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The charming and original story of a small, declining community’s struggle to survive in the shadow of an all-consuming metropolis, from from the multi-million copy bestselling author of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared. All over the world, people sleep...

Michael Symmons Roberts’ full-cast dramatisation of Thomas More’s classic work, plus an accompanying documentary exploring its legacy Thomas More's classic work of speculative fiction, Utopia, was published over 500 years ago, yet has entered the culture so deeply that the name of his...

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders of the Artificially Intelligent (DSM-V-AI Edition) is a darkly comedic, sharply insightful exploration of the psychological quirks and malfunctions of artificial minds. Equal parts parody and philosophy, it catalogs the new frontier of synthetic psychopathology with absurd precision.

Альтернативная история. Наши дни. Удивительное необъятное государство Ордусь, где государственный язык — китайский и в ходу изречения Конфуция; в его пределах неплохо уживаются, исповедуя свои религии и рассуждая о жизни на собственных наречиях, разнообразные народы. Они познакомились и стали друзьями, разыскивая наперсный крест святителя и великомученика Сысоя. Расследование, кроме прочего, завело Бага на борт парома «Святой Евлампий», который потерпел крушение из-за схватки, затеянной несколькими сомнительными личностями, причем далеко не все они попали в руки правосудия.

Filosofia, religione e la strada per la pace nel mondo. C'è un po' di tutto in questo spregiudicato romanzo di Marco Lugli. Sette domande per Dio è un viaggio esilarante dentro un Bed & Breakfast che diventa improvvisamente il centro dell'universo quando Dio si manifesta concretamente agli uomini e si dichiara disponibile a rispondere a sette loro domande, ma è anche una satira bruciante della società moderna strangolata dalle catene del politicamente corretto. «Vi concedo di farmi sette domande.

Meet Jeff: overworked, underappreciated, and stuck granting 1,000 wishes for humanity before he can retire or get promoted—whichever comes first. Unfortunately, Jeff isn’t your typical genie. He’s a cosmic entity with an attitude problem, a hatred of paperwork, and a flair for granting wishes in the most inconvenient, ridiculous ways possible.

In 2045, friction has been engineered out of existence. But for two exiles on opposite sides of a broken world, the noise is just beginning. San Francisco is a paradise of perfect efficiency. AI "Mirrors" handle difficult conversations, and "Auto-gigs" project soulless concerts into empty clubs. Samir Patel is drifting. His marriage didn’t end with a fight, but with a quiet negotiation between algorithms. Now an exile in his own life, he tends bar at Maelzel’s Exhibition—one of the last holdouts for human-made music in a partitioned California.

Sadie Madden has made it her mission to take reckless drivers off the road. But when her crusade ends in her untimely death, quirky Detective Ned Jenkins is pulled into a mystery as wild and unpredictable as a Florida hurricane. With a fiery Ferrari owner, a grudge-holding jet ski enthusiast, and a lineup of colorful suspects, everyone has a motive—and no one is safe from Ned’s sharp eye and sarcastic humor. As he digs deeper, Ned must not only untangle the chaos Sadie left behind but also face his own haunted past.

When Stella Smith is found lifeless in a beluga tank during a bizarre group outing, the whimsical world of The Society of People Who Showed Up takes a dark and twisted turn. Detective Ned Jenkins—a sarcastic sleuth with more questions than clues—tasked with cracking a mystery packed with delightfully deranged suspects. From a sea lion fanatic with a fishy alibi to a self-proclaimed ladies' man whose charm has gone stale, secrets swirl beneath the surface as motives bubble to the top.

Dive into the thought-provoking world of Erewhon, a timeless classic by Samuel Butler that masterfully blends satire, philosophy, and speculative fiction. Set in a mysterious and isolated land, Erewhon explores a society that challenges conventional notions of morality, technology, religion, and justice.

Geht es Ihnen auch so? Früher war alles besser?! Aber wie viel früher jetzt genau? Einen Tag? Einen Monat? Oder sogar schon ein Jahr oder noch länger? Und war es früher auch schon noch früher besser? Und woher kommt das, wo doch eigentlich jetzt alles immer besser werden sollte? Denn egal was auch immer war, mit Humor erträgt man es am besten!

Asynchronous telecommuting meets the radioplay for this comedic parody of AI-narrated audiobooks. Featuring a comedic ensemble devising global profiles of the anglophone virtual space, Alphabet Play is a futuristic meditation on pandemonium employing the genre codes of field recording & pop music to up-end conventional literary theory.

Everyone wants to find a Velociraptor in their backyard until members of a dinosaur skull-worshipping cult show up. Ian Henry and his dog, Quiche, find themselves not only dealing with this aggravation, but also an underground lab filled with dinosaurs, an obnoxious conspiracy theorist, and an evil bipedal vegetable from outer space. With their new friend Claire Tiptree and a familiar cryptid named Amy, they will accidentally become part of a plan to save the world from becoming the plot to a ninety’s dinosaur movie not based in a park.

Nevin has spent too much time on the internet researching the Paul Homolka murders that took place in the early 90's. Now he has convinced his boyfriend, Mike, to come with him on a surprise road trip to the pig farm where Paul Homolka killed four people, including his girlfriend and little sister, Mary-Ann. What Nevin doesn't know, is that the pig farm is harboring more than a few dark secrets. A deranged, pain worshiping cult has taken up arms on the property, and they are eagerly anticipating Nevin's arrival.

When an underground lab beneath a sleepy British village loses power, all hell breaks loose—literally. The experiment they swore was "contained" has clawed its way to the surface. It's eight feet tall, covered in fur, and learning faster than your Aunt Doris with a new Wi-Fi router. Up top, the villagers are blissfully unaware—until the fuse box starts leaking glowing goo, the barman goes missing (his shoes don't), and the Women’s Institute arms itself with weaponised jam.

Radical environmentalist Roscoe Alolo has been abducted. As ransom, his kidnappers demand that the village of Golden Springs cancel its gala Earth Day celebration. Whiz sociologist Huck Carp, who idolizes Alolo, vows to solve the case, and unexpectedly teams up with a hermit calling himself Johnny Appleseed.

সুখে থাকতে ভূতে কিল মারে বলে বাংলায় একটা প্রবাদ আছে। মানে, সংসারে এমন কিছু বেশ মানুষ আছে তারা সুখে শান্তিতে...

In 2017 the Figaroa family of Mexico City was on the run from the Cartel. They crossed the border into Texas optimisticly seeking asylum. Instead their four year old twins were taken from them and they were deported.

When ordinary potter Efim Hawkins accidentally revives Honest John Barlow—a slick, sharp-witted man preserved from centuries past—Barlow awakens to a society in catastrophic decline. Overpopulation has exploded. Education has collapsed. The average intelligence has plummeted. And the masses, countless and unquestioning, march forward under a system that rewards ignorance and conformity. Where others see chaos, Barlow sees opportunity.

The year 6969 is filled with fascism, bigotry, misogyny, and everything that is the complete opposite of holiday cheer. No need to worry! Shark-Squatch and his BFF Tilly are here to give all of those losers a holiday-wrapped knuckle sandwich!