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OUT NOW: Flight From the Ages & Other Stories by Derek Künsken

We’re thrilled to be wishing Flight From the Ages & Other Stories by Derek Künsken a very happy book birthday!

Enter the world of The Quantum Evolution in this glittering collection of short science fiction…

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From the clouds of Venus to the origins of the time gates, this collection of novellas and short fiction visits many favourite worlds of the Quantum Evolution universe, as well as some new to the series. With two 20,000-plus-word novellas and four long short stories, this collection is a stunning showcase of talent.

Collecting: “Persephone Descending”, “Schools of Clay”, “Beneath Sunlit Shallows”, “Flight From the Ages”, Pollen From a Future Harvest and Tool Use By Humans of Danzhai County, this is a must for all fans of forward-thinking science fiction.

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OUT NOW: Cold Water by Dave Hutchinson

We’re wishing Cold Water by Dave Hutchinson a very happy book birthday!

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TO UNCOVER THE TRUTH, YOU MUST RISK EVERYTHING

When Carey Tews retired from Les Coureurs – the clandestine organisation of high-risk smugglers – she swore she’d never go back. Her cover in Hungary was blown, and even if she could have returned, she wouldn’t. That is, until an old friend and lover is found dead in mysterious circumstances.

Back for one last job in a Europe fractured into a hundred tiny principalities, with civil unrest and political instability the norm, she must navigate local authorities, rogue operatives and Russian spies.

What she doesn’t know is that the investigation will take her to places she couldn’t even imagine.

‘A clever, complicated tale of dirty tricks, spies and politics.’ — The Guardian

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Revealing the cover for Frontier by Grace Curtis

We’re over the moon to share the stunning cover of Frontier by Grace Curtis with you today!

We’re bringing this sapphic space western for fans of Firefly and The Mandalorian to North American bookshelves in February 2023 – it’s available to preorder now!

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In the distant future most of the human race has fled a ravaged Earth to find new life on other planets. For those who stayed a lawless society remains. Technology has been renounced, and saints and sinners, lawmakers and sheriffs, travelers and gunslingers, abound.

What passes for justice is presided over by the High Sheriff, and carried out by his cruel and ruthless Deputy.

Then a ship falls from the sky, bringing the planet’s first visitor in three hundred years. This Stranger is a crewmember on the first ship in centuries to attempt a return to Earth and save what’s left. But her escape pod crashes hundreds of miles away from the rest of the wreckage.

The Stranger finds herself adrift in a ravaged, unwelcoming landscape, full of people who hate and fear her space-born existence. Scared, alone, and armed, she embarks on a journey across the wasteland to return to her ship, her mission, and the woman she loves.

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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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Revealing the cover for The Ten Percent Thief by Lavanya Lakshminarayan!

We’re so excited to reveal the gorgeous cover for The Ten Percent Thief by Lavanya Lakshminarayan!

A stunning literary sci-fi mosaic novel set in a futuristic Bangalore, The Ten Percent Thief celebrates how the smallest seeds can start the biggest revolutions.

Out in hardback, eBook and audiobook in March 2023!

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Nothing has happened. Not yet, anyway. This is how all things begin.

Welcome to Apex City, formerly Bangalore, where everything is decided by the mathematically perfect Bell Curve.

With the right image, values and opinions, you can ascend to the glittering heights of the Twenty Percent – the Virtual elite – and have the world at your feet. Otherwise you risk falling to the precarious Ten Percent, and deportation to the ranks of the Analogs, with no access to electricity, running water or even humanity.

The system has no flaws. Until the elusive “Ten Percent Thief” steals a single jacaranda seed from the Virtual city and plants a revolution in the barren soil of the Analog world.

Previously published in South Asia only as Analog/Virtual, The Ten Percent Thief is a striking debut by a ferocious new talent.

‘A masterful work of science fiction, complex and engaging.’ – S.B. Divya, Nebula Award finalist and author of Runtime

‘This is fiction playing for the highest stakes – and winning.’ – Chandrahas Choudhury, author of Clouds

‘A high velocity anthem sung through the shape of things to come.’ – Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, Nebula Award finalist and author of The Inhuman Race

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Solaris to publish near-future time travel novel by R. A. Sinn

Solaris is thrilled to announce the acquisition of A Second Chance for Yesterday by R. A. Sinn, a near-future science fiction novel for fans of The Time Traveler’s Wife and This is How You Lose the Time War, for publication in August 2023.

Nev Bourne works for tech company Qbito whose brain implants can rewind time by five seconds. When the new upgrade she’s been finalising moves her back in time each day, towards her miserable youth and inevitable end, her only hope for help is Airin, a nonbinary hacker from her past.

World All Languages Rights were acquired by Jim Killen from Jennie Goloboy at the Donald Maas Agency.

Author R. A. Sinn on the acquisition:

“We feel like we’ve found a true home at Rebellion, which is a champion of the intelligent, diverse, creative stories that most inspire us.”

Acquiring Editor Jim Killen:

“A Second Chance for Yesterday is a novel that feels very personal. This is a time travel novel that is both musings about quantum entanglement and a story of a woman’s journey of self-discovery and reflection on her life. It’s intriguing, heartfelt and bittersweet. And when I reached the end my first thought was that I wanted more.”

R. A. Sinn is the pseudonym for sister-and-brother writing team Rachel Hope Cleves and Aram Sinnreich. Rachel is a historian and Aram is a futurist. Despite their past disagreements about who’s trespassing onto whose side of the back seat, Rachel and Aram have always enjoyed making up stories together, and playing inside of the worlds they’ve built.

For press enquiries please contact Jess Gofton, PR & Marketing Manager: jess.gofton@rebellion.co.uk.

For rights enquiries please contact Reitha Pattison, Rights Manager: reitha.pattison@rebellion.co.uk

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Here’s what the Rebellion team recommend this Pride…

Apparently, it’s June – yes, we’re also shocked by how fast 2022 is flying past us. Luckily, June is Pride Month!

Pride Month pays homage to the 1969 Stonewall Riot, which paved the way for LGBTQ+ folk everywhere, and celebrates the queer community across the world. As a publisher, we’ve always been looking for new ways to elevate queer voices and we’re lucky enough to have an LGBTQ+ story for every reader*.

(*Psst! Don’t forget to treat yourself to the fantastic novels in our Celebrating LGBTQIA+ SFF eBook sale!)

Here’s what the Rebellion team recommend this Pride…

Amy | Editor

I just finished The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow and absolutely loved everything about it – the folksy writing style, the bonds of three sisters each with their unique magical strength, the historical setting in mythical early 20th century New York, and the love story between the eldest sister, Bella, and Cleo, the Black journalist revolutionary. I loved that their relationship was messy, often challenged by racial, class and gender politics of the period, and that it was essential to the plot. They’re all such wonderful, vivid characters and I loved being so taken in by the entire world.

Jess | PR and Marketing Manager – Fiction and Non Fiction

I’m a history nerd and a sucker for fantasy tales set in the past, so She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan was destined to be a favourite of mine. It’s juicy and political and so unapologetically queer, bringing a version of 14th century China to life that’s brimming with revenge and characters who are truly morally grey. I adored its exploration of gender and power, and now I want to watch every C-drama I can find.

Casey | Senior Digital Marketing & Social Media Executive

The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri raises the bar for what epic queer fantasy should be. Tasha Suri has created a beautiful, ferocious world alongside an intimate study of the characters who will burn it all down. It is an intricate, feminist, political novel with a large cast of characters, Sapphic representation and really interesting world-building inspired by the history and epics of India. Easily the best fantasy of 2021 for me!

Gemma | Junior Graphic Designer

I’m currently reading Other Words for Smoke by Sarah Maria Griffin, a modern fantasy about siblings Rossa and Mae who visit their great aunt witch Rita and her apprentice Bevan for the summer, unknowing that Bevan has been seduced by a demon in the walls of the house. It’s a wonderful surreal mix of haunted house horror and fluffy romance. I feel the characters’ emotions, longings and their pain, and know I will struggle to find another book that will have the same effect on me again. It is truly magical, please read it!

Charlotte | Copywriter

As a queer woman, I know better than most that we’re often relegated to minor roles within fantasy and sci-fi stories, so this new wave of queer MCs is very welcome! I’m a sucker for love stories of any kind, so Someone in Time ed. by Jonathan Strahan is my current favourite read. From tear-jerking goodbyes to the search for love in the space-time continuum, Someone in Time has managed to rewrite time-travel tropes through a more diverse lens. *chef’s kiss*

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Solaris acquires queer science fantasy debut by Meredith Mooring

Solaris is thrilled to announce the acquisition of Redsight by Meredith Mooring, a queer science fantasy debut of priestesses, pirates and power with a blind heroine, for publication in Spring 2024.

Redsight follows a blind priestess who powers warships for the galactic military by manipulating spacetime. When the captain of her ship is murdered by a pirate with a dark past, she must choose between a painful life of service or a chance at freedom with the galaxy’s most wanted criminal.

World All Languages Rights were acquired by Amy Borsuk from Ernie Chiara at Fuse Literary.

Author Meredith Mooring on the acquisition:

“I’m excited to share a story from my perspective as a blind writer. Fiction by authors with disabilities isn’t common in the science fiction and fantasy genre, and I hope this book will introduce readers to new concepts and experiences.”

Acquiring Editor Amy Borsuk:

“Space pirates, queer love, a powerful mythos, a blind witch protagonist – REDSIGHT is a richly packed world with compelling characters. I’m so excited to be working with Meredith to bring this unique story to sci-fi and fantasy fans alike.”

Meredith Mooring is an employment discrimination attorney from North Carolina and a graduate of The Seeing Eye guide dog school. In her spare time she serves on the board of directors for a non-profit that pairs guide dogs with blind children.

For press enquiries please contact Jess Gofton, PR & Marketing Manager: jess.gofton@rebellion.co.uk

For rights enquiries please contact Reitha Pattison, Rights Manager: reitha.pattison@rebellion.co.uk

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OUT NOW: The House of Styx by Derek Künsken (paperback)!

We’re delighted to be wishing a very happy book birthday to the paperback edition of The House of Styx by Derek Künsken!

Set 250 years before The Quantum Magician, The House of Styx combines science fiction with family saga in a stunning novel of discovery and survival.

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Life can exist anywhere. And anywhere there is life, there is home.

In the swirling clouds of Venus, George-Étienne and his children are one of a few families of la colonie living on floating plant-like trawlers, salvaging what they can in the fierce acid rain and crackling storms. Outside is deadly for the unprepared or unwary, but the planet’s atmosphere is far from the only threat a family can face.

For the surface of Venus carries its own secrets, too. In the depths, there is a wind that shouldn’t exist. For George-Étienne and the House of Styx, harnessing it may be worth risking all.

“This electrifying planetary adventure features a hardscrabble family that earnestly addresses issues of addiction, gender, sexuality, and disability while surviving storms of all sorts in the hostile clouds of Venus. Highly recommended.” – Library Journal (Starred Review)

“A stunning new sci-fi family drama that admirably shoulders the burden of two heavy genres and distills them into an exhilarating and heart-breaking journey of discovery.” – SciFiNow

“Künsken’s vivid worldbuilding is a knockout… This is a must-read.” – Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

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OUT NOW: The Void Ascendant by Premee Mohamed!

We’re thrilled to be wishing the third book in Premee Mohamed’s fantastic Beneath the Rising trilogy, The Void Ascendant, a very happy book birthday!

All the Birds in the Sky meets Lovecraft Country in the epic conclusion to this fresh cosmic horror trilogy of gods, monsters and science experiments gone terribly, terribly wrong…

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SURVIVAL HAS CONSEQUENCES

Seven years ago, the last survivor of Earth crashed through uncountable dimensions to a strange new world. Nick Prasad found shelter, and a living, as a prophet for the ruling family—servants of the Ancient Ones who destroyed his home.

Now, he’s been offered a chance to rid the multiverse of the Ancient Ones, past and present and forever, although he’ll have to betray his new masters to do it.

The first step is jailbreaking a god—and that’s the easy part…

“A mind-bending and thoroughly satisfying conclusion to a truly singular series.” — Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

“Every reveal is gasp-out-loud astonishing.” — Charlie Jane Anders on Beneath the Rising

“A perfect balance of thriller, horror and humour.” — Adrian Tchaikovsky on Beneath the Rising