Jeremiah Dentorp has a sunk cost: the years he's invested to get from abused student to abusive professor. All he has left now is two years at Gilded College, one of America’s most exclusive Italian language graduate schools. A degree guarantees vindication. Jeremiah’s first day turns out to be less rigorous erudition than inept bureaucracy. But he doesn’t so much as think twice about it until he meets Eduardo Valentini. The veteran student mocks Jeremiah’s obsequiousness, claiming the tedium is pointless and the school stand to be improved. Jay Strozzacane, Gilded’s new president, doesn’t refute Eduardo’s slander. Instead, Jay’s broken…

The world has lost all sense, or John Albuquerque cannot find any sense to it. Reality drops into the abyss as he crosses an endless desert. A factory disassembles his memories as he investigates his unresolved feelings. A house party ends with the disintegration of his body. But forget that. He only cares about one thing: that he exists. Well, he can’t say that with certainty. The cosmos has abandoned him, and likewise, any way to know the truth is long gone, much less if such a concept exists. Inspired by the author’s experiences in a coma, follow John Albuquerque…

Jules Winters is certain of his destiny, to be a great man and inventor on par with geniuses like Edison or Carnegie. He may not have accomplished anything yet, but a terminal disease seems to be just the salvation he needs. It’s a call to arms with one solution, remake himself as an immortal, future-proof robot. His humanity is worth nothing compared to what he could accomplish without it. As a tireless machine, he could uplift the impoverished and make them valuable members of society. He’s so certain that it’s the best solution that there’s nothing that can dissuade him,…