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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.

In Mustard Seed they discover a massive underground complex stretching through miles of ancient lava tubes, and Mister Frostie grows up in a familiar, almost mythical mid-century small town with parks and stores and movie theatres and schools, even a miniature golf course. It's a time capsule full of people meant to preserve a tiny seed of the human experiment—just in case the human experiment blows up in the lab.

Parenting is never easy, but it's a hell of a lot harder when your toddler is a chupacabra. Paranormal investigator and cryptozoologist Reggie has embraced her fate as parent to an adopted toddler, Eldi--a blood-sucking chupacabra with a fondness for goats. Reggie wants nothing more than to put...

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.

In the surreal academic landscape of Tumbarumba, history professor Stella Pontifex discovers that grease is not merely a culinary byproduct but a metaphysical archive of human memory. As the world suffers from “The Great Sizzle” and a subsequent “thinning” of reality known as attenuation, Stella is contacted by the spirits of legendary Grease Prophets like Frank and Glen. These apparitions warn her that corporate interests and a fanatical cult, the Way of Dryness, are draining the universe of its viscosity and historical depth.

It’s 1990, and Leo Sanford has just been expelled from Central Baptist University for creating an explicit topiary of the female figure using a push mower on the front lawn of the quad. After a humiliating ride back to his hometown of Westshore, Michigan, his father suggests Leo join him as a traveling clothing salesman. As partners, they could travel around the Midwest in their wood-paneled station wagon with the mannequins, sporting the latest fashions, as backseat passengers. Instead, Leo opts for an entry level job at All the Hits Video Rental.

What would you do when offered the opportunity of a lifetime? Once as thick as thieves, Eric and his friends steadily grew apart as life took them in different directions. Careers and relationships plucked them, one by one, from their hometown and dropped them off in different parts of the country. While they still found the time to fill their group chat with jokes, discussions, and the occasional drunken selfie, things just weren't the same as when they were in high school, all in one place, hanging out in person.

Herc Tom remains under suspicion following the escape of his clone with Colonel Tulin. Even his fighter Shadow has abandoned him to take up with the fugitives. To make matters worse, they seem to have gone to the dogs–the empire’s most recent nemesis. Herc knows that he should be the one to stop these Turncats from whatever mischief they plan; he could save the empire once again, but no one trusts him, including Emperor Octavio. Well, as has happened before, it is better to forego purrmission in favor of asking forgiveness later. Or so he hopes.

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

Herc Tom hasn’t been treated like much of a champion lately. Ever since returning from his latest escapades on Baast he’s been kept under house arrest. It doesn’t seem fair. He didn’t ask to be brainwashed by the evil Doctor Inga Quin, and besides–that’s all been cleaned out of his mind. And it’s not his fault that she made a homicidal clone of him. After all, he foiled the clone’s attempted assassination of both Ramses’ Emperor Octavio and Baast’s Supreme Leader Pang, didn’t he?

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.

TM has managed to fall into a comfortable routine as the (acting) Supreme Archmage of Earth. More hero than villain these days, he’s recruited to a shadowy black ops team with a shocking mission: assassinate Helios: The Sun King, ruler of Tomorrow Island. Gary immediately twigs to the fact he’s the fall guy even as he has his own score to settle with Helios. Joining him will be a number of fan favorite characters as well as several new additions to the surreal world of the Supervillainy Saga.

Elvis is spending his golden years at the Mud Creek Shady Grove Convalescence Home alongside a man claiming to be President John F. Kennedy. Strange sights and sounds leads the two to discover an ancient Egyptian mummy stalking the corridors of their retirement home. They soon face off against the monster...but will anyone believe their story or shrug it off as more tall tales?

Cal Carver's time is about to run out. He and his Space Team are broke. Forced to take low-paying gun-for-hire jobs just to keep the food replicator working, their prospects are not looking good. When they pick up a distress signal from a luxury space cruiser, they think their luck might be about to change. And it does. Sadly, not in the way they'd hoped. Someone has detonated a Time Bomb aboard the cruiser — an experimental device designed to shatter time itself.

While trying to stop a cyber-attacker stealing all Space Team's hard-earned money, the cyborg, Mech, unlocks a secret partition in his hard drive, revealing a mysterious set of co-ordinates. The co-ordinates lead the team to Funworld, a planet-sized theme park with a worrying number of artificially intelligent clownbots, and a shocking disregard for Health & Safety.

Noah Beckett was living a perfectly average life—regular job, mild coffee addiction, zero expectation of being humanity’s last hope. But then, a voice in the sky informed the good people of Earth that they had been drafted into an intergalactic war, and suddenly, survival became his full-time occupation. As promised, a relentless invasion of alien knights descends, reducing our planet to a smoldering battlefield. Their armor shrugs off bullets. Their swords cut through steel. Their goal? Annihilate humankind. Noah’s goal? Find his wife. Don’t die. Maybe punch an alien in the face.

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.

Only the wittiest, smarmiest, most sycophantic person in the galaxy can grift like Levi can. Levi is an interstellar con artist: all charm, no conscience. His only real love is his spaceship, Caerus—his symbol of status and freedom—which he is forced to surrender as loan collateral to the...

With my boss out to kill me, I run, only to be abducted by robocops. They knock me out, and the next thing I know, the tiny pod I'm riding in crashes into a purple lake, and a loincloth-wearing alien with lots of muscles, tusks, and a sardonic smile rescues me. Xax takes me home to his clan and announces I’m his new mate. There goes my dream of opening a tea shop in a cute little coastal Earth town.

A Deadly World Awaits. The Bwetnibs consider Proxima Centauri b a vacation spot. Predators with toxic venom? What's not to like? Buddy is happy to bring his friends along. Anthony Bell is the first person to walk on an extraplanetary biome. The local fauna is unimpressed, though he does look delicious. Proxima Station Saga, Book Two