Science fiction
Little, Brown Book Group Debatable Space
Book SynopsisFlanagan (who is, for want of a better word, a pirate) has a plan. It seems relatively simple: kidnap Lena, the Cheo's daughter, demand a vast ransom for her safe return, sit back and wait. Only the Cheo, despotic ruler of the known universe, isn't playing ball.Flanagan and his crew have seen this before, of course, but since they've learned a few tricks from the bad old days (being particularly bad if you happen to have been one of the myriad sons or daughters the Cheo let die rather than give in to blackmail) and since they know something about Lena that should make the plan foolproof, the Cheo's defiance is a major setback. It is a situation that calls for extreme measures. Luckily, Flanagan has considerable experience in this area. . .Trade ReviewSo crammed with startling ideas, scintillating prose, incredible aliens and plot twists that it evokes wonder and admiration ... A debut of rare accomplishment * Guardian *A great innovative work. Palmer clearly knows his sci-fi * Starburst *Relentlessly energetic ... one of those rare books that holds your focus on every page * SFRevu.com *A hugely ambitious space opera by a first-time novelist that certainly doesn't skimp on big ideas * SFX *
£7.99
Little, Brown Book Group Stormforce: The Last Legion Book 3
Book SynopsisOn the outer fringes of civilization, a lone military force struggles to keep the peace in a volatile star system. With no incoming communications from the Confederation Empire as guidance, only the Legion can stop a grasping tyrant from expanding his territories ...The dual system of Larix and Kura is controlled by dictator and self-styled Protector Alena Redruth, and he now has his eye on the Cumbre system. His spies monitor the Legion's activities, but information can flow both ways ... Legion Intelligence Officer Njangu Yoshitaro will pose as Redruth's agent and infiltrate the upper echelons of the dual system's government. It is a corrupt hierarchy comprised of petty autocrats vying for control. Njangu can use these shifting loyalties to his advantage - unless the dictator discovers his identity first ...
£8.50
Little, Brown Book Group This Is Not A Game: You Don't Get a Second Life
Book SynopsisOnce upon a time, there were four of them. And though each was good at a number of things, all of them were very good at games . . . But when one of them is gunned down in a parking lot, the survivors become players in a very different kind of game - one that is played for the highest stake of all. Now they must draw on all their resources - not least millions of online gamers - to track down the killer.Imagine a game with no boundaries. Waiting in a parking lot, sitting at your computer, walking down the street - you could be called at any moment, and you'd better be ready.This is not a game. This is a novel that will blow your mind.Trade Review[An] eerily prophetic thriller * SFX *Combines droll satire, cyber-fu knowingness, ingenious extrapolation, social commentary and techno-thriller suspense * SciFiWire.com *
£999.99
Little, Brown Book Group Orphan's Journey: Jason Wander series book 3
Book SynopsisIn the years since the last Slug War, Jason's command style hasn't made him any friends in the Army. Now, in an effort to keep him out of trouble, the Army has sent Jason to the vast, Earth-orbiting resort called New Moon. At the core of this enormous space station is a starship, a relic from the last war. When a test run of the ship goes wrong, Jason, along with a handful of others, will be torn from orbit and thrust into space. Now, stranded on an alien planet, Jason realizes that not only are his friends are looking to him for rescue, but an entire planet sees him as their only hope.
£7.99
Little, Brown Book Group Orphan's Destiny: Jason Wander series book 2
Book SynopsisThe battle of Ganymede taught Jason Wander about the devastation of war. After seeing the deaths of his troops as well as his lover, this battle-scarred soldier is ready for peace.At twenty-five, General Jason Wander has fought and won man's only alien conflict. Now, after long years in space, he's coming home ... but to what? Earth's desperate nations, impoverished by war damage and military spending, are slashing defence budgets. There's just one problem with this new worldwide policy: the first alien invasion was merely Plan A.Suddenly, the real assault begins: Earth is attached by a vast armada of city-sized warships. To block their invasion, mankind has only one surviving craft and a single guerrilla strike force: a suicide squad led by Jason Wander.
£8.50
Little, Brown Book Group Version 43
Book SynopsisThe odds of surviving quantum teleportation to the Exodus Universe are, more or less, fifty/fifty. The only ones crazy enough to try it are the desperate, the insane and those sentenced to death for their crimes. Belladonna is home to the survivors and, in a planet run by criminals and desperados, death is commonplace. But a particularly horrific (and improbable) killing attracts the Galactic Police force, and a cyborg cop is sent to investigate.Version 43 has been here before, and has old scores to settle. The cop was human once, but is now more programme than man. And he intends to clean up this planet, permanently, whatever the cost.Trade ReviewPalmer's lip-smackingly over the top exploration of crime and retribution will delight' Guardian * ‘Entertaining far-future thriller … packed to bursting with invention and jaw-dropping ultraviolence’ *SFX * ‘What sets the novel apart, other than its bristling imaginative brio, is the underlying humour … Playful prose and relentless, explosive action make for an exceptional piece of high-adventure SF’ *FT
£8.99
Little, Brown Book Group Artemis
Book SynopsisShe's a stone cold killer, a rebel and a librarian ...Raised on the library planet of Rebus, Artemis McIvor has a love of books in a future where reading is a lost art. Unfortunately, she's also been imprisoned for a string of brutal murders she didn't commit. Not that she hasn't killed people. She just didn't kill these people.A war is coming and Artemis will find that her talents will be in high demand. But she has debts to pay and when they come due she will have a choice: fight for her freedom, or die a slave.Trade ReviewA rip-roaring space adventure set in our far-future, from an author who has received multiple accolades from the Guardian, SFX, SciFi Now, SFRevu and blog enthusiasts. * she has a love of books in a future where reading is a lost art. But unfortunately, her story doesn't end there. Artemis has been sentenced to incarceration for multiple murders and she's innocent of these, but guilty of many more which haven't yet come *Yet when she is recaptured, she is faced with a surprising choice that turns out to be no choice at all. She'll have her liberty if she becomes a guerrilla warrior, fighting rebels targeting Earth. Despite being part of a motley crew of criminals and psyc * A rip-roaring space adventure, featuring murder, revenge and rebellion *
£8.99
Titan Books Ltd Torchwood Rift War
Book SynopsisTorchwood is the action-packed sci-fi series from BBC America, following the adventures of a team of investigators, working for the secret organisation that uses scavenged alien technology to solve present day crimes - both alien and human.Now the smash hit Doctor Who spin-off comes to graphic novels! When Torchwood-3 comes under fire in an all-out attack by extra-dimensional shock troopers, the team are torn in all directions. And with a deadly rift bleeding through into their own reality, time itself could be destroyed if the Torchwood team isn''t able to stop it!Written and illustrated by some of the UK''s top comic creators, including Paul Grist, Ian Edginton, D''Israeli and Simon Furman - Torchwod: Rift War is an unmissable epic!
£9.49
Atlantic Books The Holy Machine
Book SynopsisGeorge Simling has grown up in the city-state of Illyria in the Eastern Mediterranean, an enclave of logic and reason founded as a refuge from the Reaction, a wave of religious fundamentalism that swept away the nations of the twenty-first century. Yet to George, Illyria's militant rationalism is as close-minded and stifling as the faith-based superstition that dominates the world outside its walls.For George has fallen in love with Lucy. A prostitute. A robot. She might be a machine, but the semblance of life is perfect. And beneath her good looks and real human skin, her seductive, sultry, sluttish software is simmering on the edge of consciousness. To the city authorities robot sentience is a malfunction, curable by periodically erasing and resetting silicon minds. Simple maintenance, no real problem, its only a machine. But its a problem for George, he knows that Lucy is something more.His only alternative is to flee Illyria, taking Lucy deep into the religious Outlands where she must pass as human because robots are seen as demonic mockeries of God, burned at the stake, dismembered, crucified. Their odyssey leads through betrayal, war and madness, ending only at the monastery of the Holy Machine...Trade ReviewLet's waste no time: this book is incredible * Interzone *One of the most accomplished novel debuts to attract my attention in some time... A triumph * Asimov’s *Should be on the radar of anyone who professes concern for science fiction as a literary form * Alastair Reynolds *
£12.34
AK Press Maroons: A Grievers Novel
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£13.50
Ebury Publishing Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks
Book SynopsisUNIT is called in when an important diplomat is attacked in his own home - by a man who then vanishes into thin air. The Doctor and Jo spend a night in the 'haunted' house and meet the attackers - who have time-jumped back from the 22nd century in the hope of changing history.Travelling forward in time, the Doctor and Jo find themselves trapped in a future world where humans are slaves and the Daleks have already invaded. Using their ape-like servants to Ogrons to maintain order, the Daleks are now the masters of Earth.As the Doctor desperately works to discover what has happened to put history off-track, the Daleks plan a time-jump attack on the 20th century.This novel is based on a Doctor Who story which was originally broadcast from 1 to 22 January 1972.Featuring the Third Doctor as played by Jon Pertwee, with his companion Jo Grant and the UNIT organisation commanded by Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
£20.03
Dedalus Ltd Dedalus Book of Spanish Fantasy
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£10.44
Tachyon Publications The Secret City
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£13.05
Tachyon Publications Rewired
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£14.39
Tachyon Publications Steampunk
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£13.05
Jon Carpenter Asses in Clover
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£10.45
Persephone Books Ltd The Hopkins Manuscript
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£16.00
Flipped Eye Publishing Limited Only This Once Are You Immaculate
Book SynopsisWhen twins Afya and Aftab, along with their adopted brother Khaled, leave the shelter of a hidden valley, they are astonished by the bustle and noise of the outside world. But beneath this chaos is an order more threatening than bedlam. An army of shadows gathers, looking to break free from the navel of the world, where they have been subdued for hundreds of years. The Keepers of Truth are scattered; the once-powerful Empire is fragmented, its twelve territories now controlled by seven warlords, one of whom has taken control of the region once protected by the Keepers. Surrounded by bright, new discoveries, our innocents are lost in fascination, unprepared for the trials they will encounter, trials that will redefine who they are and what they believe. Blessing Musariri is a stunning new voice, and has created a rich universe, rooted in African landscapes, that recasts the realism of our world in an uncannily resonant new light.
£10.16
bluechrome Publishing Unknown Shores
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£12.34
Dog Horn Publishing Volwys
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£12.34
Dog Horn Publishing Poetry, Grief and Healing
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£9.50
Dog Horn Publishing The Apprentice Journals III: Kimikin
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£9.49
Hamgee University Press One Man: No Plan
£14.24
Hamgee University Press Looking for Trouble: Part 4: K'Barthan Trilogy
£16.14
Hamgee University Press Small Beginnings
£8.37
Hamgee University Press Nothing To See Here
£8.37
Hamgee University Press Close Enough
£8.37
Jacaranda Books Art Music Ltd Speak Gigantular
Book SynopsisShortlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize, the Saboteur Awards, the Shirley Jackson Award and the Jhalak Prize. A startling debut short story collection from the award-winning author of Butterfly Fish. Okojie's collection of stories are captivating, erotic, enigmatic and disturbing. Irenosen Okojie's gift is in her understated humour, her light touch, her razor-sharp assessment of the best and worst of humankind, and her unflinching gaze into the darkest corners of the human experience. Okojie has created a world with errant Londoners caught between here and the hereafter, where insensitive men cheat on their mistresses and can only muster enough interest to fall for one- dimensional poster girls and where brave young women attempt to be erotically empowered at their own peril. Sexy, serious and at times downright disturbing, this brilliant debut collection sizzles with originality.Trade ReviewEach story featured is original, dark and with a witty but dark humour which disturbs and forces the reader to question exactly what a social norm is. This is fiction at its best, enacting change, driving the reader to act and it is spectacular. * The Reading Passport *Speak Gigantular is a work of rare confidence, luminous imagery and full of hidden sharp edges. There are few things that bring greater joy in reading than coming upon a talent so delightful, so penetrating, so scandalous. Okojie's stories are magical in all the most interesting senses of that word: devious, enthralling, unexpected. * Nina Allan, winner of the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire *A beautiful, sombre collection with deep shadows and dazzling highlights. * Mslexia *Okojie delves into the painful, the unsayable, the unknowable. Her prose is precise and illuminating: love and loneliness are recurrent themes. * Bernardine Evaristo, The Guardian *A liberatingly odd, seductive and fearless talent. * Laline Paull, author of The Bees, shortlisted for the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction *
£10.42
Unthank Books The Sea Inside Me
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£9.49
Luath Press Ltd Cailèideascop
Book SynopsisIf you could see the truth of the world, do you think it would change you? Angela Brown has discovered some old notebooks belonging to Sir David Brewster, the famous 19th century Scottish inventor of the kaleidoscope. She has used them to create a wondrous new scientific instrument, revealing some fundamental truths about the interconnectedness of the universe. But now others want it too, and Angela finds herself part of an epic story that starts in the Isle of Skye and finishes in the moons around Jupiter at the start of an exciting new chapter in humanity's history.Trade ReviewFrith-eachdraidh ann an nobhail làn dòchais. Gàbhaidh math! - TIM ARMSTRONG
£7.99
Mudlark's Press The Quantum Curators and the Faberge Egg: A fast-paced, portal adventure
Book Synopsis Indiana Jones meets the Men in Black... ''Fun and fascinating new world.'' Book SproutDeath or Glory - just another day in the office.When a priceless Fabergé egg comes to light everyone is after it. Neith Salah is a quantum curator. It''s her mission to get the egg; she doesn''t know what it looks like, or where it is, but she knows it''s not on her earth.Julius Strathclyde lives on a parallel earth. He''s a Cambridge professor and an archivist; he loves tea, research and a quiet life. It''s a pity then, that he''s the only person alive who knows where the egg is.She has guns and attitude, he has a fountain pen. Together they are going to have to race against time to save the egg, before a hidden enemy gets there first.For fans of Ben Aaronovitch, Genevieve Cogman and Jodi Taylor. Download this fast-paced, witty novel today and enjoy a new take on adventure.
£12.39
Mudlark's Press The Quantum Curators and the Enemy Within
£12.39
The Endless Bookcase The Heart Crusher
Book Synopsis"We become who we are because of our abilities. It's what makes us special." "Yeah, well what if your ability was the ability to murder in the most conniving way imaginable? What does that make you then?" Ivy Brooks is dead. They say she was murdered in a way never seen before. Though she appeared fine on the outside, her heart had been crushed. Destroyed. Completely obliterated. It was her daughter who killed her. And now she's having to live with the repercussions. In a world run by the Civilisation project - where everyone has been sent back to their country of origin for an 'upgrade' - Beck Brooks struggles to make sense of what her grief-infested life has become. Just when she thinks her life is finally starting to sort itself out, things take another unexpected turn for the worst. After befriending a fellow criminal, Beck uncovers the secrets of her past as well as the project and learns what it truly means to be the Heart Crusher.
£17.63
Black Spring Press The Age of Serpents and Scorpions
Book SynopsisTom Cladis is a writer, free-thinker, summa cum laude graduate from Colorado College, adventurer, and certified alligator wrestler, who thrills to the splash of seawater across the bow. He grew up in the Eastern Orthodox Christian tradition, and he served as Youth Minister for his church for 19 years.A revelation on a crowded city bus helped him to recognize that organized religion dropped anchor far short of Jesus' directive to keep seeking until the true meaning of His words were found, and he left in search of the Truth.
£21.25
MIT Press Maybe the Birds
£16.58
Henningham Family Press Pupa
Book SynopsisWhen Megan becomes curious about adulthood, her friendship with Sal becomes strained. The world they must navigate has a different life cycle. A society where people can remain at the larval stage or submit themselves to a precarious transformation and become adult.Inspector Augustine, charged with monitoring the wanton destruction of eggs, decides to mentor Sal and Megan. Yet it is his maturity that will be put to the test.J. O. Morgan applies his exquisite crafting of sentences to evoke a beguilingly simple tale of loss. An altopian world in which everything he changes about humanity makes us more recognisable.Trade ReviewEntering adulthood is something done furtively, in darkened, humid rooms, and not talked about. But, for all the book’s unsettling physicality, the innocent and well-meaning Sal, with all his doubts and fears, makes an even more lasting impression. Alastair Mabbott, The Herald -- Alastair Mabbott * The Herald *"This is a remarkable tale of courage and limitations that demands to be re-read."Caroline Clark, Literary Review -- Caroline Clark * Literary Review *"In essence, this is a novel about wanting to find the contours within which it is possible to find ease and acceptance. A place of welcome and retreat even if there is nobody else there… It doesn’t need adornments. It’s sufficient that we see the dilemmas that Sal and Megan must negotiate and find enough in their unfamiliar lives for us as readers to empathise with their exceptional, ordinary lives."Declan O’Driscoll, The Unfortunates -- Declan O'Driscoll * The Unfortunates *There are times when I hanker for a well crafted sentence, where every carefully chosen word gives pleasure to the reader. Sometimes I’ll even forget about the plot because the writing stands out. Fortunately poet J.O. Morgan’s novel, Pupa, succeeds on both points… Like Ishiguro, the writing is elegant, delicate and a joy to read.Robert Pisani, The Bobsphere -- Robert Pisani * The Bobsphere *
£12.99
IFWG Publishing Australia Pisces of Fate
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£14.24
Severed Press Operation: Amazon
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£9.98
Small Beer Press At the Mouth of the River of Bees: Stories
Book SynopsisA sparkling debut collection from one of the hottest writers in science fiction: her stories have received the Nebula Award the last two years running. These stories feature cats, bees, wolves, dogs, and even that most capricious of animals, humans, and have been reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, and The Secret History of Fantasy.At the Mouth of the River of Bees26 Monkeys, Also the AbyssThe Horse RaidersSparFox MagicNames for WaterSchrodinger’s CathouseMy Wife Reincarnated as a SolitaireChenting, in the Land of the DeadThe Bitey CatThe Empress Jingu FishesWolf TrappingThe Man Who Bridged the MistPoniesThe Cat Who Walked a Thousand MilesThe Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the ChangeKij Johnson's stories have won the Sturgeon and World Fantasy awards. She has taught writing; worked at Tor, Dark Horse, and Microsoft; worked as a radio announcer; run bookstores; and waitressed in a strip bar.Table of Contents"At the Mouth of the River of Bees" "26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss" "The Horse Raiders" "Spar" "Fox Magic" "Names for Water" "Schrodinger’s Cathouse" "Wife reincarnated as a solitaireExposition on the flaws in my spouse's characterThe nature of the birdThe possible causesHer final disposition" "Chenting, In the Land of the Dead" "The Bitey Cat" "The Empress Jingu Fishes" "Story Kit" "Wolf Trapping" "The Man Who Bridged the Mist" "Ponies" "The Cat Who Walked a Thousand Miles" "The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs Of North Park After the Change"
£999.99
