Justina Robson

Special agent Lila Black used to be pretty, but now she's not so sure. Her body is more than half restless carbon and metal alloy machinery, a machine she's barely in control of. As for her heart, well, ever since being drawn into a game by the elfin rockstar Zal (lead singer of the No Shows), who she's been assigned to protect, she's not even sure she can trust that any more either.

Keeping it Real

In a distant future in which humankind has engineered itself into new forms capable of spaceflight, terraforming, and deep ocean exploration, an interstellar voyage comes face to face with an alien technology that reveals a terrifiying and previously unrealized new dimension. Original. 17,500 first printing.

Natural History

Salvation's Fire

Adrian Tchaikovsky

Freda Warrington

Juliet E. McKenna

K. T. Davies

The Art of the Steal

Tales of Catt and Fisher

Book two of the Quantum Gravity series sees Lila Black drawn into the intoxicatingly dangerous demon realm. Capricious, in love with beauty, demons are best left to themselves. This is not easy when they can't resist tampering with humans.

Selling Out

Silver Screen

Glorious Angels

Zachovej klid

Lila Black

An Arthur C. Clarke Award nominee continues the adventures of Special Agent Lila Black, as the heroine contends with her new assignment as head of an android division; the need to resurrect her lover, Zal; her demon husband's involvement in a fatal plot in Demonia, and more. 25,000 first printing. Original.

Chasing the Dragon

The fae are beautiful, exotic-- but on the primal level, dangerous tricksters... and the only deals worth making are bloody ones. Lila is a seriously sexy heroine having smart and sexy fun.

Going Under

Lila is now a shapeshifting machine plugged into the Signal; Zal, the elf rock star is now a shadowform animated and given material actualization by firelight; Teazle the demon has taken up the swords of Death and is on the way to becoming an angel.

Down to the Bone

Sara Maitland

Simon Ings

Sarah Schofield

Toby Litt

Gregory Norminton

Sean O'Brien

Jane Rogers

Jane Feaver

Adam Marek

Dilys Rose

K.J. Orr

Annie Kirby

Simon van Booy

Programmable memories, fatherless reproduction, nano-tech implants, amphibian-powered scar treatment, full body modification, brain-scanning lie-detectors, inter-species reproduction, self-determining synthetic ‘green goo’… Which of these would you wager is pure science fiction, and which currently being developed in the lab? Such is the speed and excitement of today’s bio-medical research – sprinting from the starting gun that was the Human Genome Project – it’s sometimes hard to tell. In a unique collaboration, fourteen short story writers have been invited to explore the increasingly grey area between the fantastical and that which is already within our reach. Closely collaborating with scientists and ethicists working at the forefronts of their respective fields, each writer has been tasked with predicting some of the potential ‘ethical side-effects’ of this ground-breaking work. Not all progress, after all, is progressive. And dark forces are afoot that threaten to hi-jack what many declared would be ‘the century of biology’. 'Fascinating reading.' - Financial Times 'An exhilarating read.' - The Short Review Toby Litt's Bio-Punk story 'Call it ''The Bug'' Because I Have No Time to Think of a Better Title' short-listed for the 2013 Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award.

Bio-Punk

Where do you run when a world is out to get you? AIs, Forged beings, superheroes, angels, and worlds that change in the blink of an eye—here is a richly imagined tale of ordinary redemption in an extraordinary world from one of the most provocative writers working today. . . . Francine is a young runaway looking to find a definition of love she can trust. In Sankhara, she finds a palace where rooms are made of bone, flowers, and the hearts of heroes. She finds a scientist mapping the territory of the human mind. She finds a boyfriend. And she finds Eros itself—incarnated in the androgynously irresistible form of Jalaeka. But not everyone is in love with the god of love. Unity, for one, wants to assimilate Jalaeka along with every other soul in the universe. And contrary to what everyone always believes, love alone can’t save the day. It will take something both more and less powerful than the human heart to save the worlds upon worlds at risk when gods collide. “For Robson, world-building is a literary device like any other, useful for exposing buried fears and desires to the light of day, no matter how strange the sun.”—New York Times Book Review

A Novel

Living Next Door to the God of Love

Garth Nix

KJ Parker

From sorcerous bridges that link worlds to the simple traditions of country folk; from the mysterious natures of twins to the dangerous powers of obligation and contract. Laden with perils for both the adventurous and the unsuspecting, magic is ultimately a contradiction: endlessly powerful but never without consequence, and rigidly defined by rules of its own making. Award-winning Jonathan Strahan brings together some of the most exciting and popular writers working in fantasy today to dig into that contradiction, and present you with the strange, the daunting, the mathematical, the unpredictable, the deceptive and above all the fearsome world of magic. Includes stories by Garth Nix, K J Parker, Tony Ballantyne, James Bradley, Isobelle Carmody, Frances Hardinge, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Ellen Klages, Justina Robson, Christopher Rowe, Robert Shearman, Karin Tidbeck, Genevieve Valentine and Kaaron Warren.

Fearsome Magics

The Quantum Bomb of 2015 changed everything. The fabric that kept the universe's different dimensions apart was torn and now, six years later, the people of earth exist in uneasy company with the inhabitants of, amongst others, the elven, elemental and demonic realms. Magic is real and can be even more dangerous than technology. Elves are exotic, erotic, dangerous and really bored with the constant Lord of the Rings references. Elementals are a law unto themselves and demons are best left well to themselves. Special agent Lila Black used to be pretty but now she's not so sure. Her body is now more than half restless carbon and metal alloy machinery. A machine she's barely in control of. It goes into combat mode, enough weapons for a small army springing from within itself, at the merest provocation. As for her heart . . . well ever since being drawn into a Game by the elven rockstar she's been assigned to protect, she's not even sure she can trust that anymore either.

Quantum Gravity Book One

Keeping It Real

Tim Lebbon

Founder and original editor Storm Constantine has revisited every issue of the ground-breaking magazine Visionary Tongue to select the very best stories and poems to appear in its pages across a twelve year period, more than thirty in all, including early stories from some of the UK genre scene's biggest names. Introduction: Giving Voice to the Visionary Tongue - Storm Constantine A Photocopier and a Giant Stapler - Louise Coquio The Sin Taker - Katherine Roberts Pumpkin Man - David Rain Tides - Tanya Brown The Gift of Flight - Eden Crain In That Unquiet Earth - Chris Amies Mad Love - Ray Girvan A Traveller Meets One of the Minotaur's Younger Brothers - Justina Robson The Bull Leapers - Justina Robson A Tale from the End of the World - Fiona McGavin See You Later - Suzanne Gyseman Ptolemy's Recording - Jamie Spracklen Finding Mary - Tim Lebbon The Arena - Lachesis January The King of Hearts & the Jack of Frowns - Jason Gould Succubus - Chris Green Dancing Day - Liz Williams Storm - Sian Kingstone Deities - Austin McCarron The House by the Lake - Lisa Pallin Awakening - Isabel Taylor The Satanic Sex Machines of Dr Zhinn - William Eve An Angel's Effigy - Dylan Kinnett Sympathy for the Devil - Paul Whyte Forgotten Sounds - Simon Williams Luncheon with the Last of a Kind - Colin James FEa - Janine Jones The Magus of Inner London - Austin McCarron Collector of Broken Things - Lauren Halkon Toe in Water, Hand in Flame - Brian Maycock What You Came For - Jaine Fenn The Heroic Acts of Strangers - Ian Whates Chess - David Graham Casamundi - Douglas Thompson The Lady of the Fog - J. H. Fleming Mother Mary - A. N. Calaway Appendix 1: Lex Visionaria - Jamie Spracklen Appendix 2: The Female Fool - Donna Scott About the Contributors

Visionary Tongue

Mappa mundi

Justina Robson (acclaimed author of NATURAL HISTORY, LIVING NEXT DOOR TO THE GOD OF LOVE and the QUANTUM GRAVITY series) is back with a cutting edge novel of science, adventure and ideas. On a world where science and magic are hard to tell apart a stranger arrives in a remote town with news of political turmoil to come. And a young woman learns that she must free herself from the role she has accepted. Always vivid, always full of stunning ideas and imagery, Justina Robson is the Clarke Award-winning author of some of our most exciting, yet philosophical SF. A new novel from her is a major event in the SF calendar.

Transformers: The Covenant of Primus

This groundbreaking new novel from one of the genre's most respected authors is a thrilling mix of science, magic and politics. In Harmony, only model citizens are welcome. A perfect society must be maintained. The defective must be eradicated. For orphans like Nico and Twostar, this means a life that's brutal, regulated and short. But Nico and Twostar are survivors, and when they're offered a way out of the slums, they take it. Unfortunately, no one told Nico the deal included being sentenced to death for the murder of one of Harmony's most notorious gang leaders. Or that to gain his freedom, first he must lose his mind.

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