Technology Humor

Technology promises to save humanity. How's that working out? In this comedy-science podcast, comedy legends Richard Ayoade (determinedly pessimistic) and Warwick Davis (inexplicably cheerful) venture beneath Audible HQ to the Future Tense lab, fully equipped to interrogate the future we're all being told to look forward to.

A five-book series chronicling the humorous adventures of Grand Fenwick -- the tiny, backwards country that declared war on the United States, beat everyone in the Space Race to the moon, wreaked havoc on the stock market, and solved the world's oil crisis. Plus a prequel about the country's humble origins. BOOK 1: THE MOUSE THAT ROARED In Leonard Wibberley's classic political satire, a tiny backwards country decides the only way to survive a sudden economic downturn is to declare war on the United States and lose to get foreign aid - but things don't go according to plan. The Mouse That ...

In the near future sci-fi world of Qualityland, algorithms help create an idyllic life for its citizens, but what if the perfect world wasn't built for you? Welcome to QualityLand, the best country on Earth. Here, a universal ranking system determines the social advantages and career...

How do you tell your part in the biggest tale in history? I ask because it's what I have to do. I'm Zoe Boutin Perry: A colonist stranded on a deadly pioneer world. Holy icon to a race of aliens. A player (and a pawn) in a interstellar chess match to save humanity, or to see it fall. Witness to...

With her husband stranded in a war-torn country halfway around the world, a university professor – on whom the burden of managing their small family has suddenly fallen – tries to maintain order at home. Her young daughter seems not to mind, or even really notice, the father’s absence. But as the weeks go on, mounting pressure on the narrator to balance family and work begins to take a toll.

A formidable alien fleet is on the verge of subjugating the entire galaxy, and it’s up to a rag-tag team of unlikely heroes which includes an ace fighter pilot, a stuntwoman, a super-assassin, and an alien prankster to save not only humanity but also billions of other sentient beings. THE BOX SET INCLUDES THREE BESTSELLING SPACE OPERA BOOKS WITH OVER 1200 PAGES OF EPIC, NON-STOP ACTION—AND 1000 FIVE-STAR REVIEWS/RATINGS ACROSS AMAZON STORES AND GOODREADS! Jim, a wise-cracking, OCD-suffering fighter pilot, is about to propose to his girlfriend when his friend Kurt surprises them by ...

In this stunning follow-up to Hollow Kingdom, the hilarious animal duo is back with a renewed sense of hope for humanity, ready to take on a world ravaged by a viral pandemic. ★ "Hilarious and heartbreaking." —Shelf Awareness (Starred Review) Once upon an apocalypse, there lived an obscenely...

A gleeful and exhilarating tale of global conspiracy, complex code-breaking, high-tech data visualization, young love, rollicking adventure, and the secret to eternal life—mostly set in a hole-in-the-wall San Francisco bookstore The Great Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a...

“There’s a lot of things they didn’t tell me when I signed on with this outfit.” That’s what Sam Washington discovered after getting hired as Spaceport Director on Space Station Zion. Everyone hated his predecessor — a retired Navy cook who shut down the station drives, started an illegal space patrol, and let her relatives bleed the budget dry — so now everyone hates Sam. Still, since he took the job, Sam considers it his duty to get the place back in shape. But angry admirals want to kick civilians off the station. A profit-crazed board member is trying to crack open a moon ...

A wonderfully funny sequel to The Mouse That Roared. The Duchy of Grand Fenwick, the world's smallest country, whose army of 20 longbow men defeated the United States in The Mouse that Roared is back again. While the Americans and the Soviets are racing to claim the moon, Grand Fenwick's famous physicist makes the perfect rocket fuel from the zingiest wine in the world and the SPACE RACE IS ON! Books in The Grand Fenwick Series: Books 2 through 5 are best read after The Mouse That Roared, but all of the books can be read and enjoyed at any point in the series. Book 1: The Mouse That Roared ...

From viral comedy sensation James Veitch (as seen on TED, Conan, and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon) comes a collection of laugh-out-loud funny exchanges with email scammers. The Nigerian prince eager to fork over his inheritance, the family friend stranded unexpectedly in Norway, the lonely...

Fans of the bestselling The Crimson Deathbringer series know what to expect: Three epic space opera books, with over 1000 pages of thrilling space battles, deadly alien threats, and unforgettable characters. Add to that campy humor and enough twists and turns to put Alfred Hitchcock to shame, and you get the series’ second box set in all its glory. The box set includes: BOOK 4: THE SILVER TIMESHIP What will you sacrifice to save the entire universe? Following Jim’s audacious plan, Kurt and a team of Marines traveled to the future to destroy Voltex. However, in doing so, they ...

In the electrifying conclusion to this zany isekai adventure, it's boom or bust—and the only way out . . . is up! After some very bad luck on Earth took his legs and then his life, things finally began to turn around for astronaut Chris when he was reborn as a goblin king on a...

What if you woke up... ...as the ultimate Alpha Male? Suddenly Alpha collects some of Jason Hutchinson's best Alpha Males stories in one big volume. Follow along with zeros as they turn into heroes, irresistible to the hottest and most willing ladies! The Alpha Mutation Series - 4 Books The scarab that transforms the Average Joe into an alpha-male, irresistible to any woman who gazes into his eyes, has been lost for generations. Recently uncovered, its incredible power for lust, action, and transformation has once again been unleashed! Join the Alphas as they struggle to manage the ...

This web covers the world… and it’s hungry. Vervain Lavine has hunted gods across realms, but this enemy doesn’t hide in shadows or sanctuaries. He lives in the system itself—a Spider God who has turned the Internet into a living web, stretching across the world. From behind screens, he feeds on chaos, stirring hatred, collapsing systems, and pushing people toward violence. Every death becomes an offering. Every act of destruction makes him stronger. To stop him, Vervain must do something she’s never done before—enter the web. Inside the digital realm, the rules are different. ...

Confessions of a System Administrator by Dean McIntyre Edgar has engineered his life for silence. He lives in a ground-floor apartment where no one walks beneath him. He works in IT, where success means nothing breaks loudly enough to attract attention. He keeps systems running. He avoids friction. He remains invisible. Two floors above him, a former attorney named Darren has abandoned a safe career to write a novel full time. While Edgar maintains servers and dodges office politics, Darren spends twelve hours a day alone with his manuscript—no backup plan, no safety net. Then someone ...

You Were the ONE, Until You Weren’t… An IT nerd navigates relationships and romance while desperately trying to keep his software job from taking over his entire life and somehow hold onto his dry sense of humor… A confessional-like series of poems about things that probably matter less than they seem to (or not), but the heart wants what the heart wants as the cliché goes. 10 freestyle poems that hit emotional peaks and valleys while tickling the shared funny bone of truths that we all try to ignore until we can’t. Workplace romance. A dry humor short read.

For fans of Dennis E. Taylor, John Scalzi, and Andy Weir—a first contact story where the aliens don’t want our planet. They want our cigarettes. Charles Haley is unemployed, nearly broke, and desperate enough to accept a job offer he can barely hear over construction noise. He misses the part about artificial intelligence and alien species. All he catches is that someone wants him to run an import/export business. The product? Medical devices from beyond the stars that can cure any disease—including his fourteen-year-old daughter Suzy’s fatal bone condition. The price? Marlboros and...

Effie didn’t intend to bring death and destruction to Earth. But when Enforcers close in, Special Agent EAFY584 crashes her stolen starship into an uncharted solar system, and the only habitable planet is one its inhabitants call Earth. Good news: she can pass for a human teenager. Bad news: standard Enforcer protocol is to sterilize any world where a fugitive might be hiding. Now Effie has to warn an entire civilization that extinction is coming. There’s just one problem, nobody believes her. She tells the government she’s an alien. She tells them an invasion fleet is on its way. All...

The long-awaited literary return of the author of the critically acclaimed cult classic Apathy and Other Small Victories: a darkly comic novel, set in the near future, about the race to find a missing cyber program with the power to bend reality, all before a fast-approaching comet destroys the...