Special limited edition science fiction hardcover novella by the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author. Only 1000 copies.Scions have no limits. Scions do not die. And Scions do not disappear.Sergeant Ted Regan has a problem. A son of one of the great corporate families, a Scion, has gone missing at the front. He should have been protected by his Ironclad – the lethal battle suits that make the Scions masters of war – but something has gone catastrophically wrong.Now Regan and his men, ill equipped and demoralised, must go behind enemy lines, find the missing Scion, and uncover how his suit failed. Is there a new Ironclad-killer out there? And how are common soldiers lacking the protection afforded the rich supposed to survive the battlefield of tomorrow?

A thrilling new limited-edition hardcover concerning class and climate change from Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky.Firewalkers are brave. Firewalkers are resourceful. Firewalkers are expendable. The Earth is burning. Nothing can survive at the Anchor; not without water and power. But the ultra-rich, waiting for their ride off the dying Earth? They can buy water. And as for power? Well, someone has to repair the solar panels, down in the deserts below. Kids like Mao, and Lupé, and Hotep; kids with brains and guts but no hope. The Firewalkers.

Captain Ean Tephe is a man of faith, whose allegiance to his lord and to his ship is uncontested. The Bishopry Militant knows this -- and so, when it needs a ship and crew to undertake a secret, sacred mission to a hidden land, Tephe is the captain to whom the task is given. Tephe knows from the start that his mission will be a test of his skill as a leader of men and as a devout follower of his god. It's what he doesn't know that matters: to what ends his faith and his ship will ultimately be put -- and that the tests he will face will come not only from his god and the Bishopry Militant, but from another, more malevolent source entirely....

The bold new work from award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky  - a smart, funny tale of time-travel and paradoxWelcome to the end of time. It’s a perfect day.  Nobody remembers how the Causality War started. Really, there’s no-one to remember, and nothing for them to remember if there were; that’s sort of the point. We were time warriors, and we broke time.  I was the one who ended it. Ended the fighting, tidied up the damage as much as I could.  Then I came here, to the end of it all, and gave myself a mission: to never let it happen again.

This terrific novella reminded me of a 21st century cross between Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke and Rogue Moon by Algis Budrys. First, you have the huge mysterious object that enters into our solar system, which no one has done better than Clarke in the first Rama book (IMHO). Second, you have said object being incomprehensible and very deadly to those studying it (until they learn through trial and error what to avoid). NO ONE has ever done that better than Budrys did in Rogue Moon. However, despite incorporating recognizable tropes from some classic SF novels, Reynolds certainly makes this his own story with a well-conceived, very well written story whose story of wonder carries an important central message...WE MUST CONTINUE TO EXPLORE SPACE!! The novella is set in a future in which a 2nd Soviet Socialist Republic is the dominant world power, which I thought was a very interesting setting. Suddenly appearing in our solar system is a MASSIVENORMOUS alien construct (later named Matryoshka). I don’t want to describe or give details about the shape and configuration of Matryoshka because it is so mind-blowing and I don’t want to spoil the wonder. I’ll just say that I thought it was brilliant and the final description regarding the reason for its configuration was superb. I know I sound like a complete plot teaser right now, but it can’t be helped...trust me, it's worth it. Anyway, the story concerns three Russian cosmonauts sent out to investigate Matryoshka. During the mission, they make a discovery that could change...EVERYTHING!! However, no one knows about the discovery because all three of the space jockeys are now under guard at a Soviet “research center” and no information about what happened has been released. One of these cosmonauts escapes from the research center at the beginning of the book and tries to locate a female astronomer who developed a controversial theory regarding the origin of the alien construct. The story of the expedition to Matryoshka is told in a series of flashbacks by the fugitive cosmonaut and it all converges in the final reveal which I found more than worthwhile. Reynolds writing is both crisp where it needs to be and also beautifully descriptive when it needs to be. The balance of these two is impressive. Here is an example of the latter: \
  I touched the wall. Knowledge, clean and viridescent, as brittle and endlessly branching as a flower chilled in liquid nitrogen, forced its way into my skull. I felt mental sutures straining under the pressure. I flinched back...The contact could not have lasted more than an instant, but the information that had gushed through was ringing in my skull like the after-chime of God’s own church bell. \
In summary, this is a smart, well-crafted story with some brain-scrambling ideas and a very satisfying ending. 4.0 stars. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!

From the author of the Revelation Space series comes an interstellar adventure of war, identity, betrayal, and the preservation of civilization itself.A vast conflict, one that has encompassed hundreds of worlds and solar systems, appears to be finally at an end. A conscripted soldier is beginning to consider her life after the war and the family she has left behind. But for Scur—and for humanity—peace is not to be.On the brink of the ceasefire, Scur is captured by a renegade war criminal, and left for dead in the ruins of a bunker. She revives aboard a prisoner transport vessel. Something has gone terribly wrong with the ship.Passengers—combatants from both sides of the war—are waking up from hibernation far too soon. Their memories, embedded in bullets, are the only links to a world which is no longer recognizable. And Scur will be reacquainted with her old enemy, but with much higher stakes than just her own life. 

Fix the past. Save the present. Stop the future. Master of science fiction Alastair Reynolds unfolds a time-traveling climate fiction adventure in Permafrost.2080: at a remote site on the edge of the Arctic Circle, a group of scientists, engineers and physicians gather to gamble humanity’s future on one last-ditch experiment. Their goal: to make a tiny alteration to the past, averting a global catastrophe while at the same time leaving recorded history intact. To make the experiment work, they just need one last recruit: an ageing schoolteacher whose late mother was the foremost expert on the mathematics of paradox.2028: a young woman goes into surgery for routine brain surgery. In the days following her operation, she begins to hear another voice in her head... an unwanted presence which seems to have a will, and a purpose, all of its own – one that will disrupt her life entirely. The only choice left to her is a simple one.Does she resist ... or become a collaborator?

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