Lazarus' Kool-Aid
From the best-selling author of Supersize Island. Henry Hubble woke up this morning to find three cherubic rag dolls trying to kill him. And it's been downhill since then. Henry's life has taken a turn for the weirder. His reality has been gamified-and the game's architect seems to be a few stats short of a full character sheet. With his nephew's life hanging in the balance, Henry will face off against bosses, minions, and more, mined from his own memories, where D&D game dynamics, eighties-era action tropes, and vegetable phobias reign supreme. He'll only begin to understand what's really going on when he runs across Darla Cunningham and her clairvoyant computer. Unfortunately, what's really going on is even crazier and scarier than the murder dolls who want him dead. Discover the origin of the world that bore Supersize Island in this rip-roaring odyssey filled with humor and heart. "The Matrix gone mental."-Royal Road Reader "One of the craziest and most entertaining stories I've ever read . . . wildly imaginative and engaging."-Reader's Favorite "A perfectly baked slice of madness . . . a thoroughly enjoyable ride.."-Royal Road Reader
The Martian Chronicles
The 75th anniversary edition of The Martian Chronicles, a seminal work in Ray Bradbury's career, whose extraordinary power and imagination remain undimmed by time's passage. In The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury, America's preeminent storyteller, imagines a place of hope, dreams, and metaphor--of crystal pillars and fossil seas--where a fine dust settles on the great empty cities of a vanished, devastated civilization. Earthmen conquer Mars and then are conquered by it, lulled by dangerous lies of comfort and familiarity, and enchanted by the lingering glamour of an ancient, mysterious native race. In this classic work of fiction, Bradbury exposes our ambitions, weaknesses, and ignorance in a strange and breathtaking world where man does not belong.
Metaphorosis
Beautifully written speculative fiction from Metaphorosis magazine.Mysterious languages, unusual dogs, solitude, alien communications, and magic. The best science fiction and fantasy stories from Metaphorosis magazine's first year. The Demon in the Page - Joshua Phillip Johnson Heard - Elise Forier Edie In Dew and Frost and Flame - Vanessa Fogg The Heresy Machine - Gerald Warfield Gathering Dust - Meryl Stenhouse So, You're In an Alternate Universe - Jeremy Packert Burke Solomon and the Dragon's Tongue - Molly Etta Spoiler: She Leaves Him - Jack Noble The World's Secret Heartbeat - Aatif Rashid Whalesong - L. Chan How to Survive a Fish Attack - Kato Thompson My Dog is the Constellation Canis Major - Jarod K. Anderson The Sea Bank of Svalbard South - Octavia Cade
We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
"I love the Bobiverse! Some of the best sci-fi out there. These novels have everything, but most importantly Bob was there, too." --Andy Weir, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Project Hail Mary The book that launched a thousand Bobs and the first novel in the Bobiverse series from Dennis E. Taylor, part space adventure, part philosophical voyage, We Are Legion (We Are Bob) is a captivating and hilarious exploration of the joys and dangers of artificial intelligence, the wonders of space, and everything that may await us out there. Deluxe edition, first print only! Welcome to the Bobiverse. We are Bob. We are legion. And we never intended on this. Bob Johansson had a plan. After selling his software business, a leisurely retirement awaited him. And, if the cryogenic lab freezing his head succeeds, an even longer retirement in the distant future when his corpsicle gets reawakened. Everything was looking up for Bob. That is, until he's killed crossing the street just moments after signing the papers. A century later, Bob wakes up, not in a utopia but an Earth on the precipice of war. America is run by an extremist government that stripped his rights as a frozen head, uploaded his consciousness into an AI, and selected him to search space for habitable planets as a self-replicating von Neumann probe. It's not ideal, but if he declines, he'll be switched off for good. With Earth in turmoil, space may actually be the safest place for Bob. But the government failed to mention that he isn't alone...at least three other countries are looking to claim the next Earth, and they play dirty. Using his new abilities and the von Neuman technology he does what any engineer would do: He makes more Bobs--and a virtual cat--and sets to save humanity before it's too late.
