The Archangel Bael is hunting down Jacobites and performing tortures and executions on them to try and destroy the movement. They believe that Jovah is really a space ship called Jehovah, and that the Oracle Alleluia left files proving it.

Lucinda is an angel that was raised away from Samarian society, …

This is the third book in The chronicles of Mavin Manyshaped. It is time for Mavin and Himaggery to meet again, after twenty years, but he doesn’t arrive. Instead Mavin finds that there is a message saying that Himaggery has been missing for some eight years, and Windlow the Seer …

This is the second Retrieval Artist novel, and contains many of the same characters as The Disappeared. Miles Flint is now working as a retrieval artist, having taken over the business previously run by Paloma. Although he has no need of money now, he continues to work, and he wonders …

While Forever Peace may have been the ideological sequel to The Forever War, Forever Free is the continuance of the first novel’s story. It explores the idea of freedom, and whether a safe, controlled existence is the same as freedom.

The veterans William and Marygay are not content with the life …

Use of Weapons begins with what is actually the end of the story, and ends with the beginning, to an extent, perhaps, depending on how you view a story. By this I mean that Iain Banks carries us through the main “present” storyline, but adds scenes from other places and …

Greg Egan is the master of the modern short science fiction, and this collection is another example of why. The subjects he deals with are often confronting or disturbing, but the are very real and very valid.

The potential near future is brought to vivid life, frightening and wonderous, and the …

On My Way to Paradise is an exploration of the journey a kind and compassionate man named Angelo who is living in Panama when he is dragged into violence and loses his home.

Whether or not this is an accurate representation of South American culture I don’t know, but it serves …

Enoch Wallace is one hundred and twenty years old. For over a hundred years, he has served Galactic Central, providing a Way Station for travellers passing through this area of the galaxy. His home has been protected, and so has he. Whilst inside the Way Station, he does not age. …

The Jesus Incident is a collaboration between Bill Ransom and Frank Herbert, continuing on from Herbert’s novel Destination: Void. Ship was an experiment into creating Artificial Intelligence, through extreme conditions, but it went too far. Now the question has become: at what point does intelligence cross over into divinity?

Ship demands …

Death’s Law is the third in the Tales of the Bard trilogy, following Magician’s Law and Demon’s Law. Kutor has been installed on the throne, Churon is the new God of the Dead, and Paedur is about to be sent off on another quest. Refugees from the cataclysm are flooding …