Brought to you by Penguin.Life can exist anywhere. And anywhere there is life, there is home.In the swirling clouds of Venus, the families of la colonie live on floating plant-like trawlers, salvaging what they can in the fierce acid rain and crackling storms. Outside is dangerous, but humankind's hold on the planet is fragile and they spend most of their days simply surviving.But Venus carries its own secrets, too. In the depths, there is ...

Brought to you by Penguin.The Union-Congregate war rages onward and the Union's premier fighter pilots, the Homo Eridanus, start encountering deadly resistance from strange pilots on the Congregate side. Among wreckage, they find that new Congregate pilots aren't human, but Homo quantus, with strange wiring and AI connections.At the same time, the Puppets come to the Union with offers of an alliance for a dangerous price: the rescue of the geneticist Antoni...

Brought to you by Penguin.Major Chenesai Okonkwo is an Auditor for the Sub-Saharan Union. Her mission: to find out if the Sixth Expeditionary Force's newly discovered time gate has been compromised. Is the Union's revolutionary discovery already doomed, eleven years in the future?But there is another, more personal mission. The possible murder of her husband remains unsolved. But are the two things connected? Can she navigate the world of aliens, spies, pol...

The breathtaking debut from acclaimed short story writer Derek Kunsken. Belisarius is a quantum man, an engineered Homo quantus who fled the powerful insight of dangerously addictive quantum senses. He found a precarious balance as a con man, but when a client offers him untold wealth to move a squadron of warships across an enemy wormhole, he must embrace his birthright to even try. In fact, the job is so big that he'll need a crew built from all the new sub-branches of humanity. If he su...

* NOMINATED FOR THE SUBJECTIVE CHAOS AWARD *'There are deep mysteries here' - LOCUS'A very good and entertaining read' - TANGENT ONLINE'I found the world truly fascinating' - BLACK GATE'A good detective story' - ROCKET STACK RANKDEATH BY PARADOXMajor Chenesai Okonkwo is an Auditor for the Sub-Saharan Union. He...

* SET IN THE WORLD OF THE AMAZON #1 BESTSELLING THE QUANTUM MAGICIAN *'Philosophical, clever, and emotional' - LOCUS'Compassion and empathy and love and hope' - KARA REVIEWSFROM THE AUTHOR OF THE QUANTUM MAGICIAN AND THE HOUSE OF STYXFrom the clouds of Venus to the origins of the time gates, this collection of novellas and short fiction vi...

From the Author of The Quantum Magician and The House of StyxFrom the clouds of Venus to the origins of the time gates, this collection of novellas and short fiction visits many favourite worlds of the Quantum Evolution universe, as well as some new to the series. With two 20,000-plus-word novellas and four long short stories, this collection is a stunning showcase of talent.Collecting: “Persephone Descending”, “Schools of Clay”, “Beneath Sunlit Shallows”, “Flight From the ...

George-Étienne and his children have formed The House of Styx, after finding a mysterious artefact on the surface of Venus herself. But with the discovery comes great risk, not only from a planet that kills with its very touch but also from the banks and powers of old Earth, whowill stop at nothing to claim this new technology for themselves.From humble origins, The House of Styx is determined to become one of the most powerful families in the known galaxy or die trying.

The highly-anticipated fourth volume in the number-one bestselling Quantum Evolution series. An all-new, ground-breaking, action-packed science fiction adventure set in the universe of The Quantum Magician**.**A HUNT THROUGH ETERNITYIn the closing moments of the Quantum War, Belisarius disappeared into a collapsing wormhole, and was thought lost forever.Now the Puppet priestess Rosalie Johns-10 is suffering...

A Hunt Through EternityAt the end of the Quantum War, Belisarius disappeared into a collapsing wormhole, and was thought lost forever. Now the Puppet priestess Rosalie Johns-10 is suffering powerful nightmares of strange geometries. Belisarius's old lover Cassandra and the AI Saint Matthew work out the nightmares are a signal, originating somewhere - and somewhen - in the 11-dimensional space of the wormhole network.Cassandra, Rosalie, Sai...

The stunning, critically-acclaimed follow-up to best-selling The Quantum Magician THE ULTIMATE CHASE Days ago, Belisarius pulled off the most audacious con job in history. He's rich, he's back with the love of his life, and best of all, he has the Time Gates, arguably the most valuable things in existence. Nothing could spoil this. .except the utter destruction of his people and the world they lived on. To save them, he has to make a new deal with the boss he just double-crossed, to travel...

* NOMINATED FOR THE PRIX AURORA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL *'Delightfully brutal portrayal of the reality of war' - AMAZING STORIES'Astonishingly good' - WORLDS WITHOUT END'Compelling, convincing and tightly written' - SFANDF REVIEWS'One of the best [series] of this century' - SCIFI MINDA WAR IN THE STARSThe war rag...