Social Satire

What happens when a society decides truth is too uncomfortable to bear? Professor Harold Dunst never imagined that quoting Aristotle would end his career. But when he tells his philosophy class that "truth exists independently of how you feel about it," a student's tears spark a national crisis. Welcome to 2025, where words have been "therapeutically edited" to protect feelings. Where cancer becomes "cellular diversity experience." Where failure is "success-adjacent." Where reality itself has been cushioned, filtered, and euphemized into oblivion. As the Ministry of Narrative Harmony ...

Long live the bloodsuckers. On Planet X—formerly Earth, formerly functional—the nation has elected an Uber Vampire whose hunger isn’t metaphorical. His rule spreads through screens, signals, and devotion, draining the population dry while demanding adoration, obedience, and fluids. Preferably red. Nancy and John are retired, irritated, and profoundly unimpressed. When neighbors start hissing, bread is declared treason, and the sky turns grape-purple with suppression gas, they do what any sensible elders would do: form a resistance. Armed with duct tape, lemon bars, outlawed books, and...

Shy, observant, and quietly resilient, Fanny Price steps into a world of privilege that never fully welcomes her—until everything depends on what she sees and believes. This refreshed edition of Mansfield Park is adapted for modern readers with clean, consistent formatting, contemporary typography, and lightly clarified language. Austen’s wit, dialogue, and narrative voice are carefully preserved while archaic expressions and confusing punctuation are gently smoothed, making the story more accessible without losing its classic charm. Set in the refined drawing rooms and sweeping grounds...

Paloma Reyes only wanted better training for her horse. She did not sign up for chandeliers in the barn, imported shavings, and a German trainer who terrorizes wealthy women before breakfast. When Paloma moves her honest, unfashionable Quarter Horse into Étoile Équestre—Houston’s most exclusive dressage barn—she finds herself surrounded by money, status, ambition, and riders chasing Olympic dreams with more credit cards than talent. At the center of it all stands Victoria Von Richthofen, known simply as VVR—a brilliant, brutal trainer who sells impossible dreams… and ...

"Narrated with wry undertones by Helen Laser... [who] takes Clo’s wry and self-injurious attitude and makes her relatable instead of unlikeable. [Laser] can fluidly vacillate from the “showhorse” privileged voice of Davis to the “workhorses” like Clo who endure dysmorphia and private...

In Social, renowned psychologist Matthew Lieberman explores groundbreaking research in social neuroscience, revealing that our need to connect with other people is even more fundamental, more basic, than our need for food or shelter. Because of this, our brain uses its spare time to learn about the social world-other people and our relation to them.

Campbell Flynn, art historian, professor, and fêted fixture of the literati, always knew that when his life came crashing down, it would happen in public—yet he never imagined that a single year in London would expose so much. He’s never taken other people half as seriously as they take themselves, which is the first of his mistakes. The second is a new project: opportunistic and precisely calibrated to rake in a fortune.

It’s impossible to go a full day without using snark, so why fight it? Snark is everywhere, from television to movies to everyday life. This lively collection provides hours of entertainment - better than an Etch A Sketch, and more fun than Silly Putty! At the heart of it, being in a state of snark can be one of the most useful tools at one’s disposal and hence (yes, I used “hence”), a powerful way to get what you want. With snark, you can catch people completely off-guard, and royally piss them off.

A classic guide to tricks and tactics for winning arguments, with commentary on the use of and defense against each tactic. The best summary of this audiobook is "being right doesn’t mean you’re gonna win, and this is why". It’s the ultimate guide to spotting the many different kinds of bull people pull in order to win over the crowd, rather than argue the point at hand. There’s very few of them that don’t immediately bring examples to mind, and having it laid out clearly like this is the perfect armour to stop people derailing you.

From “one of the best new voices in horror fiction” (Brian Keene, Bram Stoker Award–winning author), this darkly satirical supernatural thriller follows a would-be influencer whose dreams of online fame spiral into nightmare territory when she encounters a mysterious and dangerous social...

Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre premiered in October 1974, mere weeks after the resignation and pardon of Richard Nixon brought an uncertain end to the most corrupt and criminal presidency in American history. The film had been conceived, written, shot, edited, and produced precisely as Watergate was playing out, and those responsible for Chain Saw unhesitatingly spoke of the horrors of contemporary politics as having directly inspired the ones they created for the film.

Trapped in the clutches of a Zombie apocalypse, the City of Chicago, the murder capital of the U.S., unleashes the ultimate weapon, capitalism, by paying $1,000 for every Re-Killed Zombie brought to city hall, ushering in "The Great Zombie Gold Rush". Zombies never have a chance in a world where people realize 75 Zombies pays off their student loans, 40 Zombies buys them a Tesla, 5 Zombies wipes out their Visa debt...

Sheriff Gus has a problem. Maximillian Sagan—robot owner and space entrepreneur—just informed the good officer a murderer is among the guests of his latest garden party. This poses a small problem—as far as Gus can tell, no one’s actually been murdered. Fortified with a stiff drink, a lesson on space economics, and the world’s most boring treatise on Greek philosophy, Gus sets out to uncover the killer. Or at least find a body. The situation becomes more urgent when Sagan perishes in an apparent collision with a chunk of falling space debris. Was Maximillian Sagan just incredibly ...

Laughter is still the best ‘medicine’. Hope big pharma companies do not come after me! If you didn’t smile or laugh last few days, don’t worry. Here is a way to catch up your pending smiles and relax your nerves This book is the compilation of great news stories that happened in 2024, first six months period. I publish weekly video content on social media. I have taken those images into a book form. I have added my own editorial comment to get the humor out of the stale news. It’s like reading hundreds of newspaper cartoons on one single day. This also solves your FOMO disease (...

Ketamine: A Collection of Dystopian Fiction Short Stories Step into the shadowed corridors of power, deception, and human frailty in Ketamine, where dystopian landscapes collide with raw satire and the haunting absudity that is modern American politics. From the fall of clown-governed republics to corporate empires fueled by greed, this collection explores the grotesque tragedy of humanity’s struggles against its own creations. James Bachman delivers an unflinching vision of society’s descent into chaos, where rebellion simmers, power corrupts, and survival demands a price. Perfect for ...

Red, Blue, and Totally Screwed: United in Division Since 1776 America: land of freedom, opportunity, and the uncanny ability to turn literally anything into a full-blown argument. From the Founding Fathers bickering through the Constitution to modern-day Twitter flame wars, this country has spent nearly 250 years proving one undeniable truth: we excel at dysfunction. In Red, Blue, and Totally Screwed, Jay Berk dives headfirst into the chaotic circus that is American life. Part roast, part reality check, this book takes on everything from our endless culture wars to the generational blame ...

Dive into the brilliant and thought-provoking mind of G.G. Melies, a master storyteller blending science fiction with biting social philosophy. Cynical Universe is a collection of tales that transport readers to dystopian worlds and futuristic societies—all while holding a mirror to humanity’s moral dilemmas, societal flaws, and the absurdities of existence. Through satirical wit and profound ethical exploration, these stories challenge the boundaries of philosophy and fiction, offering unique insights into questions of power, identity, justice, and the human condition. Will you dare to...

Dry Creek, Texas thinks it has found the cure for political chaos: a shiny courthouse-lawn plaque listing the Ten Political Commandments—a bipartisan “decency” reset meant to calm the town down. Instead, the plaque lights the match. As the Civic Guardrails Committee spirals into public minutes, “spiritually nonbinding” amendments, and loyalty tests, Reese Whitaker, editor of the Dry Creek Ledger, realizes the town’s newest obsession isn’t unity—it’s control. And control comes with a business model: influencer outrage, “verified” smears, manufactured witnesses, and a ...

The Truth Has Never Been More Inconvenient. In the harmonious capital of Planet X, King Xander and Queen Lyra have spent twenty years building a beacon of interspecies peace. But a storm is approaching in the form of their distant cousins: The Pinocchios. Armed with a genetic "condition" that causes their noses to grow with every falsehood, Elena and her daughters arrive under the guise of celebration. But behind the sideways smiles and awkward navigation of the castle’s reinforced doorways lies a secret: they aren’t just here for the party—they’re here to invade. As the lies pile ...

Care to sell your soul? Imagine all that money! Fear not 'tis but a metaphor. Simply look inside this book and see for yourself! it's a sort of "how to manual" with many insiders definitions... And the salesman is handsome, vaguely foreign, & possessed of obvious...Intelligence. He has an air of sophistication for he is "a man of wealth and taste". A witty look at the strange world of inter-dimensional diplomatic missions , . . The Devil's Diplomatic Dictionary brings a light-hearted laugh to the world of diplomacy, providing funny definitions of the most common terms and phrases of ...