Sci Fiction Titles 1999

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New Sci Fiction Titles 1999

Kevin J. Anderson Blindfold Pbk published May 99 by Voyager at Ł0.00 ISBN: 0-00-648306-2
Justice is blinded
Atlas is a struggling colony on an untamable world, a fragile society held together by Truthsayers. Trained from birth as the sole users of Veritas - a telepathy virus that lets them read the souls of the guilty - Truthsayers are justice. Infallible. Beyond appeal.
Troy Boren is falsely accused of murder. He puts his trust in the young Truthsayer Kalliana, until, impossibly, she convicts him. Her power is fading and nobody can work it out.
A conspiracy is taking place that threatens to destroy their world from within. For without truth and justice, Atlas will certainly fall.
Kevin J. Anderson is a prolific author. He has written the highly successful Star Wars novels, the Young Jedi Knights series and other illustrated Star Wars titles. He has also written fantasy novels, a host of short stories and articles, and is author of the bestselling X-Files novels Ground Zero and Ruins. To add to his credits, he has also been nominated for the Nebula Award and the Bram Stoker Award. He lives in the USA.

About The Author
Kevin J.Anderson is the bestselling author of Ruins.

John Barnes Earth Made of Glass Pbk published April 99 by Millenium at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0-75281-658-6
Nominee for the 1999 Arthur C. Clarke Award
'One of the most inventive and diverting SF novels' Washington Post
The stunning sequel to the Arthur C Clarke and Nebula Award nominated A Million Open Doors …
At the furthest reaches of the galaxy exist the Thousand Cultures, societies scattered across 31 inhabited worlds in 25 star systems. The Inner Complex - which includes Earth - has been able to exert control over the Thousand Cultures because it contains 90% of all human population and because all traffic must pass through it. But humanity is expanding and the complexes are beginning to fight over access to the frontier worlds. At the frontline - Quidde, base of Chaka Home: a culture based on a Millenialist black American sect claiming spiritual descent from Chaka Zulu's army - Giraut and Margaret must prevent the outbreak of a repeat of ancient history: a war of hatred as three cultural factions threaten a struggle with echoes of the bloodiest genocides of the 20th century.
John Barnes has a PhD in Theatre from the University of Pittsburgh and teaches theatre at Western State College, Gunnison, Colorado. He is the author of a number of award nominated science fiction novels and co-authored The Tides of Tiber with astronaut Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin.
Critical acclaim for John Barnes
'Massively scaled… Beguiling and inspiring' Time Out
'One of the most inventive and diverting SF novels. Such zest, energy and intelligence… Highly entertaining' Washington Post of A Million Open Doors
'Dazzling… sheer storytelling power combined with hard-edged speculative science' Booklist of Mother of Storms
About The Author
John Barnes is an assistant professor of theater at Western State College of Colorado. He has lived in various other parts of the United States.

Stephen Baxter Web 2028 Pbk published November 99 by Millenium at Ł6.99 ISBN: 1-85798-870-1
It is 2028 and the Internet is about to become a lot more than an information superhighway…
Six novellas from six of the biggest names in the genre, charting a world that is about to change forever. A world where our children will make our first contact. A contact that will take place in the Web; the vast network of virtual reality sites that has become a playground for the world's children and a stage for the most dramatic event in mankind's history.
Featuring complete novellas from Stephen Baxter, Ken Macleod, James Lovegrove, Maggie Furey, Pat Cadigan and Eric Blown, The Web 2028 presents six unique, linked views of the future.
Praise for The Web 2027
‘Worth the attention of anyone with an interest in the state of British SF. Anyone looking for diverting and enjoyable entertainment from our top authors need look no further' Infinity Plus
‘Well conceived, well visualised. believable' Daily Telegraph
'Intelligent and thoughtful, as well as entertaining' Science Fiction chronicle
'Quality SF’ 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. He is married and lives in Buckinghamshire.
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 this year (1999), an earlier work of Stephen's, Voyage, was serialised on BBC Radio 4.

Ben Bova Return to Mars Published June 99 by Hodder & Stoughton at Ł17.99 ISBN: 034070795X
In the story his readers have been awaiting for years, Ben Bova returns to the scene of his most celebrated novel.
Published in 1992, Mars was the story of the thrilling first manned journey to the mysterious planet which has fascinated astronomers since the dawn of time. Arthur C. Clarke called it 'a splendid book'; it was a bestseller throughout the world.
Now, in Return to Mars, a carefully picked international crew of astronauts, engineers and scientists is on its way back. Leading them is Jamie Waterman, the man who defied the accepted wisdom of the scientific community - and the direct orders of his superiors - to discover life on the planet.
But there are those who still resent his success; others who have their own reasons to ensure that Waterman, with his almost mystic idealism, does not make the final decisions about the Second Mars Expedition. And among the crew is someone whose mental instability could lead to catastrophe for them all.
This is the story of a group of men and women whose human secrets will be as explosive as the scientific discoveries they make. It is the most exciting book Bova has written.
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 ninety futuristic novels and non-fiction books. Mars, Death Dream, Brothers and the two novels in the Moonbase saga - Moonrise and Moonwar - are the most recent.
'A superb story by a first-class writer' Daily Telegraph
'The science fiction author who will have the greatest effect on the world.' Ray Bradbury
Mars
'A splendid book... of his many books, Mars must be the most important.' Arthur C Clarke
'Extraordinary... this kind of story is the reason science fiction exists in the first place.' Orson Scott Card Death Dream
'The prophetic vision of one of the world's great masters of the genre of science fiction.' Books Brothers
'Plenty of excitement... an effective mix of science, politics and family struggle.' Kirkus Reviews
Moonrise
'Heady oxygen is breathed into old bones as Bova colonises the moon.' Scotland on Sunday
'Bova's picture of life on the moon is highly believable.' Publishers Weekly
Moonwar
'What happens to Moonbase and its inhabitants is as exciting as the future that could be ours.' Tampa Tribune and Times
About The Author
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. 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.

Ben Bova Return to Mars Pbk published December 99 by NEL at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0-340-70796-8
In the story his readers have been awaiting for years, Ben Bova returns to the scene of his most celebrated novel.
Published in 1992, Mars was the story of the thrilling first manned journey to the mysterious planet which has fascinated astronomers since the dawn of time. Arthur C. Clarke called it 'a splendid book'; it was a bestseller throughout the world.
Now, in Return to Mars, a carefully picked international crew of astronauts, engineers and scientists is on its way back. Leading them is Jamie Waterman, the man who defied the accepted wisdom of the scientific community - and the direct orders of his superiors - to discover life on the planet.
But there are those who still resent his success; others who have their own reasons to ensure that Waterman, with his almost mystic idealism, does not make the final decisions about the Second Mars Expedition. And among the crew is someone whose mental instability could lead to catastrophe for them all.
This is the story of a group of men and women whose human secrets will be as explosive as the scientific discoveries they make. It is the most exciting book Bova has written.
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 ninety futuristic novels and non-fiction books. Mars, Death Dream, Brothers and the two novels in the Moonbase saga - Moonrise and Moonwar - are the most recent.
'A superb story by a first-class writer' Daily Telegraph
'The science fiction author who will have the greatest effect on the world.' Ray Bradbury
Mars
'A splendid book... of his many books, Mars must be the most important.' Arthur C Clarke
'Extraordinary... this kind of story is the reason science fiction exists in the first place.' Orson Scott Card Death Dream
'The prophetic vision of one of the world's great masters of the genre of science fiction.' Books Brothers
'Plenty of excitement... an effective mix of science, politics and family struggle.' Kirkus Reviews
Moonrise
'Heady oxygen is breathed into old bones as Bova colonises the moon.' Scotland on Sunday
'Bova's picture of life on the moon is highly believable.' Publishers Weekly
Moonwar
'What happens to Moonbase and its inhabitants is as exciting as the future that could be ours.' Tampa Tribune and Times
About The Author
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. 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.

Eric Brown Penumbra Pbk published March 99 by Millenium at Ł5.99 ISBN: 1-85798-592-3
The 22nd century. The massive starliners that depart from the orbital transit terminals have taken humankind to hundreds of colony planets. But for Bennett, jaded tug pilot, a life beyond Earth is just a dream. Until the Mackendrick Foundation hires him to pilot a lightship to the Rim world of Penumbra - and a fateful meeting with a mysterious alien race.
On the teeming streets of Calcutta police Lieutenant Rana Rao has no time to consider the stars. She has just been promoted from working with the street-children to the Homicide division. .. and into the path of a serial killer.
For wherever man goes, he takes darkness …
Eric Brown was voted one of the top ten SF writers in the UK by Vector Magazine, and is consistently voted one of the reader's favourites in Interzone. He lives in Haworth, Yorkshire.
Praise for Eric Brown
'Eric Brown is the name to watch in SF' Peter F. Hamilton
'Eric Brown is back - and he has fire in his belly. Recommended.' Stephen Baxter
'A deft understated touch: wonderful' New Scientist
'SF infused with a cosmopolitan and literary sensibility ... accomplished and affecting' Paul McAuley, Interzone
'Stories which are the essence of modern science fiction and yet show a passionate concern for the human predicament and human values' Bob Shaw
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), Engineman (1994) and Blue Shifting (1995), and 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).

Peter Delacorte Time on my Hands Pbk published July 99 by Phoenix at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0-75380-838-2
Gabriel Prince encounters a curious quantum physicist, Jasper Hudnut, in Paris. Hudnut offers Gabriel a ride in a time machine, but there's one condition: he must journey back half a century and do whatever it takes to change the course of young Ronald Reagan's life, so he'll become something other than the 40th President of the United States. So Gabriel becomes a screenwriter at Warner Brothers on the eve of World War 2, and he soon finds that altering history isn't nearly as easy as it looks …
Wry, ingenious, rich both with historical detail and Nabokovian games, Time on my Hands is the story of a man trying to decide whether time travel is the best thing that has ever happened to him, or the worst.
'Peter Delacorte has devised a time machine that not only takes you where you want to go but leaves you feeling surprisingly euphoric ... a novel of pure wish fulfilment, for who among us would not like the chance to go back and right all our wrongs!' New York Times
'Enormous fun ... [Delacorte's] writing has a wonderful read-aloud quality, the plot is spiked with irony and action, and he manages period details perfectly' Philadelphia Inquirer
'A delightful read' San Francisco Chronicle
About The Author
Peter Delacorte has written extensively about show business in America. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, Bonnie, two dysfunctional cats, and one extremely well-adjusted dog. Time on my Hands, his third novel, was shortlisted for the Arthur C.Clarke Award.

Greg Egan Quarantine Pbk published August 99 by Millenium at Ł5.99 ISBN: 1-85798-590-7
It's late in the 21st century and bioengineering has become such a commonplace that people are able to modify their minds in any way they wish. It is an era which has been shaped by information systems so vast that security, in any form, is easily breached. You can be just exactly what you want to be, but the world outside and your life in it aren't going to run any more smoothly...
Because one night, thirty three years ago, the stars went out and everything disappeared from the sky. 'The Bubble' - a perfect sphere centred on the sun - made its appearance and isolated the earth from the solar system.
Humanity has been cut off... Quarantined.
'Qualifies as grand speculation in the purest sense… stunning' Locus
The universe may be stranger than we can imagine, but it's going to have a hard time outdoing Egan' New Scientist
About The Author
Greg Egan lives in Perth, Western Australia. He alternates programming contracts with stretches of full time writing. His short fiction has twice won Best Story of the Year in Interzone. He is a winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award and has been shortlisted for the Hugos three times.
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Greg Egan Luminous Pbk published August 99 by Millenium at Ł5.99 ISBN: 1-85798-573-7
Greg Egan is the author of some of the most surprising and intuitive short fictions in the genre. His stories range from near future predictions to far future, far space improvisations and this new collection of ten stories includes 'The Planck Dive','Transition Dreams','Our Lady of Chernobyl', 'Cocoon' and the title story 'Luminous'.
'A first class collection. Every one of these stories is gripping and skilfully done, one of the best single author collections of the year' Science Fiction Chronicle
'The Universe may be stranger than we can imagine, but it's going to have a tough time outdoing Egan' New Scientist
'[Greg Egan] reveals wonders with an artistry to equal his audacity' New York Review Of Science Fiction
'Wonderful mind expanding stuff, and well written too' The Guardian
About The Author
Greg Egan lives in Perth, Western Australia. He alternates programming contracts with stretches of full time writing. His short fiction has twice won Best Story of the Year in Interzone. He is a winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award and has been shortlisted for the Hugos three times.
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Steven Erikson Gardens of the Moon Pbk published April 99 by Bantam at Ł9.99 ISBN: 434543543
A Tale of the Malazan Book of the Fallen
Gardens of the Moon introduces a startling and original new voice into the realms of high fantasy. Bringing together grand design, a dark and complex mythology, wild and wayward magic and a host of believable and enduring characters with thrilling, powerful storytelling, Gardens of the Moon is a breathtaking achievement.
The vast Malazan Empire simmers with discontent, its subject states bled dry by decades of interminable warfare, purges, internecine strife and clashes with Anomander Rake, Lord of Moon's Spawn, and his mysterious Tiste Andii. Even the imperial legions, long inured to the bloodshed, yearn for some respite. Yet the Empress' rule remains absolute, enforced by her dread Claw assassins.
For Sergeant Whiskeyjack and his cynical squad of Bridgeburners, and for Tattersail, sole surviving sorceress of the Second Legion, the aftermath of the siege of Pale should have been a time to heal the still living and mourn the many dead. The Empress has other ideas. Darujhistan, last of the Free Cities of Genabackis, still holds out against her and it is to this ancient and noble bastion of independence that she turns her predatory gaze.
However, the Empire is not the only player in this great game. A more sinister, shadowbound force is poised to make its first move, as Captain Canoes Paran, aide to the Empress' Adjunct, is about to discover. For he has been chosen for an altogether higher purpose - as harbinger of the gods themselves…
Steven Erikson is Canadian by birth but now lives in the UK. He trained as an anthropologist and archaeologist and is also a graduate of the celebrated Iowa Writers' Workshop. Gardens of the Moon is not only Steven Erikson's first fantasy novel but also the first book in a planned multi-volume sequence.

Kathleen Ann Goonan The Bones of Time Pbk published May 99 by Voyager at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0-00-648318-6
In Hawaii, a conflict erupts between the nationalist Homeland Movement and the Interspace corporation which rules the island like a colony, resorting to murder to maintain control. A plan is hatched by the Movement's leaders to hijack a giant spaceship being built on the island by the corporation.
Lynn Oshima is heir to the powerful head of Interspace. While pursuing her hobby of collecting rare genetic information - in this case, the DNA of Chairman Mao - Lynn crosses paths with 13-year-old Akamu, the clone of Hawaii's legendary nineteenth century King Kamehameha.
Thanks to Lynn, Kamehameha will return to Hawaii ... to lead the Homeland Movement.
'Enormous talent and energy' New York Times
'Goonan successfully interweaves grand-scale scientific theory and colourful Hawaiian culture in a big, important book that establishes her as a major voice in contemporary sf. Goonan displays a rare gift for grounding far-reaching ideas in beautifully crafted, almost magical prose' Booklist
About The Author
Kathleen Ann Goonan lives in Lakeland, Florida

Simon R. Green Haven of Lost Souls Pbk published November 99 by Millenium at Ł6.99 ISBN: 1-85798-900-7
Hawk & Fisher 1
When you are tired of life, come to Haven. And someone will kill you.
Haven is a dark city, the rotten apple of the Low Kingdoms, where anything can be bought, stolen or fought for. From the slums and squalor of the Devil's Hook to High Tory, where the aristos and politicians double deal, murder and corruption flourish openly. Swords and sorcery clash every day in the mean and merciless magical city of Haven.
Captains Hawk and Fisher, husband and wife, are the only honest cops in Haven's City Guard. Together, they take on everything from vampires and werewolves to locked-room murder mysteries, from conniving politicians to the enigmatic Beings on the Street of Gods.
You can find anything in Haven. And it can find you.
This is the real Hell Street Blues - where everyone plays for keeps.
‘Recommended' Bookshelf
'A fun read for murder fans' Paperback Inferno
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.

Simon R. Green Deathstalker Destiny Pbk published July 99 by Millenium at Ł6.99
Conclusion of the bestselling epic
Hazel d'Ark, ex-clonelegger and ex-pirate, is an official hero of the great rebellion - but she's also been kidnapped. Now it's up to the legendary Owen Deathstalker to venture into the Obeah Systems to find and rescue his companion-in-arms. But there's far more behind the kidnapping than the usual demands for huge amounts of money, for the Blood Runners, Hazel's evil captors, have stolen a part of the Madness Maze and they have devastating plans for its use. Once more, Owen is called upon to fulfil his Destiny.
And even when all the loose ends are being tied up, as everyone is bidding fair to live happily ever after, the Recreated turn up to threaten the existence of humanity …
And this time Owen's actions will decide the fate of the entire Empire. This is his destiny. Deathstalker Destiny.
And all humanity waits upon him.

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.

Joe Haldeman Forever Free Pbk published November 99 by Millenium at Ł5.99 ISBN: 1-85798-

Joe Haldeman Forever Peace Pbk published November 99 by Millenium at Ł5.99 ISBN: 1-85798-899-X
In 1975, Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War became one of the rare novels to win both of science fiction's major awards; the Hugo and the Nebula. More than twenty years later his new book - a companion novel, not a sequel - has achieved the same remarkable double.
In the year 2043,the Ngumi War rages. Limited nuclear strikes have been used on Atlanta and two enemy cities, but the war goes on, fought by 'soldierboys’ - indestructible war machines operated by remote control by soldiers hundreds of miles away.
Julian Class is one of these soldiers, and for him war is truly hell. The psychological strain of being jacked-in to his soldierboy - and the genocidal results - are becoming too much to bear. Now he and his companion, Dr Amelia Harding, have made a terrifying scientific discovery which could literally take the universe back to square one. Except that for Julian, the discovery isn't so much terrifying as tempting...
Praise for Forever Peace Winner of the Hugo, Nebula and John W. Campbell Awards
'Though not a sequel to his classic The Forever War… Haldeman's new novel rivals it for emotional power. The Vietnam vet writes with uncommon intelligence and acuity about the terror of war and the horror of the human heritage in the middle of the next century' Publishers Weekly
'Mature and reflective… There are narrative kicks and hard SF pleasures in Forever Peace ... they all point gracefully towards the depiction of a world where peace is inevitable, and as profoundly hardwired into the human psyche, as war has always been' Washington Post Book World

Peter F. Hamilton The Naked God Published October 99 by Macmillan at Ł20.00
The third volume in the Night's Dawn Trilogy
Hell just went quantum...
The Confederation is starting to collapse politically and economically, allowing the possessed to infiltrate more worlds. Quinn Dexter is loose on Earth, destroying the giant arcologies one at a time. As Louise Kavanagh tries to track him down, she manages to acquire some strange and powerful allies whose goal does not quite match her own. The campaign to liberate Mortonridge from the possessed degenerates into a horrendous land battle of the kind which hasn't been seen by humankind for six hundred years. Then some of the protagonists escape in a very unexpected direction...
Joshua Calvert and Syrinx now fly their starships on a mission to find the Sleeping God – which an alien race believes holds the key to finally overthrowing the possessed.
'Space opera has rarely been dealt with in such majesty... inventive, ambitious... a illustration of the power of science fiction' The Express
'Truly imaginative... the energy and detail of the writing are second to none' The Bookseller
'Hamilton writes classic space opera... heady stuff, played with verve, imagination and enough of a sense of humour' The Sunday Times
'Eloquent and ingenious...a host of believable characters deploy amid rich descriptions of worlds and living starships... It all hangs together compulsively' Daily Telegraph
'Well into the millennium I will be telling people how I gobbled the 1,951 pages of The Reality Dysfunction and its sequel The Neutronium Alchemist in just two days' SFX
'Existing fans of the Night's Dawn epic sill snap it up, while for newcomers to Hamilton this is an excellent place to start' The Times
About The Author
Peter F. Hamilton was born in Rutland in 1960, and still lives near Rutland Water. He began writing in 1987, and sold his first short story to Fear magazine in 1988. He has also been published in Interzone and the In Dreams and New Worlds anthologies, and several small-press publications. His previous novels are the Greg Mandel series, Mindstar Rising (1993), A Quantum Murder (1994) and The Nano flower (1995); and the first two novels in the bestselling 'Night's Dawn' Trilogy: The Reality dysfunction and The Neutronium Alchemist. He has also published A Second Chance At Eden, a novella and six short stories set in the same universe as the 'Night's Dawn' Trilogy.

Peter F. Hamilton A Second Chance at Eden Pbk published October 99 by Pan at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0-333-73853-5
From the author of the Night's Dawn Trilogy, a novella and six stories set in the same brilliantly realized universe
SONNIE'S EDGE
The popular sport of 'beastie-baiting' involves contests to the death between artificial monsters controlled through human affinity bonds. Sonnie's team is particularly successful ... but then her monster, 'Khanivore', has one special advantage.
A SECOND CHANCE AT EDEN
Eden is a bitek habitat which orbits Jupiter. Mining the fusion fuel on which Earth is dependent, it is a mini-nation of radical politics - and even more radical technology. Then its creator is murdered in full view of the whole population. But nobody can identify the perpetrator - or the motive.
NEW DAYS OLD TIMES
Settlers came to the planet Nyvan hoping for a lifestyle free of Earthbound hatreds. Alas, environments may change, but not Roman nature.
CANDY BUDS
The crime-lord Laurus rules Kariwak with an iron fist jealously guarding control of the bitek trade. But when an astonishing new substance appears on the streets, virtual reality takes on an entirely new dimension
DEATHDAY
On a desolate planet, a man wages an obsessive campaign of retribution against the last survivor of an alien race. But vengeance can cut both ways.
THE LIVES AND LOVES OF TIARELLA ROSA
A passion that spans two generations of women ... and endures beyond.
ESCAPE ROUTE
The starship LADY MACBETH encounters a long abandoned alien spacecraft, with its escape route still intact - but leading where? If the crew claims salvage rights, the technology inside could make them wealthy enough to buy planets. But first they need to make sure it's as empty as it seems …
'Absolutely vintage science fiction. Hamilton puts British sci-fi back into interstellar overdrive' The Times
About The Author
Peter F. Hamilton was born in Rutland in 1960, and still lives near Rutland Water. He began writing in 1987, and sold his first short story to Fear magazine in 1988. He has also been published in Interzone and the In Dreams and New Worlds anthologies, and several small-press publications. His previous novels are the Greg Mandel series, Mindstar Rising (1993), A Quantum Murder (1994) and The Nano flower (1995); and the first two novels in the bestselling 'Night's Dawn' Trilogy: The Reality dysfunction and The Neutronium Alchemist. He has also published A Second Chance At Eden, a novella and six short stories set in the same universe as the 'Night's Dawn' Trilogy.

Brian Herbert Prelude to Dune: House of Atreides Published October 99 by Hodder & Stoughton at Ł16.99 ISBN: 0-340-75174-6
Frank Herbert’s Dune is the best-selling science fiction novel of all time, with nearly ten million copies in print. Winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards, it is universally acclaimed as the greatest classic of the field.
Now comes the epic story of what happened in the generation before Dune began, revealing more of the origins of the blood feud between House Atreides and House Harkonnen.
It is the year 10,154 of the Imperial Calendar, and for four decades the planet Arrakis - called Dune by its inhabitants has been ruled by the Harkonnen family. Proud of his cruelty and ruthlessness, iron-fisted Baron Vladimir Harkonnen dreams of ever-larger harvests of the precious substance called "spice", the chemical that prolongs life and increases mental powers; the drug that mutated Spacing Guild Navigators use to control starships with their minds.
But the seeds of change have been sown. On the government planet Kaitain, the Emperor's son Shaddam plots to replace his father. On Wallach IX, the Reverend Mothers of the Bene Gesserit prepare for the climax of their programme of genetic manipulation to create the Kwisatz Haderach, a godlike man. On Arrakis, an idealistic young planetologist, Pardot Kynes, goes out into the desert to live among the Fremen, desert nomads who hold the key to the secrets of spice and the giant sandworms who guard it. And on the water and island world of Caladan, young Leto Atreides prepares to travel to the planet Ix, where he will learn to be a ruler.
Drawing on notes, outlines and correspondence Frank Herbert left behind at his death, as well as conversations and brain-storming sessions Brian Herbert held with his father, House Atreides is a breathtaking story of war, treachery and of love, loyalty and steadfastness in the face of overwhelming odds.

About The Author
Frank Herbert, who created Dune, was born in 1920 and spent most of his early life in the Pacific Northwest of America. He was a professional photographer, journalist and occasional oyster-diver; he also had stints as a radio news commentator and jungle survival instructor.
Though he is best known for Dune, he was also the author of several other important science fiction novels including The Green Brain, The Dragon in the Sea and The White Plague. He was awarded the Nebula and Hugo awards - the highest literary accolades in the world of science fiction for Dune. He died in 1986.
Brian Herbert, his son, is a widely published science fiction author in his own right. This is his first novel to call on his father's work: previously, he has created his own worlds, sometimes in collaboration. He has also written Dreamer of Dune, a comprehensive biography of his illustrious father.
Kevin J. Anderson is best known for his world-wide best-selling novels based on the universes of Star Wars and The X-Files, and is also the author of several more critically acclaimed original novels. An expert on the US space programme, he worked at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for ten years.

Frank Herbert Dune Published December 99 by Gollancz at Ł16.99 ISBN: 0-57506-856-6
See Review by Jay Russell - one of the greatest talents the horror industry has produced for some time… (Black Tears)
Only once in a blue moon doer a work of imaginative fiction like Dune come along - and since its first publication more than thirty years ago, Frank Herbert’s brilliant novel has become a classic: consistently voted the Number One science fiction book of the century by readers all over the world.
In the far future, two great dynastic families are locked in a bitter feud. The Duke of Atreides has been manoeuvred by his great enemy, Baron Harkonnen, into accepting the job of administering the planet known as Dune. A vast desert, almost uninhabitable, a drop of water is worth a fortune - 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 that they can expect treachery as they set out to take up their new appointment, but it comes from a source both shocking and unexpected.
And when Paul succeeds his father, this gifted youth becomes a catalyst for the natives of Dune: a people who exist in the land and the heat of the desert. Unbeknownst to the past rulers of the planet, their knowledge of the ecology of this inhospitable desert giver them immense power.
All they need is a revolutionary leader to harness this force: and Paul Atreides could be that man ...
High drama treachery and intrigue combined with a spectacular narrative drive: Dune is a novel that, once read, will never be forgotten.
This special edition is illustrated in full colour by Hugo Award-winning artist John Schoenherr, who provided the original covers and interiors for Herbert’s Dune stories when they were serialised in Analog in the early 1960s. His paintings were those preferred by Frank Herbert above all others.

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.

Simon Ings Headlong Pbk published February 99 by Voyager at Ł5.99
Surgically connected to their swarm of mechanical workers, architects Christopher and Joanne Yale were turning the Moon into a paradise. Now, without warning, their machines have pulled the plug.
Christopher Yale is drowning in a sea of sensory deprivation and bootleg medicine. Joanne is dead, and neither the police nor their friends have any explanation. But Yale knows she was plugging pirated software into her head, to fight the same condition he has, Epistemic Appetite Imbalance.
Confronting his loss and his new, empty-headed world, Yale seeks out the truth of Joanne's death, all the while being drawn into a new, colder London which has no place for the Moon's failures. He hasn't got much time.
Headlong is mind-bending science fiction for wired people. Simon Ings is a voice for the future. 'SF's hippest star' Dazed and Confused
'Simon Ings is blazing a unique SF trail' Starburst
'Caustic, brilliant... you should read Simon Ings' i-D
'The rosy glow announcing the dawn of a new era of excitement in science fiction' New York Review of Science Fiction
While testing the patience of many long-suffering employers - from a glass factory in Bradford to London's Vogue - Simon Ings has written three sf novels (including the much praised Hot Head), two short films, and a jazz libretto, all around the theme of sensory gain and loss. He writes regularly for the New Scientist, and has recently written a glowing review of the colour blue for The World of Interiors.

K.W. Jeter Noir Pbk published January 99 by Millenium at Ł6.99 ISBN: 1-85798-596-6
Travelt - a corporate flunkey at DynaZauber Inc. - is dead, but his prowler is still stalking the Wedge.
Harrisch needs the prowler back. before it spews OynaZauber's secrets to the enemy.
When Harrisch approaches ex-agent McNihil with the Travelt case, McNihil's every nerve ending screams no - even though the payout might buy his late wife out of limbo. His days in the Wedge are over - too many ghosts, too many nightmares. But Harrisch won't take no for an answer.
Noir is a brilliantly atmospheric thriller. Set in a Los Angeles that stands at the centre of an urban sprawl spanning half the globe. Where the haves live in splendour and the have-nots scrabble in the dark. Where the dead live on until their debts are paid.
K.W.Jeter is one of the most respected SF writers working today. He is the author of over twenty novels, including Dr. Adder, The Glass Hammer, Wolf Flow, and Farewell Horizontal. His previous novels, Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human and Blade Runner 3: Replicant Night, achieved international bestseller status.
After residences in England and Spain, he and his wife, Geri, currently make their home in Portland, Oregon. He owns two pairs of Dahlquist DQ-10's, but none of them are wired with human neural tissue--yet.
An essay on the copyright issues raised in his novel NOIR can be located at http:/ /www.europa.com/~jeter/copyrights.html
'Commendable energy and imagination' New York Times
About The Author
K.W.Jeter is one of the most respected SF writers working today. He is the author of over twenty novels, including Dr. Adder, The Glass Hammer, Wolf Flow, and Farewell Horizontal. His previous novels, Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human and Blade Runner 3: Replicant Night, achieved international bestseller status.
After residences in England and Spain, he and his wife, Geri, currently make their home in Portland, Oregon. He owns two pairs of Dahlquist DQ-10's, but none of them are wired with human neural tissue--yet.
An essay on the copyright issues raised in his novel NOIR can be located at http:/ /www.europa.com/~jeter/copyrights.html

Paul Kearney The Iron Wars: The Monarchies of God Published January 99 by Gollancz at Ł16.99
Book Three
It seemed that the whole world had been picked up and reconfigured... some dreadful engine has begun to turn in the hot darkness of its vitals and could not now be stopped, any more than the sun could be halted in its path.
Heresy and war stalk the continent of Normannia. In the east the great fortress of Onnann Dyke is about to be overthrown by the heathen Merduks, while in the west Hebrion's king lies in a coma, his capital in smouldering ruins... and two scheming women bicker over the throne. A new age is dawning. The Church has become a great temporal empire dedicated to the destruction of the heretic kings of Normannia. For the first time in four centuries the tercios of Fimbria, the old imperial power, are on the march. In the midst of this political and military maelstrom a battered carrack makes landfall in Hebrion. The explorer Richard Hawkwood has finally returned to the Monarchies of God, bearing tidings of a new continent in the uttermost west - and there is something terrible lurking in his ship's hold.
Praise for The Monarchies of God series: "Kearney paints the gore, the sex and the lust for power in vivid colour. " SFX
"Marvellously vivid." Locus
"A bold, strong new voice in fantasy. " Robert Silverberg
"Impressive for its human insights, its unusual take on the use of magic, and its find blending of historical elements with sheer invention. " Locus
"Forever exciting, this marvellous second volume makes even better reading than the first… destruction, religion, a great hero, war, excitement... What more can you people want?' Black Tears
Paul Kearney was born and grew up in Northern Ireland. He lived for some years in Copenhagen before moving on to the United States with his wife. As well as the first two books in the acclaimed Monarchies of God saga - Hawkwood's Voyage and The Heretic Kings, he has written The Way to Babylon, A Different Kingdom and Riding the Unicorn, all published by Gollancz.

Wil McCarthy Bloom Published June 99 by Millenium at Ł16.99 ISBN: 1857985931
'By the time the Response teams began arriving, the bloom was some ten metres across, and two metres high at the centre a fractal jagged bubble of rainbow fog, Class Two threaded structure almost certainly visible to those unfortunate to be standing within fecund radius when the fruiting bodies swelled and popped. Twenty deaths followed almost immediately …
In a chilling and very believable future BLOOM puts humankind against an enemy of its own creation, grown rampantly out of control…
In the late 21st century, man-made, self-replicating organisms called mycora - smaller than bacteria - mutate and sweep across the globe in a chain reaction so swift and deadly there is no time to do anything but flee from an Earth destroyed by the science created to sustain it.
Now the remnants of humanity, clinging to the asteroid belt and the moons of Jupiter, are about to face their greatest test. Mycora are incorporating gene sequences to elude human defences, perhaps even to thrive in the harsh environment of the outer system. The only way to counter this is to go to the diseased heart of the Mycosystem Earth.
How can the few surviving members of mankind hope to overcome something which, if it obeys the laws of physics, will overwhelm the cosmos?
Reviews for Wil McCarthy
'Exceptionally good...a convincing look at the near future of nanotechnology' Vernor Vinge
'Wil McCarthy demonstrates that he has a sharp intelligence, a galaxy spanning imagination and the solid scientific background to make it all work ' Connie Willis
'Wil McCarthy brings thought and insight to the realm of fastpaced, action science fiction...A bright light on the SF horizon' David Brin
About The Author
Wil McCarthy has been an engineer for Lockheed Martin Corporation since 1988, designing and testing booster guidance systems for use in orbital and interplanetary launches. He lives in Denver with his family. His writing has appeared in Analog, Interzone, Asimov's and Science Fiction Age. BLOOM is his fifth novel. He maintains a Website at: http://www.sff.net/people/wmccarth.html

Jack McDevitt Moonfall Pbk published May 99 by HarperCollins at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0-00-651170-8
It's time to panic…
A comet is coming.
It's going to hit the moon, And the moon is going to fall.
On us.
Our of the blindside of a total solar eclipse comes a fundamental threat to life on our planet. Moonbase, the NASA project establishing at last permanent human activity on the moon, has been up and running for precisely five days. If it's knocked out, it'll be a hell of a blow to the US President, Henry Kolladner, who came to office riding high on the space ticket.
And it'll be a bit of a blow to his deputy, Vice President Charlie Haskell, who's actually up there, preparing for the inauguration speech. If the comet fully impacts, there'll be no more moon at all. Billions of tons of lunar rock will crash to Earth. There'll be tidal waves, quakes, global destruction.
It's a tough call for the President. Does he declare a state of emergency and start evacuating the entire coastal population of America? Imagine the chaos, the looting, the riots... Should he panic? Wouldn't YOU?

About The Author
Jack McDevitt is the multi-award winning author of The Engines of God, Ancient Shorer and Eternity Road. He has served as an officer in the US Navy, taught English and literature and worked for the US Customs Service in North Dakota and Georgia.

Ian McDonald Kirinya Pbk published July 99 by Millenium at Ł6.99 ISBN: 1857988760
The end of the universe happened at around ten o'clock at night on22 December 2032. It's just that humanity hasn't realized it yet. And the Chaga, the strange flora deposited from the stars, is still busy terraforming the tropics into someone else's terra.
Gaby McAslan was once a hungry news reporter who compromised her relationship with UNECTA researcher Dr Shepard for the sake of her story ... but Gaby is no longer a journalist and she doesn't want to be a fulltime mother, even though her child Serena is her last link with Shepard. Gaby's fire has gone out; she's gone soft. But the massive political and military upheavals that are rocking the world are about to drag her back into action.
'One of the finest writers of his generation, who chooses to write science fiction because that is how he can best illuminate the world' New Statesman
'This is a huge and ambitious novel, the work of a supremely talented writer approaching the top of his game' SFX
'So outstanding a writer that he deserves reading beyond the science-fantasy market …He has such marvellous talent, so vivid an imagination. His prose sings and zings simultaneously' The Times

Christopher Priest The Extremes Pbk published September 99 by Scribner at Ł6.99 ISBN: 0-684-81941-4
Shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award 1999
A groundbreaking, highly original new novel by the award winning author of The Prestige and winner of the James Tait Black Award, about the human capacity for violence and the virtual reality computer games that encourage it.
British-born Teresa Simons, recently widowed, returns to England in the hope of coming to terms with her grief. Her husband, an FBI agent, was killed by an out-of-control gumman while on assignment. In an attempt to find some answers, Teresa turns to the virtual-reality world of Extreme Experiences where the best and worst of human experience can be found. Seeking the best, Teresa has to confront the worst. And in the extremes of violence she finds that past and present combine and that her own future may be glimpsed.
'Swift, haunting, cruel and kind, a guidance manual for the maze we face' Independent
'Complicated metaphysics and a good deal of horribly vivid carnage combine here into an enthralling novel, which raises important issues about the pornography of violence and its packaging as entertainment. A thought provoking, terrifying and persuasive prophesy' Sunday Telegraph
'Priest brilliantly suggests how time slips and slides inside Teresa's fantasies' Sunday Times
'Mesmeric, sparely written: a dexterous mix of emotion and computer sci-fi' Mail On Sunday
'All of Priest's familiar raw material is set out here, and the author's adherents will relish the seductive skill with which he draws the reader into a tangled web of relationships, phenomena and understated sensuality. The Extremes is a novel of violence and reality of extraordinary power and ambiguity. A vital contribution from a key British writer' SFX
Praise for The Prestige:
'Priest's mesmeric power is formidable. Magnificent, utterly alarming and genuinely moving' Independent
'Few recent novels have felt so vividly imagined. A magnificently eerie novel' Sunday Times
Praise for Christopher Priest
'Priest's mesmeric power is formidable. Magnificent, utterly alarming and genuinely moving' Independent
'An absolutely hypnotic tale ... The Prestige is a thing of beauty. It is quite superb, exemplary. It is a lesson to us in the joy of story' Interzone
'Images from this poignant, unsettling book linger long in the mind. Just as a magic act should be; filled with haunting marvels' Time Out
About The Author
Christopher Priest is the author of nine previous novels and two collections of short stories. His last novel, The Prestige, won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction end the World Fantasy Award, and was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clark Award. He lives in Hastings with his wife and twin children.

J.D. Robb Vengeance in Death Pbk published January 99 by NEL at Ł5.99
A killer is on the rampage in 21st century New York.
He is a madman with the mind of a genius and an expert with the latest technology. He quietly stalks his prey, then taunts the police with cryptic riddles about the crimes he is about to commit - always moments too late to save his victims' lives.
Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas found the first dead man butchered in his own home. The second lost his life in a vacant luxury apartment. At first it seems as if the two had little in common. But they both had links with a secret - a secret shared by none other than Eve's new husband, Roarke…

Kim Stanley Robinson The Martians Published April 99 by Voyager at Ł17.99 ISBN: 0-00-225358-5
ALL COLOURS MARS
Red Mars - Green Mars - Blue Mars
The Mars trilogy has rapidly assumed the status of modern science fiction classic, capturing the imagination of hundreds of thousands of readers around the world. Now, with The Martians, comes Kim Stanley Robinson's essential companion to the Mars series. New novellas and short stories head the collection, featuring many of the trilogy's central characters in events previously only hinted at in the novels. Added to this are works on Martian mythology, the Martian Constitution, scientific extracts and a series of Mars-inspired poems.
In short, The Martians is a unique collection of previously unpublished fiction, a fascinating addition to Robinson's oeuvre, and a must for all lovers of the Red Planet.
Kim Stanley Robinson was born in 1952. After travelling and working around the world, he has now settled in his beloved California. He is widely regarded as the finest science fiction writer working today, noted as much for the verisimilitude of his characters as the meticulously researched scientific basis to his work. He has won just about every major SF award there is to win and is the author of the global bestselling Mars series, the seminal sf work of the '90s.
Praise for Kim Stanley Robinson
'If you had to choose one writer whose work will set the standard for science fiction in the future, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson' New York Times Book Review
'A beautiful book - to be lived in. Let most of it be true' Daily Telegraph
'One of the finest works of American sf' The Times
'Absorbing.. .impressive.. .fascinating… utterly plausible… The product of an imaginative love affair between the author and Earth's nearest planetary neighbour' Financial Times 'The ultimate in future history' Daily Mail
'Staggering.. .required reading for the colonists of the next century' Arthur C. Clarke
'A multi-faceted reflection of the fears and desires of their age, our age - they make their market-place competitors look trivial' Guardian
'Robinson into what he's best at, the evocation of people in love, people at odds, the delicate inside surfaces of social involution...supremely achieved' Sunday Times
'A tour de force of adventure writing...The most important writer currently interested in real science...It is hard to put the book down. It is important, it is relevant, it gives us a huge new continent to imagine; and it is fun' Mail on Sunday
'Characteristically exquisite' Independent
'Memorable and wise. Robinson keeps the dangers and surprises coming up so quickly and excitingly' New Statesman

Kim Stanley Robinson The Memory of Whiteness Pbk published March 99 by Voyager at Ł5.99 ISBN: 0-00-648256-2
In the 33rd century humanity is scattered among the planets of the Solar System. Millions of lives depend on the revolutionary physics of Arthur Holywelkin; millions of hearts are moved by the music created by the strange, eerie instrument he built in the last years of his life: the Orchestra. Johannes Wright is the Ninth - and youngest - Master of the Orchestra. But as he sets out on his first Brand Tour of the Solar System, unseen foes are at his heel, ready to reveal all but the meaning of their enmity. In confronting them, Wright must redefine the Universe - for himself and all humanity.

'A symphony of ideas' Greg Bear
'an elegance that manages to contain a what-happens-next vigour… it makes astonishing connections' The Times
'A masterpiece' Analogue
'Rich and compelling' Interzone

Robert J. Sawyer Frameshift Pbk published July 99 by Voyager at Ł5.99 ISBN: 0-00-648320-8
Pierre Tardivel is a scientist working on the Human Genome Project. A driven man, he works with the awareness that he may not have long to live: he has a fifty-fifty chance of dying young from the incurable hereditary disorder Huntington's disease. While trying to get medical insurance he discovers that his insurer is secretly taking genetic samples of policy holders. Investigating further, he finds a string of unsolved murders of people insured by the company.
The implication is terrifying - are the same scientific breakthroughs as Pierre himself is making being used to boost profits? But Pierre will soon discover that even this appalling scenario falls short of the evil enshrined in the truth behind the murders.
Frameshift is a morality tale for the Genetic Age.
'Exciting and engrossing' Kirkus Reviews
'Award-winning Sawyer's unputdownable thriller proceeds to a violent conclusion.' Booklist
'Sawyer is a writer of boundless confidence. His latest book is filled to bursting with ideas, characters and incident.' New York Times Book Review
About The Author
Robert J. Sawyer is the Nebula Award-winning author of The Terminal Experiment and Starplex. He has also won an Arthur Ellis Award from the Crime Writers of Canada, three Aurora Awards (Canada's top SF honour), four Best Novel HOMer Awards given by the 30,000 members of the SF&F Literature Forums on CompuServe, Le Grand Prix de l'Imaginare (France's top SF award), and the Mencio Especial in Spain's 1996 Premi UPC de Ciencia-Ficcio. In addition, he's been a finalist for the Hugo Award and twice for the Seiun, Japan's principal SF award. He lives in Thornhill, Ontario (just north of Toronto), with his wife Carolyn Clink. Together, they edited the acclaimed Canadian SF anthology Tesseracts 6. Visit his World Wide Web home page:http:// www.sfwriter.com. Rob Sawyer's novel Factoring Humanity is a finalist for the 1999 Hugo Award.

Tricia Sullivan Dreaming in Smoke Pbk published August 99 by Millenium at Ł5.99 ISBN: 0-75281-682-9
Winner of the Arthur C.Clarke Award
Kalypso Deed is a shotgun. She rides the interface between the Al Ganesh and human scientists who use cyber-assisted Dreams to reach the height of their creative powers. She's overly playful and has an authority problem. Azamat Marcsson is a colourless statistician, middle-aged, boring, and obsessed with micro-organisms. Yet he Dreams.
The story would end here if they lived on earth. But this is T'Nane, a planet so environmentally hostile that the humans depend utterly on Ganesh for survival. Due to Kalypso's negligence, Marcsson's Dream has just crashed Ganesh, spilling the colonists into T'Nane's treacherous Wild. To save her home Kalypso must bring Marcsson back; but Marcsson is intent on using Kalypso's flesh to create a new world.
Tricia Sullivan is a young American sf writer now living in London. Her first two novels Lethe and Someone To Watch Over Me were published to great acclaim internationally.
'Tricia Sullivan's writing is so good it simply invites hyperbole' SFX
'Tricia Sullivan's new novel pulls no punches and takes no prisoners - taut, powerful, unforgettable' Pat Cadigan
'A challenging, disturbing often compulsive read. Sullivan's sharp inventiveness points to a bright future' Time Out
'Painfully gripping throughout - read it if you dare' The Times
'Tricia Sullivan's writing is so good it simply invites hyperbole' SFX

Harry Turtledove The Great War: American Front Published January 99 by Hodder & Stoughton at Ł16.99
The first in Harry Turtledove's massive new First World War series.
The epic story of the First World War as it so nearly could have been by the modern day master of alternate history.
How few remain set the stage for Harry Turtledove's new creation - a world where the Deep South won the Civil War and the two sides still stare unblinkingly across the borders of their divided country. Now 1914 has arrived, and European conflict has spread to the Americas. The Confederacy has sided with her age-old allies, France and Britain; while the United States has thrown in her powerful lot with the upstart Germany.
Modern warfare, with its mud, trenches and machine guns, is soon scything through the continent, cutting indiscriminately through the massed ranks of American youth. But it is not long before the conflict develops into something even greater. After years of bloody oppression, the South's abused slaves finally throw off their shackles in vicious civil war against their white masters.
This is the story of war in the melting pot, of personal and political warfare in a powerful but divided land.
Harry Turtledove is a Hugo-Award winning writer of alternate history and science fiction. He has lived in Southern California all his life. He has a Ph.D. in history from the University of California at Los Angeles and has taught at UCLA, California State Fullerton and California State University, Los Angeles. He has written many works of speculative fiction and fantasy. He is married to the novelist Laura Frankos and they have three daughters.
'With shocking vividness, Turtledove demonstrates the extreme fragility of our modern world… This is state-of-the-art alternate history, nothing less.' Publishers Weekly (Starred Review for How Few Remain)
'Engrossing… definitely the work of one of alternate history's authentic modern masters… totally fascinating.' Booklist
'A cast of thousands with at plot to match… a wealth of fascinating speculation.' Kirkus Reviews

Vernor Vinge A Deepness in the Sky Published June 99 by Millenium at Ł17.99 ISBN: 1857988256
Thirty thousand gears before the events recounted in Vernor Vinge's Hugo Award-winning A Fire Upon the Deep, Pham Nuwen is living in anonymity as a minor cog in the great machine that is the Oeng Ho interstellar trading fleet. In high orbit above the planet Arachna, Pham and the ship's crew wait for the awakening of Arachna's dormant inhabitants, the Spiders, which will come when the On/Off star their planet orbits relights after decades of darkness. When the light returns the Spiders are due to emerge to a Golden Age of technology and commerce - an age the Oeng Ho are ideally placed to exploit.
But the slumbering Spiders' vulnerability has attracted another lurking presence - the Emergents, a band of more sinister traders whose plans for Arachna are little short of genocide.
The Emergents are reluctant to share their spoils with the Oeng Ho and unleash a smart bio-weapon that reduces the crew of the Oeng Ho fleet to a legion of automatons. Only a few survivors escape this living death. Around him, Pham gathers the remaining untainted Oeng Ho and tries one last time to be worthy of a reputation deserving of the ancient and glorious history of his people. As his underground resistance moves against the Emergents the Spiders below are fighting their own internecine battles unaware of the invisible threat out in space …
'First grand-scope SF read I've had in ages. Vinge is one of the great visionary writers of science fiction today. No one so excels at presenting awesome vistas of both space and time. With A Fire Upon the Deep he shows us more than galaxies or mere eons' David Brin
'It's not only that Vinge has told a fine bold tale… a tale that burns with the brazen energy of the best space operas of the Golden Age, or that he has populated his story with some of the best-conceived aliens to appear in recent years. What is really astonishing is the setting. He has created a galaxy for the readers of the nineties to believe in… immense, ancient, populous, athrum with data webs, dotted with wonders' Interzone
'Vinge makes us want to explore his future, with all of its history, and its marvel and danger. There are not too many novels that leave this reader screaming violently for more. Vernor Vinge's has done so' Locus
About The Author
Vernor Vinge won the Hugo Award for his novel A Fire Upon the Deep (1992). and has been a finalist for the Hugo Award four times, for the novels The Peace War (1984) and Marooned in Realtime (1986), for the novella True Names; (1981), and for a novelette. His best-known works are admired for their extraordinary combination of groundbreaking science-fiction concepts and epic adventures of great emotional power. Sought widely by publications as disparate as Rolling Stone and Wired, he is in constant demand as a speaker to scientific forums in the field of cybernetics and especially the area of human and machine intelligence. He has had a number of short stories published in Analog and other science-fiction magazines. He is a professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at San Diego State University and currently lives in San Diego.

Margaret Weis Hung Out Pbk published February 99 by Vista at Ł5.99 ISBN: 0-575-60069-1
with Don Perrin
Third in the series (The Knights of the Black Earth, Robot Blues)
The Hung, the most dangerous crime syndicate in the Universe, are in prison and Dalin Rowan, safe in a new persona, is happily converted to the Mag Force 7 way of life. Xris Cyborg and the team are free to concentrate on their next mission.
Then, out of the blue, Xris is arrested, tried and sentenced to twenty years' hard labour - for the murder of Dalin Rowan. Former Bureau Chief Amadi pays Xris a visit: he knows Dalin is alive and living under an assumed identity, so why doesn't Xris produce the alleged dead man to prove his innocence? When Xris refuses to betray a friend to the Hung, Amadi reveals that Xris's freedom depends upon his helping to flush out vital information about a secret Hung bankroll.
So Xris is left to negotiate a precarious path ... and if Amadi is the double-agent Xris suspects he may be, this could prove his most dangerous test yet.
Praise for The Knights of the Black Earth:
'Unexpectedly subtle yet filled with fast-paced action' Publishers Weekly
Praise for Robot Blues:
'High action, humour, some romance and lots of adventure: highly recommended' Library Journal

Robert Charles Wilson Darwinia Pbk published June 99 by Millenium at Ł5.99 ISBN: 1-85798-815-9
See Review by Jay Russell - one of the greatest talents the horror industry has produced for some time… (Black Tears)
Winner of the Philip K. Dick Award
In 1912 the world changes overnight. Europe and all its inhabitants disappear, replaced by a primeval continent which becomes known as Darwinia: a strange land in which evolution has followed a different path.
To some this event is an act of divine retribution; to others it is an opportunity to carve out a new empire. Leaving a USA now ruled by religious fundamentalists, young photographer Guilford Law joins an expedition to Darwinia, a mission of discovery which uncovers extraordinary revelations about the whole nature of the universe.
'Rich, lucid and literate' Publishers Weekly
'A remarkable book, worthy of the highest honours… Don't miss it' Locus