Justina Robson

The multi-award winning Infinity Project undertakes its seventh and final voyage in the imagination of the finest science fiction authors alive…Infinity’s EndHumanity has made the universe home. On the outskirts of the solar system, beyond the asteroid fields, deep in space, under the surface of planets, in the ruins of fallen civilisations, in the flush of new creation: life finds a way.From intelligent velociraptors to digital ghosts; from a crèche on an asteroid to an artist using a star system as a canvas, this is a future where Earth’s children have adapted to every nook and cranny of existence.This is life on the edge of the possible.Featuring astonishing tales from Stephen Baxter, Alastair Reynolds, Naomi Kritzer, Paul McAuley, Seanan McGuire, Linda Nagata, Hannu Rajaniemi, Justina Robson, Kelly Robson, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Lavie Tidhar, Peter Watts, Fran Wilde and Nick Wolven.

Eric Brown was one of the UK's finest SF authors. His work won him awards, his storytelling won him readers; more than that, though, he was a special person, and that won him many friends.Containing all new stories from some of the UK's finest genre writers, this volume, released to mark what would have been Eric's 64th birthday, is dedicated to Eric and his family. It is our way of celebrating someone whose work inspired us and whose friendship made a difference.Eric Brown: (24 May 1960 - 21 March 2023)Contents: Introduction by Ian WhatesRodeo Day - Philip Palmer Last Orders - Una McCormack The Scurlock Compendium - Alastair Reynolds President Max - Josh Lacey Untold - Keith Brooke The Peaceable Kingdom - Chris Beckett The Guardian - Kim Lakin A Sea Change - Donna Scott May You Rise - James Lovegrove The Neglected Bookshop - Phillip Vine Masterchef on Mars - Ian Watson Peppercorns - Rebecca Rajendra Bartering with Ghosts - Ian Whates The Place of the Mice - Justina Robson Eric and the Kethani - Tony Ballantyne About the Contributors

Justina Robson is one of the most original writers of genre fiction working today. Her work has been variously shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, and the John W. Campbell Award.This is the first collection of her short fiction and novelettes in more than a decade, and gathers together her finest stories from the past eleven years, as selected by the author.ContentsA Game of Clones By Any Other Name Cinderkin I Give You the Moon Madswitch Something Exquisite On Skybolt Mountain Our Savage Heart Calls To Itself Recipes For Good Living Seat 28K S'elfie "A Game of Clones by Justina Robson - A weird tale that could be best described as Iain M Banks meets Michael Moorcock... It is a ride and a fun one to boot " - Runalong the Shelves''I Give You the Moon describes in good hard-SF tradition technologies for trying to clean the environment - giant machines filtering the seas, mechanical crabs scouring the seabed - but it's also a moving tale of a boy in Africa who yearns to be a Viking." - Gary K. Wolfe in Locus"Madswitch: A female ex-scientist takes steps to 'correct' her dysfunctional family. An enjoyable psychological tale of the science of horror." - Review Graveyard"On Skybolt Mountain: The witch Lettice Beaverley has gotten herself in trouble. Here is the sort of story I'd have liked to see more of... The magic is immediately present and well-realized, its elements are credible and clearly potent, fearsomely so. And Lettice is a well-drawn character, growing slowly into her destined role. RECOMMENDED." - Lois Tilton, Locus Online

What do Robots dream of? Four leading science fiction authors explore this question in four stand-alone novellas.ROBOT DREAMSAre humans to be trusted with the important things: the structure of society, governing their own lives, meting out justice, etc, or would an AI be better suited to the job?Despite the best of intentions, could such intervention ever work? After all, we humans are flawed, limited by our vision and by the dictates of the society that helped shape us, and an AI is limited by its programming, which is carried out by humans... At the end of the day, are any of us - human or AI - truly free?

The gap between the worlds was so thin in places, you could almost step across without meaning to... Lila the cyborg, Teazle the demon, and Zal the elf - star-crossed lovers - have all been dealt a terrible hand in the final game of the series. Law and order, not to the fabric of space and time, are slowly falling apart at the seams. Each one of them is now more a feature of the past than the present: legends in their own lunchtime. Meanwhile the dead have started to return, in ever-increasing numbers. But there are a few wild cards still left in the deck. Will it be a full house, or the dead man's hand again, once everything is in play? This is the conclusion to the five-book Quantum Gravity series, set in a world which incorporates legend, myth and magic while maintaining a strict love affair with scientific and psychological reality. Enter at your own risk.

Having escaped the grasp of the world of demons, Lila Black is looking forward to some well-earned rest but no good deeds go unpunished. The sleight of hand operating so many of the dark machineries of her world has turned out not human, demon or elven, but fey, and the faeries are upping their game. Meanwhile Lila has come to terms with the fate of her parents and built bridges with her sister, but she is at war with herself and at odds with her boss and her boyfriends - and that's dangerous when you contain enough high-tech weaponry to win a small war. This story is fast moving SF/fantasy, high on adventure and sparring with the serious themes of identity, reality and sexual politics.

It's a whole new world after the Quantum Bomb. Elves, demons, ghosts and elementals have come to stay. Special Agent Lila Black is also new: half-robot, part-AI, nuclear-fuelled and conflicted as hell. It's good there's the spirit of a necromancer living in her chest to keep her on track. A mission to Daemonia is a voyage to a new, personal heart of darkness however...Justina Robson's superb series continues, combining her trademark themes of the nature of identity and reality, magic and technology.

The thrilling new fantasy adventure from the world of Adrian Tchaikovsky's Redemption's Blade. The Tzarkomen necromancers sacrificed a thousand women to create a Bride for the Kinslayer so he would spare them in the war. But the Kinslayer is dead and now the creation intended to ensure his eternal rule lies abandoned by its makers in the last place in the world that anyone would look for it. Which doesn't prevent someone finding her by accident. Will the Bride return the gods to the world or will she bring the end of days? It all depends on the one who found her, Kula, a broken-hearted little girl with nothing left to lose.

This groundbreaking new novel from one of the genre's most respected authors is a thrilling mix of science, magic and politics.

The Quantum Bomb of 2015 changed everything. The fabric that kept the universe's different dimensions apart was torn and now, six years later, the people of earth exist in uneasy company with the inhabitants of, amongst others, the elven, elemental and demonic realms. Magic is real and can be even more dangerous than technology. Elves are exotic, erotic, dangerous and really bored with the constant Lord of the Rings references. Elementals are a law unto themselves and demons are best left well to themselves.Special agent Lila Black used to be pretty but now she's not so sure. Her body is now more than half restless carbon and metal alloy machinery. A machine she's barely in control of. It goes into combat mode, enough weapons for a small army springing from within itself, at the merest provocation.As for her heart . . . well ever since being drawn into a Game by the elven rockstar she's been assigned to protect, she's not even sure she can trust that anymore either.

The groundbreaking new novel from one of the genre's most respected authors comes into paperback: a thrilling mix of science, magic and sexual politics.

Lila Black faces her greatest challange yet as she takes herself, her dead lover and the AI in her head into death's realm.The Quantum Gravity series, set in a world where our reality mixes with other dimensions that are the homes to Faeries, elementals and demons, is unique in modern SF - a series that is willing to incorporate legend, myth and magic while maintaining a rigorous approach to scientific and pyschological reality.And in Lila Black Justina Robson has created an enduringly strong yet quirkily human and flawed heroine.

Lila Black, half-robot and all attitude. The acclaimed series of SF/fantasy adventures from Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author Justina Robson hits new heights.

Book three of the Quantum Gravity Series sees Lila Black back from her adventures in Demonia and struggling to cope with the even stranger world of Faerie. And these Faeries couldn't be less like Tinkerbell. These Faeries are capricious, unknowable and dangerous. And they will be Lila's toughest test yet.Lila may have reached some sort of peace over the fate of her parents, she may have built some bridges with her sister but when you're half cyborg, when you contain enough high-tech weaponry to win a small war, when you don't know your heart, still love an elf and don't trust your bosses you can be capricious unknowable and quiter dangerous enough yourself.This is a fast moving SF fantasy full of thrills and adventures but informed with a ready wit and prepared to touch on serious themes of identity, reality and sexual politics.

A heroine who's half robot and all attitude, a world of quantum strangeness; SF that has remembered how to have fun, from the UK's most sucessful female SF writer.