Sci Fiction 2006

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Tangled Web UK: New Sci Fiction Titles 2006

Simon R. Green Deathstalker Pbk published August 2006 by Gollancz at Ł7.99 ISBN: 0 575 60160 4

Owen Deathstalker, last of his line, is a quiet man - a historian - remote from the stench of corruption and intrigue surrounding the Iron Throne at the heart of the galaxy-spanning, tyrannical Empire.
And then, inexplicably, Deathstalker is outlawed, forced to flee from one end of the Empire to the other. And as he does so, he discovers that resistance is growing to the Iron Bitch on the Iron Throne.
Outlawing Owen Deathstalker could be the Iron Bitch’s biggest mistake.
‘Green has a marvellous gift of leavening grim situations with wicked wit and sly nods to current mores. Fine stuff’ Prism UK
‘Imaginative and fun’ Punch
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. Thousands of New and used Books at your Fingertips...
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Jon Courtenay Grimwood 9Tail Fox Published October 2005 by Gollancz at Ł12.99 ISBN: 0575076151

‘His teacher had been wrong and his grandfather right. Jinwei hu, the nine-tailed fox, did exist.
The beast just stood there, squinting at him: so close that Bobby could smell its sour reek and feel its breath on his face.
Bobby Zha .. .
What? Demanded Bobby.
Then realised that it might have been better to ask Why?’

9tail Fox is a tour-de-force, a compelling literary meld of noir crime, SF and Chinese myth. It shows Jon Courtenay Grimwood to be a writer at the peak of his powers.

‘Hands reached down and rolled Bobby over, not hard or rough, but as if he wasn't really There was a yank as someone freed the back of his tee-shirt, and then pain far beyond anything he remembered, more vicious than the cold numbness in his chest.
‘That was when Bobby accepted that, yes, he been shot. Only now something else was happening and it was infinitely worse . . . It took Bobby Zha two hours to die.'

Sergeant Bobby Zha of the SFPD is desperate to find out who murdered him. But he also needs the answers to some other questions. Like, why is he in another man's body? Why is someone trying to kill him, again .. . And why is he being haunted by a nine-tailed Celestial fox?
From the shell-shattered ruins of Stalingrad in 1942 to the present-day politics of San Francisco’s Chinatown, 9tail Fox is evocative of place and crystal-clear in its depiction of character. This is literary fiction at its best from one of the most exciting writers working today.
'Dazzling panache and an acute satirical eye' The Times
‘Literary SF is a field full of writers who can handle big plotlines. Few, though, have Grimwood’s way with a sly observation or careful metaphor . . . Closer to greatness with every single novel’ SFX
‘SF at its most inventive’ The Guardian
‘Grimwood writes a line to make all other writers in the world sick with envy’ Justina Robson, The Big Issue
‘Hard-bitten and powerfully addictive’ Michael Rowley, Waterstones ‘If you’re not reading Jon Courtenay Grimwood then you don’t know how subtle and daring fiction can be’ Michael Marshall
‘Dazzling, seductive and pointed’ The Independent

About The Author
Jon Courtenay Grimwood was born into a naval family and christened in the upturned bell of his uncle’s destroyer in Malta.
As a child he travelled the world, got lost in Karachi, wandered markets in Jahore Baru, visited an opium den and went to see the rock paintings in a Buddhist cave. He went to Hindu temples, ate food cooked on oil drums by the roadside and waited for a week to see if his father would survive a scorpion bite.
‘I met a fakir, swam in ice cold jungle pools and surfed without a board, hanging from a rope attached to the back of a boat. And I saw staggering poverty, slums, children in rags, dogs being slowly strangled from coathanger collars that had grown too tight, blank-eyed barely pubescent girls being married to boys they’d only just met. Living that life gave me my politics and my outlook.’
He went to boarding school from the age of 7 to 18, flying to school from wherever his parents were living. Told at the age of ten that he was dyslexic, he was warned that he would never be able to do more than read the headlines on a tabloid. It was this that led him to pursue a career as an editor, publisher and journalist, before finally becoming a writer.
As a journalist, he has written for the Guardian, Independent, Maxim, MINX, Zest, and Focus. He was men’s editor for New Woman and currently writes for the Guardian, Esquire and Company.
Amongst his book publications are the bestselling Thatcher Bedside Book, The Royal Bedside Book and The Election Bedside Book. ‘All of them were mildly satirical and utterly disposable but the real problem, in the end, was no matter how mad, selfish or amoral I made Mrs T, or how disfunctional and ruthless I portrayed the royals, they could always be relied on to go one better. It’s hard to satirise people who are already raving clichés of themselves.’
Jon’s writing was shaped by his nomadic childhood: ‘I love creating the worlds, the plot and the characters to the point of addiction, but the really good thing about writing is that it’s like sex, you can do it anywhere - in pubs, clubs, cafes, at airports, even half way up a mountain.’
Pashezade is Jon Courtenay Grimwood’s third book to be published by Earthlight. redRobe was published in 2000 and reMix was published in 1999 and has been shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Award. Jon Courteney Grimwood lives in Winchester.
Felaheen is his seventh novel. His fifth, Pashazade, was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. Thousands of New and used Books at your Fingertips...
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Jon Courtenay Grimwood End of the World Blues Published August 2006 by Gollancz at Ł12.99 ISBN: 0 575 07616 x

‘I’m Lady Neku,’ she said, before executing a small bow and offering her hand. When Kit shook, he couldn’t help noticing that her fingers were slightly sticky.
‘You all right?’ asked Neka.
‘Drugs,’ he said it without thinking. ‘I’ve got a…’ Kit looked at the dead man, and then from the girl to the black cat who’d just appeared behind her. ‘Is this for real?’ he said. ‘I mean, is any of this happening?’
Neku shrugged. ‘It’s as real as anything else an this planet

This World Will be Our World
Kit Nouveau didn’t escape himself when he flew to Japan. He runs a bar in the Roppongi district of Tokyo and is having an affair with the wife of a High Yakusa ganglord. All things considered being held up at gunpoint isn’t a complete shock. The pale girl in the black cloak appearing from nowhere and punching an ivory spike into the man’s head on the other hand ...
Nijie has stolen fifteen million dollars, she’s on the run, she’s just killed a man and she has a cat who knows more than it should. It’s a lot to deal with when you haven’t even left school,
But Nijie is really Lady Neku. And it is time for her to stop mewling in the darkness. And suddenly, the girl who became Lady Neku understands she’s never really been anyone else.
And in a sentient castle at the end of world Lady Neku otherwise known as Baroness Nawa-no-ukiyo, Countess High Strange and chatelaine of Schloss Omga realizes that a man called Kit has stolen some of her memories.
End Of The World Blues, Jon Courtenay Grimwood’s dazzling new novel, is a song to Japan and a lament for a dying world that may have forgotten we ever existed. It is proof positive of Grimwood’s status as one of the most innovative and important SF writers working today.
'Among the very best of contemporary SF authors' Iain Banks
'Dazzling panache and an acute satirical eye' The Times
Reviews for 9Tail Fox
'An escapist romp on the wild side with literary ambitions it goes a long way towards fulfilling . . . Compelling entertainment' The Times
'A wildly inventive and gripping blend of Chinese mythology, SF and police procedural that exercises a vice-like grip from start to finish. Highly recommended' Irish Independent
'Disregard for the lines between genre is something we've come to expect of Grimwood, but even by his standards this is audacious - and brilliantly, seamlessly realised' SFX
'Teases us constantly . . . Grimwood is always ingenious and here he moves into the entertainingly wilful!' Time Out
'Part sexy love story, part hard-edged crime thriller, this is a brilliant and original page-turner' Cosmopolitan
'A bizarre but appealing mix of detective novel, gothic SF and Chinese mythology, Grimwood's latest has a San Francisco cop investigating his own death ... ' BBC Focus
'Noir mixed with SF? It may seem an odd combination but this futuristic thriller is a great read . . . ' Crime Confidential

About The Author
Jon Courtenay Grimwood was born into a naval family and christened in the upturned bell of his uncle’s destroyer in Malta.
As a child he travelled the world, got lost in Karachi, wandered markets in Jahore Baru, visited an opium den and went to see the rock paintings in a Buddhist cave. He went to Hindu temples, ate food cooked on oil drums by the roadside and waited for a week to see if his father would survive a scorpion bite.
‘I met a fakir, swam in ice cold jungle pools and surfed without a board, hanging from a rope attached to the back of a boat. And I saw staggering poverty, slums, children in rags, dogs being slowly strangled from coathanger collars that had grown too tight, blank-eyed barely pubescent girls being married to boys they’d only just met. Living that life gave me my politics and my outlook.’
He went to boarding school from the age of 7 to 18, flying to school from wherever his parents were living. Told at the age of ten that he was dyslexic, he was warned that he would never be able to do more than read the headlines on a tabloid. It was this that led him to pursue a career as an editor, publisher and journalist, before finally becoming a writer.
As a journalist, he has written for the Guardian, Independent, Maxim, MINX, Zest, and Focus. He was men’s editor for New Woman and currently writes for the Guardian, Esquire and Company.
Amongst his book publications are the bestselling Thatcher Bedside Book, The Royal Bedside Book and The Election Bedside Book. ‘All of them were mildly satirical and utterly disposable but the real problem, in the end, was no matter how mad, selfish or amoral I made Mrs T, or how disfunctional and ruthless I portrayed the royals, they could always be relied on to go one better. It’s hard to satirise people who are already raving clichés of themselves.’
Jon’s writing was shaped by his nomadic childhood: ‘I love creating the worlds, the plot and the characters to the point of addiction, but the really good thing about writing is that it’s like sex, you can do it anywhere - in pubs, clubs, cafes, at airports, even half way up a mountain.’
Pashezade is Jon Courtenay Grimwood’s third book to be published by Earthlight. redRobe was published in 2000 and reMix was published in 1999 and has been shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Award. Jon Courteney Grimwood lives in Winchester.
Felaheen is his seventh novel. His fifth, Pashazade, was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. Thousands of New and used Books at your Fingertips...
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Joe Haldeman Peace and War Pbk published November 2006 by Gollancz at Ł7.99 ISBN: 0 575 07

About The Author
Joe Haldeman was born in Oklahoma in 1943 and studied physics and astronomy before serving as a combat engineer in Vietnam, where he was severely wounded and won a Purple Heart. The Forever War, his first SF novel, was awarded both the Hugo and the Nebula. He is also the author of, among others, All My Sins Remembered, Forever Peace (also a Hugo and Nebula winner) and the Worlds trilogy, Worlds, Worlds Apart and Worlds Enough and Time. His latest novel is the sequel to The Forever War, Forever Free. Joe Haldeman has served several times as President of the Science Fiction Writers of America, and is currently an adjunct professor teaching writing at M.l.T. Thousands of New and used Books at your Fingertips...
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Frank Herbert The Great Dune Trilogy Pbk published November 2005 by Gollancz at Ł14.99 ISBN: 0575070706

Only once in a blue moon does a work of imaginative fiction like Dune come along. Since its first publication more than thirty years ago, Frank Herbert’s brilliant novel and its sequels have become classics; Dune is consistently voted the Number One science fiction book of the century by readers all over the world.
The Great Dune Trilogy brings together Dune, Dune Messiah and Children of Dune, an epic, sweeping tale of assassination, survival and betrayal on a bitterly inhospitable planet.
In the far future, two great dynastic families are locked in a bitter feud. The Duke of Atreides has been maneuvered by his great enemy, Baron Harkonnen, into accepting the job of administering Dune - a vast, almost uninhabitable desert planet where water is a prize possession. But Dune is also a planet of fabulous wealth, for it is home to a drug prized throughout the Galactic Empire.
The Duke, together with his wife and son Paul, know to expect treachery as they take up their new appointment, but it comes from a source both shocking and unexpected. And when Paul succeeds his father, he becomes a catalyst for the natives of Dune. Unbeknownst to the past rulers of the planet, their knowledge of the ecology of this inhospitable desert gives them immense power. All they need is a revolutionary leader to harness this force: and Paul Atreides could be that man .. .
Praise for Dune
`A novel of extraordinary complexity ... the work of a speculative intellect with few rivals in modern SF’ The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
`Unique among SF novels ... I know nothing comparable to it except The Lord of the Rings’ Arthur C Clarke
`A tight, mesmerising fabric, interwoven with a potent element of mysticism . . . intensely realised’ Brian W. Aldiss
About The Author
Frank Herbert (1920-1986) was born in Tacoma, Washington, and worked as reporter and later editor of a number of West Coast newspapers before becoming a full-time writer. His first published SF story was in 1952, but he achieved fame with the publication between 1963-4 of "Dune World" in Analog, followed in 1965 by "The Prophet of Dune". These were amalgamated in 1965 as the novel Dune, which won the first Nebula Award, shared the Hugo and, in 1984, was made into a Hollywood movie.
Dune was followed by a number of sequels, including Dune Messiah, Children of Dune (all three published as The First Great Dune Trilogy), God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune and Chapter House Dune. Herbert's son Brian Herbert and bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson have recently published the first of a projected series of prequels, House Atreides. Thousands of New and used Books at your Fingertips...
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Roger Levy Icarus Published August 2006 by Gollancz at Ł18.99 ISBN: 0 575 07860 x
Life on Haven is restricted. Mankind lives in tunnels beneath the wind-scoured, irradiated surface. Survival in such a harsh environment demands harsh rules. Only that which is Fact is allowed.
But now there is UnFact. An orbital escape pod lies locked on the floor of a lake of solidified lava. Inside the pod, a secret cargo and a mummified corpse, and scrawled on the pod’s walls, the words, ‘I was betrayed’.
And the men who discover this must die.
Life on Haze is vicious. Villagers struggle to survive in its deep forests. Lords from the AngWat take children from the husbands and the wives and mould them into something else entirely.
And on Earth one man believes he can escape the past and do the work of God.
After the critically acclaimed Reckless Sleep and Dark Heavens, his grim dystopias set on a failing Earth, Roger Levy now takes us to other worlds without losing any of his trademark psychological acuity and elegant style. Or the sense that nothing we know can really be trusted.
'Remarkable. The shade of Philip K. Dick is evident behind Levy's polished and luminescent prose' Lineone.net
Reviews for Roger Levy
‘Transcends the genre to produce chilling, gripping and unconventional work of fiction’ The Morning Star
‘Compelling and evocative writing’ Starburst

About The Author
Roger Levy is a dentist who doesn’t use freaky future technology on his patient’s teeth. He lives in Muswell Hill with his wife and children Thousands of New and used Books at your Fingertips...
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Delos W Lovelace King Kong Published December 2005 by Gollancz at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0 575 07876 6
Conceived by Edgar Wallace and Merian C Cooper
King Kong: The Eighth Wonder of the World!
King Kong, the world-famous story of a beauty and a beast, conceived by Edgar Wallace and Merian C. Cooper, is one of the best-loved films of all time. The original novelization by Delos W. Lovelace is an enduring classic of fantasy fiction, taking us from the seething jungles of Skull Island, a land forgotten by time and civilisation, to the skyscrapers of teeming New York City.
King Kong: taller than a 5-storey building, able to crush an aeroplane with his bare hand, ruler of a lost empire of prehistoric monsters ...
King Kong: the giant killer ape who falls in love with a blonde waif and makes her the prisoner of his strange passion ...
King Kong: the giant ape who inspires terror and awe as he is caught in a tragic love story of gargantuan proportions ...
King Kong: The Eighth Wonder of the World: a story you will never forget!
Now a New Major Motion Picture from Universal Studios directed by Peter Jackson starring Adrien Brody and Naomi Watts
‘The original King Kong captured what a great escape cinema should be… I owe King Kong a huge debt because I really don’t think I would have become a filmmaker had I now seen it on television that night when I was nine years old.’ Peter Jackson, Oscar-winning director of The Lord of the Rings

About The Author
Delos Wheeler Lovelace was born in 1894 in Minnesota. After the First World War he became a newspaper journalist, joining first the New York Daily News and later becoming a columnist on the New York Sun. He was also a popular writer of short stories, which appeared in magazines as varied as McCall’s, The Popular Magazine and The Saturday Evening Post. On Thanksgiving Day, November 29, 1917 he married novelist Maud Hart Lovelace, best known for the Betsy-Tacy stories - she modelled `Joe Willard’ on her husband. The Lovelaces, convinced their second child was to be a boy, named it after their good friend, Merian C. Cooper - even after she turned out to be a daughter, not a son. It was that friendship that led to Delos being offered the chance to write the novelization of King Kong. As well as his solo writing career, Delos Lovelace wrote two historical novels with his wife. He died in 1967, the year he and Maud would have celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. Thousands of New and used Books at your Fingertips...
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Stel Pavlou Gene Pbk published November 2005 by Pocket Books at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0 7434 0385 1

3000 years. Two souls. One Fate
The highly anticipated second novel from the author of the bestselling Decipher Detective James North is called upon to deal with a young, mentally unstable man holding a child hostage at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. When he arrives, he is disturbed to discover that — although the bad guy is a complete stranger - he’s been asking for North by name.
The hostage situation goes wrong, and North finds himself injected with a substance that causes hallucinatory nightmares and flashes of memory that are not his own. He begins to hunt through New York for his attacker, a man he feels inexplicably compelled to kill - a man called Gene.
As he does so, North unlocks the secret of his past, a past that stretches back over 3000 years. Gene is the story of forgotten Greek warrior Cyclades who fought and died in the Trojan Wars, and was fated by the gods to be reincarnated seven times. Locked in a cycle of battle with the Babylonian Magi Athanatos, Cyclades must once again strive to defeat him and thwart his quest to achieve immortality.
Cyclades and Athanatos. North and Gene. But in this incarnation, neither man knows which is which, or why each of them has the instinctive need to kill the other.
Praise for the bestselling Decipher
‘It will satisfy anyone… written by someone who knows what they’re talking about’ Mail on Sunday
‘A fascinating blend of science, my theology, language and much more’ Independent
‘Exhilaratingly imaginative’ Sunday Times
About The Author
Stel Pavlou received a degree from Liverpool University. He recently wrote and co-produced the feature film The 51st State, starring Samuel L Jackson and Robert Carlyle, which will be released in the summer of 2001.
Gene is his second novel. He divides his time between Kent, Cyprus and Norway. Thousands of New and used Books at your Fingertips...
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Robert Rankin The Toyminator Published August 2006 by Gollancz at Ł12.99 ISBN: 0 575 07010 2
Somewhere over the rainbow and just off the Yellow Brick Road stands Toy City, formerly known as Toy Town. And things are not going well for the city’s inhabitants.
There have been outbreaks of STC - Spontaneous Toy Combustion.
There are strange signs and portents in the Heavens.
Preachers of Toy City’s many religions are predicting that the End Times are approaching and that a Toy City Apocalypse will soon come to pass.
But can this possibly be true, or is there a simpler explanation - alien invasion, for instance?
With the body count rising and the forces of law and order baffled, it is time for a hero - well, two heroes, actually - to attempt to save the day.
Step up, Eddie Bear, Toy City Private Eye, and his loyal sidekick, Jack.
And this time their adventures, fraught with danger, thrills and spills, disasters and daredevilry, excitement, sex and altogether too much alcohol, will take them far from Toy City and into another world, a world wild beyond even their most wild imaginings.
This world.
In this, the much-longed-for sequel to the bestselling and award-winning The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse, our courageous twosome face their biggest challenge yet: for they must save not only toykind, but the world of mankind too.
Which should keep them out of the pub for a while.
'Stark raving genius' Observer
'Like Douglas Adams on a sugar high' Kirkus
Praise for The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse:
‘Like a mad toymaker’s fever dream, [though] Rankin’s uproarious book [is] wickedly clever and the payoff is a great and satisfying surprise, the real delight comes from watching Rankin work his linguistic magic’ Publishers Weekly [Starred Review]
‘The weirdest detective story I have read’ Tribune
‘The Master of Silliness ... the English Spike Milligan ... they share an irrepressible joy of language and a marvellously inventive facetiousness - not an easy thing to pull off, but Rankin does, again and again’ Morning Star
‘Witty, intelligent and totally bizarre don’t even start to describe this’ Ottakars

About The Author
Robert Rankin, who describes himself as a Teller of Tall Tales, embarked upon his writing career in the late nineteen seventies, his ambition was to create an entirely new literary genre, which he named Far-Fetched Fiction. By doing this he aimed to avoid competing with any other living author in any known genre and would be given his own special section in bookshops. However, they weren’t keen on giving him his own set of shelves and his work is to be found in the Science Fiction section.
Robert Rankin’s unique prose style and extraordinary imagination have brought him considerable success. He is the author of The Brentford Trilogy (Six books), The Armageddon Trilogy (Three books), A Dog called Demolition, The Dance of the Voodoo Handbag, Snuff Fiction, Web Site Story and many other wondrous books.
In his own Words:
I’ve always loved books. Since I was very young there has always been a wonder in words. Mind you, I’ve never gone for the easy stuff, the best sellers, I’ve always loved the weirdos and I suppose I knew quite early on that they were my kind of folks and that I was probably a weirdo too. I was reading William Burroughs and listening to Captain Beefheart and thinking this stuff is for me.
I was a teenager in the nineteen sixties. A great era for that kind of thing and the very heyday of the jumble sale. People threw away a lot of incredible books, Victorian books, tea chest loads. I bought and bought for pennies. The tales of Victorian explorers and heroes of the Empire and works about Magic. I discovered Aleister Crowley, archetypal weirdo. He could have become my role model. All I lacked for was charisma and riches and an absolute belief in the power of Magic. And I wasn’t really up for having sex with all those women. Well, I sort of was, but they weren’t up for having sex with me.
I had inveigled myself into Art School at this time and was in my element. I was on the same course as Freddie Mercury, who wasn’t a weirdo at all, but went on to fame and fortune. I was pretty screwed after art school. I humped my folder of work around the publishing houses trying to get illustration work, but guess what, they all thought my stuff was…too weird.
Then, all of a sudden and without any warning, the sixties were gone and all the hopes and dreams of youth culture somehow taking over the world went with them. But I still had this hunger, you see. I wanted to create. I wanted to do things with words. I wanted to make a living by doing something that was me, rather than working for and getting sacked by some else. So while I was trying to work my way out of the rat race I took dull office jobs and spent much of the day writing short stories and poems, no one seemed to notice. They were stories of real people put in extraordinary situations and how they manage to deal with the obstacles they find themselves up against. Eventually I got a suitcase full and was told by a publisher, that if I wrote a novel in the same style they would buy it and I believed them. Thankfully they were telling the truth. So I got on with it. I was very fortunate to know a true teller of tall tales, he was my father and he was the inspiration for my writing. The full story of that is in THE DANCE OF THE VOODOO HANDBAG.
I’ve never made a fortune from writing, I am very lucky because I continue to be published and I’m allowed to go on doing things my way, which is the only way I can do them. Those who read my work probably do so because they can tell that I do what I do with conviction, I care about it. I don’t sell them short. I don’t make it easy for them, but I give them everything that I’ve got. I suppose THE BRENTFORD TRIANGLE is as near to perfect, in my personal opinion, as anything I’ve written. I love all those words. There’s a magic in writing those words and, OK, I make no bones about it, I’m still a committed weirdo, even after all these years, I will never conform, I will never join. I love what I do and I enjoy being me. I buy more books now than I ever did in the past and there are now so many places to buy them from and so many books being republished that you’d have had to pay a fortune for a few years ago. As long as my eyes and my brain keep functioning, I will keep on keeping on. Thousands of New and used Books at your Fingertips...
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Alastair Reynolds Galactic North Published October 2006 by Gollancz at Ł9.99 ISBN: 0 575 07
About The Author
Alastair Reynolds was born in Barry, South Wales, in 1966. He studied at Newcastle and St. Andrews Universities and has a Ph.D. in astronomy. Since 1991 he has lived in the Netherlands, near Leiden, where he works as an astrophysicist for the European Space Agency.
Alastair Reynolds is a regular contributor to Interzone and has been published in New Worlds. Of his ‘Revelation Space’ series, Revelation Space was shortlisted for the Arthur C Clarke and the British Science fiction Awards, Redemption Ark and Absolution Gap, were shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Award, and his SF thriller Chasm City was winner of the British Science Fiction Award. Thousands of New and used Books at your Fingertips...
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Alastair Reynolds Pushing Ice Published November 2005 by Gollancz at Ł14.99 ISBN: 0 575 07438 8
‘We push ice. It’s what we do’
By 2057 the commercial exploitation of the Solar System is in full swing. The burgeoning new economies in near-Earth space are fuelled by a steady stream of comets, steered back home by huge nuclear-powered mining ships. They call it pushing ice.
Bella Lind and the crew of the Rockhopper are nearing the end of their current mission cycle and desperate for some much-needed rest and relaxation - until startling news from Saturn arrives. Janus, one of Saturn’s ice moons, has inexplicably left its natural orbit and is now heading out of the Solar System at high speed.
As layers of camouflage fall away, it becomes clear that Janus was never a moon in the first place, but some kind of machine, and it’s now headed towards a fuzzily glimpsed artefact in the star system Spica, two hundred and sixty light-years away. Rockhopper is the only ship anywhere near Janus, and Bella Lind is ordered to catch up and shadow it for the few vital days before it falls for ever out of reach.
Bella agrees to accept the mission, and in doing so sets her ship and her crew on a collision course with destiny, a course that will test friendship and loyalty to the limits: for Janus has many surprises in store - and not all of them are welcome.
Pushing Ice is a trademark Alastair Reynolds novel: a deep-space adventure story with a scope as big as the Galaxy itself.
Praise for Alistair Reynolds
Century Rain
‘Part noir time-travel, part alternate history and part hard SF thriller, with aliens and augmented humans, Century Rain is a darkly brilliant love story set in worlds we think we know but don’t’ Jon Courtenay Grimwood, The Guardian
‘An engrossing blend of soft and hard science fiction themes, this is an exceedingly readable, not to mention riveting novel ... a thrilling - literally and generically - read. It is Reynolds’ skill in crafting convincing characters and nail-biting scenarios that should be given due credit… a genuinely great book ... leaves you wishing that more science fiction was this good’ Dream
‘An intelligent space opera whose factional wars between the survivors of a dead earth have an awful ideological plausibility’ Time Out
‘Across several settings, Century Rain juggles the apparently clashing notions of high-concept Science Fiction, political space war and film noir quite brilliantly ... but what’s impressive is the way Reynolds keeps the story focused and page-turning despite this wide-ranging canvas, while throwing in almost as plot devices, concepts that would be worthy of an entire book elsewhere’ Starburst
Revelation Space
‘Ravishingly inventive ... Reynolds’ vision of a future dominated by artificial intelligence trembles with the ultimate cold of the dark between the stars’ Publishers Weekly
Chasm City
‘Reynolds is on fire’ Booklist
‘Reynolds’ second novel is even more fun than the first; full of action, world-building, myth-making, and all the plot surprises the author can concoct’ Asimov’s
Redemption Ark
‘It’s rare to find a writer with sufficient nerve and stamina to write novels that are big enough to justify using words like ‘revelation’ and ‘redemption’. Reynolds pulls it off’ Publishers Weekly
Absolution Gap
‘Alastair Reynolds continues his rise to the top of British SF’ The Guardian
‘Absolution Gap is a first-rate work of science fiction, a thoroughly modern space opera full of dangers and marvels to match’ TheSFSite.com

About The Author
Alastair Reynolds was born in Barry, South Wales, in 1966. He studied at Newcastle and St. Andrews Universities and has a Ph.D. in astronomy. Since 1991 he has lived in the Netherlands, near Leiden, where he works as an astrophysicist for the European Space Agency.
Alastair Reynolds is a regular contributor to Interzone and has been published in New Worlds. Of his ‘Revelation Space’ series, Revelation Space was shortlisted for the Arthur C Clarke and the British Science fiction Awards, Redemption Ark and Absolution Gap, were shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Award, and his SF thriller Chasm City was winner of the British Science Fiction Award. Thousands of New and used Books at your Fingertips...
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Alastair Reynolds Century Rain Pbk published October 2005 by Gollancz at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0575076917

Verity Auger is a specialist in the archaeological exploration of Earth, rendered uninhabitable after the technological catastrophe known as the Nanocaust. After a field-trip goes badly wrong. Verity is forced to redeem herself by participating in a dangerous mission, for which her expertise is invaluable.
Using a back door into an unstable alien transit system. Auger’s faction has discovered something astonishing at the far end of a wormhole: mid-twentieth century Earth, preserved like a fly in amber. Is it a window into the past, a simulation, or something else entirely?
Auger’s task - apart from probing the nature of this alternate world - is to recover the lost property of a murdered agent before it falls into the wrong hands. But the dead agent had stumbled onto something that could change not only Auger’s present, but Earth’s past as well.
With time running out, Auger retraces the dead agent’s footsteps across a Europe that isn’t quite the one in the history books. Shadowed by forces that would rather see her dead, the last thing she needs is the attention of a struggling private detective trying to close one last case ...
Century Rain is not just a time-travel story, nor a tale of alternate history. Part hard SF thriller, part interstellar adventure, part noir romance, Century Rain is something altogether stranger.
‘Alastair Reynolds occupies the same frenzied imaginative space as Philip K. Dick or A.E. Van Vogt’ M John Harrison in the Guardian
‘He is taking the stuff of space opera and making it into something new . . the most exciting space opera writer working today’ Locus
‘Reynolds’s narrative is truly breathtaking in scope and intricate in detail, making him a mastersinger of the space opera’ The Times
Praise for Revelation Space:
`He fills the book with a sense of wonder ... quite possibly the space opera of 2000’ Locus
`The span here is mind-boggling ... cosmos-spanning concepts - a breathtaking journey’ Good Book Guide
`Hard SF on an epic scale, crammed with technological marvels and immensities. A sparkling SF debut’ David Langford, Amazon.co.uk
‘Gonzo cybergoth space opera: intensely compelling: darkly intelligent: hugely ambitious’ Paul J McAuley, winner of the Arthur C Clarke Award
‘One of the most important and exciting books of the year’ sfrevu.com
Praise for Chasm City:
`The best thing Reynolds has done ... in the end, it is a joy’ John Clute, scifi.com ‘A superb hard SF thriller by one of Britain’s hottest young authors’ sfrevu.com
‘A perfect synthesis of character-driven story with mind-boggling alien societies’ lineone.net
Praise for Absolution Gap:
‘Revelation, Redemption, Absolution ... Reynolds provides them all’ John Courtenay Grimwood in the Guardian
‘Space opera on a mind-boggling scale .. . a terrific read’ SFX
‘Spaces opera doesn’t get any better. Both a triumphant conclusion to Reynolds’s Inhibitors trilogy and his best novel to date’ Dreamwatch
About The Author
Alastair Reynolds was born in Barry, South Wales, in 1966. He studied at Newcastle and St. Andrews Universities and has a Ph.D. in astronomy. Since 1991 he has lived in the Netherlands, near Leiden, where he works as an astrophysicist for the European Space Agency.
Alastair Reynolds is a regular contributor to Interzone and has been published in New Worlds. Of his ‘Revelation Space’ series, Revelation Space was shortlisted for the Arthur C Clarke and the British Science fiction Awards, Redemption Ark and Absolution Gap, were shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Award, and his SF thriller Chasm City was winner of the British Science Fiction Award. Thousands of New and used Books at your Fingertips...
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