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LITERARY AGENCY
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Ben Aaronovitch
Dave Beynon
James P. Blaylock
Algis Budrys
Ben Chase
Michael Cobley
Edward Cox
Aliette De Bodard
Andrew Hodges
Charlie Human
Anne Lyle
Ian R. MacLeod
Ian McDonald
Victor Milán
Justina Robson
Melinda Snodgrass
E. J. Swift
Lavie Tidhar
Ian Tregillis
Simon Kurt Unsworth
Freda Warrington
Micah Yongo
Roger Zelazny
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Ben Aaronovitch
RIVERS OF LONDON – Series
Publisher: Gollancz
(UK), Del Rey / DAW
(US)
Genre: Crime, Police
Procedural, Urban
Fantasy
Material: Finished
copies
Rights: Zeno / Orion
Previous Foreign
Rights Sold: China,
Czech, France,
Germany, Hungary,
Italy, Japan, Korea,
Poland, Portugal,
Russia, Spain, Taiwan,
Brazil, Spain, Italy
‘An incredibly fast-moving magical joyride for grownups’ – e Times
FOXGLOVE SUMMER is the latest Peter Grant novel.
All five titles released in this series so far have been Sunday
Times bestsellers and top sellers in all formats.
Three further titles are under contract.
Over 500,000 copies sold in UK/BC.
The series is a bestseller in Germany.
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Ben Aaronovitch
RIVERS OF LONDON – Series
‘Sweet relief for readers
allergic to cliché’
– Locus
‘It is smart, funny and
filled with oddness’
– Terry Brooks
‘Fresh and original and
a wonderful read. I
loved it’
– Charlaine Harris
‘It’s witty... not cliché...
smart...e main character has a great voice...
the language is great...’
– Patrick Rothfuss
‘A hilarious, keenly
imagined caper’
– Diana Gabaldon
RIVERS OF LONDON was a World Book Night pick last year.
It has been chosen as the focus for Cityreads London 2015.
With a TV series in the works, a comic in development, and
interest in all manner of subsidiary rights, the Peter Grant
brand is set to rise ever higher.
Ben Aaronovitch
RIVERS OF LONDON – Series
Ben Aaronovitch was born and raised in London and all his work has reflected his
abiding fascination and love for what he modestly likes to refer to as the ‘Capital of
the World’.
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Dave Beynon
New for 2015
In Nor th America’s last great wilderness,
it’s all too easy to lose yourself...
ive years ago Ian Hollis worked as a Conservation Officer
stationed in one of the most remote outposts of the
Quetico National Park, two million acres of forests,
mountains and lakes that straddle the US-Canadian border.
at level of isolation isn’t for everyone but, after suffering a
devastating personal tragedy, he needed a quiet place to heal.
F
HERNE
Genre: Psychological
Thriller
Material: Unedited
manuscript
Rights: Zeno
Ian’s nearest neighbour and closest friend, Leo Parnack, is
10kms away on the American side and together they keep an
eye on the visiting hikers, campers and fishermen... as well
as the less savoury characters who are looking for a place to
disappear.
Now Ian spends his days in the cold, sterile rooms of an
institution for the criminally insane alongside some of the
country’s most dangerous and notorious inmates. Struggling
to make sense of the events that culminated in such terrible
bloodshed, two facts shine through the fug of medication
and therapy: he is no killer... but also that the very existence
of the person responsible, a feral man named Herne, is
impossible.
Praise for Dave Beynon’s shor t fiction
‘The best story in the book... a splendid, insightful piece’
– SFRevu
‘is anthology stands as a model for other editors to contemplate’ – Publish ers Weekly (Starred Review)
Dave Beynon’s short stories have appeared in periodicals and
anthologies, received an honourable mention in e Best
Horror of the Year, and he was shortlisted for the inaugural
Terry Pratchett Prize. He grew up on farmland in Southern
Ontario and now lives in a small town outside of Toronto
with his family. HERNE is his first novel.
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James P. Blaylock
LANGDON ST. IVES – Series
Publisher: Titan
(UK/US), Audible
(Audio)
Genre: Victoriana, Alternate History, Adventure
Material: Finished
copies
Rights: Zeno
A Brand New Langdon St. Ives novel, BENEATH
LO N D O N w i l l b e p u b l i s h e d i n Ju n e 2 0 1 5
hen the sudden collapse of the Victoria Embankment
uncovers a passage to an unknown realm beneath
London, Langdon St. Ives sets out explore it, not knowing
that a brilliant and wealthy psychopathic murderer is
working to keep the underworld’s secrets hidden for reasons
of his own. Assumed to be dead and buried deep beneath
London, St. Ives lives secretly on the streets of the great city
where he and his devoted wife Alice, along with their stalwart
friends, investigate a string of ghastly crimes.
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James P. Blaylock
BACKLIST
‘At once droll and horrific,
these highly mannered
tales are classic examples
of this popular subgenre’
– Publishers Weekly
‘From start to finish a
truly immaculate story...
an amazing, gripping
and brilliant read’
– Fantasy Book Review
‘A singular fabulist’ – William Gibson
‘Blaylock is a true one-of-a-kind original’
– Neil Gaiman
Jim Blaylock’s 1978 story e Ape-Box Affair is acknowledged
as the first Steampunk story. He has received multiple
World Fantasy Award nominations, winning twice – for
short stories Paper Dragons and his collection irteen Phantasms. His novels include e Digging Leviathan, e Last
Coin, All e Bells On Earth, e Paper Grail, Night Relics,
Winter Tides, e Rainy Season and most recently e
Knights of e Cornerstone. Over the years his work has
consistently gained the highest positions in the annual Locus
Magazine poll and his story Unidentified Objects was included in
Prize Stories 1990 at the O. Henry Awards.
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Algis Budrys (Estate)
SELECTED AVAILABLE BACKLIST TITLES
Classy, classic SF from multiple Hugo and Nebula nominee Algis Budrys – one
of the true masters of the genre from its Golden Age. UK/BC eBook rights are
published on the Gollancz Gateway and the Budrys classic ROGUE MOON is
available in their SF Master works series. Contact us for a full list of available titles.
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Ben Chase
New for 2015
A BULLET FOR MY COUNTRY
e Cold War riller is given the
I Am Pilgrim treatment in this gritty, searing debut
n everyman with a secret, a Russian sleeper cell and a
provincial journalist are caught up in a terrifying
deception orchestrated by a dangerous MI6 operative.
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Genre: Thriller
Material: Unedited
manuscript
Rights: Zeno
1984: Ronald Reagan has announced his Strategic Defence
Initiative, plunging the British Government into a state of
shock. With the Cold War in its death throes but as dangerous
as ever, the UK has neither the funds nor the technology to
match its allies. However MI6 has always known that it doesn’t
matter if you actually have the gun or not, so long as your
enemy thinks that you do. Covert operative Colin Medlin is
tasked with orchestrating a credible deception about the
UK’s own Star Wars programme.
Medlin’s bloody business has far-reaching consequences:
Entrepreneur Paul Jones discovers his lucrative contract with
the government comes with strings attached; KGB assassin,
Sofia Petrovna, believes to have been abandoned by her
country and left to rot in suburban Britain... until she is
given a list of names and a gun; And exposing the truth falls
to disillusioned hack Tom Riggs, who can barely hold down
a job at a provincial newspaper. In this perilous game where
one lie hides another, not everyone will get out alive. Medlin
might be reluctant to die for his country, he won't think
twice about killing for it...
Ben Chase was born in Salisbury and graduated from the
University of Brighton with an MA in Editorial Design. He
works in the UK defence industry and lives in Brighton with
his wife and three children. A BULLET FOR MY COUNTRY
is Ben’s first novel and he is currently working on the next
book in the series.
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Michael Cobley
ANCESTRAL MACHINES
Publisher: Orbit
(UK/US), Audible
(audio)
Genre: Science Fiction
Material: Production
PDF
Rights: Zeno
A n e w s t a n d a l o n e e p i c s p a c e o p e ra , s e t i n t h e
s a m e w o r l d a s t h e Hu m a n i t y’s Fi re t r i l o g y
t was named Bringer of Battles, three hundred worlds
orbiting a single artificial star; three hundred battlefields
where different species vie for mastery and triumph. e
whole theatre of war is a cage where conflict is a game, brutal,
savage and sudden. In this arena, all must bend the knee to
the Lords of Permutation (and the ancient sentient weapons
with which they have merged) or suffer indescribable agonies.
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Trapped in this draconian crucible of death, Brannan Pyke,
captain and smuggler, must find a way to fight his way to
freedom.
Because in the Bringer of Battles the game of war is played
to the death – and beyond.
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Michael Cobley
HUMANITY’S FIRE – Series
SEEDS OF EARTH
THE ORPHANED WORLDS
THE ASCENDANT STARS
‘A complex, finely detailed thriller-cum-space opera... wellrealised extraterrestrials, scheming artificial intelligences, setpiece space battles and bizarre technology from the dawn of the
galaxy. e first book of the trilogy is also a convincing portrayal
of political machinations and the plight of individuals caught up
in events beyond their comprehension’ – Guardian
‘Well-constructed space opera with a sense of vast scope, populated
with an array of beautifully differentiated intelligences both
organic and artificial... this is a thick and satisfying 10-course
meal of starchy pageantry, meaty characters, bitter losses, and
sweet romance’ – Publishers Weekly
‘Cobley writes energetic space opera, rarely dallying with sentiment
and mostly assaulting the reader with exotic locations and sudden
skirmishes... joyous moments of invention’ – SFX
‘e story is huge, complex and moves between its varied cast
with assured purpose... a tightly plotted, action packed epic that
leaves you wanting more’ – SciFi Now
‘Fast and exciting... an excellent middle book in the trilogy,
expanding on SEEDS OF EARTH and setting everything in
place for a thrilling conclusion’ – Waterstone’s Book Quaterly
Michael Cobley was born in Leicester, England, but for most
of his life has lived in or near Glasgow, Scotland. After
selling a number of short stories, Michael’s first trilogy,
Sha dowki ngs, was a precursor to ‘grimdark’ fantasy. The
Humanity’s Fire series has been selling impressively on both
sides of the Atlantic.
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Edward Cox
THE RELIC GUILD – Series
Publisher: Gollancz
Genre: Fantasy
Material: Finished
copies
Rights: Orion
Forthcoming: THE
CATHERDRAL OF
KNOWN THINGS
In the sealed maze, a young woman must
find a way to control her magic and escape
her prison in this remarkable debut fantasy
‘is book has magic in its DNA... ought you know
where modern fantasy was at? THE RELIC GUILD will
challenge your assumptions’ – British Fantasy Society
‘A terrific debut novel, with plenty of scope for expansion
and some really good world-building’ – Joanne Harris
Edward Cox began writing stories at school as a way to pass
the time. He has a Masters degree in creative writing and
teaches the subject at the University of Bedfordshire. He lives
in Essex with his wife and daughter. THE RELIC GUILD
is his first novel. Two sequels are forthcoming from Gollancz.
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Aliette De Bodard
HOUSE OF SHATTERED WINGS
A superb murder myster y, on an epic scale, set
against the fall out – literally – of a war in Heaven
aris has survived the Great Magicians War – just. Its
streets are lined with haunted ruins, Notre-Dame is a
burnt-out shell, and the Seine runs black with ashes and
rubble. Yet life continues among the wreckage. e citizens
continue to live, love, fight and survive in their war-torn city,
and e Great Houses still vie for dominion over the once
grand capital.
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Genre: Fantasy
Material: Unedited
manuscript
Rights: Zeno
Forthcoming: Untitled
sequel
House Silverspires, previously the leader of those power
games, lies in disarray. Its magic is ailing; its founder,
Morningstar, has been missing for decades; and now
something from the shadows stalks its people inside their
very own walls.
Within the House, three very different people will come
together: a naive but powerful Fallen, an alchemist with a
self-destructive addiction, and a resentful young man
wielding spells from the Far East. ey may be Silverspires’
salvation. ey may be the architects of its last, irreversible
fall...
UK/BC Rights Sold to Gollancz
US Rights Sold to Roc
Hugo and Campbell Award Nominated Author
Winner of a 201 Nebula and Locus Award
Winner of BSFA and Writers of the Future
Aliette de Bodard is one of the hottest rising stars in the
world of SF and Fantasy. Her debut trilogy, Obsidian &
Blood, was published by Angry Robot to much acclaim. She
lives in Paris.
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Aliette De Bodard
OBSIDIAN & BLOOD – Series
Original Publisher:
Angry Robot (UK/US)
Genre: Aztec-Flavoured
Fantasy
Material: Finished
copies
Rights: Zeno
Foreign Rights Sold:
France
SERVANTS OF THE UNDERWORLD
HARBINGER OF THE STORM
MASTER OF THE HOUSE OF DARTS
‘I’m a big fan of de Bodard’s short work, and this is a great concept’
– John Scalzi, Whatever
‘A wonderfully tense and evocative story... de Bodard’s writing is
polished and striking... paints a mosaic that is in turns beautiful,
grimy, breathtaking, and morbid’
– Josh Vogt, Examiner.com
‘An Aztec priest of the dead tries to solve a murder mystery, and
finds that politics may be even more powerful than magic. A
vivid portrayal of an interesting culture in a truly fresh fantasy
novel’
– Kevin J. Anderson
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Andrew Hodges
ALAN TURING: THE ENIGMA
Publisher: Vintage
(UK), Princeton (US)
Genre: Non Fiction,
Science, Biography,
Movie Tie-in
Material: Finished
copies
Rights: Zeno
Foreign Rights Sold:
China (simplified and
complex), France, Italy,
Japan, Poland, Russia,
Czech Republic, Slovakia, Turkey, Hungary,
Korea, Bulgaria, Sweden, Israel
Sunday Times Bestseller
New York Times Bestseller
‘ One of the finest scientific biographies ever written ’
– e New Yorker
his definitive biography of Alan Turing has now been in
print for over thirty years.
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e film adaptation THE IMITATION GAME, starring
Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightly, was the highest
grossing independent film of 2014. It was nominated for nine
BAFTAs, five Golden Globes and eight Academy Awards,
including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor. It went on
to win the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay category.
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Charlie Human
New for 2015
HOLLOWS
e stunning new novel from one of the
most daring voices in speculative fiction
Genre: Science Fiction,
Thriller
Material: Proposal and
sample chapters
Rights: Zeno
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he Silence of the Lambs meets e Matrix in a bleak, nearfuture Washington D.C. where we can no longer control
of technology that shapes us.
Clementine Brule has the Hollows – a rare, debilitating
affliction that causes severe sensory overload and disorientation
when using a now widespread digital interface via contact
lenses and glasses. It has destroyed her career and now she’s
barely making it as a detective in one of Washington’s worst
districts.
en a body is found hideously disfigured in an empty lot,
and a boy is kidnapped by the killer who leaves nothing but
a five-digit alphanumeric error message that shows up on all
digital devices near the victim. It falls to the city’s only
analogue detective to solve this digital crime.
When her gangster brother awakes from a four-year coma
and kidnaps her son, leaving nothing but a five-digit error
alphanumeric message, Clem can only hope that her hunches
and bruised knuckles are enough to find the killer and rescue
her child.
Ch arlie Human is a denizen of South Africa’s speculative
fiction scene. He has an MA in Creative Writing from the
University of Cape Town. His short story, e Immaculate
Particle, appeared in Pandemonium: Stories of the Apocalypse,
and Land of the Blind was printed in the UK edition of Zoo
City by Lauren Beukes.
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Charlie Human
APOCALYPSE NOW NOW and KILL BAXTER
‘It’s mad and dark and irreverent and
wonderfully twisted in all the right ways’
– Lauren Beukes, author of e Shining Girls
I love the smell of parallel dimensions in the morning...
axter Zevcenko’s life is pretty sweet. As the 16-year-old
kingpin of the Spider, his smut-peddling schoolyard
syndicate, he’s making a name for himself as an up-andcoming entrepreneur. Profits are on the rise, the other gangs are
staying out of his business, and he’s going out with Esme, the
girl of his dreams.
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But when Esme gets kidnapped, and all the clues point towards
strange forces at work, things start to get seriously weird. e
only man drunk enough to help is a bearded, booze-soaked,
supernatural bounty hunter who goes by the name of Jackson
‘Jackie’ Ronin.
Publisher: Century
(UK), Random Struik
(South Africa), Titan
(US)
Genre: Sharp modern
fantasy with a South
African Twist
Material: Finished
copies
Rights: Zeno
Foreign Rights Sold:
Czech, Italy, Japan,
Turkey, Germany
Plunged into the increasingly bizarre landscape of Cape Town’s
supernatural underworld, Baxter and Ronin team up to save
Esme. On a journey that takes them through the realms of
impossibility, they must face every conceivable nightmare to
get her back, including the odd brush with the Apocalypse.
‘With a wild imagination and savage glee, Charlie Human throws
us a school-yard battle zone that’s part teenage wasteland, part
Lovecraft fever dream’
– Richard Kadrey, author of the Sandman Slim series
‘Dark, mad, imaginative, and hilarious; KILL BAXTER is a joy’
– Sci-Fi Now
‘I don’t even know how to describe reading this book, so just look
at my wide eyes and my silently mumbling mouth and take my
shell-shock as a good sign that you need to read this book right
now’ – Chuck Wendig, author of Blackbirds
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Anne Lyle
NIGHT’S MASQUE – Series
Publisher: Angry Robot
(UK/US)
THE ALCHEMIST OF SOULS
THE MERCHANT OF DREAMS
THE PRINCE OF LIES
Genre: Fantasy
Material: Finished
copies
Rights: Zeno
hen Tudor explorers returned from the New World,
they brought back a name out of a half-forgotten
Viking legend: skraylings. Red-sailed ships followed in the
explorers’ wake, bringing Native American goods – and a
skrayling ambassador – to London. But what do these
seemingly magical beings really want in Elizabeth I’s capital?
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Mal Catlyn, a down-at-heel swordsman, is seconded to the
ambassador’s bodyguard, but assassination attempts are the
least of his problems. What he learns about the skraylings
and their unholy powers could cost England her new ally –
and Mal Catlyn his soul.
‘Gives Shakespeare's London an alternative history twist... A
lively, readable debut’ – Telegraph
‘An outstanding debut and Lyle is certainly a name to watch for
the future’ – British Fantasy Society
‘With an effective mix of espionage, backstage drama, and mystery,
Lyle provides compelling drama in an intriguing setting’
– Publishers Weekly
‘Anne Lyle creates an alternate Elizabethan England done right.
With a twisting plot, endearing characters, fast-paced action,
and truly unique and alien “fey”, Lyle steps up and gives notice
to the genre. A great first installment in a promising new series’
– Douglas Hulick, author of Among ieves
Anne Lyle was born in Robin Hood country. She now lives
in Cambridge where, when she isn’t writing, she works as a
web developer. Her debut novel, THE ALCHEMIST OF
SOULS, was published by Angry Robot in 2012.
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Ian R. MacLeod
RED SNOW
A major new novel from this
multi-award winning British author
Genre: Speculative literary fiction
he ambitious, immersive new novel by a true master of
the craft. RED SNOW brings depth and historical realism
to an age-old myth. Combining the lush baroque of Anne
Rice with the unflinching grittiness and scope of Cormac
McCarthy and Philip Meyer, RED SNOW is an epic story
of science and magic that plays out over generations.
Material: Proposal and
sample chapters
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Rights: Zeno
‘MacLeod is set to become a writer of the magnitude of Dickens
or Tolkien’ – Guardian
During the French Revolution, a craftsman in Strasbourg is
commissioned to paint a series of portraits that chart the
changing appearance of a beautiful woman over the years...
even though the women herself does not age.
In the wake of the last great battle of the American Civil War,
men lie dead and dying on the plains. Union medic Karl
Haupmann passes between them, doing what he can to save
their lives or ease their suffering. ere he is confronted by
an ageless creature picking over the bodies of the dead. Before
long, this former man of science has changed. He might not
know the word ‘vampire’, but he cannot ignore his newfound
bloodlust.
The root of this evil stretches back through the French
Revolution and Medieval Europe to the gloom of a cave
overlooking the Black Sea. When Haupmann returns to care
for his dying father at the family’s home in New York, the
stage is set for a bloody finale during the turbulence of the
Prohibition era.
A taster of RED SNOW was published as a novella by PS
Publishing, entitled THE RÉPARATEUR OF STRASBOURG.
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Ian R. MacLeod
SELECTED AVAILABLE BACKLIST TITLES
Ian R. MacLeod’s work has previously sold in the Czech Republic, Spain,
France, Germany and Japan. Contact us for a full list of available titles.
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Ian McDonald
New for 2015
LUNA: Vol. I
Publisher: Goillancz
(UK), Tor (US)
Genre: Science Fiction
Material: Copy-edited
manuscript
Rights: Gollancz
Forthcoming: LUNA:
Vol. II (2016)
‘Nobody does it better
than Ian McDonald’
– e Times
an MacDonald’s new novel, LUN A, is a thrilling and
violent science fiction epic of Matriarchs, Machiavellis and
Godfathers. It paints a vivid picture of the dangerous realities
of life at the edge of survival.
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e Moon has a thousand ways to kill you. e bitter cold
of vacuum. e lethal sleet of radiation. Choking dust as old
as the Earth. Your weakening bones. Or you could run out
of money for water. Or air. Or simply fall foul of one of the
Five Dragons, the corporations that rule the Moon and control
its vast resources. You have to fight to survive. And that is
just what Adriana Corta did.
Now, at the twilight of her life, Adriana’s family run her own
Dragon, the Corta Helio corporation. But if the Corta
family is to endure, her five children must defend their
mother’s empire from its many enemies... and each other.
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Ian McDonald
EVERNESS – Series
PLANESRUNNER
BE MY ENEMY
EMPRESS OF THE SUN
Publisher: Pyr (US),
Jo Fletcher Books (UK),
Audible
Genre: YA Science
Fiction
Material: Finished
copies
Rights: Zeno
here is not one you. ere are many yous. ere is not
one world. ere are many worlds. Ours is one among
billions of parallel earths.
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When Everett Singh’s scientist father is kidnapped from the
streets of London, he leaves young Everett a mysterious app
on his computer. This teenager is now the owner of the
Infundibulum – a map of all the parallel earths, and thus the
most valuable object in the multiverse – and there are dark
forces who will stop at nothing to get it...
‘Planesrunner is chock-full of awesome. e kind of guns-blazing
fantasy that makes me wish I could pop through to the next reality
over, join the Airish, and take to the skies’
– Paolo Bacigalupi
‘Ian McDonald is one of the greats of science fiction, and his young
adult debut is everything you could hope for: romantic, actionpacked, wildly imaginative, and full of heart’
– Cory Doctorow
‘is is vintage McDonald, with beautifully drawn settings, complex
characters and deft plotting’ – Guardian
‘Boy, this book was fun... Planesrunner is one of those novels that
grabs hold of you from the very beginning and then just never lets
go until the very end’ – Tor.com
PLANESRUNNER has sold in Bulgaria, Russia, Hungary,
Italy and France.
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Ian McDonald
SELECTED AVAILABLE BACKLIST TITLES
Ian McDonald is an award-winning Science Fiction author. His novels include e
Der vish House, (2010), Brasyl (2007), River of Gods (2004), Ares Express (2001),
Kirinya (1998) and Desolation Road (1988). He has been extensively published all
over the world.
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Victor Milán
THE DINOSAUR LORDS – Series
New for 2015
Publisher: Tor (US),
Fleuve (France)
Genre: Epic Fantasy
Material: Finished
copies
Rights: Zeno on behalf
of Aurous, Inc.
Forthcoming: Vol II
(2016), Vol III (2017)
‘It’s like a cross between
Jurassic Park and Game
of rones’
– George R.R. Martin
world made by the Eight Creators, Paradise is a sprawling, diverse, often brutal place. Men live on Paradise as
do other beasts. But dinosaurs predominate, as wildlife,
monsters, beasts of burden – and of war.
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Vast armies of dinosaur-mounted knights engage in battle.
and in the course of one of these epic battles, the enigmatic
mercenary Dinosaur Lord Karyl Bogomirsky is betrayed,
defeated and left for dead. He wakes, naked, wounded,
partially amnesiac – and hunted. And embarks upon a
journey that will shake his world.
Victor Milán is the author of around 90 novels and numerous
short stories. His novel e C yb e r n e t i c S am u r ai won the
Prometheus award. He is a charter member of the Wi l d
C a rd s mafia.
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Justina Robson
THE GLORIOUS ANGELS
Publisher: Gollancz
(UK)
Genre: SF/Fantasy, far
future second world
planetary romance with
retrocybernetics and
genetic engineering!
Material: Finished
copies
Rights: Zeno
Previous Foreign
Rights Sold: France,
Germany, Italy, Czech,
Netherlands
e groundbreaking new novel from one of the genre’s most
respected autho rs: a thrilling mix of science, magic and
sexual politics
ralane Huntingore is a rare breed – last in a line of magi
adepts with a unique skill in slicing up archaeotechnology;
the lost miracles of forgotten ages. Her life is a peaceful
scholastic idyll at the heart of a matriarchal imperium until
a trespass on ancient alien land begins a war. An arms race
begins in which her skills and her family become key
weapons. Paired up with an alien peacekeeper and working in
a warzone, Tralane is about to make some discoveries that
will turn the known world upside down.
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‘A novelist of real vision’ – Zadie Smith
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Justina Robson
SELECTED AVAILABLE BACKLIST TITLES
WE Audio Rights:
Audible
Material: Finished
copies
Rights: Zeno (trans.)
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‘Thought-provoking. Fans of the sweeping, politically and
psychologically aware space opera of Iain M. Banks and Ken
MacLeod will be intrigued by Robson’s setting and the new slant
she takes on universal questions’
– Publishers Weekly on NATURAL HISTORY
‘Cerebral and absorbing... Robson’s prose is lean and dynamic,
and the speculative concepts are cutting edge and ultra cool. A
startlingly innovative take on the tried-and-true theme of artificial intelligence’ – Kirkus on SILVER SCREEN
Justina Robson was born in Leeds in 1968. An incredibly
exciting talent in the world of Science Fiction, she has been
nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award, the Arthur C.
Clarke Award, the BSFA Award and John W. Campbell
Award.
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Melinda Snodgrass
THE HIGH GROUND – Series
THE HIGH GROUND, SNARED IN EVIL TIMES,
TIME AND CHANCE, A TRIUMVERATE OF HATE,
BREAKING THE YOKE
his new novel marks the beginning of the Imperi als
series, a thrilling blend of space opera and adventure
from one of leading light of the genre. All five novels are
under contract with Titan Books.
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e story follows a low-born son of a tailor and the daughter
of the Emperor. When they enter e High Ground, the
elite military space academy, their destinies become entwined
and so begins an epic saga spanning three decades.
Publishers: Titan
Books (UK/US)
Genre: Science Fiction,
Space Opera, Action,
Adventure
Material: Detailed
proposal, sample
chapters (unedited)
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behalf of Aurous, Inc.
Along the way, love blossoms, alliances are forged and bitter
rivalries emerge... as well as a discovery that human development has been manipulated by aliens. But however high
our heroes rise, however low they fall, they will always be
bound to the people that they met in that first year at e
High Ground – for good or ill.
How they meet this challenges will effect not just their lives,
but the very future of the human race...
Melinda Snodgrass has had many varied careers – studying
opera at the Conservatory of Vienna, working as a practicing
attorney, writing novels, and working in Hollywood on Star
Trek: e Next Generation, and numerous other shows. She
co-edits the Wild Card series with George R. R. Martin, and
she is currently penning the script for a Wild Cards movie
for Universal Pictures. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Melinda Snodgrass
THE EDGE – Series
THE EDGE OF REASON
THE EDGE OF RUIN
Publishers: Tor Books
(US), Titan Books (UK)
Genre: Contemporary
Fantasy
Material: Finished
copies / production PDF
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behalf of Aurous, Inc.
Forthcoming: THE
EDGE OF DAWN
(2015)
ichard Oort is a cop. He’s also the last Paladin: a reluctant
hero, fated to defend the world against demonic forces
that threaten to plunge us into another Dark Age.
R
Richard is on patrol one night when he leaps to the defense
of a terrified young woman fleeing something impossible:
beings that can only be described as monsters. Beings that
can only have been created by magic. But in saving the
beautiful Rhianna, he gets drawn into the machinations of
a mysterious billionaire who just might be Prometheus or
Lucifer. And who claims to be waging a millennia-old war on
the side of reason and light, defending humanity from others
of his kind – who want nothing more than to see us destroy
ourselves with superstition, religion, darkness and fear.
But when Richard discovers he’s a Paladin – product of a
genetic fluke that enables him to wield Lucifer’s sword – he
becomes a central figure in the battle between Light and
Darkness. But is he strong enough to bear the burden?
‘If H. P. Lovecraft and H. L. Mencken had ever collaborated,
they might have come up with something like THE EDGE OF
REASON. is one will delight thinkers – and outrage true
believers – of all stripes’ – George R. R. Martin
‘Snodgrass strongly and convincingly highlights the danger of
unreason’ – Publishers Weekly
'Snodgrass has a thick, meaty writing style that will satisfy the
hungriest reader... Events in this novel will challenge the beliefs
and thought systems of many and leave readers questioning
themselves – but in a highly satisfying manner’
– RT Book Reviews
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E. J. Swift
New for 2015
PARIS ADRIFT
e Time Traveller’s Wife meets
Outlander, on a date in a Paris Cocktail Bar
etermined to escape her eccentric and troubled family,
misfit student Hallie Lane packs up her life in England
and takes the first train to Paris, leaving everything she knows
behind. She takes on a new identity and falls in with the
eclectic expat community as a bartender at the notorious
Millie’s, next to the infamous Moulin Rouge.
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Genre: Speculative
Women’s Fiction
Material: Proposal &
sample chapters
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Here she meets Montserrat, a Colombian bartender who
guides her through this strange nocturnal world, and begins
to find a new family. But Millie’s is not all that it seems: there
are strange warnings from an even stranger messenger, a
mysterious woman claiming to be a time agent, and the
revelation that Montserrat is inexplicably unable to leave
Paris. en Hallie discovers a time portal located in the keg
room.
Over the next nine months, irate customers will be the least
of Hallie's concerns. She navigates time-faring through the
city’s turbulent past and future – from the wild years after
the French Revolution and of the Nazi occupation, to a
grim near future of her making. Alone in this fractured
world, she will have to come to terms with her own precarious sense of self... and might even find love.
‘An author to watch’ – Library Journal
E.J. Swift spent 18 months living and working in Paris before
returning to London to complete her MA in Creative Writing
programme at Royal Holloway. Her short fiction has appeared
in Interzone and in anthologies from Salt Publishing, Jurassic
London and NewCon Press. It also been shortlisted for a
BSFA Award and longlisted for e Sunday Times EFG Short
Story Award. Her debut novel OSIRIS was published in
2013. She lives in London.
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E. J. Swift
THE OSIRIS PROJECT – Series
OSIRIS
CATAVEIRO
TAMARUQ
Publishers: Del Rey
(UK)
Genre: Science Fiction
Material: Finished
copies / production PDF
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obody leaves Osiris. Adelaide Rechnov, wealthy socialite
and granddaughter of the Architect, spends her time in
pointless luxury, rebelling against her family in a series of
jaded social extravagances and scandals until her twin
brother disappears in mysterious circumstances.
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Vikram Bai lives in the Western Quarter, home to the poor
descendants of storm refugees and effectively quarantined from
the wealthy elite. His people live with cold and starvation, but
the coming brutal winter promises civil unrest, and a return
to the riots of previous years.
As tensions rise in the city, can Adelaide and Vikram bridge
the divide at the heart of Osiris before conspiracies bring
them to the edge of disaster?
‘A glittering first novel: a kind of flooded Gormenghast treated
with the alienated polish of DeLillo’s Cosmopolis. e result is
a gripping novel, readable, beautiful, politically engaged and
wholly accomplished. Swift is a ridiculously talented writer’
– Adam Roberts
‘A fantastic blend of world-building, excellent storytelling and
complex characters… An engrossing story from start to finish’
– SF Signal
‘Swift’s first novel, with its brilliant near-future vision of an
ecologically and socially devastated world and characters who
resonate with life and passion, marks her as an author to watch’
– Library Journal
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Lavie Tidhar
A MAN LIES DREAMING
Publisher: Hodder (UK)
Genre: Literary,
Alternate History
Material: Finished
copies
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‘A twisted masterpiece’ - G u a r d i a n
eep in the heart of history’s most infamous concentraD
tion camp, a man lies dreaming. His name is Shomer,
and before the war he was the author of lurid pulp fiction.
Now, to escape the brutal reality of life in Auschwitz,
Shomer spends his nights imagining another world – a world
where a disgraced former dictator known only as Wolf ekes
out a miserable existence as a low-rent PI in London’s grimiest
streets.
An extraordinary story of revenge and redemption, A MAN
LIES DREAMING is the unforgettable testament to the
power of imagination.
‘eodor Adorno said that to write poetry after Auschwitz was
barbaric. To which I would say yes. But you can still write
an excellent novel. A MAN LIES DREAMING is that novel’
– Philip Kerr
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Lavie Tidhar
THE VIOLENT CENTURY
Publisher:
Hodder, PS Publishing
(UK), St Martin’s /
Thomas Dunne (US)
Genre: Literary Science
Fiction
Material: Finished
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Japan, Poland
‘Quite simply a stunning masterpiece’ - Independent
or years they guarded the British Empire. Fogg and
Oblivion, inseperable friends, bound by a shared fate.
Until, one night in Berlin, a secret tore them apart.
F
Now, recalled to the Retirement Bureau from which no one
can retire, Fogg and Oblivion must face up to a past of
terrible war and unacknowlegded heroism to answer one last,
impossible question: What makes a hero?
‘A brilliantly etched phantasmagoric reconfiguring of that most
sizzling of eras – the twilight 20th’ – James Ellroy
‘High stakes tale of friendship and what it ultimately means to
truly be a hero… Tidhar has created a book that oozes excellence
in both characterisation and storytelling’
– Huffington Post
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Lavie Tidhar
OSAMA
Publisher:
PS Publishing, Solaris
(UK), Audible (World
English Audio)
Genre: Literary Fantasy
Material: Finished
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Hungary, Italy, Poland,
Spain
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‘Bears comparison with the best of Philip K. Dick’s paranoid,
alternate-history fantasies. It’s beautifully written and undeniably
powerful’ – e Financial Times
OSAMA is exceptional. Compelling, confrontational, and surpris‘O
ingly moving, it is one of the best novels yet on terror in our times’
– World Literature Today
Born on a kibbutz in Israel, Lavie Tidhar’s unusual childhood
has inspired a life devoted to books and travelling. He has lived
in South Africa, Laos and Vanuatu, but currently resides in
London. Lavie is the 2012 World Fantasy Award-winning
author of OSAMA. His work has also won him British Fantasy,
Kitschies and BSFA awards. His other award nominations
include the Campbell Award, the Sturgeon Award, the
Sidewise Award, Israel’s Geffen Award, and others.
Ian Tregillis
THE MECHANICAL – Series
Publisher: Orbit
(UK/US)
Genre: Fantasy,
Alternative History
Material: Finished
copies
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association with Aurous,
Inc.
My name is Jax. at is the name granted to me by
my human masters. I am a slave. But I shall be free.
ax is a mechanical man, a ‘Clakker’. His kind were created
by the Dutch in the 17th Century, and they have made
the Netherlands the most powerful nation in the world. ey
might be mechanical, but Clakkers are well aware they are no
more than slaves to their creators. And soon Jax is going to
make a bid for freedom – an act that will rock the Brasswork
rone to its core.
‘Tregillis launches a series with this superb alternate history filled
with clockwork men and ethical questions on the nature of free will
... the rich characters and gripping story really make this tale soar’
– Publishers Weekly
‘So absorbing that readers will be dying for the next entry in this
new series’
– Library Journal
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Ian Tregillis
THE MILKWEED TRIPTYCH – Series
BITTER SEEDS
THE COLDEST WAR
NECESSARY EVIL
t’s 1939. e Nazis have supermen, the British have demons,
and one perfectly normal man gets caught in between.
Publisher: Tor (US),
Orbit (UK)
Genre: Fantasy,
Alternative History
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Material: Finished
copies
British Secret Agent Raybould Marsh, is haunted by something
strange he saw on a mission during the Spanish Civil War: a
German woman with wires going into her head who looked
at him as if she knew him.
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association with Aurous,
Inc.
When the Nazis start running missions with people who
have unnatural abilities, Marsh is the man to face them. He
rallies the secret warlocks of Britain to hold the impending
invasion at bay. But magic exacts a price. But will the sacrifice
necessary to defeat the enemy be more terrible than defeat?
The Milkwe ed Tri pt ych has sold to Spain, France, Latvia,
Germany, Czech Republic and Poland.
‘A major talent... I can’t wait to see more’
– George R. R. Martin
‘Mad English warlocks battling twisted Nazi psychics? Yes please,
thank you.Tregillis’ debut has a white-knuckle plot, beautiful
descriptions, and complex characters – an unstoppable Vickers of
a novel’ – Cor y Doctorow
Ian Tregillis lives near Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he works
as a physicist at Los Alamos Laboratory. He is the author of
the critically-acclaimed Milkweed alternative history series,
and SOMETHING MORE THAN NIGHT. He is a member of the Wild Cards writing collective.
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Ian Tregillis
SOMETHING MORE THAN NIGHT
One of Kirkus Reviews’ Best SFF of 201
Publisher: Tor (US)
Genre: Supernatural
Thriller
Material: Production
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Inc.
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Italy
omebody has murdered the angel Gabriel. Worse, the
Jericho Trumpet has gone missing, putting Heaven on
the brink of a truly cosmic crisis.
S
But the twisting plot that unfolds from the murder investigation
leads to something much bigger: a con job one billion years
in the making. Because this is no mere murder. A small band
of angels has decided to break out of heaven, but they need
a human patsy to make their plan work.
Much of the story is told from the point of view of Bayliss,
a cynical fallen angel who has modelled himself on Philip
Marlowe. The yarn he spins follows the progression of a
Marlowe novel – the mysterious dame who needs his help,
getting grilled by the bulls, finding a stiff, getting slipped a
mickey.
Angels and gunsels, dames with eyes like fire, and a grand
MacGuffin, SOMETHING MORE THAN NIGHT is a
murder mystery for the cosmos.
‘A doozy... Superlatives seem superfluous. Instead... wow. Just –
wow’ – Kirkus
‘Tregillis’ amazing new fantasy thriller is a tour de force: a real
nail-biting page-turner. Set in a post-apocalyptic future, his
cerebral, inventive narrative is a mix of classic gumshoe and
quantum physics/theology... Tregillis solidifies his place as a
brilliant voice in the genre’ – RT Book Reviews
‘Has an offbeat eloquence’ – Locus
‘Glorious to behold...Tregillis doesn’t just command the English
language, he bends it to his will. He shapes sentences and
concepts that have never before been seen... poetic and evocative’
– Tor.com
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Simon Kurt Unsworth
THE DEVIL’S DETECTIVE
Publisher:
Doubleday (US), Del
Rey (UK)
Genre: Dark Fantasy,
Horror, Thriller, Crime
Material: Finished
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‘Original, tense and full of
twists, this is one hell of a
great read’
– Hugh Howey,
Author of Wool
‘A novel that transcends
genre... dark and compelling’
– Michael Marshall
Smith
elcome to Hell... Flayed demons patrol the lakes and
the waves of Limbo wash against the walls, while the
souls of the damned float on the surface, waiting to be
collected.
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omas Fool is an Information Man, one of Hell’s detectives. When an unidentified, brutalised body is discovered, it
falls to Fool to find the culprit. But how do you find a guilty
man in a world where everyone is guilty?
Simon Kurt Unsworth is a British author of supernatural
fiction and horror. His short fiction has appeared in many
anthologies and his story The Church on the Island was
nominated for a World Fantasy Award in 2008. His first
collection was the critically-acclaimed Quiet Houses, which
was longlisted for the Edge Hill prize. T H E D EV IL ' S
DETECTIVE is his first novel.
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Freda Warrington
BLOOD WINE – Series
Publisher: Titan
(UK/US)
Genre: Dark Fantasy,
Horror, Vampires
Material: Finished
copies
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‘A really, really splendid
read... Freda Warrington
is like a cross between
Anne Rice and Kim
Newman – she has the
sweep of one, the cleverness
of the other’
– Starburst
‘A tale which throbs with lush romanticism’ – e Times
n the bloody trenches of the First World War, another
battle - between two rival vampires – is being fought as
Karl von Wultendorf struggles to escape from Kristian, his
tyrannical maker. So begins an epic story of desire, death and
madness that plays out among the turmoil and glamour of
1920s Europe.
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Freda Warrington is a British author best known for her epic
fantasy, vampire and supernatural works. Four of her novels
have been nominated for the British Fantasy Society’s Best
Novel Award. Elfland won the Romantic Times Award for
Best Fantasy Novel in 2009. She lives in Leicestershire.
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Micah Yongo
New for 2015
Lush prose, rich characters, riveting action and a compelling
mystery comb ine in this a ccomplished epic fantasy debut
fter the death of his parents, Nathan follows his uncle
across the Nine Lands to an isolated settlement that is
home to a clandestine group known as the Shedaím. For over
a decade he has trained with a select group of children for a
singular purpose: to kill. Now at the verge of manhood, he
and two friends, Yannick and Arianna, are finally tasked with
a mission.
A
LOST GODS
Genre: Epic fantasy
Material:Unedited manuscript
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Forthcoming: Unitlted
sequel
On their first night away, Nathan wakes to smell blood.
Yannick’s throat has been slit and Arianna is fleeing. In
pursuing his former friend, Nathan unwittingly implicated
himself in the murder, awakening the fury of the Shedaím.
But as other members start winding up dead, Nathan
uncovers a conspiracy with roots stretching to the highest
powers in the land... and learns that his former masters may
be the least of his worries.
Micah Yongo was born and raised in Manchester, where he
still lives, working in social care. When a series of unenviable
jobs culminated with a less than exciting role inputting data
for a debt management service, he started writing, originally
confining his efforts to articles and the odd web copy. On
discovering that his mother’s childhood recitals of old Nigerian
fables had conferred the storytelling gene, he turned his hand
to fiction and his favourite genre, epic fantasy.
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Roger Zelazny
Backlist
Zeno Agency is very proud to represent the estate of Roger Zelazny, one of the most
acclaimed and important voices in Science Fiction and Fantasy. e extensive backlist of this highly prolific author amounts to dozens of titles. In only two years looking after this list, we’ve overseen sales to Russia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Serbia,
Italy, Japan, France, Ukraine, Korea, Estonia, China, Israel and Poland.
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Roger Zelazny
Backlist
‘He was a poet, first, last, always. His words sang’ – George R.R. Martin
Roger Zelazny was born in Ohio, USA in 1937. By the time of his death in 1995,
Roger Zelazny’s awards included three Nebulas (out of 14 nominations), six Hugos
(also 14 nominations), and two Locus Fantasy Awards. He was inducted into the
Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2010.
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