While the Gods Sleep
by
Johnny Fincham
Not too far in the future, there is a cataclysmic event that turns nature against humanity. The air becomes poisonous, plants die and virulent strains of super viruses infect millions. That was year zero, for fifteen years Zach has been locked away from the world, in a high security prison.Zach is also somewhat unique, in a world where everyone is altered to stop ageing, disease, illness and for vanity, he is the original unaltered human with a natural resistance to illness. Somewhat a celebrity and a distinguished mystic healer, who is rumoured to be 112 years old and able to exist without even food.
Bringing forth the end of days
by
Simon Law
The year is 2013 and World War 3 has scorched the earth, on top of a biological attack that has destroyed all plant life, leaving a world without life giving oxygen.Civilisation has been destroyed, with just a few pockets of survivors clinging on to a bleak existence with the aid of oxygen and food generating machines, only able to venture outside for short periods with an oxygen mask and cylinder. Living in the remains of the south-eastern UK town of Crawley are four such survivors, adults Tom and Susan with children Jacob and Steven have banded together and holed up in an air-tight house with one of the life giving machine providing air and food.
Nemesis ex nihilo
by
William Pascoe
Barry Edwards is a fairly average guy who is working on his PhD in astrophysics at the University of Longminster, England. In 1995, while still working on his PhD he manages to find a new Black Hole, the holy grail of astrophysics for the 20th century astronomer and an event that will secure his Doctorate.16 years later and Barry is now a Lecturer in astrophysics when a student of his pursued's him to look back on the black hole found so long ago with a view to writing another paper. The only problem is the black hole now appears to be much bigger than he recorded back in 1995, which means either he got his original calculations completely wrong, or it is heading towards the earth, at a high speed.
Kells Legend
by
Andy Remic
Without warning came the vast albino army, the army of iron, invading Falanor from the north. To have any hope of survival a small band set off to warn the King. The band leaves quickly and with it a living legend, the mighty warrior Kell. Joining Kell is his granddaughter, Nienna and her friend, Katrina along with Saark, the ex-Sword Champion of King Leanoric who is in disgrace after an affair with the queen.The group fight their way south and are attacked from all sides by deadly Albino soldiers, clockwork vampires who drain the blood of their victims. As the land of Falanor comes under brutal attack by the unstoppable invaders Nienna learns the truth about grandfather Kell – that he is anything but a noble hero, anything but a Legend.
Darwinian Extension: Initiation
by
Hylton H Smith
The Darwinian Extension begins in 2033, with a planned mission to populate Mars. The mission is not one of simple habitation however, but one of true colonisation including terraforming, research and a feasability study on human migration, as earths resources are being stretched to the limit and there is a real fear over the planets ability to sustain the human race.The choice of Mars was a forgone conclusion, as the only serious contender in the solar system that would be theoretically capable of supporting a sizeable human colony.
Darwinian Extension: Transition
by
Hylton H Smith
Transition begins in the year 2038, 2 years have passed since the return of the Copernicus, the ship carrying the first Mars colonisation mission. Their return has caused a massive religious and political upheaval but has also brought with it massive leaps in technological development.Alex 2 advises that the way of the Progenitors is to offer encouragement of promise rather than a proactive assistance of development. He did however suggest that humanity would not survive in their present process of biological evolution when the sun goes supernova. Has the human race evolved sufficiently to live along side an alien race?
Makers
by
Cory Doctorow
Perry and Lester are inventors, but more than that they make things from Junk, the most environmentally friendly inventors possible. Some of their inventions are quite clearly crazy, from the Seashell robots that make toast to the Boogie Woogie Elmo dolls that drive cars (The Elmo dolls are real by the way).Suzanne Church is a technology journalist, always on the lookout for the next big thing. She stumbles across Perry and Lester after they are employed by the business Entreprenour Landon Kettlewell, who suggests Suzanne write a story about the energetic inventors.
Sixty One Nails
by
Mike Shevdon
Under the nations capital there is a whole other world where magic is real, the world of the Feyre. A dark magic will be unleashed by the Untained… Unless a new hero can be found. Sixty One Nails follows Niall Petersen who after a suspected heart attack on the London underground, falls into this hidden world that lurks just beyond everyday life.He is saved from death by Blackbird, a Feyre who appears as a sweet elderly lady. It soon becomes apparent though that in the world of the Feyre, looks can be deceiving and by simple magic you can control just how you appear. The heart attack has unlocked dormant powers and he must not only deal with a whole new and strange world, but also learn how to control his growing Feyre talents.
Servant of the underworld
by
Aliette de Bodard
Acatl is the high priest of the Dead for the Aztec capital city of Tenochtitlan. It is his role to oversee the dead making sure they receive the correct rituals and rites of passage into the next world. He also has to investigate murders that have been committed using "underworld magic".When an ambitious priestess mysteriously dissapears and is presumed dead, Acatl is called in by his superior Ceyaxochitl, High Priestess of the Duality. Although outside of his jurisdiction, residual magic showing "Jaguar" magic having been used rather than "underworld" magic, he is asked to investigate as Ceyaxochitl has her hands full trying to heal the dying Emperor.
The World House
by
Guy Adams
An unassuming wooden box, small enough to hold in one hand and carved with Japanese writing, except it doesn't open as you would expect a box to, it opens the door to the most unusual house you could ever dream (or have nightmares) about. The box is also quite intelligent and seeks owners (victims) to send to the house.The house itself is a complete dimension, a whole world where normal rules of logic do not apply, and in every room lurks a new danger. In some rooms are whole jungles, in others stuffed animals that still have plenty of life left in them. The house even has it's own version of day and night and the night is the time when the dangers really begin.
Angel of Death
by
J. Robert King
Angel of Death is a contemporary fantasy / horror novel by author J Robert King.The Angel of Death for Chicago overseas a an area that stretches from lake county Indiana to Milwaukee, a vast sprawl of a metropolis. His task is to ensure that each person's death matches their lives as closely as possible. Most natural deaths fulfil this requirement however many murders do not, as such the Angel of Death follows the serial killers and guides their hands in the murders.
Damnation Alley
by
Roger Zelazny
Damnation Alley is a post-apocalytic tale of survival by the Hugo and Nebula award winner Roger Zelazny.Set in the decades after a devastating nuclear war, the former USA is a very different place. With mass destruction, dangerous mutants, large areas of deadly radiation and a worldwide wind preventing anything surviving above 200 feet. This wind brings unpredictable, violent and very sudden storms of everything from fish to large boulders while civilisation exists in small pockets, ruled by a few surviving states.
In the State of California, Hell Tanner is the last surviving Hell's Angel, a convicted killer, thief and all-round bad guy.
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Here you will find a collection of Books from some of the all time greatest writers in the twentieth and twenty first century.
From authors like Arthur C Clarke, Isaac Asimov and Alan Dean Foster to Terry Pratchett, Robert Jordan and David Eddings.
Featuring books like Battleaxe, Inversions and The Eye of the World and science fiction and fantasy series including The Sword of Truth, The Wheel of Time and The Discworld.
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The question is often raised "What's the difference between Science Fiction and Fantasy", we have attempted to explain each genre in the appropriate section but Rod Sterling sums up the differences very succinctly:
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