Desolation Road: Novel

In the red, sun-drenched sands of the Martian desert, miles from
anywhere but only one step short of Paradise, somewhere on the line
from here to Wisdom where the trains never stop, there's a town that
should'n exist at all, even in the Twelfth Decade when miracles happen
every day. In fact, it's so tiny and far away that it's only known
because of the stories they tell about it.

It all began thirty years ago with a greenperson, you see. But by the
time it all finished, Desolation Road had experienced every
conceivable abnormality on offer, from Adam Black's Wonderful
Travelling Chautauqua and Educational 'Stravaganza (complete with its
very own captive heavenly angel), to the Amazing Scorn, Mutant Master
of Scintillating Sarcasm and Rapid Repartee, not forgetting (as if
anyone could) the astounding Tetterdemalion Air Bazaar, Comet Tuesday,
and the first manned time trip in history...



	*	Bantam Books, New York: March 1988

	*	Bantam Books, U.K.: February 1989

	*	Drunken Dragon Press, U.K.: 1990 (limited edition hardback)

	*	Editions Laffont, Paris: 1990 (french translation)

	*	Bastei Lübbe: Bergisch Gladbach: March 1991 (german translation)

	*	Bantam Books, New York: June 1991 (new edition with afterword)



Empire Dreams: Short Story Collection

	*	Bantam Books, New York: March 1988

	*	Editions Laffont, Paris: November 1990 (french translation)

Out on Blue Six: Novel

It's hundreds of years in the future and the world is perfect. Total
fulfillment and happiness are the official goals of the Compassionate
Society, and any citizens who find themselves less than delighted are
guilty of a PainCrime.

Cartoonist Courtney Hall is trying to find her true place in a society
whose computers and projections have assigned a happy life to
everyone. Yet when one of her political cartoons runs afoul of the
Ministry of pain, Courtney finds herself a fugitive from justice --
and a target of the omniscient Love Police.

Her only escape is to drop through a manhole into a strange
underground of discontent, a labyrinth of nests and tunnels beneath
the surging metropolis. Now in a counterworld of orgasm junkies and
biochip-implanted raccoons, a solitary rebel dreams of finding the
edge.

	*	Bantam Books, New York: May 1989

	*	Bantam Books, U.K.: August 1990

	*	Bastei Lübbe: Bergisch Gladbach: September 1991 (german translation)



King of Morning, Queen of Day: Novel

In the myth-ridden hills of Ireland, three generations of young women
struggle to tame the magical powers that course through their
blood. Each in her own way, Emily, Jessica, and Enye face the darker
side of the human mythoconsciousness. One will embrace it. One will
destroy it. And one will be swallowed whole...



	*	Bantam Books, New York: June 1991

	*	Bantam Books, U.K.: date unknown

Hearts, Hands and Voices: Novel

The Land is the last remaining province of a decaying Empire,
separated from it by a vast river. For millennia the Land has been
blessed by biotechnology -- everything, from housing to
transportation, is organically grown, while the dead, absorbed in
Ancestor Trees, form a vast information net, the Dreaming.

Such a place should be a paradise, but the Land is troubled, divided
by religious conflict between Proclaimer and Confessor, and by
political conflict between the forces of the Emperor and those, like
the Warriors of Destiny, who would see the land free of the
technocratic Imperial yoke.

When conflict comes to the small town of Chepsenyt, Mathembe Fileli
and her family are made refugees. In her teens, Mathembe has never
spoken, by choise. Now she finds herself embarking on a journey into
the unknown with her parents, her rebellious brother and the head of
her irascible Grandfather, as vociferous in death as he had been in
life. One by one, the family is split up and Mathembe is finally
alone. She sets out to find them, a small, mute girl in a world of
glory, squalor and terror. Her journey through countryside and teeming
city, through refugee camps and down the great River forms a
compulsive story, atmospheric, lyrical and moving.



	*	Victor Gollancz, London: March 1992

	*	Bantam Books, New York: October 1992 (as The Broken Land)

	*	Wilhelm Heyne, Munich: late 1992-early 1993 (german translation)



Forthcoming:



Speaking in Tongues: Short Story Collection

	*	Bantam Books, New York: November 1992

	*	Victor Gollancz, London: date unknown



Kling Klang Klatch: Graphic Novel (with David Lyttleton)

	*	Victor Gollancz, London: September 1992