Tag: Satire

The Infinite Future by Tim Wirkus

The Infinite Future by Tim Wirkus

An obsessive librarian, a down-at-heel author, and a disgraced historian go on the hunt for a mystical, life-changing book—and find it. Meet three broken people, joined by an obsession with a forgotten Brazilian science-fiction author named Salgado-MacKenzie. There’s Danny, a writer who’s been scammed by a shady literary award committee; Sergio, journalist turned sub-librarian in São Paulo; and Harriet, an excommunicated Mormon historian in Salt […]

January 16, 2018 / 0 Comments
Geoffrey P. Ward’s Guide to Villainy by M.A. Nichols

Geoffrey P. Ward’s Guide to Villainy by M.A. Nichols

Successful villains aren’t born. They’re made. Unless you’re born into the role of hero or handed it by misguided fairy godmothers, you can never hope to achieve anything beyond the measly life you’ve got. At least that’s what the fairy tale fops would have you believe. They prefer people to think that only divine destiny allows others the right to join their exclusive club, but […]

August 22, 2017 / 0 Comments
Extreme Makeover by Dan Wells

Extreme Makeover by Dan Wells

What happens when a health and beauty company accidentally develops a hand lotion that can overwrite your DNA? Lyle Fontanelle is the chief scientist for NewYew, a health and beauty company experimenting with a new, anti-aging hand lotion. As more and more anomalies crop up in testing, Lyle realizes that the lotion’s formula has somehow gone horribly wrong. It is actively overwriting the DNA of […]

November 15, 2016 / 0 Comments
A Pear-Shaped Funeral by Dan Wells

A Pear-Shaped Funeral by Dan Wells

Being the Second Memoir of Frederick Whithers As Edited by Cecil G. Bagsworth III. Just when Fredrick Whithers thought his life couldn’t get any more complicated, he is asked to arrange a funeral for a man who is very much not dead. In the companion to A Night of Blacker Darkness, Frederick must balance the arts of necromancy and magic while managing to run a […]

November 4, 2015 / 0 Comments