Hello, my name is Bruce Miles and my life means nothing to no one.
When I was 12, I watched a falcon carry away my father, leaving me to care for my mother while a mysterious illness slowly transformed her into an arm. Events like these...
"Quite unlike anything else I have read from Africa." — Doris Lessing "By meshing the richness of African beliefs. . into the Western framework of the novel, he creates a mysterious and surreal epic." — ...
Hell lies under the Texas-Mexico Border.
When the Acuña Cartel tunnels under the Rio Grande and into the United States, they tap into a vast cavern that’s home to a once thought mythical species. The massacre that ensues leaves 12 men dead,...
The Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–90) was one of the most important literary figures of the second half of the twentieth century. During the years of the cold war, arguably only Beckett, Camus, Sartre, and Brecht rivaled him as a...
This story of a family outing in the not too distant overpopulated future purports to be science fiction; there are those, we believe, who would consider it a fair report on the present. The author writes about herself: "I was born on Long Island;...
From the #1 Kindle and Sunday Times best-selling thriller writer comes the taut and controversial new short story featuring ex-SAS hero, Ben Hope, THE TUNNEL.
ONE MAN
Christmas Eve, 2004. Ben Hope has quit the SAS, but now he's back in full...
Mind meets microchip as a brilliant young genius develops a machine capable of spontaneous thought. Before he can perfect the machine, terrorists steal his research and put a bullet through his brain. Miraculously revived by methods he pioneered,...
Mind meets microchip as a brilliant young genius develops a machine capable of spontaneous thought. Before he can perfect the machine, terrorists steal his research and put a bullet through his brain. Miraculously revived by methods he pioneered,...
These 14 stories contain, among other things, robots, alien planets, genetic manipulation and virtual reality, but their centre focuses on individuals rather than technology, and how they deal with love and loneliness, authenticity, reality and what...