Alan Lennox and the Temp Job of Doom (The Future Next Door Book 1)

Alan Lennox and the Temp Job of Doom (The Future Next Door Book 1)

Brian Olsen

Science Fiction / Fantasy / Gay and Lesbian

Alan Lennox and the Temp Job of Doom Alan Lennox has been assigned yet another soul-crushing temp job, keeping him from his first loves – drinking, playing video games, and looking for a boyfriend. But Alan’s new job proves to be anything but boring when his co-workers start turning up dead. The mysterious megacorporation Amalgamated Synergy has taken a deadly interest in Alan and his three roommates, and the hapless quartet are woefully unequipped to deal with the psychotic secretaries, murderous middle managers, and villainous vice-presidents hunting them down. Their investigation leads them deep into Amalgamated Synergy’s headquarters, but can Alan and his friends stay alive long enough to discover who – or what – waits for them on the top floor? Alan Lennox and the Temp Job of Doom is the first book of The Future Next Door, a contemporary urban science fiction comedic thriller series in four parts. Book One: Alan Lennox and the Temp Job of Doom Book Two: Caitlin Ross and the Commute from Hell Book Three: Mark Park and the Flume of Destiny Book Four: Dakota Bell and the Wastes of Time
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The Floating Room

The Floating Room

Brian Olsen

Science Fiction / Fantasy / Gay and Lesbian

The Common King stands revealed... Chris and his friends have a new mission: rescue the magical creatures who were wrongly imprisoned. Their quest will take them across an ocean and back again, all the while hunted by two factions of logomancers. Formerly trusted teachers. An old friend. His own mother. And a new enemy, the Nightmare Queen, who visits Chris nightly with visions of the Common King’s crimes. Chris will need to draw on even greater power to protect his friends and rescue the magical creatures from the world before, but every step towards mastering his logomancy is another step closer to the evil that waits inside his mind. Inside the floating room.
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The Dystopia Spell (Multiverse Mashup Book 1)

The Dystopia Spell (Multiverse Mashup Book 1)

Brian Olsen

Science Fiction / Fantasy / Gay and Lesbian

Are your swashbuckling pirates battling killer robots? Is a masked slasher lurking in your cozy mystery? Does your space opera have too little space and too much opera? When genres collide, Jed is there to pick up the pieces…and have a whole lot of fun in the process. Jed Ryland is an agent of the Crossroads, always on watch for incompatible universes smashing together. This time out, a dystopian society where teens are forced to battle for their lives is invaded by monsters from a sword-and-sorcery fantasy realm. Jed’s mission: keep the teens alive, repel the invasion, topple the oppressive government, locate the artifact pulling the worlds together, and prevent the utter destruction of both universes. Piece of cake.
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Night of the Living Date (Multiverse Mashup Book 2)

Night of the Living Date (Multiverse Mashup Book 2)

Brian Olsen

Science Fiction / Fantasy / Gay and Lesbian

Jane is a busy baker making time for romance, but a meet-cute with the man of her dreams goes slightly awry when he’s eaten by a rampaging horde of zombies from a parallel universe. Jed is a wisecracking hero, patrolling the multiverse and saving the day when worlds collide. Bloodthirsty ghouls invading a planet of love and light slapstick? Jed’s who you want at your side. But Jane is worried more about love and cake than some pesky zombie apocalypse. To save this leading lady’s life, Jed will take her away from the safety of romance and comedy, into a nightmare of flesh-eating undead. Will Jane learn there’s more to life than love before her innocence is devoured? Night of the Living Date is the second book in Brian Olsen’s Multiverse Mashup, a series of fast-paced genre-smashing adventures that began with The Dystopia Spell.
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The Future Next Door Boxed Set

The Future Next Door Boxed Set

Brian Olsen

Science Fiction / Fantasy / Gay and Lesbian

The Future Next Door Alan, Caitlin, Mark and Dakota are four ordinary twentysomethings making their way in New York City – they’re just trying to have a little fun, pay the bills, and maybe figure out what to do with their lives. But an encounter with a murderous megacorporation begins a journey into a world of danger. The future’s come early for these four friends – can they survive mind-controlled office drones, deadly amusement parks, and tears in the fabric of space and time, while still managing to find love, chase their dreams, and save the world? The Future Next Door is a contemporary urban science fiction comedic thriller series in four parts. Book One: Alan Lennox and the Temp Job of Doom Book Two: Caitlin Ross and the Commute from Hell Book Three: Mark Park and the Flume of Destiny Book Four: Dakota Bell and the Wastes of Time
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The Common King

The Common King

Brian Olsen

Science Fiction / Fantasy / Gay and Lesbian

Evil has returned… Chris failed to prevent the Common King’s resurrection, and now the most powerful logomancer the world has ever known is back, gathering his followers and plotting to regain his throne. Only a handful of Chris’s friends remain to oppose the evil tyrant. They hatch a desperate plan, taking them across the world in search of new allies and new magic. One problem – they can’t win without Chris. And Chris is lost forever. The Common King is here. And this world will burn… The Common King is the third and final book in Brian Olsen’s Yesterday’s Magic, a young adult contemporary fantasy series that began with The Sudden World and continued with The Floating Room.
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Dance: Ten; Charisma: Three

Dance: Ten; Charisma: Three

Brian Olsen

Science Fiction / Fantasy / Gay and Lesbian

Dance: Ten; Charisma: Three After his first Broadway show flops, chorus boy Ewen gets blackout drunk at the closing night party and wakes up in another world. Anthem is a cutthroat realm of sword and sorcery which inexplicably operates according to the rules of a role-playing game. Unfortunately for Ewen, he never played those kinds of games, and has no idea what a “character sheet” is or why he should care about it. On Anthem, Ewen is one of a legendary, long-extinct class of adventurers called Descended. He’s also a bit self-centered and completely unsuited to the heroic role this strange world has cast him in. This acting/singing/dancing triple threat just wants to find his way home before his agent drops him and his musical theater career flatlines, but the mysterious deity who runs the world has other plans. Like it or not, Ewen must learn to play this game of life and death, for the future of everyone on Anthem is at stake… Dance: Ten; Charisma: Three is the first book in Songs of Anthem, a comedic fantasy litRPG adventure series.
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How to Kill a Vampire in Outer Space

How to Kill a Vampire in Outer Space

Brian Olsen

Science Fiction / Fantasy / Gay and Lesbian

Jed Ryland is an agent of the Crossroads, patrolling the multiverse and saving the day when worlds collide. Swashbuckling pirates battling murderous robots? A slasher killer in a cozy mystery? Martians invading a land before time? Jed’s who you want at your side. A starship from the Galactic Union is on a routine mission to evacuate refugees from a doomed colony when a glitch in their transport technology links their universe to another, where a young woman defends her world against the evil forces of the supernatural – evil forces that waste no time in invading this strange new realm. The starship captain doesn’t believe in the undead, the monster hunter thinks lasers are nerd toys, and the vampires are draining the crew dry. It’s up to Jed to step in and save the day! But in a universe governed by science, how do you kill a creature of magic? How to Kill a Vampire in Outer Space is a stand-alone, 12,000 word novelette in Brian Olsen’s Multiverse Mashup, a series of fast-paced genre-smashing adventures that begins with The Dystopia Spell and continues in Night of the Living Date and The Case of the Empty Throne.
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Alan Lennox and the Temp Job of Doom

Alan Lennox and the Temp Job of Doom

Brian Olsen

Science Fiction / Fantasy / Gay and Lesbian

Alan Lennox and the Temp Job of Doom Alan Lennox has been assigned yet another soul-crushing temp job, keeping him from his first loves – drinking, playing video games, and looking for a boyfriend. But Alan’s new job proves to be anything but boring when his co-workers start turning up dead. The mysterious megacorporation Amalgamated Synergy has taken a deadly interest in Alan and his three roommates, and the hapless quartet are woefully unequipped to deal with the psychotic secretaries, murderous middle managers, and villainous vice-presidents hunting them down. Their investigation leads them deep into Amalgamated Synergy’s headquarters, but can Alan and his friends stay alive long enough to discover who – or what – waits for them on the top floor? Alan Lennox and the Temp Job of Doom is the first book of The Future Next Door, a contemporary urban science fiction comedic thriller series in four parts. Book One: Alan Lennox and the Temp Job of Doom Book Two: Caitlin Ross and the Commute from Hell Book Three: Mark Park and the Flume of Destiny Book Four: Dakota Bell and the Wastes of Time
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