Humorous

Disaster. There was no other word to describe how Operation Olympic had changed in a flash from a triumph to the worst failure the Merry Band of Pirates had ever experienced. A failure that meant the fight was over. Unless the Pirates could perform a miracle, without Skippy.

Seconds before the Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect....

New York Times bestseller John Scalzi flies you to the moon with his most fantastic tale to date: When the Moon Hits Your Eye

The Merry Band of Pirates stopped the enemy from stealing a Sentinel, and destroyed its Elder starship, so why weren’t the Pirates planning a victory party?

The Aftermath of a stunning victory—especially an unexpected, complete, and final victory—should be high-fives all around, listening to politicians give boring congratulatory speeches, and a well-deserved rest for the Merry Band of Pirates....

For years, the ancient alien AI known as Skippy (the Magnificent, don’t forget that part) has been able to do one impossible thing after another. What is his secret? It’s simple: 100 percent Grade-A extreme awesomeness....

Corin Cadence duels with his father while friends face new challenges at Lorian Heights amidst a looming threat from a mysterious faction.

A man awakens in a clearing in what appears to be medieval England with no memory of who he is, where he came from, or why he is there.

Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons? Time for a cup of tea! Join the cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his uncommon comrades in arms in their desperate search for a place to eat, as they hurtle across space powered by pure improbability....

With Garralosh defeated and the Colony secured, Anthony has triumphed over the wave. What now for our intrepid adventurer? In the Dungeon, there’s only one place to go: down....

Murderbot meets Redshirts in a delightfully humorous tale of robotic murder from the Hugo-nominated author of Elder Race and Children of Time....

I used to be the greatest Earth Mage in my world. The head of the entire Order of Architects. But the older you get, the more you come to realize that at some point, you need to retire, so that you can have the chance to enjoy a peaceful life and to cede your place to the young.

Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ratty towel and a plastic shopping bag, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination....

Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space - and one adventurous young explorer who discovers the meaning of family in the far reaches of the universe - in this lighthearted debut space opera from a rising sci-fi star....

The Initiation has begun. As the universe merges into the multiverse, its inhabitants are thrust into a trial designed to prepare them for the sweeping changes that will redefine existence itself.

It’s easy to get disheartened when your planet has been blown up, the woman you love has vanished due to a misunderstanding about space/time, the spaceship you are on crashes on a remote and Bob-fearing planet, and all you have to fall back on are a few simple sandwich-making skills....

Mitch's mediocre life has just taken a turn for the worse, so his buddy tries to cheer him up by showing him a secret starship. Unfortunately, everything goes south when hostile aliens arrive.

When alien species converge on Earth, each enlisting the help of humans, only one author has the testicular fortitude to envision the madness that ensues: Jeremy Robinson.

The question is, how can you tell the President's brain is missing? And are we sure we need it back? Listen and find out....

The critically acclaimed author of The Radleys shares a clever, heartwarming, and darkly insightful novel about an alien who comes to Earth to save humans from themselves....

Dalton Greaves is a hero. He’s one of humankind’s first representatives to Unity, a pan-species confederation working to bring all sentient life into a single benevolent brotherhood. That’s what they told him, anyway.

A human diplomat creates an interstellar incident when he kills an alien diplomat in a most unusual way....

In a ravaged world, a former Army Ranger and his loyal golden retriever lead a desperate mission against an alien overlord, testing the bond between humanity… and their best friends.

In his last life, Liam lived as a moral, responsible person...but died deep in debt and betrayed by his wife. Reborn into the ruling family of a vast interstellar empire, Liam knows that life is divided between the downtrodden and the ones who do the stomping.

There is a long tradition of Great Detectives, and Dirk Gently does not belong to it....

This is a Steamy but brutal fight to the end for the volunteers/victims from various parts of the world, it is a horrific unpredictable game for adult's eyes only to enjoy, it is set in the central American rain forest with plenty of unpredictable weather and intimate special magical moments to remember. It will keep you falling off your seat with worry for the eight volunteer contestants that have never met before, they do not realise how much danger they are letting themselves in for to win an enormous amount of money if they can stay alive for six weeks with a limited amount of tools in ...

Meet Algernon "Algy" Piffle, a man whose greatest life achievement was alphabetizing his sock drawer and whose daily existence revolves around the soul-crushingly specific regulations governing the Majestic Crunch biscuit. His profoundly ordinary life in the aggressively normal village of Lesser Puddleton is shattered one Tuesday afternoon – not by the expected hyperspace bypass demolition, but by something far more insidious and, frankly, embarrassing: administrative error. Earth, it turns out, hasn't been scheduled for destruction; it's simply been misfiled somewhere between a nebula ...

Tefu grows up in a small post-apocalyptic city-state on the tiny ice moon of Saturn, Enceladus. She’s a musical genius and as the 20-year-old daughter of heroes, people have high expectations of her. She tries to define her identity and discover her calling amid impending interstellar war. Overcoming her fear of performing solo, she’s on her way to realize her dream when a jealous peer tries to thwart her ambitions. She attains fame but cuts herself off from her loving family. Guilt and loneliness lead to paralyzing stage fright. Can she be forgiven by the family she has hurt? Will she ...

This book introduces the ‘Scattered Worlds’ universe, where an alien race, the Lenovians, performed what should have been a normal “weapons test." However, their experiment went disastrously wrong, creating thousands of scattered worlds, as if someone had blended them all and then randomly pieced them back together. Jake Anderson was on his way to a night class at UNH when his car unexpectedly crashed into an impossible wall of snow beside a pool of lava. He now finds himself in a chaotic world, a blend of vastly different environments. Walking just under a thousand yards in any ...

Buddy Banzai and the Intergalactic Echo A Sequel to The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension Forty years after Buckaroo Banzai vanished into deep space chasing Lectroids and lost dimensions, his son Buddy has built a strange life of his own, part-time lawyer, part-time astronomer, full-time rock 'n' roll adrenaline junkie. But when an encrypted signal echoes from beyond the stars, speaking in a voice only Buddy could recognize, the past comes crashing into the present. Joined by his equally eccentric crew, the UFO-hunting bass player Skipper, drummer-attorney George ...

When a high-stakes card game turns into a deadly brawl, free trader Hank Jensen’s luck spirals into a galaxy of chaos. Hank Jensen is a freewheeling trader skimming the fringe of known space, navigating shady deals, alien intrigues, and high-stakes danger. But when an unlucky hand of cards at Earnestine's Tavern turns deadly, Hank is thrown into a perilous chase through the seedy underbelly of the galaxy. From conning his way past ruthless debt collectors to escaping the clutches of galactic corporations, Hank must rely on his quick wits and loyal, eccentric crew to outpace old enemies ...

They just stood there. In the dark. On his grass. Three punks. They were always there, roaming the streets, kicking over trash cans, spray painting the train underpass, throwing eggs on Halloween, a stain on his otherwise bucolic Ridgewood, New Jersey neighborhood. Once they left a bag of dog crap on his front porch and set it on fire. He almost stepped in it. But for some reason this new thing, the just standing there, pissed him off even more. Like they owned his lawn. Pot-smoking punks.

The corporations promised it could never happen. Of course they would say that. Their products were everywhere. They had turned everything from scarecrows to coffee makers into robots, and there wasn't a home on Earth that wasn't filled with their machines. The League for the Preservation of Humans said it was inevitable. It wouldn't be much of a league otherwise. If they gave up their cause, there'd be no need for the rallies, or the fundraisers, or the galas. And who would they feel superior to if they didn't get to lecture everyone?

"Best in Show, Bets Across the Stars" follows the dual narratives of Major Cholmondeley Featherstonehaugh, who is earnestly preparing his Wire Fox Terrier, Sir Reginald Wobblebottom, for the prestigious Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, and Vinnie 'The Poodle' Groblax, the alien head of the Interstellar Turf Accountants' Conglomerate (ITAC). For ITAC, the Westminster show is the galaxy's largest betting event, and when the favorite, Fluffybutt the Third, threatens to cause a massive payout, Vinnie initiates "Operation: Best in Show." This plan involves an ITAC operative, Agent Barry, ...

In a world where virtual reality gaming lets players shape their own stories, Nick desperately wants to join the beta test for Omen Galaxica's revolutionary AI update. There's just one catch - he needs a partner who's never played before. Enter his mother Amanda, currently on bedrest during a difficult pregnancy. Together, they must rebuild the destroyed village of Donner's Beck while defending it from a notorious griefer intent on wreaking havoc. But as virtual and real worlds blur, both Nick and Amanda discover that games aren't just about escape... they're about connection, growth, and ...