The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village. An orphan of the Black Death, and an almost unnerving picture of innocence, she tells Thomas that plague is only part of a larger cataclysm—that the fallen angels under Lucifer are rising in a second war on heaven, and that the world of men has fallen behind the lines of conflict. Is it delirium or is it faith? She believes she has seen the angels of God. She believes the righteous dead speak to her in dreams. And now she has convinced the faithless Thomas to shepherd her across a depraved landscape to Avignon. There, she tells Thomas, she will fulfill her mission to confront the evil that has devastated the earth, and to restore to this betrayed, murderous knight the nobility and hope of salvation he long abandoned. As hell unleashes its wrath, and as the true nature of the girl is revealed, Thomas will find himself on a macabre battleground of angels and demons, saints, and the risen dead, and in the midst of a desperate struggle for nothing less than the soul of man.

Ex Machina meets This is How You Lose the Time War: Seth Haddon's science fiction debut, Volatile Memory, is a heart-filled, vengeful sapphic sci-fi action adventure novella.With nothing but a limping ship and an outdated mask to her name, Wylla needs a big pay day. When the call goes out that a lucrative piece of tech is waiting on a nearby planet, she relies on all the swiftness of her prey animal instincts to beat other hunters to it.What you found wasn’t your ticket out—it was my corpse wearing an AI mask. When you touched the mask, you heard my voice. A consciousness spinning through metal and circuits, a bodiless mind, spun to life in the HAWK’s temporary storage. I crystallized, and I was alive.Masks aren't supposed to retain memory, much less identity, but the woman inside the MARK I HAWK is real, and she sees Wylla in a way no one ever has. Sees her, and doesn’t find her wanting or unwhole. Armed with military-grade tech and a lifetime of staying one step ahead of the hunters, Wylla and HAWK set off to get answers from the man who discarded HAWK once her ex-husband.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

50th Anniversary Edition, with a new introduction by David Mitchell and a new afterword by Charlie Jane Anders Ursula K. Le Guin’s groundbreaking work of science fiction—winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. A lone human ambassador is sent to the icebound planet of Winter, a world without sexual prejudice, where the inhabitants’ gender is fluid. His goal is to facilitate Winter’s inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the strange, intriguing culture he encounters... Embracing the aspects of psychology, society, and human emotion on an alien world, The Left Hand of Darkness stands as a landmark achievement in the annals of intellectual science fiction.

Schelvis groeit op onder de rook van de staalfabriek in een klein dorp aan de kust. Alle dorpelingen werken in de fabriek, of in een van de omliggende magazijnen, tot aan hun dood. Maar Schelvis en hun vrienden dromen van een ander lot: ze willen geen dienaars, maar meesters worden. De grote stad lijkt mogelijkheden te bieden. Lukt het Schelvis om los te breken? En hoe radicaal moet hen daarvoor zijn? Overgave op commando gaat over het verschil tussen mensen die hun lot mogen kiezen en mensen die hun lot moeten ondergaan.

Schelvis groeit op onder de rook van de staalfabriek in een klein dorp aan de kust. Alle dorpelingen werken in de fabriek, of in een van de omliggende magazijnen, tot aan hun dood. Maar Schelvis en hun vrienden dromen van een ander lot: ze willen geen dienaars, maar meesters worden. De grote stad lijkt mogelijkheden te bieden. Lukt het Schelvis om los te breken? En hoe radicaal moet hen daarvoor zijn? Overgave op commando gaat over het verschil tussen mensen die hun lot mogen kiezen en mensen die hun lot moeten ondergaan.