Bryan Azalea är en måttligt framgångsrik författare som ser ut att leva ett stillsamt liv ända tills han via en serie egenartade drömsekvenser kommer i kontakt med en spännande och utstrålningsrik kvinna vid namn Charlotte. Tillsammans undersöker de bakgrunden till varför ett projekt inom det vetenskapsområde hon är…
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”Alla människor är inte lika mycket värda”, förklarar han. Reslig, imperatorisk, som en örn. ”De svaga har svikit er. Enligt dem bör de saktmodiga besitta jorden. De starka bör ta hand om de svaga. Det är demokratins storsinta lögn. Cancern som förgiftade mänskligheten.”
Darrow är Röd, en ung…
The year is 2069, more than thirty years since a bio-terrorist attack decimated the population. The world has been divided, and new nations have formed. Those mutated from exposure inhabit the red zones, while ”norms” live in the green zones.In the nation of Pacifica, Los Angeles detective Cassandra Lee is…
Meet CharlesTM, the latest in robot servant technology. Programmed to undertake the most menial household chores, Charles is loyal, efficient and logical to a fault. That is, until a rather large fault causes him to murder his owner. Understandably perplexed, Charles finds himself without a master – therefore…
Forty-thousand years ago, humanity fled a dying Earth. Traveling in massive ark ships these brave pioneers spread out across the galaxy to find a new home. After traveling thousands of light-years, one fleet of ark ships arrived at Centauri, a dense cluster of stars with thousands of potentially habitable planets. The…
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”Alla människor är inte lika mycket värda”, förklarar han. Reslig och imperatorisk, som en örn. ”De svaga har svikit er. Enligt dem bör de saktmodiga besitta jorden. De starka bör ta hand om de svaga. Det är demokratins storsinta lögn. Cancern som förgiftade mänskligheten.”
Darrow är Röd, en ung…
A Dystopian Sci-fi gaming thriller that examines the need for and risks of Big Tech. The power and flaws of innovation and the beauty and destruction of money. Gaming will never be looked at the same after you engage your senses.“I should have said more. But how could I know? The world, the game, ugh… the game.…
’Next to impossible to put down . . . exciting, mysterious, and totally satisfying.’ STEPHEN KING
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The islands of Prospera lie in a vast ocean: in splendid isolation from the rest of humanity, or whatever remains of it. . .
Citizens of the main island enjoy privileged lives, attended to by the support…
A truly unmissable, beautifully illustrated collection of unearthed stories from the pen of Sir Terry Pratchett: award-winning and bestselling author, and creator of the phenomenally successful Discworld series.
Twenty early short stories by one of the world’s best loved authors, each accompanied by exquisite…
Kategorier: Dystopier och utopier Science fiction Science fiction: apokalypser Skönlitteratur Spekulativ skönlitteratur
Dystopin är som genre idag relevantare än någonsin, både mot bakgrund av medias banalisering, den accelererande globala klimatförändringen och det faktum att antalet diktaturer i världen breder ut sig. Tillkommer nyare hot som AI och människans egen klassiska destruktionsdrift.
Två av de här aktuella kortromanerna –…
The Clone Wars are over, but for those with reason to run from the new galactic Empire, the battle to survive has only just begun. . . .
The Jedi have been decimated in the Great Purge, and the Republic has fallen. Now the former Republic Commandos-the galaxy’s finest special forces troops, cloned from Jango…
This special 10th anniversary edition celebrates the revolutionary first book of the New York Times bestselling and Hugo-award winning Expanse series – a modern masterwork of science fiction with over 4 million copies sold worldwide.
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’Interplanetary adventure the way it ought…
’Smart, bold and so much fun . . . I’m officially a member of the Grace Curtis fan club’ AMIE KAUFMANThe Grand Budapest Hotel in space, Floating Hotel is a hopeful story of misfits, rebels and found family, perfect for fans of Becky Chambers, Martha Wells and Aliette de Bodard.
Welcome to the Grand…
Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke award-winner Ann Leckie is a modern master of the SFF genre, forever changing its landscape with her groundbreaking ideas and powerful voice. Now, available for the first time comes the complete collection of Leckie’s short fiction, including a brand new novelette, Lake of…
’A magic of words’ Neil GaimanSet in the same universe as The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, these five linked stories follow far-future human colonies living in the distant solar system.
Here is the complete suite of five linked stories from Ursula K. Le Guin’s acclaimed Hainish series,…
** EXCLUSIVE EPILOGUE IN PAPERBACK ONLY **’Curtis oozes charm and humour in this pacey debut, which will be devoured by fans of Fallout and Firefly’ TAMSYN MUIR
A heartfelt queer romance in a high noon standoff with Earth’s uncertain future, full of love, loss, and laser guns. Perfect for fans of…
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I Kim Stanley Robinsons cli-fi-roman från 2020, Framtidsministeriet, prövar han möjligheten till en positiv utgång på världens klimatproblematik. Det är en påläst och verklig skildring av de ofta mörka moraliska frågor vi behöver leva oss in i för att kunna vända utvecklingen.
Historien tar sin början vid en…
A special edition hardcover that celebrates the second book in the NYT bestselling and Hugo award-winning Expanse series. Caliban’s War shows a solar system on the brink of war, and the only hope of peace rests on James Holden and the crew of the Rocinante’s shoulders. Now a Prime Original series.
This…
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Science fiction-klassiker som har inspirerat till en rad böcker och filmer, bland annat King Kong och Jurassic Park. Den unge reportern Edward Malone har just blivit avvisad av sin stora kärlek, som söker en mer äventyrlig man. För att bevisa sitt mod beslutar han att söka sitt eget äventyr – och landar i en expedition…
En Tjänsteman. Som vet vad en Tjänsteman är satt att sköta. Och hur han ska sköta det. Därför att han har skött det tjänstemannamässigt, tillsammans med andra Tjänstemän, i decennier. Till och med i decennier av decennier. Så blir han plötsligt kallad till en enhet i en anläggning som visserligen faller under hans…
Professor Arton Daghdev has always wanted to study alien life in person. But when his political activism sees him exiled to the planet Kiln, condemned to work under an unfamiliar sky until he dies, his idealistic wish becomes a terrible reality. Kiln boasts a ravenous, chaotic ecosystem. Its monstrous alien life means…
Kategorier: Science fiction Science fiction: cyberpunk Science fiction: cyberpunk / biopunk Skönlitteratur Spekulativ skönlitteratur
People are dying in their VR rigs. It shouldn’t be possible, but they are. Something is cruising the net, ghosting through holographic wallpapers, and haunting the perpetually online. Something which has games developers nervous, the secret police concerned, and has mogul business lords curious. Something is…
’A spectacular exploration of the power of technology…science fiction at its best’ Saara El-Arifi, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Final Strife
”What does it feel like to wake up in the Panopticon? It’s like waking up for the first time ever. It’s like waking up with a third…
Året är 1962 och Deutschwelt omfattar alla världens kontinenter. En ny vetenskapsbaserad världsordning har införts. Med hjälp av petahertz-teknologin och sin mäktiga säkerhetspolis Zelt styr dr Künckel världen med järnhand.
Han är alltmer frånvarande och desillusionerad, vilket dr Jahnke utnyttjar för att stärka sin…
The year is 1748. Elewa, known as ’the Daughter of Peace’, bears a heavy responsibility on her young shoulders: to maintain the fragile truce between the warring peoples of her West African kingdom.
But as she begins to understand her role in the peace negotiations, even greater pressures emerge. Elewa…
On the distant world of Kiln lie the ruins of an alien civilization. It's the greatest discovery in humanity's spacefaring history – yet who were its builders and where did they go? Professor Arton Daghdev had always wanted to study alien life up close. Then his wishes become a reality in the worst way.…
A proud and reserved alien society finds its homeland destroyed in an unprovoked act of aggression, and the survivors have no choice but to reach out to the indigenous humanoids of their adopted world, to whom they are distantly related. They wish to preserve their cherished way of life but come to discover that in…
From the #1 bestselling author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, 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.
In the wake of environmental catastrophe, January, once a principal in…
Jay Gardiner has given himself a fool’s errand: to find the remains of his deceased father in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. He knows it’s a long shot, but Jay feels it’s the only way for him to lift the weight of guilt he has carried since his dad’s death the previous year.
The…
A Unique Speculative Fiction Collection From The Nordic Countries
Storytelling has been a major force in the Nordic countries for thousands of years, renowned for its particular sense of dark humour, featuring pacts with nature and a view of the worlds you seldom find in other places.
Perhaps it is the freezing cold…