Fiction - Science Fiction - Humorous

In the mid-24th Century life is comfortable and secure. Companions - robots almost indistinguishable from humans - fulfil their owner's every need, including sexual. Almost every house is weaponised and able to protect its residents from any attack and to obliterate any attacker. This...

"American Neolithic is a stunning, alarming, and deftly crafted read that has author Terence Hawkins's novel achieving a similar literary status to the likes of George Orwell's 1984"--Midwest Book Review.It's the day after tomorrow.America has become a Police State Lite. The Patriot Amendments have...

THE FEW. THE PROUD.THE STUPID. THE INEPT.It was the perfect solution, put highly connectedCaptain Willard Phule in charge of the worstdregs of the Space Force. Sure, Phule's Companymay be a band of rejects and misfi ts, but they didmanage to save the day with...

Fred Cassidy leads an idyllic life. As long as he remains a full time college student without a degree he is provided a very generous stipend from his uncle's estate. But after thirteen years of happy undergrad existence everything is about to change. Cassidy's...

Reed King's amazingly audacious novel is something of a cross between L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz, Douglas Adams's A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Cormac McCarthy's The Road, and Ernest Cline's Ready Player One. Indie Next Pick for JulyBest of June: io9,...

The future has amazing technology. Our alien allies have magic. Together, we are building a training system to teach the best of humanity to go to the stars.But the training is monumentally expensive.Stephanie Morgana is a genius, she just doesn't know it.The Artificial Intelligence...

Goodreads Choice Finalist for Science Fiction A pizza-loving slacker becomes the host of an ancient alien--and a pawn in an ongoing alien war--in this "science fiction romp" full of wit and humor (Huffington Post) When out-of-shape IT technician Roen woke up and started hearing...

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,...

"Any Other World Will Do presents an alien vision of Earth's possible future. It's a send-up of the genre that wraps its earnest warning in plausible deniability." --Foreword Reviews* 2022 Benjamin Franklin Award - Silver Winner *In a chance encounter on the overnight train...

BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR Set in a world in which the Reformation failed, this award-winning science fiction tale is "one of the best . . . alternate-worlds novels in existence" (Philip K. Dick).In Kingsley Amis's virtuoso foray into virtual history it is 1976, but the...

When the god in the machine turns out to be a trickster hanging out in a clothes dryer...A rash of exploding pigeons (and one self-detonating rat) signal the beginning of a strange quest for Toronto Police Detective Marty Breck and undergrad student Ellie O'Toole....

"Journey back in time with this imaginative read, full of laughter and the unexpected on every page." -Nancy Flinchbaugh, Revelation at the Labyrinth"If I knew then what I know now."Wally Stephens' tenth year high-school reunion is looming, but he's not where he hoped to...

A Hungarian fatalist convinced that the human race is a blemish on God's otherwise perfect universe; a natural resource scientist who's discovered that we exhaust the earth's resources every eight days; an Ultimate Frisbee-playing man-child who's identified a fractal pattern embedded within all matter;...

The galaxy's two multi-species superpowers stand on the brink of yet another pointless war. Soldiers, draft-dodgers, smugglers and spies from both sides are rushing towards Cedar Commons, an uninhabited forest planet near the border. Everyone has some plan for fighting, avoiding, or profiting from...

Fred Cassidy leads an idyllic life. As long as he remains a full time college student without a degree he is provided a very generous stipend from his uncle's estate. But after thirteen years of happy undergrad existence everything is about to change. Cassidy's...

Congressman Vern Bushnell is having one hell of a day. His wife is leaving him, unwashed hippies are protesting his newest condo high-rise, and his long-time political patrons-the brothers Sneed-have decided to make him the patsy for an explosive scandal, effectively ending his Gubernatorial...

End Times Are Here Now you can eat whatever you want and not care if you gain weight.Autumn, a food and wine obsessed ad executive (who for the purpose of this retelling asked to be portrayed as drool-inducing hot with kick-ass ninja skills), has...

2017 Reprint of 1959 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. With a New Introduction by Lewis Gannett. Originally published in Czech in 1936 and in English in 1937, this is the author's prophetic and stirring novel about...

A Clockwork Orange and RuPaul's Drag Race meet Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in this fabulous dystopian fable about fashion, family and feckless billionaires. Simone is one of the Glitterati, the elite living lives of luxury and leisure. Slave to the ever-changing tides...

Humor Book Winner in the 2021 IndieReader Discovery AwardsA sci-fi satire about seeking work-life balance while doing public relations for an authoritarian president. PR extraordinaire Blake Hamner (the n is silent) put off his honeymoon for his big break: joining a major political campaign...

The World has a New Witch. The Federation Navy wants her.But she has to decide if she wants the Federation Navy.Stephanie Morgana comes from a long line of Morganas, much longer than she ever realized.The Artificial Intelligence which runs the Virtual World has decided...

Starship Repo is a fast-paced romp through the galaxy from Patrick S. Tomlinson. Firstname Lastname is a no one with nowhere to go. With a name that is the result of an unfortunate clerical error and destined to be one of the only humans...

A funny, inventive, and wholly original post-apocalyptic novel from the author of Motherless Brooklyn and The ArrestMeet Chaos, a young man who's living in a movie theater in post-apocalyptic Wyoming, drinking alcohol, and eating food out of cans.It's an unusual and at times unbearable...

A killer known as The Reaper is tasked to carry out a mission at Experiment Labs. However, with a fateful encounter and a newfound promise to protect, his world would never be the same.Author: Jj DizzISBN-10: 1087930677ISBN-13: 9781087930671Publisher: Jj DizzLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/20/2022Pages: 316Format: HardcoverWeight:...

ZERO SUM GAME Best of Lists: * Best Books of the Month at The Verge, Book Riot, Unbound Worlds, SYFY, & Kirkus* The Mary Sue Book Club Pick* Library Journal Best Debuts of Fall and WinterA blockbuster, near-future science fiction thriller, S.L. Huang's Zero...

In E.aT., Michael Equill takes his reader on a laughable ride whilst something not so funny surrounds about. It seems the main character, Tone, a black man (yes, BLM), goes through a series of horrendous situations at the betwixt of aliens, with Tone's gorgeous...

To boldly go where no losers have gone before...Some starship captains explore strange new worlds, seeking out new life and new civilisations. Some lead missions of discovery through wormholes to the other side of the galaxy. Then there's Captain Iridius B. Franklin, someone who...

Null Set Best of Lists: *Monthly pick from BookRiot, Kirkus Reviews, SyFy Wire, The Verge, and The Mary Sue S. L. Huang's Null Set is the breakout sf thriller for fans of John Scalzi and Greg Rucka Math-genius mercenary Cas Russell has decided to...

The discovery of a dead body is nothing new for Detective Simon Grave, but when the body and the murderer are both invisible, well, that's another matter entirely, even in the futuristic town of Crab Cove.The question is whether he and his human and...

When someone says they have a job for you, you don't get picky.Jackson "Jax" Caruso is a war orphan. His parents died when he was young. They were on the losing side of a civil war.He does what he can to survive, taking the...

The Gulliver's Travels of the nuclear age, the Alice in Wonderland of the arms race, this mordantly funny and visionary tale of the apocalypse was a Nebula finalist. The trouble starts when George Paxton ingenuously signs an admission of complicity in starting World War...

THE ONLY PERSON LEFT ALIVE WHO CAN SAVE MARS AND EARTH HAS VANISHED The year is (still) 2188 and Crucial Larsen is officially done with Mars. Just as he's set to head back to his beloved Earth, meteors crash into the orbital platforms, ravage...

AN IRREVERENT, LIBERAL, TWISTY, TIME TRAVEL COMEDY What if you could make a change to history that would eliminate the Spanish Inquisition, American slavery, World War II, global warming, and an egomaniacal US president who thought he was smart enough to drop nuclear bombs...

"Good SciFi comedy is as rare as hen's teeth. This was a fun read." Kelly Frank is EarthCent's top diplomat on Union Station, but her job description has always been a bit vague. The pay is horrible and she's in hock up to her...

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...

Queen Verity is queen only because her mother has said she has to be. She agrees because, after all, somebody has to liberate the dragons who have long toiled in the boiler room bowels of the city. Now that they are free, nobody has...

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...

What Not is Rose Macaulay's speculative novel of post-First World War eugenics and newspaper manipulation that influenced Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.Author: Rose MacaulayISBN-10: 1912766035ISBN-13: 9781912766031Publisher: Handheld ClassicsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/25/2019Pages: 195Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.50d

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...

THE PURPLE PUNISHER IS BACK!! Young scientist Hank Howard has a dark secret...when he loses control of his emotions, he becomes the enormous, unstoppable Amazing Bulk! Hank views the purple monstrosity as a curse, a hindrance to his happiness with Hannah, his bride-to-be. Having...

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....