Neptune's Brood is a brand new space opera from science fiction legend Charles Stross. Shortlisted for the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and the Hugo Award for Best Novel.

She was looking for her sister. She found Atlantis.

Krina Alizond is a metahuman in a universe where the last natural humans became extinct five thousand years ago. When her sister goes missing, she embarks on a daring voyage across the star systems to find her, travelling to her last known location - the mysterious water-world of Shin-Tethys.

In a universe with no faster-than-light travel that's a dangerous journey, made all the more perilous by the arrival of an assassin on Krina's tail, by the 'privateers' chasing her sister's life insurance policy and by growing signs that the disappearance is linked to one of the biggest financial scams in the known universe.

* Author has a large online fanbase and blogs at www.antipope.org/charlie. He can be found on twitter at @cstross * Charles Stross is a regular at many UK and international science fiction conventions * Review copies will be mailed to the online, print and blogging press * Book will be featured on www.orbitbooks.net and in the Orbit ezine

About the Author
Charles Stross is a full-time science fiction writer and resident of Edinburgh, Scotland. The author of seven Hugo-nominated novels and winner of three Hugo awards for best novella, two of which are part of the Laundry Files series, Stross's works have been translated into over twelve languages. As the owner of degrees in pharmacy and computer science, he graduated as the world's only academically qualified cyberpunk writer just as cyberpunk died. Today he describes his job as telling lies for money and tormenting his imaginary friends. Follow his blog at http://www.accelerando.org/ and his Twitter feed at @cstross.

Reviews
Neptune's Brood is fast-paced, imaginative, and embeds some fascinating ideas about the economics of an interstellar society constrained by real physics. Above all else, though, it's just terrific fun -- Alastair Reynolds
Neptune's Brood is the perfect book for our times * io9 *
A thoroughly entertaining sci-fi mind-expander from one of the genre's most reliable imaginations * SFX (five star review) *


Awards
Short-listed for Hugo Awards 2014 (UK) and Locus Award 2014 (UK).



Book Information
ISBN 9780356501000
Author Charles Stross
Format Paperback
Page Count 368
Imprint Orbit
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Weight(grams) 256g
Dimensions(mm) 196mm * 126mm * 26mm