On the eighth day of Christmas, Solaris gave to me... three different future holidays, all set in
space. The first world that I visited was Mars, in both the distant and near future.
In the far future, Mars is a world of spirits and men on the brink of war with
only a Champion of Mars and his
spirit lover to seek out peace. In near
future, a scientist of the Mars colonisation effort makes a discovery that
ripples through time and changes them all. On my second holiday, I found a
utopia named Manna ruled by perfect machines, but hiding away on the edges The
Company runs a planet with the worst Toxicity.
Combine an ECO Terroist stumbling on a horrible truth, a honoured poet crashing
his cruiser in NukePuke, and one of The Company’s torture model Anarchy Androids,
and their meeting means Manna will never be the same. My final cruising stop was Helix, a vast spiral of ten thousand
worlds spinning around a Sun, where one pilot discovers an invasion that has
him fighting for his life back to New Earth. If you want to escape this
Christmas and favour a thrilling adventure and a space odyssey, then look no
further than these!
Champion of Mars | Guy Haley
£7.99, ISBN: 978-1-907992-84-1
A stunning space
opera in an exciting new voice in Science Fiction.
In the far future, Mars dies a second time. the Final War
between man and the spirits is beginning. In a last bid for peace, disgraced
champion Yoechakanon Val Mora and his spirit lover Cybele are set free to find
the long-missing Librarian of Mars, the only hope to save the remnants of
mankind.
In the near future, Dr Holland, a scientist running from a
painful past, joins the Mars colonisation effort, cataloguing the remnants of
Mars’ biosphere before it is swept away by the terraformation programme.
When an artefact is discovered deep in the caverns of the
red planet, the actions of Holland and his team lead to tragedy, with profound
consequences that ripple throughout time, affecting Holland’s present, the
distant days of Yoechakanon, and the eras that bridge the aeons between.
Toxicity | Andy
Remic
£8.99, ISBN: 978-1-78108-003-0
The second novel of The Anarchy
Welcome to Manna - the utopian galaxy where all races exist
in harmony. Ruled by Shamans, perfect alien machines, Manna is a place of
wisdom, technology and art. On the edge of the galaxy, away from romantic
holiday cruises, hides TOX1C, a reprocessing planet run by The Company and
dealing with all Manna’s waste – there’s no poison the Company will not
“recycle.”
Jenni Xi, ECO terrorist, is fighting a cleanup war against
The Company. When a sabotage goes horribly wrong, she learns the future of the
planet – and it’s far worse than she ever dreamed... Svoolzard Koolimax – poet,
swashbuckler, bon viveur – is Guest of Honour on a Masters Cruise when a
violent attack leaves his Cruiser crashed in NukePuke. Horace is a torture
model Anarchy Android, known simply as The Dentist. Horace works for The
Company. Soon, he will meet Jenni and Svool – and the fate of Manna will change
forever...
Helix Wars | Eric
Brown
£7.99, ISBN: 978-1-78108-047-4
Return to the
bestselling worlds of Helix!
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 scheme to track down and exterminate Ellis
before he can return to New Earth and inform the peacekeepers.
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