Taylor Amber
Overnight Taylor Amber's life is transformed when his parents die under mysterious circumstances and he becomes an orphan in the Diggory Home for Children in Distress. Taylor eventually befriends another Diggory long-termer, a spiky misfit of a girl called Georgie Yates. But soon afterwards Taylor discovers an incredible secret: his physicist parents had not been working at the local university as he had always assumed. They were in fact head scientists for a secret organisation called TARGET (Time Agency Response Group: Earthly Threats), and on the day of their deaths they were about to embark on the maiden flight in BULLSEYE, the world's first time machine. With BULLSEYE at his disposal, Taylor quickly realises that he has the power to rescue his parents from their fate and bring them back from the dead. But unknown to Taylor and Georgie, there is a deadly menace that is about to threaten the entire world ... Taylor Amber: Time Agent is a riveting, suspenseful time travel adventure; a bittersweet tale of a teenage boy-girl relationship; a thriller on the implications of messing with the fabric of spacetime, and a genuinely moving story of two young people's shared experience of loss. It is also at times, very funny, with a huge cast of richly imaginative characters from both ends of the time spectrum, from the deep past to a terrifying future ...
Zoi
At the age of five, Amira watched footage of the first zoi specimen arriving in our solar system, and she became instantly fascinated with the huge, cell-like creature floating among the stars.Decades later, she and three other astronauts have taken residence in a zoi as it continues its voyage through space.They have no way of steering its course. Communicating with their non-sentient host is limited to signals of physical needs. And while the zoi meets those needs, it also exposes its passengers to hormonal and even genetic alterations.Now, as masses of biological material start growing on each astronaut, their interstellar journey begins a new stage--one with far-reaching consequences both for the humans and the zois.Praise for Zoi: "Zoi asks original, startling questions about first contact. Jane Mondrup gives us a clear, anguished voice that must weigh the risk of making dreams come true against an irrevocable choice-with no way to know what is the right choice. Again and again, I was moved by the struggle to retain human identity and purpose in the immensity of time and space."- Sue Burke, author of the Semiosis trilogy"Here is a fresh, original voice, telling her tale of a very different first contact with a cool elegance, dignity, and a deep love for life. It's squishy, intimate and filled with mystery, wonder-and a little shiver of body horror."- Ian McDonald, award-winning author of Hopeland, The Dervish House, and Brasyl"'Our body. Our Zoi.' Zoi journeys through time and space, eliding, through the titular entity, all boundaries between the inner and the outer, the singular and the multiple, and above all between the staggeringly alien and the cosily familiar. A cleverly executed balance of heartbreak and hope."- J. S. Breukelaar, Aurealis and Shirley Jackson Award finalist for Aletheia and Collision: Stories"Jane Mondrup's Zoi is a wonderful and gripping story about otherness, when "I" becomes "the Other". Deeply human and wonderfully written, it is a powerful novel and an essential companion to Stanislaw Lem's classic Solaris. A must-read for all lovers of sci fi with a real heart beating inside."- Seb Doubinsky, author of The Sum of All Things and The Horror"Inventive, clever, and pleasingly Cronenbergesque." - Priya Sharma, Shirley Jackson Award and British Fantasy Award winning author of All the Fabulous Beasts"Zoi is a new and refreshing take on first contact stories as well as the idea and role of the doppelg瓣nger. It is a quietly philosophical book about choices and determination that follows the narrator, Amira, on her journey of transformation and adaptation. With its diverse cast and contemporary views, I am tempted to call Zoi a modern Solaris, but it is an original novel that stands fully on its own. I found myself deeply invested in the book and would recommend it to fans of Sue Burke and Becky Chambers, and everybody else who enjoys science fiction that is both solid and approachable."- Marie Howalt, author of the Moonless Trilogy, Colibri Investigations and A Study in Black Brew
The Collective
The Collective is a fiction piece that explores the overarching effects of negativity and positivity in the world on both an individual and worldwide level. The book explores racism, power-motivated people, religion, misogyny and the critical importance for all human beings to question the value of positive and negative thinking in their personal lives.
The Classic Science Fiction Collection
This striking hardback collection brings together over 40 classic short stories by masters of the science fiction genre, presented with silver cover accents and illustrated page edges. For more than 100 years, science fiction writers have told tales of alien encounters and fascinating technologies and they have warned of the dangers of dystopian governments. From Victorians experimenting with time travel to pioneers exploring the depths of space, the stories collected here are a tribute to the imagination. This collection features forty-four of the best works of short fiction by the inventors of the modern science fiction genre. Some tales are filled with boundless optimism for the ingenuity of humanity while others provide fearful warnings of the risks of war and the dangers of technology. This collection includes stories from H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, Stanley Weinbaum, Jack London, Austin Hall, and George Griffith amongst others. ABOUT THE SERIES: Arcturus Pulp Classics are beautiful hardcover collections which bring together the best short stories from across the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres. With beautiful cover designs and striking printed edges, these editions make wonderful collectibles for your home library.
Management of Martian Resources - Strategies for Sustainability
The Road Home
The story novel blends science fiction with social commentary, following Mr. Landon, a stressed corporate executive who unexpectedly travels to the year 2136 during a hypnotherapy session. He finds himself in Neo-London, a utopian society that has achieved harmony by prioritizing emotional intelligence, empathy, and sustainable practices over individualistic and materialistic pursuits. Key Themes: 1. Emotional Intelligence as a Foundation 2. Blended Economic System: The society operates on a dual-currency model. 3. Technological Integration with Human Values 4. Transformation via a "White Paper" The Road Home is a tale that challenges readers to reflect on their values and the choices shaping society. It argues that utopia is attainable when emotional intelligence and empathy are central to education, governance, and daily life, offering a roadmap for a more compassionate, equitable world.
Sub-Luminal
First to boldly go, Last to bloody arrive. Callum MacMahon commands the Earth's first starship. Risking it all on a century long, one-way trip, his daring crew have said goodbye to everyone and everything. They awake, ready to colonise a virgin world. Except they've been beaten to it. This can happen when you sleep on the job and humanity is handed a hyper-drive. The would-be explorers encounter a society that is secure and content, yet set in its ways and less than bright. In charge is an Artificial Intelligence who cares for them as it sees fit. After all, it knows best and it's entirely for their own good. Callum's crew could choose a peaceful life. They could just go find the nearest bar. But with no way back and something clearly wrong, do they have the right to interfere? And what will happen to them if they do?
On the Calculation of Volume (Book III)
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD IN FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE In the marvelous third installment of Balle's "astonishing" (The Washington Post) septology, Tara's November 18th transforms when she discovers that she is no longer alone in her endless autumnal day. For she has met someone who remembers, and who knows as well as she does that "it is autumn, but that we're not heading into winter. That spring and summer will not follow. That the reds and yellows of the trees are here to stay. That yesterday doesn't mean the seventeenth of November, that tomorrow means the eighteenth, and that the nineteenth is a day we may never see." Where Book I and II focused on a single woman's involuntary journey away from her life and her loved ones and into the chasm of time, Book III brings us back into the realm of companionship, with all its thrills, odd quirks, and a sense of mutual bewilderment at having to relearn how to exist alongside others in a shared reality. And then of course, what of Tara's husband Thomas, still sitting alone day after day, entirely unawares, in their house in Clarion-sous-Bois, waiting for his wife to return? Blending poetry and philosophical inquiry with rich reflections on our discombobulating times, Balle's On the Calculation of Volume asks us to consider: What is a single person's responsibility to humanity and to the preservation of this world?
Star Wars: Temptation of the Force (the High Republic)
The reunited Jedi prepare to strike back against the ruthless Nihil in this thrilling sequel to Star Wars: The Eye of Darkness. For over a year, Jedi Masters Avar Kriss and Elzar Mann were kept apart by the Nihil's Stormwall. After Avar makes a daring escape from inside the Occlusion Zone, the star-crossed Jedi are reunited. But while the physical distance between them has evaporated, their shared grief over their failure to protect the galaxy from the Nihil threat remains. To rally the Jedi Order and the Republic, Avar and Elzar cling to their belief in serving Light and Life. Together, they lead a daring mission into Nihil space to liberate the planet of Naboo and show those trapped behind the Stormwall that the Jedi will never abandon them. Now back within close orbit of each other, the two Jedi Masters can no longer deny the bond that has always drawn them back together and made them stronger. After finally embracing their true desires and imbued with renewed purpose, Avar and Elzar devise a plan to turn the tide of the conflict with the Nihil once and for all. Accompanied by Jedi Knights Bell Zettifar, Burryaga, and Vernestra Rwoh, the Jedi begin their hunt for Marchion Ro. But to seek out the Nihil's dangerous leader, the Jedi will have to survive the Nameless terrors that thus far they have been powerless to stop.
