The Mabinogion is to Welsh mythology what the tales of Zeus, Hera, Apollo and their sibling gods are to Greek myth . . . The magical adventures of Gwydion, the wizard-prince, Prince Pwyll, Arawn, the Lord of Death, the beautiful Rhiannon and the steadfast Branwen have thrilled generations. Evangeline Walton's compelling rendition of these ancient, thrilling stories of magic, betrayal, lost love and bitter retribution were originally published as The Island of the Mighty, The Children of Llyr, The Song of Rhiannon and The Prince of Annwn. The stories include the encounter between Prince Pwyll and Arawn, the God of Death, which Pwyll survives by agreeing to kill the one man that Death cannot fell, and the tale of Bran the Blessed and his family's epic struggle for the throne. The Mabinogian is universally recognised as the world's finest arc of Celtic mythology; Walton's vivid retelling introduces a world of gods and monsters, heroes, kings and quests, making accessible one of the greatest fantasy sagas of all time.

"Nothing around those other suns but ashes and dried blood," old Dunbar told the space-wrecked, desperate men. "Only one way to go, where we can float down through the clouds to Paradise. That's straight ahead to the sun with the red rim around it." But Dunbar's eyes were old and uncertain. How could they believe in his choice when every star in this forsaken section of space was surrounded by a beckoning red rim?

For forty years Ivan Petrov careered, stumbled, staggered and rampaged all over the vast Soviet empire. Homeless (an illegal condition in the communist utopia), in and out of prison camps, almost always drunk, and with a gift for hilariously sending up the tragic absurdities of Soviet life, Ivan was a real-life Svejk. This is his unforgettable story, as told to Caroline Walton just before his death.

With a deft hand and a blazing imagination, fantasy writer Walton mixes genres to great effect. Elements of fantasy, science fiction, and coming-of-age novels combine into one superlative literary package that will appeal to a variety of readers across age levels. After engaging in a classic good-magic-versus-bad-magic battle with her mother that fatally wounds her twin sister, 15-year-old Morwenna leaves Wales and attempts to reconnect with her estranged father. She was sent to boarding school in England, and her riveting backstory unfolds gradually as she records her thoughts, feelings, and experiences in a series of journal entries. An ominous sense of disquiet permeates the nonlinear plot as Morwenna attempts to avoid a final clash with her mother. In addition to casting an irresistible narrative spell, Walton also pays tribute to a host of science-fiction masters as she peppers Morwenna’s journal with the titles of the novels she devours in her book-fueled quest for self-discovery.

Morwenna Phelps, qui préfère qu’on l’appelle Mori, est placée par son père dans l’école privée d’Arlinghust, où elle se remet du terrible accident qui l’a laissée handicapée et l’a privé à jamais de sa soeur jumelle, Morganna. Loin de son pays de Galles natal, Mori pourrait dépérir, mais elle découvre le pouvoir des livres, notamment des livres de science-fiction. Samuel Delany, Roger Zelazny, James Tiptree Jr, Ursula K. Le Guin et Robert Silverberg peuplent ses journées, la passionnent. Alors qu’elle commence à reprendre du poil de la bête, elle reçoit une lettre de sa folle de mère : une photo sur laquelle Morganna est visible et sa silhouette à elle brûlée. Que peut faire une adolescente de seize ans quand son pire ennemi, potentiellement mortel, est sa mère. Elle peut chercher dans les livres le courage de se battre.

Ode à la différence, journal intime d’une jeune fan de science-fiction qui parle aux fées, Morwenna est aussi une plongée inquiétante dans le folklore gallois. Ce roman touchant et bouleversant a été récompensé par les deux plus grands prix littéraires de la science-fiction, le prix Hugo (décerné par le public) et le prix Nebula (décerné par un jury de professionnels). Il a en outre reçu le British Fantasy Award.

A QUANTUM PHYSICS MURDER MYSTERY. A Mind-Bending, Near-Future, Science Fiction Technothriller. Jacob Kelley’s family is turned upside down when an old friend turns up, waving a gun and babbling about an alien quantum intelligence. The mystery deepens when the friend is found dead in an underground bunker… apparently murdered the night he appeared at Jacob’s house. Jacob is arrested for the murder and put on trial. As the details of the crime slowly come to light, the weave of reality becomes ever more tangled, twisted by a miraculous new technology and a quantum creature unconstrained by the normal limits of space and matter. With the help of his daughter, Alessandra, Jacob must find the true murderer before the creature destroys his family and everything he loves.

Ryan Oronzi is a paranoid, neurotic, and brilliant physicist who has developed a quantum military technology that could make soldiers nearly invincible in the field. The technology, however, gives power to the quantum creature known as the varcolac, which slowly begins to manipulate Dr. Oronzi and take over his mind. Oronzi eventually becomes the unwilling pawn of the varcolac in its bid to control the world. The creature immediately starts attacking those responsible for defeating it fifteen years earlier, including Sandra and Alex Kelley—the two versions of Alessandra Kelley who are still living as separate people. The two young women must fight the varcolac, despite the fact that defeating it may mean resolving once again into a single person.

THE CONTAGION IS IN YOUR MIND In this science fiction thriller, brothers are pitted against each other as a pandemic threatens to destabilize world governments by exerting a subtle mind control over survivors. Neil Johns has just started his dream job as a code breaker in the NSA when his brother, Paul, a mycologist, goes missing on a trip to collect samples in the Amazon jungle. Paul returns with a gap in his memory and a fungal infection that almost kills him. But once he recuperates, he has enhanced communication, memory, and pattern recognition. Meanwhile, something is happening in South America; others, like Paul, have also fallen ill and recovered with abilities they didn’t have before. But that’s not the only pattern—the survivors, from entire remote Brazilian tribes to American tourists, all seem to be working toward a common, and deadly, goal. Neil soon uncovers a secret and unexplained alliance between governments that have traditionally been enemies. Meanwhile Paul becomes increasingly secretive and erratic. Paul sees the fungus as the next stage of human evolution, while Neil is convinced that it is driving its human hosts to destruction. Brother must oppose brother on an increasingly fraught international stage, with the stakes: the free will of every human on earth. Can humanity use this force for good, or are we becoming the pawns of an utterly alien intelligence?

En un mundo futuro, lleno de milagros tecnológicos, donde los edificios son construidos en horas y el cuerpo humano se puede modelar sin límites, dos amigos cometen un terrible error.Mark McGovern, el hijo de un acaudalado político, y Darin Kinsley, de la parte pobre de la ciudad, lanzan un sofisticado virus informático llamado «rebanador». Ese virus, terriblemente destructivo, se encuentra localizado en la mente de un niño.El chico, que solo es consciente de su existencia virtual, se convierte en un arma codiciada por todos, ya sea para ser utilizado con fines letales o para ser aniquilado por el bien de la humanidad. Mientras tanto, su madre, que contempla con horror las dos terribles amenazas que se ciernen sobre la vida del niño, tratará de hacer todo lo que esté en su mano para salvarlo.

Este es un libro curioso y diferente. Narra la historia de una familia que se enfrenta a la muerte de su padre, de un hijo que acude a la ley para reclamar su herencia, de otro que se atormenta con la confesión que le hizo su progenitor en su lecho de muerte; de una hija que se enamora, de otra que se implica en el movimiento abolicionista y de una más que se sacrifica por su marido.Salvo que todos los protagonistas de esta historia son dragones de garras y colmillos ensangrentados…Tenemos aquí un mundo de políticos y estaciones de ferrocarril, de cortejos y mansiones en el campo… Un mundo en el que al morir un anciano, los miembros de su familia se reúnen para comerse el cuerpo del fallecido. Una sociedad en la que los miembros más poderosos se aprovechan de sus privilegios para matar y comerse a los hijos más débiles, con gran deleite y ceremonia, para hacerse más fuertes.Jo Walton ha ganado el premio al mejor escritor novel de 2002 y su última novela, que tienes en tus manos, le dio el Premio Mundial de Fantasía como mejor libro del año.

Un fin de semana del verano de 1949 el «círculo de Farthing», un grupo bien relacionado de la flor y nata de las familias inglesas, disfruta de unos días en el campo. Lucy es la hija menor de una de esas familias. Sus padres fueron destacados personajes dentro del grupo que derrocó a Churchill y negoció la paz con Hitler ocho años antes . Lucy está felizmente casada con un judío londinense, a pesar de la manifiesta desaprobación de sus padres; por eso fue muy sorprendente que les invitaran a ella y a su esposo, David, a pasar esos días en el campo. Y resulta mucho más sorprendente cuando, la primera noche, un importante político del círculo de Farthing resulta asesinado de forma espantosa, con numerosos signos que apuntan a una muerte ritual.

Criada por una madre medio loca interesada en la magia, Morwenna Phelps crece en Gales entre los espíritus que han convertido su ciudad en una ruina industrial y solo consigue liberarse de su cruda realidad a través de las novelas de ciencia ficción. Sin embargo, cuando su madre intenta invocar a los espíritus oscuros Mori se ve forzada a enfrentarse a ella en una batalla mágica que la deja lisiada de una pierna y provoca la muerte de su hermana gemela. Tras irse a vivir con su padre, al que apenas conoce, acaba en un internado, donde se siente sola y aislada. Sometida a las burlas de sus compañeras y al desprecio de los maestros, solo encuentra refugio en los libros y en un intento desesperado por conseguir amigos a través de la magia, experiencia que la pondrá en contacto con su madre y con espíritus que era mejor no invocar.