Lightspeed: Year One
10 best books like Lightspeed: Year One (John Joseph Adams): Robopocalypse, Fatale, Vol. 1: Death Chases Me, Deadline, Blackout, Get in Trouble, Year's Best Weird Fiction, Vol. 1, Malagash, Satanic Bedtime Stories, Bravest Warriors Vol. 1, The Walking Dead, Vol. 32: Rest In Peace
Author | Daniel H. Wilson |
ISBN | 0385533853 |
In the near future, at a moment no one will notice, all the dazzling technology that runs our world will unite and turn against us. Taking on the persona of a shy human boy, a childlike but massively powerful artificial intelligence known as Archos comes online and assumes control over the global network...
Fatale, Vol. 1: Death Chases Me
Author | Ed Brubaker |
ISBN | 1607065630 |
Secrets, lies, horror, lust and monsters from the time before time all collide in Fatale, Book One: Death Chases Me.
In present day, a man meets a woman who he becomes instantly obsessed with, and in the 1950s, this same woman destroys the lives of all those who cross her path, on a quest for......
Shaun Mason is a man without a mission. Not even running the news organization he built with his sister has the same urgency as it used to. Playing with dead things just doesn't seem as fun when you've lost as much as he has.
But when a CDC researcher fakes her own death and appears on his doorstep...
Author | Mira Grant |
ISBN | 1841499005 |
Rise up while you can. -Georgia Mason
The year was 2014. The year we cured cancer. The year we cured the common cold. And the year the dead started to walk. The year of the Rising.
The year was 2039. The world didn't end when the zombies came, it just got worse. Georgia and Shaun Mason set...
Author | Kelly Link |
ISBN | 0804179689 |
She has been hailed by Michael Chabon as “the most darkly playful voice in American fiction” and by Neil Gaiman as “a national treasure.” Now Kelly Link’s eagerly awaited new collection--her first for adult readers in a decade--proves indelibly that this bewitchingly original writer...
Author | Laird Barron |
ISBN | 0981317766 |
Welcome to the weird! Acclaimed author and editor Laird Barron, one of weird fiction's brightest exponents, brings his expert eye and editorial sense to the inaugural volume of the Year's Best Weird Fiction.
No longer the purview of esoteric readers, weird fiction is enjoying wide popularity....
A precisely crafted, darkly humorous portrait of a family in mourning.
Sunday’s father is dying of cancer. They’ve come home to Malagash, on the north shore of Nova Scotia, so he can die where he grew up. Her mother and her brother are both devastated. But devastated isn’t good enough....
Author | Christy Leigh Stewart |
ISBN | 0615710492 |
Satanic bedtime stories is a collection of fables, each illustrating the practical applications of The Satanic Church's Nine Satanic Statements with fun characters.
Join the young boy Damien as he learns that Satan can be your best friend.
Fang, the wolf, on his journey to learn...
Author | Joey Comeau |
ISBN | 1608863220 |
The new hit Cartoon Hangover series from the imagination of Adventure Time creator, Pendleton Ward! POWER! RESPECT! Based on ADVENTURE TIME creator Pendleton Ward's brand new animated series! Join Chris, Wallow, Beth and Danny, four 16-year-old heroes-for-hire, as they warp from galaxy to galaxy,...
The Walking Dead, Vol. 32: Rest In Peace
Author | Robert Kirkman |
ISBN | 1534312412 |
It’s… over?
Wha… no foolin’!? Sweet zombie jesus!
Yup, the series that became like the rotting, shambling corpses featured in its pages has finally come to a long overdue end. I kinda feel like Kent Brockman – why now, why not five years ago??
So after years of saying...
Author | Daniel H. Wilson |
ISBN | 0385537093 |
The stunningly creative, epic sequel to Wilson's blockbuster thriller and New York Times bestseller Robopocalypse
"The machine is still out there. Still alive."
Humankind had triumphed over the machines. At the end of Robopocalypse, the modern world was largely devastated,...
Author | Daniel H. Wilson |
ISBN | 0385535155 |
It's the twenty-first century and let's be honest--things are a little disappointing. Despite every World's Fair prediction, every futuristic ride at Disneyland, and the advertisements on the last page of every comic book, we are not living the future we were promised. By now, life was supposed to...
Atari Age: The Emergence of Video Games in America
Author | Michael Z. Newman |
ISBN | 0262035715 |
The cultural contradictions of early video games: a medium for family fun (but mainly for middle-class boys), an improvement over pinball and television (but possibly harmful)
Beginning with the release of the Magnavox Odyssey and Pong in 1972, video games, whether played in arcades and...
A collection of bitterly hilarious job application letters.
Applying for a job is stupid. It is a demeaning, humiliating exercise in learning to grovel in front of faceless strangers. Everyone who has ever sent a job application letter has felt the urge, the temptation to say what they really...
Vintage Game Consoles: An Inside Look at Apple, Atari, Commodore, Nintendo, and the Greatest Gaming Platforms of All Time
Author | Bill Loguidice |
ISBN | 0415856000 |
Vintage Game Consoles tells the story of the most influential videogame platforms of all time, including the Apple II, Commodore 64, Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy, Sega Genesis, Sony PlayStation, and many more. It uncovers the details behind the consoles, computers, handhelds, and arcade...
Author | Mike Mearls |
ISBN | 0786965622 |
Everything a Dungeon Master needs to weave legendary stories for the world's greatest roleplaying game
The Dungeon Master's Guide provides the inspiration and the guidance you need to spark your imagination and create worlds of adventure for your players to explore and enjoy.
Inside...
Author | James Wyatt |
ISBN | 0786965606 |
Everything a player needs to create heroic characters for the world’s greatest roleplaying game
The Player’s Handbook® is the essential reference for every Dungeons & Dragons® roleplayer. It contains rules for character creation and advancement, backgrounds and...
Author | Justin M. Woodward |
ISBN | 0997940905 |
Tyler Roydman's life has never been normal. As far back as he can remember, he has had unexplainable powers. Specifically, he has the power to prevent certain bad things from happening. Everything changes for Tyler when his son Nathan goes missing. Everyone blames him for his disappearance, while...