On a desert planet, two boys meet, sparking a friendship that will change human society forever.On the windswept world of Bleak, a string of murders lead a writer to a story with unbelievable ramifications.One man survives the vicious attacks, but is left with a morbid fascination with death; the perfect candidate for the perilous job of working on a rig.Welcome to the System. Here the concept of a god has been abandoned, and a new faith pervades: AfterLife, a socia...

Mankind has reached deep space. Separated from earth and each other by unimaginable reaches of space, forced to adapt to various diverse planetary environments the colonies have become isolated and inward looking, forgetting their pasts, losing touch with their humanity.Until a mysterious ship found locked in the deep rock by a mining team on a planet whose surface is drenched in lethal radiation sparks off a deadly conspiracy that threatens man wherever he is.After his gri...

A world that is literally falling apart, a fresh take on VR, realistic flawed heroes and a fierce intelligence mark this out as a debut of unusual quality.London is drowning in volcanic ash and someone is hunting down the survivors of a failed war on our first colony planet. Jon Sciler has to find out who before he is next.

DARK HEAVENS takes us back to Roger Levy's stunning vision of a world counting out its final years as it literally falls apart. London is awash with volcanic ash, the population fatalistically playing out their lives in VR. But ReGenesis, the radical movement who started Earth's death with a series of controlled nuclear explosions in the Marina's trench, have not finished with the planet yet.RECKLESS SLEEP was a supremely assured and visionary SF debut. DARK HEAVENS builds on that ...

In a post-apocalyptic America, survival hinges on resistance.Thirty years after wind-borne viruses decimated the South and a civil war fractured the USA, two survivors, Dyce and Vida, journey through treacherous terrains. As they seek a cure for Renard's chemical warfare, they find themselves in the crosshairs of the vicious Northern dictator. Can Dyce and Vida unite a fractured America, or will they succumb to the forces tearing it apart?This gripping stor...

After her rollicking standalone Dual Memory, Sue Burke returns to her Semiosis series and the world of Pax in Usurpation, which combines the thrill of M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening with the eco-empowerment of VanderMeer’s Dead Astronauts.Stevland, the dominant sentient lifeform of Pax, has clandestinely sent some of its progeny to Earth. To explore, to spread, to report back.Since th...

Sue Burke's sweeping, award-finalist, SF Semiosis epic continues in Interference as the colonists and a team from Earth confront a new and more implacable intelligence.Over two hundred years after the first colonists landed on Pax, a new set of explorers arrives from Earth on what they claim is a temporary scientific mission.But the Earthlings misunderstand the nature of the Pax settlement and its real leader. Even as Stevland attempts to protect h...

A captivating and provocative novel that explores storytelling, human understanding of society, time, and space.A would-be author retreats to a riverside cabin to write a novel, aiming to capture the essence of life itself. Surrounded by idyllic scenery, motivation proves elusive until the outside world intrudes with unexpected brutality. Ranging through time and space, Tomorrow is a restless search for meaning in a precarious world.This ph...

America, one century on: a warmer climate is causing vast movements of people. Droughts, floods, and hurricanes force entire populations to simply abandon their homes. Tensions are mounting between north and south, and some northern states are threatening to close their borders against homeless fellow-Americans from the south. Against this backdrop, an ambitious young British-born publicist, Holly Peacock, meets a new client, the charismatic Senator Slaymaker, a politician whose sole missi...

'This hypnotic debut novel brilliantly captures the unease of our times.' Jane Caro'Wildly entertaining and frighteningly plausible.' James Bradley'A whip smart thriller with big ideas and big heart.' Steven AmsterdamA pandemic is racing through our world, changing people subtly but irrevocably. The first sign for some is losing their faith. For others it comes as violent outpourings of cr...

Winner of the World Fantasy Award and the Sidewise Award for Alternate HistoryWhat would have happened if Britain and its allies had lost the Great War? From this premise, and through the compelling story of an outsider forever struggling to make sense of, or even change, the world, The Summer Isles takes a journey into the darker side of British nationalism.Geoffrey Brook, seemingly a successful and respected history don at a venerable Oxford coll...

Victor Frankenstein is the first to unlock the key to life, but not the last.Over two centuries of relentless advancement, five more minds find the secret, and five more creatures are made. Five more stories end in tragedy. From the stinking streets of 1850s London to the sun-drenched hysteria of a modern cruise liner, amidst passion, jealousy, art, obsession, desperation and war, Creatures is a hidden history of a forbidden science.