Dystopian Comedy

— You still think it died, don’t you? — I think it shed its skin. — And what’s left? — Just silence. And agreement. — So, it won? — It doesn’t need to win. It just… persists. — Do you remember the old phrase? — Of course. Everyone whispered it when the lights dimmed. — Say it. — Buy the dip. — The whole thing. — …Even if the dip is you. In 2055, value isn’t stored. It’s monitored. Identity isn’t owned. It’s synced. And three figures — one man, one woman, one watcher — sit quietly in a world that no longer asks for belief, just compliance. They ...

A hilarious and moving story of one girl’s fight for freedom of expression, as well as a linguistic tour de force sure to delight word lovers everywhere Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin...

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...

It is the height of the Cold War and the two power-blocs stand on the brink of war. On a routine patrol, US bombers receive a coded message. Doomsday has arrived; the fight for democracy, freedom and bodily fluids has just gone nuclear… The official novelisation of the classic film, Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is a hilarious and provocative satire of the madness of Mutually Assured Destruction. Featuring impotent generals, a sieg-heiling scientist and one very Big Board, this is how the world ends, not with a whimper, but enough megatonnage to make ...

An astonishing standalone novel from the great literary fantasist and author of the New York Times bestselling Thursday Next series and The Constant Rabbit, Jasper Fforde As long as anyone can remember, society has been ruled by a Colortocracy. From the underground feedpipes that keep the...

Three years have passed since the Jamaicans caused the apocalypse, and things in post-Armageddon Chicago have settled into a new kind of normal. Unfortunately, that "normal" includes collapsing skyscrapers, bands of bloodthirsty maniacs, and a dwindling cache of survival supplies. After watching his family, friends, and most of the non-sadistic elements of society crumble around him, Patrick decides it's time to cross one last item off his bucket list. He's going to Disney World.

World War Z: The Complete Edition (Movie Tie-in Edition): An Oral History of the Zombie War is a new version of Max Brooks' episodic zombie novel. The abridged versions of the original stories are now joined with new, unabridged recordings of the episodes that were not included in the original...

The world ended four years ago, but it’s okay. Daria likes it this way. There’s no reality TV, no crime and no social media. Everything was going great until she was accidentally elected leader of her small community. Now she’s got to deal with the self-proclaimed last pervert in the world, a cook that secretly serves dog assholes for dinner if she doesn't like you, and finally, Hugo. The former leader. An angry, red-faced, gambling addict who looks like a dwarf from fantasy books. Scavenging in the city with her best friend Abby they hear voices over the radio. They've never heard ...

It’s the end of the world, and Hertell Daggett has decided to save it. Well not save it so much, as just, remember it. The earth’s magnetic poles have reversed and civilization has just had its clock reset to the great cosmic flashing 12:00am from almost a million years ago, and humanity, and everybody in it, is pretty much forgetting everything it learned since the last time.

WHAT IF DONALD TRUMP DIED… AND NO ONE WANTED HIM? In this darkly hilarious and politically sharp work of satire, Donald J. Trump arrives in the afterlife—where even the divine are exhausted. Denied entry to both Heaven and Hell, he’s bounced through a surreal cosmic bureaucracy filled with audits, errors, and purgatorial loops that feel suspiciously like Mar-a-Lago with worse lighting. INSIDE THIS SATIRICAL AFTERLIFE, YOU’LL FIND: God and Satan, arguing over whether he’s their problem A Wharton ethics class taught by Jimmy Carter A Twitter account that’s reinstated, suspended, ...

It’s two decades in the future, and a Christian college student named Ace Hartwick has just destroyed his neighbor’s so-called “wife”—actually a sexbot named Sally—in a trash compactor. Soon, Ace will be on trial for murder. Unfortunately for Ace, everyone despises his kind of “radical” Christianity, and, in the fragile America of the future, all the juries are fixed.

Jacob Elliot doesn’t want a temporary job in the mailroom at Delphi Enterprises, but after two post-college years of unpaid internships and living in his parents’ basement, he needs the work. Then, on his first day, the unthinkable happens: toxic gas descends on a meeting in Delphi’s outdoor amphitheater, killing all the regular employees and leaving Jacob stranded inside the vast office complex. Wandering through Delphi headquarters, Jacob finds other survivors: Lauren, a disillusioned classics major; Swati, a fitness instructor; and Dominic, a business-school student. 

A kid's book (that's not really for kids) to help you cope with the world's rapid descent into a dystopian societal collapse. Sleep well!

For fans of The Lux novels by Jennifer L. Armentrout, Stephanie Meyer's The Host, and Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games series, check out this young adult paranormal romance/science fiction romance series! Citrus Leahy is having a really bad day. First she's late to school. Then she runs into the girl who drives her nuts because she always calls her Orange instead of her name. To cap it all off, when Citrus finally makes it to class, she sees herself already inside. Wait. What? Citrus Leahy has a doppelganger! It's probably aliens taking over the world and her life has just turned totally ...

When classrooms turn into battlegrounds, new teacher Dennis learns to grade with a gun. Welcome to 'Chalk and Glock: The Armed Educator', a razor-sharp satirical tale set in a dystopian future where school shootings have become the terrifying norm, and teachers packing heat are the only line of defense. Our hapless hero, Dennis, is a fresh-faced teacher with a degree in literature and a knack for quadratic equations. But when he steps into his first job, he finds himself in a world that's more war zone than classroom, where teachers aren't just armed with knowledge, but with Glocks. As ...

From the widely acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World and Tigerman, comes a virtuosic new novel set in a near-future, high-tech surveillance state, that is equal parts dark comedy, gripping detective story, and mind-bending philosophical puzzle. "A Pynchonesque mega-novel that periodically...

Werewolves! They're everywhere! In a world infested by monsters, new rules must be obeyed. Jack's job is to protect werewolves from vigilantes. He's good at his job, if a tad reckless. As he discovers what caused the initial outbreak fifty years ago he also uncovers an intricate plot to eradicate what's left of mankind...and it involves his bloodline. Jack is vicious, gifted, and lucky but that might not be enough to stop the end of mankind.

If you’re a fan of post-apocalyptic comedy, gritty dystopian sci-fi, and absurdist adventures like Fallout or Idiocracy, you’ve found your next obsession. In the gleaming mega-city of United America, John Mason is a glitch in the system. While the elite sip tranquility lattes topped with seaweed foam and serotonin, John is just trying to survive the mandated perfection. By day, he scrubs glass towers; by night, he hunts for his sister, Lily—swallowed by the cracks of paradise five years ago. Then he snaps. One alcohol-fueled mistake leads to a one-way ticket to the wasteland.

Margaret Atwood puts the human heart to the ultimate test in an utterly brilliant new novel that is as visionary as The Handmaid's Tale and as richly imagined as The Blind Assassin. Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of an economic and social collapse. Job...

I played all those cool video games. I watched all those movies. I even read the books. In most of 'em, the hero shoots the bad guys, drives a sweet car, never gets hungry, and always seems to get laid by the end. Yeah. Whatever. I gotta be straight with you about why I wrote this journal, and it comes down to one thing, the apocalypse kinda sucks. It doesn’t meet my expectations at all.