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"Kangaroo isn't your typical spy. Sure, he has extensive agency training, access to bleeding-edge technology, and a ready supply of clever (to him) quips and retorts. But what sets him apart is "the pocket." It's a portal that opens into an empty, seemingly infinite, parallel universe, and Kangaroo is the only person in the world who can use it. But he's pretty sure the agency only keeps him around to exploit his superpower. After he bungles yet another...
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"Good guy Karl Bender is a thirty-something bar owner whose life lacks love and meaning. When he stumbles upon a time-travelling worm hole in his closet, Karl and his best friend Wayne develop a side business selling access to people who want to travel back in time to listen to their favorite bands. It's a pretty ingenious plan, until Karl, intending to send Wayne to 1980, transports him back to 980 instead. Though Wayne sends texts extolling the...
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Simon Wagstaff narrowly escapes the Deluge that destroys Earth when he happens upon an abandoned spaceship. A man without a planet, he gains immortality from an elixir drunk during an interlude with a cat-like alien queen. Now Simon must chart a 3,000-year course to the most distant corners of the multiverse, to seek out the answers to the questions no one can seem to answer.
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The future belongs to the insane. This is how they take it.They are mad geniuses, paranoid superlawyers, and satanic scientists. They are the Platinum Donkeys -- too stubborn to quit, too excellent to fail -- and they have chosen psychotic little Maggie to be their queen. Will she take over the world by their side? Or will she stop the Donkeys and their doomsday weapons to save her fans and the world that fears her?
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Walter Snow is doomed. He stares at the blank pages in his typewriter, hoping for the spark that will finally ignite his ambition to write the Great Armenian Novel.
And then he meets Clyde Potts. She is beautiful, intelligent, charming, perhaps psychic, and, for better or worse, very possibly unbalanced. With Potts's joie de vivre and her certified-insane partner in crime, Fox Harris, Snow is caught up in a series of pranks against corporate sprawl...
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The entire Corona House crew-plus a few new additions-is now on their way to Forthorthe. Unfortunately, their arrival won't quite be the celebratory homecoming that Theia and Clan had imagined. While they've successfully returned with the Blue Knight, he's only back in the solar system to prevent further tragedy. Ralgwin is somewhere, skulking in the shadows with terrifying new allies, and Koutarou is determined to keep the next would-be dictator...
8) Blue Matters
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With Purgatory modeled after an undisclosed DMV location, this story follows the lives of two coworkers (Veronica the Clock Puncher and Gary the New Guy) and one recently deceased (Judith the Beach Girl) as they explore the business side of death while questioning ethics and past decisions. For some, it is just another miserable day at work while others wait in line for their fates to be processed. It is a mixture of personal regrets and office politics...
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In this collection of side stories, Theia tries to get Elle to open up by reminiscing about the adventure filled summer vacation they had shared with the residents of room 106. Meanwhile, Harumi and Shizuka train the Sun Rangers, Forthorthian royals learn how to play Earth games, and much more!
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On a sunny afternoon in the park, Catherine finds something strange lying in the bushes. It is a woman dressed in a white pantsuit covered in a translucent tarp. Who is she and why does she sleep in such a fashionable attire? The two discover as they eat ice cream, watch old musicals and hang out at bars after work.
13) Saving Romford
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"Saving Romford" is the tale of an incompetent computer programmer whose main joys in life are going to the pub and, on rare occasions, finding a woman. Mike Fendalton puts up with being the person most likely to be called in the middle of the night to fix a broken system and takes it all in his rather inept stride.Amazingly, he is erroneously identified as a computer whizz by the inhabitants of a distant planet who decide he is the ideal person to...
14) Rat-a-Tat Tat
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When the new order of burger buns arrive, Chester and Burt discover that there's something wrong with the texture.
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Ralgwin is determined to avenge his uncle and carry out his mission of overthrowing the Forthorthian royal families, but it's becoming increasingly clear that the villains he's assembled to assist him don't necessarily share his goals. The rebel leader is in for a betrayal he never saw coming, with far more at stake than he ever imagined.
Meanwhile, Koutarou and the girls are preparing for the dramatic unveiling of the new Blue Knight, Forthorthe's...
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Humorous genre lists. In addition to the title piece, includes: Our Robot President: The First Hundred Days, Rules for Dealing with Your Teenage Werewolf Son, Excuses Why Your Monster Husband Cannot Come to the Phone, Things Not to Say at a Witch Burning, Signs You Could Be Living in a Virtual Reality,and twenty-five more.Reprints from Asimov's SF, Strange Horizons, Dreams and Nightmares, etc."It is witty, wise, and hysterically funny." -J. L. Comeau,...
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The year is 2202, and Japan has become the land of moe. Aspiring author Gin Imose and his little sister Kuroha are traveling to TOKYO to meet with the world famous author, Gai Odaira. Kuroha is uninterested in his orthodox literary style, and amazingly is able to read ancient modern Japanese books written in kanji! This fateful encounter sets off a chain of events that could change the course of literary history! Could it be that, long ago, books...
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A neighborhood is turned upside down when an alien lands on a New York rooftop.In this charming debut novel we meet the residents of an East Village block whose lives are thrown into turmoil by an extraterrestrial visitor. There's a wanna-be rock star, his eccentric rabbit-loving neighbor, a cursed superintendent, and a ghost-obsessed old woman, along with a remarkable cat. Their intersecting paths are all drawn up towards the otherworldly creature...
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Resisting alien mind control just wouldn't be Midwest Nice. As Gus and his pro-alien faction gain influence with the people of Lake Peculiar, some of the Titans' mental powers are revealed, but their intentions remain veiled. In his bid to gain control of the town, Gus tries to convince everyone that the psionic gifts from the aliens really are gifts and won't hurt the townspeople at all. Conspiracy theorist Ronan Keats thinks he may have found a...
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