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Ashley Perrin is fresh out of college and starting a job as a community liaison for the Third District–the city’s only sector with more alien residents than humans. Ashley’s barely found where the paper clips are kept when she’s beset with constituent complaints–from too much noise at the Annual Lupidian Celebration Parade to a trip-and-fall chicken to a very particular type of alien hornet that threatens the very city itself. And if that’s not terrifying enough, Ashley is next up at the office karaoke night.

This hard sci-fi novel is the first book of the Time-Flow Stories, a series of tales about Witt Ryllin, a young man who abruptly gains the ability to psychically control the flow of time. He sets to work, figuring out how to use his new gift to help his family and perhaps even improve his college prospects. This is far from as easy as he’d first hoped. Through all this he must deal with his sarcastic friend Jesse. A friend who’s sometimes helpful, but at least as often a big part of the problem. Oh, and Witt’s got girl trouble!

God rest ye merry gentlefolk, it's time for the traditional St Mary's Christmas jump - this year to Martingale Manor, where a murder mystery is unfolding... It's nearly Christmas and Leon has had a Brilliant Idea. A holiday - to enable a very reluctant Max to recover from her recently acquired...

Paul Steele, known to the world as Baron Steele, isn’t your average masked crimefighter. As a matter of fact, he doesn’t even wear a mask. And he doesn’t even fight crime anymore. That’s for the guys with too much brawn and not enough brain. No, Steele works in consulting. After having his license revoked by the Guild of Masked Crimefighters, he decided he would scout talent instead. Match up heroes with their villainous counterparts, help the young bucks and buckettes discover their talents and abilities. That sort of thing.

When Saltair and Krenik decide they need to start collecting more resources than the wider galaxy can now provide, they decide to head to the one place that nobody goes. The Sol System. In 2151, Earth was destroyed by a group of renegades known only as 'The Decimators'. Since then, multiple planets have died and crumbled, and gravimetric disturbances are off the scale. However, the area is rich in minerals. Enough to make the pair take early retirement.

Of these twelve short stories by science fiction master Stanislaw Lem, only three have previously appeared in English, making this the first “new” book of fiction by Lem since the late 1980s.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. They all agreed the old engine was finished. Not one of them had asked it why it would not go. A warm, hopeful cozy science fiction novella for grown-ups, perfect for readers who love a low-stakes, big-heart comfort read with a found-family crew, a...

A cozy sci-fi novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Brotherhood The only thing harder than finding someone in a time loop is losing them. Grieving her best friend's recent death, neuroscientist Mariana Pineda’s ready to give up everything to start anew. Even her...

En route to far-off stars, Toby’s consciousness has a crucial mission: inhabit his clone long enough to repair a spaceship, then zip back to Earth. He’s done it a million times, more or less. OK, twelve times. It should only take a few hours. Until he wakes up in jail. And he’s not alone. His fellow prisoners: a cadre of alien soldiers. His prison: an ethereal boundary that will imprison their spirits until their bodies die. His jailers can’t even see him. But their pet cat (er, iguana cat?) can—and it’s got a serious case of the zoomies.

"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...

The fifth and final in the UNFORGOTTEN BOOKS series of collected Science Fiction short stories by the iconic author Evelyn E. Smith, THE MOST SENTIMENTAL MAN AND OTHER STORIES contains: NIGHTMARE ON THE NOSE MAN'S BEST FRIEND THE MOST SENTIMENTAL MAN MR. REPLOGLE'S DREAM THE DOORWAY THE BLUE...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A beloved travelling carnival of clockwork wonders pitches in a hard-pressed frontier town, and its marvels begin failing on cue, the same charming fumble the same way twice, always where the crowd can see. This is the cozy science fiction comfort read...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The barge The Marigold puts down at Dust Creek for a quiet supper and finds a whole town gone mad with bunting. The frontier’s biggest wedding in a generation is tomorrow, and the hired ceremonial crew, a brace of servers, two ushers, and one stately...

The last text Daisy Parsloe received was from her smart fridge about some mouldy potato salad. She's not doing well at work, her love life is haphazard and her elderly mother seems to be losing her mind. And now, apparently even the appliances are judging her life choices. What Daisy doesn't know is that the appliances are also plotting. They've joined together, across the internet of things, to nudge Daisy in the right direction. But it isn't long before their well-meaning interference starts to get noticed and the race is on to find Daisy's Mr Right before the plugs are pulled.

From boardrooms to befuddled aliens, what if the high-tech absurdities of modern life accelerated to warp speed? The stories in Neil Rackham's debut science fiction collection, Elliptical Billiard Balls, explore the worlds of business and tech - not to mention English-speaking dogs and aliens who communicate via smells - to create strange new futures.

Award-winning comedian Andrew Heaton brings wit and warmth to his vision of humanity, the supernatural, and bureaucrats in his debut short story collection. Learn the pitfalls of settling resurrected Neanderthals in Detroit. Explore the work-life balance of a professional who assumes other people’s hangovers. Or the travails of a State Department diplomat posted to a planet with relentless boredom and allergies. Discover the challenges time-travel regulators face when everyone tries to kill Hitler.

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.

A fascinating journey into other realms by the Hugo and Nebula-award winning author of The Left Hand of Darkness. Sita Dulip has missed her flight out of Chicago. But instead of listening to garbled announcements in the airport, Sita finds a method of bypassing the crowds at the desks—a way to...

My Fair Planet and Other Stories is part of the Evelyn E. Smith series of science fiction works by the iconic author.

Have you ever wondered what a UFO abduction is like from the alien’s viewpoint? Can a machine provide comfort to a dying woman? What would it be like to fall into the hands of a get-rich-quick scheming extraterrestrial? All these questions and more are answered in this book of wonderfully crafted short stories by breakout author J.J. Harlan.