The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 26 (Mammoth Books)
by Gardner Dozois
For nearly three decades, Gardner Dozois has been presenting his weighty and eclectic annual selection of short science fiction that deserves to be better known to a wider audience. It has consistently been voted Year's Best Anthology by the readers of Locus magazine, overwhelmingly more often than any other collection. Unfailingly, Dozois's selection offers the very best stories of the year, showcasing outstanding new talents alongside acknowledged masters of the genre. This year's collection i...
The second part of the untold story of the Protectors. In their own words, their greatest trial - staying together - is tested to lethal limits.
A violent drifter with a mysterious past participated in a super-secret biotechnology experiment. Spirited to a research complex in the Canadian Rockies, Logan - a disgraced former member of Canada's Special Forces - underwent an agonizing transformation to become Weapon X - an unstoppable, indestructible force with retractable steel claws and the ability to recover from any wound. But those who would attempt to control Logan failed to recognize his unbreakable will. Now, as a modern-day Franken...
Thirty Years of Rain
by Neil Williamson, Elaine Gallagher, and Cameron Johnston
An anthology of short stories and poetry celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of the Glasgow SF Writers' Circle. Featuring Fergus Bannon, TJ Berg, Ruth EJ Booth, Jim Campbell, Eliza Chan, Michael Cobley, Elsie WK Donald, Hal Duncan, Amal El-Mohtar, Elaine Gallagher, Gary Gibson, Stewart Horn, Matthew Horsley, Ian Hunter, Cameron Johnston, Kenneth Kelly, William King, Duncan Lunan, Brian M Milton, Michael Mooney, Peter Morrison, TW Moses, Richard Mosses, Anya Penfold, Phil Raines, Jim Steel, He...
A hundred years after the nukecaust, the tortured landscape of postapocalyptic America offers a brutal fight for survival. Yet tech secrets lie hidden, useful to those brave and strong enough to belive that hope can carry them toward ever-elusive peace.
The Covenant has collapsed after a long, brutal war that saw billions slaughtered on Earth and her colonies. For the first time in decades, however, peace finally seems possible. But though the fighting's stopped, the war is far from over: it's just gone underground. The UNSC's feared and secretive Office of Naval Intelligence recruits Kilo-Five, a team of ODSTs, a Spartan, and a diabolical AI to accelerate the Sangheili insurrection. Meanwhile, the Arbiter, the defector turned leader of a broke...
