Joseph Delaney used to be an English teacher, before becoming the best-selling author of the Spook's series, which has been published in 30 countries and sold over 4.5 million copies worldwide. The first book, The Spook's Apprentice, was adapted into a major motion picture starring Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore.

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Lies and double-crosses, secret police and explosions, a carriage chase, a mattress stuffed with cash and a one-eyed master of disguise... 
 
In 1907, the revolutionary Joseph Djugashvili - who would later take the name Joseph Stalin - met with an old friend, a clerk at the Tiflis branch of the State Bank of the Russian Empire, for a glass of milk. Over talk of national pride, the spirit of the new century and Djugashvili's poetry, they agreed the beginnings of a plan. 
 
With the aid of the Outfit, Djugashvili's hardened crew of "expropriators," they would pull off the biggest, bloodiest and most daring robbery in Georgia's history, and ruthlessly change the direction of the Bolshevik revolution forever...

The Outfit

Michael Carroll

Matthew Smith

Laurel Sills

World's Changing. Doesn't Mean Dredd Has To. 
 
Mega-City One, 2082. In two short years, Judge Joseph Dredd has tackled hardened killers and would-be revolutionaries; he's taken beat-downs and bounced back; and he's even arrested his own brother. 
 
There's no such thing as a "normal year" in the Big Meg. In his third year on the sked, he'll become embroiled in the growing anti-robot movement; he'll head back out to the Cursed Earth; and he'll fall afoul of the secretive SJS - and not for the last time...

Judge Dredd Year Three

C. S. E. Cooney

Life gets complicated when Death gets involved. 
 
To be born into a family of royal assassins pretty much guarantees that your life is going to be... rather unusual. Especially if, like Miscellaneous "Lanie" Stones, you also have a vicious allergy to all forms of violence and bloodshed, and an uncanny affinity for bringing the dead back to life. To make matters worse, family debt looms - a debt that will have to be paid sooner rather than later if Lanie and her sister are to retain ownership of the ancestral seat, Stones Manor. Lanie finds herself courted and threatened by powerful parties who would love to use her worryingly intimate relationship with the goddess of death for their own nefarious ends. But the goddess has other plans...

Saint Death's Daughter

Eeleen Lee

Go deeper, they said. Look closer. 
 
Pleo Tanza is a survivor. Her father was broken by tragedy, her twin sister is dead-chewed up and spat out by the corruption and injustice of Chatoyance-but she's going to make it, whatever it takes. She's going to get off this rock. 
 
But escape is for the rich or lucky. Pleo's framed for the murder of a rival student-the daughter of one of the colony's wealthy, squabbling clans-and goes on the run, setting off a chain events that could destroy the fragile balance of the old colony forever...

Liquid Crystal Nightingale

Gareth L Powell

"It is an evil born of war. It is the end of all things." 
 
Four hundred years ago, Ed and Alice Rico threw themselves through a mysterious portal on the London Underground, hunting for Ed's lost brother-Alice's husband-Verne. 
 
Now, starship captain Katherine Abdulov embarks on a desperate race against ruthless rival captain-and her former lover-Victor Luciano, to try and earn back her family's trust. 
 
Tomorrow, all their lives will be thrown together by disaster, as an ancient evil stirs among the stars, threatening the survival of all life...

The Recollection

Adrian Tchaikovsky

FIREWALKERS ARE BRAVE. FIREWALKERS ARE RESOURCEFUL. FIREWALKERS ARE EXPENDABLE. 
 
The Earth is burning. Nothing can survive at the Anchor; not without water and power. But the ultra-rich, waiting for their ride off the dying Earth? They can buy water. And thanks to their investment, the sun can provide power. 
 
But someone has to repair the solar panels when they fail, down in the deserts below. 
 
Kids like Mao, and Lupé, and Hotep; kids with brains and guts but no hope.The Firewalkers.

Firewalkers

Al Ewing

Brought to you by Penguin. 
 
"What's it like, not being real?" 
 
In LA, where today's star is tomorrow's busboy, discarded "Fictionals"-characters spun into flesh-and-blood by technology-are everywhere. Screenwriter Niles Golan's therapist is a Fictional. So is his best friend. So (maybe) is the woman in the bar he can't stop staring at. It's getting so you can't tell who's real and who's not. 
 
Niles isn't completely sure how real he is...

The Fictional Man

Gerry Finley-Day

Dave Gibbons

Brought to you by Penguin. 
 Nu-Earth, a battle-ravaged world forever scarred by an ongoing war between the Nort and Souther armies. The poison atmosphere makes it hostile to all who fight there, with the exception of one person - the Rogue Trooper. 
 A biologically-engineered war machine, Rogue Trooper is searching for the traitor General responsible for the deaths of his clone brothers. Together with his three 'dead' bio-chipped comrades, Gunner, Bagman and Helm, he won't stop until he has succeeded in his personal mission of revenge! 
 Also available: 
 Judge Dredd: Dredd v Death 
 Judge Dredd: America 
 Judge Dredd: The Pit 
 Judge Anderson: Shambala 
 ©2013 Rebellion 2000 AD Ltd (P)2022 Penguin Audio and Rebellion Publishing

Rogue Trooper: Welcome to Nu Earth

The Classic 2000 AD Graphic Novel in Full-Cast Audio

Derek Kunsken

Brought to you by Penguin. 
 
Life can exist anywhere. And anywhere there is life, there is home. 
 
In the swirling clouds of Venus, the families of la colonie live on floating plant-like trawlers, salvaging what they can in the fierce acid rain and crackling storms. Outside is dangerous, but humankind's hold on the planet is fragile and they spend most of their days simply surviving. 
 
But Venus carries its own secrets, too. In the depths, there is a wind that shouldn't exist. 
 
And the House of Styx wants to harness it.

House of Styx

Premee Mohamed

Seven years ago, the last survivor of Earth crashed through uncountable dimensions and fetched up in a strange new world. Now Nick Prasad owes his life and livelihood to the royal family that employs him as a prophet, even though they are servants of the Ancient Ones who destroyed his home.  When a long-expected war breaks out, he's eager to help organize troops and supplies... until he's approached by a spy who claims to possess a secret that could end the reign of the Ancient Ones forever. The first step is jailbreaking a god who's probably been locked up a little too long (and that's the easy part).  Nick must choose between joining a fragile resistance founded on secrets and lies, or revealing it to the enemies he's sworn to serve. But if everything works, there might be a chance to free the entire multiverse from the grasp of the Ancient Ones... both past and future. 

The Void Ascendant

Ogres are bigger than you. Ogres are stronger than you. Ogres rule the world. 
 
It's always idyllic in the village until the landlord comes to call. Because the landlord is an Ogre. And Ogres rule the world, with their size and strength and appetites. It's always been that way. It's the natural order of the world. And they only eat people sometimes. 
 
But when the headman's son, Torquell, dares lift his hand against the landlord's son, he sets himself on a path to learn the terrible truth about the Ogres, and about the dark sciences that ensured their rule.

Ogres

Eva is a survivor. She's not sure what she survived, exactly, only that They invaded without warning, killed nearly all of humanity, and relentlessly attack everyone who's left. All she can do to stay sane, in the blockaded city that's no longer home, is keep a journal about her struggle. 
 
Fifty years later, Eva's words are found by Emerson, a young anthropologist sent to the ruins to study what happened. The discovery could shed light on the Invasion, turning the unyielding mystery of the short war into a story of hope and defiance.

These Lifeless Things

Edward Ashton

Dying isn't any fun...but at least it's a living. 
 
Mickey7 is an Expendable: a disposable employee on a human 
expedition sent to colonize the ice world Niflheim. Whenever there's a mission 
that's too dangerous-even suicidal- the crew turns to Mickey. After one 
iteration dies, a new body is regenerated with most of his memories intact. 
Mickey signed on to escape from both bad debts and boredom on Midgard. 
 
After six deaths, Mickey7 understands the terms of his 
deal...and why it was the only colonial position unfilled when he took it. 
 
When he goes missing and is presumed dead at the hands of 
deadly indigenous creatures, Mickey8 reports for duty, and their troubles 
really begin.

Mickey7

Sammy H.K. Smith

Beaten. Branded. Defiant. 
 
Anna is a possession. She is owned by the man named Will, shielded from the world of struggles by his care. He loves her, protects her, and then breaks her. Anna is obedient, dutiful, and compliant. Anna does not know her place in the world. 
 
When she falls pregnant, Anna leaves her name behind, and finds the strength to run. But the past - and Will - catch up with her in an idyllic town with a dark secret, and this time, it's not just Anna who is at risk.

Anna

Adrian J. Walker

500 YEARS IN THE FUTURE, EARTH IS NO LONGER POPULATED BY HUMANS. 
 
The new guardians of Earth, the genetically engineered Erta, have reversed climate change. They are now faced with a dilemma; if they reintroduce the rebellious and violent Homo Sapiens, all of their work will be undone. 
 
They decide to raise one final child; a sole human to help decide if humanity should again inherit the Earth. 
 
But the quiet and clinical Ima finds that there is more to raising a human than she had expected; and there is more to humanity's history than she has been told.

The Human Son

Clay Harmon

People like Ig are born from life-threatening trials that bind periodic elements to the human body, forged in the boiling volcanoes and subterranean passages under Mira's frozen lands. One of the most powerful known elementals, he is forced to work as an enforcer for Magnate Sorrelo Adriann - cursed with a flesh binding - magic that will kill him at the first sign of disobedience. 
 
When Sorrelo is overthrown, Ig quickly learns he can do worse - far worse - than what has been asked from him so far. If he can't escape the flesh binding in time, Ig will have to kill friend and foe alike as his master seeks to reclaim the throne or sacrifice himself trying.

Flames of Mira

Love brought together or torn apart by time travel. 
 
This anthology is the latest collection of time-travel romance sci-fi short stories from prominent, award-winning sci-fi authors including Nina Allan, Carrie Vaughn, and Seanan McGuire. Follow timetravelers of all genders as they go backward and forward in time, sometimes to save the one they love, other times as a sacrifice, and others simply because it's their job. Some travel through memory, others through dreams, and others still through time machines to touch people who would otherwise be out of reach, and to join them together. Some of the stories are funny, some are sad and poignant, some are tales of fresh love and some of love forever lost, but they all are rather wonderful. 
 
Including stories by: Alix E. Harrow, Zen Cho, Seanan McGuire, Sarah Gailey, Jeffrey Ford, Nina Allan, Elizabeth Hand, Lavanya Lakshminarayan, Catherynne M. Valente, Sam J. Miller, Rowan Coleman, Margo Lanagan, Sameem Siddiqui, Theodora Goss, Carrie Vaughn, Ellen Klages

Someone in Time

Aliya Whiteley

Drink down the brew and dream of a better Earth. 
 
Skyward Inn, within the high walls of the Western Protectorate, is a place of safety, where people come together to tell stories of the time before the war with Qita. 
 
But safety from what? Qita surrendered without complaint when Earth invaded; Innkeepers Jem and Isley, veterans from either side, have regrets but few scars. 
 
Their peace is disturbed when a visitor known to Isley comes to the Inn asking for help, bringing reminders of an unnerving past and triggering an uncertain future. 
 
Did humanity really win the war?

Skyward Inn

The Union-Congregate war rages onward and the Union's premier fighter pilots, the Homo Eridanus, start encountering deadly resistance from strange pilots on the Congregate side. Among wreckage, they find that new Congregate pilots aren't human, but Homo quantus, with strange wiring and AI connections. 
 
At the same time, the Puppets come to the Union with offers of an alliance for a dangerous price: the rescue of the geneticist Antonio Del Casal who is a captive at Venus, with over a hundred Homo quantus. 
The only one who might be able to break through the Congregate defences at Venus is a con man who has given up his profession.

The Quantum War

Neil Sharpson

In the future, AI are everywhere - over half the human race lives online. But in the Caspian Republic, the last true human beings have made their stand; and now the repressive, one-party state is locked in perpetual cold war with the outside world. 
 
Security Agent Nikolai South is given a seemingly mundane task; escorting a dead journalist's widow while she visits the Caspian Republic to identify her husband's remains. But Paulo Xirau was AI; and as Nikolai and Lily delve deeper into the circumstances surrounding Paulo's death, South must choose between his loyalty to his country and his conscience.

When the Sparrow Falls

Major Chenesai Okonkwo is an Auditor for the Sub-Saharan Union. Her mission: to find out if the Sixth Expeditionary Force's newly discovered time gate has been compromised. Is the Union's revolutionary discovery already doomed, eleven years in the future? 
 
But there is another, more personal mission. The possible murder of her husband remains unsolved. But are the two things connected? Can she navigate the world of aliens, spies, politics and time paradoxes to find the truth, and save her people's future?

Pollen From A Future Harvest

Nobody remembers how the Causality War started. Really, there's no-one to remember, and nothing for them to remember if there were; that's sort of the point. We were time warriors, and we broke time. 
 
I was the one who ended it. Ended the fighting, tidied up the damage as much as I could. 
 
Then I came here, to the end of it all, and gave myself a mission: to never let it happen again.

One Day All This Will Be Yours

Taran Hunt

Brought to you by Penguin. 
 
When linguist and smuggler Sean Wren is blackmailed into a job to get some data off an ancient ship, he's not expecting it to be the Philosopher's Stone: a literal recipe for immortality. Unfortunately, he's not the only one looking. The undying Ministers, mysterious aliens that have ruled over humanity for thousands of years, want the data too. So does the Republic, the last free human government. To add to the fun, the map to the treasure is in a long-lost language, the ship's filled with dangerous traps and genetically-engineered monsters, and the nearby star's going supernova in a few days. Easy job, right? 
 
© Taran Hunt 2022 (P) Penguin Audio and Rebellion Publishing 2022

The Immortality Thief

Mário Coelho

Brought to you by Penguin. 
 
The internet is a lonesome god. 
 
Liverloin is a fractured man, a collection of personas-artificial constructs of wants, fears and needs-created by underground science-artists to help him hide in a hyper-connected world. But he can't hide from Big Momma. 
She is the living internet, a benevolent AI who knows everything and everyone... and somehow is in love with Liverloin. 
 
Agent Stevly works for DAIS, an AI on the other side of the internet: the darkness to Big Momma's light. DAIS's agents manipulate news, information and media and pull the strings behind world events, but DAIS cannot control Big Momma or understand why she loves Liverloin. Agent Stevly, bound body and soul to DAIS, will stop at nothing to find the answer. 
 
© Mário Coelho 2022 (P) Penguin Audio and Rebellion Publishing 2022

Unto the Godless What Little Remains

Anya Ow

"Citizens of the Federation. Greetings from the Core." 
 
 Lieutenant Kalina Sokolova is aid to Counter-Admiral Kasparov the major strategist for the Russian navy. Kalina is also an agent of the Jinyiwei, an elite spy working for the UN. She is tasked with watching the Counter-Admiral, and assassination is not out of the question. For decades the UN and the Russian military have navigated a tense interstellar Cold War. Peace is on the knife's edge and events are coming ever closer to open conflict. Solitaire Yeung is a corsair, a scavenger, a pirate, In the heart of a destroyed Russian battleship, his salvage crew discovers a mysterious device they shouldn't have, the brain of the ship's top secret artificial intelligence. And against all better sense they take it and run. The UN wants it and the Russians want it back. Solitaire and his crew are on the run from the most powerful forces in the system, but they are not the only ones hunting the AI brain. An even more powerful foe grows in the darkness of space. Now all of humanity has to fight to survive...

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