'A major talent' George R. R. Martin
'A confident and thrilling debut' SFX

Bitter Seeds is the first novel in Ian Tregillis's Milkweed Triptych series - a dark and thrilling masterpiece featuring a twentieth century much like our own, but also chillingly different.

The year is 1939. Raybould Marsh and other members of British Intelligence have gathered to watch a damaged reel of film in a darkened room. It appears to show German troops walking through walls, bursting into flames and hurling tanks into the air from afar.

If the British are to believe their eyes, a Nazi scientist has been endowing German troops with unnatural, unstoppable powers. And Raybould will be forced to resort to dark methods to hold the impending invasion at bay.

But dealing with the occult exacts a price. And that price must be paid in blood.

Praise for Bitter Seeds:

'A white-knuckle plot, beautiful descriptions, and complex characters - an unstoppable Vickers of a novel' Cory Doctorow

'Bitter Seeds may rival Naomi Novik's Tales of Temeraire as a sustained historical fantasy' Booklist

'Tregillis delivers a dynamite first novel' SFREVU

'Exciting and intense . . . The clash of magic and science meshes perfectly with the tumultuous setting' Publishers Weekly

'Receives my highest recommendations' SFFWORLD

The Milkweed Triptych
Bitter Seeds
The Coldest War
Necessary Evil

Also by Ian Tregillis:

The Alchemy Wars
The Mechanical
The Rising
The Liberation

Ian Tregillis is the son of a bearded mountebank and a discredited tarot card reader. He was born and raised in Minnesota, where his parents had landed after fleeing the wrath of a Flemish prince. (The full story, he's told, involves a Dutch tramp steamer and a stolen horse.) Nowadays he lives in New Mexico, where he consorts with writers, scientists and other unsavoury types.