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Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle by Harold Bloom, Terry Southern
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsA critical overview of the work features the writings of Terry Southern, William S. Doxey, Jerome Klinkowitz, Richard Giannone, John L. Simons, James Lundquist, and other scholars.- After the bomb, Dad came up with ice / Terry Southern- Vonnegut's Cat's cradle / William S... -
![Triana Moore, Space Janitor: The Complete Humorous Sci Fi Mystery Series by Julia Huni]()
Triana Moore, Space Janitor: The Complete Humorous Sci Fi Mystery Series by Julia Huni
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCleaning a space station is easy. Staying under the radar? Priceless. Triana Moore programs the robots that clean the glitzy Station Kelly Kornienko. Avoiding the wealthy inhabitants on the upper levels of the station is her number one rule. Well, number two, right after "eat all the chocolate." But when one of her bots finds a dead body, all the rules go out the window... -
![Independent Living by E.M. Foner]()
Independent Living by E.M. Foner
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn space, nobody can hear retirees complain about the food. What do a group of retirees leaving Earth and a young woman in EarthCent's new witness protection have in common? They're all going to live on Flower, an enormous alien colony vessel employed by Eccentric Enterprises to travel a circuit of far-flung human communities... -
![বিজ্ঞানী সফদর আলীর মহা মহা আবিষ্কার by Muhammed Zafar Iqbal]()
বিজ্ঞানী সফদর আলীর মহা মহা আবিষ্কার by Muhammed Zafar Iqbal
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsসূচিপত্র*কাচ্চি... -
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![System Restored by Adam Eccles]()
System Restored by Adam Eccles
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDerek Cooper is a retro gamer.His small flat is crammed with old consoles, controllers, accessories and shelves brimming full of old games. Quite an amazing collection, but there's always room for one more, isn't there?1981. The world of arcade games is just coming into its own... -
![The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Primary Phase by Douglas Adams, Simon Jones]()
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Primary Phase by Douglas Adams, Simon Jones
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA Special Edition of the original radio series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978 and recently voted the Nation's Favourite Audiobook in a Guardian poll... -
![The You You Are: A Spiritual Biography of You by Ricken Lazlo Hale]()
The You You Are: A Spiritual Biography of You by Ricken Lazlo Hale
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis book is drawn from the universe of Severance, the globally acclaimed hit Apple Original series from director and executive producer Ben Stiller and creator Dan Erickson.Are you ready to meet the person who truly makes you “You”: You?In his quinquennial tome, Dr. Ricken Lazlo Hale, PhD guides You on a brave journey of self-learnedness... -
![The Space Child's Mother Goose by Frederick Winsor]()
The Space Child's Mother Goose by Frederick Winsor
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOnly a few years ago (1950s) we walked on solid earth. Today we whirl through space. Space is big. It is not cozy. But with these verses and drawings... cheerfulness breaks in. Suddenly, science seems merry. And space begins, with the rhyme on page 1, to feel a little more like home. A witty collection of 1950's space age poetry accompanied by clever black and white line drawings by Marian Parry... -
![Calling Major Tom by David M. Barnett, David Barnett]()
Calling Major Tom by David M. Barnett, David Barnett
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsCalling Major Tom is a heartwarming, quirky and ultimately life-affirming story of friendship, family and forgiveness - and the world's most unlikely astronaut. A man who has given up on the world. A family who show him how to live.Forty-something Thomas is very happy to be on his own, far away from other people and their problems... -
![Love in the Time of Bertie by Alexander McCall Smith]()
Love in the Time of Bertie by Alexander McCall Smith
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe latest installment in the delightful 44 Scotland Street series finds all our favorite residents up to their usual hilarious hijinks. In the microcosm of 44 Scotland Street, all of life's richness is found in the glorious goings-on of its residents... -
![Miracles and Conundrums of the Secondary Planets by Jacob M. Appel]()
Miracles and Conundrums of the Secondary Planets by Jacob M. Appel
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA visitor from a distant planet opens a Latvian restaurant next to an abortion clinic; a magician learns that true love will cost him a kidney; a blind barber cuts hair for tourists in a gentrifying Harlem.... Enter the mad, moving university of Jacob M. Appel's short fiction...Categorized as:
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![The Second Fredric Brown Megapack: 27 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Fredric Brown, Mack Reynolds]()
The Second Fredric Brown Megapack: 27 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Fredric Brown, Mack Reynolds
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFredric Brown (1906-1972) is perhaps best remembered for his use of humor and his mastery of the "short-short" form (these days called flash fiction) -- stories of one to three pages, often with ingenious plotting devices and surprise endings. (He also wrote excellent short stories and novels... -
![Dead Men Scare Me Stupid by John Swartzwelder]()
Dead Men Scare Me Stupid by John Swartzwelder
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne of a series of comedy science fiction novels featuring slow-witted detective Frank Burly. By John Swartzwelder, the writer of 59 episodes of The Simpsons... -
![সায়েন্স ফিকশান সমগ্র ৪ by Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, Muhammed Zafar Iqbal]()
সায়েন্স ফিকশান সমগ্র ৪ by Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, Muhammed Zafar Iqbal
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsবাংলাদেশ ও বাংলা ভাষার কিংবদন্তী বৈজ্ঞানিক কল্পকাহিনী লেখক মুহম্মদ জাফর ইকবাল- এর আরো ৮ টি বৈজ্ঞানিক কল্পকাহিনী গ্রন্থের সংকলন।*ত্রাতুলের জগৎ*বেজি*ফিনিক্স*সায়রা সায়েন্টিস্ট*সুহানের স্বপ্ন*অবনীল*নায়ীরা*বিজ্ঞানী অনিক... -
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![The Blonde Hurricane by Jenő Rejtő]()
The Blonde Hurricane by Jenő Rejtő
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA combination of thriller and love story, The Blonde Hurricane centers around the race to find a priceless family jewel concealed in a statuette of Buddha that an international band of crooks are after -- and so is Miss Evelyn Weston, the Blonde Hurricane, and without her knowledge, Eddy Rancing, who is in love with her, plus a host of others... -
![টুকি ও ঝায়ের (প্রায়) দুঃসাহসিক অভিযান by Muhammed Zafar Iqbal]()
টুকি ও ঝায়ের (প্রায়) দুঃসাহসিক অভিযান by Muhammed Zafar Iqbal
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratings... -
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In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsThe stories In Persuasion Nation are easily his best work yet. "The Red Bow,"about a town consumed by pet-killing hysteria, won a 2004 National Magazine Award and "Bohemians," the story of two supposed Eastern European widows trying to fit in in suburban USA, is included in The Best American Short Stories 2005... -
![Choose Your Enemies by Sandy Mitchell]()
Choose Your Enemies by Sandy Mitchell
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBook 10 in the Ciaphas Cain Series... -
![Men In Black by Steve Perry]()
Men In Black by Steve Perry
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsWhile much of the world waits and watches the skies for signs of alien civilizations, there is a select group of men who know the truth. That alien beings are here--now--walking among us in human form. These men are members of an agency dedicated to tracking and policing the movements of these aliens--a top secret organization known only as...Men in Black... -
![Zombie by Chuck Palahniuk]()
Zombie by Chuck Palahniuk
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn 'Zombies', the absurdity of both life and death are on full display as the best and brightest of a high school prep school become tragically addicted to the latest drug craze - electronic shocks from cardiac defibrillators.Funny, caustic, bizarre, poignant - this story represents everything listeners have come to love and expect from Chuck Palahniuk.©2015 Chuck Palahniuk (P)2016 W.F. Howes Ltd... -
![A Very Scalzi Christmas by John Scalzi, Natalie Metzger]()
A Very Scalzi Christmas by John Scalzi, Natalie Metzger
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNew York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author John Scalzi gift-wraps fifteen short takes on the holiday season—interviews with holiday notables, “informational” articles about TV specials and Christmas carols, short stories and poems, and even a couple of nods to Thanksgiving and New Year’s—and puts them all into a stocking stuffer-sized package that makes the perfect gift for... -
![We Have Lost The Chihuahuas by Paul Mathews]()
We Have Lost The Chihuahuas by Paul Mathews
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLondon, 2046. The British Republic has a new First Lady. She’s Californian, ‘in-your-face, for sure’ and she’s got big plans for a Buckingham Palace refurb. When her three Chihuahuas go missing, one man is determined to avoid getting dragged into it all. His name is Pond. Howie Pond – presidential spokesperson, retired secret agent and cat lover... -
![The Beasts of Success by Jasun Ether]()
The Beasts of Success by Jasun Ether
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn this dog-eat-dog world, three friends find themselves getting nowhere in their careers despite their education and work skills. They decide to make their own rules to the game of life and play dirty to get ahead. Each of them concoct schemes to sabotage colleagues and clear the path for their swift advancement... -
![The Exploding Detective by John Swartzwelder]()
The Exploding Detective by John Swartzwelder
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOne of a series of comedy science fiction novels featuring slow-witted detective Frank Burly. By John Swartzwelder, the author of "The Time Machine Did It", "Double Wonderful", "How I Conquered Your Planet", and 59 episodes of The Simpsons... -
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![Rock of Ages by Walter Jon Williams]()
Rock of Ages by Walter Jon Williams
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsThe saga of Drake Maijstral, introduced in The Crown Jewels, continues. Drake is the number one rated Allowed Burglar in the Human Constellation, a vast-galaxy spanning confederation that exists side-by-side with the ancient Khosali Empire--but nearly everyone he meets seems to want to challenge him to a duel to the death... -
![Deep Space Accountant by Mjke Wood]()
Deep Space Accountant by Mjke Wood
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCould this be the worst job interview in the entire history of the universe? Possibly. So when Elton D Philpotts lands his dream Space Corps accountancy job he can’t help wondering how it happened. And why.Somebody in the Space Corps must need him, and they need him bad.But the work is dull; nothing like the glamour job he expected... -
![The After Days by Amy Ginsburg]()
The After Days by Amy Ginsburg
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn a world without power, you need the power of friendship and love to survive."This is far and away the most compelling read I’ve experienced in a long time. No lie. This is seriously good. It’s fresh, entertaining, and thought-provoking...Categorized as:
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![Cosmic Banditos by A.C. Weisbecker]()
Cosmic Banditos by A.C. Weisbecker
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsSoon to be a major motion picture starring John Cusack!Mr. Quark is a down-on-his luck pot-smuggler hiding out in the mountains of Colombia with his dog, High Pockets, and a small band of banditos led by the irascible Jose... -
![The Leaky Establishment by David Langford]()
The Leaky Establishment by David Langford
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings_The Leaky Establishment_ is an atomic farce whose author David Langford once worked in the gentle radioactive glow of Britain's nuclear weapons industry, and hilariously satirizes its ghastly bureaucracy from the inside... -
![The Chicolini Incident by Robert Kroese]()
The Chicolini Incident by Robert Kroese
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsInterstellar con artist Rex Nihilo has just hijacked a shipment of five thousand lazepistols, and he needs to unload them fast. When Rex encounters a band of stick-wielding separatists on the planet Chicolini, he thinks he’s found the buyers he’s been looking for... -
![How Best to Avoid Dying by Owen Egerton]()
How Best to Avoid Dying by Owen Egerton
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings[i]Lazarus Dying[/i]: the man Jesus raised from the dead is alive and living in New York City. [i]The Fecalist[/i]: an author whose best selling work is his latest poop. [i]Christmas[/i]: she loves you, you love her, she has a gun in your mouth. Welcome to the award-winning short fiction of Owen Egerton... -
![Under a Pig Tree: A History of the Noble Fruit (A Mixed-Up Book) by Margie Palatini, Chuck Groenink]()
Under a Pig Tree: A History of the Noble Fruit (A Mixed-Up Book) by Margie Palatini, Chuck Groenink
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe publisher and author of Under a Pig Tree seem to be having communication issues. The author has written a clear, no-nonsense history of figs. But the publisher is sure she meant pigs... -
![FUBAR by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.]()
FUBAR by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe waters of renewal sometimes course through the unlikeliest of settings. In the short story, “FUBAR,” we’re taken to a desolate building in a drab industrial complex, where a lonely office worker gains a fresh perspective on life thanks to the intervention of his free-spirited new female assistant... -
![Set My Heart To Five by Simon Stephenson]()
Set My Heart To Five by Simon Stephenson
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratings‘You shall read this with unadulterated pleasure’ Scotland on Sunday‘A beautiful, funny, heartfelt analysis of what it means to be human’ Simon Pegg Set in a 2054 where humans have locked themselves out of the internet and Elon Musk has incinerated the moon, Set My Heart To Five is the hilarious yet profoundly moving story of one android’s emotional awakening... -
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![Nine Kinds of Naked by Tony Vigorito]()
Nine Kinds of Naked by Tony Vigorito
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"As fanciful and inventive in its form... as it is in its observations... It fed tasty crackers to all the hungry parrots in my mental aviary." —TOM ROBBINSJoin cult favorite Tony Vigorito in his acclaimed, surreal whirlwind of a novel exploring chaos theory... -
![Canary in a Cat House by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.]()
Canary in a Cat House by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsPublished in 1961, Canary in a Cathouse is a collection of twelve short stories. Except for Hal Irwin's magic lamp, eleven of them reappear in the later collection Welcome to the Monkey House.Contents:- Report on the barnhouse effect- All the king's horses- D.P... -
![Semiotext (e) SF by Rudy Rucker, John Shirley]()
Semiotext (e) SF by Rudy Rucker, John Shirley
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA science fiction anthology at the extremes of the genre (including gore, deviant sex, blasphemy and radicalism of all sorts), this book includes edgy works by 45 contemporary authors... -
![Voyage to Kazohinia by Sandor Szathmari]()
Voyage to Kazohinia by Sandor Szathmari
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA page-turning dystopian classic that stands alongside Brave New World and Gulliver's Travels.Voyage to Kazohinia is a tour de force of twentieth-century literature--and it is here published in English for the first time outside of Hungary. Sándor Szathmári's comical novel chronicles the travels of a modern Gulliver on the eve of World War II...Categorized as:
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![By Any Other Name by Spider Robinson]()
By Any Other Name by Spider Robinson
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsFROM THE CRIME TO THE RIDICULOUSFrom the offbeat but razor-edged imagination of Spider Robinson: stranded time travelers; squabbling cosmic warriors; reincarnated rock stars; blind starship pilots; monsters both human and alien; tomorrows formed by today's trends -- this Spider weaves a web of wonder.Sound profound? Nah... -
![Lint by Steve Aylett]()
Lint by Steve Aylett
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSteve Aylett has always gone a step farther than his contemporaries. In Slaughtermatic, he pushed the limits of science fiction, and for that he was named a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award. Now, in Lint, he offers the first-ever biography of one of the great minds of our time: Jeff Lint, author of some of the strangest and most inventive satirical SF of the late twentieth century... -
![Bombardiers by Po Bronson]()
Bombardiers by Po Bronson
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller What Should I Do with My Life?, Bombardiers is Po Bronson’s first novel, a devastating satire of the business world told through the lens of a crazed and colorful group of salespeople forced to push increasingly absurd financial products... -
![Titmuss Regained by John Mortimer]()
Titmuss Regained by John Mortimer
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Right Honourable Leslie Titmuss has clawed his way up the Tory government ranks and is now Secretary of State at the Ministry of Housing, Ecological Affairs and Planning (H.E.A.P.), and in pursuit of beautiful widow Jenny Sidonia. But seismic changes are afoot in the beautiful countryside where a new town threatens to engulf his own back garden... -
![While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Dave Eggers]()
While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Dave Eggers
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsForeword by Dave EggersSmart, whimsical, and often scathing, the fiction of Kurt Vonnegut influenced a generation of American writers—including Dave Eggers, author of this volume’s Foreword... -
![Bacalaureat by Ovidiu Eftimie]()
Bacalaureat by Ovidiu Eftimie
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsO nouă aventură din universul romanului Arhanghelul Raul.Necazurile se țin lanț de subinspectorul Petre Popescu... -
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![Fireflies by Shiva Naipaul]()
Fireflies by Shiva Naipaul
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShiva Naipaul was the brother of V. S. Naipaul and author of Firefles and The Chip-Chip Gatherers. Fireflies, his first novel, published in 1970 and longlisted for the 'Lost Man Booker Award' in 2010, is set in Naipaul's native Trinidad. It includes a new foreword by Amit Chaudhuri. The Khojas are Trinidad's most venerated Hindu family... -
![ডক্টর কিজিল by মাশুদুল হক]()
ডক্টর কিজিল by মাশুদুল হক
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsসদ্য জুওলজিতে মাস্টার্স শেষ করা হাসান ঘটনাক্রমে পরিচিত হয় প্রখ্যাত বিজ্ঞানী ডক্টর কিজিলের সাথে। কিজিল মানুষ হিসেবে অদ্ভূত ও খাপছাড়া, বিপজ্জনকও। কিজিলের রিসার্চ অ্যাসিটেন্ট হিসেবে যোগ দিয়ে হাসানের শুরু হয় সম্পূর্ণ ভিন্ন এক জীবন । সবার চোখের আড়ালে কি ভীষণ সব কাজ করে বেড়াচ্ছেন তিনি সেটা হাসান নিজ চোখে না দেখলে কখনোই বিশ্বাস করতো না।সূচিপত্র -১. কটকট২. অকুলোম্বুষ দ্বীপ৩... -
![Terra! by Stefano Benni]()
Terra! by Stefano Benni
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn the year 2157, during the nuclear winter of six atomic wars, a bizarre collection of irreverent representatives of the remaining superpowers competes in a frenzied space race to reach Terra, the planet that promises the new Eden... -
![Et Tu, Babe by Mark Leyner]()
Et Tu, Babe by Mark Leyner
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn this fiendishly original new novel, Mark Leyner is a leather-blazer-wearing, Piranha 793-driving, narcotic-guzzling monster who has potential rivals eliminated by his bionically enhanced bodyguards, has his internal organs tattooed, and eavesdrops on the erotic fantasies of Victoria's Secret models -- which naturally revolve around him... -
![A Fairy Tale of New York by J.P. Donleavy]()
A Fairy Tale of New York by J.P. Donleavy
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA Fairy Tale of New York is a funny, lusty, and sad novel of comic genius. Returning from study abroad, Cornelius Christian enters customs with his luggage and his dead wife. His first encounter in New York is with a funeral director, with whom he reluctantly takes employment to pay for the burial expenses... -
![Specimen 313 by Jeff Strand]()
Specimen 313 by Jeff Strand
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA free short story taken straight from the pages of THE MONSTER’S CORNER, an all original anthology from some of today’s hottest supernatural writers, featuring stories from the monster’s point of view.SPECIMEN 313 is the story of a meat-eating plant named Max, surviving in the greenhouse with his mad doctor keeper when he gets a new female neighbor...
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