For decades, Earth has been absorbing the displaced life-force of a dead world. The energy has to go somewhere — into wildlife, into biomass, into a biosphere quietly buckling under weight that was never meant for it.Structural analyst Jack Langub is the only one who has mapped where it ends. Forced off the grid and hunted by the government he tried to warn, he is taken to a classified bunker and given four months to stop a collapse that has already begun.The answer isn't a...

‘Thrilling, terrifying and fascinating’– Tim Peake, British ESA astronautThey looked into darkness. The darkness looked back . . .An utterly gripping story of first contact on a hostile planet from Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning Children of Time.New for this edition: The short story ‘Sins of the Children’, the fascinating prequel to Shroud

From the award-winning author comes a gripping, fast-paced and fascinating science fiction adventure. Vividly imagined and sharply written, fans of Ann Leckie and Becky Chambers will be engrossed.When Nicola Mafalda’s scout ship comes under attack, she’s left deeply traumatised by the drastic action it takes to keep her alive. Months later, when an old flame comes to her for help, she realises she has to find a way to forgive both the ship and her former lover. Rec...

A NASA crew sets out on a one-way mission to Saturn's largest moon in this adventure from the bestselling multiple British Science Fiction Award winner.Possible signs of organic life have been found on Titan, Saturn's largest moon. A group of visionaries led by NASAs Paula Benacerraf plan a daring one-way mission that will cost them everything. Taking nearly a decade, the billion-mile voyage includes a "slingshot" transit of Venus, a catastrophic solar storm, and a ...

‘Balls-to-the-walls levels of exuberance and inventiveness’– Locus Magazine on Dark DiamondFORGE A NEW FUTURE. OR BE CONSUMED BY THE PAST.Captain Blite and Agent Cormac thought they had defeated the malevolent AI Straeger. But Straeger’s mission to plunge the galaxy into a devastating war is far from over. With a twisted p-prador army bred from the Spatterjay virus, Straeger sets his plans in motion.Meanw...

'A stellar collection' - AMAZING STORIES'This is exciting stuff' - LOCUS'Mission accomplished' - ROCKET STACK RANKHOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM...Life is fragile. The difference between success and failure can come down to nothing - the thread of a screw, the flick of a switch - and when it goes wrong, you fix it... or someone dies.Mission Critical take...

Return to the eon-spanning and universe-crossing conflict between humanity and the unknowable alien Xeelee in this collection of stories, available in ebook for the first time!Baxter's future history, known as the Xeelee sequence, is an exemplar of the form: it comprises his first four novels - Raft, Timelike Infinity, Flux and Ring - and these marvellous linked stories, as well as those in the new collection XEELEE: ENDURANCE.Contains 21 short stories, all set in the XEELE...

It came here decades ago—and it's devouring our planet: "Literally earth-shattering action . . . Baxter provides the sense of wonder of classic science fiction." — Denver PostIt starts when Venus explodes into a brilliant cloud of dust and debris, showering Earth with radiation and bizarre particles that wipe out all the crops and half the life in the oceans, and fry the ozone layer. Days later, a few specks of moon rock kicked up from the last Apollo missi...

* NOMINATED FOR THE LOCUS AWARD 2017 *PRAISE FOR THE SERIES'Stories that speak to both head and heart' - SFX'Breath-taking, staggering, sublime' - REACTOR'These volumes stand with the very best original anthology series ever in the field' - LOCUSBUILDING TOWARDS TOMORROWSense of wonder is the lifeblood of science ficti...

A “massive work of dizzying originality” (Boston Globe), XX is an inventive and boldly designed science-fiction epic by acclaimed graphic designer Rian Hughes.At Jodrell Band Observatory in England, a radio telescope has detected a mysterious signal of extraterrestrial origin—a message that may be the first communication from an interstellar civilization. Has humanity made first contact? Is the signal itself a form of alien life? Could it be a thr...

A humorous and practical guide to the history and science of understanding the weather including how to build your own barometer!For as long as man has walked upon this earth, he has been forced to survive under the cruel tyranny of weather. Let's face it: there is no escape. Now, in Man vs. Weather, humorist Dennis DiClaudio offers up the knowledge to beat weather at its own game. Rooting through conventional wisdom, discovered gadgetry, and the advances ...

From Andrew Bannister, author of Creation Machine and Iron Gods, comes the final thrilling, heart-in-mouth science fiction novel of the Spin.A hundred millennia has passed since the events of Iron Gods. The Spin is dying, and its few inhabitants live unknowingly in the relative paradise of one of hundreds of Virtual Realities—'vrealities'—or they scrape a living out of remains of the real world.As the vrealities drain the last resou...