The Girl Who Loved Ghosts (Unbelievables, #3)
by K C Tansley
Murder in the Dark (The Ishmael Jones Series, #6) (An Ishmael Jones Mystery)
by Simon R. Green
The sudden appearance of a sinister black hole in the English countryside leads to a baffling murder investigation for Ishmael Jones."The past is England's dreaming, and not all of it sleeps soundly ."Ishmael Jones and his partner Penny have been despatched to assist a group of scientists who are investigating a mysterious black hole which has appeared on a Somerset hillside. Could it really be a doorway to another dimension, an opening into another world?When one of the scientists disappears in...
Six months after she left Earth, Dee is struggling to manage her rage toward the people who ordered the nuclear strike that destroyed the world. She's trying to find those responsible, and to understand why the ship is keeping everyone divided into small groups, but she's not getting very far alone. A dedicated gamer, she throws herself into mersives to escape and is approached by a designer who asks her to play test his new game. It isn't like any game she's played before. Then a character she...
In a hyper-capitalist near future, a grieving journalist investigates his mentor’s death—while grappling with unintended consequences of biohacking that just might implicate him in it. A mysterious pandemic causes a quarter of the world to permanently lose the ability to sleep—without any apparent health implications. The outbreak creates a new class of people who are both feared and ostracized, most of whom optimize their extra hours to earn more money. Journalist Jamie Vega is Sleepless: he...
A WIRED "BOOK YOU NEED TO READ" • For fans of the worlds of Philip K. Dick, Squid Game, and Severance: An absorbing tale of corporate intrigue, political unrest, unsolved mysteries, and the havoc wreaked by one company’s monomaniacal endeavor to build the world’s first space elevator An “antic, madcap noir with flair" (Wired) and “fast-paced cyberpunk story” (The New York Times Book Review) from one of South Korea's most revered science fiction writers, whose identity remains unknown. *** On...
The Doll Story Megapack (R)
by Frances Hodgson Burnett and L. Frank Baum
YOUR HAPPIEST MEMORY IS THEIR DEADLIEST WEAPON ‘Prophet is a blast’ Sunday Times‘Brilliant. Hypnotically enthralling… I loved it’ CHRIS WHITAKER***A mysterious eventAn all-American diner appears overnight in a remote British field. More and more objects materialise: toys, fairground rides, pets and other treasured mementos of the past.A weapon like no otherThe deaths quickly follow. A devastating weapon – Prophet – is bringing these memories to life, then stifling innocent people with their own...
The chance discovery of an injection that wards off age-related disease is hijacked by ruthless men who hunger for immortality, with catastrophic consequences. Two women race against time to stop them, before it’s too late … a chilling, prescient, high-stakes speculative thriller by the bestselling author of One. ‘Combines the excitement of a medical thriller à la Michael Crichton' Guardian ‘As tempting and tantalising a read as the vision of the future it presents' SciFi Now –––––...
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Is history about to change everything in Sarah's life? Her mother is missing. Her father is caught in the Indian uprising. She's wanted by the police and even the church wants it's pound of flesh. Sarah's return to The Old Curiosity Shop creates more questions than answers. With her parents trapped in two very different continents, her heart is torn as to who she can help. And time is not on her side. And in the shadows lurks Richard Grey, waiting for revenge. After discovering Sarah's...
Evolution Expects (Pax Britannia: Ulysses Quicksilver)
by Jonathan Green
Highly collectable Steampunk series In the closing years of the 20th century the British Empire's rule is still going strong. Queen Victoria is about to celebrate her 160th birthday, kept alive by advanced steam technology. London is a fantastical sprawling metropolis where dirigibles roam the skies, robot bobbies enforce the law and dinosaurs are on display in London zoo. Welcome to Magna Britannia, a steam driven world full of fantastical creations and shady villains. Here dashing dandies and...
What to do when your fictional sleuth refuses to die? A detective writer's attempts at writing his masterpiece. A very successful detective fiction writer, Leo Basilius, decides to bring his popular crime series to a close and take a sabbatical on the Greek island of Nysa where, as a young man, he wrote his first books - poetry and short stories. He returns there intending to write his master piece. The one he knows he has in him. Surrounded by his wife and new island friends, he settles in to...
Beautiful and brilliant, Kendra Donovan is a rising star at the FBI. Yet her path to professional success hits a speed bump during a disastrous raid where half her team is murdered, a mole in the FBI is uncovered and she herself is severely wounded. As soon as she recovers, she goes rogue and travels to England to assassinate the man responsible for the deaths of her teammates. While fleeing from an unexpected assassin herself, Kendra escapes into a stairwell that promises sanctuary but when...
‘I’m not saying the internet made me kill, but it certainly helped.’ Is there someone online who really grates on you? That friend who’s always bragging about their awesome life and endlessly sharing tired memes, and who just doesn’t get jokes? Look at your Twitter feed: don’t you get cross at the endless rage, the thoughtless bigotry and the pleading for celebrity retweets? Meet Dave, a street fundraiser and fan of cat pictures. He’s decided that unfollowing just isn’t enough. He’s determined...
After successfully tracking down the perpetrator of the Jack the Ripper murders (as told in An Alien Autumn, the first book of the series) the undercover aliens from the planet Jara, First Commander Ashto and Apprentice Commander Atia, continue with their secret mission to discover as much information as possible about the Earth. However, their research is again interrupted by the murderous activities of another ruthless serial killer who has taken to leaving the headless and bloodless bodies of...
Bestselling author of The Mongrel Mage, L. E. Modesitt, Jr's Quantum Shadows blends science fiction, myth, and legend in an adventure that pits old gods and new against one another in a far future world.On a world called Heaven, the ten major religions of mankind each have its own land governed by a capital city and ruled by a Hegemon. That Hegemon may be a god, or a prophet of a god. Smaller religions have their own towns or villages of belief.Corvyn, known as the Shadow of the Raven, contains...