In a future world ravaged by war and pandemic disease, British patriot and French spy James Travis and his daughter investigate the implausible nuclear bombing of Scotland by terrorists, an effort that forces them to discern fact from fiction in the face of information glutted blog sites. 15,000 first printing.

The life of Gregor Cairns, who has built a home for himself on an exotic alien world, strangely parallels that of his ancestor, Matt Cairns, a young outlaw programmer desperately struggling to survive in a turbulent near-future.

Product Description: Iain Banks is celebrated as a novelist and science fiction writer. It is less well known that his first published work was the poem '041', in New Writing Scotland in 1983. Like the poems that appeared within his novels, this was selected from the many he had written between 1973 and 1981...read more

This book provides undergraduate and postgraduate students with an accessible and comprehensive overview of the fascinating area of cardiac electrophysiology. Using plain language and well-designed illustrations, it attempts to overcome the preconceptions of the subject as difficult to approach, given the complexity of intricate electrical cellular processes within the human heart. Based on lectures presented to intercalating BSc medical students, this book has been designed with the undergraduate in mind, but offers enough scope to be worthwhile at the postgraduate level.Readers of this book will feel more confident and at ease with electrical concepts and the important physiological mechanisms that govern the initiation and regulation of the heartbeat. This volume intends to bridge that difficult region between basic undergraduate lecture notes and original papers in an approachable way. It will be useful to students studying medicine, physiology, pharmacology, pharmacy and biology, particularly where their curricula includes not only cardiac physiology, but also neurobiology and muscle physiology.

Product Description: Winner of a Prometheus and Sidewise Award, this science fiction novella is a comedic and biting commentary on capitalism and an exploration of technological singularity in a posthuman civilization. As a world war rages on without an emerging victor, the story follows John Matheson, an idealistic teenage Scottish guerilla warrior who must change his tactics and alliances with the arrival of an alien species...read more

Product Description: There is no such place as Krassnia. Lucy Stone should know—she was born there. In that tiny, troubled region of the former Soviet Union, revolution is brewing. Its organizers need a safe place to meet, and where better than the virtual spaces of an online game? Lucy, who works for a start-up games company in Edinburgh, has a project that almost seems made for the job: a game inspired by The Krassniad, an epic folk tale concocted by Lucy’s mother, Amanda, who studied there in the 1980s...read more

In the aftermath of Earth's takeover by artificial intelligences, galactic entrepreneur Lucinda Carlyle enjoys a profitable business running interplanetary star-gates until she stumbles across a forgotten relic on a remote planet that threatens her way of life.

In a distant-future tale in which humanity has spread to every system within five hundred light-years, the inhabitants of an ancient starship enter orbit around a promising Earth-like planet after a four-hundred-year journey, but detect curious electromagnetic emissions that reveal the existence of intelligent life. By the author of Newton's Wake. Reprint.

The weather has gone crazy and the war has spread to China. Jase, Euan and Murdo are laggers: forced workers in a future Scotland. The laggers are helping to lay a new power line in the Highlands. Ailiss, a young woman from a secret settlement in the frozen hills, is going to strain their loyalties to breaking point - and beyond.

Consists of poems, stories, reports, essays, and articles.

Consists of poems, stories, reports, essays, and articles.

In the aftermath of Earth's takeover by artificial intelligences, galactic entrepreneur Lucinda Carlyle enjoys a profitable business running interplanetary star-gates until she stumbles across a forgotten relic on a remote planet that threatens her way of life. By the author of Engine City. Reprint.

In a concluding novel of The Engines of Light series, the interstellar civilization of humans from the Nova Babylonia are warned to prepare themselves for an invasion by formidable aliens who have already attacked Mingulay. Reprint.