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A dynamic remastering of the second BBC Radio 4 full-cast serial – Fit the Seventh to Fit the Twelfth – which spawned a phenomenal hitchhiking legend The second original series of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy remastered by Dirk Maggs (director of the Tertiary, Quandary and...

I used to be the greatest Earth Mage in my world. The head of the entire Order of Architects. But the older you get, the more you come to realize that at some point, you need to retire, so that you can have the chance to enjoy a peaceful life and to cede your place to the young, some of whom have already turned two thousand years old . . .So that's what I did. But I failed to account for one thing: during the course of my long life, I'd accumulated too many enemies, and they had decided to spoil my retirement. So they died along with me. And I hope their deaths were final. But mine was not!

Midwestern Mayhem! Remember the '90s? Well... the town of Demise, North Dakota doesn't, and they're living in the year 1997. That's because an alien worm hitched a ride on a comet, crash-landed in the town's trailer park, and is now infecting animals with a memory-loss-inducing bite-and right before Christmas! Now it's up to nineteen-year-old Realene and her best friend Nate to stop the spread and defeat the worms before the entire town loses its mind. The only things standing in the way are their troubled pasts, a doomsday cult, and an army of infected prairie dogs.

Junkyard scavenger Jax Mulder thought his discovery of a powerful alien relic would be his ticket to an easy life. Instead, his Master Key has thrust him, BEA officer Mara Holt, and his snarky robot pal Zed through a gateway into the Enclave. Stranded in a colossal, pan-galactic metropolis teeming with bizarre alien species, the trio has no money and a massive target on their backs. To make matters worse, a relentless cyborg assassin is hunting them, determined to pry the relic from Jax’s dead hands.

Miles Bracken works in municipal records. His greatest professional weapons are patience, filing logic, and a healthy distrust of systems that claim they cannot make mistakes.Then an intergalactic rebellion kidnaps him from his apartment.According to an ancient succession protocol, Miles is now...

AM Foster’s debut novel in The Pilot Program Series Cael Irix does not take risks. Every decision in his life is calculated. Every variable accounted for. Every outcome reduced to a number with a comfortably low probability of death. It’s a method that has kept him alive in a universe that is, statistically speaking, trying quite hard to correct that. So when Cael accepts a quiet job auditing expense reports, it is, by every available metric, the safest choice he has ever made. They did not mention the bounty hunters during the interview.

The Twilight Zone meets I Saw the TV Glow in this speculative, horror-tinged, coming-of-age novel about a young queer woman who is drawn into a hub between dimensions through a mysterious TV. Cowboy, a queer TV repair store employee, lives a lonely existence in 1980s Sterling, a Texas town where...

Worcestershire, 1987: When cash-strapped Vale Television, the smallest station on the ITV network, goes bust, Victoria Bloom sees her career come to a crashing halt. Forty years later, happily retired, Vicky reminisces with her granddaughter as they watch a show she once worked on, now repeated on a nostalgia TV channel. Later, when a stranger offers her the chance to revisit the past, Vicky returns to the start of the year when it all went wrong.

Tropical drinks, Cold War secrets, and temperamental Tikis... Welcome to a wonderful, crazy paradise. It’s 1959. Burned-out spy Don Hula just wants to fade into his tropical island hideaway and forget the world. But when bizarre phenomena begin shaking up a remote chain of South Pacific islands—think underground labs, South Seas assassins, and neighborhood Tikis with existential angst—Hula’s forced back into the game for the weirdest, most dangerous mission of his career.

Inspector Ryken really doesn’t want to audit your spaceship. Unfortunately, it’s his job. As a member of the elite Bureau of Necessary Intervention, he has to judge the viability of Steadings: fringe communities made up of people sick of utopia. But Ryken is burnt out, his ship's computer has just hit the EDM listening, door slamming stage of robot puberty, and he is one incident away from being quietly fired. He needs an easy job.

In the abandoned New York Botanical Gardens, thirty years after the world nearly ended, a worn-out robot is attacked and realizes old evils are stirring. Thirty years ago, the world nearly ended. Be was there, but the old robot has since settled into a life of isolation in the abandoned New York...

With the age of heroic star pilots and galactic villains completely killed by quantum teleportation, the ex-star pilot currently named Dashford Pierce is struggling to find his identity in a changing universe. Then, a face from his past returns and makes him an offer he can't refuse: take part in just one teeny weeny, slightly illegal, daring heist, and not only will he have the means to start the new life he craves, but also save his childhood hero from certain death.

There are some things you just don’t expect to find in deep space. A 1947 Wisconsin license plate is one of them. Rix Banner has finally made it back to Patience Station, where life is settling into something almost respectable. His mechanic shop is busy, Calypso needs repairs, his friends are launching businesses, and for once there might even be enough credits coming in to pay the bills. Then a battered piece of chrome-plated junk turns up in a crate from halfway across the galaxy. It’s from Wisconsin. Rix’s Wisconsin.

Osheen Shupple has been working his entire life to resolve the paradox of a desperate audio message from years ago, one which holds a horrifying secret that will change the course of history. His plan: build a time machine and return to the source of the message. But he can't do it alone. Fortunately, the universe has supplied a perfect team: an archaeologist serving twenty-eight life sentences, a veterinarian with an identity crisis and no original body parts, a cheating university student, and a famous but very, very dead starship captain.

Sally has finally cleared the new planet. Surely that means it's ready for people to come and check it out, right? Our shepherd still gets a vote. See how much effort it takes to get a good, used planet into livable shape...

The Gene scrambles to help Milly. Watch as they get through the obstacles to bring her home safely. Bob and Nikki decide to finish their shore leave on Earth. A nice, relaxing few days in the Holler, right? You know better by now, don't you? Come find out what all happens...

Sie bauten ihn, um ihren Müll zu entsorgen. Es stellt sich heraus, sie sind die Nächsten. Tedd ist ein Mülldroide mit einer „Anomalie“ – er kann selbstständig denken. Management will ihn einschmelzen lassen, und sein vorlautes Mundwerk hilft ihm nicht gerade. Er könnte einfach still verschwinden. Er könnte auf Nummer sicher gehen. Er könnte, zum ersten Mal in seiner elenden Existenz, das Vernünftige tun.

Parte comédia de erros, parte delírio e aventura espacial, Os clãs da lua Alfa é um romance que combina sátira política, crítica social e ficção científica. É uma obra exemplar no vasto universo de Philip K. Dick, com seus telepatas viscosos, criaturas quitinosas e simulacros de...

The Brain-In-A-Box is back! And now Humanity is facing its greatest challenge. A new enemy, a new war, a new use for Alan Ashe, The Last Cyborg. The war with the Tarkis has begun, and now the race is on to be the first species to develop a dark matter weapon. Fleet Marine Sergeant Alan Ashe, The...

Contracts are there to make everything more simple, right? The Xavianns certainly think so. They even put contracts in place with their breeding partners. So when a huge, horned, pro-athlete, prince makes it very clear he's into me, I do the logical thing. I sign a friends-with-benefits contract...