Nicholas Stillman: 54 books

Documentary filmmakers Ned and Alan race from their vane, attention-whoring society...into one that might kill them. Fleeing the bombardment of social pressure, the two can only cool off in a humble desert town called Mallawah, a place so blistering hot the women alone might push them to fever and...

The future dystopias have 3D printers that can build almost anything. But when an industrial-sized printer gets taken over by a vengeful hermit like Neil, you can forget about “almost.” He lives among the sprawling rundown factories, all abandoned by an ever-corrupt society. This gives Neil the...

Has your boss ever paid you extra to put lights and cameras in a woman's underwear? Nathan's has. In his noirish new job, Nathan, a lowly disgruntled security guard, plants cam panties full-time. He will only find redemption through one deed: killing his boss, of course. For one day of blissful...

Since the death of his mother via medical error, eight-year-old Ian has solved every puzzle put in his hands. The boy and his father, Lee, phase into near-autistic cerebral landscapes to escape their disturbing reality: a health system no one can escape.   The medical dystopia...

Treat yourself to seven new medical horrors as societies and sanity break down: “Alone Enough” A paranoid boyfriend scans his lover’s cells to detect trust in a dating dystopia. “The Coming Pain” As the world prepares for a plague, a teenage thief must steal the...

Staid city man Blake meets the perfect country girl, Erin, who can finally liven his routine life. A spontaneous country romance ensues. But Blake soon gets entangled in a drug pandemic sedating the countryside. The young only wish to sleep now, despite society's use of robots to rouse them. Erin's...

Wade gets his advice on women from his older brother, Aaron—the most famous and farthest-reaching astronaut ever. But not even family fame and cosmic chat can save Wade from the threat that could ruin his first date—his loser DNA. As a balding accountant, Wade confronts his hotshot space-faring...

An alien time bomb set to destroy Earth appears in Alvin's humble garden. Alvin doesn't care. Hordes of government officials can't make him care, and the baseball-sized bomb looks great by his cabbage. Alvin, a hermitical physics TA, happens to like baseball. And when irascible agents mess with his...

Discover a new brand of romance in the Barrens series with seven more stories of danger, desperation, and survival: “Silken Slippers” Two lunarian surveyors must stop the Moon’s journey in a heist to save their space-faring population. “Tougher Than Us” On a newly...

Will humankind cripple its quest for the stars in exchange for comfort? In this high-orbit dystopia, patients have moved to space stations for a micro-g mattress upgrade. They drift in oblivion amid the crowded station hallways, pampered by stargazers suckered into brutal contract work. Jay, the one...

Zane just entered a dying city of party animals who all need his liver to survive, and he only brought eight bullets. The astute young man wanted to prove himself by exploring a land of r-strategists—a hedonistic society of wastrels who die by 35 from alcoholism. But when crude organ transplants...

Explore the bright minds who struggle in the nightmarish societies of the near future: “Mr. Frugal” After botching a casino heist, the biggest cheapskate in the world must escape the mafia by becoming even less noticeable. “Timelock” While time traveling, a humble...

A crumbling society leaves its infrastructure to rot, and the death toll doesn’t matter. The rejects and failures of an entire city gather on a derelict bridge to quicken its collapse. Some of these “bridgers” cross for the frugality of free passage. Others seek a last chance at excitement. Steve,...

A prodigal Earth undergoes an economic meltdown just as man makes his first orbit of Mars. The crew of Heartbeat, a medically equipped spacecraft, grow decadent after a corrupt Mission Control postpones their glory. With humanity bilked out of its greatest achievement, the enterprising crew begins...