New Eric Brown SF title for Solaris announced
for 2013
Solaris is proud to announce that bestselling SF master Eric Brown is
to pen an original novel for the imprint in 2013.
The writer behind Helix, Guardians of the Phoenix, and The Kings of Eternity, Brown’s new title
The
Serene Invasion is due for release in May 2013.
The novel sees a chaotic and desperate Earth saved by benevolent aliens,
the Serene. But not all humans are grateful for this intervention.
The Serene Invasion will combine both a moving
message for our times and hope for the future with a vision of the basest of
human emotion – yet again confirming Brown as a bold, strong, and authoritative
voice in the world of science fiction.
“Eric is a writer of startling vision and depth and a new novel from
him is always a cause for celebration,” said Jonathan Oliver, editor-in-chief
of Solaris. “The Serene Invasion promises to show why Eric should be listed
alongside such luminaries of the field as Iain Banks and Peter F. Hamilton.”
The year is 2025 and the world is
riven by war, terrorist attacks, poverty and increasingly desperate demands for
water, oil, and natural resources. Sally Walsh, working in drought stricken
Uganda, is torn between the need to perform her duty as a doctor and the need
to get out after four years in the field. Then she is kidnapped by terrorists
and threatened with death...
What saves her life is the
arrival of an extraterrestrial race from Delta Pavonis - the Serene, whose
intervention in the affairs of humanity will change everything.
Some people, however, oppose the
benign invasion of the Serene, and will stop at nothing to return to the bad
old days.
About the author
Eric Brown sold his first book in 1990, the collection The Time-Lapsed Man and other Stories, and has since published over forty books –
novels, collections, novellas and children's books. He has published more than
a hundred short stories, and has won the BSFA story award twice, in 2000 and
2002. His latest book is The Devil's
Nebula for Abaddon Books, and he writes a monthly SF review column for The Guardian. He lives in Dunbar,
Scotland, with his wife and daughter.
His work for Solaris includes Helix,
Kethani, Necropath, Cosmopath, Xenopath, Engineman, Guardians of the
Phoenix, and The Kings of Eternity.
He has also created the new Weird Space
shared world for sister imprint, Abaddon Books, the first book of which, The Devil’s Nebula, is out
now.
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