Science fiction: near-future
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Antarctica station
£9.99Antarctica station
Dr. Laura Reynolds had it all. A job she loved. The respect of her peers. Student debt she was slowly chipping away at. And one day, she lost everything. She saw the wrong thing – a colleague’s mistake. And to escape, he framed her. To avoid prison, Laura reluctantly agrees to join a secretive research project in Antarctica, where she hopes to keep practicing medicine and someday get her life back. But soon after arriving, she realizes that things at this advanced facility aren’t what they seem. And perhaps something strange is happening in the world outside.
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Momenticon
£9.99Momenticon
The world has become a dangerous place. Despite the environmentalists’ best efforts, the atmosphere has turned toxic, destroying almost all life – plants, animals, and most of humanity too. Survivors live in domes protected by chitin shields, serving one or other of the two great companies, Lord Vane’s Tempestas or Lord Sine’s Genrich, with their very different visions for mankind’s future. A long period of uneasy collaboration between them is about to end. When a single mysterious pill – a momenticon – appears in the Museum and triggers a series of bewildering events, embroiling Fogg and his unexpected new companions in a desperate fight against the dark forces which threaten to overwhelm all that remains. And time is running out.
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Simul
£10.99Simul
‘Remember Simul’ – the last words of a dying man, and the key to mankind’s survival. Words which will take Morag, Fogg and their friends on a wild ride through caverns and over mountain tops, into old paintings, to a university unlike any other and up the lethal Tower of No Return. A ride where mythical beasts and legendary monster-hunters – and the forces of a corrupt establishment led by the murderous Cosmo Vane – lie in wait. And all the while, the weather-watchers look on and bide their time. It’s a race against extinction for Morag and Fogg and finally everyone – for nature herself is also bent on vengeance. ‘Simul’ is the sequel to ‘Momenticon’.
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The future
£9.99The future
‘Gripping’ MARGARET ATWOOD
‘A fabulous, witty writer on the digital world’ SUNDAY TIMES
‘A little Atwood, a little Gibson, all Alderman, it’s brilliant and I loved it’ LAUREN BEUKES
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The lost cause
£9.99The lost cause
It’s thirty years from now. We’re making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely. But what about all the angry old people who can’t let go? For young Americans a generation from now, climate change isn’t controversial. It’s just an overwhelming fact of life. And so are the great efforts to contain and mitigate it. Entire cities are being moved inland from the rising seas. Vast clean-energy projects are springing up everywhere. Disaster relief, the mitigation of floods and superstorms, has become a skill for which tens of millions of people are trained every year. The effort is global. It employs everyone who wants to work. ‘The Lost Cause’ asks: What do we do about people who cling to the belief that their own children are the enemy? When, in fact, they’re often the elders that we love?
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