Nicky Drayden Books in Order

Four very short science fiction tales bring together a casino-running shapeshifter, suburban robots, punk space rhinos, and an alien restroom mystery. Each story takes a strange premise seriously enough to make the joke land.

This compact fantasy-horror collection visits a demon buried in hellish bureaucracy, a dragon seeking approval, a hellhound in need of a home, and a werewolf testing online dating. The tone is playful, macabre, and quick.

A lonely zombie looks for romance, a mother’s devotion takes an unusual shape, a teacher protects her students, and a cruise director faces temptation across time. These short pieces give love a strange, sometimes unsettling twist.

Four offbeat stories follow a washed-up pirate, a worried mother, frightened people at the end of the world, and a peach farmer with suspicious plants. Everyday frustrations become strange problems with sharp comic turns.

A restaurant customer, two drunken wizards, a boy with an unusual smoking problem, and a shy teen facing a giant anchor this quick collection. These fantasy pieces mix awkwardness, danger, and dark humor.

Three darkly comic tales put family ties under pressure. Sisters dodge tentacled aliens, a new mother builds a nursery at a painful cost, and a gold digger discovers that an antimatter engagement ring has consequences.

This larger collection gathers earlier tales with new material, from outer-space gator farming and zombie retail to mobster plants and a destructive young dragon. It is a lively sampler of Drayden’s early, weirdly comic fiction.

This linked flash-fiction collection imagines tomorrow through practical advice about careers, property, investing, reproduction, retirement, and even Earth’s destruction. Drayden turns the language of planning into dry, unsettling future comedy.

Four science fiction stories follow workers tending a troubled living ship, an alien competing in an Earth triathlon, a man chasing an anniversary gift, and a translator facing first contact. Each begins oddly and gets stranger.

In a near-future South Africa, a hallucinogenic drug awakens dangerous powers while robots gain awareness and an angry demigoddess plots revenge. Several unlikely allies must confront threats that could remake their world.

In an alternate Cape Town, twin brothers Auben and Kasim are judged by the vices marked on their bodies. When ancient forces begin speaking through them, their strained bond and their society’s rules face a violent test.

Seske, heir to a spacefaring community, and Adalla, a worker inside its living ship, uncover the brutal cost of their society’s survival. Their friendship and loyalties are tested as the creature carrying them begins to fail.

Young inventor Efi Oladele builds the robot Orisa after Doomfist attacks Numbani’s defenses. As danger threatens the city’s human and omnic residents, Efi must teach her new creation what it means to protect people.

Three years after *Escaping Exodus*, Doka Kaleigh struggles to lead a divided community aboard the Zenzee Parados I. Refugees, political enemies, and long-hidden truths force Seske and Doka to fight for a less destructive future.

Potion-maker Zetta finds and accidentally hatches a dragon egg while illagers threaten her desert village. With help from friends and family, she must raise the growing creature before it becomes another danger to Sienna Dunes.