Fourth Wedding, Guess the Dress Color

A woman who had been married three times walked into a bridal shop and told the sales clerk that she was looking for a wedding gown for her fourth wedding.

"Of course, madam," replied the sales clerk, "exactly what type and color dress are you looking for?"

The bride-to-be said, "A long frilly white dress with a veil."

"Please don't take this the wrong way, madam, but such dresses are usually more fitting for the first time bride who is more innocent in the ways of life, if you get my meaning."


"WELL!", replied the customer, a little peeved at the clerk's directness. "I can assure you that a white gown would be quite appropriate. Believe it or not, despite all my marriages, I remain as innocent as a first-time bride.

You see, my first husband was so excited about our wedding, he had a heart attack due to an unknown congenital condition as we were checking into our honeymoon hotel.

My second husband and I got into such a terrible fight in the limo on our way to our honeymoon hotel that we had that wedding annulled immediately and never spoke to each other again."

"What about your third husband?"

"That one was a Democrat," said the woman, "and every night for four years, he just sat on the edge of the bed and told me how good it was going to be, but nothing ever happened."

ReV by Madeline Ashby

The long-awaited third book in the acclaimed Machine Dynasty series

The rapture for which the vN, self-replicating humanoids, were engineered, has finally come to pass. Now that the failsafe that once kept vN from harming humans has been hacked, all vN are discovering the promise – and the peril – of free will.

With her consciousness unleashed across computer systems all across the world, the vicious vN Portia stands poised to finally achieve her lifelong dream of bringing humanity to its knees. The old battle between her and her granddaughter Amy comes to an epic conclusion in the war for the very systems that keeps the planet running. Can Amy get her family to the stars before Portia destroys every opportunity for escape and freedom?

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Red Noise by John P. Murphy

Call her Jane if you need a name.

Just remember: She's not here to make friends.

Broke and out of fuel, a wildcat asteroid miner comes to Station 35 looking to sell her cargo and get back to the life of solitude that she craves. Instead, the cheating thieves who run the place leave her deep in debt.

Desperate to get away, she finds herself swept up in a three-way standoff between gangs and crooked cops. Faced with the decision to take sides or clean out the Augean Stables, she breaks out the grenades...

"Stylish, funny, action-packed, cinematic, Red Noise is the gravity-defying, bullet-lasering, Yojimbo-in-space you've been waiting for!" - Ken Liu, award-winning author of The Grace of Kings.

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The Machine Dynasty Omnibus by Madeline Ashby

The Machine Dynasty Omnibus by Madeline Ashby

For the first time, the complete epic sci-fi masterwork from the visionary mind of Madeline Ashby is collected in a single digital omnibus!​

The Machine Dynasty Omnibus includes the complete text of vN, iD, and ReV, as well as an exclusive foreword from Patrick Thaddeus Jackson, and an introduction from Anne Lauppe-Dunbar.

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Triumff by Dan Abnett

Vivat Regina!

It is the year 2010, and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth XXX sits upon the throne of the Anglo-Hispanic Empire. Fuelled by alchemy and superstition, the Elizabethan era has endured unchallenged for almost 450 years. But now, a shadowy conspiracy threatens to bring it to a violent end…

Unfortunately for roguish adventurer Sir Rupert Triumff, lately fallen from favour at court, he makes the perfect scapegoat. If Triumff is to uncover the plot, save the Queen, and clear his name, he’ll need all his wit, skill, and charm, and every tool in his magical Swiss Army Knife. Even the nail buffer.

From the madcap mind of multi-million bestselling author Dan Abnett comes a furious maelstrom of incredible swordfights, wild invention, and truly awful puns.

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Bystander 27 by Rik Hoskin

Who will save you from the heroes?

For ex-Navy SEAL Jon Hayes, the super-powered ‘costumes’ are just part of ordinary life in New York City, until the day his pregnant wife Melanie is senselessly killed in a clash between Captain Light and The Jade Shade.

But as Hayes struggles to come to terms with his loss, and questions for the first time who the costumes are and where they come from, the once sharp lines of his reality begin to blur…If Hayes wants to uncover the shocking truth about the figures behind the costumes, and get justice for his fallen family, he’ll have to step out of the background, and stop being a bystander.

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