British Sci Fi

How cold is cold? How deep is despair? At what temperature does your heart finally… shatter? Minus. Two. Hundred. Degrees. Cryonics. The practice of freezing the human body in the hope of bringing it back to life. It’s a voluntary procedure. Usually. Stefan Anderson thought selling immortality for Scarrax BioCryptz would be a scream. He was right. Just not in the way he expected. When a client dies after a car crash, the freezing process doesn’t go quite to plan. Stefan’s about to discover a horrifying truth. The cold, hard way. Bodyfreeze invites you on a gripping journey through a...

The Messiah is back… and he’s not thrilled about it. Jesus 2.0 just woke up in Manhattan—with a craving for pizza, a vague sense of doom, and zero enthusiasm for saving the world. He swears, drinks beer, questions everything, and would really prefer not to fulfill a prophecy no one remembers writing. But time is running out, the angels are unionizing, and the end of days is ahead of schedule. If you enjoy: Satirical fiction with bite Dark comedy in the spirit of Good Omens or Lamb Twisted takes on religion, redemption, and divine bureaucracy Then The Reluctant Jesus is your next ...

RAF tail gunner Harry Wakefield should have died in 1944. Trapped in a flaming bomber over Nazi Germany, he jumped without a parachute—and walked away without a scratch. Twenty years later, an earthquake shakes his remote mountain farm. Harry is convinced a plane has gone down—but what he finds up on the peak isn't a plane. It's something far more advanced. And not of this world. As shadowy government agents move in to bury the truth, Harry is faced with a stark choice.

Corruption, violence and death stalk New Oxford. When Penal Marine X is deployed in a second-hand clone with broken ribs and head-to-toe bruises, he knows something is amiss. Gang warfare ravages Brasenose, capital of the remote colony planet, New Oxford. The police are overwhelmed, leaning on the small Marine company for support. Ten’s new colleagues don’t trust him. His commanding officer doesn’t want him on the planet. And all around him there is a sense of corruption. His suspicions are confirmed when a British intelligence officer makes contact to inform him he’s been seconded ...

Winner of Literary Titan 'Gold Award' Winner of Reader Ready Award 2025 'Top Pick' Dying was just the start of his problems... David Harris was murdered—shot in the head after unveiling INCARNEX, a compound that defies death. Eight years later, he wakes up in a new body, resurrected by the very creation that cost him everything. But INCARNEX is failing. Every revived person, including David, is on borrowed time. As society teeters on collapse, he has one chance to fix his mistake—before millions, himself included, shut down for good. Hunted by a ruthless CEO, underground rebels, and the...

The Ministry has always been part of our world, operating in the moral grey area of radical thought and revolutionary technology. It works to prevent intellectual contagion in an era where a dangerous thought can spread across the globe faster than a pandemic, and more virulently. Jacob Trials is one of their star agents, a man who has carried out actions both heroic and villainous, both necessary and brutal. He has given over his very body to the cause, with machinery that he barely understands adapting and enhancing him. When an unknown group starts hunting him with a viciousness he can ...

In this World War One alternate history novel by Jason Lambright, Private Bill Strohmeier, a light machine gunner in the 7th King’s Ohio Rifles Battalion, fights to save himself and his friends in the muck and blood of the deadly trenches of France and Belgium. Every day could be his last. Each bullet could have his name on it. As the heavens roar and the ground heaves with high explosives, can Bill and others in the 7th Ohio Rifles live and hold out against the Kaiser’s best? Does Bill survive this walk in hell?

Five hundred years from its launch, the colony vessel Lovelock is deep into its sub lightspeed journey, carrying four thousand humans in search of a habitable planet. When a series of explosions tear the ship apart, it is forced to land on the nearest possible location: a polar section of the Helix—a vast, spiral construct of worlds, wound about a G-type sun.

The dead are coming alive on an island in the North Atlantic Ocean. A bullet isn’t going to stop them. They feel no pain. Flesh-eating walkers have been taking sheep and cattle from the fields. A minor inconvenience until someone, or something, starts to organize them. A force of pure evil, building an army of undead offspring, planning the end of mankind. Only the ninjas are suitably skilled to identify the undead, understand them and cut off their heads. So few against so many. Will the human race survive? Featuring Ruby Barnes, John Baptist and D.I. Andy McAuliffe.

More than 50 years after publishing his first story, Hugo Award-winning author Asimov remains one of the great names in science fiction. Almost single-handedly he transformed the field from the romantic and Gothic legacy of Jules Verne and Edgar Rice Burroughs into the rational, clear-minded genre that exists today. This selection of some of Asimov's most enduring and unforgettable stories is read by the author himself. These vintage tales encompass the full range of Asimov's versatility, while displaying his puckish sense of humor.

How far would you go to make your dreams come true? On Hal Spacejock's home planet, efficient and highly intelligent robots have taken most of the jobs. Hal's one of the lucky ones, because he works as a cargo loader at a third-rate spaceport. Lucky perhaps, but not satisfied. Because instead of loading freighters, Hal wants to fly them, exploring the galaxy in his very own ship. But how can he possibly save for a spaceship? Hal can barely make rent, and he's hanging onto his job by his fingernails. It all seems like an impossible dream, until Hal intervenes in a one-sided fight in the ...

Hal and Clunk answer a distress call, only to discover a fellow pilot stranded deep inside an asteroid field. Clunk is busy at the controls, dodging incoming rocks, so Hal dons a spacesuit, takes the jetbike and sets off on a heroic rescue mission. If he'd only known the trouble he was getting himself into, he wouldn't have bothered...

The ninjas have escaped from the undead army, but at a heavy cost. Mount Leinster has become a killing ground; thousands lie shattered in the foothills. John Baptist and de Nazarene will march again to eradicate the humans. It is time to leave. All that the ninjas knew and loved is destroyed. Is there a safe haven on this Earth? Is this the end for the human race?

Captain Warden and Lance Corporal Goodwin are the space marines with the hard job. They have to infiltrate a Deathless base, identify and capture a senior officer and extract him from under the nose of his soldiers, preferably without dying in the process. They’re relying on Ten to watch their backs, but when he is accosted by the denizens of the jungle he’s yomping through, he has to make a tough choice between speed and humanity.

Death is sweeping the land, sinking its poison teeth into the flesh of the living. Female undead are bearing young, a new clone species that will threaten humanity. A mystical leader is breeding a hybrid army of mutant clones and undead. The ninjas must cleanse the land of abomination, but they are too few. Will good triumph over evil? Will the human race survive? Featuring Ruby Barnes, John Baptist and D.I. Andy McAuliffe.

A feel-good zombie story with a happy ending? You're kidding, right? No, that would be British Zombie Breakout Parts One to Four Omnibus Edition. The sleepy little fishing village of Kilkorne escaped the scourge of the killer virus that turned most of the population of the south west of England into a zombie-ridden graveyard. Things went quiet after the first wave of zombies were rounded up, while the laboratory which spawned them sought a cure and a method of detecting a newly infected host. Before the vaccine was found, the zombies broke out again. They headed straight for the coast – ...

Hal and Clunk have an exciting new job. They must land their 200-ton cargo ship beside a remote, abandoned house and carry the contents to safety. Problem is, floodwaters are rising and there's very little time. Then they discover the ground isn't very stable. In fact, the landscape is about as firm as one of Hal's delivery dates. So, it's not long before Hal and Clunk aren't so much on the job... as underneath it.

A broken-down fugitive with nothing to lose, an arms dealer hiding a deadly secret and an elderly robot set to inherit a vast fortune... it's a typical cargo job for freighter pilot Hal Spacejock and his offsider, Clunk. Baker's Dough features intense rivalry, sublime double-crosses and more greed than a free buffet.

Hal and Clunk have been hired to transport artworks for a travelling exhibition. These pieces are valuable and fragile, which is strike one. The artist is highly-strung individual who takes an instant dislike to Hal, which is strike two. And Hal is determined to make a quick buck on the side, which is never going to end well. Strike three! The only question is... which will last longer, Hal or the artworks?

When a spate of savage murders shrouds London's Hampstead Heath in mystery, the clues point towards a perpetrator beyond the realm of the human. The inexplicable DNA discovered at the crime scenes defies the boundaries of modern science, thrusting Paul Triger, the esteemed leader of the Ministry of Defence's enigmatic Section 'S', into a labyrinth of intrigue. Tasked with this daunting investigation, Triger, along with the formidable forces of MI5 and MI6, delves deep into a conspiracy that snakes through the very heart of Britain's political and societal fabric, threatening to unravel the ...