The Anniversary Edition of The OTHER Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: A Parody includes all of the important advice from the original edition, like (how to deliver a baby in a manger! how to shoplift! how to identify anthrax!) plus BONUS advice...
From the bestselling author of The Spaceship Next Door:Very occasionally, I will pop up in the historical record. Most of the time I'm not at all easy to spot, because most of the time I'm just a guy who does a thing and then disappears again into th...
"if you’ve been around for long enough, you’re bound to experience a few unpleasant things: fires, earthquakes, avalanches, volcanoes, sometimes all on the same afternoon. Boats, I can tell you from first-hand experience, sink. A lot. Sometime...
I knew she was bad news the minute she walked into the bar. She was a redhead. I always had a thing for redheads. One in particular, actually. She was dead, but that didn’t mean I wasn’t holding my breath for a second or two every time I saw ...
“I’m sorry I startled you last evening,” he said. “I get confused. It’s worse at the end of the day.”“That’s all right,” I said. He was reacting to my words before they came out of my mouth, nodding affirmation. I decided to sti...
"What I was currently doing with my time and money . . . didn't really deserve anyone else's attention. If I was feeling romantic about it, I'd call it a quest, but all I was really doing was trying to answer a question I'd been ignoring for a thousa...
The Immortal Chronicles are a collection of novellas from Adam the immortal man, narrator of the Immortal Trilogy. Immortal at Sea Adam's adventures on the high seas have taken him from the Mediterranean to the Barbary Coast, and if there's one thing...
Christmas comes but once a year.Adam wants another beer.The first time I met Santa was in a bar. I was occupying a barstool in the Village in lower Manhattan at the time. It was December, of course -- one does not meet Santa in August -- and the ye...
"Anna was beautiful and smart and just the right kind of dangerous to get me killed, which was often what I looked for in a woman, to be entirely honest. The interesting ones are somehow almost always the ones who come with life-threatening risk on ...
The new neighbors don’t seem interested in socializing . . . “An enormously enjoyable first contact story . . . from a talented new voice in sci-fi.” -- A.G. Riddle, bestselling author of The Atlantis GeneThree ye...
New, from the bestselling author of The Spaceship Next Door! “I thought I’d miss the world.” --Adam the immortal Adam is on vacation in an island paradise, with nothing to do and plenty of time to do nothing. It’s exactly what he needed: beau...
Annie Collins is back! Becoming an overnight celebrity at age sixteen should have been a lot more fun. Yes, there were times when it was extremely cool, but when the newness of it all wore off, Annie Collins was left with a permanent security detail ...
Not all of Adam's stories have happy endingsParis is romantic and quests are cool. But the threat of a global pandemic kind of sours the whole thing. The good news was, if all life on Earth were felled by a plague, it looked like this one could take ...
Someone's altering the future, and it isn't Corrigan BainCorrigan Bain was retired.It wasn't something he ever thought he'd be able to do. The problem was that the job he wanted to retire from wasn't actually a job at all: nobody paid him to do i...
Welcome to Dib!Dib is an Earthlike planet, only slightly smaller, with shorter days and longer years, in orbit around twin suns.On the continent of Geo, in the city of Velon in the nation of Inimata, a man lies dead in his study.The Murdered MonkIn l...
Welcome to The Middle Kingdom!In the nine Middle Kingdoms it is believed that the royal families are the direct decedents of the gods of Dib: Honus, Javilon, Ho Nita, and Pal. The gifts of the gods are not passed to every member of the royal families...
Scott Sigler called Doucette’s cozy apocalypse story, “entertaining as hell.” Come see how the world ends, not with a bang, but a whatever . . .The whateverpocalypse. That’s what Touré, a twenty-something Cambridge coder, calls it after waki...
The mystery deepensIn the heart of the authoritarian country of Wivvol, astronaut Xto Djbbit is about to embark on his first mission off-planet when the exiled High Hat of Chnta comes to him with an unusual request: help smuggle a Septal artifact out...
Annie Collins emerged from the wreckage of the last invasion of Sorrow Falls with a spaceship in her garden, a loud alien idea in her head, and—because returning to college was out of the question—a lot of free time.What she chose to do...