Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.7.2, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Gareth L. Powell Science fiction and Horror ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://www.garethlpowell.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Blog](https://www.garethlpowell.com/?page_id=5353) ## Pages - [Welcome](https://www.garethlpowell.com/) - Jitterbug "An exciting and solidly written character-driven science fiction story with an interesting setting." - SFFWORLD “Pacy, funny, thrilling, but also packed with proper science fiction and fluid world building.” - SFBOOK Find out more Who Will You Save? This entertaining and thought-provoking collection features work drawn from Powell’s twenty-year career as a writer, including - [Jitterbug](https://www.garethlpowell.com/jitterbug/) - Amazon UK Amazon US waterstones foyles bookshop.org Barnes & Noble . In this twisty and action-packed adventure from the BSFA award-winning author of Descendant Machine and Future’s Edge, a crew of bounty hunters find themselves ensnared in a conspiracy on the very fringes of the devastated solar system. Perfect for fans of James S. A. Corey and Adrian - [About](https://www.garethlpowell.com/about/) - "Brilliant" - The Guardian Gareth L. Powell is an award-winning British novelist, who also writes under the name G.L. Powell. He has written more than twenty novels, novellas, and collections, many of which have won or been shortlisted for awards. When not writing, he serves as Managing Editor at Stars and Sabers Publishing, and is - [Who Will You Save?](https://www.garethlpowell.com/who-will-you-save/) - Waterstones Bookshop.org BArnes & Noble Books-A-million Amazon UK Amazon US Indigo Foyles . Finalist for the British Science Fiction Association Award and the British Fantasy Award With settings ranging from the dead sands of Mars to the seedy backstreets of Amsterdam and Buenos Aires, these action-packed tales explore mind-bending ideas through the eyes of unforgettable - [Unleashed](https://www.garethlpowell.com/unleashed/) - Writing as G.L. Powell He felt his spine snap under the pressure of the bite. Then everything went blurred and distant. Everything except the pain. That was the last thing to go. After a mountain lion kills his estranged alcoholic father, disillusioned San Francisco detective John Tanner heads back to his hometown of Apprehension, Montana for the - [Books](https://www.garethlpowell.com/books-2/) - As G.L. Powell 2028 – Afloat – (Novel, Titan Books) 2027 – Unleashed – (Novel, Titan Books) As Gareth L. Powell 2027 – Downdraft – (Novella, Stars and Sabers) 2026 – Jitterbug – (Novel, Titan Books) 2025 – Who Will You Save? – (Collection, Titan Books) 2025 – Doctor Who: The Well – (Novelisation, BBC Books) 2025 – Future’s Edge – (Novel, Titan Books) 2023 – Descendant Machine – (Novel, Titan Books) 2022 - [Downdraft](https://www.garethlpowell.com/downdraught-3/) - An amnesiac wakes drowning in a flooded coffin. If he can’t recover his memories, fourteen thousand people are going to die. Following a string of clues, he begins to unpack the complex relationship between Lee and Kerri, two outcast teenagers in a small Welsh border town, only to discover that while one of them will grow - [Doctor Who: The Well](https://www.garethlpowell.com/doctor-who-the-well/) - A terror from the past is rising from the darkness five miles deep. Joining a military rescue mission to an isolated mining colony, the Doctor and Belinda find a single survivor of a violent catastrophe. What killed the colonists? Why is every mirror in the base smashed? The chilling truth spells horror and death... This spinetingling - [Ragged Alice](https://www.garethlpowell.com/ragged-alice/) - Shortlisted for the BSFA and British Fantasy Awards! A small Welsh town. A string of murders. And a detective who can literally see the evil in people’s souls. Orphaned at an early age, DCI Holly Craig grew up in the small Welsh coastal town of Pontyrhudd. As soon as she was old enough, she ran - [Future's Edge](https://www.garethlpowell.com/futures-edge/) - Order now: Waterstones Bookshop.org Barnes and Noble Amazon US Amazon UK Target Foyles Forbidden Planet Walmart Indigo Books-a-million . "Powell, who has two BFSA awards for best science-fiction novel, might need to clear shelf space for a third. His new novel is, to put it simply, marvellous ... Powell has written one wonderful novel after - [Contact](https://www.garethlpowell.com/contact/) - Professional Enquiries Please contact my literary agent, Lucienne Diver at The Knight Agency. Contact my agent . . . . - [Light Chaser](https://www.garethlpowell.com/light-chaser-2/) - In Peter F. Hamilton and Gareth L. Powell's action-packed sci-fi adventure Light Chaser, a love powerful enough to transcend death can bring down an entire empire. Amahle is a Light Chaser - one of a number of explorers, who travel the universe alone (except for their onboard AI), trading trinkets for life stories. But when she - [The Continuance Series](https://www.garethlpowell.com/the-continuance-series/) - The human race has been cast from a dying Earth to wander the stars in a vast fleet of arks. But the universe is stranger and more deadly than anyone could have foreseen. The novels of the Continuance series can be read in any order. Stars and Bones The human diaspora runs up against a being - [Six Lights off Green Scar](https://www.garethlpowell.com/six-lights-off-green-scar/) - Roulette ships as nicknamed, are dangerous and sexy. They are small, fast, tough and used for random jumping. The reporter Tamara Vance aims for the top anchor job and journeys to the backwater of Pik station, with her sights set on Sal Dervish, the master of the Wild Cat, who has seemed have lost his - [About Writing](https://www.garethlpowell.com/about-writing/) - Shortlisted for the 2022 British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Nonfiction! Gareth L. Powell would be the first to tell you that he doesn't know everything about being a writer, or about getting published, or about life when your work is in a bookshelf. But his field-guide to publishing, About Writing, is absolutely here - [Embers of War](https://www.garethlpowell.com/books/embers-of-war/) - "Powell's writing is fast-paced and fun and full of adventure. He's on my must-read list." ANN LECKIE, AUTHOR OF ANCILLARY JUSTICE The sentient warship Trouble Dog was built for violence, yet following a brutal war, she is disgusted by her role in a genocide. Stripped of her weaponry and seeking to atone, she joins the - [Descendant Machine](https://www.garethlpowell.com/descendant-machine/) - The second novel in the Continuance sequence* When Nicola Mafalda’s scout ship comes under attack, she’s left deeply traumatised by the drastic action it takes to keep her alive. Months later, when an old flame comes to her for help, she realises she has to find a way to forgive both the ship and her - [Newsletter](https://www.garethlpowell.com/newsletter/) - My loyal readers are very important to me. I like to give them advance notification so they can be first in line when I've got a new book coming out or an exciting event in the pipeline. To sign-up, simply pop your email address in the box below. I'll send you my monthly newsletter, keeping you informed of - [Books](https://www.garethlpowell.com/books/) - Novels The Embers of War Series Embers of War Fleet of Knives Light of Impossible Stars * The Ack-Ack Macaque Series Ack-Ack Macaque Hive Monkey The Recollection Macaque Attack * Silversands * Novellas Ragged Alice Downdraught Light Chaser * Nonfiction About Writing: A Field Guide for Aspiring Authors * Collections Entropic Angel & Other Stories ## Tags - [Bio](https://www.garethlpowell.com/tag/bio/) - [General](https://www.garethlpowell.com/tag/general/)