"April, 1242: the Doctor and Ruby answer a distress call sent from medieval Russia. The signal's sender? Ranavere, an alien girl forced to take part in a barbaric conflict between the armies of Estonia and Novgorod on the frozen surface of Lake Peipus....

"Ruth lives comfortably with her son, Em, in a house by the sea. She has a well-paying job at the Agency, a firm that creates elaborate fictions to shape public opinion. Their lives weren't always like this. Ruth had to get Em out of Antwerp's hopeless postal...

"If life were fair, ace pilot Jose Carriles should have ended up a desk jockey like his former friend Corin Timony, back on the lunar colony of New Destiny. Instead, he's the pilot of the Mosaic--a massive ship taking the Interstellar Union's first-ever...

"In 1973 celebrated writer and editor Harlan Ellison announced the third and final volume of his unprecedented anthology series, which began with Dangerous Visions and continued with Again, Dangerous Visions. But for reasons undisclosed, The Last Dangerous...

"The Earth is dying. Are you next? A mysterious new variant of Covid-19, dubbed the Singapore Strain, is infecting people around the world. It changes the victims' DNA and manifests by altering their perceptions and attitudes, turning them into Dynaborgs. A...

"While her starfaring people are being hunted by an implacable enemy, a young caver discovers a traitor in their ranks and must undertake a transformative journey across the galaxy to save everything she has ever known. Persecuted for their worship of the...

""Your name is Endel 'Endgame' Ebbinghaus. It is Saturday 3rd September, 2101. You're head of security for Mister Long, boss of the Macau Syndicate, a drug cartel. This is your last day on the job." Endel wants out. 'Endgame' is a violent man, by profession...

"Sentenced to exile by his home world, he's hungry for revenge. Only he isn't innocent and Alliance space is no safe haven. When off-worlders promise Seolta den Coille revenge against those who helped falsely imprison him, he grabs hold with both fists. Not...

"Fix your planet or we'll do it for you, warns the Alliance - and take your home world from you. All Ethan Winter ever wanted was to run his family's solar energy business. But that business has been attacked, he's been imprisoned and brutalised, his planet...

"Two ecological engineers must change their world to save it. Eons ago, ecological engineers like Caleb and Fee designed their world. But even the best designs wear out eventually. Now, Arcadia is threatened with environmental collapse, and only the men and...

"In 2255, veteran star pilot Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins spends her retirement supporting fundraising efforts for an organization devoted to deep-space exploration. Soon, Hutch finds herself on the verge of discovering the origins of the deadly Omega clouds...

"In this thrilling, action-packed fourth installment in the Planetside series from acclaimed sci-fi author Michael Mammay, Colonel Carl Butler gears up for another military investigation, full of danger, teetering between life and death...all with a glass of...

"The Forerunner has decimated the Vanguard Islands in a surprise attack from the Trident warship. King Kade Long--seeing no alternative--accepts a peace deal, committing to a perilous mission with X, the "Immortal," to activate weather-modification reactors at...

"When the home worlds finally achieved the technology to venture out into the stars, they found a graveyard of dead civilisations. What befell these worlds is unknown. All they know is that they are the last ones left and whatever came for the others will one...

"The year is 2066. A Caltech intern inadvertently notices an anomaly from a space telescope--something is approaching Saturn, and decelerating. Space objects don't decelerate. Spaceships do. A flurry of top-level government meetings produces the inescapable...

"Humanity is on the brink of annihilation. Only one man can turn the tide. For centuries, we explored the stars and settled new worlds. But a mysterious alien threat emerged, launching devastating attacks and seizing entire star systems. Every fifty years they...

"The Metagalactic Grand Prix--part gladiatorial contest, part beauty pageant, part concert extravaganza, and part continuation of the wars of the past returns and the fate of the Earth is once again threatened. The civilizations opposed to humanity have been...

"As the Indomitus Crusade rages on, Inquisitor Rostov discovers vital intelligence that could reveal the plan of the notorious Hand of Abaddon, and hastily gathers together those loyal to his cause. Defending the Anaxian Line, Ultramarines Lieutenant Ferren...

"Henry is a brilliant engineer who, after untold hours spent in his home laboratory, has achieved the discovery of his career--he has created artificially intelligent consciousness. He calls the half-formed robot William. No one knows about William. Not yet...

"Longyearbyen, 2110: Far to the North, buried deep in the mountains, is a massive vault filled with seeds from every corner of the Earth. Tommy grows up in the brutal landscape of Spitzbergen alongside his two brothers, for whom he would do anything, and his...

"The Wandering Earth is a collection of short stories by Cixin Liu, China's most acclaimed contemporary science-fiction author. Unabashedly classic in the great tradition of Asimov and Clarke, Cixin Liu's science-fiction is firmly rooted in the cosmic ... In...

"Ami awakes from years in stasis to find she's at the edges of deep space, and the only surviving member of her crew. Utterly alone and unable to contact Earth, she sends out a distress beacon, not expecting a response. When she gets one from a being who calls...

"In a world drowning in a deluge of falsehoods, [this novel] confronts the insidious rise of false news, and unmasks the far-reaching consequences that extend beyond mere headlines. With an unflinching gaze, this novel exposes the alarming impact of deceit on...

"In a post-apocalyptic 2393, society is split between an elite group of immortal Eternals and a brutal underclass that live in the outlands and are controlled by the Exterminators. Zed, an Exterminator who has come to question his role and the exact nature of...

"In a past age, humanity fled a dying Earth in massive ark ships. These searched the galaxy to find a new home. Then one fleet found Centauri, a dense cluster of stars teeming with habitable planets. Now, thousands of years later, Centauri's settlers have...

"The crew of the You Sexy Thing have laid a course for Coralind Station, hoping the station's famed gardens will provide an opportunity to regroup, recoup, and mourn their losses while while finding a way to track down their enemy, pirate king Tubal Last. All...

"After waking up in hospital following a car crash paralysed from the neck down, and with no memory of the events leading up to his accident, Darius finds his life has been saved by an experimental drug. But the drug has unexpected side effects. It warps time...

"In a single ruthless blow, Commander Lorraine Adamant's favorite uncle murders everyone ahead of him in the succession for the Star Kingdom of Adamant. Only luck and the paranoia of her bodyguard, Vigo Jarret, saves Lorraine's life. On the run in a single...

"Fortunato has made it big, directing the Club Ded sequel. He and Delilah Lex are the dream team. But, Delilah is off the map again. Lost, in extreme technological advances. Mutating from a 're-evolutionary' nerve-implant built by the enigmatic roboticist,...

"Trapped in a London laboratory during a worker uprising in 1924, ex-artillery officer and physics instructor Jeremy Tuft awakens 150 years later - on the eve of a new Dark Age! England has become a neo-medieval society whose inhabitants have forgotten how to...

"Halmey Dz and her partner Connla Kurucz are salvage operators, living just on the inside of the law ... usually. Theirs is the perilous and marginal existence--with barely enough chance of striking it fantastically big--just once--to keep them coming back for...

"Can one woman stop the power of Rome breaking through the thin veneer of time? With treasure hunters and archaeologists rushing to claim the ancient secrets buried beneath her land, Lillian's plans for Ithaca Farm have been thwarted at every turn. Looming in...

"When his older sister, Quedra Sa-Yool, was brought down by her political enemies, ne'er-do-well and pilot extraordinaire Zham followed her into exile. Quedra, a military genius once known as the Diamond Knife, now commands the mercenary airship Last Stop and...

"There is no way out. The walls have fallen, the gates are breached, and the defenders are slain. It is the end and the death. After seven brutal years of civil war, the Warmaster stands on the verge of victory. Horus Lupercal, once beloved son, has come to...

Acorna's people, the Linyaari, have begun reclaiming their homeworld from the ravages of the brutal Khleevi. But the first wave of explorers has unlocked a larger mystery about the origins of the Linyaari - one that has led Aari, Acorna's beloved lifemate, on...

"In the aftermath of Phobos Station's destructions, humans begin colonizing other worlds. Natalie Holder, now aboard the Gateway colony ship, uncovers a conspiracy to found a rebel colony somewhere in the solar system. Captain Ellisa Shan and her crew find a...

"After fleeing her controlling and murderous family with her fiancée Vinh, Amara embarks on a colonization project, New Belaforme, along with her childhood friend, Jesse. The planet, beautiful and lethal, produces the Gray, a "self-cleaning" mechanism that New...

"Hugo and Locus award-winning editor Neil Clarke provides a comprehensive review of 2022's short fiction markets, selecting 31 of the best stories from magazines, anthologies, podcasts, and collections."--Publisher.

"2040. The Long Earth is in chaos. . . .The cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption is shutting down civilization. Whole populations flee to the relative safety of myriad stepwise Earths. Sally Linsay, Joshua Valiente, and Lobsang have all been involved in the...

"Arthur Dent hadn't had a day as bad as this since the Earth had been blown up. After years of galactic wanderings, Arthur finally settles on the small planet Lamuella and becomes a sandwich maker. Looking forward to a quiet life, his plans are thrown awry by...

"War or peace. It doesn't matter. There is always an enemy, and Jacquel des Trurains of the planet Hathe knows all about enemies. He's just spent years undercover battling the Terran invaders of his home world. Now the war is over and the Terrans routed, but...

"Five long years ago, the Terrans invaded Hathe and life on a once peaceful and wealthy world changed forever. Major Hamon Radcliff is one of those Terrans. He does what he can to mitigate the brutality against the Hathians yet knows their occupation must...

"Wanda and Peter Parker embrace great responsibility in the next adventure of an epic multiversal series that reimagines iconic Marvel origin stories. So many worlds, so little time. Infinite possibilities, creating infinite realities. Long have I watched...

"From the award-winning and bestselling author of Black Buck, a speculative novel about a young woman--invisible by birth and relegated to second-class citizenship--who sets off on a mission to find her older brother, whom she had presumed dead but who is now...

"Rafi and Todd are two polar opposites at an elite high school where they bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game. It sets them up for life- Rafi will get lost in literature, while Todd's work will lead to a startling AI breakthrough. Elsewhere, Evie...

"In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she'll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering 'expats' from across history to establish whether time travel is...

"On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? The author's new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination. In this novel that is a...

"Young Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, his new Padawan Asokha, and his Master, Obi-Wan Kenobi are on a mission to rescue the kidnapped son of Jabba the Hutt. But Count Dooku and the Separatists also want to rescue the baby Hutt: whoever succeeds will gain the...

"One day, a cataclysmic event occurs: all of the white people in America walk into the nearest body of water. A year later, Charles Brunton is a Black man living in an entirely new world. Having served time in prison for a wrongful conviction, he's now a...

"AD 2118, Earth. The world is about to change as a terrorist strike obliterates the planet's biggest solar farm, altering the global economic balance. AD 2118, Mars. Phobos Station is ready to receive an emergency shuttle full of wounded miners, but when those...

"On a rainy day in May 1964, history professor Cecily Bridge-Davis begins to search for the sixty-five acres of land she inherited from her father's family. The quest leads her to uncover a dark secret: In every generation, one offspring from each Bridge...

"The Five Hundred, the elite families who rule the Terran Federation, control its political power and its wealth, and they've grown steadily wealthier and more powerful, thanks to the war against the Terran League. War may be hard on the people who get caught...

"In the Chaos-infested Sabbat System, the massed ranks of the Astra Militarum - more commonly known as the Imperial Guard - stand shoulder to shoulder as they counter an invasion by heretical forces. Amongst the defenders of the Imperium are the troops of the...

"In the distant future, humans are on the verge of extinction and have settled in small tribes across the planet under the observation and care of "Mothers." Some children are made in factories, from cells of rabbits and dolphins; some live by getting...

"In the parched, post-apocalyptic Western U.S. of the 22nd Century, wolves float, bonfires sing, and devils gather to pray. Water and safety are elusive in this chaotic world of alchemical transformations, where history books bleed, dragons kiss, and...

"Newly widowed and trying to cope with her grief, Winnie Mae Chisholm moves from Tennessee with her teenage son, Pax, to Oregon, hoping the change will let them both heal and move on. She's warned when buying their new home that the next door neighbor, Mr....

"When the lights went out, humanity died. But from darkness came hope. The surviving students at St. Dominic's Preparatory School for Girls have had it rough since the H7D3 virus virtually wiped out human civilization. Between rampaging hordes of zombies and...

"Graham Gooding is a leader at a tech start-up when his brilliant coworker--and work crush--Nessie Locke asks for help testing a new algorithm. Graham jumps at the chance to impress her, and to improve his floundering personal life. He soon discovers that the...

"Economics professor Clay West has always explained the world through the lens of his profession. But after his girlfriend Karla takes Dying Wish-a drug that supposedly reveals the nature of reality moments before it claims your life-Clay is devastated. No...

"After years of searching, Nathan Briggs is finally on the verge of making an incredible discovery. Unfortunately, the aliens have other plans. When Nathan stops a brutal attack on an unsuspecting victim, he gets more than he bargained for and sets into motion...

"Decades after Nathalie Hart's fateful mission to Bethesda, Earth teeters on the brink of collapse. As the planet's resources dwindle, the orbital elites of the ruling Yun Ju play a dangerous game with Earth's population from space. A DESPERATE PLAN TO SAVE...

"Sixteen classic stories that are bound to get under your skin ... John Wyndham was one of the twentieth century's most talented - and neglected - science fiction and horror writers. He was a master of marrying the extraordinary with the banal. His...

"From the'"master of literary horror' (GQ) comes a collection of new stories tracing the limits and consequences of artificial intelligence and 'post-human' relationships..."--

"On a distant dwarf planet, a young soldier discovers her mortal enemy is her only tie to the world she left behind, in a high-stakes sci-fi romance. Two months after her eighteenth birthday, scrappy Hikari Skye is ready to leave her ramshackle mobile home on...

"An intimate glimpse into the life of a teenager whose coming of age will herald a new age for her world. Set in the universe Africanfuturist luminary Nnedi Okorafor first introduced in the World Fantasy Award-winning Who Fears Death, this is the first in the...

"The stories brought together in this collection introduce for the first time in English the dazzling speculative imaginings of Djuna, one of South Korea's most provocative SF writers. Whether describing a future society light years away or satirizing...

"In the vast expanse of space, Bethesda - humanity's first extra-solar colony and home to a thriving population of adults and children - has ceased all communication with Earth. Nathalie Hart only joined the New Horizons interstellar rescue expedition to...

"Driving home from a roadside diner, Denver witnesses a UFO explode directly over his tiny town of Muddy Gap. When he questions his neighbors, it appears that Denver is the only person to have seen anything - or to care that the residents' strange behavior, as...

"Off the coast of Antarctica, a research vessel discovers a mysterious structure buried deep within an iceberg. Entombed for thousands of years, it can't possibly be man-made. But a secretive and ruthless cabal think they know what it is... and what it means....

"A diamond-hard, visionary new SF thriller. Nailed-down cyberpunk ala William Gibson for the 21st century meets the vivid dark futures of Al Reynolds in this extraordinary debut novel. With Earth abandoned, humanity resides on Station, an industrialised...

"Humanity has taken to the stars, using faster-than-light travel to reach distant planets and new worlds. But in the far reaches of the galaxy, John Grant will discover a planet of humans who believe he has travelled not only through space to find them, but...

"The skies are burning and humanity is tearing itself apart. Emily Stark is a ray of hope in the darkness, fighting for survival, fighting for truth. Amidst the corrosive clouds that shroud the globe, Emily is on a mission to reach the colossal machine that...

"Poisonous clouds spill from the sky and erase the sun. Buildings collapse. Communications fail. Corrosive fog consumes everything in its path. Emily Stark flees her crumbling home with baby sister Sammi and shelters with a shellshocked band of survivors. As...

"Four prophesized heroes must band together to obliterate an evil galactic empire--they're outnumbered by the trillions, but are they outwitted? Ariock, a superhuman among men, destroyed the Torth Homeworld. Since then, the massive throng of...

"In 2027, Angela Monahan is grappling with the decision of whether to take advantage of a new health service that promises a healthier, stronger baby through gene editing. With a semi-famous mother who has a substance abuse problem and a husband ravaged by the...

"Scribe IV is an obsolete automaton, peacefully whiling away his years on the Bastion, a secluded monastery in an abandoned corner of the galaxy. But when the visiting Pope is found murdered, Scribe IV knows he has very little time before the terrifying...

"Ottanger is a rebel and mutant on an Earth governed by a ruthless Committee. But after its Inspectorate experiments on him, Ottanger realizes the mutation allows him to reach alternate worlds. The multiverse is revealed in all its glory and terror-and he...

"Idris Telemmier has uncovered a secret that changes everything - the Architects' greatest weakness. A shadowy Cartel scrambles to turn his discovery into a weapon against these alien destroyers of worlds. But between them and victory stands self-interest. The...

"Captain John "Black Jack" Geary tries a desperate gamble to lead the Alliance Fleet home through enemy-occupied space in this novel in the thrilling Lost Fleet series. Geary is convinced that the Syndics are planning to ambush the fleet and finish it off once...

"An elite crew of astronauts is sent to an unknown planet. Their mission? To wire the planet within the all-encompassing and all-knowing system of artificial intelligence, known as "The Goo." It's hard to remember a time before The Goo ... and even harder to...

"Here is a fascinating and unsettling anthology of 31 science fiction short stories in tribute to the prophetic dystopias of New Wave sci-fi pioneer, and literary titan of the twentieth century, J.G. Ballard - featuring Will Self, Iain Sinclair, Christopher...

"The war is over. Its heroes forgotten. Until one chance discovery ... Idris has neither aged nor slept since they remade his mind in the war. And one of humanity's heroes now scrapes by on a freelance salvage vessel, to avoid the attention of greater powers....

"1977. The spacerace is far from over. Ziggy Da Luca is a linguist recruited by NASA for reasons she can't quite fathom. After seeing the video they've intercepted, it becomes clear her work is far more central to their plans than she realised. Sent to the...

"In a world ravaged by climate change, a mysterious time travel agency known as the Program sends carefully selected Heroes back in time on missions to prevent environmental damage before it happens. Sloane Burrows secretly longs to be a Hero and restore the...

"Pocket World - a geographically small, hidden offshoot of our own reality, sped up or slowed down by time. Following humanity's discovery of pocket worlds, teams of academics embarked on groundbreaking exploratory missions, eager to study this new technology...

"A group of employees and their CEO, celebrating the sale of their remarkable emotion-mapping-AI-algorithm, crash onto a not-quite-deserted tropical island. Luckily, those who survived have found a beautiful, fully-stocked private palace, with all the latest...

"Annie is a robot, created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner, Doug. Playful and eager to please, she has dinner ready for him every night, wears the outfits he buys for her, and adjusts her libido to suit his whims. Maybe the apartment isn't...

"Akshaya is the hybrid daughter of a human mother and an alloy, a genetically engineered posthuman - and she's the future of life on the planet Meru. But not if the determined Akshaya can help it. Before choosing where her future lies, she wants to...

"Jedi Masters Avar Kriss and Elzar Mann, clinging to their belief in serving Light and Life, lead a daring mission into Nihil space to liberate the planet of Naboo while finally embracing their true desires and the bond that has always drawn them back...

"The Drukhari city of Commorragh is without question one of the worst places in the universe - giving even the warp a run for its money - and those who thrive in its dark and treacherous streets are brought up on a diet of murder, intrigue, and more murder....

"Ada Lamarr may have gotten to the spaceship wreck first, but looter's rights won't get her far when she's got a hole in the side of her ship and her spacesuit is almost out of air. Fortunately for her, help arrives in the form of a government salvage crew -...

"Take a faster-than-light trip to the future. Discover where memes rise and fall in moments. Award-winning Australian science-fiction editor Jonathan Strahan (The Best Science Fiction of the Year series) presents the quintessential guide to the exciting New...

"Everyone could see it coming. But one man could do something about it. Oh, he couldn't avert the nuclear holocaust, but a scientist in Austria, ruthlessly using billions of research dollars for his own purposes, set himself up an out: he created a time...

"After losing her job to artificial intelligence, May, in a city populated by intelligent robots called 'hums,' takes her family on a three-night respite to the Botanical Garden, a rare green refuge, where her children come under threat and she is forced to...

"In the future, androids have supplanted the workforce, but things go awry when a virus turns them into murder bots. Eight years afterward, one man rises to power and a group of misfit criminals must take him down."--Publisher.

"This is the era indomitus... The mighty fleets of the Indomitus Crusade face terrors and dangers beyond imagining. As Guilliman's crusade marches forth, bringing the Emperor's light to thousands of worlds, Fleet Secundus is headed for the darkest dark: the...

"The Carryx - part empire, part hive - have waged wars of conquest for centuries, destroying or enslaving species across the galaxy. Now, they are facing a great and deathless enemy. The key to their survival may rest with the humans of Anjiin. Caught up in...