Karlailų klanas kontroliuoja tarperdvinių kirmgraužių tinklą ir Euridikės planetoje aptinka keistą gigantišką reliktą, kurį nežinia kas sukūrė. Galbūt tai svetimeivių statinys, o gal vadinamųjų postžmonių architektūrinis paveldas. Kad ir kaip būtų, šis atradimas iš esmės pakeitė visos žmonijos likimą...

A four hundred year journey through space is about to end for the teeming inhabitants of a large ship-world. The air is thick with expectation as they enter the system that is to become their new home, the probes reporting nothing more advanced than bacteria and algae among the clustered planets. But the original data was wrong, and direct scans of the planet reveal a whole alien civilisation. Maybe the aliens have just arrived. Maybe evolution has been incredibly rapid during their long journey Neither of these explanations seem plausible. It seems likely that the probe data has been falsified from the beginning. Advice is years distant, help is decades away. They’re on their own and they’ll have to decide a plan of action fast as the rest of humanity is just as vulnerable and not much further away.

Won Prometheus Award in 2006.

Nominated for BSFA Award in 2005.

Nominated for Hugo, Locus, and Campbell awards in 2006.

In the aftermath of the Hard Rapture—a cataclysmic war sparked by the explosive evolution of Earth’s artificial intelligences into godlike beings—a few remnants of humanity managed to survive. Some even prospered.

Lucinda Carlyle, head of an ambitious clan of galactic entrepreneurs, had carved out a profitable niche for herself and her kin by taking control of the Skein, a chain of interstellar gates left behind by the posthumans. But on a world called Eurydice, a remote planet at the farthest rim of the galaxy, Lucinda stumbled upon a forgotten relic of the past that could threaten the Carlyles’ way of life.

For, in the last instants before the war, a desperate band of scientists had scanned billions of human personalities into digital storage, and sent them into space in the hope of one day resurrecting them to the flesh. Now, armed, dangerous, and very much alive, these revenants have triggered a fateful confrontation that could shatter the balance of power, and even change the nature of reality itself.

Centuries after its catastrophic Deliverance, humanity is again reaching into space. And one young scholar working in the space-ship yard, Clovis colha Gree, could make the difference between success and failure.

In deze historische roman heeft Cynthia Mc Leod met veel verve een stukje geschiedenis van Suriname tot leven gebracht. De roman speelt in e periode 1765 - 1779. Het is de bloeitijd van de suikercultuur en ook de periode van de Boni-oorlogen. De plantage-eigenaren leven in voortdurende vrees voor de aanvallen die marrons onder leiding van Boni uitvoeren op de plantages, tegen dit decor beschrijft Cynthia Mc Leod in meeslepende stijl het leven van Elza en Sarith, dochters uit een joodse plantersfamilie, en hun slaven. In de onrechtvaardige slavenmaatschappij die de kolonie Suriname is, ervaren meesters en slaven dat de suiker duur wordt betaald.

Morvern MacKerral is hevig teleurgesteld als uit haar grootvaders testament blijkt dat niet zij het eiland Ruaig erft, maar een ver familielid, zodat de naam MacKerral voor het nageslacht bewaard blijft. Morvern zal van het eiland moeten vertrekken om plaats te maken voor de nieuwe eigenaar, Ross MacKerral. Ross stelt haar echter voor met hem te trouwen, zodat ze toch op het eiland kan blijven. Omdat Morvern zo verknocht is aan Ruaig, stemt ze toe. Dan ontmoet ze Ross’ tweelingbroer Daniël, in ieder opzicht de tegenpool van zijn broer. Voor wie moet ze nu kiezen - voor de man op wie ze verliefd geworden is, of voor de man die haar in staat stelt op Ruaig te blijven?

"Four people. One rope. Desire plunged into dangerous obsession..." Errion Ald'Areed senses that his business partner's passion for designing pleasure upgrades for service robots has cooled, but nothing he's tried-men, women, exotic adventures-has lifted Lorren D'Buren's ennui. Until he sees the look in Lorren's eyes when the intergalactic ambassador from Diola crosses their path at a charity ball. Under the watchful eye of Gabriyel, her faithful bodyguard, Farjika is determined to live down her empress mother's scandalous reputation for taking multiple lovers. Her instant attraction to Lorren, though, tempts her to cross her self-imposed bounds of propriety. And Gabriyel is shocked that his level-headed mistress has fallen so easily into a torrid affair. At first Errion is pleased that Farjika has roused Lorren out of his funk. When he notices the depth of the mutual fascination, though, he realizes he must act quickly-or lose his sometime lover and best friend. His plan to eliminate the threat is perfect in its beautiful complexity. Until one snag in his delicate web of seduction plunges them all into a potentially deadly tangle with no way out... Warning: Contains humor, masturbatory robots, mystical BDSM, stern punishments and more variations on m/m/m/f than the author can count. Sex toys are not included with purchase but are strongly recommended.

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 . . .