Fictional Universe

Minor Universe 31 is a vast story-space on the outskirts of fiction, where paradox fluctuates like the stock market, lonely sexbots beckon failed protagonists, and time travel is serious business. Every day, people get into time machines and try to do the one thing they should never do: change the past. That’s where Charles Yu, time travel technician—part counselor, part gadget repair man—steps in. He helps save people from themselves. Literally.

In this ambitious and wildly original debut -- part social-political satire, part international mystery -- a new virus turns people into something a bit more than human, upending society as we know it. This panoramic fictional oral history begins with one small mystery: the body of a young woman...

In this “inventive, moving, and funny” (Jess Walter, #1 New York Times bestselling author) coming-of-age novel, two human-like teen robots navigate high school, basketball, and potentially life-threatening consequences if their true origins are discovered by the inhabitants of their...

They were never meant to be found. Hidden deep in a privately-sealed archive on a remote island known only as The Zoo, these documents were the prized possessions of a mega-wealthy recluse—a twisted collector who hunted America’s most brutal killers, caged them like animals, and meticulously chronicled their depravity. He’s known only as The Trophy Hunter. Now, for the first time, some of his private case files have been exposed. In this chilling companion to the Slasher Universe series, step into a world of cursed institutions, corrupted bloodlines, and monsters born from human ...

Discover the answers to these questions and many more at the Supervillain Academy: the magnificently morbid school for young bad folks-in-training. Read more about how the search for extraterrestrial life and the search for planets are linked, the exoplanets and extremophiles that can be found...