From multimillion bestselling Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Amazon and Audible author RR Haywood, creator of the worldwide bestselling Extracted, and The Code trilogies, the phenomenal Undead Series, and the heart-pounding thriller DELIO PHASE ONE, comes Fiction Land, a laugh-out-loud blockbuster adventure"Imagine John Wick wakes up in a city full of characters from novels - That's Fiction Land""Brilliant, original, and very funny""Haywood writes on another ...

Meet Jim Greene.An ordinary detective constable trying 'not' to solve a murder.The remote and isolated Cornish island of Gallymay was meant to be the perfect place for a break. But things don’t quite go to plan when Jim stumbles across a body on his first day.Which is the last thing he needs. But it’s fine. He’ll call Devon and Cornwall Police. They’ll sort it out.Except the storm, and the island, have other ideas. Cut off from the mainland during a mid-winte...

Disgraced former detective Mike Humber gets off a train in the bleak autumn countryside, his mind haunted by a dark past.A new job awaits. Huntington House needs a live-in security guard to prevent access during an inheritance dispute.This is exactly what Mike needs: a new start in a new place and a chance to turn things around.It all seems perfect, especially when he meets Tessa.But Huntington House holds dark secrets. Bumps in the night. Flickering lights....

Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Amazon & Audible bestselling author, RR Haywood. One of the most downloaded indie authors in the UK with more than four million books sold and over 35 Kindle bestsellers.Disgraced former detective Mike Humber is at rock bottom when he takes a night security job at a bleak fish processing plant and private dockyard on the Bristol Channel.He soon sees a way to make some quick cash — but only if he can navigate the small-town secrets, betr...

Sixteen all-new stories by science fiction’s top talents, collected by George R. R. Martin and Gardner DozoisFrom pulp adventures such as Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Carson of Venus to classic short stories such as Ray Bradbury’s “The Long Rain” to visionary novels such as C. S. Lewis’s Perelandra, the planet Venus has loomed almost as large in the imaginations of science fiction writers as Mars. But while the Red Planet conjured up in Golden Age scien...

A BBC Radio 4 semi-autobiographical play by BAFTA award-winning writer Trevor Preston, telling the story of Charlie, who suddenly re-discovers the passion and energy of his youth. 'Small Acts of Kindness' was originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 15 March 2011. In the late 1950s Charlie was a violent and uncontrollable entrant to art school. His teacher changed the course of his life. 'Small Acts of Kindness' catches up with Charlie as his mentor's death shifts everything once mo...

The aliens are here. And they want to help. The extraordinary new project from one of the country's most acclaimed and consistently brilliant SF novelists of the last 30 years.The Jackaroo have given humanity fifteen worlds and the means to reach them. They're a chance to start over, but they're also littered with ruins and artifacts left by the Jackaroo's previous clients.Miracles that could reverse the damage caused by war, climate change, and rising sea levels. Nightmare...

Krina Alizond-114 is a bookish historian of accountancy practices and a metahuman in a universe where the last natural humans went extinct 5000 years ago. When a letter from her sister goes missing Krina embarks on a dangerous journey across galaxies and

The scions of a falling house must navigate a world of corporate warfare to maintain their family’s status in the moon’s vicious political atmosphere.The moon wants to kill you—whether it’s being unable to pay your per diem for your allotted food, water, and air, or just getting caught up in a fight between the moon’s ruling corporations, the Five Dragons. You must fight for every inch you want to gain in the moon’s near-feudal society. And that is just what Adriana Corta did....

With an introduction by J. J. Pierce, this volume features the twelve most important stories by Cordwainer Smith, a unique writer who has fused wonder and poetry into imaginative tales that transcend both science and fiction.Scanners Live in VainAdam Stone has found a way for men to cross deep space alive—a discovery that might kill him.The Lady Who Sailed the SoulHelen America voyages to the stars—and into a timeless legend of romance.Alpha Ra...

A mind-bending new novel inspired by the twisted and wondrous works of Lewis CarrollIn a warren of crumbling buildings and desperate people called the Old City stands a hospital with cinder-block walls that echo the screams of the poor souls inside.In the hospital, there is a woman. Her hair, once blond, hangs in tangles down her back. She doesn’t remember why she’s in such a terrible place—just a tea party long ago, and long ears and blood …Then, one night, a fire ...

Humans call them Monument-Makers. An unknown race, they left stunning, alien statues encoded with strange inscriptions that defy translation scattered on distant planets throughout the galaxy. Searching for clues about the Monument-Makers, teams of twenty-third-century linguists, historians, engineers, and archaeologists have been excavating the enigmatic alien ruins on a number of planets, uncovering strange, massive false cities made of solid rock. But their time is running out: Earth’s ...