by Alastair Reynolds (2007)
The first short story collection by "ONE OF SCIENCE FICTION'S BEST AND MOST AMBITIOUS NOVELISTS"(SFX).With eight short stories and novellas, Galactic North imparts the centuriesspanning events that have produced this dark and turbulent world.Centuries from now, solidarity stretches thin as humanity spreads past the solar system and to the nearest stars. Technology has produced powerful new tools, but lethal risk accompanies each new advancement.
Andre Norton and Lyn McConchie
All of Witch World knows to fear the hated, fire-eyed Keplian horses who lure riders to their deaths. All that is, save for one young Native American girl new to Witch World, who rescues a Keplian mare and her foal and discovers an awesome truth--the Keplians were created to serve light, not darkness, and to ride with humans. This is the first in a new trilogy.
Nick Harkaway
A hilarious, action-packed look at the apocalypse that combines a touching tale of friendship, a thrilling war story, and an all out kung-fu infused mission to save the world. Gonzo Lubitch and his best friend have been inseparable since birth. They grew up together, they studied kung-fu together, they rebelled in college together, and they fought in the Go Away War together. Now, with the world in shambles and dark, nightmarish clouds billowing over the wastelands, they have been tapped for an incredibly perilous mission. But they quickly realize that this assignment is more complex than it seems, and before it is over they will have encountered everything from mimes, ninjas, and pirates to one ultra-sinister mastermind, whose only goal is world domination.
(by) Brian W. Aldiss
Jostling through the light and shadow of Malacia's streets goes a crowd of people: dukes, wealthy merchants, bankrupt families, actresses, priests, courtesans, spongers, soldiers, and down-at-heel showmen. They are seen through the eyes of Perian di Chirolo, actor and man-about-town, whose adventures take him through all strata of Malacian society and into the heart of its darkest secrets, lay and spiritual. Episodes idyllic and chilling follow each other in comic succession. In this deeply divided world of pageant and squalor, de Chirolo slays a ferocious ancestral monster and seeks the hand — and somewhat more than the hand — of Armida Iloytola, daughter of a social climber. While he roisters with his friends or indulges in the acting which is so much a part of his life, nemesis is creeping up on him in its underhand way. Behind the drama stands the attractive enigma of Malacia itself. An age-old city-state where change is forbidden, lingering under the spell of its magicians, Malacia is riddled with rival philosophies where scholars hold that humanity is descended from dinosaurs. Malacia may exist on an alternate world to ours. Or it may be its creeds that set it apart. This atmospheric novel, illustrated with drawings by the eighteenth-century painters G. B. Tiepolo, and Francesco Maggiotto, sets out in dramatic form many of the conflicts and contradictions of our own day and is the most excitingly original story yet told by an author of incomparable vitality and imagination.
Glen Cook
The old evils, the Instrumentalities from the Time Before Time, have begun to ooze back into the world and Piper Hecht's sister Heris and his living ancestor Cloven Februaren, the Ninth Unknown, have made Piper part of their fight against the return of the dark god Kharoulke the Windwalker.