Fiction - Science Fiction - Humorous

Will needs desperately to find Key Lime in Key West in order to save the world. Not the pie mind you, but a shape shifter named Key Lime who Onyx intelligence believes is masquerading as one of Hemingway's cats. Will, who happens to be...

An epic new science fiction series about faith, family, and alien invasion in the wilds of Alaska.When a shooting star plunges through the atmosphere and touches down in the Alaska wilderness, only two earthlings are present to witness the event. But they perceive two...

You can't mistake just anyone for a Phule.When the planet Zenobia is invaded, Captain Willard Phule is made their military advisor. The first priority for Phule's Company: staying out from underfood of the peaceful, dinosaurlike Zenobians...But, unbeknownst to the Zenobians, they're getting two Phules...

What's a millionaire bachelor to do? Join the army--with his butler--of course. Meet Captain Willard Phule and his company of misunderstood misfits. Together, they've taken space by storm--and left a tradition of zaniness and laughter in their wake... Desperate to kick Phule out of...

Collected her are eighteen stories that bend time and space by the incomparable R. A. Lafferty. Lafferty was the winner of the Hugo and World Fantasy Award and a six time Nebula Award Nominee. His quirky style made his work hard to pigeonhole and...

AROKHI broke the rules and stole an auction item from her buyers.Because somehow, they'd managed to abduct a Gryfala princess.Though... she doesn't look, or act, or sound quite like I thought one of her kind would.But I'm merely a Rakhii gladiator; this is the...

The third and final book of the Janitors of the Post-Apocalypse follows a group of unlikely heroes trying to save the galaxy from a zombie plague. Marion "Mops" Adamopoulos and her team were trained to clean spaceships. They were absolutely not trained to fight...

A debut story collection of darkly humorous, feminist speculative fiction from the Balkans.Author: Asja BakicISBN-10: 1936932482ISBN-13: 9781936932481Publisher: Feminist PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/12/2019Pages: 144Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.70dReview Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2019Publishers Weekly 02/04/2019Shelf Awareness 03/15/2019

What's a millionaire bachelor to do? Join the army--with his butler Captain Willard Phule is the only officer in the Space Legion with his own butler, but Beeker has stuck with him through thick and thin. Which is why Phule simply can't comprehend why...

Three times Aurora Award-nominated author Hugh A. D. Spencer collects more of his previously published short fiction in this fun collection. Featuring a series of interconnected stories about the Progressive Apparatus, a sometimes anti-muse, sometimes amoral high-tech firm, and a Galactic Super-culture that meddles...

Think you want to live forever? Think again. You may wake up as a zombie tourist, doomed to shamble the sights of Los Angeles. Or you could be a clone, body and memories intact but lacking something you can't quite name. Your frozen head...

GUARD BROOKLYN, FIGHT MONSTERS, TAUNT BAD GUYS.What would you do if you lost everything that mattered to you, as well as all means to protect yourself and others, but still had to save the day? Conrad Brent is about to find out.Conrad Brent protects...

Despite the alien's best efforts, the so-called Little Nudge has failed, and the rogue planet Pipnonia is once again on a collision course with Earth. It's time for the "Big Bump," the alien's last-ditch effort to save Earth and its inhabitants from total annihilation....

After an incident with a hot-air balloon causes college-dropout Sally Webber to lose her job, she sets off to find direction in her life. Crashing into a teleporting alien, however, is not on her to-do list. Now she's on the run from TV-drama-loving aliens,...

Wolf Hall meets The Man in the High Castle in this mind-bending science fiction classic, now presented in an authoritative new edition from Library of America Plucked from time, Sir Thomas More arrives on the human colony of Astrobe in the year 2535 A.D.,...

The Telorans have arrived, and people in the Federation are going to die. Vishlog is working to understand the Morgana group, and just what he has "volunteered" to be part of. Hopefully, he won't die before he learns.The Witch of the Federation has matured,...

Have you ever wondered what a UFO abduction is like from the alien's viewpoint? Can a machine provide comfort to a dying woman? What would it be like to fall into the hands of a get-rich-quick scheming extraterrestrial? All these questions and more are...

A killer known as The Reaper is tasked to carry out a mission at Experiment Labs.However, with a fateful encounter, his world would never be the same.Author: Jj DizzISBN-10: 108792331XISBN-13: 9781087923314Publisher: Jj DizzLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/08/2022Pages: 392Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 7.00h x 4.37w x 1.07d

It's a dirty galaxy and someone has to clean it.Avoiding the wealthy inhabitants on the upper levels of Station Kelly Kornienko is bot-programmer Triana's number one rule. Well, number two, right after "eat all the chocolate."But when one of her cleaning bots finds a...

Fauna follows the lead of the bacon-skinned Pig with a menagerie of twisted tales about the lives and times of our fellow-feeling creatures. There are guinea pigs in the underworld, elephants in a virtual world, vengeful birds from a far-off world, and so much...

From New York Times bestseller and Hugo Award-winner, John Scalzi, a trade paperback repackage of his gleeful mash-up of science fiction and Hollywood satire--now with a new cover The space-faring Yherajk have come to Earth to meet us and to begin humanity's first interstellar...

Upending and recombining familiar genres with fearless abandon, Nick Mamatas is known for his wicked satires in which Horror rides shotgun with SF as they power through Fantasy's rush-hour traffic. Lanes are crossed, speed limits exceeded, and minds often blown. Our title piece, original...

TOP AUTHORS POKE FUN AND PAY TRIBUTE TO H.P. LOVECRAFT'S CTHULHU MYTHOS. Knock, knock! Who's there? Cthul. Cthul who? Exactly! I've come to tickle your funnybone. Oh, and also to eat your soul. In 1928, Weird Tales debuted "The Call of Cthulhu" by H.P....

"Yoss (Super Extra Grande) is an eminent Cuban SF writer who also fronts a heavy metal band; his iconoclastic spirit and rock-and-roll aesthetic are on full ingenious display in this daring, rollicking, and joyous novel.... This extended dirty joke is also an impressive science...

"Rucker's 'Beatnik SF Novel' deftly combines historic characters and wild flights of imagination in a spin-off of our world's history . . . an SFnal tour de force." --Faren Miller, Locus What if Alan Turing, founder of the modern computer age, faked his suicide...

Can humanity remain an independent species or are we ripe for a takeover?Kelly heads to Earth for the first ever Conference of EarthCent Ambassadors in Manhattan, but while the cat's away, the mice will play. The cat has its own problems, as some of...

Start series with the first book, Date Night on Union Station The first carnival to take place on Union Station since humanity joined the galactic community is coming, and the ambassadors of the different species are all entered in the election to become Carnival...

Humanity needs a galactic intelligence agency, but where to start?The story picks up less than a year after the events of High Priest on Union Station, with Kelly coming to the conclusion that EarthCent needs an intelligence service. Of course, EarthCent has no institutional...

Chester W. Chester the IV has recently inherited his uncle's rambling old mansion along with three million dollars in IRS debts associated with the property. An inspection of the mansion turns up only a wine seller and a huge, secret, underground, super computer that...

Marty Mann and Nellie Dixon are back for another irreverent, liberal, twisty, time travel comedy This time they have Noah's Ark and Ronald Reagan in their sights.Where would you go on a time travel vacation?At the conclusion of their last episode, Marty Mann and...

To protect your family's secrets, how many people would you murder?Planet Earth's first maximum security jail break involving a cloaked spacecraft necessitates Edward Virr and the crew of the sentient starship Gabriel to give chase.Emboldened by the addition of Andrew's father, a retired FBI...

For readers of Douglas Adams, Terry Pratchett, and P.G. Wodehouse, and fans of The Good Place - a tongue in cheek fantasy that imagines Isaac Newton in the afterlife. Where do you go after you die? Detroit. "Finally, a hitchhiker's guide to the hereafter."...

Another planet closer to Earth than Erik's moon gives up its secrets, providing Erik and Jia with clues that could lead to the answer to one of the questions he has been searching for.What was hidden on that small moon that his people were...

A collection of Hugo and Nebula-nominated writer Keith Laumer's Retief novellas, as collected from Worlds of If Science Fiction and Fantastic magazines. The books are satirical science fiction written in the 1960s and based on Laumer's real-life experience in the U.S. Foreign Service Author:...

A summer of sex, drugs, and partying by a group of horny young friends ends before it begins when a mad scientist blackmails a perverted mayor while using a biker gang to addict a small town to zombifying drugs, before unleashing a super-virus that...

Two years after the discovery that Earth Prime 4-6-4-0-8-9 dash Omega is in imminent danger of collapse, the Transdimensional Authority has helped hundreds of millions... well, millions... okay, a lot of aliens immigrate to Earth Prime. How's that working out?Rodney Pendleton, the first alien...

Too valuable to kill? Oh, but that was then.XK9 Rex was bio-engineered and cyber-enhanced to be the most perfect law enforcement canine ever created. Transmondian spymaster Col. Wisniewski thought he could turn him into the most perfect weapon.But Rex had other plans. Wisneiwski couldn't...

In the spirit of Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett, The Sheriff of Yrnameer is sci-fi comedy at its best--mordant, raucously funny, and a thrilling page-turner. Meet Cole: hapless space rogue and part-time smuggler. His sidekick just stole his girlfriend. The galaxy's most hideous and...

Twelve visions of the future--by turns hilarious, frightening, and relevant--from new and established voices in science fiction.In this book, new and established voices in science fiction come together to offer original stories of the future. Ken Liu writes about a virtual currency that hijacks...

From best-selling author, David Raymond, a must read for anyone who loves mysterious and hilarious supernatural tales.Wekiwa Sawgrass, the beguiling savior of her tribe in the Florida Everglades, along with her spirit animal sidekick, Rainbow, set out to help her tribe escape the poverty...

"One of the more trippy, but very interesting novels among New Wave sci-fi books." -- Futurism.com There's always a fresh new face in Greenwich Village, but this one belongs to someone special -- a dude who can create living butterflies out of nothing. The...

Sally Webber's dream is coming true: Zander is back and taking her out for a night on the town--on a planet hundreds of light years away from Earth. But when an accident separates her from her alien tour guide, she's thrown into the seedy...

2018 American Fiction Awards Finalist -Mystery/Humor2018 PenCraft Awards Winner for Literary Excellence"A truly hilarious mystery in the tradition of Janet Evanovich, Thomas Davidson and Rich Leder." -Best ThrillersMurder has come once more to the seaside town of Crab Cove, testing the mettle of "almost...

Start series with the first book, Date Night on Union Station Two years after the events of Alien Night on Union Station, Kelly faces new challenges as the EarthCent Ambassador. The growing acceptance of humans by their alien neighbors plus a measure of her...

Sequel to Date Night on Union Station - read that book first Five years after the events of Date Night on Union Station, Kelly has settled into married life and her job as the EarthCent ambassador. The only fly in the ointment is that...

Is humanity ready to take off the training wheels, and will the ancient alien A. I. approve?Kelly has served as the ambassador on Union Station for over two decades, but humanity remains on probationary status. When the Stryx inform EarthCent that their membership status...

A Romp Through Time, Space, and Ancient Rome Two award-winning writers take us on an alternate-history adventure-a 1940s barnstorming baseball team, led by retired baseball player and spy Moe Berg, is transported from rural Illinois to Ancient Rome, just after the death of Emperor...

She could barely look after herself. Now, she's looking after the entire planet.After an incident with a hot-air balloon causes college-dropout Sally Webber to lose her job, she sets off to find direction in her life. Crashing into a teleporting alien, however, is not...

Collected here for the first time in this massive omnibus collection are three novels and twenty-two short stories by multiple Hugo and Nebular Award nominated author, Keith Laumer. That's more than nine hundred pages of top notch adventure science fiction. This book is jammed...

Tom was a daydreaming office schlub. What will he be like as a chicken, cow, tiger, tree and Austrian art teacher from 1896? Napoleon was a pig with dreams of revolution. What will he be like as Joseph Stalin? Shirley was a zoo keeper...