An Evening with Richard Swan & James Islington
Join us for an electrifying evening with bestselling authors Richard Swan and James Islington celebrating the launch of their new science fiction thrillers, The Infinite State and Scion. Hear from these authors on their thought-provoking titles and have your copies signed.
6:30pm arrivals for a 7pm start.
Tickets: $10 per person (+ GST and Humanitix fee)
Please note: Your $10 ticket fee is redeemable on night towards any book purchase. Please see staff on the night.
ABOUT THE BOOKS:
About The Infinite State:
In this brand-new blistering science fiction epic, Sunday Times bestselling author Richard Swan presents a thrilling tale of survival and an eviscerating examination of totalitarianism.
WHO GIVES YOU LIFE? PATER AETERNUS.
Katherine Fuller’s husband is dead. As an esteemed member of Pater Aeternus — governing party of the fascist, galaxy-spanning Decurion Empire — he has left behind an estate of immeasurable wealth. And Katherine is going to inherit it.
WHO GIVES YOU PURPOSE? PATER AETERNUS.
Life under the Eternal Father is rigidly stratified, surveilled, and controlled — each new day to be endured, not lived. But with Katherine’s newfound fortune, she is presented with a rare and dangerous opportunity: purchase a virgin world, and create a better, fairer society.
WHO GIVES YOU JOY? PATER AETERNUS.
But the Empire cannot allow its wayward daughter to succeed. And as Katherine works in secret, recruiting allies she’s not even sure she can trust, she will discover exactly how far Pater Aeternus is willing to go to stop her. Because Katherine is going to create something nobody has seen for many years.
A democracy.
About Scion:
Book one in an electrifying new series by the New York Times #1 bestselling author, Scion is a gripping sci-fi thriller in which a contract killer assigned to protect a scientist from assassination finds himself in the crosshairs.
My name’s Azure. I kill rich idiots for a living. All completely legal, of course, even if it does still make the old-fashioned crowd a bit uncomfortable. Once the ultra-wealthy realised they had a way to live forever — limited resources be damned — there was only ever going to be one real deterrent.
In the end, it’s like a lot of people’s jobs. I have to deal with a ton of boring planning. Inconvenient hours. Some awkward face-to-face interactions. And, like most of us, I’m only clocking on to crawl out from beneath my debts. It can be dirty work sometimes, sure, but someone’s got to do it.
Luckily, my genetic enhancements make me really, really good at it.
This next job, though … strange, that it got thrown my way. I haven’t had to protect a client in years.
Still, what could go wrong?
ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
Richard Swan is a Sunday Times bestselling genre writer. He is known for his Empire of the Wolf and Great Silence trilogies, as well as the upcoming Decurion Saga. He has also written fiction for Black Library and Grimdark Magazine. His work has been translated into many languages. Richard is a qualified lawyer, and before writing full-time spent ten years litigating multimillion pound commercial disputes in London. He currently lives in Sydney with his wife and three young sons.
James Islington is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Will of the Many and The Strength of the Few (the first two novels in the Hierarchy series), as well as the Licanius Trilogy (beginning with The Shadow of What Was Lost). His books have sold more than two million copies, and his work has been translated into twenty-one languages. He lives on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, with his wife and two children.