Item category 1: Science Fiction

Once the world was on fire - but that was long ago. The Burning Age gave way to an era of peace, humanity finding harmony with nature and each other, as new cities rose from the ruins of the old. Ven used to be a holy man, a guardian of ancient archives. Sorting secrets from sacrilege, he studied...

2088 Earth is ready to explore beyond its solar system. But is it prepared for what it might find? Astrophysicist Reggie Straifer has discovered an anomalous star that appears to defy the laws of physics. A deepspace mission is proposed to determine whether it is a weird natural phenomenon, or so...

In 2125, the interstellar convoy NOUMENON set out on a voyage that changed humanity's place in the universe forever. Three millenia later, the convoy's remaining ships and the clone descendants of its original crew are returning to the anomalous star LQ Pyxidis with new dreams and new objectives....

A remarkable collection of short stories and novellas from one of our greatest SF authors. This collection contains stories set in the worlds of the bestselling duology ULTIMA and PROXIMA, which expand on the characters and worlds of that series, including two brand new short stories. There are a...

Elspeth, one of a new breed born into a world struggling back from the brink of the Apocalypse is drawn inexorably to the remote and sinister mountain keep of Obernewtyn. Only Elspeth with her mysterious powers can stop the masters of Obernewtyn unleashing the evil forces of the past.

As the influence of the West falls away, an unnamed narrator drifts through the East's floating world of non-places - chain hotels, mega-cities - finalising covert operations. When he meets the beautiful Tien, a 21st-century floating world courtesan, he becomes involved with people that threaten ...

In the near future, an aggressive and terrifying new form of dementia is affecting victims of all ages. The cause is unknown, and the symptoms are disturbing. Dr. Gillian Ryan is on the cutting edge of research and desperately determined to find a cure. She's already lost her husband to the disea...

"After neurosurgeon Caro Soames-Watkins's career has gone down in flames, she receives a strange job offer from Nobel Prize-winning scientist Sam Watkins, a great uncle she barely knows, and desperation overcomes any suspicions. Watkins's mysterious medical facility conducts research into the nat...

A woman with wings that exist in another dimension. A man trapped in his own body by a killer. A briefcase that is a door to hell. A conspiracy that reaches beyond our world. Pearl is an angel. She works for the Resistance - an organisation dedicated to improve the world by stealth; by tiny, incr...

A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home and is drawn to the farm at the end of the road where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl and her mother and grandmother. As he sits by the pond behind the ramshackle old house, the unremembered past comes flooding back. A past...