This anthology draws together some of the best new stories of mystery and murder—compiled by the Anthony Award–winning crime fiction editor.This anthology collects the most original stories of murder by some of mystery fiction's most inventive talents from the United States and United Kingdom. With innovative new takes on locked-room mysteries and impossible crimes, these short stories are full of vexing conundrums and reality-defying puzzles. A murder has been comm...

In myth Tartarus was the lowest region of hell. In reality it is a world about to die...I'd heard many a tale about Tartarus Major, how certain continents were technological backwaters five hundred years behind the times; how the Church governed half the planet with a fist of iron, and yet how, across scattered islands and sequestered lands, a thousand bizarre and heretic cults prospered too.I'd heard how a lone traveller was hardly safe upon the planet's s...

Explore the History of England From Start to End...Are you fascinated by English history?Are you studying for an exam or just have a passing interest in the subject?This book is a must read for anyone who wants to know a bit more!England is a fascinating and intriguing country. From its pre Christian roots, through Roman occupation, Viking invaders, the Norman Conquest and the building of the largest empire the world has kno...

Explore the History and Mythology of the Egyptian Kingdom!There are many mysteries of the ancient Egyptian empire and dynasties. Archaeologists and Egyptologists have been studying the artifacts and ruins for centuries, and there is still much left to learn. The body of Cleopatra VII, who was the last ruler of Egypt and is one of the most famed people in history, has never been discovered. Yet, there have been many amazing discoveries, such as the tomb of King Tuta...

Ed Carew and his small ragtag crew are smugglers and ne’er-do- wells, thumbing their noses at the Expansion, the vast human hegemony extending across thousands of worlds... until the day they are caught, and offered a choice between working for the Expansion and an ignominious death. They must trespass across the domain of humanity’s neighbours, the Vetch – the inscrutable alien race with whom humanity has warred, at terrible cost of life, and only recently arrived at an uneasy peace – and...

When a young tug pilot's career is ruined by a collision in Earth orbit he has no choice but to accept a commission to fly an eccentric ship builder to a planet far from the trade routes. When they discover alien ruins on the planet and the hulk of a missing generation ship they are thrown into the centre of a conspiracy that reaches back centuries.Meanwhile on earth a young Indian police officer is trying to track down a serial killer little suspecting that the killer is linked to...

Helix is a fast-paced action adventure novel following the plight of four humans when they crashland on what they think is a desolate, ice-bound planet. Daylight brings the discovery that the planet is one of thousands arranged in a vast spiral wound about a central sun. They set off to discover a more habitable, Earth-like world and come across strange races of aliens, and life-threatening perils, on their way.

Kon Tiki Coda is the moving finale to the successful Kon Tiki Quartet.DislocationsParasitesInsightsIterations

Mags and Sorensen, attempting to trace the whereabouts of Pinto's rebel relative, Gregor, embark on a perilous journey across the face of the planet, pursued by Enforcers, attacked by aliens, and meeting a collection of strange humans. What they learn on the outside will make them question everything they thought true, as revelation follows revelation until the novella's showdown and the discovery of a truth which will force them to reassess everything they've ever known to be true about t...

An ordinary camping trip goes horribly wrong. Al and Jenny find themselves in the year 2055… and the future is grim.The countryside is full of troops and army tanks.But worse than that, there are no black people, no Asian people… Only white people are left.Something dreadful has happened. Al and Jenny are stuck in a nightmare. Will they ever get out?Race Against Time is a story about racism and intolerance in a future that might just come to pass…

THE DISCIPLES OF APOLLO collects Eric Brown's finest short fiction, from the contemporary title story, in which the victims of a terrible malaise retreat to a sequestered island to see out their final months, to the far future of Dark Calvary, set on the dying world of Tartarus Major whose sun is about to go nova. Whether set is space of the future, or Earth of the here and now, Brown's stories are imbued with a passionate concern for the human condition and the need to deliver compelling ...

This collection gathers eight stories as varied in space and time as they are in theme, and features such tropes as alien visitors, space opera, near future satire, cloning, and even murder-mystery. 'Conway and the Aliens' is set in his popular Starship Seasons future, while 'Dimensions of Deceit' is the latest tale in the Salvageman Ed series. 'The Trees of Terpsichore Three' is a collaboration with Michael Coney. Three stories are original to the volume.