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This May: Resistance is Futile

Here’s a little sum for you:

What do you get if you take the square root of a love story, multiply by an awkward mathematician, add on extra-terrestrial life-forms and cringe-worthy close encounters?

You get Resistance is Futile! A whirlwind adventure about love, friendship . . . Oh yes, and the total obliteration of mankind.

It’s due for release in May this year – and we can’t wait.

RESISTANCE IS FUTILE is the SF debut of Sunday Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan. SF fans may know Jenny as the author of the Doctor Who tie-in novel Dark Horizons and the Doctor Who short stories Into the Nowhere, Long Way Down and All the Empty Towers. And if you like Doctor Who, there’s a good chance you’ll love this too!

Check out what some incredibly funny, successful and really very clever people have already been saying about this stormer of a book:

‘It’s not very often that I fall in love so completely with book . . . Resistance is Futile is bright, charming, intelligent, funny, moving and beautiful, full of wonderful imagination and expert storytelling. I think Jenny was born to write this book’ Rowan Coleman, author of The Memory Book

‘Resistance is Futile is funny, romantic and just the right side of geeky. Set phasers to ‘fun’…’ Danny Wallace, comedian, author and presenter 

‘A riotous cocktail of action, maths geeks, and kissing. I enjoyed every single page. Resistance really is futile’ Matt Haig, author of The Humans

We couldn’t agree more!

Follow Jenny on Twitter as @jennycolgan (she’s highly amusing indeed).

And get ready to let your defences down in May . . .

PRESS RELEASE: Sunday Times Bestseller Jenny Colgan Signs Up 2-book Deal With Orbit

Please see below for an exciting press release from Orbit UK!

Orbit UK, the science fiction and fantasy imprint of Little, Brown Book Group, has signed a deal with Sunday Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan for two new novels, described as “Bridget Jones meets The Big Bang Theory meets Independence Day”.

Jenny Colgan aka J T Colgan author photo - her lastest book RESISTANCE IS FUTILE is out in 2015Jenny Colgan is the bestselling author of over sixteen novels including Little Beach Street Bakery, Welcome to Rosie Hopkins’ Sweetshop of Dreams and Meet Me at the Cupcake Café. Her last four novels have all been Sunday Times Top Ten paperback bestsellers.

Tim Holman, Publisher at Orbit acquired UK & Commonwealth rights from the Jo Unwin Literary Agency. The first Orbit novel Resistance is Futile will be published in June 2015 under the pseudonym J.T. Colgan, the same name under which Jenny has also written the Doctor Who tie-in novel Dark Horizons and Doctor Who short story Into the Nowhere. The story focusses on the young mathematician Connie, who is recruited to work on a top secret government project along with an oddball bunch of scientists.

Tim Holman said “The whole Orbit team loved RESISTANCE IS FUTILE. How could we not love a novel that blends aliens and romance and jokes about prime numbers? We’re thrilled to be publishing Jenny, and hugely looking forward to introducing her to SF fans and readers keen to get in touch with their inner geek”.

Jenny Colgan said, “Han and Leia. Claire and Henry. Supes and Lois. I have always been an absolute sucker for a sci-fi romance, and the chance to write one for a list as innovative, successful and inclusive as Orbit is a total joy. I’m so excited to get the chance to share Connie and Luke with the world. He totally doesn’t have a tail though.”