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Gollancz ISBN 978-0-7432-7618-4, £7.99.
America, 1984 - not our version of America, but an America that calls itself the Real, an America in which the invention of Turing Gates has allowed it access to sheaves of alternate histories. For ten years, in the name of democracy, the Real has been waging clandestine wars and fomenting revolution, freeing versions of America from communist or fascist rule, and extending its influence across a wide variety of alternate realities. But the human and political costs have proven too high, and new President Jimmy Carter has called an end to war, and is bringing troops and secret agents home. Adam Stone is called out of retirement when his former comrade, Tom Waverly, begins to murder different versions of the same person, mathematician Eileen Barrie. Aided by Waverly's daughter, Linda, Adam hunts for his old friend across different sheaves, but when they finally catch up with Waverly, they discover that they have stumbled into the middle of an audicious conspiracy that plans to exploite a new property of the Turing Gates: it will change not only the history of the Real, but that of every other sheaf, including our own.
Gollancz ISBN 13:: 978-0-57508-110-9 £7.99.
A near future thriller in which Alex Sharkey, a drug designer, becomes involved with a brilliant but dangerous little girl, Milena, and unwittingly helps initiate the process which changes dolls, blue-skinned gengineered creatures designed for work, amusement or destruction, into self-aware fairies. London, Paris, Tirana.
WINNER OF THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AND JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARDS.
Gollancz ISBN 978-0575086593 £7.99
An alternate history set in 16th Century Florence transformed by the inventions of the Great Engineer Leonardo Da Vinci.
WINNER OF THE SIDEWISE AWARD.
Gollancz ISBN 978-0575086609 £7.99
Mars has been partially terraformed by the Chinese, but now it is dying. With the help of Yankee Yak herders, a hardwired assassin and a little girl god, Wei Lee, dupe, womanizer and holy fool, stumbles on a plot that has been spinning for decades, and is catapulted on a journey that will take him to the summit of the biggest volcano in the Solar System and a battle in virtual reality for the future of Mars and humanity. Sex and drugs and rock'n'roll . . . and Mars.
Gollancz ISBN 978-0575086401 £7.99
One of the earliest manifestations of the New Space Opera, cutting a swathe from Titan to the centre of the galaxy, and back again.
Gollancz ISBN-13 978-0575090033 £7.99
Dorthy Yoshida, astronomer, empath, is sent on a mission to help unriddle the mysteries of a planoformed world orbiting a red dwarf star. Aliens, weird biology, and violent ancient history that threatens humanity's first steps on the interstellar stage.
WINNER OF THE PHILIP K DICK AWARD.