Item category 1: Science Fiction

Dr Rick Tower is a mild-mannered English professor easing into middle-age at a medium-sized New England college. A genial blur, he thinks. Even his vices are unremarkable. But it wasn't always like this. Not until they changed his name, altered his looks and told him: 'pretend you were never diff...

This is the story of the first human being born on Mars: Rose Fuller. She saw a better future than the one we were given and gave her life to build it. It's a story about Dylan Ward, a woman who grew up in the frontier of human existence and misses it every single day. It's a story about a man wh...

Welcome to the Grand Abeona Hotel: home of the finest food, the sweetest service, and the very best views the galaxy has to offer. Year round it moves from planet to planet, system to system, pampering guests across the furthest reaches of the milky way. The last word in sub-orbital luxury - and ...

When Rab was a baby, his mother made a decision which would change his life. She feared he would be sent to work in the hellish mines of Mercury, to eke out his life until he was worn out, all in the name of maintaining the defense of the Solar Sytem. But when her desperate attempt to flee with h...

Part first contact story, part dark comedy, and part bizarre love triangle, 'The Fourth Consort' asks an important question: how far would you go to survive? And more importantly, how many drinks would you need to go there?

When archaeologist Ursula Morrow accidentally infects herself with an alien parasite, she fears she may have jeopardised her career. However, her concerns become irrelevant when Earth is destroyed, billions die, and suddenly no one needs archaeologists anymore. Two years later, she's plucked from...

2080, the world is divided, dominated by two antagonistic factions, the Pacific League and the Atlantic Alliance. Tensions are high and the smallest disturbance in the status quo could set the world on fire. And a signal flickering through deep space could be just that spark. As three young scien...

Good is a construct. Evil is a virus. The Starship Sa Niro and the Starship S> Oubliette were in orbit around a black hole, one afternoon - by the end of the day, the crews of both starships were dead, victims of a single killer: Captain Alpha Raine. Raine claims he's acting under the command of ...

In a silverware shop, a young wife works alongside her husband. Amid growing political turmoil, Bea finds solace in the local marsh, where she is visited recurrently by a mysterious presence, logging each appearance carefully in a scarlet journal. In a time like now, Kay navigates friendship, que...

A queer sci-fi novel about a refugee from Earth and a xenophobic Mars politician who agree to a fake marriage after a media encounter damages both their reputations.