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Paul Cornell has written Doctor Who for the BBC, Batman & Robin for DC, and Wolverine for Marvel. He has won the BSFA Award for his short fiction, the Eagle Award for his comics, and shares a Writer's Guild Award for television. He is one of only two people to be Hugo Award nominated for all three media. A Better Way to Die is his first ever short story collection, providing a comprehensive overview of his work. Featured here are both his contributions to George RR Martin's Wildcards series and all the Jonathan Hamilton stories, including "One of Our Bastards is Missing", shortlisted for the Hugo Award in 2010, and "A Better Way to Die", winner of a BSFA Award in 2011. Cover art by Ben Baldwin1. Introduction by John Scalzi2. The Deer Stalker 3. Michael Laurits is: DROWNING 4. Global Collider Generation: an Idyll 5. Secret Identity 6. The Occurrence at Slocombe Priory 7. The Sensible Folly 8. More (Wild Cards) 9. The Elephant in the Room (Wild Cards) 10. A New Arrival at the House of Love 11. The Ghosts of Christmas 12. Tom 13. Ramesses on the Frontier 14. Zeta Reticuli 15. Catherine Drewe 16. One of our Bastards is Missing 17. The Copenhagen Interpretation 18. A Better Way to Die

David Gemmell passed away in 2006, leaving behind a legacy of memorable characters, epic settings, and thrilling tales. In 2008 a group of fellow writers and friends led by Deborah J Miller and Stan Nicholls founded the David Gemmell Legend Award in his honour. In 2013, NewCon Press released Legends, an anthology of original stories by some of today's leading fantasy authors in honour of a man whose work has so inspired them. We are now proud to announce Legends II, featuring an all new cast of distinguished authors in a volume that fully lives up to the high standards of its predecessor. Welcome to the land of Legends... Cover art by Dominic HarmanContents:1. Introduction - Stan Nicholls2. The Blessed and the Cursed - Gav Thorpe3. A Rescue - Mark Lawrence4. The Lowest Place - Edward Cox5. The Giant's Lady - Rowena Cory Daniells 6. An Oath Given - John Gwynne7. The Singer - Stella Gemmell8. Sandrunners - Anthony Ryan9. Smokestack Lightning - Gavin Smith10. Oak - Lou Morgan11. An Owl in Moonlight - Freda Warrington12. Heaven of Animals - John Hornor Jacobs13. The Iron Wolves: Retribution - Andy Remic14. About the Authors

A collection of all original stories inspred by the Fermi Paradox, written by some of science fiction's biggest names and scientists, with an introduction by the astronomer Marek Kukula (Royal Observatory, Greenwich).Full contents:1. Introduction by Marek Kukula 2. Catching Rays - Dave Clements 3. The Big Next - Pat Cadigan4. Baedecker's Fermi - Adam Roberts 5. Zeta Reticuli - Paul Cornell 6. The Ambulance Chaser - Tricia Sullivan7. Lost to Their Own Devices - Adrian Tchaikovsky 8. In the Beginning - Gerry Webb 9. The Trail of the Creator, the Trial of Creation - Paul di Filippo10. Stella by Starlight - Mike Resnick & Robert T Jeschoenek11. Fermi's Doubts - George Zebrowski12. Audiovisionary - Stephanie Saulter13. Aether - Robert Reed14. The End of the World - Keith Brooke & Eric Brown15. The Worldmaker - Rachel Armstrong16. Atonement, Under the Blue-White Sun - Mercurio D Rivera

Shortlisted for both the BSFA and the British Fantasy Awards for best novel.Going to the circus will never be the same again...Hellequin, last of the HawkEye military elite, is desperate to escape the legacy of Soul Food, the miraculous plant supplement that leeched the soil, destroyed his family, and instigated a bloody civil war. For a man awaiting the inevitable madness brought on by his enforced biomorph implant, there's only one choice. Run away with the circus... Drifting above a poisoned landscape, Cyber Circus and her exotic acrobats and bioengineered freaks bring a welcome splash of colour into folk's drab lives. None more so than escaped courtesan turned-dancer Desirous Nim. When Nim's freedom and her very life are threatened, Hellequin is forced to fight again. But, even united, will the weird troupe and their strange skills be enough to save Nim and keep their home aloft? That's assuming, of course, that Zan City's Blood Worms, mute stowaways, or the swarms don't manage to bring them down first...Welcome to the greatest show on Sore Earth!"Kim Lakin-Smith is not just the real thing she has a real way with words. Cyber Circus is as honestly brutal a twisted cybernetic love story as anything I've read. She makes mixing emotion with action and world building look effortless." - Jon Courtenay Grimwood"Cyber Circus is surely beyond any previous perverse riff on a carnival set in an alternate surreality. Just beware the hallucinatory dementing seductions of Kim Lakin-Smith¿s inventions. An astonishing piece of work." - Ian Watson"Exotic characters, roaming a Dust Bowl ambience of 30s America, surrounded by the pervading aroma of stomped grass and burning lamp oil bring a rich atmosphere to this unique and quirky tale." - Storm Constantine"Kim Lakin-Smith's dark, lyrical prose flows towards the poetic, making you sigh with pleasure." - Graham Joyce

With the impending crises of climate change, scarcity of water, dwindling energy reserves and spiraling global populations, the effective management of our land and the food it produces has never been more relevant. Established in 1938 by a small group of far-seeing and enthusiastic engineers and agriculturalists, the Institution of Agricultural Engineers provides a professional nexus for the scientists, technologists, engineers, and managers working in the many and varied forms of land-based industry. In 2013, to mark their 75th anniversary, the IAgrE have commissioned a book that looks forward at what the future might hold. To help them achieve this, they approached NewCon Press.Looking Landwards attracted submissions from within the UK, from the USA, Australia, mainland Europe, Africa, and Asia; from professional writers and would-be writers, from scientists and engineers who are actively involved in dealing with the book's themes to people who have simply been inspired by them. Looking Landwards features the very best of these stories. Twenty-three works of science fiction and speculation that dare to look to the future and examine what lies ahead for farming, for agricultural engineering and for all of us.