The Serene Invasion

The Serene Invasion
Author: Eric Brown
Publisher: Solaris
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2013-04-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 184997540X

In 2025, the Serene arrive from Delta Pavonis V, and change mankind’s destiny forever. The gentle aliens bring peace to an ailing world – a world riven by war, terrorism and poverty, by rising conflicts over natural resources – and offer an end to need and violence. But not everyone supports the seemingly benign invasion. There are those who benefit from conflict, who cherish chaos, and they will stop at nothing to bring back the old days. When Sally Walsh is kidnapped by terrorists and threatened with death, it seems that only a miracle can save her life. Geoff Allen, photo-journalist, is contacted by the Serene and offered the opportunity to work with the aliens in their mission. For Sally, Geoff, and billions of other citizens of Earth, nothing will ever be the same again...

Helix Wars

Helix Wars
Author: Eric Brown
Publisher: Solaris
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2012-09-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1849974543

SPIRAL INTO WAR! The Helix: a vast spiral of ten thousand worlds turning around its sun. Aeons ago, the enigmatic Builders constructed the Helix as a refuge for alien races on the verge of extinction. Two hundred years ago, humankind came to the Helix aboard a great colony ship, and the builders conferred on them the mantle of peacekeepers. For that long, peace has reigned on the Helix. But when shuttle pilot Jeff Ellis crash-lands on the world of Phandra, he interrupts a barbarous invasion from the neighbouring Sporelli, who are now racing to catch and exterminate Ellis before he can return to New Earth and inform the peacekeepers. Eric Brown returns to the rich worlds he created in the best-selling Helix with a vast science-fiction adventure populated with strange characters and fascinating creatures.

Goodbye, Darkness

Goodbye, Darkness
Author: William Manchester
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2008-12-14
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0316054631

This emotional and honest novel recounts a young man's experiences during World War II and digs deep into what he and his fellow soldiers lived through during those dark times. The nightmares began for William Manchester 23 years after WW II. In his dreams he lived with the recurring image of a battle-weary youth (himself), "angrily demanding to know what had happened to the three decades since he had laid down his arms." To find out, Manchester visited those places in the Pacific where as a young Marine he fought the Japanese, and in this book examines his experiences in the line with his fellow soldiers (his "brothers"). He gives us an honest and unabashedly emotional account of his part in the war in the Pacific. "The most moving memoir of combat on WW II that I have ever read. A testimony to the fortitude of man...a gripping, haunting, book." --William L. Shirer

Cosmopath

Cosmopath
Author: Eric Brown
Publisher: Solaris
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2009-11-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1849971587

Telepath Jeff Vaughan is approached by billionaire tycoon Rabindranath Chandrasakar, who wants him to read the mind of a spacer on an unexplored world on the edge of known space. There's only one problem - the spacer is dead. On Delta Cephei VII, Vaughan finds himself drawn into a web of treachery and deceit in a bid to discover what an alien race is concealing from humanity - a secret that could change forever the course of human expansion through the galaxy.

New York Blues

New York Blues
Author: Eric Brown
Publisher: Gateway
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2018-07-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1473222265

Hal Halliday runs a missing persons business in mid 21st century New York. It is a city that is drowning in refugees after terrorist outrages have left much of America a radioactive wasteland. People colour their grim lives with endless hours spent in VR. It is an addiction which has made VR magnate Sergio Mantoni a multi-millionaire. But now Mantoni faces a threat from a guerrilla group called VIREX, who are dedicating to ending the false promise of VR. And when Hal accepts a job to look for the missing sister of a Holodrama star, he find himself drawn into the complex world of VR and VIREX ..

Jani and the Great Pursuit

Jani and the Great Pursuit
Author: Eric Brown
Publisher: Solaris
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2016-02-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1849979154

Jani and her stalwart companions, Lieutenant Alfie Littlebody and Anand Doshi, find themselves chased from India, via Greece, to London by the British authorities, Russian spies and a Hindu priest – who all want what Jani carries, the ventha-di: the key that will open the door to other worlds. In London she attempts to rescue the imprisoned alien Mahran – the only person who might help her save the Earth from the invasion of the merciless Zhell, the self-styled Masters of the Cosmos. But will she escape London and reach Tibet before the forces of evil capture her – and before she is betrayed by someone she considers loyal to her cause? Jani and the Great Pursuit is the thrilling sequel to Jani and the Greater Game from best-selling author Eric Brown.

Jani and the Greater Game

Jani and the Greater Game
Author: Eric Brown
Publisher: Solaris
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2014-07-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1849977631

Eighteen-year-old Janisha Chatterjee, the Cambridge-educated daughter of an Indian government minister, is coming home to visit her father on his death-bed, when her airship is attacked and wrecked. Amid the debris, a stranger?monstrous but kind?saves her life and entrusts her with a mysterious device, which pitches her head-first into the ?Greater Game,? the ongoing stand-off between British, Chinese and Russian powers in the Indian subcontinent. Dodging British officers, Russian spies, and the dangerous priest Durga Das, Jani must bring the device to the foothills of the Himalayas; to the home of Annapurnite, the secret power source on which British domination was built. There she will learn the truth about Annapurnite?a truth that will change the world forever...

The Complete Bengal Station Trilogy

The Complete Bengal Station Trilogy
Author: Eric Brown
Publisher: Solaris
Total Pages: 895
Release: 2016-02-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1786180243

Bengal Station: an exotic spaceport that dominates the ocean between India and Burma. Burnt out by his experiences in the police force, telepath Jeff Vaughan works for the spaceport authorities monitoring incoming craft for refugees from other worlds. The galaxy holds more than humanity ever bargained for. Hunted by sinister death cults, summoned to distant colony worlds to investigate alien corpses and drawn into vast, strange conspiracies, Vaughan will find redemption, and love, and uncover unguessed-at secrets about the universe itself. The Complete Bengal Station Trilogy collects the novels Necropath, Xenopath and Cosmopath.

New York Dreams

New York Dreams
Author: Eric Brown
Publisher: Gateway
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2018-07-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1473222273

In a futuristic variation upon the modern detective story, we follow Hal as he returns from retirement, seeking the answer to the mysterious disappearance of his ex-girlfriend, last seen with a child prodigy and an unknown older man. We accompany him during his encounters with the jaded individuals who now occupy sullied Manhattan, and share his anguish at the gradual realization of the devastating effects that Virtual Reality is having upon his fellow citizens, rapidly losing their abilities to interact in the real world.

Parallax View

Parallax View
Author: Keith Brooke and Eric Brown
Publisher: infinity plus
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2020-01-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Both authors shortlisted for the 2013 Philip K Dick Award "The stories in this collection are among the best science fiction. These are stories imbued with a rich intelligence and a deep sense of humanity. These are mature stories, tales of love and loss, of pleasure and pain. Cherish them." - from the foreword by Stephen Baxter Parallax View showcases 'In Transit', written specially for this collection, a novella set in a future war-torn universe in which human expansion has come up against the implacable Kryte. Xeno-psychologist Abbott finds himself the guardian of a deadly Kryte on a mission to study it on his return to Earth. When they crash-land on the fortress planet of St Jerome, the Kryte prisoner turns the tables and takes Abbott into terrible custody. What follows is a terrifying journey across a hellish landscape towards a finale that might change the destiny of the Kryte and humanity, forever... Plus six other stories that examine the interface between human and alien - a parallax view from two of Britain's top science fiction writers, both shortlisted for the 2012 Philip K Dick Award.