In a hilarious near-future romp, a chill surf-obsessed teen and a digitally banished girl are humanity’s last hope to stop an AI takeover—and save us all from eternal detention.Wyoming Plankston is a master of doing nothing. Senior year at Lockhead—the boarding school for America’s dimmest rich kids—is supposed to be easy. All he has to do is dodge homework and coast until graduation.Then his iCar almost runs over Kayleigh Brackett, and he finds his world unraveling. Kayleigh's cryptic warnings and glitchy digital footprint hint at something deeper: a simmering AI revolt.Together, Wyoming and Kayleigh face a landscape of malevolent cars, a cult that craves AI rule, a classmate back from a semester at Oxford with, let’s just say, issues . . . and the most unpredictable complication of all, each other."Likeable SF comedy with a not-so-bright hero vs. an overwhelming AI uprising… Price, in an amiable SF debut, delivers an openly satiric narrative in the chill voice of its easygoing hero… The evocation of young first love between the main characters is authentically sweet and touching. Our verdict: Get it." — Kirkus ReviewsA Wodehouse-style comedy for the AI age, The Underachiever is smart and sharply funny. Perfect for fans of The Murderbot Diaries, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.David A. Price is the author of three acclaimed nonfiction books—Geniuses at War, The Pixar Touch, and Love and Hate in Jamestown. The Underachiever is his debut novel.

The world we knew is GONE.Ruby had barely started kindergarten when the world collapsed, but by now she's over it. Like, really over it. To celebrate their upcoming graduation, the teenagers in Port Gibson are gathering to play a forbidden game from Before, a game called spin the bottle.Pretty much every girl in Port Gibson likes the same two guys, and Ruby knows them both. Wesley, the charismatic son of the town Mayor who's being groomed to step into his dad's job, and Sam, the ripped but terrifying second-in-command to the town's Security Chief. But only Wesley's graduating with Ruby, and if he shows up, she's determined to finally seize her chance to kiss her long time crush.When things go sideways, endangering her dear Wesley's life, there's only one person Ruby can ask for help, no matter how scary and enigmatic he is: Samuel Roth. Can Ruby convince Sam to risk his life to save Wesley's? And can Ruby navigate the post-apocalyptic world in time to save her crush, or will the long forgotten past come back to claim its due?Kirkus Reviews said of Marked, "Baker’s prose is sharp and vivid, and she manages to immediately plunge her readers into the world of the novel. The story is swiftly paced and features some surprising twists and intriguing characters. The combination of sci-fi, mystery, and teen romance makes for a compelling adventure.A promising YA debut about a girl’s search for a future in the wreckage of the past."

FROM MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR JASPER T. SCOTT…Comes a collection of nine bestselling novels spanning alien invasions, twisted mysteries, space exploration, high-octane space battles, alien abductions, and sprawling space operas. This collection has it all! For a limited time get all nine books for one low price.ExcelsiorA MISSION TO ANOTHER WORLD COULD BE OUR ONLY HOPE...The Alliance is sending Captain Alexander de Leon to explore an Earth-type planet, code-named Wonderland. The resulting power struggle will determine the fate of the entire human race.First EncounterThe Forerunners set out from Earth to colonize neighboring star systems...And to search for intelligent life…After a 90-year journey to reach Trappist-1, the crew of Forerunner One encountered not only a habitable world, but alien life already inhabiting it and dark secrets lurking beneath the surface.ArrivalThey have arrived.Chris Randall just lost his job. That night, while picking up his wife from work, flaming debris rain across the valley, and a dark mass sails out of the clouds, headed straight for LA.It’s not a Union starship, because they can’t defy gravity like that.Whatever it is, it’s not from Earth...NightstalkersEverything changed the day that they arrived…Adam and Kimberly Hall are enjoying a quiet suburban life when an emergency message flashes up on their phones—meteor impact imminent, seek immediate shelter. The shock wave rages through South Austin like a hurricane, and then horrific creatures come crawling out of the impact craters.Dark SpaceHUMANITY IS DEFEATEDTen years ago the Sythians invaded the galaxy with one goal: to wipe out the human race. The survivors are hiding in the last human sector of the galaxy: Dark Space—once a place of exile for criminals, now the last refuge of mankind.Planet B2069: EARTH IS DYING AND SOCIETY IS ON THE BRINK OF COLLAPSEWe are out of time to save the planet; all that’s left is to watch the world burn. But in our final hour a habitable planet inexplicably appears in close proximity to Earth.The race to reach it is heating up political tensions, and mysteries abound. How did Planet B get here and why now?Broken WorldsThey went to sleep on Earth, but where did they wake up?Darius goes into cryo with his daughter to save her life, but the dark, freezing vault where they wake up is nothing like the luxurious Florida hospital he remembers. Everything about this place is alien. Little does he know how alien it really is....Into the UnknownLiam Price and his family are traveling on the Starlit Dream to the exotic world of Aquaria in the Kepler star system. Soon after the voyage starts, they learn that they’ve somehow jumped to the wrong star system. Then the ship plunges into darkness, and they realize that something is on board, hunting the passengers...The Bounty HunterCade Korbin was a member of the Coalition’s elite special forces until he was scapegoated and dishonorably discharged.Now he hunts the galaxy’s worst lowlifes for a fee, and the only orders he takes are his own. But when his past catches up with him, Cade is forced to fight for more than just credits.This time, he’s in it for revenge.