Science fiction: near future

Roderik is a robot and he's on the run in the USA of the very near future.

Wompler's Walking Babies once put Millford, Utah, on the map.

Towards the end of the twenty-first century 41 Worlds, small satellites with a total population of half a million, orbit the Earth, which has seen many changes, not least of which is a second revolution in America.

Immortality can be yours .

After the extinction of humans, how do you define humanity?

Lew Nichols' business, at the end of the twentieth century, was stochastic prediction - high-powered guesswork.

Simeon Krug's obsession is to see a tower built, on kilometre high, that will reach out to answer the voice from space.

Duncan Chalk is a monstrous media mogul with a vast appetite for other people's pain.

It was a sultry summer day in 1981, and the 3 billion or so inhabitants of the world went about their daily routine unaware that, possibly, the fate of the human race lay in the shaking hands of one George Mercer, an insignificant and slightly neurotic employee of the New York City Department of Welfare.

Marvin Martin, the show's host, is angry.

Britain in the near future: the country is heading toward ecological disaster, chemical waste is seeping into people's brains, deadly parasites contaminate food - and the despotic fascist government is trying to keep it all quiet.

He was the most dangerous fugitive alive, but he didn't exist!

There was a cure for depression and unemployment.

Matthew Flamen, the last of the networks' spoolpigeons, is desperate for a big story.

It was carnival time on Earth.

Ciudad de Vados was the pride of Latin America - a gleaming city of the future where only ten years before there had been barren rock and wasteland.

By the twenty-first century the world was drowning in its own population.

Howson was a runt.

A daring novel of mankind's strange and startling destiny.

A classic science fiction tale of artifical worlds by one of the great American writers of the 20th centuryGlen Runciter is dead.

World War Terminus had left the Earth devastated.

A landmark book in the fields of science fiction and feminism.

The Spiral: where past and present meet, where myth and legend infiltrate the mundane world, where Hy Brasil and Babylon are but a short voyage away - via the cloud archipelagos.

The solar system's greatest thief is wanted for murder.

"e;McAuley gives us a vision .

"e;This is writing with the brakes off and the adrenaline pumped to high"e; - Liz Holiday, SCI-FI NOW"e;.

'NORTH IS AN ORIGINAL AND EVEN DAZZLING WRITER' KirkusFrom the award-winning, bestselling Claire North comes a brand new stand-alone novella - a clever and unnervingly plausible dystopian tale set five minutes into the future .

Mad Max meets X-Men in this razor-sharp dystopian novella by the Philip K.

It's a brave new Britain under the New Management.

'SPECTACULAR!

Against Gravity is a stunning sci-fi thriller from Gary Gibson, author of the Shoal Sequence.

The Confederation Handbook by Peter F.

Seamlessly blending space opera, hard science fiction and cyberpunk, Neal Asher's Shadow of the Scorpion is a gripping prequel to the compelling Agent Cormac series.

In a ravaged near-future England, a private detective with psychic powers might be the last hope standing between mankind and total collapse.

A morbid assassination - or something even darker?

The Voyage of the Sable Keech returns to Neal Asher's water-bound world of Spatterjay, teeming with bizarre characters and gruesome monsters.

Set in a lethal waterworld where sudden death is a way of life, The Skinner is the first novel in the far-future Spatterjay series by Neal Asher.

Polity Agent is the fourth novel in Neal Asher's popular Agent Cormac series.

Old enemies meet on new worlds in The Line of Polity, the second novel in Neal Asher's popular Agent Cormac series.

Discover action, intrigue and mind-bending science in Hilldiggers, a gripping science fiction novel from Neal Asher where four siblings holding the keys to unthinkable power.

The hunter becomes the hunted in Gridlinked, the first sci-fi thriller in Neal Asher's compelling Agent Cormac series.

Cowl is a high-octane time travel adventure from Britain's master of widescreen science fiction, Neal Asher.

No one can outrun the past in Brass Man, is the third novel in Neal Asher's popular Agent Cormac series.

Six short stories and a novella from a master of science fiction, Peter F.

A gripping introduction to the world of Peter F.

A stunning science fiction debut, The Space Between Worlds is both a cross-dimensional adventure and a powerful examination of identity, privilege, and belonging.

A centuries-long mission to reach a mysterious star unfolds through a series of vignettes across generations in this "e;spectacular epic"e; sci-fi novel (Kirkus, starred review).

The debut standalone novel from author Edward Ashton, author of Mickey7, THREE DAYS IN APRIL is a near-future speculative thriller that marks the entry of a bright new voice into the genre.

The sequel to the critically acclaimed The God Wave is a "e;fast-paced, thought-provoking techno-thriller"e; about a coup by genetically engineered humans (Publishers Weekly).

A team of neuroscientists uncovers amazing new capabilities in the brain that may steer human evolution toward miraculous and deadly frontiers in this spectacular debut work of speculative science fiction-Limitless meets James Rollins-that combines spirituality and science in an inventive, mind-blowing fashionFor decades, scientists have speculated about the untapped potential of the human brain.