Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Satire

YALDABAOTH HAS A PROBLEM: a pesky author named Derek Swannson has been writing books that veer too close to the truth about the Lord of the Illuminati's underground activities on Earth.

Intent on destroying Swannson's reputation by fueling his gonzo appetites with the rewards of American capitalism, Yaldabaoth enlists the help of Jeb Beezos, the CEO of Glamazon--a global Internet juggernaut that's made Beezos one of the world's richest men--and Conye Best, a superstar rapper who happens to be married to the world's most famous reality TV star, Limn...

A Perverse Romance is a satirical tale of artist Hephzibah Brown who is persuaded by Cedric the Imp of Perversity to follow him to the recently independent Ghana, following with the temptation that they will compose a tourist book for him to write and for her to illustrate. She does follow, but knowing his unreliability, she changes it to a book about tourists--one a pragmatist and the other an idealist. And more than this, her tourist will be a woman. The novel becomes an examination of real life being a form of transience.

How I use satire: Satire is the uncomfortable life of...

The anti-Eat Pray Love - A darkly satirical comic novel about travel, the need to visit as much of the planet as possible and the pressure to have meaningful experiences when you get there.

A brilliant book for anyone who loves to or wants to travel, The Excursionist is both a look at the drive to visit new places and a reminder that wherever you go you take yourself with you.

Newly single Jack Kaganagh longs to visit one hundred countries and the join the Travelers' Century Club before his landmark...

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The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton's twelfth novel. It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Wharton the first woman to win the prize.

The Age of Innocence centers on an upper-class couple's impending marriage and the introduction of the bride's cousin, plagued by scandal, whose presence threatens their happiness. Though the novel questions the assumptions and morals of 1870s New York society, it never develops into an outright condemnation of the institution.The novel is noted for Wharton's attention to detail and its accurate...

'All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. It's the best book we've had.' Ernest Hemingway

Ground-breaking in its vernacular English language, it is still...

Power-mad Cesare Groznyy is in trouble. His scheming may have made him the president of an American university but his hubris has him pinned into a corner.  He has enemies in his staff, in his family, and in his bed. 

Before long, the bitter controversies swirling around Groznyy’s phony academic schemes will seem the least of his worries. His third wife, rising star singer Holly Wood, plans to expose him as the murderer of his son Modest. 

Under Groznyy’s very nose, meanwhile, terrorist fanatics are plotting at Groznyy’s own university....

Humans claim sentience, but our actions say otherwise. How else do we explain the ever-tightening spiral into destruction that the species embraces? For a species that prides itself on thinking, neither foresight nor hindsight-or even insight-seem possible now.

A work of absurdity and grunge philosophy, The Game (War) of Illusions offers some understanding of humanity's significance as a role model to the universe. On a planet not unlike our own, a species of ant displays distinctly humanlike behavior, while back on Earth, humans insist on acting like ants. In both worlds,...

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 man’s fatal propensity to stuff himself with sweets until he becomes ill.  It is considered on enduring classic.  One of the great anti-utopian satires of the twentieth century, an inspiration to writers from Orwell to Vonnegut.  Man discovers a species of giant,...