Big Johnson is back, and the stakes have never been higher.It was a cool April evening on the Mississippi, and I was fighting a losing battle at the poker table on the Ragin Cajun—a floating casino churning its way up the river. Down five large and surrounded by a table of questionable characters—from my flashy associate Pimpin Jack Frost to a silent, tattooed ex-con named Pig—I was looking for a way to come up off my losing streak.Frost was dresse...

'Truly, truly remarkable' Karen Joy Fowler'Extraordinary...resonates to many of the same chords as Beowulf, the legends of King Arthur, The Lord of the Rings, and Game of Thrones' Neal Stephenson'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'In ...

Winner of the ADCI Literary PrizeWinner of the L.A. Times Ray Bradbury PrizeFinalist for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for FictionFinalist for the Nebula Award for Best NovelFinalist for the World Fantasy Award for Best NovelFinalist for the HWA Gold Crown Award for Historical Fiction**"[A] queer Arthurian masterpiece for the modern era."*...

‘Danger is desperately seductive…’Ex-cop Aud Torvingen is tough, tall and level-headed. Hailing from the icy landscape of Norway she now works as a private investigator in the heat of Atlanta – able to flit easily between the worlds of elegant luxury and Atlanta’s sleazy underbelly.But a chance encounter with a woman one stormy night brings unexpected consequences, and Aud risks losing herself amid a deadly mix of forgery, drugs, and murder.

All Things Slip Away, sequel to Scraps of Paper and prequel to Ghosts Beneath Us and Witches Among Us. (The Spookie Town Mysteries Series).Can a crime and a cunning criminal return to torment you after a decade...yes they can. Ten years ago Frank Lester, a Chicago homicide detective, thought he had rid himself forever of the Mud People Killer who'd kidnapped and murdered six people. Frank had shot him as he'd fled through a snowy night; had killed him, he believed, though a body was...

This is the second annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. Between the announcement of the ballot and the Hugo Award ceremony at WorldCon, these works often become the center of much attention (and contention) across fandom. But there are more stories loved by the Hugo voters, stories on the longer...

DEMONS DON'T DO LOVE...Lust and lies? Now those, Jovi can handle.But falling for a demon hunter like Nash Rogan?Really dumb move for a succubus on the run.ROGAN'S NO FOOL...But he's acting like one. Breaking rules, spilling secrets-touching her.He lives in the shadows. But the more Jovi lights him up, the less he wants to go back to the dark.Sparks fly when Jovi and Rogan are forced to flee-and fight-as an unwilling duo in HOLY SMOKE,...

An inspiring, practical plan to transform Australia’s energy system and supercharge our response to the climate crisis‘About f-cking time we have an actual plan written down that can be executed and financed. In a decarbonised world, Australia is a winner. The opportunity now is ours for the taking.’ —Mike Cannon-BrookesClimate change is a planetary emergency. We have to do something now – but what? Australian visionary Saul Griffith has a plan. In Th...

An expert guide for leaders and managers to adopt AI responsibly, gain competitive edge and lead transformation in planning, engineering and operations Key FeaturesDiscover tools and best practices to automate engineering and planning reports using LLMsDiscover operational advice from the founding team of SchemeFlow, a startup leading LLM automation in engineering spaceStep-by-step guidance to convert AI initiatives into competitive advantage f...

Someone is terrorizing the elderly in a certain neighborhood in Spookie and vandalizing their homes. As usual, Abigail Sutton, a freelance artist, and her boyfriend Frank Lester, a retired homicide detective, are called in to help find out who's doing these awful acts. The two seem to have an uncanny knack for unraveling mysteries and getting to the bottom of such strange happenings. Some of the old people think it's ghosts in their basements, in their homes, doing these destructive deeds ...

"Nicola Griffith really puts you in the action, and you quickly find yourself believing it all, living it all" - Tim Powers"Griffith's style is quietly exquisite [and] understatedly lyrical" Goodreads Reviewer, 5 starsChange or die!Centuries ago, on planet Jeep, a deadly virus killed the men and forever altered the few surviving women. Now, generations after the colony lost touch with humanity, a corporation arrives to exploit Jeep'...

As Angus Calder states in his introduction to this edition, 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of the major statements about the fighting experience of the First World War'. Lawrence's younger brothers, Frank and Will, had been killed on the Western Front in 1915. Seven Pillars of Wisdom, written between 1919 and 1926, tells of the vastly different campaign against the Turks in the Middle East - one which encompasses gross acts of cruelty and revenge and ends in a welter of stink and corpses ...