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]]> Mon, 20 Dec 2010 20:55:59 +0200 Distant Galaxies Colliding https://fiction.library.land/gareth-l-powell/708002-distant_galaxies_colliding.html https://fiction.library.land/gareth-l-powell/708002-distant_galaxies_colliding.html

]]> Mon, 20 Dec 2010 20:55:58 +0200 Six Lights off Green Scar https://fiction.library.land/gareth-l-powell/708001-six_lights_off_green_scar.html https://fiction.library.land/gareth-l-powell/708001-six_lights_off_green_scar.html

]]> Mon, 20 Dec 2010 20:55:57 +0200 Future's Edge https://fiction.library.land/gareth-l-powell/714962-futures_edge.html https://fiction.library.land/gareth-l-powell/714962-futures_edge.html

A gripping and heartfelt horror-tinged space adventure from the BSFA award-winning author of Stars and Bones and Embers of War. Readers of James S.A. Corey and Becky Chambers will love this fast-paced story of space piracy, deadly alien artifacts and a race to save what is left of humanity.
When archaeologist Ursula Morrow accidentally infects herself with an alien parasite, she fears she may have jeopardised her career. However, her concerns become irrelevant when Earth is destroyed, billions die, and suddenly no one needs archaeologists anymore…
Two years later, she’s plucked from a refugee camp on a backwater world and tasked with retrieving the artefact that infected her, as it just might hold the key to humanity’s survival. With time running short, and the planet housing the weapon now situated in hostile territory, she realises she’s going to have to commit an act of desperate piracy if she’s going to achieve her objective before...]]> Wed, 26 Nov 2025 17:02:02 +0200 Light of Impossible Stars https://fiction.library.land/gareth-l-powell/542359-light_of_impossible_stars.html https://fiction.library.land/gareth-l-powell/542359-light_of_impossible_stars.html

Award-winning author Gareth L. Powell delivers an explosive conclusion to his epic Embers of War trilogy.
Low on fuel and hunted by the Fleet of Knives, the sentient warship Trouble Dog follows a series of clues that lead her to the Intrusion—an area of space where reality itself becomes unstable. But with human civilisation crumbling, what difference can one battered old ship have against an invincible armada?
Meanwhile, Cordelia Pa and her step-brother eke out their existence salvaging artefacts from an alien city. But when Cordelia starts hearing the city's song in her head, strange things start happening around her. What extraordinary affinity does she have for this abandoned technology, and how can it possibly help the Trouble Dog?
Award-winning author Gareth L. Powell delivers an explosive conclusion to his epic Embers of War trilogy.]]> Wed, 06 May 2020 12:42:57 +0300 Who Will You Save? https://fiction.library.land/gareth-l-powell/720259-who_will_you_save_.html https://fiction.library.land/gareth-l-powell/720259-who_will_you_save_.html

Action-packed and thought-provoking stories ranging across the dead sands of Mars to the backstreets of Buenos Aires, from the febrile mind of BSFA Award-winning author Gareth L. Powell.32 stories featuring the author's most celebrated tales alongside all new material, a thrilling experience for established fans and new readers alike.Ranging from the dead sands of Mars to the half-flooded remnants of Amsterdam, from the seedy backstreets of Buenos Aires to the gravity well of a singularity, these action-packed tales explore mind-bending ideas through the eyes of unforgettable and all-too-human characters.As their lives implode around them, will they use the moment to save their own skins, or to find a way to make up for past misdeeds?Who will they save?Who would you save?This entertaining and thought-provoking collection features work drawn from Powell's twenty-year career as a writer, his best-loved stories, and previously unpublished material revisiting the expansive...]]> Fri, 12 Dec 2025 13:46:20 +0200 Stars and Bones https://fiction.library.land/gareth-l-powell/609823-stars_and_bones.html https://fiction.library.land/gareth-l-powell/609823-stars_and_bones.html

A stunningly inventive action-packed science-fiction epic adventure for fans of Becky Chambers and Ann Leckie from the multi BSFA award-winner, Gareth L. Powell.

Seventy-five years from today, the human race has been cast from a dying Earth to wander the stars in a vast fleet of arks—each shaped by its inhabitants into a diverse and fascinating new environment, with its own rules and eccentricities.

When her sister disappears while responding to a mysterious alien distress call, Eryn insists on being part of the crew sent to look for her. What she discovers on Candidate-623 is both terrifying and deadly. When the threat follows her back to the fleet and people start dying, she is tasked with seeking out a legendary recluse who may just hold the key to humanity’s survival.

Gareth L. Powell’s Embers of War won 2018 BSFA Award for Best Novel and was shortlisted for the 2019 Locus Awards and the 2021 Seiun...]]> Mon, 04 Apr 2022 09:52:18 +0300 Fleet of Knives https://fiction.library.land/gareth-l-powell/467146-fleet_of_knives.html https://fiction.library.land/gareth-l-powell/467146-fleet_of_knives.html

From award-winning author Gareth L. Powell, the second book in the critically acclaimed Embers of War space opera series.
The former warship Trouble Dog and her crew of misfits is called upon by the House of Reclamation to investigate a distress call from the human starship the Lucy's Ghost. Her crew abandon their crippled ship and seek refuge abroad an abandoned, slower-than-light generation ship launched ten thousand years before by an alien race. However, the enormous ship contains deadly secrets of its own.
Recovered war criminal, Ona Sudak, faces a firing squad for her actions in the Archipelago War. But, at the last moment, she is smuggled out of her high security prison. The Marble Armada has called for her to accompany its ships as observer and liaison, as it spreads itself across the human Generality, enforcing the peace at all costs. The alien ships will not tolerate resistance, and all dissenters are met with overwhelming and implacable force. Then...]]> Thu, 14 Nov 2019 13:36:05 +0200 Descendant Machine https://fiction.library.land/gareth-l-powell/647606-descendant_machine.html https://fiction.library.land/gareth-l-powell/647606-descendant_machine.html

From the award-winning author comes a gripping, fast-paced and fascinating science fiction adventure. Vividly imagined and sharply written, fans of Ann Leckie and Becky Chambers will be engrossed.
When Nicola Mafalda’s scout ship comes under attack, she’s left deeply traumatised by the drastic action it takes to keep her alive. Months later, when an old flame comes to her for help, she realises she has to find a way to forgive both the ship and her former lover. Reckless elements are attempting to reactivate a giant machine that has lain dormant for thousands of years. To stop them, Nicola and her crew will have to put aside their differences, sneak aboard a vast alien megaship, and try to stay alive long enough to prevent galactic devastation.]]> Fri, 26 May 2023 08:21:53 +0300 Ragged Alice https://fiction.library.land/gareth-l-powell/478115-ragged_alice.html https://fiction.library.land/gareth-l-powell/478115-ragged_alice.html

In Gareth L. Powell's Ragged Alice a detective in a small Welsh town can literally see the evil in people's souls.Orphaned at an early age, DCI Holly Craig grew up in the small Welsh coastal town of Pontyrhudd. As soon as she was old enough, she ran away to London and joined the police. Now, fifteen years later, she's back in her old hometown to investigate what seems at first to be a simple hit-and-run, but which soon escalates into something far deadlier and unexpectedly personal—something that will take all of her peculiar talents to solve.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.]]> Thu, 15 Nov 2018 16:10:12 +0200 Ack-Ack Macaque https://fiction.library.land/gareth-l-powell/207852-ack-ack_macaque.html https://fiction.library.land/gareth-l-powell/207852-ack-ack_macaque.html

]]> Wed, 16 Nov 2016 04:03:24 +0200 The Recollection https://fiction.library.land/gareth-l-powell/221361-the_recollection.html https://fiction.library.land/gareth-l-powell/221361-the_recollection.html

]]> Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:09:15 +0200 Macaque Attack! https://fiction.library.land/gareth-l-powell/221360-macaque_attack.html https://fiction.library.land/gareth-l-powell/221360-macaque_attack.html

The Spitfire pilot monkey Ack-Ack Macaque faces a world on the brink in this adventure, the conclusion to his astonishing, award-winning trilogy. In the thrilling conclusion of the Macaque Trilogy, the dangerous but charismatic Ack-Ack Macaque finds himself leading a dimension-hopping army of angry monkeys, facing an invading horde of implacable killer androids, and confronting the one challenge for which he was never prepared: impending fatherhood! Meanwhile, former journalist Victoria Valois fights to save the electronic ghost of her dead husband and reclaim his stolen soul from the sands of Mars.**

]]> Sat, 16 Nov 2013 23:09:14 +0200 Embers of War https://fiction.library.land/gareth-l-powell/211771-embers_of_war.html https://fiction.library.land/gareth-l-powell/211771-embers_of_war.html

The warship Trouble Dog was build and bred for calculating violence, yet following a brutal war, she finds herself disgusted by conflict and her role in a possible war crime. Seeking to atone, she joins the House of Reclamation, an organisation dedicated to rescuing ships in distress. But, stripped of her weaponry and emptied of her officers, she struggles in the new role she's chosen for herself. When a ship goes missing in a disputed system, Trouble Dog and her new crew of misfits and loners, captained by Sal Konstanz, an ex-captain of a medical frigate who once fought against Trouble Dog, are assigned to investigate and save whoever they can.
Meanwhile, light years away, intelligence officer Ashton Childe is tasked with locating and saving the poet, Ona Sudak, who was aboard the missing ship, whatever the cost. In order to do this, he must reach out to the only person he considers a friend, even if he's not sure she can be trusted. What Childe doesn't know is that Sudak is...]]> Sun, 16 Nov 2008 08:15:23 +0200