In 2051, the Bhutanese Empire rules post-apocalyptic Shangri with iron-fisted Buddhist compassion. Happiness is compulsory, but making everyone happy isn't easy in an overpopulated world. Breeders are ghettoed, homosexuality is mandatory, and Shangrians' happiness levels are strictly monitored by hedometers implanted in their heads. Become depressed, or feel too happy without helping others feel the same, and The Tax Man will get angry. Very angry.
Gemini and Cyan, winners of the pregnancy lottery, are on the run. Cyan can't fall pregnant, and Gemini is addicted to the Experience Machine....

What if you could reprint yourself young, healthy, and brilliant?
In 2249, 3D printers are capable of scanning and printing humans. Life on Earth becomes overpopulated, bullet-paced, and stressed. Thankfully, Solace Inc has the solution: a pill which slows the user's perception of time, and blots out the interminable busy-ness of the world.
But Anders, a quiet anarchist who has worked his way to the top of Solace Inc, has modified the latest batch of Solace Pills. And this modification is going to change everything...
"The Solace Pill" is hard-hitting dystopian sci-fi, with a...

11 mind-bending sci-fi shorts.
1 must-read anthology.
Your brain will never be the same again.
Jason Werbeloff's short stories have been downloaded over 20,000 times. Obsidian Worlds brings together 11 of his best sci-fi shorts into a mind-bending philosophical anthology.
In "Your Averaged Joe," a man's headache is large enough to hold the multiverse. "Q46F" is an obsessive-compulsive android who finds love in a zombie-embroiled apocalypse. The end of the world isn't all that bad - "The Experience Machine" will fulfill your every desire (and some you hadn't considered). A sex...

7 stolen organs. 1 vengeful victim. A gruesome sci-fi thriller.
Organ scrubbing was a bloody job, but somebody had to do it. Daniel, an orphan from the Gutter, was put to work scrubbing kidneys at aged twelve. The job had its perks: a warm bed, Law and Order reruns, and an all-you-can-eat Mopane worm buffet.
Until the Orphanage stole Daniel's parts, and sold them on the organ market.
Now Daniel has grown up, and yearns to become whole again. The cybernetic organ replacements just aren't the same - he needs his parts back. But the new owners of his organs won't...