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Four new tales of Doctors Catt and Fisher... Scholars, shopkeepers,
collectors... aficionados. Obtainers of rare antiquities; relic
hunters who can't resist a lead, even when it takes them into
terrible danger. There's always an opportunity to be found amid the
confusion, in the wake of the terrible Kinslayer War. There's
always a deal to be done, a tomb to open, a precious thing to...
obtain. From encounters with the monstrous Vathesk to exploring new
worlds; from wielding great power to do great good, to unearthing
dark things best left lost. If you need the experts, if you can
find your way to their Cherivell shop, maybe you can hire Doctors
Catt and Fisher. "Robson writes a tense, fast-paced quest
adventure... I hope to see more like it." Liz Bourke "If you're
looking for something that celebrates the genre, while working to
interrogate and question how that genre works, look no further than
Redemption's Blade." Martin Cahill, Tor.com
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The Switch (Paperback)
Justina Robson
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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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Infinity's End (Paperback)
Jonathan Strahan; Stephen Baxter, Lavie Tidhar, Peter Watts, Linda Nagata, …
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The multi-award winning Infinity Project undertakes its seventh and
final voyage in the imagination of the finest science fiction
authors alive... Infinity's End Humanity has made the universe
home. On the outskirts of the solar system, beyond the asteroid
fields, deep in space, under the surface of planets, in the ruins
of fallen civilisations, in the flush of new creation: life finds a
way. From intelligent velociraptors to digital ghosts; from a
creche on an asteroid to an artist using a star system as a canvas,
this is a future where Earth's children have adapted to every nook
and cranny of existence. This is life on the edge of the possible.
Featuring astonishing tales from Stephen Baxter, Alastair Reynolds,
Naomi Kritzer, Paul McAuley, Seanan McGuire, Linda Nagata, Hannu
Rajaniemi, Justina Robson, Kelly Robson, Kristine Kathryn Rusch,
Lavie Tidhar, Peter Watts, Fran Wilde and Nick Wolven.
The thrilling new fantasy adventure from the world of Adrian
Tchaikovsky's Redemption's Blade. The Tzarkomen necromancers
sacrificed a thousand women to create a Bride for the Kinslayer so
he would spare them in the war. But the Kinslayer is dead and now
the creation intended to ensure his eternal rule lies abandoned by
its makers in the last place in the world that anyone would look
for it. Which doesn't prevent someone finding her by accident. Will
the Bride return the gods to the world or will she bring the end of
days? It all depends on the one who found her, Kula, a
broken-hearted little girl with nothing left to lose.
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.
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.
Lila Black is going to Hell. Ever since the Quantum Bomb of 2015
things have been different; the dimensions have fused and suddenly
our world is accessible to elves, demons, ghosts and elementals ...
and their worlds are open to us. Special Agent Lila Black has been
different too: tortured and magic-scarred by elves, re-built by
humans into a half-robot, part-AI, nuclear-fuelled walking arsenal,
and carrying the essence of a dead elven necromancer in her chest,
sometimes she has trouble figuring out who she really is. And
that's without mentioning that her boyfriend's a half-elf,
half-demon international rock-star. So a mission to Hell isn't
exactly what she needs. The heart of art, of pleasure, sensuality
and politics, Demonia is glorious and terrible. And, an
assassination attempt, three marriage proposals and one ruined
dress after her arrival, it seems Demonia might be more complicated
than Lila thought ... Justina Robson?s superb new series combines
her trademark themes of the nature of identity and reality, magic
and technology, with a break-neck plot, a mischievous sense of fun
and a seriously sexy new heroine.
Book three of the Quantum Gravity Series sees Lila Black back from
her adventures in Demonia and struggling to cope with the even
stranger world of Faerie. And these Faeries couldn't be less like
Tinkerbell. These Faeries are capricious, unknowable and dangerous.
And they will be Lila's toughest test yet. Lila may have reached
some sort of peace over the fate of her parents, she may have built
some bridges with her sister but when you're half cyborg, when you
contain enough high-tech weaponry to win a small war, when you
don't know your heart, still love an elf and don't trust your
bosses you can be capricious unknowable and quiter dangerous enough
yourself. This is a fast moving SF fantasy full of thrills and
adventures but informed with a ready wit and prepared to touch on
serious themes of identity, reality and sexual politics.
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The Switch (Paperback)
Justina Robson
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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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