Funny Science Fiction

Three series starters from the author Skyler Grant. The Laboratory is the story of an insane and science obsessed AI and the building of a facility deep beneath in the desert in a post apocalyptic world gone mad. Dungeon Crawl is Grant's first work, swords and sorcery LitRPG and the start to a world bending adventure. Persephone Falling is a cyberpunk tale of a satellite dweller brought to earth, a warrior who might find to find her place in a savage world.

I played all those cool video games. I watched all those movies. I even read the books. In most of 'em, the hero shoots the bad guys, drives a sweet car, never gets hungry, and always seems to get laid by the end. Yeah. Whatever. I gotta be straight with you about why I wrote this journal, and it comes down to one thing, the apocalypse kinda sucks. It doesn’t meet my expectations at all.

Very similar to Douglas Adams style with strong hints of Vonnegut. THIS BOOK IS FOR ALL AGES AND THEN SOME. Dr. Simmons, departing from his usual style, has written a story about the adventures of Dr. Alan Rossum, the world's first independent, plastic robot physician. His appearance is incredibly humanlike, plus he is movie-star handsome, and his manners are impeccable. His hands are warm. Or, cold, if need be. He is also fireproof, germ-resistant, self-cleaning, buoyant and shrink resistant. Robots such as Rossum are expected to lower the high cost of medicine and work through the night ...

Pandemonium: a twilight dimension of nightmare creatures, mythical beings, the undead, and everything in between. To Dead Jack, it’s hell sweet hell. In the first book of the series, the tortured, drug-addicted detective and his associate, the homunculus Oswald, face rogue leprechauns, ghost pirates, a sex-obsessed shark woman, sycophantic ghouls, an insecure fire demon, and a goateed maniac who calls himself the Duke of Pandemonium.

Meet Vanessa Cordero. A cynic with a colorful past. You see, in college, Vanessa devised a profitable side gig: For a reasonable fee, she’d date your latest crush...and make his life miserable. Too clingy? Check. Jealous? Check. A mother's worst nightmare? Check, check, check. By the time Vanessa was done with him, your guy would be ready for...YOU.

"Fun, fun, fun! Like the love child of Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett!" Man plans, the Multiverse laughs! "It's like that book about anti-gravity. You can't put it down." "A story 14 billion years in the making!" "Finally, a treatment for readers suffering "Dirk Gently or Hitchhiker's Guide withdrawal!" "Not only is this case stranger than we imagine, it's stranger than we can imagine." No other detective is quite like Dr. Ziegfeld Zaggar, Quantum Detective -- and that's probably for the best. Zaggar and his reluctant, obsessively linear-thinking sidekick, Jack Robbins, investigate the ...

“Everything you think you know about what’s happening in this story gets turned upside down… What seems like a supernatural ‘vampire’ romp with a comic edge flips into a dazzling concept piece about the nature of reality… But if you’re after a formulaic vampire story, this might not be for you.” In a desolate wasteland of ruined cities and rusted droids, Ethan and his team hunt the last remnants of vampiric terror. Or do they? In this post-apocalyptic world, the lines between truth and illusion blur, leaving one question chillingly unanswered: Are you sure you know what's ...

"A hilarious ride through wild alien worlds." "A delightful mix of humor, adventure, and quirky characters." "Guardians of the Galaxy, but with a detective vibe." If there's one thing that can shake neurotic government auditor Roger Stenely out of his routine, it's murder. When he joins an investigation, mercenaries led by the planet-hopping gang leader Kobold come after him. Forced into an uneasy truce with the gruff, gun-toting Detective Hort and his history-loving beautiful neighbor Olivia, Roger finds himself on the run and on the hunt. Using a trusty portal briefcase, they bounce ...

One night with a superpowered babe. Alan Star thinks he's the luckiest guy in the world, but fantasy turns into nightmare when a late-night meetup with a heroine turns deadly. To the dismay of the powers-in-charge, Alan has stumbled upon the dirty truth behind the squeaky-clean image of the hero business. Soon, everyone from government black ops to angry superpowered flames want to shut him up. Permanently. With nowhere else to run, Alan escapes to the one place that the heroes won't go: the underground world of a fabled hero-killer. There, he discovers the key to becoming the greatest hero...

Superweapon stud? That's what the doctor ordered. The Beastmasters are dwindling. The Mekanics are growing bolder. Everyone's desperate for the next magic bullet. With no more Chimerics arriving, there's only one way to make more Beastmasters. Me. I'm not against making baby Beastmasters with the hotties on my squad. The problem is that they're not telling me everything. The last time they tried this, things got pretty ugly... All hell's breaking loose. Secrets are spilling left and right. Even my alien cat Zoe can't keep all the facts straight. And everyone wants a piece of me. There's ...

"Oops, We Saved Humanity!" - A Briliant Sci-Fi Comedy of Adorable Chaos, Technological Mishaps, and Unexpected Heroism. An Absolute Must Read! Dr. Felix Bumblesnap never intended to trigger a global revolution—he just wanted to solve world hunger and have clean socks. But his latest invention, the Quantum Replicator™, has an unfortunate typo problem, and now the planet is overrun by intelligent robotic kittens capable of viral social-media campaigns, philosophical debates, and coordinated mischief. Soon, humanity finds itself caught between adorable technological overlords, politically ...

The alien invasion was the least of anybody's problems. Out of the blue, a strange alien mothership appears in the sky. At first, it just hangs there, making no apparent attempts to communicate with the people of Earth. But pretty soon the White House is a hole in the ground, and glowing translucent spheres are abducting people from the streets. In order to avert further disaster, Satan, former King on Hell but now exiled on Earth, teams up with his best buddy and travel back to Hell to get a piece of tech that could send the aliens packing. But little do they know that the aliens, the ...

Swashbuckling charm. A mischievous sidekick. An AI with a crush. Kaz Jepsen is a legendary space explorer with a reckless streak, a flair for the dramatic, and a talent for talking his way out of—or into—trouble. His companion, Farber, is a genetically engineered blend of monkey and cat with fast reflexes, dry wit, and zero patience for Kaz’s theatrics. Together, they roam the galaxy aboard the Stellar Serpent, a slightly unreliable ship run by Chloe—an AI who's become a little too emotionally invested in her captain. When a fading distress signal leads them to a forgotten planet, ...

In Leonard Wibberley's classic political satire, a tiny backwards country decides the only way to survive a sudden economic downturn is to declare war on the United States and lose to get foreign aid - but things don't go according to plan. The Mouse That Roared was made into a successful feature film starring Peter Sellers. Books in The Grand Fenwick Series: Books 2 through 5 are best read after The Mouse That Roared, but all of the books can be read and enjoyed at any point in the series. Book 1: The Mouse That Roared Book 2: The Mouse On The Moon Book 3: The Mouse On Wall Street Book 4: ...

Twenty-plus intimate sci-fi stories from the heights and depths of the fractal universe. The stories you’ve dreamed of; the people you crave to meet; or would love to be. The aliens who’d make you shiver, or laugh. The huge risks of guiding your spacecraft here, or there. The adventures you’d have if only you had the nerve… Or the utter romance of doing that… The lighter side; the humour of orbital disasters and alien conflicts; the perils of ill-advised time-interference; the sheer romance of null-gravity love; the terrors of a leaky hull; the fear of a bullying boss when ...

Duke and Earl are just passing through Rockwood county in their pick-up truck when they stop at the Diner for a quick bite to eat. They aren't planning to stick around-until Loretta, the eatery's owner, offers them $100 to take care of her zombie problem. Given that Duke is a werewolf and Earl's a vampire, this looks right up their alley.But the shambling dead are just the tip of a particularly spiky iceberg.

Agents Max and Miranda fall tonsil-deep into betrayal. On their first mission together, Max and Miranda hunt a predatory alien on Earth. Max has survived missions through sheer indestructibility and persistence, but this has cost the lives and limbs of less durable teammates. This time, he is determined to keep his new partner alive. When Max becomes dinner for an alien ruler, Miranda begins doubting her decision to become an agent. A threat grows with every bite. Together, Agents Max and Miranda must overcome deceit, conflicting evidence, and evisceration to stop a growing menace on Earth ...

I was just an ordinary computer repair guy… until I toppled an intergalactic space cartel. After their crazy space adventure, Alex and his friends don’t get much time to rest. An urgent message from the Draco System reaches them: their new friend Voss needs help. Once again, Alex, Lucy, and Joey embark into space. What starts as a simple search-and-rescue mission turns into an even bigger adventure than their first. The friends soon find themselves entangled in an intergalactic conflict between a powerful space cartel and the galactic authorities. The humorless Commander Sarrik gives ...

Don’t be like Ciara, a twelve-year-old girl living in the tiny village of Skael. When she used a spell from within this book, she ended up summoning a dragon. A DRAGON! Those things breathe fire! From their mouths! She’s obviously doomed. And don’t listen if Ciara tells you that dragons won’t hurt humans, and that they even once taught us magic, a thousand years ago. Definitely don’t pay any attention to the fact that the dragon she summoned, Scorch, might be willing to help rescue Ciara’s mother and free her village from the Emperor and his Warden, because it’s all obviously a big lie.

Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following. Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent of the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there were a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last?