The future belongs to the insane. This is how they take it.They are mad geniuses, paranoid superlawyers, and satanic scientists. They are the Platinum Donkeys -- too stubborn to quit, too excellent to fail -- and they have chosen psychotic little Maggie to be their queen. Will she take over the world by their side? Or will she stop the Donkeys and their doomsday weapons to save her fans and the world that fears her?

On a newly settled world, a thirteen-year-old finds a pair of gravity boots and becomes the wall-walking thief known as Wally.But aliens land on their world and upset the delicate colony. Some humans, led by a mysterious policy known as the Dark Colony plan, seek to goad the aliens into a war against Earth. An ambassador from Earth arrives to prevent that and find the truth about the Dark Colonies. Meanwhile, Wally's thieving friends use the chaos to make a play for their independe...

Aliens came to Earth and offered us all immortality. Most humans took it and left for the stars. Eli and Suna stayed. They wander a nearly empty Chicago, seeking their own meaning and purpose, until an alien social worker named Leon offers to find Eli just one reason to live.But the search may have to wait. A parasite stalks Chicago, and trillions of aliens drop dead throughout the galaxy. Suna uncovers a mystery involving ancient myths and the meaning of human life. But before the...

For her first year of criminology studies at CalState, Nita Javierez has to untangle the riddle of a cabal of fish-men, how to measure non-euclidean objects, and the creepy occult studies professor named Chipper who is always smiling. Is Chipper connected to the bodies washing up on the California coast with eldritch symbols carved into their flesh? Is someone performing a ritual to summon an otherworldly god? And most important, will Chipper agree to be her college advisor?