Smash the Monday blues with some hardcore grimdark action: Andy Remic’s The Iron Wolves will hack and grind all your suffering into beautiful book tears. Read the first three chapters here, for free, and take control of your week.
Thirty years ago, the Iron Wolves held back mud-orc hordes at the Pass of Splintered Bones, and led a brutal charge that saw the
Happy Friday! If you haven’t explored the City of 100 Rows, now is an excellent time. The first in Ian Whates’ amazing fantasy series, City of Dreams & Nightmare is the new Gormenghast – “brilliantly executed novel, perfectly paced, beautifully described and a true joy to read.” (ScienceFictionandFantasy.co.uk)
They call it the City of a Hundred Rows.
The ancient city of Thaiburley is a vast, multi-tiered metropolis, where the poor live in the City Below and demons are said to dwell in
Time for a freebie! Get started on Lost Gods by Micah Yongo for free – check out the first three chapters of Micah’s lush action-packed fantasy novel right here.
Neythan is one of five young warriors trained and raised together by a mysterious brotherhood of assassins known as the Shedaím. When Neythan is framed for the murder of his closest friend, he pursues his betrayer – and in so doing learns
Break up your day with a spot of steampunk mystery: The Bookman by Lavie Tidhar. Enjoy the first three chapters on us, right here.
When his beloved is killed in a terrorist atrocity committed by the sinister Bookman, young poet Orphan becomes enmeshed in a web of secrets and lies. His quest to uncover the truth takes him from the hidden catacombs of a London on the brink of revolution, through pirate-infested seas, to the mysterious
Ready for something extraordinary? Read the first two chapters of the brilliant hard SF debut Quietus by Tristan Palmgren which mashes up the black death with an awesome intergalactic conspiracy… aww hell – ya gotta read it!
In medieval Italy, Niccolucio, a young Florentine Carthusian monk, leads a devout life until the Black Death kills all of his brothers, leaving him alone and filled with doubt. Habidah, an anthropologist from an
It really sucks when it’s your last day on the job and then dragons show up… Reading should be all of the fun and we’ve got a giant winged heap of fun for you: check out the first three chapters of Sean Grigsby’s Smoke Eaters for free now.
Firefighter Cole Brannigan is on the verge of retirement after 30 years on the job, and a decade fighting dragons.
Are you ready to get wrapped up in a whole new magical world? Splendid, let us continue. We’re delighted to show off the first two chapters of Jasmine Gower’s debut novel, Moonshine.
In the flourishing metropolis of Soot City (a fantastical version of 1920s Chicago), progressive ideals reign and the old ways of magic and liquid mana are forbidden. Daisy Dell is a Modern Girl – stylish, educated and independent – keen
We’ve been desperate to get back to Tanegawa’s World after reading Hunger Makes the Wolf, and now you can too – here are the first two chapters of Alex Wells‘ magnificent Blood Binds the Pack.
War is coming to Hob Ravani’s world. The company that holds it in monopoly, TransRift Inc, has at last found what they’re looking for–the source of the power that enables their
It’s here. Oh my GOODNESS, it’s here!
The new cover for Jeff Noon‘s The Body Library has arrived and it’s just as wonderful as you’d expect. Our thanks, as always, to Amazing15 for such a great design.
The Body Library continues the adventures of John Nyquist – who we first met in last August’s A Man of Shadows – as he enters a city where stories take on a life of their own.
Here’s the synopsis:
In a city where words come to life and reality is infected by stories, private eye John Nyquist wakes up in a
The Tides of War returns! Fallen Gods, James A Moore’s sequel to the acclaimed The Last Sacrifice is here at last. Brogan McTyre and his band of warriors are takin
g on their deities, it’s a hell of a ride…
Brogan McTyre and his compatriots are wanted, dead or alive. Preferably alive, so they can be sacrificed to the raging gods. All they can do is hire more mercenaries and turn
Nik Korpon’s The Rebellion’s Last Traitor is “an explosive tale of betrayal and revenge in which allegiances prove as dangerous and unreliable as the memories the citizens of Eitan City buy and sell. Korpon crosses genre lines with ease, and imbues this post-apocalyptic tale with the rhythm and immediacy of crime fiction.” (Chris Holm, Anthony Award-winning author of Red Right Hand and The Killing Kind.)
Since the first one was brilliant, we are even more excited to reveal the cover of Korpon’s dystopian SF sequel, Queen of the Struggle, which follows the fate of Eitan City and the further challenges Henraek faces.
See the brand new
Read the first two chapters of Tim Pratt’s superb space opera, The Wrong Stars, right here. Its galactic scope and wonderful crew make this a real delight.
The shady crew of the White Raven run freight and salvage at the fringes of our solar system. They discover the wreck of a centuries-old exploration vessel floating light years away from its intended destination and revive its sole occupant, who wakes with
The sky’s the limit in Joseph Brassey’s wild adventure through the Drifting Lands, Skyfarer. It’s bloody brilliant fun, so we’re giving you the first couple of chapters for free!
The Axiom Diamond is a mythical relic, with the power to show its bearer any truth they desire. Men have sought for it across many continents for centuries, but in vain. When trainee sorceress Aimee de Laurent’s
Ever wondered what would happen if we uploaded everyone’s minds at the point of death?
Well in his brand new novel, The Uploaded, Ferrett Steinmetz has done just that and it turns out it might not be so fun for the living…
Life sucks and then you die…
In the near future, the elderly have moved online and now live within the computer network. But that
Good news – Edmund Templeton and Istvan Czernin are back!
This time, our heroes are under siege as they struggle to establish a new order in Paige Orwin’s Immortal Architects, the vivid sequel to The Interminables.
Intrigued? Excited? Then read the synopsis below:
Edmund Templeton, a time-manipulating sorcerer, and Istvan Czernin, the deathless spirit of WWI, are the most powerful agents of the magical cabal now ruling the US East Coast. Their struggle to establish a new order in the wake of magical catastrophe is under siege: cults flourish and
Need another hero? Meet Lincoln Suh and the Outriders – a crack team of near-immortal super soldiers engaged in spec ops in outer space! You’ll love Sungrazer, the standalone sequel to Jay Posey’s Outriders, and you can read the first two chapters on us, right now.
In a new Cold War between Earth and the colonies on Mars, when devastating weapons go missing, there’s only one team you can call – the Outriders. A
