Three hundred years in the future, Verity Auger is a specialist in the archaeological exploration of Earth, rendered uninhabitable after the technological catastrophe known as the Nanocaust. After a field-trip to goes badly wrong, Verity is forced to redeem herself by participating in a dangerous mission, for which her expertise …

Revelation Space was my first published novel. The book had a confused genesis. Somewhere in 1986, I started work on a long short story which I hoped to submit to the “Writers of the Future” competition. Unfortunately, my story ended up longer than the limit for the competition, which I …

Six million years ago, at the dawn of the star-faring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones, which she called shatterlings. But now, someone is eliminating the Gentian line.
Campion and Purslane-two shatterlings who have fallen in love and shared forbidden experiences-must determine exactly who, or …

Chiku Yellow is earthbound: living a peaceful life on a changing world as humanity explores a thousand new ways to experience life.
Chiku Red is space-bound: blasted into deep space to investigate Eunice Akinya’s last journey, and maybe discover the final secrets of space travel.
Chiku Green is planet-bound: travelling thousands of …

Tanner Mirabel was a security specialist who never made a mistake ¿ until the day a woman in his care was blown away by Argent Reivich, a vengeful young postmortal. Tanner¿s pursuit of Reivich takes him across light-years of space to Chasm City, the domed human settlement on the otherwise …

Our protagonists find themselves in situations of betrayal, whether by a loved one’s accidental death, as in ‘Signal to Noise’, or by a trusted wartime authority, in ‘Spirey and the Queen’. His fertile imagination can resurrect Elton John on Mars in ‘Understanding Space and Time’ or make prophets of the …

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 enforced – level of technology. Horsetown is pre-industrial; in Neon Heights they have television and electric trains …

One hundred and fifty years from now, in a world where Africa is the dominant technological and economic power, and where crime, war, disease and poverty have been banished to history, Geoffrey Akinya wants only one thing: to be left in peace, so that he can continue his studies into …