Obsidio: The Illuminae files: Book 3

From the bestselling author of Child 44, a virtuosic, highly-anticipated new novel about a colony of global apocalypse survivors trying to reinvent civilisation under the most extreme conditions imaginable.

The world has fallen. Without warning, a mysterious and omnipotent force has claimed the planet for their own. There are no negotiations, no demands, no reasons given for their actions. All they have is a message: humanity has thirty days to reach the one place on Earth where they will be allowed to exist . . . Antarctica.

Cold People follows the journeys of a handful of those who endure the frantic exodus to the most inhospitable environment on the planet. But their goal is not merely to survive the present. While they cling to life on the ice, the vestiges of their past swept away, they must also confront the most urgent of challenges: can they change and evolve rapidly enough to ensure humanity’s future? Can they build a new society in the cold?

Original and imaginative, as profoundly intimate as it is grand in scope, Cold People is a truly masterful epic.

The Silence of the Lambs meets Interstellar. The terrifying, thrilling and ingenious science-fiction thriller from Tom Sweterlitsch. Film rights bought by Twentieth Century Fox with Neil Blomkamp ( District 9 , Elysium ) to direct. 'Thrilling . . . [a] dark, page-turning thriller' The Guardian A murdered family. A missing girl. Time is running out... 1997. Shannon Moss of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service is assigned to solve the murder of a Navy SEAL's family - and to locate the soldier's missing teenage daughter. When Moss discovers that the SEAL was an astronaut aboard the spaceship U.S.S. Libra - a ship assumed lost to the darkest currents of Deep Time - she comes to believe that the SEAL's experience with the future is somehow related to this violence. Determined to find the missing girl and driven by a troubling connection to her own past, Moss must travel forward in time to seek evidence that will uncover the truth. To her horror, the future reveals that it's not only the fate of a family that hinges on her work; for what she witnesses is the Terminus: the terrifying and cataclysmic end of humanity itself. 'Edge-of-your-seat crime fiction that bends both time and mind. Think True Detective meets 12 Monkeys . Throw in the end of the world and you can begin to imagine where this gut-twisting tale will take you. This is cross-genre fiction at its best' Sylvain Neuvel, author of Sleeping Giants

The second volume of the extraordinary Southern Reach trilogy.

‘Creepy and fascinating’ Stephen King.

The Southern Reach is a government agency so secret it has almost been forgotten.

Following the disastrous twelfth expedition chronicled in ‘Annihilation’, the second book of the Southern Reach trilogy introduces John Rodriguez, the new head of the government agency responsible for the safeguarding of Area X. His first day is spent grappling with the fall-out from the last expedition. Area X itself remains a mystery. But, as instructed by a higher authority known only as The Voice, the self-styled Control must battle to ‘put his house in order’.

From a series of interrogations, a cache of hidden notes and hours of profoundly troubling video footage, the mysteries of Area X begin to reveal themselves―and what they expose pushes Control to confront disturbing truths about both himself and the agency he’s promised to serve.

Undermined and under pressure to make sense of everything, Rodriguez retreats into his past in a labyrinthine search for answers. Yet the more he uncovers, the more he risks, for the secrets of the Southern Reach are more sinister than anyone could have known.

Our Heroes Are Back. Kind Of. First, The Bad News: An Ancient Evil--you Know, Your Standard Consume-all-life-in-the-galaxy Deal--is About To Be Unleashed. The Good News? Squad 312 Is Standing By To Save The Day. They've Just Got To Take Care Of A Few Small Distractions First. Like The Clan Of Gremps Who'd Like To Rearrange Their Favorite Faces. And The Cadre Of Illegit Gia Agents With Creepy Flowers Where Their Eyes Used To Be, Who'll Stop At Nothing To Get Their Hands On Auri. Then There's Kal's Long-lost Sister, Who's Not Exactly Happy To See Her Baby Brother, And Has A Syldrathi Army At Her Back. With Half The Known Galaxy On Their Tails, Squad 312 Has Never Felt So Wanted. When They Learn The Hadfield Has Been Found, It's Time To Come Out Of Hiding. Two Centuries Ago The Colony Ship Vanished, Leaving Auri As Its Sole Survivor. Now, Its Black Box Might Be What Saves Them--but Time Is Short, And If Auri Can't Learn To Master Her Powers As A Trigger, The Squad And All Their Admirers Are Going To Be Deader Than The Great Ultrasaur Of Abraaxis Iv. Shocking Revelations, Bank Heists, Mysterious Gifts, Inappropriately Tight Bodysuits, And An Epic Firefight Will Determine The Fate Of The Aurora Legion's Most Unforgettable Heroes--and Maybe The Rest Of The Galaxy As Well.