WINNER OF THE 'BLKDOG BOOK THE YEAR 2020' AWARDIt's September 2019, and the United States are embroiled in a second Cold War with Russia.Eminent British professor, and professional miser, Harold Dunn, has spent the last six years building the Allies' nuclear deterrent; a bomb nine thousand times more powerful than the one dropped on Nagasaki in 1945.When Dunn is invited to the missile's new home, and one of the most infamous military facilities in...

Get ready for a wonderfully weird and wacky trip to places in the universe you didn't know existed! If Douglas Adams had written The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for kids, it might go like this... When 12-year-old Ilnoblet Elmer discovers his new head teacher is not quite what he thought, he uncovers a secret: the Moots, those dastardly, despicable, desecrating aliens, are back on Earth. Then his sister disappears, and he's sure it's got something...

What happens when your dream mission to Mars is a reality television nightmare? This debut science-fiction romp with heart follows the tradition of Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles, with a dash of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and a hint of Mythbusters. For the six lucky scientists selected by the Destination Mars! corporation, a one-way ticket to Mars-in exchange for a lifetime of research-was an absolute no-brainer. The incredible opportunity...

For fans of Douglas Adams, PG Wodehouse, Monty Python, and Dennis Taylor. It's one thing to know that the End is coming, quite another to know the exact date and time right down to the nanosecond. Such is the unhappy fate of the inhabitants of Rexos-4, a once-thriving planet that has lived under the doom of an inevitable apocalypse for millenia. Their entire philosophy of life may be summed up by the phrase "Mxtlpicam' bnak ooligapn," which in most...

"You are a vital component of Global Waste"went the company motivational email… Irena wants to fit in, and she needs the job, so she goes with the flow and doesn't rock the boat. But discovering something strange and potentially deadly in Stockholm's wastewater sends her fellow janitor squad members off the rails. Their hare-brained assumptions and accusations, fueled by the web site 'Syllojizm,' drive them to ever more dangerous mayhem. Irena is...

"Invention Is a Mother is a sharp, wickedly funny look at science, fiction, life, death, pitch meetings, insane flights of fancy, and technology that will either kill you or save you. It made me laugh in despair and laugh in joy. I loved it." -Will Leitch, author of How Lucky RESPONSIBILITY IS OVERRATED As a recently graduated and happily unemployed engineer, Shaughnessy shirks responsibility whenever possible. He coasts through life, sidestepping...

At a time of crisis, should you hug a robot? 'The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy meets the Terminator'. Locked down within the biosphere walls that surround Luhan Hypercity, Hiu has only chattering devices for company. It is not going well. His fridge has just filed for divorce. In fact, all of the devices have begun acting oddly recently. Sharkey's Law that 'Robots shall always be kept under meaningful human control' has broken down. Hiu finds...

Oscar Wilde's collection of fairy stories, which he made up for his own sons, are among the greatest and most poignant classics for children and adults alike. Humor, pathos, delightful little characters abound in the stories of The Happy Prince and the Swallow who agrees to keep him company despite approaching winter; the Selfish Giant, who doesn't want children playing in his garden, and the Remarkable Rocket. In addition, there are those who are...

So far the AstroNuts have failed to find a suitable planet, but NNASA has come up with a new plan: send the the four animal astronauts back through time on Earth where they are to contact early homo sapiens and somehow set them on a path to a sustainable future--trouble is, humans seem inferior to many of the other species (especially the wolves), so the AstroNuts come up with a Survival of the Fittest Olympics, hoping that with a little help the...

"Because he died before his time, the teen protagonist of this wildly imaginative fantasy/sci-fi novel ends up in the special part of the afterlife reserved for lost things. He is meant to wait there until his proper time to die. Wit, as he is called in the afterlife, finds himself sharing this peculiar sort of purgatory with all manner of lost things-not just children. Buttons, socks, religion ("people are losing their religion all the time, right?")...