Seven books for younger readers from Eric Brown

Published today under our infinite press imprint:

The first ebook editions of seven Eric Brown titles written for children and reluctant readers.

Five books for teenagers and young adults, plus two for five to ten year-olds, these books have been specially written, edited and designed for dyslexic, struggling and reluctant readers who love gripping stories with as few obstacles to reading as possible.

Full details and buying links on the infinite press website.

 

Fire Bug by Eric Brown
What goes wrong when Danny tries to make his life go right… (…more)
Ebook: Amazon US – Amazon UK – Barnes and Noble – Kobo – Apple

 

 

 

Race Against Time by Eric Brown
A story about racism and intolerance in a future that might just come to pass… (…more)
Ebook: Amazon US – Amazon UK – Barnes and Noble – Kobo – Apple

 

 

 

Crazy Love by Eric Brown
The hard-hitting story of Trish Green – and how she grew up in the course of one week. (…more)
Ebook: Amazon US – Amazon UK – Barnes and Noble – Kobo – Apple

 

 

 

Guilty? by Eric Brown
The story of a terrible crime and what happened next. (…more)
Ebook: Amazon US – Amazon UK – Barnes and Noble – Kobo – Apple

 

 

 

Revenge by Eric Brown
The dark side of the glamorous world of a professional footballer… (…more)
Ebook: Amazon US – Amazon UK – Barnes and Noble – Kobo – Apple

 

 

 

A Dinosaur Ate My Socks by Eric Brown
A fast-paced adventure about time-travel and monsters… (…more)
Ebook: Amazon US – Amazon UK – Barnes and Noble – Kobo – Apple

 

 

 

A Monster Ate My Marmite by Eric Brown
Another fun adventure in time with Mouse and Millie and their alien friend. (…more)
Ebook: Amazon US – Amazon UK – Barnes and Noble – Kobo – Apple

New from Eric Brown: The Fall of Tartarus (first ebook edition)

Amazon US – Amazon UK – Barnes and Noble – Kobo – Apple – Smashwords

In myth Tartarus was the lowest region of hell. In reality it is a world about to die…

I’d heard many a tale about Tartarus Major, how certain continents were technological backwaters five hundred years behind the times; how the Church governed half the planet with a fist of iron, and yet how, across scattered islands and sequestered lands, a thousand bizarre and heretic cults prospered too.

I’d heard how a lone traveller was hardly safe upon the planet’s surface, prey to wild animals and cut-throats. Most of all I’d heard that Tartarus was a dying world, one that would be annihilated when its sun exploded in the magnificent stellar suicide of a supernova.

These are the stories of the people who are leaving Tartarus, those have decided to stay and those who are arriving on the planet for the apocalypse.

This ebook edition also features an afterword by the author.

“Eric Brown spins a terrific yarn” SFX

“This is the rediscovery of wonder” Stephen Baxter on Helix

“SF suffused with a cosmopolitan and literary sensibility” Paul McAuley

“British writing with a deft, understated touch: wonderful” New Scientist

Amazon US – Amazon UK – Barnes and Noble – Kobo – Apple – Smashwords

Stumbling into print

Working on Garry Kilworth’s fabulous new novel, The Iron Wire (due later this month – watch this space), I was struck by how many excellent books I’ve worked on at infinity plus, and in particular, how many of them now have print editions. I thought I’d write a blog post to highlight some of them, and explain how we kind of sidestepped into print editions, having initially set out as an ebook-only publisher.

But then, I thought… it’s not fair to pick out individual titles to highlight like this, particularly when it’s the range of titles that had struck me. So instead, here’s the complete listing of print titles.

Note: while I hope that you’ll enjoy these books wherever you buy them (and I’m delighted that independent bookstores are stocking our books), authors get the most financial benefit if you buy from Createspace.

infinity plus: titles by format: print

Ordered by release date

See also: books from our infinite press imprint

Riding the Serpent’s Back by Keith Brooke

An old era is drawing to a close, a new era about to begin, and the great mage Donn has passed on his Talents to a new generation. When a rogue church leader threatens to set loose wild powers, Donn’s children must oppose him but, also, they must contend with Donn himself: the old mage has not finished with his children yet. A fantasy epic of revolution, jealousy and earth-shattering magic. (…more)

Ebook: Amazon US – Amazon UK – Barnes and Noble – Kobo – Apple – Smashwords – Weightless Books
Print (ISBN: 1500976466): Amazon US – Amazon UK – CreateSpace – and other booksellers

Rites of Passage by Eric Brown

Rites of Passage gathers four long stories from a British Science-Fiction Award-winning author. Stories of a Victorian London facing the threat of alien invasion, a strange world where the sun is fixed eternally overhead, the struggle to survive in a near-future post-apocalypse, and a far-future Earth where giant crabs and a swollen sun threaten humanity’s very existence. (…more)

Ebook: Amazon US – Amazon UK – Barnes and Noble – Kobo – Apple – Smashwords
Print (ISBN: 1499500319): Amazon US – Amazon UK – CreateSpace – and other booksellers

Hairy London by Stephen Palmer

What is love? One evening at the Suicide Club three gentlemen discuss this age-old problem, and thus a wager is made. Dissolute fop Sheremy Pantomile, veteran philosopher Kornukope Wetherbee and down-on-his-luck Velvene Orchardtide all bet their fortunes on finding the answer amidst the dark alleys of a phantasmagorical Edwardian London. But then, overnight, London Town is covered in hair… (…more)

Ebook: Amazon US – Amazon UK – Barnes and Noble – Kobo – Apple – Smashwords
Print (ISBN: 1495995224): Amazon US – Amazon UK – CreateSpace – and other booksellers

Nocturnes and Other Nocturnes by Claude Lalumière

Nocturnes and Other Nocturnes: Twenty-five dark stories that span a daring breadth of genres. In these noir tales that unfold at the edge of realism, mythic nocturnes from impossible pasts, and disquietingly intimate stories of speculative fiction, Claude Lalumière explores our collective and intertwined obsessions with sex and death. (…more)

Ebook: Amazon US – Amazon UK – Barnes and Noble – Kobo – Apple – Smashwords
Print (ISBN: 1494461978): Amazon US – Amazon UK – CreateSpace – and other booksellers

Strange Mammals by Jason Erik Lundberg

Strange superheroes and the magic of the quotidian; stories of piercing darkness and quirky, surreal humor; writing from the heart and soul; phantasmagorical journeys into what it means to be human. (…more)

Ebook: Amazon US – Amazon UK – Barnes and Noble – Kobo – Apple – Smashwords
Print (ISBN: 1492363685): Amazon US – Amazon UK – CreateSpace – and other booksellers

The Fabulous Beast by Garry Kilworth

A set of beautifully crafted tales of the imagination from “the best short story writer in any genre” (New Scientist). (…more)

Ebook: Amazon US – Amazon UK – Barnes and Noble – Kobo – Apple – Smashwords – Robot Trading Company – Spacewitch
Print (ISBN: 1490339604): Amazon US – Amazon UK – CreateSpace – and other booksellers

Falling Over by James Everington

Sometimes when you fall over you don’t get up again. And sometimes, you get up to find everything has changed. Ten stories of unease, fear and the weird from James Everington. (…more)

Ebook: Amazon US – Amazon UK – Barnes and Noble – Kobo – Apple – Smashwords – Robot Trading Company – Spacewitch
Print (ISBN: 1490339132): Amazon US – Amazon UK – CreateSpace – and other booksellers

Salvage by Eric Brown

The Salvageman Ed series of linked stories – four of which appear here for the first time – combine action, humour and pathos, from the master of character-based adventure science fiction. (…more)

Ebook: Amazon US – Amazon UK – Barnes and Noble – Kobo – Apple – Smashwords – Robot Trading Company – Spacewitch
Print (ISBN: 1490339051): Amazon US – Amazon UK – CreateSpace – and other booksellers

Parallax View by Keith Brooke and Eric Brown

Stories that examine the interface between human and alien – a parallax view from two of Britain’s top science fiction writers, both shortlisted for the 2013 Philip K Dick Award. (…more)

Ebook: Amazon US – Amazon UK – Barnes and Noble – Kobo – Apple
Print (ISBN: 1481009052): Amazon US – Amazon UK – CreateSpace – and other booksellers

On my way to Samarkand: memoirs of a travelling writer by Garry Kilworth (writing as Garry Douglas Kilworth)

Garry Kilworth’s books include SF and fantasy, historical novels, literary novels, story collections, children’s books and film novelisations. This autobiography covers family history, travels and his experiences in publishing. ‘A master of his trade’ (Punch) (…more)

Ebook: Amazon US – Amazon UK – Barnes and Noble – Kobo – Apple – Smashwords – Robot Trading Company
Print (ISBN: 1480208299): Amazon US – Amazon UK – CreateSpace – and other booksellers

Red Dot Irreal by Jason Erik Lundberg

Once you enter the surreal worlds of Lundberg’s equatorial fantastika, a part of you will never leave. “A fine meal for the mind awaits you in Lundberg’s collection” (Jonathan Carroll) (…more)

Ebook: Amazon US – Amazon UK – Barnes and Noble – Kobo – Apple – Smashwords – Robot Trading Company
Print (ISBN: 1492364894): Amazon US – Amazon UK – CreateSpace – and other booksellers

The Alchemy of Happiness by Jason Erik Lundberg

A triptych of stories rooted in Asian myth and legend, literary fantasy at its very best from the author of Red Dot Irreal, plus a hybrid essay on the transformative power of speculative fiction. (…more)

Ebook: Amazon US – Amazon UK – Barnes and Noble – Kobo – Apple – Smashwords – Robot Trading Company
Print (ISBN: 1492379212): Amazon US – Amazon UK – CreateSpace – and other booksellers

Genetopia by Keith Brooke

The wilds: a world where genes mutate and migrate between species through plague and fever, but that’s where Flint must go… “A minor masterpiece that should usher Brooke at last into the recognized front ranks of SF writers” (Locus) (…more)

Ebook: Amazon US – Amazon UK – Barnes and Noble – Kobo – Apple – Smashwords – Robot Trading Company
Print (ISBN: 1480192406): Amazon US – Amazon UK – CreateSpace – and other booksellers

The Love Machine & other contraptions by Nir Yaniv

What happens when every wish you make is immediately granted by God? If you could use the power of music to travel through time? If your body was the battleground for a strange, alien invasion? In turns humorous, lyrical, profound – but always entertaining – these are the haunting tales of an author at the height of his power. (…more)

Ebook: Amazon US – Amazon UK – Barnes and Noble – Smashwords – Robot Trading Company
Print (ISBN: 1480298131): Amazon US – Amazon UK – CreateSpace – and other booksellers

One of Us by Iain Rowan

Anna fled her own country when the police murdered her brother and her father, but now, in a world of people trafficking, prostitution and murder, she must decide how much she is prepared to give up to be one of us? Shortlisted for the UK Crime Writers’ Association Debut Dagger award. (…more)

Ebook: Amazon US – Amazon UK – Barnes and Noble – Apple – Smashwords – Robot Trading Company
Print (ISBN: 1470075768): Amazon US – Amazon UK – CreateSpace – and other booksellers

Ghostwriting by Eric Brown

Over the course of a career spanning twenty five years, Eric Brown has written just a handful of horror and ghost stories – and all of them are collected here. (…more)

Ebook: Amazon US – Amazon UK – Barnes and Noble – Kobo – Smashwords – Robot Trading Company
Print (ISBN: 147010086X): Amazon US – Amazon UK – CreateSpace – and other booksellers

The Angels of Life and Death by Eric Brown

From cyberpunk visions of post-human futures to traditional tales of alien encounter and time travel, ten science fiction stories from the two times winner of the BSFA short story award. (…more)

Ebook: Amazon US – Amazon UK – Barnes and Noble – Kobo – Apple – Smashwords – Robot Trading Company
Print (ISBN: 1479242047): Amazon US – Amazon UK – CreateSpace – and other booksellers

Nowhere To Go by Iain Rowan

Eleven stories of murder, obsession, fear and – sometimes – redemption, from a writer shortlisted for the UK Crime Writers’ Association’s Debut Dagger award. (…more)

Ebook: Amazon US – Amazon UK – Barnes and Noble – Apple – Smashwords – Robot Trading Company
Print (ISBN: 1475127863): Amazon US – Amazon UK – CreateSpace – and other booksellers

One More Unfortunate by Kaitlin Queen

Relentlessly drawn back to a circle of old friends and enemies, Nick Redpath has all kinds of issues to deal with. But first he must prove that he didn’t murder his old flame, Geraldine Wyse… (…more)

Ebook: Amazon US – Amazon UK – Barnes and Noble – Smashwords – Robot Trading Company
Print (ISBN: 1470068273): Amazon US – Amazon UK – CreateSpace – and other booksellers

Just out: Story Behind the Book, Volume 3 (Essays on Writing Speculative Fiction)

Another of these excellent volumes collecting nearly 40 non-fiction essays from some of the most exciting authors working today. Offering an unique insight into the creative and publishing process, these essay reveal all the beauty, effort and frustration that inevitable comes hand in hand with the urge to write, edit or illustrate.

Contributors include Steven Erikson, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Hugh Howey, Richard Kadrey, Christopher Fowler, Gary Gibson, Eric Brown, Garry Kilworth, Steve Rasnic Tem, Ian R. MacLeod, Cat Sparks, James Everington, Pat Cadigan, Freda Warrington, Nick Mamatas, Robert Reed and many more.

And what’s more, like the earlier volumes editors Kristijan Meic and Ivana Steiner are donating all proceeds to the charity Epilepsy Action, who have been hugely supportive of my daughter Molly (to whom this book is dedicated).

Lots of good reasons to grab a copy!

Buying at Amazon.com in the US
E-book – Paperback

Buying at Amazon.co.uk in the UK
E-book – Paperback

Publication day for new infinity plus titles from Brooke & Brown

Today sees publication of two new titles from infinity plus, Keith Brooke’s epic fantasy novel Riding the Serpent’s Back and Eric Brown’s science-fiction story collection Deep Future.

Both are available at an introductory price of 99c/77p for a few days only (note: this price is only available at Amazon).

 

Riding the Serpent’s Back by Keith Brooke
An old era is drawing to a close, a new era about to begin, and the great mage Donn has passed on his Talents to a new generation. When a rogue church leader threatens to set loose wild powers, Donn’s children must oppose him but, also, they must contend with Donn himself: the old mage has not finished with his children yet. A fantasy epic of revolution, jealousy and earth-shattering magic.
Ebook: Amazon US – Amazon UK – Amazon Canada – Barnes and Noble – Kobo – Apple– Smashwords – Weightless Books
Print: Amazon US – Amazon UK – Amazon Canada –CreateSpace

Deep Future by Eric Brown
Deep Future collects ten tales of the past, present and future by the award-winning author of the best selling Helix. Whether he’s writing about aliens coming to Earth, virtual reality, alternate worlds or immortal men, Brown imbues his fictions with a concern for character and an abiding passion for story, underlining his position as one of Britain’s finest SF writers.
Ebook: Amazon US – Amazon UK – Barnes and Noble – Kobo – Apple– Smashwords – Weightless Books

Deep Future by Eric Brown: pre-order for 99c/77p

Eric Brown’s collection Deep Future: available in ebook formats for the first time. Publication date is 23rd September, but this title is now available for pre-order at Amazon at the knock-down price of 99c/77p!

Deep Future collects ten tales of the past, present and future by the award-winning author of the best selling Helix. Whether he’s writing about aliens coming to Earth, virtual reality, alternate worlds or immortal men, Brown imbues his fictions with a concern for character and an abiding passion for story.

Meet Edward Sinclair, a man grieving the loss of his daughter, and the scientist who just might be able to bring her back from the dead…

Ben Henderson, a gem-cutter, and what happened one summer on a far-away colony world…

The telepathic Tavernier and his involvement with a strange alien race who will change his life forever…

Claudine Hainault, a schoolgirl who turns her back on the chance to live for ever when the Kethani come to Earth…

And many other humans – and aliens – from the imagination of one of Britain’s finest SF writers.

Pre-order from: Amazon US – Amazon UK – Amazon Canada

new: Rites of Passage by Eric Brown

Rites of Passage gathers four long stories, one of which is original to the collection. “Bartholomew Burns and the Brain Invaders” features a Victorian London facing the threat of alien invasion and the mysterious ‘Guardian’ who saves the day. “Guardians of the Phoenix” is set in a near-future, post-apocalyptic world where water is in short supply and roaming bands will do anything to obtain it, while “Sunworld” is about a strange world where the sun is fixed eternally overhead and Yarrek Merwell makes a discovery that will change everything. The longest story in the collection, “Beneath the Ancient Sun” has never appeared before and is set on a far-future Earth where giant crabs and a swollen sun threaten humanity’s very existence.

Eric Brown’s stories combine memorable characters, fascinating settings, and a passionate concern for story-telling that has made this BSFA award-winning author one of the leaders of the field.

Buy this ebook from: Amazon US – Amazon UK – Barnes and Noble – Kobo –Apple – Smashwords

Buy this book in print (ISBN: 1499500319): Amazon US – Amazon UK – CreateSpace – Barnes and Noble – and other booksellers

“Brown sketches a complex world full of bitter idealists and fantastic landscapes where nothing is as it seems”Publishers Weekly

“Eric Brown spins a terrific yarn” SFX

“This is the rediscovery of wonder” Stephen Baxter on Helix

“SF suffused with a cosmopolitan and literary sensibility” Paul McAuley

“Brown’s spectacular creativity creates a constantly compelling read” Kirkus Book Reviews

Twelve days of Aethernet offer

A Christmas offer from the team behind Aethernet – a fabulous magazine of serial fiction. And I’m not just saying that because my Memento is serialised there in four parts: just look at the line-up of contributors! I’m tremendously proud to appear there in such company.

The offer? Oh yes… here it is:

Do you wish you’d started reading Aethernet Magazine back at issue #1?

Wanting to rediscover the pleasure of reading serial fiction?

Are you looking for an unusual Christmas present for someone with an e reader? Or perhaps you know someone who is getting an e reader and you want something for them to read?

Then why not buy them 12 issues of Aethernet Magazine?  Starting with issue #1 on 25th December 2013, a copy of Aethernet Magazine will be emailed to you (or a friend) every week until you (or they) receive all 12 issues of Volume 1 of Aethernet Magazine.

We email in mobi, epub and pdf format, DRM free.  If you are buying this as a gift, please specify the email address you would like the magazine sent to.

Follow this link to find out more…

Aethernet #6 is out!

Contents:

• Cosmopolitan Predators! by Tony Ballantyne
• Gela’s Ring by Chris Beckett
• Bartholomew Burns and the Brain Invaders by Eric Brown
• The Ties that Bind by Juliet E McKenna
• Murder of the Heart by Philip Palmer
• Spiderlight by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Buy it now from Amazon

Buy a 12 Month Subscription:  You will receive Issues 1 to 6

Murder by the Book by Eric Brown: a review

I was lucky enough to be given a free copy of this lovely hardback, and still it cost me twenty quid. That Eric Brown can be a bastard like that.

Murder by the Book, a debut crime novel from a writer who has been publishing book-length fiction for nearly 25 years, winner and shortlistee of many awards, his books and short stories have mainly stuck to his science-fiction roots, straying occasionally into fantasy and horror (of the gentle, psychological variety), and a wide variety of fiction for teenagers and younger.

Murder by the Book is the first Langham and Dupre mystery. Don Langham is a middlingly successful 1950s crime novelist, Maria Dupre is the assistant to Langham’s delightfully over the top literary agent Charles Elder. The two are drawn together when Elder becomes the subject of a blackmail plot, with an extortionist demanding payment for some dodgy photos of Elder’s dalliance with a young man at a local swimming pool.

Before long blackmail turns to something far more sinister as it becomes clear that a recent flurry of deaths among London’s crime-writing fraternity are not the accidents they had first appeared. Murder by the Book is a cracking crime novel, with satisfying twists and turns along the way, but what is most striking – and engaging – about the book is the affectionate portrayal of 1950s London and the crime-writing community of the time. Much like Midsomer Murders, Brown has turned in a highly enjoyable crime romp that never takes itself too seriously, but always with a straight face; and also much like Midsomer Murders victims are soon dropping like flies.

Occasionally rushed, where a little more delay might have heightened the tension, Murder by the Book is the most fun I’ve had within the pages of a book in a long time, and I’m eagerly looking forward to the next in the series.

That twenty quid? About a third of the way into reading the book I lost my copy, and I was enjoying it so much I had to buy a replacement. It’s very frustrating that such a good book is priced so highly (in both its hardback and ebook editions), but I still blame Eric for writing such a good book that I just had to cough up at Amazon. That Eric Brown: he’s wasted on science fiction.

Murder by the Book is published by Severn House (the price of the hardback has since dropped to £14.99) and is available at Amazon, etc.