Happy Publication Day 13th April 2016
It’s publication day! A time for celebration, and, more importantly, a time for new books! And we’ve got an impressive selection – classic SF from the great Iain M. Banks; modern SF from the ‘master-singer of space opera’, Alastair Reynolds; dark fairy tales of the heart from terrifyingly excellent Sarah Pinborough; and, all the things that go bite in the night with Chloe Neill.
A little something for everyone!
Feersum Endjinn by Iain M. Banks is the latest addition to the SF Masterworks collection. Few novels deserve a place more than this one, so we hope you’re as excited about this as we are!
It is the time of the Encroachment and, although the dimming sun still shines on the vast, towering walls of Serehfa Fastness, the end is close at hand. The King knows it, his closest advisers know it, yet still they prosecute the war against the clan Engineers with increasing savagery.
The crypt knows it too; so an emissary has been sent, an emissary who holds the key to all their futures.
‘The standard by which the rest of SF is judged’ Guardian
‘Banks is a phenomenon . . . writing pure science fiction of a peculiarly gnarly energy and elegance’ William Gibson
Feersum Endjinn is out now in hardback.
Poseidon’s Wake by Alastair Reynolds is the final book in Reynolds’ astoundingly well-realised future history of Earth. Following Blue Remembered Earth and On the Steel Breeze we leap forward to chart humanity’s exodus from the pale blue dot that is our home. This is the kind poetic and beautiful hard science fiction that inspires us all to reach just a little further, so one day it is science fiction no longer.
MANKIND HAS REACHED THE STARS.
Two hundred years after the fall of Mechanism, human socity has achieved a kind of stability. There are colonies beneath the oceans, throughout the solar system, and beyond: on extrasolar planets. Vast hemi-relativistic ships connect these colonies, travelling at half the speed of light. Or rather they would, if the ominous presence of the alien Watchkeepers had not led to an enforced moratorium on interstellar travel.
But when a seemingly impossible radio signal reaches the colony Crucible, everything changes:
SEND NDEGE
It came from unpopulated, unexplored space. So who could have sent it? And what use do they have for the disgraced scientist Ndege Akinya . . . ?
‘Reynolds’ future is so brilliantly extrapolated . . original ideas fizzing off every page’ Guardian
‘Brilliant, self-assured, colourful space opera’ The Sun
Poseidon’s Wake is out now in paperback, ebook and audio. You can read the first chapter here.
Tales From the Kingdoms by Sarah Pinborough collects all three of the author’s dark, twisting takes on classic fairy tales (Poison, Charm, Beauty) into one omnibus edition. One part spooky, three parts wicked, two parts sexy and a whole dollop of delicious darkness – this is one saucy concoction. Discover the truth behind these classic tales and never go ‘aww’ again.
Snow White, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty: stories you love, and that we all think we know. . .
. . . but why would a prince fall in love with a woman in a coffin? Why would a queen posion her step-daughter? And what is a fairy Godmother’s real motivation?
Turn the page, and discover these classic fairy stories, told the way they always should have been . . .
‘Loads of fun and very saucy’ Independent on Sunday
‘A wicked, delicious and sexy fairytale’ Telegraph
Tales from the Kingdoms is out now in hardback and ebook.
The Veil by Chloe Niell is the first in a new series from the fantastic author of The Chicagoland Vampires series. The Devil’s Isle novels take you to New Orleans, that intoxicating carnival town of whiskey, jazz, sex and lots of things going bump in the night.
Seven years ago, the Veil that separates us from what lies beyond was torn apart, and New Orleans was engulfed in a supernatural war. Now, those with paranormal powers have been confined in a walled community that humans call the District. Those live there call it Devil’s Isle.
Claire Connelly is a good girl with a dangerous secret: she’s a Sensitive, a human endowed with magic that seeped through the Veil. Claire knows that revealing her skills would mean being confined to Devil’s Isle. Unfortunately, hiding her power has left her untrained and unfocused.
Liam Quinn has no time for a Sensitive with no control of her own strength. But when he sees Claire using her powers to save a human under attack Liam decides to bringer her to Devil’s Isle and to the teacher she needs – even though getting her out of his way isn’t the same as keeping her out of his head. As more and more Sensitives fall prey to their magic, and unleash their hunger on the city, Claire and Liam must work together to save New Orleans, or else the city will burn . . .
Praise for the Chicagoland Vampires Novels:
‘A strong-minded, sharp-witten heroine who will appeal to fans of Charlaine Harris’ Sookie Stackhouse and Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake’ Library Journal
‘Wonderful entertainment’ Charlaine Harris