Orbit UK has published the following titles during 2009 (click on the title in the list or scroll down the screen for more information on a particular book, or use Ctrl+F in your browser to check for titles by your favourite author).
Visit the UK schedule page of the site to see what we have coming up in the next few months.
- Hammer of God – Karen Miller (January 2009, £7.99 Pb)
- The Accidental Sorcerer – K. E. Mills (January 2009, £6.99 Pb)
- Orphan’s Alliance – Robert Buettner (January 2009, £6.99 Pb)
- Shadow Gate – Kate Elliott (January 2009, £7.99 Pb)
- One More Bite – Jennifer Rardin (January 2009, £6.99 Pb)
- The Destiny of the Dead – Ian Irvine (January 2009, £12.99 Pb)
- The Judging Eye – R. Scott Bakker (January 2009, £12.99 Pb)
- The Magician’s Apprentice – Trudi Canavan (February 2009, £14.99 Hb)
- Matter – Iain M Banks (February 2009, £7.99 Pb)
- Men of the Otherworld – Kelley Armstrong (February 2009, £7.99 Pb)
- Bone Crossed – Patricia Briggs (February 2009, £6.99 Pb)
- Small Favour – Jim Butcher (February 2009, £6.99 Pb)
- This is Not a Game – Walter Jon Williams (March 2009, £11.99 LPb)
- Seeds of Earth – Michael Cobley (March 2009, £10.00 LPb)
- Hand of Isis – Jo Graham (March 2009, £7.99 Pb)
- Every Last Drop – Charlie Huston (March 2009, £6.99 Pb)
- Thicker Than Water – Mike Carey (March 2009, £6.99 Pb)
- A Madness of Angels – Kate Griffin (April 2009, £7.99 Pb)
- Turn Coat – Jim Butcher (April 2009, £12.99 Hb)
- The Night Sessions – Ken MacLeod (April 2009, £6.99 Pb)
- Bloodheir – Brian Ruckley (April 2009, £7.99 Pb)
- Red-Headed Stepchild – Jaye Wells (April 2009, £6.99 Pb)
- The Awakening – Kelley Armstrong (May 2009, £7.99 Pb)
- Furies of Calderon – Jim Butcher (May 2009, £7.99 Pb)
- The Better Mousetrap – Tom Holt (May 2009, £7.99 Pb)
- The Grand Conjunction – Sean Williams (May 2009, £7.99 Pb)
- Fall of Thanes – Brian Ruckley (May 2009, £14.99 Hb)
- May Contain Traces of Magic – Tom Holt (May 2009, £12.99 Hb)
- Academ’s Fury – Jim Butcher (June 2009, £7.99 Pb)
- Blood Noir – Laurell K. Hamilton (June 2009, £7.99 Pb)
- Orphan’s Triumph – Robert Buettner (June 2009, £7.99 Pb)
- In Ashes Lie – Marie Brennan (June 2009, £7.99 Pb)
- The Edge of the World – Kevin J. Anderson (June 2009, £12.99 LPb)
- The Gypsy Morph – Terry Brooks (July 2009, £7.99 Pb)
- The Summoning – Kelley Armstrong (July 2009, £7.99 Pb)
- Cursor’s Fury – Jim Butcher (July 2009, £7.99 Pb)
- Saturn’s Children – Charles Stross (July 2009, £7.99 Pb)
- Witches Incorporated – K.E. Mills (July 2009, £6.99 Pb)
- Wireless – Charles Stross (July 2009, £14.99 Hb)
- Living With the Dead – Kelley Armstrong (August 2009, £7.99 Pb)
- The Prodigal Mage – Karen Miller (August 2009, £12.99 Hb)
- Captain’s Fury – Jim Butcher (August 2009, £7.99 Pb)
- Child of a Dead God – Barb and J.C. Hendee (August 2009, £7.99 Pb)
- Gears of War: Jacinto’s Remnant – Karen Traviss (August 2009, £7.99 Pb)
- The Dwarves – Markus Heitz (August 2009, £7.99 Pb)
- You Suck – Christopher Moore (August 2009, £7.99 Pb)
- A Princess of Landover – Terry Brooks (September 2009, £18.99 Hb)
- Cry Wolf – Patricia Briggs (September 2009, £6.99 Pb)
- The Company – K.J. Parker (September 2009, £7.99 Pb)
- The Drowning City – Amanda Downum (September 2009, £7.99 Pb)
- The Naming of the Beast – Mike Carey (September 2009, £7.99 Pb)
- Traitor’s Gate – Kate Elliot (September 2009, £12.99 LPb)
- The Gathering Storm – Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson (October 2009, £20.00 Hb)
- Body Count – Shaun Hutson (October 2009, £7.99 Pb)
- Hunting Ground – Patricia Briggs (October 2009, £6.99 Pb)
- Legend – David Gemmell (October 2009, £7.99 Pb)
- Red Claw – Phillip Palmer (October 2009, £7.99 Hb)
- The Wyrmling Horde – David Farland (October 2009, £7.99 Pb)
- Frostbitten – Kelley Armstrong (October 2009, £14.99 Hb)
- Last Rites – Shaun Hutson (October 2009, £18.99 Hb)
- Ender in Exile – Orson Scott Card (November 2009, £7.99 Pb)
- Feast of Souls – Ceilia Friedman (November 2009, £7.99 Pb)
- Kushiel’s Mercy – Jacqueline Carey (November 2009, £8.99 Pb)
- Mirror Space – Marianne de Pierres (November 2009, £7.99 Pb)
- The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart – Jessie Bullington (November 2009, £7.99 Pb)
- Metal Gear Solid: Book 2 – Raymond Benson (November 2009, £7.99 Pb)
- The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K. Le Guin (November 2009, £12.99 Hb)
- Wing of Wrath – Ceilia Friedman (November 2009, £12.99 LPb)
- Beyond the Wall of Time – Russell Kirkpatrick (December 2009, £7.99)
- Full Circle – Pamela Freeman (December 2009, £7.99)
- My Dead Body – Charlie Hutson (December 2009, £7.99)
- Princep’s Fury – Jim Butcher (December 2009, £7.99)
- The Destiny of the Dead – Ian Irvine (December 2009, £8.99)
January 2009
Hammer of God
By Karen Miller
January 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841496795 | Fantasy | Paperback
In Ethrea, Rhian sits upon a precarious throne. Defiant noblemen who won’t accept her rule threaten the stability of her kingdom, Zandakar, a man she thought was her friend, has been revealed as the son of a woman sworn to destroy her and her husband, King Alasdair, is increasingly unsure of her love.
Rhian’s most grave problem, however, lay outside the borders of her realm. The trading nations refuse to believe Mijak is a threat and promise reprisals if she dares to protect her realm. If she cannot unite the warring factions within her land, a move again Mijak might prove the end of her reign. Which is exactly what the empress of Mijak has planned…
Author Info: www.karenmiller.net
The Accidental Sorcerer
By K. E. Mills
January 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841497273 | Comic Fantasy | Paperback
He’s blown up a factory, lost his job, and there’s a chance that he’s not really a Third Grade wizard after all. Career disaster strikes again.
Luckily, an influential friend manages to get him a posting. So it’s off to New Ottosland to be the new Court Wizard for King Lional. His back-up, an ensorcelled bird with a mysterious past, seems dubious. But it’s New Ottosland, or nothing.
Unfortunately, King Lional isn’t the vain, self-centred young man he appeared to be. With a Princess in danger, a bird-brained back-up, and a kingdom to save, Gerald soon suspects he might be out of his depth. And if he can’t keep this job, how can he become the wizard he was destined to be…
Orphan’s Alliance
By Robert Buettner
January 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841497525 | Miliatary SF | Paperback
Jason’s army defeated the slugs on Bren and now, fifteen years later, he finds himself once more commanding an invasion force. This time they must expel the Slugs from a small moon, where they decimated the human inhabitants.
And although Earth has finally begun to mobilise against the aggressors, a new and problematic faction has arisen. The totalitarian government of Tressel, a strategically-situated planet, is willing to defeat the Slugs at any cost – regardless of the human casualties.
Unfortunately for Jason, his godson, Jude, is attracted to Tressel’s total-war policies. As the struggle continues, Jason is not only fighting for the survival of the human race, but for his relationship with the only family he has left.
Author Info: www.robertbuettner.com
Shadow Gate
By Kate Elliott
January 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841492971 | Fantasy | Paperback
Marit was pretty sure she had been murdered. She vividly recalled the assassin’s dagger, and her dying vision had shown her the next world – but her spirit had not made the journey. She woke alone, sprawled on a Guardian’s altar, with more questions than answers.
The Guardians once ruled the Hundred, but disappeared in ages past, leaving reeves to manage the peace in their stead. But Marit finds this peace has been shattered as a desperate army ravages the land, and its leaders walk in shadow, wearing the cloaks of lost Guardians. As she searches for meanings in a changed world, Marit finds her old love Joss and the Outlander Anji struggling to maintain order amidst chaos. But her own enemies are drawing close. Marit tries to untangle the web of betrayals that connect her murder with the razing of the countryside, but she can’t run forever. She will be found and there will be choices: complicity or death.
Author Info: www.kateelliott.com
One More Bite
By Jennifer Rardin
January 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841497099 | Urban Fantasy | Paperback
I’ve already smoked the guy who was the pain in the CIA’s you-know-what for the past few years. But now, in the power vacuum left by the death of Edward ‘The Raptor’ Samos, a struggle for supremacy has begun between his former allies.
The CIA feels the balance must be maintained. So when a Valencian Were agent discovers a plot to assassinate the Coven of Inverness’ leader, me and my vampire hottie (and boss), are drafted in. Our mission – to take out the woman hired to do the deed, a killer who might be as wily and Gifted as ourselves.
So it’s off to the Scottish Highlands for some twisted fun among murderers, demons and half-crazed relatives. Sometimes being a top-secret CIA assassin isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Author Info: www.jenniferrardin.com
The Destiny of the Dead
By Ian Irvine
January 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841494722 | Fantasy | Large Paperback
Nish and his few remaining allies are trapped on the Range of Ruin, surrounded by the relentless army of his father, the God-Emperor. Nish’s only choices are a humiliating surrender, or a suicidal fight to the death.
Yet Nish has to fight, and somehow he has to win, for the world of Santhenar faces a colossal threat – and Nish is a fighter in a land whose spirit was broken long ago. A shape-shifting being by the name of Stilkeen has broken out of the void, and is preparing to wreak devastation. It has come to reclaim the stolen chthonic power that once bound its physical and spirit aspects together – and its fury is infinite.
But chthonic fire has already been released into Santhenar, and is eating its way through the Antarctic territories. Even if Nish can win the battle with his father, there may be no way to stop the fire, or Stilkeen, before everything is consumed.
Author Info: www.ian-irvine.com
The Judging Eye
By R. Scott Bakker
January 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841495378 | Fantasy | Large Paperback
A score of years after he first walked into the histories of Men, Anasurimbor Kellhus rules all the Three Seas, the first true Aspect-Emperor in a thousand years.
The masses worship him as a living god, though a few dare claim he’s a walking demon. With Proyas and Saubon as his Exalt-Generals, he leads a holy war deep into the wastes of the Ancient North, intent on destroying Golgotterath and preventing the Second Apocalypse.
His wife and consort, Esmenet, meanwhile, remains in Momemn, where she struggles to rule not only his vast empire, but their murderous children as well. And Achamian, who lives as a Wizard in embittered exile, undertakes a mad quest to uncover the origins of the Dunyain. But Achamian, of all people, should know that one must be very careful what one seeks…
Author Info: www.princeofnothing.com
February 2009
The Magician’s Apprentice
By Trudi Canavan
February 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841495972 | Fantasy | Hardback
The Prequel to the Black Magician Trilogy
In the remote village of Mandryn, Tessia serves as assistant to her father, the village Healer – much to the frustration of her mother, who would rather she found a husband. But her life is about to take a very unexpected turn.
When treating a patient at the residence of the local magician, Lord Dakon, Tessia is forced to fight off the advances of a visiting Sachakan mage – and instinctively uses magic. She now finds herself facing an entirely different future as Lord Dakon’s apprentice.
But along with the excitement and privilege, Tessia is about to discover that her magical gifts bring with them a great deal of responsibility. Events are brewing that will lead nations into war, rival magicians into conflict, and spark an act of sorcery so brutal that its effects will be felt for centuries …
Author Info: www.trudicanavan.com
Matter
By Iain M Banks
February 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841494197 | Science Fiction | Paperback
In a world renowned within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one man it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one – maybe two – people who could clear his name. For his brother it means a life lived under constant threat of treachery and murder. And for their sister, it means returning to a place she’d thought abandoned forever.
Only the sister is not what she once was; Djan Seriy Anaplian has become an agent of the Culture’s Special Circumstances section, charged with high-level interference in civilisations throughout the greater galaxy.
Concealing her new identity – and her particular set of abilities – might be a dangerous strategy. In the world to which Anaplian returns, nothing is quite as it seems; and determining the appropriate level of interference in someone else’s war is never a simple matter.
Author Info: www.iain-banks.net
Men of the Otherworld
By Kelley Armstrong
February 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841497433 | Urban Fantasy | Paperback
I don’t remember the first time I changed into a wolf. One night I passed out, and awoke to find my body covered in yellow fur. My brain was beyond reacting. It took this in its stride, as it had everything else in my new life. I got to my feet and went in search of food.
As a curious and independent six-year-old, Clayton didn’t resist the bite – he asked for it. But as a lone child werewolf his life is under constant threat. So when enigmatic Pack member Jeremy Danvers saves him, Clayton is determined to protect his adoptive father, no matter what the cost.
So begins this gripping collection of four tales chronicling the bloody feuds of the American Pack, and the coming of age of Clay Danvers, a very powerful – and very singular – werewolf.
Author Info: www.kelleyarmstrong.com
Bone Crossed
By Patricia Briggs
February 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841496863 | Urban Fantasy | Paperback
Car mechanic and sometime shapeshifter Mercy Thompson has learned, the hard way, why her race was almost exterminated. When European vampires immigrated to North America, they found Mercy’s people had a hidden talent – for vampire slaying. Unfortunately for Mercy, the queen of the local vampire seethe has discovered her true identity.
She’s also furious when she learns Mercy has crossed her and killed one of her vampires. Mercy may be protected from direct reprisals by the werewolf pack (and her interesting relationship with its Alpha), but that just means Marsilia will come after Mercy some other way. So Mercy had better prepare to watch her back.
Author Info: www.patriciabriggs.com
Small Favour
By Jim Butcher
February 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841496887 | Urban Fantasy | Paperback
Harry Dresden is feeling happy. No one’s tried to kill him in nearly a year, and the worst problem he’s had lately is trying to remove the stains his apprentice bungled into his carpeting. The future looks fairly bright. Unfortunately, the past isn’t nearly so optimistic.
An old bargain placed Harry in debt to Mab, faerie monarch of the Winter Court and the Queen of Air and Darkness. Harry still owes the Winter Queen two favours, and it’s time to pay one of them off. It’s a small favour that he really can’t refuse, but it will trap Harry between a nightmarish foe and an equally deadly ally, stretching his skills and loyalties to their very limits.
It figures. Everything was going too well to last.
Author Info: www.jim-butcher.com
March 2009
This is Not a Game
By Walter Jon Williams
March 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841496573 | Science Fiction / Thriller | Large Paperback
This is Not a Game is a novel built around the coolest phenomenon in the world. That phenomenon is known as the Alternate Reality Game, or ARG. It’s big, and it’s getting bigger. It’s immersive and massively interactive, and it’s spreading through the Internet at the speed of light.
To the player, the Alternate Reality Game has no boundaries. You can be standing in a parking lot, or a shopping center. A pay phone near you will ring, and on the other end will be someone demanding information. You’d better have the information handy.
ARGs combine video, text adventure, radio plays, audio, animation, improvisational theatre, graphics, and story into an immersive experience. Now, one of science fiction’s most acclaimed writers, Walter Jon Williams, brings this extraordinary phenomenon to life in a pulse-pounding thriller. This is not a game. This is a novel that will blow your mind.
Author Info: www.walterjonwilliams.net
Seeds of Earth
By Michael Cobley
March 2009 | ISBN: 9781841496320 | Science Fiction | Large Paperback
First contact was not supposed to be like this. The first intelligent species to encounter Mankind attacked without warning and swarmed locust-like through the solar system. Merciless. Relentless. Unstoppable. With little hope of halting the savage invasion, Earth’s last, desperate roll of the dice was to send out three colony ships, seeds of Earth, to different parts of the galaxy. Earth may perish but the human race would live on … somewhere.
150 years later, the human colony on the planet Darien has established a new world for Humanity and forged a peaceful relationship with the planet’s indigenous race, the scholarly, enigmatic Uvovo.
But there are secrets buried beneath the surface of Darien’s forest moon. Secrets that go back to an apocalyptic battle fought between ancient forerunner races at the dawn of galactic civilisation.
Author Info: rockitboy.wordpress.com
Hand of Isis
By Jo Graham
March 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841497006 | Historical / Fantasy | Paperback
Against the rising power of Rome, Egypt is the last and strongest bastion of the Eastern Hellenistic kingdoms. Charmian is Cleopatra’s half sister, daughter of Pharaoh and a woman of the harem. She shares a great honour and a terrible burden with Cleopatra and their sister Iras – they are fated to defend Egypt from those who would destroy her.
So when Roman Julius Caesar comes to Egypt in pursuit of his enemies, Charmian and her sisters are drawn into a deadly struggle.
One that will shape the world to come.
From mysterious temples hidden in the desert to the perilous palaces of Rome, from the tomb of Alexander the Great to the very Gates of Amenti, Charmian must face foes seen and unseen in a battle for her family, her love and her gods.
Author Info: jo-graham.livejournal.com
Every Last Drop
By Charlie Huston
March 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841496818 | Urban Fantasy Noir | Paperback
After a year hiding out in the Bronx, Joe Pitt is given an assignment he can’t refuse.
One Clan needs Joe to inform on another, but he’s playing them both while keeping his eye on the main prize: his girl Evie is on the Island somewhere and he’ll do anything to get her back. And in this case, ‘anything’ means coming face to face with the horrendous secret that lies beneath the Vampyre world. It’s a quest that will drive him to the heart of the two most perplexing mysteries of the Vampyre community: how were the Clans originally formed, and where do the powerful ones get all that blood?
The search for the answer takes Joe to a dark corner of Queens, puts him face to face with a mythic and savage Clan, and leaves him in possession of a vision he’ll never scrape off his retinas – as well as a bargaining chip that redefines his place in the Vampyre universe.
Author Info: www.pulpnoir.com
Thicker Than Water
By Mike Carey
March 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841496566 | Urban Fantasy Noir | Paperback
Old ghosts of different kinds come back to haunt Fix, in the fourth gripping Felix Castor novel.
Names and faces he thought he’d left behind in Liverpool resurface in London, bringing Castor far more trouble than he’d anticipated. Childhood memories, family traumas, sins old and new, and a council estate that was meant to be a modern utopia until it turned into something like hell … these are just some of the sticks life uses to beat Felix Castor with as things go from bad to worse for London’s favourite freelance exorcist.
See, Castor’s stepped over the line this time, and he knows he’ll have to pay; the only question is: how much? Not the best of times, then, for an unwelcome confrontation with his holier-than-thou brother, Matthew. And just when he thinks things can’t possibly get any worse, along comes Father Gwillam and the Anathemata. Oh joy …
Author Info: www.mikecarey.net
April 2009
A Madness of Angels
By Kate Griffin
April 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841497334 | Urban Fantasy Noir | Paperback
When a man is tired of London he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. – Samuel Johnson
In fact, Dr Johnson was only half right. There is in London much more than life – there is power. It ebbs and flows with the rhythms of the city, makes runes from the alignments of ancient streets and hums with the rattle of trains and buses; it waxes and wanes with the patterns of the business day. It is a new kind of magic: urban magic.
Enter a London where magicians ride the Last Train, implore favours of The Beggar King and interpret the insane wisdom of The Bag Lady. Enter a London where beings of power soar with the pigeons and scrabble with the rats, and seek insight in the half-whispered madness of the blue electric angels. Enter the London of Matthew Swift, where rival sorcerers, hidden in plain sight, do battle for the very soul of the city …
Author Info: www.kategriffin.net
Turn Coat
By Jim Butcher
April 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841496979 | Urban Fantasy Noir | Hardback
Harry Dresden, professional wizard, has done his best to keep his nose clean where the White Council of Wizards is concerned. Even so, his past misdeeds have cast a constant shadow of suspicion over him in the eyes of the Wardens, those wizards responsible for enforcing the Laws of Magic. Now Dresden finds himself faced with a nightmarish dilemma: Morgan, formerly his chief persecutor among the Wardens, has been wrongly accused of treason against the White Council – and has come to Harry for help.
Dresden faces a daunting task: clear Morgan’s name while simultaneously hiding him from the Wardens and the supernatural bounty hunters sent to find him, discover the identity of the true turncoat and, of course, avoid accusations of treachery of his own. A single mistake may mean that heads – quite literally – will roll. And one of them could be his own …
Author Info: www.jim-butcher.com
The Night Sessions
By Ken MacLeod
April 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841496481 | Science Fiction | Paperback
A priest is dead. Picking through the rubble of the demolished Edinburgh tenement, Detective Inspector Adam Ferguson discovers that the explosion wasn’t an accident. When a bishop is assassinated soon afterwards, it becomes clear that a targeted campaign of killings is underway.
No one has seen anything like this since the Faith Wars. In this enlightened age there’s no religious persecution, but believers are a marginal and mistrusted minority. And now someone is killing them. But who? And – perhaps more importantly – why?
The more his team learns, the more the suspicion grows that they may have stumbled upon a conspiracy way outside their remit. Nobody believes them, but if Ferguson and his people fail, there will be many more killings – and disaster on a literally biblical scale …
Author Info: kenmacleod.blogspot.com
Bloodheir
By Brian Ruckley
April 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841494395 | Fantasy | Paperback
As ever greater battles are fought between the Black Road and the True Bloods, so each side in the conflict becomes ever more riven by internal dissent and disunity. Amidst the mounting chaos, Aeglyss the na’kyrim gradually masters the remarkable powers that have been unleashed upon him by his crucifixion. Twisting everything and everyone around him to serve his own mad desires, he begins to exert a dangerous, insidious influence over the course of events both near and far.
Orisian, lord of the ruined Lannis Blood, faces not only the consequences of that malign influence, but also the machinations of his supposed allies and the stirring of the long-dormant Anain, the most potent race the world has ever known.
Author Info: www.brianruckley.com
Red-Headed Stepchild
By Jaye Wells
April 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841497563 | Urban Fantasy | Paperback
In a world where being of mixed-blood is a major liability, Sabina doesn’t really fit in. And being an assassin – the only profession fit for an outcast – doesn’t help matters. But she’s never brought her work home. Until now.
Her latest mission is uncomfortably complex, and threatens the fragile peace between the vampire and mage races. As Sabina scrambles to figure out which side she’s on, she uncovers a tangled political web, some nasty facts about her family and some unexpected new talents. Any of these things could be worryingly life-changing, but together, they could be fatal …
Author Info: jayeblahg.blogspot.com/
The Awakening
By Kelley Armstrong
May 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841497112 | Urban Fantasy | Paperback
Chloe Saunders used to be a normal teenage girl – or so she thought. Then she learned the shocking truth – she is a walking science experiment. Genetically altered at birth by a sinister group of scientists known as the Edison Group, Chloe is an aberration – a powerful necromancer who can see ghosts and even raise the dead, often with terrifying consequences. Even worse, her growing powers have made her a threat to the surviving members of the Edison Group, who have decided it’s time to end their experiment – permanently …
Now Chloe is running for her life with three other supernatural teenagers – a charming sorcerer, a troubled werewolf and a temperamental young witch. Together they have a chance for freedom – but can Chloe trust her new friends?
Author Info: www.kelleyarmstrong.com
Furies of Calderon
By Jim Butcher
May 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841497440 | Fantasy | Paperback
For a thousand years, the people of Alera have united against the aggressive races that inhabit the world, using their unique bond with the furies – elementals of earth, air, fire, water and metal. But now, Gaius Sextus, First Lord of Alera, grows old and lacks an heir. Ambitious Lords manoeuvre to place their Houses in positions of power, and a war of succession looms on the horizon.
Far from city politics in the Calderon Valley, young Tavi struggles with his lack of furycrafting. At fifteen, he has no wind fury to help him fly, no fire fury to light his lamps. Yet as the Alerans’ most savage enemy – the Marat – return to the Valley, his world will change. Caught in a storm of deadly wind furies, Tavi saves the life of a runaway slave. But Amara is actually a spy, seeking intelligence on possible Marat traitors to the Crown. And when the Valley erupts into chaos – when rebels war with loyalists and furies clash with furies – Amara will find Tavi invaluable. His talents will outweigh any fury-born power – and could even turn the tides of war.
Author Info: www.jim-butcher.com
The Better Mousetrap
By Tom Holt
May 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841495040 | Comic Fantasy | Paperback
It touches all our lives; our triumphs and tragedies, our proudest achievements, our most traumatic disasters. Alloyed of love and fear, death and fire and the inscrutable acts of the gods, insurance is indeed the force that binds the universe together.
Hardly surprising, therefore, that Frank Carpenter, one of the foremost magical practitioners of our age, felt himself irresistibly drawn to it. Until, that is, he met Jane, a high-flying corporate heroine with an annoying habit of falling out of trees and getting killed. Repeatedly.
It’s not long before Frank and Jane find themselves face to face with the greatest enigma of our times: When is a door not a door? When it’s a mousetrap.
Author Info: www.tom-holt.co.uk
The Grand Conjunction
By Sean Williams
May 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841495231 | Science Ficition | Paperback
Imre Bergamasc is lost. His search for answers has led him up an alley so blind even his sense of self has become uncertain. Before he can save the galaxy from ruin, he must find the strength to carry on and reclaim his ultimate purpose.
But more than two million years in our future, the fight has changed. Former allies are now enemies, and enemies have taken on entirely new forms. Chased from the very edge of humanity’s vast empire into the heart of an ancient conspiracy, he must finally come face to face with Himself, for without the truth of his past humanity’s future will never be secured.
Author Info: www.seanwilliams.com
Fall of Thanes
By Brian Ruckley
May 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841497877 | Fantasy | Hardback
Tension between the clans of the Black Road and the True Bloods is mounting, as each side in the conflict becomes ever more riven by internal dissent and disunity. And Aeglyss the na’kyrim continues to spread chaos in the world, exerting a dangerous, insidious influence over events both near and far.
As events mount to a climax, the world will change and no side can anticipate the twisted pattern of what lies ahead.
Author Info: www.brianruckley.com
May Contain Traces of Magic
By Tom Holt
June 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841495057 | Comic Fantasy | Hardback
There are all kinds of products. The good ones. The bad ones. The ones that stay in the garage mouldering for years until your garden gnome makes a home out of them. Most are harmless if handled properly, even if they do contain traces of peanuts. But some are not. Not the ones that contain traces of magic.
Chris Popham wasn’t paying enough attention when he talked to his SatNav. Sure, she gave him directions, never backtalked him, and always led him to his next spot on the map with perfect accuracy. She was the best thing in his life. So was it really his fault that he didn’t start paying attention when she talked to him? In his defence, that was her job. But when ‘Take the next right’ turned into ‘Excuse me,’ that was when the real trouble started.
Because sometimes a SatNav isn’t a SatNav. Sometimes it’s an imprisoned soul trapped inside a metal box that will do anything it can to get free. And some products you just can’t return.
Author Info: www.tom-holt.co.uk
Academ’s Fury
By Jim Butcher
June 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841497457 | Fantasy | Paperback
For centuries, the people of Alera have relied on the power of the furies to protect them from outside invaders. But the gravest threat might be closer than they think.
Tavi has escaped the Calderon Valley and the mysterious attack of the Marat on his homeland. But he is far from safe, as trying to keep up the illusion of being a student while secretly training as one of the First Lord’s spies is a dangerous game. And he has not yet learned to use the furies, making him especially vulnerable.
When the attack comes it’s on two fronts. A sudden strike threatens the First Lord’s life and threatens to plunge the land into civil war. While in the Calderon Valley, the threat faced from the Marat is dwarfed by an ancient menace. And Tavi must learn to harness the furies if he has any chance of fighting the greatest threat Alera has ever known …
Author Info: www.jim-butcher.com
Blood Noir
By Laurell K. Hamilton
June 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841496931 | Urban Fantasy | Paperback
Anita is scared. Really scared. And not much gets under the skin of a US Marshall with jurisdiction over preternatural matters, who also happens to be a necromancer. Anita’s life is dangerous, and she wouldn’t have it any other way, but the scars – both mental and physical – are starting to show.
You’d think that her connections with the vampire, werewolf and wereleopard communities would come in handy. However, as her powers grow and develop in new and uncharted ways, her links to both friends and lovers could endanger them all.
Author Info: www.laurellkhamilton.org
Orphan’s Triumph
By Robert Buettner
June 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841497624 | Science Fiction | Paperback
Mankind’s reunited planets now control a vital crossroads after forty years of fighting, one that secures their uneasy union. The doomsday weapon that can end the Slug war, and the mighty fleet that will carry it to the Slug homeworld, also lie within humanity’s grasp – but all is far from won.
Since the Slug Blitz orphaned Jason Wander, he has risen from infantry recruit to commander of Earth’s garrisons on the emerging allied planets. But four decades of service have cost Jason not just his friends and family, but his innocence. Then an enemy counterstroke threatens to reverse the war and destroy mankind, Jason must finally confront not only his lifelong alien enemy but the reality of what he has become after a lifetime of conflict.
Author Info: www.robertbuettner.com
In Ashes Lie
By Marie Brennan
June 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841497181 | Fantasy | Paperback
September, 1666 – The mortal civil war is over. But the war among the fae is still raging, and London is its battleground. There are forces that despise the Onyx Court, and will do anything to destroy it.
But now a greater threat has come, one that could destroy everything. In the house of a sleeping baker, a spark leaps free of the oven – and ignites a blaze that will burn London to the ground. For three harrowing days, the mortals and fae of the city will fight to save their home.
While the humans struggle to halt the conflagration that is devouring London street by street, the fae pit themselves against a less tangible foe: the spirit of the fire itself, powerful enough to annihilate everything in its path. Neither side can win on its own – but can they find a way to fight together?
Author Info: www.swantower.com/marie
The Edge of the World
By Kevin J. Anderson
June 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841496634 | Fantasy | Large Paperback
After generations of friction, the leaders of two lands meet in the holy city of Ishalem to bring an end to the bloodshed and to divide the world between them.
Sadly, this new spirit of fellowship is shortlived. A single tragic accident destroys, in minutes, the peace that took years to build. The world is once more cast into the fires of war – and this time the flames may burn until nothing remains. From the highest lord to the lowest servant, no man or woman will be unchanged by the conflict.
But while war rages across both continents, a great quest will defy storms and sea serpents to venture beyond the horizon, where no maps exist – to search for a land out of legend. It is a perilous undertaking, but there will always be the impetuous, the brave and the mad who are willing to leave their homes to explore the unknown.
Even unto the edge of the world …
Author Info: www.wordfire.com
April 2009
A Madness of Angels
By Kate Griffin
April 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841497334 | Urban Fantasy Noir | Paperback
When a man is tired of London he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. – Samuel Johnson
In fact, Dr Johnson was only half right. There is in London much more than life – there is power. It ebbs and flows with the rhythms of the city, makes runes from the alignments of ancient streets and hums with the rattle of trains and buses; it waxes and wanes with the patterns of the business day. It is a new kind of magic: urban magic.
Enter a London where magicians ride the Last Train, implore favours of The Beggar King and interpret the insane wisdom of The Bag Lady. Enter a London where beings of power soar with the pigeons and scrabble with the rats, and seek insight in the half-whispered madness of the blue electric angels. Enter the London of Matthew Swift, where rival sorcerers, hidden in plain sight, do battle for the very soul of the city …
Author Info: www.kategriffin.net
Turn Coat
By Jim Butcher
April 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841496979 | Urban Fantasy Noir | Hardback
Harry Dresden, professional wizard, has done his best to keep his nose clean where the White Council of Wizards is concerned. Even so, his past misdeeds have cast a constant shadow of suspicion over him in the eyes of the Wardens, those wizards responsible for enforcing the Laws of Magic. Now Dresden finds himself faced with a nightmarish dilemma: Morgan, formerly his chief persecutor among the Wardens, has been wrongly accused of treason against the White Council – and has come to Harry for help.
Dresden faces a daunting task: clear Morgan’s name while simultaneously hiding him from the Wardens and the supernatural bounty hunters sent to find him, discover the identity of the true turncoat and, of course, avoid accusations of treachery of his own. A single mistake may mean that heads – quite literally – will roll. And one of them could be his own …
Author Info: www.jim-butcher.com
The Night Sessions
By Ken MacLeod
April 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841496481 | Science Fiction | Paperback
A priest is dead. Picking through the rubble of the demolished Edinburgh tenement, Detective Inspector Adam Ferguson discovers that the explosion wasn’t an accident. When a bishop is assassinated soon afterwards, it becomes clear that a targeted campaign of killings is underway.
No one has seen anything like this since the Faith Wars. In this enlightened age there’s no religious persecution, but believers are a marginal and mistrusted minority. And now someone is killing them. But who? And – perhaps more importantly – why?
The more his team learns, the more the suspicion grows that they may have stumbled upon a conspiracy way outside their remit. Nobody believes them, but if Ferguson and his people fail, there will be many more killings – and disaster on a literally biblical scale …
Author Info: kenmacleod.blogspot.com
Bloodheir
By Brian Ruckley
April 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841494395 | Fantasy | Paperback
As ever greater battles are fought between the Black Road and the True Bloods, so each side in the conflict becomes ever more riven by internal dissent and disunity. Amidst the mounting chaos, Aeglyss the na’kyrim gradually masters the remarkable powers that have been unleashed upon him by his crucifixion. Twisting everything and everyone around him to serve his own mad desires, he begins to exert a dangerous, insidious influence over the course of events both near and far.
Orisian, lord of the ruined Lannis Blood, faces not only the consequences of that malign influence, but also the machinations of his supposed allies and the stirring of the long-dormant Anain, the most potent race the world has ever known.
Author Info: www.brianruckley.com
Red-Headed Stepchild
By Jaye Wells
April 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841497563 | Urban Fantasy | Paperback
In a world where being of mixed-blood is a major liability, Sabina doesn’t really fit in. And being an assassin – the only profession fit for an outcast – doesn’t help matters. But she’s never brought her work home. Until now.
Her latest mission is uncomfortably complex, and threatens the fragile peace between the vampire and mage races. As Sabina scrambles to figure out which side she’s on, she uncovers a tangled political web, some nasty facts about her family and some unexpected new talents. Any of these things could be worryingly life-changing, but together, they could be fatal …
Author Info: jayeblahg.blogspot.com/
The Awakening
By Kelley Armstrong
May 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841497112 | Urban Fantasy | Paperback
Chloe Saunders used to be a normal teenage girl – or so she thought. Then she learned the shocking truth – she is a walking science experiment. Genetically altered at birth by a sinister group of scientists known as the Edison Group, Chloe is an aberration – a powerful necromancer who can see ghosts and even raise the dead, often with terrifying consequences. Even worse, her growing powers have made her a threat to the surviving members of the Edison Group, who have decided it’s time to end their experiment – permanently …
Now Chloe is running for her life with three other supernatural teenagers – a charming sorcerer, a troubled werewolf and a temperamental young witch. Together they have a chance for freedom – but can Chloe trust her new friends?
Author Info: www.kelleyarmstrong.com
Furies of Calderon
By Jim Butcher
April 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841497440 | Fantasy | Paperback
For a thousand years, the people of Alera have united against the aggressive races that inhabit the world, using their unique bond with the furies – elementals of earth, air, fire, water and metal. But now, Gaius Sextus, First Lord of Alera, grows old and lacks an heir. Ambitious Lords manoeuvre to place their Houses in positions of power, and a war of succession looms on the horizon.
Far from city politics in the Calderon Valley, young Tavi struggles with his lack of furycrafting. At fifteen, he has no wind fury to help him fly, no fire fury to light his lamps. Yet as the Alerans’ most savage enemy – the Marat – return to the Valley, his world will change. Caught in a storm of deadly wind furies, Tavi saves the life of a runaway slave. But Amara is actually a spy, seeking intelligence on possible Marat traitors to the Crown. And when the Valley erupts into chaos – when rebels war with loyalists and furies clash with furies – Amara will find Tavi invaluable. His talents will outweigh any fury-born power – and could even turn the tides of war.
Author Info: www.jim-butcher.com
The Better Mousetrap
By Tom Holt
April 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841495040 | Comic Fantasy | Paperback
It touches all our lives; our triumphs and tragedies, our proudest achievements, our most traumatic disasters. Alloyed of love and fear, death and fire and the inscrutable acts of the gods, insurance is indeed the force that binds the universe together.
Hardly surprising, therefore, that Frank Carpenter, one of the foremost magical practitioners of our age, felt himself irresistibly drawn to it. Until, that is, he met Jane, a high-flying corporate heroine with an annoying habit of falling out of trees and getting killed. Repeatedly.
It’s not long before Frank and Jane find themselves face to face with the greatest enigma of our times: When is a door not a door? When it’s a mousetrap.
Author Info: www.tom-holt.co.uk
The Grand Conjunction
By Sean Williams
April 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841495231 | Science Ficition | Paperback
Imre Bergamasc is lost. His search for answers has led him up an alley so blind even his sense of self has become uncertain. Before he can save the galaxy from ruin, he must find the strength to carry on and reclaim his ultimate purpose.
But more than two million years in our future, the fight has changed. Former allies are now enemies, and enemies have taken on entirely new forms. Chased from the very edge of humanity’s vast empire into the heart of an ancient conspiracy, he must finally come face to face with Himself, for without the truth of his past humanity’s future will never be secured.
Author Info: www.seanwilliams.com
Fall of Thanes
By Brian Ruckley
April 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841497877 | Fantasy | Hardback
Tension between the clans of the Black Road and the True Bloods is mounting, as each side in the conflict becomes ever more riven by internal dissent and disunity. And Aeglyss the na’kyrim continues to spread chaos in the world, exerting a dangerous, insidious influence over events both near and far.
As events mount to a climax, the world will change and no side can anticipate the twisted pattern of what lies ahead.
Author Info: www.brianruckley.com
May Contain Traces of Magic
By Tom Holt
June 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841495057 | Comic Fantasy | Hardback
There are all kinds of products. The good ones. The bad ones. The ones that stay in the garage mouldering for years until your garden gnome makes a home out of them. Most are harmless if handled properly, even if they do contain traces of peanuts. But some are not. Not the ones that contain traces of magic.
Chris Popham wasn’t paying enough attention when he talked to his SatNav. Sure, she gave him directions, never backtalked him, and always led him to his next spot on the map with perfect accuracy. She was the best thing in his life. So was it really his fault that he didn’t start paying attention when she talked to him? In his defence, that was her job. But when ‘Take the next right’ turned into ‘Excuse me,’ that was when the real trouble started.
Because sometimes a SatNav isn’t a SatNav. Sometimes it’s an imprisoned soul trapped inside a metal box that will do anything it can to get free. And some products you just can’t return.
Author Info: www.tom-holt.co.uk
Academ’s Fury
By Jim Butcher
June 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841497457 | Fantasy | Paperback
For centuries, the people of Alera have relied on the power of the furies to protect them from outside invaders. But the gravest threat might be closer than they think.
Tavi has escaped the Calderon Valley and the mysterious attack of the Marat on his homeland. But he is far from safe, as trying to keep up the illusion of being a student while secretly training as one of the First Lord’s spies is a dangerous game. And he has not yet learned to use the furies, making him especially vulnerable.
When the attack comes it’s on two fronts. A sudden strike threatens the First Lord’s life and threatens to plunge the land into civil war. While in the Calderon Valley, the threat faced from the Marat is dwarfed by an ancient menace. And Tavi must learn to harness the furies if he has any chance of fighting the greatest threat Alera has ever known …
Author Info: www.jim-butcher.com
Blood Noir
By Laurell K. Hamilton
June 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841496931 | Urban Fantasy | Paperback
Anita is scared. Really scared. And not much gets under the skin of a US Marshall with jurisdiction over preternatural matters, who also happens to be a necromancer. Anita’s life is dangerous, and she wouldn’t have it any other way, but the scars – both mental and physical – are starting to show.
You’d think that her connections with the vampire, werewolf and wereleopard communities would come in handy. However, as her powers grow and develop in new and uncharted ways, her links to both friends and lovers could endanger them all.
Author Info: www.laurellkhamilton.org
Orphan’s Triumph
By Robert Buettner
June 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841497624 | Science Fiction | Paperback
Mankind’s reunited planets now control a vital crossroads after forty years of fighting, one that secures their uneasy union. The doomsday weapon that can end the Slug war, and the mighty fleet that will carry it to the Slug homeworld, also lie within humanity’s grasp – but all is far from won.
Since the Slug Blitz orphaned Jason Wander, he has risen from infantry recruit to commander of Earth’s garrisons on the emerging allied planets. But four decades of service have cost Jason not just his friends and family, but his innocence. Then an enemy counterstroke threatens to reverse the war and destroy mankind, Jason must finally confront not only his lifelong alien enemy but the reality of what he has become after a lifetime of conflict.
Author Info: www.robertbuettner.com
In Ashes Lie
By Marie Brennan
June 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841497181 | Fantasy | Paperback
September, 1666 – The mortal civil war is over. But the war among the fae is still raging, and London is its battleground. There are forces that despise the Onyx Court, and will do anything to destroy it.
But now a greater threat has come, one that could destroy everything. In the house of a sleeping baker, a spark leaps free of the oven – and ignites a blaze that will burn London to the ground. For three harrowing days, the mortals and fae of the city will fight to save their home.
While the humans struggle to halt the conflagration that is devouring London street by street, the fae pit themselves against a less tangible foe: the spirit of the fire itself, powerful enough to annihilate everything in its path. Neither side can win on its own – but can they find a way to fight together?
Author Info: www.swantower.com/marie
The Edge of the World
By Kevin J. Anderson
June 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841496634 | Fantasy | Large Paperback
After generations of friction, the leaders of two lands meet in the holy city of Ishalem to bring an end to the bloodshed and to divide the world between them.
Sadly, this new spirit of fellowship is shortlived. A single tragic accident destroys, in minutes, the peace that took years to build. The world is once more cast into the fires of war – and this time the flames may burn until nothing remains. From the highest lord to the lowest servant, no man or woman will be unchanged by the conflict.
But while war rages across both continents, a great quest will defy storms and sea serpents to venture beyond the horizon, where no maps exist – to search for a land out of legend. It is a perilous undertaking, but there will always be the impetuous, the brave and the mad who are willing to leave their homes to explore the unknown.
Even unto the edge of the world …
Author Info: www.wordfire.com
July 2009
By Terry Brooks
July 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841495798| Fantasy | Paperback
The last cities have fallen. Demons and once-men swarm the ravaged landscape of the former United States. A small band of survivors – the elves of Cintra and a ragtag group of human children and their protectors – flees northward toward a safe haven promised by the mystical King of the Silver River. To reach it, they must follow the boy named Hawk – now revealed as the legendary gypsy morph.
With two Knights of the Word as their only protection, the brave remnant faces attacks on all sides. At stake are the survival of both races, human and elf – and the beginning of a new world for both.
The last cities have fallen. Demons and once-men swarm the ravaged landscape of the former United States. A small band of survivors – the elves of Cintra and a ragtag group of human children and their protectors – flees northward toward a safe haven promised by the mystical King of the Silver River. To reach it, they must follow the boy named Hawk – now revealed as the legendary gypsy morph.
With two Knights of the Word as their only protection, the brave remnant faces attacks on all sides. At stake are the survival of both races, human and elf – and the beginning of a new world for both.
Author Info:www.terrybrooks.net
The Summoning
By Kelley Armstrong
July 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841497105| Urban Fantasy | Paperback
The first book in the Darkest Powers trilogy – a brand new series by bestselling author Kelley Armstrong.
All Chloe Saunders wants is a life like any normal teenager – the chance to get through school, make friends, and maybe meet a boy. But when she starts seeing ghosts, she knows that life will never be normal again.
Soon ghosts are everywhere, demanding her attention. When Chloe finally breaks down, she’s admitted to a group home for disturbed kids. At first Lyle House seems okay, but as she gets to know the other patients – charming Simon and his ominous, unsmiling brother Derek; obnoxious Tori; and Rae, who has a ‘thing’ for fire – Chloe begins to realise that something strange and sinister binds them all together, and it isn’t your usual ‘problem kid’ behaviour.
And they’re about to discover that Lyle House is not your usual group home, either . . .
Author Info: www.kelleyarmstrong.com
Cursor’s Fury
By Jim Butcher
July 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841497464| Fantasy | Paperback
Power-hungry Kalare has rebelled against Alera’s aging First Lord, Gaius Sextus. Ill-equipped to face this attack, Gaius must seek support – even from the combative High Lord of Aquitaine. Kalare has also seized valuable hostages that could mean the difference between victory and failure. And Amara, the First Lord’s Cursor, has been tasked with their rescue. She has earned this trust but are her allies as worthy – or does the Lady Aquitaine see the time as ripe for betrayal?
Treachery is rife elsewhere, as young Tavi of Calderon will find. Posted away from the war, Tavi joins a legion anyway, under an assumed name. Then Kalare does the unthinkable – uniting with the brutish Canim. When treason wipes out the army’s command structure, Tavi finds himself leading an inexperienced legion against the might of the Canim horde – the very last resort of a war-torn realm.
Author Info: www.jim-butcher.com
Saturn’s Children
By Charles Stross
July 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841495682| Science Fiction | Paperback
Freya Nakamachi-47 has some major existential issues. She’s the perfect concubine, designed to please her human masters – hardwired to become aroused at the mere sight of a human male. There’s just one problem: she came off the production line a year after the human species went extinct. Whatever else she may be, Freya Nakamachi-47 is gloriously obsolete. What’s more, the rigid social hierarchy that has risen in the 200 years since the last human died, places beings such as Freya very near the bottom. So when she has a run-in on Venus with a murderous aristocrat, she needs passage off-world in a hurry – and can’t be too fussy about how she pays her way.
But if Venus was a frying pan, Mercury is the fire – and soon she’s going to be running for her life. Because the job she’s taken as a courier has drawn her to the attention of powerful and dangerous people, and they don’t just want the package she’s carrying. They want her soul …
Author Info: www.antipope.org/charlie/
Witches Incorporated
By K.E. Mills
July 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841497280| Comic Fantasy | Paperback
It’s a case of espionage, skullduggery and serious unpleasantness. And it’s also Gerald’s first official government assignment. He’s hunting down a deadly saboteur, and time is quickly running out. Old enemies and new combine forces to thwart him. Once again, innocent lives are on the line. He needs his friends. He can’t do this alone.
But Princess Melissande and Reg have troubles of their own. With the help of Monk Markham’s brilliant, beautiful sister, they’ve opened a one-stop-shop witching locum agency, where magical problems are solved for a price. Problem is, the girls are struggling to keep the business afloat. Things are looking grim for Witches Incorporated – and that’s before they accidentally cross paths with Gerald’s saboteur.
Suddenly everybody’s lives are on the line and Gerald realises, too late, that there’s a reason government agents aren’t supposed to have friends …
Wireless
By Charles Stross
July 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841497716| Science Fiction | Hardback
It has been said that the natural state of science fiction is the short story. If that is so, you won’t find a better exploration of that state than Charles Stross’s new collection. Centred around an original and previously unpublished novella, ‘Palimpsest’, WIRELESS is a showcase of some of the best short SF of the 21st century.
With an introduction from the author and containing hitherto uncollected works such as ‘Missile Gap’, ‘Trunk and Disorderly’ and ‘Rogue Farm’, and some gems previously available only in small press publications, such as ‘A Colder War’ and ‘Antibodies’, WIRELESS will illustrate perfectly why award-winning editor and anthologist, Gardner Dozois, once declared:
‘Where Charles Stross goes today, the rest of science fiction will follow tomorrow.’
Author Info: www.antipope.org/charlie/
August 2009
Living with the Dead
By Kelley Armstrong
August 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841493961| Urban Fantasy | Paperback
Robyn Peltier has always lived a normal life. So when her boss is murdered and she is named prime suspect, she is way out of her depth. As the bodies pile up only her friend Hope, and Hope’s somewhat spooky boyfriend Karl, are on her side.
Hope, meanwhile, has a few secrets of her own. Namely that she is half-demon, and her ‘spooky’ boyfriend is actually a werewolf. Hope also knows that Robyn has accidentally stumbled into a bloody supernatural turf war. And the only way she can keep her friend alive is by letting her enter a world she’s safer knowing nothing about . . .
Author Info: www.kelleyarmstrong.com
The Prodigal Mage
By Karen Miller
August 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841497846| Fantasy | Hardback
The weather magic that holds Lur safe is failing, and the earth feels broken to those with the power to see. Among Lur’s sorcerers only Asher has the skill to mend the antique weather map that governs the seasons, keeping the land from being crushed by natural forces. Yet when Asher risks his life to meddle with these dangerous magics, the crisis is merely delayed, not averted.
Asher’s son Rafel has inherited his father’s talents, but has been forbidden to use them. Many died in the last Mage War and these abilities aren’t to be loosed lightly into the world. But when Asher’s last desperate attempt to repair the damage leaves him on this deathbed, Rafel’s powers may not be denied. For his countrymen are facing famine, devastation and a rift in the very fabric of their land.
Author Info: www.karenmiller.net
Captain’s Fury
By Jim Butcher
August 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841497471| Fantasy | Paperback
Tavi of Calderon, now captain of his own Legion, has been fighting a bitter war for two years. Then he discovers the invading Canim warriors are harbingers of a far greater threat. The Canim are being hunted in their turn by a savage race that forced them from their homeland – and which has pursued them to the Aleran borders. With options fast running out, Tavi proposes an alliance with the Canim.
But the Senate’s new military commander wishes only to wipe out the Canim ‘scourge’, and would also kill Aleran slaves that have sought freedom with these aggressors.
Tavi must reconcile Aleran and Canim, slavemaster and slave, Citizen and Proletarian, if an alliance is to be forced. And he must lead his Legion in defiance of the law, against both friend and enemy – before the greatest army of all launches its assault.
Author Info:www.jim-butcher.com
Child of a Dead God
By Barb and J.C. Hendee
August 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841497310| Fantasy | Paperback
For years, Magiere and Leesil have sought a long-forgotten artefact, even though its purpose has been shrouded in mystery. All Magiere knows is that she must keep the orb from her murderous half-brother Welstiel, one of the deadly so-called Noble Dead. And now, dreams of a castle locked in ice lead her south – on a journey that has become nothing less than an obsession.
Among Magiere’s protectors are two elven assassins-turned-guardians who must fight their distrust of this sister of the dead. Forces more powerful than they are also rallying around Magiere, arming her for conflict. But finding the orb may be just the start of the dangers that await.
Author Info: www.nobledead.com
Gears of War: Jacinto’s Remnant
By Karen Traviss
August 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841497389| Science Fiction/ Game Tie-in | Paperback
When the bestselling video game Gears of War was released in late 2006, it quickly became the fastest selling original Xbox title ever, and has since gone on to sell more than five million copies, received more than fifty industry awards, and has garnered high praise from critics and fans alike. And the first novel in the series was released at the end of last year, to coincide with the release of the second Gears of War video game.
With this terrific track record to build on, this is the second tie-in novel to be based on the Gears of War franchise. The massive Gears of War fan-base will be eager to see more in this series of original novels.
Author Info:www.karentraviss.com
The Dwarves
By Markus Heitz
August 2009 | ISBN: 978-184149572 9| Fantasy | Paperback
For countless millennia, no man or beast has ever succeeded in breaching the stone gateway into Girdlegard. Until now . . .
Abandoned as a child, Tungdil the blacksmith is the only dwarf in a kingdom of men. But when he is sent out into the world to deliver a message and reacquaint himself with his people, the young foundling finds himself thrust into a battle for which he has not been trained. Not only his own safety, but the life of every man, woman and child in Girdlegard depends upon his ability to embrace his heritage.
Although he has many unanswered questions, Tungdil is certain of one thing: no matter where he was raised, he is a true dwarf.
And no one has ever questioned the courage of the Dwarves.
You Suck
By Christopher Moore
August 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841498096| Comic Fantasy | Paperback
Being undead sucks. Literally.
Just ask C. Thomas Flood. Waking up after a fantastic night unlike anything he’s ever experienced, he discovers that his girlfriend, Jody, is a vampire. And surprise! Now he’s one, too. For some couples, the whole biting-and-blood thing would have been a deal breaker. But Tommy and Jody are in love, and they vow to work through their issues.
But word has it that the vampire who initially nibbled on Jody wasn’t supposed to be recruiting. Even worse, Tommy’s erstwhile turkey-bowling pals are out to get him, at the urging of a blue-dyed Las Vegas call girl named (duh) Blue.
And that really sucks.
Author Info:www.chrismoore.com
September 2009
A Princess of Landover
By Terry Brooks
September 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841495804| Comic Fantasy | Hardback
Princess Mistaya Holiday hasn’t been fitting in too well at Carrington Women’s Preparatory. People don’t seem to appreciate her using her magic to settle matters in the human world. So when she summons a dragon to teach a lesson to the snotty school bully, she finds herself suspended.
But Mistaya couldn’t care less – she wants nothing more than to continue her studies under Questor the court magician and Abernathy the court scribe. However, her father Ben Holiday, the King of Landover, has rather different plans in mind for her. He thinks he’ll teach her about perseverance and compromise by sending her to renovate Libiris, the long-abandoned royal library. How horribly dull.
But before long, Mistaya will long for the boredom of cataloguing an unfeasible number of derelict books – for deep within the library there lies a secret so dangerous that it threatens the future of Landover itself . . .
Author Info:www.terrybrooks.net
Cry Wolf
By Patricia Briggs
September 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841497945| Urban Fantasy | Paperback
Charles Cornick is his pack’s enforcer and lives a harsh life, doing jobs other wolves can’t – or won’t. And his most recent task was rescuing Anna Latham from a life of brutality. This leaves him shot and wounded, but he’s happy to pay the price. Charles is strongly drawn to Anna, and her growing ‘Omega’ powers will see his people through dangerous times.
Anna desperately needs her new mountainous home to be safer than the life she’s left behind. But when a rogue werewolf starts murdering hikers, Charles and Anna are sent into the winter forests to investigate. Charles is still weak and will need Anna’s strength as they discover a web of witchcraft that could drag down the whole pack. Including its leader Bran, Charles’s father, head of a vast network of wolves. And if Bran weakens, dark madness could run like a fever through half a continent.
Author Info: www.patriciabriggs.com
The Company
By K.J. Parker
September 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841495101| Fantasy | Paperback
Hoping for a better life, five war veterans colonize an abandoned island. They take with them everything they could possibly need – food, clothes, tools, weapons, even wives. The colonists feel sure that their friendship will keep them together. But an unanticipated discovery shatters their dream and replaces it with a very different one. Only then do they begin to realize that they’ve brought with them rather more than they bargained for. For one of them, it seems, has been hiding a terrible secret from the rest of the company. And when the truth begins to emerge, it soon becomes clear that the war is far from over.
With masterful storytelling, irresistible wit and extraordinary insight into human nature, K. J. Parker is widely acknowledged as one of the most original and exciting fantasy writers of modern times. The Company, K. J. Parker’s first stand-alone novel, is a tour de force from an author who is changing the face of the fantasy genre.
Author Info: www.kjparker.net
Th Drowning City
By Amanda Downum
September 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841498140| Fantasy | Paperback
The Drowning City: home to exiles and expatriates, pirates and smugglers. And violent revolutionaries who will stop at nothing to overthrow the corrupt Imperial government.
For Isyllt Iskaldur, necromancer and spy, the brewing revolution is a chance to prove herself to her crown. All she has to do is find and finance the revolutionaries, and help topple the palaces of Symir. But she is torn between her new friends and her duties, and the longer she stays in this monsoon-drenched city, the more intrigue she uncovers – even the dead are plotting.
As the waters rise and the dams crack, Isyllt must choose between her mission and the city she came to save.
The Naming of the Beasts
By Mike Carey
September 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841496559| Urban Fantasy Noir | Paperback
They say the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, but if you ask Castor he’ll tell you there’s quite a bit of arrogance and reckless stupidity lining the streets as well. And he should know. There’s only so many times you can play both sides against the middle and get away with it. Now, the inevitable moment of crisis has arrived and it’s left Castor with blood on his hands. Well, not his hands, you understand; it’s always someone else who pays the bill: friends, acquaintances, bystanders.
So Castor drowns his guilt in cheap whisky, while an innocent woman lies dead and her daughter comatose, his few remaining friends fear for their lives and there’s a demon loose on the streets. But not just any demon – this one rides shotgun on his best friend’s soul and can’t be expelled without killing him.
Looks like Felix Castor’s got some tough choices to make, because expel the demon he must or all Hell will break loose. Literally . . .
Author Info: www.mikecarey.net
Traitors’ Gate
By Kate Elliot
September 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841498355| Fantasy | Large Paperback
Reeve Joss is struggling to defend a country ravaged by the assaults of twin armies. His men now patrol a land of burning villages and homeless refugees as Joss tries to separate traitor from friend.
The Reeve’s thoughts are also plagued by the intriguing Zubaidit, pleasure-giver, spy and temple-trained assassin. But Zubaidit is focused on a dangerous mission, her target being warped Guardian Lord Radas. His death would leave the invading militia in chaos, but the old tales tell truly of the Guardians’ immortality – and of the powers they now wield to twist the hearts of men.
Joss’s nights are also troubled, disturbed by dreams of Marit. His lost love has returned from death to become a feared Guardian herself, but Marit rejected the corrupt temptations they offered. She now seeks others of her kind, praying some are yet uncontaminated by the blight on the land – and have the will to fight it.
Author Info: www.kateelliot.com
October 2009
The Gathering Storm
By Robert Jordan with Brandon Sanderson
October 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841491653| Fantasy | Hardback
The final volume of the Wheel of Time, A Memory of Light, was partially written by Robert Jordan before his untimely passing in 2007. Brandon Sanderson, New York Times bestselling author of the Mistborn books, was chosen by Jordan’s editor – his wife, Harriet McDougal – to complete the final book. The scope and size of the volume was such that it could not be contained in a single book, and so The Gathering Storm is the first of three novels that will cover the outline left by Robert Jordan, chronicling Tarmon Gai’don and Rand al’Thor’s final confrontation with the Dark One. This short sequence will complete the struggle against the Shadow, bringing to a close a journey begun almost twenty years ago and marking the conclusion of the Wheel of Time, the preeminent fantasy epic of our era.
The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time.
Author Info: www.dragonmount.com/RobertJordan
Body Count
By Shaun Hutson
October 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841494371| Horror | Paperback
The figure in the mask stumbles bleeding through the streets, his pursuers closing in. They also wear masks, but they don’t stumble. They stalk. They carry machetes, clubs and knives. And they know how to use them . . .
Who is kidnapping seemingly random victims and then slaughtering them in an elaborate game of cat and mouse? And why are these murders being streamed over the internet? Watching the horror unfold at New Scotland Yard is Detective Inspector Joe Chapman who searches for clues, hints – anything that might tell him where and when this savage hunt is happening. He’d give anything to know.
But DI Chapman is about to learn that you should be careful what you wish for. Very soon, he will be closer to the blood-letting than he could have imagined. Forced to fight for his life and the life of someone he holds dear, the only way out looks to be to rack up the biggest body count. But even that might not be enough.
Author Info: www.shaunhutson.com
Hunting Ground
By Patricia Briggs
October 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841497952| Urban Fantasy | Paperback
Anna Latham didn’t know how complicated life could get – until she became a werewolf. And now she’s not just part of any pack, but under the direct supervision of Bran, leader of the North American werewolves. And her mate is his son Charles, the pack enforcer.
With all the advances that have been made in forensics, the werewolves will not be able to hide their existence from humans much longer – and Bran wants their coming out party to be on his terms. But his European counterparts don’t see things the same way. Anna and Charles are chosen to represent Bran at a key meeting. But when a French werewolf, one of Bran’s most vocal opponents, is found murdered, Charles’s reputation shoots him to the top of the suspect list. And among the wolves, there is one penalty for breaking the law: death. The killer must be found, or Charles will take the fall.
Author Info: www.patriciabriggs.com
Legend
By David Gemmell
October 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841498584| Fantasy | Paperback
The Legend
Druss, Captain of the Axe: the stories of his life were told everywhere. Instead of the wealth and fame he could have claimed, he had chosen a mountain lair, high in the lonely country bordering on the clouds. There the grizzled old warrior kept company with snow leopards and awaited his old enemy death.
The Fortress
Mighty Dros Delnoch, protected by six outer walls, the only route by which an army could pass through the mountains. It was the stronghold of the Drenai empire. And now it was the last battleground, for all else had fallen before the Nadir hordes.
And hope rested on the skills of that one old man…
Red Claw
By Phillip Palmer
October 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841496245| Science Fiction | Paperback
Professor Richard Helms heads up a tight-knit band of scientists and soldiers sent to explore New Amazon, a lush but savage planet seemingly determined to attack them at every turn. When they are done cataloguing every detail of this vast, unfamiliar ecosystem, they will burn it to the ground and make it fit for human habitation.
But when the team falls under attack, Helms and his followers are forced to flee into the depths of the jungle. Here, old enemies and petty rivalries surface as they struggle to survive. They soon end up fighting for their lives – against the planet they are exploring, the robots designed to protect them and, most of all, against each other. For the countdown into madness is ticking.
Palmer burns a new path for science fiction in this gripping, dark tale of man’s place in the universe.
Author Info: www.philippalmer.net
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The Wrymling Horde
By David Farland
October 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841495668| Fantasy | Paperback
The monstrous wyrmlings are growing in strength. These creatures have learnt to endow themselves with powers stolen from others, and their capacity for evil is still growing. The people of Mystarria were thrust into the land of the wyrmlings following the merging of two shadow realms, just some among many parallel lands, so now these creatures have millions of victims from which to draw power.
The only one who can mend the broken lands – the talented flameweaver Fallion – has fallen into the hands of the wyrmling horde. Now Fallion’s allies must prepare to breach the impenetrable wrymling fortress to rescue him. And unless they can prevent the wyrmlings from gathering more power, these creatures may bring all the shadow worlds under their control.
It’s not just worlds that are at stake, but eternities.
Author Info: www.runelords.com
Frostbitten
By Kelley Armstrong
October 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841497761|Urban Fantasy | Hardback
The Alaskan wilderness is a harsh landscape in the best of conditions, but with a pack of rogue werewolves on the loose, it’s downright deadly.
Elena Michaels, the American Werewolf Pack’s chief enforcer, knows all too well the havoc “mutts” can wreak. When the Pack learns of a series of gruesome maulings and murders outside of Anchorage, Elena and her partner Clay travel to Alaska in the dead of winter, expecting to hunt down a pack of dangerous werewolves. But, trapped in a savage, frozen realm, it is their own untamed nature – and their werewolf heritage – they have to confront . . .
A gripping thriller with a magical twist, Frostbitten is a brilliant new novel from an international bestseller and a writer at the very top of her game.
Author Info:www.kelleyarmstrong.com
Last Rites
By Shaun Hutson
October 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841497655| Horror | Hardback
Almost beaten to death by a gang of violent teenagers, schoolmaster Peter Mason wants nothing more than to escape the simmering violence of London, his broken marriage and the memories of his daughter’s death. The perfect chance comes in the form of a position at a prestigious boarding school in the heart of the Buckinghamshire countryside. But the past is always lurking in the background. Not just his own past but that of the school and its former staff.
Mason becomes obsessed with discovering what became of his predecessor. The man’s mysterious disappearance remains unexplained, leaving a chilling legacy behind. Mason finds that there are strange events occurring at the school – violent and sinister events that have happened before and will, if he cannot stop them, happen again . . .
Author Info:www.shaunhutson.com
November 2009
Ender in Exile
By Orson Scott Card
November 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841492278| Science Fiction | Paperback
At first, Ender believed that they would bring him back to Earth as soon as things quieted down. But things were quiet now, had been quiet for a year, and it was plain to him now that they would not bring him back at all, that he was much more useful as a name and a story than he would ever be as an inconveniently flesh-and-blood person.
At the close of ENDER’S GAME, Andrew Wiggin – called Ender by everyone – knows that he cannot live on Earth. He has become far more than just a boy who won a game: he is the Saviour of Earth, a hero, a military genius whose allegiance is sought by every nation of the newly shattered Earth Hegemony.
He is offered the choice of living under the Hegemon’s control, a pawn in his brother Peter’s political games. Or he can join the colony ships and go out to settle one of the new worlds won in the war. The story of those years on the colony worlds has never been told . . . until now.
Feast of Souls
By Ceilia Friedman
November 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841498348| Fantasy | Paperback
Against a backdrop of glittering kingdoms and dark prophecies, a rogue magister and a dying prince fight for their lives.
Magisters from across the known world are gathering for an unusual meeting. King Aurelius has summoned them to heal his dying son, who has fallen victim to an incurable wasting disease. The King has demanded an explanation and a cure, yet appearances are deceptive. It’s clear to the initiated that a magister is responsible – so the order remains quiet and organises a manhunt to silence the culprit.
But while men are distracted, strangeness is stirring in the world. An ancient evil is rising in the north, but the old warnings are long forgotten. Only those carrying the Protector bloodline feel fear and their numbers are few. So the powerful will soon find themselves playing a new and more dangerous game.
Author Info:www.csfriedman.com
Kushiel’s Mercy
By Jacqueline Carey
November 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841493633| Fantasy | Paperback
Sidonie, heir to the throne, and Imriel, son of a traitor, have confessed their dangerous union. But their love has caused political uproar: Imriel’s infamous mother plunged Terre d’Ange into a bloody war and her crimes will not be lightly forgiven. If the couple weds, Sidonie will be disinherited. A union will only be permitted if Imriel finds the mother he has never known and returns her to Court for execution.
But newer evils take precedence when a visiting diplomat casts a dark enchantment over the d’Angeline Court. The sorcerer returns home with Sidonie in his thrall, and falsely-won pledges of support in a foreign war. Imriel must evade bewitched friends and work with erstwhile enemies to rescue Sidonie and pull the country back from the brink of conflict. And no one but him remembers their forbidden romance.
Author Info:www.jacquelinecarey.com
Mirror Space
By Marianne de Pierres
November 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841497600| Science Fiction | Paperback
Araldis is still under occupation by hostile forces, and with the Orion League of Sentient Species seemingly unable – or unwilling – to help, Mira Fedor is forced to turn to the mercenary captain, Rast Randall, if she is to save her planet.
But while Rast’s contacts may be free of political constraints, what they lack in red tape they more than make up for in ruthlessness. As some of their hidden strategies are revealed, others become even more opaque. Why have the philosophers of Scolar been targetted? How far does the Extropist influence extend into Orion space?
From Lasper Farr, the Stain War veteran and ruler of the junk planet Edo, to the Sole initiates at Belle Monde to Rast herself, everyone is pursuing their own agenda. But are they really separate goals?
Author Info: www.mariannedepierres.com
The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart
By Jessie Bullington
November 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841497839| Fantasy | Paperback
In the plague-wracked and devil-haunted darkness of Medieval Europe, an elite few enjoy opulent lives while the majority eke out a miserable existence in abject poverty. Hungry creatures stalk the deep woods and desolate mountains, and both sea and sky teem with unspeakable horrors. For those ill-fated masses not born into wealth, life is but a vicious trial to be endured before the end of days.
Hegel and Manfried Grossbart could give a toss. Being of low birth means little, after all, when the riches of the mighty wait just inside the next crypt. The grave-robbing twins know enough about crusading to realise that if one is to make a living from the dead, what better destination than the fabled tomb-cities of Egypt?
But the Brothers Grossbart are about to discover that all legends have their truths, and worse fates than death await those who would take the red road of villainy . . .
Metal Gear Solid: Book 2: Sons of Liberty
By Raymond Benson
November 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841497365|Science Fiction/Game Tie-in | Paperback
In a torrential downpour, former FOXHOUND agent Solid Snake stands on the George Washington Bridge – ready to launch himself to the deck of the U.S.S. Discovery as it passes below. Inside Discovery is a new generation of Metal Gear. But in the next hour, Snake’s world explodes.
Two years later, a young, unproven agent codenamed Raiden must penetrate the mystery of what went so insanely wrong that night. In a labyrinthine superstructure in New York harbour known as the Big Shell, enemies, allies, secret agents, and double dealers converge. Russian commandos, a cyber Vamp, a long-legged, leather-clad, rifle-bearing beauty named Fortune, a deformed, finely manicured bomber called Fatman, and a mysterious Mister X. Somewhere in the maze, as well, is the President himself – his biometrics coded to a bomb that can take out Manhattan, his loyalties unknown. Now, the rookie Raiden is fighting his way to one discovery after another, including the rebirth of Solid Snake himself and a nightmare organization with a history, a plan, and a terrifying superweapon hidden in plain sight.
The Left Hand of Darkness
By Ursula K. Le Guin
November 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841496061| Science Fiction | Hardback
Genly Ai is a diplomat of sorts, sent to observe the inhabitants of the snowbound planet of Winter. But the isolated, androgynous people are suspicious of this strange, single-gendered visitor. Tucked away in a remote corner of the universe, they have no knowledge of space travel or of life beyond their own world. So, bringing news of a vast coalition of planets they are invited to join, he is met with fear, mistrust and disbelief.
But also something more. For Genly Ai, who sees himself as a bringer of the truth, it is a bittersweet irony that he will discover truths about himself and, in the snow-shrouded strangeness of Winter, find both love and tragedy . . .
First published in the year Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, The Left Hand of Darkness is a classic of science fiction and a masterpiece of modern literature.
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Wings of Wrath
By Ceilia Friedman
November 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841495330| Fantasy | Large Paperback
In a world where the price of magic is life itself, a group of seemingly immortal sorcerers appears to have cheated the system. But only one man knows the true origin of their power, or understands the true cost.
Now Kamala – born to poverty and abuse, the first woman to claim a Magister’s power – will seek her rightful place among these mages, and lay siege to their secrets. The monk Salvator will claim his father’s throne, and test his faith against a legendary darkness. The beautiful Siderea Aminestas, consort to Magisters, will be offered the thing she desires most – at the cost of her human soul. And an ancient Evil thought long-destroyed begins to stir anew, corrupting kings, shattering alliances and ultimately threatening to unweave the very fabric of human civilisation.
A mystical bloodline was cultivated to withstand this darkness, and its power must be wakened. But this will demand sacrifice of its warriors – and corruption is rife.
Author Info:www.csfriedman.com
December 2009
Beyond the Wall of Time
By Russell Kirkpatrick
December 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841496719| Fantasy | Paperback
The wall of time has fallen, leaving the Gods free to indulge their hunger for violence. Few know of their escape into mortal lands – and these few struggle against the control of the malevolent mage Husk and with their own problems.
Queen Stella, still in hiding, must make a deal with the Undying Man. His word is suspect, buther options are limited. Fisherman Noetos seeks revenge for the deaths of his loved ones, not yet realising the enemy is closer than even he can imagine. And the unconventional cosmographer Lenares is the only one with the power to prevent the Gods destroying the world – if she can get someone to believe her.
The queen, fisherman and cosmographer must travel to Andratan to confront Husk. But whether they can break free of his hold on them, and defeat the Gods, is another matter entirely.
Author Info: www.russellkirkpatrick.com
Full Circle
By Pamela Freeman
December 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841497037| Fantasy | Paperback
Saker has devoted himself to dark enchantments and desires nothing but vengeance. And vengeance he has in abundance. His ghost army is slaughtering those of the new blood, fuelled by an ancient wrong. But while Saker had thought revenge would be simple, he’s now plagued by voices foreshadowing a calamity beyond his comprehension.
Ash and Bramble raise the warrior spirit of Acton, mighty in life and powerful in death. Only he can stop Saker’s rampage. But is Acton, Lord of War, murderer or saviour? And why would he help strangers protect a world he’s never known?
Bramble has been marked as Saker’s nemesis, but will be challenged by deeper powers than Saker can command – as well as by her own feelings for Acton. As the living fight the dead, strange forces will shape an uncertain future from pain and suffering.
Author Info: www.castingstrilogy.com
My Dead Body
By Charlie Hutson
December 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841496825| Urban Fantasy Noir | Paperback
As the concluding volume of this highly acclaimed series opens, Joe has spent a year splashing around in the city’s sewer system, protecting the perimeters of the ground on which his love, Evie, now lives.
Above ground, Manhattan’s Vampyre clans have at last abandoned any claims on civility and have finally sprung fully for each others’ throats. But as Vampyre civil war rages, Joe is tracked down by an old acquaintance and pulled back to the surface. At last, the many questions that have driven him will be put to rest – and the many friends and foes who have defined his world will either be put in the ground or will claw their way to survival.
The carefully maintained peace is forgotten. When the stakes are this high, there can be no neutrality – only winners and losers. But when the blood stops flowing, what side will Joe Pitt be on?
Author Info: www.pulpnoir.com
Princeps’ Fury
By Jim Butcher
December 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841498522| Fantasy | Paperback
After bitter fighting, Tavi of Calderon has eventually forged an alliance with Alera’s oldest foes, the savage Canim, and he must escort them on their long sea-voyage home. This will strain their fragile accord – but the worst is yet to come.
The inhuman Vord have spent the last three years laying waste to the Canim homeland, making it a desolate place indeed. Then the Alerans become stranded there, cut off from their ships. The Canim alliance will be tested as they enter the killing fields together, depending on each other’s strengths if they both are to survive.
For a thousand years, Alera and her furies have withstood every enemy, and survived every foe. The thousand years are over.
Author Info:www.jim-butcher.com
The Destiny of the Dead
By Ian Irvine
December 2009 | ISBN: 978-1841494739| Fantasy | Paperback
Nish and his remaining allies are trapped on the Range of Ruin, surrounded by the relentless army of his father, the God-Emperor. And Nish’s choices seem limited: a humiliating surrender, or a suicidal fight to the death. Yet Nish must fight, and win, as he’s needed to counter an unprecedented threat facing the whole of Santhenar.
The danger is Stilkeen, a shape-shifting being, who has erupted from the void consumed by a need for retribution. Its chthonic power was stolen in ages past – and Stilkeen wants it back. But the chthonic fire Stilkeen sensed has now escaped to run wild through Santhenar’s Antarctic territories. Even if Nish defeats his father, there may be no way to stop the fire, or Stilkeen, before everything is consumed.
Author Info:www.ian-irvine.com