Abaddon Books
CREATURES: THE LEGACY OF FRANKENSTEIN
Released 22 October 2018
A new anthology bringing together five great new and established writers to explore the world of Mary Shelley’s all-time classic, Frankenstein
“My spirit will sleep in peace; or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. Farewell.”
Victor Frankenstein was the first to unlock the key to life, but he would not be the last. Through two centuries of scientific enquiry and relentless advancement, five more minds found the secret, and five more creatures were made.
Five more stories ended in tragedy.
From the 1840s to the modern day, from the race to publish the first anatomy to the desperate search for weapons to win the Second World War, telling the stories of the creatures that never were.
GREEN JAY AND CROW
Released 22 October 2018
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The half-forgotten streets of Barlewin, in the shadow of the High Track, are a good place to hide: among the aliens and couriers, the robots and the doubles, where everyone has secrets.
Like Eva, a 3D-printed copy of another woman, built to be disposable. She should have disintegrated days ago...and she hasn't.
And now her creator wants her back.
DEATH OF A CLONE
Released 4 July 2018
Designed. Manufactured. Expendable...
The overseers may call it Hell, but for Leila and the other clones, the mining base on asteroid Mizushima-00109 is the only home they’ve ever known.
But then Leila’s sister Lily is murdered, and the Overseers seem less interested in solving the crime than in making their mining quota and returning to Earth.Leila decides to find the murderer, just like the heroes of her old detective novels would.
But Hell is a place of terrible secrets, and courage and determination—and a love of mysteries—may not be enough to keep Leila from ending up like her sister.
JUDGES: THE AVALANCHE
Released 4 July 2018
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 2033 A.D.
In a time of widespread poverty, inequality and political unrest, Special Prosecutor Eustace Fargo’s controversial new justice laws have come into effect.
Protests and violence meet the first Judges as they hit the street to enforce the Law; the cure, it’s clear, is far worse than the disease.
Is this a sign of things to come?
Not So Stories
Released 10 April 2018
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Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories was one of the first true children's books in the English language, a timeless classic that continues to delight readers to this day. Beautiful, evocative and playful, the stories of How the Whale Got His Throat or How the First Letter Was Written paint a world of magic and wonder.
It's also deeply rooted in British colonialism. Kipling saw the Empire as a benign, civilising force, in a way that's troubling to modern readers. Not So Stories attempts to redress the balance, bringing together new and established writers of colour from around the world to take the Just So Stories back, to interrogate, challenge and celebrate their legacy.
Including stories by Adiwijaya Iskandar, Joseph E. Cole, Raymond Gates, Stewart Hotston, Zina Hutton, Georgina Kamsika, Cassandra Khaw, Paul Krueger, Tauriq Moosa, Jeannette Ng, Ali Nouraei, Wayne Santos and Zedeck Siew, illustrations by Woodrow Phoenix and an introduction by Nikesh Shukla.
Dracula: Rise of the Beast
Released 13 March 2018
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GENESIS OF A MONSTER
Vlad III Drăcula. A warleader in a warlike time: brilliant, charismatic, pious. But what became of him? What drove him to become a creature of darkness—Bram Stoker’s cruel, ambitious “Un-Dead”—and what use did he make of this power, through the centuries?
More than a hundred years after the monster’s death, the descendants of the survivors piece together the story—dusty old manuscripts, court reports from the Holy Roman Empire at its height, stories of the Szgany Roma who once served the monster—trying to understand. Because the nightmare is far from over...
Five incredible fantasy authors come together to reveal a side to literature’s greatest monster you’ve never seen before.
EXTINCTION BIOME: DISPERSAL
Released 10 November 2017
Alex Miller saved thousands of lives... but he killed thousands to do it. Now stranded on a hostile sea woth countless refugees, he sees the many difficult decisions that need to be made everyday to keep people alive.
Samantha Hernandez has left humanity, becoming an Archean, the new breed that live and breathe the ancient ecology. Now she's having doubts; are they the future of the human race, or the agents of its destruction?
Archaens and humans alike need a plan, if either is to survive. But how to fight back when the Earth itself has become your enemy?
PRAISE FOR ADDISON GUN
"Gunn keeps the pressure on and the tempo up."
Carrie Patel, author of The Buried Life
"A planetary gut-punch."
Weston Ochse, author of The Ombra Trilogy
The Death and Life of Schneider Wrack
Released 8 August 2017
Schneider Wrack was dead. Until he wasn't.
Convicted of a crime he's almost completely sure he didn't commit, executed, reanimated, then pressed into service aboard a vast trawler on the terrible world of Ocean, he was set to spend his afterlife working until his mindless corpse falls apart.
But now he's woken up, trapped in a rotting body, arm-deep in the stinking meat and blubber of a sea monster, and he's not happy. It's time for the dead to rise up.
From the stench and brine of Ocean to the fetid jungle of Grand Amazon, Schneider's career as a revolutionary won't be easy. But sometimes a zombie's gotta do what a zombie's gotta do...
PRAISE FOR NATE CROWLEY
'Genius' - Dara Ó Briain
'Weird and hilarious' - Buzzfeed
'Surreal and occasionally horrifying' - The Daily Dot
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Judge Anderson: Year One
Released 13 June 2017
“YOU READY, ROOKIE?”
In years to come, Cassandra Anderson will be a living legend, Psi-Division’s most famous Judge. But for now it’s 2100, and a young Judge Anderson is fresh out of the Academy, the Eagle still gleaming on her shoulder. It’s time to put her training—and her judgement—to the test.
Tackling a love-obsessed telepathic killer at a Valentine’s Day parade, plunging into the depths of madness in a huge new psychiatric prison, and probing the boundaries of reality itself as she hunts a psychic virus to its roots, Cass will be forged in the fires of Justice, emerging as something extraordinary.
“Exactly what you’d want: smart, fast-moving sci-fi that’s filled with pulpy thrill power.”
Wait, What? Podcast
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The El Sombra Trilogy
Released 12 January 2017
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The greatest story ever told!
In the quiet Mexican town of Pasito, the future is born. A man dies; a fool and braggart, best forgotten. In his stead, a legend arises: the man in the bloodstained mask, the Saint of Ghosts. El Sombra!
Yearning for justice against the Nazis that plundered his home, El Sombra will cut a swath across the world. He will hunt his enemy to the streets of Manhattan – home of the mighty Doc Thunder, the terrible Blood Spider, and all the monsters and gods who fight beside them – and finally into the heart of the Ultimate Reich itself!
Thrill at the legend! Follow a story as vast as the whole world, from the beginning of the human race to the end of the time itself!
He defies man! He defies death! Nothing can stop him! VIVA EL SOMBRA!
Collecting the three novels: El Sombra, Gods of Manhattan and Pax Omega
ISBN (Mobi): 9781786180575
ISBN (Epub): 9781786180575
ISBN (Print): 9781781084991
