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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Science fiction
Andrew Bye was born in the late forties in the East End of London.
After a lengthy career in engineering he took up writing when he
retired; he is an unashamed Trekkie and loves sci-fi, amongst other
things. He writes about everything and hopes you enjoy this work as
much as he did writing it.
The Space Drain is a sequel to the novel MK121 by the same author
and is a tale of a small group of space faring individuals who,
having survived a major space conflagration, find themselves
involved with a phenomenon which had been only a theory but which
now is very real. Time is not on their side in more ways than they
could have imagined as they endeavour to find a way out of their
predicament. The story revolves around three people in particular;
Rachenda Lindberg, Gideon Bearman and Teri Soniba, who are the last
remaining crew members of the Space Force cruiser MK121 which has
been involved in a desperate attempt to halt an alien invasion of
Earth. Trapped in an area of space that nobody has ever returned
from before, their only hope of salvation comes from a most
unlikely quarter. How they manage to escape from the clutches of
the phenomenon and what impact it has on the rest of their lives
and the lives of others that they come into contact with is told in
some detail. The survival chances for the group swing between
despair and elation as the story unfolds and the futures of all
concerned are irrevocably changed. The final outcome is not what
could be foreseen.
Rebellion could be their salvation – or their doom. War Bodies by Neal Asher is a gripping, high-octane standalone set in his expansive Polity world.
Long ago, the Cyberat left Earth to co-evolve with machines. Now, led by the powerful dictator Castron, their Old Guard believe that machines should replace the physical body. But these beliefs are upended with the arrival of the human Polity – and their presence ignites rebellion.
Piper was raised as a weapon against the Cyberat, implanted with secretive hardware. When his parents are captured by the Old Guard, the Polity offer him unexpected aid. Piper knows the Polity want more from him, but at what cost? The rebellion also attracts the deadly prador, placing an entire world in peril.
As war rages across the planet, Piper must battle with the unknown technology implanted in his bones. It may be the Polity’s answer to their relentless fight against the prador. It could also be civilization-ending Jain tech – or something far more extraordinary.
By the end of Knocking On The Moonlit Door, the Martians have
landed! As this story unfolds, nothing is happening quite as anyone
would expect. Joe Mortimer is Britain's former leading astronaut
and retired head of BUSSTOP - British and United States Scheme for
Travel to Other Planets. However, none of his experience prepares
him for the events which start to surround him and his family.
Those who apparently have no link to space exploration also begin
to be pulled into a complex web. Earth is being watched from afar.
Some of the observers care deeply about the planet. Others have
darker intentions.
ONE MAN - ONE PLANET - ONE CHANCE 2557 Humans have been banished
from Earth. Forced to live in huge space colonies close to the
moon. Earth has become Heaven. The course of mankind has been set
towards colonising the universe. The Pax Humana is in full effect.
Giant corporations overseen by The Powers control every human
necessity from birth until death, those that fail to adhere to the
system are summarily executed. Genesis is the new
beginning...Xavier Miro is a space rigger, graffiti artist and
dissident. A series of dreams leads to an adventure where he will
meet Moon Dudes, Shamanic Space Pirates, Galactic Ravers, Zugbots
and fall foul of the sinister Shadows. And where he will not only
find out the answers to why mankind was expelled from Earth, but
why he is the one person that can save humanity.
"Egan is determined to make sense of everything - to understand the
whole world as an intelligible, rational, material (and finally
manipulable) realm - even if it means abandoning comfortable and
comforting illusions. This is fundamental to the whole project of
SF and it's why Egan's Best - and his Rest - is worth any number of
looks. -Locus What happens when your digital self overpowers your
physical self? A life in Permutation City is unlike any life to
which you're accustomed. You have Eternal Life, the power to live
forever. Immortality is a real thing, just not the thing you'd
expect. Life is just electronic code. You have been digitized,
scanned, and downloaded into a virtual reality program. A Copy of a
Copy. For Paul Durham, he keeps making Copies of himself, but the
issue is that his Copies keep changing their minds and shutting
themselves down. You also have Maria Deluca, who is nothing but an
Autoverse addict. She spends every waking minute with the cellular
automaton known as the Autoverse, a world that lives by the
mathematical "laws of physics." Paul makes Maria an offer to design
and drop a seed into the Autoverse that will allow her to indulge
in her obsession. There is, however, one catch: you can no longer
terminate, bail out, and remove yourself. You will never be your
normal flesh-and-blood life again. The question then becomes: Is
this what she really wants? Is this what we really want? From the
brilliant mind of Greg Egan, Permutation City, first published in
1994, comes a world of wonder that makes you ask if you are you, or
is the Copy of you the real you? Skyhorse Publishing, under our
Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range
of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera,
time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia),
fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy,
steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and
the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title
we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national
bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to
publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.
The sequel to the Times Thriller of the Year bestseller, This is the
Night They Come for You.
Trouble has a way of finding those those who spend most of their time
trying to avoid it. Or so it appears to Superintendent Taleb, whose
attempts to wind his career down to an unobtrusive retirement are once
again in jeopardy.
When delegated a television interview to discuss a thirty year old
political controversy, his instructions are clear enough: whatever you
say, do not rock the boat. But an inexplicable urge in the moment to
tell the truth lands him in dangerously hot water. It also reopens some
decades wounds which will bring him to the forefront of an
investigation he is keen to avoid.
Whether he likes it or not, the past is coming for him. And the past in
Algeria is venomous, vengeful and relentless, quick to consume the
unwary traveller. He will soon find himself staring down the barrel of
a long buried mystery, which looks likely to add him to its lengthy
roster of victims.
This Is the Day They Dream Of is the scintillating sequel to the
critically acclaimed This Is The Night They Come For You, which
introduced the world-weary Taleb and his always resourceful colleague
Agent Hidouchi of the Algerian Secret Service. Together they must
navigate the country’ treacherous history to save themselves from its
perilous present.
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