Ann Leckie: Ancillary Sword

UK 2014, 356 pp., brochure, € 12.90
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Orbit
Breq is a soldier who used to be a warship. Once a weapon of conquest controlling thousands of minds, now she only has a single body and serves the emperor she swore to destroy. Given a new ship and a troublesome crew, Breq is ordered to the only place in the galaxy she will agree to go: Athoek station, to ... Weiterlesen

Hendrik De Jong: Ophiuchus Cube Book 1

UK 2014, 342 pp., brochure, € 17.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Named after the 13th Zodiac Sign (also known as the Serpent Bearer) »Ophiuchus Cube« imagines an apocalyptic future on earth, when billions of the planet's inhabitants are wiped out after a mysterious cube falls to earth, causing chaos and the breakdown of society as we know it. Questions arise over the nature of the Cube. Is it friend or foe? ... Weiterlesen

Ann Leckie: Ancillary Justice

UK 2013, 386 pp., brochure, € 12.90
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Orbit
On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest. Breq is both more than she seems and less than she was. Years ago, she was the Justice of Toren - a colossal starship and an artificial intelligence controlling thousands of soldiers in the service of the Radch, the empire that conquered the ... Weiterlesen

Susan Jane Bigelow: The Daughter Star

USA 2013, 323 pp., brochure, € 19.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Freighter pilot Marta Grayline is grounded, trapped on her miserable home planet by an intrasystem war that has separated her from her beautiful girlfriend, her career, and everything she loves. When her sister Beth offers her a way out by enlisting in the Novan Emergency Fleet, Marta jumps at the opportunity to get back into space. But when her ship ... Weiterlesen

Alan Chin: The Plain of Bitter Honey

USA 2013, 227 pp., brochure, € 16.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Bold Strokes
Twins Aaron and Hayden Swann are fighting a corrupt government taken over by ultra right-wing Fundamentalist Christians in 2055 America. Each brother fights in his own way, Aaron with bullets, Hayden with words. Then one night their world is turned upside down when they are caught in a government sting and they must both flee north into the badlands between ... Weiterlesen

Sean Eads: The Survivors

USA 2012, 225 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Lethe
The aliens have landed, and this time they're not hostile. They're just rude. Coming in waves of rocket ships, the aliens not only refuse to acknowledge the existence of Earth's cultures - they refuse to acknowledge the existence of humanity itself. The aliens by means of their bulk block entry into cars, even elevators without malice or even purpose. No ... Weiterlesen

Lynn Flewelling: Casket of Souls

USA 2012, 476 pp., pb, € 9.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.  - Nightrunner Series 6
More than the dissolute noblemen they appear to be, gay lovers Alec and Seregil are skillful spies, dedicated to serving queen and country. But when they stumble across evidence of a plot pitting Queen Phoria against Princess Klia, the two Nightrunners will find their loyalties torn as never before. Even at the best of times, the royal court at Rhíminee ... Weiterlesen

Lynn Flewelling: Glimpses

A Collection of Nightrunner Short Stories. USA 2012, 110 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Three Crow
Lynn Flewelling's »Glimpses« explores »lost« moments from her popular Nightrunner series, events alluded to or passed over - Alec's parents and childhood, Seregil's early liaisons in Skala, Seregil and Alec's first night as lovers, how Seregil and Micum Cavish met. Each story offers a new perspective on events readers have previously only been able to speculate about. They capture Flewelling's ... Weiterlesen

Connie Wilkins and Steve Berman (eds.): Heiresses of Russ 2012

The Year's Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction. USA 2012, 287 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Lethe
An unexplained astronomical phenomenon brings a woman and her grandfather closer while she questions the meaning of faith. African villagers in need of aid are sent automatons rather than human relief workers. Mermaids devour men drawn by their song, but what will happen to a steampunk submersible piloted by a woman? Two teenage girls discover that memories are held in ... Weiterlesen

James Robinson etc.: Earth 2 - Vol. 5

USA 2012, 32 pp., engl. Text, mag., € 4.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
DC
Als im Internet die Gerüchte umgingen, dass im Serienableger »Earth 2« der DC-Superheld Green Lantern schwul werden würde, gingen die Wogen hoch. Im Heft 5 verliebt sich Flash in Green Lantern - gemeinsam kämpfen die beiden Superhelden Seite an Seite mit Hawkgirl gegen den Todesgott Grundy.

James Robinson etc.: Earth 2 - Vol. 4

USA 2012, 32 pp., engl. Text, mag., € 4.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
DC
Als im Internet die Gerüchte umgingen, dass im Serienableger »Earth 2« der DC-Superheld Green Lantern schwul werden würde, gingen die Wogen hoch. Im Heft 4 greift Hawkgirl neben Green Lantern und Flash in den Kampf ein, um zu verhindern, dass die Welt stirbt.

James Robinson etc.: Earth 2 - Vol. 3

USA 2012, 32 pp., engl. Text, mag., € 4.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
DC
Als im Internet die Gerüchte umgingen, dass im Serienableger »Earth 2« der DC-Superheld Green Lantern schwul werden würde, gingen die Wogen hoch. Im Heft 3 erscheint Green Lantern und greift in den Kampf gegen das Böse ein.

Brit Mandelo (ed.): Beyond Binary

USA 2012, 265 pp., brochure, € 29.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Lethe
Speculative fiction is the literature of questions, of challenges and imagination, and what better to question than the ways in which gender and sexuality have been rigidly defined, partitioned off, put in little boxes? These seventeen stories explore the ways in which identity can go beyond binary from space colonies to small college towns, from angels to androids, and from ... Weiterlesen

Samuel R. Delany: Babel-17 / Empire Star

USA 1994, 315 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Vintage
»Babel-17« is a fascinating tale of a famous poet bent on deciphering a secret language that is the key to the enemy's deadly force, a task that requires she travel with a splendidly improbable crew to the site of the next attack. For the first time, »Babel-17« is published as the author intended with the short novel »Empire Star«, the ... Weiterlesen

Ursula K. Le Guin: The Left Hand of Darkness

USA 2010, 330 pp., Pb, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin USA
On the planet Winter, there is no gender. The Gethenians can become male or female during each mating cycle, and this is something that humans find incomprehensible. The Ekumen of Known Worlds has sent an ethnologist to study the Gethenians on their forbidding, ice-bound world. At first he finds his subjects difficult and off-putting, with their elaborate social systems and ... Weiterlesen

Joan Gordon / Veronica Hollinger / Wendy Gay Pea: Queer Universes : Sexualities in Science Fiction

UK 2010, 256 pp., brochure, € 45.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Contestations over the meaning and practice of sexuality have become increasingly central to cultural self-definition and critical debates over issues of identity, citizenship and the definition of humanity itself. In an era when a religious authority can declare lesbians antihuman while some nations legalise same-sex marriage and are becoming increasingly tolerant of a variety of non-normative sexualities, it is hardly ... Weiterlesen

Lynn Flewelling: The White Road

USA 2010, 385 pp., pb, € 9.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.  - Nightrunner Series 5
Dissolute nobles, master spies, and the unlikeliest of heroes, Alec and Seregil have survived exile, treachery, and black magic. But the road that lies ahead is the most hazardous they've ever traveled. For with enemies on all sides, they must walk a narrow path between good and evil where one misstep might be their last. Having escaped death and slavery ... Weiterlesen

Lynn Flewelling: Shadows Return

USA 2008, 544 pp., pb, € 9.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.  - Nightrunner Series 4
With their most treacherous mission yet behind them, heroes and lovers Seregil and Alec resume their double life as dissolute nobles and master spies. But in a world of rivals and charmers, fate has a different plan. After their victory in Aurenen, Alec and Seregil have returned home to Rhiminee. But with most of their allies dead or exiled, it ... Weiterlesen