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This is the story of Evan Evanescent, a quality assessor, who becomes mired in a surrealistic web of corporate psychology, metaphysical guilt, and the suffocating nature of internalised standards. He develops an obsession with an enigmatic poem which leads him to perceive a silent, invisible...

The gentle giant Florian Herscht has a problem: having faithfully attended Herr Köhler’s adult education classes in physics, he is convinced that disaster is imminent. And so, he embarks upon a one-sided correspondence with Chancellor Angela Merkel, to convince her of the danger of the complete destruction of all physical matter. Otherwise, he works for the Boss (the head of a local neo-Nazi gang), who has taken him under his wing and gotten him work as a graffiti cleaner and also a one-room apartment in the small eastern German town of Kana.

What if the end of the world were postponed because the invading aliens got overbooked? What if artificial intelligence suddenly began answering every question exactly the way a cat would? What if Death quietly took a well-earned vacation…and nobody on Earth could die anymore? What if the Second Coming returned to Earth only to discover that miracles are no substitute for proper paperwork? And what if the most frightening thing in the Book of Revelations wasn’t the Beast……but the Standards and Practices department?

»Und die Kugel blieb sich immer gleich, völlig unberührt von allem.« Urplötzlich schwebt sie nahe einer tschechischen Kleinstadt über der Erde: eine Kugel, die nichts weiter zu tun scheint und einfach milchig vor sich hin schimmert. Bei den Stadtbewohnern aber, die sie vor ein enormes...

Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Wall Street lawyer needs extra help in his office and hires Bartleby, a reserved and highly efficient copyist. At first, this enigmatic employee works from dawn to dusk without uttering a single complaint. However, everything changes the day when, faced with a completely routine request, Bartleby responds with a phrase that will baffle everyone: “I would prefer not to.” From that moment on, his polite but unwavering refusal becomes an unbearable mystery. This adaptation of Melville's classic is a fascinating portrait of isolation and the absurdity of modern life.

A cat hits a spaceship viewport. In hard vacuum. Completely calm. Mouthing: "You missed the turnoff." It gets worse from there. Cargo hauler Jarik Venn just wanted to deliver freeze-dried rations and avoid toll stations. Instead, he rescued a reality-warping cat from the vacuum of space, became wanted in nine sectors, and accidentally destroyed a government starship with a weaponized hairball. The cat's name is Brentley. He's a pathological liar, an escaped familiar, and possibly the most wanted being in three sectors. He's also Jarik's new passenger. Whether Jarik likes it or not.

A Lynchian, absurdist debut novel for fans of Joy Williams and Emma Cline about two disaffected young women and the local homeless man they become obsessed with The Bowl is a strange place: Surrounded by abandoned almond orchards filled with feral children and neighboring towns that keep burning...

Written by an inimitable new voice, The Age of Calamitiesis a genre-defying, mind-bending collection of absurdist, funny, and speculative short stories. In this bold debut collection, Senaa Ahmad pushes the boundaries of history and its figures, sending the reader on a thrilling ride. In...

WINNER OF THE ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS’ TRUST FICTION PRIZE WINNER OF THE AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD WINNER OF THE GORDON BURN PRIZE WINNER OF THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE WINNER OF THE ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE AND THE THE DUBLIN...

Im Krematorium von Juschno-Sachalinsk kommt es während einer Verabschiedungszeremonie des Künstlers Sergejewitsch Prygun zu einer Reihe sonderbarer Szenen, die teilweise unabhängig voneinander stattfinden, jedoch trotzdem ihren gemeinsamen Ursprung im energiegeladenen Umfeld des Verblichenen zu haben scheinen. Ein verschlagener Galerist spielt hierin eine besondere Rolle, aber auch ein fröhlich singendes und tanzendes Damentrio, welches gegen das Gebot der schweren Stunde leichte Unterhaltung bietet.

Während der Erzähler melancholisch in einem Kochbuch blättert, flattert durchs offene Fenster seiner Stadtwohnung ein Rabe in den Raum. Nachdem dieser zwanglos auf der Rückenlehne eines Sessels gelandet war, schüttelte er sein Gefieder und sagte: „Hallo!" Wer glaubt, dass dies nicht schon genug verdreht wäre, wird bald darauf eines Besseren belehrt, denn nach einem kurzen, aber einigermaßen tiefsinnigen Monolog des Besuchers kommt auch noch ein schüchterner Bussard nach, der das illustrierte Selbstgespräch des Raben durch weitere mystische Erläuterungen ergänzt.

In einem Wiener Spital, das er wegen einer Gallenoperation aufgesucht hatte, gerät der ansonsten unbenannte Ich-Erzähler zwischen die sonderbare Front seines vulgär selbstsicheren Bettnachbarn Herrn Körber und seiner eigenen, aufwühlenden Gedanken, die er sich über diese unklare Begegnung notgedrungen macht, und deren Entfaltung sich unbeirrt Schritt für Schritt vor seinen hilflosen Augen zu einem beängstigenden Gesamtbild formt.

Mitty Woodlawn is a local cook at the Joy Annex. He helps his pupils master several dishes and includes kind words with their meals. Mitty’s accommodating nature is captivating to all sorts of residents. His friends Buford and Scarlett, help Mitty navigate through a tough time in his life. Not only have they been there from the jump, but they adore him in every way. Mitty’s harmonious time in Cherishville changes when an odd woman enrolls in his class. He decides to entertain her kooky demeanor and ends up in an unforeseen adventure. His professionalism, freedom and livelihood will be tested.

What if, one ordinary morning, humanity discovered that animals could suddenly understand us… and talk back? In The Cats Have Notes, Sam Peterson and his wife Sally wake to a world forever changed when their three household cats begin carrying on perfectly understandable conversations. Morgana, the self-important Maine Coon mix; Melisandre, the sardonic black cat with a Goth streak; and Grizabella, the sharp-tongued young tabby, suddenly have opinions about everything—from food and litter boxes to television, politics, personal privacy, and the baffling habits of humans.

When a devastating EMP attack wipes out the electrical grid across the United States, the people of Clinton, Iowa suddenly find themselves cut off from the modern world—no phones, no internet, no refrigeration, no idea whether the federal government still exists, and only three days’ worth of patience remaining. Mayor Frank Ramey is trying to keep the city functioning with lanterns, rationed gasoline, and whatever remains of Midwestern common sense.

Already an international sensation, this darkly funny and provocatively visceral novel introduces one of contemporary fiction's most unforgettable heroines: a gifted butcher whose greatest longing is to become a mother. To Esther, meat is beautiful. It is how she understands the world. Raised in...

Damned If I Do is a set of brilliantly postmodern short stories from Percival Everett, author of The Trees, Dr No and Erasure, now an Oscar-nominated film. An artist, a cop, a cowboy, several fly fishermen and even a reluctant romance novelist inhabit these revealing and often hilarious stories...

What if London’s heaviest man weighed absolutely nothing? In this brilliantly bizarre, darkly comedic tale by H.G. Wells, an annoyed gentleman named Formalyn is relentlessly badgered by Pyecraft - the most monstrously obese, insufferable clubman in London. Desperate to escape his massive size...

Something is happening to the residents of Eighth Block Tower! There's radiation in the walls. Salt covers the hallways. The food and water are poisonous. The residents are trapped and losing their minds. Sanity is a myth! Sickness is life!

In this B-Movie Horror homage, Jerry Blaze brings you a story involving scifi elements, extreme horror, and absurdist creatures! Deep in the Amazon rainforest, a military facility is concocting top-secret project to turn the infamous Candiru fish into super weapons. However, a disgruntled scientist winds up releasing the mutated beasts into the wild and putting everyone at risk. Soon, a group of Peace Corps. volunteers wind up as prey for the mutant ass-munching monsters, leading to a bloody showdown when the military comes to retrieve their project at any cost!