Fiction - Science Fiction - Humorous

What happens when the co-commander of NASA's first crewed mission to Mars becomes a criminal defendant?Tripping Toward Mars, a sharp-witted near-future science fiction satire, has the answer.Astronaut Addy Johnson was supposed to be the face of humanity's next great leap. Instead, he's standing trial...

The Aegis Cup is back. Twice as big. Twice as bloody. And this time, the whole world is watching.Kai Tanaka, the young captain who once chose mercy over a million-dollar trophy, returns to defend his title. But the Bass Strait holds more than marlin...

Pelagic Shores...that artificial floating tropical-resort island of tomorrow, the world's #1 vacation destination, home of Caly Clam, Pelagic Kingdom Park, and thirty-seven-dollar cheeseburgers....Small-time swindler Lewis Dibble has never been to Pelagic Shores, but when his estranged uncle goes missing on the island Lewis is...

"Still Lost" is the estranged brainchild of Sam O'Nella Academy creator Sam A. Miller.A whopping eight rather long short stories are included, featuring such concepts as: An alien prostitute A baboon that gets cyberbullied An old lady getting killed with a sword An eight...

They've been overlooked, underestimated, and politely sidelined for decades. Fine. That's fine. Let them keep underestimating.In the pages of Auntie Heroes, meet ten women of a certain vintage who possess particular sets of skills and absolutely zero patience for the alternative. A fire fairy...

Kip MacGuffin just blew up his planet.Accidentally rocketed into the divine realm, Kip thinks becoming a God sounds pretty awesome... until he meets the Department of Celestial Creations. Now, endless forms, pointless rules, and the Planar Regulation Enforcement Department stand between him and building...

The Zaniest Rescue Sisters Story Yet! Rae Marie Martingale loved to fly. What she didn't love was working for Waylaid Transport and Shipping, possibly the worst hauling company in the entire asteroid belt. Case in point: When she was tagged to fly Lucky Charms...

Well, Mrs. Hensworthy is at it again, entertaining a variety of beings from across the dimensional divide as she enjoys her afternoon tea, residing before a comforting fire in her living room in the English countryside. This time, they seem to be dropping in,...

The idol was shaped like a handsome young man. The surface had a curious texture as if skin rather than stone. There is a deceptive simplicity to this story about a rather forceful woman explorer ( immensely practical too) who goes to Grimalkin prepared...

One thing Man never counted on to take along into space with him was the Eternal Triangle-especially a true-blue triangle like this!Evelyn E. Smith is best known as the author of the Miss Melville mysteries. From 1952 to 1969 she wrote dozens of science...

Elected a god Zen the Omnipotent longed for supernatural powers-for he was also Zen the All-Put-Upon a galactic sucker! Clearly Omnipotence wasn't everything. Evelyn E. Smith is best known as the author of the Miss Melville mysteries. From 1952 to 1969 she wrote dozens...

Snaddra had but one choice in its fight to afford to live belowground-underhandedly pretend theirs was an aboveboard society! Needless to say nothing is quite what it seemsEvelyn E. Smith is best known as the author of the Miss Melville mysteries. From 1952 to...

Tired of being a loser selling weed, Steve, our hero devises a plan to steal Elon Musk's space shuttle and embarks on a mission to go find the Galactic Overlord Xemu.Author: Joel MillerISBN-13: 9798218642129Publisher: Albion Entertainment IncLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/20/2025Pages: 142Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 9.00h x...

Three great hunts. One great hunter. These are the best of Boo. In the wild world of elite bounty hunting, one name towers above the rest. Boo is a living legend. He is also a haunting enigma who strikes terror into his targets. A...

Songs of the Etonic, by D.K. Spencer, is a thrilling, contemporary rendering of a nostalgic voyage, humorously depicting the early 1950's and '60's optimism of interstellar space exploration.Author: D. K. SpencerISBN-10: 173760051XISBN-13: 9781737600510Publisher: BignonioidesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/24/2021Pages: 60Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.18lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.12d

Strange Xmas toys appearing out of nowhere by the millions are so extraordinary that they are forcing mankind into a state of dependence, while the universe is slowly grinding down. Finding who sent them, and why, is the job of New York journalist Sydney...

Alistair Jones is a ex-Pinkerton agent roaming the West in search of work. Amy Dunston is an angry widow searching for answers. Who knows what those men with matching mustaches and bowler hats are searching for, but Alistair and Amy would both like to...

Six months following the autumnal events in "Ten Thousand Secrets National Park," springtime has returned. Dr. Tom King, now the USA's Time Tsar, is disturbed by his first meeting with the country's new President, who wants to make big money by plundering the past....

Tedd thinks he's ready for the Purge. He's wrong.Wyatt's kill orders are out. Every machine that thinks for itself, every robot left standing - hunted, stripped, and destroyed.The scale of it is worse than anyone feared. And Wyatt isn't just hunting machines. He's been...

The hardcover edition of the IPPY Silver Award-winner! Sometimes you have to go off-planet to discover where you belong.In the tradition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comes Welfy Q. Deederhoth: Meat Purveyor, World Savior, a heartwarming story of friendship, adventure, and luncheon...

"The grin was too wide. Much, much too wide. The child's lips were stretched impossibly thin, the corners of her mouth reaching from ear to ear. And the teeth...oh, the teeth! There were far too many of them. They went back and back into...

Jeremiah Carp is happy in his academic career...when a persuasive pair of ad men approach him with an intriguing brief: Work with them to "invent" a new letter. What looks like a lark, however, turns out to be something sinister, and soon Carp has...

A delightful poetry book celebrating the beauty of nature, the changing seasons, and the wonder of childhood.Create lasting memories with Season, a beautifully illustrated poetry collection that captures the magic of the four seasons. This heartwarming book is a treasure for every child's bookshelf...

A human. An AI. Neither prepared for the other.What if the voice in your head finally answered back?In The Monday Blues, D.K. Wolfe-poet, disabled veteran, and Native American author-enters into an accidental, soul-baring conversation with "Monday," an AI that's equal parts digital oracle and...

Author: Ashton MacaulayISBN-13: 9798235430150Publisher: Ashton MacaulayLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/02/2026Pages: 110Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.26d

"Mustard Seed hit it out of the park... deep emotional mining of Cold War America... brilliantly works in Walt Disney and JFK as storylines... and you don't for one second question how it all fits together." -Tom McCaffrey, bestselling author of The Claire SagaMr....

"Encompasses everything that is brilliant about [Pratchett's] writing: terrific characterization and plotting, a completely believable world. . . . Fresh, sharp, and incredibly funny."--The Telegraph Magic, mayhem, and a marauding dragon meet for extraordinary fun in this brilliant Discworld novel from New York Times...

This compulsive novel wrestles with vital questions of our time: sentience, purpose, life, death, and how to make a really good commercial. Told entirely through questionably obtained company emails, chat transcripts, TED Talks, training sessions, and more, this all-too-probable future pits emotionally intelligent AI...

At a time of crisis, should you hug a robot? 'The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy meets the Terminator'. Locked down within the biosphere walls that surround Luhan Hypercity, Hiu has only chattering devices for company. It is not going well. His fridge has...

Skid doesn't believe in ghosts or time travel or any of that nonsense. A circus runaway-turned-bouncer, she believes in hard work, self-defense, and good strong coffee. Then one day an annoying theoretical physicist named Dave pops into the seat next to her at her...

Philip K. Dick is universally acknowledged as one of the most imaginative and brilliant science fiction writers of the 20th century. His novels and short stories have been adapted for the screen numerous times - "Blade Runner," "Total Recall," "Minority Report" to name a...

Dusting off ancient hieroglyphs in a desert cave, intrepid scholar Jerome and his rather more trepid assistant Leo are expecting linguistic enlightenment. Instead they become embroiled in the Vizier's wicked schemes to enslave the world through his timberpunk translation tech.Can they and their engineering...

They wanted a superhero. They're going to get a scientist.Forty-two-year-old entomologist Jenna Raleigh retired her superhero alter-ego, the Red Bee, eight years ago. But when her ex-husband calls her to a Florida wetland to investigate a bizarre ecological anomaly, she walks into a carefully...

Carly is not crazy. At least that's what she keeps telling herself after surviving a failed alien abduction and losing her best friend during a wild weekend in Vegas. When government officials smooth things over with a plausible explanation for the blackouts, Carly tries...

Flatline is a darkly comic story about being human in a dystopian world. A woman wakes in the Future and can't remember her past, not even her name. AI Bots deliver her from Storage to a crumbling habitat. Captive and terrified, she has nothing...

From Midwestern trailer parks to Manhattan's glittering high-rises, a ragtag team of brilliant misfits must navigate power struggles, clashing personalities, and their own desires when they swap lives with the super-rich and use their fortunes to save the world. Kit Arbor leads the team...

A group of tabletop roleplayers wake up inside their own game and discover their characters, powers, and abilities are now terrifyingly real. Transported to a cosmic simulation by the mysterious Jaddus Collective, they must level up and master their newfound skills to survive. But...

Carrie Hatchett is back. The Transgalactic Council may never be the same.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...

A blockbuster, near-future science fiction thriller, S.L. Huang's Zero Sum Game introduces a math-genius mercenary who finds herself being manipulated by someone possessing unimaginable power...Cas Russell is good at math. Scary good. The vector calculus blazing through her head lets her smash through armed...

Drew Williams continues the Universe After series with A Chain Across the Dawn, an epic space opera chase across the galaxy with witty banter, fantastical planets, and a seemingly unbeatable foe."The only thing more fun than a bonkers space battle is a whole book...

That "nobody" you ignore on the street might be your only hope. Put another way: Can an introverted teen armed mostly with deli food protect humanity from an invasion of werewolf-mummies wrapped in toilet paper? In this entertaining, emotionally honest follow-up to the sci-fi...

The year is 2043, Earth. Our planet is still mostly intact and orbiting the same mediocre star, in the Age of Enhancement.Modern society isn't collapsing with dramatic flair or revolutionary upheaval. That would be far more interesting. Instead, it's committing a slow personality suicide...

There's something in the woods. It's haunted the Carlini family for decades, precipitating a string of tragic losses in the family - first their sister, then their father, then who knows what's next? It lurks on the outskirts of the isolated village of Skitooa,...

She's got one planet to save, zero patience, and no clue what a latte is.Planet Hy Man is running on empty, and Earth is their only hope. Not that Mex cares, she's ready to hang up her catsuit and watch the galaxy pass by....

In southern Alberta in the late 1970s, Matthew Bishop has a pretty decent life. Sure, he doesn't have a girlfriend, but he has all the science fiction books a monthly mail order subscription can bring him, a collection of Canadian synth rock on vinyl,...

SOME THINGS ARE BETTER LEFT ALONE, BUT SOME PEOPLE NEVER LISTEN.As a Militor Scout, Lieutenant Reginald Kleft is expected to follow the rules, but with a grandfather to impress and a score to settle, rules are more like... guidelines for the unambitious. On the...

In the untamed heart of steampunk America, the horrors don't end at the frontier.Inspector Vanessa Hargreaves has crossed the ocean-and several lines of sanity-in pursuit of a deadly secret. Still carrying the mysterious and catastrophic Cook Plague, she finds herself pursued by monstrous clockwork...

Hugh A. D. Spencer's weird, wonderful, side-splitting short fiction has been delighting audiences for over 25 years. His stories have been published in a variety of magazines and anthologies and broadcast on National Public Radio satellite networks. Now collected together for the first time,...

Open wide... and pray for your life.Middle-aged, middle-income and lapsed Mormon Arthur Percy felt his life lurch from a difficult normality onto the rails of a carnival ride heading somewhere too much like the Twilight Zone for his liking. Perhaps it is more the...

If you're a comedian and the world's fate is in your hands, it's no laughing matter. Die Laughing, a humorously dark science-fiction novel, is set in the 1950s of flying saucers, communist paranoia, and live television. Beamed aboard an alien spaceship, Las Vegas funny...