Most Popular Books by Jay LAKE

Jay Lake''s first trade novel is an astounding work of creation. Lake has envisioned a clockwork solar system, where the planets move in a vast system of gears around the lamp of the Sun. It is a universe where the hand of the Creator is visible to anyone who simply looks up into the sky, and sees the track of the heavens, the wheels of the Moon, and the great Equatorial gears of the Earth itself. Mainspring is the story of a young clockmaker''s apprentice, who is visited by the Archangel Gabriel. He is told that he must take the Key Perilous and rewind the Mainspring of the Earth. It is running down, and disaster to the planet will ensue if it''s not rewound. From innocence and ignorance to power and self-knowledge, the young man will make the long and perilous journey to the South Polar Axis, to fulfill the commandment of his God. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The final story collection from the award-winning author of Green : "his stories . . . whisk readers from inner geographies of mind to limitless gulfs of space" ( Publishers Weekly , starred review). In his all-too-brief career, science fiction author Jay Lake published more than 300 short stories. Last Plane to Heaven is the final and definitive collection of his short fiction, presenting thirty-two of his best stories. Aliens and angels fill these pages, from the title story—a hard-edged look at how a real alien visitor might be received—to the savage truth of "The Cancer Catechisms." Along the way, there are stops for love and laughter, serious terror, and lighthearted stunt-writing with his friend and sometimes collaborator, Ken Scholes. Exploring space ships, distant worlds, and the cracks of time, this volume is brimming with the rich imagination and sense of wonder that Lake brought to contemporary Science Fiction and Fantasy. This collection features an original introduction by Gene Wolfe.

The City Imperishable''s secret master and heir to the long-vacant throne has vanished from a locked room, as politics have turned deadly in a bid to revive the city''s long-vanished empire. The city''s dwarfs, stunted from spending their childhoods in confining boxes, are restive. Bijaz the Dwarf, leader of the Sewn faction among the dwarfs, fights their persecution. Jason the Factor, friend and apprentice to the missing master, works to maintain stability in the absence of a guiding hand. Imago of Lockwood struggles to revive the office of Lord Mayor in a bid to turn the City Imperishable away from the path of destruction. These three must contend with one another as they race to resolve the threats to the city.

Jade est une courtisane sans pareil, mais prise dans les sombres complots de la cité de Hautcuivre, elle ne devra compter que sur elle-même pour survivre.

In his novel Mainspring, Lake created an enormous canvas for storytelling with his hundred mile high Equatorial Wall that holds up the great Gears of the Earth. Now in Escapement, he explores more of that territory. Paolina Barthes is a young woman of remarkable intellectual ability – a genius on the level of Isaac Newton. But she has grown up in isolation, in a small village of shipwreck survivors, on the Wall in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. She knows little of the world, but she knows that England rules it, and must be the home of people who possess the learning that she so desperately wants. And so she sets off to make her way off the Wall, not knowing that she will bring her astounding, unschooled talent for sorcery to the attention of those deadly factions who would use or kill her for it. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Presents a collection of short fiction set in Texas about ghosts, angels, gods, and aliens.

This sequel to Jay Lake''s Green and Endurance takes Green back to the city of Kalimpura and the service of the Lily Goddess. Green is hounded by the gods of Copper Downs and the gods of Kalimpura, who have laid claim to her and her children. She never wanted to be a conduit for the supernatural, but when she killed the Immortal Duke and created the Ox god with the power she released, she came to their notice. Now she has sworn to retrieve the two girls taken hostage by the Bittern Court, one of Kalimpura''s rival guilds. But the Temple of the Lily Goddess is playing politics with her life. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Green is back in Copper Downs. Purchased from her father in sunny Selistan when she was four years old, she was harshly raised to be a courtesan, companion, and bedmate of the Immortal Duke of Copper Downs. But Green rebelled. Green killed the Duke, and many others, and won her freedom. Yet she is still claimed by the gods and goddesses of her world, and they still require her service. Their demands are greater than any duke''s could have been. Godslayers have come to the Stone Coast, magicians whose cult is dedicated to destroying the many gods of Green''s world. In the turmoil following the Immortal Duke''s murder, Green made a God out of her power and her memories. Now the gods turn to her to protect them from the Slayers. Jay Lake brings us an epic fantasy not "in the tradition of Tolkien," but, instead, sensual, ominous, shot through with the sweat of fear and the intoxication of power. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The third volume in Jay Lake''s Clockwork Earth series continues the story of Paolina Barthes, Emily Childress, and Boaz, the mechanical man, as each seeks control of their destiny. Rejoin the adventure in the third novel of Lake''s Clockwork Earth series. Paolina Barthes, young sorceress, is crossing the Equatorial Wall, attempting to take herself and her magic away from the grasp of powerful men in the empires of the north. Emily Childress is still aboard the renegade Chinese submarine, along with her devoted Captain, and the British chief petty officer Angus al-Wazir. They are all being sought most urgently by the powers that secretly rule the Northern Earth--the Silent Order and the White Birds. And a third power, of the Southern Earth, has its eye on Paolina; she will not be allowed to bring the political turmoil of the North into the more mystical South. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

This all-in-one comprehensive guide will show you how to write the next great fantasy or science fiction story. In Writing Fantasy & Science Fiction, master authors offer advice on world building, character creation, and storytelling techniques in speculative fiction. Combining two Writer''s Digest classics, Orson Scott Card''s How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy and The Writer''s Complete Fantasy Reference, along with two new selections from award-winning science fiction and fantasy authors Philip Athans and Jay Lake, this book provides the best of all worlds. You''ll discover: • How to build, populate, and dramatize fantastic new worlds. • How to develop dynamic and meaningful themes that will expand the cannon of sci-fi and fantasy storytelling. • Exciting subgenres such as steampunk, as well as new developments in the sci-fi and fantasy genres. • How to imbue your tales with historically accurate information about world cultures, legends, folklore, and religions. • Detailed descriptions of magic rituals, fantastic weapons of war, clothing and armor, and otherworldly beasts such as orcs, giants, elves, and more. • How societies, villages, and castles were constructed and operated on a day-to-day basis. • Astounding methods of interstellar travel, the rules of starflight, and the realities and myths of scientific exploration. • How to generate new ideas and graft them to the most popular themes and plot devices in sci-fi and fantasy writing. To create credible and thrilling fiction, you must ground your stories in rules, facts, and accurate ideas. Writing Fantasy & Science Fiction will guide you through the complex and compelling universe of fantasy and science fiction writing and help you create stories for the next generation of readers and fans.

Charlie is dealing with complicated grief, and even his therabot is out of ideas. But the back-alley grief counsellors might have something to help: it looks like blue asparagus, and it''s called Wild Blue Yonder. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

This discounted ebundle of The Green Universe Trilogy includes: Green, Endurance, Kalimpura "Lake has configured his world-dominating empires, one British, the other Chinese, with huge and devoted attention to the last detail." --John Clute, Washington Post Book World She was sold to the Undying Duke when she was only four years old, and raised to be the jewel of his possessions: courtesan, scholar, assassin. But Green had other plans, and with the aid of a Goddess and her own skill with weapons she took control of her destiny. Green’s world encompasses cities and dusty equatorial villages, steam-powered ships and firearms, and the ever-present meddling of the gods and their parents, the titanics. Green’s service is claimed by the Lily Goddess of Kalimpura, the Black God of Copper Downs, her own personal god Endurance, and the titanic known as Desire; she wants only to be left alone to find her past and make her future. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A tale of magic, revenge, and bitter death—on the rain-spattered streets of the great city. This is epic fantasy not "in the tradition of Tolkien," but, instead, sensual, ominous, shot through with the sweat of fear and the intoxication of power. One of the most prolific new writers of the decade, Lake won 2004''s John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. His novels include Mainspring, Escapement, Pinion, and Green. The world of Green is also the setting for "A Water Matter." At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Strange things are happening in deep space, and then closer to home, and then closer; someone has pulled the plug on the universe. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

"The Eighth Science Fiction Megapack" presents another stellar lineup of classic science fiction, new and old. Here are 25 stories (plus a bonus interview with best-selling author George R.R. Martin) by some of the field''s greatest authors. Included are: THE TRUE DARKNESS, by Pamela Sargent PERMANENT FATAL ERRORS, by Jay Lake ADJUSTMENT TEAM, by Philip K. Dick ROBOTS DON’T CRY, by Mike Resnick NO GREAT MAGIC, by Fritz Leiber ESCAPE HATCH, by Brenda W. Clough BACKLASH, by Winston K. Marks THE PICK-UP, by Lawrence Watt-Evans POPULATION IMPLOSION, by Andrew J. Offutt WAY DOWN EAST, by Tim Sullivan THROUGH TIME AND SPACE WITH FERDINAND FEGHOOT: 28, by Grendel Briarton TO INVADE NEW YORK, by Irwin Lewis THEY WERE THE WIND, by C.J. Henderson STOPOVER, by William Gerken CONSEQUENCES OF STEAM, by Michael Hemmingson OUTSIDE LOOKING IN, by Mark E. Burgess DEAD WORLD, by Jack Douglas NEFERTITI''S TENTH LIFE, by Mary A. Turzillo QUICKSILVER, by Lonni Lees AFTER ALL, by Robert Reginald THE BARBARIANS, by Algis Budrys EX MACHINA, by Cynthia Ward MONKEY ON HIS BACK, by Charles V. De Vet THE SURVIVORS, by Tom Godwin THROUGH TIME AND SPACE WITH FERDINAND FEGHOOT: 99, by Grendel Briarton SPEAKING WITH GEORGE R.R. MARTIN: Interview conducted by Darrell Schweitzer And don''t forget to search this ebook store for "Wildside Megapack" to see more entries in this series, covering classic authors and subjects like mysteries, science fiction, westerns, ghost stories -- and much, much more!

Our first issue! All of the content will be available for purchase as an eBook (PDF, EPUB, MOBI) on November 4, 2014. The free online content will be released in 2 stages- half on November 4, and half on December 2. Featuring new fiction by Maria Dahvana Headley, Kat Howard, Max Gladstone, Amelia Beamer, Ken Liu, and Christopher Barzak, classic fiction by Jay Lake, essays by Sarah Kuhn, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Christopher J Garcia, plus a Worldcon Roundtable featuring Emma England, Michael Lee, Helen Montgomery, Steven H Silver, and Pablo Vazquez, poetry by Neil Gaiman, Amal El-Mohtar, and Sonya Taaffe, interviews with Maria Dahvana Headley, Deborah Stanish, Beth Meacham on Jay Lake, and Christopher Barzak, and a cover by Galen Dara.

The 13th Science Fiction MEGAPACK® continues the bestselling anthology series, presenting modern and classic works of speculative fiction. This edition features an interview with author Robert J. Sawyer plus 26 great stories! Included are: SARGASSO OF LOST STARSHIPS, by Poul Anderson THE DAY IS DONE, by Lester del Rey X MARKS THE PEDWALK, by Fritz Leiber RAFT, by Larry Tritten SPACEMAN ON A SPREE, by Mack Reynolds THE MASKED WORLD, by Jack Williamson THE GOD-PLLLNK, by Jerome Bixby A GUEST OF GANYMEDE, by C. C. MacApp WALLFLOWER, by Thomas A. Easton THE GIRL IN HIS MIND, by Robert F. Young TO SAVE EARTH, by Edward W. Ludwig THE HERMIT OF MARS, by Stephen Bartholomew A MATTER OF MONSTERS, by Manly Banister WHEN YOU GIFFLE..., by L.J. Stecher THE NIGHT OF THE TROLLS, by Keith Laumer DANGLING CONVERSATIONS, by Edward M. Lerner GUARDSMEN, FED TO TIGERS, by A.R. Morlan THE FOREVER FOREST, by Rhys Hughes DISCOVERY TIME, by Frank Belknap Long A HITCH IN SPACE, by Fritz Leiber TO THIS THEIR LATE ESCAPE, by Jay Lake STEAK TARTARE AND THE CATS OF GARI BABAKIN STATION, by Mary A. Turzillo VITAL INGREDIENT, by Charles V. De Vet JAMES P. CROW, by Philip K. Dick COMMON DENOMINATOR, by John D. MacDonald HUMAN SPIRIT, BEETLE SPIRIT, by John Gregory Betancourt If you enjoy this ebook, don''t forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 300+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!

This fifth volume of the year''s best science fiction and fantasy features thirty-three stories by some of the genre''s greatest authors, including Elizabeth Bear, Aliette de Bodard, Ursula K. Le Guin, Jay Lake, Kelly Link, Robert Reed, Lavie Tidhar, Catherynne M. Valente, Genevieve Valentine, and many others. Selecting the best fiction from Analog, Asimov''s, Clarkesworld, F&SF, Strange Horizons, and other top venues, The Year''s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy is your guide to magical realms and worlds beyond tomorrow.