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Justina Robson

17 May 07

About the Author

First British Edition Gollancz (2007)

Selling Out
Quantum Gravity Book Two
Lila Black Is Going To Hell
Ever since the Quantum Bomb of 2015 things have been different; the dimensions have fused and suddenly our world is accessible to elves, demons, ghosts and elementals ... and their worlds are open to us. Special Agent Lila Black has been different too: tortured and magic-scarred by elves, re-built by humans into a half-robot, part-Al, nuclear-Fuelled walking arsenal, and carrying the essence of a dead elven necromancer in her chest, sometimes she has trouble figuring out who she really is. And that was before she got a half-elf, half-demon international rock-star boyfriend.
So a mission to Hell is exactly what she needs.
The heart of art, of pleasure, sensuality and politics, Demonia is glorious and terrible. It’s the sort of place where Lila really shouldn’t be surprised to be on the receiving end of a host of proposals both to duels and marriage and an assassination attempt, but it seems Demonia might be even more complicated than Lila thought ...
Justina Robson’s superb new series combines her trademark themes of the nature of identity and reality, magic and technology, with break-neck plots, a mischievous sense of fun and a seriously sexy new heroine.
'The work of a smart and sexy novelist having smart and sexy fun' Locus

First British Edition Gollancz (2006)

Paperback - Gollancz (2006)

Keeping It Real
Quantum Gravity Book One
Lila black: half robot, all attitude.
The Quantum Bomb of 2015 changed everything. The fabric that kept the dimensions apart was torn and now, six years later, the people of earth exist in uneasy company with the inhabitants of, amongst others, the elven, elemental and demonic realms. Magic is real, and even more dangerous than technology. Elves are utterly alien, scarily erotic, very dangerous and really bored by the constant Lord of the Rings jokes. Elementals are a law unto themselves - and demons are best left well to themselves.
Special agent Lila Black, 21, used to be pretty but now she’s not so sure.
Torn apart two years ago, her body is now half restless carbon and metal alloy machinery. A machine she’s barely in control of. When it goes into combat mode, at the merest provocation, enough weapons for a small army spring from within itself. And somewhere inside her is the Al. And Lila has never known where she ends and the Al begins.
As for her heart ... well, ever since being drawn into a Game by the elf she’s been assigned to protect, she’s not even sure she can trust that any more.
Justina Robson’s superb new series combines her trademark themes of the nature of identity and reality, magic and technology, with a break-neck plot, a mischievous sense of fun and a seriously sexy new heroine.
'It's good. It's really very good indeed. I loved it' Peter F Hamilton

British Pbk Original - Macmillan (2001)

Mappa Mundi
The map of
Everything you know…
Everything you are…
Everything you ever will be…
Just got re-written
A medical nanotechnology completes a map of the human brain, radical psychologist Natalie Armstrong sees her cutting-edge research suddenly leap out of sidelines and into the heart of a black project to create comprehensive mind-control…
FBI Science specialist Jude Westhorpe is on the trail of an elusive genius who’s involved in everything from sequencing to biological warfare, but Jude’s investigation has started to dig too deeply into matters affecting national security, putting his own and others’ lives on the line . . .
Could there really be a conspiracy among the national scientific community, bent not only on changing the world order but on creating a radical shift in human identity? When Mappa Mundi reaches completion, the race will be on to seize control of it - for winner takes all when you can alter a human mind at the flick of a switch.
‘A novelist of real vision’ Zadie Smith

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Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.

Selling Out (Gollancz, 2007) May 07

Keeping It Real (Gollancz, 2006) Gollancz Pbk Nov 06

Mappa Mundi (Macmillan Pbk, 2001)

Silver Screen (Macmillan Pbk, 1999)