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Dashiell Hammett Dashiell Hammett Omnibus Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key

Four classic Dashiell Hammett crime novels in one volume The Continental Op, the best private detective around, takes on the whole town of Poisonville in Red Harvest, and he’s back again in The Dain Curse, when he investigates the family curse surrounding Miss Gabriel Dain Leggett. In The Maltese Falcon, Sam Spade finds himself both hunter and hunted when his partner Miles Archer is shot. And in The Glass Key, Ned Beaumont is tasked with finding out whether his boss committed murder... Dashiell Hammett’s experiences as a private detective laid the foundations for his writing career.

Fiction Trade Paperback November 2009 £14.99 624pp 234 x 153mm 978 1 4091 1469 7 Markets: World XUSAC USA & Translation: Curtis Brown; Serial: Orion

Robert J. Sawyer Wake What happens when the internet comes alive? An SF thriller of terrifying possibilities Caitlin Decter is a blind maths genius. When she receives an implant to restore her sight, instead of seeing reality, the landscape of the World Wide Web explodes into her consciousness. While exploring this realm, she discovers something lurking in the background. And it’s getting more intelligent with each passing day. Wake is the first of a spellbinding future history trilogy that charts what will happen when the world’s first, and superior, artificial-intelligence is born in the web. Robert J. Sawyer, described as Canada’s answer to Michael Crichton, has won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. He lives outside Toronto, Ontario. www.sfwriter.com.

Science Fiction Cased/Trade Paperback November 2009 £18.99/£9.99 320pp 234 x 153mm 978 0 575 09406 2/978 0 575 09407 9 Markets: World XUSAC USA, Translation & Serial: Ralph Vicinanza www.orionbooks.co.uk 89