Science fiction

Book SynopsisCelebrate the empowering and inspiring women who helped create, shape, and make pop culture great, from the creator of SYFY WIRE's FANGRRLS and the podcast 'Forgotten Women of Genre'! In every medium in popular culture—from books, films, and video games to comics, television, and animation—women have been instrumental in creating and shaping the worlds, characters, and genres that we know and love.  However, much of their hard work and innovation has gone largely unrecognized—until now. With a foreword by American Gods actress Yetide Badaki and essays exploring the history and transformation of pop culture's genres and mediums, Pop Culture Pioneers explores and pays respect to the women who played a crucial role in creating and influencing of some of the most famous worlds and characters in pop culture including: Directors & Producers like Karyn Kusama (Aeon Flux,

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Book SynopsisOne of the Verge''s Best Books of 2017Captain Ronaldo Aldo has committed an unforgivable crime. He will ask for forgiveness all the same: from you, from God, even from himself.Connected by ansible, humanity has spread across galaxies and fought a war against an enemy that remains a mystery. At the edge of human space sits the Citadela relic of the war and a listening station for the enemy''s return. For a young Ensign Aldo, fresh from the academy and newly cloned across the ansible line, it''s a prison from which he may never escape.Deplorable work conditions and deafening silence from the blackness of space have left morale on the station low and tensions high. Aldo''s only hope of transcending his station, and cloning a piece of his soul somewhere new is both his triumph and his terrible crime.The Fortress at the End of Time is a new science fiction novel from Joe M. McDermott.

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Book SynopsisA convict time-traveller visits doomed timelines to collect essential resources. But his latest find is as dangerous as she is essential.Trade Review"Smart, fast, and fun." --New York Times bestselling author of the Lightbringer series, Brent Weeks; "Time twisting action-adventure as only Wesley Chu could imagine it. I enjoyed it a lot. Read this book!" --Author of the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie; "A powerful and compelling search of the past for redemption in the present, by turns thrilling and sweet and gut-wrenching." --New York Times best selling author, Kevin Hearne; "A gripping, taut space opera about keeping hope in hopeless circumstances. Immensely enjoyable." --Author of City of Stairs, Robert Jackson Bennett; "Chu has taken a simple, brilliant premise and built upon it an epic universe full of thrills and wonder." --New York Times bestselling author of The Darwin Elevator, Jason M. Hough; "More than a compelling, innovative take on the perks and pitfalls of time travel - Time Salvager is a sharp study of how human nature might prove mankind's salvation, or eventually doom us all. This is world-building that will make you fear for the future. In a good way." --Author of Maplecroft, Cherie Priest; "A clever, cautionary sf tale with cool gadgets, characterization that surprised me in the best possible way, and multiple cunning twists." --Author of the Crown of Stars series, Kate Elliott; "With time travel, force-field kung fu, and a huge helping of wit, Wesley Chu transmogrifies a bleak long-whimper apocalypse into vicious, high-octane fun." --Author of the Craft Sequence, Max Gladstone; "A fast-paced ride that offers a fresh spin on time travel, combines it with a high-stakes plot and genuinely innovative action, and spices the blend with a healthy dose of irreverent humor." --Author of Kushiel's Dart, Jacqueline Carey; "Exciting, interesting, and never forgetting the fun of ideas, this is brilliant new stuff." --Author of London Falling, Paul Cornell; "A time-warping science fiction thrill ride." --Author of the Sabrina Kane series, Jaye Wells; "Gripping." --Hugo Award-winning creator of Schlock Mercenary, Howard Tayler

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Book SynopsisThe Coast Guard must prevent the first lunar war in history.A lifelong Search-and-Rescuewoman, Coast Guard Captain Jane Oliver is ready for a peaceful retirement. But when tragedy strikes, Oliver loses her husband and her plans for the future, and finds herself thrust into a role she’s not prepared for. Suddenly at the helm of the Coast Guard’s elite SAR-1 lunar unit, Oliver is the only woman who can prevent the first lunar war in history, a conflict that will surely consume not only the moon, but earth as well.Trade Review"Cole weaves a fantasy world that feels comfortably familiar, then goes to places you’d never expect."“Myke Cole’s novels are like crack: they’re highly addictive.”"Myke Cole has raised the bar on military sci-fi. Sixteenth Watch pushes the envelope into new and exciting territory.""Sixteenth Watch has heart and action in equal measure; Cole's novel blends hi-speed, low-g military science fiction with engaging characters and page-turning pace.""Hard sci-fi fans will appreciate this norm-bucking near-future military tale.""Besides being a ripping good read, Cole writes from a place of authority and experience about military, politics, and service.""Sixteenth Watch is one of those novels that you really want to see turned into a Netflix series so you can binge it and pour the whole thing into your brain.""Briskly paced, the book strikes a fine balance between military minutiae and imagination.”"Sixteenth Watch follows Jane from her lowest, most heartbreaking moment, and readers will be drawn to her as she proves herself to be a smart, feisty, loyal, loving, complex, tough, and flawed heroine.""Cole leverages his real-life military background to create a believable depiction of conflict in space with an emphasis on authentic characters."

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Book SynopsisA dinosaur detective in the land of unwanted ideas battles trauma, anxiety, and the first serial killer of imaginary friends.Most ideas fade away when we’re done with them. Some we love enough to become Real. But what about the ones we love, and walk away from? Tippy the triceratops was once a little girl’s imaginary friend, a dinosaur detective who could help her make sense of the world. But when her father died, Tippy fell into the Stillreal, the underbelly of the Imagination, where discarded ideas go when they’re too Real to disappear. Now, he passes time doing detective work for other unwanted ideas – until Tippy runs into The Man in the Coat, a nightmare monster who can do the impossible: kill an idea permanently. Now Tippy must overcome his own trauma and solve the case, before there’s nothing left but imaginary corpses. File Unders: Fantasy [ Fuzzy Fiends Death to ImaginatiTrade Review"I heartily recommend The Imaginary Corpse to any reader seeking a delightfully different book.""It’s as if Pixar’s Inside Out mugged Toy Story in a surrealist Raymond Chandler novel.""It's pure imagination on multiple axes – with a ton of heart.""The Imaginary Corpse is inventive, fun, and touching, in the most unexpected way.""a captivating new voice in the genre.""the most unusual SFF-mystery mashup you’ll read this year."“Brilliantly playful and deadly serious at the same time""For adults who want to recapture some of their youthful imaginings, while reading an excellent book about trauma, forgiveness, and acceptance, The Imaginary Corpse will definitely fill that niche.""This reminds me of Jonathan Lethem's Gun, with Occasional Music, plus the Brian Aldiss-inspired first act of AI, with splashes of Philip K. Dick and Haruki Murakami.""it’s both a thrilling journey into an imaginatively crafted fantasy world, and a textured, character-based drama with real emotional stakes.""Readers will revel in this strange, fully realized world.""It's elegant, beautifully constructed, innovative, and true."

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Book SynopsisThe official novel of the best science fiction narrative game, T.I.M.E Stories!It is the year 2468. Spotted by a recruiter, Tess Haiden passed the many tests required to join a highly secretive organisation with flying colours. But she is in for a shock: T.I.M.E Agency has been sending agents through time for several years. Thanks to considerable resources, they prevent anomalies and paradoxes by dispatching their agents to different eras and places around the world. But over the course of her many missions, Tess learns that they are not the only ones using these time corridors, and she begins to wonder about the true nature of the T.I.M.E agency…File Under: Science Fiction [ Heiden Seek  All A Board  Outatime Mission Possible ]

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Book SynopsisFrom true weird fiction visionary Jeff Noon comes the fourth book in this Philip K. Dick Award-nominated mystery series.In the year 1960, private eye John Nyquist arrives in Delirium, a city of a million borders, to pursue his strangest case yet: tracking down the stolen sentient image of faded rock'n'roll star Vince Craven.As Nyquist tracks Vince's image through Delirium, crossing a series of ever-stranger and more surreal borderzones, he hears tantalising stories of a First Border, Omata, hidden within the depths of the city. But to find it, he'll have to cross into the fractured minds of Delirium's residents, and even into his own...Trade Review“A disturbing and bizarre journey by one of the great masters of weird fiction.”“Clocks and watches form a recurrent motif in this artful, eerie novel that infuses the mystery genre with symbolism and soul.”“Noon is the Lewis Carroll of Manchester’s housing estates"“Noon is a fiercely urban writer."“Noon’s blend of quirky ideas, striking prose and imaginative characterisations establishes him as one of the most original voices in imaginative fiction.”“Let’s call him the first of the psychedelic fantasists.”“Humorous, horrific and wildly original… an imaginative masterpiece.”“Intriguingly textured, reliably witty and inventive, Noon’s whirling purposeful fantasy packs a full whallop.” "Classic Jeff Noon weirdness with a beautifully crafted mystery at its heart."“It’s a heady psychedelic mix, packed with literary allusions, which brilliantly explores notions of self-identity, personal awareness and how we fit into our own stories.”“Rich, inventive and recommended.”“By writing a novel set in literature itself the author has created a new psychedelic meta-genre as well as a fantastic story that sticks in the mind long after the novel itself is read.”"An intoxicating and rewarding experience"“One of our finest writers...Within Without is a tour de force of surrealist SF”

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Book SynopsisHow close would you hold those you love, when the end comes?In a society where self-preservation is as much an art as a science, Norah and Arthur are learning how to co-exist in their new little world. Though they hardly know each other, everything seems to be going perfectly – from the home they’re building together to the ring on Norah’s finger. But survival in this world is a tricky thing, the air is thicker every day and illness creeps fast through the body. And the earth is becoming increasingly hostile to live in. Fortunately, Easton Grove is here for that in the form of a perfect little bundle to take home and harvest. You can live for as long as you keep it – or her – close. File Under: Science Fiction [ Teratoma for One Nine Lives Cell Patchwork Till Death ]Trade Review"A strong debut, and one that makes me want to read more from this up-and-coming author.""Caroline Hardaker’s debut poetry pamphlet is a triumph of contemporary myth-making.""Deliciously creepy!""an unapologetic, intimate tale of our shared human fragility, and the deceptions we employ to keep from breaking." "The writing is wistful and works in such a way you don't realise how wonderfully strange the book is until you are enfolded in it.""As thought-provoking as it is chilling.""Explores what constitutes love, how to build a life when a lot we take for granted is missing, and what it takes to ‘glue together a splitting world.’""A delicate and terrifying prospect of our future, with the most lovable creatures."“Creepy and enthralling, Hardaker’s superbly written debut will drip feed you dread from beginning to end.”“Highly recommended.”"A thought-provoking dystopian debut which continuously questions what it truly means to be alive.""A story you won’t forget in a hurry (try as you might) and an exceptional debut novel.""favorite science fiction book of the year"

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Book SynopsisTop Gun in space!An alternative history with aliens, an immortal misanthrope and SF tropes aplenty The year is 1975 – Robert Oppenheimer has invented the Atomic Engine, the first human has walked on the moon, and Jet Carson and the Eagle Seven have sacrificed their lives to stop alien invaders. Brooklyn, however, just wants to keep his head down, pay his mother’s rent, earn a little scratch of his own, and maybe get laid sometime. Simple pleasures! But life is about to get real complicated when a killer with a baseball bat and a mysterious box of 8-track tapes sets him up for murder. So, his choices are limited – rot away in prison or sign up to defend the planet from the assholes who dropped a meteorite on Cleveland. Brooklyn crosses his fingers and picks the Earth Orbital Forces, believing that after a few years in the trenches – assuming he survives – he can get his life back. Unfortunately, the uTrade Review"Greene remixes sci-fi conventions into a wild, satisfying adventure in a nearly picaresque vein…Readers willing to roll with the punches will delight in following Greene’s winding path." – Publishers Weekly "Mercury Rising is a rollicking, funny, picaresque adventure novel… Recommended for fans of old sf-adventure serials and Ernest Cline's Armada." – Booklist"Greene's world is immersive, compelling, and fun. Brooklyn's saga takes us from a dank New York City jail cell to bone-dry Texas, the rim of a still-smoking crater, the Arctic circle, a Vegas-like city on the moon, and beyond. And, like Brooklyn, I could only hang on for dear life and enjoy the ride. As with all good alternate history, it entertains while shining a light on issues that bedevil this world, and makes you think about the missed opportunities in our own timeline.”– B.L. Blanchard, author of The Peacekeeper"With a deft weaving of rock ‘n roll, denim suits, AMC Pacers and nuclear-powered spaceships, Greene effortlessly recreates a 1970s America that could have been. This thoroughly plausible alternate history in which asteroid-slinging aliens threaten a spacefaring human race is narrated by Greene’s unlikely hero, Brooklyn Lamontagne. Seemingly a brash young ne-er-do well, Brooklyn is redeemed by his love for his mother and his loyalty to his friends and you can’t help but root for him as he navigates a rocky path from the cold streets of NYC to the moon and beyond. As the stakes intensify and the mystery around earth’s implacable enemy deepens, the story becomes a ride as fast as an Oppenheimer-powered rocket and you won’t want it to stop. Can’t wait to see what comes next!" – Sarah J. Daley, author of Obsidian "The action in Mercury Rising is compelling from the first chapter. Greene’s skill at creating an alternate space-faring America in the mid-1970’s is studded with the perfect amount of pop culture references, and his many-layered Everyman, Brooklyn Lamontagne, feels like a long-lost best friend. All this combines to lock you in for a thrilling story that’s impossible to put down." – Ginger Smith, author of The Rush's Edge"Everything I've come to love about Greene: impeccable story logic, fantastic prose, sly humor, and hope in all its glory."– Zig Zag Claybourne, author of Afro Puffs are the Antennae of the Universe"Mercury Rising charmed and fascinated me. Greene has taken an absolutely wild premise and somehow made it fit like a puzzle piece into our own history and knowledge of the greater universe. It is unexpected and clever, heartfelt and funny, with big, conceptual penny-drop moments that hit the reader as hard as they hit the novel's weary protagonist, Brooklyn Lamontagne." – Chris Panatier, author of Stringers and The Phlebotomist"Surprising, engaging, and with plenty of smart nods to society’s bullshit, Mercury Rising is a slice of alternative history that reads like science-fiction Stephen King. A joy." – Dan Hanks, author of Swashbucklers"A tense and moody ride-along on a merchant starship with a corporate family in a far future where being an honest trader is a liability and marriage is about adding a needed skill to the crew, willing or no. But there is always light to be found in the darkness and great discoveries lurk in unexpected places.” - Marjorie B. Kellogg, author of GLIMMER

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Book SynopsisA traumatised woman with amnesia finds her own dead body and sets out to uncover the truth of her demise in a race against time, sanity, crumbling realities and the ever-present threat of the Silhouette. ---What can you do when you’re reeling from trauma but you’ve tried it all? Counselling, yoga, pills, meditation, art, healthy living… none of it makes a dent. What’s left?Magpie is out of ideas. She’s desperate enough to try anything. Just when she thinks her life can get no worse, she discovers herself, or rather her own dead body, partially buried in the mudbank of a river. A man stands by, a familiar stranger. What does he want? And why can’t she remember getting here? Why can’t she remember anything?Unbeknownst to her, two pairs of eyes watch from behind an observation screen, in a room filled with computers and sensors. An experiment is unfolding, but is Magpie the subjTrade Review"As empowering as it is powerful.""It pulls no punches, asks for no quarter, and will leave you breathless. I loved it.” “Gemma delivers! She has the ability to make your heart race.” “A brave, timely and important book.”"An intricately crafted and superbly rendered vision of horror-fantasy from one of the genre's most brilliant and devastating voices.""Amor's writing is tense and sharp, reminiscent of Kealan Patrick Burke, Jeanette Winterson and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Fans of both psychological and body horror will find much to enjoy here!""A harrowing inward odyssey.""Full Immersion is nothing less than a klaxon call confirming one of the most daring and fearless voices in contemporary fiction.""It’s shocking and unnerving and heartbreaking""An important, timely story.""I felt every word.""a bleak but powerful portrait of survival at any cost.""A creepy, unsettling narrative, with strong shades of Sarah Pinborough.""fiercely thought-provoking""Overall, a powerful and challenging work.""Gemma Amor has taken on a considerable challenge here... and she's succeeded.""This a novel that will stay with you""leaves such an indelible impact on the reader""If you’re looking for a speculative fiction story about the effects of trauma that’s honest, inventive, and emotionally true, you won’t do better than Full Immersion.""Masterful""It reads like the best episode of Black Mirror that Charlie Brooker hasn’t yet made."

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Book SynopsisNine Bar Blues is a spellbinding collection of short stories that takes readers on a journey through haunted fields that bloom with laughter and music and ends in the readers own heart.Trade Review"Sheree Renée Thomas gives us a whirlpool of poem and story, a 'wild and strangeful breed' of cosmology … ”—Tyehimba Jess, Pulitzer Prize Winner, author of Olio and Leadbelly “…a feat of literary conjuration. Poetry, prose combine in a mythic discourse that combines African, Indigenous, and European tropes to explore the power and plaints of woman hood; the thin line between life and death; the power of the Fates; the volatility of nature; a desire for and the achievement of transformation.... The texts here offer a profound understanding of the Black American South—where trees are sources of shade and succor or memorials to humanity's murderous traits. And it is a sly portrait of Memphis, Tennessee, Thomas' hometown. This is a bold book full of taller than tall tales and delicate lyrics-where birth, death, sex, magic and discovery walk the same path and haunt the writer's dreams. Join her on this journey and find out what it is like to sleep under that tree." —Patricia Spears Jones, Jackson Prize Winner, author of A Lucent Fire: New and Selected, Painkiller, Femme du Monde, and The Weather That Kills “The lyrical gifts of Thomas, editor of the celebrated Dark Matter anthologies.... She invokes the rhythms of African-American ring shouts and the dense, humid atmosphere of the American South. " —Publishers WeeklyTable of ContentsAncestries Aunt Dissy’s Policy Dream Book Nightflight The Dragon Can’t Dance Thirteen Year Long Song Lokeera’s Tongue Stars Come Down Shanequa’s Blues, or Another Shotgun Lullaby Madame and the Map: A Journey in Five Movements Teddy Bump Origins of Southern Spirit Music

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Book SynopsisThree high school jocks in the 1980s are accidentally frozen by an experimental cryogenics device, only to be revived in the computer-driven, superhero movie-loving world of 2019--an era ruled by nerds! Three high school jocks in the 1980s are accidentally frozen by an experimental cryogenics device, only to be revived in the computer-driven, superhero movie-loving world of 2019--an era ruled by nerds! Introduction written by Ken Jennings.  

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Book SynopsisNeal Asher divides his time between Essex and Crete, mostly at a keyboard and mentally light years away. His full-length novels are as follows. First is the Agent Cormac series: Gridlinked, The Line of Polity, Brass Man, Polity Agent and Line War. Next comes the Spatterjay series: The Skinner, The Voyage of the Sable Keech and Orbus. Also set in the same world of the Polity are these standalone novels: Hilldiggers, Prador Moon, Shadow of the Scorpion, The Technician, Jack Four and Weaponized. The Transformation trilogy is also based in the Polity: Dark Intelligence, War Factory and Infinity Engine. Set in a dystopian future are The Departure, Zero Point and Jupiter War, while Cowl takes us across time. The Rise of the Jain trilogy comprises The Soldier, The Warship and The Human and is also set in the Polit

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Book SynopsisAn ancient cache of knowledge. A ruthless strike team. A race for survival. Archaeologist Delaney McPhearson embarks on a deadly quest through the jungles of Ecuador. Seeking an ancient library containing Atlantean treasure, Laney soon crosses paths with brutal scavengers. Alone and unarmed, she must survive and protect a deadly supernatural secret.

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Book SynopsisAn unexpected, inventive, heartfelt riff on the workplace novelstartup realism with a multiverse twist. Anna Wiener, author of Uncanny ValleyAn adrenaline-packed debut novel about a dating app employee who discovers a glitch that transports him to other worldsOnce you sign an NDA it''s good for life. Meaning legally, I shouldn''t tell you this story. But I have to.A college grad with the six-figure debt to prove it, Ethan Block views San Francisco as the place to be. Yet his job at hot new dating app DateDate is a far cry from what he envisioned. Instead of making the world a better place, he reviews flagged photo queues, overworked and stressed out. But that''s about to change.Reeling from a breakup, Ethan decides to view his algorithmically matched soulmate on DateDate. He overrides the system and clicks on the profile. Then, he disappears. One minute, he's in a windowless office, and the next, he's in a field of endless grass,

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