Gordon Houghton: 10 books

What does it mean to be human? In this tale of revenge from the far future, a rebel android is about to find out.

A horrifying journey through a devastated city, an eighty-year voyage to an Earth-like exoplanet: set in the last decades of the twenty-second century, Another World features one man's struggle to survive against all the odds, as the clock counts down to the coming Apocalypse.

A corpse is resurrected and apprenticed to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse for seven days. During the course of the week, he tries to remember how he died, accompanies Death on his daily round, and learns what it means to be undead. Printed editions: The Apprentice (UK, 1999); Damned If You Do...

Tightly-paced and shot throughout with gallows humour, The Dinner Party is the chilling, ultimately moving story of a young man's obsession with ritual and the peculiar moral universe he inhabits. Printed editions: The Dinner Party (UK, 1998); Le Diner (France, 2003).

The Journeyman continues the story of the hapless, melancholy zombie first encountered in The Apprentice. Now working at a fast food restaurant, he feels his life is empty and devoid of meaning - until one morning Death arrives and makes him an offer he can't refuse. Printed in Russia in a double edition with The Apprentice (2017, translated by Shashi Martynova).

A homage to gaming and gamers, this is a snapshot of the life of James Roach, gaming obsessive, collector and competitor. It's a story about growing old, and falling in love, and feeling as retro and useless as a Phillips CD-i. Essential reading for anyone who has ever played Mario Kart, Bomberman, Robotron, Soul Calibur or Katamari Damacy.

To their neighbours, Liz and Ben Frost are a perfectly happy, normal couple. But they have a dark secret: one of them is dead.

The dystopian trilogy - MAX, ANOTHER WORLD and MUTE - now available in a single volume. All three novels are also available to purchase individually.

A dystopian society on the brink of revolution; a population chipped, regulated and drugged into submission; an overpopulated planet defined by the One Mother, One Child policy... Into this world a baby is born: a child with the power to change everything.

Hades is dead and the Agency needs a replacement, a new apprentice to carry on its good work. After a vote, corpse number 72 18 9 11 12 13 49 is selected and promptly yanked from his grave, to serve a seven day trial sentence. Each day our hapless narrator is to assist Death in the killing of one...