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OUT NOW: The Surf by Kwaku Osei-Afrifa

We’re delighted to be wishing The Surf by Kwaku Osei-Afrifa, the second of our 2022 Satellites novellas, a very happy book birthday!

Each of our Solaris Satellites novellas is available in eBook, audiobook and as a limited signed paperback, available directly from our webstore! Grab a digital or print season pass and you’ll receive all three of this year’s novellas.

In The Surf, the life of an illegal relay race’s star is turned upside down when she’s blackmailed by a childhood friend…

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Elerie Astrada is hanging in almost-space, awaiting launch.

Ultsurf is a popular, high-stakes relay race contested at the edge of a planet’s atmosphere. It’s fast, hard and dangerous: it isn’t a bloodsport, but blood is often spilled. It is also highly illegal. And Ele is at the top of her game, just a few wins away from the major leagues.

But making the fastest Split isn’t Ele’s biggest challenge. When her childhood friend India blackmails her with knowledge of her Ultsurfing career, Ele’s thrown into the politics of money and power, and way over her head. As a pawn in India’s scheme, Ele digs up everything she can on her Ultsurf rivals, the Royals—through drugs, espionage and violence—to ensure her team’s victory.

It’s brought her to this moment. Everything is in place, every deal done. Then the starter whistle blows…

“A wild, hallucinatory trip through a breakneck far future. Unlike anything I’ve read before.” — Jackson Ford, author of The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind

“Sharply written, very readable… Excellent stuff.” — Adam Roberts, author of The This

“The Surf is a high-octane, high-altitude look at what it means to survive and the lengths one young woman will go to exorcise her guilt at making it out. Osei-Afrifa keeps the energy and danger levels high in this stylish, voicey debut.” — R.W.W. Greene, author of Mercury Rising

“Smart, emotional and propulsive, The Surf has the addictive rush of chasing a thrill to the edge and then beyond.” — James Bradley, author of Ghost Species

“Fast-paced and fraught with danger.” — Anna Bailey, author of Tall Bones

“The struggle to find joy and meaning in an unjust world. All in all, The Surf is a wild flight that’s fizzing with energy and ideas.” — Louise Carey, author of Inscape

“A rivetingly fast-paced, inventive novella about an all-consuming tournament in a crumbling future world.” — Leon Craig, author of Parallel Hells

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OUT NOW: Kid Wolf and Kraken Boy by Sam J. Miller

We’re over the moon that the first of our 2022 Solaris Satellites novellas, Kid Wolf and Kraken Boy by Sam J. Miller, is out now!

Each of our Solaris Satellites novellas is available in eBook, audiobook and as a limited signed paperback, available directly from our webstore! Treat yourself to a digital or print season pass to buy all three of this year’s novellas.

In Kid Wolf and Kraken Boy, Sam J. Miller invites you to a 1920s New York brimming with queer love, societal change and tattoo magic…

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“Kid” Wolffe is an up-and-coming boxer in 1920s New York. An honest fighter’s got little chance at success on the mob-controlled circuit—until ambitious lieutenant “Hinky” Friedman starts making moves to take over her boss’s business, and sees a use for the kid.

Teitelstam is a struggling tattoo artist, whose natural talent for ink magic won’t amount to much without formal training. So he’s got no idea why Hinky would offer him ten times what he’s worth to come work for her.

But Hinky has a vision for a better world, and her high-stakes plan to make it reality requires both Wolffe’s fists and Teitelstam’s magic. What neither Wolffe nor Teitelstam expects is to fall in love; and in this world, love might be more dangerous than deadly magic or an underworld turf war…

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OUT NOW: Pollen From a Future Harvest by Derek Künsken!

We’re incredibly excited to say the third of our Solaris Satellites has launched! Pollen From a Future Harvest by Derek Künsken is out today!

The Solaris Satellites series brings new, exciting voices to the page, with each novella available in limited signed edition paperback, eBook and audiobook, plus a digital or print season pass giving readers release day access to all three 2021 novellas.

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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?

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OUT NOW: The Difficult Loves of Maria Makiling by Wayne Santos

It’s an incredibly exciting day as we’re wishing the second of our Solaris Satellites series, The Difficult Loves of Maria Makiling by Wayne Santos a happy publication day… or should we say launch day?!

The Solaris Satellites series brings new, exciting voices to the page, with each novella available in limited signed edition paperback, eBook and audiobook, plus a digital or print season pass giving readers release day access to all three 2021 novellas.

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Image featuring paperback copy of The Difficult Loves of Maria Makiling by Wayne Santos on an atmospheric background.

Maria is, in no particular order: a concept artist at one of Canada’s biggest videogame studios, the goddess of Mount Makiling in the Philippines, and in love.

And right now, being in love is her biggest problem.

Because when Maria falls in love, tragedy and death follow—and always have. For hundreds of years.

If she wants to break the cycle, it’s going to take everything a goddess, her newly-befriended, anime-obsessed demon-horse, and Canadian national treasure Margaret Atwood have to make it happen.

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OUT NOW: One Day All This Will Be Yours by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Today we’re wishing an extremely happy publication day to One Day All This Will Be Yours!

This bold new novella from award-winning author of Firewalkers, Redemption’s Blade, and Children of Ruin Adrian Tchaikovsky is a brilliantly smart, funny tale of time travel and paradox.

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Welcome to the end of time. It’s a perfect day.

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.

“This time-looped dramedy is as funny as it is thought-provoking.” Publishers Weekly, starred review

“Playing deft games with time, this wryly funny short novel from the author of Children of Time focuses on a war that nobody remembers fighting and a time warrior determined to prevent history from repeating itself.” Waterstones review

Check out all our other books by Adrian Tchaikovsky on our webshop here:

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OUT NOW: These Lifeless Things by Premee Mohamed!

We’re absolutely thrilled to say These Lifeless Things by Premee Mohamed is out now! It’s the first release in our new Solaris Satellites series, in which we bring brilliant SFF novellas directly from publisher to reader. The Solaris Satellites series brings new, exciting voices to the page, with each novella available in limited signed edition paperback, eBook and audiobook, plus a digital or print season pass giving readers release day access to all three 2021 novellas.

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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.

“Premee Mohamed writes with a joyous velocity that careens through genre-lines, whipping the reader helplessly after her. One of the most exciting voices I’ve heard in a long time.” – John Hornor Jacobs

“One of the most exciting new voices in speculative fiction.” – Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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Solaris to publish three new novellas by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Following the critical and commercial success of Ironclads, Walking to Aldebaran and Firewalkers, Solaris is delighted to announce the acquisition of three more standalone novellas by the Clarke-Award-winning Adrian Tchaikovsky.

The first novella, One Day All This Will Be Yours, will be released as a limited edition hardback in March 2021, with a further two works scheduled for release in 2022 and 2023.

Fiction Commissioning Editor David Thomas Moore acquired the novellas in a deal with Simon Kavanagh and Oliver Cheetham of the Mic Cheetham Agency.

Adrian Tchaikovsky:

“I’m delighted that Solaris will be publishing another trio of novellas showcasing a variety of dark futures and strange times, following Ironclads, Firewalkers and Walking to Aldebaran. I’ve had a great deal of fun working on this set of books and I’m looking forward to unleashing the new crop of weird ideas.”

David Thomas Moore:

“Adrian’s at the top of his game right now; these novellas are smart, sharp, timely, challenging, engaging and profoundly human. I’m pleased and proud to continue working with him on building a treasury of dangerous futures.”

Adrian Tchaikovsky was born in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire before heading off to Reading to study psychology and zoology. For reasons unclear even to himself he subsequently ended up in law and has worked as a legal executive in both Reading and Leeds, where he now lives. Married, he is a keen live role-player and occasional amateur actor, has trained in stage-fighting, and keeps no exotic or dangerous pets of any kind, possibly excepting his son.

For review copies, information, or interviews please contact Hanna Waigh, Fiction – PR & Marketing Manager: hanna.waigh@rebellion.co.uk.

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Discover a new Sherlock in A Study In Starlets

Think you know Sherlock Holmes? Think again!

In A Study In Starlets, the latest Holmesian novella from Abaddon (which is available for preorder now), Gini Koch’s Holmes is quite unlike any you’ve ever seen before. She – aha! – is, among other things, based in LA, and solving crimes by trawling Hollywood’s dark underbelly…

‘It’s apt that Gini Koch’s chosen the world of television as the backdrop for her stories,’ says Abaddon chief David Thomas Moore. ‘Gini’s Sherlock is one of those characters you start mentally casting the moment you meet her (Anne Hathaway, if you’re wondering). She’s a true Holmes – insightful, sharp, impatient and unassailably self-righteous – but with a warmth, and a loving wit, that both perfectly complement the character and take you entirely by surprise. A Study in Starlets is a brutal takedown of Hollywood, and an utterly joyous romp.’

Along with her partner Dr. John Watson , she’s just settling in as a consulting detective in hernew home, when notorious reality starlet Irene Adler comes to call, asking for their help solving an extraordinary—and embarrassing—theft.

As a thoroughly smitten Watson closes the door on Adler’s back, TV producers Joey Jackson and Tony Antonelli call on the pair. Their partner, Cliff Camden, has disappeared without a trace on the eve of filming for the new show; rumour has it he’s taken off with their money. The LAPD aren’t interested and Watson has nothing but contempt for the three, but Holmes takes the case.

As they pick their way amongst the grumbling crew, the neurotic actors and the low-level sleaze that permeates the city, it starts to become clear the two cases are connected—when a murder turns everything on its head…

A Study in Starlets is the second of three new novellas following on from the stories in Two Hundred and Twenty-One Baker Streets, and includes the story “All the Single Ladies.”

A Study In Starlets is out on 11 September.

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