Frank's mind is a city of memory, trauma, humor, and strange inner agents. To survive what built him, he must enter the world behind his eyes and learn that healing is not deletion. It is a transformation.

The Question is the Question is a mental health concept album in poems: surreal, funny, wounded, strange, and stubbornly alive.Frank Questionmark writes from the hallway outside the panic attack, the movie playing too late at night, the old punk song in the car, the medication bottle on the counter, the family name people pause over, and the question that refuses to become a period.Across poems of recovery, horror, identity, grief, anger, pop culture, Filipino-Amer...

Beyond the Cubicle and Other Stories isn't just a collection-it's a trapdoor.You open it expecting short fiction and suddenly you're fall through a kaleidoscope of horror, sci-fi, office dread, cosmic tenderness, psychological spirals, and the kind of strange hope only a survivor could write.Frank Question Mark takes the everyday-cubicle, commutes, break rooms, childhood memories, technology, loneliness-and peels the skin back to show the shimmering, monstrous, bea...

Fleet of Worlds marks Larry Niven's first full novel-length collaboration within his Known Space universe, the playground he created for his bestselling Ringworld series. Teaming up with fellow SF writer Edward M. Lerner, Fleet of Worlds takes a closer look at the Human-Puppeteer (Citizens) relations and the events leading up to Niven's first Ringworld novel.Kirsten Quinn-Kovacs is among the best and brightest of her people. She gratefully serves t...

For too long, the Puppeteers have controlled the fate of worlds. Now Sigmund is pulling the strings...Covert agent Sigmund Ausfaller is Earth's secret weapon, humanity's best defense against all conspiracies, real and potential - and imaginary - of foes both human and alien. Who better than a brilliant paranoid to expose the devious plots of others?He may finally have met his match in Nessus, representative of the secretive Puppeteers, the elder race who wield vastly superior...

They say writing is rewriting. So why does the second part get such short shrift? Refuse To Be Done will guide you through every step of the novel writing process, from getting started on those first pages to the last tips for making your final draft even tighter and stronger.From lauded writer and teacher Matt Bell, Refuse to Be Done is encouraging and intensely practical, focusing always on specific rewriting tasks, techniques, and activities fo...

This discounted ebundle of the Known Space series includes: Fleet of Worlds, Juggler of Worlds, Destroyer of Worlds, Betrayer of Worlds, Fate of Worlds“Great story telling is still alive in science fiction because of Larry Niven, and his finest work is the Ringworld series.” **--**Orson Scott CardTwo hundred years before the discovery of the Ringworld, humans discover the history of their ancestors and revolt again...

From the acclaimed author and translator of the National Book Award Finalist, Cursed Bunny, a fresh, uncanny, and utterly profound collection of stories set in near and distant futures that reflect our deepest fears**—**and deepest desires.Bora Chung’s inimitable blend of horror, absurdity, and dark humor reaches its peak in these tales of loss and discovery, dystopia and idealism, death and immortality. In a thrilling translation by the a...

The deep space prospectors take the risks. The mighty Pendra Consortium reaps the profits. That's the way it is on the Hub, a crossroads to distant planets and limitless opportunity for mankind.Pendra agent Laryn Ash is assigned to keep an eye on the crew, and especially the rogue captain, of the prospector ship Nefer - not exactly the sort of career move she had in mind when she escaped the hardships of Earth's Restoration for a job on the Hub.When two enigmatic a...

Temporal Contingency is the fourth book in the Big Sigma Series.Trevor "Lex" Alexander's life has been less than blessed. In the past year he's had to battle corrupt corporations, deranged techno-terrorists, and a robotic scourge. Now he's received the opportunity to finally return to the racing career that had been cut short by some poor decisions. One could excuse him for not wanting to be embroiled in another insane adventure when he is so close to returning to his life's callin...

The father of virtual reality explains its dazzling possibilities by reflecting on his own lifelong relationship with technology.Named one of the best books of 2017 by The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, & Vox"A deeply human, highly personal, and beautifully told story." —Dave EggersBridging the gap between tech mania and the experience of being inside the human body , Dawn of the Ne...

By the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from the Korean by Anton Hur, Your Utopia is full of tales of loss and discovery, idealism and dystopia, death and immortality. "Nothing concentrates the mind like Chung's terrors, which will shrivel you to a bouillon cube of your most primal instincts" (Vulture), yet these stories are suffused with Chung's inimitable wry humor and surprisingly tender moments, too—often between unexpected subjects. Ch...