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Ebury Publishing Doctor Who: Dreams of Empire: 50th Anniversary
Book SynopsisOn a barren asteroid, the once-mighty Haddron Empire is on the brink of collapse, torn apart by civil war. The one man who might have saved it languishes in prison, his enemies planning his death and his friends plotting his escape.The Second Doctor arrives as the last act of this deadly drama is being played out – and with both terrifying killers and cunning traitors to defeat, the future hangs in the balance.An adventure featuring the Second Doctor as played by Patrick Troughton and his companions Jamie and Victoria
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Ebury Publishing Doctor Who: The Price of Paradise
Book SynopsisLaylora, the Paradise Planet. A world of breath-taking beauty, where peace-loving aboriginals live in harmony with their environment. Or do they? The Doctor and Rose arrive to find that the once-perfect eco-system is showing signs of failing. The paradise planet has become a death trap as terrifying creatures from ancient legends appear and stalk the land Is there a connection between the human explorers who have crash-landed and the savage monsters? What secret lies at the heart of the natives ancient ceremonies? And what price might one human have to pay to save the only home he has ever known? When a planet itself becomes sick, can there be a cure? The Doctor and Rose find themselves in a race against time to find out. Featuring the Doctor and Rose as played by David Tennant and Billie Piper in the hit Doctor Who series from BBC Television.
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Ebury Publishing Doctor Who: Last of the Gaderene: 50th
Book SynopsisThe aerodrome in Culverton has new owners, and they promise an era of prosperity for the idyllic village. But former Spitfire pilot Alex Whistler is suspicious – when black-shirted troops appear on the streets, he contacts his old friend Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart at U.N.I.T. The Third Doctor is sent to investigate – and soon uncovers a sinister plot to colonise the Earth. The Gaderene are on their way…An adventure featuring the Third Doctor as played by Jon Pertwee and his companion Jo
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Ebury Publishing Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks: 50th
Book SynopsisWith unfinished business to attend to, the Seventh Doctor returns to where it all began: Coal Hill School in London in 1963. Last time he was here, the Doctor left something behind – a powerful Time Lord artefact that could unlock the secrets of time travel. Can the Doctor retrieve it before two rival factions of Daleks track it down? And even if he can, how will the Doctor prevent the whole of London becoming a war zone as the Daleks meet in explosive confrontation?An adventure featuring the Seventh Doctor as played by Sylvester McCoy and his companion Ace
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Ebury Publishing Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet
Book SynopsisThe hugely powerful Key to Time has been split into six segments, all of which have been disguised and hidden throughout time and space. Now the even more powerful White Guardian wants the Doctor to find the pieces. With the first segment successfully retrieved, the Doctor, Romana and K-9 trace the second segment of the Key to the planet Calufrax. But when they arrive at exactly the right point in space, they find themselves on exactly the wrong planet – Zanak.Ruled by the mysterious ‘Captain’, Zanak is a happy and prosperous planet. Mostly. If the mines run out of valuable minerals and gems then the Captain merely announces a New Golden Age and they fill up again. It’s an economic miracle – so obviously something’s very wrong...
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Ebury Publishing Doctor Who: Prisoner of the Daleks: The Monster
Book SynopsisThe Daleks are advancing, their empire constantly expanding. The battles rage on across countless solar systems – and the Doctor finds himself stranded on board a starship near the frontline with a group of ruthless bounty hunters. Earth Command will pay these hunters for every Dalek they kill, every eyestalk they bring back as proof. With the Doctor's help, the bounty hunters achieve the ultimate prize: a Dalek prisoner – intact, powerless, and ready for interrogation. But with the Daleks, nothing is what it seems, and no one is safe. Before long the tables will be turned, and how will the Doctor survive when he becomes a prisoner of the Daleks? An adventure featuring the Tenth Doctor, as played by David Tennant
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Ebury Publishing Doctor Who: Touched by an Angel: The Monster
Book Synopsis‘The past is like a foreign country. Nice to visit, but you really wouldn't want to live there.’ In 2003, Rebecca Whitaker died in a road accident. Her husband Mark is still grieving. He receives a battered envelope, posted eight years earlier, containing a set of instructions with a simple message: ‘You can save her.’ As Mark is given the chance to save Rebecca, it’s up to the Doctor, Amy and Rory to save the whole world. Because this time the Weeping Angels are using history itself as a weapon. An adventure featuring the Eleventh Doctor, as played by Matt Smith, and his companions Amy and RoryTrade ReviewA thrilling, all-new adventure... Spectacular * Goodreads.com *
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Ebury Publishing Doctor Who: Autonomy
Book SynopsisHyperville is 2013's top hi-tech 24-hour entertainment complex - a sprawling palace of fun under one massive roof. You can go shopping, or experience the excitement of Doomcastle, WinterZone, or Wild West World. But things are about to get a lot more exciting - and dangerous... What unspeakable horror is lurking on Level Zero of Hyperville? And what will happen when the entire complex goes over to Central Computer Control? For years, the Nestene Consciousness has been waiting and planning, recovering from its wounds. But now it's ready, and its deadly plastic Autons are already in place around the complex. Now more than ever, visiting Hyperville will be an unforgettable experience...Featuring the Doctor as played by David Tennant in the hit Doctor Who BBC Television series.
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Orion Publishing Co Bring The Jubilee
Book SynopsisTrapped in 1877, a historian writes an account of an alternate history of America in which the South won the Civil War.Living in this alternate timeline, he was determined to change events at Gettysburg. When he's offered the chance to return to that fateful turning point his actions change history as he knows it, leaving him in an all too familiar past.
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Orion Publishing Co Timescape
Book SynopsisThe year is 1998, the world is a growing nightmare of desperation, of uncontrollable pollution and increasing social unrest. In Cambridge, two scientists experiment with tachyons - subatomic particles that travel faster than the speed of light and, therefore, according to the Theory of Relativity, may move backwards in time. Their plan is to signal a warning to the previous generation.In 1962, a young Californian scientist, Gordon Bernstein, finds his experiments are being spoiled by unknown interference. As he begins to suspect something near the truth it becomes a race against time - the world is collapsing and will only be saved if Gordon can decipher the message in time.Winner of the Nebula Award for best novel, 1980Winner of the John W. Campbell Award for best novel, 1981Winner of the BSFA Award for best novel, 1980
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Mereo Books Star-Seed Awakening: The Collective Has Spread its Seed Across the Interstellar Void and Found Intelligence. Can the High King and His Allies Stop it from Conquering All Life in the Multiverse?
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New Era Publications UK Ltd Mission Earth 8, Disaster
Book SynopsisWho is the true master of disaster? Earthlings: prepare for the shock of your lives! Global warming reversed. The energy crisis over. The greatest problem on Earth solved. Voltarian Royal Officer of the Fleet, Jettero Heller, has it all figured out. And hes devised a daring and ingenious plan to make it all happen if he lives to see the day. Saving the world is never easy, and for Heller, it turns out to be a trickyand riskybusiness. Hell have to blast a gang of space pirates in a lethal laser firefight. Hell have to find a way to capture and control a black hole. Hell have to undertake a perilous journey to Saturn and back and transport a titanic chunk of ice across the solar system. Then comes the hard part because Heller is headed back to Voltar, where hes about to uncover the identity of the powerful figure behind the conspiracy to end all conspiracies. Hes facing his deadliest nemesis yet, and before the intergalactic battle is over, the entire mission could end in DISASTER.Trade Review"Features rich inventiveness, brisk pacing and a large cast of appealing characters." -Booklist "Fantastic adventure beats like a strong pulse." -The Book World
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New Era Publications UK Ltd Mission Earth 3, The Enemy Within
Book SynopsisDo you know who your enemies are? Your neighbor? Your boss? Your butcher? Your wife? Only the Voltarians know for sure. Theyve infiltrated our worldand theyre prepping it for a power play unlike any youve ever seen. Even Jettero Heller, a leading Voltarian, doesnt know whom he can trust. Beset by double crossing body doubles and backstabbing identity shifters, he discovers that the most dangerous battle of all is about to begin... against a most surprising enemy. In this web of espionage, intrigue and betrayal, even Voltarian Royal Combat Engineer Jettero Heller doesnt know who he can trust. Hes hard at work creating a gasoline substitute to fuel his 68 Caddy in a Long Island automobile racea development that could have dramatic consequences for the entire human race. As such, he poses a grave threat to the powers that be. Now, his treacherous fellow Voltarian, Soltan Gris, has formed a secret alliance with a cabal that includes a dirty DC politician, a ruthless billionaire industrialist and a mysterious media madman. Their mission: terminate Jettero Heller. Beset by double-crossing body doubles and backstabbing identity shifters, Heller discovers that the most dangerous battle of all is about to begin against THE ENEMY WITHIN.Trade Review"A must buy." -American Library Association "A delicious read... an experienced pro." -Washington Post
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Kaya Press Everything Good Dies Here: Tales from the Linker
Book SynopsisIntroducing English readers to the speculative fiction of pseudonymous author Djuna, whose writings and interventions into internet culture have attracted a cult following in South Korea The stories brought together in this collection introduce for the first time in English the dazzling speculative imaginings of Djuna, one of South Korea's most provocative SF writers. Whether describing a future society light years away or satirizing Confucian patriarchy, these stories evoke a universe at once familiar and clearly fantastical. Also collected here for the first time are all six stories set in the Linker Universe, where a mutating virus sends human beings reeling through the galaxy into a dizzying array of fracturing realities. Blending influences ranging from genre fiction (zombie, vampire, SF, you name it) to golden-age cinema to Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Djuna's stories together form a brilliantly intertextual, mordantly funny critique of the human condition as it evolves into less and more than what it once was. Film critic and speculative fiction writer Djuna, who first appeared as an online presence in the early 1990s, has steadfastly refused to confirm any personal details regarding age, gender or legal name, or even whether they are one person or multiple. Djuna is widely considered one of the most prolific and important writers in South Korean science fiction. They have published nine short story collections, three novels, and numerous essays and uncollected stories.
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Padwolf Publishing Fantastic Futures 13
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Padwolf Publishing Exile & Entrance: A Xiles Novel
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Myrmidon Books Ltd Space Captain Smith
Book SynopsisIn the 25th Century the British Space Empire thrives in Earth's corner of the Milky Way. The only threat is the gathering menace of the evil Ghast Empire whose arachnoid stormtroopers are hell bent on galactic domination and the extermination of all humanoid life. Captain Isambard Smith is the square-jawed, courageous and somewhat asinine new commander of the clapped out and battle damaged light cruiser John Pym. His entire crew comprises his trusted friend Suruk, a seven foot tusked and mandibled headhunter, his android pilot, who is secretly a fugitive sex toy, and a hamster called Gerald. Their mission is a simple one: to collect new-age herbalist Rhianna Mitchell from the laid back New Francisco orbiter and bring her back to Earth. Straightforward enough - except the Ghasts want her too and, in addition to a whole fleet of Ghast warships, Smith has to confront void sharks, a universe-weary android assassin and John Gilead, psychopathic naval officer from the fanatically religious Republic of Eden.
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Myrmidon Books Ltd God Emperor Of Didcot
Book SynopsisTea...a beverage brewed from the fermented dried leaves of the shrub Camellia sinensis and imbibed by all the great civilisations in the galaxy's history; a source of refreshment, stimulation and, above all else, of moral fibre - without which the British Space Empire must surely crumble to leave Earth at the mercy of its enemies. Sixty per cent of the Empire's tea is grown on one world - Urn, principal planet of the Didcot system. If Earth is to keep fighting, the tea must flow. When a crazed cult leader overthrows the government of Urn, Isambard Smith and his vaguely competent crew find themselves saddled with new allies: a legion of tea-obsessed nomads, an overly-civilised alien horde and a commando unit so elite that it only has five members. Only together can they defeat the self-proclaimed God Emperor of Didcot and confront the true power behind the coup: the sinister legions of the Ghast Empire and Smith's old enemy, Commander 462.
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Myrmidon Books Ltd End Of Empires
Book SynopsisThe fifth exciting installment of the cult Space Captain Smith series.
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Archive Publishing Seeding the Wind: The Stellaster Archive Volume 2
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Newcon Press Across the Event Horizon
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Snowbooks Ltd Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl
Book SynopsisNineteenth century London is the centre of a vast British Empire. Airships ply the skies and Queen Victoria presides over three-quarters of the known worldincluding the East Coast of America, following the failed revolution of 1775. London might as well be a world away from Sandsend, a tiny village on the Yorkshire coast. Gideon Smith dreams of the adventure promised him by the lurid tales of Captain Lucian Trigger, the Hero of the Empire, told in Gideon's favourite penny dreadful. When Gideon's father is lost at sea in highly mysterious circumstances Gideon is convinced that supernatural forces are at work. Deciding only Captain Lucian Trigger himself can aid him, Gideon sets off for London. On the way he rescues the mysterious mechanical girl Maria from a tumbledown house of shadows and iniquities. Together they make for London, where Gideon finally meets Captain Trigger. But Trigger is little more than an ageing fraud, providing cover for the covert activities of his lover, Dr. John Reed, a privateer and sometime agent of the British Crown. Looking for heroes but finding only frauds and crooks, it falls to Gideon to step up to the plate and attempt to save the day...but can a humble fisherman really become the true Hero of the Empire?
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Pan Macmillan The War of the Worlds
Book SynopsisShooting stars tear across the night sky, then a gigantic artificial cylinder descends from Mars to land near London. Inquisitive locals gather round, only to be struck down by a murderous Heat-Ray. Giant destructive machines disgorge from the cylinder, destroying everything in their path on a merciless march towards the capital. Can humanity survive this Martian onslaught? A gripping adventure written in semi-documentary style, The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells is the seminal man versus machine adventure which has inspired countless science fiction stories and novels. This Macmillan Collector's Library edition of The War of the Worlds contains an introduction by author James P. Blaylock.Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.
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Instant Apostle Namestone
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Barbican Press Disnaeland
Book SynopsisWhat if the end of the world is the best thing that's never happened? As the apocalypse rolls on Donna and her eight-year-old daughter prepare for the worst. But despite the dying world, they find salvation with neighbours they never knew before. There's a chip shop fryer, student dropouts, a street gang, a disillusioned academic, an elderly Jehovah's Witness and a shopkeeper who dreamed of being a journalist. Ordinary people do extraordinary things, from sharing a cooked meal to restarting the water supply using wind power. They build a new world in the ruins of the old. But there's no paradise yet. Botched deals, armed survivalists and raids threaten to destroy progress. And the occasional screech of a fighter jet reminds them that the nuclear threat still looms... AUTHOR: Scottish novelist D.D. Johnston writes books that are "Funny as all Hell" (The Sunday Herald) and "unputtable-downable" (Northern Soul). The consistent theme throughout Johnston's writing is his love for ordinary people, and his faith in the extraordinary things we can achieve together. He lives in Cheltenham, England, where he cares for his infant son. He is a lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Gloucestershire. SELLING POINTS: . 'DD JOHNSTON, one of this country's most principled socialist novelists, is also one of the most versatile and talented around.' The Morning Star. . Postapocalyptic but not bleak; Disnaeland is witty, moving and politically charged. The speculative fiction of Disnaeland dares to invert dystopia. . A proudly Scottish novel by a Scottish author. Worthy of a place among the very best Scottish literature.
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Tangerine Press Blade Runner: A Movie (new Edition)
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Gallic Books The White City
Book Synopsis'Roma Tearne is an exquisite writer and captivating storyteller' Aminatta FornaThrough endless years of glacial winter, artist Hera has known loss: her brother's arrest and imprisonment on terrorism charges, her mother's resulting death, and the collapse of normal life in a devastated London. Her one comfort has been her relationship with Raphael. As the thaw begins, can she track down her elusive lover?Trade Review'Roma Tearne is an exquisite writer and captivating storyteller' Aminatta Forna; 'Skilled and sensitive ... Tearne's training as a painter shows in the subtle descriptions that fill each page with lyrical power' Independent on Sunday; 'Tearne captures a shifting social and political landscape and questions notions of home and homeland' The Independent; 'Tearne brings her skills as a painter to her writing' Sunday Telegraph; 'She has a wonderful ability to create atmosphere.' The Times; 'Tearne charts the patterns of love and loss with beautiful prose' Sunday Times
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NewCon Press Crises and Conflicts: Celebrating the First 10
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Sandstone Press Ltd Wild
Book SynopsisEverything good is wild. It’s the word we use when something’s worth something. Wild is what you want to be, wild is how you want to look, wild is what you want to have. The world is a dangerous place. People live in domed cities, walls keep nature out, everything is civilised. But there is a way to experience a different kind of world. Step into a word museum, plug into a simulation, experience being anything, anywhere, anytime... All the wild kids are doing it. So that’s how it begins. I walk into a museum with one aim: to understand ‘wild’. It’s important. Because if you’re wild, you can fit in. You’re not alone.Trade Review'An extraordinary piece of writing, full of surprises both in terms of subject matter and technique.'-Lucy English
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Augur Press SAMI: SAVE AKI MISSION 1
Book SynopsisThis is a science fiction short story for all ages. After an apocalyptic event that leaves the world in a state of devastation, a boy called Aki lives alone in a giant robot, unable to go out because of the poisoned air. For years the robot walks the earth, through barren wastelands, searching for the New Place, where Aki might be able to live outside. Aki does not know what, or who, he will find there. Greta Thunberg, climate change activist, has said: "You say you love your children above all else ..." Aki's parents loved him above all else, but they could not save him from losing everything that had been familiar to him.
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Black Wolf Edition & Publishing Ltd RESCUE CODE
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Melrose Books The Zalan Bolt
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GB Publishing Org GODS' Fool
Book SynopsisThe preceding volume in the series, GODS' Enemy, is an Indies 2016 BOOK AWARD FINALIST, FANTASY. November 1917. The first great allied tank battle takes place at Cambrai in the Pas de Calais. At first it proves a rousing success but after a hard fought two weeks German forces repulse the British on every front. Reserves called up in support of the retreat include five hundred American engineers, including captain Colin Cahoon, a deeply religious Texan. Cahoon is injured during an enemy shell bombardment and wakes up in a hospital bed to find he is being treated by the enigmatic Dr Spindrift. Cahoon finds himself embroiled in a titanic struggle that will stretch the Texan's religious beliefs, his sanity and his courage to breaking point. During the final year of The War To End All Wars, the future of all mankind will be decided.Trade ReviewGODS' ENEMY (prequel): 2016 INDIES BOOK AWARD FINALIST, FANTASY
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Fairlight Books Dreaming in Quantum and Other Stories
Book SynopsisFrom award-winning author Lynda Clark come sixteen engrossing stories weaving together elements of folklore, fantasy and speculative fiction, all of them in Clark's darkly humorous style. In 'Ghillie's Mum', shortlisted for the BBC Short Story Award, a shape-shifting mother needs to decide whether to compromise and stay in her human form, or lose her son. In 'Total Transparency', a man is learning how to live with a gradually disappearing wife. In 'Blanks', people are paying to create clones of themselves so they will never die. And in 'Dreaming in Quantum', there's a murder to be solved which echoes through dimensions only accessible in dreams.Trade Review'In these high-concept horrors, even the strangest perversions of science and biology can feel sadly familiar, hinting at the fantasies we tell ourselves to explain, or run away from, the darkest moments of our lives' -Nick Mulgrew, author of 'A Hibiscus Coast'; 'Lynda Clark's stories are thought-provoking, very funny, sometimes poignant, and always entertaining, with a whole Buffyverse-worth of plotlines and nice, fat, satisfying endings' -Jo Lloyd, winner of the BBC National Short Story Award 2019; 'This consummate collection turns the normal strange and the strange normal: it is sublime weird writing, by turns compelling, arresting, amusing and unnerving' -Will Forrester, English PEN; 'Clark's playful narratives take us to the edges of what it is to be human' -Alison Kelly, TLS
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Fairlight Books The Therapist
Book SynopsisIn this bittersweet and hauntingly surreal tale, a couple finds the distance between them mirrored in a strange epidemic sweeping the globe. Little by little, each victim becomes transparent, their heart beating behind a visible rib cage, an intricate network of nerves left hanging in mid-air. Finally, the victims disappear entirely, never to be seen again.Trade Review'If the population of the world had vanished while I was reading Nial Giacomelli’s beautifully observed novella, I’m not sure I would have noticed. It’s that good' —Christopher Stanley, author of 'The Forest is Hungry'; The narrative drive is perfectly pitched, conveying an urgency that carries us irresistibly along while at the same time fearlessly confronting and challenging us' —Dr Meredith Miller, literary critic and author of 'Little Wrecks'
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Fragile Books UPON A WHEEL OF FIRE: 11
Book SynopsisHaving learned from the failure of his first assault on Chung Kuo, the real DeVore has returned to Mars to plan his next move against the Seven, and to fine-tune a new range of morphs - subtler and more deadly than the last. But among the nineteen cities of the Martian Plains, unrest has reached fever pitch, requiring the smallest of incidents to trigger violent revolution. Yet when it comes, it is from a wholly unexpected direction. Hans Ebert - much changed since his great fall from power - finds himself in DeVore’s employ as a humble sweeper. Pushed beyond his limits, he kills a man, placing himself once more in DeVore’s power, and as the Major sets in motion a plan to destroy Marshal Tolonen by kidnapping his daughter, Jelka, so Ebert’s part becomes clear with an announcement that he and Jelka are to marry. As the cities of Mars have fallen, so might those of Chung Kuo - with even its most powerful, City North America, suddenly vulnerable. But the greater threat to the Seven lies within their own ranks. Even as Li Yuan and his fellow T’ang make plans to stabilize Chung Kuo, so the First Dragon and Head of the Ministry seeks to take charge … for the sake of the Empire of the Han.Trade Review"Colossal. An elaborately frightening vision of the future." Sunday Times; "I found myself drawn into Chung Kuo as into temptation." The Times; "One of the masterpieces of the decade." Washington Post; "Imagine a collaboration between James Clavell and Frank Herbert." San Francisco Chronicle; "Riveting." Guardian
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Fragile Books Monsters of the Deep: 9: Chung Kuo
Book SynopsisWu Shih, T'ang of North America, has drawn the dragons' teeth, arresting the `Sons' and refusing to give them up to their powerful fathers until they come to heel. But in doing so he seals his own fate and feeds the flames of revolution in the process. In City Europe, Stefan Lehmann, the estranged son of the one-time Dispersionist leader, has fled to the icy Alpine wastes after the fall of DeVore's fortresses. It is from there that he returns, to set about making a name for himself in the Lowers of the City, infiltrating the cut-throat world of the Triad brotherhoods. Li Yuan has never been more content. He has come to love all three of his new wives, and celebrates the birth of his first legitimate son, Kuei Jen. In a powerful position in the Council, and with peace in the great world of levels, all seems well. Scientist, Kim Ward, has also found love - with the Marshal's daughter, Jelka Tolonen. But for both men, their happiness is to prove short-lived. The Lowers are ripe for rebellion with new groups of revolutionaries carving out small empires in those teeming warrens. And Tolonen would rather send his daughter to the far reaches of the solar system than have her marry a Clayborn. It will be seven years before they meet again; years in which Chung Kuo will rip itself apart.
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Fragile Books The White Mountain: Book 8: Chung Kuo
Book SynopsisCurrents of unrest and tides of innovation threaten to overwhelm Chung Kuo's stability. When a lethal epidemic strikes the Seven's chief supporters, Li Yuan acts ruthlessly to wipe out the disease. But his actions incur far more fatal consequences for the rule of the Seven. While the great Council of emperors splinters into factions, Kwibesi, the detention camp for terrorists, continues to establish order. However, rebellion is brutally contained inside the camp and a growing sense of injustice stirs in one of its guards, Kao Chen, who - sent there undercover by his Master, Li Yuan - begins to question his sense of duty. The Seven are now openly divided amongst themselves, while all about them allegiances are constantly shifting as each day brings new atrocities.
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Fragile Books The Broken Wheel: Book 7: Chung Kuo
Book SynopsisChung Kuo's once-perfect stasis is fast falling apart. The Seven's dominance is threatened by a series of terrorist attacks as the War of the Two Directions spreads and intensifies. Howard DeVore, the Seven's greatest enemy, is master-minding the atrocities. Kill DeVore and things would change markedly, but how can they hunt down a man who seems to be invulnerable? Maybe the answer lies in the frail figure of Kim Ward, a refugee from the Clay. But the young scientific genius is himself under threat, and it is only through an unexpected intermediary that he survives. And there is now another threat from within: Wang Sau-leyan, whose sole aim is to wreak vengeance on his dead father and brothers by bringing down the others of the Seven. How much longer can the Seven hold out?
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Fragile Books An Inch of Ashes: Book 6: Chung Kuo
Book SynopsisAs Chung Kuo's population continues to swell, the Seven are forced to make further concessions; laws must be relaxed and the House at Weimar re-opened. Change is coming, whether the Seven want it or not. As the tides of unrest unleashed by earlier wars grow, DeVore secretly allies with Li Yuan's newly-appointed general, Hans Ebert. DeVore's schemes are slowly coming to fruition, but Ebert has his own plans: to depose the Seven and control the whole of Chung Kuo. It is finally a time for Change. In the long years before the War it had seemed inconceivable to challenge the Seven. But now? Now new currents of unrest have woken in the depths of the City, darker and deeper than those expressed by the War. Currents which threaten to tear Chung Kuo apart.
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Fragile Books The Art of War: Book 5: Chung Kuo
Book SynopsisThe Council of Seven ruled Chung Kuo with an iron authority, their boast that they had ended Change and stopped the Great Wheel turning. But war, famine and political instability, thought to be things of the past, had returned to Chung Kuo with a vengeance. A new generation of powerful young merchants - Dispersionists - challenged the authority of the Seven, leading to what became known as 'the War-That-Wasn't-A-War' - a nasty, guerrilla form of warfare fought in the claustrophobic levels of the Cities. A brutal war without rules. A war the Seven ultimately won. But only just. And now the Seven find themselves vulnerable as the forces against them continue to grow.
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Fragile Books Daylight on Iron Mountain: Book 2: Chung Kuo
Book SynopsisJapan lies under a radioactive cloud, its denizens wiped out. America has been subjugated, its inhabitants scattered. The Old World is dead, buried beneath the foundations of the new - Chung Kuo, a mile-high, globe-spanning megacity. Billions have perished and history has been rewritten with their blood. Over all of this one man reigns supreme: Tsao Ch'un - the Son of Heaven. But it takes one type of man to conquer a world, another to rule it. The Son of Heaven's brutality has alienated even his closest allies and in the depths of the great city, rebellion has been unleashed. The Great Wheel of Change turns and the fight for the future has begun.
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Fragile Books Beneath the Tree of Heaven
Book SynopsisIt is the Winter of 2212, and amidst the clamour for power in North America, Emily Asher assumes the role of ‘Eldest Daughter’ - her society’s conscience in the Lowers of her adopted City. Ranged against her, however, are forces with their own agenda: the ‘Old Men’ - her husband’s father foremost among them, with his insane pursuit of immortality; the great T’ang, Wu Shih, with his desire for stability at any cost; the crusading zealots of Joseph Kennedy; and the feared Black Hand, bent on destruction. Yet as the warring factions battle for supremacy, an altogether more powerful opposition threatens to push them all to the edge of destruction.Trade Review"One of the masterpieces of the decade." Washington Post; "I found myself drawn into Chung Kuo as into temptation." The Times; "Colossal...an elaborately frightening vision of the future." Sunday Times; "Imagine a collaboration between James Clavell and the late Frank Herbert." San Francisco Chronicle; "...finally delivers SF into the hands of an English Proust." Brian Aldiss; "Riveting." Guardian
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Fragile Books White Moon Red Dragon
Book SynopsisIn the latest volume of this extraordinary saga, the rigid Chinese-ruled world of the twenty-third century comes finally to its Armageddon, the Last Battle which will shape its future for good or evil.
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Parthian Books The Vagabond King
Book SynopsisThreon, the Vagabond King, is torn from a life in the palace by raiders and forced to scrape a living on the streets of a foreign land. Meeting a witch of the underworld, a rebel soldier and a woman cursed by a god, he seeks retribution through a quest to reclaim his home and throne. Together they rekindle old allegiances, face an immortal army and learn to trust one another. But when the gods begin to interfere with their plans, is it a curse or a blessing?
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Luath Press Ltd But n Ben A-Go-Go
Book SynopsisWith strong characters and a gripping plot, the well-defined settings create an atmosphere of paranoia and danger. The exciting denouement has a surprising twist and is set on Schiehallion. The introduction includes a section on how to read the Scots in this book, Matthew has made the spelling as straightforward as possible for a population used to English spelling conventions.Trade Review'Matthew Fitt will do for prose in Scots what Hugh MacDiarmid did for poetry in Scots' JAMES ROBERTSON, EDINURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL 2000 'a cracker' GERALDINE BRENNAN, TIMES EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT 'going where no man has gone before' STEPHEN NAYSMITH, THE HERALD 'After an initial shock, readers of this sprightly and imaginative tale will begin to relish its verbal impetus, where a standard Lallans, laced with bits of Dundonian and Aberdonian, is stretched and skelped to meet the demands of cyberjannies and virtual hoorhooses ... I recommend an entertaining and groundbreaking book.' EDWIN MORGAN
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Saraband Dead Ringer
Book SynopsisThe idea is simple, vain, exciting. Tap the app, upload a picture, find your #deadringer – and if you like, set up a meeting in real life. When Ella and Jem connect, the resemblance is uncanny, but their lives are polar opposites. One is stuck in a rut in her Northern hometown, while the other, an aspiring actor living in a multimillion-pound mansion, is a Chelsea socialite who knows she’s skating on thin ice. Other than their looks, their only similarity is the desire to escape. Is it possible to hide in your double’s skin? And at what cost? All too believable, twisty, compelling and fast – Dead Ringer will leave you reeling.Trade ReviewA tense and compelling story that courageously embraces contemporary themes ranging from new tech consumption to mental health plays out as a treacherous and disturbing nightmare will delight fans of Killing Eve.' * Daily Mail *A serious meditation on who we are when we spend hours and hours on social media a fast-moving thriller a cracking read.' -- Judith Sullivan * Shots Magazine *[This] scintillating debut is pacy, often witty, always succinct, a credible and well-constructed tale of two young women Excellent. Buy this book. Nicola Martin is a writer to watch.' -- Bob Cornwell * Crimetime *What a cracking debut! Tense, thrilling, thought provoking.' * Alex Kane, author of No Looking Back *Dead Ringer takes you on a riotous and compelling ride. Nicola Martin delivers an accomplished debut, one that successfully captures the twisted inherent desires that surface when two differing lives become dangerously entwined. * Lloyd Otis, author of Dead Lands *A genuinely compelling thriller.' * Liz Loves Books blog *A fresh, original and captivating debut utterly riveting an addictive read from beginning to end.' * Books and Emma blog *Page-turning suspense alongside exploring the dark recesses of the human mind a taut and fast-paced thriller [and] a beautiful meditation on how opportunities offered by youth, beauty and ambition crash into the hard realities of adulthood.' * Joanne Metivier *Modern, fresh, clever and highly addictive It is genius.' -- Kelly Lacey * Love Books Group *A fantastic novel just what would it be like to live another version of your life? Littered with moments of dark humour and flawless insight.' -- Sharon Bairden * Chapter in My Life *Twists and turns its way to an emotional confrontation and a cleverly woven conclusion thoroughly enjoyable and really well written and plotted.' -- Liz Barnsley * Liz Loves Books *Captivating Dark, tense and utterly compelling, this a brilliant read.' * Bookliterati *Gripping, fast-paced and thought-provoking.' * Secret World of a Book *A brilliant and unique thriller... compelling and twisty.' * On My Bookshelf blog *Dead Ringer is a psychological thriller that is unputdownable... With lots of twists and turns ahead, you won't be disappointed.' * Rachel Bustin *This book was a wonderful read I read it in just a couple of days' time because I just couldn't put it down!' * Infinite Pages Book Reviews *The author creates a fascinating, compelling read with twists and turns throughout... An impressive debut' * Wishful Books Reviews *
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Valley Press Science Fiction for Survival: An Archive for Mars
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