A private eye plagued by hallucinations is hired to retrieve a mummified monk's head stolen from a cathedral—but why would someone want it?At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

From the science fiction author of Annex and Tomorrow Factory comes Rich Larson's stunning short story, Painless—a Tor.com Original.A man who can't feel pain has been bioengineered to be a killing machine, but he refuses to give in to his fate.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A gripping, far-future retelling of Beowulf from an award-winning author, perfect for fans of Richard K. Morgan. Yorick never wanted to see his homeworld again. Thirty years later, he finds himself sent back to the icy mining colony as a company man—and he can't leave this frozen rock in the dust until he neutralizes the threat. A vicious, long-forgotten machine has newly thawed from the ice, and it seems to have a mind of its own. But as Yorick plumbs the depths of of the mines and his own past, he finds a tangled conspiracy that's much more than he bargained for—and its source is closer to home than he ever could have guessed.

A two-person crew embark on a mind-bending deep space mission inside a living wormship capable of burrowing through space. What lies on the other end is unknown—as is what they will do once they get there.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

When an illicit trade deal goes wrong and Quandary is blamed for it, she goes on the run to avoid the crosshairs of a bioengineered killer that only lives for 24 hours. If Q can evade it for that long, she just might survive.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Misunderstanding threatens a commune whose survival is dependent on precise communication with another species...At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Issue #187 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Rich Larson and Jason S. Ridler.

A dark, fast-moving novelette, Rich Larson's "How Quini the Squid Misplaced His Klobucar," is a Tor.com original short story about a high-tech heist in future Spain, planned by a professional thief who's interested in revenge more than money. The object in question is in the hands of a dangerous crime lord.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Thirty ultra-short science fiction stories from Rich Larson, award-winning author of Ymir, Annex, and Tomorrow Factory. The Sky Didn't Load Today and Other Glitches collects the best of Rich Larson's flash fiction, stories told in a thousand words or less, into a fusillade of futures. Within these pages, you'll journey from a biolab bunker under the earth to a fungi forest on an alien planet, from possible tomorrows to the heat death of the universe. You'll encounter emulated minds, rented bodies, hijinks in deep space and eldritch horror at the seaside. Thirty new worlds await inside The Sky Didn't Load Today and Other Glitches. Just be careful: reality is not what it seems, and some glitches are more dangerous than others.

Dark Warm Heart by Rich Larson is a horror story about a woman whose husband returns from the frozen Canadian North Territories, obsessed with texts he discovered there.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Welcome to the Tomorrow Factory. On your left, post-human hedonists on a distant space station bring diseases back in fashion, two scavengers find a super-powered parasite under the waves of Sunk Seattle, and a terminally-ill chemist orchestrates an asteroid prison break. On your right, an alien optometrist spins illusions for irradiated survivors of the apocalypse, a high-tech grifter meets his match in near-future Thailand, and two teens use a blackmarket personality mod to get into the year's wickedest, wildest party. This collection of published and original fiction by award-winning writer Rich Larson will bring you from a Bujumbura cyberpunk junkyard to the icy depths of Europa, from the slick streets of future-noir Chicago to a tropical island of sapient robots. You'll explore a mysterious ghost ship in deep space, meet an android learning to dream, and fend off predatory alien fungi on a combat mission gone wrong. Twenty-four futures, ranging from grimy...

In Rich Larson's astonishing debut Annex, only outsiders can fight off the true aliens.At first it is a nightmare. When the invaders arrive, the world as they know it is destroyed. Their friends are kidnapped. Their families are changed.Then it is a dream. With no adults left to run things, Violet and the others who have escaped capture are truly free for the first time. They can do whatever they want to do. They can be whoever they want to be. But the invaders won't leave them alone for long...This thrilling debut by one of the most acclaimed short form writers in science fiction tells the story of two young outsiders who must find a way to fight back against the aliens who have taken over her city.

Futuristic murder mystery about detective partners—a human and an enhanced chimpanzee—who are investigating why a woman murderd an apparently random stranger on the subway.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

"Our King and His Court" by Rich Larson is a futuristic story about a high-ranking soldier in a criminal gang who has conflicting loyalties to his monstrous boss and that boss's innocent young son.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.