An eighty year old cold case murder investigation that stretches across light years and risks the future of mankind’s new home. A hard SF/crime crossover from two respected and well-likednames in SF.---Earth is suffering major resource shortages, and the impact of climate change is peaking, with much of the planet’s equatorial regions turned to lifeless desert and populations displaced. Colonies have been established on Mars and the Moon, ...

"A minor masterpiece that should usher Brooke at last into the recognized front ranks of SF writers" (Locus)The village: a close-knit community where everyone knows everyone else. Here, houses can be grown out of the dirt; livestock and the sub-human mutts can be changed into something else, something other; and fleshy, drastically mutated Oracles guide humankind on the delicate path of survival.The wildlands: th...

"One of the finest novels of virtual reality yet written... a dazzling work of the imagination." SF SiteThe Accord, a virtual utopia where the soul lives on after death and your perceptions are bound only by your imagination. This is the setting for a tale of love, murder and revenge that crosses the boundaries between the real world and this virtual reality. When Noah and Priscilla escape into the Accord to flee Priscilla's murderous husband, he plots to destroy the whole...

Available for the first time in a single volume: the Expatria duology.Book one:The descendants of Expatria's first colonists from Earth have rejected technology. When Mathias Hanrahan, heir to the primacy of Newest Delhi, wants to reintroduce the old ways he is framed for his father's murder and forced to flee.Recruited by a research team which is trying to relearn the ancient technologies, he goes to work for them, and against a background of impend...

This anthology draws together some of the best new stories of mystery and murder—compiled by the Anthony Award–winning crime fiction editor.This anthology collects the most original stories of murder by some of mystery fiction's most inventive talents from the United States and United Kingdom. With innovative new takes on locked-room mysteries and impossible crimes, these short stories are full of vexing conundrums and reality-defying puzzles. A murder has been comm...

Mags and Sorensen, attempting to trace the whereabouts of Pinto's rebel relative, Gregor, embark on a perilous journey across the face of the planet, pursued by Enforcers, attacked by aliens, and meeting a collection of strange humans. What they learn on the outside will make them question everything they thought true, as revelation follows revelation until the novella's showdown and the discovery of a truth which will force them to reassess everything they've ever known to be true about t...

"...should be required reading for anyone who still subscribes to the popular, dangerous fantasy of the nobility of war." (Lisa Tuttle, Time Out)Jed Brindle is an alien. At least, that's what they call him on Earth. He's really a colony-bred soldier - augmented with cyborg implants - with the Extraterran Peacekeeping Force, fighting for control of what used to be the United States.When he and his squad are sent behind enemy lines on a kidnap operat...

The Land is the fictional setting of the beloved Uncharted series by author Keely Brooke Keith. To faithful readers, the Land is very real in the heart. The Official Guidebook to The Land Uncharted Series is for those avid readers who asked for maps, for character lists, for more.Hopefully, The Official Guidebook to The Land Uncharted Series isn't your first introduction to the Uncharted series. If it is, please know the details throughout this guidebook may give ...

With his health failing, the great mage Donn has chosen to pass on his Talents to a new generation: an old era is drawing to a close, a new era about to begin. But with change comes instability. War looms and a rogue church leader threatens to set loose the wild powers of the First City. Donn's children must oppose this man but, also, they must contend with Donn himself: the old mage has not finished with his children yet.On the run from the religious repression of the mainland, Le...

Kon Tiki Coda is the moving finale to the successful Kon Tiki Quartet.DislocationsParasitesInsightsIterations

For generations, humankind has lived in protective tunnels and domes on an Earth ruined by war and environmental destruction. To reinforce their fear of the deadly world beyond the domes, children are raised to the litany of The rain that burns, the light that blinds, the air that kills, the water that poisons...In the domes, Enforcers keep an oppressive rule of law, a discipline accepted as necessary for a population sheltering from such a hostile world. The Enforcers are abetted in this ...

An anthology of stories inspired by artists who have left us too soon. The finished anthology includes tributes to megastars and lesser-known figures, to the predictable and the less so, and I'm proud to present each and every one. In these trying times, what could be better than kicking back, putting on your favourite piece of music, and enjoying a good story or two, which may just stir a memory of days gone by?