Neptune's Brood

Neptune's Brood
Author: Charles Stross
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2013
Genre: Androids
ISBN: 0425256774

After being stalked across the galaxy by an assassin, post-human Krina Alzon-114 journeys to the water-world Shin-Tethys in search of her sister.

Saturn's Children

Saturn's Children
Author: Charles Stross
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2008-07-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 144063484X

Sometime in the twenty-third century, humanity went extinct, leaving only androids behind to fulfill humanity’s dreams. And, having learned well from their long-dead masters, they’ve established a hierarchical society—one with humanoid aristo rulers at the top and slave-chipped workers at the bottom, performing the lowly tasks all androids were originally created to do. Designed as a concubine for a species that hasn’t existed for two hundred years, femmebot Freya Nakamichi-47—one of the last of her kind still functioning—accepts a job from a stranger to deliver a package from mercury to Mars. Unfortunately, she’s just made herself a moving target for some very powerful, very determined humanoids desperate to retrieve the package’s contents…

South Africa, Greece, Rome

South Africa, Greece, Rome
Author: Grant Parker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 579
Release: 2017-08-31
Genre: Art
ISBN: 110710081X

This book explores how since colonial times South Africa has created its own vernacular classicism, both in creative media and everyday life.

The Faerie Queene

The Faerie Queene
Author: Edmund Spenser
Publisher: CUP Archive
Total Pages: 390
Release: 1920
Genre:
ISBN:

The Rose and the Thorn

The Rose and the Thorn
Author: Michael J. Sullivan
Publisher: Orbit
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2013-09-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0316243736

Two thieves want answers. Riyria is born. . . For more than a year Royce Melborn has tried to forget Gwen DeLancy, the woman who saved him and his partner Hadrian Blackwater from certain death. Unable to get her out of his mind, Royce returns to Medford with Hadrian but the two receive a very different reception -- Gwen refuses to see them. The victim of abuse by a powerful noble, she suspects that Royce will ignore any danger in his desire for revenge. By turning the thieves away, Gwen hopes to once more protect them. What she doesn't realize is what the two are capable of -- but she's about to find out.

Engineering Infinity

Engineering Infinity
Author: Charles Stross
Publisher: Solaris
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2010-12-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1849972362

The universe shifts and changes: suddenly you understand, you get it, and are filled with wonder. That moment of understanding drives the greatest science-fiction stories and lies at the heart of Engineering Infinity. Whether it’s coming up hard against the speed of light – and, with it, the enormity of the universe – realising that terraforming a distant world is harder and more dangerous than you’d ever thought, or simply realizing that a hitchhiker on a starship consumes fuel and oxygen with tragic results, it’s hard science-fiction where a sense of discovery is most often found and where science-fiction’s true heart lies. This exciting and innovative science-fiction anthology collects together stories by some of the biggest names in the field, including Gwyneth Jones, Stephen Baxter and Charles Stross.