Critiques en avant-premièreNeal Asher

In December 2020, NewCon Press released Lockdown Tales, a collection of new stories from best-selling SF author Neal Asher, written during the first lockdown caused by the Covid19 pandemic. Some of these thrilling and inventive narratives were set during the latter days of Neal's Polity universe, while others explored what came next.

Now, we're delighted to reveal the follow-up, Lockdown Tales II. Nine novelettes and stories, 150,000 words of fiction, all set in and around the Polity and post-Polity universe. The result is a collection just as powerful as the first.

Contents:

Lockdown Tales II: An Introduction

Xenovore

An Alien on Crete

The Translator

Skin

Eels

The Host

Antique Battlefields

Moral Biology

Longevity Averaging

Neal Asher was far from idle during the isolation of lockdown; he kept himself occupied in the best way possible: he wrote. And his imagination was clearly in overdrive. Five brand new novellas and novelettes and one novella reworked and expanded from a story first published in 2019. Together, they form Lockdown Tales, exploring the latter days of the Polity universe and beyond. What lies in wait for humanity after the Polity has gone? Six stories, 150,000 words of fiction that crackle with energy, invention and excitement. Within their pages you will encounter prador, hoopers, sassy A.I.s, resurrected Golem, a mutated giant whelk that can ravage an island, hooders, megalomaniacs, war drones, Penny Royal, an intriguing sfnal take on High Planes Drifter and another with echoes of Robinson Crusoe... In fact, everything you might expect from concentrated Neal Asher and more. Lockdown Tales: An introduction The Relict Monitor Logan Bad Boy Plenty Dr. Whip Raising Moloch About the Author Available as Kindle, ePub, or PDF.

Thirteen stories that look to the future of this diverse, multi-faceted city, London; stories that invite the reader to consider different perspectives. Stories that draw you in to possible tomorrows and suggest what may lie just beyond the city’s ever-changing skyline. Militant A.I.s, virtual realities, augmented realities and alternative realities; a city where murderers stalk the streets, where drug lords rule from the shadows, and where large sections of the population are locked in time stasis, but where tea is still sipped in cafés on the corner and the past still resonates with the future... Neal Asher opens the anthology with a story set in his Polity Universe, Dave Hutchinson gives us a novelette from his Fractured Universe milieu, Jeremy Szal takes us to the world of his debut novel Stormblood, M.R. Carey, Aliette de Bodard, Geoff Ryman, Aliya Whiteley and a cast of equally talented writers transport us to Londons near and far... Contents: 1. Introduction by Ian Whates 2. Skin – Neal Asher 3. The Good Shepherd – Stewart Hotston 4. Infinite Tea in the Demara Café – Ida Keogh 5. War Crimes – M.R. Carey 6. Fog and Pearls at the King’s Cross Junction – Aliya Whiteley 7. Nightingale Floors – Dave Hutchinson 8. Something Went Wrong in Heaven – Geoff Ryman 9. A Visit in Whitechapel – Eugen Bacon 10. Herd Instinct – Fiona Moore 11. Death Aid – Joseph Elliott-Coleman 12. A Dance of Dust and Life – Aliette de Bodard 13. Commute – Andrew Wallace 14. Scream in Blue – Jeremy Szal 15. About the Authors Book is available as Kindle, epub, or pdf.

David Gemmell passed away in 2006, leaving behind a legacy of memorable characters, epic settings, and thrilling tales. In the Legends anthologies, today's finest fantasy authors pay homage to one of fantasy fiction's greatest ever writers. Full of swordplay, treachery, deeds both dark and noble, with cunning thieves and wily tricksters, blood-thirsty gods and flawed heroes - welcome to Legends. Contents: 1. Introduction by Stan Nicholls 2. Blood Debt – Gail Z. Martin 3. A God’s Mercy – Richard Webb 4. Berserker Captain – Neal Asher 5. The Price of Passage – Keris McDonald 6. Summoner – Danie Ware 7. Pelicos the Brave and the Princess of Kalakhadze – Steven Poore 8. The Timekeeper’s Tarot – Den Patrick 9. Her Grail – Ben North 10. Piercing the Mist – Shona Kinsella 11. Chosen of the Slain – K.T. Davies 12. The Dying Land – Nick Watkinson 13. A Hero of Her People – Anna Smith Spark 14. All Deaths Well Intention’d – RJ Barker 15. By Any Other Name – Justina Robson About the Authors Book is available as a kindle, ePub, or pdf file.