. Every time she makes progress with The Monarch Papers, she realizes his cryptic riddles have only created more questions. As Deirdre begins to walk stranger, more dangerous paths, she finds that dark forces hell-bent on her destruction wait in the shadows....

The DRAG.N units were invented to support the marriage of the Universal Health Initiative (UHI) and Green Nation. Their purpose: mass airborne vaccinations to ensure health for all US citizens. The illogically expensive vaccines serve another purpose though. Laced with behavioral modification drugs, the REP vaccine has created a docile, drugged, and receptive American populace. The anti-UHI activists are determined to takedown the DRAG.N and the corrupt healthcare system.