Simon Petrie imprint: 5 books

Amorous space squids. Sentient fridges. A derelict alien spacecraft adrift within an interstellar cloud. Speed-dating zombies. The truth behind the extinction of the dinosaurs. A potentially lethal interasteroidal freight consignment. And a planet on which biological diversification has utterly failed...

To solve the mystery of the Bougainvillaea's disappearance, investigator/pilot Charmain Mertz must return to the conservative world of her boyhood. Flight 404 is a novella blending elements of SF, murder mystery, and transgender fiction.

Light levels are low. It's killingly cold. These conditions are, it transpires, connected. The icy landscape around you—hillocks, boulders, ravines, foregrounding a hazy, rumpled horizon beneath an opaque, lowering sky—wears a patina that shades from sepia to umber, puddled with drifts...

Tanja Morgenstein, daughter of a wealthy industrialist and a geochemist, is dead from exposure to Titan's lethal, chilled atmosphere, and Guerline Scarfe must determine why. This novella blends hard-SF extrapolation with elements of contemporary crime fiction, to envisage a future human society...

Gordon Mamon was the lift operator in a hotel that didn’t have a lift. The hotel, the ‘Skyward Suites 270’, was the lift. All Gordon wants to do, when he isn’t delivering room service, administering first aid, washing dishes, cleaning bathrooms, or forwarding service complaints, is...