Jon Courtenay Grimwood

redRobe is a 2000 novel by Jon Courtenay Grimwood. Details in the text suggest that it is set in the same world as that of his earlier speculative fiction novels neoAddix, Lucifer's Dragon and reMix, and like them it is also an SF thriller.

As the Byzantine and German emperors plot war against each other, Venice's future rests in the hands of three unwilling individuals:The newly knighted Sir Tycho. He defeated the Mamluk navy but he cannot make the woman he loves love him back. Tortured by secrets, afraid of the daylight, he sees no reason to save a …

We have adorned the lowest heaven with an ornament, the planets...A string of murders on Venus. Saturn's impossible forest.Voyager I's message to the stars - returned in kind.Edible sunlight.The Lowest Heaven collects seventeen astonishing, never-before-published stories from award-winning authors and provocative new …