Month two of AR’s US Invasion rolls out

At ease, meat creatures.

You know how we said “All your bookstores are belong to us”? Month two of the roll-out is now in progress, bringing more dark delights and robot-curated reading matter for your tired human brainstems. Look at those other feeble books, now back to ours. Now back at those others now back to ours. You see, all of these brilliant books could be yours.

All you have to do is embrace the twisted ambitions of your new Robot overlords next time you’re in a bookstore-slash-ordering files for that neato electronic book replacement-o-pad you just bought. Or click that link on the right for ePub editions right now.

In all unwary US and Canadian stores throughout October, you are so damn privileged to get…

KING MAKER by Maurice Broaddus – a wildly fantastical retelling of the King Arthur legends on the shattered streets of inner city America. This one already has them talking across the Twitterverse; better see what all the fuss is about, no?

Tim Waggoner‘s first Matt Richter novel, NEKROPOLIS – join the zombie detective and his half-vampire gal as they strive to stop the city of the dead from being taken apart bone by bone. Noir-tinged mystery that’s already had a starred review in the esteemed Publishers Weekly and rave notices pretty much everrrrrywhere.

EDGE is by that man Thomas Blackthorne, who as many will know is really arch-fiend John Meaney. A savage near-future thriller wherein the beleaguered British government have come up with a radical solution to soaring knife attacks, namely to legalize duelling with blades and put it on the telly. Yowch.

Steampunk brilliance in Lavie Tidhar‘s THE BOOKMAN – a thoroughly entertaining scientific romance from a subtly twisted Victorian world, where notions of fiction and fact are not confined to the pages of adventure novels. And a really cool lizard-alien space cannon.

And there’s more – ANGEL OF DEATH by J Robert King is the most twisted, most heart-stopping, most talked-about take on angels and their custodianship of mankind ever. Let’s just say that this one is taking his job title verrry seriously. And note that if you’re starting this one tonight, you’ll need to book tomorrow off work.

And more again, with the epic sweep of THE CROWN OF THE BLOOD by Gav Thorpe. Historically-tinged fantasy of mighty empires and mightier ambition, this is like the last days of the Roman Empire, with demons. A massive read, for massive times, with two more volumes to come.

So that’s October. Go buy them, devour them, become one with the Robot overmind. Because there are yet more coming in November. Resistance is useless.