More BIAJ releases.
First up is
Escape from Hell! by Hal Duncan.
Hal Duncan is a Scottish author of science fiction and fantasy. His first novel, Vellum, was nominated for the World Fantasy Award and went on to win the Spectrum and Tähtivaeltaja Awards. It has since been translated into half a dozen languages. It was followed by a sequel, Ink, shortlisted for the 2011 Tähtivaeltaja Award.
He has published numerous short stories, several of which have been anthologised, including The New Weird, edited by Jeff and Ann Vandermeer, and Paper Cities, edited by Ekaterina Sedia, as well as two poetry collections, Sonnets for Orpheus and The Lucifer Cantos. A further volume, Songs for the Devil and Death, collected a number of poems from each of the prior collections.
"A hitman, a hooker, a homosexual kid, and a hobo suicide make the ultimate prison break...escape from Hell itself! But when news of their attempted escape gets out, the souls of the damned are transformed into a rioting mob, and all Hell truly does break loose. It's Escape from New York meets Jacob's Ladder, by one of fantasy's rising stars."
This forty-thousand word novella is the first in an intended trilogy. The sequels will be titled Assault! On Heaven! and Battle! For the Planet! Of the Dead!
REVIEWS
'...a gripping and stylish read from one of the most talented new fantasy writers to emerge in a long time.' THE GUARDIAN
Second is
The Unusual Genitals Party and Other Stories, a collection of short fiction and articles by the inimitable Fergus Bannon. Some of you may have noted Blue Tyson posting about this recently in Deals etc. when it was briefly free to download on Amazon.
Six stories and two essays by the author of Judgement.
A race of intelligent microbes that leave one last message before becoming extinct; A student party gatecrashed by an alien symbiote; A gangster who finds there's nothing quite so profitable as the near-future world of academie; A man who commits a suicide so perfect, even God can't save him; A battle between two astronauts sent on a suicide mission to save the world.
Also included is the classic non-fiction essay Everything You Never Wanted To Know About Neurosurgery Because You Were Too Well-Adjusted to Ask.
And lastly, and most recently, the sixth BIAJ release
With Time Comes Concord, by Duncan Lunan, a collection of two novellas and several short stories, including the nebula-nominated title story first published in Asimov's.
Four linked novellas and several short stories all dealing with time travel, by the author of the bestselling non-fiction book Man and the Planets. The two novellas were first published in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine and Analog, and this is the first time they have appeared since then.
Duncan Lunan became a full-time author in 1970, initially writing science fiction, but now also undertakes a wide range of other writing and speaking as a researcher, tutor, critic, editor, lecturer and broadcaster.
His earlier publications include three nonfiction books, contributions to 20 other books, over 700 articles and thirty short stories, including a number of science articles for Analog magazine. In 1989 he edited “Starfield: science fiction by Scottish writers”, the first ever anthology of SF and fantasy by Scots, and as manager of the Glasgow Parks Dept. Astronomy Project, 1978-79, Duncan designed and built the first astronomically aligned stone circle in Britain for over 3000 years.
And that's it! All except for Escape from Hell! are priced at about £1.99/$2.99, are available internationally, and have no DRM.