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An unforgettable story about love in all its chaotic glory from the author of Last One At The Party The convention of a book synopsis is fundamentally ridiculous. How can I adequately convey in only 150 words the complexity and bewilderment of the past ten months and the effect the events that...

Not long ago, NSLICE-00P—short for Non-Standard Leashed-Intelligence Cybernetic Enforcer—performed her job with cold, calculated, merciless obedience. When she was ordered to destroy something, it got seriously destroyed. Unfortunately, that led her to take out her own creator before he created her, casting the cyborg out of her reality and into a world of magic, levels, and skills, with her very own dungeon core and no one to tell her what to do. As it turned out, fate put NSLICE-00P in the right place at the right time: she's become a legit heroine in this new existence.

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.

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...

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.

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

SEARCHING FOR EACH OTHER is the 4th and last book of the Airina Series. Although this is a continuation of the three previous books, it also stands by itself since, within the same story, a recount of what happened in the previous books is part of the plot. This book will make you think, laugh, and, hopefully, cry a little.

Part of the Evelyn E. Smith science fiction series published by Unforgotten Books, THE VILBAR PARTY AND OTHER STORIES contains some of the author's sharpest and wittiest works.

The Unfortunate Problem with Grandmother’s Head and Other Stories is an eclectic collection of short stories carefully selected from over three decades of professional works that are intriguing, thought-provoking, and entertaining.

A region of space with different laws of physics. A child’s story about black holes. An interoffice memorandum presaging the end of the world. An alien named Gerald. These are some of the stories you’ll find in There Is No Cat, a collection of short fiction by Gene Doucette. Each story is unique, both in the topic and the telling, as Gene never seems to approach his stories the same way twice. See what our world looks like from the perspective of a newly self-aware nanobot, or the eyes of a precocious child. Read between the lines of corporate-speak for news of an impending apocalypse.

Rhys Hughes’ unique observational, aphoristic humour abounds in this collection of artfully crafted, extremely short stories. A perennial master of invention, Hughes explores our perceptions of humanity, mining truths beneath the clutter of culture with incisive wordplay and trademark wit.

You'll love this collection of humorous short stories, set in a near-future mild dystopia where AI's rule the roost. Capital Disrupt's everyday heroes confront rapid, technological change while finding innovative hacks and work-arounds to triumph over inhuman bureaucracy. Capital Disrupt is about overgrowing the system. It's about challenging the prevailing capitalist narrative, which promises prosperity while extracting our hard-earned cash.