Category: Fiction

By Giles Kristian

In an exciting event of brotherhood, conflict, and treachery, Giles Kristian takes us into ninth-century England, a global of darkness, epic clash, and an unforgiving God served by means of strong monks. On ships formed like dragons, bristling with oars and armor, Jarl Sigurd and his fierce Norsemen have are available seek of riches. And riches they're promised, through an English ruler who sends Sigurd and his wolves to scouse borrow a holy manuscript from one other country. Osric, an orphan boy, sees past the phobia of those warriors, and one way or the other is familiar with the heathens’ tongue. Renamed Raven, rechristened in blood, he'll sign up for them. they're his humans. and they're going to be his fate.
 
“Astonishing and riveting, a strong, lightning-paced tale.”—New York instances bestselling writer Bernard Cornwell
 
“A gripping story that wonderfully evokes the sounds, points of interest and scents of darkish Age Britain.”—Harry Sidebottom, writer of the soldiers of Rome series
 
“[Kristian] compares favorably with writers like Bernard Cornwell and Conn Iggulden.”—Historical Novels Review
 
“A rip-roaring Viking saga . . . positive, robust, exciting stuff.”—Manda Scott, writer of The Crystal Skull

By Alan Garner

By Greg Egan

By Peter F. Hamilton

Peter F. Hamilton’s fantastically imagined, cunningly plotted interstellar adventures are conceived on a staggeringly epic scale and choked with absolutely learned human and alien characters as complicated as they're enticing. No mere global builder, Hamilton creates whole universes–and he does so with impossible to resist aptitude and intelligence. His earlier novel, the acclaimed Pandora’s famous person, brought the Intersolar Commonwealth, a star-spanning civilization of the twenty-fourth century. powerful, peaceable, and assured, the Commonwealth dispatched a boat to enquire the secret of a disappearing celebrity, in basic terms to inadvertently unharness a predatory alien species that grew to become on its liberators, notable not easy, quickly, and completely with out mercy.

The top are the Commonwealth’s worst nightmare. Coexistence is very unlikely with the technologically complicated extraterrestrial beings, who're genetically hardwired to exterminate all other kinds of lifestyles. Twenty-three planets have already fallen to the invaders, with casualties within the 1000's of hundreds of thousands. And nobody is aware while or the place the genocidal major will strike next.

Nor are the best the single risk. For greater than 100 years, a shadowy cult, the Guardians of Selfhood, has warned that an alien with mind-control skills very unlikely to discover or resist–the Starflyer–has secretly infiltrated the Commonwealth. Branded as terrorists, the Guardians and their chief, Bradley Johansson, were hunted by means of relentless investigator Paula Myo. yet now facts means that the Guardians have been correct all alongside, and that the Starflyer has put brokers in very important posts in the course of the Commonwealth–agents who're now sabotaging the struggle attempt. Is the Starflyer an best friend of the leading, or has it orchestrated a struggle to the loss of life among the 2 species for its personal advantage?

Caught among lethal enemies, one a brutal invader awesome from with no, the opposite a remorseless melanoma killing from inside of, the fractious Commonwealth needs to unite as by no means before.

This may be humanity’s best hour–or its final gasp.

From the Hardcover edition.

By Guy Dupré

Les Mamantes est un récit sous forme de lettre adressée à sa maîtresse de dix-neuf ans, durant les premiers mois de sa grossesse, par l'homme de quarante ans qu'elle va rendre père contre son gré. Le narrateur start cette lettre juste après le coït et l. a. termine juste avant le mariage de l. a. destiny mère avec un autre homme, prêt à reconnaître l'enfant. Le refus de paternité du narrateur est lié à los angeles répulsion amoureuse contre l. a. jeune maîtresse qui a cherché à lui faire oublier - mais ne l'a pas pu - l. a. maîtresse plus âgée qu'il vient de perdre et qui demeure son seul amour. Sophie, elle, ni par vengeance, ni par provocation, apporte à son amant l. a. preuve qu'il n'est pas le fils du père qu'il croyait (un officier mort pour los angeles France) mais le fils adultérin du diplomate suédois qui lui a servi de tuteur. Ainsi, à l. a. rivalité en lui de los angeles jeune vivante et de los angeles morte amoureuse, s'ajoute chez le narrateur son déchirement entre deux filiations : celle de l'officier qui lui a légué un yes sentiment de l'Histoire et celle du diplomate initié qui lui a fait connaître l'autre face des choses. Un livre singulier, c'est le moins qu'on puisse dire...

By Ben Bova

Two hundred thousand ft up, issues move horribly unsuitable. An experimental low-orbit spaceplane breaks up on reentry, falling to earth over a path enormous quantities of miles lengthy. And it its wake is the start of crucial undertaking within the background of space.

America wishes power, and Dan Randolph is decided to offer it to them. He desires of an array of geosynchronous powersats, satellites which assemble solar power and beam it to turbines on the earth, liberating the United States from its habit to fossil fuels and breaking the ability of the oil cartels eternally. however the damage of the spaceplane has left his corporation, Astro production, at the fringe of financial disaster.

Worse, Dan discovers that the airplane labored completely correct up till the instant that saboteurs knocked it out of the sky. And whoever introduced it down is keen and ready to kill back to maintain Astro grounded.

Now Dan has to string a deadly maze. The noticeable threats are undesirable adequate: Rival enterprises are looking to purchase him out and take keep an eye on of his desires. His former lover desires to co-opt his unlimited-energy concept as a crusade plank for the candidate she's grooming for the presidency. NASA and the FAA are looking to close down his maverick company. And his collectors are respiring down his neck.

Making concerns much more harmful, a global association of terrorists sees the powersat as a risk to their very own oil-based energy. And they have discovered how one can use it as a weapon of their struggle opposed to the West.

A sweeping mixture of area, homicide, romance, politics, secrets and techniques, and betrayal, Powersat will take you to the sting of house and the dawning of a brand new world.

By Gore Vidal

"Mr. Vidal demonstrates a political mind's eye and insider's sagacity equaled by means of no different practising fiction author i will give some thought to. and prefer the sooner novels in his historic cycle, Empire is a perfectly shiny documentary drama." —The ny occasions booklet Review

In this terribly strong epic Gore Vidal recreates America's Gilded Age—a interval of promise and danger, of empire-building and fierce political rivalries. In a brilliant and beathtaking paintings of fiction, the place the fortunes of a sister and brother intertwine with the fates of the new release, their kingdom, and a few of the best names in their day, together with President McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Jennings Bryan, William and Henry James, the Astors, the Vanderbilts, and the Whitneys, Gore Vidal sweeps us from the 19th century into the 20th, from the salvaged republic of Lincoln to a country boldly achieving for the realm.

By Aaron Rosenberg

Through the Dominion conflict, Commander Salek and Lt. Commander Duffy of the S.C.E. handled a runaway vessel that was once endangering a celeb approach -- a undertaking from which Salek didn't go back. Now, a yr later, Salek's and Duffy's replacements -- Commander Gomez and Lt. Commander Tev -- are confronted with a similar runaway send.
dealing with multiple ghost from the prior, can Gomez and Tev be successful the place their predecessors failed?

By Richard Montanari

In every one soul, a mystery ...Philadelphia murder detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano's first task from the chilly Case documents is the brutal homicide of a tender runaway. The useless physique of Caitlin O'Riordan used to be stumbled on rigorously posed in a pitcher show case within the desolate Philadelphia Badlands yet, as Byrne and Balzano speedily realize, she was once simply the 1st pawn within the killer's twisted game...A mysterious cellphone name leads them on a scavenger hunt for a moment sufferer. This time a tender woman has been dismembered, her physique components left in 3 containers within the basement of a abandoned condominium. extra clues result in different sufferers and, because the physique count number rises, it turns into transparent that there's a serial killer at the free, hell-bent on finishing the 'performance' of an entire life. As extra runaways vanish, Byrne and Balzano come to achieve that the homicidal mastermind plans to accomplish seven wicked methods in his darkish and unsafe magic act. With Balzano more and more obsessed by means of a case that haunts her, and Byrne being affected by a lack of his personal, the stakes are mounting. yet this is often one online game they cannot come up with the money for to lose...

By Alyson Richman