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Golden Age SF meets Golden Age Crime
Jack Glass is the murderer. We know this from the start. Yet as this extraordinary novel tells the story of three murders committed by Glass, the reader will be surprised to find out that it was Glass who was the killer and how he did it. And by the end of the book our sympathies for... read more

The fantastically inventive, ingenious and hilarious new novel from Ned Beauman, author of the acclaimed and prizewinning Boxer, Beetle.
History happened while you were hangover. When you haven't had sex in a long time, it feels like the worst thing that could ever happen to anyone. If you're living in Germany in t... read more

Before he became the Green Lantern...before he unwittingly brought about the downfall of the Green Lantern Corps...before his rebirth as the universe's most powerful protector...Hal Jordan of Earth was just a washed-up test pilot with no way to fly...until the dying alien Abin Sur granted him his power ring, the most powerful... read more

In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination is Margaret Atwood's account of her relationship with the literary form we have come to know as 'science fiction'.
 
This relationship has been lifelong, stretching from her days as a child reader in the 1940s, through her time as a graduate student at Harvard, wh... read more

This is the story of Ben. A young man who has lived his life in the shadows of poverty on a struggling wheat farm and is still reeling from his father's tragic death. When the first manned mission to Mars mysteriously disappears and its crew explorer vehicle crashes onto the Brown's wheat farm in Louisburg, Kansas, what Ben... read more

We know you are here, our brothers and sisters. We will, one day, emerge from the Dome to join you in peace. For now, we watch from afar, benevolently. Pressia Belze has lived outside of the Dome ever since the detonations. Struggling for survival she dreams of life inside the safety of the Dome with the 'Pure'. Partridge, hi... read more

The searing, post-apocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece. A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged, nuclear landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is grey. The sky is dark. Their destination is t... read more

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In a very near future a functionally illiterate America is about to collapse. But don't tell that to poor Lenny Abramov, proud author of what may well be the world's last diary. Despite his job at an outfit called 'Post-Human Services', which attempts to provide immortality for its super-rich clientele, death is clearly s... read more

What if a demented London cabbie called Dave Rudman wrote a book to his estranged son to give him some fatherly advice? What if that book was buried in Hampstead and hundreds of years later, when rising sea levels have put London underwater, spawned a religion? What if one man decided to question life according to Dave? And w... read more

When she woke, she was red. Not flushed, not sunburned, but the solid, declarative red of a stop sign.
 
An enthralling and chilling novel from the author of Mudbound, for fans of The Handmade's Tale and The Scarlett Letter.
 
Hannah Payne's life has been devoted to church and family, but af... read more

The UK's bestselling adult novelist and a giant of British science fiction combine forces to write the first novel in an astonishing, mind-bending new series...The Long Earth.
1916: the Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong, and the wind in the leaves i... read more

I've been on a fantasy binge this month, starting with The Long Earth, a collaboration between Stephen Baxter and Terry Pratchett. Technology has been developed to allow most humans to "step" between an infinite number of alternate Earths. Joshua, a semi-Messianic figure teams up with Lobsang, a Tibetan motorcycle mechanic do... read more

Peace has returned The 'War That Wasn't a War' has ended. The Dispersionists have been broken and peace has returned to Chung Kuo, but DeVore's mission to destroy it is far from over. Employing the Ping Tiao, the 'Levellers', and officers within the Security Service still loyal to him, DeVore sends autonomous copies of himse... read more

Forthcoming, March 2013

Laela Redguard is a half-breed Northerner raised in the South. Left homeless after the death of her foster father, Laela sets out in search of a place in the world and chooses to go to the North - a land now ruled by the infamous Arenadd Taranisaii and his partner, the unpredictable dark griffin Skandar. It is a place where S... read more

THE TWELVE Death-row prisoners with nightmare pasts and no future.
THE TWELVE Until they were selected for a secret experiment.
THE TWELVE To create something more than human.
THE TWELVE Now they are the future and humanity's worst nightmare has begun.
 

Forthcoming, October 2012
My non-crime read for the month was the long awaited sequel to The Passage by Justin Cronin, called The Twelve. This is a post apocalyptical novel where most of mankind has been changed by a government military experiment gone wrong. It is the story of the few survivors and their... read more

Before the cataclysm that sent the infant Kal-El rocketing toward a remarkable future as Earth's indestructible protector, his home planet Krypton flourished. Before treachery, technology, and nature conspired to doom an unparalleled civilization, the brilliant scientist Jor-El and the beautiful artist and historian Lara met,... read more

The Sadiri were once the galaxy's ruling elite, but now their home planet has been rendered unlivable and most of the population destroyed. The few groups living on other worlds are desperately short of Sadiri women, and their extinction is all but certain. Civil servant Grace Delarua is assigned to work with Councillor Dllen... read more

Forthcoming, Janaury 2013

When attending a Newcastle murder scene, Detective Sidney Hurst finds a dead North family clone. Yet none have been reported missing. And in 2122, twenty years ago, a North clone billionaire was horrifically murdered in the same manner on the tropical planet of St Libra. So, if the murderer is still at large, was Angela Trame... read more

For someone who didn't intend to wreck the solar system's fragile balance of power, Jim Holden did a pretty good job of it. While Earth and Mars have stopped shooting each other, the core alliance is shattered. The outer planets and the Belt are uncertain in their new - possibly temporary - autonomy. Then, on one of Jupiter's... read more

A powerful tale of betrayal, trickery and sheer human grit from a dream-team of authors.In a fight outside a bar Ramon Espejo kills a man. Next day, all hell breaks loose. The dead man was a big shot, a diplomat on a mission to the out-world of Sao Paulo. Ramon goes on the run, heading north toward unexplored territory, land ... read more

The ancient menace, man's worst nightmare, has finally escaped from Lalonde, and in the process it has shattered the Confederation's peaceful existence. Those who succumbled to the horror have aquired godlike powers, but now follow a far from divine gospel as they advance inexorably from world to world. On planets and asteroi... read more