Books by Ashley Shelby
Eclectic, experimental, and wildly imaginative climate fictions from a world hauntingly transformed. The visionary new story collection from Ashley Shelby
Ashley Shelby's critically acclaimed comic novel of Antarctica, South Pole Station, has been reissued with a vibrant new jacket.
Based on critically acclaimed author and former Big Five acquiring editor Ashley Shelby’s popular online course of the same name, Book Proposal Boot Camp (If You Want to Write #1) is a short, practical, and engaging guide that will get you from idea to proposal in eight steps, or “assignments,” which form all the elements of a professional book proposal.
After a generations-long mass extinction leaves humanity starving and unaware that animals ever existed, the vertical farms of Third Chance Nutrient Solutions have become the world’s primary food provider. But the company is cultivating more than produce.
The firm’s Archivist, the only employee who remembers the true history behind the collapse of Earth’s animal kingdom, discovers a secret plan to resurrect extinct species and restart the brutal cycle of exploitation that once drove them to extinction.
Determined to prevent humanity from repeating its darkest mistake, he risks everything to destroy the project before animals return to a world that already failed them.
Vanishing World Books
Powerful systems are often more fragile than they appear, especially when ordinary people refuse to comply.
First produced by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in 1944, the Simple Sabotage Field Manual was designed to help citizens living under authoritarian occupation quietly disrupt the machinery of control. Rather than advocating dramatic acts of destruction, the manual focused on something far more subtle: everyday inefficiency, delay, miscommunication, and bureaucratic chaos.
Declassified by the CIA in 2008, the document quickly became one of the most fascinating artifacts of twentieth-century resistance strategy. Its authors (anonymous federal employees working during World War II ) understood something fundamental about power: complex systems depend on cooperation, routine, and obedience. When those habits break down, even the most powerful institutions can begin to falter.
This annotated edition republishes the original OSS text alongside commentary that places its tactics within their historical context while inviting readers to consider their surprising relevance today. From sowing confusion in meetings to slowing production through procedural obstacles, the manual’s strategies reveal how small acts of intentional noncompliance can ripple through large systems.
At a moment when authoritarian tendencies are again rising around the world, the Annotated Simple Sabotage Field Manual offers both a historical document and a provocation. It’s a reminder that resistance does not always have to be loud or violent.
Note: this is an e-book
