April 2010 Releases | Newcon Press

Conflicts edited by Ian Whates

Publisher: Newcon Press
Format: Ltd Edition Hardback/Paperback
ISBN: Hardback: 9781907069109, Paperback: 9781907069116

Release Date: April 2010
Genre: Sci-Fi
Series/Stand Alone: Stand Alone

Publisher's Blurb: A spaceship hurtles into the unknown carrying humanity’s last hope, but does it also carry the seeds of its own doom? The galaxy’s ultimate facilitator finds himself pursued by relentless enemies, while, of greater importance, there’s a puzzle to be solved. A trivial disagreement between two off-duty super soldiers out for some R&R escalates and escalates, eventually endangering an entire world. Thirteen tales of human striving, of ingenuity, brilliance, desperate action, violence, and resolution. Thirteen tales of Conflict, of Science Fiction at its absolute best. All stories are original.

1 - Introduction – Ian Whates
2 - Psi.Copath – Andy Remic
3 - The Maker’s Mark – Michael Cobley
4 - Sussed – Keith Brooke
5 - The Cuisinart Effect – Neal Asher
6 - Harmony in My Head – Rosanne Rabinowitz
7 - Our Land – Chris Beckett
8 - Fallout – Gareth L. Powell
9 - Proper Little Soldier – Martin McGrath
10 - War Without End – Una McCormack
11 - Dissimulation Procedure – Eric Brown
12 - In the Long Run – David L. Clements
13 - Last Orders – Jim Mortimore
14 - Songbirds – Martin Sketchley


The Unlikely World of Faraway Frankie by Keith Brooke

Publisher: Newcon Press
Format: Ltd Edition Hardback/Paperback
ISBN: Hardback: 9781907069123, Paperback: 9781907069130

Release Date: April 2010
Genre: Fantasy
Series/Stand Alone: Stand Alone

Publisher's Blurb: We’ve all dreamt of Faraway, a place so like the world we know but where we make the rules. For Frankie Finnegan, a boy whose sister has died, whose family is in meltdown and whose school life is blighted by bullies, such dreams have a keener edge. Until one day he wakes up in Faraway. His World; His Rules; His Dream; where Grace is still alive and his parents can be happy again.
Yet it soon becomes clear that he’s not the only one with power in Faraway, and the mysterious ‘Owner’ doesn’t take kindly to interference. Things start to unravel, and Frankie’s Dream slides inexorably towards Nightmare…


Orgasmachine by Ian Watson

Publisher: Newcon Press
Format: Ltd Edition Hardback/Paperback
ISBN: Hardback: 9781907069147, Paperback: 9781907069154

Release Date: April 2010
Genre: Sci-Fi
Series/Stand Alone: Stand Alone

Publisher's Blurb: Forget Stepford Wives; this goes way beyond anything seen in Stepford.

The Three Laws of Feministics:
1. Your body is not your own; it belongs to another. Therefore you may not damage it nor, through inaction, allow it to be damaged.
2. You must obey all orders given you by your owner (or in cases of loss of ownership, by any man) even if such orders conflict with the First Law.
3. You may not injure any man, nor through failure to comply with the Second Law, cause him displeasure or mental injury.

Women as chattels, as customised sexslaves; bodies freakishly modified to their owners’ dictates, personalities preset to order. Welcome to the world of the Orgasmachine. But Jade and Mari escape their masters and dream of revenge, of revolution, of freedom…