Corporate Satire

If Guy Ritchie directed a James Bond caper starring a queer 007, it might look something like this hilarious and action-packed spy thriller by Paul Rudnick, acclaimed screenwriter and author of Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style, that blends espionage and social commentary, with an elite...

She’s not a scientist. She’s not a visionary. She’s a tabloid-obsessed file clerk who spends her evenings devouring celebrity gossip and tinkering with discarded appliances. But when she turns two vintage microwaves into a working teleportation device, everything changes. What begins as a bizarre experiment with laundry and late-night TV spirals into corporate conspiracy, shadowy research firms, experimental pills, and a mysterious protocol that no one is supposed to survive. Meanwhile, in a quiet Idaho farming town, potatoes begin beating like human hearts. Pastors argue theology. ...

Jesus Inc. – A Divine Comedy/Tragedy of Faith, Power, and the Business of Belief Behind the dazzling lights, powerful sermons, and awe-inspiring worship of Old Rugged Cross Church lies something far more complex—a system. One that lifts people up, but also lets them down. That inspires, but sometimes exploits. That seeks to serve, but struggles with its own soul. Jack thought he was answering the call to ministry. Instead, he stepped into the inner workings of a multimillion-dollar megachurch—where faith meets franchise, leadership is performance art, and success is measured in ...

When Scat comes up with an idea for the hottest new soda ever, he's sure he'll retire as the next savvy marketing success story. But in the treacherous waters of corporate America, there are no sure things. Suddenly Scat finds himself scrambling to save not only his idea, but his yet-to-be-realized career. With the help of a scarily beautiful and brainy girl called 6, he sets out on a mission to reclaim the fame and fortune that, time and again, elude him.

Sometimes the monsters aren’t in space—they’re signing your paychecks. Captain Jax Dart and her crew finally land a legitimate job: mining a brand-new energy source on the edges of corporate territory. The payout looks huge. The catch? The “asteroid” they’re hired to drill into isn’t an asteroid at all—it’s a living, sentient organism the size of a planet. The corporation insists it’s just “bio-rock.” The organism disagrees. Violently. Between blood floods, flesh storms, rival crews, and an attractive corporate auditor who keeps Jax in her bed and on the chopping ...

When the system is rigged, sometimes you need to speak to the manager. Marcus Webb spent forty-seven years perfecting the art of corporate survival — reading fine print, exploiting loopholes, and escalating complaints until someone would listen. Then he died at his call center desk and woke up in Mundara: a fantasy RPG world where magic is real, quests are mandatory, and the entire reality runs on code that's fundamentally, catastrophically broken. Designated as a Level 1 ERROR-class user, Marc quickly discovers that Mundara isn't an adventure — it's a rigged system designed to fail its...

He used to liquidate companies. Now, he’s liquidating heroes. Arthur Penhaligon was the ultimate corporate shark—a middle manager with a heart of stone and a spreadsheet for a soul. But after a lifetime of downsizing others, he finds himself on the receiving end of a "terminal" performance review. Instead of the afterlife, Arthur is headhunted by Dungeon Inc., a multidimensional conglomerate that treats fantasy realms like underperforming branch offices. His new assignment? IronCrag Dungeon. It’s a logistical nightmare. The goblins are quiet-quitting, the skeletons are over-budget, ...

Ronin Drake used to sell survival for a living. Antidepressants. Grief software. Body armor. Anything with a wound and a marketing budget. Then a luxury apocalypse retreat called The Ark Initiative hires him to craft language for its newest product: a private rapture experience for billionaires, founders, political families, and anyone rich enough to want judgment customized. The money is obscene. The premise is worse. Then Ronin discovers the campaign’s central line was stolen from his own suicide note. At The Ark, guests wear biometric wristbands, confess into premium pods, rehearse ...

The system wasn't broken. It was working exactly as designed. Milo Vane is an Absurdity Arbitrageur. He finds contradictions in the Global Compliance Architecture (GCA)—an all-powerful bureaucracy that tracks every citizen’s Fulfillment Score—and sells them back to the people trapped inside. Then a message arrives from three seconds in the future: The intern knows something. Keep her talking. The intern is June Bellow. Her score is 61.7—too low for coffee, but low enough to be invisible. She has been receiving messages from a dead CEO, Elias Thorne, who disappeared into his own ...

Welcome to Heaven, Inc., the grossly mismanaged corporation in the sky. For as long as anyone can remember, the founder and CEO (known in some circles as "God") has been phoning it in. Lately, he's been spending most of his time on the golf course. And when he does show up at work, it's not to...

Grind the Void (Jax Dart, Space Bastard – Book 2) A Queer Sci-Fi Comedy About Space Drugs, Bad Decisions, and Pirates Gone Wrong Jax Dart swore she’d given up making terrible decisions. Then came the Stardust. Now, the galaxy’s most dysfunctional crew is back aboard the Lucky Bastard—broke, bruised, and one bad contract away from total annihilation. When a mysterious new drug called Stardust hits the black market, turning spacers into gods and corpses in equal measure, Jax and her crew of outlaws, aliens, and ex-cons are the unlucky bastards hired to move it. But nothing in the void...

Can you win at inner peace? A tech sponsor launches the Mindfulness Games, paying big money for the calmest mind. Our narrator straps on sensors and tries to out-zen strangers in front of a live audience. Mia—his unamused partner—opts out. Frosty, their Westie, achieves enlightenment by napping. From “gratitude Tabatas” and compassion relays to the infamous Noise Gauntlet, every event turns stillness into spectacle. The harder he tries, the worse he scores—until a small, human choice during the finals costs him everything the leaderboard promised… and gives him what it ...

Revolt and Other Bad Habits A Queer Sci-Fi Comedy of Revolution, Revenge, and Reluctant Heroism By Krysta M Jax Dart has been called a lot of things: smuggler, outlaw, sex scandal, folk hero. But now the galaxy’s favorite disaster is something new—a revolutionary icon she never asked to be. After the miners’ revolt burned half the sector, Jax and her crew are scraping by on fumes, duct tape, and bad decisions. The Lucky Bastard limps from one corporate blockade to the next, hunted by mercenaries, cultists, and ex-lovers with guns. Her face is plastered on propaganda posters, her ...

What if God was just a man with enough money? Earth, 2785. The planet is a curated paradise ruled by five corporate houses, while billions scrape out short, brutal lives on Mars. Abraham Goldstein — 250 years old, the richest man alive, and dying — has exhausted everything medicine can sell him. Then his secret quantum project breaches the Divine Dimension, and what he finds there changes everything: God is dead. And he left blueprints. Armed with mind-control technology reverse-engineered from a dead deity, Abraham builds Eden: an artificial world of abducted Martian refugees who ...

Discussion Materials gives the listener an honest look at Wall Street from someone in the trenches. After graduating from Columbia Business School, Bill Keenan joined Deutsche Bank's investment banking division as an associate where despotic superiors (and the blinking red light of his BlackBerry) instilled low-level terror on an hourly basis. You'll join him in his cubicle on the 44th floor of 60 Wall Street as he scrambles to ensure floating bar charts are the correct shade of orange and all numbers are left-aligned, but whatever you do, don't ask him what any of it means. 

The tour of a lifetime—if you survive it When Robert Morgand, a impoverished French aristocrat, accepts a position as interpreter with Thompson & Co. travel agency, he expects a routine cruise to the Azores, Madeira, and the Canary Islands. What he gets is a floating disaster: a decrepit ship, an incompetent operator, and sixty passengers whose dreams of exotic travel are about to become a nightmare of mechanical failures, medical quarantines, and desert survival. Published posthumously in 1907 as part of Jules Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires and extensively shaped by his son Michel Verne...

Please Note: This book was released as a stand alone story, and subsequently used as a movie in Crossover: It's a Jon Hunter Thing, Book 1 in The Hunter Imperium series. Suzy is 12, and every night she chats online with her friend. But strange things start happening after each chat. Things which bring great change in Australia, and out in the world. But who would want to talk to a 12 year old about such things? Suzy starts to form a theory, but she knows no-one is going to believe her. Besides, its fun to ask someone, "Was that you?" This is a stand alone short story, from an off-hand 'what...

Welcome to the Bureaucratic Thunderdome - where inboxes multiply, meetings devour hours, and HR is always watching (probably from behind a Ficus). This isn’t another bland career guide. It’s a fluorescent-lit survival manifesto - part laugh-out-loud satire, part coping handbook. It’s for anyone who has ever typed “Happy Monday!” through clenched teeth while contemplating a fake fire drill. Inside, you’ll discover: 🏢 Work-Life Balance: The tightrope walk between Zoom calls and toddler interruptions. 🤪 HR Decoded: Translation guides for “Let’s touch base” (lawyer up). ...

If you've ever felt the weight of a Monday morning, the soul-crushing nature of a meeting that could have been an email, or the strange prison of remote work, this book is for you. These 100 haikus capture the absurdity, frustration, and strange humor of office life. They're not about loving work - they're about surviving it. About finding dark comedy in the mundane. About being human in a system that sometimes forgets we are. From the panic of deadlines to the relief of Friday afternoons, from Zoom fatigue to the existential dread of Monday mornings - these poems are a mirror held up to ...

The Clueless Manager is a hilarious collection of office stories that captures the everyday chaos of workplace life under baffling leadership. From absurd decisions to painfully awkward meetings, each story delivers sharp humor and relatable moments anyone who’s ever had a boss will recognize. Perfect for fans of light, laugh-out-loud reads, this book turns workplace frustration into pure entertainment.