Gollancz Binary

Series · 4 books · 1998-2001

By Stephen Baxter, Michael Marshall Smith, Ken MacLeod, and more

Books in series

Binary 2

Michael Marshall Smith - The Vaccinator: Kim Newman - Andy Warhol's Dracula

1998

THE VACCINATOR by the Award-winning author of SPARES. A hilarious SF/noir satire. A hitman, a scam and a group of aliens on the make in Florida. ANDY WARHOL'S DRACULA by the award winning author of ANNO DRACULA. Part of Newman's stunning alternate history Vampire epic this takes a vampire out of the shadows and into the self-regarding glare of a 1970's New York peopled by characters from films and real life.

Watching Trees Grow

2000

— Edward, nous avons un sacre probleme sur les bras. — Ou? — Ici, en ville, aussi incroyable que cela paraisse. Une nouvelle des plus deplaisantes... Un etudiant est mort. Assassine, selon la police... J’oubliai mon agacement, soudain tout a fait reveille. Le meurtre, un concept aussi difficile a concevoir que terrifiant a affronter... Quel sauvage preimperial avait pu faire ca a un etre humain ?

Making History & Reality Dust

2000

A brand new short novel, lavishly praised by Greg Bear, from the internationally bestselling author of THE TIME SHIPS; an epic story of a far future war that shows Baxter at the top of his game. Paired with MAKING HISTORY, a new short novel from the Arthur C. Clarke award-winning Paul McAuley.

The Human Front & A Writer's Life

2001

This is a "binary" or "double" combining MacLeod's "The Human Front" with Brown's "A Writer's Life". "The Human Front" is a sparkling SF alternate history story set in world that has been fighting WWIII since 1949. Leading a guerilla campaign against the Western Forces is the heroic, myhtic figure of Joe Stalin. And above the battlefields flying saucers fill the skies.

Authors

Stephen Baxter

Author · 71 books

Stephen Baxter is a trained engineer with degrees from Cambridge (mathematics) and Southampton Universities (doctorate in aeroengineering research). Baxter is the winner of the British Science Fiction Award and the Locus Award, as well as being a nominee for an Arthur C. Clarke Award, most recently for Manifold: Time. His novel Voyage won the Sidewise Award for Best Alternate History Novel of the Year; he also won the John W. Campbell Award and the Philip K. Dick Award for his novel The Time Ships. He is currently working on his next novel, a collaboration with Sir Arthur C. Clarke. Mr. Baxter lives in Prestwood, England.

Michael Marshall Smith

Author · 20 books

Michael Marshall (Smith) is a bestselling novelist and screenwriter. His first novel, ONLY FORWARD, won the August Derleth and Philip K. Dick awards. SPARES and ONE OF US were optioned for film by DreamWorks and Warner Brothers, and the Straw Men trilogy - THE STRAW MEN, THE LONELY DEAD and BLOOD OF ANGELS - were international bestsellers. His most recent novels are THE INTRUDERS, BAD THINGS and KILLER MOVE. He is a four-time winner of the BFS Award for short fiction, and his stories are collected in two volumes - WHAT YOU MAKE IT and MORE TOMORROW AND OTHER STORIES (which won the International Horror Guild Award). He lives in Santa Cruz, California with his wife and son.

Ken MacLeod

Author · 30 books

Ken MacLeod is an award-winning Scottish science fiction writer. His novels have won the Prometheus Award and the BSFA award, and been nominated for the Hugo and Nebula Awards. He lives near Edinburgh, Scotland. MacLeod graduated from Glasgow University with a degree in zoology and has worked as a computer programmer and written a masters thesis on biomechanics. His novels often explore socialist, communist and anarchist political ideas, most particularly the variants of Trotskyism and anarcho-capitalism or extreme economic libertarianism. Technical themes encompass singularities, divergent human cultural evolution and post-human cyborg-resurrection.

Peter F. Hamilton

Author · 53 books

Peter F. Hamilton is a British science fiction author. He is best known for writing space opera. As of the publication of his tenth novel in 2004, his works had sold over two million copies worldwide, making him Britain's biggest-selling science fiction author.