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A man. His ex-girlfriend's cat. A sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible....

The ratings and views are off the chart. The fans just can't get enough. The dungeon gets more dangerous each day. But in a grinder designed to chew up and spit out crawlers by the millions, Carl and Princess Donut need to work harder than ever just to survive.,,,

The top 10 list is populated. The sponsorship program is open. The difficulty is ramping up. The first three floors were nothing compared to what Carl and Donut now face....

A pantheon of forgotten gods. An old grudge between a talk show host, an heiress, and the man they shattered along the way. A rapidly deteriorating AI system. An inconvenient tiara upon the head of a friend....

The ninth floor. Nine armies, each led by rich and powerful aliens from across the galaxy. Each team has one objective: to capture and hold the castle at the very center of the battlefield. Strategy, alliances, pitched battles, and, of course, betrayal.

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....

Civil war looms in the Bobiverse in this brand-new, epic-length adventure by Audible number one best seller Dennis E. Taylor. More than a hundred years ago, Bender set out for the stars and was never heard from again....

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...

They built him to take out their trash. Turns out they're next. Tedd is a trash droid with an "anomaly" — he can think for himself. Management wants him smelted, and his runaway mouth isn't helping. He could disappear quietly. He could play it safe.

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....

When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food-delivery apps. That is, until Jamie makes a delivery to an old acquaintance, Tom, who works at what he calls “an animal rights organization”....

Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who's running the place....

The universe is ending, and the only thing standing in the way is three unlikely heroes, a bait shop, and a demon who won’t shut up.

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...

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. And also because he had never been faced with an opponent of equal power...

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...

Stuck in a dungeon meticulously designed to ruin their lives in the most entertaining way possible, Jack and his best friend, Hannah, are outnumbered and outmatched by monsters with questionable ethics.

Upon returning to Valia after his journey to Caelford and the Unclaimed Lands, Corin Cadence is confronted with a familiar foe—his own father. While his strength has vastly increased since his last encounter with Magnus Cadence, Corin knows that he’ll need every trick at his disposal—and...

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...

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.

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...

In space, the real adventure starts after the warranty expires.

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...

It's back to school for Cat Leblanc, where the cyborg samurai gets high marks in ultraviolence against both gangsters and aliens, in this cyberpunk adventure. Things are quiet in the megacity of New Montreal. Too quiet for Catherine Leblanc. Earth is safe, the extraterrestrial Antithesis are...

Working at the local grocery store and surviving high school used to be the hard part. Now the real problem? Time and space keep breaking. The JackSkip Detective Agency (and bait shop—long story) is way out of its depth. Reality is cracking open: demons are slipping through, alternate selves keep showing up, and something big, furious, and cosmic is behind it all. Skip and Jack (careful, that’s trademarked by the Tuna Conglomerate) and Annabelle, aka A.B., are the victims of a bizarre pivotal location, a town that is at the center of a Universal Conflux of Doom.

It's back to school for Cat Leblanc, where the cyborg samurai gets high marks in ultraviolence against both gangsters and aliens, in this cyberpunk adventure. Things are quiet in the megacity of New Montreal. Too quiet for Catherine Leblanc. Earth is safe, the extraterrestrial Antithesis are...

From the beloved creator of the wildly popular Sam O’Nella Academy YouTube channel, an irreverent and timely science fiction collection that offers a wry look at the not-so-distant future Sam A. Miller, the creator behind Sam O'Nella Academy, has spent ten years teaching his 4.8 million...

Bob and the crew found out about some castaways, who seemed to be related to their new friends. What to do but take their friends to rescue their people? Of course, things are never as easy as they seem. Come along and find out what their shepherd has in store...

Howdy, bud. It's Rusty. Like any space trucker worth his stardust, I know a fella's ship is more than a machine, it's your home sweet home. Our rig Nessie's got everything we need to haul cargo across the galaxy, but when it comes to creature comforts, she's about as cozy as sharing a sleeping bag with a wet porcupine. And it ain't just the decor that needs work. Our old girl has more mechanical problems than a used car lot run by Evel Knievel.

Famen Striker was never supposed to be captain. But when the rest of the crew dies in a spectacular fireball, she needs cash to fix her busted-up starship or she’ll lose the only home she has left. Her best option? Con the most dangerous magistrate in the galaxy. To pull off the impossible heist, Famen needs a crew. Unfortunately, all she’s got is Burt, a genetically engineered pilot with four thumbs and no clue, and L-Mac, her devoted companion-bot, whose recent glitches suggest he might secretly be a weapon of mass destruction.

Tedd has always outrun his problems. The map just ran out. Phoenix is spreading north like a virus, chipping humans, crushing machines, and dipping into a deep warchest. Tedd's side is flat broke. An old ally nobody saw coming is about to change the math. In war, the first thing you run out of isn't hope — it's credits.

I never dreamed of becoming a galactic special agent...or did I? Tom Reynolds and his younger brother Johnny finally have their own spaceship. Unfortunately, they also have mounting repair bills, a talent for attracting disasters, and COSMO—the galaxy's most aggressively unhelpful robot, who hates humans in general and Tom and Johnny in particular. When the Galactic Authority approaches them with an offer they can't refuse, the brothers find themselves recruited for a top-secret operation: help capture Kaz Vorr, one of the most dangerous criminals in known space. The brothers know Kaz all...

Jax Mulder is just trying to survive. Scraping a living as a Breaker in the perilous, interstellar junkyards, he’s used to risking his neck for worthless space trash. But when he unearths an impossibly rare, glowing alien artifact, he thinks his days of grueling poverty are finally over. His dreams shatter when a savage betrayal causes the entire sector to learn of his discovery. Instantly, Jax becomes the most hunted man in the cosmos.

A sharp collection of Robert Sheckley’s classic satirical science fiction, blending clever humor, strange futures, social commentary, and imaginative twists. Featuring Ask a Foolish Question, Keep Your Shape, and Cost of Living, this volume showcases Sheckley’s witty, inventive take on...

(Mature Content) ONE TRUCK. EIGHT TRAILERS. A WHOLE GALAXY ABOUT TO LEARN WHAT “EXPRESS DELIVERY” REALLY MEANS. Will Wright used to teach physics. Now he’s divorced, unemployed, living in a roadside motel, and watching his savings disappear one bad cup of coffee at a time. Then he answers the strangest job ad he’s ever seen. GOOD WITH NUMBERS. SCIENCE HELPFUL. NO CRYBABIES. NO RAILROAD PEOPLE. The employer is Big John Supper—a massive, foul-mouthed American trucker, legendary wheelman, and complete lunatic who believes there is almost nothing in creation that can’t be driven ...

John MacAlister finally has a respectable life. Naturally, he's about to ruin it. Steady work. A budding relationship. A reason to stay put. None of it's enough to kill the itch. When an encrypted message arrives from Bernie Jennison—the scientist who built Alvis and vanished years ago—John can't help seeing it as a sign that his days as a space adventurer aren't over. Bernie is alive. He's in trouble. And Castor—the rogue AI everyone believed destroyed —was never gone. The Star Corps won't intervene. John sees a mission too important to ignore.

The last gas station in the Milky Way was supposed to be quiet. Then an alien battleship pulled up to the pump. For nineteen years, Earl Vickers has run Last Chance Fuel & Sundries at the edge of civilized space, where the customers are scarce, the coffee is hot, and Pump Three is usually broken. Earl likes it that way. Then an enormous warship emerges from hyperspace, damaged, running low on fuel, and very far from home. The aliens want Earl to fill it up. There's just one problem. They can't pay. Before Earl can figure out what to do about a four-million-credit fuel bill, the human navy ...

JANUS came to 1980 to save the future. Thirty-eight minutes later, the future was already behind schedule. Janus is a synthetic consciousness from a civilization that has mastered prediction, eliminated much of human suffering, and learned one dangerous lesson: there is no right or wrong. There are only actions and consequences. Sent into the past to alter history before humanity succeeds itself into a corner, Janus chooses an ordinary name: Joseph Mercer. Then everything goes wrong. Joseph understands quantum physics, collapsing civilizations, temporal causality, and how to build ...

Malcolm Dyson wasn't supposed to be awake for this. Seven years into a forty-five-year voyage, a catastrophic failure rips him out of hibernation alone, with a dying ship and ninety-one sleeping colonists depending on a man who was never in charge of anything. One of them is his daughter. With no rescue coming, Malcolm has to keep the ship alive with nothing but stubbornness and a ship AI named Marlowe who's spent thirty-eight years alone and has opinions about it. But the deeper he digs, the more he realizes the mission he signed up for was never the real one — and the same flaw that's ...

Four mutant chickens. One ruined fried-chicken restaurant. A city full of terrible ideas. Professor Cornelius Cluck wanted to solve world hunger with an experimental feed known as M.C.S.-51. Instead, Hatch 51 exploded. Now Spur, Bertha, Nugget and Flap are six-foot mutant chickens hiding out in the abandoned Cluck Bucket while New Yolk City fills with escaped experiments, mutant vegetables, weaponised gravy and one extremely angry genetically engineered cow. Worst of all, Colonel Scramble survived. The cracked mutant egg is gathering the failed experiments of Hatch 51 into his own ...

Mina Dey trusts forms more than people. Then a clerical error transfers her from Earth's tidy lost-property office to Starling Station, where the shelves hold argumentative luggage, jars of weather, and one brass robot determined to unionize the kettle. Her first impossible intake is a blue case containing a living miniature world: forests, rivers, clouds, and a sunrise small enough to cup in two hands. It has no claimant, no valid classification, and seventy-two hours before disposal. When an immaculate efficiency auditor arrives to close the office, Mina discovers the tiny world is linked...

The Uniform Light takes you on a journey outside the norm with religious overtones that just might explain some of those "Is that why?" questions. Part science fiction, part fantasy, throw in some theology all with a sense of humor. The Uniform Light hopes to lead away from the obsolete toward the perception of a better future.

Thursday 1st September 2039. On the centenary of the Second World War, atheist scientist Chris Deckers exploits the planet's most powerful computer to reveal something so cataclysmic it makes five thousand years of recorded human history–wars, empires, revolutions, the lot–look like an underwhelming warm-up act.

Lezi McGyver: Dos Sex Machina is a hilariously unhinged, sex-positive fever dream about a genius inventor put on trial by her own subconscious. Featuring sentient gadgets, a cartoon courtroom, and the uncomfortable question of why it’s easier to fix everyone else than yourself. Equal parts absurd comedy and emotional gut-punch.