Brighton Science Fiction Book Club

A new standalone sci-fi novel from Edward Ashton, author of Mickey7 (the inspiration for the major motion picture Mickey 17).

Dalton Greaves is a hero. He’s one of humankind’s first representatives to Unity, a pan-species confederation working to bring all sentient life into a single benevolent brotherhood. That’s what they told him, anyway.....

Part first contact story, part dark comedy, and part bizarre love triangle, The Fourth Consort asks an important how far would you go to survive? And more importantly, how many drinks would you need to go there?

William Gibson’s first published novel is set in a gritty near-future dystopia and follows Case, a computer hacker who gets pulled into a dangerous, high-stakes heist. He’s recruited by a powerful artificial intelligence and a traumatised former soldier, throwing him into a world of shady deals and digital danger. Often described as a foundational cyberpunk novel, critics still debate whether it kick-started the genre or simply arrived at the perfect moment. Either way, it made history as the first and only novel to win the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the Philip K. Dick Award. It’s now widely seen as a cyberpunk classic and was even named one of Time magazine’s All-Time 100 Novels in 2005.

Brighton library has physcial, audio and ebook copies. (Amazon has a "Neuromancer Trilogy Collection 4 Books Set"...umm).

A Talent for War is a science fiction mystery novel by American writer Jack McDevitt,[1] the story of a search by Alex Benedict, the protagonist, to discover the nature of a mysterious project Alex's uncle had been working on when the interstellar passenger ship, on which his uncle was a passenger, was lost in space. This investigation leads deep into the history of a war between human civilization and a neighboring alien civilization and challenges the foundation mythos of the current human government.

The first three books in the series are currently 99p on kindle and kobo.