​Attack on Boredom Coming April 2025

Prepare to have your boredom destroyed by this eclectic collection of twenty exciting stories that delve into the science fiction and fantasy genres. L. B. Spillers has brought together his best published short stories for this collection. Combining works published in ParSec, Abyss & Apex, Deep Magic, Dark Moon Digest, and others with new works, he has delivered a wildly entertaining collection of stories that is sure to entertain adult audiences.

Readers will find everything from well-meaning AIs gone awry to a playful, demonic English Bulldog that is a little too eager to help thin out the human herd. Some of his extraterrestrials strive to save Earth from its environmental mismanagement while others are ready to carve the planet up for resources. His Artificial Intelligence stories put new spins on what that powerful emerging technology might mean for everything from birth control to the future of blue-collar work.  There are gripping thrillers as well as thoughtful explorations of the technological future. The sheer range and variety of these stories will amaze readers as they are taken on a twenty-stop tour through the near future.

Art by Pete Linforth