Collection: Science-Fiction

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...

The light of Lucifer is extinguished and for the second time in 4 million years the Monolith awakes. The limitless power of an alien technology has decided what part humanity must play in the evolution of the galaxy, whether it wants to or not.

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.

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.