Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Satire

THEY COME IN PEACE, OR SO THEY SAY.



Planet Schmoo is so far into outer space it is the last stop before heaven. When a cataclysmic seismic intervention decimates their world, the Schmooans look for refuge on Earth and a continuation of the lifestyle to which they are accustomed.



Homeland security agent Calvin Swift and his girl-friend, the alluring Alicia Angelico, already have their hands full with interstellar visitors. The once-in-a-millennium Intergalactic Games are in full swing and now they are alerted to alien refugees and their potential to replicate at...

Tina Fontana is a thirty-year-old executive assistant to Robert Barlow, the CEO of Titan Corp., a multinational media conglomerate. She's excellent at her job and beloved by...

Stuck in this passive-aggressive hellscape, Jen struggles with insecurity, especially when she compares herself to her two best friends, Meg and Pam--one a wealthy attorney with a...

The mainstream humor debut of Edie Claire, author of the USA-Today bestselling Leigh Koslow mystery series

A professional woman's mind is a terrible thing to waste.

With two kids, a mortgage, and a husband who's about to lose his job, the last thing Karen Robertson needs is to get fired from her own. Ordinarily, she enjoys her work in the Communications Department of Zomar Industries, where she, Darcy, Whitney, and Luba click on keyboards all day in a friendly four-station cubicle nicknamed "The Blonde Pod." But management happens.

Counting...

Maxwell Quick doesn't like the world. So why does he have to keep saving it?

Max did his part to free mankind. He wants out, but now the masses think he's the messiah. Walking the tightropes between cult-leader and media personality, spiritual advisor and businessman, Max dedicates himself to fixing all the things that screwed him up, to begin with. Unfortunately, the Iiites were just a nipple on a tire containing an infinite recursion of wheels and gears too large to jam.

He'll need tools to change the mechanics of society. For better or worse, a tool presents himself. Count...

2034: Evangelical secret agents, fast-food moguls, the voice of God in computer software, violence in the Bermuda Triangle George W. Bush's foreign policy vindicated by a quick victory in Iraq, lucrative invasions of Egypt and Syria followed, bringing unparalleled prosperity to America and setting off thirty years of right-wing rule. But when a war in Iran goes bad--and the resulting cover-up goes worse--the democrats reclaim the presidency. This is the time of Pax Americana and its zealous anti-hero, government agent Tuck Squires.

Reading the ironic silences between the...

Patrick Phelan is an ageing artist who has never made it big but who somehow manages to live on air in a North London suburb.

When not running art classes for amateurs, Patrick wrestles in the shed at the bottom of his garden with his life's work: a series of visionary canvases of The Seven Seals.

When his wheeler-dealer son Marty turns up with a commission from a rich client for some copies of paintings by modern masters, Phelan reluctantly agrees; it means money for his ex-wife Moira. However the deal with Marty is, typically, not what it seems.

What follows is a...

A humorous mystery and satire from an award-winning author. -unique, intriguing, and entertaining...- -fun, endearing and a page turner...-

YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE

Moshe Karlin wakes up one morning, naked and alone, in the Mount of Olives Cemetery. According to his family and friends, he died two years ago, but Moshe is not about to accept his demise lying down.

Is his new lease on life a freak of nature or the start of the long-awaited Resurrection? Moshe doesn't really care. He vows to beat his -afterlife...

It’s 2087. Mankind has eradicated war, poverty, and jobs. Robots now perform all work. Humans live free to strive for pure happiness and aesthetic perfection. Everyone except for Reid Rosales. Unhappy with joy, unfulfilled by satisfaction, in the throes of a creative slump, Reid longs for something –anything– to help him rise above the easy pleasures of humanity’s perfected society. Reid thinks he’s the only one, until he stumbles on Club 20c, a twentieth-century nostalgia club. 

There he finds his calling in the long-lost virtues of a harder...