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The universe is a dangerous place in John Scalzi's Old Man's War, the first in The Old Man's War series. At seventy-five years old, John Perry is after a fresh start - so, naturally, he joins the army. Earth's military machine can transform elderly recruits, restoring their lost youth. But in...

Hard-core, fast paced science fiction, John Scalzi's Zoe's Tale is the fourth in The Old Man's War series. She won't go down without a fight. It's not every day you up sticks and move to another world. But then, Zoë Boutin-Perry's life has never been ordinary. She's the adopted teenage daughter...

The military SF sequel to his extraordinary Old Man's War, John Scalzi's The Ghost Brigades is the second in The Old Man's War series. Who can you trust, if you can't trust yourself? Three hostile alien races have united against humanity, determined to halt our expansion into space. The...

They came up on us like a gravy crap. We was just down by the creek dranking and shooting when them ugly suckers flanked us. My name is Lick. They call me Lick cause when I was a baby I used to lick everything. This is the story of me and my buddy Fanger. We call him Fanger cause when he was a kid he broke his panky fanger on his right hand and his mom and deddy didn't git it fixed right. Now it sticks out all the time like a fancy yankee or English man dranking tea. Anyway, this is the story of our first encounter and how we ended up on the run. Just like everybody else.

Hard-core military science fiction at its very best, John Scalzi's The Last Colony is the third in The Old Man's War series. They must save themselves – or die trying. John Perry was living peacefully on one of humanity's colonies – until he and his wife were offered an opportunity these...

SENTRY OF THE SKY AND OTHER STORIES is part of the Evelyn E. Smith series published by Unforgotten Books, and includes the stories: NOT FIT FOR CHILDREN, SENTRY OF THE SKY, THE MAN OUTSIDE, and JACK OF NO TRADES. Evelyn E. Smith wrote fabulously witty and imaginative science fiction and satirical stories throughout the 1950's, and this collection is part of a series re-issuing those works and concurrently producing the audiobook editions.

Aliens ripped a hole above Earth, arriving with a massive space station. I sorta figured we'd be enslaved to fight in their wars or exterminated for our resources. Nope. The hip-high Iglax were merchants with ugly squished faces and thick blue fur. While they weren't much to look at, they sure did have some wonderous technology.

Maxim Volt has defended his rule against the depredations of industry, but a greater challenge awaits him. Marriage. For not only does he have to organize a rite of fealty, where the various powers of the Grimm Valley swear loyalty to him and his house, but he must fend off a bevy of sometimes murderous brides eager to become the mistress of the castle.

What if a deadly poison was the only cure for a broken life? Mr. Coombes is a henpecked shopkeeper pushed to the absolute brink of despair by his ungrateful wife. Fleeing into the damp pine woods, he contemplates a dark, watery end to his miserable existence - until a strange, eerie object...

Journey from fantasy mountains to super-cities, through piratical seas and across space without missing any must-see sights – or putting a foot wrong with the locals! Whether you’re Lord of the shoestring-budget or Luxe Skywalker – Notes from Small Planets is your pastiche passport through...

What if London’s heaviest man weighed absolutely nothing? In this brilliantly bizarre, darkly comedic tale by H.G. Wells, an annoyed gentleman named Formalyn is relentlessly badgered by Pyecraft - the most monstrously obese, insufferable clubman in London. Desperate to escape his massive size...

Jack Gripper loves playing pranks and eating pizza. But when he’s tasked with selecting an alien species to mentor Earth for the next 100 years, he’d better make the right call or the Earth is doomed! Can he overcome obstacles and diabolical plots to pick the right alien? And, just as important, can chocolate and pizza survive the alien encounter?

They fell from space and were hatched. In three weeks, they were fully grown three-feet-high creatures with an IQ about the same as a two-year-old human. Russia and China decided to attack them. When that didn't go well, they destroyed 500,000 of the beings. In the US, Bob Michaels wanted to try a different way. He simply brought two of them home and tried to communicate with them. He began learning from them, and they learned from him. Hell, he even toilet-trained them.

Alex wants nothing more than to enjoy her summer break, like any other self-respecting middle school teacher. But when a science experiment brings God to Earth — and utter chaos along with her — Alex teams up with a mailman, an engineer, a priest and a scientist to undo the experiment. Add two demons with just the perfect solution and an ever-greater plot unfolds – one which would change humanity forever. Alex must navigate this scientific conundrum, as well as face some demons of her own, in this humorous and irreverent tale.

When Einstein's well-intentioned experiment goes horribly awry, our favorite band of survivors finds themselves face-to-face with a giant, genetically-enhanced killer rat. But that's just the beginning of their troubles. Packed with pop culture references, laugh-out-loud moments, and edge-of-your-seat action, "Let the Mischief Begin" delivers a perfect blend of humor and horror.

Remnants of civilization teeter on the brink of collapse. Danger lurks around every corner. An intense battle against sinister forces. Can Joe rise above the ashes to be the hero this world needs, or will all his joking around bring about our ultimate demise? Either way, who knew the end of the world could be this much fun?

Whenever a breach was reported in one of the company’s many transdimensional transport tubes, he would conscientiously rush to the scene to repair it. Brobding had a bad feeling about these frequent breaches; while he was relieved that there hadn’t been any interdimensional rifts so far, he thought that it was only a matter of time before something serious happened. Brobding was from the planet Measel.

Me and Fanger been holed up out in the country recovering from the fight. We could handle pretty much all them critters except for them Maybelle Turner werewolves. Fanger got drunk one night and his strategic mind kicked in to action. He came up with a four-step plan for figuring out these alien critters. Phase one was to requisition some silver to make some bullets. Phase two was surveillance and recon. Phase three was stockpile more of that black ooze to keep ourselves invisible.

Me, Fanger and Jack had a lot of learning to do. And like always, them alien critters kept us on our toes. But we were always ready for a fight.

Space was full of all kinda critters. Some good and some bad. And we discovered some of them critters ain’t so different from us. But our number one objective was still to get back to Earth and save the planet.