Jack's Books Canvas Photo Tile

All you need to avoid the boredom of an overnight gas station shift is a good book. And possibly earplugs. The books without authors are titles invented from descriptions. The ones with authors are books that exist that resembled the plots described. From Tales From the Gas Station. Thank you to QFaboo from Reddit! 1. Robots on the moon – Software by Rudy Rucker 2. Senorita Kitsune, a gender bent modern retelling of Hamlet with fox people 3. Novella about dinosaur werewolves – Jurassic Claw 4. Mad scientist who makes an army of giant ants – The Colony by A. J. Colucci 5. Space opera based loosely on Animal Farm - The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein 6. Time traveling pirates - The Girl from Everywhere Heidi Heilig 7. treasure-hunting conman who teams up with a disgraced but beautiful former district attorney - Gavel and Grift 8. campy sci-fi drama about space cowboys - Santiago: A Myth of the Far Future by Mike Resnick 9. cake decorator who gets in too deep with the Yakuza - Whisked into Organized Crime 10. French sci-fi political thriller about a scientist who clones Napoleon Bonaparte ninety-six times and raises the army of French commanders on an isolated island so he can take over the world - The Clone Who Would Be Emperor 11. android ninjas - Sakura: Intellectual Property by Patrick Tracy and Paul Genesse 12. Of Minds and Reality: Paradigm Paralysis in the Field of Psychology and What Answers May Lie Within Metaphysics, Philosophy... by Dr. Bernstain 13. modern retelling of the Greek legend of Orpheus, except the main character was a gun-toting white Pomeranian whose owner was murdered by a mugger after leaving the opera. The dog builds a portal and travels to the underworld to rescue his late master from the minions of death. “Snowball’s Chance in Hell” was a fascinating exploration of the depths of grief and emotional suffering surrounding the loss of a loved one 14. rock monsters – Rough Magick by Kenny Soward 15. astronaut that falls in love with a moon woman - Maza of the Moon by Otis Adelbert Kline 16. shipwreck survivor on an island inhabited by fish people - Tales from the Tidal Abyss 17. Far off year 2018; accurate but optimistic, ended with robots killing all the humans - Humans Not Included 18. paperback Western about a corrupt mayor in a frontier railroad town - Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey 19. suspense thriller about a serial killer who only targets clowns – Kill Giggles by Jaysen Buterin (adapted from the movie) 20. kaiju that falls in love with a giant robot and attacks cities just to get his attention - Attack of the Lovestruck Kaiju 21. graphic novel about a crime-fighting octopus – Sherlocktopus Holmes 22. elderly superhero with dementia – Muscle Memory 23. young adult urban fantasy about a female teenage hacker who was also a vampire – CRLT ALT BITE 24. mystery thriller about a psychic detective and his ghost girlfriend who solve crimes together from across the great divide - Dead Men Tell Tall Tales 25. horror novel about a giant alligator that terrorizes the same family for twenty years - Swamp Shadows: A Family’s Nightmare 26. space dragons – Dragons in the Stars by Jeffrey A. Carver 27. fantasy-themed murder mystery about an Orc detective and his Elven sidekick - A Stab in the Dark Arts 28. Vampire penguins - Black and White and Red All Over