The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts
by Douglas Adams | 
Galapagos
by Kurt Vonnegut | 
The Illustrated Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams | 
Redshirts
by John Scalzi | 
Wasp
by Eric Frank Russell | 
What Mad Universe
by Fredric Brown | 
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
by Charles Yu | 
All Seated on the Ground
by Connie Willis | 
Shambling Towards Hiroshima
by James Morrow | 
Venus on the Half-Shell
by Kilgore Trout | 
Mindswap
by Robert Sheckley | 
How to Survive a Sharknado
by Andrew Shaffer | 
Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers
by Harry Harrison | 
Colony
by Rob Grant | 
The Road to Mars
by Eric Idle | 
The Makeshift Rocket
by Poul Anderson | 
The Machine Doctor
by Peter Burnett | 
Memoirs Found in a Bathtub
by Stanislaw Lem | 
Player Piano
by Kurt Vonnegut | 
Making History
by Stephen Fry |
Is this what's in store? June 12, 2030 started out like any other day in memory - and by then, memories were long. Since cancer had been cured fifteen years before, America's population was aging rapidly. That sounds like good news, but consider this: millions of baby boomers, with a big natural predator picked off, were sucking dry benefits and resources that were never meant to hold them into their eighties and beyond. Young people around the country simmered with resentment toward "the olds" and anger at the treadmill they could never get off of just to maintain their parents' entitlement programs. But on that June 12th, everything changed: a massive earthquake devastated Los Angeles, and the government, always teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, was unable to respond. The fallout from the earthquake sets in motion a sweeping novel of ideas that pits national hope for the future against assurances from the past and is peopled by a memorable cast of refugees and billionaires, presidents and revolutionaries, all struggling to find their way.