Synopsis:
Before being sewn-together,
Heraclix was dead—merely a pile of mismatched pieces, collected from the
corpses of many troubled men. And Pomp was immortal—at least, so she
thought. That was before her impossible near-murder at the hands of the
necromancer, Heraclix's creator. But when playing God, even the smallest
error is a gargantuan weakness. When the necromancer makes his,
Heraclix and Pomp begin their epic flight.
As they travel from Vienna to
Prague to Istanbul and, even, to Hell itself, they struggle to
understand who and what they are: who was Heraclix before his death and
rebirth? What is mortality, and why does it suddenly concern Pomp? As
they journey through an unruly eighteenth century, they discover that
the necromancer they thought dead might not be quite so after all. In
fact, he may have sealed his immortality at the expense of everyone
alive . . .
Breq is a soldier who used to be a
warship. Once a weapon of conquest controlling thousands of minds, now
she has only a single body and serves the emperor.
With a new ship and a troublesome
crew, Breq is ordered to go to the only place in the galaxy she would a
agree to go: to Athoek Station to protect the family of a lieutenant
she once knew - a lieutenant she murdered in cold blood.
Synopsis:
Award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan has invited some of the best and
most exciting writers working in fantasy today to let their imaginations
run wild and to deliver stories that will thrill and awe, delight and
amuse. And above all, stories that are filled with fearsome magic!
Authors include Garth Nix, K.J. Parker, Justina Robson, Ellen Klages,
Christopher Rowe, Isobelle Carmody, Tony Ballantyne, James Bradley,
Karin Tidbeck, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Frances Hardinger, Kaaron Warren,
Genevieve Valentine and Robert Shearman.
Synopsis:
The mantis cyborgs: insectlike, cruel, and determined to wipe humanity from the face of the galaxy.
The Fleet is humanity’s last
chance: a multi-world, multi-national task force assembled to hold the
line against the aliens’ overwhelming technology and firepower. Enter
Harrison Barlow, who like so many young men of wars past, simply wants
to serve his people and partake of the grand adventure of military life.
Only, Harrison is not a hot pilot, nor a crack shot with a rifle. What
good is a Chaplain’s Assistant in the interstellar battles which will
decide the fate of all?
More than he thinks. Because
while the mantis insectoids are determined to eliminate the human threat
to mantis supremacy, they remember the errors of their past. Is there
the slightest chance that humans might have value? Especially since
humans seem to have the one thing the mantes explicitly do not: an
innate ability to believe in what cannot be proven nor seen God.
Captured and stranded behind enemy lines, Barlow must come to grips with
the fact that he is not only bargaining for his own life, but the lives
of everyone he knows and loves. And so he embarks upon an improbable
gambit, determined to alter the course of the entire war.
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