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infinity plus is a science fiction, fantasy and horror showcase that ran from 1997 to 2007 and remains online as an archive.

The infinity plus ebook imprint launched in December 2010 with titles from Eric Brown, Kaitlin Queen and Keith Brooke, with more titles from John Grant and Anna Tambour. Future infinity plus authors include Paul di Filippo, Garry Kilworth and Molly Brown.

---in its first two months, infinity plus ebooks had three top ten bestsellers at Amazon

---the site holds more than 2.1 million words of fiction, 1000 book reviews and 100 interviews

---authors featured on the site include Stephen Baxter, Mary Gentle, Peter F Hamilton, Gwyneth Jones, Vonda N McIntyre, Michael Moorcock, Kim Stanley Robinson, Lucius Shepard, Michael Swanwick, Jack Vance, Connie Willis and Gene Wolfe

---there have been three infinity plus print anthologies

---Praise for infinity plus:
-"looks great. And it's good to find quality fiction on the web" (Ellen Datlow)
--"one of the Internet's most valuable resources for intelligent science fiction of high literary quality" (Gardner Dozois)
--"the best place for genre fiction on the web" (SFX)
--"first-rate" (Locus Online)

Where to find infinity plus online

Website: http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/books
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The Angels of Life and Death    by Eric Brown
Price: $2.99 USD. 52700 words. Published by infinity plus  on April 13, 2012. .
From cyberpunk visions of post-human futures to traditional tales of alien encounter and time travel, what connects these tales are Brown's storytelling ability and his concern for the human element... ten science fiction stories from two times winner of the BSFA short story award. "SF infused with a cosmopolitan and literary sensibility" - Paul McAuley
Ghostwriting    by Eric Brown
Price: $2.99 USD. 46730 words. Published by infinity plus  on March 16, 2012. .
Over the course of a career spanning 25 years, Eric Brown has written just a handful of horror and ghost stories – and all of them are collected here. They range from the gentle, psychological chiller “The House” to the more overtly fantastical horror of “Li Ketsuwan”, from the contemporary science fiction of “The Memory of Joy” to the almost-mainstream of “The Man Who Never Read Novels”.
Fear of Widths    by David D Levine
Price: $0.99 USD. 2250 words. Published by infinity plus  on March 6, 2012. .
Home for his parents' funeral ... all the familiar, yet unfamiliar, things. And the horizon. How could he have forgotten the horizon? Mind-bending fiction from a Hugo-winning author.
Closet Dreams    by Lisa Tuttle
Price: $0.99 USD. 5590 words. Published by infinity plus  on March 6, 2012. .
“Something terrible happened to me when I was a little girl...” so begins this extraordinary, International Horror Guild Award-winning tale of abduction, survival and escape from the author Stephen Jones has called “a major force in macabre fiction.”
All the Little Gods We Are    by John Grant
Price: $0.99 USD. 8290 words. Published by infinity plus  on March 6, 2012. .
A moving tale by award-winning author John Grant about a man discovering that somehow the story of his past has been written all wrong. A superbly measured fantasy about loss, and sorrow, and the pain of dealing with past passions.
Memories of the Flying Ball Bike Shop    by Garry Kilworth
Price: $0.99 USD. 7790 words. Published by infinity plus  on March 6, 2012. .
Understand the one you hate. What did the old Chinese man smoke? He smoked his enemy, and when he had smoked the hated man he would know him. "The best short story writer in any genre" (New Scientist).
Pilots of the Purple Twilight    by Kit Reed
Price: $0.99 USD. 4410 words. Published by infinity plus  on March 6, 2012. .
The wives spent every day by the pool – this was where the men had left them, after all. A moving, incisive story that gets right under your skin from an author whose prose style has been described as "pure dry ice" by The New York Times Book Review.
Penumbra    by Eric Brown
Price: $2.99 USD. 99490 words. Published by infinity plus  on December 21, 2011. .
When a young tug pilot's career is ruined by a collision in Earth orbit he has no choice but to accept a commission to fly an eccentric ship builder to a planet far from the trade routes. Discovering alien ruins on the planet and the hulk of a missing generation ship they are thrown into the centre of a conspiracy that reaches back centuries. A key novel from one of the UK's favourite SF writers.
Valley of the Sugars of Salt    by Anna Tambour
Price: $0.99 USD. 8480 words. Published by infinity plus  on December 16, 2011. .
Tim Thornbourne, successful in business but not in marriage, retreats to the country to become The Man Who Rediscovered the Medlar. But the last thing he expected was for the orchard to become a cooperative venture. Moving and surprising fiction from an author described by World Fantasy Award-winner Jeff VanderMeer as "Rapacious, intelligent and witty".
Lizard Lust    by Lisa Tuttle
Price: $0.99 USD. 6430 words. Published by infinity plus  on December 16, 2011. .
“They say that the sight of a lizard drives a woman wild with desire. Any woman, any lizard, the merest glimpse. But lizards belong to men; they’re death to women.” An ordinary woman is torn from her normal life and thrust into a weird alternate reality where the power to structure human relationships, and even to travel between worlds, resides in the living bodies of small green lizards.
The Sculptor    by Garry Kilworth
Price: $0.99 USD. 7620 words. Published by infinity plus  on December 16, 2011. .
An artist pays tribute to a cruel and powerful leader. Cunning and elegant short fiction from an author whose "Sumi Dreams of a Paper Frog" was described by JG Ballard as "The best short story I have read for many years" and who has been described by New Scientist as "the best short story writer in any genre". This story was winner of the Interzone readers' poll for best story of the year.
The Euonymist    by Neil Williamson
Price: $0.99 USD. 5340 words. Published by infinity plus  on December 16, 2011. .
In a future where naming is vital and the labelling of a new species can have major ramifications, what hope is there for an ancient tongue that is effectively linguistically dead? "A rich and rewarding read from a stylish new Scottish talent" (World Fantasy Award-winner Jeff VanderMeer).
Jurassic and the Great Tree    by Keith Brooke
Price: $0.99 USD. 8370 words. Published by infinity plus  on December 16, 2011. .
The descendants of the first wave of human settlement have resisted intrusion for years yet now they want someone to come. "Only one man," they said, and so we three are here, riding in the body of one. "with its brilliant and remorseless anthropological logic, this resembles Michael Bishop at his best. But that's because it's well-argued anthropology, rather than well-copied Bishop" (Simon Ings)
The Accord    by Keith Brooke
Price: $3.99 USD. 123050 words. Published by infinity plus  on December 15, 2011. .
"One of the finest novels of virtual reality yet written" (SF Site) A tale of love, murder and revenge that crosses the boundaries between the real world and virtual reality. When Noah and Priscilla escape into the Accord, Priscilla’s murderous husband plots to destroy the whole Accord and them with it. Where does the pursuit of revenge stop for immortals in an eternal world?
Hallucinating    by Stephen Palmer
Price: $2.99 USD. 112790 words. Published by infinity plus  on December 14, 2011. .
Europe, 2049. Nulight, a Tibetan refugee and notorious underground record company owner, emerges from an obscure Berlin night club realising that an alien invasion is imminent. Or is he hallucinating? A unique vision of future invasion and future music from the author of Memory Seed and Glass.
Picking Blueberries    by Anna Tambour
Price: $0.99 USD. 3430 words. Published by infinity plus  on November 12, 2011. .
A powerfully evocative portrait of an alternative community in the early 1970s, told with a child's-eye simplicity by a young resident. Short fiction from an author whose work has been described by World Fantasy Award-winner Jeff VanderMeer as "Rapacious, intelligent and witty".
Playmate    by Kit Reed
Price: $0.99 USD. 3670 words. Published by infinity plus  on November 12, 2011. .
The little boy next door is just so good. In fact, he's pretty much perfect. And he has a strangely powerful influence on Danny. A disturbing story from an author whose short fiction has been described by scifi.com as "Brilliant on all levels".
The Death of Cassandra Quebec    by Eric Brown
Price: $0.99 USD. 8810 words. Published by infinity plus  on November 12, 2011. .
Cassandra Quebec: an artist who had shown the world her soul. At the height of her career she was the world's most celebrated artist, but then she announced her betrothal to minor laser-sculptor Nathaniel Maltravers. A year later she was dead. And now... her death has become a work of art. Powerful and clever science fiction from the two times winner of the BSFA short story award.
The Life Business    by John Grant
Price: $0.99 USD. 8390 words. Published by infinity plus  on November 12, 2011. .
With astonishing power, award-winning author John Grant portrays the human facility to falsify history, using as his backdrop the beginnings of the late-20th-century troubles in Northern Ireland, as an unwitting mainland schoolboy finds himself caught up in a violence he barely understands. "...a compelling coming-of-age tale" (Declan Burke, Crime Always Pays)
The Bone Flute    by Lisa Tuttle
Price: $0.99 USD. 9260 words. Published by infinity plus  on November 12, 2011. .
(5.00)
Venn, a fickle and restless young musician, is drawn to the “lost planet” of Habille where, it is said, human nature has changed, and love once experienced can never die. In an afterword written especially for this edition, Lisa Tuttle explains her controversial decision to refuse the Nebula Award for this story.
Muezzinland    by Stephen Palmer
Price: $2.99 USD. 114670 words. Published by infinity plus  on October 28, 2011. .
Life has changed in the mid 22nd century. The aether is a telepathic cyberspace. Biochips augment human brains. AIs, concepts, even symbols can be dangerous. Mnada is heir to the Ghanaian throne, yet something has been done to her brain that has made her insane, something to send her fleeing north across jungle and desert towards the mysterious place called Muezzinland.
Lord of Stone    by Keith Brooke
Price: $2.99 USD. 91960 words. Published by infinity plus  on October 26, 2011. .
Trace: a country where magic is dying out. A country at war with itself. A country where the prophecies of the Book of the World have started to come true. Bligh: a young foreigner, drawn irresistibly to the war in Trace. A man who has rejected religion, yet appears to be possessed by one of the six Lords Elemental. Bligh thinks he's going mad, but if he is then it's a madness shared by others...
Old Soldiers    by Kit Reed
Price: $0.99 USD. 6510 words. Published by infinity plus  on October 15, 2011. .
In the room across the hall the old soldier shouts, just as he has done for years... And behind her, something in the shadows stirs. "One of our brightest cultural commentators" --Publishers Weekly
Head Shots    by Keith Brooke
Price: $0.99 USD. 5390 words. Published by infinity plus  on October 15, 2011. .
What if the paparazzi could read their targets' minds? Anna-Louise is a young and ambitious reporter, on the trail of an adulterous footballer, trying to hear through the mind noise to find out what he's really up to. Contemporary SF from an author described by Locus as belonging in "the recognized front ranks of SF writers".
The Time-Lapsed Man    by Eric Brown
Price: $0.99 USD. 6360 words. Published by infinity plus  on October 15, 2011. .
Emerging from flux after three months of mind-pushing a starship through the nada-continuum, Thorn realised he could not hear. He was on his second drink, an hour later, when a sound startled him. But it was the wrong sound... Classic short science fiction, and winner of the 1988 Interzone poll for best story of the year.
Has Anyone Here Seen Kristie?    by John Grant
Price: $0.99 USD. 11240 words. Published by infinity plus  on October 15, 2011. .
When he arrives in Edinburgh he sees his future as an infinitely bleak expanse. But then he meets Kristie ... Award-winning author John Grant has created not just a tender, erotic tale about the conquest of grief and a fantasy of the highest order, but also a marvelously evocative Edinburgh story. Contains adult content. "...like a Ray Bradbury story for mature audiences"--Matthew Cheney, SF Site
Approaching Omega    by Eric Brown
Price: $2.99 USD. 28100 words. Published by infinity plus  on September 27, 2011. .
//~Mission to locate Earth-temperate planet for colonisation: failed … //~1000 years out from Earth base, damage to colony sleeper hangars 1, 3 and 4 sustained … all lives lost … hangars 2 and 5 still operational … //~Mission parameters adjusted: Augmentation of colonists to commence … //~Request all drones and ’bots to medical units to begin experimentation …
Queen Bee    by Keith Brooke
Price: $0.99 USD. 6090 words. Published by infinity plus  on September 25, 2011. .
Domed cities; a lost lover; alien lifeforms whose biochemical excretions might kill you or worse... Colvin Stark must battle deadly jungle and primitive settlers to find his fleeing lover, and his destiny. Traditional science fiction with a contemporary spin, Queen Bee showcases the short fiction talent of an author described by Locus as belonging in "the recognized front ranks of SF writers".
Warm Words & Otherwise: A Blizzard of Book Reviews    by John Grant
Price: $2.99 USD. 152980 words. Published by infinity plus  on September 13, 2011. .
A bumper collection – over 150,000 words! – of book reviews, many of full essay length, by the two-time Hugo winning and World Fantasy Award-winning co-editor of The Encyclopedia of Fantasy and author, among much fiction, of such recent nonfiction works as Corrupted Science and (forthcoming) Denying Science.
Circus of the Grand Design    by Robert Freeman Wexler
Price: $2.99 USD. 83740 words. Published by infinity plus  on September 4, 2011. .
When Lewis rents a vacation house on Long Island he doesn’t expect to end up on a crazy circus train ride to nowhere. Travelling through strange and wonderful lands, he becomes lost amongst mad acrobats, sexy elephant riders, a magical mechanical horse, a giant woman and her savage, prehistoric rodent bears, an egotistical juggler, and...a fertility goddess who takes exceptional interest in him.
Meridian Days    by Eric Brown
Price: $2.99 USD. 63020 words. Published by infinity plus  on August 14, 2011. .
Meridian, twenty light years from Earth and with just a tiny scattering of inhabitable islands, seems the perfect place for Bob Benedict to escape the tragedy of his past. But when he meets Fire Trevellion he is drawn into a world of corruption and murder that is far darker than his past. Soon it's all he can do just to survive...
The Ephemera    by Neil Williamson
Price: $2.99 USD. 86490 words. Published by infinity plus  on April 16, 2011. .
(5.00)
Eighteen stories of impermanence, change, ephemera... from the ends of love affairs and the brief sanity of wartime convalescence, to the fading away of old languages and the dying of humanity itself. This edition includes four bonus stories, including one written specially for this collection, and each story has a newly-written afterword.
One Step Closer    by Iain Rowan
Price: Free! 3290 words. Published by infinity plus  on April 9, 2011. .
Life jumps the rails, runs away from you and there’s no catching it up. Not ever. A free short story from Iain Rowan, winner of the Derringer Award for best short crime story. "I mean it," the gunman shrieked, and he pointed the revolver at Ward, the end of the barrel moving in tiny circles with the shaking of his hands. "I mean it. One step closer..."
Phoenix Man    by Garry Kilworth
Price: $2.99 USD. 50290 words. Published by infinity plus  on April 8, 2011. .
The man who learned to walk on water and one who discovered how to beat fire, a visionary who sees a world filled with people quite unlike his own, a man who can soak up anything that's thrown at him. Thirteen eclectic stories of discovery and wonder – five of them original to this collection – from a writer described by New Scientist as "the best short story writer in any genre".
Liberty Spin: tales of scientifiction    by Keith Brooke
Price: $2.99 USD. 50650 words. Published by infinity plus  on March 24, 2011. .
Multiple personalities fighting for control of a single body; a single personality constantly splitting and reinventing itself and its past; a Mars that never was; an interstellar war that has always been. Nine science-fiction stories, each with a new afterword, from an author described by Locus as "in the recognized front ranks of SF writers".
Embrace: tales from the dark side    by Keith Brooke
Price: $2.99 USD. 49490 words. Published by infinity plus  on March 11, 2011. .
Eleven stories from the darkest reaches of Keith Brooke's imagination, each with a new afterword. Revisit the haunts of your youth, retell the story of your life, embrace your inner demons. Listen to the voices, go on... Brooke's short fiction has been widely published in some of the world's top genre fiction markets. He was described by Locus as "in the recognized front ranks of SF writers".
Qinmeartha and the Girl-Child LoChi    by John Grant
Price: $2.99 USD. 48600 words. Published by infinity plus  on March 10, 2011. .
Tarburton-on-the-Moor: just another sleepy Dartmoor village. Or so it seems to Joanna Gard, until the fabric of the place begins, like her personal life, to unravel. In this disturbing tale of clashing realities, Hugo- & World Fantasy Award-winner John Grant skilfully juggles a strange cosmology with images from the darker side of the human soul. Includes bonus novella "The Beach of the Drowned".
Take No Prisoners    by John Grant
Price: $2.99 USD. 133650 words. Published by infinity plus  on March 7, 2011. .
In the fifteen superbly literary stories of this, his first collection, Hugo- and World Fantasy Award-winning author John Grant goes to places other fantasy and SF writers have yet to find on the map. Take No Prisoners is a magnificent demonstration of why his imagination has been described as defying all genre categorization. This new e-edition includes two bonus novelettes.
A Writer's Life    by Eric Brown
Price: $2.99 USD. 24680 words. Published by infinity plus  on March 7, 2011. .
Mid-list writer Daniel Ellis becomes obsessed with the life and work of novelist Vaughan Edwards, who disappeared in mysterious circumstances in 1996. His investigations lead Ellis ever deeper into the enigma that lies at the heart of Vaughan Edwards' country house, Edgecoombe Hall, and the horror that dwells there.
Faking It: accounts of the General Genetics Corporation    by Keith Brooke
Price: $2.99 USD. 47490 words. Published by infinity plus  on February 6, 2011. .
A brash entrepreneur buys a small company as a platform for his big ideas, and the General Genetics Corporation is born. GenGen has a vision for the future of humankind, and the company will stop at nothing to get its own way. Nine stories of sex, drugs and manipulation from an author described by Locus as "in the recognized front ranks of SF writers". Includes new story "Faking It".

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Infinities    by infinity plus 
Price: Free! 99080 words. Published on April 16, 2011. Fiction.
A FREE sampler of short stories, novel extracts and a complete novelette from infinity plus and friends: 100,000 words of short fiction and novel extracts from a range of top genre authors: Eric Brown, John Grant, Anna Tambour, Keith Brooke, Garry Kilworth, Iain Rowan, Kaitlin Queen, Linda Nagata, Scott Nicholson, Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Steven Savile (edited by Keith Brooke)

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