Winter's Orbit meets The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet in this stunning emotional yet action-packed adult science-fiction novel, perfect for fans of found family and queer-platonic relationships.

One curse. Two sworn enemies. Thousands of lives in the balance.

Five years ago, interstellar pirate Idrian Delaciel ordered a withering - a death curse - cast on Remy's brother, costing him his life. Now, Remy is ready to return the favour. Only when he casts the withering, it also rebounds onto ...

Dark, ambitous and deeply thought-provoking, Fractal Noise is the gripping standalone prequel to the To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by internationally bestselling author Christopher Paolini.

The new incredible book from Pierce Brown . . .

YOUR HAPPIEST MEMORY IS THEIR DEADLIEST WEAPON

‘Fabulous… Present-day science fiction that feels like the best sort of spy novel’ NEIL GAIMAN

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A mysterious event

An all-American diner appears overnight in a remote British field. More and more objects materialise: toys, fairground rides, pets and other treasured mementos of the past.

A weapon like no other

The deaths quickly follow. A devastating weapon – Prophet – is bringing these memories to life, then stifling innocent people ...

A dying universe. A search for answers. An adventure at the end of a trillion lifetimes.

When the Home worlds finally achieved the technology to venture out into the stars, they found a graveyard of dead civilisations. What befell them is unknown. All Home knows is that they are the last ones left – and whatever came for the others will one day come for them.

Scout is an Archivist who scours the dead worlds of the cosmos for their last gifts: interesting technology, cultural rituals – any...

When is information destroyed forever? When its lost? When those who held it have died? When it has fallen into a black hole? No, information can never be destroyed, but it might be impossible to retrieve.

For Kena, information was something she craved, but one obscure piece of information was always kept from her. An answer to a question asked many times but never given, leaving a nagging desire in the forefront of her mind that grew stronger as years passed. Compared to it, nothing else ma...

“Der Vitruvianische Mensch” by Ulrike Bolenz is a modern version of “The Vitruvian Man”, the famous drawing by Leonardo da Vinci.

It depicts a man in two superimposed positions with his arms and legs apart and inscribed in a circle and square.

The novel VERITAS refers to the expression squaring the circle, a metaphor for trying to do the impossible. The quadrature of the circle stands here for science, fiction, progress, avangardisme, ... but refers at the same time to the clock wit...

The Lost World is a sciene fiction by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1912, concerning an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin of South America where prehistoric animals still survive. It was originally published serially in the Strand Magazine during the months of April–November 1912. The character of Professor Challenger was introduced in this book. The novel also describes a war between indigenous people and a vicious tribe of ape-like creatures

The bestselling science fiction novel of all time, with nearly ten million copies in print.

The First Rule is the most important: 'Always run, never fight'.

For 3000 years Mia's family has shaped Earth's history to push humanity to the stars, making brutal, wrenching choices along the way.

And now, in the year of 1968, Mia finds herself about to help launch the first people into space. She can't take them to the stars, not quite yet. But with her adversary almost upon her, and with the future of the planet at stake, it's becoming clearer that obeying the First Rule is no longer an o...