Robert Jeschonek is an award-winning writer whose stories, novels, and comics have been published around the world. His fiction has appeared in publications including Galaxy’s Edge, Postscripts, and Escape Pod. He has written Star Trek and Doctor Who fiction and Batman comics. He is the author of the Battlenaut military science fiction series, and his cross-genre scifi thriller Day 9 is a 2013 International Book Award winner. Visit him at www.thefictioneer.com
Marek Kukula completed his PhD in Radio Astronomy at the University of Manchester’s Jodrell Bank Observatory and then carried out research into black holes and distant galaxies at a variety of astronomy centres including the University of Edinburgh and the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, home of the Hubble Space Telescope. As Public Astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich he helps to run the Observatory’s exhibitions, planetarium shows and events and is on hand to explain new astronomical discoveries to the public and media.
Sarah Anne Langton draws things, writes and scribbles a lot about comics. Qualified astronaut, part time archaeologist, full time geek, Sarah has worked as an illustrator for Hodder & Stoughton, Forbidden Planet, EA Games, The Cartoon Network, Sony, Marvel Comics and a wide variety of music events. She has written and illustrated for Jurassic London, Fox Spirit, NewCon Press, Anachron Press and ‘The Fizzy Pop Vampire’ series, and daylights as web mistress for the world’s largest sci-fi and fantasy website. Her work has featured on io9, Clutter Magazine, Laughing Squid and Creative Review.
Robert Reed is the author of a big quivering mass of short fiction and some fourteen novels, the most recent of which comprise a trilogy set in his Marrow/Great Ship universe released through Prime Books. His novella, “A Billion Eves”, won the Hugo in 2007 and he is also the winner of France’s Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire. He lives in Lincoln, Nebraska, with his wife and daughter.
Mike Resnick is, according to Locus, the all-time leading award winner, living or dead, for short science fiction. He has won five Hugos from a record thirty-six nominations, plus a Nebula, and other major awards in the USA, France, Japan, Croatia, Catalonia, Poland and Spain. Mike is the author of seventy-four novels, close to three hundred stories, and three screenplays, he has edited forty-one anthologies and currently edits Galaxy’s Edge magazine. Visit him at www.mikeresnick.com
Mercurio D. Rivera has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award for his short fiction and his stories have appeared in The Year’s Best SF 17, Other Worlds Than These, Unplugged: The Web’s Best SF and Fantasy for 2008, and markets such as Interzone, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Nature, and Black Static. His work has been translated and published in China, Poland and the Czech Republic. His first collection, Across the Event Horizon, is out now from Newcon Press.
Adam Roberts is the author of fourteen SF novels, including the BSFA- and Campbell Award winning Jack Glass (Gollancz 2012) and Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea (with Mahendra Singh; Gollancz 2014). He was born in South London and now lives a few miles west of London, so never let it be said that he’s averse to travel.
Stephanie Saulter writes what she likes to think is literary science fiction. She’s the author of Gemsigns and Binary, the first two books of the ®Evolution trilogy, and is currently working on the third, Gillung. She lives in London, blogs unpredictably at stephaniesaulter.com and tweets only slightly more reliably as @scriptopus.
Tricia Sullivan is a physics student and an Arthur C. Clarke Award winning science fiction novelist. Forthcoming in October 2014, her new novel Shadowboxer features a female cage fighter and draws on her knowledge of fighting. Tricia weighs nine stone soaking wet and has been known to kick down the occasional door. She doesn’t like to talk about the chocolate digestives.
Adrian Tchaikovsky is the author of the acclaimed Shadows of the Apt fantasy series, from the first volume, Empire In Black and Gold (2008) to the final book, Seal of the Worm (2014), with a new series and a standalone science fiction novel scheduled for 2015. He has been nominated for the David Gemmell Legend Award and a British Fantasy Award. In civilian life he is a lawyer, gamer and amateur entomologist.
Gerry Webb has a lifelong interest in space, being an active member of the British Interplanetary Society since 1957 and working professionally in the field since 1960. He founded Commercial Space Technologies Ltd. in 1983 and remains its general director. Gerry has contributed to interstellar studies over the years and was a member of the Project Daedalus team. An active attendee of science fiction conventions since 1962, he chaired a panel (with Arthur Clarke and Poul Anderson) on the Fermi Paradox at the UK Worldcon in 1979.
George Zebrowski’s Brute Orbits won the John W. Campbell Award, Cave of Stars was chosen for Science Fiction, the 101 Best Novels 1985-2010, and Stranger Suns was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. A multiple Nebula Award nominee and finalist for the Theodore Sturgeon Award, his latest novel is Empties (Golden Gryphon). Co-edited with Gregory Benford is Sentinels in Honour of Arthur C. Clarke (Hadley Rille), while Decimated presents ten collaborations with Jack Dann (Borgo). His backlist is available via SF Gateway and Open Road.
Also Available from NewCon Press
The Race
Nina Allan
Set in a future Great Britain scarred by fracking and ecological collapse, The Race is the stunning debut novel from Nina Allan, winner of the 2014 BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction and the prestigious Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire for Best Translated Work.
“Totally assured… a literate, intelligent, gorgeously human and superbly strange SF novel that will continually skewer your assumptions.”
– ALASTAIR REYNOLDS
“Evocative and compelling, this is an irresistible read.”
– E.J. SWIFT (author of Osiris and Cataveiro)
“Nina Allan dissolves boundaries between literary fiction and SF, attending to the textures of memory, desire and loss even as she seeks out dark, fantastical visions of possible worlds.”
– SAM THOMPSON (author of Communion Town)
“A dark dystopia in the tradition of Piercy, Russ and Robinson, and a bold indictment on corporate greed – past, present and yet to come.”
– JOANNA KAVENNA (author of The Birth of Love and Inglorious)
Marcher
Chris Beckett
Charles Bowen is an immigration officer with a difference: the migrants he deals with don’t come from other countries but from other universes. Known as shifters, they materialize from parallel timelines, bringing with them a mysterious drug called slip which breaks down the boundary between what is and what might have been, and offers the desperate and the dispossessed the tantalizing possibility of escape.
Summoned to investigate a case at the Thurston Meadows Social Inclusion Zone, Bowen struggles to keep track of his place in the world and to uphold the values of the system he has fought so long to maintain…
One of Britain’s most exciting and innovative science fiction writers, Chris Beckett is the winner of the 2013 Arthur C Clarke Award and the 2009 Edge Hill Prize. Marcher is perhaps his finest work to date.
This is the first UK edition, and the first release anywhere of the author’s preferred text, extensively revised and rewritten.
Available as paperback and signed limited edition hardback with bonus stories.
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