Century Rain - format ePub

Featuring Inspector Dreyfus - one of Alastair Reynolds most popular characters - this is a fast paced SF crime story, combining a futuristic setting with a gripping tale of technology, revolution and...

When Sora's swallowship is taken out by a swarm during the war she is rescued by Merlin, a legendary man who has allegedly discovered a super-weapon built by the Way creators; a gun so powerful it I said...

This story is not part of the Revelation Space series. It was developed from notes for an unwritten novel and maybe one day that novel will be completed, for we need to know the fate of the Earth. This...

The galaxy has seen great empires rise and fall. Planets have shattered and been remade. Amongst the ruins of alien civilisations, building our own from the rubble, humanity still thrives.And there are...

BLUE REMEMBERED EARTH is the first volume in a monumental trilogy tracing the Akinya family across more than ten thousand years of future history ... out beyond the solar system, into interstellar space...

Gathered here for the first time are Alastair Reynolds' stories and novelettes set in the universe of REVELATION SPACE, his first bestselling blockbuster.

Part SF thriller, part interstellar adventure, part noir crime, CENTURY RAIN is as astonishing bestseller from Alastair ReynoldsThree hundred years in the future, Verity Auger is a specialist in the archaeological...

Spearpoint, the last human city, is an atmosphere-piercing spire of vast size. Clinging to its skin are the zones, a series of semi-autonomous city-states, each of which enjoys a different - and rigidly...

Take another awe-inspiring leap into the darkly imagined future of REVELATION SPACE, where it is time for Humanity to meet its Unmakers.Mankind has endured centuries of horrific plague and a particularly...

A spectacular, large-scale space opera - the ultimate galaxy-spanning adventureSix million years ago, at the very dawn of the starfaring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and...

'A swashbuckling thriller - Pirates of the Caribbean meets Firefly - that nevertheless combines the author's trademark hard SF with effective, coming-of-age characterisation' GUARDIAN'A blindingly clever...

This novel is a stand-alone story which takes two extraordinary characters and follows them as they, independently, begin to unravel some of the greatest mysteries of our universe. Their missions are...

Come to Chasm City and embark on a mind-bending ride through the universe of Revelation SpaceTanner Mirabel was a security specialist who never made a mistake - until the day a woman in his care was blown...

First contact with extraordinary aliens, glittering technologies that could destroy the universe in a nanosecond, huge sweeping space operas: Alastair Reynolds is back!Some centuries from now, the exploration...

A thousand years in the future, mankind's influence expands into the universe. Alastair Reynolds' epic vision of our journey into deep space will redefine Space Opera.Chiku Yellow is earthbound: living...

XXIIe siècle. Le Mécanisme sait tout. Où vous êtes, à quoi vous pensez. Geoffrey et Sunday Akinya savent que garder un secret peut s'avérer dangereux. Leur famille a profité de l'essor économique de l'Afrique....

Le système solaire a été témoin de l'ascension et de la chute des grands empires. Les planètes ont volé en éclats avant d'être refaçonnées. Pourtant, parmi les ruines des civilisations extraterrestres,...

L'une vit sur terre dans un monde qui change, tandis que l'humanité explore de nouveaux modes d'existence. L'autre est partie dans l'espace lointain enquêter sur l'ultime périple d'Eunice Akinya et sa...

L'humanité a atteint les étoiles.Deux cents ans après la chute du Mécanisme, la société humaine a regagné une certaine stabilité. On trouve des colonies sous les océans, partout dans le système solaire...

Prix Locus 2016 du meilleur roman courtUne aventure interstellaire autour de la guerre, de l'identité, de la trahison et de la préservation même de la civilisation humaine.Un vaste conflit, qui a englobé...

Découvrez Brage, le label de formats courts des éditions Bragelonne !   Dans la complexe et surprenante nouvelle que nous présentons ici (et qui compose en fait un triptyque avec deux autres nouvelles...

« Reynolds enveloppe sa science-fiction d'un indémodable sentiment d'émerveillement. » GuardianAprès un emprisonnement qui a duré plusieurs milliards d'années, les terribles Silds ont réussi à s'échapper....

Dans plusieurs millions d’années… Ayant essaimé à travers l’ensemble de la Galaxie, l’humanité s’est divisée en une myriade de cultures et civilisations adaptées à des contraintes environnementales et...

Mars, d’ici deux décennies… Au début, ils ont cru pouvoir y échapper. Jusqu’à ce que la Catastrophe, un virus militarisé qui a fauché l’humanité en un temps record, frappe la colonie à son tour. Aussi,...

Qui est Silas Coade ? Où se trouve-t-il ? Et quand ? Un médecin, sans doute, à bord de la goélette Demeter, à l’orée du XIXe siècle, perdu dans les eaux norvégiennes en quête d’un Édifice dont il ignore...

Ils sont la lignée Gentiane, la maison des fleurs. Ils sont mille. Mille clones âgés de six millions d’années, tous issus d’Abigail Gentian et d’une époque où l’humanité n’était encore qu’à l’orée de...

Je me suis sentie tout à coup très seule, vulnérable. Une brise soufflait de la mer et me projetait du sable dans les yeux. Le soleil basculait vers l’horizon et il ferait bientôt froid. Au moment où...

« Nous allons ici entreprendre un voyage au-delà des frontières propre à faire voler en éclat bon nombre d’idées préconçues sur le réel et la fiction, sur la politique et la littérature, sur le jeu et...

NOUVELLES INÉDITESCabinessence ou la vie de Brian, de Jacques BARBÉRIWinnie l’ourson ne se pique pas, Stéphanie BENSONLe Manteau noir, de Daniel WALTHERLive At Budokan, de Alastair REYNOLDSIn the court...

Eversion is a superb, original Gothic SF novel. A small group of intrepid explorers are in search of a remote and mysterious artefact. It's a well-funded expedition, well organised, which is lucky as...

Welcome to the quaint town of Ledstow, where magic whispers through the trees and secrets linger in every shadow. When a shocking murder rocks the musical community, Esther finds herself entangled in...

As the world falls apart around them, piece by piece, Abigail Fuller spends humanity's final days looking after her husband David.But that's not true, not really. Abigail isn't David's wife. She's not...

A Suspect Quartet is the fourth book in The Suspect Speaker Series. It has four novelettes (well, three longer short stories and one novelette) about people with aphasia. The stories are gritty, tragic,...

She might win the throne. She might destroy an empire. Either way, it begins with murder.After twenty-four years on the throne, it is time for Bersun the Brusque, emperor of Orrun, to bring his reign...

Fate is the darkest curse of all.  Nadine We've reclaimed Octavia Falls and are restoring what was turned to ruin, but the priestesses remain a threat. The Miriamic Coven is looking to us to protect them...

A bloodless corpse and a stranger in town. It's happening again.Terror returns to Dante's Hallow. Nicholas Harwood and his unlikely group of companions, both the living and the dead, must find a way to...

The thing is more than two kilometers wide and high and yet it moves with the grace of a ballet dancer. But its come to human space not to dance but to experiment on the human race by pulling it apart...

In the storm-lashed remnants of a forgotten farmhouse, a neglected boy named Thomas Rourke discovers a hidden attic room containing an ancient artifact—an obsidian figurine—and the Book of Shadows. As...

In a world where magic and mystery collide, one man's quest for truth unleashes a power that threatens to consume everything. Riven's journey is one of self-discovery and redemption, but the stakes are...

It's finally time for Bubba the Monster Hunter to face his most terrifying challenge yet - marriage!That's right, Bubba's back and more ridiculous than ever, and this one ends with wedding bells! But...

With their wedding around the corner, Beatrice and Lincoln have a lot at stake. Secrets are amassing between the members of the royal family Beatrice is about to join, and she's supposed to keep them...

In a world where virtual reality gaming lets players shape their own stories, Nick desperately wants to join the beta test for Omen Galaxica's revolutionary AI update. There's just one catch - he needs...

Welcome to Carabas, where cats and dogs live together—but harmony comes at a price.Searching for his missing Siamese girlfriend Moira, feline journalist Julius Kyle bravely ventures beyond the city he...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books'He stretched out his two long, lank arms, that looked like spider’s claws, and seemed to embrace with them the expanse before him'His inheritance...

The Last Village Burned Approximate length: 6,200 words.In a near-future Earth scarred by war, ecological collapse, and AI overreach, one man walks the ruins not as a soldier—but as something else.Thomas...

This ebook contains Oscar Wilde's complete works. This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook)...

A funny, emotional and uplifting novel from the French Marian Keyes. 'Heartwarming' Good Housekeeping'A gorgeous story, charming and funny and poignant' Nicola Cornick For fans of Ruth Hogan, Veronica...

The instant number one Sunday Times bestseller and thrilling sequel to the global phenomenon, Fourth Wing! THE IRON FLAME PAPERBACK EDITION INCLUDES A BRAND NEW CHAPTER FROM XADEN'S POINT OF VIEW!'Yarros...

What The Lord of the Rings is to fantasy, Dune is to science fiction. Presenting one of the most influential works of all time, which has inspired countless other stories for more than half a century,...

DON'T BE THE LAST TO DISCOVER THE SERIES THAT EVERYONE CAN'T STOP TALKING ABOUT: 'Pure escapism - think Hunger Games meets Fifty Shades' The Sun'We weren't expecting to become obsessed . . . but we very...

A heart-wrenching grim cozy pirate's tale with a little bit of romance. This is not 'Cozy' in the traditional sense, unless you find misery and betrayal to be as comforting as a cup of hot cocoa."This...

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU Newspeak, Doublethink, Big Brother, the Thought Police - the language of 1984 has passed into the English language as a symbol of the horrors of totalitarianism. George Orwell's...

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Winston Smith rewrites history. It’s his...

This ebook compiles Jule Verne's complete collection, including "Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", "Journey to the Interior of the Earth", "The Mysterious Island", "Around the World in Eighty Days",...

WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST ALL-TIME SERIES The Foundation series is Isaac Asimov’s iconic masterpiece. Unfolding against the backdrop of a crumbling Galactic Empire,...

The hauntingly prophetic classic novel. Over 1 million copies sold in the UK. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being...

“At once a scholar’s homage to The Iliad and startlingly original work of art by an incredibly talented new novelist….A book I could not put down.”—Ann Patchett“Mary Renault lives again!” declares Emma...

What The Lord of the Rings is to fantasy, Dune is to science fiction. Presenting Dune Messiah, the sequel to one of the most influential works of all time, which has inspired countless other stories for...

THE INSPIRATION FOR HBO AND SKY TV’S EMMY NOMINATED HOUSE OF THE DRAGON. Centuries before A Game of Thrones, an even greater game began, one that set the skies alight with dragon...

'It does everything you'd expect of a masterpiece - and it is one' Sunday Express'Hums and crackles with delicious unease' Independent'Captivating' The Sunday Times'An absorbing thriller' Mail on SundayNO...