When the Moon suddenly explodes and splits into seven big fragments, heralding meteoric onslaught on a scale never seen before, humanity is faced with a stark choice: leave the badly wounded Earth and survive, or stay and die.
Taking place not in one, but in two thoroughly bleak dystopian futures, The Peripheral is a welcome return to science fiction field for William Gibson, the writer who has once been called the ‘noir prophet’ of the cyberpunk subgenre.
In Ultima, the second book in Stephen Baxter’s ambitious, if a little bit overreaching, duology of novels that started with Proxima, we finally learn who are the mysterious hatch-builders who act as elusive puppet masters of humankind.
The third in the planned 5-book series sees Sally contacted by her long vanished father and inventor of the Stepper device, Willis Linsay, who wants to take her on a voyage across the Long Mars. But does he have any ulterior motives?
The old world is buried. A new one has been forged atop the ever-shifting sand dunes. Palmer, one of the four siblings, wants to prove his worth - and in the dune-covered landscape of his home, there is only one way to do this: sand-diving.
Winner of the Hugo Award, A.C. Clarke Award, Nebula Award, Locus Award and British Science Fiction Association Award amongst others, Ancillary Justice is a gripping story of a warship trapped in a human body and her quest for revenge.
In 2025, the world is torn by war, poverty, shortage of water, oil, and other natural resources. Then the Serene, an enigmatic alien race, arrive bringing peace and prosperity. But is there a hidden agenda behind the seemingly benign invasion?
The comics artist Zak Zap is pushing forty and wondering why his life isn’t as exciting as the lives of the superheroes he draws. Ancient Indian mythology meets modern military fiction in this high octane mix of history, politics and violence.
After death, Harry always returns to his childhood, but with all the memories of the past lives intact. This is the story of what Harry did before, what he does next, how he tries to save the past he cannot change and the future he cannot allow.
When Kate’s grandma gives her a strange blue medallion and speaks of time travel, 16-year-old girl thinks the old woman is senile. But it becomes soon all too real when a murder in the past destroys the foundations of Kate’s present-day life.
When a strange large, meteorite-like object plunges into the ocean near Lagos in Nigeria, and the ensuing tsunami sweeps them from the beach, three complete strangers find themselves bound together in ways they could never imagine.
In the early 2010s, an entire new generation of children was born without the ability to talk. Some people were convinced it was a disability caused by foodborne toxins, some suspected they may have other abilities beyond our understanding.
