Claire Halward disappeared as a child, last seen running up a hill before being struck by "something dark."Found in the same spot seven years later, her mother Karin is delighted to have her back. But the reunion doesn't go well. Karin struggles to connect with Claire and Claire's father Nick knows Claire is not Claire, despite accurate DNA tests.Claire herself has no memory of these parents nor of the house they live in. She has no memory of herself. She remembers a twin s...

* A mindwalker is in hiding on the edge of the Sigma Sector, where the Fleet are still a rumour.*Flesh body. Forty. File clerk. Space station. Planet Nigel. Sigma Sector: every morning Victor Gomenzi has to remind himself who he is, where he is – and what he is.Victor Gomenzi is a mindwalker.On the run from Sigma agents, Gomenzi is hiding out on Nigel, tenth rate industrial colony world culturally disconnected from the Sigma Sector. He works on Nigel's space station...

*The Fleet are moving in to the Sigma Sector and people are beginning to disappear.*When Sistia Scarpora is seven, her mother is driven to her death by a mindwalker. When she is fifteen, her father sells himself to the Fleet on a five year contract. Fifteen years later, he still hasn't come back. Sistia starts to dig to find the truth about the Fleet. Warned off by Sigma agents, stonewalled by Federal agents, she finally approaches a Recovery agent – Igen Dyce. With a success rate ...

*The Fleet must be stopped before everyone in the Sigma Sector disappears forever.*Vincent Gomenzi leaves Earth when he is sixteen, knowing that he can never mindwalk again. The terrifying maw of the vortex waits for him if he tries to transfer out. As the first mindwalker, Fleet personnel 1, he was once the most destructive force in the Sigma Sector ...Igen Dyce loses his fiancé to the Fleet. A baseball star on Lomensis, he forms the Lomensii branch of Recovery, an undergr...

In a house on a suburban street in Nagasaki, meteorologist Shimura Kobo lives quietly on his own. Or so he believes.Food begins to go missing. Perturbed by this threat to his orderly life, Shimura sets up a webcam to monitor his home.But though eager to identify his intruder, is Shimura really prepared for what the camera will reveal?Based on real-life events, this prize-winning novel is a moving tale of alienation in the modern world.

The beginning of a fantastic new action / adventure series from a twenty-year-old author who knows how to thrill - now in paperback! Meet a 16-year-old superhuman: Agent Six of Hearts. He's the strongest, most effective agent in the Deck, a team of special agents fighting to uphold justice in a completely corrupt world. Six would be invincible if not for a deadly secret. He is the product of an illegal experiment by the Lab - a ruthless division of the corporation that controls his world. ...

Gangs, killers, and vampires. One war-torn detective is the only hope of survival for a crime-ridden orbiting city…Blade Runner meets Se7en in this gritty five-story collection from New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Anthony Ryan.Alex McLeod paid dearly during the war for independence from Earth. It left the detective disfigured, jaded, and alone. In the aftermath of victory, Alex seethes as criminal factions and cold-blooded killers clash over control of the n...

Book 1 of the Touchstone Trilogy.On her last day of high school, Cassandra Devlin walked out of exams and into a forest. Surrounded by the wrong sort of trees, and animals never featured in any nature documentary, Cass is only sure of one thing: alone, she will be lucky to survive.The sprawl of abandoned blockish buildings Cass discovers offers her only more puzzles. Where are the people? What is the intoxicating mist which drifts off the buildings in the moonlight? And why...

Thirteen-year-old Napoleon Augustus Smythe (Battle Boy 005) is now Battle Agent 005.Along with BA004, BA009 and super soldier TEX, he is a member of Omega Squad - an elite team of Time Troopers sent back into history for Operation Battle Book.But Professor Perdu, their mission controller, is worried. Someone is stealing TIME and ENERGY bundles from the Battle Books.Someone is determined to sabotage Operation Battle Book.But who? And why?

A fast paced sci-fi adventure, A Game of War blends dizzying excitement with a whirlpool of emotions to keep you gripped from beginning to end. Like ‘The Hunger Games'? You'll love this. A Game of War so far: Ally flies and dad shoots. She’s got a gift for flying, always has, even before she joined the Game. The Game? A weekly contest between slaves, winner takes all, losers get to walk home, assuming they survive tha...

A prequel to DOG BLOOD - the second book in David Moody's HATER trilogy.The world has fallen apart with incredible speed and brutality. Your only choice now is how hard you fight - hate or be hated, kill or be killed.With the war between the Haters and Unchanged increasing in intensity, Danny McCoyne drifts from fight to fight, from battle to battle. His old life is over. This is all he has now. But a chance incident on the battlefield changes everything, bringing him back ...

Three in the morning. I was drunk. Nothing new there. I needed to pee, and found "Joe" in my lounge.Don't get me wrong. Joe's a nice guy. He just happens to come from Mars. So, we talked a while, had fish finger sandwiches, he asked a lot of stupid questions, and I'm still drunk.