Stories from: Aliya Whiteley, D. A. Xiaolin Spires, David F. Schultz, Fiona Moore, Gary Gibson, Haruka Mugihara , Jeff Hunter, Ken MacLeod, Laura Duerr, Laura Watts, Michael F Russell, Michael TeasdaleWinning story of the Cymera/Shoreline short story competitionSF poetry from: Peter J. King, Sadie Maskery, MJ BrocklebankNoise and Sparks: The New, Normal by Ruth EJ BoothAlba ad Astra: Madeleine ShepherdArt: Jackie Duckworth, Stephen Daly, Caroline Grebbell and cover art by Andrew OwensAnnual Flash fiction competition details

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Alba ad Astra - Scotland's forgotten history of space explorationEdited by Madeleine ShepherdIntroductions by Ken MacLeod and Pippa Goldschmidt The first human being in space was Russian. The first man on the Moon was American. However, the space race is a marathon, not a sprint. Startling evidence suggests that the longest rocket flight ever made was a classified Scottish project. Alba ad Astra is a collaborative thought experiment celebrating Scotland's industrial and technological heritage. Documents, photographs and testimonials have been collected by Madeleine Shepherd and contributors such as Andrew J. Wilson and Kirsti Wishart. These fragments reveal a secret part of Scotland's history - or a new mythology. Contributors: Ken MacLeod, Andrew J. Wilson, Pippa Goldschmidt, Gavin Inglis, Kirsti Wishart, Andrew C. Ferguson and Fergus Currie

Alba ad Astra

New stories from: Aliya Whiteley, Robert Runté, Laura Duerr and featuring a Mug Story from Ken MacLeodSF poetry from: G. ToroBook Reviews:  Warship by Neil Asher, Driftwood by Marie BrennanArt: Stephen Daly, Andrew Owens, Caroline Grebbell and cover art by Tsu

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'[The Corporation Wars] is a tasty broth of ideas taking in virtual reality, artificial intelligence, the philosophy of law and disquisitions on military ethics.' - The Herald
'MacLeod manages big Ideas (political and futurological) and propulsive action without short-changing either side of that classic science-fictional tension-of-opposites.' - LOCUS
The enemy is out in the open. The Reaction has seized control of a resource-rich moon. Now it's enslaving conscious robots - and luring the Corporations into lucrative deals.
Taransay is out in the jungle. Her friends are inside a smart boulder on the slope of an active volcano. The planet is super-habitable - for its own life, not hers. But soon, the alien infestation growing on her robot body is the least of her problems.
Carlos is out of patience. With the Reaction arming for conquest, the Corporations trading with the enemy and the Direction planning to stamp out the rebel robots and their allies for good, he has to fight fire with fire.
Seba is out of time. Deep inside the enemy stronghold, the free robots have to spark a new revolt before the whole world falls in on them.
As battle looms, the robots must become their own last hope.
From Arthur C. Clarke Award-nominated author Ken MacLeod comes Emergence, the final instalment in the Corporation Wars trilogy, an epic science fiction adventure told against a backdrop of interstellar drone  warfare,  virtual reality and an AI revolution.
Books by Ken MacLeod:
Fall Revolution
The Star Fraction
The Stone Canal
The Cassini Division
The Sky Road
Engines of Light
Cosmonaut Keep
Dark Light
Engine City
Corporation Wars Trilogy
Dissidence
Insurgence
Emergence
Novels
The Human Front
Newton's Wake
Learning the World
The Execution Channel
The Restoration Game
Intrusion
Descent

The Corporation Wars: Emergence

'Science fiction's freshest new writer...MacLeod is a fiercely intelligent, prodigiously well-read author who manages to fill his books with big issues without weighing them down.' - SALON
'Engaged, ingenious, and wittily partisan, Ken MacLeod is a one-man revolution, SF's Billy Bragg.' - Asimov's SF
Ellen May Ngwethu is a young woman with centuries of experience, no morality and the true knowledge. The world she knows is about to end.
The Cassini Division, elite defence force of the Solar Union, sends her on a search for the man whose knowledge could save it. A search that takes her from space to the ruins of London, and back; from the margins of her socialist-anarchist world to its most dangerous edge. The Division's orbital forts around Jupiter are the front line in a centuries-long conflict with post-human AIs, whose intentions are unknown but whose powers once extended to shattering Ganymede and building a wormhole bridge to the far future. Their radio-borne viruses blanket the Solar System, keeping most of its resources from humanity's grasp.
But are the post-humans less hostile than they seem?
The acclaimed third novel from one of the genre's most exciting new talents.
Books by Ken MacLeod:
Fall Revolution
The Star Fraction
The Stone Canal
The Cassini Division
The Sky Road
Engines of Light
Cosmonaut Keep
Dark Light
Engine City
Corporation Wars Trilogy
Dissidence
Insurgence
Emergence
Novels
The Human Front
Newton's Wake
Learning the World
The Execution Channel
The Restoration Game
Intrusion
Descent

The Cassini Division

Award winning science fiction magazine - published in Scotland for the Universe New StoriesChris Barnham - Everywhere is Everywhere and Anywhere Else is NowhereBo Balder - Shrink the MountainMonica Louzon - Second-HandKen MacLeod - The Shadow MinistersLindz McLeod - The Peter PrincipleHeather Valentine - CockroachAndy McKell - RescueAdam Marx - The Park SF Poems fromRichard MagahizJuleigh Howard-HobsonSadie Maskery Q&A with Peter Buck of Elsewhen PressQuestions from Teika Marija Smits Ruth EJ Booth - Noise and Sparks: Case 3 in the Multiverse of Madness Anna Mocikat - Is Cyberpunk Dead? Book ReviewsBraking Day by Adam OyebanjiThe Kaiju Preservation Society by John ScalziThe Other Side of the Interface by Duncan LunanThe Tangleroot Palace by Marjorie Liu Cover artwork by StrefFlash fiction Competition for Shoreline of Infinity Readers - your summer writing project here. This issue also includes a link to Shoreline of Infinity 31 Supplemental - extra content available through a secret weblink. Includes:Approaching Human by Eric Brown. We continue the AI Noir serial by the Master of British science fiction. Episode 3: Played Like a PatsyNew story: Shearing by Brian D HinsonPoetry Reading: Amanda Anatasi reads Regeneration

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'...a video game espionage novel where MacLeod deftly mixes Eastern European intrigue with underground gamer culture to create a terrific political thriller. MacLeod is one of io9's chief muses, and his work is a big reason I fell in love with science fiction again after many years away from it' - IO9
'This is a writer at the peak of his powers.' - SFX
There is no such place as Krassnia. Lucy Stone should know - she was born there. 
In that tiny, troubled region of the former Soviet Union, revolution is brewing. Its organisers need a safe place to meet, and where better than the virtual spaces of an online game? Lucy, who works for a start-up games company in Edinburgh, has a project that almost seems made for the job: its original inspiration came from The Krassniad - an epic tale, based on Krassnian folklore, concocted by Lucy's mother who studied there in the 1980s.
As Lucy digs up details about her birthplace to slot into the game, she finds her interest in the open secrets of her family's past - and the darker secrets of Krassnia's - has not gone unnoticed. When a Russian - Georgian border war breaks out, Lucy has to move fast - and return to Krassnia herself, to the heart of the mountain that holds Krassnia's darkest and oldest secret. But nothing Lucy has discovered can possibly prepare her for the crucial role she is destined to play in The Restoration Game . . .
The compelling new near-future thriller from the award-winning author of THE EXECUTION CHANNEL and THE NIGHT SESSIONS.
Books by Ken MacLeod:
Fall Revolution
The Star Fraction
The Stone Canal
The Cassini Division
The Sky Road
Engines of Light
Cosmonaut Keep
Dark Light
Engine City
Corporation Wars Trilogy
Dissidence
Insurgence
Emergence
Novels
The Human Front
Newton's Wake
Learning the World
The Execution Channel
The Restoration Game
Intrusion
Descent

The Restoration Game

Suite à des démêlés avec la loi, un individu au passé suspect accepte de redresser la situation dans le système stellaire de Wolf 359, victime d'une implosion civilisationnelle. Malgré l'état lamentable des habitants, ce personnage sans scrupules va trouver le moyen de tirer son épingle du jeu. Ken MacLeod est considéré comme un des nouveaux talents les plus novateurs à surgir dans la SF des années 1990. Il nous offre ici une farce à la fois frénétique et insouciante qui nous apprend qu'il faut bâtir avec les outils qu'on nous donne, parfois avec quelques petits rafistolages pour y arriver.

Qui a peur de Wolf 359 ?

2303. Les 30 milliards d'humains résidant sur Terre - auxquels s'ajoutent les Exos, qui ont choisi de fuir dans l'espace - sont désormais gouvernés par l'Union solaire. Capitalisme et système monétaire ont été abolis dans cette société mondiale et interplanétaire sans classes, héritage d'un siècle d'obscurantisme initié par la victoire politique des Verts, qui ont mis à bas une civilisation dominée par l'Empire américano-onusien.Bras armé de l'Union solaire, la Division Cassini a pour fonction de défendre les humains des attaques répétées des Joviens, des Exos hostiles exilés sur Jupiter ayant détruit réseaux informatiques et systèmes de communication terriens à force d'inlassables bombardements de virus. Or une nouvelle menace se profile : on soupçonne les habitants de la Nouvelle Mars, planète en voie de terraformation située à des années lumière du système solaire, d'ourdir aussi un complot contre les Terriens...Des ruines végétales de Londres aux confins de la galaxie, La Division Cassini renoue avec la grande aventure spatiale, au long de laquelle seront révélés les travers de l'Histoire, les terrifiants enjeux de pouvoir d'un monde à nul autre pareil et où, in fine, se posera la question de ce qui définit vraiment l'humanité...

La Division Cassini (The Fall Revolutions, #3)

Dans cette Histoire alternative, la seconde guerre mondiale se poursuit entre les USA et l'URSS...

Le Front pour l'Humanité

'A modern-day George Orwell' - SFX
'A hectic ride, through slaloms of audacious complexity, irreverent ingenuity and paradox as purposeful as it is playful' - GUARDIAN
The Second Sphere is thousands of light years away from Earth - if Earth still exists. For Matt Cairns and the cosmonauts of the Bright Star, this distant corner of the galaxy is their new home.
But the Second Sphere is also home to other civilisations, lifted from their worlds by a race of god-like aliens. On Croatan, two of these civilisations live a precarious co-existence, separated by eons of technological advance. The arrival of the Bright Star is an event that may trigger disaster, for this is the first human-crewed starship to arrive at the ancient colony.
And all the time, hidden among the stars, the gods are watching. They have always been watching.
Following on from COSMONAUT KEEP, which was shortlisted for the 2002 Hugo Award, this is the second book in the dazzling new space opera series by one of SF's most exciting new authors.
Books by Ken MacLeod:
Fall Revolution
The Star Fraction
The Stone Canal
The Cassini Division
The Sky Road
Engines of Light
Cosmonaut Keep
Dark Light
Engine City
Corporation Wars Trilogy
Dissidence
Insurgence
Emergence
Novels
The Human Front
Newton's Wake
Learning the World
The Execution Channel
The Restoration Game
Intrusion
Descent

Dark Light

After only 3 years in existence Shoreline of Infinity Science Fiction Magazine won the  British Fantasy Society Award 2018 for best magazine/periodical. To celebrate this occasion we decided to publish a selection of stories from the Issues 1-10 (including a special edition 8oe). We could have chosen every story, of course, but for that you will have to read all the issues. These stories are chosen as together they are the ambassadors for the magazine; together, we felt, they represent the character of the magazine - welcoming, challenging, enthralling,  a touch mischievous - and they're stonkingly good stories.

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