Acclaimed author Jay Lake has created a remarkable character in Green, and evokes a remarkable world in this novel. Green and her struggle to survive and find her own past will live in the reader's mind for a long time after closing the book.She was born in poverty, in a dusty village under the equatorial sun. She does not remember her mother, she does not remember her own name—her earliest clear memory is of the day her father sold her to the tall pale man...

Green is back in Copper Downs. Purchased from her father in sunny Selistan when she was four years old, she was harshly raised to be a courtesan, companion, and bedmate of the Immortal Duke of Copper Downs. But Green rebelled. Green killed the Duke, and many others, and won her freedom. Yet she is still claimed by the gods and goddesses of her world, and they still require her service. Their demands are greater than any duke's could have been.Godslayers have come to the Stone Coast,...

The final story collection from the award-winning author of Green : "his stories . . . whisk readers from inner geographies of mind to limitless gulfs of space" ( Publishers Weekly , starred review).In his all-too-brief career, science fiction author Jay Lake published more than 300 short stories. Last Plane to Heaven is the final and definitive collection of his short f...

This sequel to Jay Lake's Green and Endurance takes Green back to the city of Kalimpura and the service of the Lily Goddess.Green is hounded by the gods of Copper Downs and the gods of Kalimpura, who have laid claim to her and her children. She never wanted to be a conduit for the supernatural, but when she killed the Immortal Duke and created the Ox god with the power she released, she came to their notice.Now she has sworn to retrieve the two girls taken h...

Strange things are happening in deep space, and then closer to home, and then closer; someone has pulled the plug on the universe.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

In his novel Mainspring, Lake created an enormous canvas for storytelling with his hundred mile high Equatorial Wall that holds up the great Gears of the Earth. Now in Escapement, he explores more of that territory.Paolina Barthes is a young woman of remarkable intellectual ability – a genius on the level of Isaac Newton. But she has grown up in isolation, in a small village of shipwreck survivors, on the Wall in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. She knows little o...

Lost colony science fiction from award-winning writer Jay Lake, a tale of ancient killers and rose breeding in a forgotten world on the verge of rediscovery.

From Wired.com: "Characterizing this book is in itself a bit of a challenge: It’s fiction, but it’s about a writer named Jay Lake who writes like the real Jay Lake and is also fighting cancer. In other words, it’s all but impossible to read Specific Gravity without taking into account that the story contains a large infusion of brutal first-hand reality. (The cover art maintains this blurring of fact and fiction, being a portrait of Lake himself shot by photographer Kyle Cassidy.) The book...

This discounted ebundle of The Green Universe Trilogy includes: Green, Endurance, Kalimpura"Lake has configured his world-dominating empires, one British, the other Chinese, with huge and devoted attention to the last detail." --John Clute, Washington Post Book WorldShe was sold to the Undying Duke when she was only four years old, and raised to be the jewel of his possessions: courtesan, scholar, assassin. But Green had o...

A parable of divinity and redemption among the Rats and Cats who live on in the house that Jack built high in the mountains of the American west, long after their master has gone. From award-winning science fiction writer Jay Lake.

A brief, post-apocalyptic fairy tale by award-winning science fiction and fantasy author Jay Lake. What happens when true Innocence meets the harvester of sin? The trick of disaster is the result, yet somehow life goes on for the living.

A novel of flying saucers, family secrets and conspiracy in WWII Kansas. A return to classic science fiction with action, adventure and some good old-fashioned sense of wonder, all rolled into an fast, easy read.