Nevada Frida Baylor and Connor Ander Rogan cordially invite you to join their wedding celebration. Summoning, weather manipulation, and other magical activities strictly forbidden.Catalina Baylor is looking forward to wearing her maid of honor dress and watching her older sister walk down the aisle. Then the wedding planner gets escorted off the premises, the bride’s priceless tiara disappears, and Rogan's extensive family overruns his mother’s home. Someone is che...

Oink! Caesar, are you actually planning on conquering the world with a computer game? Well, that's certainly a new way to use AI!Although I see you know how to use it properly too, hehehe. Do you not feel a bit sorry for those nobles? No? Ha! And neither you should! Good riddance to bad rubbish—that's what I always say! Now get a move on and wrap things up on that stupid planet of yours so you can go make us some credits.You haven’t forgotten about your favorite agent, have...

“Alameddine is a writer with a boundless imagination.” —NPRFrom National Book Award finalist and winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction comes a tragicomic love story set in Lebanon, a modern saga of family, memory, and the unbreakable attachment of a son and his mother.In a tiny Beirut apartment, sixty-three-year-old Raja and his mother live side by side. A beloved high school philosophy teacher and “the neighborhood homosexual,” Raja...

“Alameddine is a writer with a boundless imagination.” —NPRFrom National Book Award finalist and winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction comes a tragicomic love story set in Lebanon, a modern saga of family, memory, and the unbreakable attachment of a son and his mother.In a tiny Beirut apartment, sixty-three-year-old Raja and his mother live side by side. A beloved high school philosophy teacher and “the neighborhood homosexual,” Raja...

Greetings, bald monkey! What's with you? Surprised to see an alien? Ha! Believe me, you're better off with me than the Swarm that Swallows Systems. It'll be here in ten years or so, and then you'll all be done for. Just so you know.What's that? You want to live? Then you best join the Legion!The Legion's your chance to earn money! And money's your ticket to survival. Oh, and don't breathe a word about the Legion to anyone. Nobody would believe you anyway.

One flower market. Three decades seeded with secrets. Six lives uprooted forever.TESSA LEWIS is finished graduate school and set to begin her Big Time Career (just as soon as she figures out what that actually looks like) and marry a lustworthy lawyer from Toronto’s most powerful family, who loves her to pieces. But life wasn’t always sunshine and roses, and when an unexpected encounter at a flower market sparks a puzzling childhood memory of the mother sh...

Halycon Sage is back! As the eccentric citizens of Dry Creek Gulch happily organize a peaceful, post-technological society, big sparkly blue Squidren are rapidly approaching Earth! These telepathic, time-traveling, dimension-hopping Squids have plans for us-as do the suddenly sentient Nanobots and a Shadowy Man who preys on human weakness: shifting dimensions, eccentric aliens, and batty earthlings. Love, hope, courage, and acceptance-but there is danger!The Book of Squidly Light i...

Halycon Sage, founder of the Post-Modernist Minimalist Neo-Symbolist Pseudo-Realist School of Literature, has voluntarily disappeared. He is hoping to save the world but is also fleeing the Mail Pile. Sage, a person of mystery who may be a Native American male, meets some odd characters: Petulant critic Basel Vasselschnauzer, confused genius Alexander Preisczech, a Romani woman, assorted gang members and secret agents, and a shadowy figure of evil. Sage has a faithful equine companion, No-...

Join Halycon Sage, founder of the Post-Modernist Minimalist Neo-Symbolist Pseudo-Realist School of Literature, as he slaloms through time, space, and multiple dimensions, all tangled up in a multiverse-spanning ball of yarn.The Squidren are back, along with many new characters. Will lawyer Edwin Puppy face Cat-Attorney Fatty Lumpkin in open court? Will Adequately Magnificent Presence Judge Rumblethunder bring justice to all beings in the highest court of all?Will Alexander ...

This compulsive novel wrestles with vital questions of our time: sentience, purpose, life, death, and how to make a really good commercial. Told entirely through questionably obtained company emails, chat transcripts, TED Talks, training sessions, and more, this all-too-probable future pits emotionally intelligent AI against emotionally stunted humans.Megacorporation UniView is poised to cement their reputation as “the most trusted name in AI.” After pioneering the...

Navigating the stormy seas of the 1960s wasn't easy, especially if Vietnam was on your horizon.Ignoring his 2-S selective service deferment, Conor Patrick McKall volunteers for the draft, and Uncle Sam promptly deposits him in the Big Green Machine.Six months later McKall is walking point in jungles, rice paddies, and rubber plantations. In nine short months, he's made an infantry squad leader responsible for a dozen other grunts. In the "boonies," life is lived one day at ...

Veiled Threats challenges the idea that women in violent terrorist groups lack agency. Too often, these women are assumed to be controlled by men: their fathers, their husbands, or some other male relative. Mia Bloom contests this narrow understanding. Although extremist groups often control different aspects of women's lives, including their religious obligations or dress, jihadi women have asserted themselves in myriad ways. Bloom interrogates the prevailing per...