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A most-anticipated title from USA Today, Goodreads, BookPage, BookRiot, Seattle Times, and The Nerd Daily! Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment of Martha Wells' bestselling and award-winning Murderbot Diaries series. Having someone else support your bad decision...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Extremely funny . . . inspired lunacy . . . [and] over much too soon.”—The Washington Post Book World Now celebrating the pivotal 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy! Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The...

Books 1-3 in the hit Chrysalis Monster-Evolution LitRPG series are now available in this special bundle, filled with action, laughs, and army-building to the extreme....

Disaster. There was no other word to describe how Operation Olympic had changed in a flash from a triumph to the worst failure the Merry Band of Pirates had ever experienced. A failure that meant the fight was over. Unless the Pirates could perform a miracle, without Skippy. The Expeditionary...

The Merry Band of Pirates stopped the enemy from stealing a Sentinel, and destroyed its Elder starship, so why weren’t the Pirates planning a victory party?

With Garralosh defeated and the Colony secured, Anthony has triumphed over the wave. What now for our intrepid adventurer? In the Dungeon, there’s only one place to go: down....

For years, the ancient alien AI known as Skippy (the Magnificent, don’t forget that part) has been able to do one impossible thing after another. What is his secret? It’s simple: 100 percent Grade-A extreme awesomeness....

Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series! “Wild satire . . . The feckless protagonist, Arthur Dent, is reminiscent of Vonnegut heroes.”—Chicago Tribune The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking...

Corin Cadence duels with his father while friends face new challenges at Lorian Heights amidst a looming threat from a mysterious faction.

A man awakens in a clearing in what appears to be medieval England with no memory of who he is, where he came from, or why he is there.

It’s the end of the world as you've never known it. Join the Librarian as he does his best to make the post-apocalyptic world a better place by protecting the weak, fighting injustice, squaring off against a group of former renaissance fair workers who have established a kingdom in the Rocky...

Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series! “A madcap adventure . . . Adams’s writing teeters on the fringe of inspired lunacy.”—United Press International Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long...

Tedd is a trash droid with an "anomaly" - he can think for himself. Management wants him smelted, and his runaway mouth isn't helping.

For a decade, peace has reigned in interstellar space. A tripartite agreement between the Colonial Union, the Earth, and the alien Conclave has kept the forces of war at bay, even when some would have preferred to return to the fighting and struggle of former times.

The bestselling, award-winning author of The Midnight Library offers his funniest, most devastating dark comedy yet, a “silly, sad, suspenseful, and soulful” (Philadelphia Inquirer) novel that’s “full of heart” (Entertainment Weekly). When an extra-terrestrial visitor arrives on Earth...

Long-listed, Library Journal Best Books of the Year, 2024 This program is read by Hugo Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky. Murderbot meets Redshirts in a delightfully humorous tale of robotic murder from the Hugo-nominated author of Elder Race and Children of Time. To fix the world they...

Monsters of Ohio is a heartfelt exploration of a tentacular solution to the struggles of the modern world from the New York Times bestselling author of Starter Villain.

New York Times bestseller John Scalzi flies you to the moon with his most fantastic tale to date: When the Moon Hits Your Eye

Old Guns, meet Young Guns. Try not to shoot each other. Frank Cage and Martin Kelvin thought they'd be awarded medals and a lifetime of beer for coming out of retirement to fight the living nightmare known as the Hollow. Instead, they became fugitives from the Colonial Shield Federation when...

A dynamic remastering of the original BBC Radio 4 full-cast serial - Fit the First to Fit the Sixth - which spawned a phenomenal hitchhiking legend The original series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, remastered by Dirk Maggs (director of the Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases)...

They made him an offer he couldn't refuse—join the mob or watch his favorite human die. Now T.E.D.D., the foul-mouthed trash droid who's done taking humanity's crap, is stuck juggling mobsters, mutant tech, his own glitchy anomaly, and a pack of robowolves.

Seventeen-year-old Craig Blackmore is a first generation child of Golf Alpha One-One-Seven, AKA Greenacres, the heavy gravity and magic starved world that humanity chose as its first colony.

Book 1: After Z - For a decade, the world has known about the Immuno-Degenerative and Epidermal Decomposition Virus: Strain 2 (ImDED2), which turns the dead into cannibalistic zombies. Despite government efforts to control it, the virus finally unleashes a global pandemic.

What if President John F. Kennedy had survived and rocketed the Space Race of the 1960s into overdrive? And what if he was, maybe, not quite...himself? Space: 1969 is a wild and outrageous sci-fi comedy from the mind of Emmy-winning writer Bill Oakley....

In the chilling aftermath of Good Boys: The Lost Tribe, Micah, Jess, and the ever-loyal Golden Retriever, Grover, seek refuge in the snowy seclusion of a New Hampshire farm, along with their new Kynolari friends.

A most-anticipated title from USA Today, Goodreads, BookPage, BookRiot, Seattle Times, and The Nerd Daily! Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment of Martha Wells' bestselling and award-winning Murderbot Diaries series. Having someone else support your bad decision...

From cosmic bargain bin reject to the OP life. Jax woke up with no memories, no pants, and no clue why he was dressed like the clearance-rack version of a cult initiate. Before he could even begin the classic “Who am I?” routine, a god showed up with the customer service skills of a rabid raccoon. Apparently, Jax had been purchased for pennies on the divine bargain shelf and dropped into a brand-new world for one purpose: fuel the system, entertain the masses, and maybe get sacrificed for the benefit of some very needy followers. The god’s message was simple. Congratulations, trash. ...

Hey, bud. It's Captain Rusty, gearin' up to haul a load of space freight through the Vorn Abyss. Sounds like a heavy-metal band, but it's a patch of space with wonky gravity, where your ship gets pulled in more directions than a dog walker at a squirrel convention. It's gonna be a heck of a ride, but our old rig can handle it. Probably. Me and Piper are ready to kick off our honeymoon as soon as we get back, but Murphy is always watching, and the universe has a way of rearranging your plans faster than a tornado rearranges a trailer park.

I never believed in UFOs—until I found one in my backyard… Alex is just a normal guy who works at a computer repair shop and dreams away his life. That is, until one day, he literally stumbles across a hidden spaceship. Together with his best friends, Joey and Lucy, he explores the vessel. They find the pilot dead, but the sentient ship AI is very much alive—and she needs their help. The friends decide to embark on an adventure into the unknown. Soon, they find themselves on a crazy ride through space, facing aliens, pirates, smugglers, and humorless space authorities… Will Alex and...

To erase his crippling medical debt, 50-year-old Dave signs a contract that uploads his mind into RiftBorn™—a brutal pay-to-win dungeon-crawler death game watched by millions. Dave doesn’t need to level up or get loot. He has 20 days to win over a generation raised on TikTok and Twitch, or the system pulls the plug on his real-world body. The problem? He skipped the tutorial and has no idea what he’s doing.

From the acclaimed critic and award-winning author of Anno Dracula comes a bitingly satirical story of superheroism, soap opera and alternative reality -- for readers of Austin Grossman’s Soon I Will Be Invincible and George R.R. Martin’s Wild Cards. When Chrissie Chambers (model actress...

Kevin Kershaw is on the achy side of fifty, divorced, and spends his days processing insurance claims. It’s a far cry from the wondrous future he imagined as a teenager. Then, one random day, as Kevin drifts through his joyless existence, he stumbles upon a shop that defies belief—possibly the last remaining video shop in England. He eventually ventures in and meets the enigmatic shopkeeper, who presents Kevin with a VHS tape.

In a galaxy on the brink of war, Geddy must confront deadly aliens, powerful allies, and an ex-girlfriend. In Fleet Feat, the electrifying fifth installment of C. P. James's Reassembly series, the newly formed galactic Alliance teeters on the verge of war. But until Geddy and the crew find the...

When space hauler Daphne Blazefire arrives at Novis Terminal with a cargo hold full of spare parts, she expects the usual grumpy dockmaster and a quick turnaround. Instead, the station is dead quiet—and completely abandoned. Before she can figure out what's going on, she's ambushed by a gang of thugs who steal her ship’s most valuable asset: RUSTY, her loyal, slightly sarcastic, robot sidekick and best friend. But all isn’t lost. Daphne discovers Ashley, a sharp-witted technician who managed to escape the same crew that kidnapped the rest of the station’s personnel.

The world runs on lies. Ashton Frey just remembers too many of them. When a man dead for three years turns up freshly murdered again, he should have walked away. Instead, Ashton, burned out, paranoid, and allergic to good decisions, takes the case anyway. Now he’s falling headfirst into a conspiracy of digital ghosts, a cold war no one will admit to starting, and corporate gods auctioning off the last scraps of human dignity by the byte. Plus shipping. To survive it, he’ll need help from mercenaries, con artists, and at least two AIs several errors past sanity.

Life in NYC is amazing until something eerie and seemingly impossible makes its way on Earth. Such an artifact has the ability to bridge different realities where upon the user finds himself in an upside-down realm with peculiar technology and nightmarish toys that are as alive as him. Horror grips his mind as he tries to find a way to survive. This is the author's definitive edition with commentary.

Norman Spindle: CEO. Business guru. Secret mortal enemy. Lance Zoom must stop the mad tycoon from taking over ZoomCorp—unfortunately, spreadsheets creep him out. It falls to Layla Zoom to call in the cavalry. Or in this case, the twelve-year-old. In this warped introduction to the Zoom Universe, a hero will rise, a dark heart will be kindled, and the family toaster will be in dire peril. Hey, business meetings are tough.

Cupid, a 35 year old scientist, is unlucky in love but successful in his career. When the CEO of a multinational perfume corporation asks him to develop an aphrodisiac using his trained mosquitoes, he jumps at the chance. At the same time, the woman he's been chatting with on an online dating app has finally agreed to meet up. But what Cupid doesn't know is that he's about to go from bitten to smitten.

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

The greatest album ever recorded was made after the end of the world. Forged by a megalithic stone and two dogs in the ruins of humanity, The Mineral Tail remains the most mysterious record in existence—a masterpiece of ingenuity, passion, and divine accident. For decades, it has topped every chart and defied every explanation. Now, for the first time, comes the true story of how it was made.