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Joe Abercrombie | The Blade Itself
Murderous conspiracies rise to the surface, old scores are ready to be settled, and the line between hero and villain is sharp enough to draw blood. Unpredictable, compelling, wickedly funny, and packed with unforgettable characters, The Blade Itself is noir fantasy with a real cutting edge.
Joe Abercrombie |Before They Are Hanged
In this highly anticipated second book in Joe Abercrombie's bestselling series, the most hated woman in the South, the most feared man in the North, and the most selfish boy in the Union make a strange alliance, but a deadly one. They might even stand a chance of saving mankind from the Eaters—if they didn’t hate each other quite so much. Ancient secrets will be uncovered. Bloody battles will be won and lost. Bitter enemies will be forgiven—but not before they are hanged.
Joe Abercrombie | Last Argument of Kings
The end is coming. The king of the Union lies on his deathbed, the peasants revolt, and the nobles scramble to steal his crown. No one believes that the shadow of war is about to fall across the heart of the Union. Only the First of the Magi can save the world, but there are risks. There is no risk more terrible, than to break the First Law...
Lou Anders | Fast Forward 1
Fast Forward is offered in the tradition of Damon Knight’s prestigious and influential anthology series, Orbit, and Frederik Pohl’s landmark Star SF. Fast Forward marks the start of a new hard science fiction anthology series, dedicated to presenting the vanguard of the genre and charting the undiscovered country that is the future.
Lou Anders | Fast Forward 2
When Fast Forward 1 debuted in February 2007, it was met with a huge outpouring of excitement and approbation from the science fiction community. Now the critically-acclaimed, groundbreaking series continues, featuring all new stories from some of the field's best writers: Paul Cornell,
Kay Kenyon, Chris Nakashima-Brown, Nancy Kress, Cory Doctorow and Benjamin Rosenbaum, Ian McDonald, Mike Resnick and Pat Cadigan, and more.
Fiona Avery | The Crown Rose
The story of Isabelle of France, born heir to the throne, and the mystery of one man who enters her life at several key moments, becoming her icon, her soul’s other half, and her destiny — a man, who may, in fact, be much more than an ordinary man. His bloodline goes back to the Holy Land, and he is far, far older than he appears.
Michael Blumlein, MD | The Healer
Payne is a member of a minority offshoot of humanity called Grotesques who have the ability to effect phenomenal healings. Sadly, such gifted healers live a life somewhere between that of a possession and a slave. The Healer is story of human rites and rituals seen through the eyes of an outsider, one who knows humans better, perhaps, than they know themselves.
Keith Brooke | Genetopia
The story of Flint, a young man in search of his possibly abducted sister in a far future where nano- and bio-technology have influenced and accelerated the evolution of humans and their strangely altered surroundings. To find his sister, Flint must travel through communities and wildlands no normal person would brave.
Mark Chadbourn | World's End: Age of Misrule 1
A dragon firebombs a freeway. Shape-shifters stalk the commercial district. The deadly Wild Hunt wreaks havoc on the highway. The Age of Misrule has dawned. A pedal-to-the-floor, high-octane fantasy thriller that pitches magic and wonder into a pop culture mash-up of the modern world. Described as “One part Lord of the Rings, one part Illuminatus!, one part Arthurian romance, one part Harry Potter—100 % original!”
Mark Chadbourn | Darkest Hour: Age of Misrule 2
Church, Ruth, Ryan, Laura, and Shavi have joined forces with Tom, a hero from the mists of time, to wage a guerrilla war against the iron rule of the gods. But they didn't count on things going from bad to worse ... Darkest Hour is the stunning continuation of a powerful fantasy saga by one of Britain's most acclaimed young writers.
Jack Dann | The Man Who Melted
The Man Who Melted is a warning for the future. It is the Brave New World and 1984 for our time, for it gives us a glimpse into our own future — a future ruled by corporations that control deadly and powerful forms of mass manipulation. It is a prediction of what could happen...tomorrow. The Man Who Melted has been called “one of the greatest science fiction novels of all time” by Science Fiction Age and is considered a genre classic.
Gardner Dozois | Galileo's Children: Tales of Science vs. Superstition
From the most celebrated editor in science fiction comes an anthology of stories about the persecution of scientists. Many of the best-known science fiction authors of all time are included: Robert Silverberg, Ursula K. Le Guin, Arthur C. Clarke, Mike Resnick, George R. R. Martin, and many others.
David Louis Edelman | Infoquake
This debut novel takes speculative fiction into alien territory: the corporate boardroom of the far future. It's a stunning trip through the trenches of a technological war fought with product demos, press releases, and sales pitches. As imaginative as Dune yet as real as The Wall Street Journal.
David Louis Edelman | MultiReal
The story begun in David Louis Edelman's acclaimed Infoquake continues with MultiReal, the stunning second book in the Jump 225 trilogy. Natch’s struggles take him from the halls of power in Melbourne to the ruined cities of the diss. Hanging in the balance is the fate of MultiReal, a technology that could end the tyranny of the Council forever—or give the Council the ultimate weapon of oppression.
James Enge | Blood of Ambrose
Behind the king's life stands the menacing Protector, and beyond him lies the Protector's Shadow...The ministers of the king carry on the battle, magical and mundane, against the Protector and his shadowy patron. But all their struggles will be wasted unless the young king finds the strength to rule in his own right and his own name.
Charles Coleman Finlay | The Prodigal Troll
A tale of a human child raised by a band of mythological creatures that is both hysterical and moving.
Alan Dean Foster | Sagramanda
Set in Sagramanda, city of 100 million, this is the story of Taneer, a scientist who has absconded with his multinational corporation’s secret project code and who is now on the run from both the company and his father. This fast-paced and gripping techno-thriller, set in an India just around the corner from today, features a mulitude of colorful, intriguing characters, plus a man-eating tiger. NOW ALSO AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK.
Theodore Judson | The Martian General's Daughter
Set two thousand years from now, in a world very much like Imperial Rome, this is the story of General Peter Black, the last decent man, as told through the eyes of his devoted (and illegitimate) daughter, Justa. Judson expertly conveys the SF theme once noted by Robert Charles Wilson: “No human institution, good or bad, secular or religious, cultural or technological, is fore-ordained or guaranteed to last.”
Kay Kenyon | Bright of the Sky
In a land-locked galaxy that tunnels through our own, the "Entire" is a bizarre and seductive mix of long-lived quasi-human and alien beings gathered under a sky of fire, called the bright. Into this rich milieu is thrust Titus Quinn, former star pilot. He will discover why a fearful multiverse destiny is converging on him and what he must sacrifice to oppose the coming storm. NOW ALSO AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK.
Kay Kenyon | City without End
Reviewers have called Kay Kenyon's Entire “a grand world,” “an enormous stage,” and “a bravura concept.” On this stage unfolds a mighty struggle for dominance between two universes. In the middle of it all is Titus Quinn, his estranged daughter in the fabled Rim City encircling the heart of the Entire, and the beautiful and resourceful Ji Anzi who—sent on a journey to other realms—holds the key to Quinn’s heart and his overarching mission.
Kay Kenyon | A World Too Near
Traversing the galactic distances of The Entire, former star pilot Titus Quinn discovers the secrets of its geography, its fragile storm walls, its eons-long history, and the factions that contend for dominance. One of these factions is led by his daughter, who though young and a slave, has at her command a transforming and revolutionary power. As Quinn wrestles with looming disaster, he learns that in the Entire, nothing is what it appears. Its denizens are all harboring secrets, and the greatest of these is the nature of the Entire itself. NOW ALSO AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK.
Alexis Glynn Latner | Hurricane Moon
In the late twenty-first century, Catharin Gault, an idealistic astronaut-physician, and fellow passenger-colonists go into cold suspended animation for the long journey across the stars to found a new civilzation. After a millennium, they awaken on "Planet Green," which is locked in orbit with the mysterious "Hurricane Moon." But the long stasis of the space voyage has damaged their DNA. Catharin's only hope of saving the human colony is to rely on a brilliant but untrustworthy molecular biologist.
Tom Lloyd | The Stormcaller
In a land ruled by prophecy and the whims of gods, a young man finds himself at the heart of a war he barely understands, wielding powers he may never be able to control. Isak is a white-eye, born bigger, more charismatic, and more powerful than normal men. The white-eyes were created by the gods to bring order out of chaos. The Stormcaller is the first book in a powerful new series that combines inspired world-building, epoch-shattering battles, and high emotion to dazzling effect.
Tom Lloyd | The Twilight Herald
Lord Bahl is dead and the young white-eye, Isak, stands in his place; less than a year after being plucked from obscurity and poverty the charismatic new Lord of the Farlan finds himself unprepared to deal with the attempt on his life that now spells war, and the possibility of rebellion waiting for him at home. The Twilight Herald is the second book in a powerful new series that combines inspired world-building, epic battles, and high emotion to dazzling effect.
Scott Mackay | Tides
Tells the tale of two intelligent species on the same planet, at a time in their history when they first encounter each other. Paras and Ortok are the only continents on this world, the homes to these two different species, and are separated by thousands of miles of ocean.
Ian McDonald | Brasyl
Think Bladerunner in the tropics... Be seduced, amazed, and shocked by one of the world’s greatest and strangest nations. Past, present, and future Brazil, with all its color, passion, and shifting realities, come together in a novel that is part SF, part history, part mystery, and entirely enthralling. NOW ALSO AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK.
Ian McDonald | Cyberabad Days
Cyberabad Days is a triumphant return to the India of 2047, a new, muscular superpower of one and a half billion people in an age of artificial intelligences, climate-change induced drought, water wars, strange new genders, genetically improved children that age at half the rate of baseline humanity, and a population where males outnumber females four to one. This new collection of seven stories contains one Hugo nominee and one Hugo winner, as well as a twenty-five thousand word original novella.
Ian McDonald | River of Gods
August 15, 2047: Happy Hundredth Birthday, India. Ian McDonald has written the great Indian novel of the new millennium, in which a war is fought, a love betrayed, a message from a different world decoded, as the great river Ganges flows on. The critically acclaimed hardcover edition is NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK.
John Meaney | Paradox: Book One of the Nulapeiron Sequence
In a crowded marketplace a mysterious, beautiful woman is brutally killed by a militia squad. Amongst the horrified onlookers is young Tom Corcorigan. Only the previous day she had presented him with a seemingly insignificant info-crystal. He doesn’t know it yet, but he has been given a destiny to fulfill—nothing less than the rewriting of his future, and that of his world.
John Meaney | Context: Book Two of the Nulapeiron Sequence
Sequel to the acclaimed Paradox and the second book in the Nulapeiron Sequence, Context is a thrilling, daring, and complex novel that confirms John Meaney as one of British science fiction’s most original and exciting practitioners. NOW ALSO AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK.
John Meaney | Resolution: Book Three of the Nulapeiron Sequence
The war against The Blight is over, and the subterranean realms of Nulapeiron have a chance for peace. But Tom Corcorigan, revolutionary and war hero, knows that a greater force threatens his world: the planet-consuming Anomaly, an evil far more powerful than its offspring Blight. The Nulapeiron Sequence concludes in a triumphant climax, revealing the devastating secret of the Oracles' creation. NOW ALSO AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK.
John Meaney | To Hold Infinity
Devastated by her husband’s death, Earth-based biologist Yoshiko Sunadomari journeys to the paradise world of Fulgar to see her estranged son, Tetsuo, in the hope of bridging the gulf between them. But when Yoshiko arrives on Fulgar, she discovers that Tetsuo is gone ... and wanted for murder. Yoshiko then embarks on a course of action that will bring her face to face with the awesome, malevolent mind of Rafael, a member of Fulgar's ruling elite.
Michael Moorcock | The Metatemporal Detective
Collected for the first time, eleven tales of Sir Seaton Begg vs. Count Zodiac,
including the never before seen “The Flaneur of the Arcades d'Opera.” These fast-paced mysteries pay homage to Moorcock's many literary enthusiasms for authors as diverse as Clarence E. Mulford, Dashiell Hammett, Georges Simenon, and his boyhood hero, Sexton Blake.
Michael Moorcock & Storm Constantine | Silverheart
A novel set in the very heart of Michael Moorcock’s multiverse, in Karadur, city of metal, steam, and ancient families, the mighty clans of the metal. In six days, Max Silverskin, thief and trickster, must discover the secrets of his heritage or die from the witch mark —the silverheart —which will devour his heart.
Mike Resnick | Ivory
In the year 6303, when most earthlings have left for the stars, Duncan Rojas begins a search for the tusks of the Kilimanjaro Elephant, which have been lost for 3,000 years. Back and forth through time, in card games, wars, and rivalries, Rojas searches. With Ivory, Mike Resnick has created a powerful novel spanning worlds and centuries, an exploration of the nature of history and legend, and a riveting parable for our times.
Mike Resnick | New Dreams for Old
A fabulous collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by Mike Resnick, showing the depth and range that has not only made him a popular seller, but also placed him fourth (and climbing) on the all-time award list of all science fiction writers living and dead (as compiled by Locus).
Mike Resnick | Stalking the Unicorn
Join detective John Justin Mallory on a New Year's night of wild adventure in a fantasy Manhattan of leprechauns, gnomes, and Harpies as he matches wits with the all-powerful demon "The Grundy" in a race to find the missing unicorn before time runs out!
Mike Resnick | Stalking the Vampire
On Halloween night, when ghosts and goblins are out celebrating in a fantasy Manhattan, detective John Justin Mallory must stalk the vampire who has threatened his assistant, Winnifred Carruthers, and killed her nephew. Locked in an intriguing battle of wits with a millennia-old vampire, Mallory has until dawn if he is to save his trusted partner.
Mike Resnick | Starship: Mutiny
The starship Theodore Roosevelt is fighting on the far outskirts of a galactic war, its crew made up of retreads and raw recruits. A new first officer reports, Wilson Cole, a man with a reputation for exceeding his orders but getting results ...
Mike Resnick | Starship: Pirate
Captain Wilson Cole, commander of the starship Theodore Roosevelt, has become a political scapegoat, despite years of dedicated military service. Seeking to find a new life for himself and his crew, Cole and comrades remake the Teddy R. into a pirate ship and set sail for the lawless Inner Frontier. Here, powerful warlords, cut-throat pirates, and struggling colonies compete for survival in a game where you rarely get a second chance to learn the rules.
Mike Resnick | Starship: Mercenary
The date is 1968 of the Galactic Era, almost 3,000 years from now. The Republic is in the midst of an all-out war with the Teroni Federation. Captain Wilson Cole has transformed his starship, the Theodore Roosevelt, into a mercenary ship. But the life of a mercenary is not always predictable, and eventually circumstance pits Cole and the Teddy R. against his right-hand woman, the former Pirate Queen known as the Valkyrie. Soon the fragile trust that has grown between these two legends is put to the test.
Mike Resnick | Starship: Rebel
Almost a year has passed since the events of Starship: Mercenary. Captain Wilson Cole now commands a fleet of almost fifty ships, and he has become the single greatest military force on the Inner Frontier. Then an incident occurs that changes everything, and Cole declares war on the Republic. It's a hopeless cause...but that's just what Wilson Cole and the Teddy R. are best at.
Chris Roberson | End of the Century
Three people. Three eras. One city. Endless possibilities. End of the Century is a novel of the distant past, the unimaginable future, and the search for the Holy Grail. Set in the city of London, the narrative is interlaced between three ages, in which a disparate group of heroes, criminals, runaways, and lunatics are drawn into the greatest quest of all time. And lurking behind it all is the entity known only as Omega.
Chris Roberson | Here, There & Everywhere
When Roxanne Bonaventure is eleven years old, a dying woman gives her a gift that changes her life utterly. With the strange device called the "Sofia," she is granted the ability to travel anywhere in space and time, not only through times that were and will be, but also through the worlds that could have been and might someday be.
Chris Roberson | Paragaea
After take-off, Soviet cosmonaut Akilina “Leena” Chirikov finds herself thrown into another dimension, a world of strange science and ancient mystery. There she meets another time-lost person from Earth, Lieutenant Hieronymus Bonaventure of the Royal Navy—who left home to fight the forces of Napoleon and never returned—and Balam, outlaw prince of the jaguar men. They agree to help Chirikov find a way home.
Adam Roberts |Gradisil
Gradisil is an epic space opera of family revenge and the birth of a nation - a new nation that floats above the earth. Here a new breed of adventurer has slipped the bonds of gravity and begun a fresh life in orbit, free from interference by government and the petty concerns of earth. But tradition, fear, and revenge carry a murderous weight, a gravity that is not so easy to escape.
Justina Robson | Going Under
Lila Black is off with the faeries. Ever since the Quantum Bomb of 2015 things have been different; the dimensions have fused and suddenly our world is accessible to elves, demons, ghosts and elementals—and their worlds are open to us. Justina Robson’s new series combines her trademark themes of identity and reality, magic and technology, break-neck plots, a mischievous sense of fun, and a seriously sexy new heroine.
Justina Robson | Keeping It Real
The Quantum Bomb of 2015 changed everything. The fabric that kept the universe’s different dimensions apart was torn and now, six years later, the people of earth exist in uneasy company with the inhabitants of, amongst others, the elfin, elemental, and demonic realms.
Justina Robson | Mappa Mundi
A novel of hard SF exploring the nature of identity both inherited and engineered, from one of Britain’s most acclaimed new talents. This fascinating novel depicts humanity in the near future, when the power and potential of developing technologies demand that we adapt ourselves to their existence—whatever the price.
Justina Robson | Selling Out
Justina Robson's new series is a joyful melding of science fiction and fantasy brought together in the figure of the dangerously lovely Lila Black, a 21-year-old secret agent who's had much of her body replaced with weapon-and-armor-heavy intelligent metal and who isn't sure where her mind ends and her installed AI begins.
Justina Robson | Silver Screen
Ray Croft may or may not have been a genius. On his death he left behind a court case that could destroy everything he had worked for, and a rival who's about to live out Roy's dream by turning himself into a machine. He also left a special mystery which only one person alive can solve.
Joel Shepherd | Crossover
The first novel in a series that follows the adventures of Cassandra Kresnov, an android created by the League, one side of an interstellar war against the more powerful, conservative Federation. The product of an experimental design and dangerously intelligent, Cassandra raises probing questions and experiences moral awakening. Soon she has deserted the League in search of a new life in the territory of the Federation.
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Joel Shepherd | Breakaway
Cassandra Kresnov is a highly advanced hunter-killer android. She has escaped the League and fled to Callay, a member of the Federation. Breakaway is a great story with a cracking plot and strong characters. At its heart is the enigma of Cassandra: Is she more human than human, or is she totally untrustworthy?
Joel Shepherd | Killswitch
Two years after the unhatching of Callayan President Neiland’s plot to make the capital city of Tanusha the center of the Federation, Callay is under siege. So begins the third installment of this gripping trilogy from an exciting new sci-fi author. When Cassandra’s lover, Special Agent Ari Ruben, discovers a plot to kill her using a killswitch, which her old masters in the League built into her brainstem, Sandy is forced to go underground to stay alive.
Robert Silverberg | Son of Man
Clay is a man from the 20th Century who is somehow caught up in a time-flux and transported into a distant future. The earth and the life on it have changed beyond recognition. Even the human race has evolved into many different forms, now coexisting on the planet. Clay goes on a journey which takes him around the future earth and into the depths of his own soul. He is human, but what does that mean?
Robert Silverberg | Star of Gypsies
Yakoub, King of the Rom, must journey across the cosmos and fight to regain his throne. Only then can he fulfill his dream — to return his people to their ancestral home of Romany Star.
Martin Sketchley | The Affinity Trap
By the beginning of the 24th century, social breakdown and environmental decay have led humanity to withdraw into gigantic habitat towers, insular, safe, and sterile. A new governmental system has evolved: Structure, imposing order upon Earth so that mankind may prosper among the stars. Some prosper more than others; however...
Martin Sketchley | The Destiny Mask
Twin sons Michael and Cascari have grown up on separate worlds, ignorant of their relationship and each believing that he is the rightful heir to the Seriatt's royal household. The stakes are heightened when the Seriatts develop time-travel capacity by means of the Destiny Mask - the artefact their oracles use to predict the future.
Martin Sketchley | The Liberty Gun
In the third installment of Martin Sketchley’s acclaimed Structure series, Delgado and Ashala are catapulted into a future Seriatt occupied by the Sinz—a three-species race of humanoid, avian, and amphibian form. Delgado immediately seeks a way back to the point that changed his life completely, but his plans are arrested. In the end, the integrity of time itself is threatened and it is in the power of one man alone to ensure that stability is maintained and that the course of events runs true.
Matthew Sturges | Midwinter
Winter comes to the land only once in a hundred years. But the snow covers ancient secrets: secrets that could topple a kingdom. Mauritaine was a war hero. Then he was accused of treason and sentenced to life without parole at Crere Sulace, a dark and ancient prison in the mountains, far from the City Emerald. But now the Seelie Queen – Regina Titania herself – has offered him one last chance to redeem himself, an opportunity to regain his freedom and his honor.
Sean Williams | The Blood Debt
In a remote city on the edge of two worlds, where blood has power and water is more precious than freedom, three far-flung friends unite on a quest to save their families. Desert landscapes and dirigibles feature in a fast-paced fantasy that combines romance, adventure, and humor with an original take on magic. NOW ALSO AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK
Sean Williams | The Crooked Letter
From opposite sides of death, mirror twins Seth and Hadrian Castillo grapple with a reality neither of them suspected, although it has been encoded in myths and legends for millennia. The Books of the Cataclysm begin in the present world but soon propel the reader to a landscape that is simultaneously familiar and fantastic. NOW ALSO AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK.
Sean Williams | The Hanging Mountains
In this third installment of Williams's Books of the Cataclysm, Sal and his companions seek the source of the flood in the legendary Hanging Mountains, hoping to head off a crisis that was put in motion a thousand years ago. They uncover uncomfortable truths about the world and how it relates to the one that came before — our world.
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Sean Williams | The Resurrected Man
Jonah McEwen is wanted for murder. Someone has been killing women who resemble his former colleague and lover. He is the obvious suspect. The problem? He has been in a coma for three years.
George Zebrowski | Macrolife
Inspired by the possibilities of space settlements, projections of biology and cosmology, and basic human longings, Macrolife is a visionary speculation on the long-term future of human and natural history. Filled with haunting images and memorable characters, this is a vivid and brilliant work.
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