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In the surreal academic landscape of Tumbarumba, history professor Stella Pontifex discovers that grease is not merely a culinary byproduct but a metaphysical archive of human memory. As the world suffers from “The Great Sizzle” and a subsequent “thinning” of reality known as attenuation, Stella is contacted by the spirits of legendary Grease Prophets like Frank and Glen. These apparitions warn her that corporate interests and a fanatical cult, the Way of Dryness, are draining the universe of its viscosity and historical depth.

Kevin Kershaw is on the achy side of fifty, divorced, and spends his days processing insurance claims. It’s a far cry from the wondrous future he imagined as a teenager. Then, one random day, as Kevin drifts through his joyless existence, he stumbles upon a shop that defies belief—possibly the last remaining video shop in England. He eventually ventures in and meets the enigmatic shopkeeper, who presents Kevin with a VHS tape.

It’s 1990, and Leo Sanford has just been expelled from Central Baptist University for creating an explicit topiary of the female figure using a push mower on the front lawn of the quad. After a humiliating ride back to his hometown of Westshore, Michigan, his father suggests Leo join him as a traveling clothing salesman. As partners, they could travel around the Midwest in their wood-paneled station wagon with the mannequins, sporting the latest fashions, as backseat passengers. Instead, Leo opts for an entry level job at All the Hits Video Rental.

What would you do when offered the opportunity of a lifetime? Once as thick as thieves, Eric and his friends steadily grew apart as life took them in different directions. Careers and relationships plucked them, one by one, from their hometown and dropped them off in different parts of the country. While they still found the time to fill their group chat with jokes, discussions, and the occasional drunken selfie, things just weren't the same as when they were in high school, all in one place, hanging out in person.

Herc Tom remains under suspicion following the escape of his clone with Colonel Tulin. Even his fighter Shadow has abandoned him to take up with the fugitives. To make matters worse, they seem to have gone to the dogs–the empire’s most recent nemesis. Herc knows that he should be the one to stop these Turncats from whatever mischief they plan; he could save the empire once again, but no one trusts him, including Emperor Octavio. Well, as has happened before, it is better to forego purrmission in favor of asking forgiveness later. Or so he hopes.

Inside this volume you’ll encounter a flawless time-rescue gone wrong, a beauty treatment with terrifying consequences, a detective hunted by a body-hopping killer, and a homesteader uncovering a truth that rewrites Earth itself. You’ll also find dragons that defy myth, fairy-tale chaos, supernatural horror, and high-concept science fiction that blends heart, humor, and imagination. From time travel and first contact to magical realism, monsters, and folklore-inspired fantasy —every story is brought vividly to life by a stellar narration cast.

Norman Spindle: CEO. Business guru. Secret mortal enemy. Lance Zoom must stop the mad tycoon from taking over ZoomCorp—unfortunately, spreadsheets creep him out. It falls to Layla Zoom to call in the cavalry. Or in this case, the twelve-year-old. In this warped introduction to the Zoom Universe, a hero will rise, a dark heart will be kindled, and the family toaster will be in dire peril. Hey, business meetings are tough.

In a galaxy on the brink of war, Geddy must confront deadly aliens, powerful allies, and an ex-girlfriend. In Fleet Feat, the electrifying fifth installment of C. P. James's Reassembly series, the newly formed galactic Alliance teeters on the verge of war. But until Geddy and the crew find the...

My Fair Planet and Other Stories is part of the Evelyn E. Smith series of science fiction works by the iconic author.

To erase his crippling medical debt, 50-year-old Dave signs a contract that uploads his mind into RiftBorn™—a brutal pay-to-win dungeon-crawler death game watched by millions. Dave doesn’t need to level up or get loot. He has 20 days to win over a generation raised on TikTok and Twitch, or the system pulls the plug on his real-world body. The problem? He skipped the tutorial and has no idea what he’s doing.

Herc Tom hasn’t been treated like much of a champion lately. Ever since returning from his latest escapades on Baast he’s been kept under house arrest. It doesn’t seem fair. He didn’t ask to be brainwashed by the evil Doctor Inga Quin, and besides–that’s all been cleaned out of his mind. And it’s not his fault that she made a homicidal clone of him. After all, he foiled the clone’s attempted assassination of both Ramses’ Emperor Octavio and Baast’s Supreme Leader Pang, didn’t he?

Life inside the Protection Zone is thrilling beyond imagination. Every day I am drowning in luxury, adventure, and more beautiful women than I can count, a dream scenario if I can stay focused. But bikini-clad distractions are everywhere, and I can feel my attention slipping. But while all the rampant hedonism is awesome, I need to focus my efforts on building new and improved weapons that we can sell for untold sums of money. Also, some of the women hadn't formally accepted my marriage proposals, so I wanted to focus on that as well.

Omega Force ist zurück! Nach der gewagten Rettung eines politischen Dissidenten wird Omega Force beauftragt, eine Reihe von Angriffen auf zivile Raumschiffe innerhalb einer Gruppe von Sternensystemen zu untersuchen, die als Concordian Cluster bekannt sind. Es scheint ein einfacher Auftrag mit einer enormen Belohnung zu sein. Das ist genau das, was die bunt zusammengewürfelte Gruppe von Söldnern braucht, um ihr Schiff im Schuss zu halten und denjenigen, die sie jagen, einen Schritt voraus zu bleiben.

The Laemion Ancestry has begun their invasion of Anshald. As the call to arms goes out and young men and women from across the nation begin to answer the call, three people enlist in the small mining town of Stonlinge. Among them is Sigfried Rium, who is quickly recruited to be a live fire airship saboteur as a part of the division known as the Wind Walk Archers.

Hey, bud. It's Captain Rusty, gearin' up to haul a load of space freight through the Vorn Abyss. Sounds like a heavy-metal band, but it's a patch of space with wonky gravity, where your ship gets pulled in more directions than a dog walker at a squirrel convention. It's gonna be a heck of a ride, but our old rig can handle it. Probably. Me and Piper are ready to kick off our honeymoon as soon as we get back, but Murphy is always watching, and the universe has a way of rearranging your plans faster than a tornado rearranges a trailer park.

Halycon Sage is back! As the eccentric citizens of Dry Creek Gulch happily organize a peaceful, post-technological society, big sparkly blue Squidren are rapidly approaching Earth! These telepathic, time-traveling, dimension-hopping Squids have plans for us-as do the suddenly sentient Nanobots...

Join Halycon Sage, founder of the Post-Modernist Minimalist Neo-Symbolist Pseudo-Realist School of Literature, as he slaloms through time, space, and multiple dimensions, all tangled up in a multiverse-spanning ball of yarn. The Squidren are back, along with many new characters. Will lawyer...

Halycon Sage, founder of the Post-Modernist Minimalist Neo-Symbolist Pseudo-Realist School of Literature, has voluntarily disappeared. He is hoping to save the world but is also fleeing the Mail Pile. Sage, a person of mystery who may be a Native American male, meets some odd characters...

Jax hates stools. He hates counters that are chest-high. But mostly, he hates not getting paid. Captain Jax is a pilot with a Napoleon complex and a corvette held together by duct tape and lizard spit. He’s five-foot-six of pure spite in a galaxy built for giants. When a slime-mold broker offers him a retirement-level payday to transport a "biological sample" to the edge of the Drift, Jax doesn’t ask questions. He just wants the credits.

Once every generation there is a Chosen One, who will stand between humanity and darkness. But why is the Chosen One so often a teenager? Why do only children get swept through portals to save the fantastic world on the other side? Whose idea was it to put the fate of the world in the hands of someone without a fully developed prefrontal cortex? In Never Too Old to Save the World, nineteen authors explore what would happen if the Chosen One were called midlife.