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Earth’s been toast for five years—ever since the aliens showed up, killed half the population, and penned the rest like cattle. Master Sergeant Sol Winters leads a ragtag resistance team that’s barely clinging to relevance, when an alien ship crashes in his backyard carrying the princess of the empire and her grumpy bodyguard. She claims she’s here to make peace. Sol’s pretty sure she’s lying—but if she’s not, she might be humanity’s only shot at survival.

May’s career as an interstellar rocket racer is just ramping up. She’s got a stunning ship, her best friend Xan for a co-pilot, and a rocket-full of winnings. But obscenely good luck can’t last forever, and May has been racing in a stolen ship. When Xan’s arrested by a tea-sipping, goddess-possessed pink robot for a crime he can’t bring himself to explain without baking analogies, May’s career is over. With the help of an adventure biologist and her freshly un-dead girlfriend, May and Xan must find a way to change the past before the goddess of Chaos squashes everything May loves.

Sharks. In space. It's exactly what you think it is. What more do you want?

Witty, heartfelt, deeply weird, and utterly original, Mr. Yay explores how we grapple with inexplicable sudden shifts in the world around us, and the conspiracy theories and identity crises they birth. If the past we remember has changed, are we who we think we are? Is anyone?

Fifteen years after a dark matter reactor accident plunged Earth into a nuclear winter, Harry reactivates in a garbage dump. He's an android with amnesia in old New York, presently known as Empire City. He now works for what's left of the federal union as a bounty hunter, trying to raise the money he needs to replace his AI implant before it kills him.

Beverly Cryer (Vurl) has to choose a dystopian faction to live with for the rest of her life. If she doesn't make it through initiation, she'll be factionless and declared a Detergent. But, Vurl is determined not to spend the rest of her life doing everyone else's laundry. She is an independent young woman with skills she doesn't even know about and with the help of handsome number Two she'll not only make it through initiation, she'll save the city from disaster.

In the year 2475, the remnants of humanity have taken to the skies, inhabiting massive domed cities that hover five miles over the ruined ecological disaster of old Earth. The Powers That Be, in their infinite wisdom, decided that the few million people left deserved to live their best lives, so they gave each sub-orbital platform its own theme and legally enforced tech level.

All The Human had to do was turn over his latest bounty to the local authorities and collect his fee. But when it turns out that no one in the galaxy wants to take possession of the criminal, Adam is left with no choice but to transport him a quarter of the way across the galaxy, from the renegade planet Sinalus to Unidor Security's headquarters on Tactori. The problem . . . it seems everybody and their brother are trying to stop him from completing his mission, both the good guys and the bad guys. What do they know that The Human doesn't?

This wasn't like Adam Cain—AKA: The Human for Hire. He wasn't supposed to be compassionate and caring. But for some reason, he'd taken the former Third-Generation Human John Martinez under his wing and was now determined to show him what the real Human race was all about. As a 3G, Martinez had been raised by the Klin to believe a completely false narrative about his native race. But having never been to Earth—and after only a few tragic encounters with other Humans—what was Martinez to believe?

Comedian Olga Koch has a masters degree in the social science of the Internet and can turn almost any file into a PDF. In these three series, she looks at life through the eyes of a computer scientist, taking the universal truths you hold dear and tearing them to shreds using logic. With the help of her sassy digital assistant ALGO (played by Sindhu Vee and Tia Kofi), she uses stand-up and storytelling to unpack concepts such as Nationality, Beauty, Health, Privacy, Fun, Intelligence, Friendship and Family.

Фантастика для него — прибор наподобие лесковского мелкоскопа: глянешь в его глазок и увидишь, что возле блохи на подносе ещё и ключик лежит. Читать писателя Лукина — радость и удовольствие. Радость от качества его прозы, удовольствие — от шутовской атмосферы, в которой обитают его герои.

These short stories provide a glimpse, part humorous and part troubling, into the homeworld of a character who will become one of the key protagonists of Conquerors of K'Tara.

Word of advice: don’t go touching weird alien crystals without first considering the consequences—especially if they just fell out of the sky and crushed your house. Hi there, Jack Cobb here. See this scar on my hand? The one that looks like a pair of lips? Yeah, it wasn’t always a scar. At one point, it was home to a chatty little logophile I sometimes wish I could strangle. Together, we had one job: save the world—or at least, save the people in it—and find the missing pieces to build a machine that might just save ourselves before the world kicks us to the curb.

When the world ends, Joe's adventure begins! Armed with alien tech and a cloning machine, he accidentally creates a squad of quirky lookalikes. Now they must battle giant rats, uncover government secrets, and master the art of post-apocalyptic living. All six episodes of Post-Apocalyptic Joe in a Cinematic Wasteland bundled together for your listening pleasure.

Joe and his clones face their most harrowing challenge yet: an all-out war against the giant killer rats they accidentally created. Armed with makeshift weapons, and a whole lot of determination, our heroes must defend their underground sanctuary from the monstrous rodents hellbent on revenge. Will our heroes triumph over their rodent nemesis, or will they become the world's last all-you-can-eat buffet?

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.

When an experiment goes horribly wrong, Joe and his army of clones find themselves trapped in their underground bunker with a monstrous rodent straight out of a B-movie nightmare. Will our heroes triumph over their rodent nemesis, or will they become the world's last all-you-can-eat buffet?

Cyril Chippington-Smythe, the world's richest man, awakens from a drunken stupor to find that he may have engaged himself to the horrifyingly toothy Alice Witherspoon. His mechanical manservant, Bentley, concocts a plot to free his master from any possible entanglements, but Alice has more than matrimony on her mind and may destroy civilization as we know it.

When you wake up in a cage, at a slave market on an alien planet of sentient lizards, you might be forgiven for thinking "Life's a bitch and then you die", before surrendering all hope.

In an isolated village at the edge of a forest, the last of humanity ekes out a spirited existence on an Earth that was ravaged by cataclysm generations ago. Here, Sky Memoriam prepares to assume the role of memory keeper, sole relator of the long-forgotten histories of the Old World. But Sky is in for a shock.