Arthur C. Clarke 2017-2014

A Closed and Common Orbit: Wayfarers 2 Becky Chambers (Author) Series:

Wayfarers 2

Edition:

Imprint:

Hodder Paperback

Publisher:

Hodder & Stoughton General Division

Pub Date:

15 Jun 2017

Publishing Status:

Forthcoming

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 384pp h197mm x w148mm x s25mm 268g ISBN13: 9781473621473 ISBN13: 978-1-4736-2147-3 ISBN10: 147362147X x Description: Lovelace was once merely a ship's artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in an new body, following a total system shut-down and reboot, she has to start over in a synthetic body, in a world where her kind are illegal. She's never felt so alone.But she's not alone, not really. Pepper, one of the engineers who risked life and limb to reinstall Lovelace, is determined to help her adjust to her new world. Because Pepper knows a thing or two about starting over.Together, Pepper and Lovey will discover that, huge as the galaxy may be, it's anything but empty.The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet introduced readers to the incredible imagination of Becky Chambers and has been nominated for any number of awards and accolades, including the Baileys Prize for Women's Fiction, the Tiptree Award, the Kitschies Golden Tentacle and the Arthur C. Clarke Award.A Closed and Common Orbit is the stand-alone sequel to The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet and is perfect for fans of Firefly, Joss Whedon, Mass Effect and Star Wars. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Ninefox Gambit Yoon Ha Lee (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Solaris

Publisher:

Rebellion

Pub Date:

16 Jun 2016

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (US) 384pp h196mm x w139mm ISBN13: 9781781084489 ISBN13: 978-1-78108-448-9 ISBN10: 1781084483 x Description: Captain Kel Cheris of the hexarchate is disgraced for using unconventional methods in a battle against heretics. Kel Command gives her the opportunity to redeem herself by retaking the Fortress of Scattered Needles, a star fortress that has recently been captured by heretics. Cheris's career isn't the only thing at stake. If the fortress falls, the hexarchate itself might be next. Cheris's best hope is to ally with the undead tactician Shuos Jedao. The good news is that Jedao has never lost a battle, and he may be the only one who can figure out how to successfully besiege the fortress.

The bad news is that Jedao went mad in his first life and massacred two armies, one of them his own. As the siege wears on, Cheris must decide how far she can trust Jedao--because she might be his next victim. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

After Atlas: A Planetfall Novel Emma Newman (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

ROC (imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc)

Publisher:

Penguin Putnam Inc

Pub Date:

10 Nov 2016

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United States Paperback 384pp h203mm x w130mm x s28mm 295g ISBN13: 9780425282403 ISBN13: 978-0-425-28240-3 ISBN10: 0425282406 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Occupy Me Tricia Sullivan (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Gollancz

Publisher:

Orion Publishing Co

Pub Date:

10 Nov 2016

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 288pp h196mm x w132mm x s23mm 278g ISBN13: 9781473212978 ISBN13: 978-1-4732-1297-8 ISBN10: 1473212979 x Description: A woman with wings that exist in another dimension. A man trapped in his own body by a killer. A briefcase that is a door to hell. A conspiracy that reaches beyond our world. Breathtaking SF from a Clarke Award-winning author. Tricia Sullivan has written an extraordinary, genre defining novel that begins with the mystery of a woman who barely knows herself and ends with a discovery that transcends space and time. On the way we follow our heroine as she attempts to track down a killer in the body of another man, and the man who has been taken over, his will trapped inside the mind of the being that has taken him over. And at the centre of it all a briefcase that contains countless possible realities. Tricia Sullivan returns to the genre with a book that will define the conversation within the genre and will show what it is capable of for years to come. This is the best book yet from a writer of exceedingly rare talent who is much loved in the genre world. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Central Station Lavie Tidhar (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Tachyon Publications

Publisher:

Tachyon Publications

Pub Date:

26 May 2016

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United States Paperback Trade paperback (US) No choking hazard warning necessary 288pp h216mm x w136mm x s25mm 271g ISBN13: 9781616962142 ISBN13: 978-1-61696-214-2 ISBN10: 1616962143 x Description: A worldwide diaspora has left a quarter of a million people at the foot of a space station. Cultures collide in real life and virtual reality. The city is literally a weed, its growth left unchecked. Life is cheap, and data is cheaper. When Boris Chong returns to Tel Aviv from Mars, much has changed. Boris's ex-lover is raising a strangely familiar child who can tap into the datastream of a mind with the touch of a finger. His cousin is infatuated with a robotnik--a damaged cyborg soldier who might as well be begging for parts. His father is terminally-ill with a multigenerational mindplague. And a hunted data-vampire has followed Boris to where she is forbidden to return. Rising above them is Central Station, the interplanetary hub between all things: the constantly shifting Tel Aviv; a powerful virtual arena, and the space colonies where humanity has gone to escape the ravages of poverty and war. Everything is connected by the Others, powerful alien entities who, through the Conversation--a shifting, flowing stream of consciousness--are just the beginning of irrevocable change. At Central Station, humans and machines continue to adapt, thrive...and even evolve. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Fleet

Publisher:

Little, Brown Book Group

Pub Date:

06 Oct 2016

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 320pp h237mm x w160mm x s30mm 550g ISBN13: 9780708898390 ISBN13: 978-0-7088-9839-0 ISBN10: 0708898394 x Description: WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER 2016 AMAZON.COM #1 BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD 'Whitehead is on a roll: the reviews have been sublime' Guardian 'Luminous, furious, wildly inventive' Observer 'Hands down one of the best, if not the best, book I've read this year' Stylist 'Dazzling' New York Review of Books Praised by Barack Obama and an Oprah Book Club Pick, The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead won the National Book Award 2016. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. All the slaves lead a hellish existence, but Cora has it worse than most; she is an outcast even among her fellow Africans and she is approaching

womanhood, where it is clear even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a slave recently arrived from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they take the perilous decision to escape to the North.

In Whitehead's razor-sharp imagining of the antebellum South, the Underground Railroad has assumed a physical form: a dilapidated box car pulled along subterranean tracks by a steam locomotive, picking up fugitives wherever it can. Cora and Caesar's first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But its placid surface masks an infernal scheme designed for its unknowing black inhabitants. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher sent to find Cora, is close on their heels. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom. At each stop on her journey, Cora encounters a different world. As Whitehead brilliantly recreates the unique terrors for black people in the pre-Civil War era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America, from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once the story of one woman's ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shatteringly powerful meditation on history. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Fleet

Publisher:

Little, Brown Book Group

Pub Date:

29 Jun 2017

Publishing Status:

Forthcoming

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 400pp h198mm x w126mm x s27mm 324g ISBN13: 9780708898406 ISBN13: 978-0-7088-9840-6 ISBN10: 0708898408 x Description: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and a NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER FOR FICTION 2016 'Whitehead is on a roll: the reviews have been sublime' Guardian 'Luminous, furious, wildly inventive' Observer 'Hands down one of the best, if not the best, book I've read this year' Stylist 'Dazzling' New York Review of Books Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. All the slaves lead a hellish existence, but Cora has it worse than most; she is an outcast even among her fellow Africans and she is approaching womanhood, where it is clear even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a slave recently arrived from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they take the perilous decision to escape to the North. In Whitehead's razor-sharp imagining of the antebellum South, the Underground Railroad has assumed a physical form: a dilapidated box car pulled along subterranean tracks by a steam locomotive, picking up fugitives wherever it can. Cora and Caesar's first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But its placid surface masks an infernal scheme designed for its unknowing black inhabitants.

And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher sent to find Cora, is close on their heels. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom. At each stop on her journey, Cora encounters a different world. As Whitehead brilliantly recreates the unique terrors for black people in the pre-Civil War era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America, from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once the story of one woman's ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shatteringly powerful meditation on history. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Children of Time Adrian Tchaikovsky (Author) Series:

Edition:

Main Market Ed.

Imprint:

Pan Books

Publisher:

Pan Macmillan

Pub Date:

21 Apr 2016

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 608pp h197mm x w127mm x s36mm 423g ISBN13: 9781447273301 ISBN13: 978-1-4472-7330-1 ISBN10: 1447273303 x Description: Winner of the 30th anniversary Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Novel Adrian Tchaikovksy's critically acclaimed, stand-alone novel Children of Time, is the epic story of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Who will inherit this new Earth? The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age - a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne disastrous fruit. The planet is not waiting for them, pristine and unoccupied. New masters have turned it from a refuge into mankind's worst nightmare. Now two civilizations are on a collision course, both testing the boundaries of what they will do to survive. As the fate of humanity hangs in the balance, who are the true heirs of this new Earth? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet Becky Chambers (Author) Series:

Wayfarers 1

Edition:

Imprint:

Hodder Paperback

Publisher:

Hodder & Stoughton General Division

Pub Date:

31 Dec 2015

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 432pp h197mm x w131mm x s28mm 300g ISBN13: 9781473619814 ISBN13: 978-1-4736-1981-4 ISBN10: 1473619815 x Description: ***SHORTLISTED FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD****** SHORTLISTED FOR THE KITSCHIES GOLDEN TENTACLE****** LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEY'S WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016*** The astonishing self-published debut novel that Guardian calls 'a quietly profound, humane tour de force.'When Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn't expecting much. The Wayfarer, a patched-up ship that's seen better days, offers her everything she could possibly want: a small, quiet spot to call home for a while, adventure in far-off corners of the galaxy, and distance from her troubled past.But Rosemary gets more than she bargained for with the Wayfarer. The crew is a mishmash of species and personalities, from Sissix, the friendly reptillian pilot, to Kizzy and Jenks, the constantly sparring engineers who keep the ship running. Life on board is chaotic, but more or less peaceful - exactly what Rosemary wants.Until the crew are offered the job of a lifetime: the chance to build a hyperspace tunnel to a distant planet. They'll earn enough money to live comfortably for years...if they survive the long trip through war-torn interstellar space without endangering any of the fragile alliances that keep the galaxy peaceful.

But Rosemary isn't the only person on board with secrets to hide, and the crew will soon discover that space may be vast, but spaceships are very small indeed. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Europe at Midnight Dave Hutchinson (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Solaris

Publisher:

Rebellion

Pub Date:

05 Nov 2015

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback No EU Toy Safety hazard warning applicable No warning 384pp h198mm x w130mm ISBN13: 9781781083987 ISBN13: 978-1-78108-398-7 ISBN10: 1781083983 x Description: Europe is crumbling. The Xian Flu pandemic and ongoing economic crises have fractured the European Union, the borderless Continent of the Schengen Agreement is a distant memory, and new nations are springing up everywhere, some literally overnight. For an intelligence officer like Jim, it's a nightmare. Every week or so a friendly power spawns, a new and unknown national entity which may or may not be friendly to England's interests; it's hard to keep on top of it all. But things are about to get worse for Jim. A stabbing on a London bus pitches him into a world where his intelligence service is preparing for war with another universe, and a man has come who may hold the key to unlocking the mystery. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Book of Phoenix Nnedi Okorafor (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Hodder Paperback

Publisher:

Hodder & Stoughton General Division

Pub Date:

11 Feb 2016

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 240pp h197mm x w135mm x s16mm 170g ISBN13: 9781444762808 ISBN13: 978-1-4447-6280-8 ISBN10: 144476280X x Description: ***SHORTLISTED FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD***They call her many things - a research project, a test-subject, a specimen.

An abomination. But she calls herself Phoenix, an 'accelerated woman' - a genetic experiment grown and raised in Manhattan's famous Tower 7, the only home she has ever known. Although she's only two years old, Phoenix has the body and mind of an adult - and powers beyond imagining.

Phoenix is an innocent, happy to live quietly in Tower 7, reading voraciously and basking in the love of Saeed, another biologically altered human. Until

the night that Saeed witnesses something so terrible that he takes his own life. Devastated, Phoenix begins to search for answers - only to discover that everything that she has ever known is a lie. Tower 7 isn't a haven. It's a prison.And it's time for Phoenix to spread her wings and rise. Spanning continents and centuries, The Book of Phoenix is an epic, incendiary work of magial realism featuring Nnedi Okorafor's most incredible, unforgettable heroine yet. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Arcadia Iain Pears (Author) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Publisher:

Faber & Faber

Pub Date:

03 Sep 2015

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 608pp h240mm x w155mm x s50mm 900g ISBN13: 9780571301553 ISBN13: 978-0-571-30155-3 ISBN10: 057130155X x Description: This is a captivating adventure story with huge heart and dazzling imaginative power, from the best-selling author of An Instance of the Fingerpost. Three interlocking worlds. Four people looking for answers. But who controls the future - or the past? In the basement of a professor's house in 1960s Oxford, fifteen-year-old Rosie goes in search of a missing cat - and instead finds herself in a different world. Anterwold is a sundrenched land of storytellers, prophecies and ritual. But is this world real - and what happens if she decides to stay? Meanwhile, in a sterile laboratory, a rebellious scientist is trying to prove that time does not even exist - with potentially devastating consequences. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Arcadia Iain Pears (Author) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Publisher:

Faber & Faber

Pub Date:

02 Jun 2016

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 736pp h198mm x w129mm x s32mm 509g ISBN13: 9780571301577 ISBN13: 978-0-571-30157-7 ISBN10: 0571301576 x Description: Three interlocking worlds. Four people looking for answers. April, 1960: In the cellar of a professor's house in Oxford, fifteen-year-old Rosie goes in search of a missing cat - and instead finds herself in a different world. Anterwold is a sun-drenched land of storytellers and prophecies.

But is this world real - and what happens if Rosie decides to stay? Meanwhile, a rebellious scientist is trying to prove that time does not even exist with potentially devastating consequences. As the three worlds come together, one question arises: who controls the future - or the past...? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Way Down Dark: Australia Book 1 James P. Smythe (Author) Series:

The Australia Trilogy Book 1

Edition:

Imprint:

Hodder Paperback

Publisher:

Hodder & Stoughton General Division

Pub Date:

07 Apr 2016

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 288pp h198mm x w130mm x s11mm 202g ISBN13: 9781444796339 ISBN13: 978-1-4447-9633-9 ISBN10: 144479633X x Description: ***SHORTLISTED FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD*** Imagine a nightmare from which there is no escape. Seventeen-year-old Chan's ancestors left a dying Earth hundreds of years ago, in search of a new home. They never found one. This is a hell where no one can hide. The only life that Chan's ever known is one of violence, of fighting. Of trying to survive. This is a ship of death, of murderers and cults and gangs. But there might be a way to escape. In order to find it, Chan must head way down into the darkness - a place of buried secrets, long-forgotten lies, and the abandoned bodies of the dead. This is Australia. Seventeen-year-old Chan, fiercely independent and self-sufficient, keeps her head down and lives quietly, careful not to draw attention to herself amidst the violence and disorder. Until the day she makes an extraordinary discovery - a way to return

the Australia to Earth. But doing so would bring her to the attention of the fanatics and the murderers who control life aboard the ship, putting her and everyone she loves in terrible danger. And a safe return to Earth is by no means certain. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel (Author) Series:

Edition:

Main Market Ed.

Imprint:

Picador

Publisher:

Pan Macmillan

Pub Date:

01 Jan 2015

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 384pp h197mm x w129mm x s23mm 255g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9781447268970 ISBN13: 978-1-4472-6897-0 ISBN10: 1447268970 x Description: The New York Times Bestseller Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2015 Shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2015 2014 National Book Awards Finalist 2015 PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist What was lost in the collapse: almost everything, almost everyone, but there is still such beauty. One snowy night in Toronto famous actor Arthur Leander dies on stage whilst performing the role of a lifetime. That same evening a deadly virus touches down in North America. The world will never be the same again. Twenty years later Kirsten, an actress in the Travelling Symphony, performs Shakespeare in the settlements that have grown up since the collapse. But then her newly hopeful world is threatened.

If civilization was lost, what would you preserve? And how far would you go to protect it? 'BEST NOVEL. The big one ...One of the 2014 books that I did read stands above all the others: Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel ...beautifully written, and wonderfully elegiac, a book that I will long remember, and return to.' George R.R. Martin, author of Game of Thrones 'Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven is that rare find that feels familiar and extraordinary at the same time. This is truly something special' Erin Morgenstern, author of The Night Circus _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Girl with All the Gifts M. R. Carey (Author) Series:

Edition:

Film tie-in ed

Imprint:

Orbit

Publisher:

Little, Brown Book Group

Pub Date:

04 Aug 2016

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 512pp h197mm x w131mm x s32mm 344g ISBN13: 9780356507231 ISBN13: 978-0-356-50723-1 ISBN10: 0356507238 x Description: The phenomenal word-of-mouth bestseller THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS is now a major film starring Glenn Close, Gemma Arterton and Paddy Considine. NOT EVERY GIFT IS A BLESSING Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant Parks keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don't like her. She jokes that she won't bite. But they don't laugh. Melanie is a very special girl. Emotionally charged and gripping from beginning to end, THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS is the most powerful and affecting thriller you will read this year. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Book of Strange New Things Michel Faber (Author) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Canongate Books Ltd

Publisher:

Canongate Books Ltd

Pub Date:

23 Oct 2014

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 592pp h240mm x w162mm x s48mm 899g ISBN13: 9781782114062 ISBN13: 978-1-78211-406-2 ISBN10: 1782114068 x Description: 'I am with you always, even unto the end of the world ...' Peter Leigh is a missionary called to go on the journey of a lifetime. Leaving behind his beloved wife, Bea, he boards a flight for a remote and unfamiliar land, a place where the locals are hungry for the teachings of the Bible - his 'book of strange new things'. It is a quest that will challenge Peter's beliefs, his understanding of the limits of the human body and, most of all, his love

for Bea. The Book of Strange New Things is a wildly original tale of adventure, faith and the ties that might hold two people together when they are worlds apart. This momentous novel, Faber's first since The Crimson Petal and the White, sees him at his expectation-defying best. AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Book of Strange New Things Michel Faber (Author) Series:

Edition:

Main

Imprint:

Canongate Books Ltd

Publisher:

Canongate Books Ltd

Pub Date:

06 Aug 2015

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 592pp h198mm x w130mm x s37mm 400g Print PDF ISBN13: 9781782114086 ISBN13: 978-1-78211-408-6 ISBN10: 1782114084 x Description: OASIS, an Amazon Original Series, coming in 2017 'I am with you always, even unto the end of the world ...' Peter Leigh is a missionary called to go on the journey of a lifetime. Leaving behind his beloved wife, Bea, Peter sets out on a quest to take the word of God to the farthest corners of the galaxy. His mission will challenge everything - his faith, his endurance and the love that can hold two people together, even when they are worlds apart. *This book has been printed with two different cover designs. We are unable to accept requests for a specific cover. The different covers will be assigned to orders at random.* _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Europe in Autumn Dave Hutchinson (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Solaris

Publisher:

Rebellion

Pub Date:

14 Feb 2014

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 317pp h198mm x w130mm ISBN13: 9781781081952 ISBN13: 978-1-78108-195-2 ISBN10: 1781081956 x Description: 'Europe in Autumn' is a thriller of espionage and the future which reads like the love child of John le Carre and Franz Kafka. Rudi is a cook in a Krakow restaurant, but when his boss asks Rudi to help a cousin escape from the country he s trapped in, a new career - part spy, part people-smuggler - begins. Following multiple economic crises and a devastating flu pandemic, Europe has fractured into countless tiny nations, duchies, polities and republics. Recruited by the shadowy organisation "Les Coureurs des Bois," Rudi is schooled in espionage, but when a training mission to The Line, a sovereign nation consisting of a trans-Europe railway line, goes wrong, he is arrested, beaten and Coureur Central must attempt a rescue. With so many nations to work in, and identities to assume, Rudi is kept busy travelling across Europe. But when he is sent to smuggle someone out of Berlin and finds a severed head inside a locker instead, a conspiracy begins to wind itself around him.

With kidnapping, double-crosses and a map that constantly re-draws, Rudi begins to realise that underneath his daily round of plot and counter plot, behind the conflicting territories, another entirely different reality might be pulling the strings... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Memory of Water Emmi Itaranta (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

HarperVoyager

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers

Pub Date:

12 Feb 2015

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Unsewn / adhesive bound 272pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 260g ISBN13: 9780007529940 ISBN13: 978-0-00-752994-0 ISBN10: 0007529945 x Description: With the lyricism of Ishiguro's NEVER LET ME GO, and the world building brilliance of Atwood, Emmi Itaranta's effortless and poignant debut novel is a coming of age story full of emotional drama and wonderment. Some secrets demand betrayal. 'You're seventeen, and of age now, and therefore old enough to understand what I'm going to tell you,' my father said. 'This place doesn't exist.' 'I'll remember,' I told him, but didn't realise until

later what kind of promise I had made. When Noria Kaitio reaches her seventeenth birthday, she is entrusted with the secret of a freshwater spring hidden deep within the caves near her small rural village. Its preservation has been the responsibility of her family for generations. Apprenticed to her father, one of the last true tea masters, when Noria takes possession of the knowledge, she become much more than the guardian of ancestral treasure; soon, she will hold the fate of everyone she loves in her hands. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August Claire North (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Orbit

Publisher:

Little, Brown Book Group

Pub Date:

28 Aug 2014

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 448pp h198mm x w134mm x s30mm 352g ISBN13: 9780356502588 ISBN13: 978-0-356-50258-8 ISBN10: 0356502589 x Description: *** Featured in the Richard and Judy Book Club *** *** Featured in the Waterstones Book Club *** *** Featured on BBC Radio 2 Book Club *** Harry August is on his deathbed. Again. No matter what he does or the decisions he makes, when death comes, Harry always returns to where he began, a child with all the knowledge of a life he has already lived a dozen times before. Nothing ever changes. Until now. As Harry nears the end of his eleventh life, a little girl appears at his bedside. 'I nearly missed you, Doctor August,' she says. 'I need to send a message.' This is the story of what Harry does next, and what he did before, and how he tries to save a past he cannot change and a future he cannot allow. Also by Claire North Novels: Touch The Sudden Appearance of Hope (coming May 2016) Digital novellas: The Serpent: Gameshouse Novella 1 The Thief: Gameshouse Novella 2 The Master: Gameshouse Novella 3 _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Ancillary Justice Ann Leckie (Author) Series:

Imperial Radch 1

Edition:

Imprint:

Orbit

Publisher:

Little, Brown Book Group

Pub Date:

01 Oct 2013

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 432pp h196mm x w130mm x s29mm 298g ISBN13: 9780356502403 ISBN13: 978-0-356-50240-3 ISBN10: 0356502406 x Description: The record-breaking debut novel that won every major science fiction award in 2014, Ancillary Justice is the story of a warship trapped in a human body and her search for revenge. Ann Leckie is the first author to win the Arthur C. Clarke, the Nebula and the Hugo Award for Best Novel in the same year. They made me kill thousands, but I only have one target now. The Radch are conquerors to be feared - resist and they'll turn you into a 'corpse soldier' - one of an army of dead prisoners animated by a warship's AI mind. Whole planets are conquered by their own people. The colossal warship called The Justice of Toren has been destroyed - but one ship-possessed soldier has escaped the devastation. Used to controlling thousands of hands, thousands of mouths, The Justice now has only two hands, and one mouth with which to tell her tale. But one fragile, human body might just be enough to take revenge against those who destroyed her. 'ENGAGING AND PROVOCATIVE' SFX Magazine 'UNEXPECTED, COMPELLING AND VERY COOL' John Scalzi 'HIGHLY RECOMMENDED' Independent on Sunday 'MIND-BLOWING' io9.com 'THRILLING, MOVING AND AWEINSPIRING' Guardian 'UTTER PERFECTION' The Book Smugglers 'ASTOUNDINGLY ASSURED AND GRACEFUL' Strange Horizons 'ESTABLISHES LECKIE AS AN HEIR TO BANKS' Elizabeth Bear _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

God's War: Bel Dame Apocrypha Kameron Hurley (Author) Series:

Bel Dame Apocrypha 1

Edition:

Imprint:

Del Rey

Publisher:

Ebury Publishing

Pub Date:

16 Jan 2014

Publishing Status:

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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 432pp h198mm x w126mm x s27mm 300g B-format paperback ISBN13: 9780091952785 ISBN13: 978-0-09-195278-5 ISBN10: 0091952786

x Description: This is shortlisted for The Arthur C. Clarke Award. Nyx is a bel dame, a bounty hunter paid to collect the heads of deserters - by almost any means necessary. 'Almost' proved to be the problem. Cast out and imprisoned for breaking one rule too many, Nyx and her crew of mercenaries are all about the money. But when a dubious government deal with an alien emissary goes awry, her name is at the top of the list for a covert recovery.

While the centuries-long war rages on only one thing is certain: the world's best chance for peace rests in the hands of its most ruthless killers... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Disestablishment of Paradise Phillip Mann (Author) Series:

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Gollancz

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Orion Publishing Co

Pub Date:

13 Feb 2014

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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 528pp h198mm x w131mm x s33mm 374g ISBN13: 9780575132634 ISBN13: 978-0-575-13263-4 ISBN10: 0575132639 x Description: Something has gone wrong on the planet of Paradise. The human settlers - farmers and scientists - are finding that their crops won't grow and their lives are becoming more and more dangerous. The indigenous plant life - never entirely safe - is changing in unpredictable ways, and the imported plantings wither and die. And so the order is given - Paradise will be abandoned. All personnel will be removed and reassigned. And all human presence on the planet will be disestablished. Not all agree with the decision. There are some who believe that Paradise has more to offer the human race. That the planet is not finished with the intruders, and that the risks of staying are outweighed by the possible rewards. And so the leader of the research team and one of the demolition workers set off on a journey across the planet. Along the way they will encounter the last of the nearmythical Dendron, the vicious Reapers and the deadly Tattersall Weeds as they embark on an adventure which will bring them closer to nature, to each other and, eventually, to Paradise. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Nexus Ramez Naam (Author) Series:

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Angry Robot

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Watkins Media

Pub Date:

03 Jan 2013

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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 474pp h198mm x w133mm x s32mm ISBN13: 9780857662927 ISBN13: 978-0-85766-292-7 ISBN10: 0857662929 x Description: In the near future, the nano-drug Nexus can link mind to mind. There are some who want to improve it. There are some who want to eradicate it. And others who want to exploit it. There's more to Nexus than meets the eye... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Adjacent Christopher Priest (Author) Series:

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Gollancz

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Orion Publishing Co

Pub Date:

10 Apr 2014

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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 432pp h197mm x w136mm x s29mm 344g ISBN13: 9780575105386 ISBN13: 978-0-575-10538-6 ISBN10: 0575105380 x Description: Tibor Tarent, a freelance photographer, is recalled to Britain from Anatolia where his wife Melanie has been killed by insurgent militia.

IRGB is a nation living in the aftermath of a bizarre and terrifying terrorist atrocity - hundreds of thousands were wiped out when a vast triangle of west London was instantly annihilated. The authorities think the terrorist attack and the death of Tarent's wife are somehow connected. A century earlier, a stage magician is sent to the Western Front on a secret mission to render British reconnaissance aircraft invisible to the enemy. On his journey to the trenches he meets the visionary who believes that this will be the war to end all wars. In 1943, a woman pilot from Poland tells a young RAF technician

of her escape from the Nazis, and her desperate need to return home. In the present day, a theoretical physicist stands in his English garden and creates the first adjacency. THE ADJACENT is a novel where nothing is quite as it seems. Where fiction and history intersect, where every version of reality is suspect, where truth and falsehood lie closely adjacent to one another. It shows why Christopher Priest is one of our greatest writers. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Machine James Smythe (Author) Series:

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Blue Door

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers

Pub Date:

16 Jan 2014

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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 328pp h197mm x w130mm 240g ISBN13: 9780007507504 ISBN13: 978-0-00-750750-4 ISBN10: 000750750X x Description: Shortlisted for the Arthur C Clarke Award 2014, this is a Frankenstein tale for our time from one of the UK's brightest new literary talents.

Vic returned from war tormented by his nightmares. His once happy marriage to Beth all but disintegrated. A machine promised salvation, purging him of all memory. Now the machines are gone, declared too controversial, the side-effects too harmful. But within Beth's flat is an ever-whirring black box.

She knows that memories can be put back and that she can rebuild her husband piece by piece. A Frankenstein tale for the 21st century, The Machine is a story of the indelibility of memory, the human cost of science and the horrors of love. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________