Item category 1: Science Fiction

Don't panic! Published exactly 30 years after the first instalment of Douglas Adams' 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy', Eoin Colfer transports Arthur, Zaphod and Marvin to pastures new.

For just a moment, things seem to be under control for the soldier known as Breq. Then a search of Atheok Station's slums turns up someone who shouldn't exist - someone who might be a refugee from a ship that's been hiding beyond the empire's reach for three thousand years. In the meantime a mess...

The Radch are conquerors to be feared - resist and they'll turn you into a 'corpse soldier' - one of an army of dead prisoners animated by a warship's AI mind. Whole planets are conquered by their own people. The colossal warship called the Justice of Toren has been destroyed - but one ship-posse...

A young boy and his older sisters find themselves suddenly and utterly alone, orphaned in an abandoned fishing village. Their food supplies dwindling, they set out across a breathtaking yet treacherous wilderness in search of the last of their people. Down the coast, raiders deliver the children'...

Haimey Dz and her partner Connla Kurucz are salvage operators. Theirs is a perilous and marginal existence. They have barely enough chance of striking it fantastically big, just enough however, to keep them coming back for more. They pilot their tiny ship into the scars left by unsuccessful White...

The world is different now. There are no rules, no governments, and no guarantees that you'll be saved. Rival factions have taken over, fighting each other for survival with no loyalty to anyone but their own. At 21, Hayden has taken over Blackwing and is one of the youngest leaders in the area. ...

An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle - a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself.

America, 100 years on: a warmer climate is causing vast movements of people. Droughts, floods and hurricanes force entire populations to simply abandon their homes. Tensions are mounting between north and south, and some northern states are threatening to close their borders against homeless Amer...

'Altered Carbon' is a lightening fast, breathtakingly violent noir thriller set in the San Francisco of the 26th century. It is an awe-inspiring vision of a future living on stolen time.

The Emperor is dead. His final weapon has been destroyed. The imperial army is in disarray. In the aftermath, Yrica Quell is just one of thousands of defectors from her former cause living in a deserters' shantytown, until she is selected to join Alphabet Squadron. Cobbled together from an eclect...