Sci Fiction 2005

File Updated: 23/10/2005

Tangled Web UK: New Sci Fiction Titles 2005

Kevin J. Anderson Scattered Suns Pbk published July 2005 by Simon & Schuster at Ł10.99 ISBN: 0 7432 7544 6

The Saga of Seven Suns Book Four
Newly crowned Mage-Imperator Jora’h, the leader of the vast and ancient Ildiran Empire, struggles with his new knowledge: an ancient bargain’ and long-standing treachery that may finally bring peace with the-hydrogues ... though it could mean the extermination of the human race. But Jora’h’s empire has already begun destroying itself from within, when his mad brother launches a bloody rebellion across the Ildiran planets, appointing Jora’h’s own first-born son as its leader.
In the Terran Hanseatic League, Chairman Basil Wenceslas continues his red-herring war against the Roamer clans, eager to achieve a decisive victory, even against a supposed enemy that poses no threat. Cesca Peroni, leader of the Roamers, finds herself stranded on a small icy outpost where miners have uncovered a hibernating army of alien Klikiss robots. Once released, these robots trigger another dark and ancient plot, one that could lead to a massacre across all human-inhabited planets. In a galaxy tom by war, treachery, and shifting alliances, no one can know the truth about their friends or enemies.
'A space opera to rival the best the field has ever seen' SF Chronicle
`A realm of wondrous possibilities.... A fascinating series’ Brian Herbert
`Sure-footed, suspenseful and tragic ... an exhilarating experience’ Locus
`Stands head and shoulders above most others in the genre’ The Alien Online
`Colourful stuff... bursting with incidents, concepts and a massive cast of characters, matching well-thought-out SF ideas with melodrama and inter-family strife’ SFX
About The Author
Kevin J. Anderson has over 15 million books in print in 27 different languages worldwide. He is the author of the X-Files novels, Ground Zero (number 1 bestseller in The Times, and voted Best SF Novel of the Year by SFX magazine), Ruins and Antibodies, as well as the Jedi Academy trilogy of Star Wars novels – the three bestselling SF novels of 1994. He is also writing the international bestselling prequels to Frank Herbert’s monumental Dune series, with Frank’s son, Brian Herbert. He has won, or been nominated for, the Nebula Award, Bram Stoker Award, Reader’s Choice Award from the Science Fiction Book Club, and many others.
Kevin Anderson lives in Colorado.

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Kevin J. Anderson Horizon Storms Pbk published July 2005 by Pocket Books at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0 7434 3067 0

Discover the third momentous event in the epic space opera of The Saga Of The Seven Suns
The titanic war between the elemental alien hydrogues and faeros continues to sweep across the Spiral Arm, extinguishing suns and destroying planets. Chairman Wenceslas and King Peter must now unify the human race with iron-fisted policies in a final bid to stand together - or face total annihilation ...
Acclaim for The Saga Of Seven Suns
‘Sure-footed, suspenseful and tragic ... an exhilarating experience’ Locus
‘Space opera on a grand scale. Anderson has created a fully independent and richly conceived venue for his personal brand of space opera Scifi.Com
‘Anderson blends the story and the technical elements together masterfully ... this book stands head and shoulders above most others in the genre’ The Alien Online
About The Author
Kevin J. Anderson has over 15 million books in print in 27 different languages worldwide. He is the author of the X-Files novels, Ground Zero (number 1 bestseller in The Times, and voted Best SF Novel of the Year by SFX magazine), Ruins and Antibodies, as well as the Jedi Academy trilogy of Star Wars novels – the three bestselling SF novels of 1994. He is also writing the international bestselling prequels to Frank Herbert’s monumental Dune series, with Frank’s son, Brian Herbert. He has won, or been nominated for, the Nebula Award, Bram Stoker Award, Reader’s Choice Award from the Science Fiction Book Club, and many others.
Kevin Anderson lives in Colorado.

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Stephen Baxter Transcendent Published October 2005 by Gollancz at Ł18.99 ISBN: 0575074302
Destiny’s Children Book Three

‘The girl from the future told me the sky is full of dying worlds’.

‘ As the world struggles through the middle years of the 21st century; global warming, the end of oil, Michael Poole is being haunted. By the far future. Or a far future at least.
A future where the Transcendents have made themselves into something unimaginably powerful, unimaginably different. A future where they would be on the cusp of godhood and would finally leave being human behind.
But a future tortured by regret. A very human regret. A regret that has to be resolved before they can achieve godhood.
A future that must fold down into the present.
And in that far future a young woman begins an epic journey, across the countless human worlds where mankind has evolved into countless different forms, towards the Transcendence and a different way of being.
Praise for the Destiny’s Children series:
‘Strong imagination and a capacity for awe abound in the work of Stephen Baxter. A truly Wellsian vision’ The Times Literary Supplement
‘Absurdly ambitious, technically brilliant and downright exciting’ SFX

About The Author
Stephen Baxter is the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of, amongst others, The Time Ships, Titan and Moonseed. He is published all over the world. Born in 1957 he was raised in Liverpool and has a degree in mathematics from Cambridge and a PhD from Southampton
Stephen Baxter applied to become an astronaut in 1991. He didn't make it, but achieved the next best thing by becoming a science fiction writer.
Baxter is the most ambitious, most acclaimed, and most accomplished of a new generation of scientifically trained authors who are expanding the vision of science fiction and taking it to a new golden age.
Time film rights have been sold. In April and May of 1999, an earlier work of Stephen's, Voyage, was serialised on BBC Radio 4. Stephen Baxter is married and lives in Buckinghamshire.

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Stephen Baxter Time's Eye Pbk published May 2005 by Gollancz at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0 575 07647 X

A Time Odyssey: Book One
With Arthur C. Clarke
1885, the NW frontier. Young journalist Rudyard Kipling is witness to a bizarre encounter between the British army and a piece of impossibly advanced technology: a hovering sphere, mysteriously watchful. And then, shockingly, a helicopter from the year 2037 comes clattering over the hill.
Meanwhile, elsewhere, scouts from the great horde of Genghis Khan are puzzled to find that familiar landmarks on the great steppe have disappeared - as if they had never been.
And elsewhere again, the courtiers of Alexander the Great wait anxiously for news of the great King, who seems to have vanished.
Across human history, nothing is as it was. Kipling, the helicopter crew and other castaways in time must make an epic journey across a transformed world. It is a journey that will lead them to mystery, wonder and danger - and to a devastating truth. For if human history is long, our future may be shorter than any of us have dreamed.
Mankind’s odyssey in time has begun.

Time’s Eye brings together two of the greatest talents of world SF.
Sir Arthur C. Clarke, CBE, is the world’s foremost science fiction writer and one of the great popularisers of science.
Stephen Baxter is perhaps the most significant SF writer of his generation.
They have collaborated once before on the epic novel The Light Of Other Days.
Time’s Eye spans countless centuries and carries cutting edge ideas on physics and alien intervention. It shows two of the genre’s masters at their groundbreaking best and is the first novel of A Time Odyssey.
'The adventure is rousing and I can't imagine anyone finishing this book and not wondering what comes next' New York Times
'You won't set the book down to eat or sleep or work if you can help it' Chicago Tribune
`Arthur C. Clarke is one of the few geniuses of our time’ Ray Bradbury
`Strong imagination and a capacity for awe abound in the work of Stephen Baxter. A truly Wellsian vision’ The Times Literary Supplement
About The Author
Stephen Baxter is the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of, amongst others, The Time Ships, Titan and Moonseed. He is published all over the world. Born in 1957 he was raised in Liverpool and has a degree in mathematics from Cambridge and a PhD from Southampton
Stephen Baxter applied to become an astronaut in 1991. He didn't make it, but achieved the next best thing by becoming a science fiction writer.
Baxter is the most ambitious, most acclaimed, and most accomplished of a new generation of scientifically trained authors who are expanding the vision of science fiction and taking it to a new golden age.
Time film rights have been sold. In April and May of 1999, an earlier work of Stephen's, Voyage, was serialised on BBC Radio 4. Stephen Baxter is married and lives in Buckinghamshire.

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Ben Bova Mercury Pbk published August 2005 by Hodder at Ł7.99 ISBN: 0 340 82395 X

The closest planet to the Sun, Mercury is an airless, heat-scorched world where temperatures rise to four times higher than the boiling point-of water.

But this vision of hell is also a planet with unlimited solar power - worth a fortune to the space tycoon Saito Yamagata if he can find a way to harness it. He has hired the enigmatic Dante Alexios to establish a research station on the surface of the planet and find a way to turn that solar energy into portable power satellites.
But Yamagata is secretly preparing the way to a very different dream: he wants to travel to the stars themselves. And Alexios has his own obsession, a plot to lure an old enemy to this hellhole of a world and take his revenge for one of the worst disasters in human history. >
`The science fiction author who will have the greatest effect on the world. Ray Bradbury
`A masterful storyteller’ Vector
About The Author
An award-winning editor, President Emeritus of the National Space Society and a Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society, Ben Bova is also the author of more than one hundred futuristic novels and non-fiction books. Jupiter and The Precipice – the first volume in the Asteroid Wars sequence – are the most recent.
Ben Bova holds degrees from the State University of New York and Temple University, Philadelphia, and most recently received his Doctor of Education degree from California Coast University. In 2001, he became a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has taught writing at Harvard University and at the Hayden Planetarium in New York, and lectures regularly on topics dealing with high technology and the future. He and his wife live in Florida.

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Eric Brown The Fall of Tartarus Pbk published April 2005 by Gollancz at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0 575 07618 6

In myth, Tartarus was the lowest region of hell: so low, it was said, that an anvil dropped from heaven, having taken nine days and nights to reach earth, would take a further nine days and nights to reach Tartarus. In reality ...
‘I’d heard many a tale about Tartarus Major, how certain continents were technological backwaters five hundred years behind the times; how the Church governed half the planet with a fist of iron, and yet how, across scattered islands and sequestered lands, a thousand bizarre and heretic cults prospered too.
‘I’d heard how a lone traveller was hardly safe upon the planet’s surface, prey to wild animals and cut-throats. Most of all I’d heard that, in two hundred years, Tartarus would be annihilated when its sun exploded in the magnificent stellar suicide of a supernova.’
These are the stories of the people who are leaving Tartarus, those have decided to stay and those who are arriving on the planet for the apocalypse.
‘One of the very best of the new generation of British SF writers’ Vector
‘Eric Brown is the name to watch in British SF’ Peter F Hamilton
About The Author
Eric Brown lives in Haworth, Yorkshire and is a full-time writer. He is the author of The Time Lapsed Man (1992), Meridian Days (1993), Blue Shifting (1995), Engineman (1994) and Penumbra (1999) as well as two novels for children: Untouchable and Walkabout. He is one of the most popular writers of Science Fiction short stories in the UK. He has been voted as one of the ten best writers of Science Fiction by Vector magazine (the critical journal of the British Science Fiction Association). He is a regular contributor to Interzone magazine.

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Arthur C. Clarke Time's Eye Pbk published May 2005 by Gollancz at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0 575 07647 X

A Time Odyssey: Book One
With Stephen Baxter
1885, the NW frontier. Young journalist Rudyard Kipling is witness to a bizarre encounter between the British army and a piece of impossibly advanced technology: a hovering sphere, mysteriously watchful. And then, shockingly, a helicopter from the year 2037 comes clattering over the hill.
Meanwhile, elsewhere, scouts from the great horde of Genghis Khan are puzzled to find that familiar landmarks on the great steppe have disappeared - as if they had never been.
And elsewhere again, the courtiers of Alexander the Great wait anxiously for news of the great King, who seems to have vanished.
Across human history, nothing is as it was. Kipling, the helicopter crew and other castaways in time must make an epic journey across a transformed world. It is a journey that will lead them to mystery, wonder and danger - and to a devastating truth. For if human history is long, our future may be shorter than any of us have dreamed.
Mankind’s odyssey in time has begun.

Time’s Eye brings together two of the greatest talents of world SF.
Sir Arthur C. Clarke, CBE, is the world’s foremost science fiction writer and one of the great popularisers of science.
Stephen Baxter is perhaps the most significant SF writer of his generation.
They have collaborated once before on the epic novel The Light Of Other Days.
Time’s Eye spans countless centuries and carries cutting edge ideas on physics and alien intervention. It shows two of the genre’s masters at their groundbreaking best and is the first novel of A Time Odyssey.
'The adventure is rousing and I can't imagine anyone finishing this book and not wondering what comes next' New York Times
'You won't set the book down to eat or sleep or work if you can help it' Chicago Tribune
`Arthur C. Clarke is one of the few geniuses of our time’ Ray Bradbury
`Strong imagination and a capacity for awe abound in the work of Stephen Baxter. A truly Wellsian vision’ The Times Literary Supplement
About The Author
Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Kt., CBE, was born on December 16, 1917, in Minehead, Somerset, England, to Charles W. Clarke, a farmer and lieutenant in the Royal Engineers, and Nora Mary (Willis) Wright. He was married to Marilyn Mayfield in 1953 and divorced in 1964. A resident of Colombo, Sri Lanka, since 1956, Sir Arthur received his CBE in 1989 and his knighthood (for services to literature) in 1998. In 1975, he was the fist noncitizen to receive Resident Guest status in Sri Lanka, where he is chancellor of the University of Moratuwa (1979-). He is also chancellor of the International Space University (1989-).
The author of over eighty books and five hundred articles and short stories, Sir Arthur was educated at Huish Grammar School in Taunton (1927-36), and King's College, London, 1946-48 (B.Sc., first class, physics and mathematics). Before becoming a full-time writer, he was an auditor in H.M. Exchequer and Audit Department (1936-41) and served in the Royal Air Force (1941-46) as an instructor at the No. 9 Radio School and then flight lieutenant with MIT Radlab's ground-controlled approach radar. He originated the concept of the geosynchronous communications satellite, published in Wireless World in 1945, and the lunar mass-driver (Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 1950). He was assistant editor of Physics Abstracts for the Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1949-50, and chairman of the British Interplanetary Society, 1947-50 and 1953. From 1955 to 1965, Sir Arthur was involved in underwater exploration in the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and in the Indian Ocean near Sri Lanka.
From 1964 to 1968, Sir Arthur wrote, with film director Stanley Kubrick, the nove1 2001: A Space Odyssey, on which the film was based. This was followed by the book and film 2010 (1982), and the books 2061 (1988) and 3001 (1997). Other famous science fiction novels include Against the Fall of Night (1953), The Sands of Mars (1951), Childhood's End (1953), the four-part Rama series (1972-93), and The Hammer of God (1993), which Steven Spielberg optioned for the film Deep Impact. In 1952, his nonfiction work The Exploration of Space was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection.
Arthur C. Clarke covered United States space missions and the Apollo Moon landings for CBS from 1957 to 1970. He wrote and hosted the television series Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World, The World of Strange Powers, and Mysterious Universe in the 1980s and 1990s. He is an honorary vice president of the H. G. Wells Society, the honorary chairman of the Society of Satellite Professionals, president of the British Science Fiction Association, a life member of the British Science Writes, a board member of the National Space Society, the Planetary Society, and the Buckminster Fuller Institute, and a trustee of the Spaceguard Foundation, as well as a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, and a member of the Science Fiction Writers of America and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
Awards and honors include honorary fellows of the British Interplanetary Society, the American Astronautical Association, the International Academy of Astronautics, and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics; the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Engineering Award, 1981; the IEE Centennial Medal, 1984; the Robert A. Heinlein Memorial Award, 1990; International Science Policy Foundation Medal, 1992; Nobel Peace Prize nomination, 1994; NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal, 1995; Unesco Kalinga Prize, 1961; the von Karman Award, International Academy of Astronautics, Beijing, 1996; Oscar nomination, with Stanley Kubrick, for 2001 screenplay, 1969; Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America, 1986; and the Special Achievement Award, Space Explorers Association, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 1989.
Arthur C. Clarke's seventieth birthday, in December 1987, was marked by the unveiling of a plaque at his birthplace in Somerset; he was knighted in 1998 for his services to literature, shortly after his eightieth birthday, the first science fiction writer to be thus honoured.

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Philip K. Dick Mary and the Giant Pbk published June 2005 by Gollancz at Ł7.99 ISBN: 0 575 07466 3

Mary Anne Reynolds is a young and vulnerable woman, determined to make her own unique way in the world, but Pacific Park, California, in the early 1950s, with its hidebound attitude to sexual mores and its bigoted view on race, does not offer her too many opportunities or allow her much room to manoeuvre.
Philip K. Dick’s mainstream novels are now recognised as being among his finest, and Mary and the Giant is one of the very best of those works. Small-town California is powerfully and subtly drawn and Mary Anne Reynolds is one of the most convincing and sympathetic characters Dick ever created.
'An elusive and incomparable artist' Ursula K Le Guin
‘It is becoming increasingly clear that Dick is one of the most compelling chroniclers of life and love in 1950s California that we have’ Publishers Weekly
‘There are tough, vivid portrayals throughout… The narrative voice is clear and sensitive…’New York Times Book Review
‘Graceful, wry, vulnerable, pessimistic and wise’ The Encyclopedia Of Science Fiction
‘A brilliant portrayal of the 1950s’ David G. Hartwell
`Dick amused, enthralled and astounded his readers’ Brian W. Aldiss
About The Author
Philip K. Dick was born in the USA in 1928. His twin Sister Jan, died in infancy. He starred his writing career publishing short stories in magazines. The first of these was Beyond Lies the Wub in 1952. While publishing SF prolifically during the fifties, Dick also wrote a series of mainstream novels, only one of which, Confessions of a Crap Artist, achieved publication during his lifetime. These included titles such as Mary and the Giant and In Milton Lumky Territory. During the 1960s Dick produced an extraordinary succession of novels, including The Man in the High Castle, which won a Hugo award, Martian Time-slip, Dr. Bloodmoney, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?and UBIK. In the 1970s, Dick started to concern himself more directly with metaphysical and theological issues, experiencing a moment of revelation _ or breakdown _ March 1974 which became the basis for much of his subsequent writing, in particular Valis, as he strove to make sense of what had happened. He died in 1982, a few weeks before the film Blade Runner opened and introduced his vision to a wider audience.

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Philip K. Dick In Milton Lumky Territory Pbk published June 2005 by Gollancz at Ł7.99 ISBN: 0 575 07465 5

Bruce Stevens is a successful young buyer for the CBB discount house in Reno and he cruises around the Western States in his ‘55 Mercury checking out likely deals. But when he meets Susan Faine, the part-owner of an ailing typewriter store in Boise, Idaho, a more attractive position comes his way.
Susan is ten years older than Bruce and recently divorced. They’ve also met before, when she was his teacher in fifth grade. But she wants someone to manage the store and he’s keen to try. Then one thing leads to another and within days they are married. Milton Lumky, the enigmatic paper salesman, is filled with foreboding ...
In Milton Lumky Territory is a haunting novel of American small-town life in the 1950s, one of the fine mainstream works from Philip K. Dick, now universally recognised as one of the most compelling and sensitive chroniclers of life and love of the period.
'The writing's marvellous control of implication comes close to matching even Patricia Highsmith at her menacing best' Observer
`One of the most original practitioners writing any kind of fiction, Philip K. Dick made most of the European avantgarde seem navel-gazers in a cul-de-sac’ The Sunday Times
`No other writer of his generation had such a powerful intellectual presence. He has stamped himself not only on our memories but in our imaginations’ Brian W. Aldiss
About The Author
Philip K. Dick was born in the USA in 1928. His twin Sister Jan, died in infancy. He starred his writing career publishing short stories in magazines. The first of these was Beyond Lies the Wub in 1952. While publishing SF prolifically during the fifties, Dick also wrote a series of mainstream novels, only one of which, Confessions of a Crap Artist, achieved publication during his lifetime. These included titles such as Mary and the Giant and In Milton Lumky Territory. During the 1960s Dick produced an extraordinary succession of novels, including The Man in the High Castle, which won a Hugo award, Martian Time-slip, Dr. Bloodmoney, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?and UBIK. In the 1970s, Dick started to concern himself more directly with metaphysical and theological issues, experiencing a moment of revelation _ or breakdown _ March 1974 which became the basis for much of his subsequent writing, in particular Valis, as he strove to make sense of what had happened. He died in 1982, a few weeks before the film Blade Runner opened and introduced his vision to a wider audience.

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William C. Dietz Halo: The Flood Pbk published February 2005 by Orbit at Ł6.99 ISBN: 1-84149-421 6

The official novel of the award-winning Xbox game!

The Human-Covenant War, a desperate struggle for humankind’s very survival, has reached its boiling point on the mysterious, ring-shaped world called Halo. But the fierce Covenant warriors, the mightiest alien military force known, are not the only peril lying in wait.

As the fortress world of Reach and its brave defenders were bombarded to rubble, a single cruiser fled the carnage with the battle’s only human survivors - Captain Keyes, his crew of a few hundred Marines, and the last remaining SPARTAN super-soldier, the Master Chief.
With the cruiser’s artificial intelligence, Cortana, concealed in his battle armor, the Master Chief crash-lands on Halo in the midst of a massive Covenant occupation. Curiously, the alien soldiers appear to be searching for something hidden on the ring. Built by a long-dead race, Halo harbors many deadly secrets, but one overshadows them all. Now the Master Chief must lead the scattered troops in a brutal race to unravel Halo’s darkest mystery - and unleash its greatest source of power ...

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Simon R. Green Deathstalker War Pbk published June 2005 by Gollancz at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0 575 60061 6

New York Times Best-Selling Author
Owen Deathstalker, last of his line, was wrongly outlawed by the evil Empress Lionstone XIV, but in making an enemy of Deathstalker, the Iron Bitch sowed the bitter seeds of revenge. Now the rebellion Owen Deathstalker has been fomenting has blossomed into war. Deathstalker war.
Opening skirmishes on Mistworld and Haceldama and Virimonde reveal just a few of the horrors the Iron Bitch is prepared to unleash upon the rebels, but the opposition only fuels their determination to win justice.
Deathstalker war: no quarter, no prisoners, no compromises.
‘Bloody funny and extremely bloody’ The Guardian
`[A] wildly fantastic extravaganza’ Publishers Weekly
‘Simon R. Green’s books are fun books that grab you, suck you in and don’t let you go’ SFSITE
About The Author
Simon Green is the author of five previous Deahstalker titles, as well as, amongst others, the Hawk and Fisher novels and Blue Moon rising. He lives in Wiltshire.

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