All the Birds in the Sky Charlie Jane Anders (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Titan Books Ltd
Publisher:
Titan Books Ltd
Pub Date:
26 Jan 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 320pp h198mm x w130mm ISBN13: 9781785650550 ISBN13: 978-1-78565-055-0 ISBN10: 1785650556 x Description: WINNER OF BEST NOVEL IN 2016 NEBULA AWARDSFINALIST FOR BEST NOVEL IN THE 2017 HUGO AWARDSPatricia is a witch who can communicate with animals. Laurence is a mad scientist and inventor of the two-second time machine. As teenagers they gravitate towards one another, sharing in the horrors of growing up weird, but their lives take different paths...When they meet again as adults, Laurence is an engineering genius trying to save the world-and live up to his reputation-in near-future San Francisco. Meanwhile, Patricia is a graduate of Eltisley Maze, the hidden academy for the magically gifted, working hard to prove herself to her fellow magicians and secretly repair the earth's ever growing ailments.As they attempt to save our future, Laurence and Patricia's shared past pulls them back together. And though they come from different worlds, when they collide, the witch and the scientist will discover that maybe they understand each other better than anyone. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Borderline Mishell Baker (Author) Series:
Arcadia Project 1
Edition:
Imprint:
Saga Press
Publisher:
Saga Press
Pub Date:
01 Mar 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Hardback Sewn h216mm x w147mm x s33mm 454g ISBN13: 9781481453066 ISBN13: 978-1-4814-5306-6 ISBN10: 1481453068 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Borderline Mishell Baker (Author) Series:
The Arcadia Project 1
Edition:
Imprint:
Saga Press
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Pub Date:
01 Mar 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback Trade paperback (US) 400pp h209mm x w139mm x s25mm 335g f-c cvr (fx: spot gloss over coarse matte); digital ISBN13: 9781481429788 ISBN13: 978-1-4814-2978-8 ISBN10: 1481429787 x Description: A cynical, disabled film director with borderline personality disorder gets recruited to join a secret organization that oversees relations between Hollywood and Fairyland in this Nebula Award-nominated and Tiptree Award Honor Book that's the first novel in a new urban fantasy series from debut author Mishell Baker. A year ago, Millie lost her legs and her filmmaking career in a failed suicide attempt. Just when she's sure the credits have rolled on her life story, she gets a second chance with the Arcadia Project: a secret organization that polices the traffic to and from a parallel reality filled with creatures straight out of myth and fairy tales. For her first assignment, Millie is tasked with tracking down a missing movie star who also happens to be a nobleman of the Seelie Court. To find him, she'll have to smooth-talk Hollywood power players and uncover the surreal and sometimes terrifying truth behind the glamour of Tinseltown. But stronger forces than just her inner demons are sabotaging her progress, and if she fails to unravel the conspiracy behind the noble's disappearance, not only will she be out on the streets, but the shattering of a centuries-old peace could spark an all-out war between worlds. No pressure. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Obelisk Gate N. K. Jemisin (Author) Series:
Broken Earth Trilogy Book Edition: 2
Imprint:
Orbit
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
18 Aug 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 448pp h197mm x w132mm x s29mm 300g ISBN13: 9780356508368 ISBN13: 978-0-356-50836-8 ISBN10: 0356508366 x Description: Continuing the trilogy that began with the multi-award nominated THE FIFTH SEASON * Shortlisted for the Hugo, Nebula, Kitschies, Audie and Locus Awards * A New York Times Notable Book of 2015 * The inaugural Wired.com book club pick The season of endings grows darker, as civilization fades into the long cold night. Essun has found shelter, but not her missing daughter. Instead there is Alabaster Tenring, destroyer of the world, with a request only Essun can grant. Praise for this trilogy: 'Amazing' Ann Leckie 'Breaks uncharted ground' Library Journal 'Beautiful' Nnedi Okorafor 'Astounding' NPR 'Brilliant' Washington Post 'Heartbreaking, wholly unexpected' Brian Staveley 'Awesome' Book Smugglers 'A powerful story of hope and survival' The Root _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Everfair Nisi Shawl (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Starscape
Publisher:
Starscape
Pub Date:
12 Sep 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Hardback 384pp h210mm x w139mm x s38mm 454g ISBN13: 9780765338051 ISBN13: 978-0-7653-3805-1 ISBN10: 076533805X x Description: Everfair is a wonderful Neo-Victorian alternate history novel that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's disastrous colonisation of the Congo if the native populations had learned about steam technology a bit earlier. Fabian Socialists from Great Britian join forces with African-American missionaries to purchase land from the Belgian Congo's "owner," King Leopold II. This land, named Everfair, is set aside as a safe haven, an imaginary Utopia for native populations of the Congo as well as escaped slaves returning from America and other places where African natives were being mistreated. Shawl's speculative masterpiece manages to turn one of the worst human rights disasters on record into a marvellous and exciting exploration of the possibilities inherent in a turn of history. Everfair is told from a multiplicity of voices: Africans, Europeans, East Asians, and African Americans in complex relationships with one another, in a compelling range of voices that have historically been silenced. Everfair is not only a beautiful book but an educational and inspiring one that will give the reader new insight into an often ignored period of history.
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Everfair: A Novel Nisi Shawl (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Tor Books
Publisher:
Pub Date:
01 Oct 2017
Publishing Status:
Forthcoming
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 384pp h210mm x w140mm x s26mm ISBN13: 9780765338068 ISBN13: 978-0-7653-3806-8 ISBN10: 0765338068 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Uprooted Naomi Novik (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main Market Ed.
Imprint:
Pan Books
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Pub Date:
05 May 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 448pp h197mm x w130mm x s27mm 322g ISBN13: 9781447294146 ISBN13: 978-1-4472-9414-6 ISBN10: 1447294149 x Description: Winner of the 2016 Nebula Award for Best Novel Winner of the 2016 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel Winner of the 2016 British Fantasy Society Award for Best Novel Shortlisted for the 2016 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel Shortlisted for the 2016 Hugo Award for Best Novel A dark enchantment blights the land in the award-winning Uprooted - a enthralling, mythic fantasy by Naomi Novik, author of the Temeraire series. Agnieszka loves her village, set deep in a peaceful valley. But the nearby enchanted forest casts a shadow over her home. Many have been lost to the Wood and none return unchanged. The villagers depend on an ageless wizard, the Dragon, to protect them from the forest's dark magic. However, his help comes at a terrible price. One young village woman must serve him for ten years, leaving all they value behind. Agnieszka fears her dearest friend Kasia will be picked at the next choosing, for she's everything Agnieszka is not - beautiful, graceful and brave. Yet when the Dragon comes, it's not Kasia he takes. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ancillary Mercy Ann Leckie (Author) Series:
Imperial Radch
Edition:
Imprint:
Orbit
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
08 Oct 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 368pp h198mm x w131mm x s28mm 250g ISBN13: 9780356502427 ISBN13: 978-0-356-50242-7 ISBN10: 0356502422 x Description: Ancillary Mercy is the stunning conclusion to the trilogy that began with Ancillary Justice, the only novel ever to win the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke Awards. For a moment, things seemed to be under control for Breq, the soldier who used to be a warship. Then a search of Athoek Station's slums turns up someone who shouldn't exist and a messenger from the mysterious Presger empire arrives, as does Breq's old enemy, the divided, heavily armed, and possibly insane Anaander Mianaai - ruler of an empire at war with itself. Breq could flee with her ship and crew, but that would leave the people of Athoek in terrible danger. Breq has a desperate plan. The odds aren't good, but that's never stopped her before. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Barsk Lawrence M. Schoen (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Tor Books
Publisher:
St Martin's Press
Pub Date:
11 Jan 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Hardback 384pp h210mm x w139mm x s30mm 476g ISBN13: 9780765377029 ISBN13: 978-0-7653-7702-9 ISBN10: 0765377020 x Description: A historian who speaks with the dead is ensnared by the past. A child who feels no pain and who should not exist sees the future. Between them are truths that will shake worlds. In a distant future, no remnants of human beings remain, but their successors thrive throughout the galaxy. These are the offspring of humanity's genius - animals uplifted into walking, talking, sentient beings. The Fant are one such species: anthropomorphic elephants ostracised by other races, and long ago exiled to the rainy ghetto world of Barsk. There, they develop medicines upon which all species now depend. The most coveted of these drugs is koph, which allows a small number of users to interact with the recently deceased and learn their secrets. To break the Fant's control of koph, an offworld shadow group attempts to force the Fant to surrender their knowledge. Jorl, a Fant Speaker with the dead, is compelled to question his deceased best friend, who years ago mysteriously committed suicide. In so doing, Jorl unearths a secret the powers that be would prefer to keep buried forever. Meanwhile, his dead friend's son, a physically challenged young Fant named Pizlo, is driven by disturbing visions to take his first unsteady steps toward an uncertain future. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard Lawrence M Schoen (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Tor Books
Publisher:
St Martin's Press
Pub Date:
10 Jan 2017
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) h208mm x w140mm x s25mm 318g ISBN13: 9780765377036 ISBN13: 978-0-7653-7703-6 ISBN10: 0765377039 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Fifth Season N. K. Jemisin (Author) Series:
Broken Earth Trilogy 1
Edition:
Imprint:
Orbit
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
28 Jul 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 512pp h156mm x w200mm x s34mm 348g ISBN13: 9780356508191 ISBN13: 978-0-356-50819-1 ISBN10: 0356508196 x Description: A New York Times Notable Book of 2015 Shortlisted for the Hugo, World Fantasy, Nebula, Kitschies, Audie and Locus Awards The inaugural Wired.com book club pick THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS ...FOR THE LAST TIME. IT STARTS WITH THE GREAT RED RIFT across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. IT STARTS WITH DEATH, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. IT STARTS WITH BETRAYAL, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester. This is the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Grace of Kings Ken Liu (Author) Series:
The Dandelion Dynasty 1 Edition:
Imprint:
Head of Zeus
Publisher:
Head of Zeus
Pub Date:
03 Dec 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 640pp h228mm x w145mm ISBN13: 9781784973216 ISBN13: 978-1-78497-321-6 ISBN10: 1784973211 x Description: Emperor Mapidere was the first to unite the island kingdoms of Dara under a single banner. But now the emperor is on his deathbed, his people are exhausted by his vast, conscriptive engineering projects and his counsellors conspire only for their own gain. Even the gods themselves are restless. A wily, charismatic bandit and the vengeance-sworn son of a deposed duke cross paths as they each lead their own rebellion against the emperor's brutal regime. Together, they will journey to the heart of the empire; witnessing the clash of armies, fleets of silk-draped airships, magical books and shapeshifting gods. Their unlikely friendship will drastically change the balance of power in Dara...but at what price? THE GRACE OF KINGS is the debut novel by Hugo-, Nebula- and World Fantasy Award-winner Ken Liu and the first in an monumental new epic fantasy series. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Grace of Kings Ken Liu (Author) Series:
The Dandelion Dynasty 1 Edition:
Imprint:
Head of Zeus
Publisher:
Head of Zeus
Pub Date:
02 Jun 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 640pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781784973230 ISBN13: 978-1-78497-323-0 ISBN10: 1784973238 x Description: Emperor Mapidere was the first to unite the island kingdoms of Dara under a single banner. But now the emperor is on his deathbed, his people are exhausted by his vast, conscriptive engineering projects and his counsellors conspire only for their own gain. Even the gods themselves are restless. A wily, charismatic bandit and the vengeance-sworn son of a deposed duke cross paths as they each lead their own rebellion against the emperor's brutal regime. Together, they will journey to the heart of the empire; witnessing the clash of armies, fleets of silk-draped airships, magical books and shapeshifting gods. Their unlikely friendship will drastically change the balance of power in Dara...but at what price? THE GRACE OF KINGS is the debut novel by Hugo-, Nebula- and World Fantasy Award-winner Ken Liu and the first in an monumental new epic fantasy series. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Raising Caine Charles E. Gannon (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Baen Books
Publisher:
Baen Books
Pub Date:
05 Sep 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback 784pp h171mm x w114mm x s33mm 318g ISBN13: 9781476781952 ISBN13: 978-1-4767-8195-2 ISBN10: 1476781958 x Description: Science fiction adventure on a grand scale. Triple Nebula finalist series! Raising Caine is a Nebula Award finalist. So were prequels Trial by Fire and Fire with Fire. Charles E. Gannon is also the winner of the Compton Crook Award Caine Riordan, reluc _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Updraft Fran Wilde (Author) Series:
Bone Universe
Edition:
Imprint:
Tor Books
Publisher:
St Martin's Press
Pub Date:
01 Oct 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Hardback Sewn h211mm x w145mm x s33mm 363g ISBN13: 9780765377838 ISBN13: 978-0-7653-7783-8 ISBN10: 0765377837 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Updraft Fran Wilde (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Starscape
Publisher:
Starscape
Pub Date:
23 Sep 2016
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback 368pp h210mm x w139mm x s23mm 318g ISBN13: 9780765377845 ISBN13: 978-0-7653-7784-5 ISBN10: 0765377845 x Description: Welcome to a world of wind and bone, songs and silence, betrayal and courage. Kirit Densira cannot wait to pass her wing test and begin flying as a trader by her mother's side, being in service to her beloved home tower and exploring the skies beyond. When Kirit inadvertently breaks Tower Law, she attempts to save her family from greater censure by giving up her dreams as a sacrifice to the secretive governing body of the Towers. Kirit throws herself instead into the dangerous training at the Spire, the tallest, most forbidding tower, deep at the heart of the City. As she grows in knowledge and power, she starts to uncover the depths of Spire secrets. Kirit begins to doubt her world and its unassailable Laws, setting in motion a chain of events that will lead to a haunting choice, and may well change the City forever - if it isn't destroyed outright. The Nebula Awards were awarded on Saturday, May 14, 2016 in Chicago by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. More info about the awards and SFWA can be found here: http://www.sfwa.org/nebula-awards/. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Annihilation Jeff VanderMeer (Author) Series:
The Southern Reach Trilogy 1
Edition:
Imprint:
Fourth Estate Ltd
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub Date:
30 Jul 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 208pp h197mm x w130mm 200g ISBN13: 9780008139100 ISBN13: 978-0-00-813910-0 ISBN10: 0008139105 x Description: The first volume of the extraordinary Southern Reach trilogy. 'Creepy and fascinating' Stephen King. Welcome to Area X. An Edenic wilderness, an environmental disaster zone, a mystery for thirty years. For thirty years, Area X, monitored by the secret agency known as the Southern Reach, has remained mysterious and remote behind its intangible border- an environmental disaster zone, though to all appearances an abundant wilderness. Eleven expeditions have been sent in to investigate; even for those that have made it out alive, there have been terrible consequences. 'Annihilation' is the story of the twelfth expedition and is told by its nameless biologist. Introverted but highly intelligent, the biologist brings her own secrets with her. She is accompanied by a psychologist, an anthropologist and a surveyor, their stated mission: to chart the land, take samples and expand the Southern Reach's understanding of Area X. But they soon find out that they are being manipulated by forces both strange and all too familiar. An unmapped tunnel is not as it first appears. An inexplicable moaning calls in the distance at dusk. And while each member of the expedition has surrendered to the authority of the Southern Reach, the power of Area X is far more difficult to resist. 'Annihilation' is the first volume in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, which will be published throughout 2014: volume two ('Authority') in May, and volume three ('Acceptance') in September 2014. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Goblin Emperor Katherine Addison (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Starscape
Publisher:
Starscape
Pub Date:
10 Apr 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback 512pp h171mm x w105mm x s26mm 249g ISBN13: 9780765365682 ISBN13: 978-0-7653-6568-2 ISBN10: 0765365685 x Description: The youngest half-goblin son of the Emperor lived his life in exile, distant from the Imperial Court. But when his father and the three sons in line for the throne die in an "accident," he must take his place as the only surviving heir. Entirely unschooled in the art of court politics, he has no friends, no advisors, and the knowledge that whoever assassinated his father and brothers could make an attempt on his life at any time. Surrounded by sycophants eager to curry favor with the naive new emperor, he can trust nobody. Amid the swirl of plots to depose him, offers of arranged marriages, and the specter of the unknown conspirators who lurk in the shadows, he must adjust to life as the Goblin Emperor...vigilant against unseen enemies, lest he lose his throne - or life. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Trial by Fire Bob Eggleton (By (artist)) Charles E. Gannon (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Baen Books
Publisher:
Baen Books
Pub Date:
12 Aug 2014
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback 400pp h234mm x w155mm x s30mm 658g ISBN13: 9781476736648 ISBN13: 978-1-4767-3664-8 ISBN10: 1476736642 x Description: Sequel to national bestseller Fire with Fire! When reluctant interstellar diplomat and intelligence operative Caine Riordan returns from humanity's first encounter with alien races, sudden war clouds burst. With Earth's fleet shattered by a sneak attack and its survivors fighting for their lives, Caine must rely upon both his first contact and weaponry skills to contend with the non-humanoid enemy. And when the technologically-superior attackers sweep aside the solar system's last defenses, and traitorous corporations invite the invaders to land 'security forces,' humanity fights back with its best weapons: cunning, inventiveness, and guts! _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ancillary Sword Ann Leckie (Author) Series:
Imperial Radch
Edition:
Imprint:
Orbit
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
07 Oct 2014
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 384pp h196mm x w128mm x s26mm 276g ISBN13: 9780356502410 ISBN13: 978-0-356-50241-0 ISBN10: 0356502414 x Description: Ancillary Sword is the sequel to Ancillary Justice, the debut novel which won every major science fiction award in 2014 and the only novel to have won the Hugo, the Nebula and the Arthur C. Clarke Award. Ancillary Sword is currently shortlisted for this year's Nebula and BSFA Awards. Breq is a soldier who used to be a warship. Once a weapon of conquest controlling thousands of minds, now she only has a single body and serves the emperor she swore to destroy. Given a new ship and a troublesome crew, Breq is ordered to the only place in the galaxy she will agree to go: to Athoek station, to protect the family of a lieutenant she once knew - a lieutenant she murdered in cold blood. Praise for Ancillary Justice: 'ENGAGING AND PROVOCATIVE' SFX Magazine 'UNEXPECTED, COMPELLING AND VERY COOL' John Scalzi 'HIGHLY RECOMMENDED' Independent on Sunday 'MIND-BLOWING' io9.com 'THRILLING, MOVING AND AWE-INSPIRING' Guardian 'UTTER PERFECTION' The Book Smugglers 'ASTOUNDINGLY ASSURED AND GRACEFUL' Strange Horizons 'ESTABLISHES LECKIE AS AN HEIR TO BANKS' Elizabeth Bear _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Three-Body Problem Cixin Liu (Author) Ken Liu (Translated by) Series:
The Three-Body Problem Edition: 1
Imprint:
Head of Zeus
Publisher:
Head of Zeus
Pub Date:
03 Dec 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 416pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781784971571 ISBN13: 978-1-78497-157-1 ISBN10: 178497157X x Description: 1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China's Cultural Revolution. This singular event will shape not only the rest of her life but also the future of mankind. Four decades later, Beijing police ask nanotech engineer Wang Miao to infiltrate a secretive cabal of scientists after a spate of inexplicable suicides. Wang's investigation will lead him to a mysterious online game and immerse him in a virtual world ruled by the intractable and unpredicatable interaction of its three suns. This is the Three-Body Problem and it is the key to everything: the key to the scientists' deaths, the key to a conspiracy that spans light-years and the key to the extinction-level threat humanity now faces. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Coming Home Jack McDevitt (Author) Series:
Alex Benedict 7
Edition:
Imprint:
Headline Book Publishing Publisher:
Headline Publishing Group
Pub Date:
10 Sep 2015
Active
Publishing Status:
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 368pp h197mm x w131mm x s23mm 248g ISBN13: 9781472203335 ISBN13: 978-1-4722-0333-5 ISBN10: 147220333X x Description: COMING HOME, from veteran SF author Jack McDevitt, brings together interstellar travel, an 8,000-year-old mystery, and a dramatic mission to rescue 3,000 stranded spaceship passengers . 'The logical heir to Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke' Stephen King It's 1435 on Alex Benedict's world Rimway, eleven years since 3000 passengers boarded the Capella. The interstellar cruise ship is trapped in a transdimensional space warp, frozen in time. Just a few days have passed on board, and its inhabitants are oblivious to having lost the lives they knew. There is hope for a high-profile rescue attempt, but if it fails they may all die. As the Capella effort becomes increasingly difficult, Alex comes across a rare artifact dating back to the original NASA interstellar ships. The discovery arouses suspicions and Alex and his pilot Chase can uncover the truth only by returning to the museum-like planet Earth. As Chase is pulled into the Capella rescue mission, the entire human race watches and waits. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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 AWE-
INSPIRING' Guardian 'UTTER PERFECTION' The Book Smugglers 'ASTOUNDINGLY ASSURED AND GRACEFUL' Strange Horizons 'ESTABLISHES LECKIE AS AN HEIR TO BANKS' Elizabeth Bear _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
We are All Completely Beside Ourselves Karen Joy Fowler (Author) Series:
Edition:
Main
Imprint:
Serpent's Tail
Publisher:
Profile Books Ltd
Pub Date:
19 Jun 2014
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 281g B Format Paperback ISBN13: 9781846689666 ISBN13: 978-1-84668-966-6 ISBN10: 184668966X x Description: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014 The Million Copy Best-Seller Rosemary's young, just at college, and she's decided not to tell anyone a thing about her family. So we're not going to tell you too much either: you'll have to find out for yourselves, round about page 77, what it is that makes her unhappy family unlike any other. Rosemary is now an only child, but she used to have a sister the same age as her, and an older brother. Both are now gone - vanished from her life. There's something unique about Rosemary's sister, Fern. And it was this decision, made by her parents, to give Rosemary a sister like no other, that began all of Rosemary's trouble. So now she's telling her story: full of hilarious asides and brilliantly spiky lines, it's a looping narrative that begins towards the end, and then goes back to the beginning. Twice. It's funny, clever, intimate, honest, analytical and swirling with ideas that will come back to bite you. We hope you enjoy it, and if, when you're telling a friend about it, you do decide to spill the beans about Fern - it's pretty hard to resist - don't worry. One of the few studies Rosemary doesn't quote says that spoilers actually enhance reading. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Ocean at the End of the Lane Neil Gaiman (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Headline Book Publishing Publisher:
Headline Publishing Group
Pub Date:
10 Apr 2014
Active
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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 272pp h198mm x w156mm x s21mm 223g ISBN13: 9781472200341 ISBN13: 978-1-4722-0034-1 ISBN10: 1472200349 x Description: WINNER OF THE SPECSAVERS NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2013 BOOK OF THE YEAR The Ocean at the End of the Lane is the bestselling magical novel from Neil Gaiman, one of the most brilliant storytellers of our generation and author of the epic novel American Gods, and the much-loved Sandman series. 'Possibly Gaiman's most lyrical, scary and beautiful work yet. It's a tale of childhood for grown-ups, a fantasy rooted in the darkest corners of reality' (Independent on Sunday). If you loved the mesmerising world of Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus or were drawn into J.K. Rowling's magical universe, this book is for you. It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond this world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here, and menace unleashed - within his family and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it. His only defence is three women, on a farm at the end of the lane. The youngest of them claims that her duckpond is an ocean. The oldest can remember the Big Bang. The Ocean at the End of the Lane is a fable that reshapes modern fantasy: moving, terrifying and elegiac - as pure as a dream, as delicate as a butterfly's wing, as dangerous as a knife in the dark. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Hild Nicola Griffith (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Blackfriars
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
24 Jul 2014
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 560pp h165mm x w235mm x s49mm 874g ISBN13: 9780349134222 ISBN13: 978-0-349-13422-2 ISBN10: 0349134227 x Description: 'You are a prophet and seer with the brightest mind in an age. Your blood is that of the man who should have been king ...That's what the king and his lords see. And they will kill you, one day' Britain in the seventh century - and the world is changing. Small kingdoms are merging, frequently and violently. Edwin, King of Northumbria, plots his rise to overking of all the Angles. Ruthless and unforgiving, he is prepared to use every tool at his disposal: blood, bribery, belief. Into this brutal, vibrant court steps Hild - Edwin's youngest niece. With her glittering mind and powerful curiosity, Hild has a unique way of reading the world. By studying nature, observing human behavior and matching cause with effect, she has developed the ability to make startlingly accurate predictions. It is a gift that can seem uncanny, even supernatural, to those around her. It is also a valuable weapon. Hild is indispensable to Edwin - unless she should ever lead him astray. The stakes are life and death: for Hild, for her family, for her loved ones, and for the increasing numbers who seek the protection of the strange girl who can see the future and lead men like a warrior. In this vivid, utterly compelling novel, Nicola Griffith has brought the Early Middle Ages to life in an extraordinary act of alchemy. Drawn from the story of St Hilda of Whitby - one of the most fascinating and pivotal figures of the age - Hild transports the reader into a mesmerising, unforgettable world. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Hild Nicola Griffith (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Blackfriars
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Pub Date:
01 Oct 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 640pp h196mm x w130mm x s31mm 444g ISBN13: 9780349134239 ISBN13: 978-0-349-13423-9 ISBN10: 0349134235 x Description: 'You are a prophet and seer with the brightest mind in an age. Your blood is that of the man who should have been king ...That's what the king and his lords see. And they will kill you, one day' Britain in the seventh century - and the world is changing. Small kingdoms are merging, frequently and violently. Edwin, King of Northumbria, plots his rise to overking of all the Angles. Ruthless and unforgiving, he is prepared to use every tool at his disposal: blood, bribery, belief. Into this brutal, vibrant court steps Hild - Edwin's youngest niece. With her glittering mind and powerful curiosity, Hild has a unique way of reading the world. By studying nature, observing human behavior and matching cause with effect, she has developed the ability to make startlingly accurate predictions. It is a gift that can seem uncanny, even supernatural, to those around her. It is also a valuable weapon. Hild is indispensable to Edwin - unless she should ever lead him astray. The stakes are life and death: for Hild, for her family, for her loved ones, and for the increasing numbers who seek the protection of the strange girl who can see the future and lead men like a warrior. In this vivid, utterly compelling novel, Nicola Griffith has brought the Early Middle Ages to life in an extraordinary act of alchemy. Drawn from the story of St Hilda of Whitby - one of the most fascinating and pivotal figures of the age - Hild transports the reader into a mesmerising, unforgettable world. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Red: First Light Linda Nagata (Author) Series:
Red Trilogy 1
Edition:
Imprint:
Saga Press
Publisher:
Saga Press
Pub Date:
30 Jun 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Hardback Sewn h216mm x w147mm x s33mm 454g ISBN13: 9781481446570 ISBN13: 978-1-4814-4657-0 ISBN10: 1481446576 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Red: First Light Linda Nagata (Author) Series:
Red Trilogy
Edition:
Imprint:
Saga Press
Publisher:
Saga Press
Pub Date:
30 Jun 2015
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Mass market (rack) paperback h190mm x w107mm x s23mm 227g ISBN13: 9781481440936 ISBN13: 978-1-4814-4093-6 ISBN10: 1481440934 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
A Stranger in Olondria: A Novel Sofia Samatar (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Big Mouth House
Publisher:
Small Beer Press
Pub Date:
28 Jun 2012
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback Trade paperback (US) No choking hazard warning necessary 320pp h216mm x w140mm x s31mm 385g ISBN13: 9781931520768 ISBN13: 978-1-931520-76-8 ISBN10: 1931520763 x Description: Jevick, the pepper merchant's son, has been raised on stories of Olondria, a distant land where books are as common as they are rare in his home. When his father dies and Jevick takes his place on the yearly selling trip to Olondria, Jevick's life is as close to perfect as he can imagine. But just as he revels in Olondria's Rabelaisian Feast of Birds, he is pulled drastically off course and becomes haunted by the ghost of an illiterate young girl. In desperation, Jevick seeks the aid of Olondrian priests and quickly becomes a pawn in the struggle between the empire's two most powerful cults. Yet even as the country shimmers on the cusp of war, he must face his ghost and learn her story before he has any chance of becoming free by setting her free: an ordeal that challenges his understanding of art and life, home and exile, and the limits of that seductive necromancy, reading. A Stranger in Olondria is a skillful and immersive debut fantasy novel that pulls the reader in deeper and deeper with twists and turns reminiscent of George R. R. Martin and Joe Hill. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Golem and the Jinni Helene Wecker (Author) Series:
Edition:
Imprint:
Harper
Publisher:
Harper
Pub Date:
23 Apr 2013
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Hardback Sewn h231mm x w155mm x s48mm 703g ISBN13: 9780062110831 ISBN13: 978-0-06-211083-1 ISBN10: 0062110837 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
The Golem and the Jinni Helene Wecker (Author) Series:
P.S.
Edition:
Imprint:
Harper Perennial
Publisher:
Harper Perennial
Pub Date:
31 Dec 2013
Publishing Status:
Active
Published in: United States Paperback / softback Trade paperback (US) h208mm x w140mm x s30mm 454g ISBN13: 9780062110848 ISBN13: 978-0-06-211084-8 ISBN10: 0062110845
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