Collection: Science-Fiction

The newly formed United States of Europe, created by an alliance between the time-displaced Americans from the town of Grantville and the Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus, decides to send an embassy to the Chinese empire. One of the main purposes of the embassy is to establish trade in order to gai...

When Gustavus invades Poland, managing to unite all the squabbling Polish factions into repelling the common enemy, the time-lost Americans have to worry about getting dragged into the fight along with the Swedish forces.

The Ottoman Empire has captured Vienna and is now laying siege to the Austrian government-in-exile established in the city of Linz. Both the United States of Europe and the Kingdom of Bohemia have come to Austria's assistance, but everyone knows this is going to be a long and brutal struggle. In ...

On the Moon an enigma is uncovered. So great are the implications that, for the first time, men are sent out deep into the solar system. But before they can reach their destination, things begin to go horribly wrong.

Down through the epochs and out across the continents, generation upon generation of the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu have told variants of the same story - an end of days story, a final chapter story. But one with hope, even if the hope at times seems forlorn.T he story contained in this trilogy ...

Eleven predictions, 70 years in the future. By 2084 the world we know is gone. These are stories from our world seven decades later. In 1984 George Orwell looked at the world around him and his response was 1984, now a classic dystopian novel. Here eleven writers asked themselves, the same questi...

In the near future, humanity has experienced a great schism. The larger part is ruled by instinct and pleasure: they are ageless, beautiful yet wholly dependent on technology designed by previous generations to sustain them. Having no social structure or self-consciousness to speak of, to the min...

The year is 2312. Scientific advances have opened gateways to an extraordinary future. But in 2312, a sequence of events will force humanity to confront past, present and future. For Swan Er Hong, her life will never be the same again. Once a designer of worlds, now Swan will be led into a plot t...

Dorothy Yoshida is a telepath, and a really rather good one at that. She's also a scientist, and when a small planet begins to manifest some unusual signs she is sent to investigate. The planet is more than it seems, and on further investigation the scientists begin to suspect it has been artific...

'9Tail Fox' is a noir melding of ancient Chinese folklore, organised crime and cutting edge medical technology.

For generations, the solar system - Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt - was humanity's great frontier. Until now. The alien artefact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has emerged to build a massive structure outside the orbit of Uranus: a gate that leads into a starless dark. ...

Christopher Carrion, the Lord of Midnight, has sent his henchmen to capture Candy. Why? she wonders. What would Carrion want with a girl from Minnesota? And why is Candy beginning to feel that the world of the Abarat is familiar to her?

'Absolution' opens decades before Area X forms, with a science expedition whose mysterious end suggests terrifying consequences for the future - and marks the Forgotten Coast as a high-priority area of interest for Central, the shadowy government agency responsible for monitoring extraordinary th...

Humanity has endured centuries of plague and a brutal interstellar war, but there is still no time for peace and quiet. Stirred from aeons of sleep, the Inhibitors - ancient alien killing machines - have begun the process of ridding the galaxy of its latest emergent intelligence.

When images of a lost civilisation are 'dreamed' by a self-proclaimed prophet of the age, Nigel Sheldon, inventor of wormhole technology and creator of the Commonwealth society, is asked to investigate. Especially as the dreams seem to be coming from the Void - a mysterious area of living space m...

For centuries, elemental powers have protected the people of Alera from invasion. But the gravest threat might be closer to home. There is a sense of menace and the threat of a bloody civil war. Now is the time for Tavi to harness his developing powers.

Two grim tales of war featuring the implacable legions of the Adeptus Mechanicus.