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The Affinity Trap | Martin Sketchley
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...
Before They Are Hanged | Joe Abercrombie
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.
The Blade Itself | Joe Abercrombie
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.
The Blood Debt | Sean Williams
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.
Brasyl | Ian McDonald
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.
Breakaway | Joel Shepherd
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?
Bright of the Sky | Kay Kenyon
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.
Context: Book Two of the Nulapeiron Sequence | John Meaney
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.
The Crooked Letter | Sean Williams
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.
Crossover | Joel Shepherd
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.
The Crown Rose | Fiona Avery
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.
The Destiny Mask | Martin Sketchley
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.
Fast Forward 1 | Lou Anders
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.
Galileo's Children: Tales of Science vs. Superstition | Gardner Dozois
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.
Genetopia | Keith Brooke
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.
Gradisil | Adam Roberts
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.
The Hanging Mountains | Sean Williams
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.
The Healer | Michael Blumlein, MD
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.
Here, There & Everywhere | Chris Roberson
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.
Hurricane Moon | Alexis Glynn Latner
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.
Infoquake | David Louis Edelman
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.
Ivory | Mike Resnick
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.
Keeping It Real | Justina Robson
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.
Killswitch | Joel Shepherd
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.
The Liberty Gun | Martin Sketchley
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.
Macrolife | George Zebrowski
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.
The Man Who Melted | Jack Dann
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.
The Martian General's Daughter | Theodore Judson
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.”
Mappa Mundi | Justina Robson
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.
The Metatemporal Detective | Michael Moorcock
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.
MultiReal | David Louis Edelman
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.
New Dreams for Old | Mike Resnick
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).
Paradox: Book One of the Nulapeiron Sequence | John Meaney
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.
Paragaea | Chris Roberson
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.
The Prodigal Troll | Charles Coleman Finlay
A tale of a human child raised by a band of mythological creatures that is both hysterical and moving.
Resolution: Book Three of the Nulapeiron Sequence | John Meaney
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.
The Resurrected Man | Sean Williams
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.
River of Gods | Ian McDonald
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 ALSO AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK.
Sagramanda | Alan Dean Foster
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.
Selling Out | Justina Robson
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.
Silverheart | Michael Moorcock & Storm Constantine
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.
Silver Screen | Justina Robson
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.
Son of Man | Robert Silverberg
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?
Star of Gypsies | Robert Silverberg
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.
Starship: Mutiny | Mike Resnick
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 ...
Starship: Pirate |Mike Resnick
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.
Starship: Mercenary |Mike Resnick
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.
Tides | Scott Mackay
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.
To Hold Infinity | John Meaney
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.
A World Too Near | Kay Kenyon
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.
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