Pointless conversations: a selection of daft, ridiculous and utterly pointless meanderings from the mind of Scott Tierney. If you’ve ever wanted to know the answers to why Superman is a coward; why Spiderman should technically be deformed; and if Superdog caused the death of Krypton, then these bite-sized comics will reveal all. The discussions may be inane, and most of what is said is rambling, but despite this, you may find yourself agreeing with most of what is said. It’s a fair point: ...

Strange Times compiles ten short stories of fantasy, science-fiction and wonder, ranging from the darkly comical Eight Over Four, set in a world which is overpopulated with giant human-sized spiders; to the altogether more thought-provoking Outlawry, where radical new laws result in a dystopian hotbed of opportunism, for the punishment for crime is now crime itself. Also included are two previously unpublished stories exclusive to this collection: Give Us Your Smile, which describes a surr...

Forced into spending the day with one another while their wife and respective mother undergoes a procedure, a father and son become reacquainted after a period of disjunction. As the day progress and the proverbial scabs are picked, each man comes to understand a little more about the other.And, in the process, a great deal more about themselves...

The colour was everything that made existence worthwhile, distilled into a single hue. It was magnificent. It was affirming. It was all that mattered and all that one would ever need.'It was like... it was... it was impossible to describe without seeing for oneself...'In this unnerving short story from Scott Tierney, discover the origins of The Colour, its effects on an unsuspecting world, and the future it creates.

In this prequel to the sci-fi novel Tomorrow is Another year, an intrepid young man looks back across the multiple lifetimes he has survived through - lifetimes ingrained within the rings of an old tree trunk...

In 2018 it was estimated that there were over 750 million spiders in the United Kingdom. By contrast, the overall number today is less than ten percent of that - but now the spiders live all around us. Today, the spiders are our neighbours. They live alongside us, coexist with us.As us...An intriguing, imaginative, and often unsettling short story set in a world where spiders and humans live together, Eight Over Four examines the problems which arise should two contrasting species be force...

While The Player Sleeps charts the story of a city where each and every inhabitant, as though the individual teeth of a single cog which drives a vast clockwork machine, functions selflessly for their one ultimate master: THE PLAYERFor, as we would understand it, this is the city of the video game - the urban sandbox, an open world simulation, and the inhabitants are merely the actors upon a digitised stage.Existing solely for the entertainment of HIM...

Why do we find the mishaps of others amusing? Do we sort pleasure in the falls from grace of our peers? Is it a primal, evolutionary urge to see the weaker of the pack fall away, to be engulfed by a predator for the good of the herd? Or is it simply because the sight of someone falling on their face is always hilarious? Probably the latter...In this book, you will find a collection of occasionally agonising but always amusing accidents that have befallen the celebrities, sports stars and a...

In this latest selection of Pointless Conversations, the previous 12 eBooks and their diverse, eclectic and unequivocally stupid topics are discussed and reassessed once more. Is Superman still a cowardly extraterrestrial? Are Holodecks more of a danger to our bowels than we once thought? Is it wrong to steal Bacon from Liam Neeson, and are some breakfast cereals racist? All these truly essential questions and more are answered...or at least attempted...in Pointless Conversations: The Afte...

Pointless conversations: a selection of daft, ridiculous and utterly pointless meanderings from the mind of Scott Tierney. In this collection of short (but still pointless) conversations, we learn about the age of Jesus, smelly sweets and dirty gobstoppers, more random film references from Taken, X-Men and Willy Wonka, and much more...

When Michael accepts a nondescript job for a nameless London-based company, he finds himself embroiled in a fantastical situation: every time he wakes, time has progressed one single year. At first this seems like a gift; but as the future spirals out of control, and the motives of his titanic employer, Greenwood, prove entangling, he discovers it to be a curse...

Getting Off Escalators and surviving other embarrassing moments: Do you struggle to find the confidence to talk in public, without melting into a puddle of pathetic hopelessness? Are you having panic attacks when riding an escalator, or you don't feel manly enough to hold a pint with any authority of pride? Then you, sir, need this guide... or medical help... yes, medical help is probably a safer bet. But comics are funnier, so choose this. About the author: Scott Tierney is a nervous, awk...