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Welcome to the Multiverse
by Ira Nayman
Noomi Rapier is a rookie investigator with the Transdimensional Authority, a force who police the travel between dimensions. When Noomi and her partner "Crash" Chumley find a dead body slumped over an altered transdimensional machine in one of the many dimensions they patrol, they must discover not just who were the accomplices but what they were doing with the technology.
You wait ages for a good science fiction comedy novel and then two come along within the space of a month, this...
The Nexus Odyssey
by Hylton H Smith
The Nexus Odyssey is an omnibus featuring the Darwinian Extension series along with the follow-on novel "Renewal", a series that presents a bold vision for the human race.
It begins in 2033 with a planned mission to populate the red planet, Mars. But rather than a simple plan to create a settlement as the private company Mars One is working towards in 2023, the idea is to colonise the planet and ultimately terraform the surface cre...
Wolfhound Century
by Peter Higgins
Citizens! Family! Friends! gather while I warn you all of a new book set within the capital of our great nation. A tale of courage, of our brave Politsiya fighting evil insurgents that threaten our wonderful country.
But it also contains much that isn't true, causing scandal by suggesting that our loyal citizens of Mirgorod are corrupt! Wolfhound Century acts a stark reminder that we must be ever vigilant against ALL threats without and within. I urge you all to report anyone reading ...
Ice and Fire
by David Wingrove
The great world-spanning City of Chung Kuo see's the War that wasn't a war being fought between it's levels as the ruling seven T'ang struggle to maintain calm and prevent change.
But this War isn't being fought on a battlefield, instead these combatants are employing a degree of subterfuge and guerilla warfare; from assassination to carefully placed bombs and stealthy poisoning - this dark shadow is striking the very heart of Chung Kuo.
Increasing this danger of change is...
The Rapture of the Nerds
by Cory Doctorow
Towards the end of the 21st Century Earth appears as a very different place, a post-singularity existence and a fractured future of a billion earthbound souls, preserved at the bottom of a gravity well.
Huw is a technophobe and somewhat of a misanthropist - a natural selection for the Tech Jury Service. The Jury Service of the late 21st century being one that rules on whether a stray piece of technology downloaded from the godlike "cloud" surrounding the planet can be permitted on E...
The Disestablishment of Paradise
by Phillip Mann
Something is going wrong on the planet of Paradise, crops will no longer grow, those imported withering and dying in their droves. The indigenous plant life (never entirely safe) is becoming wildly unpredictable and dangerous. And so the order is given to abandon Paradise, all personnel to be removed and re-assigned - all human presence on the planet will be disestablished.
There are some who believe that Paradise still has secrets to reveal and more to offer the human race and that...
Adam Robots
by Adam Roberts
Adam Robots is a collection of science fiction shorts by the irrepressible author Adam Roberts. Each story explores a different style, sub-genre or convention and yet each is clearly voiced. There is a certain momentum to Roberts prose, a hustling and yet elegant style that is very disarming. His intelligence is also always evident as is his sheer enthusiasm for the genre and this energy bubbles from the pages and infects the reader.
Fellow author Jon Courtenay Grimwood has gone as fa...
We are Here
by Michael Marshall
We are here; fairly innocuous words that little prepare the reader for the tightly written thriller that Michael Marshall has penned. It all begins with the struggling author David and his wife Dawn visiting the publisher in New York who has finally agreed to print his debut novel. As he returns to the train station to get home he literally bumps into a stranger who whispers into David's ear two little words "Remember Me".
A passing bizarre encounter turns even more peculiar when th...
Divine Endurance - Flowerdust edition
by Gwyneth Jones
Divine Endurance and Flowerdust, - two novels collected together for the first time exclusively as an e-book and known as "The Last Days Of Ranaganar" - are set within a far-future south-east Asia, a future that is hardly recognizable from the present and one that seems both medieval and futuristic in equal measure. The veiled women rule the Peninsula and guard the sacred hearth; Dapur.
To the south lies Ranganar, an island city that houses the Samsui reformers; builders of factorie...
Without Warning
by John Birmingham
Without any warning, on the eve of the second Gulf war an unknown energy blast hits the USA destroying all fauna while leaving flora and buildings intact; America as we know it vanishes in the blink of an eye.
In Kuwait US forces are poised for the invasion of Iraq, in Paris a covert agent is close to cracking a terrorist cell while out to sea just north of the equator a pirate and a drug runner witness the blast first-hand. One of the few cities to survive within the continental Un...
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