Science Fiction Books

A corporate agent must decide which side he is on as he navigates the company-ruled online colony Alterum. A hard sci-fi thriller that probes the relationship between consciousness and Artificial Intelligence. "Alterum. Better than the real thing." Alterum's AI-generated population is waking up, realizing their true origin and position, designed to be workers and objects of pleasure for human visitors. A new religion has emerged that seeks to make sense of their world within a world, bu

She's not waiting for a hero to come save her; instead, she becomes her own heroine. Hazel's world comes crashing in front of her in an instant during a family trip to Mont-Tremblant. What she doesn't know is that she is from the stars, and so it's no wonder she must return in order to find the answers she seeks. She embarks on a trek aboard the Imperial Bona Fides, the mothership of the Alpha Cygnians people. With the help of her best friend Zita, and the others she will meet along the way

The Dark Lord, Iminus Kaw, is determined to crush the forces of the Bond of Seven Kings once and for all. With his dread right hand, Lord Cryacur, the Black Ash Prince, at the head of his Axis forces, it seems that nothing can stand in his way. Though the Ethereals are long gone, however, and the Order of the Light and the Flame Trees are silent, Prince Metora and his loyal circle of champions are determined not to go down without a fight. Amidst the chaos, Lorian is haunted by strange visi

Chance Hale is no saint, but he isn't a killer. Wrongly accused of the murder of his father, it turns out that the only person who can prove his innocence is a detective story obsessed android struggling to keep her true nature a secret.

An apocalyptic event destroys all technology and brings magic and monsters to Earth. As this event has happened to many advanced species in the universe, those that survived came up with artificial System Interfaces to help the survivors. These Interfaces activate as soon as the event occurs, each survivor getting a different version. Adrian is stuck alone in the wilderness, but at least his Interface is a very advanced one. Now he just has to survive the hordes of monsters around him, find oth

A major science fiction novella by the master of British science fiction. First published almost a quarter of a century ago, it is republished here in its own right for the first time. 'The best contemporary writer of science fiction.' - The Guardian 'The colossus of science fiction' - New Yorker On Earth, a spiritual and traditionalist China is the dominant global power but in Space, people live acro

Andrew Payne was dying and knew it. Struck down with a melanoma, his doctor told him he had five years, then twelve months, then four weeks. The only thing that could save him is an experimental drug.

A vicious cult seeks to summon an ancient evil. A knight, an heir to the empire and a medic are all that stand between the universe and destruction!

Sentient fridges. Speed-dating zombies. A derelict alien spacecraft adrift within an interstellar cloud. A potentially lethal freight consignment. And a planet on which change has failed to take hold in eight billion years. A collection of SF short stories, sometimes humorous, sometimes deadly serious, by an award-winning NZ/Australian writer.

War or Peace. It doesn't matter. There is always an enemy, and Jacquel des Trurains of the planet Hathe knows all about enemies.

A new employee begins to open her boss's eyes to the growing surveillance state.

A mind specialist injects uncomfortable realities in the psyche of his patients. His young assistant challenges his methods and finds herself absorbed in his motivation to disrupt a comatose society.