The acclaimed space opera trilogy comes to its thrilling conclusion as interstellar corporations, sentient robots, and rebel armies face off in battle.The enemy is out in the open. The Reaction has seized control of a resource-rich moon. Now it's enslaving conscious robots—and luring the Corporations into lucrative deals.Taransay is out in the jungle. Her friends are inside a smart boulder on the slope of an active volcano. A...

"A portal to a deeply imagined future history that parlays X-Files paranoia about Area 51 and alien Greys into a vast interstellar community." —Paul McAuley, InterzoneA Hugo Award Nominee for Best NovelRanging from a gritty near-future Earth to a distant alien world, Ken MacLeod's Cosmonaut Keep is contemporary science fiction at its highest level. A visionary epic filled with daring individuals seeking a place for themselve...

This volume comprises The Cassini Division and The Sky Road, the last two books of The Fall Revolution, Ken MacLeod's groundbreaking, multiple award-winning science fiction epic.The Cassini Division: In the 24th century, post humans, god-like descendents of humans who transformed themselves with high technology, have warped the very fabric of the solar system for unknowable reasons. Ellen May Ngewthu has a plan to rid humanity of these bei...

Alba ad Astra - Scotland's forgotten history of space explorationEdited by Madeleine ShepherdIntroductions by Ken MacLeod and Pippa GoldschmidtThe first human being in space was Russian. The first man on the Moon was American. However, the space race is a marathon, not a sprint. Startling evidence suggests that the longest rocket flight ever made was a classified Scottish project.Alba ad Astra is a collaborative thought experiment celebratin...

New stories from: Aliya Whiteley, Robert Runté, Laura Duerr and featuring a Mug Story from Ken MacLeodSF poetry from: G. ToroBook Reviews: Warship by Neil Asher, Driftwood by Marie BrennanArt: Stephen Daly, Andrew Owens, Caroline Grebbell and cover art by Tsu

A digital magazine featuring the very best in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and HorrorThe latest fiction from established writers alongside the best new stories from emerging talents and debut authors.On-point articles and regular columns, exploring genre fiction in all its forms. Interviews with leading authors and artists.Insightful and informative book reviews by a carefully selected cadre of reviewers, assessing current titles and imminent releases from publishers b...

HUMANITY AMONG THE STARS What happens when we reach out into the vastness of space? What hope for us amongst the stars? Multi-award winning editor Jonathan Strahan brings us fourteen new tales of the future, from some of the finest science fiction writers in the field. The fourteen startling stories in this anthology feature the work of Greg Egan, Aliette de Bodard, Ian McDonald, Karl Schroeder, Pat Cadigan, Karen Lord, Ellen Klages, Adam Roberts, Linda Nagata, Hannu Rajaniemi, Kathleen An...

WINNER OF THE BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION AWARDCenturies after the catastrophic Deliverance, humanity is again reaching into space. And Clovis, a young scholar working in the spaceship-construction yard, could make the difference between success and failure. For his mysterious new lover, Merrial, has seduced him into the idea of extrapolating the ship's future from the dark archives of the past.A past in which, centuries before, Myra Godwin faced th...

This acclaimed space opera trilogy debut "brims with ideas [and] keeps things moving with the pace of an airport thriller" ( SFX Magazine).A soldier who died for his ideals a thousand years ago, Carlos has been reincarnated. Now he finds himself conscripted to fight an A.I. revolution in deep space. And he's not sure he's fighting for the right side.By a fluke of nature, a lunar mining robot called Seba has gained sentience. Gathering with other "fre...

Siobhan Ross has several reasons for taking a holiday job on the Isle of Skye – her keen interest in marine biology for one – but she's also determined to escape Glasgow and put distance between herself and a failed relationship with fellow student Kieran.The last thing Siobhan's looking for is romance, let alone with a Selkie, but…In Selkie Summer, Ken MacLeod delivers a rich contemporary fantasy that is steeped in Celtic lore, nuclear submarines and secrets, as Siobhan fi...

WINNER OF THE PROMETHEUS AWARDLife on New Mars is tough for humans, but death is only a minor inconvenience. The machines know their place, the free market rules all, and only the Abolitionists object.Then a stranger arrives on New Mars, a clone who remembers life on Earth as Jonathon Wilde, the anarchist with a nuclear capability who was accused of losing World War III. That stranger remembers David Reid, New Mars's leader...and the women they fought over ...

The Concluding Volume of the Engines of LightWith Cosmonaut Keep and Dark Light, both finalists for science fiction's Hugo Award, Ken MacLeod launched a new interstellar epic with all the engaging characters and ingenious SF inventiveness of his earlier Fall Revolution novels. Now MacLeod delivers the culmination of his epic of a human future crammed with innumerable varieties of intelligent alien life, and in which humans find themselves involved ...