Charles Stross

The Atrocity Archives

Halting State

When Robin wakes up in a clinic with most of his memories missing, it doesn't take him long to discover that someone is trying to kill him. It's the 27th century, when interstellar travel is by teleport gate and conflicts are fought by network worms that censor refugees' personalities and target historians. The civil war is over and Robin has been demobilized, but someone wants him out of the picture because of something his earlier self knew. On the run from a ruthless pursuer, he volunteers to participate in a unique experimental polity, the Glasshouse, constructed to simulate a pre-accelerated culture. Participants are assigned anonymized identities: it looks like the ideal hiding place for a posthuman on the run. But in this escape-proof environment, Robin will undergo an even more radical change, placing him at the mercy of the experimenters--and the mercy of his own unbalanced psyche.--From publisher description.

Glasshouse

The Jennifer Morgue

After being stalked across the galaxy by an assassin, post-human Krina Alzon-114 journeys to the water-world Shin-Tethys in search of her sister.

Neptune's brood

Wireless

Accelerando

The revolution business

Book Four of the Merchant Princes

The Merchants' War

Gene Wolfe

Elizabeth Bear

Kathryn Cramer

Adam-Troy Castro

Michael Swanwick

Rachel Swirsky

Pat Murphy

Paul Cornell

Brit Mandelo

Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2012 Edition: A Tor.Com Original

The Annihilation Score: A Laundry Files novel

Roman

Die Kinder des Saturn

die mysteriösen Fälle des Bob Howard ; Roman

Dämonentor

Glashaus

Singularität

I’ve been working for the laundry for about five years now - long enough to get used to the petty insults, the paper clip audits, the disgusting coffee, and the endless unavoidable bureaucracy. Periodically, I become blasé in my cynicism, sure that I’ve seen it all - which is usually the signal for…

Bob Howard, computer übergeek and demonology hacker extraordinaire, has a problem. Software billionaire Ellis Billington has managed to get his hands on a Soviet Cold War device that permits communication with the dead. He plans to use it to raise an eldritch horror, code named ‘Jennifer Morgue’ from the Stygian depths, with an eye to ruling the world.

Bob’s mission, should he close to accept it (or not) is simple: stop the bad guy, save the world and emerge - shaken, perhaps, but not stirred. And he can be confident that his superiors at the laundry will do everything in their power to get him out alive. After all someone has to do the paperwork…

A laundry file novel

The Jennifer Morgue 

In a technologically suppressed future, information demands to be free in the debut novel from Hugo Award-winning author Charlie Stross. In the twenty-first century, life as we know it changed. Faster-than-light travel was perfected, and the Eschaton, a superhuman artificial intelligence, was born. Four hundred years later, the far-flung colonies that arose as a result of these events—scattered over three thousand years of time and a thousand parsecs of space—are beginning to rediscover their origins. The New Republic is one such colony. It has existed for centuries in self-imposed isolation, rejecting all but the most basic technology. Now, under attack by a devastating information plague, the colony must reach out to Earth for help. A battle fleet is dispatched, streaking across the stars to the rescue. But things are not what they seem—secret agendas and ulterior motives abound, both aboard the ship and on the ground. And watching over it all is the Eschaton, which has its own very definite ideas about the outcome...

Singularity Sky

Charles Stross

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