New York: Avon Books, 1987. - 455 p. Introduction . The Widest Field (by Isaac Asimov) Rick Norwood. The Abraham Lincoln Murder Case Marion Zimmer Bradley. A dozen of Everything Scott Sanders. An Anatomy Lesson Roger Zelazny. And I Alone am Escaped to Tell Thee Jane Yolen. Angelica Edward Wellen. Apocryphal Fragment Clark Ashton Smith. A Prophecy of Monsters Steve Rasnic Tem....
Выходные данные неизвестны. - 390 p. Edited by Isaac Azimov, Martin Harry Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander Introduction: The Science Fiction Blowgun by IsaacAsimov Isaac Asimov. A Loint of Paw C. M. Kornbluth. The Advent on Channel Twelve Larry Niven. Plaything Charles E. Fritch. The Misfortune Cookie Bill Pronzini. I Wish I May, I Wish I Might George R. R. Martin. FTA Jerome...
London 1884
Flatland or Romance of many dimensions
Consists of 2 parts. Unusual. For me little bit bore. But if you want to read in English this book is not so bad. and this is rare book.
Oxford University Press, 2006. — 167 p. Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838–1926) was best known in his own day as an educator and theologian. A graduate of St John’s College, Cambridge, he served as headmaster of the City of London School from 1865 to 1869, during which period he broadened the curriculum to include English literature and science. He published numerous textbooks on grammar...
Orbit, 2022. — 975 p. — (The Sandsea Trilogy. Book 1) — ISBN 9780316368964. Neither here nor there, but long ago... Loulie al-Nazari is the Midnight Merchant: a criminal who, with the help of her jinn bodyguard, hunts and sells illegal magic. When she saves the life of a cowardly prince, she draws the attention of his powerful father, the sultan, who blackmails her into finding...
Twisted Pair Publishing, 2015. — ASIN B00U3DHGSS. Rachel Malinsky has been curvy as long as she can remember. BBW, voluptuous, Rubenesque... she's heard all the sexy ways of describing her figure, but a string of previous boyfriends nonetheless left her for thinner women. Frustrated, she decides to try something she's read about in a popular novel trilogy, not realizing that doing...
An anthology of stories edited by John Joseph Adams.
From Dracula to Buffy the Vampire Slayer; from Castlevania to Tru Blood, the romance between popular culture and vampires hearkens back to humanity’s darkest, deepest fears, flowing through our very blood, fears of death, and life, and insatiable hunger. And yet, there is an attraction, undeniable, to the vampire archetype,...
The game is afoot! Night Shade Books is proud to present the fantastic adventures of the world's greatest detective — mystery, fantasy, science fiction, horror, no genre can escape the esteemed detective's needle-sharp intellect and intuition.
This reprint anthology showcases the best Holmes short fiction from the last 25 years, featuring stories by such visionaries as Stephen...
The Living Dead 2, 2010, edited by John Joseph Adams. - Night Shade Books, San Francisco, 98 p.
Fituring original stories by Kelley Armstrong, Max Brooks, S.G. Browne, Simone R. Green, Robert Kirkman, Jonathan Maberry, Cherie Priest and others
Tom Doherty Associates books, 2022. — 488 p. — ISBN 978-1-250-81390-9 As a Witness for the Dead, Thara Celehar can speak to the recently departed: see the last thing they saw, know the last thought they had, experience the last thing they felt. It is his duty to use that ability to ascertain the intent of the dead and to find the killers of the murdered. Celehar’s time in the...
In Deuce’s world, people earn the right to a name only if they survive their first fifteen years. By that point, each unnamed ‘brat’ has trained into one of three groups–Breeders, Builders, or Hunters, identifiable by the number of scars they bear on their arms. Deuce has wanted to be a Huntress for as long as she can remember.
15-year-old Diana and five of her friends are starting a new school, and they have one mission: find out why strange things have been happening at J.C. Maxwell Boarding School. What Diana did not expect to find was a series of unexplained murders and the staff acting strangely. Soon, Diana and her friends find themselves at the center of a dangerous conflict, where everyone is...
New York: Atheneum, 1989. — 330 p. — ISBN: 0-689-12052-4. For more than thirty years, Brian W. Aldiss has been recognized as one of our most versatile science fiction writers, and this generous selection of his best stories encompasses a remarkable range of ideas, moods, and styles. Here we encounter a man who returns from a space expedition living 3.3077 minutes in the future...
This is the first volume of the Helliconia Trilogy—a monumental sage which goes beyond anything yet created by this master among today’s imaginative writers. An entire solar system is revealed, and with it a world disturbingly reflecting our own, Helliconia: an Earth-like planet where dynasties change with the seasons. Events and characters and animals stream across the pages of...
The exotic world of Helliconia continues… The detailed interplay of climate, geography, race, religion and politics is ingeniously interwoven in a tapestry which leave the indelible impression of a teeming civilisation which exists in space and time… Helliconia Summer confirms and even outstrips the promise of the first award-winning volume… The completed work seems certain to be...
The centuries-long winter of the Great Year on Helliconia is upon us, and the Oligarch is taking harsh measures to ensure the survival of the people of the bleak Northern continent of Sibornal. Behind the battle with which the novel opens lies an act of unparalleled treachery. But the plague is coming on the wings of winter and the Oligarch’s will is set against it—and against the...
Novel. — Faber and Faber, 1962. — 253 p. In this science fiction classic (1962) based on Hothouse , Hugo Best Short Story Winner of 1962, we are transported millions of years from now, to the boughs of a colossal banyan tree that covers one face of the globe. The last remnants of humanity are fighting for survival, terrorised by the carnivorous plants and the grotesque insect...
Book 2 of the Earthend saga. Simon451, 2015. After uncovering a mystical link to the ancient civilization of Galderkhaan, child psychologist Caitlin O’Hara is left with strange new powers. Suddenly she can heal her young patients with her mind and see things from other places and other times. But as she learns more about her powers, she also realizes that someone is watching...
Book 1 of the Earthend saga. Simon451, 2014. Renowned child psychologist Caitlin O’Hara is a single mom trying to juggle her job, her son, and a lackluster dating life. Her world is suddenly upturned when Maanik, the daughter of India’s ambassador to the United Nations, starts speaking in tongues and having violent visions. Caitlin is sure that her fits have something to do...
Simon & Schuster/ Simon451, 2015. - 304 c. - (The EarthEnd Saga #3) - ISBN10: 1476776598; ISBN13: 978-1476776590. The final book in their “addictive” (Marie Claire) EarthEnd Saga comes to a thrilling conclusion in a wild story involving time travel, ghosts, alien technology, and strange spiritual powers…the perfect combination for X-Files fans. After discovering the secrets to...
Simon & Schuster/ Simon451, 2015. - 304 c. - (The EarthEnd Saga #3) - ISBN10: 1476776598; ISBN13: 978-1476776590. The final book in their “addictive” (Marie Claire) EarthEnd Saga comes to a thrilling conclusion in a wild story involving time travel, ghosts, alien technology, and strange spiritual powers…the perfect combination for X-Files fans. After discovering the secrets to...
New York City: Pocket Books. — 368 p. — ISBN: 0-7434-4406-X. It is a secret history and crossover work, the central premise being that many of the things Jules Verne wrote about existed in real life as told to him by the real Captain Nemo.
New York City: Pocket Books. — 368 p. — ISBN: 0-7434-4406-X. It is a secret history and crossover work, the central premise being that many of the things Jules Verne wrote about existed in real life as told to him by the real Captain Nemo.
The sword Tyrfing has been broken to prevent it striking at the roots of Yggdrasil, the great tree that binds earth, heaven and hell together...but now the mighty sword is needed again to save the elves, who are heavily involved in their war against the trolls, and only Scafloc, a human child kidnapped and raised by the elves, can hope to persuade the mighty ice-giant,The sword...
In The Queen of Air and Darkness, Anderson declares, "Homo can truly be called Sapiens when he practices his specialty of being unspecialized. His repeated attempts to freeze himself into an all-answering pattern or culture or ideology or whatever he has named it, have repeatedly brought ruin." As in much of his writing, Anderson here explores the nature of freedom and the...
Eloquent Books, 2011. - 225 c. - ASIN: B005465VAY.
Meet Drake Judge, the famous space racer, captain of the number thirteen racecraft. Determined to win the deadly Full Circle Six race, Drake and his team embark on a journey with potentially wide-reaching implications. But when facing dangerous planets with unknown alien species, rival racers and unheard of weapons, they know...
Eloquent Books, 2011. - 225 c. - ASIN: B005465VAY.
Meet Drake Judge, the famous space racer, captain of the number thirteen racecraft. Determined to win the deadly Full Circle Six race, Drake and his team embark on a journey with potentially wide-reaching implications. But when facing dangerous planets with unknown alien species, rival racers and unheard of weapons, they know...
Eloquent Books, 2011. - 225 c. - ASIN: B005465VAY.
Meet Drake Judge, the famous space racer, captain of the number thirteen racecraft. Determined to win the deadly Full Circle Six race, Drake and his team embark on a journey with potentially wide-reaching implications. But when facing dangerous planets with unknown alien species, rival racers and unheard of weapons, they know...
Penguin, 2018. — 224 p. Bestselling adult author of The Bear and the Nightingale makes her middle grade debut with a creepy, spellbinding ghost story destined to become a classic After suffering a tragic loss, eleven-year-old Ollie only finds solace in books. So when she happens upon a crazed woman at the river threatening to throw a book into the water, Ollie doesn't...
Del Rey Books, 2017. — 284 p. The Bear and the Nightingale is a historical fantasy novel written by Katherine Arden. It is Arden's debut novel, and the first novel in the Winternight trilogy. The Bear and the Nightingale is set in medieval Russia and incorporates elements of Russian folklore.
Random House Publishing Group, 2019. Vasilisa Petrovna is an unforgettable heroine determined to forge her own path. Her gifts and her courage have drawn the attention of Morozko, the winter-king, but it is too soon to know if this connection will prove a blessing or a curse. Now Moscow has been struck by disaster. Its people are searching for answers—and for someone to blame....
Romantic Fantasy Book II of the Witch Song Series. By Amber Argyle Witch Born. Copyright 2012 Smashwords Edition. 249 pages. Shadows. Nips. Pendant. Earth Song. Traveling. Wastrel. A Choice. Earth Tremor. Secrets. Witch Wars. Song Pendant. Chesli Harvest. A Witch’s Burden. Thievery. Plant Song. Joshen. Sea Witch. Wind Song. A Guardian’s Sacrifice. Senna’s Promise. Cursed....
Romantic fantasy book Amber Argyle "Witch song" Rhemalda Publishing Copywright 2011 305 pages “In Witch song, amber Argyle makes a riveting debut, creating a fresh new world full of wonder, peril and splendor. I found Witch song to be positively engrossing from the first page till the end. About girl, last witch and her path to save others, to save the World.
In the Forest of the Dead, where the empire’s worst criminals are exiled, twin sisters Moria and Ashyn are charged with a dangerous task. For they are the Keeper and the Seeker, and each year they must quiet the enraged souls of the damned.
Viking, 2022. — 681 р. — ISBN13 9780593202241. — ISBN10 0593202244. When a deadly Fly Flu sweeps the globe, it leaves a shell of the world that once was. Among the survivors are eighteen-year-old Nico and her dog, on a voyage devised by Nico's father to find a mythical portal; a young artist named Kit, raised in an old abandoned cinema; and the enigmatic Deliverer, who lives...
The novel 2001: A Space Odyssey was written during the years 1964-1968 and was published in July 1968, shortly after release of the movie. As I have described in The Lost Worlds of 2001, both projects proceeded simultaneously, with feedback in each direction.
Saga Press, 2023. — 611 р. — ISBN 978-1-6680-0849-2 The dust may have just settled in the failed war of conquest between the Holy Vaalbaran Empire and the Ominirish Republic, but the last Emperor’s surrender means little to a lowly scribe like Enitan. All she wants is to quit her day job and expand her fledgling tea business. But when her lover is assassinated and her sibling...
Paternus Books Media, 2020. War of Gods is the highly anticipated conclusion to the critically acclaimed, award winning epic urban fantasy series, The Paternus Trilogy. From Africa to Asgard, to an invisible island in the Pacific and the Bone Road of a forgotten world, Fi and Zeke must come to grips with not only their newfound abilities but also who they are – and accept what...
Amulet Books, 2023. — 684 р. — ISBN 978-1-4197-6090-7 Welcome to the Centennial. Isla Crown has secured the love of two powerful rulers and broken the curses that plagued the six realms for centuries, but few know the true origins of her powers. Now, in the wake of a crushing betrayal, Isla finds herself hungry for distraction, preferring to frequent Lightlark’s seductive...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012. – 135 p. Out of the irradiated wastes comes a soldier. On the far edge of the trade routes, in a small farming community, there lives a mechanic. Two men from a previous era, surviving through steel and cunning in a world of degenerated philosophy; a world where the old tech is treated with savage, animistic worship. A storm is...
HarperCollins, 2016. — 464 p. — (Red Queen 02). If there’s one thing Mare Barrow knows, it’s that she’s different. Mare Barrow’s blood is red—the color of common folk—but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control. The crown calls her an impossibility, a fake, but as she makes her escape from Maven, the...
HarperTeen, 2015. — 388 p. — ISBN: 978-14-0915072-5. This is a world divided by blood – red or silver. The Reds are commoners, ruled by a Silver elite in possession of god-like superpowers. And to Mare Barrow, a seventeen-year-old Red girl from the poverty-stricken Stilts, it seems like nothing will ever change. That is, until she finds herself working in the Silver Palace....
Iron Rose Bleeding is a futuristic novel that is based around the crisis created by global change and by the arrival on planet Earth of other humanoids. The story deals with a lesbian woman who finds herself drawn into the dangerous, political intrigue of an alien race. Alone, she must find a bridge of understanding and co-operation between her world and the alien's to solve the...
Ergo Sum Publishing, 2013 A brilliant scientist creates a brilliant robot. Working together, they beat the stock market. But which one will survive the battle for love? When Bogdan Bogdanov, a troubled cybernetics genius, creates Semmant, a robot living inside a computer, he feels on top of the world. Semmant is a robot created out of despair. Semmant takes on the capital...
Ergo Sum Publishing, 2013 A brilliant scientist creates a brilliant robot. Working together, they beat the stock market. But which one will survive the battle for love? When Bogdan Bogdanov, a troubled cybernetics genius, creates Semmant, a robot living inside a computer, he feels on top of the world. Semmant is a robot created out of despair. Semmant takes on the capital...
Ergo Sum Publishing, 2013 A brilliant scientist creates a brilliant robot. Working together, they beat the stock market. But which one will survive the battle for love? When Bogdan Bogdanov, a troubled cybernetics genius, creates Semmant, a robot living inside a computer, he feels on top of the world. Semmant is a robot created out of despair. Semmant takes on the capital...
Выходные данные не указаны. 32 стр.
The author resides in Pismo Beach, California, with a thoroughly unpleasant parrot. Of her debut tale in Asimov’s she says, “ ‘Noble Mold’ is the first published story in a series about the immortal agents of a twenty-fourth-century salvage company run by an all-powerful cabal of scientists and investment bankers. There really was a Fr. Rubio...
Output data are not specified. — 312 p. The story follows a petty thief called Jack Ravenwild, who is hired by the beautiful Elana to find a very special book. In the same tenday (the Realms equivalent of a week), he resorts to spying on another perfect woman, a mage named Zandria, to try to get information. But, the beautiful Illyth invites him to the game of masks, and at the...
Solaris 2013 — 455 стр. — ISBN13: 978-1781081747 In Dream London the city changes a little every night and the people change a little every day. Captain Jim Wedderburn has looks, style and courage by the bucketful. He’s adored by women, respected by men and feared by his enemies. He’s the man to find out who has twisted London into this strange new world, and he knows it. But...
Saga Press, 2023. — 446 р. — ISBN 978-1-5344-4997-8 Since Anabelle’s mother left for Earth to care for her own ailing mother, her days in New Galveston have been spent at school and her nights at her laconic father’s diner with Watson, the family Kitchen Engine and dishwasher as her only companion. When the Silence came, and communication and shipments from Earth to its...
Gallery / Saga Press. A gripping collection of six stories of terror—including the novella “The Visible Filth,” the basis for the upcoming major motion picture—by Shirley Jackson Award–winning author Nathan Ballingrud, hailed as a major new voice by Jeff VanderMeer, Paul Tremblay, and Carmen Maria Machado—“one of the most heavyweight horror authors out there” (The Verge). In his...
A captivating and witty dark fantasy that will have girls lusting after it. Morgan Sparks has always known that she and her boyfriend, Cam, are made for each other. But when Cam’s cousin Pip comes to stay with the family, Cam seems depressed. Finally Cam confesses to Morgan what’s going on: Cam is a fairy. The night he was born, fairies came down and switched him with a healthy...
A captivating and witty dark fantasy that will have girls lusting after it. Morgan Sparks has always known that she and her boyfriend, Cam, are made for each other. But when Cam’s cousin Pip comes to stay with the family, Cam seems depressed. Finally Cam confesses to Morgan what’s going on: Cam is a fairy. The night he was born, fairies came down and switched him with a healthy...
A captivating and witty dark fantasy that will have girls lusting after it. Morgan Sparks has always known that she and her boyfriend, Cam, are made for each other. But when Cam’s cousin Pip comes to stay with the family, Cam seems depressed. Finally Cam confesses to Morgan what’s going on: Cam is a fairy. The night he was born, fairies came down and switched him with a healthy...
(The Books of Babel #2). The second book in the word-of-mouth phenomenon fantasy series about one man's dangerous journey through a labyrinthine world. The Tower of Babel is proving to be as difficult to reenter as it was to break out of. Forced into a life of piracy, Senlin and his eclectic crew are struggling to survive aboard their stolen airship as the hunt to rescue...
Orbit, 2021. The incredible final book in the phenomenon fantasy series described as “future classics" follows one man's dangerous journey through a labyrinthine world and the mysteries he uncovers along the way (Los Angeles Times). "Josiah Bancroft is a magician. His books are that rare alchemy: gracefully written, deliriously imaginative, action packed, warm, witty, and...
(The Books of Babel #3). Fearing an uprising, the Sphinx sends Senlin to investigate a plot that has taken hold in the ringdom of Pelphia. Alone in the city, Senlin infiltrates a bloody arena where hods battle for the public's entertainment. But his investigation is quickly derailed by a gruesome crime and an unexpected reunion. Posing as a noble lady and her handmaid, Voleta and...
Month9Books, LLC, 2016. — (Blank Slate). — ISBN10: 1944816755; ISBN13: 978-1944816759. Eighteen-year-old Blanca has lived a sheltered life. Her entire childhood has been spent at Tabula Rasa School where she's been protected from the Internet. Blanca has never been online and doesn't even know how to text. Her lack of a virtual footprint has made her extremely valuable and upon...
Month9Books, LLC, 2016. — (Blank Slate). — ISBN10: 1944816755; ISBN13: 978-1944816759. Eighteen-year-old Blanca has lived a sheltered life. Her entire childhood has been spent at Tabula Rasa School where she's been protected from the Internet. Blanca has never been online and doesn't even know how to text. Her lack of a virtual footprint has made her extremely valuable and upon...
(The Tide Child #1). A brilliantly imagined saga of honor, glory, and warfare, The Bone Ships is the epic launch of a new fantasy from David Gemmell Award-nominated RJ Barker. Two nations at war. A prize beyond compare. For generations, the Hundred Isles have built their ships from the bones of ancient dragons to fight an endless war. The dragons disappeared, but the battles for...
Little, Brown and Company, 2023. — 776 р. — ISBNs: 978-0-316-48077-2 Grayson Hawthorne was raised as the heir apparent to his billionaire grandfather, taught from the cradle to put family first. Now the great Tobias Hawthorne is dead and his family disinherited, but some lessons linger. When Grayson’s half-sisters find themselves in trouble, he swoops in to do what he does...
Tom Doherty, 2023. — 177 р. — ISBN 9781250850980 A fifteen-year-old teenager is the backbone of her small Midwestern family, budgeting the household finances and raising her younger brother while her mom, a talented artist, weaves beautiful tapestries. For six years, it’s been just the three of them―her mom has brought home guests at times, but none have ever stayed. Yet when...
Lethe Press, 2015. - 228 c. - ASIN: B019YO8FPO.
Blondee lives in a world without memories: just four walls, fifty huts and a hundred forgotten people. She came in with the food rations. Mind and body naked, like everyone. Now she lives in a triangular hut at the edge of everything. They say she was a thief — she has long fingers — and she certainly has a reputation for taking...
Lethe Press, 2015. - 228 c. - ASIN: B019YO8FPO.
Blondee lives in a world without memories: just four walls, fifty huts and a hundred forgotten people. She came in with the food rations. Mind and body naked, like everyone. Now she lives in a triangular hut at the edge of everything. They say she was a thief — she has long fingers — and she certainly has a reputation for taking...
Lethe Press, 2015. - 228 c. - ASIN: B019YO8FPO.
Blondee lives in a world without memories: just four walls, fifty huts and a hundred forgotten people. She came in with the food rations. Mind and body naked, like everyone. Now she lives in a triangular hut at the edge of everything. They say she was a thief — she has long fingers — and she certainly has a reputation for taking...
New York: Random House, 1972. – 309 p. Книга пародия на английском языке Опять переработки мифов, что-то последнее время таких книжек сыплется, что из рога изобилия. Но тут есть разница. Вкусный язык - кста нельзя не отметить великолепный перевод Лапицкого, эксперименты с текстом: закольцованность, рассказы в рассказе и пр… (хотя это тоже стало общим местом). Но поначалу очень...
NB! 26 страниц. Книга не полная. From Lost in the Funhouse: Fiction for Print, Tape, Live Voice. (LF) New York: Bantam Books, 1980. Barth's lively, highly original collection of short pieces is a major landmark of experimental fiction. Though many of the stories gathered here were published separately, there are several themes common to them all, giving them new meaning in the...
Everyone said the original Titanic was unsinkable. Shows how much they knew. Everyone says the new Titanic is unsinkable. But there are worse things than drowning as stowaway Jimmy Armstrong and rich girl Claire quickly find out. With a mysterious, incurable disease rapidly infecting the population, being at sea seems the safest place to be...
Lucky Jimmy Armstrong and his friend Claire find themselves deserted by the new Titanic on an unfamiliar shore. With normal life changed forever, the world is left in the hands of cannibals, murderers and gangs. They are back to fighting for survival. Well, that, and running...fast! Then after overhearing a group of survivors with a starting story they stumble upon the one...
The Balance Omnibus Edition. — Gryphonwood Press, 2016. — 556 p. — (Alan Baxter's dark urban fantasy series). — ISBN: 1940095433. The entire saga of Alan Baxter's dark urban fantasy series, The Balance, in one volume. This collection includes two novels and two short stories. RealmShift Isiah is having a bad day. Samuel Harrigan used ancient blood magic to escape a deal with...
Tachyon, 2010. Introduction by Peter S. Beagle. Maureen F. McHugh: Ancestor Money. Gregory Maguire: Scarecrow. Patricia A. McKilli: Lady of the Skulls. T. C. Boyle: We are Norsemen. Steven Millhauser: The Barnum Museum. Stephen King: Mrs. Todd's Shortcut. Terry Bisson: Bears Discover Fire. Francesca Lia Block: Bones M. Neil Gaiman: Snow, Glass, Apples. Almee Bender: Fruit and...
A Fine and Private Place is a fantasy novel written by Peter S. Beagle, the first of his major fantasies. It was first published in hardcover by Viking Press on May 23, 1960. The book takes its title from a verse from Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress": "The grave's a fine and private place, / But none, I think, do there embrace." The setting, accordingly, is the fictional...
Bear Elizabeth et al. Some of the Best from Tor.com 2019 Edition. — Tom Doherty Associates, 2020. — 768 p. — ISBN: 978-1-250-77678-5. A collection of some of the best original science fiction and fantasy short fiction published on Tor.com in 2019. Includes stories by: Elizabeth Bear, Siobhan Carroll, John Chu, Greg Egan, Kathleen Ann Goonan, S.L. Huang, Carole Johnstone, K,J,...
An Ad Astra Book, 2023. — 1358 p. — ISBN: 978-07-56418120 Lorelei Aurelius is the smartest inquisitor in the mountain city of Ancris. When a mysterious tip leads her to a clandestine meeting between the Church and the hated Red Knives, she uncovers a plot that threatens not only her home but the empire itself. The trail leads her to Rylan Holbrooke, a notorious thief posing as...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. — 150 p. — ISBN 0547225490; ISBN 13 9780547225494. Anax thinks she knows history. Her grueling all-day Examination has just begun, and if she passes, she’ll be admitted into the Academy—the elite governing institution of her utopian society. But Anax is about to discover that for all her learning, the history she’s been taught isn’t the whole...
2008. Маги и миссис Квент. Роман-фэнтези Галена Беккета (это псевдоним американского писателя Марка Антони, род. 1965), отвечающий на вопрос: А что было бы, если бы существовали фантазийные причины социальных ограничений, с которыми сталкивались героини романов Джейн Остин и Шарлотты Бронте? Язык английский.
Astra books, 2022. — 803 p. — ISBN: 978-18011-0195-0 Liam Mulcahey, a reclusive, shell-shocked veteran, remembers little of the Great War. Ten years later, when he is caught in a brutal attack on a Chicago speakeasy, Liam is saved by Grace, an alluring heiress who's able to cast illusions. Though the attack appears to have been committed by the hated Uprising, Grace believes it...
Москва: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1962. - 431с. OCR. Сборник советских фантастических рассказов на английском языке. Перевод Леонид Колесников. Содержание: The Astronaut by Valentina Zhuravlyova Over the Abyss by Alexander Belyaev The Maxwell Equation by Anatoly Dneprov The Valley of the Four Crosses by Igor Zabelin The Golub-Yavan by Kirill Stanykovich Flying Flowers...
Москва: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1962. - 431с. OCR. Сборник советских фантастических рассказов на английском языке. Перевод Леонид Колесников. Содержание: The Astronaut by Valentina Zhuravlyova Over the Abyss by Alexander Belyaev The Maxwell Equation by Anatoly Dneprov The Valley of the Four Crosses by Igor Zabelin The Golub-Yavan by Kirill Stanykovich Flying Flowers...
The Amphibian will throw you back to a time when skin and deep-sea diving had not yet made the Silent World begin yielding up its secrets on a really big scale, as aqualung and snorkel are doing today, and present to you Alexander Belyaev’s 1928 prevision of the ocean mastered by mankind.
Sea-devil has appeared in the Rio de la Plata. Weird cries out at sea, slashed fishermen’s...
Translated from the Russian by L. Kolesnikov. — Edited by R. Dixon. — Moscow: Raduga publishers, 1986. — 136 p. — ISBN 5-05-000659-7. The Amphibian will throw you back to a time when skin and deep-sea diving had not yet made the Silent World begin yielding up its secrets on a really big scale, as aqualung and snorkel are doing today, and present to you Alexander Belyaev’s 1928...
An odyssey of discovery, from a shattered society through the solar system with a handful of men and women who ride a cold, hurtling ball of ice to the shaky promise of a distant, unknowable future.
The novel tells the story of an expedition beginning in the year 2061 to capture Comet Halley into a short period orbit so that its resources can be mined. The discovery of life on...
Toronto — Chicago — Melbourne: Bayda books, 1984. — 129 p. Translated from Ukrainian by Yuri Tkach. From the foremost Ukrainian science fiction writer, a collection of his best stories. Thought-provoking, extraordinary journeys through inner and outer space, contacts with alien life forms, man's quest for immortality. This is the first English translation of Berdnyk's works,...
Toronto — Chicago — Melbourne: Bayda books, 1984. — 129 p. Translated from Ukrainian by Yuri Tkach. From the foremost Ukrainian science fiction writer, a collection of his best stories. Thought-provoking, extraordinary journeys through inner and outer space, contacts with alien life forms, man's quest for immortality. This is the first English translation of Berdnyk's works,...
Mandarin, 1989. In a catastrophically wrecked 24th century there is a group of people who are essentially immortal - apparently scared immortal by some dreadful event in their life. The hero, for example, became immortal during the Krakatoa eruption. These immortals find themselves pitted against a rogue member of their group backed up by a paranoid computer. The extrapolated...
Vintage, 1997. Сборник фантастических рассказов. Alfred Bester (December 18, 1913 – September 30, 1987) was an American science fiction author. Here is a collection of some of his best short stories. 5,271,009. Adam & No Eve. Hobson's Choice. Of Time and Third Avenue. Disappearing Act. Fondly Fahrenheit. Galatea Galante. The Roller Coaster. Hell is Forever. Ms. Found in a...
IBooks, 2016. — 332 p. — ISBN: 0743474945 (ISBN13: 9780743474948) Series The Dawn of Amber 2 In the nationally bestselling Roger Zelazny's The Dawn of Amber, John Gregory Betancourt began the epic exploration into how the world of Amber and all of its shadow worlds came into existence. The young warrior named Oberon, who is destined to found a dynasty and rule over Amber, was...
IBooks, 2002. — 416 p. — ISBN: 0743452402 (ISBN13: 9780743452403) Series The Dawn of Amber 1 In Roger Zelazny's Amber universe, there is only one true world, of which all others are but Shadows. In the ten-book saga that he created, it is learned that Amber was not the first true world; rather, it was The Courts of Chaos. The saga chronicled the adventures of the royal family...
IBooks, 2005. — 310 p. — ISBN: 1596871326 (ISBN13: 9781596871328) Series The Dawn of Amber 3 Oberon takes on the reins of leadership, and he carves an empire from the new universe created by his father. Enemies new and old lie in wait, and creating a kingdom for himself and his heirs requires delicate political maneuvering, a will of iron, and the might of a born warrior.
HarperCollins, 2014. — 384 p. — ISBN: 9781743096673.
Detective Gabriella Versado has seen a lot of bodies, but this one is unique even by Detroit's standards: half-boy, half-deer, somehow fused. The cops nickname him "Bambi," but as stranger and more disturbing bodies are discovered, how can the city hold on to a reality that is already tearing at its seams?
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Umuzi, 2013. — 292 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4152-0505-1. The girl who wouldn’t die. Hunting a killer who shouldn’t exist. Chicago 1931. Violent drifter Harper Curtis stumbles upon a house that hides a secret as shocking as his own twisted nature: it opens onto other times. Harper uses it to stalk his ‘shining girls’ across decades – and cut the fire out of them. He’s the perfect...
Roc; First Edition edition, 2017. — 416 p. — ISBN10: 045147449X; ISBN13: 978-0451474490. THE New York TIMES BESTSELLER! (A Novel of the Others) Anne Bishop returns to her world of the Others, as humans struggle to survive in the shadow of shapeshifters and vampires far more powerful than themselves... After a human uprising was brutally put down by the Elders—a primitive and...
Roc; First Edition edition, 2017. — 416 p. — ISBN10: 045147449X; ISBN13: 978-0451474490. THE New York TIMES BESTSELLER! (A Novel of the Others) Anne Bishop returns to her world of the Others, as humans struggle to survive in the shadow of shapeshifters and vampires far more powerful than themselves... After a human uprising was brutally put down by the Elders—a primitive and...
Roc; First Edition edition, 2017. — 416 p. — ISBN10: 045147449X; ISBN13: 978-0451474490. THE New York TIMES BESTSELLER! (A Novel of the Others) Anne Bishop returns to her world of the Others, as humans struggle to survive in the shadow of shapeshifters and vampires far more powerful than themselves... After a human uprising was brutally put down by the Elders—a primitive and...
St. Martin’s Press,, 2023. — 539 р. — ISBN 978-1-250-28391-7 Rachel has been in love with Alistair for fifteen years. Even though she’s now married to someone else. Even though she was a teenager when they met. Even though he is twenty years older than her. Rachel and Alistair’s summer love affair on a remote, sun-trapped Greek island has consumed her since she was seventeen,...
Del Rey Books, 2023. — 916 р. — ISBN 9780593498293 The remote island of Masquapaug has not seen a dragon in many generations—until fifteen-year-old Anequs finds a dragon’s egg and bonds with its hatchling. Her people are delighted, for all remember the tales of the days when dragons lived among them and danced away the storms of autumn, enabling the people to thrive. To them,...
A hunting party in the Canadian wilderness separates to track moose, and one member is abducted by the Wendigo (a mythical creature appearing in the mythology of the Algonquian people.)
Wednesday Books, 2023. — 466 p. — ISBN 978-1-250-78713-2 Eighteen-year-old Victoria is a Wildblood. Since she was kidnapped at the age of six and manipulated by the Exotic Lands Touring Company, she’s worked as a tour guide ever since with a team of fellow Wildbloods who take turns using their magic to protect travelers in a Jamaican jungle teeming with ghostly monsters. When...
New York City: Union Square & Co., 2021. — 677 р. — ISBN: 9781454947875 Keera is a killer. As the King's Blade, she is the most talented spy in the kingdom. And the king’s favored assassin. When a mysterious figure moves against the Crown, Keera is called upon to hunt down the so-called Shadow. She tracks her target into the magical lands of the Fae, but Faeland is not what it...
2020. — 383 p. The Alexandrian Society, caretakers of lost knowledge from the greatest civilizations of antiquity, are the foremost secret society of magical academicians in the world. Those who earn a place among the Alexandrians will secure a life of wealth, power, and prestige beyond their wildest dreams, and each decade, only the six most uniquely talented magicians are...
HarperTorch, 1994. — 179 р.
The Exorcist is a novel of supernatural suspense by William Peter Blatty. It was inspired by a 1949 case of demonic possession and exorcism that Blatty heard about while he was a student.
A young girl named Regan MacNeil living with her famous mother, actress Chris MacNeil, becomes inexplicably ill. After a gradual series of poltergeist-like...
Tor Books, 2011. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 0765327139; ISBN13: 978-0765327130. From the author of The Exorcist -- Legion, a classic tale of horror, is back in print! A young boy is found horribly murdered in a mock crucifixion. Is the murderer the elderly woman who witnessed the crime? A neurologist who can no longer bear the pain life inflicts on its victims? A psychiatrist with a...
Insight Editions; First Edition, 2016. — 164 p. — ISBN-10 1608878031, ISBN-13 978-1608878031 From Blizzard Entertainment, the makers of critically acclaimed games such as Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo comes this exciting companion edition to Diablo III: Book of Cain, giving fans an in-depth look into the mind of Tyrael, a key character of the Diablo universe. One of the most...
MyOstrich Press, 2015, — 133 p.
Prequel to The Triadine Saga.
In this prequel novella to the epic fantasy series The Triadine Saga, we follow the Elven Princess Rozlynn as she struggles with her role in The Prophecy and what she must do to keep the world from falling into darkness. This is a story of love and conflicts, personal growth, and freedom to choose your own destiny....
Talos, 2019. The adventures of Li-lin, a Daoist priestess with the unique ability to see the spirit world, continue in the thrilling follow-up to the critically-acclaimed historical urban fantasy The Girl with Ghost Eyes. It’s the end of the Nineteenth Century. San Francisco’s cobblestone streets are haunted, but Chinatown has an unlikely protector in a young Daoist priestess...
Quercus, 2023. — 824 р. — ISBN 978 178 654172 7 Born without a trace of magic, Tamsin Lark is no match for the sorceresses and Hollowers who populate the magical underground of Boston. But when the only parent she’s ever known disappears without so much as a goodbye, she has no choice but to join in their cutthroat pursuit of enchanted relics to keep herself—and her brother,...
Disney-Hyperion, 2016. — 744 p. — (A Darkest Minds Novel). — ISBN: 1484756878. — ISBN: 978-1484756874 Don't miss this breathtaking collection of stories set in the world of the best-selling Darkest Minds trilogy. Featuring ebook original novellas In Time and Sparks Rise, available in print for the first time, and a gripping, brand-new novella, Through the Dark is a must-have...
Wolf: a deadly world under a cold red sun, old when Terrans were learning to walk upright. Only one Terran agent knew Wolf well enough to pass undetected; but he had ruined his usefulness long ago. And yet only this scarred and bitter man could discover the secret of The Door Through Space...
Introduction by John Joseph Adams. The Lottery by Shirley Jackson. Red Card by S. L. Gilbow. Ten With a Flag by Joseph Paul Haines. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula k. Le Guin. Evidence of Love in a case of Abandonment One Daughter's Personal Account by M. Rickert. The Funeral by Kate Wilhelm. O Happy Day! by Geoff Ryman. Pervert by Charles Coleman Finlay. From...
Introduction by John Joseph Adams.
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson.
Red Card by S. L. Gilbow.
Ten With a Flag by Joseph Paul Haines.
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula k. Le Guin.
Evidence of Love in a case of Abandonment One Daughter's Personal Account by M. Rickert.
The Funeral by Kate Wilhelm.
O Happy Day! by Geoff Ryman.
Pervert by Charles Coleman Finlay....
Introduction by John Joseph Adams.
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson.
Red Card by S. L. Gilbow.
Ten With a Flag by Joseph Paul Haines.
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula k. Le Guin.
Evidence of Love in a case of Abandonment One Daughter's Personal Account by M. Rickert.
The Funeral by Kate Wilhelm.
O Happy Day! by Geoff Ryman.
Pervert by Charles Coleman Finlay....
Delacorte Press, 2009. — 292 p. — ISBN: 978-0-375-89376-6 All 16-year-old Cameron wants is to get through high school—and life in general—with a minimum of effort. It’s not a lot to ask. But that’s before he’s given some bad news: he’s sick and he’s going to die. Which totally sucks. Hope arrives in the winged form of Dulcie, a loopy punk angel/possible hallucination with a bad...
Scholastic Inc., 2016. — 400 p. From the creator of the bestselling horror video game series Five Nights at Freddy's. Ten years after the horrific murders at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza that ripped their town apart, Charlie, whose father owned the restaurant, and her childhood friends reunite on the anniversary of the tragedy and find themselves at the old pizza place which had been...
Harper Voyager, 2009. The stunning debut fantasy novel from author Peter V. Brett The Painted Man, book one of the Demon Cycle, is a captivating and thrilling fantasy adventure, pulling the reader into a world of demons, darkness and heroes. Sometimes there is a very good reason to be afraid of the dark. Arlen lives with his parents on their small farmstead, half a day's ride...
Random House Publishing Group, 2017. — 674 p. “New York Times bestselling author Peter V. Brett brings one of the most imaginative fantasy sagas of the twenty-first century to an epic close. For time out of mind, bloodthirsty demons have stalked the night, culling the human race to scattered remnants dependent on half-forgotten magics to protect them. Then two heroes arose--men...
The sun is setting on humanity. The night now belongs to voracious demons that arise as the sun sets, preying upon a dwindling population forced to cower behind ancient and half-forgotten symbols of power. These wards alone can keep the demons at bay, but legends tell of a Deliverer: a general—some would say prophet—who once bound all mankind into a single force that defeated...
White Wolf Publ., 1998. - 100 pages. Wake-Up Time, Kiddies! - Why should the mysticks have all the fun? Across the boards of Dr. Volcano's Forbidden Website, we uncover dozens of gadgets, widgets, inventions and killing machines from the vaults of the Virtual Adepts, Sons of Ether, Technocracy and other random sources. A long-awaited sourcebook for high-tech magick. -A...
Boxtree, 1995 (Glasgow). Aliens: Colonial Marines Technical Manual is your official guide to the equipment and organisation of the United States Colonial Marine Corps. Packed with diagrams, technical schematics and plans, the manual takes a detailed look at the guns, vehicles and ships of the USCMC, and the men and women who use them. A must-have book for any Aliens fan, the...
Melcher Media Inc., 2015. — 341 p. — ISBN: 978-1-59591-093-6, 978-1-59591-091-2. Future Visions: Original Science Fiction Inspired by Microsoft is an anthology of new short work from some of the greatest science fiction writers in the field. These visionary stories explore prediction science, quantum computing, real-time translation, machine learning, and much more. The authors...
DAW, 2004. — 301 p. — (Green Rider 2). — ISBN: 0756401933, ISBN13: 9780756401931. Karigan G'ladheon had been a Green Rider, one of the king of Sacoridia's elite magical messengers. Being a Green Rider was more perilous than Karigan had ever imagined, for a rogue Eletians had cracked the magical D'Yer Wall which had protected Sacoridia for a thousand years from the evil...
DAW, 2000. — 301 p. — (Green Rider 1). — ISBN: 0886778581, ISBN13: 9780886778583. On her long journey home from school after a fight which will surely lead to her expulsion, Karigan G'ladheon ponders her future as she trudges through the immense forest called Green Cloak. But her thoughts are interrupted by the clattering of hooves as a galloping horse bursts from the woods,...
Self-published, 2023. — 1037 р. In the wake of the Kejari, everything Oraya once thought to be true has been destroyed. A prisoner in her own kingdom, grieving the only family she ever had, and reeling from a gutting betrayal, she no longer even knows the truth of her own blood. She's left only with one certainty: she cannot trust anyone, least of all Raihn. The House of Night,...
Self-published, 2022. — 783 р. The adopted human daughter of the Nightborn vampire king, Oraya carved her place in a world designed to kill her. Her only chance to become something more than prey is entering the Kejari: a legendary tournament held by the goddess of death herself. But winning won't be easy amongst the most vicious warriors from all three vampire houses. To...
Simon Pulse, 2019. — 592 р. — (System Divine, Book 1). — ISBN: 978-1534410633. When the Last Days came, the planet of Laterre promised hope. A new life for a wealthy French family and their descendants. But five hundred years later, it’s now a place where an extravagant elite class reigns supreme; where the clouds hide the stars and the poor starve in the streets; where a rebel...
Set in Appalachia, Krampus the Yule Lord is a twisted fairytale about a failed West Virginia songwriter who gets ensnared on Christmas Eve in an eternal war between a not-so-saintly Saint Nick and his dark enemy Krampus, aka Black Peter, an ancient trickster demon. Krampus the Yule Lord is Gregory Maguire (Wicked) meets Susanna Clarke (Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell) in the realm...
A young man descends into Purgatory to save his wife and unborn child in this gorgeous, illustrated tale of wonder and terror from the mind of master storyteller and acclaimed artist Brom Fresh out of jail and eager to start a new life, Chet Moran and his pregnant wife, Trish, leave town to begin again. But an ancient evil is looming, and what seems like a safe haven may not be...
The Archimages Handbook for Mages: The Ascension. White Wolf Publishing, 1999. 90 pages Prelude: A Narrow World. Retrospect. Threshold. Archmastery. Ascension. The Keys to the Universe.
512 pages — Published October 5th 2006 by Orbit Three hundred years have passed since the death of Allanon, and the Four Lands are sadly changed. The Elves have vanished, and the Dwarves are enslaved. The Southland is now under the totalitarian rule of the Federation, and magic is strictly forbidden. Yet Par Ohmsford still has some power of the Wishsong. While his brother Coll...
Ancient Evil threatens the Elves: The ancient tree created by long-lost Elven magic, is dying. When Wil Ohmsford is summoned to guard the Amberle on a perilous quest to gather a new seed for a new tree, he is faced with the Reaper, the most fearsome of all Demons. And Wil is without power to control them...
Orbit, 1998. — 416 p. "Find the Elves and return them to the world of Men!" the shade of the Druid Allanon had ordered Wren. It was clearly an impossible task. The Elves had been gone from the Westland for more than a hundred years. There was not even a trace of their former city of Arborlon left to mark their passing. No one in the Westland knew of them—except, finally, the...
Del Rey Books, 1986 Annotation: Landover was a genuine magic kingdom, with fairy folk and wizardry, just as the advertisement had promised. But after he purchased it, Ben Holiday learned that there were a few details the add had failed to mention. The kingdom was in ruin. The Barons refused to recognise a king, and the peasants were without hope. A dragon was laying waste...
New York: Springer International Publishing, 2017. - 220 p. This anthology contains fourteen intriguing stories by active research scientists and other writers trained in science. Science is at the heart of real science fiction, which is more than just westerns with ray guns or fantasy with spaceships. The people who do science and love science best are scientists. Scientists...
Novelette. — Publication: Thrilling Wonder Stories, Winter 1945.
Однажды мартовским вечером Роджер Джером Пфлюггер, астроном, заметил удивительный факт — звезды резко поменяли свое местоположение в небе. Ковш Большой Медведицы скривился, а Южный Крест перестал быть крестом. Астрофизики были в шоке, да и простой люд заметил перемены в небе. Мало кто мог предвидеть, для чего была...
Collection. — Shasta, 1951. — 224 pp. Introduction (Space on My Hands) essay by Fredric Brown. Something Green shortstory by Fredric Brown. Crisis, 1999 (1949) shortstory by Fredric Brown. Pi in the Sky (1945) novelette by Fredric Brown. Knock (1948) shortstory by Fredric Brown. All Good BEMs (1949) shortstory by Fredric Brown. Daymare (1943) novelette by Fredric Brown. Nothing...
Shortstory. — Publication: Astounding Science Fiction, January 1945. — Vol 34, No 5 — Pp. 126-143.
Что будет если в ответ на радиоволны, которые испускает наша цивилизация из далекой галактики прибудут таинственные «волновики», которые ими питаются, а также и электричеством? Что станет с нами? Неужели опять настанут средние века?
Random House Publishing Group, 2019. — (Red Rising Saga #5). The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Morning Star returns to the Red Rising universe with the thrilling sequel to Iron Gold. For a decade Darrow led a revolution against the corrupt color-coded Society. Now, outlawed by the very Republic he founded, he wages a rogue war on Mercury in hopes that he can still...
Random House Publishing Group, 2019. — (Red Rising Saga #5). The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Morning Star returns to the Red Rising universe with the thrilling sequel to Iron Gold. For a decade Darrow led a revolution against the corrupt color-coded Society. Now, outlawed by the very Republic he founded, he wages a rogue war on Mercury in hopes that he can still...
Del Rey, 2018. — 456 p. — (Red Rising Series). — ISBN10: 042528591X, 13 978-0425285916. This book is in the New York Times Best Seller list: Fiction - February, 2018 Red Rising was the story of the end of one universe. Iron Gold is the story of the creation of a new one. Witness the beginning of a stunning new saga of tragedy and triumph. From Book... They call him father,...
Del Rey (US) & Hodder (UK) July 25, 2023. — 686 p. — (Red Rising Series Book 6). Darrow returns as Pierce Brown’s New York Times bestselling Red Rising series continues in the thrilling sequel to Dark Age. The Reaper is a legend, more myth than man: the savior of worlds, the leader of the Rising, the breaker of chains. But the Reaper is also Darrow, born of the red soil of...
New York: Del Rey (Random House), 2014. — 382 p. — ISBN: 0345539788; ISBN13: 9780345539786. Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and...
Baen Publishing Enterprises, 1996. — (Vorkosigan 10)
While leading the Dendarii Mercenaries on a hostage rescue mission, Miles has a seizure—which results in his accidentally severing the rescued hostage's legs.
Forced to abandon his undercover role as leader of the Dendarii Mercenaries, Miles Vorkosigan persuades Emperor Gregor to appoint him Imperial Auditor so he can...
Delphi Classics, 2014. — 9897 p. Edward Bulwer-Lytton was an immensely popular Victorian novelist, whose bestselling novels earned him a considerable fortune. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete fictional works of Edward Bulwer-Lytton, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi...
Orbit Books , 2003. — 416 p. — ISBN-10 1841491926 ; ISBN-13 978-1841491929. The land between the volatile kingdoms of Deraine, Sagene and Roche is ruled by the sword and by the outlaw. But the schemes of men and nations hold scant interest for Hal Kailas. For him the only true power in the world as that of the dragons . As a child he loved to climb the high cliffs around his...
Ace, 2006. — 420 p. “A tale of epic war and sorcery with a strong appeal to dragon lovers of all ages.”—Library Journal Having proved his mettle as a dragon flier in the war against the Roche, Hal Kalais has earned his place as Dragonmaster of Deraine’s aerial forces. Taking advantage of the enemy’s retreat, Hal leads three squadrons in a combined land and air assault to push...
Ace, 2008. — 302 p. “A vast and intricate tapestry woven by a writer who knows both history and war.”—David Drake, author of the Lord of the Isles series The Great War has ended—but there is no peace for battle-hardened Hal Kailas amidst the ruins of his homeland. In this bleak, ravaged world, even his marriage to Lady Khiri no longer brings solace. And Hal’s worst fears are...
Ecw Press, 2009. 276 pages. English. Научно-фантастический триллер. The dark side of humanity is explored in this electrifying science fiction thriller in which an epidemic virus terrorizes the earth. Causing its inhabitants to strike out on murderous rampages, the virus is caught through conversation and, once contracted, leads its host on a strange journey—into another world...
Ecw Press, 2009. 276 pages. English.
Научно-фантастический триллер.
The dark side of humanity is explored in this electrifying science fiction thriller in which an epidemic virus terrorizes the earth. Causing its inhabitants to strike out on murderous rampages, the virus is caught through conversation and, once contracted, leads its host on a strange journey—into another...
Boston: Mariner Books, 2005. — 356 p. The Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the very best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system...
Park Row Books, 2022. — 556 p. — ISBN-13: 978-036-9718235 Hidden behind back doors of bars and restaurants and theaters and shops all over New York City are shortcuts—secret passageways that allow you to jump through time and space to emerge in different parts of the city. No one knows where they came from, but there are rules—you can only travel through them one way and only...
London: Orbit Books, 2009. — 453 p. The Brothers Grossbart are about to discover that all legends have their truths, and worse fates than death await those who would take the red road of villainy. Hegel and Manfried Grossbart may not consider themselves bad men - but death still stalks them through the dark woods of medieval Europe.
The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories is a 1997 poetry book written and illustrated by film director Tim Burton. The poems, which are full of black humor, tell stories of hybrid kids, spontaneous transformers, and women who have babies to win over men. Stick Boy and Match Girl in Love Voodoo Girl Robot Boy Staring Girl The Boy with Nails in His Eyes The Girl with...
Ryan Cahill, 2023. — 1028 p. Solian ata'yar. Dauv ata'yar. Nur temen vie'ryn valana. Live as one. Die as one. For those we've lost. The city of Kingspass burns, and Calen Bryer's world has been shaken to its core. With Valerys at his side, Calen must battle his demons and push forward. There are people who need him, people who need what he must become, and he will not let them...
You have heard the story before - of a young boy, orphaned through tragic circumstances, raised by a wise old man, who comes to a fuller knowledge of his magic and uses it to fight the great evil that threatens his world. But what if the boy hero and the malevolent, threatening taint were one and the same? What if the boy slowly came to realize he was the reincarnation of an...
Before he can bring off his plans for building a black, empire with himself at its head, Conan is thwarted by a succession of natural catastrophes and the intrigues of his enemies among the Bamulas, many of whom resent the rise to power in their tribe of a foreigner, forced to flee, he heads north through the equatorial jungle and across the grassy veldt toward the semicivilized...
Following the events of 'The City of Skulls'" (in the volume Conan), Conan rises to the rank of captain in the Turanian service. His growing repute as an irresistible fighter and a good man in a tight spot, however, instead of leading to soft jobs with large pay for little work, causes King Yildis's generals to choose him for particularly hazardous missions. One of these takes...
Following the events of 'The City of Skulls'" (in the volume Conan), Conan rises to the rank of captain in the Turanian service. His growing repute as an irresistible fighter and a good man in a tight spot, however, instead of leading to soft jobs with large pay for little work, causes King Yildis's generals to choose him for particularly hazardous missions. One of these takes...
Who Goes There? is a science fiction novella by John W. Campbell, Jr., written under the pen name Don A. Stuart. It was first published in the August 1938 Astounding Science-Fiction. In 1973, the story was voted by the Science Fiction Writers of America as one of the finest science fiction novellas ever written. It was published with the other top vote-getters in The Science...
Who Goes There? is a science fiction novella by John W. Campbell, Jr., written under the pen name Don A. Stuart. It was first published in the August 1938 Astounding Science-Fiction. In 1973, the story was voted by the Science Fiction Writers of America as one of the finest science fiction novellas ever written. It was published with the other top vote-getters in The Science...
Penguin Random House, 2021. — 310 p. — ISBN 978-1-473-59195-0. Ronin, marketed as Star Wars: Ronin: A Visions Novel, is a science fiction samurai novel written by Emma Mieko Candon and is a spin-off to the 2021 anthology series Star Wars: Visions set in an alternate history.
Tor Publishing Group, 2023. — 796 р. — ISBN 978-125-08-21553 When the robotic god of Khuon Mo went mad, it destroyed everything it touched. It killed its priests, its city, and all its wondrous works. But in its final death throes, the god brought one thing back to life: its favorite child, Sunai. For the seventeen years since, Sunai has walked the land like a ghost, unable to...
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Tor Books, 2013. — 1712 p. — ISBN: 0765376822; ISBN13: 9780765376824. This set contains Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind, and Ender in Exile. New York Times bestselling author Orson Scott Card’s Hugo and Nebula Award-winning science fiction classic Ender’s Game launched the Enderverse novels. Andrew “Ender” Wiggin is...
Tor Books, 1992. — 463 p. — ISBN: 0812533313; ISBN13: 9780812533316. Gathering every story about Jason Worthing, this volume includes "The Worthing Chronicle," as well as all of the other stories set on Capitol and later on Jason's colonized planet. It was a miracle of science that permitted human beings to live, if not forever, then for a long, long time. Some people, anyway....
Hippocampus Press, 2019. — 376 p. — ISBN: 978-1-61498-271-5. Since the early years of the twenty-first century, Matt Cardin has distinguished himself by writing weird fiction with a distinctively cosmic and spiritual focus, publishing two short story collections that have now become rare collector’s items. In this substantial volume, Cardin gathers the totality of his short...
Springer, 2018. — 213 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-98154-3 What happens with something becomes someone? In the aftermath of an asteroid impact, Earth’s power grid is damaged nearly beyond recovery. The survival of our world may well depend on energy sources collected from an abandoned undersea settlement beneath the icy surface of Enceladus. Earth-raised Colonel Carter Rhodes, in...
Springer, 2018. — 218 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-98154-3 What happens with something becomes someone? In the aftermath of an asteroid impact, Earth’s power grid is damaged nearly beyond recovery. The survival of our world may well depend on energy sources collected from an abandoned undersea settlement beneath the icy surface of Enceladus. Earth-raised Colonel Carter Rhodes, in...
New York: Springer, 2015. — 268 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-17758-8. — ISBN: 978-3-319-17759-5. Titan is practically a planet in its own right, with a diameter similar to that of Mercury, methane rainstorms, organic soot and ethane seas. All of the most detailed knowledge on the moon's geology, volcanology, meteorology, marine sciences and chemistry are gathered together here to paint...
New York: Springer, 2015. — 257 p. Titan is practically a planet in its own right, with a diameter similar to that of Mercury, methane rainstorms, organic soot and ethane seas. All of the most detailed knowledge on the moon's geology, volcanology, meteorology, marine sciences and chemistry are gathered together here to paint a factually accurate hypothetical future of early human...
Penguin Books, 1990. — 128 p. — ISBN: 014017821X. Angela Carter was a storytelling sorceress, the literary godmother of such contemporary masters of supernatural fiction as Neil Gaiman, David Mitchell, Audrey Niffenegger, J. K. Rowling, and Kelly Link, who introduces this edition of Carter's most celebrated book, published for the seventy-fifth anniversary of her birth. In The...
Sourcebooks, 2025. — 846 р. — ISBN 978-0-8028-6679-0 From the author of the bestselling Clytemnestra comes another intoxicating excursion into ancient history, painting the brutal and captivating empire of gods and men, and the one queen destined to rule them all. A common woman. The governor she married. The king who loved them both.
HarperCollins, 2025. — 891 р. — ISBN: 978-0-06-329497-4 From P. C. Cast, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the landmark House of Night urban fantasy series, comes an epic, lusty, magic-filled romantasy about British warrior queen Boudicca. Perfect for fans of Sue Lynn Tan and Madeline Miller!
The Last Trump by Isaac Asimov.
No Other Gods by Edward Wellen.
The Wine Has Been Left Open Too Long and the Memory Has Gone Flat by Harlan Ellison.
Stars, Won't You Hide Me? by Ben Bova.
Judgement Day by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.
The Custodian by William Tenn.
Phoenix by Clark Ashton Smith.
Run from the Fire by Harry Harrison.
Requiem by Edmond Hamilton.
At the Core by Larry...
Scholastic Inc., 2020. — 272 p. After years of being kicked around, Greg, Alec, and Oscar are ready to take control of their lives. Greg decides to put the controversial science he's been studying to the test. Alec launches a master plot to expose his golden sister for the spoiled brat he knows she is. And Oscar, ever the miniature grown-up his mom needs him to be, decides to...
Publisher: Pyr (June 2009). Language: English,| ISBN-10: 1591027403. 465 pages Mark Chadbourn is an English fantasy, science fiction and horror author with fifteen novels (and one non-fiction book) published around the world. The eternal conflict between the Light and Dark once again blackens the skies and blights the land. On one side stand the Tuatha de Danaan, golden-skinned...
Nahri has never believed in magic. Certainly, she has power; on the streets of 18th century Cairo, she’s a con woman of unsurpassed talent. But she knows better than anyone that the trade she uses to get by—palm readings, zars, healings—are all tricks, sleights of hand, learned skills; a means to the delightful end of swindling Ottoman nobles. But when Nahri accidentally...
HarperCollinsPublishers, 2020. The final chapter in the bestselling, critically acclaimed Daevabad Trilogy, in which a con-woman and an idealistic djinn prince join forces to save a magical kingdom from a devastating civil war. Daevabad has fallen. After a brutal conquest stripped the city of its magic, Nahid leader Banu Manizheh and her resurrected commander, Dara, must try to...
HarperCollins Publishers, 2019. Nahri’s life changed forever the moment she accidentally summoned Dara, a formidable, mysterious djinn, during one of her schemes. Whisked from her home in Cairo, she was thrust into the dazzling royal court of Daevabadand quickly discovered she would need all her grifter instincts to survive there. Now, with Daevabad entrenched in the dark...
Harper/Collins Publishers, 2023. — 845 р. — ISBN 978-0-06-296350-5 Amina al-Sirafi should be content. After a storied and scandalous career as one of the Indian Ocean’s most notorious pirates, she’s survived backstabbing rogues, vengeful merchant princes, several husbands, and one actual demon to retire peacefully with her family to a life of piety, motherhood, and absolutely...
The King in Yellow is a peculiar collection of semirelated short stories, the most famous of which have acquired the status of minor horror classics among aficionados of the form. For that reason, Litrix has placed The King in Yellow in its horror section. The first six stories deal to a varying degree with a common thread of a mysterious evil book, one glance at which is enough...
Novella. — Publication: Astounding Science Fiction, October 1945. — Vol. 36, No 2 — Pp. 7-48.
Nomination — 1996 Retro Hugo — Novella.
"Giant Killer" is a "closed universe" story wherein the characters (or at least some of them) do not realize that their environment constitutes only a small, confined space.
Simon Pulse, 1998. — 690 p. Kissed by an Angel: Ivy and Tristan have the love of a lifetime--until Tristan dies in a car accident. Now Tristan returns as an angel, but Ivy is unable to feel his presence. The Power of Love: Tristan has learned that the person responsible for the car crash is after Ivy. Can he cross the boundaries of life and death to warn Ivy that she is in...
Меч короля Артура. See also The Mammoth Book of Merlin (EPUB, MOBI). Vera Chapman (1898–1996), also known as Vera Ivy May Fogerty, and within the Tolkien Society as Belladonna Took, was an author and founder of the first Tolkien Society, and also wrote a number of pseudo-historical and Arthurian books. She held the title of Pendragon of The Order of Bard, Ovates & Druids from...
Tin House, 2022. — 425 p. — ISBN 9781953534439 In December 1960, Crystal Singer, her boyfriend Rick, and three other MIT grad students take a cross-country road trip from Boston to Arizona to paint a message in the desert. Mars has been silent for thirty years, since the last time Earth solved one of the mathematical proofs the Martian civilization carved onto its surface. The...
New York: Penguin Young Readers Group, 2017. — 110 p. — ISBN 9780399186394. See You in the Cosmos is a 2017 epistolary Bildungsroman novel by Chinese-American author Jack Cheng. It is his first juvenile book and his second book. Written in the style of a transcription, it follows astronomy-loving pre-teen Alex Petroski as he embarks on a journey to understand the life of his...
DAW Hardcover, 2004. — ISBN10: 0756402174; ISBN13: 978-0756402174. Vividly creating many worlds - mystical, alien, and futuristic, an electrifying collection of short stories, novellas, and novelettes from a modern master of science fiction includes "Cassandra," the Hugo Award-winning tale of a woman plagued by prophetic madness.
Previously published as Stories of Your Life and Others. With his masterful first collection, multiple-award-winning author Ted Chiang deftly blends human emotion and scientific rationalism in eight remarkably diverse stories, all told in his trademark precise and evocative prose. From a soaring Babylonian tower that connects a flat Earth with the heavens above, to a world where...
Exhalation is a 2008 science fiction short story by Ted Chiang. It is about a civilization of mechanical beings who make a startling discovery about the nature of their universe. The story won the 2009 Hugo Award for Best Short Story. It was also nominated for the 2009 British Science Fiction Association Awards, Short Fiction category One of the best Science Fiction stories ever
Knopf, 2019. — 368 p. In these nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories, Ted Chiang tackles some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine. In “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate,” a portal through time forces a fabric seller in ancient Baghdad to grapple with past mistakes and second chances. In “Exhalation,” an alien...
"Story of Your Life" is a science fiction short story by Ted Chiang, first published in Starlight 2 in 1998, and in 2002 in Chiang's collection of short stories, Stories of Your Life and Others. The major themes explored by this tale are language and determinism. "Story of Your Life" is narrated by linguist Dr. Louise Banks the day her daughter is conceived. Addressed to her...
A thousand years ago, two young lovers were betrayed - Alger Waterlow to his death, and Hanalea, Queen of the Fells, to a life without love. Now, once again, the Queendom of the Fells seems likely to shatter apart. For young queen Raisa ana'Marianna, maintaining peace even within her own castle walls is nearly impossible; tension between wizards and Clan has reached a fevered...
Blood Games (Chicagoland Vampires #10). by Chloe Neil. Paperback, 350 pages. Published August 5th 2014 by NAL Trade. original title Blood Games. ISBN: 0451415205 (ISBN13: 9780451415202). edition language English. While Merit didn’t choose to become a vampire or Sentinel of Cadogan House, she vowed to fight for her House and its Master, and she’s managed to forge strong...
The intrepid crew of the Ketty Jay have been shot down, set up, double-crossed and ripped off. They’ve stolen priceless treasures, destroyed a 10,000-year-old Azryx city and sort-of-accidentally blown up the son of the Archduke. Now they’ve gone and started a civil war. This time, they’re really in trouble. As Vardia descends into chaos, Captain Darian Frey is doing his best to...
Sky piracy is a bit out of Darian Frey’s league. Fate has not been kind to the captain of the airship Ketty Jay—or his motley crew. They are all running from something. Crake is a daemonist in hiding, traveling with an armored golem and burdened by guilt. Jez is the new navigator, desperate to keep her secret from the rest of the crew. Malvery is a disgraced doctor, drinking...
Deep in the heart of the Kurg rainforest lies a long-forgotten wreck. On board, behind a magically protected door, an elusive treasure awaits. Good thing Darian Frey, captain of the airship Ketty Jay, has the daemonist Crake on board. Crake is their best chance of getting that door open—if they can sober him up. For a prize this enticing, Frey is willing to brave the legendary...
A big slice of non-stop, action-packed, wise-cracking fun from the Ketty Jay, and Captain Darien Frey. Things are finally looking good for Captain Frey and his crew. The Ketty Jay has been fixed up good as new. They've got their first taste of fortune and fame. And, just for once, nobody is trying to kill them. In fact, she's offered them a job - one that will take them deep...
Del Rey, 2019. — 417 p. — ISBN: 1984819062 (ISBN13: 9781984819062) Chief Jim Hopper reveals long-awaited secrets to Eleven about his old life as a police detective in New York City, confronting his past before the events of the hit show Stranger Things. Christmas, Hawkins, 1984. All Chief Jim Hopper wants is to enjoy a quiet first Christmas with Eleven, but his adopted daughter...
Puffin, 1981. 310 с. PDF/OCR.
Первая книга трилогии "Fireball".
Два приятеля подхвачены странной шаровой молнией в Лондоне и переносятся в параллельную Вселенную на Землю где Британия еще входит в состав Римской империи.
Puffin, 1984. 271 с. PDF/OCR.
Вторая книга трилогии "Fireball".
В предыдущей книге "Fireball" два приятеля подхвачены странной шаровой молнией и переносятся в параллельную Вселенную на Землю где Британия еще входит в состав Римской империи. Теперь странный огненный шар переносит их в Канаду параллельного мира. Приключения продолжаются.
Puffin, 1986. 281 с. PDF/OCR. Третья, заключительная книга трилогии "Fireball". Теперь два приятеля переносятся в Китай параллельного мира. Оттуда они пытаются попасть домой, в Лондон.
Del Rey, 2022. — 1056 p. — ISBN 9780593237632 So many stories begin the same way: With a prophecy. A chosen one. And the inevitable quest to slay a villain, save the kingdom, and fulfill a grand destiny. But this is not that kind of story. It does begin with a prophecy: A child will rise to defeat the Eternal Khan, a cruel immortal god-king, and save the kingdom. And that...
Saga Press, 2022. — 836 p. — ISBN 978-1-9821-9573-1 Remy Pendergast is many things: the only son of the Duke of Valenbonne (though his father might wish otherwise), an elite bounty hunter of rogue vampires, and an outcast among his fellow Reapers. His mother was the subject of gossip even before she eloped with a vampire, giving rise to the rumors that Remy is half-vampire...
Bloom Books, 2023. — 852 р. — ISBN-13 978-1728259680 Hades, God of the Dead, has finally made Persephone his in every way possible. With their wedding on the horizon, the couple should be ecstatic. But Demeter is wreaking havoc on their bliss by battering the whole of New Greece with erratic and dangerous weather. At the same time, Theseus continues with his agenda against the...
Black Library, 2017. — 264 p. Upon the oceanic hive world of Tsadrekha, the darkness of the Noctis Aeterna is held at bay by the golden light of a unique beacon. Yet as sharks are drawn to blood, so the ravening warbands of the Heretic Astartes circle the planet, warring to claim this rich prize for their Dark Gods. Now, one of those warlords has deployed a secret weapon to end...
A Warhammer Quest novel, Great Britain, "Black Library", 87 pages, 2016
The story
Deep within the sorcerous labyrinth of the Silver Tower, a small band of champions fights for survival. Some seek to win glory and power by defeating the master of this ever-changing realm. Others look only to survive, and to escape the hellish maze before it takes their lives, their souls or...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020. From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality. Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within...
Broadway Books, 2017. — 400 p. — ISBN10: 0307887448; ISBN13: 978-0307887443. The bestselling cult classic—soon to be a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg. In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles...
Broadway Books, 2017. — 400 p. — ISBN10: 0307887448; ISBN13: 978-0307887443. The bestselling cult classic—soon to be a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg. In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles...
Ballantine Books, 2021. — 384 p. — ISBN-10 1524761338; ISBN-13 978-1524761332. An unexpected quest. Two worlds at stake. Are you ready? Days after winning OASIS founder James Halliday’s contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything. Hidden within Halliday’s vaults, waiting for his heir to find, lies a technological advancement that will once again change the...
Ballantine Books; First Edition, 2021. — 384 p. — ISBN-10 1524761338; ISBN-13 978-1524761332. An unexpected quest. Two worlds at stake. Are you ready? Days after winning OASIS founder James Halliday’s contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything. Hidden within Halliday’s vaults, waiting for his heir to find, lies a technological advancement that will once again...
Del Rey Books, 2002. — (Dark Angel). — ISBN: 978-0345451842. In a chaotic world where the lines between good and evil often blur, and violent anarchy and brutal repression become commonplace, secrets can be deadly. So when Max Guevara discovers a shattering truth that Logan Cale has kept concealed from her for years, the betrayal threatens the very essence of their trust. Yet...
Del Rey Books, 2003. — (Dark Angel). — ISBN: 0-345-45183-X / 978-0-345-45183-5. Someone is killing normal humans in the fog-enshrouded city of Seattle. The murders are brutal and grisly, but inside Terminal City they barely cause a ripple of concern. The transgenics who live there have problems of their own. In an area under siege by the oppressive arm of the police, the...
Immortal story by Padraic colum. — 1918. — 139 p. The The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy. This is the story of Odysseus, the most renowned of all the heroes the Greek poets have told us of--of Odysseus, his wars and his wanderings. And this story of Odysseus begins with his son, the youth who was called Telemachus...
In the Society, officials decide. Who you love. Where you work. When you die. Cassia has always trusted their choices. It’s hardly any price to pay for a long life, the perfect job, the ideal mate. So when her best friend appears on the Matching screen, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is the one…until she sees another face flash for an instant before the screen fades...
It’s the year 2043 and post World War III Old San Francisco is a seedy, radioactive dive, but P.I. Tex Murphy calls it home. The women in Tex’s life are either washed up or shipping out, and this private dick is singing the lonesome gumshoe blues. Jack Daniels seems more like family everyday. Until one night at the Brew & Stew…
Project Bluebook was the official government...
It’s December 2042 and Tex Murphy, last of the old-style PIs, has hit rock bottom. A run of tough luck and a soured marriage have left Tex nursing a bottle of cheap bourbon and wishing he could sink right into the pavement.
Then a priceless statuette is stolen. From the shadowy back streets of post-apocalyptic San Francisco come rumors that an ancient evil, foretold by prophecy...
Crooked Lane Books, 2019. — 189 p. — ISBN: 978-1-68331-891-0. Boston expat Maura Donovan came to Ireland to honor her grandmother’s last wish, but she never expected to stay in provincial County Cork―much less to inherit a house and a pub, Sullivan’s, in the small village of Leap. After a year-long struggle to stay in the black, Sullivan’s is finally thriving, and Maura has...
Tor Books 2012 — 325 стр. — ISBN: 978-1-4299-9304-3. Jane Eliot wears an iron mask. It's the only way to contain the fey curse that scars her cheek. The Great War is five years gone, but its scattered victims remain—the ironskin. When a carefully worded listing appears for a governess to assist with a delicate situation—a child born during the Great War—Jane is certain the...
Tor Books 2013 — 336 стр. — ISBN: 978-1-4299-9305-0 Set in an alternate version of early 1900s England, Copperhead is the sequel to Tina Connolly's stunning historical fantasy debut. Helen Huntingdon is beautiful—so beautiful she has to wear an iron mask. Six months ago her sister Jane uncovered a fey plot to take over the city. Too late for Helen, who opted for fey beauty in...
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Тираж: 1895.
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About Corelli:
Marie Corelli (1 May 1855 – 21 April 1924) was a British novelist.
She enjoyed a period of great literary success from the.
publication of her first novel in 1886 until World War I.
Corelli's novels sold more copies than...
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CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017. — 322 p. — (Dark Fae FBI 01). — ISBN10: 1545259682; ISBN13: 978-1545259689. The fae live among us. And one of them is a serial killer. I thought this would be a simple profiling case. Just another Jack-the-Ripper wannabe, prowling London’s streets, searching for easy kills. I was wrong. This killer is fae, and he’s as elusive...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017. — 322 p. — (Dark Fae FBI 01). — ISBN10: 1545259682; ISBN13: 978-1545259689. The fae live among us. And one of them is a serial killer. I thought this would be a simple profiling case. Just another Jack-the-Ripper wannabe, prowling London’s streets, searching for easy kills. I was wrong. This killer is fae, and he’s as elusive...
This is Volume 3 of a fantasy trilogy by Nick Creech, one of the popular writers for older children. Iblis, Prince of Darkness in the Other World, is demanding Annabella Crabtree be returned to his control. In an attempt to avoid a war between the Dark and the Light, she is betrayed and spirited to France in the time of Caesar’s Gallic wars where she must survive, dependent only...
This is Volume 2 of the fantasy trilogy by Nick Creech, one of the popular writers for older children. In this book Annabella Crabtree and the djinni, Basil, are reunited when Hassan-i Sabbāh escapes imprisonment in the boiling mud of a Baluchistan volcano and embarks on a campaign of vengeance. To protect those closest to her, Annabella must return to the past to deal with him...
Series: The Wayward Pines Trilogy (Book 3). Paperback: 306 pages. Publisher: Thomas & Mercer (July 15, 2014). Language: English. ISBN10: 1477822585. ISBN13: 978-1477822586. Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrived in Wayward Pines, Idaho, three weeks ago. In this town, people are told who to marry, where to live, where to work. Their children are taught that David Pilcher, the...
A Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2022. — 527 p. — ISBN 9781250817532 As ancient Irish clans fought to preserve their lands and their way of life, the Queen and her generals fought to tame the wild land and make it English. Hugh O'Neill, lord of the North, dubbed Earl of Tyrone by the Queen, is a divided man: the Queen gives to Hugh her love, and her commandments, through a little...
Publisher: Harper Perennial, 560 pages. Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament is a modern fantasy novel by John Crowley, published in 1981. It won the World Fantasy Award in 1982. Little, Big tells the epic story of Smoky Barnable -- an anonymous young man who meets and falls in love with Daily Alice Drinkwater, and goes to live with her in Edgewood, a place not found on any...
Wildside Press, 2013. — 1955 p. — ASIN: B00ETIE3D4 To anyone interested in the roots of modern science fiction, the name of Ray Cummings should be well known. He wrote science fiction and fantasy before the name "science fiction" had been coined, publishing fantastic yarns in Argosy, Munsey's Magazine, and other mainstream pulp magazines. Of course, as soon as the science...
My name is Mac Brennan and that's the only thing I can remember about myself. Not why I woke up in a dumpster. Not why my right arm is as black as pitch and covered in glowing red tattoos, and certainly not why a vicious death cult is after me. Actually, that last part isn't true. I know why the death cult is after me. It's because I saved that damned girl from them. I didn't know...
Torva, 2023. — 800 р. — ISBN: 978-1-473-57596-7 All of the Earth's ocean, from the equator to the poles, is a single engine powered by sunlight - a blue machine. Earth is home to a huge story that is rarely told - that of our ocean. Not the fish or the dolphins, but the massive ocean engine itself: what it does, why it works, and the many ways it has influenced animals, weather...
CreateSpace, 2009. - 205 p. Having fled town under a cloud of salacious scandal, Shelby Tyree has returned, a mysterious woman at his side and a strange new devotion to horror writer H.P. Lovecraft in his head. His childhood friends Rick and Conrad scarcely recognize Shelby, who has been transformed from a rakish dilettante into a zealous guru devoted to his own...
Del Rey, 2008. — ASIN B00182HLO2. “Ellen Datlow is the queen of anthology editors in America.”—Peter Straub With original stories by Jeffrey Ford, Pat Cadigan, Elizabeth Bear, Margo Lanagan, and others From Del Rey Books and award-winning editor Ellen Datlow, two of the most respected names in science fiction and fantasy, comes a collection of fifteen all-new short stories,...
Flatiron Books, 2023. — 320 р. — ISBN 9781250262608 Outside the walls of Phoenix City, where the plague has overrun Ireland, one bite from the savage skrake means death or infection. Inside, Orpen and the other survivors of the plague gather in meager numbers. They are protected from disease and death, but the city is by no means a refuge. Phoenix City is ruled with an...
Schuyler Van Alen has never fit in at Duchesne, her prestigious New York City private school. She prefers baggy, vintage clothes instead of the Prada and pearls worn by her classmates. Schuyler is an outcast at her school and only survives with the help of her best friend, Oliver Hazard-Perry. Her mother, Allegra, has been in a coma for years and her father, Stephen Chase, is...
Random House Children's Books, 2019. — 289 p. — eISBN 9780399549670. When the dawn breaks, a hero rises. His power is beyond imagining. Clark Kent has always been faster, stronger—better—than everyone around him. But he wasn't raised to show off, and drawing attention to himself could be dangerous. Plus, it's not like he's earned his powers...yet. But power comes with a price....
Nevermore / Никогда больше. Дата выпуска: август 2007. Автор: Кит Р.А. ДеКандидо. Издательство: Harper Entertainment. Язык: английский. Сэм и Дин приехали в Нью-Йорк, чтобы проверить местный рокерский дом с привидениями. Но пока они поймут, откуда в спальне взялась бэнши, более зверское преступление завладеет их вниманием. Недалеко от этого дома два студента были избиты до...
Collection. — Del Rey Impact / Ballantine, 2000. — 294 pp. ISBN: 0-345-43949-X. The Magnificent essay by Frederik Pohl. Helen O'Loy (1938) shortstory by Lester del Rey. The Day Is Done (1939) shortstory by Lester del Rey. The Coppersmith (1939) shortstory by Lester del Rey. Hereafter, Inc. (1941) shortstory by Lester del Rey. The Wings of Night (1942) shortstory by Lester del...
Collection. — Del Rey Impact / Ballantine, 2000. — 294 pp. ISBN: 0-345-43949-X. The Magnificent essay by Frederik Pohl. Helen O'Loy (1938) shortstory by Lester del Rey. The Day Is Done (1939) shortstory by Lester del Rey. The Coppersmith (1939) shortstory by Lester del Rey. Hereafter, Inc. (1941) shortstory by Lester del Rey. The Wings of Night (1942) shortstory by Lester del...
William Morrow 2009 — 525 стр. — ISBN13: 9780061558238
A Boeing 777 arrives at JFK and is on its way across the tarmac, when it suddenly stops dead. All window shades are pulled down. All lights are out. All communication channels have gone quiet. Crews on the ground are lost for answers, but an alert goes out to the CDC. Dr. Ephraim "Eph" Goodweather, head of their Canary...
Harper 2011 — 424 стр. — ISBN13: 978-0061558252 The vampiric virus unleashed in The Strain has taken over New York City. It is spreading across the country and soon, the world. Amid the chaos, Eph Goodweather—head of the Center for Disease Control’s team—leads a small band out to stop these bloodthirsty monsters. But it may be too late. Ignited by the Master’s horrific plan, a...
Harper 2012 — 491 стр. — ISBN13: 978-0061558276 It's been two years since the vampiric virus was unleashed in The Strain and the entire world now lies on the brink of annihilation. There has been a mass extermination of humans orchestrated by the Master—an ancient vampire possessed of unparalleled powers. The future of humankind lies in the hands of a ragtag band of freedom...
New York: Ace Books, 1966. — 248 p. In warfare, as in ail organized endeavor communication is the keystone of success: if your enemy can thoroughly disrupt your data-flow, then you are lost. The alien Invaders could do just that with Babel-17. So General Forester had to travel down to the bizarre depths of Transport Town in search of the Cosmic Poetess whose mind encompassed...
Ruby is used to taking care of herself. But now she's living in a fancy new house with her sister Cora - a sister she hasn't seen in ten years - and her husband Jamie - creator of one of the most popular online networking sites. She's attending private school, wearing new clothes, and for the first time, feels the promise of a future that include college and her family. So why is...
Inez wanders a post-pandemic world, strangely immune to disease, making her living by volunteering as a test subject. She is hired to provide genetic material to a grief-stricken, affluent mother, who lost all four of her daughters within four short weeks. This experimental genetic work is policed by a hazy network of governmental ethics committees, and threatened by the Knights...
Tom Doherty Associates. Seth Dickinson's epic fantasy series which began with The Traitor Baru Cormorant, returns with the third book, The Tyrant Baru Cormorant. The hunt is over. After fifteen years of lies and sacrifice, Baru Cormorant has the power to destroy the Imperial Republic of Falcrest that she pretends to serve. The secret society called the Cancrioth is real, and...
Accompanied by a leopard and a nearly autistic young woman, Marc Despard sets out to locate his wife, who, along with the rest of humanity, was swept away by a time storm.
Kindle edition, 2011. — 14 p. — ASIN B0051PKWAC. "Stories often begin with 'Once upon a time,' or 'Once there was — ' charming lines that imply a fairy tale. Our story starts with wolves in the woods, and — by degrees — gets worse. "This tale, as you can imagine, is not the charming sort." A young girl with a hopeless wish, a Dark King with a candle for a heart, a single Hallow's...
Язык книги: EN, New York, изд-во Del Rey, 2007, 58с.
The clone assassin has been played long enough—now it’s more than a game.Bred to kill, Agent 47 is The Agency’s most valuable assassin. So when a competing murder-for-hire organization decides to destroy The Agency, the first person they target for elimination is Agent
47. Tasking someone to off the best hitman in the business...
Первая книга, написанная по мотивам серии видеоигр Hitman. Сюжет книги крутится вокруг организации убийц-по-найму, именуемой Puissance Treize (с франц. «Тринадцать сильных»), которая пытается убить наёмника конкурирующей организации «Агентства» под кодовым именем Агент 47.
Gallery Books, 2014. — 224 p. — ISBN13: 9781476739649.
Suffer the Children presents a terrifying tale of apocalyptic fiction, as readers are introduced to Herod's Syndrome, a devastating illness that suddenly and swiftly kills all young children across the globe. Soon, they return from the grave…and ask for blood. And with blood, they stop being dead. They continue to remain the...
New York, ABRAMS The Art of Books, 2019. — 302 p. The Rise of Kyoshi delves into the story of Kyoshi, the Earth Kingdom–born Avatar. The longest-living Avatar in this beloved world’s history, Kyoshi established the brave and respected Kyoshi Warriors, but also founded the secretive Dai Li, which led to the corruption, decline, and fall of her own nation. The first of two novels...
On Wings of Song is a 1979 science fiction novel by Thomas M. Disch. It was first published as a serial in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in three installments in February to April 1979. Like Disch's previous novel 334, it is a bitter satire that depicts a near-future America falling into worsening economic and social crisis. Despite being critically well received, it...
Thomas M. Disch is a long-time F&SF contributor whose stories have been included in several of these collections. His latest story (which made the final Hugo and Nebula ballot as best novella of 1980) is about the adventures of five electrical appliances. They are minor appliances, which implies a degree of innocence, loyalty, and dependability often missing from, say, a TV or a...
This spectacular novel established Thomas M. Disch as a major new force in science fiction. First published in 1965, it was immediately labeled a masterpiece reminiscent of the works of J.G. Ballard and H.G. Wells.
Cover Artist: Richard Powers.
In this harrowing novel, the world’s cities have been reduced to cinder and ash and alien plants have overtaken the earth. The plants,...
Москва: Мир, 1968. - 280 с. OCR. Переводчик не указан. Молекулярное кафе: Советская фантастика на английском языке. Содержание: Аркадий Стругацкий, Борис Стругацкий. Предисловие (Preface by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky) Илья Варшавский. Молекулярное кафе (The Molecular Cafe by Ilya Varshavsky) Аркадий Стругацкий, Борис Стругацкий. О странствующих и путешествующих...
Москва: Мир, 1968. - 280 с. OCR. Переводчик не указан. Молекулярное кафе: Советская фантастика на английском языке. Содержание: Аркадий Стругацкий, Борис Стругацкий. Предисловие (Preface by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky) Илья Варшавский. Молекулярное кафе (The Molecular Cafe by Ilya Varshavsky) Аркадий Стругацкий, Борис Стругацкий. О странствующих и путешествующих...
The Bastard Stepchild (Introduction), by George R.R. Martin
Death by Dahlia, by Charlaine Harris.
The Bleeding Shadow, by Joe R. Lansdale.
Hungry Heart, by Simon R. Green.
Styx and Stones, by Steven Saylor.
Pain and Suffering, by S. M. Stirling.
It’s Still the Same Old Story, by Carrie Vaughn.
The Lady Is a Screamer, by Conn Iggulden.
Hellbender, by Laurie R. King.
Shadow...
The Bastard Stepchild (Introduction), by George R.R. Martin
Death by Dahlia, by Charlaine Harris.
The Bleeding Shadow, by Joe R. Lansdale.
Hungry Heart, by Simon R. Green.
Styx and Stones, by Steven Saylor.
Pain and Suffering, by S. M. Stirling.
It’s Still the Same Old Story, by Carrie Vaughn.
The Lady Is a Screamer, by Conn Iggulden.
Hellbender, by Laurie R. King.
Shadow...
Sword & Laser, 2016. - 175 c. - (World Engineered)- ISBN10: 1941758592; ISBN13: 978-1941758595. JF Dubeau’s debut novel, begins in the year 3594, where humanity is little more than a memory―a legend of the distant past destined to reappear. Capeks, a race of artificial creatures originally created by humans, have inherited the galaxy and formed a utopian civilization built on...
Sword & Laser, 2016. - 175 c. - (World Engineered)- ISBN10: 1941758592; ISBN13: 978-1941758595. JF Dubeau’s debut novel, begins in the year 3594, where humanity is little more than a memory―a legend of the distant past destined to reappear. Capeks, a race of artificial creatures originally created by humans, have inherited the galaxy and formed a utopian civilization built on...
Sword & Laser, 2016. - 175 c. - (World Engineered)- ISBN10: 1941758592; ISBN13: 978-1941758595. JF Dubeau’s debut novel, begins in the year 3594, where humanity is little more than a memory―a legend of the distant past destined to reappear. Capeks, a race of artificial creatures originally created by humans, have inherited the galaxy and formed a utopian civilization built on...
Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
Год: 1999.
Страниц: 478.
Описание: Tales of the King's Blades - 2.
Raider and Wasp have spent five years at Ironhall studying to become Blades, expert swordsmen whose talents stand unmatched. Magic both enhances the Blades’ fighting skills and binds them to lifelong duty. But when Raider and Wasp are selected to protect the king of...
Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
Год: 2000.
Описание: Tales of the King's Blades - 3 The unloved child of the unscrupulous King Ambrose,Princess Malinda learned at an early age to fight for what was rightfully hers. Now, with the Kings abrupt death, civil war has become her grim destiny. Making her uncertain way through the blood labyrinth of schemes and betrayals,...
Издательство: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
Год: 1998.
Страниц: 411.
Описание: First book in the 'Tales of the King's Blades' trilogy. The grim school of Ironhall takes in unwanted, rebellious boys and five years later sends forth the finest swordsmen in the world, the King of Chivial's Blades. Bound to absolute loyalty by a magical sword-stroke through their hearts, they...
The lord of Erl is told by the parliament of his people that they want to be ruled by a magic lord. Obeying the immemorial custom, the lord sends his son Alveric to fetch the King of Elfland's daughter, Lirazel, to be his bride. He makes his way to Elfland, where time passes at a rate far slower than the real world, and wins her. They return to Erl and have a son, but in the...
Text copyright 2003 by Jeanne DuPrau. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House Children's Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover by Random House, Inc., in 2003. First...
It is always night in the city of Ember. But there is no moon, no stars. The only light during the regular twelve hours of "day" comes from floodlamps that cast a yellowish glow over the streets of the city. Beyond are the pitch-black Unknown Regions, which no one has ever explored because an understanding of fire and electricity has been lost, and with it the idea of a Moveable...
Months have passed since young Lina Mayfleet and Doon Harrow were forced to escape the dying subterranean city of Ember and flee to the town of Sparks, where they must struggle through a harsh aboveground winter. The situation seems hopeless until they chance upon a battered, fragmentary book that contains references to a device that could save them and their doomed city. To find...
The People of Sparks picks up where The City of Ember leaves off. Lina and Doon have emerged from the underground city to the exciting new world above, and it isn’t long before they are followed by the other inhabitants of Ember. The Emberites soon come across a town where they are welcomed, fed, and given places to sleep. But the town’s resources are limited and it isn’t long...
Ученый-нейролог и писатель Дэйвид Иглмен рассуждает о том, что в принципе может случиться с нами после смерти. Книга Sum стала мировым бестселлером и переведена на 27 языков. В ней он перебирает 40 самых удивительных, фантастических и сказочных, и в то же время очень похожих на правду вариантов того, что нас может ожидать после смерти.
Skyhorse Publishing Inc., 2010. — 336 p. — ISBN: 978-1-60239-998-3. A fascinating collection of fiction-turned-reality tales. Long before movies like "Minority Report" and "The Matrix", the world’s writers have been recording the future as it might exist — and as it turns out, they were right. This bizarre anthology collects the most stunning predictions and imagined inventions...
Mass Market Paperback, 1986. — 288 p. — (Cunningham, #1). — ISBN 0-345-33037-4, 978-0-345-33037-6. Blaise Cunningham was a Nobel-Prize winner, the world's foremost expert in artificial intelligence and one of the best computer programmers alive. He was also a falling-down drunk whose only friends were an intelligent computer, a good woman, a bad scientist, and a frisky puppy...
Ace Books, 1965. — 196 p. — (Time Stream, #1). — ISBN 0-441760929, 978-0441760923. The special research vessel Alice was the oddest ship that ever flew the ensign of the United States Navy; small, wooden-hulled and sail-powered, she would have been less out of place in the Navy of a hundred years ago - if it weren't for the electrician's nightmare of a christmas tree hanging...
Ace Books, 1965. — 196 p. — (Time Stream, #1). — ISBN 0-441760929, 978-0441760923. The special research vessel Alice was the oddest ship that ever flew the ensign of the United States Navy; small, wooden-hulled and sail-powered, she would have been less out of place in the Navy of a hundred years ago - if it weren't for the electrician's nightmare of a christmas tree hanging...
Ace Books, 1965. — 196 p. — (Time Stream, #1). — ISBN 0-441760929, 978-0441760923. The special research vessel Alice was the oddest ship that ever flew the ensign of the United States Navy; small, wooden-hulled and sail-powered, she would have been less out of place in the Navy of a hundred years ago - if it weren't for the electrician's nightmare of a christmas tree hanging...
Dover Publications, 1992
This masterpiece of science (and mathematical) fiction is a delightfully unique and highly entertaining satire that has charmed readers for more than 100 years. The work of English clergyman, educator and Shakespearean scholar Edwin A. Abbott (1838-1926), it describes the journeys of A. Square, a mathematician and resident of the two-dimensional...
Москва: FOREIGN LANGUAGES PUBLISHING HOUSE, 1958. - 468 с. OCR. На английском языке. Перевод George Hanna. Ефремов Иван. Андромеда.
Далёкое будущее, где давно победил коммунизм. Люди пытаются летать к далёким звездам.
Москва: FOREIGN LANGUAGES PUBLISHING HOUSE, 1958. - 468 с. OCR. На английском языке. Перевод George Hanna. Ефремов Иван. Андромеда.
Далёкое будущее, где давно победил коммунизм. Люди пытаются летать к далёким звездам.
Razorbill, 2023. — 734 р. — ISBN 9780593527719 17 year-old Quell has lived her entire life on the run. She and her mother have fled from city to city, in order to hide the deadly magic that flows through Quell’s veins. Until someone discovers her dark secret. To hide from the assassin hunting her, and keep her mother out of harm’s way, Quell reluctantly inducts into a debutante...
Tordotcom, 2023. — 301 р. — ISBN 9781250769060 It’s been a year since Esther set foot in the Beyond, the alien landscape stretching between worlds, crossing boundaries of space and time. She and her magical traveling party—her Hex—haven’t spoken since the Concilium banned them from the Beyond for a decade. But when she wakes in the middle of the night to her grown son’s cry for...
Nine popular fantasy and paranormal romance authors celebrate marital bliss supernatural style in a collection of honeymoon tales populated by demons, vampires, shape-shifters, magic-users, and other unusual characters in an anthology featuring works by Kelley Armstrong, Jim Butcher, Rachel Caine, P.N. Elrod, Caitlin Kittredge, Marjorie M. Liu, Katie MacAlister, Lilith...
Werewolves, vampires, witches, voodoo, Elvis - and weddings. An "ordinary" wedding can get crazy enough, so can you imagine what happens when otherworldly creatures are involved? Nine of the hottest authors of paranormal fiction answer that question in this delightful collection of supernatural wedding stories. What's the seating plan when rival clans of werewolves and vampires...
Today’s hottest urban fantasy authors come together in this delicious brew that crackles and boils over with tales of powerful witches and dark magic!
In Charlaine Harris’ Bacon, a beautiful vampire joins forces with a witch from an ancient line to find out who killed her beloved husband. In Seeing Eye by Patricia Briggs, a blind witch helps sexy werewolf Tom Franklin find his...
They’re the ultimate defenders of humanity—modern day knights who do dark deeds for all the right reasons. In this all-star collection, nine of today’s hottest paranormal authors bring us thrilling, all-new stories of supernatural knights that are brimming with magic mystery and mayhem.
John Marcone sets aside his plans to kill Harry Dresden to go head-to-head with a cantrev...
Harper Voyager, 2023. — 662 р. — ISBN 978-0-06-311474-6 As a waterweaver, Nehal can move and shape any water to her will, but she’s limited by her lack of formal education. She desires nothing more than to attend the newly opened Weaving Academy, take complete control of her powers, and pursue a glorious future on the battlefield with the first all-female military regiment. But...
Publisher: Tor Books (April 7, 2010) The return of the mercenary company, the Crimson Guard, could not have come at a worse time for a Malazan Empire exhausted by warfare and weakened by betrayals and rivalries. Indeed, there are those who wonder whether the Empress Laseen might not be losing her grip on power as she faces increasing unrest as conquered kingdoms and principalities...
Английский язык «Восстаньте из праха» («В свои разрушенные тела вернитесь») книга первая Большой успех выпал на долю оригинальной серии о загадочном Мире Реки, на берегах которой неведомые инопланетные боги — Этики — воскресили (с целями, до поры скрытыми от читателей) всех когда-либо умерших на Земле; однако среди обитателей этой самой странной из всех утопий НФ находятся...
Английский язык The Fabulous Riverboat Большой успех выпал на долю оригинальной серии о загадочном Мире Реки, на берегах которой неведомые инопланетные боги — Этики — воскресили (с целями, до поры скрытыми от читателей) всех когда-либо умерших на Земле; однако среди обитателей этой самой странной из всех утопий НФ находятся неистребимые исследователи и скептики, которым...
Del Rey, 2023. — 567 p. — ISBN13 9780593597620. — ISBN10 0593597621. Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world’s first encyclopaedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is not good at people. She could never make small talk at a party—or...
Black Library, 2017. — 88 p. On an Imperial world being torn apart by internal rivalries and the influence of the T'au Empire and its pernicious "Greater Good", Interrogator Haniel Mordane is in trouble. Pursued by the Inquisition for his part in a failed operation and guarded by a man he fears and mistrusts, Mordane is still set on doing his duty and defeating the T'au influence....
Tom Doherty Associates, 2022. — 199 р. — ISBN 978-1-250-84012-7 The Two Doctors Górski is a dazzling contemporary fantasy and an exploration of reclaiming personal power in the aftermath of abuse by Lambda Award-winning author Isaac Fellman. Annae, a brilliant graduate student in psychiatric magic and survivor of academic abuse, can’t stop reading people’s minds. This is how...
Doubleday Books, 1980 Огромное собрание рассказов многочисленных американских авторов фантастов начиная с 50-х годов и до 80-х. Fondly Fahrenheit And Now the News. Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot Not with a Bang Flowers for Algernon A Canticle for Leibowitz Love Letters from Mars One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts The Women Men Don't See Born of Man and Woman Jeffty...
Doubleday Books, 1980 Огромное собрание рассказов многочисленных американских авторов фантастов начиная с 50-х годов и до 80-х. Fondly Fahrenheit And Now the News. Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot Not with a Bang Flowers for Algernon A Canticle for Leibowitz Love Letters from Mars One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts The Women Men Don't See Born of Man and Woman Jeffty...
Doubleday Books, 1980 Огромное собрание рассказов многочисленных американских авторов фантастов начиная с 50-х годов и до 80-х. Fondly Fahrenheit And Now the News. Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot Not with a Bang Flowers for Algernon A Canticle for Leibowitz Love Letters from Mars One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts The Women Men Don't See Born of Man and Woman Jeffty...
Katherine Tegen Books, 2022. — 564 р. — ISBN 978-0063114302 Falling for a superhero is dangerous. You have to trust that they’ll catch you. Astrid isn’t a superhero, not like the ones she sees on the news, but she has something she thinks of as a small superpower: She has a perfect sense of time. And she’s not going to waste a single second. Her plan for college is...
Soho Press, 2024. — 459 p. The long-awaited follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Shades of Grey—in an exclusive edition for North American readers, complete with a never-before-published short story “Fforde's books are more than an ingenious idea. They are written with buoyant zest and are tautly plotted... and are embellished with the rich details of a Dickens or...
Amazon Digital Services, Inc., 2013. — 24 p.
This novel serves as a prequel story to the game BioShock Infinite. Written by Irrational Games writer Joe Fielder, in collaboration with input from Ken Levine, the book offers an insight story and background of Columbia, as well as motivations for key characters, such as Daisy Fitzroy.
Nora Grey's life is still far from perfect. Surviving an attempt on her life wasn't pleasant, but at least she got a guardian angel out of it. A mysterious, magnetic, gorgeous guardian angel. But despite his role in her life, Patch has been acting anything but angelic. He's more elusive than ever (if that's possible) and what's worse, he seems to be spending time with Nora's...
Первая книга серии Nightrunners в оригинале. История о барде, шпионе и воре - Серегиле. Он, по поручению царицы Скалы, добывает информацию об угрозе новой войны с Пленимаром. Во время одного из своих путешествий, он встречает молодого охотника по имени Алек. И с этой встречи для них обоих начинаются крупные неприятности. И появляется шанс обрести любовь. Сколько книг мной...
Vampire bachelor Samson can't get it up anymore. Not even his shrink can help him. That changes when the lovely mortal auditor Delilah tumbles into his arms after a seemingly random attack. Suddenly there's nothing wrong with his hydraulics - that is, as long as Delilah is the woman in his arms.
Orbit, 2019. — (The Green Bone Saga 02). In Jade War, the sequel to the World Fantasy Award-winning novel Jade City, the Kaul siblings battle rival clans for honor and control over an Asia-inspired fantasy metropolis. On the island of Kekon, the Kaul family is locked in a violent feud for control of the capital city and the supply of magical jade that endows trained Green Bone...
Orbit Books, 2022. — 1229 p. — ISBN 978-0316-629-560 The nation of Torwyn is run on the power of industry, and industry is run by the Guilds. Chief among them are the Hawkspurs, whose responsibility it is to keep the gears of the empire turning. That’s exactly why matriarch Rosomon Hawkspur sends each of her heirs to the far reaches of the nation. Conall, the eldest son, is...
A science fiction short story. The story describes a world in which most of the human population has lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each individual now lives in isolation below ground in a standard room, with all bodily and spiritual needs met by the omnipotent, global Machine. Travel is permitted, but is unpopular and rarely necessary. Communication is...
The Nonmetallic Isaac or It’s a Wonderful Life by Ben Bova. Strip-Runner by Pamela Sargent. The Asenion Solution by Robert Silverberg. Murder in the Urth Degree by Edward Wellen. Trantor Falls by Harry Turtledove. Dilemma by Connie Willis. Maureen Birnbaum After Dark by Betsy Spiegelman Fein. Balance by Mike Resnick. The Present Eternal by Barry N. Malzberg. PAPPI by Sheila...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016. — 823 p. — ISBN: 978-0-544-55520-4. Sofia Samatar. Meet Me in Iram Kelly Link. The Game of Smash and Recovery Adam Johnson. Interesting Facts Catherynne M. Valente. Planet Lion Kij Johnson. The ApartamentApartament Dweller's Bestiary S. L. Huang. By Degrees and Dilatory Time Liz Ziemska. The Mushroom Queen Dexter Palmer. The Daydremer by Proxy...
A novel by Randall Frakes, publisher: Sphere Books Limited, London, 1991. - 240 p. Description: The cyborg who once tried to kill Sarah Connor is dead, and another T-800 must now protect her teenage son, John Connor, from an even more powerful and advanced Terminator, the T-1000.
A novel by Randall Frakes & W.H. Wisher, publisher: Bantam Books, New York, 1985. - 240 p. Description: The time is now. but he comes from the Year of Darkness,
2029. He was created to reshape the future by destroying the present. He feels no pity, no pain, no fear. He feels nothing. He is an unstoppable killing machine programmed for murder. He is.
The Overlook Press, 2009. Translated by Polly Gannon.
Max Frei's novels have been a literary sensation in Russia since their debut in 1996, and have swept the fantasy world over. Presented here in English for the first time, The Stranger will strike a chord with readers of all stripes. Part fantasy, part horror, part philosophy, part dark comedy, the writing is united by a sharp...
Black Library, 2017. — 280 p. War rages in the Caradryad Sector. Worlds are falling to madness and rebellion, and the great war machine of the Imperium is moving to counter the threat. Amongst its agents is Inquisitor Covenant. Puritan, psyker, expert swordsman, he reserves an especial hatred for those of his order who would seek to harness the power of Ruin as a weapon. Summoned...
Crown/Archetype, 2019. — (The Lot Lands 02). Fetching was once the only female rider in the Lot Lands. Now she is the leader of her own hoof, a band of loyal half orcs sworn to her command. But in the year since she took power, the True Bastards have struggled to survive. Tested to the breaking point by the burdens of leadership, Fetching battles desperately to stave off famine,...
New York USA: Crowell Company., 1975. — 297 p. English. John G. Fuller is the author of the best sellers Incident at Exeter, The Interrupted Journey, and The Day of St. Anthony's Fire, as well as the highly acclaimed 200,000,000 Guinea Pigs and Arigo: Surgeon of the Rusty Knife. His latest book, Fever.!, won honorable mention by The New York Academy of Sciences. Fuller is also...
(The Chasing Graves Trilogy #3)The battle for the emperor’s throne grows ever fiercer. The City of Countless Souls cowers behind locked doors as the whims of the downtrodden and the powerful bring the great game of Araxes to its chaotic conclusion. With the soulblade at his hip and magic in his soul, Caltro’s freedom is almost within reach. But as Temsa reign of murder clashes...
Meet Caltro Basalt. He’s a master locksmith, a selfish bastard, and as of his first night in Araxes, stone cold dead. They call it the City of Countless Souls, the colossal jewel of the Arctian Empire, and all it takes to be its ruler is to own more ghosts than any other. For in Araxes, the dead do not rest in peace in the afterlife, but live on as slaves for the rich. While...
Nothing is certain in Araxes. Not even death. Stolen from the widow’s clutches, master thief and ghost Caltro Basalt must learn new ways to survive the cutthroat society of the Arctian Empire. His one hope for freedom and justice? A gift from the dead gods, who continue to beg for a saviour. “This book swings for the fences with a potent mix of political backstabbing, religious...
Merciless. Murderer. Monster. He has been called many names in his time. Built for war and nothing else, he has witnessed every shade of violence humans know, and he has wrought his own masterpieces with their colours. He cared once, perhaps, but far too long ago. He is bound to his task, dead to the chaos he wreaks for his masters. Now, he has a new master to serve and a new war...
St. Martin's Press, 2016. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 1250110564; ISBN13: 978-1250110565. "Love and loss, revenge and redemption, this debut novel will stick with you for a long time." ―Emily Giffin "I love The Next...elegantly written, thoughtfully sharp, surprisingly touching." ―Cathleen Schine Is there a right way to die? If so, Joanna DeAngelis has it all wrong. She’s consumed by...
St. Martin's Press, 2016. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 1250110564; ISBN13: 978-1250110565. "Love and loss, revenge and redemption, this debut novel will stick with you for a long time." ―Emily Giffin "I love The Next...elegantly written, thoughtfully sharp, surprisingly touching." ―Cathleen Schine Is there a right way to die? If so, Joanna DeAngelis has it all wrong. She’s consumed by...
St. Martin's Press, 2016. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 1250110564; ISBN13: 978-1250110565. "Love and loss, revenge and redemption, this debut novel will stick with you for a long time." ―Emily Giffin "I love The Next...elegantly written, thoughtfully sharp, surprisingly touching." ―Cathleen Schine Is there a right way to die? If so, Joanna DeAngelis has it all wrong. She’s consumed by...
IN this star-studded cross-genre anthology, seventeen of the greatest modern authors of fantasy, science fiction, and romance explore the borderlands of their genres with brand-new tales of ill-fated love. From zombie-infested woods in a postapocalyptic America to faery-haunted rural fields in eighteenth- century England, from the kingdoms of high fantasy to the alien world of a...
IN this star-studded cross-genre anthology, seventeen of the greatest modern authors of fantasy, science fiction, and romance explore the borderlands of their genres with brand-new tales of ill-fated love. From zombie-infested woods in a postapocalyptic America to faery-haunted rural fields in eighteenth- century England, from the kingdoms of high fantasy to the alien world of a...
In this star-studded cross-genre anthology, seventeen of the greatest modern authors of fantasy, science fiction, and romance explore the borderlands of their genres with brand-new tales of ill-fated love. From zombie-infested woods in a postapocalyptic America to faery-haunted rural fields in eighteenth- century England, from the kingdoms of high fantasy to the alien world of a...
Visitors from Oz: The Wild Adventures of Dorothy, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Woodman is an unofficial sequel to the Oz book series. Published in 1998, it was written by Martin Gardner and illustrated by Ted Enik. It follows up after the last Oz book written by L. Frank Baum. Martin Gardner (1914–2010) was an American mathematics and science writer specializing in recreational...
Wesleyan University Press, 2012. — 240 p. — (Early Classics Of Science Fiction). H. G. Wells wasn't the only nineteenth-century writer to dream of a time machine. The Spanish playwright Enrique Gaspar published Elanacronópete―"He who flies against time"―eight years before Wells's influential work appeared. The novel begins at the 1878 Paris Exposition, where Dr. Don Sindulfo...
Harper Voyager, 2012. — 549 p. — (The Dark Heroine #1). For Violet Lee, a chance encounter on a darkened street draws her into a world beyond her wildest imaginings, a timeless place of vast elegance and immeasurable wealth – of beautiful mansions and lavish parties – where a decadent group of friends live for pleasure alone. A place from which there is no escape...no matter how...
Grand Central, 2023. — 764 р. — ISBN 978-1-5387-2393-7. In Victorian London, where traveling sideshows are the very pinnacle of entertainment, there is no more coveted ticket than Ashe and Pretorius' Carnivale of Curiosities. Each performance is a limited engagement, and London's elite boldly dare the dangerous streets of Southwark to witness the Carnivale's astounding...
Translated into English by Anthea Bell. This book continues to follow 16-year-old Gwyneth “Gwen” Shepherd’s tour. In the last book, Gwen is extremely amazed when learning that she, not her cousin Charlotte is “the Ruby”, the anticipated member of the family to carry the time-travelling Circle of Twelve. Since then her life is quickly changed. She starts her travel, searches for...
That’s a very interesting story. They both happened to be judges at the springtime Lock Ness Monster Highland Scottish Jamboree. The monsters were involved in many events, but one especially caught the eye of both PJ and Sir William, and that was the incredible Caber Toss. The large serpent creatures came on land and took hold of huge poles and threw them. It was a spectacle to be...
What if China convinced the world that the U.S. never landed on the moon? What would America do? Nothing? Let one of man’s greatest achievements simply be erased? Paul Gillebaard’s brilliant debut novel, Moon Hoax, is a magnificent tale of seemingly doing the impossible, sending an American back to the moon today. China claims the moon landings never happened and that they have...
What if the most expensive and ambitious structure ever assembled, the International Space Station, was threatened? Prepare yourself for another wild ride in space with this sequel to Moon Hoax, the second book of the Hoax Trilogy. CIA agent and former NASA candidate Peter Novak, son of a U.S. moonwalker, is safely back on Earth, ready to settle down and begin a family. But the...
A piece of the Saturn V rocket that sent an Apollo mission to the moon is dredged from the Atlantic Ocean bearing odd Cyrillic markings. SID Director Peter Novak investigates and discovers a conspiracy involving his father back in 1966… As the window of President Kennedy’s promise to reach the moon narrows, NASA’s new Saturn V rocket has a combustion instability issue that only...
Touchstone, 2008. — 324 p. — ISBN: 1416552251 (ISBN13: 9781416552253). Mortimer Tate was a recently divorced insurance salesman when he holed up in a cave on top of a mountain in Tennessee and rode out the end of the world. Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse begins nine years later, when he emerges into a bizarre landscape filled with hollow reminders of an America that no longer...
Pantheon, 2016. - 352 c. - ISBN10: 0307908798; ISBN13: 978-0307908797. From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, here is a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself. The story begins at the turn of the previous century, with the young H. G. Wells...
Pantheon, 2016. - 352 c. - ISBN10: 0307908798; ISBN13: 978-0307908797. From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, here is a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and its influence on our understanding of time itself. The story begins at the turn of the previous century, with the young H. G. Wells...
The year is 2033. The world has been reduced to rubble. Humanity is nearly extinct and the half-destroyed cities have become uninhabitable through radiation. Beyond their boundaries, they say, lie endless burned-out deserts and the remains of splintered forests. Survivors still remember the past greatness of humankind, but the last remains of civilisation have already become a...
2010. — 299 p.
2033 год. Весь мир лежит в руинах. Человечество почти полностью уничтожено. Москва превратилась в город-призрак, отравленный радиацией и населенный чудовищами. Немногие выжившие люди прячутся в московском метро — самом большом противоатомном бомбоубежище на земле.
Его станции превратились в города-государства, а в туннелях царит тьма и обитает ужас. Артему,...
Ballantine Books 2003 — 349 стр. — ISBN13: 978-0345418265 What happens when the most beautiful girl in the world marries the handsomest prince of all time and he turns out to be.well.a lot less than the man of her dreams? As a boy, William Goldman claims, he loved to hear his father read the S. Morgenstern classic, The Princess Bride. But as a grown-up he discovered that the...
Saga Press, 2023. — 592 р. — ISBN 978-1-6680-0024-3 Every year, thousands in the kingdom of Talin will flock to its capital twin cities, San-Er, where the palace hosts a set of games. For those confident enough in their ability to jump between bodies, competitors across San-Er fight to the death to win unimaginable riches. Princess Calla Tuoleimi lurks in hiding. Five years...
NY.: Ace, 2023. — 760 р. — ISBN 9780593438244 Oddny and Gunnhild meet as children in tenth century Norway, and they could not be more different: Oddny hopes for a quiet life, while Gunnhild burns for power and longs to escape her cruel mother. But after a visiting wisewoman makes an ominous prophecy that involves Oddny, her sister Signy, and Gunnhild, the three girls take a...
Language English.
Genre(s) Comic novel, Historical Fiction, Horror, Thriller Comedy.
Publisher Quirk Books, Philadelphia.
Publication date April 1, 2009.
Pages 322 (319) pp.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is a 2009 parody novel by Seth Grahame-Smith. It is a mashup combining Jane Austen's classic 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice with elements of modern zombie fiction,...
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2017. — 512 p. — ISBN10: 0316394033; ISBN13: 978-0316394031. (Defy the Stars - Book 1) From the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Lost Stars and Bloodline comes a thrilling sci-fi adventure that Kass Morgan, bestselling author of The 100 series, calls "startlingly original and achingly romantic...nothing short of masterful."...
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2017. — 512 p. — ISBN10: 0316394033; ISBN13: 978-0316394031. (Defy the Stars - Book 1) From the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Lost Stars and Bloodline comes a thrilling sci-fi adventure that Kass Morgan, bestselling author of The 100 series, calls "startlingly original and achingly romantic...nothing short of masterful."...
The Agent X plague infected women first, turning mothers, daughters, and sisters into killers intent on spreading their contagion, turning most of the human race into Xombies.
Now, Lulu Pangloss and the Xombified crew of the USS No-Name are wandering the seas on a mission of "mercy": converting the last mortal humans into immortal beings like themselves, believing it is...
(Exilon 5 #1) A vendetta. A desire for freedom. A secret that will change everything. In 2163, a polluted and overcrowded Earth forces humans to search for a new home. But the exoplanet they target, Exilon 5, is occupied. Having already begun a massive relocation programme, the World Government on Earth sends Bill Taggart to monitor the threat level of the Indigenes, the alien...
Yet the hunter fled as though all the kin of the dragon he had found in the forest near Xuchotl were ravening on his trail. He had kept up this pace every waking moment for three days now. He had run until he could neither run, walk, nor stand, only fall senseless to the ground and sleep like a serpent with a pig in its belly. Then he would wake, to drink of the nearest clean...
The valley slashed into the flank of the Kezankian Mountains like a sword cut. The entrance deceived the casual eye, being but a narrow cleft in a spur of Mount Goadel. The mist often swirling about the heights aided the deception, giving the cleft the air of a place uncanny and unwholesome, where things a sane man would shun might lurk in wait. Often the wind rose, driving...
The Pictish Wilderness, in the reign of Conan the Second, known as Conn: My name is Nidaros, son of one who did not care to acknowledge me. Likely enough he was a noble with a full purse and influence at Court, both of which he used for my advancement. Otherwise I might be in the ranks of the Tenth Black River Guards instead of commanding a company. On the edge of the Pictish...
Publisher: Roc (2003), 352 pages
Taking some time out from the series space opera and fantasy of his popular Deathstalker and Hawk and Fisher books, Simon R. Green returns to the quirky urban fantasy mode of his less-well-known standalone Shadows Fall with this dual world adventure.
Toby Dexter is an ordinary guy, with a deadend job at a bookstore and an aimless, totally...
Nineteen original tales of the Pandora legend - as no one has ever imagine it before. When Pandora's Box was opened, so the ancient tale goes, all the evils that would beset humanity were released into the world. When the box was all but empty, the only thing that remained was hope. Now some of fantasy's finest writers have taken on the task of opening Pandora's closet. It is...
Angry Robot, 2022. — 596 p. — ISBN 978 0 85766 793 9 The year is 1975 – Robert Oppenheimer has invented the Atomic Engine, the first human has walked on the moon, and Jet Carson and the Eagle Seven have sacrificed their lives to stop alien invaders. Brooklyn, however, just wants to keep his head down, pay his mother’s rent, earn a little scratch of his own, and maybe get laid...
London: C. Arthur Pearson, 1901. — 326 p. About eight o’clock on the morning of the 5th of November, 1900, those of the passengers and crew of the American liner St. Louis who happened, whether from causes of duty or of their own pleasure, to be on deck, had a very strange—in fact a quite unprecedented experience. The scientific romance story depicts a tour of the Solar System,...
Роман «Всегда» (англ. Always), 2007 год. Язык: английский.
Никола Гриффит (англ. Nicola Griffith, род. 1960) — британская писательница-фантаст и редактор, лауреат премий «Небьюла», Джеймса Типтри-младшего, «Лямбда».
Tom Doherty Associates book, 2022. — 291 p. — ISBN 978-125-0819-338 She grows up in the wild wood, in a cave with her mother, but visions of a faraway lake drift to her on the spring breeze, scented with promise. And when she hears a traveler speak of Artos, king of Caer Leon, she decides her future lies at his court. So, brimming with magic and eager to test her strength, she...
New York: Arbor, 2013.
Качество: изначально электронное
Jeff Winston was 43 and trapped in a tepid marriage and a dead-end job, waiting for that time when he could be truly happy, when he died.
And when he woke and he was 18 again, with all his memories of the next 25 years intact. He could live his life again, avoiding the mistakes, making money from his knowledge of the...
Deep in the Caribbean ocean, a nuclear submarine is forced to suddenly abort its mission under mysterious circumstances. Strange facts begin to emerge that lead naval investigator John Clay to a small group of marine biologists who are quietly on the verge of making history.
Alison Shaw and her team are preparing to translate the first two-way conversation with another animal...
One of mankind’s greatest legends has been discovered. A find that any country in the world would kill to possess… And it is about to change everything.
One year ago, a remarkable breakthrough changed what it means to be human. Now, from a new research center in Puerto Rico, Alison Shaw and her team are about to stun the world… again.
At the same time, less than a thousand miles...
Prime Books, 2011. — 431 p. The undead are more alive today than ever. Immortal? Indeed! Nothing has sunk its teeth into twenty-first century popular culture as pervasively as the vampire. The fangsters have the freedom to fly across all genres and all mediums - there's even apps for vamps. Whether roaming into romance, haunting horror, sneaking into science fiction, capering...
Those Who Fight Monsters: Tales of Occult Detectives is your one-stop-shop for Urban Fantasy’s finest anthology of the supernatural. 14 sleuths are gathered together for the first time in all-original tales of unusual cases which require services that go far beyond mere deduction!
Those Who Fight Monsters: Tales of Occult Detectives brings together popular characters from...
International bestselling author Guy Gavriel Kay's latest work is set in a world evoking early Renaissance Italy and offers an extraordinary cast of characters whose lives come together through destiny, love, and ambition. In a chamber overlooking the nighttime waterways of a maritime city, a man looks back on his youth and the people who shaped his life. Danio Cerra's...
Games Workshop, 2021. — 800 p. — (Warhammer Chronicles). — ISBN-10-1800260040,ISBN-13 978-1800260047. For many long years, Felix Jaeger has followed the dwarf Slayer Gotrek Gurnisson across the world. Their adventures have been extraordinary; their heroic partnership the stuff of legends. Now it ends. With their friendship in tatters after a series of betrayals, the pair march...
Netflix, 2019 It’s the summer of 1969, and the shock of conflict reverberates through the youth of America, both at home and abroad. As a student at a quiet college campus in the heartland of Indiana, Terry Ives couldn’t be farther from the front lines of Vietnam or the incendiary protests in Washington. But the world is changing, and Terry isn’t content to watch from the...
Orbit. - 576 p. The Fury of the Gods is the earth-shattering final book in John Gwynne's best-selling Norse-inspired epic fantasy series, packed with myth, magic, and bloody vengeance. The final battle for the fate of Vigrid approaches... Varg has overcome the trials of his past and become an accepted member of the Bloodsworn, but now he and his newfound comrades face their...
Orbit book, 2022. — 1330 p. — ISBNs: 978-0316-539-920 Lik-Rifa, the dragon god of legend, has been freed from her eternal prison. Now she plots a new age of blood and conquest. As Orka continues the hunt for her missing son, the Bloodsworn sweep south in a desperate race to save one of their own–and Varg takes the first steps on the path of vengeance. Elvar has sworn to fulfil...
Orbit Books, 2021. — 968 p. — ISBN: 978-0-316-53988-3 A century has passed since the gods fought and drove themselves to extinction. Now only their bones remain, promising great power to those brave enough to seek them out. As whispers of war echo across the land of Vigrid, fate follows in the footsteps of three warriors: a huntress on a dangerous quest, a noblewoman pursuing...
Дополнительный материал - текст к аудиокниге H. Rider Haggard - King Solomon's Mines. Part 1-8
King Solomon's Mines (1885) is a popular novel by the Victorian adventure writer and fabulist, Sir H. Rider Haggard. It tells of a quest into an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain in search of the missing brother of one of the party. It is...
Fiction book published by Cosmos Books. - 1912. - 376p. Allan Quatermain, hero of King Solomon's mines, tells a moving tale of his first wife, the Dutch born Marie Marais, and the adventures that were linked to her beautiful, tragic history. This moving story depicts the tumultuous political era of the 1830's involving the trek-Boers, French colonists and the Zulu tribe in the...
She is the story of Cambridge professor Horace Holly and his ward Leo Vincey, and their journey to a lost kingdom in the African interior. The journey is triggered by a mysterious package left to Leo by his father, to be opened on his 25th birthday; the package contains an ancient shard of pottery and several documents, suggesting an ancient mystery about the Vincey family....
This is a play written by Jennifer Haley. n a suburban subdivision with identical houses, parents find their teenagers addicted to an online horror video game. The game setting? A subdivision with identical houses. The goal? Smash through an army of zombies to escape the neighborhood for good. But as the line blurs between virtual and reality, both parents and players realize that...
Delphi Classics, 2014. — 2610 p. Radclyffe Hall’s 1928 novel “The Well of Loneliness” caused a publishing scandal in 1928 and is now recognised as the first overt lesbian novel in English literature. Hall was also awarded prestigious literary prizes for the novel “Adam’s Breed” and she produced a large body of accomplished verse. For the first time in publishing history, this...
VIPER Books, 2022. — 730 p. — ISBN 978 1 78816 5310 Forty years ago, Steven Smith found a copy of a famous children's book, its margins full of strange markings and annotations. He took it to his remedial English teacher, Miss Isles, who became convinced it was the key to solving a puzzle. That a message in secret code ran through all Edith Twyford's novels. Then Miss Isles...
2016. - 347 c. - ASIN: B01MECBG64.
The First Part of the Wolf of the North trilogy by Amazon Bestselling Author Duncan M. Hamilton.
It has been generations since the Northlands have seen a hero worthy of the title. Many have made the claim, but few have lived to defend it. Timid, weak, and bullied, Wulfric is as unlikely a candidate as there could be.
A chance encounter...
2016. - 347 c. - ASIN: B01MECBG64.
The First Part of the Wolf of the North trilogy by Amazon Bestselling Author Duncan M. Hamilton.
It has been generations since the Northlands have seen a hero worthy of the title. Many have made the claim, but few have lived to defend it. Timid, weak, and bullied, Wulfric is as unlikely a candidate as there could be.
A chance encounter...
2016. - 347 c. - ASIN: B01MECBG64.
The First Part of the Wolf of the North trilogy by Amazon Bestselling Author Duncan M. Hamilton.
It has been generations since the Northlands have seen a hero worthy of the title. Many have made the claim, but few have lived to defend it. Timid, weak, and bullied, Wulfric is as unlikely a candidate as there could be.
A chance encounter...
John Gordon, 20th century Earthman, is torn from his own time to a far distant future - a time when the entire galaxy is inhabited. But men do not rule the future; our race is only one among thousands, and many of those thousands are sworn enemies of humanity! Gordon, man of the past, is forced to form alliances with the men of the future in a desperate battle to save the human...
The pleasant little American city of Middletown is the first target in an atomic war - but instead of blowing Middletown to smithereens, the super-hydrogen bomb blows it right off the map - to somewhere else! First there is the new thin coldness of the air, the blazing corona and dullness of the sun, the visibility of the stars in high daylight. Then comes the inhabitant's...
Where leads the Door?" "It leads outside our world." "Who taught our forefathers to open the Door?" "They Beyond the Door taught them." "To whom do we bring these sacrifices?" "We bring them to Those Beyond the Door."
There is a time for sleep, and a time for waking. But Hyrst had slept heavily, and the waking was hard. He had slept long, and the waking was slow. Fifty years, said the dim voice of remembrance. But another part of his mind said, No, it is only tomorrow morning...
The French scientist from 1444, by chance, is carried forward 500 years and ends up in the 20th century, in Paris in 1944. It turns out that the move was not accidental...
One of the first astronauts turned out to be a frozen space vacuum after a disaster near the moon. A century later, members of the Party of Humanity on a planet where people are not the dominant race are trying to bring it back to life and try to use it for their own purposes.
Lance Kenniston felt the cold realization of failure as he came out of the building into the sharp chill of the Martian night. He stood for a moment, his lean, drawn face haggard in the light of the two hurtling moons...
Penguin, 2020. — 432 p. A collection of sixteen sci-fi and fantasy stories edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton and author William McCaskey. A child’s wish for her father comes true. The end of the world has never been so much fun. Conquering personal demons becomes all too real. It’s not always about winning; sometimes it’s about showing up for...
Penguin Random House, 2019. — (The Salvation Sequence 02). All the best in humanity rises to meet a powerful alien threat in the sequel to Salvation—part of an all-new trilogy from “the owner of the most powerful imagination in science fiction” (Ken Follett). The comparative utopia of twenty-third-century Earth is about to go dreadfully awry when a seemingly benign alien race...
Aspect, 1998. The souls of those long dead are entering the universe at an alarming rate. Stealing the bodies of the living, they are grouping together into powerful consortiums led by leaders from history. An increasingly desperate Confederation Navy is struggling to stem the tide as the race for the universe's most powerful weapon begins. But if the dead can return to life, who...
Aspect, 1998. The souls of those long dead are entering the universe at an alarming rate. Stealing the bodies of the living, they are grouping together into powerful consortiums led by leaders from history. An increasingly desperate Confederation Navy is struggling to stem the tide as the race for the universe's most powerful weapon begins. But if the dead can return to life, who...
Aspect, 1998. Humanity is in incredible peril. The minds of those long dead are taking over the bodies of the living, in increasingly alarming numbers. Joshua Calvert is desperately trying to recover a "doomsday weapon", an instrument that might blast the dead back into oblivion--but in the wrong hands, it could mean the end of the human race.
Aspect, 1998. Humanity is in incredible peril. The minds of those long dead are taking over the bodies of the living, in increasingly alarming numbers. Joshua Calvert is desperately trying to recover a "doomsday weapon", an instrument that might blast the dead back into oblivion--but in the wrong hands, it could mean the end of the human race.
In the world of Gnomon, citizens are constantly observed and democracy has reached a pinnacle of 'transparency.' Every action is seen, every word is recorded, and the System has access to its citizens' thoughts and memories--all in the name of providing the safest society in history. When suspected dissident Diana Hunter dies in government custody, it marks the first time a...
New York: Random House, 2024. — ISBN 9780593724781. Diana Bishop journeys to the darkest places within herself—and her family history—in the highly anticipated fifth novel of the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling All Souls series. “The Black Bird Oracle deftly explores the nexus of memory, history, and parenthood—the magic, pain, and promises mothers pass onto their...
Viking Adult, 2014. 846 pages. ISBN: 978-0-698-16347-8 After traveling through time in Shadow of Night, the second book in Deborah Harkness’s enchanting series, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present to face new crises and old enemies. At Matthew’s ancestral home at Sept-Tours, they reunite with the cast of characters from...
Seattle: 47North, 2019. Bayr of Saylok, bastard son of a powerful and jealous chieftain, is haunted by the curse once leveled by his dying mother. Bartered, abandoned, and rarely loved, she plagued the land with her words: From this day forward, there will be no daughters in Saylok.
Jove, 2021. — 559 p. — ISBN 9780593336106. Emmy Harlow is a witch but not a very powerful one—in part because she hasn't been home to the magical town of Thistle Grove in years. Her self-imposed exile has a lot to do with a complicated family history and a desire to forge her own way in the world, and only the very tiniest bit to do with Gareth Blackmoore, heir to the most...
Jove, 2022. — 597 p. — ISBN 9780593336106. Wild child Isidora Avramov is a thrill chaser, adept demon summoner, and—despite the whole sexy-evil-sorceress vibe—also a cuddly animal lover. When she’s not designing costumes and new storylines for the Arcane Emporium’s haunted house, Issa's nursing a secret, conflicted dream of ditching her family’s witchy business to become an...
Berkley Romance, 2023. — 543 p. — ISBN 9780593336106. Even though she won’t deny her love for pretty (and pricey) things, Nineve Blackmoore is almost painfully down-to-earth and sensible by Blackmoore standards. But after a year of nursing a broken heart inflicted by the fiancée who all but ditched her at the altar, the powerful witch is sick of feeling low and is ready to try...
Saga Press, 2023. — 358 р. — ISBN 978-1-9821-8254-0 Following the murderous events of the “gripping…thrill-ride” (Karin Slaughter) Serpent of Heaven, Lizbeth Rose is awaiting the arrival of her sister Felicia and her husband’s younger brother Eli in Texoma. Both needed to leave the seat of the Holy Russian Empire in San Diego after Felicia’s burgeoning wizardly power in death...
The Silence of the Lambs is a novel by Thomas Harris. First published in 1988, it is a sequel to Harris' 1981 novel Red Dragon. Both novels feature the cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter, this time pitted against FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling.
Little, Brown Book Group, 2020. In 1893, there's no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box. But when the Eastwood sisters--James Juniper, Agnes Amaranth, and Beatrice...
Orbit, 2019. In the early 1900s, a young woman embarks on a fantastical journey of self-discovery after finding a mysterious book in this captivating and lyrical debut. In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully...
Published by Hachette Digital ISBN: 9781405512596 Copyright 2008 CAPPELEN DAMM AS. English translation copyright by Tara F. Chace. 197 p. The NASA Return to the Moon artwork is intended to represent a fictional and futuristic organization and is in no way intended to imply any endorsement by or affiliation with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023. — 224 p. A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men hurtling through space—not towards the moon or the vast unknown, but around our planet. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its kind before the program is dismantled, these astronauts and cosmonauts—from America, Russia,...
Выходные данные неизвестны. — 7 c. The story involves an intricate series of time-travel journeys. It begins with a young man speaking to the narrator, the Bartender, in 1970. The two of them relate in that both of them are from unmarried parents. The Bartender remarks that no one in his family ever gets married, including him. He wears an Ourobouros ring. The young man is...
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Winter's Tale is a 1983 novel by Mark Helprin. It takes place in a mythic New York City, markedly different from reality, and in an industrial Edwardian era near the turn of the 20th century. Wikipedia.
Published: October 20, 1983.
Author: Mark Helprin.
Genres: Magic realism, Fantasy, Novel, Alternate history, Contemporary fantasy, Speculative...
Decade Books, 1980. - 221 c.
A group of people marooned on a primitive world find an ancient starship with which they hope to find out what happened to the civilization they left behind.
Imperial Guard Pub, 2012. — 796 p. The Last War is the second trilogy collection of the bestselling In her name series. This book includes the full text of the standalone novels First Contact, Legend of the Sword, and Dead Soul. First Contact . Led by Commander Owen McClaren, the TNS Aurora is embarked on an extended survey mission, searching for new worlds that could support...
Scholastic Inc. 2011. — 64 p. — ISBN10: 0545316537; ISBN13: 978-0545316538. The greatest battles you've never seen: tag-team style! All your favorite Star Wars characters in unlikely and inspired match-ups. Who would win? You decide! What would happen if the boldest Star Wars characters and creatures formed into teams and faced one another in treacherous locations? Thirty...
Orbit, 2016. - 992 c. - (The Wolfhound Century) - ISBN10: 0316361712; ISBN13: 978-0316361712. A spectre is haunting the empire--the specter of war. Huge stone creatures have fallen from the sky, their bodies littering the countryside. Blood-hungry golems are used to fight a never-ending war for political power. Secret police crush insurgency wherever it's found. Investigator...
Orbit, 2016. - 992 c. - (The Wolfhound Century) - ISBN10: 0316361712; ISBN13: 978-0316361712. A spectre is haunting the empire--the specter of war. Huge stone creatures have fallen from the sky, their bodies littering the countryside. Blood-hungry golems are used to fight a never-ending war for political power. Secret police crush insurgency wherever it's found. Investigator...
Хилл Сьюзан. Женщина в черном. Оригинал книги на английском языке.
Amazon's review:
A classic ghost story: the chilling tale of a menacing specter haunting a small English town. Arthur Kipps is an up-and-coming London solicitor who is sent to Crythin Gifford-a faraway town in the windswept salt marshes beyond Nine Lives Causeway-to attend the funeral and settle the affairs...
HarperTeen, 2017. — 368 p. — ISBN10: 006244087X; ISBN13: 978-0062440877. (Spindle Fire - Book 1) Half sisters Isabelle and Aurora are polar opposites: Isabelle is the king's headstrong illegitimate daughter, whose sight was tithed by faeries; Aurora, beautiful and sheltered, was tithed her sense of touch and her voice on the same day. Despite their differences, the sisters have...
HarperTeen, 2017. — 368 p. — ISBN10: 006244087X; ISBN13: 978-0062440877. (Spindle Fire - Book 1) Half sisters Isabelle and Aurora are polar opposites: Isabelle is the king's headstrong illegitimate daughter, whose sight was tithed by faeries; Aurora, beautiful and sheltered, was tithed her sense of touch and her voice on the same day. Despite their differences, the sisters have...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015. - 200 C. - ISBN10: 1514188651; ISBN13: 978-1514188651. Lies, treachery and deceit and something much, much darker. A fictional ghost story. Present: a young couple, while traveling in their camper van, come across a big, old, empty house hidden behind an overgrown and chaotic garden, unaware that it is haunted by one of its...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015. - 200 C. - ISBN10: 1514188651; ISBN13: 978-1514188651. Lies, treachery and deceit and something much, much darker. A fictional ghost story of the haunting of the house in Gallows Lane. Present: a young couple, while traveling in their camper van, come across a big, old, empty house hidden behind an overgrown and chaotic garden,...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015. - 200 c. - ISBN10: 1514188651; ISBN13: 978-1514188651. Lies, treachery and deceit and something much, much darker. A fictional ghost story. Present: A young couple, while traveling in their camper van, come across a big, old, empty house hidden behind an overgrown and chaotic garden, unaware that it is haunted by one of its...
DAW, 2013. — ISBN10: 0756408172; ISBN13: 978-0756408176. Isaac is a libriomancer, a member of a secret organization founded five centuries ago by Johannes Gutenberg to protect the world from supernatural threats. Libiomancers are gifted with the ability to magically reach into books and draw forth objects. When Isaac is attacked by vampires that leaked from the pages of books...
DAW, 2014. — ISBN10: 0756408393; ISBN13: 978-0756408398 Hugo winner Jim C. Hines's hilarious and clever Magic ex Libris series, where books come alive and libriomancer Isaac Vainio combats magical threats that spring from the pages.
Games Workshop, 2018. — 944 p. — (Warhammer Chronicles). — ISBN-10-1784966770, ISBN-13 978-1784966775. An action-packed omnibus revealing the dark majesty of three infamous Champions of Chaos: Sigvald, Valkia the Bloody and Egrimm van Horstmann. In the cold wastes of the North, the followers of Chaos gather in their thousands, eager to lay waste to the soft lands of the south....
Games Workshop, 2018. — 944 p. — (Warhammer Chronicles). — ISBN-10-1784966770, ISBN-13 978-1784966775. An action-packed omnibus revealing the dark majesty of three infamous Champions of Chaos: Sigvald, Valkia the Bloody and Egrimm van Horstmann. In the cold wastes of the North, the followers of Chaos gather in their thousands, eager to lay waste to the soft lands of the south....
Games Workshop, 2019. — 736 p. — (Warhammer Chronicles). — ISBN-10- 1784969966, ISBN-13 978-1784969967. Orion is the king of the forest, the lord of Athel Loren and the guardian spirit of all that is dear to the Asrai, the mysterious Wood Elves. In three novels, he confronts old enemies and new dangers, and must appeal to all his powers and allies to ensure the safety of his...
Dengeki Bunko, 2009. — 282 с. Hatou Gaku has a very odd friend at school named Marii Yukari. Yukari has purple eyes and a bizarre way of looking at the world: she sees all living things as robots. This has not always worked out well for Yukari, even costing her a best friend when she was younger. However, Yukari insists that the things she says she sees is true, and her vision...
Bloomsbury Publishing , 2012. — 566 p. — ISBN: 9781408834473. Шедевр в жанре постапокалиптической фантастики, впервые вышедший в 1980 году и ныне, переизданный в 2012 году к годовщине смерти автора. Действие происходит в обществе, деградировавшем к Железному веку, книга написана от первого лица непосредственного участника событий на трансформированном / деградировавшем?...
John and Julia Cartwright are deeply disturbed when they notice a drastic change in their daughter Maureen. She has become strangely lethargic and suffers from unexplained nausea. A sinister possibility occurs to John when he discovers evidence of contamination from a tin of baked beans.
Adding fuel to the fire, photographic paper he has stored at home has clearly been damaged by...
Simon & Schuster, 2021. — 400 p. — ISBN-10 198215148X; ISBN-13 978-1982151485. (The Practical Magic Series - book 4) Master storyteller Alice Hoffman brings us the conclusion of the Practical Magic series in a spellbinding and enchanting final Owens novel brimming with lyric beauty and vivid characters. The Owens family has been cursed in matters of love for over three-hundred...
Simon & Schuster, 2021. — 400 p. — ISBN-10 198215148X; ISBN-13 978-1982151485. (The Practical Magic Series - book 4) Master storyteller Alice Hoffman brings us the conclusion of the Practical Magic series in a spellbinding and enchanting final Owens novel brimming with lyric beauty and vivid characters. The Owens family has been cursed in matters of love for over three-hundred...
Years have passed since the demon Tarrik and his master, the sorcerer Ren, destroyed the servants of Samal and suppressed the very essence of the vile lord. The cost was greater than even a demon could have imagined. But in the realms of demons and humans, no evil can be fully controlled, and no one’s true fate can be foretold. Including Tarrik’s. He’s been summoned once more, now...
Outcast and exiled, the demon Tarrik Nal-Valim has long been forgotten by the world of humans. At least, so he thinks. But when he is summoned as a last resort by a desperate sorcerer, it seems as though his past has caught up with him. Because the sorcerer is Serenity “Ren” Branwen, the daughter of Tarrik’s former master—and friend. Though she seems cold, driven, and ruthless,...
When her heart is stolen by a seductive stranger, a young woman is swept away to a house atop a mountain of blood-red clay: a place filled with secrets that will haunt her forever. Between desire and darkness, between mystery and madness, lies the truth behind Crimson Peak. From acclaimed director Guillermo del Toro
Adam Holt , 2015. — 332 p. — ISBN10: 1940873029; ISBN13: 978-1940873022. (The Tully Harper Series Volume 2) "Tabitha was kidnapped in the Florida Everglades. That's what we told the world, but it was a lie. Now I must find her real kidnappers - the Ascendant - before they return for us all. To do that, I'm going to need a lot of help. And another spaceship. This time it's not...
Adam Holt , 2015. — 332 p. — ISBN10: 1940873029; ISBN13: 978-1940873022. (The Tully Harper Series Volume 2) "Tabitha was kidnapped in the Florida Everglades. That's what we told the world, but it was a lie. Now I must find her real kidnappers - the Ascendant - before they return for us all. To do that, I'm going to need a lot of help. And another spaceship. This time it's not...
Adam Holt , 2015. — 332 p. — ISBN10: 1940873029; ISBN13: 978-1940873022. (The Tully Harper Series Volume 2) "Tabitha was kidnapped in the Florida Everglades. That's what we told the world, but it was a lie. Now I must find her real kidnappers - the Ascendant - before they return for us all. To do that, I'm going to need a lot of help. And another spaceship. This time it's not...
Antology. 1996. A collection of contemporary and classic horror stories by authors such as Pete Johnson, Robert Westall, Roald Dahl and Stephen King. Pete Johnson: Secret Terror. Stephen King: Battleground. Robert Westall: The Vacancy. Guy de Maupassant: The Twitch. Laurence Staig: Freebies. Roald Dahl: Man from the South. Kenneth Ireland: The Werewolf Mask. John Gordon: Eels....
Antology. 1996. A collection of contemporary and classic horror stories by authors such as Pete Johnson, Robert Westall, Roald Dahl and Stephen King. Pete Johnson: Secret Terror. Stephen King: Battleground. Robert Westall: The Vacancy. Guy de Maupassant: The Twitch. Laurence Staig: Freebies. Roald Dahl: Man from the South. Kenneth Ireland: The Werewolf Mask. John Gordon: Eels....
A Legends of the Age of Sigmar novel by Nick Horth, Great Britain, "Black Library", 107 pages, 2017. — (Warhammer Age of Sigmar series)
The story
Excelsis is the city of secrets, a grand and imposing bastion of civilisation in the savage Realm of Beasts. Within its winding streets and shadowy back alleys, merchants deal in raw prophecy mined from an ancient fragment of the...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016. — 230 p. — ISBN10: 1536905658; ISBN13: 978-1536905656. Grace Hardwick’s dad is a science fiction writer who makes his living destroying the world. When Grace decides to go away for her first year of college her dad, Robert, can’t help but think of all of the potential ways that society could collapse and strand his daughter...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016. - 252 c. - ISBN10: 1536905658; ISBN13: 978-1536905656. Grace Hardwick’s dad is a science fiction writer who makes his living destroying the world. When Grace decides to go away for her first year of college her dad, Robert, can’t help but think of all of the potential ways that society could collapse and strand his daughter...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016. - 252 c. - ISBN10: 1536905658; ISBN13: 978-1536905656. Grace Hardwick’s dad is a science fiction writer who makes his living destroying the world. When Grace decides to go away for her first year of college her dad, Robert, can’t help but think of all of the potential ways that society could collapse and strand his daughter...
Prime Books, 2018. — 576 p. This tenth volume of the year’s best science fiction and fantasy features thirty-four stories. Extracurricular Activities • [The Machineries of Empire] • (2017) • novelette by Yoon Ha Lee Emergency Protocol • (2017) • short story by Lettie Prell Winter Timeshare • [Istanbul Protectorate • 1] • (2017) • short story by Ray Nayler The Hermit of Houston...
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2017. — 384 p. — ISBN10: 0399574638; ISBN13: 978-0399574634. A brilliantly inventive novel about three astronauts training for the first-ever mission to Mars, an experience that will push the boundary between real and unreal, test their relationships, and leave each of them—and their families—changed forever. “A transcendent, cross-cultural, and cross...
G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2017. — 384 p. — ISBN10: 0399574638; ISBN13: 978-0399574634. A brilliantly inventive novel about three astronauts training for the first-ever mission to Mars, an experience that will push the boundary between real and unreal, test their relationships, and leave each of them—and their families—changed forever. “A transcendent, cross-cultural, and cross...
Место действия романа — Земля 3000 года, давно порабощенная инопланетными захватчиками. Юноша-землянин Джони Тайлер вступает в единоборство со странными существами, пытаясь разгадать секрет могущества пришельцев и объединить уцелевшие горстки людей для последней отчаянной схватки за свободу. На основе данного романа снят фильм «Поле битвы: Земля». Продюсером и исполнителем...
Quirk Books, 2013. — 261 p. — ISBN: 978-1-24601-616-1, eBook ISBN: 978-1-24601-624-6
Philadelphia, the late 1870s. A city of gas lamps, cobblestone streets, and horse-drawn carriages—and home to the controversial surgeon Dr. Spencer Black. The son of a grave robber, young Dr. Black studies at Philadelphia’s esteemed Academy of Medicine, where he develops an unconventional...
From Tanya Huff, the author of the acclaimed Blood novels, which followed the adventures of private detective Vicki Nelson and vampire Henry Fitzroy, comes three novels of her brilliant contemporary fantasy series, the Darkest Night. The first novel in the series, Smoke and Shadows, reintroduces us to Henry and to Tony Foster, a former street kid and snitch rescued from his...
Chicks are awesome-and never more so than when they are kicking some serious vampire/werewolf/demon/monster butt. Chicks Kick Butt is an anthology that features one of the best things about the urban fantasy genre: strong, independent, and intelligent heroines who are quite capable of solving their own problems and slaying their own dragons (or demons, as the case may be)....
New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 1984. — 248 p. — (Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox). Against the exotic backdrop of China thirteen-and-a-half centuries ago—a land as filled with magic as Tolkien's Middle Earth—two odd companions seek the Great Root of Power. Number Ten Ox is a strong and eager, but rather naive, young peasant; Li Kao is a wily old sage with a slight...
New York: Doubleday, 1991. — 255 p. — (Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox). Once again Master Li and Number Ten Ox, the most incongruous and eccentric pair of sleuths in the realms of fantasy, take on another case. It begins with a vampire ghoul interrupting an execution and leads to a murdered mandarin and the sightings of some very terrible creatures
Doubleday, 1988. — 236 p. — (Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox). The abbot of a humble monastery in the Valley of Sorrows calls upon Master Li and Number Ten Ox to investigate the killing of a monk and the theft of a seemingly inconsequential manuscript from its library. Suspicion soon lands on the infamous Laughing Prince Liu Sheng—who has been dead for about 750 years....
Times Square on New Year’s Eve. A million partiers chanting the final seconds. This year, it’s a countdown to death. My name is Twyla Tafel and I’ve uncovered an insane plot to unleash berserk vampires on those unsuspecting revelers. I have to stop it, armed only with my great admin skills, my useless art degree—and Nikos, a severely hot vampire who I’d love to photograph as a...
Jerry eBooks, 2011 about 2611 pages.
A collection of Nebula Award short stories: nominees and winners are collected by year (Volume 1 includes stories for 1946-1984).
Story list:
1946.
Uncommon Sense by Hal Clement [Astounding Sep 1945].
The Ethical Equations by Murray Leinster [Astounding Jun 1945].
The Waveries by Fredric Brown [Astounding Jan 1945].
What You Need by...
Jerry eBooks, 2011 about 1870 pages.
A collection of Nebula Award short stories: nominees and winners are collected by year (Volume 2 includes stories for 1985-2006).
Story list:
1985.
The Crystal Spheres by David Brin [Analog Jan 1984].
The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything by George Alec Effinger [F&SF Oct 1984].
Symphony for a Lost Traveler by Lee Killough [Analog Mar...
Jerry eBooks, 2012 about 413 pages.
A collection of Nebula Award short stories: nominees and winners are collected by year (Volume 3 includes stories for 2007-2012).
Story list:
2007.
Impossible Dreams by Tim Pratt [Asimov’s July 2006].
How to Talk to Girls at Parties by Neil Gaiman [Fragile Things, William Morrow 2006].
Eight Episodes by Robert Reed [Asimov’s June 2006]....
Сборник лучших фантастических рассказов и повестей 2011 года на английском языке. В сборник включены только произведения получившие премию Хьюго - престижнейшую премию в области фантастики.
Different Publishers, different years.
A whole collection of Nebula Award winning novels since 1946 to 2013.
Novel list:
1946-Foundation and Empire - Isaac Asimov.
1951-Farmer in the Sky - Robert A. Heinlein.
1953-The demolished man - Alfred Bester.
1954-Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury.
1955- The Forever Machine - Mark Clifton & Frank Riley.
1956-Double Star - Robert A....
2021. — 509 p. — ISBN B08WC32GXR. Abys-Luthil is a city that stands upon the brink of civil war. Its halls of power darken with growing plots, and rival gangs terrorise its aged streets. Criminals raid stately homes in search of arcane artifacts, as the city's nobles withdraw behind their household guards. Within this city of masks and deceit, Lyra Alpheri moves between the...
Is a thriller of espionage and the future which reads like the love child of John le Carré and Franz Kafka. is a cook in a Kraków restaurant, but when his boss asks Rudi to help a cousin escape from the country he’s trapped in, a new career – part spy, part people-smuggler – begins. Following multiple economic crises and a devastating flu pandemic, Europe has fractured into...
Is a thriller of espionage and the future which reads like the love child of John le Carré and Franz Kafka. is a cook in a Kraków restaurant, but when his boss asks Rudi to help a cousin escape from the country he’s trapped in, a new career – part spy, part people-smuggler – begins. Following multiple economic crises and a devastating flu pandemic, Europe has fractured into...
Grey Matter Press, 2016. — 312 p. — ISBN: 1940658721 (ISBN13: 9781940658728). Five Unique Voices From Bram Stoker Award-nominated authors Josh Malerman, the newly minted master of modern horror, and John F.D. Taff, the "King of Pain," to the mind-bending surrealism of Erik T. Johnson, the darkly poetic prose of J. Daniel Stone and the transgressive mania of Joe Schwartz, I CAN...
GitBook. — 4724 p. 盘龙, aka Panlong, aka Coiling Dragon, is a webnovel by popular Chinese Xianxia (fantasy/kung fu) writer I Eat Tomatoes （我吃西红柿）. This novel has been fully translated by RWX. There are a total of 21 books spanning 800+ chapters, so sit back, buckle your seat belts, and get ready for one long ride! Empires rise and fall on the Yulan Continent. Saints, immortal...
Head of Zeus, 2020. — 1229 p. Artificial intelligence in 100 stories. To ready us for the inevitable, here are 100 of the best short stories ever written--most of them by humans--about robots and artificial minds. Read them while you can, learn from them, and make your preparations... From 1837 through to the present day, from Charles Dickens to Cory Doctorow, this collection...
Dell Magazines, 2011, 445 pages, edited by Schmidt Stanlay. From a misty beach in Massachusetts to worlds both distant and alien, some of the best writers in science fiction—some old favorites like Robert J. Sawyer and Stephen Baxter, some up-and-coming—explore some of the many places our future may take us. You’ll find problems we face right now, as in Edward M. Lerner’s “The...
Anthology. — Vanguard Press, 1952. — 333 pp. Introduction (Invaders of Earth) essay by Groff Conklin. Prologue: The Distant Past essay by uncredited. This Star Shall Be Free (1949) novelette by Murray Leinster. Part One: The Immediate Past: It Could Have Happened Already essay by uncredited. Castaway (1941) shortstory by Robert Moore Williams. Impulse (1938) shortstory by Eric...
Orbit, 2019. — (The Licanius Trilogy #3). The Light of All That Falls concludes the epic adventure that began in The Shadow of What Was Lost, the acclaimed fantasy blockbuster from James Islington. The Boundary is whole once again, but it may be too late. Banes now stalk Andarra, while in Ilin Illan, the political machinations of a generation come to a head as Wirr's newfound...
Saga Press, 2023. — 1307 р. — ISBN 978-1-9821-4119-6 The Catenan Republic - the Hierarchy - may rule the world now, but they do not know everything. I tell them my name is Vis Telimus. I tell them I was orphaned after a tragic accident three years ago, and that good fortune alone has led to my acceptance into their most prestigious school. I tell them that once I graduate, I...
Sourcebooks, 2023. — 523 р. Rage burns brighter than any spellfire… Deep in the birchwoods of Norway, magic courses through the veins of two sisters. For years they've been alone, but sweet-tempered Kaija is tired of living in shadows and longs for a life filled with community, even if it means stifling her magic. But Minna is a witch through and through, with wrath always...
Ширли Джексон. Призрак дома на холме. Год издания 1959. Кол-во страниц
320. Книга в оригинале на английском, не адаптирована. Может быть использована студентами уровня Intermediate и выше.
Wednesday Books, 2023. — 748 p. — ISBN 978-1-250-19144-1 Magic is forbidden throughout the Morning Realms. Magicians are called an abomination, and blamed for the plague of monsters that razed the land twenty years before. Jin Zhara already had enough to worry about―appeasing her stepmother’s cruel whims, looking after her blind younger sister, and keeping her own magical gifts...
Riverhead Books; 1st Edition edition, 2019. — 640 p. — ISBN10: 0735220174; ISBN13: 978-0735220171. The New York Times Bestseller Wall Street Journal Bestseller USA Today Bestseller (The Dark Star Trilogy - Book 1) The epic novel, an African Game of Thrones, from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings In the stunning first novel in Marlon...
Australia: E-Quality Press, 2015. A few years ago, a military doctor walking the corridors of New Jakarta Space Station saved Melati's life. She signed up for the International Space Force to pay back her moral debt to him. But her family thinks she has betrayed her people. It was ISF who forcefully removed their grandmothers and grandfathers from the crowded slums of Jakarta...
Savannah's most unconventional tattoo artist, Riley Poe, lives on the edge. Now she's put over the edge when her younger brother is taken by a sinister cult led by vampires. Her only ally is the hot-tempered vampire Eli Dupre, attracted to Riley's beauty and rare blood type. To save her brother from certain un-death, Riley faces dangers she's never dreamed of, ruthless...
Lately, life has been unnaturally calm for vampires Cat Crawfield and her husband Bones. They should have known better than to relax their guard, because a shocking revelation sends them back into action to stop an all-out war…
A rogue CIA agent is involved in horrifying secret activities that threaten to raise tensions between humans and the undead to dangerous heights. Now...
Ass Market Paperback, 288 pages.
Published May 21st 2013 by Harlequin (first published January 1st 2013).
original title.
The Sword Dancer.
ISBN.
0373297424 (ISBN13: 9780373297429).
edition language.
English.
Sword dancer Li Feng is used to living life on the edge of the law—a woman alone in the dangerous world of the Tang Dynasty has only her whirlwind reflexes to trust....
Vampire Darcy’s Desire presents Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice as a heart-pounding vampire romance filled with passion and danger.
Tormented by a 200-year-old curse and his fate as a half-human/half-vampire dhampir, Mr. Darcy vows to live forever alone rather than inflict the horrors of life as a vampire on an innocent wife. But when he comes to Netherfield Park, he meets the...
Vampire Darcy’s Desire presents Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice as a heart-pounding vampire romance filled with passion and danger.
Tormented by a 200-year-old curse and his fate as a half-human/half-vampire dhampir, Mr. Darcy vows to live forever alone rather than inflict the horrors of life as a vampire on an innocent wife. But when he comes to Netherfield Park, he meets the...
Orbit, 2020. — (Great Cities #1). Five New Yorkers must come together in order to defend their city in the first book of a stunning new series by Hugo award-winning and NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin. Every city has a soul. Some are as ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. New York City? She's got five. But every city also has a dark side. A...
Del Rey, 2022. — 987 р. — ISBN 9780593156599 The people suffer under the centuries-long rule of the Moon Throne. The royal family—the despotic emperor and his monstrous sons, the Three Terrors—hold the countryside in their choking grip. They bleed the land and oppress the citizens with the frightful powers they inherited from the god locked under their palace. But that god...
Dutton, 2023. — 578 р. — ISBN 9781524742768 Light and dark—this is the cursed birthright placed upon Clara and Natasha by their godfather, Drosselmeyer, whose power and greed hold an entire city in his sway. Charming Clara, the favorite, grows into a life of beauty and ease, while Natasha is relegated to her sister’s shadow, ignored and unloved. But Natasha seizes the...
(Of Blood and Bone #2) Defy the darkness. Defend the light. Drem and his friends flee the battle at Starstone Lake to warn the Order of the Bright Star. They’ve witnessed horrors they’ll never forget, such as magic warping men into beasts. But worst of all, they’ve seen a demon rise from the dead – making it even more powerful. Now Fritha, the demons’ high priestess, is hunting...
One World, 2022. — 459 p. — ISBN 9780593229255 When sociologist Nalini Jackson joins the SS Delany for the first manned mission to Jupiter, all she wants is a career opportunity: the chance to conduct the first field study of group dynamics on long-haul cryoships. But what she discovers instead is an entire city encased in a bubble on Europa, Jupiter’s largest moon. Even more...
Anthology. 70 authors tell their stories. You are not alone! Discover how Lauren Kate transformed the feeling of that one mean girl getting under her skin into her first novel, how Lauren Oliver learned to celebrate ambiguity in her classmates and in herself, and how R.L. Stine turned being the funny guy into the best defense against the bullies in his class. Today’s top...
Anthology. 70 authors tell their story.
You are not alone!
Discover how Lauren Kate transformed the feeling of that one mean girl getting under her skin into her first novel, how Lauren Oliver learned to celebrate ambiguity in her classmates and in herself, and how R.L. Stine turned being the funny guy into the best defense against the bullies in his class.
Today’s top...
Raymond F. Jones was an interesting and relatively neglected science fiction writer, mostly appearing in Astounding with his "Peace Engineer" series and many others. His two best works are the novel Renaissance (1951, serialized in Astounding in 1944) and the brilliant "Noise Level" (1947), but he published some fifteen books in the field, including This Island Earth (1952) which...
Light Boxes, a fantasia about a war waged by a group of balloonists against the seemingly endless month of February. Publishing Genius Press, 2009. "Jones's brief and bewildering war fable pursues the plight of a town battling to free itself from the brutal hold of the month of February (also sometimes a person or a force or merely a metaphor), a meanie that has not allowed its...
Robinson Publishing, 1995. — 448 p. — ISBN 1-85487-421-7. Win - 1995 IHG - Best Anthology. 17 - 1996 Locus - Best Anthology. Preliminary Nominees. — 1996 BFA. — Best Anthology/Collection. Introduction: Horror in 1994 • [Horror in... Introductions] • (1995) • essay by Stephen Jones. Dead Babies • (1994) • short story by Lawrence Watt-Evans. Sensible City • (1994) • short story...
The award-winning team of Jones and Sutton once again push the boundaries of fear in this new collection of horror and dark fantasy. Drawing from both sides of the Atlantic, Dark Terrors 3 features stories by some of the genres' biggest names as well as their rising stars, including Ray Bradbury, Poppy Z. Brite, Pat Cadigan, Ramsey Campbell, Christopher Fowler, Neil Gaiman, Julian...
Once again, multi-award-winning editors Stephen Jones and David Sutton take you on a terrifying journey into the dark heart of modern horror fiction. Introduction by Stephen Jones & David Sutton. At Home in the Pubs of Old London by Christopher Fowler. Valentia by Caitlín Kiernan. Barking Sands by Richard Christian Matheson. Everything, in All the Wrong Order by Chaz Brenchley....
A man-high cairn marks the desolate juncture where the lands of Brythunia, Corinthia and Zamora come together. Centuries of wind and rain and snow and sun have worked their hot and cold hands and weathered claws over the pillar, smoothing it into little more than a soft-featured mound of stone rising from the barren ground. The mountain upon which the cairn squats is most...
Icy air hung deathly still among the crags of the Kezankian mountains, deep in the heart of that arm of those mountains which stretched south and west along the border between Zamora and Brythunia. No bird sang, and the cloudless azure sky was empty, for even the ever-present vultures could find no current on which to soar. In that eerie quiesence a thousand fierce, turbanned...
Storm winds howling off the midnight-shrouded Vilayet Sea clawed at the granite-walled compound of the Cult of Doom. The compound gave the appearance of a small city, though there were no people on its streets at that hour. More than the storm and the lateness kept them fast in their beds, praying for sleep, though but a bare handful of them could have put a finger to the real...
A sweeping tale of clashing cultures, warring gods, and forbidden love: In 1000 AD, a young Inuit shaman and a Viking warrior become unwilling allies as war breaks out between their peoples and their gods-one that will determine the fate of them all. "There is a very old story, rarely told, of a wolf that runs into the ocean and becomes a whale." Born with the soul of a hunter and...
The work of H. P. Lovecraft continues to inspire many of the leading contemporary authors of horror and the supernatural. In this anthology, S. T. Joshi, the world’s leading expert on Lovecraft and the author of the lively treatise The Rise and Fall of the Cthulhu Mythos, tries his hand at assembling a modern-day Lovecraftian anthology, casting his net on both sides of the...
PS Publishing, 2010 - 315 p. Introduction - S. T. Joshi Pickman's Other Model (1929) - Caitlín R. Kiernan Desert Dreams - Donald R. Burleson Engravings - Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. Copping Squid - Michael Shea Passing Spirits - Sam Gafford The Broadsword - Laird Barron Usurped - William Browning Spencer Denker's Book - David J. Schow Inhabitants of Wraithwood - W.H. Pugmire The Dome...
An intergalactic odyssey about the first Czech astronaut’s mission to Venus, the brutal Communist past that haunts him, the love of his life left behind on Earth, and a showdown among the stars When Jakub Procházka is sent into space to examine a cosmic dust cloud covering Venus, it may be a solo suicide mission. Dreaming of becoming a national hero and desperate to atone for his...
From the Hugo Award–winning author of The Stars Are Legion comes a brand-new science fiction thriller about a futuristic war during which soldiers are broken down into light in order to get them to the front lines on Mars. They said the war would turn us into light. I wanted to be counted among the heroes who gave us this better world. The Light Brigade: it’s what soldiers...
Beautiful Creatures is a New York Times bestselling fantasy young adult novel by authors Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl and the first book in the Caster Chronicles series. The book was published on December 1, 2009 by Little, Brown, and Company.
Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2016. – 124 p. – ISBN10: 3319305778 The year is 2130. The first-ever expedition is sent to Mercury to search for the cause of an unknown source of electromagnetic radiation that can destroy space ships passing by the planet. Thought to be inhospitable and lifeless, the surface of Mercury provides startling surprises for the crew...
Kensington Publishing, 2023. — 927 р. — ISBN 978-1-645-66-075-0 Toba Peres can speak, but not shout; sleep, but not dream. She can write with both hands at once, in different languages, but she keeps her talents hidden at her grandparents’ behest. Naftaly Cresques sees things that aren’t real, and dreams things that are. Always the family disappointment, Naftaly would still...
Hardcover, 475 pages.
Published January 20th 2015 by Delacorte Press.
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0385344414 (ISBN13: 9780385344418).
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English.
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Fever #7.
It’s easy to walk away from lies. Power is another thing.
MacKayla Lane would do anything to save the home she loves. A gifted sidhe-seer, she’s already fought and defeated the deadly Sinsar Dubh—an ancient book of...
Published in the United States by Del Rey, New York
174 pages
Revan: hero, traitor, conqueror, villain, savior. A Jedi who left Coruscant to defeat Mandalorians - and returned a disciple of the dark side, bent on destroying the Republic. The Jedi Council gave Revan his life back, but the price of redemption was high. His memories have been erased. All that’s left are nightmares...
Penguin Books, 2023. — 491 р. — ISBN 978-1-804-94746-3. Evelyn is a witch with a perfect storm of impulses: terrible taste in bed partners, sticky fingers, and a lust for danger. After she steals from her vampire ex and falls through a portal to another realm, she’s fished out of the waters by a band of seafarers and their telekinetic captain. She’s immediately given a...
Hyperion, 2015. — (Starbound). — ISBN: 978-1423171041.
A year ago, Flynn Cormac and Jubilee Chase made the now-infamous Avon Broadcast, calling on the galaxy to witness LaRoux Industries' corruption. A year before that, Tarver Merendsen and Lilac LaRoux were the only survivors of the Icarus shipwreck, forced to live a double life after their rescue.
Now, at the center of the...
Disney Press, 2013. — 374 p. — (Starbound) ISBN: 978-1423171027 It's a night like any other on board the Icarus. Then, catastrophe strikes: the massive luxury spaceliner is yanked out of hyperspace and plummets into the nearest planet. Lilac LaRoux and Tarver Merendsen survive. And they seem to be alone. Lilac is the daughter of the richest man in the universe. Tarver comes...
Hyperion, 2014. — 390 p. — (Starbound). — ISBN: 978-1423171034.
Jubilee Chase and Flynn Cormac should never have met.
Lee is captain of the forces sent to Avon to crush the terraformed planet's rebellious colonists, but she has her own reasons for hating the insurgents.
Rebellion is in Flynn's blood. Terraforming corporations make their fortune by recruiting colonists to...
Doubleday, 1985. A gripping, chilling collection of 50 stories dating back to Shelley and Stevenson but also including modern masters. This is the kind of stories which would best be read in a nightgown sipping brandy by a roaring fire. These stories avoid the gore and surprise aspect of fear, and dig at the core of your soul. These are the kinds of stories that plant little...
Cosmogony is no less full of riddles than the history of Earth. And where there are riddles, there is room for fantasy. However, if it is divorced from reality and rejects verisimilitude and authenticity, fantasy is empty, it leaves no trace in the heart; the best it can do is to titillate the reader’s senses. But I have always wanted to achieve authenticity in the incredible, to...
Москва: Raduga, 1989. - 223 с. OCR. На английском языке. Перевод Аlex Miller. Казанцев Александр. Гибель Фаэны.
Далекое прошлое. Гибель планеты солнечной системы и перенесение выживших на древнюю Землю.
Москва: Raduga, 1989. - 223 с. OCR. На английском языке. Перевод Аlex Miller. Казанцев Александр. Гибель Фаэны.
Далекое прошлое. Гибель планеты солнечной системы и перенесение выживших на древнюю Землю.
Black Library, 2017. — 294 p. The t'au are a mysterious alien race, diametrically opposed to the Imperium of Man in every possible way - in their mastery of technology, methods of warfare and social structure. Yet in galactic terms they are a young race, and naive when it comes to the manipulations of Chaos. When promising young Commander Farsight is promoted to lead a crusade...
Oceanof, 2025. — 367 р. A Sleeping Gods Novel Book 3. Trapped aboard the crippled starship Erebus, spiraling toward the crushing grip of a black hole, Inspector Layton Trent and his team face oblivion. Their only hope? A desperate alliance with the ship’s renegade crew. Bitter enemies must work together, or they’ll vanish into the abyss.But survival comes at a price. When...
Английский язык.
Прошло четыре десятка лет после Кризиса Обливиона, и Тамриэлю снова угрожает опасность, древнее всепоглощающее зло. Это Умбриэль, летающий город, который отбрасывает жуткую тень — куда бы она ни пала, люди умирают и возрождаются в виде живых мертвецов.
И здесь, в тени страшного Умбриэля, начинается великое приключение, и встречается странная компания, которая...
Английский язык
Спустя сорок лет после кризиса Обливиона, империи Тамриэль угрожает таинственный парящий город, Умбриэль, тень которого порождает огромные армии нежити.
Пытаясь отойти от разрушительного открытия, принц Аттребус продолжает свою, казалось бы, обреченную миссию по поиску магического меча, являющегося ключом к уничтожению смертоносных захватчиков. Между тем, в...
Psi Corpus Trilogy. Book 1
In 2115, existence of telepathy has been proven. The resulting media frenzy, panic, violence, and bloodshed lead to the creation of the Metasensory Regulation Authority, the precursor of the Psi Corps, largely due to the efforts of Lee Crawford, an Earth Alliance senator. Much effort is put into establishing the events that had triggered appearance of...
Razorbill, 2016. — 352 p. — ISBN: 978-1595147677
Age Range: 12 - 17 years
Grade Level: 7 and up
She is the most powerful Jinni of all. He is a boy from the streets. Their love will shake the world...
When Aladdin discovers Zahra's jinni lamp, Zahra is thrust back into a world she hasn't seen in hundreds of years — a world where magic is forbidden and Zahra's very...
Signet, 1982. — 312 p. Leyna Shaw's unfamiliar environment sends her screaming and screamingly. For one, she's in the White House bedroom and there is a peculiar object thrusting itself upon her.
(Clocktaur War #1) A paladin, an assassin, a forger, and a scholar ride out of town. It’s not the start of a joke, but rather an espionage mission with deadly serious stakes. T. Kingfisher’s new novel begins the tale of a murderous band of criminals (and a scholar), thrown together in an attempt to unravel the secret of the Clockwork Boys, mechanical soldiers from a neighboring...
Halla is a housekeeper who has suddenly inherited her great-uncle's estate... and, unfortunately, his relatives. Sarkis is an immortal swordsman trapped in a prison of enchanted steel. When Halla draws the sword that imprisons him, Sarkis finds himself attempting to defend his new wielder against everything from bandits and roving inquisitors to her own in-laws... and the sword...
Gallery / Saga Press, 2019. When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother’s home in rural North Carolina, she finds long-hidden secrets about a strange colony of beings in the woods. When Mouse’s dad asks her to clean out her dead grandmother's house, she says yes. After all, how bad could it be? Answer: pretty bad. Grandma was a hoarder, and her house is stuffed with...
(Clocktaur War #2) Pull three people out of prison--a disgraced paladin, a convicted forger, and a heartless assassin. Give them weapons, carnivorous tattoos, and each other. Point them at the enemy. What could possibly go wrong? In the sequel to CLOCKWORK BOYS, Slate, Brenner, Caliban and Learned Edmund have arrived in Anuket City, the source of the mysterious Clockwork Boys....
Flatiron Books, 2023. — 597 р. — ISBNs: 9780316430838 It is the eve of Earth’s environmental collapse. A single ship carries humanity’s last hope: eighty elite graduates of a competitive program, who will give birth to a generation of children in deep space. But halfway to a distant but livable planet, a lethal bomb kills three of the crew and knocks The Phoenix off course....
St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2009. — ISBN10: 0312943636; ISBN13: 978-0312943639. Thirteen years ago, Jack Winter lay dying in a graveyard. Jack called upon a demon and traded his soul for his life… and now the demon is back to collect its due. But Jack has finally found something to live for. Her name is Pete Caldecott, and because of her, Jack's not going to Hell without a fight....
Роман о вервольфах - оборотнях.
Annette Curtis Klause has written a poignant novel about love, sex and the complexity of relationships that relies not on conventional romantic formulas, but rather illuminates the interplay between sexuality, honesty, and love. Vivian Gandillon is sixteen-and a werewolf. Forced to move to the city when her home is attacked by arsonists, Vivian...
Tor Books, 2024. — 416 p. — (Cerulean Chronicles, 2). Hope is the thing with feathers. And hope is the thing with fire. Featuring gorgeous golden yellow sprayed edges! Somewhere Beyond the Sea is the hugely anticipated sequel to TJ Klune's The House in the Cerulean Sea, one of the best-loved and best-selling fantasy novels of the past decade. A magical house. A secret past. A...
Tor Publishing Group, 2023, 2023. — 683 р. — ISBN 978-1-938570-34-6 In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots―fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. They’re a family, hidden and safe. The day Vic...
Pocket Book, 2002. — 255 s. — (Diablo 03). — ISBN: 0743426924, ISBN13: 9780743426923. Since the beginning of time, the angelic hosts of the High Heavens and the demonic hordes of the Burning Hells have been locked in a struggle for the fate of all Creation. That struggle has now come to the mortal realm...and neither Man nor Demon nor Angel will be left unscathed... Legend...
The world of Krynn is under siege by the dark goddess Takhisis. Led by the renegade wizard Galan Dracos, Takhisis' forces of evil threaten to conquer all. The only resistance to the Dark Queen are the Knights of Solamnia and their few allies. One Knight rises from their ranks–a Knight destined to become the greatest hero of Krynn. This is his story...the Legend of Huma.
Wizards of the Coast, 2004. — 320 p. — (Dragonlance: Heroes, #4; Heroes II, #1). After the death of the legendary knight Huma, Kaz, a renegade minotaur, wanders the land of Ansalon, hunted by his own kin for escaping the servitude of the Dark Queen and by the Knights of Solamnia, his former comrades, who have declared him an outlaw. Reissue.
314 pages, Published January 1st 1996 by TSR Throughout the time of Krynn, one race has remained strong in its pride and beliefs. The minotaurs envision themselves as the children of destiny, the future masters of the world. Despite adversity, defeat, and enslavement, that belief has never wavered. If there is a foe capable of destroying the minotaurs, it is their own arrogance....
Scholastic Inc., 2011. The 39 Clues is a series of adventure novels written by a collaboration of authors, including Rick Riordan, Gordon Korman, Peter Lerangis, Jude Watson, Patrick Carman, Linda Sue Park, Margaret Peterson Haddix, Roland Smith, David Baldacci, Jeff Hirsch, Natalie Standiford, C. Alexander London, Sarwat Chadda and Jenny Goebel. It consists of five series, The...
Picador, 2022. — 1566 p. — ISBN 978-1-5098-7911-3 Chris Kraus’ The Bastard Factory tells the story of an entire epoch: a drama of betrayal and self-delusion spanning the years 1905 to 1975, taking us from Riga to Moscow, Berlin and Munich all the way to Tel Aviv. Hubert and Konstantin Solm are brothers, born in Riga at the beginning of the twentieth century, they will find...
Spectra, 2005. — ISBN: 0553586742. With Freedom’s Gate, acclaimed author Naomi Kritzer introduced a dangerous world of magic and intrigue. Now she continues the story of Lauria, a bold young woman who has turned against a way of life she once believed in... Once the trusted aide to powerful military commander Kyros, freeborn Lauria hunted down his escaped slaves. But during a...
Harper Voyager, 2019. — (The Poppy War #2). The searing follow-up to 2018’s most celebrated fantasy debut – THE POPPY WAR. In the aftermath of the Third Poppy War, shaman and warrior Rin is on the run: haunted by the atrocity she committed to end the war, addicted to opium, and hiding from the murderous commands of her vengeful god, the fiery Phoenix. Her only reason for living...
HarperCollins, 2018. When Rin aced the Keju, the Empire-wide test to find the most talented youth to learn at the Academies, it was a shock to everyone: to the test officials, who couldn’t believe a war orphan from Rooster Province could pass without cheating; to Rin’s guardians, who believed they’d finally be able to marry her off and further their criminal enterprise; and to...
Roc, 1992. — 288 p. By 2053, the return of magic to the world has filled the streets of Chicago with beings and creatures from mythology. For those in the politically dominant mega-corporations, the underworld, and everywhere in between, it is a time of chaos and wonder, and opportunities ripe for the taking. For fifteen-year-old Peter Clarris, transformed by his Awakened genes...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014. SFS1 is a collection of riveting science fiction short stories. What role does science play? From contacting celebrities from beyond the grave to teleportation to recording dreams, SFS1 tells the stories of the lucky and sometimes unlucky individuals who invent or come across these technologies. Filled with twists and turns,...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014. SFS2 is an amazing collection of ten science fiction stories that will please any reader looking for adventure. The author aims for the stars and definitely hits his mark. Some of these ten stories seems like they could happen right now, and others in the near future. With the technology we live with today, this science fiction...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022. — 428 p. — ISBN: 978-0-374-71725-4 In the near future, a young woman finds her mother’s body starfished on the kitchen floor in Queens and sets on a journey through language, archives, artificial intelligence, and TV for a way back into herself. She begins to translate an old manuscript about a group of female medical students―living through a...
Black Library, 2028. — 1287 p. — (Warhammer Chronicles). Centuries before the rise of Sigmar and the founding of the Empire, the War of Vengeance was a great and terrible conflict between the elves and dwarfs for domination of the Old World. This bitter struggle, which lasted for hundreds of years, left the very earth scarred by the destructive forces unleashed, and forged an...
(The Serpent Gates #1) What if you knew how and when you will die? Csorwe does — she will climb the mountain, enter the Shrine of the Unspoken, and gain the most honored title: sacrifice. But on the day of her foretold death, a powerful mage offers her a new fate. Leave with him, and live. Turn away from her destiny and her god to become a thief, a spy, an assassin—the wizard's...
When John Bravais was sent on a secret mission to observe a war in North Africa he found out more than it was safe for him to know - even after he had secretly been surgically transformed so that he was as strong as a Bolo tank, and nearly as tough: Wolf-like aliens, invisible to the ordinary eye, were harvesting the brains of the fallen fighters! Brevais might have become the...
Even in the future, the classic mercenary dilemma remains: can you trust your servants not to turn on you? The servants protecting mankind and the Terran Empire are the Bolos - gigantic battle tanks with robot brains. When the alien Deng expand into human space, the Bolos counter-attack. But they seem to have a war plan all their own, one that doesn't take humanity into account.
Bloomsbury USA Childrens, 2017. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 1681191318; ISBN13: 978-1681191317. She'll do anything to break her sister out of prison--even get arrested on purpose. When thirteen-year-old Valor is sent to jail, she couldn't be happier. Demidova's prison for criminal children is exactly where she wants to be. Valor's twin sister, Sasha, is serving a life sentence for...
Bloomsbury USA Childrens, 2017. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 1681191318; ISBN13: 978-1681191317. She'll do anything to break her sister out of prison--even get arrested on purpose. When thirteen-year-old Valor is sent to jail, she couldn't be happier. Demidova's prison for criminal children is exactly where she wants to be. Valor's twin sister, Sasha, is serving a life sentence for...
Head of Zeus, 2022. — 745 р. — ISBN: 978-1803-2826-02 They think they've killed the last of us... 981 AD. The Viking King of Dublin is dead. His young widow, Gormflaith, has ambitions for her son—and herself—but Ireland is a dangerous place and kings tend not to stay kings for long. Gormflaith also has a secret. She is one of the Fomorians, an immortal race who can do...
(Book of the Ancestor #3). They came against her as a child. Now they face the woman. The ice is advancing, the Corridor narrowing, and the empire is under siege from the Scithrowl in the east and the Durns in the west. Everywhere, the emperor’s armies are in retreat. Nona faces the final challenges that must be overcome if she is to become a full sister in the order of her...
NY: Ace, 2023. — 1182 p. — ISBN: 9780593437933 The boy has lived his whole life trapped within a book-choked chamber older than empires and larger than cities. The girl has been plucked from the outskirts of civilization to be trained as a librarian, studying the mysteries of the great library at the heart of her kingdom. They were never supposed to meet. But in the library,...
The Earth colony of Landin has been stranded on Werel for ten years — & ten of Werel's years are over 600 terrestrial years. The lonely & dwindling human settlement is beginning to feel the strain. Every winter — a season that lasts for 15 years — the Earthmen have neighbors: the humanoid hilfs, a nomadic people who only settle down for the cruel cold spell. The hilfs fear the...
A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants can choose - and change - their gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the completely dissimilar...
The stunning conclusion to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with Ancillary Justice, the only novel to win the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke Awards.
For a moment, things seemed to be under control for Breq, the soldier who used to be a warship. Then a search of Athoek Station's slums turns up someone who shouldn't exist, and a messenger from the mysterious...
Orbit 2013 — 447 стр. — ISBN13: 9780316246620 On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest. Breq is both more than she seems and less than she was. Years ago, she was the Justice of Toren-a colossal starship with an artificial intelligence linking thousands of corpse soldiers in the service of the Radch, the empire that conquered...
Orbit, 2014. 199 pages. ISBN: 0316246654. What if you once had thousands of bodies and near god-like technology at your disposal? And what if all of it were ripped away? The Lord of the Radch has given Breq command of the ship Mercy of Kalr and sent her to the only place she would have agreed to go - to Athoek Station, where Lieutenant Awn's sister works in Horticulture. Athoek...
Tordotcom Book, 2023. — 204 р. — ISBN 978-1-250-84246-6 Ester’s family was torn apart when a manticore killed her mother and baby brother, leaving her with nothing but her father’s painful silence and a single, over whelming need to kill the monsters that took her family. Ester’s path leads her to the King’s Royal Mews, where the giant rocs of legend are flown to hunt...
Games Workshop, 2012. — 1024 p. — (Time of legends). — ISBN-10 1849702837,ISBN-13 978-1849702836. The story of Nagash - father of the vampires - in one big volume. Nagash is the first necromancer and the supreme lord of undeath. He wrested the secrets of dark magic from the elves and perverted them to suit his ends. When the priest-kings of Nehekhara stood united against him,...
Games Workshop, 2012. — 1024 p. — (Time of legends). — ISBN-10 1849702837,ISBN-13 978-1849702836. The story of Nagash - father of the vampires - in one big volume. Nagash is the first necromancer and the supreme lord of undeath. He wrested the secrets of dark magic from the elves and perverted them to suit his ends. When the priest-kings of Nehekhara stood united against him,...
Disney Press, 2015. — 488 p. — ISBN: 1423180852 (ISBN13: 9781423180852) When twelve magical superpowers are unleashed on the world, a Chinese-America teenager named Steven will be thrown into the middle of an epic global chase. He'll have to master strange powers, outrun super-powered mercenaries, and unlock the mysterious powers of the Zodiac.
Disney Press, 2016. — 432 p. — ISBN: 1484713524 (ISBN13: 9781484713525) In this second illustrated novel of The Zodiac Legacy series, the dangerous dragon power only grows stronger within Jasmine, and Steven struggles to hold their ragtag team together. But as alliances become strained, the line between the "good guys" and the "bad guys" becomes blurrier and blurrier. And it...
Disney Press, 2017. — 448 p. — ISBN: 1484713516 (ISBN13: 9781484713518) Steven Lee always thought that having superpowers would make him happy, make life easier, and make everything more fun. He was wrong. Steven, now 16 years old, has spent years living with the power of the Tiger. But now, on the edge of a catastrophe that could destroy not only Steven and his super powered...
Sourcebooks, 2023. — 921 р. Lady Gemma Ashbourne seemingly has it all. She's young, gorgeous, and rich. Her family was Anointed by the gods, blessed with incredible abilities. But underneath her glittering façade, Gemma is deeply sad. Years ago, her sister Mara was taken to the Middlemist to guard against treacherous magic. Her mother abandoned the family. Her father and eldest...
"First Contact" is a 1945 science fiction novelette by Murray Leinster credited as one of the first (if not the first) instances of a universal translator in science fiction. It won a retro Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 1996.
It was among the stories selected in 1970 by the Science Fiction Writers of America as one the best science fiction short stories published before the...
The human race was expanding through the galaxy... and so, they knew, were the Aliens. When two expanding empires meet... war is inevitable. Or is it...?
Collection. — Del Rey / Ballantine, 1978. — 368 pp. ISBN: 0-345-25800-2. The Dean of Science Fiction essay by John J. Pierce. Sidewise in Time (1934) novella by Murray Leinster. Proxima Centauri (1935) novella by Murray Leinster. The Fourth-Dimensional Demonstrator (1935) shortstory by Murray Leinster. First Contact (1945) novelette by Murray Leinster. The Ethical Equations...
A Wrinkle in Time, winner of the Newbery Medal in 1963, is the story of the adventures in space and time of Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin O'Keefe (athlete, student, and one of the most popular boys in high school). They are in search of Meg's father, a scientist who disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government on the tesseract problem.
64 pages
This is Book 1 of the Time Quintet Series
It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger.
Scholastic Inc., 2011. The 39 Clues is a series of adventure novels written by a collaboration of authors, including Rick Riordan, Gordon Korman, Peter Lerangis, Jude Watson, Patrick Carman, Linda Sue Park, Margaret Peterson Haddix, Roland Smith, David Baldacci, Jeff Hirsch, Natalie Standiford, C. Alexander London, Sarwat Chadda and Jenny Goebel. It consists of five series, The...
Pushkin Press, 2023. — 551 р. — ISBN: 978-1-78269-433-5 Eighteen-year-old Sorinda is a deadly assassin with a reputation to match. But her latest assignment is like no other. The pirate queen, Alosa, has tasked her with captaining a handpicked crew on a dangerous rescue mission, and her sailing master is none other than the infuriating Kearan. But as they navigate through...
When published in 1967, Rosemary's Baby was one of the first contemporary horror novels to become a national bestseller. Ira Levin's second novel, Rosemary's Baby, remains perhaps his best work. The author's mainstream "this is how it really happened" style undeniably also made the novel his most widely imitated. The plot line is deceptively simple: What if you were a happily...
Год выпуска: 1976. Автор: Levin Ira. Жанр: Ужасы, фантастика. Язык: английский. Количество страниц: ~320. Описание: Yakov Liebermann is an elderly gentleman who is known as a Nazi hunter: he runs a center in Vienna that documents crimes against humanity perpetrated during the Holocaust. The waning interest of the Western nations in tracking down Nazi criminals has forced him to...
ISBN: 0-06-008084-1, 978-0060080846
Год издания: 2002
Издательство: William Morrow Paperback
The internationally bestselling novel by the author of A Kiss Before Dying, The Boys from Brazil, and Rosemary's Baby
With an Introduction by Peter Straub
For Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost too good to be true. It is....
Scholastic Books 1997 — 273 стр. — ISBN13: 978-0590920681 At birth, Ella is inadvertently cursed by an imprudent young fairy named Lucinda, who bestows on her the "gift" of obedience. Anything anyone tells her to do, Ella must obey. Another girl might have been cowed by this affliction, but not feisty Ella: "Instead of making me docile, Lucinda's curse made a rebel of me. Or...
Knopf, 2012. — 322 p. Rhiannon, a teenage girl, falls in love with a spirit that inhabits a different person's body every day. Soon, their life changes drastically as they face a difficult decision.
New York: The Overlook Press, 2008. — 656 p. — ISBN10: 1585678201; ISBN13: 978-1585678204. The famous volume with a compelling appeal to fantasy enthusiasts and anyone interested in Russian history. A constant thread woven throughout the history of Russian literature is that of fantasy and an escape from the bounds of realism. Worlds Apart is the first single-volume anthology...
Первая книга цикла - Matters of Blood. Роман о любви и вампирах на английском языке. 234 стр. Forget Transylvania, New Orleans, and St. Louis—Keira Kelly has to deal with supernatural Texas… If you thought your family was strange… Try being Keira Kelly. A member of a powerful paranormal family, Keira elected to stay among humans in the Texas Hill Country when the rest of the...
2008. - 270 pages. A continuation of Lippert's previous novel, James Potter and the Hall of Elder's Crossing. This takes place where the epilogue of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows leaves off. It follows Harry's two sons, James and Albus in their adventures in Hogwarts. Based upon the characters and worlds of J. K. Rowling, this book tells the story of Harry...
2007. - 233 pages. Based upon the characters and worlds of J. K. Rowling, this book tells the story of Harry Potter's son James, and his first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. A word from the author - G. Norman Lippert: A word before we begin. You don't mind, do you? I'd like to discuss, for just a moment, who these story is for, and who it isn't. If you are...
A Sci-Fi novel. — London: Orbit, 1990. — 309 p. — ISBN: 0-7474-0584-0. DJVU The Livewires . High-tech lowlifes, bio-enhanced delinquents, or doped-out street kids, they've learned to survive in riot-torn future Paris, playing simulated war games in the fall-out shelters beneath the city. Soaring high and fast on gravfield skimboots, they head straight into the heart of violence...
A Sci-Fi novel. — London: Orbit, 1990. — 309 p. — ISBN: 0-7474-0584-0. PDF The Livewires . High-tech lowlifes, bio-enhanced delinquents, or doped-out street kids, they've learned to survive in riot-torn future Paris, playing simulated war games in the fall-out shelters beneath the city. Soaring high and fast on gravfield skimboots, they head straight into the heart of violence...
Set in Bexhill-on-Sea after a pandemic has wiped out almost the entire UK population, The Hoffmann Plague follows a year in the lives of a man and woman who meet in the aftermath, evocatively recounting their struggles to survive. With all established infrastructure and support systems gone, they must learn new skills quickly: skills which have become unfamiliar to most people...
2011. A publishing event: Bestselling author Ken Liu selects his award-winning science fiction and fantasy tales for a groundbreaking collection—including a brand-new piece exclusive to this volume. With his debut novel, The Grace of Kings, taking the literary world by storm, Ken Liu now shares his finest short fiction in The Paper Menagerie. This mesmerizing collection features...
By Lloyd Biggle Jr. "And Madly Teach". - Wildside Press: A Galaxy of Strangers, 1967, 28p. Перевод на русский язык (Н. Евдокимова «Какая прелестная школа!…», 1967). Рассказ посвящен вопросам новой образовательной системы при помощи телевидения.
Little, Brown and Company, 2022. — 537 p. — ISBNs: 978-0-7595-5631-7 Once upon a time, the kingdoms of Wales were rife with magic and conflict, and eighteen-year-old Mererid “Mer” is well-acquainted with both. She is the last living water diviner and has spent years running from the prince who bound her into his service. Under the prince’s orders, she located the wells of his...
Titan Books, 2023. — 489 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78879-148-9 In the city of Ombrazia, saints and their disciples rule with terrifying and unjust power, playing favorites while the unfavored struggle to survive. After her father’s murder at the hands of the Ombrazian military, Rossana Lacertosa is willing to do whatever it takes to dismantle the corrupt system—tapping into her powers...
Книга La Salle , Illinois, Open Court Publishing Co, 1975, 205 c. I.Introduction. II. Gollum's Character Transformation in Hobbit. III. Psycological Journey of Bilbo Baggins. IV. The fairy-tale morality of The Lord of the Rings. V. The corruption of power. VI.Everyclod and everyhero: The image of man in Tolkien. VII. Interlace Structure of The Lord of the Rings. VIII Narrative...
New York: The American News Company, 1896. — 48 с. This little booklet was penned at the end of the 19th century, and ostensibly involves events mere years later. A work of political satire, it chastises the rise of socialism and populism, inferring their fictional rise here as disastrous and leading to chaos. It is of note here that this work, along with others by Lockwood,...
Tor Books. -2024. 522 p. "A fast-paced carnival of setbacks and skullduggery that reminds me of... me! Charming from the first twist to the last."—Scott Lynch Set in a city of traders and thieves, monsters and murderers, this page-turning epic fantasy debut is a must-read for fans of Nicholas Eames and Joe Abercrombie. Lukan Gardova is a cardsharp, academy dropout, and—thanks...
Black Library, 2023. — 854 p. — (Warhammer Chronicles). Sentenced to death for their crimes, Reiner Hetzau and his fellow prisoners are given a choice – they can either submit to execution, or work for the very people that have imprisoned them. Forced to carry out the most desperate and suicidal secret missions, all for the good of the Empire, the Blackhearts must overcome...
Games Workshop, 2019. — 928 p. — (Warhammer Chronicles). — ISBN-10-1781939594,ISBN-13 978-1781939598. For decades, Gotrek and Felix have been thrilling Warhammer fans, and now you can experience their story for yourself... Gotrek and Felix: unsung heroes of the Empire, or nothing more than common thieves and murderers? The truth perhaps lies somewhere in between, and depends...
Games Workshop, 2018. — 816 p. — (Warhammer Chronicles). — ISBN-10-1784967297, ISBN-13 978-1784967291. Forced to join the ranks of the undead against her will after being kidnapped by the vampire Adolphus Krieger, fierce Kislevan noblewoman Ulrika Magdova can no longer return to her mortal life, and is forced to seek new allies and purpose. Crossing into the Empire, she is...
Subterranean Press, 2014. — 384 p. — ISBN 9781596066564. To many thousands of readers world-wide Titus Crow is the psychic sleuth—the cosmic voyager and investigator—of Brian Lumley's Cthulhu Mythos novels, from The Burrowers Beneath to Elysia.
Viking, 2022. — 583 p. — ISBN 978-0735-2426-85 Tommie Ware’s life is turned upside down the summer of 1958, just after his eleventh birthday. When his beloved aunt—the woman who raised him—doesn’t return after her shift as a night nurse and is later found murdered, there is only one place left for Tommie to go: “home” to the mother who handed him over the day he was born. All...
Harper/Collins Publishers, 2022. — 729 p. — ISBN: 978-00084-79343 After winning her mother’s freedom from the Celestial Emperor, Xingyin thrives in the enchanting tranquility of her home. But her fragile peace is threatened by the discovery of a strange magic on the moon and the unsettling changes in the Celestial Kingdom as the emperor tightens his grip on power. While Xingyin...
(A Chorus of Dragons #2). You can have everything you want if you sacrifice everything you believe. Kihrin D'Mon is a wanted man. Since he destroyed the Stone of Shackles and set demons free across Quur, he has been on the run from the wrath of an entire empire. His attempt to escape brings him into the path of Janel Theranon, a mysterious Joratese woman who claims to know Kihrin....
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020. Bound by blood. Tempted by desire. Unleashed by destiny. Bryce Quinlan had the perfect life—working hard all day and partying all night—until a demon murdered her closest friends, leaving her bereft, wounded, and alone. When the accused is behind bars but the crimes start up again, Bryce finds herself at the heart of the investigation. She’ll do...
Random House Books for Young Readers, 2018. — 384 p. — eISBN 9780399549717. When the Bat's away, the Cat will play. It's time to see how many lives this cat really has. Two years after escaping Gotham City's slums, Selina Kyle returns as the mysterious and wealthy Holly Vanderhees. She quickly discovers that with Batman off on a vital mission, Gotham City looks ripe for the...
St. Martin’s Press books, 2022. — 1087. — ISBN 9781250783981 Sworn by Oath Kagen Vale is the trusted and feared captain of the palace guard, charged with protection of the royal children of the Silver Empire. But one night, Kagen is drugged and the entire imperial family is killed, leaving the empire in ruins. Abandoned by the Gods Haunted and broken, Kagen is abandoned by his...
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On one side, the living toil under the relentless Florida sun to build hundreds of miles of fence. On the other side, millions of the living dead hunger for the flesh of the living. Between them is a line of chain link fencing through which blows a hot wind like the breath of hell. A wind that carries the stink of death and the endless moans of the dead....
In a world of blood and magic, a powerful epic fantasy begins... An emperor's daughter who will not be denied Just before her sixteenth birthday, Princess Katerina is refused her rightful place as heir to the Empire of the Ice-Bear--solely because of her sex. Determined to regain her inheritance, she murders the foreign lord she's been ordered to marry and embarks on a perilous...
NY: Saga Press, 2023. — 895 р. — ISBN 978-1-9821-6794-3 The Drought of Girls has ended, but the rift it broke open between the Queendoms is not so easily healed. Political tensions roil the senate of Paxim, where Queen Heliane vows to make her son Paulus the nation’s first ruling King or die trying. Scorpican troops amass on the border of Arca, ready to attack. And within Arca...
NY: Saga Press, 2022. — 717 р. — ISBN 978-1-9821-6794-3 Five hundred years of peace between queendoms shatters when girls inexplicably stop being born. As the Drought of Girls stretches across a generation, it sets off a cascade of political and personal consequences across all five queendoms of the known world, throwing long-standing alliances into disarray as each queendom...
Juliette hasn’t touched anyone in exactly 264 days. The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette’s touch is fatal. As long as she doesn’t hurt anyone else, no one really cares. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old girl. Diseases are destroying the population, food is...
Destiny Farm has fallen. Promontory's people must hunt down the escaped "Farm Yata" or starve, but they must also integrate with the Skedge Yata or their industries will fail. Their very independence relies on dangerous compromises. Enter Jirado, a Skedge Yata and valued employee of the now-destroyed Destiny factory. Her kin, captured by the Farm before its fall, might yet be...
This Is Horror, 2016. — 156 p. — ASIN B01M65QCBV. Both seventeen. Both afraid. But both saying yes. It sounded like the perfect first date: canoeing across a chain of lakes, sandwiches and beer in the cooler. But teenagers Amelia and James discover something below the water’s surface that changes their lives forever. It’s got two stories. It’s got a garden. And the front door is...
Knopf, Borzoi Books, 2022. — 365 p. — ISBN 978-0593-32144 Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal—an...
Little, Brown and Company, 2023. — 1003 р. — ISBN 978-0-316-55751-1 Sinner. Villain. Wicked. The Prince of Envy has never claimed to be a saint. But when a cryptic note arrives, signaling the beginning of a deadly game, he knows it will take more than a hint of sin to win and save his falling demon court. Riddles, hexed objects, anonymous players, nothing will stand in his way,...
Never-before-published vampire stories by Charlaine Harris, Jim Butcher, Kelley Armstrong, and many others.
Suspenseful, surprising, sometimes dark, sometimes humorous-these all-new stories will ensure that readers never think of vampires (or birthdays) in quite the same way again.
In New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris's "Dracula Night," Sookie Stackhouse is...
Greenwich, Conn. : Fawcett Publications, 1959. — 192 p. Somewhere in the city a monster from an alien world was hiding in human form—a shapeless thing of terrible power, a messenger of Death.
Piper Griffiths wants one thing in life: To become a Consul, a keeper of the peace between humans and daemons. There are three obstacles in her way. The first is Lyre. Incubus. Hotter than hell and with a wicked streak to match. His greatest mission in life is to get Piper into bed and otherwise annoy the crap out of her. The second is Ash. Draconian. Powerful. Dangerous. He...
The most important rule for an Apprentice Consul is simple: Don't get involved with daemons. Well, Piper is planning to break that rule — big time.
After a near-deadly scandal with the Sahar Stone, she has the chance to return to the only life she's ever wanted. All she has to do to keep her Apprenticeship is forget about Ash and Lyre. Ash might be enigmatic and notoriously...
After surviving a round-trip to hell, Piper figures she can survive anything. After all, she just lived through the devastating loss of her Consul apprenticeship and a torturous stint at boarding school. How much worse could it get?
Well, she wasn’t expecting a group of crazy radicals to burn her home to the ground and take her prisoner.
The Gaians, a.k.a. the crazy...
Piper is feeling a bit overwhelmed. With Seiya and Lyre missing, Ash recovering from near fatal injuries, and the Gaians picking fights with daemons all over the city, a girl can’t help but think she might be in over her head. And this time, she’s on her own.
Before she even has a chance to investigate the Gaians’ new stockpile of mysterious, high-tech weaponry, an old enemy...
2010. — ISBN: 9781409016915. The end of the world didn’t happen overnight. After years of war, societal breakdown, freak storms and rising tides, humanity was already near the edge. Then came a threat no one could have expected: all the world’s corpses rising up to make more. To deliver the final blow. Born into this bleak and bloody landscape, Julie struggles to hold on to...
Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter: "He has a nose," people say. Engaged to track down a mysterious boy who disappeared three years earlier, Tracker breaks his own rule of always working alone when he finds himself part of a group that comes together to search for the boy. The band is a hodgepodge, full of unusual characters with secrets of their own,...
Macmillan, 2023. — 766 р. — ISBN 978-1-5290-7120-7 Britain. The near-future. A right-wing government believes it has the answer to society’s ills—the Sanctity of Marriage Act, which actively encourages marriage as the norm, punishing those who choose to remain single. But four couples are about to discover just how impossible relationships can be when the government is...
ChiZine 2012 — 338 стр. — ISBN13: 978-1927469248 A child receives the body of Saint Lucia of Syracuse for her seventh birthday. A rebelling angel rewrites the Book of Judgement to protect the woman he loves. A young woman discovers the lost manuscript of Jane Austen written on the inside of her skin. A 747 populated by a dying pantheon makes the extraordinary journey to the...
In Montana, a man attends the funeral of his parents, ostensibly killed in a car crash. In Los Angeles, a fifteen-year-old girl is abducted by a man assumed dead. These events are linked by the fact that in both there is something missing. As there is in so much of the world, for so much of the time. What's missing is a secret, something which strikes at the heart of what it is...
Pan Macmillan, 2021. A Desolation Called Peace is the spectacular space opera sequel to Arkady Martine's genre-reinventing, Hugo Award-winning debut, A Memory Called Empire. An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one can destroy it, and Fleet Captain Nine Hibiscus is running out of options. In a desperate attempt at...
Tom Doherty Associates. Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely independent mining Station, has died. But no one will admit that his death wasn't an accident--or that Mahit might be next to die, during a time of political instability in the...
New York: A Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2008. — 218 p. Even in Empire City, a town where weird science is the hope for tomorrow, it’s hard for a robot to make his way. It’s even harder for a robot named Mack Megaton, a hulking machine designed to bring mankind to its knees. But Mack’s not interested in world domination. He’s just a bot trying to get by, trying to demonstrate that...
Vintage, 2011. — 464 p. — ISBN10: 0099554291, ISBN13: 978-0099554295 Florence 1538 Artist Benvenuto Cellini creates the Medusa Amulet: a work of unimaginable power - and menace. The amulet can grant immortality to any who stare into it on a moonlit night, but it soon falls into the wrong hands. Chicago, the present day Art historian David Franco's beloved sister Sarah is dying....
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017. — 400 p. — ISBN10: 0374285063; ISBN13: 978-0374285067. A riveting, beautifully written, fugue-like novel of AIs, memory, violence, and mortality Not far in the future the seas have risen and the central latitudes are emptying, but it’s still a good time to be rich in San Francisco, where weapons drones patrol the skies to keep out the...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017. — 400 p. — ISBN10: 0374285063; ISBN13: 978-0374285067. A riveting, beautifully written, fugue-like novel of AIs, memory, violence, and mortality Not far in the future the seas have risen and the central latitudes are emptying, but it’s still a good time to be rich in San Francisco, where weapons drones patrol the skies to keep out the...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017. — 400 p. — ISBN10: 0374285063; ISBN13: 978-0374285067. A riveting, beautifully written, fugue-like novel of AIs, memory, violence, and mortality Not far in the future the seas have risen and the central latitudes are emptying, but it’s still a good time to be rich in San Francisco, where weapons drones patrol the skies to keep out the...
Redhook, 2022. — 811 p. — ISBN 9780316287159 On Crow Island, people whisper, real magic lurks just below the surface. Neither real magic nor faux magic interests Annie Mason. Not after it stole her future. She’s only on the island to settle her late father’s estate and, hopefully, reconnect with her long-absent best friend, Beatrice, who fled their dreary lives for a more...
Stolen away from his cradle as a child, Leinad has been a plaything of the Faerie for thirty years. He has been broken and put back together so many times that he cannot even remember what he used to be. He has given up all hope of escape, until a soft breeze through his cell leads him home, only to find out that home has gone on without him. A man with Leinad’s face is there in...
The world of Colonial America comes vibrantly to life in this masterful new historical thriller by Robert McCammon. The latest entry in the popular Matthew Corbett series, which began with Speaks the Nightbird and continued in The Queen of Bedlam, Mister Slaughter opens in the emerging metropolis of New York City in 1702, and proceeds to take both Matthew and the reader on an...
Gallery Books, 2007. — 656 p. — ISBN10: 1416551115; ISBN13: 978-1416551119. His epic masterwork Speaks the Nightbird, a tour de force of witch hunt terror in a colonial town, was hailed by Sandra Brown as "deeply satisfying...told with matchless insight into the human soul." Now, Robert McCammon brings the hero of that spellbinding novel, Matthew Corbett, to eighteenth-century...
Orbit, 2019. — (Gods of Blood and Powder Series 03). As the final battle approaches a sellsword, a spy, and a general must find unlikely and dangerous allies in order to turn the tides of war in this epic fantasy tale of magic and gunpowder by acclaimed author Brian McClellan. The Dynize have unlocked the Landfall Godstone, and Michel Bravis is tasked with returning to Greenfire...
Tom Doherty Associates, 2019. — 112 p. She was a warrior of words. As a journalist she exposed corruption across the Interstellar Commonwealth, shifting public opinion and destroying careers in the process. Long-since retired, she travels back to the planet of her childhood, partly through a sense of nostalgia, partly to avoid running from humanity’s newest–and self-created–enemy,...
Orion Publishing Group, 2019. — (Raven's Mark 03). A sorceress cataclysm has hit the Range, the final defensive line between the Republic and the immortal Deep Kings. Tormenting red rains sweep the land, new monstrosities feed on fear in the darkness, and the power of the Nameless, the gods who protect the Republic, lies broken. The Blackwing captains who serve them are being...
(Luna #3). The continuing saga of the Moon's Five Dragons, already under option from CBS, a fast-paced, intricately plotted space opera pitched as Game of Thrones meets The Expanse A hundred years in the future, a war wages between the Five Dragons—five families that control the Moon’s leading industrial companies. Each clan does everything in their power to claw their way to...
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 2017. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 0399544615; ISBN13: 978-0399544613. (Given Duet - Book 1) Kings and Queens rise and fall, loyalties collide, and romance blooms in a world where the sea is rising—and cannot be escaped. Khosa is Given to the Sea, a girl born to be fed to the water, her flesh preventing a wave like the one that destroyed the...
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, 2017. — 352 p. — ISBN10: 0399544615; ISBN13: 978-0399544613. (Given Duet - Book 1) Kings and Queens rise and fall, loyalties collide, and romance blooms in a world where the sea is rising—and cannot be escaped. Khosa is Given to the Sea, a girl born to be fed to the water, her flesh preventing a wave like the one that destroyed the...
352 p. — ASIN B078VVJH15. The first in an unmissable series, Priest of Bones is a fresh and compelling take on grimdark fantasy. Mashing together soldiers, gangsters, magic and war into a heady mix that is a hulking big brother to The Lies of Locke Lamora."--Anna Stephens, author of Godblind The war is over, and army priest Tomas Piety heads home with Sergeant Bloody Anne at...
(War for the Rose Throne #2) Tomas Piety has been many things: soldier, priest, gangster...and spy. As Tomas's power grows, the nobility better watch their backs, in this dark and gritty epic fantasy series. People are weak, and the poorer and more oppressed they are, the weaker they become--until they can't take it anymore. And when they rise up...may the gods help their...
Black Library, 2020. — 1197 p. — (Warhammer Chronicles). Discover the elves of the world-that-was across three novels and three short stories that explore the noble warriors of Ulthuan and mysterious guardians of Athel Loren. Explore some of the greatest trials faced by the ancient race who shepherded the world-that-was through its darkest times, and meet some mighty heroes –...
Sixty-thousand light-years from Earth, the corrupt Terran Confederacy holds the Koprulu sector tightly in its tyrannical grip, controlling every aspect of its citizens' lives. One man dares to stand up to this faceless empire and vows to bring it to its knees: Arcturus Mengsk -- genius propagandist, tactician, and freedom fighter. A monstrous act of bloody violence sows the...
Games Workshop, 2012. — 768 p. — (Time of legends). — ISBN-10 1849702268, ISBN-13 978-1849702263. Omnibus of the founding of the Warhammer Fantasy Empire and Sigmar. Relive the legend of the first emperor of men! Omnibus edition featuring the novels Heldenhammer, Empire and God-King by David Gemmell Legend Award-winning author Graham McNeill.
Wednesday Books, 2023. — 665 p. — ISBN 9781250823717 Irinya has wanted to be a flower hunter ever since her mother disappeared into the mysterious mist of the Rann salt flats one night. Now seventeen, Irinya uses her knowledge of magical flowers to help her caravan survive in the harsh desert. When her handsome hunting partner and childhood friend finds a priceless silver...
In Under Wildwood, Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis reveal new dimensions of the epic fantasy-adventure series begun with the bestselling Wildwood. Ever since Prue McKeel rescued her brother from the malevolent Dowager Governess and returned home from the Impassable Wilderness, life has been pretty dull. Prue's mind is constantly returning to the verdant groves and sky-tall trees of...
Inkshares, 2017. — 200 p. — ISBN10: 1942645317; ISBN13: 978-1942645313. "Tom Merritt's time-bending space adventure had me hooked from the start." ― Gary Whitta, screenwriter, Star Wars: Rogue One and The Book of Eli, author of Abomination What if a time traveler lived in a world where disrupting the timeline could destroy everything in the universe ― everything but himself?...
Inkshares, 2017. — 200 p. — ISBN10: 1942645317; ISBN13: 978-1942645313. "Tom Merritt's time-bending space adventure had me hooked from the start." ― Gary Whitta, screenwriter, Star Wars: Rogue One and The Book of Eli, author of Abomination What if a time traveler lived in a world where disrupting the timeline could destroy everything in the universe ― everything but himself?...
Inkshares, 2017. — 200 p. — ISBN10: 1942645317; ISBN13: 978-1942645313. "Tom Merritt's time-bending space adventure had me hooked from the start." ― Gary Whitta, screenwriter, Star Wars: Rogue One and The Book of Eli, author of Abomination What if a time traveler lived in a world where disrupting the timeline could destroy everything in the universe ― everything but himself?...
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc, Dark House Books, 2018 - 215 P. The third part of Blizzard's World of Warcraft history. Chapter I: The Rising Darkness Chapter II: The Third War Chapter III: The Frozen Throne Chapter IV: Old Hatreds Chapter V: The Burning Crusade Chapter VI: Wrath of the Lich King Chapter VII: Cataclysm
Milwakee: Dark Horse Books. — 56—114 с из 163 с. World of Warcraft: Хроники Том I Часть 1 из 3 World of Warcraft: Хроники Том I Часть 2 из 3 World of Warcraft: Хроники Том I Часть 3 из 3 «World of Warcraft: Chronicle» - это путешествие во времени, через эпоху мифов и легенд к моменту создания Орды и Альянса. Первый том этого многотомного издания поведает читателям о рождении...
Milwakee: Dark Horse Books. — 114—163 c из 163 с. World of Warcraft: Хроники Том I Часть 1 из 3 World of Warcraft: Хроники Том I Часть 2 из 3 World of Warcraft: Хроники Том I Часть 3 из 3 «World of Warcraft: Chronicle» - это путешествие во времени, через эпоху мифов и легенд к моменту создания Орды и Альянса. Первый том этого многотомного издания поведает читателям о рождении...
Милуоки: Dark Horse Books. — 1—55 c из 163 с. World of Warcraft: Хроники Том I Часть 1 из 3 World of Warcraft: Хроники Том I Часть 2 из 3 World of Warcraft: Хроники Том I Часть 3 из 3 «World of Warcraft: Chronicle» - это путешествие во времени, через эпоху мифов и легенд к моменту создания Орды и Альянса. Первый том этого многотомного издания поведает читателям о рождении...
The Vallerio Forest. Millions of acres of undeveloped land, cut off from the outside world by giant fences, armed guards, and government edicts. It’s widely considered an ecological paradise. But beneath its majestic canopy lies a dark underbelly of strange creatures, secret facilities, and horrifying experiments. Five months ago, survival expert Zach Caplan swore off the wild...
Издатель HarperCollins e-books, 2008. - 340 с. Бен. Мецерх - Кожа. По сериалу "Секретные материалы" Формат файла PDF. На английском языке. Страшная авария на большом шоссе завершилась множеством смертей. Один из мертвецов - по случайной ошибке молодых стажеров - оказался в числе доноров кожи ожогового центра. Случилось что - то странное - старик, которому пересадили кожу...
416 pages. Publisher: Dell. Language: English. Published Year: 2007. Type: PDF [128 pages]. Genre: Paranormal Romance. Book Description Release date: May 29, 2007. Book 2 in the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling Midnight Breed vampire romance series. He comes to her more dead than alive, a towering black-clad stranger riddled with bullets and rapidly losing...
Little, Brown and Company, 2018. — 265 p. — ISBN10: 0316556343, 13 978-0316556347. The book is in winners of 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards. Goodreads releases nominees for the best books of the year in genres like fiction, nonfiction, poetry, romance, sci-fi and several others. Readers vote! This №1 New York Times bestseller "manages to be both epic and intimate in its scope,...
Little, Brown and Company, 2018. — 265 p. — ISBN10: 0316556343, 13 978-0316556347. The book is in winners of 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards. Goodreads releases nominees for the best books of the year in genres like fiction, nonfiction, poetry, romance, sci-fi and several others. Readers vote! This №1 New York Times bestseller "manages to be both epic and intimate in its scope,...
Bloomsbury, 2022. — 58 p. — ISBN: 9780062319654 In Ancient Greece, a skilled marble sculptor has been blessed by a goddess who has given his masterpiece - the most beautiful woman the town has ever seen - the gift of life. Now his wife, he expects Galatea to please him, to be obedience and humility personified. But she has desires of her own, and yearns for independence. In a...
Harper Collins India , 2019. — 320 p. Narasimha, once a brave soldier, has left the war and lies low as a physician in a village. But a familiar face from his past seeks his help to stop the tyranny of the blind usurper Andhaka. If Narasimha refuses, the world might just end. What will he do? And why did he leave the war in the first place? Prahlad, the interim king of...
Vintage 2001 — 442 стр. — ISBN: 9781448163618 "A bluebear has twenty-seven lives. I shall recount thirteen and a half of them in this book but keep quiet about the rest," says the narrator of Walter Moers’s epic adventure. "What about the Minipirates? What about the Hobgoblins, the Spiderwitch, the Babbling Billows, the Troglotroll, the Mountain Maggot… Mine is a tale of mortal...
Vintage 2001 — 650 стр. — ISBN: 9781448163618 "A bluebear has twenty-seven lives. I shall recount thirteen and a half of them in this book but keep quiet about the rest," says the narrator of Walter Moers’s epic adventure. "What about the Minipirates? What about the Hobgoblins, the Spiderwitch, the Babbling Billows, the Troglotroll, the Mountain Maggot… Mine is a tale of mortal...
Vintage Books 2007 - ISBN13: 978-0099490579 Optimus Yarnspinner, a young writer, inherits from his beloved godfather an unpublished short story by an unknown author. His search for the author's identity takes him to Bookholm-the so-called City of Dreaming Books. On entering its streets, our hero feels as if he has opened the door of a gigantic second-hand bookshop. His nostrils...
Harvill Secker 2012 — ISBN13: 978-1468301267 It has been more than two hundred years since Bookholm was destroyed by a devastating fire, as told in Moers's The City of Dreaming Books. Hildegunst von Mythenmetz, hailed as Zamonia’s greatest writer, is on vacation in Lindworm Castle when a disturbing message reaches him, and he must return to Bookholm to investigate a mystery....
If it were up to him, Talorc — laird of the Sinclair clan and leader of his werewolf pack — would never marry. But when the king orders Talorc to wed an Englishwoman, the lone wolf is shocked to find a challenge in his mate, the strong-willed Abigail. And after a passionate wedding night, the two fiercely independent souls sense an unbreakable bond. Deaf since childhood, Abigail...
Del Rey; First Edition edition, 2017. — 448 p. — ISBN10: 1101887311; ISBN13: 978-1101887318. (Vatta's Peace - Book 1) Nebula Award–winning author Elizabeth Moon makes a triumphant return to science fiction with a thrilling series featuring Kylara Vatta, the daring hero of her acclaimed Vatta’s War sequence. After nearly a decade away, Nebula Award–winning author Elizabeth Moon...
Del Rey; First Edition edition, 2017. — 448 p. — ISBN10: 1101887311; ISBN13: 978-1101887318. (Vatta's Peace - Book 1) Nebula Award–winning author Elizabeth Moon makes a triumphant return to science fiction with a thrilling series featuring Kylara Vatta, the daring hero of her acclaimed Vatta’s War sequence. After nearly a decade away, Nebula Award–winning author Elizabeth Moon...
Innsmouth Free Press, 2011 - 295 p.
Lovecraft is not generally considered a writer of science fiction, even though he had a personal interest in the sciences (astronomy, of course) and wrote stories that were rooted in science, even if they frequently had a horror bent (“The Colour Out of Space” is a memorable example). In his stories, Lovecraft explored scientific concepts...
Innsmouth Free Press, 2011 - 295 p. Ancient History The God Lurking in Stone, Andrew Dombalagian The Seeder From the Stars, Julio Toro San Martin Deus ex Machina, Nathaniel Katz If Only to Taste Her Again, E. Catherine Tobler Shadows of the Darkest Jade, Sarah Hans The Chronicle of Aliyat Son of Aliyat, Alter S. Reiss Middle Ages Silently, Without Cease, Daniel Mills The Good...
Del Rey, 2022. — 594 p. — ISBN 9780593355336 Carlota Moreau: A young woman growing up on a distant and luxuriant estate, safe from the conflict and strife of the Yucatán peninsula. The only daughter of a researcher who is either a genius or a madman. Montgomery Laughton: A melancholic overseer with a tragic past and a propensity for alcohol. An outcast who assists Dr. Moreau...
ASIN B000FBFMZ2. In the twenty-fifth century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined life itself. Now, assuming one can afford the expensive procedure, a person’s consciousness can be stored in a cortical stack at the base of the brain and...
Random House, 2011. — 575 p. In 1886 a mysterious travelling circus becomes an international sensation. Open only at night, constructed entirely in black and white, the Cirque des R ves delights all who wander its circular paths and warm themselves at its bonfire. There are contortionists, performing cats, carousels and illusionists u all the trappings of an ordinary circus....
Doubleday, 2011. — 756 р. — ISBN: 978-0-385-53464-2 The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night. But behind the scenes, a fierce...
Doubleday, 2019. — 512 p. — ISBN10: 038554121X; ISBN13: 978-0385541213. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Circus, a timeless love story set in a secret underground world—a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a starless sea. Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a mysterious book hidden in...
Doubleday, 2019. — 512 p. — ISBN10: 038554121X; ISBN13: 978-0385541213. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Circus, a timeless love story set in a secret underground world—a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a starless sea. Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a mysterious book hidden in...
ISBN: 978-1-7427-5262-4 Год издания: 2013 Издательство: Bantam Books Язык: Английский 288 стр Hannah and India are new best friends. Although true friendship means always telling each other the truth, doesn't it…? Hannah, you see, is running from her life back in Sydney. Now in London, she's trying to put the past behind her, and finding this amazing new friend is a positive...
Tom Doherty Associates, 2020. — 512 p. Harrow the Ninth, the sequel to the sensational, USA Today best-selling novel Gideon the Ninth, turns a galaxy inside out as one necromancer struggles to survive the wreckage of herself aboard the Emperor's haunted space station. She answered the Emperor's call. She arrived with her arts, her wits, and her only friend. In victory, her...
Book 2. SAGA Press, 2022. — 685 p. — ISBN 978-1-5344-3775-3 The great city of Tova is shattered. The sun is held within the smothering grip of the Crow God’s eclipse, but a comet that marks the death of a ruler and heralds the rise of a new order is imminent. The Meridian: a land where magic has been codified and the worship of gods suppressed. How do you live when legends come...
Anthology. — Daw Books, 2000. — 384 p. Who do today's top fantasy writers read--and why? This was the question posed to some of the most influential authors in the field today. This book is their answer. Here are seventeen of the most memorable stories in the genre, each one personally selected by a well-known writer, and each prefaced by that writer's explanation of his or her...
Angry Robot 2012 — 560 pages. — ISBN13: 9780857662934
In the near future, the experimental nano-drug Nexus can link human together, mind to mind. There are some who want to improve it. There are some who want to eradicate it. And there are others who just want to exploit it.
When a young scientist is caught improving Nexus, he’s thrust over his head into a world of danger and...
Angry Robot 2013 — 649 pages. — ISBN13: 978-0857662965 Six months have passed since the release of Nexus 5. The world is a different, more dangerous place. In the United States, the terrorists – or freedom fighters – of the Post-Human Liberation Front use Nexus to turn men and women into human time bombs aimed at the President and his allies. In Washington DC, a government...
Harlequin, 2012. I stopped believing in monsters long ago. But I knew I wasn’t imagining things when I found one in my kitchen baking muffins. I’d seen him before: lurking in my closet, scaring the crap out of my five-year-old self. Turns out that was a misunderstanding, and now Maurice needs a place to stay. How could I say no? After all, I’ve always been a magnet for the...
Springer International Publishing, 2015. — VIII, 142 p. — (Science and Fiction). — ISBN: 978-3-319-16428-1, 978-3-319-16429-8. True PDF This collection of science fiction writings by Jayant V. Narlikar offers readers a unique glimpse into the world-famous Indian astrophysicist’s vivid and highly imaginative concepts and stories. The fictional material comprises a witty short...
A collection of Nebular Award for the Best Novel winners since 1966 to 2012 in EPUB. The lest of novels: 1966 Dune by Frank Herbert. 1967 Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany / Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. 1968 The Einstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delany. 1969 Rite of Passage by Alexei Panshin. 1970 The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin. 1971 Ringworld by Larry...
Edited by James Gunn. — A Berkley Medallion Book, 1975. — 240 p. — SBN 425-03278-7. The Nebula—the coveted award granted to science fiction writers by science fiction writers—is in its tenth year. This volume of winners includes the very finest new work by our most outstanding writers. Ursula Le Guin, the only woman to win two Nebula awards in the same year, is represented here...
Сборник лучших фантастических рассказов и повестей 2010 года на английском языке. В сборник включены только произведения получившие премию Небула - одну из престижнейших премий в области фантастики.
Anthology. — Harcourt Brace, 2000. — 288 pp. ISBN: 0-15-600705-3. Introduction: The Science Fictional Century (Nebula Awards Showcase 2000) (2000) essay by Gregory Benford. Reading the Bones [Guild of Xenolinguists 5] (1998) novella by Sheila Finch. Lost Girls (1997) novelette by Jane Yolen. Thirteen Ways to Water (1998) shortstory by Bruce Holland Rogers. Forever Peace...
Berkley Books, 2009. — 341 p. — (Chicagoland Vampires #1). Sure, the life of a graduate student wasn’t exactly glamorous, but I was doing fine until Chicago’s vampires announced their existence to the world. When a rogue vampire attacked me, I was lucky he only got a sip. Another bloodsucker scared him off and decided the best way to save my life was to make me the walking...
(Ash and Sand #2) Follow the long, bloody journey of Ruka, son of Beyla through the islands of Pyu and the frozen wastes of the Ascom; see the return home of Ratama Kale Alaku, the 'Sorcerer-Prince', and the terrifying rise of his 'miracles'. Before the end, a shocking history will unravel, ancient connections unfold, and all will learn the cost of unleashing the Kings of Ash...
Independently Published, 2020. — 410 p. In the final book of the Ash and Sand trilogy, Ruka, son of Beyla, faces the emperor of the world, yet even victory may not save his people… With the death of his ally, Farahi Alaku, Ruka ‘Godtongue’ is alone. Or not exactly… The island prince Kale Alaku now haunts his mind, rattling within his once peaceful ‘Grove’, promising revenge and...
Candlewick Press, 2011. — 106 pages. — ISBN13: 9780763656331. The monster showed up after midnight. As they do. But it isn’t the monster Conor’s been expecting. He’s been expecting the one from his nightmare, the nightmare he’s had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments, the one with the darkness and the wind and the screaming... This monster, though, is...
Some doors are better left closed... In Barrington House, an upmarket block in London, there is an empty apartment. No one goes in, no one comes out. And it has been that way for fifty years. Until the night watchman hears a disturbance after midnight and investigates. What he experiences is enough to change his life forever. A young American woman, Apryl, arrives at Barrington...
The Red House: home to the damaged genius of the late M. H. Mason, master taxidermist and puppeteer, where he lived and created some of his most disturbing works. The building and its treasure trove of antiques is long forgotten, but the time has come for his creations to rise from the darkness. Catherine Howard can't believe her luck when she's invited to value the contents of...
When four old University friends set off into the Scandinavian wilderness of the Arctic Circle, they aim to briefly escape the problems of their lives and reconnect with one another. But when Luke, the only man still single and living a precarious existence, finds he has little left in common with his well-heeled friends, tensions rise. With limited experience between them, a...
New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., 1993. — 359 p. — ISBN 0-88184-967-7. In 1885, Count Dracula, after four hundred years’ brooding in his Transylvanian Castle, came to London, intent on spreading the pestilence of vampirism to the heart of Victoria’s Britain. The monster was defeated and destroyed by Professor Van Helsing and his stout-hearted companions, and the world...
In the aftermath of a devastating plague, a fearless young heroine embarks on a dangerous and surprising journey to save her world in this brilliantly inventive thriller.
In the ruins of a future America, fifteen-year-old Ice Cream Star and her nomadic tribe live off the detritus of a crumbled civilization. Theirs is a world of children; before reaching the age of twenty, they...
HarperCollinsChildren's Books, 2005. — 400 p. — (Abhorsen Series #3). — ISBN10: 0007137354; ISBN13: 978-0007137350. The long-buried secrets of the Old Kingdom and the Ninth Gate are revealed in the sequel to Sabriel and Lirael. Orannis, the Destroyer, has been freed from its subterranean prison and now seeks to unleash its terrible powers. Only Lirael, Abhorsen-in-Waiting, has...
HarperCollins Publishers, 2002. — 720 p. — (Abhorsen Series #2). — ISBN13: 9780060005429 When the future is unclear, who holds the key to destiny? Sequel to the spellbinding, award-winning fantasy adventure, SABRIEL. Lirael has never felt like a true daughter of the Clayr. Abandoned by her mother and ignorant of her father’s identity, Lirael resembles no one else in her large,...
Allen & Unwin, 2003. — 416 pp. ISBN: 1-7411-4040-4 (Book 1 of The Old Kingdom Trilogy) For many years Sabriel has lived outside the walls of the Old Kingdom, away from the random power of Free Magic, and away from the Dead who won't stay dead. But now her father, the Mage Abhorsen, is missing, and to find him Sabriel must cross back into that treacherous world - and face the...
Entangled Publishing, 2022. — 496 p. These days, I’ve been killing it when it comes to letting people down. Now I’ve been kicked out of high school, arrested, and accepted into a remote, off-the-grid school owned and operated by an inscrutable billionaire tech guru. Gray Wolf Academy is looking for a certain kind of student. Ones that no one will miss. Like me. Then there’s...
Orbit, 2019. — (The Gameshouse #1-3). This novel was originally published as three digital-only novellas: The Serpent, The Thief, and The Master. Everyone has heard of the Gameshouse. But few know all its secrets... It is the place where fortunes can be made and lost through chess, backgammon - every game under the sun. But those whom fortune favors may be invited to compete in...
Orbit, 2019. South Africa in the 1880s. A young and naive English doctor by the name of William Abbey witnesses the lynching of a local boy by the white colonists. As the child dies, his mother curses William. William begins to understand what the curse means when the shadow of the dead boy starts following him across the world. It never stops, never rests. It can cross oceans and...
In a satisfying return to Norton's Time Trader world, a young man finds himself as he teaches guerrilla warfare to a feudal, nonterrestrial offshoot of humanity in order to prepare them properly for a future in which space- and time-traveling humans are battling for survival against murderous aliens. Ross Murdock, a young criminal recruited as a Time Agent for his survival...
In a satisfying return to Norton's Time Trader world, a young man finds himself as he teaches guerrilla warfare to a feudal, nonterrestrial offshoot of humanity in order to prepare them properly for a future in which space- and time-traveling humans are battling for survival against murderous aliens. Ross Murdock, a young criminal recruited as a Time Agent for his survival...
Miryem is the daughter and granddaughter of moneylenders... but her father isn't a very good one. Free to lend and reluctant to collect, he has loaned out most of his wife's dowry and left the family on the edge of poverty--until Miryem steps in. Hardening her heart against her fellow villagers' pleas, she sets out to collect what is owed--and finds herself more than up to the...
Del Rey, 2022. — 532 p. — ISBN 9780593597699 The one thing you never talk about while you’re in the Scholomance is what you’ll do when you get out. Not even the richest enclaver would tempt fate that way. But it’s all we dream about: the hideously slim chance we’ll survive to make it out the gates and improbably find ourselves with a life ahead of us, a life outside the...
Del Rey, 2015. Naomi Novik, author of the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed Temeraire novels, introduces a bold new world rooted in folk stories and legends, as elemental as a Grimm fairy tale. “Uprooted is confidently wrought and sympathetically cast. I might even call it bewitching.”—Gregory Maguire, bestselling author of Wicked and Egg & Spoon
New York: Random House Children’s Books, 2023. — 497 р. — ISBN 9780593378038 On Mar León de la Rosa's sixteenth birthday, el Diablo comes calling. Mar is a transmasculine nonbinary teen pirate hiding a magical ability to manipulate fire and ice. But their magic isn't enough to reverse a wicked bargain made by their father, and now el Diablo has come to collect his payment: the...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016. — 388 p. — (Ark Royal, book 7). The third trilogy in the hit ‘Ark Royal’ series begins now! HMS Vanguard is the most powerful battleship ever to be commissioned by the Royal Navy, but she is not a happy ship. Her commanding officer is eccentric, rarely seen on the bridge; her former XO has deserted his post and her first middy...
Harper/Collins Publishers, 2022. — 1430 p. — ISBN 978 1 4607 5638 6 September, 1940. Three women of the Checquy, the secret organization tasked with protecting Britain from supernatural threats, stand in the sky above London and see German aircraft approach. Forbidden by law to interfere, all they can do is watch as their city is bombed. Until Pamela, the most sensible of them,...
Mariner Books, 2023. — 650 p. — ISBN: 978-0-06-331850-2 At 11:34 a.m. one Saturday in August 2019, Boyd Halverson strode into Community National Bank in Northern California. “How much is on hand, would you say?” he asked the teller. “I’ll want it all.” “You’re robbing me?” He revealed a Temptation .38 Special. The teller, a diminutive redhead named Angie Bing, collected...
Raduga Publishers, 1988. — 400 p. — ISBN: 5-05-001690-8. The island was being destroyed by streams of water and white-hot lava... Suddenly the rock cracked wide open, and the part of the ledge on which Kostyakov was lying tilted slightly, then broke off and washed into the water below. A desperate cry mingled with the splashing of the water and the clatter of the boulders...
Raduga Publishers, 1988. — 400 p. — ISBN: 5-05-001690-8. The island was being destroyed by streams of water and white-hot lava... Suddenly the rock cracked wide open, and the part of the ledge on which Kostyakov was lying tilted slightly, then broke off and washed into the water below. A desperate cry mingled with the splashing of the water and the clatter of the boulders...
Carolrhoda Lab, 2022. — 368 р. — ISBN 978-1728-4580-07 With one touch of any body that passes through Richter Funeral Home, she can awaken the spirit of the departed. With one more touch, she makes the spirit disappear, to a fate that remains mysterious to Georgia. To cope with her deep anxiety about death, she does her best to fulfill the final wishes of the deceased whose...
Soho Press, 2019. — 224 p. — ISBN 978-1-61695-923-4 Canary Islands, 1882: Caught in the 19th-century mania for scientific classification, explorer and plant biologist Niklas Bruun researches Crissia pallida, a species alleged to have hallucinogenic qualities capable of eliminating the psychic limits between one human mind and another. Buenos Aires, 1983: Born to a white...
Originally Published 1912
Russian version of Dracula, dark and romantic, erotic and spiritual. It moves from the Carpathian mountains to the Indian temples, from sacred to profane. From self sacrifice to blood-thirst. An epic of the blood-eaters if there ever was one.
From global phenomenon C. S. Pacat comes the first in her critically acclaimed trilogy—with a bonus story. Damen is a warrior hero to his people, and the rightful heir to the throne of Akielos. But when his half brother seizes power, Damen is captured, stripped of his identity, and sent to serve the prince of an enemy nation as a pleasure slave. Beautiful, manipulative, and...
The second novel in the critically acclaimed trilogy from global phenomenon C. S. Pacat—with an all-new chapter exclusive to the print edition. With their countries on the brink of war, Damen and his new master, Prince Laurent, must exchange the intrigues of the palace for the sweeping might of the battlefield as they travel to the border to avert a lethal plot.
Damianos of Akielos has returned. His identity now revealed, Damen must face his master Prince Laurent as Damianos of Akielos, the man Laurent has sworn to kill.
The long years of near-utopia have come to an abrupt end. Peace and order are now figments of the past. Corruption, deception, and insurgency hum within the once steadfast leadership of the Hives, nations without fixed location. The heartbreaking truth is that for decades, even centuries, the leaders of the great Hives bought the world’s stability with a trickle of secret murders,...
2002. Fifteen-year-old Eragon believes that he is merely a poor farm boy - until his destiny as a Dragon Rider is revealed. Gifted with only an ancient sword, a loyal dragon, and sage advice from an old storyteller, Eragon is soon swept into a dangerous tapestry of magic, glory, and power. Now his choices could save - or destroy - the Empire.
2005. Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have just saved the rebel state from destruction by the mighty forces of King Galbatorix, cruel ruler of the Empire. Now Eragon must travel to Ellesmera, land of the elves, for further training in the skills of the Dragon Rider: magic and swordsmanship.
2008. Following the colossal battle against the Empire's warriors on the Burning Plains, Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have narrowly escaped with their lives. Still, there is more adventure at hand for the Rider and his dragon, as Eragon finds himself bound by a tangle of promises he may not be able to keep.
Tor Publishing Group, 2023. — 516 p. July 25th, 2234: The crew of the Adamura discovers the anomaly. On the seemingly uninhabited planet Talos VII: a circular pit, 50 kilometers wide. Its curve not of nature, but design. Now, a small team must land and journey on foot across the surface to learn who built the hole and why. But they all carry the burdens of lives carved out on...
Science Fiction & Fantasy 880 pages Publisher: Doubleday Childrens (8 Nov 2011) Language English Not so very long ago, Eragon-Shadeslayer, Dragon Rider-was nothing more than a poor farm boy, and his dragon, Saphira, only a blue stone in the forest. Now the fate of an entire civilization rests on their shoulders.Long months of training and battle have brought victories and hope,...
Alfred A. Knopf, 2023. — 926 р. — ISBN 9780593650882 The world is no longer safe for the Dragon Rider Murtagh and his dragon, Thorn. An evil king has been toppled, and they are left to face the consequences of the reluctant role they played in his reign of terror. Now they are hated and alone, exiled to the outskirts of society. Throughout the land, hushed voices whisper of...
St. Martin’s Press, 2023. — 767 р. — ISBN 978-1-250-28593-5 Zoey Ashe wakes up every day feeling like she’s trying to steer a battleship while tied to the propeller. The twenty-three-year-old heiress to a criminal empire is navigating a futuristic world of high-tech liars and cutthroats, forced to learn the rules of a devious game she never asked to play. Now she’s facing a...
Tor, 2023. — 929 р. — ISBN13 9781250621825. — ISBN10 1250621828. Zhu Yuanzhang, the Radiant King, is riding high after her victory that tore southern China from its Mongol masters. Now she burns with a new desire: to seize the throne and crown herself emperor. But Zhu isn’t the only one with imperial ambitions. Her neighbor in the south, the courtesan Madam Zhang, wants the...
London: Pan, 1969. — 251 с. На английском языке. Авторы переводов не указаны. Перевод 1966 года. Ilya Varshavsky: The Conflict Ilya Varshavsky: Robby Vladislav Krapivin: Meeting My Brother Sever Gansovsky: A Day of Wrath Arkady and Boris Strugatsky: An Emergency Case Arkady and Boris Strugatsky: Wanderers and Travellers G. Gor: The Boy Anatoly Dneprov: The Purple Mummy...
Лондон: Pan, 1969. - 251 с. OCR. На английском языке. Авторы переводов не указаны. Перевод 1966 года.
Варшавский И, Гансовский С, Гор Г, итд. Лучшее из советской фантастики.
Содержание:
Ilya Varshavsky: The Conflict
Ilya Varshavsky: Robby
Vladislav Krapivin: Meeting My Brother
Sever Gansovsky: A Day of Wrath
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky: An Emergency Case
Arkady and Boris...
Лондон: Pan, 1969. - 251 с. OCR. На английском языке. Авторы переводов не указаны. Перевод 1966 года.
Варшавский И, Гансовский С, Гор Г, итд. Лучшее из советской фантастики.
Содержание:
Ilya Varshavsky: The Conflict
Ilya Varshavsky: Robby
Vladislav Krapivin: Meeting My Brother
Sever Gansovsky: A Day of Wrath
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky: An Emergency Case
Arkady and Boris...
Orion Childrens' Books, 2007. A cry echoed through the Forest. He froze. It was not the yowl of a vixen, or a lynx seeking a mate. It was a man. Or something that had once been a man. With a creeping sense of dread, Torak watched the light between the trees begin to fail... Torak is a boy apart. A boy who can talk to wolves. A boy who must vanquish the Soul-Eaters...or die...
Orion Children's Books, 2005. First book of the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series. Six thousand years ago. Evil stalks the land. Only twelve-year-old Torak and his wolf-cub companion can defeat it. Their journey together takes them through deep forests, across giant glaciers, and into dangers they never imagined. In this page-turning, original, and spectacularly told...
Decipher (first published in 2001) is a speculative fiction novel by Stel Pavlou (1970–present), published in 2001 in England by Simon and Schuster and 2002 in the United States by St. Martin's Press. It is published in many languages with some significant title changes. The Italian and Russian editions have the title Il codice di Atlantide (The Atlantis Code), while the German...
Lumarias Press, 2023. — 871 р. — ISBN 978-1-915534-07-1. In a world abandoned by the celestial guardians and left to suffer a tyrant king's reign, all Astraea knows is safety in seclusion. With fragmented memories of only five years of her life, she's determined to discover more about her past, even if that means fleeing the cruel arms that hold her safe from the wicked...
Tor.com, 2016. — 128 p. — ISBN10: 0765388286; ISBN13: 978-0765388285. Time is a weapon wielded by the rich, who have excess of it, against the rest, who must trade every breath of it against the promise of another day's food and shelter. What kind of world have we made, where human beings can live centuries if only they can afford the fix? What kind of creatures have we become?...
Tor.com, 2016. — 128 p. — ISBN10: 0765388286; ISBN13: 978-0765388285. Time is a weapon wielded by the rich, who have excess of it, against the rest, who must trade every breath of it against the promise of another day's food and shelter. What kind of world have we made, where human beings can live centuries if only they can afford the fix? What kind of creatures have we become?...
Tor.com, 2016. — 128 p. — ISBN10: 0765388286; ISBN13: 978-0765388285. Time is a weapon wielded by the rich, who have excess of it, against the rest, who must trade every breath of it against the promise of another day's food and shelter. What kind of world have we made, where human beings can live centuries if only they can afford the fix? What kind of creatures have we become?...
Titan Books, 2012. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 9781781161777; ISBN13: 978-1781161777. В лесах, расположенных около городка под названием Раккун Сити происходит серия жестоких убийств, жертвами которых становятся как женщины так и дети. Убийцы не оставили никаких улик кроме растерзанных на части трупов. И пока местная полиция теряется в догадках, Специальный отдел тактики и спасения...
Disney Press, 2014. — 144 p. A guide to being evil in accordance with the style of Dr. Doofenshmirtz counsels readers on everything from selecting a nemesis to getting over evil inventor's block, in a whimsical storybook complemented by Doof back stories and full-color comic inserts.
Disney Press, 2012. — 146 p. Want to know the best ways to thwart an evil doctor's plans? Or how to go undercover to combat crime, while still making it home in time for dinner? Find out in this jam-packed guide to fighting evil from everyone's favorite platypus, Perry! From top-secret spy tips and fill-in activities, to diagrams of some of Agent P's most elaborate plans, to...
New York: Del Rey, 2015. — 430 p. — ISBN: 0345539826 (ISBN13: 9780345539823). As a Red, Darrow grew up working the mines deep beneath the surface of Mars, enduring backbreaking labor while dreaming of the better future he was building for his descendants. But the Society he faithfully served was built on lies. Darrow’s kind have been betrayed and denied by their elitist...
Tor Books, 1999. — 304 p. — ISBN10: 0312864663; ISBN13: 978-0312864668. Nola and Tina, trapped in their miserable lives, have the magical power to transform their dreams into reality, but they remain unaware of this until Esprit, a flying unicorn, and Prince Michael come from the land of dreams in search of help. 30,000 first printing.
Tor Books, 1986
For Dr. Dillingham, dentist of Earth, it was the shock of his life-captured by aliens, forced to fix a strange cavity in an even stranger mouth; then whisked off to deep space. But luckily for the good dentist, Dillingham discovered that he liked zooming about the galaxy, solving unprecedented problems and making new and decidedly different acquaintances. And...
Tor Books, 1986
For Dr. Dillingham, dentist of Earth, it was the shock of his life-captured by aliens, forced to fix a strange cavity in an even stranger mouth; then whisked off to deep space. But luckily for the good dentist, Dillingham discovered that he liked zooming about the galaxy, solving unprecedented problems and making new and decidedly different acquaintances. And...
Tor Books, 1986
For Dr. Dillingham, dentist of Earth, it was the shock of his life-captured by aliens, forced to fix a strange cavity in an even stranger mouth; then whisked off to deep space. But luckily for the good dentist, Dillingham discovered that he liked zooming about the galaxy, solving unprecedented problems and making new and decidedly different acquaintances. And...
An HQN Books novel. — February 2015. — ISBN13: 9781460349731. "Dear Reader: If you’re reading this letter, then there’s a good chance you love the Mikaelson family as much as I do. For Klaus, Elijah, and Rebekah, our beloved vampires at the heart of the hit CW drama The Originals, an hour a week barely scratches the surface of their story. That’s why Harlequin HQN, in...
Inkyard Press, 2022. — 661 p. — ISBN-13: 978-03697-2173-0 The Kosa empire roils in tension, on the verge of being torn apart by a proletarian revolution between magic-endowed elites and the superstitious lower class, but seventeen-year-old Toma lives blissfully disconnected from the conflict in the empire with her adoptive family of benevolent undead. When she meets Vanya, a...
Solaris 2013 — 247 стр. — ISBN13: 9781781080603
In 1944, as waves of German ninjas parachute into Kent, Britain's best hopes for victory lie with a Spitfire pilot codenamed 'Ack-Ack Macaque'. The trouble is, Ack-Ack Macaque is a cynical, one-eyed, cigar-chomping monkey, and he's starting to doubt everything, including his own existence. A century later, in a world where France...
Solaris, 2013, — ISBN13: 9781781081662. The stunning follow-up to Ack-Ack Macaque, which featured the Spitfire pilot monkey hero of a computer game who turned out to be real. The first book was met with wide acclaim upon release.In order to hide from his unwanted fame as the spitfire-pliot-monkey who emerged from a computer game to defeat the dangerous coporation who engineered...
Solaris, 2013, — ISBN13: 9781781081662. The stunning follow-up to Ack-Ack Macaque, which featured the Spitfire pilot monkey hero of a computer game who turned out to be real. The first book was met with wide acclaim upon release.In order to hide from his unwanted fame as the spitfire-pliot-monkey who emerged from a computer game to defeat the dangerous coporation who engineered...
Forge, 2006. — 416 p. — ISBN10: 0330448641, ISBN13: 978-0330448642 A stunning new archaeological thriller by the New York Times bestselling co-author of Brimstone and Relic. A moon rock missing for thirty years... Five buckets of blood-soaked sand found in a New Mexico canyon... A scientist with ambition enough to kill... A monk who will redeem the world... A dark agency with a...
Ace, 2017. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 1101990732; ISBN13: 978-1101990735. A new dark historical fantasy from the “supremely gifted”* Cherie Priest, author of Mapelcroft and Boneshaker. In the trenches of Europe during the Great War, Tomás Cordero operated a weapon more devastating than any gun: a flame projector that doused the enemy in liquid fire. Having left the battlefield a...
Ace, 2017. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 1101990732; ISBN13: 978-1101990735. A new dark historical fantasy from the “supremely gifted”* Cherie Priest, author of Mapelcroft and Boneshaker. In the trenches of Europe during the Great War, Tomás Cordero operated a weapon more devastating than any gun: a flame projector that doused the enemy in liquid fire. Having left the battlefield a...
When Helward Mann leaves the city of Earth, he has no reason to believe that the world that lies beyond the walls could be anywhere but his home planet. Indeed, despite similarities, there is evidence which he cannot ignore — that slowly betrays all his preconceptions. Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1975.
Reality is illusory and magical in the stunning new literary SF novel from the multiple award-winning author of The Prestige — for fans of Haruki Murakami and David Mitchell. A tale of murder, artistic rivalry, and literary trickery; a Chinese puzzle of a novel where nothing is quite what it seems; a narrator whose agenda is artful and subtle; a narrative that pulls you in and...
The year is 1893, and the workaday life of a young commercial traveller is enlivened by his ladyfriend, and she takes him to the laboratory of Sir William Reynolds building a Time Machine. It is but a small step into futurity, the beginning of a series of adventures that culminate in a violent confrontation with the most ruthless intellect in the Universe. The novel effectively...
Gollancz 2013 — 541 стр. — ISBN13: 9780575105362
Tibor Tarent, a freelance photographer, is recalled to Britain from Anatolia where his wife Melanie has been killed by insurgent militia. IRGB is a nation living in the aftermath of a bizarre and terrifying terrorist atrocity - hundreds of thousands were wiped out when a vast triangle of west London was instantly annihilated. The...
1995 год Two 19th century stage illusionists, the aristocratic Rupert Angier and the working-class Alfred Borden, engage in a bitter and deadly feud; the effects are still being felt by their respective families a hundred years later. Working in the smoke-and-mirrors world of Victorian music halls, both men move stealthily in the background of each other's shadowy life, driven...
London, The London Magazine, 1930. — 8 p. "Mr. Strenberry’s Tale" was originally published as "Doomsday" Information about John Boynton Priestley "Mr. Strenberry's Tale" Commentary
Pan Macmillan, 2017. — 321 p. When Anna Flores' adored older sister goes missing as a teenager, Anna copes by disappearing too, just as soon as she can: running as far away from her family as possible, and eventually building a life for herself abroad. Thirty years later, the death of her mother finally forces Anna to return home. Tasked with sorting through her mother's...
Sourcebooks, 2023. — 675 р. Fritzi is a witch. The lone survivor of a brutal attack on her coven, she's determined to find her only remaining family member and bring the hexenjägers―zealot witch hunters―to justice for the lives they ended. To do this, she will need to take down their leader, the merciless and enigmatic Kommandant Dieter Kirch. Otto is a hexenjäger―but that's...
Alcove Press, 2023. — 572 р. — ISBN 978-1-63910-573-1 Sadie Revelare has always believed that the curse of four heartbreaks that accompanies her magic would be worth the price. But when her grandmother is diagnosed with cancer with only weeks to live, and her first heartbreak, Jake McNealy, returns to town after a decade, her carefully structured life begins to unravel. With...
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Brentford Series - 7.
Magic, time travel and football, not exactly your everyday combination - but the fate of mankind hangs upon the result. And everything.
Titan Books, 2023. — 756 р. — ISBN: 9781803361253 High above a jungle-planet float the last refuges of humanity—plant-made civilizations held together by tradition, technology, and arcane science. Here, architects are revered deeply, with humanity’s survival reliant on a privileged few. If not for their abilities, the cities would plunge into the devastating earthrage storms...
Ulysses Press, 2010. — 400 p. This is a work of fiction.All of the characters (other than public figures), events and settings described in this novel are imaginary, and all character names and descriptions are fictional. In all cases, any resemblance between the characters in this novel and real people is purely coincidental. This novel is only for the entertainment of the...
Simon & Schuster, 2022. — 313 p. — ISBN 978-1-9821-8183-3 The year is 2052. Climate change has had a predictably devastating effect: Venice submerged, cyclones in Oklahoma, megafires in South America. Yet it could be much worse. Two decades earlier, the global protest movement known as the Upheavals helped break the planet’s fossil fuel dependency, and the subsequent...
It was a time of pause, a time between planting and harvest when the air was heavy, humming with its own slow warm music.” So begins an extraordinary fantasy of the rural Midwest by a recent winner of the John W. Campbell, Jr., Award for best young science fiction writer. One summer day in the 1920s, Haverstock’s Traveling Curiosus and Wondershow rides into a small Midwestern...
Ballantine Books New York, 2003. — ISBN: 978-0-345-45273-3. Антология историй разных авторов, в каждой из которых герои из цикла Артура Конан Дойля про Шерлока Холмса сталкиваются с ужасами вселенной Лавкрафта. Самый известный рассказ сборника - "Этюд в изумрудных тонах" (A study in Emerald) Нила Геймана.
New York: Ballantine Books, 2003. — ISBN 978-0-345-45273-3. An anthology of stories by different authors, each of which characters from Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes cycle face the horrors of Lovecraft's universe. The most famous story in the collection is "A study in Emerald" by Neil Gaiman.
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Published August 26th 2014 by Balzer + Bray.
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0062117254 (ISBN13: 9780062117250).
Deliverance (Defiance, #3).
Everything hangs in the balance, and nothing is certain: Rachel has been kidnapped by enemy forces and is being taken to Rowansmark while Logan, imprisoned and awaiting trial, is unable to leave Lankenshire. Separated from each other and their...
It’s six months after the tumultuous events on Brighton, and Wren Natsworthy and her father Tom have taken to the skies in their airship, The Jenny Haniver. Wren is enjoying life as an aviatrix but Tom is troubled by matters of the heart—Hester’s disappearance, and the old wound caused by Pennyroyal’s bullet. Until a fluke encounter with a familiar face sets him thinking about the...
The brilliant sequel to Mortal Engines and Predator’s Gold. Anchorage has become a static settlement on the shores of the Dead Continent, and its inhabitants have been living peacefully for sixteen years. But now trouble is approaching—in a limpet sub, and fast. The Lost Boys are back, and they’ll do anything to get what they want. Tom and Hester’s daughter Wren is their eager...
The great Traction City lumbers after a small town, eager to strip its prey of all assets and move on. Resources on the Great Hunting Ground that once was Europe are so limited that mobile cities must consume one another to survive, a practice known as Municipal Darwinism. Tom, an apprentice in the Guild of Historians, saves his hero, Head Historian Thaddeus Valentine, from a...
Freya woke early and lay for a while in the dark, feeling her city shiver and sway beneath her as its powerful engines sent it skimming across the ice. Sleepily, she waited for her servants to come and help her out of bed. It took her a few moments to remember that they were all dead...
HarperTeen, 2023. — 539 р. — ISBN: 978-0-06-321150-6 Effy Sayre has always believed in fairy tales. Haunted by visions of the Fairy King since childhood, she’s had no choice. Her tattered copy of Angharad—Emrys Myrddin’s epic about a mortal girl who falls in love with the Fairy King, then destroys him—is the only thing keeping her afloat. So when Myrddin’s family announces a...
A huge castle made of stone and steel floating in an endless sky. That was all this world was. It took a vagarious group of craftsmen one month to survey the place; the diameter of the base floor was about 10 kilometers — large enough to fit the entirety of Setagaya-ku within. Above, there were 100 floors stacking straight upwards; its sheer size was unbelievable. It was...
A love out of time. A spaceship built of secrets and murder. Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a...
A love out of time. A spaceship built of secrets and murder. Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a...
James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel - Hacking Cyberpunk. Bruce Sterling - Bicycle Repairman. Gwyneth Jones Red - Sonja and Lessingham in Dreamland (With apologies to E. R. Eddison). Jonathan Lethem - How We Got in Town and out Again. Greg Egan Yeyuka. Pat Cadigan - The Final Remake of The Return of Little Latin Larry, with a Completely Remastered Soundtrack and the Original...
James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel - Hacking Cyberpunk. Bruce Sterling - Bicycle Repairman. Gwyneth Jones Red - Sonja and Lessingham in Dreamland (With apologies to E. R. Eddison). Jonathan Lethem - How We Got in Town and out Again. Greg Egan Yeyuka. Pat Cadigan - The Final Remake of The Return of Little Latin Larry, with a Completely Remastered Soundtrack and the Original...
James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel - Hacking Cyberpunk. Bruce Sterling - Bicycle Repairman. Gwyneth Jones Red - Sonja and Lessingham in Dreamland (With apologies to E. R. Eddison). Jonathan Lethem - How We Got in Town and out Again. Greg Egan Yeyuka. Pat Cadigan - The Final Remake of The Return of Little Latin Larry, with a Completely Remastered Soundtrack and the Original...
Fix the past. Save the present. Stop the future. Alastair Reynolds unfolds a time-traveling climate fiction adventure in Permafrost. 2080: at a remote site on the edge of the Arctic Circle, a group of scientists, engineers and physicians gather to gamble humanity’s future on one last-ditch experiment. Their goal: to make a tiny alteration to the past, averting a global catastrophe...
Black Library, 2021. — 999 p. — (Warhammer Chronicles). This collection chronicles the journey of Calard as he attempts to rise through the ranks of the Knights of Bretonnia, from the rank of lowly Knight Errant to the hallowed station of Grail Knight. Contents: Knight Errant Knight of the Realm Rest Eternal Questing Knight Grail Knight
Black Library, 2021. — 999 p. — (Warhammer Chronicles). This collection chronicles the journey of Calard as he attempts to rise through the ranks of the Knights of Bretonnia, from the rank of lowly Knight Errant to the hallowed station of Grail Knight. Contents: Knight Errant Knight of the Realm Rest Eternal Questing Knight Grail Knight
Games Workshop, 2020. — 800 p. — (Warhammer Chronicles). — ISBN-10-1789992923,ISBN-13 978-1789992922. Gotrek and Felix: unsung heroes of the Empire, or nothing more than common thieves and murderers? The truth perhaps lies somewhere in between, and depends entirely on whom you ask… Racing towards the besieged dwarf hold of Karak Kadrin, Gotrek and Felix battle to thwart the...
With the fate of the planet hanging in the balance, retired naval officer and Naval Academy graduate Neil Loken steers a trimaran and her passengers to the literal end of the earth in this taut thriller about a small group of friends escaping a nuclear holocaust.
Ruka, called a demon at birth, is a genius. Born malformed and ugly into the snow-covered wasteland of the Ascom, he was spared from death by his mother's love. Now he is an outcast, consumed with hate for those who've wronged him. But to take his vengeance, he must first survive. Across a vast sea in the white-sand island paradise of Sri Kon, Kale is fourth and youngest son of...
Dutton Adult 2013 — 613 стр. — ISBN13: 978-0525953869 You are now a member of the Guild. There is no return. Two hundred years after he was about to die on a Napoleonic battlefield, Nick Falcott, soldier and aristocrat, wakes up in a hospital bed in modern London. The Guild, an entity that controls time travel, showers him with life's advantages. But Nick yearns for home and...
Henry Holt and Co., 2023. — 482 р. — ISBN 978-125-081-38-00 Once you sign an NDA it's good for life. Meaning legally, I shouldn't tell you this story. But I have to. A college grad with the six-figure debt to prove it, Ethan Block views San Francisco as the place to be. Yet his job at hot new dating app DateDate is a far cry from what he envisioned. Instead of making the world...
Gallery / Saga Press, 2019. Yetu holds the memories for her people—water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners—who live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly, is forgotten by everyone, save one—the historian. This demanding role has been bestowed on Yetu. Yetu remembers for everyone, and the...
Gallery / Saga Press, 2020. From the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Resistance Reborn comes the first book in the Between Earth and Sky trilogy, inspired by the civilizations of the Pre-Columbian Americas and woven into a tale of celestial prophecies, political intrigue, and forbidden magic. A god will return When the earth and sky converge Under the black sun...
S&S/Saga Press, 2024. — 604 p. The interwoven destinies of the people of Meridian will finally be determined in this stunning conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Roanhorse’s Between Earth and Sky trilogy. Even the sea cannot stay calm before the storm. —Teek saying Serapio, avatar of the Crow God Reborn and the newly crowned Carrion King, rules Tova. But his...
Gallery / Saga Press, 2019. — (The Sixth World #2). It’s been four weeks since the bloody showdown at Black Mesa, and Maggie Hoskie, Diné monster hunter, is trying to make the best of things. Only her latest bounty hunt has gone sideways, she’s lost her only friend, Kai Arviso, and she’s somehow found herself responsible for a girl with a strange clan power. Then the Goodacre...
While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinétah (formerly the Navajo reservation) has been reborn. The gods and heroes of legend walk the land, but so do monsters. Maggie Hoskie is a Dinétah monster hunter, a supernaturally gifted killer. When a small town needs help finding a missing girl, Maggie is their last—and best—hope....
Ein is on a mission from God. A God of Death. Time is up for the Emperor of Ten Kings and it falls to a murdered eight year old boy to render the judgement of a God. Ein knows he can't do it alone, but the empire is rife with heroes. The only problem; in order to serve, they must first die. Ein has four legendary heroes in mind, names from story books read to him by his father....
Two village boys mistaken for assassins become the decisive figures in the battle for a continent in the thrilling new desert-based epic fantasy by the author of The Red Wolf Conspiracy. Kandri Hinjuman was never meant to be a soldier. His brother Mektu was never meant for this world. Rivals since childhood, they are drafted into a horrific war led by a madwoman-Prophet, and...
St. Martin’s Press, 2022. — 784 p. — ISBN 978-1-250-27272-0 Talamh is a land of green hills, high mountains, deep forests, and seas, where magicks thrive. But portals allow for passage in and out―and ultimately, each must choose their place, and choose between good and evil, war and peace, life and death… Breen Siobhan Kelly grew up in the world of Man and was once unaware of...
Tom Doherty Associates books, 2022. — 499 p. — ISBN 978-1-250-80736-6 Lydia works as translator for the Logi cultural attaché to Earth. They work well together, even if the act of translating his thoughts into English makes her somewhat wobbly on her feet. She’s not the agency’s best translator, but what else is she going to do? She has no qualifications, and no discernible...
Scholastic, 2012. — 160 p. — ISBN10: 0545460204; ISBN13: 978-0545460200. The evil Shadow Lord is plotting to invade Deltora and enslave its people. All that stands against him is the magic Belt of Deltora with its seven gems of great and mysterious power. When the gems are stolen and hidden in dark, terrible places throughout the kingdom, the Shadow Lord triumphs and Deltora is...
Scholastic, 2012. — 160 p. — ISBN10: 0545460204; ISBN13: 978-0545460200. The evil Shadow Lord is plotting to invade Deltora and enslave its people. All that stands against him is the magic Belt of Deltora with its seven gems of great and mysterious power. When the gems are stolen and hidden in dark, terrible places throughout the kingdom, the Shadow Lord triumphs and Deltora is...
A Tor Book, 2023. — 1325 р. — (Moonfall, #2). — ISBN 9781250842510. To stop the coming apocalypse, a fellowship was formed. A soldier, a thief, a lost prince, and a young girl bonded by fate and looming disaster. Each step along this path has changed the party, forging deep alliances and greater enmities. All the while, hostile forces have hunted them, fearing what they might...
A Tom Doherty Associates book, 2022. — 1216 р. — (Moonfall, #1). — ISBN 9781250842510. A gifted student foretells an apocalypse. Her reward is a sentence of death. Fleeing into the unknown she is drawn into a team of outcasts: A broken soldier, who once again takes up the weapons he’s forbidden to wield and carves a trail back home. A drunken prince, who steps out from his...
Orbit, 2023. — 1087 р. — ISBN 9780316336543 Two women embark on a unforgettable quest into a world of dark gods and ancient magic in this sweeping fantasy debut inspired by the history and folklore of colonial South America. Reina is desperate. Stuck on the edges of society, Reina’s only hope lies in an invitation from a grandmother she’s never met. But the journey to her is...
Erewhon Books, 2022. — 889 p. — ISBN 978-1-64566-035-4 Orphaned as young women, Celestia and Izara De Malena find themselves land rich but destitute, with only a failing rainforest acreage, Celestia’s perfect manners, and Izara’s nascent magic to their aristocratic names. With the last of their money running out, they enact a dangerous plan—using a spell she doesn’t fully...
The lives of Cyra Noavek and Akos Kereseth are ruled by their fates, spoken by the oracles at their births. The fates, once determined, are inescapable. Akos is in love with Cyra, in spite of his fate: he will die in service to Cyra's family. And when Cyra's father, Lazmet Noavek - a soulless tyrant, thought to be dead - reclaims the Shotet throne, Akos believes his end is closer...
St. Martin's Griffin, 2015. — 528 p. Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who's ever been chosen. That's what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but he's probably right. Half the time, Simon can't even make his wand work, and the other half, he sets something on fire. His mentor's avoiding him, his girlfriend broke up with him, and...
Tor, 2022. — 993 p. — ISBN 978-1-5290-9968-3 Kadou, the shy prince of Arasht, has no intention of wrestling for imperial control with his sister, the queen. Yet he remains at odds with one of the most powerful ambassadors at court – the father of the queen’s new child. Then a hunting party goes terribly awry, and Kadou finds himself under suspicion of attempted murder. To prove...
Welcome to the world of Kara Gillian, a cop with a gift. Not only does she have the power of othersight to see what most people can’t even imagine, but she’s become the exclusive summoner of a demon lord. Or maybe it’s the other way around. The fact is, with two troublesome cases on her docket and a handsome FBI agent under her skin, Kara needs the help of sexy, insatiable Lord...
Homicide detective Kara Gillian has a special talent: she can sense the "arcane" in our world, and there's quite a bit of it, even in Beaulac, Louisiana. She's also a summoner of demons, and works on a task force that deals with supernatural crimes. Her partners are attractive and smart FBI agents, but they're not summoners, and they're not telling Kara why they are on this...
Volume: 1-7 tot. — JKR, 2016. — 8330 p. — ISBN: 1234567891 Now for the first time ever, J.K. Rowling’s seven bestselling Harry Potter books are available in a stunning paperback boxed set! The Harry Potter series has been hailed as “one for the ages” by Stephen King and “a spellbinding saga’ by USA Today. And most recently, The New York Times called Harry Potter and the Deathly...
Nashville: NBPress, 2011. Качество: изначально электронное Новелла может быть отнесена к стилю христианской фантазии или фантастики. Как таковая может вызвать раздражение некоторых читателей. Cameron Vaux is told by both his father and wife before their deaths, years apart and without any knowledge on the other's part, that he needs to find God's book of days referenced in...
Nashville: NBPress, 2010. Качество: изначально электронное Новелла может быть отнесена к стилю христианской фантастики. Как таковая может вызвать раздражение некоторых читателей. Оn a rainy spring day in Seattle, young software tycoon Micah Taylor receives a cryptic, twenty-five-year-old letter from a great uncle he never knew. It claims a home awaits him on the Oregon coast...
Nashville: NBPress, 2010. Качество: изначально электронное Новелла может быть отнесена к стилю христианской фантастики. Как таковая может вызвать раздражение некоторых читателей. Оn a rainy spring day in Seattle, young software tycoon Micah Taylor receives a cryptic, twenty-five-year-old letter from a great uncle he never knew. It claims a home awaits him on the Oregon coast...
Calgary Canada: Dragon Moon Press.,2007. — 342 p. —ISBN: 1-896944-59-0 ...Leumas stared at Copolla’s emotionless eyes as his enemy continued repeating the words “to become.” He thought about the things Copolla had stated in their conversation and how it opened a whole realm of potential dangers. He wondered how much more detail he could get out of Copolla and if he would have...
Orbit books, 2023. — 1009 р. — ISBNs: 9780316430838 It’s been a long journey for Alwyn Scribe. Born a bastard and raised an outlaw, he’s now a knight and the most trusted advisor to Lady Evadine Courlain. Together they’ve won countless battles and helped to bring order to a fractured kingdom. Yet Evadine is not the woman Alwyn once knew. As puritanical fury increasingly...
Ace, 2019. Anthony Ryan's debut novel Blood Song - book one of the Raven's Shadow series - took the fantasy world by storm. The sequels, Tower Lord and Queen of Fire were both New York Times bestsellers. Now, Anthony Ryan returns to the world of this acclaimed fantasy series with The Wolf's Call, which begins a thrilling new story of razor-sharp action and epic adventure. Peace...
Deep in the mountains of nineteenth-century Carpathia lies the mysterious and mythic land of Transylvania, a world where evil is ever-present, where danger rises as the sun sets, and where monsters such as Count Dracula, the Wolf Man, and Frankenstein's Monster take form and inhabit man's deepest nightmares - terrifying legends who outlive generations, defying repeated attacks...
Orbit, 2021. — 625 p. — (The Black Iron Legacy #3). The Godswar has come to Guerdon, dividing the city between three occupying powers. A fragile armistice holds back the gods, but other dangerous forces seek to exert their influence. Spar Idgeson, once heir to the brotherhood of thieves has been transformed into the living stone of the new city. But his powers are failing and...
Orbit, 2019. — 544 p. — (The Black Iron Legacy series). A group of three young thieves are pulled into a centuries old magical war between ancient beings, mages, and humanity in this wildly original debut epic fantasy. The city has always been. The city must finally end. When three thieves - an orphan, a ghoul, and a cursed man - are betrayed by the master of the thieves guild,...
Orbit, 2020. — 608 p. — (The Black Iron Legacy #2). Thieves, dangerous magic, and a weapon built with the power to destroy a god clash in this second novel of Gareth Hanrahan's acclaimed epic fantasy series, The Black Iron Legacy. Enter a city of spires and shadows... The Gutter Miracle changed the landscape of Guerdon forever. Six months after it was conjured into being, the...
2016. — ASIN B01C89EZ7O. Cutter I knew I had to own her the second I saw her. The need to make her mine was beyond even my control. I’d never understood it before… my brothers' need to declare their property. But Grace, Grace had a body and soul I wanted to mark as mine forever. The thought of another man having her was enough to push me over the edge. No one was ever going to...
Publisher: Pocket, 1985. 434 pages. Language: English.
Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Sagan injects Contact, his prophetic adventure story, with scientific details that make it utterly believable. It is a Cold War era novel that parlays the nuclear paranoia of the time into exquisitely wrought tension among the various countries involved. Sagan meditates on science, religion, and...
HarperCollins, 2006. — 608 p. The first book in the internationally bestselling Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage, featuring the funny and fantastic adventures of a wizard apprentice and his quest to become an ExtraOrdinary Wizard. Septimus Heap, the seventh son of the seventh son, disappears the night he is born, pronounced dead by the midwife. That same night, the baby's...
HarperCollins, 2007. — 532 p. The second book in the internationally bestselling Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage, featuring the funny and fantastic adventures of a wizard apprentice and his quest to become an ExtraOrdinary Wizard. It's been a year since Septimus Heap discovered his real family and true calling to be a wizard. As Apprentice to ExtraOrdinary Wizard Marcia...
2013. — 237 p. Neil Josten is the newest addition to the Palmetto State University Exy team. He's short, he's fast, he's got a ton of potential—and he's the runaway son of the murderous crime lord known as The Butcher. Signing a contract with the PSU Foxes is the last thing a guy like Neil should do. The team is high profile and he doesn't need sports crews broadcasting...
VIZ Media LLC, 2009. — 230 p. There’s one thing worse than dying. It’s coming back to do it again and again… When the alien Gitai invade, Keiji Kiriya is just one of many raw recruits shoved into a suit of battle armor and sent out to kill. Keiji dies on the battlefield, only to find himself reborn each morning to fight and die again and again. On the 158th iteration though, he...
Small Beer Press 2013 — ISBN: 1931520763 Jevick, the pepper merchant's son, has been raised on stories of Olondria, a distant land where books are as common as they are rare in his home. When his father dies and Jevick takes his place on the yearly selling trip to Olondria, Jevick's life is as close to perfect as he can imagine. But just as he revels in Olondria's Rabelaisian...
Black Library, 2017. — 152 p. Alpha legionnaire Occam the Untrue leads his warband out of its hunting grounds in the Maelstrom on an epic quest for salvation, not just for himself, but for his whole Legion. In the hostile universe of the 41st millennium, where allegiances are ever fickle, few of the Emperor’s sons are more difficult to understand or predict than the Alpha...
ISBN: 0765350378 ISBN13: 9780765350374. Elantris was the capital of Arelon: gigantic, beautiful, literally radiant, filled with benevolent beings who used their powerful magical abilities for the benefit of all. Yet each of these demigods was once an ordinary person until touched by the mysterious transforming power of the Shaod. Ten years ago, without warning, the magic...
Tor, A Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2022. — 1043 p. (Series: The Mistborn Saga; 7) — ISBN 978-076-53-9120-9 For years, frontier lawman turned big-city senator Waxillium Ladrian has hunted the shadowy organization the Set―with his late uncle and his sister among their leaders―since they started kidnapping people with the power of Allomancy in their bloodlines. When Detective...
Dragonsteel, 2023. — 638 р. — ISBN 978-1-938570-41-4 Years ago he had comrades in arms and a cause to believe in, but now the man who calls himself Nomad knows only a life on the run. Forced to hop from world to world in the Cosmere whenever the relentless Night Brigade gets too close, Nomad lands on a new planet and is instantly caught up in the struggle between a tyrant and...
Dragonsteel Press Book, 2023. — 743 р. — ISBN 978-1-938570-34-6 The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has been a simple one, with the simple pleasures of collecting cups brought by sailors from faraway lands and listening to stories told by her friend Charlie. But when his father takes him on a voyage to find a bride and disaster strikes,...
Genre: Paranormal Romance + humor.
Book 20 in the Argeneau Family series.
For Basha Argeneau, anything is better than facing her estranged family. Even hiding out in sweltering southern California. But when a sexy Vamp in black shows up determined to bring her back to the clan, she'll do anything to keep far, far away from the past she can't outrun.
Marcus Notte isn't...
Penguin Publishing Group, 1996. — 283 p. — eISBN I0451453735, 9780451453730. Black Madonna is a Shadowrun novel by Carl Sargent and Marc Gascoigne. Is the world ready for the truth? Michael Sutherland is a hardened decker who's been around. But when a panicked Renraku Corp enlists his services, he quickly realizes this is no ordinary crisis--he's up against a mysterious...
Roc, 1994. — 288 p. — ISBN: 0451453026. The newest installment in the bestselling Shadowrun series. It is a near-future world where magic has run amuck. Technology combines with mystical power to create a new land of danger, monsters, and adventure. The masters of this battle-scarred landscape are the Shadowrunners, men and women assassins with the power to take out anyone and...
Robert Anton Wilson, in his Cosmic Trigger, describes his reactions to various events as those of The Author, The Skeptic, The Sage, The Neurologician, The Shaman, and other personae — all Wilson himself, of course, and by no means the multiple personality image first made popular by Dr. Morton Prince in the early years of this century; facets, rather, of any whole human being,...
Black Library, 2017. — 817 p. — (Warhammer Chronicles). The von Carsteins were the most infamous bloodline of vampires to ever stalk the Warhammer Old World. Their very names – Vlad, Konrad and Mannfred – were whispered in fear by the people of the Empire, conjuring up images of doom, death and destruction. Charting the vampire family's rise to power in the shadowhaunted lands...
FLASHFORWARD (v1.1)
Robert J. Sawyer, 1999
A team of physicists trying to prove the existence of a theoretical particle inadvertently shifts the consciousness of humankind forward 20 years. Only two minutes are "lost, " but memories of the future inspire new cults, seemingly illogical stock market speculations, and a host of new patents. Rivalry between two of the male...
The Terminal Experiment has propelled Robert J. Sawyer into the limelight as one of science fiction's hot new writers, earning him the prestigious Nebula Award in the process. In this fast-paced thriller, Dr. Peter Hobson’s investigations into death and afterlife lead him to create three separate electronic versions of himself: one has no memory of physical existence and...
On the eve of a secret military operation, an assassin’s bullet strikes U.S. President Seth Jerrison. He is rushed to hospital, where surgeons struggle to save his life. At the same hospital, Canadian researcher Dr. Ranjip Singh is experimenting with a device that can erase traumatic memories. Then a terrorist bomb detonates. In the operating room, the president suffers cardiac...
Clarion Books, 2023. — 490 р. — ISBN: 978-0-35-864723-2 Ever since her sister became a man-eating spider and slaughtered her way through town, nineteen-year-old Ness has been terrified—terrified of some other Nightmare murdering her, and terrified of ending up like her sister. Because in Newham, the city that never sleeps, dreaming means waking up as your worst fear. Whether...
New York: Clarion Books, 2012. – 304 p. ISBN: 0547612133, 9780547612133.
The Valorim are about to fall to a dark lord when they send a necklace containing their planet across the cosmos, hurtling past a trillion starsall the way into the lunchbox of Tommy Pepper, sixth grader, of Plymouth, Mass. Mourning his late mother, Tommy doesn't notice much about the chain he found, but...
Tor Books, 2007. - 322 p. - ISBN: 0765354535. It is the distant future. The world known as Virga is a fullerene balloon three thousand kilometers in diameter, filled with air, water, and aimlessly floating chunks of rock. The humans who live in this vast environment must build their own fusion suns and "towns" that are in the shape of enormous wood and rope wheels that are spun...
New York: Springer, 2014. — 242 p. It has been nearly 100 years since the Apollo moon landings, when Jack and Vladimir, two astronauts on a mission to Venus, discover a mysterious void related to indigenous life on the planet. Subsequently more voids are detected on Earth, Mars, Titan, and, quite ominously, inside a planetoid emerging from the Kuiper belt. Jack is sent to...
Riverhead Books, 2022. — 201 р. — ISBN 9780525541417 The seven houses in these seven stories are strange. A person is missing, or a truth, or memory; some rooms are enticing, some unmoored, others empty. But in Samanta Schweblin's tense, visionary tales, something always creeps back inside: a ghost, a fight, trespassers, a list of things to do before you die, a child's first...
Danger lurks in the heart of the city...But not always where you expect it. From New York to Los Angeles to Bucharest, fifteen never-before-published tales by some of the world’s finest fantasy and horror writers celebrate the newest incarnations of an age-old terror that strikes when the moon is full...the werewolf. No longer confined to the forests, these modern monsters can...
472 p. The Lies of Locke Lamora is a 2006 fantasy novel by American writer Scott Lynch, the first book of the Gentleman Bastard series. Elite con artists calling themselves the "Gentleman Bastards" rob the rich of the city of Camorr, based on late medieval Venice but on an unnamed world. Two stories interweave: in the present, the Gentleman Bastards fight a mysterious Gray King...
New York: Berkley Books, 1987. — 313 p. — ISBN: 0425105466 (ISBN13: 9780425105467). The long suffering wife of Chief Brody decides she's had enough of Amity and heads off to the Caribbean to join her son, daughter-in-law and grandchild. However, the shark with an attitude just won't leave her alone... did it follow her ?, is it the same shark?
The Unnamed Press, 2016. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 1939419751; ISBN13: 978-1939419750. Hunter Warden just wants some peace and quiet. He wants to watch unboxing videos and be lulled to sleep by the monotone voices and smooth talking YouTube hosts. He wants his parents that are always working to either totally leave him alone or be around for once. After a few beers, Hunter decides to...
The Unnamed Press, 2016. - 240 c. - ISBN10: 1939419751; ISBN13: 978-1939419750. Hunter Warden just wants some peace and quiet. He wants to watch unboxing videos and be lulled to sleep by the monotone voices and smooth talking YouTube hosts. He wants his parents that are always working to either totally leave him alone or be around for once. After a few beers, Hunter decides to...
The Unnamed Press, 2016. - 240 c. - ISBN10: 1939419751; ISBN13: 978-1939419750. Hunter Warden just wants some peace and quiet. He wants to watch unboxing videos and be lulled to sleep by the monotone voices and smooth talking YouTube hosts. He wants his parents that are always working to either totally leave him alone or be around for once. After a few beers, Hunter decides to...
A gritty and epic adventure to appeal to fans of Mark Lawrence, Andrzej Sapkowski and Joe Abercrombie – The Winter Road is a fantasy novel which remembers that battles leave all kinds of scars. The greatest empire of them all began with a road. The Circle – a thousand miles of perilous forests and warring clans. No one has ever tamed such treacherous territory before, but...
Laddy Penreith was seventeen the night she met Soviet writer Mischa Busnetsky. Surrounded by a watchful crowd, neither could reveal the searing passion that flared between them. Eight years later -- years Mischa had spent in prison for his writing -- that flame still burned for Laddy. When Mischa was suddenly released and came to London, she flew to him, and his touch told her...
Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2022. — 902 p. — ISBN 9780735280632 In this sweeping tale, at once epic and intimate, Shyam Selvadurai introduces us to Siddhartha Gautama--who will later become "the enlightened one," or the Buddha--an unusually bright and politically astute young man settling into his upper-caste life as a newlywed to Yasodhara, a woman of great intelligence and...
New York: Vertical, Inc., 2005. — 246 p. — ISBN: 1-932234-19-5. Filled with scientific acuity and existential challenges in the tradition of Ghost in the Shell and Frankenstein, this medical fantasmagoria is a disorienting look into the consciousness and will have you questioning the future of human evolution. New life begins at the cellular level, but when that cell contains...
Kiev: PROJECT – EDEN, 2011. — 64 p. Written by Mr. Oleg Seriy without MaRiCaBo. Translated by Mrs. Tatjana Guziy. Cover artwork by Mrs. Ekaterina Sinotova. Edited by Mrs. Ludmila Sira & Valentina Merkulova. The author from USSR wrote this book right after flying in a UFO, which he got in 16 years from the territory of planet Earth. You can learn about the incredible adventures...
Bloomsbury Circus, 2023. — 1652 р. — ISBN: 978-1-5266-1979-2 In A Day of Fallen Night, Samantha Shannon sweeps readers back to the universe of Priory of the Orange Tree and into the lives of four women, showing us a course of events that shaped their world for generations to come. Tunuva Melim is a sister of the Priory. For fifty years, she has trained to slay wyrms – but none...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. — 924 p. — ISBN 978-1-5266-6215-6 The year is 2059. For two centuries, the Republic of Scion has led an oppressive campaign against unnaturalness in Europe. In London, Paige Mahoney holds a high rank in the criminal underworld. The right hand of the ruthless White Binder, Paige is a dreamwalker, a rare and formidable kind of clairvoyant. Under Scion...
A world divided. A queendom without an heir. An ancient enemy awakens. The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction—but assassins are getting closer to her door. Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal...
Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2008. - 96 с. - ISBN: 1741760046, 9781741760040. Breathtakingly illustrated and hauntingly written, Tales from Outer Suburbia is by turns hilarious and poignant, perceptive and goofy. Through a series of captivating and sophisticated illustrated stories, Tan explores the precious strangeness of our existence. He gives us a portrait of modern suburban...
Novella. — Publication: Amazing Stories, March 1945. — Pp. 12-70.
Nomination — 1996 Retro Hugo — Novella.
"I Remember Lemuria" owes its origin to a letter that Shaver wrote to Palmer sometime in 1943. In that letter, Shaver claimed to have learned how to understand an ancient language (called Mantong) that was not only the root of other human languages but also worked as a...
(Iconoclasts, #1). The days of adventure are passed for Auric Manteo. Retired to the countryside with his scars and riches, he no longer delves into forbidden ruins seeking dark wisdom and treasure. That is, until old nightmares begin plaguing his sleep, heralding an urgent summons back to that old life. To save his only daughter, Auric must return to the place of his greatest...
(Iconoclasts #2) Description "I SHALL BAPTIZE YOU, SIR, AND MY BAPTISM WILL BURN YOUR FOLLY AND FLESH AWAY." A year has passed since Auric Manteo descended into the haunted depths of a Djao ruin to return a lethal artifact, only to face down a bloodthirsty, imprisoned god. Now his daughter Agnes comes to bring him back to the capital with promises of hidden secrets finally...
Hachette UK, 2014. — 592 p. Scott Sigler is the voice in modern horror - and the Infected trilogy is a terrifying, menacing series that will leave you sleepless. The alien intelligence that unleashed two horrific assaults on humanity has been destroyed. But before it was brought down in flames, it launched one last payload - a tiny soda-can-sized canister filled with germs...
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1999. — viii+595 p. — ISBN: 0-380-79694-5. Winner of the 2000 Locus Award for Best Anthology. Introduction (Far Horizons: All New Tales from the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction) (1999) (essay by Robert Silverberg). Old Music and the Slave Women [Yeowe and Werel - 5] (1999) (novella by Ursula K. Le Guin). A Separate War [Forever War] (1999)...
Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy. — New York: A Tom Doherty Associates Book, 1998. — 715 p. — ISBN: 0-312-86787-5. Winner: 1999 Locus Award for Best Anthology. Nominations: 1999 BFA Award for Best Anthology, 1999 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology. Introduction (Robert Silverberg). The Little Sisters of Eluria [Roland] (Stephen King). The Sea and Little Fishes...
Baen Books, 1989. — 277 p. — ISBN: 0-671-69850-8. In the beginning was the idea: what if historical personalities could be electronically "resuscitated" in the depths of a supercomputers creche? At first, the suggestion went, they could provide useful data on personality patterns in previous centuries, becoming literal case histories for curious psycho-historians to probe and...
The Jazz Age is in full swing, but Casiopea Tun is too busy cleaning the floors of her wealthy grandfather’s house to listen to any fast tunes. Nevertheless, she dreams of a life far from her dusty small town in southern Mexico. A life she can call her own. Yet this new life seems as distant as the stars, until the day she finds a curious wooden box in her grandfather’s room. She...
A Novel. — Little, Brown and Company, 2007. — 770 p. — ISBN: 0-316-01744-2. Winner of 2007 International Horror Guild Award for Best Novel. The Terror is a 2007 novel by American author Dan Simmons. It is a fictionalized account of Captain Sir John Franklin's lost expedition of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror to the Arctic, in 1845–1848, to locate the Northwest Passage. In the novel,...
Random House Worlds, 2023. — 368 p. — ISBN 9780593599419. A damsel in distress takes on the dragon herself in this epic twist on classic fantasy. Based on a screenplay by Dan Mazeau, this is a groundbreaking collaboration between New York Times bestselling author Evelyn Skye and the team behind the upcoming Netflix film Damsel, starring Millie Bobby Brown. A price must be paid....
Book 3 in the Were Legends series. Blanca Reble has been captured, yet again, to be used as some Vamp's blood slave. Now she's determined to escape her captor's hold. But Worth isn't who he seems and the way her body and mind react to his touch isn't what she's used to. It should be only a matter of time before their blood bond wears off, but what replaces it is an undeniable...
Book two in the Were Legends series.
After living over a century without the touch of a man, Ambria Nogle is surprised that seducing Count Kollens isn't all that difficult. Unfortunately, falling in love with the Were is just as easy. As an empath, she can see right through Kaige's brooding façade and into his heart. Now if only she can convince him that her heart is just as...
As the Queen of Paqualette, Nayla is forbidden to have a husband or a human lover. Her life is a lonely and disciplined existence, so when she's given the opportunity to choose a Were from her dungeon as her sex slave, she takes a chance. Werewolves, she knows, are nothing but senseless monsters, but after the one she selects to be her Were Slave turns out to be more of a man...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 1533623104; ISBN13: 978-1533623102. Narcel's enslavers took everything from him: his family, the woman he loves, and his freedom. All he has left is his will to live and a burning hatred for his masters. Years of living and training with the Mawtu changes Narcel. Once his sworn enemies, he now considers these...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 1533623104; ISBN13: 978-1533623102. Narcel's enslavers took everything from him: his family, the woman he loves, and his freedom. All he has left is his will to live and a burning hatred for his masters. Years of living and training with the Mawtu changes Narcel. Once his sworn enemies, he now considers these...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016. — 288 c. — ISBN10: 1533623104; ISBN13: 978-1533623102. Narcel's enslavers took everything from him: his family, the woman he loves, and his freedom. All he has left is his will to live and a burning hatred for his masters. Years of living and training with the Mawtu changes Narcel. Once his sworn enemies, he now considers these...
"Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons" is a classic science fiction short story written by Cordwainer Smith, first published in Galaxy Magazine in 1961, and partly based on Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. It details the methods by which the Norstrilians (or "Old North Australians") of Smith's fictional "Instrumentality" universe maintain their monopoly on the precious immortality drug...
Gateway, 2012. — ASIN B00AJ1ZNLQ. Brilliant government scientist Richard Seaton discovers a remarkable faster-than-light fuel that will power his interstellar spaceship, The Skylark. His ruthless rival, Marc DuQuesne, and the sinister World Steel Corporation will do anything to get their hands on the fuel. When they kidnap Seaton's fiancee and friends, they unleash a furious...
Wildside Press, 2010. — 178 p. — ISBN 9781434401281. They were four of the greatest minds in the Universe: Two men and two women, all Psionic Primes, lost in an experimental spaceship billions of parsecs from home. And as they mentally charted the cosmos to find their way back to Earth, their own loves and hates were as startling as the worlds they encountered... Here is E.E....
HarperCollins e-books, 2009. — (Brotherhood of Blood 1). — ASIN B000N0WTG0. I am called Chapel... For nearly six centuries I have roamed the night, a mortal man no longer. Would that I could undo the past -- when I entered the sanctuary of the Knights Templar to wrest from them the Holy Grail, only to discover the chalice I raised to my lips was not the sacred relic but a...
It was the weapon to end all weapons: the doomsday device. A huge nuclear bomb so powerful that it could envelop the entire planet in a cloud of radioactive dust, and bring about instant extinction. This is the untold story of the Cold War’s most insane plan, the men behind it and how it nearly happened. It is also the history of humanity’s nightmare vision of a superweapon,...
Roc, 1995. — 288 p. — ISBN: 0451453719. Spawned in the realm between the worlds, a Horror comes. Defeated in battle centuries before by the elven mage Aina, it walks again, seeking vengeance on the mortal lands. If Aina fails to convince the courts of Tir na nOg and Tir Tairngire of the danger, she will have to face the Horror alone once more--or watch the world end.
Novel. — The Permanent Press, 2000. — 212 p. — (Cthulhu Mythos). — ISBN 1-57962-026-4. Philip Kenan is battling a series of bad jobs - and the monsters from H. P. Lovecraft's fiction go with him. Philip's first confrontation with the monsters set in motion a bizarre chain of events that finally sent his girlfriend Amelia packing. Now the battle rages from the dank, cramped...
TV megastar Jack Barron hosts the wildly popular Bug Jack Barron, a phone-in show that listens to public gripes and puts politicians and bosses on the spot—live. Naturally Barron pulls his punches for safety’s sake… until he tangles with paranoid billionaire Benedict Howards, peddler of cryonic immortality, and walks into a minefield of deadly cover-ups. Violence erupts. Howards...
Wildside Press, 2016. — 157 p. — ASIN: B01MPY7J1M In addition to being a brilliant author, Brian Stableford is an accomplished editor and translator. Here he has selected and translated his choice of the 18 best weird tales and contes cruels by French author Armand Blocq (1870-1933), published under his pseudonym Gaston Danville. Check out Brian’s long and informative...
The story is set in the nearby regions of the Milky Way galaxy, roughly during the 2150s — ten years before the United Federation of Planets was formed. It follows the adventures of humanity's first warp 5 starship Enterprise. This collection covers: ***Original novels Broken Bow By the Book Shockwave What Price Honor? Surak's Soul The Expanse Daedalus Daedalus's Children...
Xcite Books. — ASIN B01FJ0W2V0. The story starts off with Judy on vacation on her brother's yacht. She's just come off a bad breakup and her brother and his wife invited her on vacation with them. She's glad to get away for a trip around the Mediterranean (who wouldn't be?) but she didn't realize that Steven, her brother's best friend (and at one time a best friend to her), was...
The adventure continues in this second very exciting book.
Anna Strong is a vampire caught between two worlds. She clings to what makes her human, her family, her job, her lover. But the pull of the undead is a siren song becoming impossible to resist. She discovers she has a niece, Trish, a child caught up in the worst kind of human nightmare. To save Trish, Anna may have to...
The third Anna Strong Chronicle.
For a newly made vampire, Anna is a hard case. That's why she's become a Watcher--one of the enforcers who keep supernatural criminals in check and deliver just punishment when necessary. But Anna is still fighting to control the raging fury of the vampire within her.Her self-control is tested when her lover--a DEA agent--disappears. In The...
Novel (Series: Captain Future, 18). — Published in Magazine Startling Stories. — 1945. — Vol. 12, No. 1 (Spring 1945). — Pp. 11-70.
Nomination — 1996 Retro Hugo — Novel.
From the archives of the mighty Ancients, Curt Newton brings back forgotten Denebian science to balk a greed-maddened schemer who seeks to loose unspeakable terror on the Universe!
Little, Brown Book Group, 2020. In an empire controlled by bone shard magic, Lin, the former heir to the emperor will fight to reclaim her magic and her place on the throne. The Bone Shard Daughter marks the debut of a major new voice in epic fantasy. The emperor's reign has lasted for decades, his mastery of bone shard magic powering the animal-like constructs that maintain...
New York: Fawcett Crest Books, 1964. — 180 p. When Lucy's sister Phyllida suggests that she join her for a quiet holiday on the island of Corfu, Lucy is overjoyed. Her work as an actress has temporarily come to a halt. But the peaceful idyll does not last long.
When Lucy's sister Phyllida suggests that she join her for a quiet holiday on the island of Corfu, Lucy is overjoyed. Her work as an actress has temporarily come to a halt. But the peaceful idyll does not last long.
When Lucy's sister Phyllida suggests that she join her for a quiet holiday on the island of Corfu, Lucy is overjoyed. Her work as an actress has temporarily come to a halt. But the peaceful idyll does not last long.
Oxford ; New York : Random House Children’s Books, 2008. — 278 p. When thirteen-year-old Twig discovers that he was abandoned at birth by an unknown outsider, he leaves his woodtroll family behind and sets off on a journey through and beyond the dangerous Deepwoods. As he makes his way through a nightmarish world of goblins and trogs, bloodthirsty beasts and flesh-eating trees,...
Oxford ; New York : Random House Children’s Books, 2008. — 362 p. Far, far away, jutting out into the emptiness beyond, lies the Edge. Filled with strange peoples and terrifying creatures, this is a world unlike any other, where action— and danger—wait at every turn. Midnight over Sanctaphrax is the third book in the Twig Trilogy. Out in the open sky, a ferocious storm...
Oxford ; New York : Random House Children’s Books, 2008. — 386 p. Sixteen-year-old Twig is eager to begin his new life as a sky pirate on board the famous Stormchaser. The crew's quest: to collect stormphrax—the precious, magical substance formed at the heart of a storm—in order to save the floating city of Sanctaphrax. Only a sky ship as powerful as the Stormchaser, piloted by...
The Scorpio Races It happens at the start of every November: the Scorpio Races. Riders attempt to keep hold of their water horses long enough to make it to the finish line. Some riders live. Others die. At age nineteen, Sean Kendrick is the returning champion. He is a young man of few words, and if he has any fears, he keeps them buried deep, where no one else can see them....
Titan Books, 2022. — 571 р. — ISBN: 9781803361871 Conan the Barbarian, the world’s most famous fantasy hero, returns in an all-new novel tied directly to the famous works by his legendary creator, Robert E. Howard. Set early in his life, Conan has left his northern homeland to cut a bloody swath across the legendary Hyborian Age. A mercenary, a soldier, a thief, and a pirate,...
Сокращенный английский оригинальный текст. «Дракула» — знаменитый роман ирландского писателя Брэма Стокера, впервые опубликованный в 1897 году. Главный герой — вампир-аристократ граф Дракула. Стокер изобразил вампиризм как заболевание (заразная демоническая одержимость), с оттенками секса, крови и смерти, задев чувствительные струнки в Викторианской Британии, где туберкулёз и...
684 pages.
Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing.
Dracula has been assigned to many literary...
"The Lair of the White Worm" and "The Lady of the Shroud" by Bram Stoker. Here are two great, neglected horror novels by Bram Stoker, author of Dracula, together in one volume for the first time. It is a double treat for lovers of blood-curdling fantasy fiction.The Lady of the Shroud, published here in its full and unabridged form, is a fascinating and engrossing concoction of...
London
William Heinemann
1902
When Archibald Hunter comes to Cruden Bay, Aberdeenshire for his annual holiday he is looking forward to a tranquil few days by the sea, but he is disturbed by strange visions and portents of doom. Where are these terrible visions taking him? And what is the significance of the pages of cipher?
Featuring a dizzying plot packed with adventure,...
Unofficial GameSpot game guide. GameSpot, a division of ZD Inc., 2000. – 164 pages.
With ‘‘Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn’’, Bioware and Black Isle Studios hope to improve on the game widely whispered to have saved the RPG genre, Baldur's Gate. The game boasts an amazingly large amount of gameplay, with numerous major quests that span seven chapters and many smaller quests...
Transl. by Andrew Bromfield. — Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2020. — 416 p. — ISBN10: 1613735979; ISBN13: 978-1613735978 When Maxim Kammerer, a young space explorer from twenty-second-century Earth, crash-lands on an uncharted world, he thinks of himself as a latter-day Robinson Crusoe. Eager to establish first contact with the planet’s humanlike inhabitants, he finds himself...
Dutton, 2023. — 910 p. — ISBN 9780593183649 When unforeseen circumstances during an innovative—and unsanctioned—commercial asteroid-mining mission leave two crew members stranded, those who make it back must engineer a rescue, all while navigating a shifting web of global political alliances and renewed Cold War tensions. With Earth governments consumed by the ravages of...
Dutton, 2019. — 873 p. — ISBN 9780593183649 When itinerant cave diver James Tighe receives an invitation to billionaire Nathan Joyce's private island, he thinks it must be a mistake. But Tighe's unique skill set makes him a prime candidate for Joyce's high-risk venture to mine a near-earth asteroid--with the goal of kick-starting an entire off-world economy. The potential...
Harper Voyager, 2022. — 834 р. — ISBN: 978-0-06-303130-2 Growing up on the moon, Xingyin is accustomed to solitude, unaware that she is being hidden from the feared Celestial Emperor who exiled her mother for stealing his elixir of immortality. But when Xingyin’s magic flares and her existence is discovered, she is forced to flee her home, leaving her mother behind. Alone,...
Grim Oak Press, 2020. — 432 p. — (The Legends of the First Empire #5). Winter blankets the land, and more than just hope has died. Prevented from invading the Fhrey homeland by the tower of Avempartha, the western army seeks a way across the Nidwalden River before the fane obtains the secret of dragons. As time runs out for both humanity and the mystic Suri, the only chance for...
A nobleman’s daughter with magic in her blood. An empire built on the dreams of enslaved gods. Empire of Sand is Tasha Suri’s captivating, Mughal India-inspired debut fantasy. The Amrithi are outcasts; nomads descended of desert spirits, they are coveted and persecuted throughout the Empire for the power in their blood. Mehr is the illegitimate daughter of an imperial governor and...
Orbit, 2019. — (The Books of Ambha #2). The fate of an empire rests in the hands of a young woman with magical blood and nothing left to lose, and an outcast prince determined to save his family at any cost, in this "dark, melodious, and memorable" new fantasy (Library Journal, starred review) from the author of the award-winning Empire of Sand. The Ambhan Empire is crumbling. A...
Titan Books, 2016. — 292 p. A brand-new official Deus Ex prequel, bridging events between Deus Ex: Human Revolution and the brand-new game Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. The year is 2029, and the promise of a new age of human augmentation is in ruins. Awakening in the aftermath of a changed world, augmented ex-cop and former security operative Adam Jensen struggles to find answers. In...
New York: Ace Books, Inc. 1967. — 125 p. The Etruscan city of Sutrium lay beside a deep forest known only as the Weirwoods—for in its mysterious depths lived the strange beings called the Weir Ones: Centaurs, Water Sprites, Fauns and Panisci. These were half-humans touched with magic, and between them and the Etruscans there was constant fear and distrust. So when the nobleman...
New York: DAW Books, 1977 Set in a Minoan Age Crete populated by both humans and figures from ancient legend, Cry Silver Bells follows the fortunes of two cousins, caught between the kingdom of men and that of the Beasts.
Tom Doherty Associates, 2019. — (The Iron Dragon's Daughter 03). Michael Swanwick returns to his gritty, post-industrial faerie with the standalone adventure fantasy The Iron Dragon's Mother. Caitlin of House Sans Merci is the young half-human pilot of a sentient mechanical dragon. Returning from her first soul-stealing raid, she discovers an unwanted hitchhiker. When Caitlin is...
Imprint, 2016. - 304 c. - ISBN10: 1250083141; ISBN13: 978-1250083142. We are not all created equal. Seventeen-year-old Cody and her boyfriend, James, were two of the lucky ones randomly selected before birth to receive genetic engineering. Known as the Ones, this one percent of the population is healthy, beautiful, and talented…and to some that's not fair. Mounting fear and...
Imprint, 2016. - 304 c. - ISBN10: 1250083141; ISBN13: 978-1250083142. We are not all created equal. Seventeen-year-old Cody and her boyfriend, James, were two of the lucky ones randomly selected before birth to receive genetic engineering. Known as the Ones, this one percent of the population is healthy, beautiful, and talented…and to some that's not fair. Mounting fear and...
Imprint, 2016. - 304 c. - ISBN10: 1250083141; ISBN13: 978-1250083142. We are not all created equal. Seventeen-year-old Cody and her boyfriend, James, were two of the lucky ones randomly selected before birth to receive genetic engineering. Known as the Ones, this one percent of the population is healthy, beautiful, and talented…and to some that's not fair. Mounting fear and...
Orbit, 2019. Among humans, none have power like mages. And among mages, none have will like Sal the Cacophony. Once revered, now vagrant, she walks a wasteland scarred by generations of magical warfare. The Scar, a land torn between powerful empires, is where rogue mages go to disappear, disgraced soldiers go to die and Sal went with a blade, a gun and a list of names she intended...
An anthology of stories. The Devil is known by many names: Serpent, Tempter, Beast, Adversary, Wanderer, Dragon, Rebel. His traps and machinations are the stuff of legends. His faces are legion. No matter what face the devil wears, Sympathy for the Devil has them all. Edited by Tim Pratt, Sympathy for the Devil collects the best Satanic short stories by Neil Gaiman, Holly...
An anthology of stories. The Devil is known by many names: Serpent, Tempter, Beast, Adversary, Wanderer, Dragon, Rebel. His traps and machinations are the stuff of legends. His faces are legion. No matter what face the devil wears, Sympathy for the Devil has them all. Edited by Tim Pratt, Sympathy for the Devil collects the best Satanic short stories by Neil Gaiman, Holly...
Tade Thompson's Rosewater is the start of an award-winning, cutting edge trilogy set in Nigeria, by one of science fiction's most engaging new voices. Rosewater is a town on the edge. A community formed around the edges of a mysterious alien biodome, its residents comprise the hopeful, the hungry and the helpless—people eager for a glimpse inside the dome or a taste of its rumored...
Razorbill, 2016. — 452 p. — (An Ember in the Ashes). — ISBN10: 1101998873; ISBN13: 978-1101998878. After the events of the Fourth Trial, Martial soldiers hunt the two fugitives as they flee the city of Serra and undertake a perilous journey through the heart of the Empire. Laia is determined to break into Kauf - the Empire's most secure and dangerous prison - to save her...
Razorbill, 2016. — 452 p. — (An Ember in the Ashes). — ISBN10: 1101998873; ISBN13: 978-1101998878. After the events of the Fourth Trial, Martial soldiers hunt the two fugitives as they flee the city of Serra and undertake a perilous journey through the heart of the Empire. Laia is determined to break into Kauf - the Empire's most secure and dangerous prison - to save her...
Scholastic Paperbacks, 2010. The most terrifying events in history are brought vividly to life in this New York Times bestselling series! Ten-year-old George Calder can't believe his luck -- he and his little sister, Phoebe, are on the famous Titanic, crossing the ocean with their Aunt Daisy. The ship is full of exciting places to explore, but when George ventures into the...
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2017. — 829 p. — ISBN: 978-1-444-78896-9. A new epic fantasy by National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Laini Taylor of the Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy. The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around--and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared that his dream chose poorly. Since he...
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2017. — 829 p. — ISBN: 978-1-444-78896-9. A new epic fantasy by National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Laini Taylor of the Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy. The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around--and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared that his dream chose poorly. Since he...
Read Theodore Taylor’s classic bestseller and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award winner The Cay. Phillip is excited when the Germans invade the small island of Curaçao. War has always been a game to him, and he’s eager to glimpse it firsthand–until the freighter he and his mother are traveling to the United States on is torpedoed. When Phillip comes to, he is on a small raft in the...
Orbit. - 2024 383 p. From Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky comes a far-future epic that confirms his place as a modern master of science fiction, in which a political prisoner must unlock the secrets of a strange and dangerous planet. The planet of Kiln is where the tyrannical Mandate keeps its prison colony, and for inmates, the journey there is always...
Orbit, 2019. — (Children of Time 2). The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Long ago, Earth's terraforming program sent ships out to build new homes for humanity among the stars and made an unexpected discovery: a planet with life. But the scientists were unaware that the alien ecosystem was...
(Children of Time #1). A race for survival among the stars... Humanity's last survivors escaped earth's ruins to find a new home. But when they find it, can their desperation overcome its dangers? Who will inherit this new Earth? The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they...
Tor Books. -2024. 373 p. Murderbot meets Redshirts in a delightfully humorous tale of robotic murder from the Hugo-nominated author of Elder Race and Children of Time. To fix the world they must first break it, further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on artificial labor and service. When a domesticated robot gets a nasty little idea downloaded into its core...
Orbit, 2020. Lee’s best friend went missing on Bodmin Moor, four years ago. She and Mal were chasing rumours of monsters when they found something all too real. Now Mal is back, but where has she been, and who is she working for? When government physicist Kay Amal Khan is attacked, the security services investigate. This leads MI5’s Julian Sabreur deep into terrifying new...
There’s an allure to vampire tales that have seduced readers for generations. From Bram Stoker to Stephanie Meyer and beyond, vampire stories are here to stay. For those fresh-blooded fans of paranormal romance or for those whose hunt and hunger never dies, these stories have what readers want! This collection of original tales comes from some of the hottest, most popular, and...
Series: Complete Science Fiction of William Tenn (Book 2) Publisher: Nesfa Pr; 1 edition (August 1, 2001) Language: English ISBN10: 1886778280 ISBN13: 978-1886778283 Collects several short science fiction stories showcasing the author's biting humor and fantastic visions, and includes the novels "Of Men and Monsters" and "A Lamp for Medusa."
Rime Giant, 2015. - 151 c. - ISBN10: 0692489444; ASIN: B0121JTRG0. Blending humor, science, and philosophy, Radio Sphere is a unique and compelling journey into the nature of humanity in the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut and Philip K Dick. A wonderful and surprising sci-fi meets mythology novella, "Radio Sphere" reveals the shy, maladjusted Elizabeth in this EMP survival...
Rime Giant, 2015. - 151 c. - ISBN10: 0692489444; ASIN: B0121JTRG0. Blending humor, science, and philosophy, Radio Sphere is a unique and compelling journey into the nature of humanity in the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut and Philip K Dick. A wonderful and surprising sci-fi meets mythology novella, "Radio Sphere" reveals the shy, maladjusted Elizabeth in this EMP survival...
Rime Giant, 2015. - 151 c. - ISBN10: 0692489444; ASIN: B0121JTRG0. Blending humor, science, and philosophy, Radio Sphere is a unique and compelling journey into the nature of humanity in the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut and Philip K Dick. A wonderful and surprising sci-fi meets mythology novella, "Radio Sphere" reveals the shy, maladjusted Elizabeth in this EMP survival...
Tor Publishing Group, 2023. — 747 р. — ISBN 978-1-250-83498-0 Since she was born, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the bowels of Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the powerful, reality-shaping weapon that gave the majoda their victory over humanity. They are what’s left....
Wildside Press, 2014. This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul...
Wildside Press, 2014. This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul...
Wildside Press, 2014. This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul...
Wildside Press, 2015. This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul...
Wildside Press, 2015. This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul...
Wildside Press, 2015. This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul...
Wildside Press, 2015. This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul...
Wildside Press, 2015. This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul...
Wildside Press, 2015. This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul...
Wildside Press, 2015. This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul...
Wildside Press, 2015. This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul...
Wildside Press, 2015. This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul...
Wildside Press, 2015. This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul...
Wildside Press, 2015. This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul...
Wildside Press, 2015. This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul...
Wildside Press, 2015. This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul...
Wildside Press, 2015. This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul...
Wildside Press, 2015. This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul...
Wildside Press, 2015. This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul...
Wildside Press, 2015. This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul...
Wildside Press, 2016. This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul...
Wildside Press LLC, 2014. This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul...
Wildside Press, 2016. This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul...
Wildside Press, 2016. This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul...
Wildside Press, 2016. This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul...
Wildside Press, 2016. This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul...
Wildside Press, 2016. This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul...
Wildside Press, 2016. This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul...
Wildside Press, 2017. This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul...
Wildside Press, 2017. This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul...
Wildside Press, 2018. This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul...
Wildside Press, 2014. This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul...
Wildside Press, 2018. This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul...
Wildside Press, 2018. This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul...
Wildside Press, 2018. This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul...
Wildside Press, 2018. This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul...
Wildside Press, 2014. This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul...
Wildside Press, 2021. This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul...
Wildside Press, 2014. This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul...
Wildside Press, 2014. This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul...
Wildside Press, 2014. This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul...
Wildside Press, 2014. This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul...
Wildside Press, 2014. This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul...
New York: Mariner Books, 2019. — 432 p. — ISBN 978-1-328-60437-8, 1-328-60437-3. This omnivorous selection of stories chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and World Fantasy Award finalist Carmen Maria Machado is a display of the most boundary-pushing, genre-blurring, stylistically singular science fiction and fantasy stories published in the last year. By sending us to...
Explosive and provocative battles fought across the boundaries of time and space—and on the frontiers of the human mind. Science fiction's finest have yielded this definitive collection featuring stories of warfare, victory, conquest, heroism, and overwhelming odds. These are scenarios few have ever dared to contemplate, and they include: -"Superiority": Arthur C. Clarke...
A rosé for Emily by Esther M. Friesner.
Waiting for Juliette by Sarah A. Hoyt.
Boys by Dave Freer.
Trainer of whales by Brenda Cooper.
Good old days by Kevin J. Anderson.
Kicking and screaming her way to the altar by Alan L. Lickiss.
Alien voices by P. R. Frost.
Inside job by Loren L. Coleman.
A small skirmish in the culture war by Mike Resnick and James Patrick Kelly....
This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul Anderson, Mack Reynolds,...
This Halcyon Classics ebook collection contains fifty science fiction short stories and novellas by more than forty different authors. Most of the stories in this collection were published during the heyday of popular science fiction magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s.
Included within this work are stories by H. Beam Piper, Murray Leinster, Poul Anderson, Mack Reynolds,...
Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1980. — 310 p. Hardcover reprint of the October 1979 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, including: Introduction by Edward K. Ferman; F&SF at 30, essay by Isaac Asimov; Fondly Fahrenheit, by Alfred Bester (SF Hall of Fame story); And Now the News... by Theodore Sturgeon; Not With a Bang, by Damon Knight; Flowers for Algernon, by...
Jerry eBooks, 2022. Collected, selected, scanned and/or converted, re-formatted, proofed, custom book cover, custom title page and eBook creation by Jerry. A large anthology of fiction about the planets of the Solar System (except Venus, Mars and Jupiter - there are separate anthologies about these planets).
Jerry eBooks, 2021. Collected, selected, scanned and/or converted, re-formatted, proofed, custom book cover, custom title page and eBook creation by Jerry. A large anthology of fiction about the planet Jupiter.
Jerry eBooks, 2022. Collected, selected, scanned and/or converted, re-formatted, proofed, custom book cover, custom title page and eBook creation by Jerry. A large anthology of fiction about the planet Mars.
Jerry eBooks, 2021. Collected, selected, scanned and/or converted, re-formatted, proofed, custom book cover, custom title page and eBook creation by Jerry. A large anthology of fiction about the planet Venus.
The Greatest Science Fiction Stones of All Time Chosen by the Members of The Science Fiction Writers of America.
Edited by Robert Silverberg.
A martian odyssey, Stanley G. Weinbaum.
Twilight, John W. Campbell.
Helen o'Loy, Lester del Rey.
The roads must roll, Robert A. Heinlein.
Microcosmic god, Theodore Sturgeon.
Nightfall, Isaac Asimov.
The weapon shop, A. E. van Vogt....
This fourth volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features thirty stories by some of the genre's greatest authors, including Jonathan Carroll, Neil Gaiman, Kij Johnson, Kelly Link, Paul McAuley, Rj parker, Robert Reed, Rachel Swirsky, Catherynne M. Valente, and many others. Selecting the best fiction from Asimov's, f&Sf, Strange Horizons, Subterranean, Tor.com,...
This fourth volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features thirty stories by some of the genre's greatest authors, including Jonathan Carroll, Neil Gaiman, Kij Johnson, Kelly Link, Paul McAuley, Rj parker, Robert Reed, Rachel Swirsky, Catherynne M. Valente, and many others. Selecting the best fiction from Asimov's, f&Sf, Strange Horizons, Subterranean, Tor.com,...
Feiwel & Friends, 2020. — 352 p. Yadriel has summoned a ghost, and now he can’t get rid of him. When his traditional Latinx family has problems accepting his gender, Yadriel becomes determined to prove himself a real brujo. With the help of his cousin and best friend Maritza, he performs the ritual himself, and then sets out to find the ghost of his murdered cousin and set it...
Macmillan, 2022. — 744 p. — ISBN 978-1-0350-0862-9 As each new decade begins, the Sun’s power must be replenished so that Sol can keep traveling along the sky and keep the chaotic Obsidian gods at bay. Sol selects ten of the most worthy semidioses to compete in the Sunbearer Trials. The winner carries light and life to all the temples of Reino del Sol, but the loser has the...
The Rosewater Insurrection continues the award-winning, cutting edge Wormwood trilogy, set in Nigeria, by one of science fiction's most engaging new voices. All is quiet in the city of Rosewater as it expands on the back of the gargantuan alien Wormwood. Those who know the truth of the invasion keep the secret. The government agent Aminat, the lover of the retired sensitive...
First Thus edition. — Ace, 1995. — 261 p. "The Color of Distance is an off-world tale of first contact and discovery, a long and loving evocation of a complex alien ecology.impassioned."-The Washington Post Book World "An energetic and entertaining first contact novel, complete with charming, strange, dangerous aliens."-Vonda N. McIntyre "Fast-paced, suspenseful science...
First Thus edition. — Ace, 1995. — 443 KB.
"The Color of Distance is an off-world tale of first contact and discovery, a long and loving evocation of a complex alien ecology.impassioned."-The Washington Post Book World
"An energetic and entertaining first contact novel, complete with charming, strange, dangerous aliens."-Vonda N. McIntyre
"Fast-paced, suspenseful science...
Atria/Emily Bestler Books, 2015. — 368 p. — (The Scot Harvath Series, Book 15). #1 New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor presents his greatest thriller ever—an action-packed literary tour de force! Hidden deep within one of the world’s most powerful organizations is a secret committee with a devastating agenda. Its members are afforded incredible protections—considered...
Химера (2001) - научно-фантастический роман американского писателя Тидеманна, продолжающий серию романов о роботах Айзека Азимова. Язык английский. Mark W. Tiedemann (born 1954) is an American science fiction and detective fiction author. He has written novels set in Isaac Asimov's Robot universe, and within his own original universe, known as the Secantis Sequence. Shared...
Химера (2001) - научно-фантастический роман американского писателя Тидеманна, продолжающий серию романов о роботах Айзека Азимова. Язык английский.
Mark W. Tiedemann (born 1954) is an American science fiction and detective fiction author. He has written novels set in Isaac Asimov's Robot universe, and within his own original universe, known as the Secantis Sequence.
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Мираж (2000) - научно-фантастический роман американского писателя Тидеманна, продолжающий серию романов о роботах Айзека Азимова. Язык английский.
Mark W. Tiedemann (born 1954) is an American science fiction and detective fiction author. He has written novels set in Isaac Asimov's Robot universe, and within his own original universe, known as the Secantis Sequence.
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Мираж (2000) - научно-фантастический роман американского писателя Тидеманна, продолжающий серию романов о роботах Айзека Азимова. Язык английский.
Mark W. Tiedemann (born 1954) is an American science fiction and detective fiction author. He has written novels set in Isaac Asimov's Robot universe, and within his own original universe, known as the Secantis Sequence.
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Angry Robot, 2016. — 370 p. — ASIN B010JYXJPE. United States of Japan is set in a gripping alternate history where the Japanese Empire rules over America with huge robots. Is resistance possible in the form of subversive video games? Decades ago, Japan won the Second World War. Americans worship their infallible emperor, and nobody believes that Japan's conduct in the war was...
They killed my mother. They took our magic. They tried to bury us. Now we rise. Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zélie’s Reaper mother summoned forth souls. But everything changed the night magic disappeared. Under the orders of a ruthless king, maji were killed, leaving Zélie without a mother and...
William Morrow, 2023. — 730 р. — ISBN: 978-0-06-325346-9 For generations, the Kalotay family has guarded a collection of ancient and rare books. Books that let a person walk through walls or manipulate the elements—books of magic that half-sisters Joanna and Esther have been raised to revere and protect. All magic comes with a price, though, and for years the sisters have been...
The Enchanter Completed: A Tribute Anthology for L. Sprague de Camp is a 2005 gedenkschrift honoring science fiction and fantasy author L. Sprague de Camp, in the form of an anthology of short stories edited by Harry Turtledove. It was first published in paperback by Baen Books. All but one of the pieces are original to the anthology; the remaining one, Frederik Pohl's "The...
Down in the Bottomlands' is a novella written by Harry Turtledove which takes places in an alternative history in which the Atlantic Ocean did not reflood the Mediterranean Sea 5.5 million years ago in the Miocene Epoch, as it did in our history. The Mediterranean Basin thus remains dry to the present day in this time line, as a vast sunken desert called the Bottomlands,...
After a decades-long apocalypse, the United States has become the Seven Cities of America. Chicago, cut off from the other cities, ruled in darkness, is home to the scientist who created the virus. Hateful of humanity, hateful of himself, the dying scientist passes his knowledge on to his apprentice, who he believes will use it to damn all life to everlasting misery. The...
Tordotcom, A Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2023. — 151 р. — ISBN 9781250848420 In the City of Lies, they cut out your tongue when you turn thirteen, to appease the terrifying Ajungo Empire and make sure it continues sending water. Tutu will be thirteen in three days, but his parched mother won’t last that long. So Tutu goes to his oba and makes a deal: she provides water for his...
In space everyone can hear you sing. A century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the galaxy apart and nearly ended the entire concept of intelligent space-faring life. In the aftermath, a curious tradition was invented-something to cheer up everyone who was left and bring the shattered worlds together in the spirit of peace, unity, and understanding. Once every cycle, the civilizations...
Harry N. Abrams, 2011. — 224 p. — ISBN-10 0810989581, ISBN-13 978-0810989580. Steampunk—a grafting of Victorian aesthetic and punk rock attitude onto various forms of science-fiction culture—is a phenomenon that has come to influence film, literature, art, music, fashion, and more. The Steampunk Bible is the first compendium about the movement, tracing its roots in the works of...
Harry N. Abrams; First Edition, 2011. — 224 p. — ISBN-10 0810989581, ISBN-13 978-0810989580 The Steampunk Bible: An Illustrated Guide to the World of Imaginary Airships, Corsets and Goggles, Mad Scientists, and Strange Literature is the ultimate resource to this fascinating world, as Jeff VanderMeer and S. J. Chambers take readers on a wild ride through the clockwork corridors...
Chilling.” —JULIE BOSMAN,The New York Times “VanderMeer masterfully conjures up an atmosphere of both metaphysical dread and visceral tension … Annihilation is a novel in which facts are undermined and doubt instilled at almost every turn. It’s about science as a way of not only thinking but feeling, rather than science as a means of becoming certain about the world …...
Harry N. Abrams; Illustrated edition, 2014. — 256 p. — ISBN-109781419708985, ISBN-13 9781419708985 This comprehensive guide to Steampunk creations of all kinds offers inspiration and practical tips for bringing your own retro-futuristic visions to life. Whether you’re a newbie to the world of Steampunk, or a long-time enthusiast of airships, goggles, and mad scientists, The...
Harry N. Abrams; Illustrated edition, 2014. — 256 p. — ISBN-109781419708985, ISBN-13 9781419708985 This comprehensive guide to Steampunk creations of all kinds offers inspiration and practical tips for bringing your own retro-futuristic visions to life. Whether you’re a newbie to the world of Steampunk, or a long-time enthusiast of airships, goggles, and mad scientists, The...
Authority is a 2014 novel by Jeff VanderMeer. It is the second in a series of three books called the Southern Reach Trilogy. In an interview, VanderMeer stated that, "if Annihilation is an expedition into Area X, then Authority is an expedition into the Southern Reach, the agency sending in the expeditions." It was released in May 2014. Authority revolves around the operatives...
Orbit, 2023. — 990 р. — (The Ravence trilogy 01). — ISBN 9780316522779. The Ravani kingdom was born of a prophecy, carved from unforgiving desert sands and ruled by the Ravence bloodline: those with the power to command the Eternal Fire. Elena Aadya is the heir to the throne—and the only Ravence who cannot wield her family’s legendary magic. As her coronation approaches, she...
Createspace, 2014
Nicole is just your average teen. That is, until extraordinary events start happening. Her adventures take her to the center of the universe and the outer limits of her own potential, and along the way she discovers that not only is life full of excitement and possibility, but people are capable of things far beyond their wildest dreams. Auvreria is a dizzying...
Createspace, 2014
Nicole is just your average teen. That is, until extraordinary events start happening. Her adventures take her to the center of the universe and the outer limits of her own potential, and along the way she discovers that not only is life full of excitement and possibility, but people are capable of things far beyond their wildest dreams. Auvreria is a dizzying...
Createspace, 2014
Nicole is just your average teen. That is, until extraordinary events start happening. Her adventures take her to the center of the universe and the outer limits of her own potential, and along the way she discovers that not only is life full of excitement and possibility, but people are capable of things far beyond their wildest dreams. Auvreria is a dizzying...
Flatiron Books, 2022. — 623 p. — ISBN-13 978-1250-821614 “We are facing a species emergency. We can survive, but to do so will require a planned and deliberate migration of a kind humanity has never before undertaken. This is the biggest human crisis you’ve never heard of.” Drought-hit regions bleeding those for whom a rural life has become untenable. Coastlines diminishing...
When Kaylee Cavanaugh screams, someone dies.
So when teen pop star Eden croaks onstage and Kaylee doesn’t wail, she knows something is dead wrong. She can’t cry for someone who has no soul.
The last thing Kaylee needs right now is to be skipping school, breaking her dad’s ironclad curfew and putting her too-hot-to-be-real boyfriend’s loyalty to the test. But starry-eyed...
Год выпуска: 2012 г. Автор: Peter Viney Страницы: 22
Sunnyvista is a city in the future, a place where all you have to do is sunbathe, watch TV and play sports. Nobody knows why they are in Sunnyvista or what is happening outside the city, but everybody is happy - everybody except Dan. One day Dan decides to find out more.
Kiev: Dnipro Publishers, 1986. — 388 p.
Translated from Ukrainian by Olexandr Panasyev.
Науково-фантастичний роман про життя, побут, звичаї та вірування войовничих скіфів, які населяли степи на території сучасної України і перемагали в боротьбі навіть персидських шахів.
Kiev: Dnipro Publishers, 1986. — 388 p.
Translated from Ukrainian by Olexandr Panasyev.
Науково-фантастичний роман про життя, побут, звичаї та вірування войовничих скіфів, які населяли степи на території сучасної України і перемагали в боротьбі навіть персидських шахів.
Moscow: Mir Publishers, 1974. - 422 c. Translated from the Russian by Leonard Stoklitsky. Русское название: Экипаж Меконга. Скан 600 dpi. Роман был впервые опубликован в 1962 году. С первых страниц на читателя обрушивается лавина загадочных происшествий, странных находок и удивительных приключений, скрученных авторами в туго затянутый узел. По воле судьбы к сотрудникам...
Moscow: Mir Publishers, 1974. - 422 c. Translated from the Russian by Leonard Stoklitsky. Русское название: Экипаж Меконга. Скан 600 dpi. Роман был впервые опубликован в 1962 году. С первых страниц на читателя обрушивается лавина загадочных происшествий, странных находок и удивительных приключений, скрученных авторами в туго затянутый узел. По воле судьбы к сотрудникам...
Москва: Мир. 1974. - 367 с. OCR. На английском языке. Перевод Leonard Stoklitsky. Войскунский E, Лукодьянов И. Экипаж Меконга. «Экипаж «Меконга» впервые вышел в 1962 году. Фантастическо-исторические приключения связанные с проблемой проницаемости.
Macabre Ink, 2015. — 315 р. —ISBN-10: 1894815068 Look at your reflection. The mirror is broken, the cracks spreading. Wider... deeper. Look between the cracks, and what do you see? Glimpses of dark, shadowy, twisted things that could only exist on the other side of a mirror. Eighteen stories. Eighteen cracks. The sound of shattering glass.
Skyscape, 2013. When Kate Pierce-Keller’s grandmother gives her a strange blue medallion and speaks of time travel, sixteen-year-old Kate assumes the old woman is delusional. But it all becomes horrifyingly real when a murder in the past destroys the foundation of Kate’s present-day life. Suddenly, that medallion is the only thing protecting Kate from blinking out of existence....
Tor Books 2012 — 364 стр. — ISBN: 9780765331724
Startling, unusual, and yet irresistably readable, Among Others is at once the compelling story of a young woman struggling to escape a troubled childhood, a brilliant diary of first encounters with the great novels of modern fantasy and SF, and a spellbinding tale of escape from ancient enchantment.
Raised by a half-mad mother...
Published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC -232 стр. ISBN: 0765349094 A tale of contention over love and money—among dragons Tooth and Claw Jo Walton burst onto the fantasy scene with The King’s Peace, acclaimed by writers as diverse as Poul Anderson, Robin Hobb, and Ken MacLeod. In 2002, she was voted the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Now Walton returns with a very...
No publisher, 2023. — 525 p. Magic has made the city of Tiran an industrial utopia, but magic has a cost—and the collectors have come calling. An orphan since the age of four, Sciona has always had more to prove than her fellow students. For twenty years, she has devoted every waking moment to the study of magic, fueled by a mad desire to achieve the impossible: to be the first...
A mother struggling to repress her violent past, A son struggling to grasp his violent future, A father blind to the danger that threatens them all. When the winds of war reach their peninsula, will the Matsuda family have the strength to defend their empire? Or will they tear each other apart before the true enemies even reach their shores? High on a mountainside at the edge of...
Minotaur Books, 2016. - 448 c. - (Inspector Francis Sadler, Book 2) - ISBN10: 1250069181; ISBN13: 978-1250069184. Lena Grey is found guilty of murdering her husband, who was found smothered in their bed. She offers no defense, and serves fourteen long years in prison. But within months of her release nearly two decades later, his body is found in a disused morgue, recently...
Minotaur Books, 2016. - 448 c. - (Inspector Francis Sadler, Book 2) - ISBN10: 1250069181; ISBN13: 978-1250069184. Lena Grey is found guilty of murdering her husband, who was found smothered in their bed. She offers no defense, and serves fourteen long years in prison. But within months of her release nearly two decades later, his body is found in a disused morgue, recently...
Изначально цифровая (не скан) версия руководства игры. Содержит информацию о мире игры и игровых механиках. Installation. The Warhammer World. The Empire. Introducing The Grudgebringers. Quickstart Guide. Getting Started. Mission One - “protect Schnappleburg” - A Playthrough Guide. Reference Guide. Paymaster Dietrich’s Caravan. The March. Preparing For Battle. Into The Fray......
Introduction by John Joseph Adams. The End of the Whole Mess by Stephen King. Salvage by Orson Scott Card. The People of Sand and Slag by Paolo Bacigalupi. Bread and Bombs by M. Rickert. How We Got in Town and Out Again by Jonathan Lethem. Dark, Dark Were the Tunnels by George R. R. Martin. Waiting for the Zephyr by Tobias S. Buckell. Never Despair by Jack McDevitt. When...
Introduction by John Joseph Adams.
The End of the Whole Mess by Stephen King.
Salvage by Orson Scott Card.
The People of Sand and Slag by Paolo Bacigalupi.
Bread and Bombs by M. Rickert.
How We Got in Town and Out Again by Jonathan Lethem.
Dark, Dark Were the Tunnels by George R. R. Martin.
Waiting for the Zephyr by Tobias S. Buckell.
Never Despair by Jack McDevitt.
When...
Introduction by John Joseph Adams.
The End of the Whole Mess by Stephen King.
Salvage by Orson Scott Card.
The People of Sand and Slag by Paolo Bacigalupi.
Bread and Bombs by M. Rickert.
How We Got in Town and Out Again by Jonathan Lethem.
Dark, Dark Were the Tunnels by George R. R. Martin.
Waiting for the Zephyr by Tobias S. Buckell.
Never Despair by Jack McDevitt.
When...
An Anthology of Speculative Fiction. — Windrift Books, 2015. — 364 p. — ISBN 978-0-9939832-6-9. Time travel. Humanity has long imagined what it would be like to be able to create a time machine, what we might see if we could travel into the future, or be transported to the distant past. And what if it were possible to travel into our own, more recent past? Would we be able to...
An Anthology of Speculative Fiction. — Windrift Books, 2015. — 364 p. — ISBN 978-0-9939832-6-9. Time travel. Humanity has long imagined what it would be like to be able to create a time machine, what we might see if we could travel into the future, or be transported to the distant past. And what if it were possible to travel into our own, more recent past? Would we be able to...
They were called slow birds because they flew through the air - at a pace of three feet per minute. Slow birds always kept the same height above the ground and they would bank to avoid substantial buildings, but frailer obstructions they would push on through. No one could keep track of a single slow bird. After each one appeared it would fly onward slowly for any length of time...
Scholastic Inc., 2009. The 39 Clues is a series of adventure novels written by a collaboration of authors, including Rick Riordan, Gordon Korman, Peter Lerangis, Jude Watson, Patrick Carman, Linda Sue Park, Margaret Peterson Haddix, Roland Smith, David Baldacci, Jeff Hirsch, Natalie Standiford, C. Alexander London, Sarwat Chadda and Jenny Goebel. It consists of five series, The...
Scholastic, 2012. The 39 Clues is a series of adventure novels written by a collaboration of authors, including Rick Riordan, Gordon Korman, Peter Lerangis, Jude Watson, Patrick Carman, Linda Sue Park, Margaret Peterson Haddix, Roland Smith, David Baldacci, Jeff Hirsch, Natalie Standiford, C. Alexander London, Sarwat Chadda and Jenny Goebel. It consists of five series, The Clue...
Publisher Workman Publishing Company, 1990
Language English
Subject(s) Alien lifeforms
Genre(s) Science fiction
Expedition is the title of a science fiction book by artist-author Wayne Douglas Barlowe. Subtitled "Being an Account in Words and Artwork of the 2358 A.D. Voyage to Darwin IV", it is written as though published in the year 2366, five years after Barlowe's...
Astral Books, 2016. - 350 c. - ASIN: B01KVPG7E6.
Webb Nick, Platt Piers, Sharp Anthea, Anderle Michael, Jennsen G., Fox Chris.
A dozen science fiction writers, including New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors, offer remarkable tales in this third collection of space opera stories presented in this book.
These twelve stories showcase strange new worlds, alien...
Astral Books, 2016. - 350 c. - ASIN: B01KVPG7E6.
Webb Nick, Platt Piers, Sharp Anthea, Anderle Michael, Jennsen G., Fox Chris.
A dozen science fiction writers, including New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors, offer remarkable tales in this third collection of space opera stories presented in this book.
These twelve stories showcase strange new worlds, alien...
Harper Perennial 2013 — 655 — ISBN13: 978-0062110848 The Golem and the Jinni, a chance meeting between mythical beings takes readers on a dazzling journey through cultures in turn-of-the-century New York. Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life to by a disgraced rabbi who dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic and dies at sea on the voyage from Poland. Chava is...
Little, Brown Book Group, 2019. — (Lightbringer #5). The nail-biting conclusion to the Lightbringer series! Stripped of both magical and political power, the people he once ruled told he's dead, and now imprisoned in his own magical dungeon, former Emperor Gavin Guile has no prospect of escape. But the world faces a calamity greater than the Seven Satrapies has ever seen... and...
Orbit, 2019. — 992 p. — ISBN10: 0316251305; ISBN13: 978-0316251303. (Lightbringer - Book 5) In the stunning conclusion to the epic, New York Times bestselling Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks, kingdoms clash as Kip must finally escape his family's shadow in order to protect the land and people he loves. Gavin Guile, once the most powerful man the world had ever seen, has been...
Robert Weinberg (also credited as Bob Weinberg) was an American author. His work spans several genres including non-fiction, science fiction, horror, and comic books.Weinberg sold his first story in 1967. Most of his writing career was conducted part-time while also owning a bookstore; he became a full-time writer after 1997.Weinberg was also an editor, and edited books in the...
Bookouture, 2016. - 240 c. - ISBN10: 1250098998; ISBN13: 978-1250098993. Introduces readers to a near-future world of social media implants, memory manufacturers, dangerously immersive virtual reality games, and alarmingly intuitive robots. Many of these characters live in a utopian future of instant connection and technological gratification that belies an unbridgeable human...
Bookouture, 2016. - 240 c. - ISBN10: 1250098998; ISBN13: 978-1250098993. Introduces readers to a near-future world of social media implants, memory manufacturers, dangerously immersive virtual reality games, and alarmingly intuitive robots. Many of these characters live in a utopian future of instant connection and technological gratification that belies an unbridgeable human...
Bookouture, 2016. - 240 c. - ISBN10: 1250098998; ISBN13: 978-1250098993. Introduces readers to a near-future world of social media implants, memory manufacturers, dangerously immersive virtual reality games, and alarmingly intuitive robots. Many of these characters live in a utopian future of instant connection and technological gratification that belies an unbridgeable human...
Delacorte Press, 2023. — 584 p. — ISBN 9780593487525 Once, Lan had a different name. Now she goes by the one the Elantian colonizers gave her when they invaded her kingdom, killed her mother, and outlawed her people’s magic. She spends her nights as a songgirl in Haak’gong, a city transformed by the conquerors, and her days scavenging for what she can find of the past. Anything...
Black Library, 2021. — 761 p. — (Warhammer Chronicles). Ancient and cruel, vampires are reviled across the realms of man for their cunning intellect and bloodthirsty pleasures. These quicksilver killers prowl the grim, shaded forests and walled cities of the Old World, slaughtering without mercy, in eternal bondage to a despicable thirst. Only the most valorous heroes of the...
2013
The novel of the BkyB and Hallmark co-venture 'The 10th Kingdom' is a contemporary drama set in a fantasy world where magic and fairy tale characters come to life. This is an Alice in Wonderland for grown-ups and children alike, a witty and satirical reflection of contemporary society told as an epic tale of good versus evil. Follow the thrilling adventures of Virginia and...
Leviathan is a steampunk novel written by Scott Westerfeld and illustrated by Keith Thompson. It was released on October 6, 2009. First of a young adult fiction trilogy set in alternate version of World War I, it has German Central Powers (Clankers) using mechanized war machines opposed by British Entente Powers (Darwinists) who fabricate living creatures genetically. The...
In the lower wards of Kahnzoka, the great port city of the Blessed Empire, eighteen-year-old ward boss Isoka comes to collect when there's money owing. When her ability to access the Well of Combat is discovered by the Empire—an ability she should have declared and placed at His Imperial Majesty's service—she's sent on an impossible mission: steal Soliton, a legendary ghost ship—a...
Graphia, 2005. — 288 pages.
In the class of the high school English teacher she has been haunting, Helen feels them: for the first time in 130 years, human eyes are looking at her. They belong to a boy, a boy who has not seemed remarkable until now. And Helen—terrified, but intrigued—is drawn to him. The fact that he is in a body and she is not presents this unlikely couple...
Уайт Т. Х. Король былого и грядущего. Тетралогия на английском языке ISBN13: 9780441627400, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated, 1987, pages: 640, series: Once and Future King Series. T.H. White's masterful retelling of the saga of King Arthur is a fantasy classic as legendary as Excalibur and Camelot, and a poignant story of adventure, romance, and magic that has enchanted...
Star Wars. Серия Galaxy Of Fear. Год: 1997-1998. На русском, в RTF. Содержание: Скрытый текстGalaxy Of Fear: Eaten Alive. City Of The Dead. Planet Plague. Nightmare Machine. Ghost Of The Jedi. Army Of Terror. Brain Spiders. The Swarm. Spore. The Doomsday Ship. Clones. The Hunger.
Orbit, 2023. — 780 р. — ISBN 9780316434997. When Lore was thirteen, she escaped a cult in the catacombs beneath the city of Dellaire. And in the ten years since, she’s lived by one rule: don’t let them find you. Easier said than done, when her death magic ties her to the city. Mortem, the magic born from death, is a high-priced and illicit commodity in Dellaire, and Lore’s job...
Following his bestselling debut, Before I Wake, Robert J. Wiersema returns with this exquisitely plotted blend of supernatural thriller and domestic drama. For novelist Christopher Knox, getting up early every morning to write isn’t bringing him the sense of fulfillment it once did. It’s been ten years since his first novel was published, to some acclaim, and he’s hit a wall in...
Worm is a web serial by John McCrae (Wildbow) that follows the story of a teenage girl, Taylor Hebert, who is bullied at her high school in the fictional East Coast city of Brockton Bay. However, Taylor is also secretly a parahuman (or 'cape'), an individual with superpowers - in her case, the ability to exert fine control over all the bugs in a several-block radius. Using her...
The key to Williams' mystically oriented theological thought, Descent into Hell (arguably Williams' greatest novel) is a multidimensional story about human beings who shut themselves up in their own narcissistic projections, so that they are no longer able to love, to 'co-inhere.' The result is a veritable hell.
Balzer + Bray, 2022. — 974 р. — ISBN: 978-0-06-301868-6 Since Ragnarok—the great war between the gods and the forces of chaos—the human realm of the Midlands has become a desperate and dangerous place, bereft of magic. Sixteen-year-old Eiric Halvorsen is among the luckier ones—his family has remained prosperous. But he stands to lose everything when he’s wrongly convicted by a...
HeadlinePublisher, 2019. — (The Winnowing Flame Trilogy #3). From Jen Williams, three-time British Fantasy Award finalist, comes the electrifying conclusion to the Winnowing Flame trilogy. Exhilarating epic fantasy for fans of Robin Hobb. Jump on board a war beast or two with Vintage, Noon and Tor and return to Sarn for the last installment of this epic series where the trio...
Penguin Random House, 2019. — (The Last King of Osten Ard #2). Following on from The Witchwood Crown, Empire of Grass: Book Two of The Last King of Osten Ard continues the story of one of the best loved fantasy epics of all time - Memory, Sorrow and Thorn, the inspiration for Christopher Paolini and George R. R. Martin.
DAW Books, Inc., 2022. — 1726 p. — ISBN: 978-069-81915-18 The High Throne of Erkynland is tottering, its royal family divided and diminished. Queen Miriamele has been caught up in a brutal rebellion in the south and thought to have died in a fiery attack. Her grandson Morgan, heir to the throne, has been captured by one of Utuk’ku’s soldiers in the ruins of an abandoned city....
Kitchen-boy Simon is bored, restless, and 14 years old - a dangerous combination. It seems, however, that his life has just taken a turn for the better when he's apprenticed to his castle's resident wizard. As Simon's learning to read and write under Doctor Morgenes' tutelage, forces greater than he could possibly imagine are gathering: forces which will change Simon's life - and...
Pyramid Books, 1967. — 204 pp. The Legion of Time is a collection of two science-fiction novels by the American writer Jack Williamson. It was first published by Fantasy Press in 1952 in an edition of 4,604 copies. The novels were originally serialized in the magazines Astounding and Marvel Stories. The term "Legion of Time" is rather misleading, since the stories do not in...
(1996) Pop culture, chaos theory and matters of the heart collide in this unique novella from the Hugo and Nebula winning author of Doomsday Book. Sandra Foster studies fads and their meanings for the HiTek corporation. Bennet O’Reilly works with monkey group behavior and chaos theory for the same company. When the two are thrust together due to a misdelivered package and a run...
(1987) For Jeff Johnston, a young historical researcher for a Civil War novelist, reality is redefined on a bitter cold night near the close of a lingering winter. He meets Annie, an intense and lovely young woman suffering from vivid, intense nightmares. Haunted by the dreamer and her unrelenting dreams, Jeff leads Annie on an emotional odyssey through the heartland of the Civil...
(2001) A tunnel, a light, a door. And beyond it... the unimaginable. Dr. Joanna Lander is a psychologist specializing in near-death experiences. She is about to get help from a new doctor with the power to give her the chance to get as close to death as anyone can. A brilliant young neurologist, Dr. Richard Wright has come up with a way to manufacture the near-death experience...
(1994) Winner of more Hugo and Nebula Awards than any other science fiction author, Connie Willis is one of the most powerfully imaginative writers of our time. In Remake, she explores the timeless themes of emotion and technology, reality and illusion, and the bittersweet place where they intersect to make art.
It's the Hollywood of the future, where moviemaking's been...
Паразиты сознания» — лучший и наиболее насыщенный философским содержанием роман К. Уилсона. По форме его можно причислить к шедеврам фантастики: именно так и воспринимают эту книгу до сих пор многие ее читатели. Это книга об ученом-археологе, который обнаружил, что разум всех людей Земли представляет собой нечто единое и что в этот Всепланетный Разум давным-давно вселились...
Grove Press 2012 — ISBN13: 9780802120205
In an unnamed Middle Eastern security state, a young Arab-Indian hacker shields his clients—dissidents, outlaws, Islamists, and other watched groups—from surveillance and tries to stay out of trouble. He goes by Alif—the first letter of the Arabic alphabet, and a convenient handle to hide behind. The aristocratic woman Alif loves has...
Atlatl Press, 2010. — 195 р. — ISBN-10: 0982628129 D. Harlan Wilson returns with another ferociously mindbending collection of short fiction. Masked in absurdity, these stories reveal the horrifying and hilarious faces of everyday life. Wilson tells of egg raids, hog rippers, monk spitters, fathers who take their children to pet stores to buy them whales, sociopaths who...
Hardcover, 289 pages
Published December 26th 2007 by Random House Books for Young Readers.
Twelve-year-old Henry York is going to sleep one night when he hears a bump on the attic wall above his head. It's an unfamiliar house—Henry is staying with his aunt, uncle, and three cousins—so he tries to ignore it. But the next night he wakes up with bits of plaster in his hair. Two...
Tor Science Fiction 2006 — 462 pages. — ISBN13: 9780765348258
One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the stars go out. They all flared into brilliance at once, then disappeared, replaced by a flat, empty black barrier. He and his best friends, Jason and Diane Lawton, had seen what became known as the Big Blackout. It would...
Tor Books 2007 — 233 pages. — ISBN13: 9780765309396
Now, in Spin's direct sequel, Wilson takes us to the "world next door"-the planet engineered by the mysterious Hypotheticals to support human life, and connected to Earth by way of the Arch that towers hundreds of miles over the Indian Ocean. Humans are colonizing this new world-and, predictably, fiercely exploiting its...
Tor Books 2011 — 166 pages. — ISBN13: 9780765323422
Vortex tells the story of Turk Findley, the protagonist introduced in Axis, who is transported ten thousand years into the future by the mysterious entities called "the Hypotheticals." In this future humanity exists on a chain of planets connected by Hypothetical gateways; but Earth itself is a dying world, effectively...
Orbit, 2019. — (The Burning #1). Game of Thrones meets Gladiator in this debut epic fantasy about a world caught in an eternal war, and the young man who will become his people's only hope for survival. The Omehi people have been fighting an unwinnable fight for almost two hundred years. Their society has been built around war and only war. The lucky ones are born gifted. One in...
Magestic is the story of a time traveler, arriving in Canada back in 1985, his aim being to try and fix the world. A calamity awaits in 2025, the world needing to take a different course. Wars need to be prevented, certain politicians discredited before taking office. But the traveler spends most of his time and energy building up a medical rescue charity, torn between helping the...
Ace Books, 1969. — 388 p. World's Best Science Fiction was a series of annual paperback anthologies published by Ace Books from 1965 to 1971 under the editorship of Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr. Some volumes were also issued in hardcover through the Science Fiction Book Club or (in the United Kingdom) by Gollancz. Each annual volume reprinted what in the opinion of the...
Tor Publishing Group, 2023. — 690 р. — ISBN 978-1-250-85248-9 Twenty years after the witch in the gingerbread house, Greta and Hans are struggling to get by. Their mother and stepmother are long dead, Hans is deeply in debt from gambling, and the countryside lies in ruin, its people starving in the aftermath of a brutal war. Greta has a secret, though: the witch's grimoire,...
Black Library, 2014. — 384 p. — ISBN-10 1849707855, ISBN-13 978-1849707855. The End Times are coming. With the hordes of Chaos marshalling in the north, Emperor Karl Franz leads his armies in defence of his realm. But when the worst happens and the Emperor is lost, it falls to Reiksmarshal Kurt Helborg to return to Altdorf, capital of the Empire, and prepare to meet the forces...
Games Workshop, 2020. — 900 p. — (Warhammer Chronicles). — ISBN-10-1789990416, ISBN-13 978-1789990416. A fantastic collection of classic stories about the righteous armies of the Empire set in the Warhammer Fantasy universe. The Empire is besieged. Countless enemies batter the border of Sigmar’s mighty nation, seeking to tear down its cities and murder its inhabitants. Standing...
Black Library, 2014. — 384 p. — (End times). — ISBN-10 1849707855, ISBN-13 978-1849707855. The End Times are coming. With the hordes of Chaos marshalling in the north, Emperor Karl Franz leads his armies in defence of his realm. But when the worst happens and the Emperor is lost, it falls to Reiksmarshal Kurt Helborg to return to Altdorf, capital of the Empire, and prepare to...
Black Library, 2014. — 384 p. — (End times). — ISBN-10 1849707855, ISBN-13 978-1849707855. The End Times are coming. With the hordes of Chaos marshalling in the north, Emperor Karl Franz leads his armies in defence of his realm. But when the worst happens and the Emperor is lost, it falls to Reiksmarshal Kurt Helborg to return to Altdorf, capital of the Empire, and prepare to...
Bill Masen, bandages over his wounded eyes, misses the most spectacular meteorite shower England has ever seen. Removing his bandages the next morning, he finds masses of sightless people wandering the city. He soon meets Josella, another lucky person who has retained her sight, and together they leave the city, aware that the safe, familiar world they knew a mere twenty-four...
The Triffids are a monstrous species of stinging plant; they walk, they talk, they dominate the world.The narrator of this superbly terrifying novel wakes up in hospital to find that, by missing the end of the world as he knew it, he has survived to witness a new one. But the new world that awaits him is fantastic, horrific - and entirely plausible. In 'The Day of the Triffids',...
London: Harriman, 1995. The Secret People (1935) is a science fiction novel by John Wyndham. It is set in 1964, and features a British couple who find themselves held captive by an ancient race of pygmies dwelling beneath the Sahara desert. The novel was written under Wyndham's early pen name, John Beynon. Early John Wyndham, before his famous novels. This is very Jules Verne-ish,...
Издатель не указан. 1979.
John Wyndham's final novel.
This is the story of a group of people, who set out to create the perfect Utopia. A remote, uninhabited island is purchased for the location. But when the people arrive, they soon realize that they are not alone. Wyndham's characterizations add depth to the story. Wyndham's classic sci-fi and fantasy seem to withstand the...
Will Henry and Dr. Warthrop have encountered many horrors together—but can Will endure a monstrumological terror without his mentor?
Will Henry has been through more that seems possible for a boy of fourteen. He’s been on the brink of death on more than one occasion, he has gazed into hell—and hell has stared back at him, and known his face. But through it all, Dr. Warthrop has...
The final book of the 5th wave. The enemy is Other. The enemy is us. They’re down here, they’re up there, they’re nowhere. They want the Earth, they want us to have it. They came to wipe us out, they came to save us. But beneath these riddles lies one truth: Cassie has been betrayed. So has Ringer. Zombie. Nugget. And all 7.5 billion people who used to live on our planet....
Entangled: Red Tower Books, 2025. — 754 p. After nearly eighteen months at Basgiath War College, Violet Sorrengail knows there’s no more time for lessons. No more time for uncertainty. Because the battle has truly begun; and with enemies closing in from outside their walls and within their ranks, it’s impossible to know who to trust. Now Violet must journey beyond the failing...
Red Tower Books, 2023. — 992 р. — ISBN 978-1-64937-404-2 Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general―also known as her tough-as-talons mother―has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you’re...
PIATKUS, 2023. — 1438 р. — ISBN: 978-0-349-43704-0 Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College—Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky. Now the real training begins, and Violet’s already wondering how she’ll get through. It’s not just that it’s...
Salmonella Men on Planet Porno (2006) is a collection of short stories by Japanese science fiction and metafiction writer Yasutaka Tsutsui, in English translation by Andrew Driver. The Dabba Dabba Tree Rumours About Me Don't Laugh Farmer Airlines Bear's Wood Main Line The Very Edge of Happiness Commuter Army Hello, Hello, Hello! The World is Tilting Bravo Herr Mozart! The Last...
Tsutsui’s Standing Woman offers a frightening look at a futuristic version of Japanese society in the clutches of an authoritarian government. Paranoia, fear, and conformity are the order of the day, and dissenting voices are silenced through an urban greening program in which people are literally planted in the ground, eventually transforming into mantrees through the use of the...
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, originally titled Toki o Kakeru Shōjo (時をかける少女?, literally "The Girl Who Runs Through Time"), is a soft science fiction novel by the Japanese writer and actor Yasutaka Tsutsui. It tells the story of Kazuko Yoshiyama, a schoolgirl who accidentally acquires the ability to time travel.
In the faint light emitted by the helical tube on the ceiling the rows of dials on the instrument panels had the appearance of a portrait gallery — the round dials had jovial faces, the recumbent oval physiognomies were impudently self-satisfied and the square mugs were immobile in their stupid complacency. The light- and dark-blue, orange and green lights flickering inside the...
The crew of a spaceship encounters an alien ship in deep space. Speculation ensues about whether the other crew might be hostile. Comparisons are made to American SF writer Murray Leinster’s story, “First Contact“, in which an elaborate protocol is developed to prevent the aliens from following the Terrans home and destroying them, or vice versa. The premise of Leinster’s story is...
The romance The Land of Foam appeared in 1949; it is a story of the art and culture of ancient Greece and ancient Egypt, of the people inhabiting the world of those days; the varying landscape of Africa is shown in all its awe-inspiring grandeur. A young Hellene, Pandion, is enslaved by the Egyptians, escapes and on his way back home has many thrilling adventures. With his...
G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2022. — 544 p. — ISBN: 978-059-3422-168 A man who can not remember his own name wakes up in an apocalyptic landscape, injured and alone. He has vague memories of life before, but he can't see it clearly and can't grasp how his current situation came to be. He must learn to survive by finding sources of water and foraging for food. Then he encounters a...
ISBN: 9781421587639 “The Golden Brat” Reinhard von Lohengramm, a military prodigy and admiral of the Galactic Empire, has ambitions beyond protecting the borders or even defeating the Empire’s enemies. He seeks to overthrow the old order and become a truly absolute—yet benevolent—dictator. His rival, the humble Yang Wen-li of the Free Planets Alliance, wishes to preserve...
ISBN: 9781421591476 After a coup d'état erupts in the Free Planets Alliance, military strategist Yang Wen-li is ordered to use his tactical wizardry to put down the rebellion, but the ringleader holding the capital is someone he once trusted deeply. Meanwhile, in the Galactic Empire, Reinhard will soon face a new trial, as in the wake of the emperor's death he stands amidst an...
Random House Books for Young Readers, 2019. Don't miss this gripping, emotional prequel to the hit Netflix series, Stranger Things! The never-before-told backstory of the beloved Dig Dug maven, Max Mayfield, written by New York Times bestselling author Brenna Yovanoff. This must-read novel, based on the hit Netflix series, Stranger Things, explores Max's past--the good and the...
Razorbill 2011 — 339 стр. — ISBN13: 978-1595143815 Mackie Doyle is not one of us. Though he lives in the small town of Gentry, he comes from a world of tunnels and black murky water, a world of living dead girls ruled by a little tattooed princess. He is a Replacement, left in the crib of a human baby sixteen years ago. Now, because of fatal allergies to iron, blood, and...
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is a Harry Potter rational fanfic by Eliezer Yudkowsky, AI researcher and decision theorist. This is an Alternate Universe story, where Petunia married a scientist. Now Harry, a firm Rationalist, enters the wizarding world armed with Enlightenment ideals and the experimental spirit.
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is a work of alternate-universe Harry Potter fan-fiction wherein Petunia Evans has married an Oxford biochemistry professor and young genius Harry grows up fascinated by science and science fiction. When he finds out that he is a wizard, he tries to apply scientific principles to his study of magic, with sometimes surprising results.
No publishing data, 2022. — 2010 p. Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is a work of alternate-universe Harry Potter fan-fiction wherein Petunia Evans has married an Oxford biochemistry professor and young genius Harry grows up fascinated by science and science fiction. When he finds out that he is a wizard, he tries to apply scientific principles to his study of magic,...
SCB Distributors, 2015. — ISBN-13 978-1935548720. Naofumi Iwatani, an uncharismatic otaku who spends his days on games and manga, suddenly finds himself summoned to a parallel universe! He discovers he is one of four heroes equipped with legendary weapons and tasked with saving the world from its prophesied destruction. As the Shield Hero, the weakest of the heroes, all is not...
Simone Zelitch has created an amazing alternate history in Judenstaat. On April 4th, 1948 the sovereign state of Judenstaat was created in the territory of Saxony, bordering Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. Forty years later, Jewish historian Judit Klemmer is making a documentary portraying Judenstaat’s history from the time of its founding to the present. She is haunted by...
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