"If you enjoyed Orwell’s 1984, Huxley’s Brave New World, or even Pixar’s Wall-e there is something for you in Nate Ragolia’s The Retroactivist. ... a tribute to what Indie Authors have to offer." - JOSH JONES, Introvert Press It’s 2087. Mankind has eradicated war, poverty, and jobs. Robots now perform all work. Humans live free to strive for pure happiness and aesthetic perfection. Everyone except for Reid Rosales. Unhappy with joy, unfulfilled by satisfaction, in the throes of a creative slump, Reid longs for something –anything– to help him rise above the easy pleasures of humanity’s perfected society. Reid thinks he’s the only one, until he stumbles on Club 20c, a twentieth-century nostalgia club. There he finds his calling in the long-lost virtues of a harder life… but at what cost?

The Retroactivist

Humor & Entertainment

Ragolia, Nate

Humor

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Launched in January of 2016, BONED is an online literary collection with a single unifying theme: skeletons. This theme touches something that's deeply embedded in all of us: Bones are our past, and also our future. Bones represent death as well as immortality, mixed with regrets about the pleasures and beauty of the flesh.With 52 original short stories, poems, essays, and scripts by 29 writers, BONED Every Which Way will take you into the depths of horror, to strange futures, through contemplations of the human spirit, and leave you in stitches. In short, there’s something for everyone in BONED.“We started this project with the ambitious and silly idea that skeletons could inspire an infinite amount of writing. Turns out, it worked even better than we could have imagined. I’ve had the honor of editing deep, introspective poetry, hilarious scripts, and haunting stories. And I found a little inspiration myself.” - Nate Ragolia, editor-in-chiefSPACEBOY TO THE RESCUE: Profits from sales of this book will benefit the Bone Marrow Foundation. https://bonemarrow.orgBONED Every Which Way 2016 includes writing from Ruby Begonia, Brian Dickson, Simon Edgett, Stephanie Escobar, Kirsten Ferguson, Race Garber, Alex Grady, Shaunn Grulkowski, Mimi Hayes, Ashley Heaton, Jared Horney, Jon-Barrett Ingels, Pam Jones, Amanda Christie Leiss, Jennifer Moore, Dean Moses, Michael J. O’Connor, Jessica Proett, Nate Ragolia, Brian Rivera, Aaron Rodriguez, Diane Root, Jordan A. Rothacker, Mikey Sivak, Math Trafton, Antoine Valot, Daniel Valot, and Jeffrey Wolf.

BONED Every Which Way 2016: A Collection of Skeletal Literature

Literature & Fiction

Literary

"Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." - Percy Shelley What if we told you Shelley was right? What if there were a cabal of ancient, interdimensional, supernatural men and women who have enabled human progress over generations? What if they've been creating, in darkness and in light, to save us all? Join novelist and literary scholar, Jordan A. Rothacker, as he shares his discovery of Maawaam, a Shadow Man, and a secret society of Shadow Men and Women who have been with humanity since the dawn of time. Will Rothacker uncover the source of Maawaam's power? Or will the answers within his Shadow Book drive Rothacker mad? When knowledge literally equals power, the shadows become more appealing than the light...

My Shadow Book

Maawaam

"I used to live in the future. Giant leeches ate my arms and then replaced them. Under the circumstances, this was actually a good thing. Anyway now I'm here and I'm looking for someone else from the future." Inspector Margo Chicago is the smartest, surliest art safety inspector in the Bublinaplex, and things aren't going her way. The guy she thinks she’s in love with has been banished. Her boss has been poisoned. Her cyborg has a limp. Oh, and her arms have been devoured and replaced by a pair of enormous leeches. As if that isn’t enough, it’s now up to Margo to save the Bublinaplex from art terrorists whose newest installation could drive humanity to extinction. But things in the Bublinaplex are not as they seem. And when Margo uncovers the city’s murderous secrets, she must face a choice: Should she save the Bublinaplex? Or should she join the revolution dedicated to destroying it?

Leech Girl Lives

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Claypool, Rick

Science Fiction

It's 2054, and there has been a death. The first death in ten years. And there will be more before too long, unless Jackie Savage and Jamie Nguyen--two exceptionally under-qualified gals--can complete their dangerous and vague mission. Too bad they aren't exactly sure how. As they blunder through Kyoto, running from evil scientists, hired thugs, rogue AI, and a cyborg raven, they get closer and closer to discovering a plot to take the future out of the hands of humanity. But even if they decipher their place in the puzzle, will they be any match for ruthless scientists and artificial intelligence with agendas of their own? Short answer: no. But maybe things will end up OK anyway. Right?

Grimbargo

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Morrison, Laura

Mystery

Stolen Futures

Drewery, M

*2019 NEXT GEN INDIE BOOK AWARDS WINNER – SCIENCE FICTION*"For a few seconds Ronnie just looked at the envelope. There was an idea in movies and books that when someone lost a person they loved, comfort might be found in an artifact–an old scarf, a necklace, a shopping list left pinned to the refrigerator–but Hil was not truly gone, or at least he did not know that she was, and this stupid envelope with her handwriting did not bring him comfort but only reminded him of her absence, like an artificial sweetener or a robotic dog that replaced a beloved pet."Hil Mills is missing. Worse, her boyfriend Ronnie can't find out anything about her because she's been living off-the-grid since childhood, and doesn't even have an online profile. In a world loaded with Screens, where robots do almost every job, Ronnie and a team of misfits try to solve the mystery of Hil's disappearance. Through warehouse raves, transcendentalism-obsessed communes, and bougie corporate parties, Ronnie digs for answers. Meanwhile, Hil's busy saving herself from her past, and a future she never wanted. Is it a conspiracy, a terror plot, or just a bad break-up? Spoiler alert: it's all that and more. "...Colombo’s characterization is strong; the portrait of HDT’s founder, Losi West, is especially well-rounded and poignant. Also, the author’s portrayal of the universal desire for connection is vividly real, moving, and relatable. A thoughtful, trenchant adventure story." - Kirkus Reviews "Sarah Colombo's debut novel, Subterranean, is a rollicking adventure set in a not-too-distant future—one in which most people are completely consumed by technology, while others long for the past: whether that be the 1990s of ravers, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The X-Files, and Nirvana, or Henry David Thoreau's mid-nineteenth century 'cabin of clay and wattles made.' But this book is also, like the best work of Vonnegut, Bradbury, and Philip K. Dick, a serious critique of our culture and the dangerous road down which we're headed. Subterranean will have readers simultaneously weeping for what once was and what could potentially be, while still giving them pause to laugh at all the human folly in between." - David Armand, author of Harlow and My Mother's House “In Subterranean, Sarah Colombo creates a rich and unsettling world of ubiquitous screens and surveillance, snarky robots and tech-resistant cults. The themes of struggle for human connection and establishing one's identity in an over-documented and ego-obsessed culture are both surprising and familiar. Subterranean is a sci-fi adventure with humor and heart.”- Bridget Erin, playwright of Sonata for Four Hands and In Our Backyard

Subterranean

Colombo, Sarah

A deep-water oil rig explodes, killing workers and spewing millions of barrels of crude into the Gulf of Mexico. The survival of the human species is threatened, and it is up to a New Orleans couple and a pair of aliens to prevent our extinction... It begins when Warren, a young college instructor, encounters a spaceship on a levee. He and his ailing wife, Penny, soon learn that the aliens piloting the ship have been sent to monitor Earth's petroleum use, and their bosses are pretty upset. To make matters worse, their planet's government intends to eradicate the human race to stop the flow of oil.The New Orleans couple scrambles to prevent our extinction by any means they can, with a little help from their new alien friends. Couched as a terms-of-use agreement, those ever-present post-modern texts that no one reads, OILY is a playful, experimental novel on heroism, absurdity, and life from other worlds.

Oily

Woodward, Angus

IVY DAY sacrifices herself for each picture, coming back from death in one role to be resurrected for the next. IVY DAY is a movie star. IVY DAY is an icon. IVY DAY is immortal. These are the tenets of her fans, her devotees.A trio of girls' sole shared ambition is to take up her uniform, their savior's blonde hair and branded makeup, which promises beauty and grace. They treat and poke and prod themselves, ascetics of aesthetics, revealing inner and outer horrors...A quiet collector builds a shrine to IVY DAY in the back of an old video store, transfixed on reel after reel of her performances...And there is JOHN MARK. He is her newest, biggest fan. He is her champion.And he will stop at nothing to assure her immortality.

Ivy Day

Jones, Pam

Contemporary

In order to reduce crime, everyone has been implanted with a chip at birth that feeds them the identity of all other citizens of System City, making everyone immediately recognizable.Haddy knows all the darkest corners and underground hideaways of the city, maybe better than anyone. She has to as one of the city’s many outcasts--or Haydens, as they’re known in the System. It’s the same system that feeds everyone’s identity.But when Haddy crashes a car and nearly dies, her chip is fried. She no longer recognizes the people around her, not her fellow Haydens, and barely even herself. Trying to navigate with a faulty memory, she soon learns that her crash wasn’t an accident—but that somebody tried to kill her. And now she’s being stalked by three mysterious men, each looking to exploit her in some way.The resulting pursuit—and her struggle to find an identity in a world that she no longer recognizes—takes Haddy to a colony outside of the city where she learns that she is not the only one with a fried chip. Nor is she the only one in danger. Her crash is part of an epidemic brought on by a much larger conspiracy, one that reaches far deeper than the mind.

REMIND

Shemkovitz, Greg

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