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Bob Spinowitz was an average guy—until aliens abducted him and gave him the head of a duck. Then they asked “DuckBob” to save the universe, since their modifications meant he could. Talk about a backhanded compliment! Amazingly, though, DuckBob did it. And thus became Guardian of the Matrix, which protects the cosmos from further invasion—as long as he’s plugged in. Literally. But alien techie pal Ned just made the Matrix User Interface wireless. Suddenly, DuckBob is free again—the whole universe is at his alien-altered, webbed feet!

In the neon-colored capital planet of Chigu, Karel enters the school believing she has to prove the worthiness of humans to the empire as a whole. However, just as we all think of ourselves as the “main character” of the universe, Karel is not the only new student dealing with this life changing transition.

Book 1: After Z - For a decade, the world has known about the Immuno-Degenerative and Epidermal Decomposition Virus: Strain 2 (ImDED2), which turns the dead into cannibalistic zombies. Despite government efforts to control it, the virus finally unleashes a global pandemic. Lucky winners of a Powerball jackpot, Ryan Maxwell uses the family's newfound wealth to build the ultimate survival bunker. Follow the Maxwells and friends as they live through the end of the world, wondering if money can truly buy their safety after the apocalypse arrives.

Getting out from under the Commonwealth's thumb should be a good thing. Of course, there are a lot of people who think that means the Earth is fair game. BSR has to keep them from exploiting the folks back home. Of course, the fellow Bob outsmarted on Tantrum isn't taking it well, either. Come see what the fleet has to do to keep Earth safe.

God rest ye merry gentlefolk, it's time for the traditional St Mary's Christmas jump - this year to Martingale Manor, where a murder mystery is unfolding... It's nearly Christmas and Leon has had a Brilliant Idea. A holiday - to enable a very reluctant Max to recover from her recently acquired...

The Next Minute is a satirical sci-fi adventure following Frank, a sarcastic writer whose mundane life ends abruptly in a Starbucks when a mysterious AI woman named Penny injects him and thrusts him into a bizarre afterlife. Awakening in a surreal, backward world, Frank discovers he's been randomly selected via a cosmic lottery for "Target One," a mission to dismantle an ancient system trapping all beings in endless cycles of life, death, and memory wipes.

Ace Shades has since retired from a life of high-octane adrenaline as a self-proclaimed detective and now lives a life of suburbia with his partner and ex-psychiatrist, Beth Embers, and their nearly five-year-old son. Except the simplicity of suburban life doesn't come naturally to a man once defined by madness, and Ace finds himself haunted by echoes of his past—phantoms of a narrative that refuses to let go. As he strives to be a devoted partner and father, as well as a better person altogether, the boundaries between his current reality and past self begin to blur.

With Sector Zero in ruins and Sarah stolen away, T.E.D.D.—the scarred trash droid—charges after the Manager into a jungle fortress teeming with MilBots and something far more sinister. Inside, The Manager is growing a new horror—and only T.E.D.D. can stop him. To save Sarah, and the fate of the world, he must overcome killer machines, creatures that shouldn't exist, and the darkest parts of himself... before the Manager’s plan consumes the world.

One day, Jason is fighting with a terrible monster. Just as he thinks he is going to die, he unexplainably transforms into a monster. He becomes a Wicker Beast. He is taken in by a monster-hunting group who want to help him harness this power and use him to stop other folklore creatures from hurting anyone else. But not all is as it seems. Not just with the monster hunters, but also with himself.

The energetic and bitingly satirical novel from author Edward Ashton, author of Mickey7! The End of Ordinary is a riveting near-future thriller that asks an important question: if we can’t get along when our differences are barely skin deep, what happens when they run all the way down to the...

Jace thought he’d inherited a dusty old ranch. What he really got was a flying rust bucket and a cosmic mess with his name all over it… Weeks after his beloved father’s passing, Jace Jones is surprised to discover he’s been left a ranch in the middle of nowhere; a place so remote, even the tumbleweeds are lonely. Curious and confused, he makes the trip... only to watch a starship drop out of the sky and obliterate the entire property!

Joshtopia is a comedy sci-fi story about a striving young graphic designer named "Josh" who is abducted by aliens and finds that they are a lot different than what he'd expected. His world is permanently changed as ideas of creativity and being able to do what was considered Earthly impossible to him at one time. Now he finds that things are a lot different for him after the abduction event.

The long-awaited and much-begged-for sequel to My Buddy Gave Me a Starship. Commanding a complex starship is the least of Mitch's worries. Using his buddy's starship to swoop to the rescue of beleaguered outposts or single-handedly blast his way through enemy squadrons is nothing new; Mitch has...

Tensions are running high in the Spacetime Ocean. A single spark could lead to war. But it's nothing Sergey can't handle . . . right?

When aliens descend on Earth, most people panic. Mariko Waterfield sees it as a sign: time to leave North Loop Manor and start a new chapter out west. The world is changing, the future uncertain—but before she can move on, she owes her best friends one final farewell. One last perfect goodbye in the shadow of an alien invasion.

Natalio y su electrocante —un compañero androide, también llamado «tronco»— recorren la City haciendo el trabajo sucio que le corresponde a un policía Clase 5. La ciudad está colapsada por la ola de inmigrantes y disidentes que llegan desde la Ciudad Vieja y las órdenes son terminar con ellos como sea. En uno de estos operativos, Natalio pierde a su tronco cuando un disidente le vuela la cabeza con una bomba imán. Natalio, entonces, se ve obligado a comprar un electro de segunda mano, un modelo antiguo que nadie quería y que estaba almacenado al fondo de la tienda.

After a successful first mission, Carrie thought her job as Transgalactic Intercultural Community Crisis Liaison Officer was secure. But all bets are off when she travels to Dandrobia, a genetically engineered utopia. Beautiful and immortal, the dandrobians have been confined to their planet due their former tyrannical reign over the galaxy. Carrie must mediate between the dandrobians and their victims, the squashpumps.

A fiction story about a book that kills people less than 24 hours after reading it. An investigation is held after a string of deaths surround people who have discovered the book. Once it is ascertained that most of the people that have read the book die some period afterward, the government takes over. The book is reverse engineered for weaponization. One thing leads to another, and a lone librarian strives to keep the book's curse from going viral.

For science teacher Baxter Plink, his grandmother’s funeral was already set to be a grim affair. But he never expected the deceased to wink at him. Or for his own navel to start glowing and projecting holographic replays of his most embarrassing potential deaths for the entire congregation to see. What begins as a personal quantum catastrophe quickly goes viral, becoming a global pandemic of "Quantum Embarrassment" where everyone's deepest regrets and unfulfilled dreams are broadcast from their bellies.

Gormon Hughes has elevated himself. Twenty-odd years ago, he was a desperate young man, broken-hearted and in danger of being literally eaten alive by debt collectors. Ten years ago, he helped untangle the mystery of the Spring-Heeled Jane murders. Now he is the President-Elect of his home country. He has a daughter. He has a multi-world-spanning conflict on his hands.