In Print
Simon&Schuster ISBN 13: 978-0-7432-7618-4, £11.99.
A teenage girl found naked and fatally injured in mountain forest two hundred miles from her home. The mutilated corpse of a young man in the Nevada desert, his heart and eyes removed. The post-apocalyptic world of a role-playing computer game - and the murderous spree of a psychopathic killer driven by delusions of syperhuman supremacy. And rookie detective Summer Ziegler, pitched headlong into her first major case. But even as she tries to unpick the killer's twisted logic, he lures her into a cat-and-mouse game with a spectacular climax of his own devising . . .
Pocket Books ISBN 07434-6158-4, £6.99.
'Throbbing with edgy anticipation . . . like an action movie with a heart and mind' The Independent.
'Persuasive and exciting' Sunday Telegraph
Pocket Books ISBN 07434-6157-6, £6.99.
Also available in the United States from Tor Books.
'A dark and atmospheric thriller that keeps you gripped until the very last page' The Guardian
'This is a novel that exhilarates on all levels: the ideas are quite as forcefully realised as the machine-tooled plotting.' The Independent
'A pop thriller that's also a scarily believable tale of unchecked corporate greed.' Entertainment Weekly
SHORT-LISTED FOR THE JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARD.
PS Publishing, ISBN 1-902880-93-5/1-902880-94-3.
Seventeen stories; seventeen fresh looks at staple genre themes spanning science fiction, horror, and alternate history.
Includes 'The Two Dicks', '17', 'The Rift', 'AVery British History' and 'Cross Roads Blues'.
The
Eye of the Tyger
Featuring the eighth incarnation of Doctor Who.
Published by Telos on the 40th anniversary of the screening of the first episode, with an introduction by Neil Gaiman.
It's officially out of print, like all of Telos's Doctor Who novellas, but you can still buy copies here.
Gollancz ISBN 0-575-07306-3, £4.99.
After the Quiet War is over, a historian discovers that victory is far from simple.
A novella published back-to-back with Stephen Baxter's Reality Dust as part of the Gollancz Binaries series.
Whole
Wide World Voyager ISBN 0-00-651331-X, £6.99.
Also available in the United States from Tor Books, $7.99.
Sex, surveillance, and Wreckless Eric . . .
'A chilling thriller from one of Britain's best SF writers, now turning to crime fiction with awesome ease.' The Guardian
'McAuley has Len Deighton's gift for smuggling useful knowledge into a gripping tale.' New Scientist
Voyager ISBN 0-00-6513330-1, £6.99
Also available in the US from Tor Books, $7.99
There is life on Mars. Will it end life on Earth?
'Paul McAuley pulls off that rare balancing act of exploring big concepts while telling an absorbing and entertaining story.' New Scientist
'This is the book Michael Crichton would write if only he could do believable characters and hard science that gripped.' The Guardian
'Mature, suspenseful storytelling on every level.' Asimov's Science Fiction
SHORT-LISTED FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD.
Child
of the River, The First Book of Confluence Vista ISBN
0-575- 60168-X £5.99
The artificial world of Confluence is home to thousands of alien races shaped and raised to consciousness by god-like descendants of humanity who have long ago retreated from the Universe, but now the Great River, the lifeblood of Confluence, is failing, and the world is riven by civil war. As a child, Yama was found on the breast of a dead woman in a white boat floating on Confluence's Great River. The unravelling of the riddle of his mysterious birth will reveal whether he is to be the saviour of Confluence -- or its nemesis. In which I commit trilogy.
An explanation of how it started.
Ancients
of Days, The Second Book of Confluence
Millennium ISBN 1-85798-892-2 £6.99
Yama's search for his origins takes him from a vast theocratic citadel in Ys, Confluence's chief city, towards the war far down the length of the Great River, where forces loyal to the Preservers struggle against those who follow the heresies of the last humans, the Ancients of Days. An attempt to find a new solution to the problem of the difficult middle volume of a trilogy.
Shrine
of Stars, The Third Book of Confluence
Millennium ISBN 1-85798-981-3 £6.99
In which Yama discovers that the truth about his origins and the true nature of Confluence are inextricably intertwined. I hope that all who have followed him on his long and heroic journey find answers to all their questions here.
Vista ISBN 0-575-60189-2 £5.99
A collection of short stories with a genetic engineering slant.
Includes 'The Invisible Country', 'Gene Wars', 'Dr Luther's Assistant' 'The Temptation of Dr Stein', 'Children of the Revolution' and 'Slaves'.
Gollancz Future Classics ISBN 13:: 978-0-57508-110-9 £7.99.
A near future thriller in which Alex Sharkey, a drug designer, becomes involved with a brilliant but dangerous little girl, Milena, and unwittingly helps initiate the process which changes dolls, blue-skinned gengineered creatures designed for work, amusement or destruction, into self-aware fairies. London, Paris, Tirana.
'His prose is muscular, his dialogue crackling, his characters needy and vivid.' The Washington Post
'McAuley [has an] acute ability to get under his characters' skins and convey a rich sense of place.' The Times
'Rich, complex . . . a thoroughly imagined future clearly connected to our own world and yet radically transformed through nannotechnology and VR.' Locus
WINNER OF THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AND JOHN W. CAMPBELL AWARDS.
Millennium ISBN 1-85798-909-0 £6.99
An alternate history set in 16th Century Florence transformed by the inventions of the Great Engineer Leonardo Da Vinci.
WINNER OF THE SIDEWISE AWARD.
Vista ISBN 0-575-60213-9 £5.99
Mars has been partially terraformed by the Chinese, but now it is dying. With the help of Yankee Yak herders, a hardwired assassin and a little girl god, Wei Lee, dupe, womanizer and holy fool, stumbles on a plot that has been spinning for decades, and is catapulted on a journey that will take him to the summit of the biggest volcano in the Solar System and a battle in virtual reality for the future of Mars and humanity. Sex and drugs and rock'n'roll . . . and Mars.
Millennium ISBN 1-85798-910-4 £6.99
One of the earliest manifestations of the New Space Opera, cutting a swathe from Titan to the centre of the galaxy, and back again.
'Science Fiction has seen fashions come and go, but there are still a few out there who keep the faith, and McAuley is one of the best.' The Independent
'Eloquently told . . . a wonderful book.' John Clute, Interzone.
