Spoils of War (Tales of the Apt Book 1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky (best young adult book series .txt) 📕

a legal executive in both Reading and Leeds, where he now lives. Married, he is a keen live role-player and has trained in stage-fighting and historical combat. He maintains a keen interest in history and the biological sciences especially entomology.

Adrian is the author of the acclaimed ten-book Shadows of the Apt series starting with Empire in Black and Gold published by Tor UK. His other works for Tor UK include standalone novels Guns of the Dawn and Children of Time and the new series Echoes of the Fall starting with The Tiger and the Wolf. Other major works include short story collection Feast and Famine for Newcon Press and novellas The Bloody Deluge (in Journal of the Plague Year) and Even in the Cannon’s Mouth (in Monstrous Little Voices) for Abaddon. He has also written numerous short stories and been shortlisted for the David Gemmell Legend Award, the British Fantasy Award and the Arthur C Clarke Award.

Coming Soon from NewCon Press

Volume 2

A Time of Grief

Cover art by Jon Sullivan

Introduction

Loyalty

Bones

Queen of the Night

Fallen Heroes

The Price of Salt

The Naturalist

The Last Ironclad

Alicaea’s Children

A Time for Grief

The Peacemongers

Continuing the spectaccularcompanion series to the best-selling Shadows of the Apt.

Praise for the Shadows of the Apt books:

“The whole Shadows of the Apt series has been one of the most original creations in modern fantasy” – Upcoming4.me

“A page-turning ride to its superb finale” – FantasyBookCritic

“Tchaikovsky makes a good and enjoyable mix between a medieval looking world and the presence of technology” – Starburst Magazine

Due September 2016

Now We Are Ten

Celebrating the first Ten Years of NewCon Press

With sixteen original stories written especially for this book

Cover art by Ben Baldwin

Contents:

Introduction by Ian Whates

The Final Path – Genevieve Cogman

Women’s Christmas – Ian McDonald

Pyramid – Nancy Kress

Liberty Bird – Jaine Fenn

Zanzara Island – Rachel Armstrong

Ten Sisters – Eric Brown

Licorice – Jack Skillingstead

The Time Travellers’ Ball (A Story in Ten Words) – Rose Biggin

Dress Rehearsal – Adrian Tchaikovsky

The Tenth Man – Bryony Pearce

Rare as a Harpy’s Tear – Neil Williamson

How to Grow Silence from Seed – Tricia Sullivan

Utopia +10 – JA Christy

Ten Love Songs to Change the World – Peter F Hamilton

Ten Days – Nina Allan

Front Row Seat to the End of the World – EJ Swift

Available as a signed limited edition hardback, paperback,

and eBook

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Crises and Conflicts

Celebrating the first Ten Years of NewCon Press

The Sister Volume to

Now We Are Ten

Cover art by Chris Moore

Fifteen tales of space opera and military science fiction from:

Nik Abnett * Amy DuBoff * Michael Brookes

Janet Edwards * Una McCormack * Christopher Nuttall

Mercurio D. Rivera * Adam Roberts * Robert Sharp

Gavin Smith * Allen Stroud * Tim C. Taylor

Tade Thompson * Ian Whates * Jo Zebedee

Available now as a signed limited edition hardback, paperback, and eBook.

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