A Darker Shade of Magic
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If Ecko can win though, then he might just learn to care – or break the program and get home.
“Science-fiction with the safety catch off.”
Adam Nevill, author of Apartment 16
“Strange, surprising, haunting and exceedingly well written. Not to be missed.”
Lavie Tidhar, World Fantasy Award-winning author of Osama
Chosen as one of The Independent on Sunday’s SF Books of the Year 2012 and the Financial Times’ Best Books of 2012
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ECKO BURNING
DANIE WARE
Ruthless and ambitious, Lord Phylos has control of Fhaveon city, and is using her forces to bring the grasslands under his command. His last opponent is an elderly scribe who’s lost his best friend and wants only to do the right thing. Seeking weapons, Ecko and his companions follow a trail of myth and rumour to a ruined city where both nightmare and shocking truth lie in wait. If Ecko can win though, then he might just learn to care – or break the program and get home.
“A dense and engaging read which keeps the reader hooked by stacking up one amazing thing after the other… it’s violent, sarcastic, filled with nods and references to all things geeky and fun, and features perhaps one of the most scenery-chewing, over-the-top bad guys that we’ve seen in some time.”
Starburst
“Ecko Burning feels very much like the promise of something even greater to come… funny, exciting and compelling.”
Alternative Magazine
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HOMELAND
CORY DOCTOROW
In the wake of a terrorist attack on San Francisco, student Marcus Yallow was wrongly detained and brutalised by the US government. Now a webmaster for a crusading politician, Marcus is leading the fight against the tyrannical security state.
At Burning Man festival, an old contact emerges from hiding to give Marcus a flashdrive of incendiary evidence, with instructions to leak it if anything should happen to her. When she is kidnapped, Marcus must decide whether to go public—and risk losing his employer the election—before the same shadowy agents come after him.
“As potentially important a ‘novel of ideas’ as 1984.”
The Wall Street Journal
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PIRATE CINEMA
CORY DOCTOROW
Trent McCauley is obsessed with making movies. But when his illegal download habit causes his family’s Internet to be cut off, he’s forced to run away from Bradford to London. Squatting in an East End pub, Trent falls in with a band of activists who introduce him to dumpster diving, graveyard raves and the anarchist girl of his dreams. When a new bill threatens to criminalise Internet creativity, the future looks bleak, but the film industry fat cats—and the MPs they hold in their pocket—haven’t reckoned with the power of a gripping movie to change people’s minds…
“A counter-culture rabble rouser.”
Booklist (starred review)
“Doctorow’s books are just too enlightening to miss.”
Wired
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DEPTH
LEV AC ROSEN
Depth combines hardboiled mystery and dystopian science fiction in a future where the rising ocean levels have left New York twenty-one stories under water and cut off from the rest of the United States. But the city survives, and Simone Pierce is one of its best private investigators. Her latest case, running surveillance on a potentially unfaithful husband, was supposed to be easy. Then her target is murdered, and the search for his killer points Simone towards a secret from the past that can’t possibly be real—but that won’t stop the city’s most powerful men and women from trying to acquire it for themselves, with Simone caught in the middle.
AVAILABLE JUNE 2015
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NEW POMPEII
DANIEL GODFREY
Sometime in the near future, energy giant NovusCorp develops technology with an unexpected side-effect: it can transport objects and people from deep in the past to the present day.
For post-grad historian Nick Houghton, the controversy surrounding the programme matters less than the opportunity the company offers him. NovusCorp’s executives reveal their biggest secret: they have saved most of the people from Pompeii, minutes before the volcanic eruption. Somewhere in central Asia, far from prying eyes, the company has built a replica of the city. In it are thousands of real Romans.
The Romans may be ignorant of modern technology – for now – but city boss Marcus Barbatus wasn’t appointed by the emperor because he was soft. The Romans carved out the biggest empire the world had ever seen, thanks to the uncompromising leadership of men like Barbatus. The stage is set for the ultimate clash of cultures…
AVAILABLE AUGUST 2016
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