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Glass Stephen Palmer
A plague is spreading through the city of Cray. Nobody knows its origin and nobody has discovered a cure. Cray is dying. Of glass.
As the city’s ruling council resorts to increasingly desperate measures to maintain… More
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Memory Seed Stephen Palmer
There is one city left, and soon that will be gone, for the streets of Kray are crumbling beneath a wave of exotic and lethal vegetation as it creeps south, threatening to wipe out the last traces of humanity. In the desperate… More
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infinity plus: quintet Keith Brooke et al.
Five stories from top writers of speculative fiction: science fiction, fantasy and the downright strange, stories from the heart, stories to make you think and wonder.
The stories in this volume are:
"Filming… More
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Hallucinating Stephen Palmer
Europe, 2049. Nulight, a Tibetan refugee and notorious underground record company owner, emerges from an obscure Berlin night club realising that an alien invasion is imminent. Or is he hallucinating? Contacting… More
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Muezzinland Stephen Palmer
Two sisters on the run, both pursued by their mother. But when this mother is the Empress of Ghana and one of the most powerful people in the world, it is no ordinary chase. And life has changed in the mid twenty second century.… More
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The Rat and the Serpent Stephen Palmer
Imagine a film made in black-and-white. Now imagine a novel written in black-and-white.
The Rat And The Serpent is a gothic tale relating the extraordinary fate of Ügliy the cripple.
Raised as a beggar in the soot-shrouded… More
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Flowercrash Stephen Palmer
Zaïdmouth is a far-future paradise. Its five communities are intertwined by artificial flower networks so complex they combine to create the virtual realities through which Zaïdmouth is run. Yet into … More
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Hairy London Stephen Palmer
What is love?
One evening at the Suicide Club three gentlemen discuss this age-old problem, and thus a wager is made. Dissolute fop Sheremy Pantomile, veteran philosopher Kornukope Wetherbee and down-on-his-luck… More
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Beautiful Intelligence Stephen Palmer
AI or BI? Artificial intelligence or beautiful intelligence?
The race to create a sentient machine is headed by two teams, led by former researchers at Ichikawa Laboratories, who escape the regime there – and… More
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No Grave For A Fox Stephen Palmer
In Beautiful Intelligence Stephen Palmer told a global story of artificial intelligence in a fractured, dangerous future, overseen by the eyes of the nexus. Now in No Grave For A Fox he continues the tale, returning … More
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The Girl with Two Souls (The Factory Girl Trilogy #1) Stephen Palmer
Edwardian Britain: 1910.
Kora Blackmore, thrown into Bedlam mental hospital by her father – Britain’s leading industrialist Sir Tantalus Blackmore – is one day visited by a mysterious gentleman,… More
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The Girl with One Friend (The Factory Girl Trilogy #2) Stephen Palmer
With the diabolical agents of the Clockwork Garden on their trail and Sir Tantalus Blackmore’s crooked men closing in, Kora and her best friend Erasmus Darwin must survive from day to day and try to uncover the … More
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The Girl with No Soul (The Factory Girl Trilogy #3) Stephen Palmer
It is 1911.
Returning to Britain from Africa, Erasmus and Roka find themselves thrown into a perilous sequence of chase, capture and escape. Yet they must return to Sheffield as fast as they can, and in secret, there to… More