Justina Robson

Lila Black returns in the fourth volume of high-octane, high-magic, high-tech adventures. For ten years now mankind has lived in Otopia - our world, but our world changed. Ever since the Quantum Bomb our dimension and realms of faerie, demonia, of the elementals and of death have been intermingled. We live alongside creatures from our myths, dreams and nightmares. Lila Black, half-robot, all attitude works for Otopia''s secret service. In love with a half-elf, half demon, and carrying the spirit of another elf inside her, her life is quite complicated enough already. But other complications, other loves, other fears, other deaths wait just around the next dimensional corner. This is bright, fast moving and accessible SF that mixes in fantasy and a cool cult-lit sensibility to create a series that will appeal to all fans of Laurrell K. Hamilton and Peter Hamilton alike.

Lila Black is going to Hell. Ever since the Quantum Bomb of 2015 things have been different; the dimensions have fused and suddenly our world is accessible to elves, demons, ghosts and elementals ... and their worlds are open to us. Special Agent Lila Black has been different too: tortured and magic-scarred by elves, re-built by humans into a half-robot, part-AI, nuclear-fuelled walking arsenal, and carrying the essence of a dead elven necromancer in her chest, sometimes she has trouble figuring out who she really is. And thats without mentioning that her boyfriends a half-elf, half-demon international rock-star.So a mission to Hell isnt exactly what she needs.The heart of art, of pleasure, sensuality and politics, Demonia is glorious and terrible. And, an assassination attempt, three marriage proposals and one ruined dress after her arrival, it seems Demonia might be more complicated than Lila thought ...Justina Robson¿s superb new series combines her trademark themes of the nature of identity and reality, magic and technology, with a break-neck plot, a mischievous sense of fun and a seriously sexy new heroine.

Justina Robson (acclaimed author of NATURAL HISTORY, LIVING NEXT DOOR TO THE GOD OF LOVE and the QUANTUM GRAVITY series) is back with a cutting edge novel of science, adventure and ideas.On a world where science and magic are hard to tell apart a stranger arrives in a remote town with news of political turmoil to come. And a young woman learns that she must free herself from the role she has accepted.Always vivid, always full of stunning ideas and imagery, Justina Robson is the Clarke Award-winning author of some of our most exciting, yet philosophical SF. A new novel from her is a major event in the SF calendar.

This groundbreaking new novel from one of the genres most respected authors is a thrilling mix of science, magic and politics.In Harmony, only model citizens are welcome.A perfect society must be maintained. The defective must be eradicated. For orphans like Nico and Twostar, this means a life thats brutal, regulated and short. But Nico and Twostar are survivors, and when theyre offered a way out of the slums, they take it. Unfortunately, no one told Nico the deal included being sentenced to death for the murder of one of Harmonys most notorious gang leaders.Or that to gain his freedom, first he must lose his mind.

A daring and original new novel from one of sci fis most provocative voices, Natural History is a stunning work of bold ideas, unforgettable characters, and epic adventure as one woman seeks to explore what may be the greatest mystery of all. . . . Idiosyncratic and unpredictable . . . a novelist of real vision.Zadie Smith, author of White Teeth Half-human, half-machine, Voyager Isol was as beautiful as a coiled scorpionand just as dangerous. Her claim that shed found a distant but habitable earthlike planet was welcome news to the rest of the Forged. But it could mean the end of what was left of the humanity whod created and once enslaved them. It was on behalf of the unevolved humans that Professor Zephyr Duquesne, cultural archaeologist and historian of Earths lost worlds, was chosen by the Gaiasol military authority to uncover the truth about this second earth. And her voyage, traveling inside the body of Isol, will take her to the center of a storm exploding across a spectrum of space and time, dimension and consciousness. On an abandoned planet, in a wrinkle of time, Isol and Zephyr will find a gift and a curse: a power so vast that once unlocked, it will change the universe forever. With civil war looming, Zephyrs perilous journey will lead her to a past where one civilization mysteriously vanished . . . and another may soon follow.[Robsons] strongest novel yet, reminiscent of Moorcock, Banks, M. John Harrison, and MacLeod . . . and should assure her position as being one of the most exciting genre writers at this present time.SFRevu

Where do you run when a world is out to get you?AIs, Forged beings, superheroes, angels, and worlds that change in the blink of an eyehere is a richly imagined tale of ordinary redemption in an extraordinary world from one of the most provocative writers working today. . . . Francine is a young runaway looking to find a definition of love she can trust. In Sankhara, she finds a palace where rooms are made of bone, flowers, and the hearts of heroes. She finds a scientist mapping the territory of the human mind. She finds a boyfriend. And she finds Eros itselfincarnated in the androgynously irresistible form of Jalaeka. But not everyone is in love with the god of love. Unity, for one, wants to assimilate Jalaeka along with every other soul in the universe. And contrary to what everyone always believes, love alone cant save the day. It will take something both more and less powerful than the human heart to save the worlds upon worlds at risk when gods collide. For Robson, world-building is a literary device like any other, useful for exposing buried fears and desires to the light of day, no matter how strange the sun.New York Times Book Review

"Idiosincrásica e impredecible... Una novelista con auténtica visión."Zadie Smith, autora de Dientes blancosUna rebelión contra la tiranía de la forma y la función.En el futuro, la manipulación genética y la nanotecnologia han conseguido crear todo un abanico de subespecies humanas cuyas formas estan adaptadas a sus funciones: desde cargueros espaciales hasta plataformas terraformadoras, pasando por mineros de asteroides y aviones. Los forjados, como se los conoce, pasan su infancia en el universo virtual de Uluru, y al madurar son decantados en sus cuerpos definitivos, con personalidades orientadas a cumplir sus tareas. Es un sistema efectivo que ha permitido colonizar el sistema solar, pero comienzan a surgir tensiones entre los humanos no evolucionados, que detentan el poder, y los forjados, esteriles y esclavizados por su forma. Cuando una exploradora del espacio profundo encuentra una muestra de tecnologia alienigena y consigue acceder a un planeta colonizable, estalla el conflicto entre los partidarios de la coexistencia y los que desean la independencia y la libertad.Justina Robson explora en Historia natural las consecuencias de la posible evolucion posthumana, y de como el construir seres humanos mas perfectos puede lesionar irreparablemente los valores mas altos."Historia natural es su novela mas potente, con toques de Moorcock, Banks, M.John Harrison y MacLeod, y estoy seguro de que la situara como uno de los escritores de ciencia-ficcion mas emocionantes de la actualidad."SFRevu"Robson dibuja con brillantez y claridad, distrayendo nuestra atencion de su tecnica y fijandola en el vibrante enjambre de posibilidades que se abren a la vida."Locus"El mejor libro de su carrera... Especialmente recomendado para todos los aficionados a la ciencia-ficcion mas puntera."Publishing News

Lila Black faces her greatest challange yet as she takes herself, her dead lover and the AI in her head into deaths realm.The Quantum Gravity series, set in a world where our reality mixes with other dimensions that are the homes to Faeries, elementals and demons, is unique in modern SF - a series that is willing to incorporate legend, myth and magic while maintaining a rigorous approach to scientific and pyschological reality.And in Lila Black Justina Robson has created an enduringly strong yet quirkily human and flawed heroine.

The Quantum Bomb of 2015 changed everything. The fabric that kept the universes different dimensions apart was torn and now, six years later, the people of earth exist in uneasy company with the inhabitants of, amongst others, the elven, elemental and demonic realms. Magic is real and can be even more dangerous than technology. Elves are exotic, erotic, dangerous and really bored with the constant Lord of the Rings references. Elementals are a law unto themselves and demons are best left well to themselves.Special agent Lila Black used to be pretty but now shes not so sure. Her body is now more than half restless carbon and metal alloy machinery. A machine shes barely in control of. It goes into combat mode, enough weapons for a small army springing from within itself, at the merest provocation.As for her heart . . . well ever since being drawn into a Game by the elven rockstar shes been assigned to protect, shes not even sure she can trust that anymore either.

Lila Black returns in the fourth volume of high-octane, high-magic, high-tech adventures.For ten years now mankind has lived in Otopia - our world, but our world changed. Ever since the Quantum Bomb our dimension and realms of faerie, demonia, of the elementals and of death have been intermingled. We live alongside creatures from our myths, dreams and nightmares.Lila Black, half-robot, all attitude works for Otopias secret service. In love with a half-elf, half-demon, and carrying the spirit of another elf inside her, her life is quite complicated enough already. But other complications, other loves, other fears, other deaths wait just around the next dimensional corner.This is bright, fast moving and accessible SF that mixes in fantasy and a cool cult-lit sensibility to create a series that will appeal to all fans of Laurell K. Hamilton and Peter Hamilton alike.

Book three of the Quantum Gravity Series sees Lila Black back from her adventures in Demonia and struggling to cope with the even stranger world of Faerie. And these Faeries couldnt be less like Tinkerbell. These Faeries are capricious, unknowable and dangerous. And they will be Lilas toughest test yet.Lila may have reached some sort of peace over the fate of her parents, she may have built some bridges with her sister but when youre half cyborg, when you contain enough high-tech weaponry to win a small war, when you dont know your heart, still love an elf and dont trust your bosses you can be capricious unknowable and quiter dangerous enough yourself.This is a fast moving SF fantasy full of thrills and adventures but informed with a ready wit and prepared to touch on serious themes of identity, reality and sexual politics.