After being stalked across the galaxy by an assassin, post-human Krina Alizond-114 journeys to the water-world Shin-Tethys in search of her sister.

Sometime in the twenty-third century, humanity went extinct leaving only androids behind. Freya Nakamichi 47 is a femmebot, one of the last of her kind still functioning. With no humans left to pay for the pleasures she provides, she agrees to transport a mysterious package from Mercury to Mars. Unfortunately for Freya, she has just made herself a moving target for some very powerful, very determined humanoids who will stop at nothing to possess the...

Trying to cope with the unchecked technological innovations that have rendered humankind nearly obsolete, the members of the Macz family are confronted by an unknown enemy that is systematically attempting to annihilate all biological lifeforms.

The ninth case in Stross' The Lovecraftian Singularity has descended on the world, beginning an exciting new story arc in the Laundry Files series! The arrival of vast, alien, inhuman intelligences reshaped the landscape for human affairs across the world, and the United Kingdom is no exception. Things have changed in Britain since the dread elder god Nyarlathotep ascended to the rank of Prime Minister. Mhari Murphy, recently elevated to the House...

Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross is renowned for his cutting-edge science fiction. This third entry in his edgy . spoof of Cold War spy thrillers finds covert agent Bob Howard learning about a top-secret dossier that vanishes with his boss. Determined to discover the contents of this memorandum, Howard runs afoul of Russian spies, ancient demons, and apostles of a hideous cult planning to raise the Eater of Souls from the undead.

"The alternate timelines of Charles Stross' Empire Games trilogy have never been so entangled than in Invisible Sun-the techno-thriller follow up to Dark State-as stakes escalate in a conflict that could spell extermination for humanity across all known timelines. An inter-timeline coup d'état gone awry. A renegade British monarch on the run through the streets of Berlin. And robotic alien invaders from a distant timeline flood through a wormhole,...

A collection of stories includes an original novella and a selection of speculative-fiction tales that reflects the author's visions about the origins of life and the state of the universe in the near and distant future.

Science fiction. For one ex-journalist, the nightmare has just begun. Miriam Beckstein has said goodbye to her comfort zone. The transition from journalist to captive in an alternative timeline was challenging to say the least. As was discovering her long-lost family, the Clan, were world-skipping assassins. Now civil war rages in her adopted home, she's pregnant with the heir to their throne and a splinter-group want her on their side of a desperate...

"Welcome to the sunlit uplands of the 21st century! Britain's avuncular Prime Minister is an ancient eldritch god of unimaginable power. Crime is plummeting as almost every offense is punishable by death. And everywhere you look, there are people with strange powers, some of which they can control, and some, not so much. Hyperorganized and formidable, Eve Starkey defeated her boss, the louche magical adept and billionaire Rupert de Montfort Bigge,...