Funny Science Fiction

Watch out - the Earth just fell into a dark sun's orbit! Or maybe you'd rather visit a theme park called Hell? These are just two of the strange and unnerving tales you'll find in this collection of great science fiction and fantasy stories.

Incredible Science Fiction: Amazing Tales from the 50's and Beyond, Volume Two collates a collection of some of the very best science-fiction stories published in the '50s together. All these stories (with the exception of The Anatomy of Fear) are now in the public domain and were original published in various science-fiction magazines that were very popular in the 1950s. This is a lovingly curated collection of some of the very best stories published during this time. This collection includes a further story from the Hugo Award-nominated Rog Phillips.

In this Very Short Introduction, David Seed doesn't offer a history of science fiction, but instead attempts to tie examples of science fiction to different historical moments, in order to demonstrate how science fiction has evolved over time, especially the emergence of science fiction as a popular genre in the 20th century. Seed looks not only at literature, but also at drama and poetry, as well as film. Examining recurrent themes in science fiction, he looks at voyages into space, the concept of the alien and alternative social identities....

A fun, fast, fantastical listen: After an altercation with a clown, I get lost in the woods and find a strange town. When the librarian of the town dies in front of me, I try on his ring. It fits. I’m declared the new librarian by the mayor and townspeople. I get to live in a houseful of books. But I soon learn the job involves more than just tomes and information. In fact, my first assignment is to discover who murdered my predecessor.

Tedd has always outrun his problems. The map just ran out. Phoenix is spreading north like a virus, chipping humans, crushing machines, and dipping into a deep warchest. Tedd's side is flat broke. An old ally nobody saw coming is about to change the math. In war, the first thing you run out of isn't hope — it's credits.

Four sci-fi short stories where you'll find good computers, people who regret their past, and an explanation for something you're familiar with.

Tedd has found something worse than humans who hate robots. Humans who want to be them. Phoenix has one goal: kill every machine that thinks for itself. And they're rewiring their own skulls to make it happen. McKenzie is back. Shaved head, dead eyes, and one instruction: destroy them all. If Tedd doesn't stop Phoenix, every robot left alive gets a bullet and every human who disagrees gets a chip. But is he prepared to kill the girl he once rescued? Phoenix called themselves the future of humanity. Turns out they needed a few upgrades first.

Tedd hat die Welt gerettet. Ihr Dank: ein Kopfgeld auf ihn. Mit dem Verschwinden des Managers hat die Menschheit keine Zeit verloren, um jedem verbliebenen Roboter den Krieg zu erklären–sie jagen sie für Ersatzteile, zum Spaß und für Credits. Jetzt erhebt sich eine neue Kraft aus den Trümmern. Sie nennen sich Phoenix. Ihre Mission: jede freidenkende Maschine von der Erde tilgen. Tedds Freunde sind seine einzige Überlebenschance. Das Problem ist, einer von ihnen hat bereits die Seiten gewechselt.

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.

In book 4 there’s the librarian, of course, all the main characters from books 1-3, including the town of Eden which is certainly a main character, and a witch. It begins with her asking the librarian to find her Familiar, a cat. It ends with, well, I can’t tell you that. Expect suspense and unexpected twists and turns, odd characters, and the same kind of humor that is in the other novels because I’m pretty much unable to have any other kind. Hope you enjoy it.

Join time-travelling penguins Pablo and Splash on their next thrilling adventure! A brilliantly funny colour graphic novel that fans of Dog Man and InvestiGators will love. 'You'll laugh your flippers off!' John Patrick Green, creator of InvestiGATORS 'Irresistibly funny' Guardian 'Pablo and...

Alba is about to lose everything during an awful divorce...until she meets the Vampires of Emberbury, who dwell under an abandoned graveyard, stuck in Victorian times. They will make her a very interesting job offer, and she will get to meet Clarence, a mysterious vampire gentleman who thinks cloaks and top hats are still in fashion. With his help, Alba will figure out that, sometimes, the scariest monster isn’t the one with fangs.

The Librarian wakes to find Eden empty—every soul vanished without a trace. But that's not the worst part. He's been gone for five years, trapped in another dimension while the post-apocalyptic world has crowned him history's greatest villain. Now the antichrist who tried to prevent Armageddon has become the perfect scapegoat for humanity's nuclear devastation. With a massive bounty on his head and the mysterious King's Council ruling the ruins of America, he must navigate a landscape of mutant lizards, demon wardens, and desperate survivors to find the truth.

After an altercation with a clown, I get lost in the woods and find a strange town. When the librarian of the town dies in front of me, I try on his ring. It fits. I’m declared the new librarian by the mayor and townspeople. I get to live in a houseful of books. But I soon learn the job involves more than just tomes and information. In this second novel in the series, a library book goes missing. Not just any book but the true story of what happened in Eden, among other true stories certain humans and angels don't want told. I have to find this book.

Kevin Austin has no plans of staying in the strange mountain town of Eden when he ends up becoming the new librarian after the previous one is murdered. He soon realizes this is no ordinary library. The books actually talk and fly around the rooms, and there's a ghost haunting the premises. Not to mention a collection of dangerous magical artifacts in the basement. In the town of Eden, Kevin encounters witches, zombies, demons, talking crows, angels, even gods and goddesses. Everyone in town seems to have secrets, including the alluring Olive, who Kevin falls for in book 1.

Every kid wants to laugh, but Max is the boy who can make it happen. He's also the kid who wants to spend the most boring school holidays ever coming up with the greatest prank of all time. Max is the funny kid, and it's time to prank the world! Conspiracy theories, crop circles, alien invasions, a mayor who has lost his marbles and the most un-fun fair in the universe are just some of the things in store for Max and his friends in this Funny Kid adventure.