Solaris Books
Dream London
Released 10 October 2013
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Captain Jim Wedderburn has looks, style and courage by the bucketful.
He’s adored by women, respected by men and feared by his enemies. He’s the man to find out who has twisted London into this strange new world, and he knows it.
But in Dream London the city changes a little every night and the people change a little every day. The towers are growing taller, the parks have hidden themselves away and the streets form themselves into strange new patterns. There are people sailing in from new lands down the river, new criminals emerging in the East End and a path spiralling down to another world.
Everyone is changing, no one is who they seem to be.
Praise for Dream London
‘An unclassifiable gem… shares the surreal, absurdist whimsy of Alice in Wonderland, and Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday.’
-The Guardian
‘As strange and unclassifiable a novel as it’s possible to imagine, and a marvellous achievement.’
-Financial Times
UK: 9781781081730 | £7.99 | October 2013
US: 9781781081747 | $7.99 | October 2013
THE JAMES LOVEGROVE COLLECTION VOLUME 1
Released 2 December 2014
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Two of James Lovegrove’s early works – weird, satirical, Ballardesque – are here collected in a beautiful new edition.
‘One of the UK SF scene’s most interesting, challenging and adventurous authors’
Saxon Bullock, SFX
DAYS
Nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award
Days is a gigastore the size of a small city, whose security are licensed to kill and whose seven owners brood in the penthouse, far removed from the desperate scramble of consumerism. But at what price commerce? Security man Frank has lost his reflection, Books are entering a localised war with Computers, and there is a riot in Third World Instruments. Time for another flash sale...
‘Endlessly inventive and savage in its humour, Lovegrove’s novel gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “shop till you drop”’
Roz Kaveney
UNTIED KINGDOM
Nominated for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award
When the village of Downbourne is raided and schoolmaster Fen Morris’s wife Moira is snatched, there are no authorities to turn to. In the absence of its government – in exile in the Caribbean following the ‘Unlucky Gamble’ – and subject to random bombings and leaflet drops, the UK is lawless and falling apart. Their marriage was a disaster, but Fen sets out to recover her anyway; but does she even want rescuing?
‘This is the first book I’ve read this year that I can unequivocally recommend to everyone’
Vector
RAVEN STRATAGEM
Released 13 June 2017
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War. Heresy. Madness.
Shuos Jedao is unleashed. The long-dead general, preserved with exotic technologies as a weapon, has possessed the body of gifted young captain Kel Cheris.
Now, General Kel Khiruev’s fleet, racing to the Severed March to stop a fresh enemy incursion, has fallen under Jedao’s sway. Only Khiruev’s aide, Lieutenant Colonel Kel Brezan, is able to shake off the influence of the brilliant but psychotic Jedao.
The rogue general seems intent on defending the hexarchate, but can Khiruev—or Brezan—trust him? For that matter, can they trust Kel Command, or will their own rulers wipe out the whole swarm to destroy one man?
PRAISE FOR THE MACHINERIES OF EMPIRE
‘Tight-woven, breathtakingly original space opera.’
N. K. Jemisin, The New York Times on Ninefox Gambit
‘Jaw-droppingly good.’
Ars Technica on Ninefox Gambit
‘Lee finds a sumptuous beauty in physical moments and complexity in thought and motivation.’
NPR on Ninefox Gambit
‘An effortlessly accomplished SF novel. Yoon Ha Lee has arrived in spectacular fashion.’
Alastair Reynolds on Ninefox Gambit
US 9781781085370 | 13 June 2017 | $9.99
UK 9781781085370 | 15 June 2017 | £7.99
War Machine
Released 5 November 2007
War Machine
Released 5 November 2007
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In a time of post-Singularity and FTL travel, the Helix War has raged across galaxies. Ex-soldier Keenan now works as a private investigator on a planet at the peaceful fringes of the Quad-Gal. Following the brutal death of his family he’s run up hefty debts, gained a bad reputation and become a heavy drinker.
When a prince from the Jervai Province offers him a case on a dangerous colony world in exchange for clues that may lead him to his family’s murderer, he accepts the job without hesitation. However, to have any chance of success he must gather together his old military unit, a group who swore they’d never work together again...
“Non-stop blood-and-guts action thriller.”
SciFi.com
“Hard-hitting, galaxy-spanning, no-holds-barred, old-fashioned action adventure.”
The Guardian
Biohell
Released 2 February 2009
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The City: an entire planet teeming with corruption, guns, sex, and designer drugs. Humans are upgraded by the injection of microscopic nanobots, courtesy of new technology from the Nano-Tek corporation, but when this highly desirable technology heads onto the black market, millions of people inject themselves with pirated biomods—and transform into zombies. Now they roam the streets, out for blood, packing shotguns and bombs.
The Combat-K squad are dropped into this warzone to uncover what’s turned the planet into a wasteland of murder and mutations, and soon their focus is on the darkness at the Nano-Tek corporation itself... This is hardhitting science fiction from the author of War Machine.
“Non-stop blood-and-guts action thriller.”
SciFi.com on War Machine
“Hard-hitting, galaxy-spanning, no-holds-barred, old-fashioned action adventure.”
The Guardian on War Machine
Hardcore
Released 7 January 2010
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In a far future where a Junk alien scourge multiplies across Quad-Gal, Combat K are charged with finding the Junk's homeland and annihilating the enemy. Mission: a quick SLAM drop to Sick World, a long-abandoned hospital planet once dedicated to curing the deformed, the insane, the dying and the dead.
As daylight fades, so hibernation ends. The Medical Staff of Sick World, the doctors, nurses, patients and deviants, abandoned with extreme prejudice, a thousand-year gestation of hardcore medical mutation and accelerated healthcare technology; they can smell fresh meat. And Keenan, Pippa and Franco face their toughest battle yet. You'll never look at a nurse the same way again.
Cloneworld
Released 3 March 2011
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Junks, an evil alien scourge, are flooding Quad-Gal with terror. Combat K are sent on a mission to find an alien artefact which could win the war all at once.
SLAM-dropped to Cloneworld – a planet ravaged by violent civil war – Combat K get caught in a global conflict between augmented mechanised war machines and genetically-modified humans who have the ability to clone themselves. Combat K must fight their way to victory to save the Four Galaxies.
But how can they possibly succeed, when their main foes are their own elite, deadly clones?
“The sheer scope and depravity leave you wondering if he’s a madman or a genius.”
FALCATA TIMES on HARDCORE
“Biohell can stake a claim as the finest viral nightmare since 28 Days Later.”
SFX on BIOHELL
Theme Planet
Released 29 November 2011
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It’s better than sex! It’s better than drugs! If you haven’t been sick yet, you soon will be...
Welcome to Theme Planet, an entire alien world of insane rides, excessive hedonism and dangerous adventure. Theme Planet is the No. 1 destination for fun-seeking holidaymakers Galaxy-Wide!
Dexter Colls is a policeman from earth, enjoying the holiday planet with his beautiful wife and young daughters. But when his family goes missing, he stumbles onto a deadly conspiracy.
Amba Miskalov is an Anarchy Android, an assassin fitted with a v4.7 KillChip - beautiful, merciless and deadly. Sent to the planet on a dangerous assassination mission, she will discover the truth at the core of Theme Planet.
This is the first volume of an exciting new series from innovative SF author Andy Remic, writer of the action-packed Combat K adventures.
Ubo
Released 9 February 2017
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A blend of science fiction and horror, award-winning author Steve Rasnic Tem’s new novel is a chilling story exploring the roots of violence and its effect on a possible future.
Daniel is trapped in Ubo. He has no idea how long he has been imprisoned there by the roaches.
Every resident has a similar memory of the journey to Ubo: a dream of dry, chitinous wings crossing the moon, the gigantic insects dropping swiftly over the houses of the neighborhood, passing through walls and windows as if by magic, or science. The creatures, like a deck of baroquely ornamented cards, fanning themselves from one hidden world into the next.
And now each day they force Daniel to play a different figure from humanity’s violent history, from a frenzied Jack the Ripper to a stumbling and confused Stalin to a self-proclaimed god executing survivors atop the ruins of the world. The scenarios mutate day after day in this camp somewhere beyond the rules of time. As skies burn and prisoners go mad, identities dissolve as the experiments evolve, and no one can foretell their mysterious end.
ISBN: 978-1781085110
