In the next century, an underground chemist meets and becomes obsessed with Milena, a child genius who is the ultimate product of gene-splicing technology. Milena is an advocate of the dolls - artificial constructs that have replaced extinct companion animals. Milena wishes to free the dolls from bondage - but in doing so, she creates an autonomous race that may be a threat to mankind. Cover art by Paul Young.
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Red Dust: Paul J. McAuley
$10.00Five hundred years after the Chinese terraformed the Red Planet, the process is in reverse. The Emperor has followed the Golden Path into a vast virtual reality universe, leaving behind hunger riots, civil war and despair. Enter Wei Lee, a lowly itinerant worker - and the most unlikely Messiah. Rock 'n' roll fan, dupe, womaniser and holy fool, Lee stumbles on a plot that has been spinning for decades and is catapulted into a journey that will take him from a Tibetan Lamasery through the teeming cities, swampy waterways and vast deserts of Mars, to a showdown at the summit of the biggest volcano in the Solar System. It's a battle in virtual reality for the future of Mars and humanity. Cover art by Jim Burns. -
Book II of Four Hundred Billion Stars. Like Earth before the Age of Waste, the planet Elysium has boundless oceans, clean skies, lush forests and fertile plains; its primitive aborigines seem harmless. Yet all is not well in Paradise. Citizens descended from the first colonists benefit from the new technologies brought from Earth but ruthlessly suppress the expansionist plans of the new settlers. Richard Florey knows firsthand of the prejudice against his people; so does Miguel Lucas, a settler 'gone dingo' - living wild and free despite the laws of the city. As the iron grip of the city tightens, so the two men find themselves at the heart of a revolution upon which hangs the the future of humans and aliens. Also published as Of The Fall.