Dystopian Comedy

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...

Tens of thousands of species are going extinct every year. And a whole industry has sprung up around their extinctions, to help us preserve the remnants, or perhaps just assuage our guilt. For instance, the biobanks: secure archives of DNA samples, from which lost organisms might someday be resurrected. But one day, a mysterious cyber-attack hits every biobank simultaneously, wiping out the last traces of the perished species. Karin Resaint and Mark Halyard are concerned with one species in particular: the venomous lumpsucker, the most intelligent fish on the planet.

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.

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.

In a world where creativity is outlawed, dustpan maker Eddie Sweep discovers a time-traveling dustpan named Dustin. Joined by historical allies, Eddie embarks on a hilarious journey through history to collect artifacts that could overthrow the oppressive Conformity Council. From ancient China to the Fall of Rome, Eddie faces challenges that transform him from a timid factory worker to an unlikely hero. With wit, heart, and temporal hijinks, “Dustin Time” proves that sometimes, the most powerful tool for changing the world is a mop and a dustpan with attitude! Will Eddie save the future ...

With these 13 transfixing, ingenious stories, Ben Marcus gives us timely dystopian visions of alienation in a modern world - cosmically and comically apt. Never has existential catastrophe been so much fun.   

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 ...

In the future, true love is something that can be created to a person's specifications. Meet Denise Merritt - the perfect woman. She is beautiful, caring, emotional, sensitive, smart, friendly, and has the best personality a person could possibly have. She is also not real. Denise is an android (model) and she was made for the man, Steven Adams (mate), who wants to spend the rest of his life with someone special. Once he finally meets her, he had hoped to live out the rest of his life with the only person in the world he truly loves, but he gets swept into an unwelcome adventure when he ...

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 ...

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!

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.

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.

A contemporary dystopian elegy narrated by a cat imprisoned in a Schrödinger’s box, by the prizing-winning poet and memoirist whose writing "cuts to the core with electrifying force" (The Free-Lance Star). “Cat Love is more charming than seems humanly possible, which works out because it is...

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 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 ...

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...

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 ...

A blackly comic literary gem in which a broken man confronts a broken world on an uninhabited Pacific island, where a conservation assignment becomes a moral reckoning. “An instant classic.” —The Washington Post “Excellent ” —The New York Times “Urgent and lyrical.”...

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...

'Hilarious and unhinged.' Lisa Sparkle 'The story draws you into a brilliantly realised world full of compelling characters and adventure.' Tim Evans Janice craves a simple cup of coffee while an earth-shattering email looms. But her wait is disrupted by an alien spaceship landing in the Australian Outback, catapulting her into a bizarre war over coffee and kidnappings. She must conquer her deep-seated insecurities to rescue her friend. Across town, Logan Fury seeks redemption by helping four strangers. As they navigate freeways and suburbs, their greatest threat isn’t extraterrestrials ...