После прочтения рукописи этой книги я неделю не мог спокойно спать. И дело не в ночных кошмарах, а в том потрясении, которое я испытал буквально с первых глав этого исследования. Вот почему я советую вам, дорогие читатели, прежде чем раскрыть эту книгу, подумать: нужны ли вам дополнительные стрессы, ибо после прочтения «Hаших предков» вы станете совершенно другим человеком.

Ebenso wie seine Romane bürgen auch die Kurzgeschichten des Meisters hautnahen Horrors für Schreckensqualitäten vom Feinsten. Namenlose Kreaturen, mörderische Ratten, mysteriöse Erscheinungen halten Einzug in die geheimsten Winkel unseres Nervensystems ...

Das Buch

Dean Koontz gilt als Meister hautnahen Horrors, und er versäumt es auch in seinen schaudererregenden Kurzgeschichten nicht, den Leser in eine eiskalte Welt puren Entsetzens zu entführen.

Namenlose Kreaturen, die einem notorischen Dieb das Fürchten lehren, mörderische Ratten, entkommen aus einem Versuchslabor, und Wesen aus anderen Welten erschüttern unser Vertrauen in das Erdendasein nachhaltig ...

Der Autor

Dean Koontz, 1946 in Bedford/Pennsylvania geboren, besuchte das Shippensburg State College und nahm 1966 eine Lehrerstelle in Appalachia an. Wenig später heiratete er und veröffentlichte seinen ersten Roman und einige Kurzgeschichten. 1976 zog er mit seiner Familie nach Orange County/Kalifornien. In mehr als 20 Jahren schrieb Koontz 55 Bücher, die in einer Weltauflage von 60 Millionen Exemplaren in 18 Ländern verbreitet ist.

Titel der Originalausgabe STRANGE HIGHWAYS STORY COLLECTION

…Vào một buổi sáng thứ ba xám xịt âm u, ông bà Dursley thức dậy, chẳng hề cảm thấy chút gì rằng bầu trời đầy mây kia đang báo hiệu những điều lạ lùng bí ẩn sắp xảy ra trên cả nước Anh. Ông Dursley ậm ừ khi chọn cái cà-vạt chán nhất thế giới để đeo vô cổ đi làm. Bà Dursley thì lách chách nói trong lúc vật lộn với cậu quí tử Dudley đang gào khóc vùng vẫy, không chịu ngồi ăn sáng tử tế. Không một ai để ý đến một con cú to và đen thui bay xẹt qua cửa sổ.

Tám giờ rưỡi, ông Dursley xách cặp, hửi cổ bà Dursley một cái và cố hôn cậu quí tử trước khi đi làm. Nhưng cậu Dudley đang chơi trò đánh trống thổi kèn, phun phèo phèo thức ăn và vung vãi mọi thứ tứ tung, kể cả cái hôn của cha. Ông Dursley vừa cười khoái chí: "Thằng chó con!", vừa đi ra khỏi nhà. Ông lên xe, lái ra khỏi ngôi nhà số 4 của mình.

Chính ở ngay góc đường, ông nhận thấy dấu hiệu đầu tiên của chuyện lạ: Một con mèo xem bản đồ. Thoạt tiên, ông Dursley không nhận ra đó là chuyện kỳ quái. Thế rồi ông giật mình quay lại nhìn lần nữa. Có một con mèo khoang đứng ở góc đường Privet Drive, nhưng bây giờ chẳng có tấm bản đồ nào cả! Chẳng lẽ chuyện đó là do ông tưởng tượng ra ư? Hay ánh sáng đã làm ông lóa mắt? Ông Dursley chớp chớp mắt rồi chăm chú nhìn con mèo. Nó cũng nhìn lại ông.

Ông lái xe vòng qua góc đường, đi tiếp, và tiếp tục nhìn con mèo qua kính chiếu hậu. Nó lúc ấy đang đọc bảng tên đường Privet Drive - À không, ngó bảng tên đường chứ, mèo đâu có thể đọc bảng tên đường hay xem bản đồ! Ông Dursley lắc lắc đầu…

When a new hellbreed comes calling, playing nice isn't an option. Jill Kismet has no choice but to seek treacherous allies—Perry, the devil she knows, and Melisande Belisa, the cunning Sorrows temptress whose true loyalties are unknown.

Kismet knows Perry and Belisa are likely playing for the same thing—her soul. It's just too bad, because she expects to beat them at their own game. Except their game is vengeance.

Nobody plays vengeance like Kismet. But if the revenge she seeks damns her, her enemies might get her soul after all...

Everybody knows there’s no love lost between paranormal investigators Amanda LaGrange and sexy Jacob Caine. They can’t even stand being in the same room together….

Well, unless it’s an enchanted bedroom.

And they’re trapped there, at midnight.

And the sexual tension suddenly becomes too powerful to resist…

Then that bedroom gets really hot, really fast! But come morning, they still can’t keep their hands off each other. Are they cursed forever? If so, neither one’s complaining?.

DŽONS Ronalds RŪels Tolkiens

HOBITS JEB TURP un ATPAKAĻ

NO ANGĻU VALODAS TULKOJUSI ZANE ROZENBERGA

MĀKSLINIECE LAIMA EGLĪTE

RĪGA «SPRĪDĪTIS1991

 Zane Rozenberga, tulkojums latviešu valodā, pēcvārds, Laima Eglīte, ilustrācijas, 1991

A tündérek visszatérnek — de ezúttal nem csak a fogaidat akarják…

Wiharvész Anyó és apró boszorkányköre most igazi tündérekkel kerül szembe.

Beköszöntött nyárközép — azaz a mi világunkon Szent Iván — napjának éjjele. Ám nincs idő álmokra…

A darabban szerepet kapnak még törpék, varázslók, trollok, néptáncosok és egy orangután, valamint vérpatakok és rengeteg hollári-hó.

“¡Sé un HOMBRE en la Guardia de la Ciudad! ¡La Guardia de la Ciudad necesita HOMBRES!”

Hasta ahora, sin embargo, la Guardia Nocturna solo cuenta con el cabo Zanahoria (técnicamente un enano), el agente Cuddy (realmente un enano), el agente Detritus (un troll), la agente Angua (una mujer… la mayor parte del tiempo) y el cabo Nobbs (descalifica do de la carrera evolutiva por hacer trampas).

Y necesitan toda la ayuda que puedan conseguir. Porque hay un asesino suelto en las calles, con un arma nueva y mortífera y, lo más peligroso, un PLAN para devolver a la ciudad de Ankh-Morpork su grandeza perdida. Además, el misterio debe resolverse antes del mediodía, cuando el capitán Vimes devolverá su placa y se casará con la mujer más rica de la ciudad. Comparado con lo que les viene ahora, acabar con aquel dragón que atacó la ciudad hace un tiempo resultó fácil, ¡enfrentarse a un ejército de enanos sería más fácil! Y si la tarea es incluso complicada para un cuerpo de vigilancia normal, para la Guardia Nocturna puede convertirse en un quebradero de cabeza… literalmente.

Una espléndida novela de acción, misterio y humor, Hombres de armas es la decimoquinta entrega de la conocida serie Mundodisco.

Duty. Honor. Country.

Three words that resound in the heart of the warrior. But what is duty when country is gone? Where does honor lie when allies are revealed as enemies, when friends are not who they seem and when enemies are the ones we love?

For Cally O’Neal and the O’Neal Bane Sidhe, underground fighters against the tyranny of Earth’s Darhel “allies,” duty lies in the overthrow of the established order. For Major General Michael O’Neal, her father, duty lies in maintaining that order to prevent a reinvasion by the dreaded Posleen.

When diamond meets diamond, when O’Neal battles O’Neal, the only sure outcome is fireworks.

When an American national ascends the throne in China and begins a territorial war, Remo Williams and his martial arts master, Chiun, rush in to restore peace.

Un experimento científico hace posible la inesperada interacción entre dos universos paralelos con la salvedad de que, en uno de ellos, la especie humana que ha predominado son los Neanderthales y no los Cromagnones, como ha ocurrido en nuestro mundo.

Homínidos es el inicio de una prodigiosa exploración cultural, un nuevo tipo de ficción antropológica que centra sus mejores virtudes no sólo en la más actual ciencia moderna, sino, y sobre todo, en las complejas consecuencias culturales, humanas y antropológicas de un inesperado cruce de culturas.

In Rachel Caine’s tempestuous follow-up to Ill Wind—forecast as “a fun read” by bestselling author Jim Butcher—the Wardens Association still protects the human race from extermination by climatic extremes, when they’re not turning on their own….

Accused of murder, Weather Warden Joanne Baldwin was chased across the country—and killed—by a team charged with hunting down rogue Wardens.

Five days later, Joanne had a lovely funeral and was posthumously cleared of all charges. Her human life was over, but she had been reborn into Djinnhood. Now, until she masters her enhanced powers, Joanne must try to avoid being “claimed” by a human. But when a hazard that only a Djinn could sense infiltrates Earth’s atmosphere, Joanne must somehow convince someone to do something about it—or the forecast will be deadly.

So who said being all-powerful was going to be easy?

Un experimento científico hace posible la inesperada interacción entre dos universos paralelos con la salvedad de que, en uno de ellos, la especie humana que ha predominado son los Neanderthales y no los Cormagnones, como ha ocurrido en nuestro mundo.

Ponter Boddit y su hombre-compañero, Addikor Hulk, físicos neanderthales, han abierto un puente entre dos universos con su computador cuántico. Ahora se plantean volver a abrir ese paso para dar lugar al más prodigioso e intercambio cultural entre especies y universos.

Como Hominidos, que obtuvo el premio Hugo en 2003, Humanos ahonda en una prodigiosa exploración cultural, un nuevo tipo de ficción antropológica que centra sus mejores virtudes no sólo en la más actual ciencia moderna, sino, sobre todo, en las complejas consecuencias culturales, humanas y antropológicas de un inesperado cruce de culturas. Humanos explora con valentía esas diferencias culturales, mostrando otras posibilidades y contemplando nuestras propias convenciones sociales, culturales y religiosas desde un nuevo punto de vista.

Robert J. Sawyer es ya el mayor fenómeno de la ciencia ficción canadiense. Especialista en una ciencia ficción rigurosa que plantea cuestiones morales, ha obtenido ya más de veinticinco premios nacionales e internacionales por su obra. Con El experimento terminal obtuvo los premios Nebula, Aurora (de la ciencia ficción canadiense) y Homer (del foro de ciencia ficción de Compuserve) y, en los últimos seis años, ha sido cinco veces finalista del premio Hugo, un récord dificilmente igualable, que ha culminado con el Hugo obtenido por Hominidos.

A world had collapsed around this man—a world that would never shout his praises again. The burned-out cities were still and dead, the twisted bodies and twisted souls giving him their last salute in death. And now he was alone, alone surrounded by memories, alone and waiting ...

Drizzt the Dark Elf finds adventure, peril, and awesome magical power as he confronts the underground civilization of the evil race of Drow elves.

This holiday, spend quality time with family and loved ones—living and dead…

There's no place like home for the horrordays—unless you'd prefer a romantic midnight walk through a ghost-infested graveyard… or a haunted house candlelight dinner with the sexy vampire of your dreams. The (black) magical season is here—and whether it's a solstice séance gone demonically wrong with the incomparable Kim Harrison, a grossly misshapen Christmas with the remarkable Lynsay Sands, a blood-chilling-and-spilling New Year's with the wonderful Marjorie M. Liu, or a super-powered Thanksgiving with the phenomenal Vicki Pettersson, one thing is for certain: in the able hands of these exceptional dark side explorers, the holidays are going to be deliciously hellish!

KIM HARRISON introduces us to a younger Rachel Morgan—an undergraduate witch-in-training—who naively resurrects a spirit and sparks a terrifying showdown with a deadly undead adversary.

LYNSAY SANDS serves up a scrumptious stew of Yuletide suspense when, in order to escape from a determined stalker, a beautiful, reluctant shape-shifter must assume different forms.

MARGARET M. LIU keeps a petite-but-powerful government agent's hands full when she must join forces with a hunky necromancer to prevent an unholy brotherhood of terrorists and vampires from ringing in the New Year with blood.

VICKI PETTERSSON brings a former superhero—an elite Zodiac warrior-back to the mortal world for a Thanksgiving reunion with her equally hated and beloved enemy to do battle for the lives of her imperiled children.

This holiday, spend quality time with family and loved ones—living and dead…

There's no place like home for the horrordays—unless you'd prefer a romantic midnight walk through a ghost-infested graveyard… or a haunted house candlelight dinner with the sexy vampire of your dreams. The (black) magical season is here—and whether it's a solstice séance gone demonically wrong with the incomparable Kim Harrison, a grossly misshapen Christmas with the remarkable Lynsay Sands, a blood-chilling-and-spilling New Year's with the wonderful Marjorie M. Liu, or a super-powered Thanksgiving with the phenomenal Vicki Pettersson, one thing is for certain: in the able hands of these exceptional dark side explorers, the holidays are going to be deliciously hellish!

KIM HARRISON introduces us to a younger Rachel Morgan—an undergraduate witch-in-training—who naively resurrects a spirit and sparks a terrifying showdown with a deadly undead adversary.

LYNSAY SANDS serves up a scrumptious stew of Yuletide suspense when, in order to escape from a determined stalker, a beautiful, reluctant shape-shifter must assume different forms.

MARGARET M. LIU keeps a petite-but-powerful government agent's hands full when she must join forces with a hunky necromancer to prevent an unholy brotherhood of terrorists and vampires from ringing in the New Year with blood.

VICKI PETTERSSON brings a former superhero—an elite Zodiac warrior-back to the mortal world for a Thanksgiving reunion with her equally hated and beloved enemy to do battle for the lives of her imperiled children.

During a war between two planets in the same solar systemeach occupied by adapted humanswhat is thought to be a cosmic superstring is discovered. After being cut, this object collapses into four cylindrical pieces, each about the size of a tube train. Each is densely packed with either alien technology or some kind of life. They are placed for safety in three ozark cylinders of a massively secure space station. There, a female research scientist subsequently falls pregnant, and gives birth to quads. Then she commits suicidebut why?

By the end of the war one of the contesting planets has been devastated by the hilldiggersgiant space dreadnoughts employing weapons capable of creating mountain ranges. The quads have meanwhile grown up and are assuming positions of power in the post-war society. One of them will eventually gain control of the awesome hilldiggers.

When the humans of Ergoth threaten Thorbardin, the clans of Thorbardin are drawn into territorial wars between humans and elves.

Helliconia is a planet that, due to the massively eccentric orbit of its own sun around another star, experiences seasons that lasts eons. Whole civilisations grow in the Spring, flourish in the Summer and then die in the brutal winters. The human-like inhabitants have been profoundly changed by their experience of this harsh cycle.

Helliconia is a planet that, due to the massively eccentric orbit of its own sun around another star, experiences seasons that lasts eons. Whole civilisations grow in the Spring, flourish in the Summer and then die in the brutal winters. The human-like inhabitants have been profoundly changed by their experience of this harsh cycle. In orbit above the planet a terran mission struggles to observe and understand the effects on society of such a massive climatic impact. Massive, thoroughly researched, minutely organised, full of action, pulp references and deep drama this is a classic trilogy.

‘Our ablest SF writer.’

Guardian

‘Propels the reader headlong into marvel. A trilogy which has acquired monumental nobility.’

The Times

‘Science fiction has never before had this grandeur.’

Times Literary Supplement

‘Brian Aldiss’ towering imagination places his Helliconia trilogy far above standard science fiction.’

Daily Mail

‘Rarely has someone else’s brave new world been brought so stunningly to life.’

Daily Telegraph

‘One of the best SF writers Britain has ever produced.’

Iain M. Banks

‘A marvellous journey to another world — a remarkable feat of the imagination.’

John Fowles

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Helliconia is a planet that, due to the massively eccentric orbit of its own sun around another star, experiences seasons that lasts eons. Whole civilisations grow in the Spring, flourish in the Summer and then die in the brutal winters. The human-like inhabitants have been profoundly changed by their experience of this harsh cycle.

Helliconia is a planet that, due to the massively eccentric orbit of its own sun around another star, experiences seasons that lasts eons. Whole civilisations grow in the Spring, flourish in the Summer and then die in the brutal winters. The human-like inhabitants have been profoundly changed by their experience of this harsh cycle. In orbit above the planet a terran mission struggles to observe and understand the effects on society of such a massive climatic impact. Massive, thoroughly researched, minutely organised, full of action, pulp references and deep drama this is a classic trilogy.

‘Our ablest SF writer.’

Guardian

‘Propels the reader headlong into marvel. A trilogy which has acquired monumental nobility.’

The Times

‘Science fiction has never before had this grandeur.’

Times Literary Supplement

‘Brian Aldiss’ towering imagination places his Helliconia trilogy far above standard science fiction.’

Daily Mail

‘Rarely has someone else’s brave new world been brought so stunningly to life.’

Daily Telegraph

‘One of the best SF writers Britain has ever produced.’

Iain M. Banks

‘A marvellous journey to another world — a remarkable feat of the imagination.’

John Fowles

_{Best viewed with CoolReader.}

Helliconia is a planet that, due to the massively eccentric orbit of its own sun around another star, experiences seasons that lasts eons. Whole civilisations grow in the Spring, flourish in the Summer and then die in the brutal winters. The human-like inhabitants have been profoundly changed by their experience of this harsh cycle.

Helliconia is a planet that, due to the massively eccentric orbit of its own sun around another star, experiences seasons that lasts eons. Whole civilisations grow in the Spring, flourish in the Summer and then die in the brutal winters. The human-like inhabitants have been profoundly changed by their experience of this harsh cycle. In orbit above the planet a terran mission struggles to observe and understand the effects on society of such a massive climatic impact. Massive, thoroughly researched, minutely organised, full of action, pulp references and deep drama this is a classic trilogy.

‘Our ablest SF writer.’

Guardian

‘Propels the reader headlong into marvel. A trilogy which has acquired monumental nobility.’

The Times

‘Science fiction has never before had this grandeur.’

Times Literary Supplement

‘Brian Aldiss’ towering imagination places his Helliconia trilogy far above standard science fiction.’

Daily Mail

‘Rarely has someone else’s brave new world been brought so stunningly to life.’

Daily Telegraph

‘One of the best SF writers Britain has ever produced.’

Iain M. Banks

‘A marvellous journey to another world — a remarkable feat of the imagination.’

John Fowles

_{Best viewed with CoolReader.}

Persephone Alcmedi has been persuaded to compete for the position of High Priestess of the Cleveland, Ohio, coven — now that the former priestess, Vivian Diamond, has strangely gone missing. Unfortunately, there are a few small problems with the idea. Not only does Seph know rather more about Vivian's disappearance than the other witches realize, but the epic struggle she's just survived has left her with some highly unusual powers — ones that could be dangerous to reveal. Despite her reluctance, she agrees to participate, if only to prevent snooty Hunter Hopewell, an obnoxious but talented witch, from ending up in the winner's circle.

Can Seph hide her secrets — including her connection to the master vampire-wizard Menessos — from the terrifyingly wise judges? Plus, there's her rock 'n' roll werewolf boyfriend, Johnny, and some angry fairies to deal with….

Frank Herbert was born in Tacoma, Washington, and educated at the University of Washington, Seattle. He worked a wide variety of jobs - including TV cameraman, radio commentator, oyster diver, jungle survival instructor, lay analyst, creative writing teacher, reporter and editor of several West Coast newspapers - before becoming a full-time writer.

In 1952, Herbert began publishing science fiction with "Looking for Something?" in Startling Stories. But his true emergence as a writer of major stature did not occur until 1965, with the publication of Dune. Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune, and Chapterhouse: Dune followed, completing the saga that the Chicago Tribune would call "one of the monuments of modern science fiction." Herbert is also the author of some twenty other books, including The Jesus Incident, The Dosadi Experiment, and Destination: Void. He died in 1986.

Frank Herbert was born in Tacoma, Washington, and educated at the University of Washington, Seattle. He worked a wide variety of jobs - including TV cameraman, radio commentator, oyster diver, jungle survival instructor, lay analyst, creative writing teacher, reporter and editor of several West Coast newspapers - before becoming a full-time writer.

In 1952, Herbert began publishing science fiction with "Looking for Something?" in Startling Stories. But his true emergence as a writer of major stature did not occur until 1965, with the publication of Dune. Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune, and Chapterhouse: Dune followed, completing the saga that the Chicago Tribune would call "one of the monuments of modern science fiction." Herbert is also the author of some twenty other books, including The Jesus Incident, The Dosadi Experiment, and Destination: Void. He died in 1986.

Mated to werewolf Charles Cornick, the son – and enforcer – of the leader of the North American werewolves, Anna Latham now knows how dangerous being a werewolf is, especially when a werewolf who opposes Charles and his father is struck down. Charles's reputation makes him the prime suspect, and the penalty for the crime is execution. Now Anna and Charles must combine their talents to hunt down the real killer – or Charles will take the fall.

StarCraft: Hybrid, by Mickey Neilson, is a Blizzard-authorized StarCraft short story published in Amazing Stories Magazine, issue 601. Amazing Stories Magazine is now defunct.

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 accepted as a classic of its kind.

In the year 2018, Sergeant Sue Smith of the Edinburgh constabulary is called in on a special case. A daring bank robbery has taken place at Hayek Associates, a dot-com startup company that's just been floated on the London stock exchange. The suspects are a band of marauding orcs, with a dragon in tow for fire support, and the bank is located within the virtual reality land of Avalon Four. For Smith, the investigation seems pointless. But she soon realizes that the virtual world may have a devastating effect in the real one-and that someone is about to launch an attack upon both…

Enoch Wallace, un veteran al războiului civil american, este ales de către un extraterestru pe nume Ulysses pentru a avea grijă de o haltă a drumului interplanetar. Wallace este singura fiinşă omenească ce ştie de existenşa extratereştrilor, până aproape un secol mai târziu, când guvernul american îşi dă seama că, în ciuda vârstei sale înaintate, este încă în viaşă. Unele grupări ale federaşiei galactice doresc sistarea lucrărilor din sectorul în care se află Pământul, pentru a concentra resursele în altă parte, iar furtul unui cadavru extraterestru de către guvernul american motivează şi mai mult această decizie. În acelaşi timp, pierderea unui instrument de comunicare cu spiritul universului pune în primejdie întreaga civilizaşie galactică.

Premiul Hugo 1964.

In a novel set in the twenty-first century, a bionic woman becomes swept into a world of simulated environments and heightened perception.

Nominated for BSFA Award in 1996, for Hugo and Locus awards in 1997.

Mistrz zagadek Morgan nadal nie zna celu, dla którego żyje ani znaczenia gwiazdek, widniejących na jego czole. Królestwo drży w posadach, pustoszą je hordy tajemniczych zmiennokształtnych, którzy wydali wojnę rodzajowi ludzkiemu. Wobec zupełnej bierności Najwyższego, Morgan zmuszony jest wziąć na siebie odpowiedzialność za cały świat.

Nominowana do nagrody Hugo w 1980.

Leisha Camden, urodzona w 2008 roku córka miliardera, jest nie tylko piękna i niezwykle inteligentna, ale należy do wciąż nielicznej grupy genetycznie uniezależnionych od snu. Początkowo ona i jej podobni są tylko sensacją i ciekawostką, szybko jednak stają się obiektem politycznych represji i ataków tłuszczy, które mają doprowadzić do zepchnięcia Bezsennych na margines ludzkiego społeczeństwa, a ostatecznie i poza samą Ziemię. Lisha postanawia jednak pozostać w świecie, który zazdrości i boi się jej daru, w świecie zagrożonym przez spisek Bezsennych, zawiązany w imię wolności i zemsty.

Opowieść nominovana do nagrody Nebula w 1993, do nagrody Hugo w 1994.

Najnowsze wydanie klasycznego dzieła Tolkiena. Hobbit to istota większa od liliputa, mniejsza jednak od krasnala. Fantastyczny, przemyślany do najdrobniejszych szczegółów świat z powieści Tolkiena jest również jego osobistym tworem, a pod barwną fasadą nietrudno się dopatrzyć głębszego sensu i pewnych analogii do współczesności.

Shan’s second book about the City takes place during roughly the same time period as the first (Procession of the Dead, 2010) but features many new characters, only tying together events from both books at the very end of the story. Al Jeery is a dedicated soldier for the Cardinal and happy to do his job until the day he takes a body to the morgue only to discover it is his girlfriend. Asked by the Cardinal to investigate, Al takes on the duty, persevering through a complex and often seemingly impossible investigation. Like Procession of the Dead, this story takes place entirely within Shan’s fictional yet modern-day city, run by the Cardinal, but the plot is constructed in the fashion of a mainstream police procedural. With almost too many twists to believe, dozens of characters, and the complex mythology of the City itself, Hell’s Horizon is not an easy read, yet it may appeal to those who enjoyed China Miéville’s The City & the City.

Young wizards Kit and Nita are faced with strange events when a life form from another era emerges on Mars. Though the Martians seem friendly, they have a plan that could change the shape of more than one world. As the shadow of interplanetary war stretches over both worlds, Kit and Nita must fight to master the strange and ancient synergy binding them to Mars and its last inhabitants. If they don't succeed, the history that left Mars lifeless will repeat itself on Earth.

In the mid-21st century, time travel is used to send political prisoners to Hawksbill Station, a prison camp in the late Cambrian Era. When the latest arrival suspiciously deflects questions about his crimes and knowledge of ’Up Front’, the inmates decide to find out his secret. [NOTE: a novella length version of this story is also available.]

Harry îsi petrece prima vacanţă de vară cu familia Dursley care se decide să nu-l mai lase să se întoarcă la Hogwarts. El va fi ajutat să scape din casa rudelor de prietenul lui, Ron Weasley, care-l răpeşte într-o maşină zburătoare. Întorşi la şcoală, se petrec anumite lucruri ciudate: forţe malefice pietrifică elevii (ceea ce i se va întampla şi lui Hermione). În timp ce Harry şi Ron încearcă să dezlege misterul acestor întâmplări, află că, undeva în şcoală, este ascunsă o “Camera a Secretelor”. Se zvoneşte că acolo trăieşte un monstru înfricoşător. Îşi dau seama ca aceasta cameră este cauza întâmplărilor ciudate şi sunt siguri că, dacă o vor descoperi, problemele lor se vor rezolva. Ca să afli daca au reuşit, nu trebuie decât să citeşti cartea şi nu o să regreţi pentru că este cel puţin la fel de bună ca prima.

Nothing much happens in the sleepy town of Venus Cove. But everything changes when three angels are sent from heaven to protect the town against the gathering forces of darkness: Gabriel, the warrior; Ivy, the healer; and Bethany, a teenage girl who is the least experienced of the trio. They work hard to conceal their true identity and, most of all, their wings.

Harry Potter trebuie să înceapă cel de-al cincilea an de studiu la Hogwarts. Este disperat să se întoarcă la şcoală şi să afle de ce Ron şi Hermione au fost atât de secretoşi toată vara. Oricum, ceea ce va descoperi în acest nou an la Hogwarts îi va întoarce viaţa cu susul în jos… Un alt volum scris de J.K. Rowling: acaparator, electrizant, plin de suspans, secrete şi — binenţeles! — magie.

Harry Potter a nyári szünetet szokás szerint az utálatos Dursley családdal tölti, ám a folytatás közel sem a megszokott. A főhős összeütközésbe kerül két dementorral, akiket azért küldtek a muglik világába, hogy megtámadják az ifjút, akinek varázslatai és trükkjei sértik a varázslók világának szigorú szabályait. Harryt a Roxfortból való száműzetés, sőt varázspálcájának eltörésének a réme fenyegeti. A fiút a Főnix rendje gondjaira bízzák. Ezt a szervezetet sietősen hozzák létre jóindulatú varázslókból és boszorkányokból. A rend megfogadja, hogy legyőzi Voldemortot, de ettől függetlenül Harrynek ismét ki kell állnia személyes próbáját is, anélkül, hogy pontos információi lennének, mi is az igazi szerepe a történetben.

In questa nuova, attesissima avventura il piccolo grande apprendista mago Harry Potter deve vedersela con l’assassino pluriomicida Sirius Black, evaso dalla fortezza di Azkaban proprio per ucciderlo e con i Dissennatori, guardie carcerarie che neutralizzano le persone risucchiandone i pensieri positivi e impadronendosi dell’anima… Ma Harry Potter non soccombe alla paura, perché questa è la morale vincente che trasmette ai lettori. Tra mappe segrete, zie volanti e libri che mordono, farà trionfare il Bene. Che soddisfazione!

Vincitore del premio Locus in 2000.

Nominato per il premio Hugo in 2000.

Il quarto volume delle avventure di Harry Potter ci ha lasciato con il fiato sospeso: Lord Voldemort è tornato. Che cosa succederà ora che l’Oscuro Signore è di nuovo in pieno possesso dei suoi terrificanti poteri? Quanta morte e distruzione seminerà nel tentativo di riprendere il dominio dei mondo? Sono le stesse domande che si pone Harry Potter, disperatamente segregato — come tutte le estati — nella casa dei suoi zii Babbani, lontano dal mondo magico che gli appartiene. Ma qualcosa è cambiato anche in lui. Ormai quindicenne, lo ritroviamo divorato dalla frustrazione, dalla rabbia e dall’ansia di ribellione tipiche della sua età. In uno dei libri più attesi nella storia della letteratura, J.K. Bowling non cessa di stupirci. Tessendo un’altra stupefacente trama, riesce questa volta a dar voce alle inquietudini dell’adolescenza, ad arricchire il suo già mirabolante universo di nuove creature e nuovi indimenticabili personaggi, e anche a metterci in guardia contro la stupidità del potere e di chi lo usa per combattere il talento, il coraggio, la fantasia e la diversità.

È un momento cruciale nella vita di Harry: ormai è un mago adolescente, vuole andarsene dalla casa degli odiosi Dursley, vuole sognare la Cercatrice del Corvonero per cui ha una cotta tremenda... Intanto, grandiosi avvenimenti si stanno preparando alla scuola di Hogwarts, dove si svolgerà un torneo tra tutte le più importanti scuole di magia. E nonostante non abbia ancora 16 anni, età per iscriversi alla competizione, Harry viene scelto dal Calice di Fuoco per superare prove terrificanti: si troverà faccia a faccia con la morte, come sempre per colpa del perfido Voldemort; e con l’amore.

Vincitore del premio Hugo per il miglior romanzo in 2001.

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 phagors, humanity’s ancient enemies, who carry the plague with them.

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 this gigantic novel. Cosmic in scope, it keeps an eye lovingly on the humans involved. So the 5,000 inhabitants of the Earth’s observation station above Helliconia keep their eyes trained on the events of Oldorando and may long to intervene though the dangers are too great. So we on Earth have them all in our vision in one of the most consuming and magnificent novels of scientific romance.

Won BSFA Award for Best Novel in 1982.

Won John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 1983.

Nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1983.

Note: British spelling.

In a post-apocalyptic ice age, neomage Thorn St. Croix was nearly driven insane by her powers. She lived as a fugitive, disguised as a human and married to a human man, channeling her gifts for war into stone-magery. When she was discovered, her friends and neighbors accepted her, but warily. Not so the mage who arrives from the Council of Seraphs, who could be her greatest ally-or her most dangerous foe. And when it's revealed that her long-gone sister, Rose, is still alive, Thorn must make a choice-and risk her own life in the process.

In a post-apocalyptic ice age, neomage Thorn St. Croix was nearly driven insane by her powers. She lived as a fugitive, disguised as a human and married to a human man, channeling her gifts for war into stone-magery. When she was discovered, her friends and neighbors accepted her, but warily. Not so the mage who arrives from the Council of Seraphs, who could be her greatest ally-or her most dangerous foe. And when it's revealed that her long-gone sister, Rose, is still alive, Thorn must make a choice-and risk her own life in the process.

Who would want to harm Discworld's most beloved icon? Very few things are held sacred in this twisted, corrupt, heartless - and oddly familiar - universe, but the Hogfather is one of them. Yet here it is, Hogswatchnight, that most joyous and acquisitive of times, and the jolly old, red-suited gift-giver has vanished without a trace. And there's something shady going on involving an uncommonly psychotic member of the Assassins' Guild and certain representatives of Ankh-Morpork's rather extensive criminal element. Suddenly Discworld's entire myth system is unraveling at an alarming rate. Drastic measures must be taken, which is why Death himself is taking up the reins of the fat man's vacated sleigh... which, in turn, has Death's level-headed granddaughter, Susan, racing to unravel the nasty, humbuggian mess before the holiday season goes straight to hell and takes everyone along with it.

Robert J. Sawyer, the award-winning and bestselling writer, hits the peak of his powers in Humans, the second book of The Neanderthal Parallax, his trilogy about our world and parallel one in which it was the Homo sapiens who died out and the Neanderthals who became the dominant intelligent species. This powerful idea allows Sawyer to examine some of the deeply rooted assumptions of contemporary human civilization dramatically, by confronting us with another civilization, just as morally valid, that has made other choices. In Humans, Neanderthal physicist Ponter Boddit, a character you will never forget, returns to our world and to his relationship with geneticist Mary Vaughan, as cultural exchanges between the two Earths begin.

As we see daily life in another present-day world, radically different from ours, in the course of Sawyer's fast-moving story, we experience the bursts of wonder and enlightenment that are the finest pleasures of science fiction. Humans is one of the best SF novels of the year, and The Neanderthal Parallax is an SF classic in the making.

In Hominids, Nebula Award-winning author Robert J. Sawyer introduced a character readers will never forget: Ponter Boddit, a Neanderthal physicist from a parallel Earth who was whisked from his reality into ours by a quantum-computing experiment gone awry-making him the ultimate stranger in a strange land.

In that book and in its sequel, Humans, Sawyer showed us the Neanderthal version of Earth in loving detail-a tour de force of world-building; a masterpiece of alternate history.

Now, in Hybrids, Ponter Boddit and his Homo sapien lover, geneticist Mary Vaughan, are torn between two worlds, struggling to find a way to make their star-crossed relationship work. Aided by banned Neanderthal technology, they plan to conceive the first hybrid child, a symbol of hope for the joining of their two versions of reality.

But after an experiment shows that Mary's religious faith--something completely absent in Neanderthals - is a quirk of the neurological wiring of Homo sapiens' brains, Ponter and Mary must decide whether their child should be predisposed to atheism or belief. Meanwhile, as Mary's Earth is dealing with a collapse of its planetary magnetic field, her boss, the enigmatic Jock Krieger, has turned envious eyes on the unspoiled Eden that is the Neanderthal world . . . .

Hybrids is filled to bursting with Sawyer's signature speculations about alternative ways of being human, exploding our preconceptions of morality and gender, of faith and love. His Neanderthal Parallax trilogy is a classic in the making, and here he brings it to a stunning, thought-provoking conclusion that's sure to make Hybrids one of the most controversial books of the year.

As Napoleon's tenacious infantry rampages across Europe and his armada lies in wait for Nelson's smaller fleet, the war does not rage on land and water alone. Squadrons of aviators swarm the skies - a deadly shield for the cumbersome canon-firing vessels. Raining fire and acid upon their enemies, they engage in a swift, violent combat with flying tooth and claw... for these aviators ride dragons.

Captain Laurence is a satisfied man with a respectable commission aboard the ship Reliant. His career is born from a love for the sea and he takes his duty very seriously

Months before the battle of Trafalgar, on patrol in the Atlantic, The Reliant takes a small French frigate, storm-damaged and possessing a fierce crew unwilling to surrender as easily as they should. On board Laurence finds a dragon egg - a great prize as England is in sore need.

Having spent months on a slow journey from Asia, the egg hatches. A sinewy new-born emerges from the fragmented shell, ignores his harness-bearer, approaches Laurence and changes his life.

Hatchling dragons must be put in a harness immediately otherwise the dragon-young become hard to control - fit only for the breeding colonies. The person chosen to first harness the beast must be an aviator, for the dragon will accept no other captain. The life of an aviator is not a desirable one; reviled by fashionable society, they live hard, lonely lives bound to duty and they frequently die young. Laurence must now join them; duty demands it, though his heart is broken.

But, more astonishing than the dragonet - named Temeraire by Laurence - are the documents found with him, documents addressed to Napoleon from the greatest, most skilled dragon-breeders in the world - the Chinese.

The dragon Temeraire was meant for the Emperor Napoleon himself and promises to grow into no ordinary creature.

A serial killer is hunting the Pacific Northwest, murdering victims in a gruesome and spectacular way. The local police suspect "monsters" are involved, and have called in Anita Blake and Edward, US Marshals who really know their monsters, to catch the killer.

But some monsters are very real. The Harlequin have been the bogeymen of the vampire world for more than a thousand years; they are a secret so dark that even to speak their name can earn you a death sentence. Now they are here in America, hunting weretigers, and human police.

The Harlequin serve the Mother of All Darkness, the first vampire. She was supposed to be dead, but only her body was destroyed. Now she needs a new one, and she's decided that Anita Blake's is the body she wants. Edward thinks the serial killings are a trap to lure Anita closer to the most dangerous vampire they've ever hunted. The vampires call Edward "Death," and Anita the "Executioner," but Mommy Darkest is coming to kill one, and possess the other, and she doesn't care how many others have to die along the way.

Cassandra Palmer recently defeated a god, which you'd think would buy a girl a little time off. But it doesn't work that way when your job description is Pythia—the world's chief clairvoyant. Cassie is busier than ever, trying to learn about her power, preparing for her upcoming coronation, and figuring out her relationship with the enigmatic sexy master vampire, Mircea.

But someone doesn't want Cassie to become Pythia, and is willing to go to any lengths to make sure the coronation ceremony never happens—including attacking her mother before Cassie is even born.

Atticus O'Sullivan, last of the Druids, doesn't care much for witches. Still, he's about to make nice with the local coven by signing a mutually beneficial nonaggression treaty — when suddenly the witch population in modern-day Tempe, Arizona, quadruples overnight. And the new girls are not just bad, they're badasses with a dark history on the German side of World War II.

With a fallen angel feasting on local high school students, a horde of Bacchants blowing in from Vegas with their special brand of deadly decadence, and a dangerously sexy Celtic goddess of fire vying for his attention, Atticus is having trouble scheduling the witch hunt. But aided by his magical sword, his neighbor's rocket-propelled grenade launcher, and his vampire attorney, Atticus is ready to sweep the town and show the witchy women they picked the wrong Druid to hex.

Atticus O'Sullivan, last of the Druids, doesn't care much for witches. Still, he's about to make nice with the local coven by signing a mutually beneficial nonaggression treaty — when suddenly the witch population in modern-day Tempe, Arizona, quadruples overnight. And the new girls are not just bad, they're badasses with a dark history on the German side of World War II.

With a fallen angel feasting on local high school students, a horde of Bacchants blowing in from Vegas with their special brand of deadly decadence, and a dangerously sexy Celtic goddess of fire vying for his attention, Atticus is having trouble scheduling the witch hunt. But aided by his magical sword, his neighbor's rocket-propelled grenade launcher, and his vampire attorney, Atticus is ready to sweep the town and show the witchy women they picked the wrong Druid to hex.

Humankind’s soul is at stake in a futuristic tale of an Earth bordering on ecological collapse, from which the only escapes are genetic adaptation or emigration to satellite cities in the sky.

Siddharta, Dwinger der Demonen bindt als Bodhisattva de strijd aan tegen de post-aardse tirannie.

Het is zomer en Harry logeert bij de familie Duffeling aan de Ligusterlaan 4. Neef Dirk is onuitstaanbaarder dan ooit tevoren, hij is namelijk op dieet. De familie Wemel redt Harry van een saaie zomer door hem uit te nodigen voor de finale van het WK Zwerkbal. Een bloedstollend uitstapje, zo blijkt en niet in de laatste plaats vanwege een ongekende dosis geheimzinnigheid na afloop van de wedstrijd.

Aardsvijand Voldemort heeft blijkbaar in de tussentijd niet stilgezeten. Een briljant plan moet hem de krachten teruggeven die hij door Harry is kwijtgeraakt. Zich nog niet bewust van deze plannen, popelt Harry om te beginnen aan z’n vierde jaar op Zweinstein. Een volgende uitdaging staat te wachten: een toernooi tussen Zweinstein en twee buitenlandse toverscholen. De Vuurbeker spuwt tot iedereens verbazing ook Harry’s naam uit, wat betekent dat Harry als jongste deelnemer een aantal zware beproevingen zal moeten doorstaan. Heeft Hij Die Niet Genoemd Mag Worden hier iets mee van doen…

Harry Potter wordt voorgelezen door Jan Meng. Ademloos luisteren kinderen en volwassenen naar de stemmen die hij de personages uit de boeken meegeeft, ondertussen fantaserend over duistere tovenaars en sidderende toverspreuken.

The voracious and merciless Horde roved the galaxies, stripping whole star systems of all life. As they advance on the Milky Way, a galaxy-wide force is hastily arrayed to stop them. But Miles Vander, the warrior sent by Earth to join the defense, must first convince his alien crewmembers that he is just as good a soldier as they.

Adelle Smith has lived her entire life for the betterment of mankind. A Civil Rights Activist in the Sixties and Seventies, she has spent most of her adult life attending marches, giving speeches, and lending a hand to anyone in need.

But on the very evening she is to be acknowledged with a Lifetime Achievement Award for her humanitarian efforts, a stroke leaves her partially paralyzed and unable to speak. Now Adelle’s in the care of a ruthless hospice nurse, who sees not a hero before her, but the cause of her many hardships growing up as a child of interracial parents, someone who decides to give Adelle her very own brand of “Physical Therapy” consisting of pain and suffering, mental cruelty and torture.

And now, after a lifetime of helping others, Adelle needs help, quickly, before another round of brutal treatment snuffs out her life.

Winter, 1862. A malevolent spirit roams the cold and gloomy streets of Victorian London, the vampiric ghost of John Polidori, the onetime physician of the mad, bad and dangerous Romantic poet Lord Byron. Polidori is also the supernatural muse to his niece and nephew, poet Christina Rossetti and her artist brother Dante Gabriel.

But Polidori's taste for debauchery has grown excessive. He is determined to possess the life and soul of an innocent young girl, the daughter of a veterinarian and a reformed prostitute he once haunted. And he has resurrected Dante's dead wife, transforming her into a horrifying vampire. The Rossettis know the time has come — Polidori must be stopped. Joining forces with the girl's unlikely parents, they are plunged into a supernatural London underworld whose existence they never suspected.

These wildly mismatched allies — a strait-laced animal doctor, and ex-prostitute, a poet, a painter, and even the Artful Dodger-like young daughter — must ultimately choose between the banality and constraints of human life and the unholy immortality that Polidori offers. Sweeping from high society to grimy slums, elegant West End salons to pre-Roman catacombs beneath St. Paul's cathedral, Hide Me Among The Graves blends the historical and the supernatural in a dazzling, edge-of-your-seat thrill ride.

Winter, 1862. A malevolent spirit roams the cold and gloomy streets of Victorian London, the vampiric ghost of John Polidori, the onetime physician of the mad, bad and dangerous Romantic poet Lord Byron. Polidori is also the supernatural muse to his niece and nephew, poet Christina Rossetti and her artist brother Dante Gabriel.

But Polidori's taste for debauchery has grown excessive. He is determined to possess the life and soul of an innocent young girl, the daughter of a veterinarian and a reformed prostitute he once haunted. And he has resurrected Dante's dead wife, transforming her into a horrifying vampire. The Rossettis know the time has come — Polidori must be stopped. Joining forces with the girl's unlikely parents, they are plunged into a supernatural London underworld whose existence they never suspected.

These wildly mismatched allies — a strait-laced animal doctor, and ex-prostitute, a poet, a painter, and even the Artful Dodger-like young daughter — must ultimately choose between the banality and constraints of human life and the unholy immortality that Polidori offers. Sweeping from high society to grimy slums, elegant West End salons to pre-Roman catacombs beneath St. Paul's cathedral, Hide Me Among The Graves blends the historical and the supernatural in a dazzling, edge-of-your-seat thrill ride.

The Headhunter is loose on the streets of Vancouver.

The victims are everywhere — floating in the Fraser River, buried in a shallow grave, nailed to an Indian totem pole on the university campus. All are women. All are headless.

Then the photographs arrive. Carefully posed shots of the women's heads stuck on poles.

The Mounties of Special X are up against a unique brand of killer. A killer whose sexual psychosis stretches back through Ecuador's steaming jungle and a scream-filled New Orleans dungeon to a dead-of-winter manhunt in the Rocky Mountains a century ago.

Voordat Harry Potter aan zijn derde jaar op Zweinstein kan beginnen, moet hij de zomervakantie doorbrengen bij zijn gemene oom en tante en vervelende neefje Dirk. Door een magisch ongelukje komt hij ’s avonds laat opeens op straat te staan. Dan blijkt dat Sirius Zwarts, een beruchte volgeling van Voldemort, uit de gevangenis van Azkaban is ontsnapt. Hij is op de vlucht en heeft het wellicht op Harry gemunt.

Er volgt een enerverend schooljaar met nieuwe vakken als dreuzelkunde en zorg voor Fabeldieren, spannende Zwerkbalwedstrijden en griezelige voorspellingen. De school wordt bewaakt door Dementors, de gevreesde bewakers van Azkaban, en Harry zal zijn lessen Verweer tegen de Zwarte Kunsten hard nodig hebben.

Beyond the boundaries of the everyday is an unseen realm where anything you imagine is possible. Your demon lover is waiting for you in the shadows, ready to fulfill your secret wishes and most dangerous fantasies. Here passion has a face and form both titillating and terrifying — and love has teeth and claws. Get ready to give in to your craving for something exquisitely dark . . . and different.

Hotter Than Hell gathers together a baker's dozen of today's boldest and best authors of supernatural fiction and paranormal romance in a breathtaking anthology that blends black magic with red-hot desire. From the tantalizing tale of a conflicted psychic vampire driven by a powerful, savage love to the strange saga of a Greek warrior woman battling to save the world, these are stories outside the limits, as hypnotic as the full moon . . . and hotter than the sun.

Beyond the boundaries of the everyday is an unseen realm where anything you imagine is possible. Your demon lover is waiting for you in the shadows, ready to fulfill your secret wishes and most dangerous fantasies. Here passion has a face and form both titillating and terrifying — and love has teeth and claws. Get ready to give in to your craving for something exquisitely dark . . . and different.

Hotter Than Hell gathers together a baker's dozen of today's boldest and best authors of supernatural fiction and paranormal romance in a breathtaking anthology that blends black magic with red-hot desire. From the tantalizing tale of a conflicted psychic vampire driven by a powerful, savage love to the strange saga of a Greek warrior woman battling to save the world, these are stories outside the limits, as hypnotic as the full moon . . . and hotter than the sun.

An unusual murder brings together three strangers, John, Jack, and Charles, on a rainy night in London during the first World War. An eccentric little man called Bert tells them that they are now the caretakers of the Imaginarium Geographica -- an atlas of all the lands that have ever existed in myth and legend, fable and fairy tale. These lands, Bert claims, can be traveled to in his ship the Indigo Dragon, one of only seven vessels that is able to cross the Frontier between worlds into the Archipelago of Dreams.

Pursued by strange and terrifying creatures, the companions flee London aboard the Dragonship. Traveling to the very realm of the imagination itself, they must learn to overcome their fears and trust in one another if they are to defeat the dark forces that threaten the destiny of two worlds. And in the process, they will share a great adventure filled with clues that lead readers to the surprise revelation of the legendary storytellers these men will one day become.

An extraordinary journey of myth, magic, and mystery, Here, There Be Dragons introduces James A. Owen as a formidable new talent.

El inefable Miles Vorkosigan se encuentra en esta ocasión en la Tierra, sin dinero y con los dolores de cabeza que le da el interpretar a dos personajes a la vez con sus respectivos enemigos. La situación se complica cuando algunos de sus hombres organizan un escándalo en una tienda de licores cuando la máquina no les acepta la tarjeta de crédito. Por culpa de una periodista perspicaz Miles se ve obligado a dar una nueva vuelta de tuerca en su farsa: decide que su otra identidad es en realidad un clon suyo, y engaña a la periodista. Sin embargo, lo que no se podía esperar es que realmente un clon suyo estuviera dispuesto a reemplazarle.

Eleisha Clevon has begun a correspondence with fellow vampire Rose de Spenser. Both reluctant predators, they venture outside only when the hunger becomes unbearable, trying not to draw attention to themselves-and feel guilty when ending human lives.

But Eleisha has learned a way to draw blood from her victims without killing them. She wants to share this knowledge with like-minded vampires and create a haven where they can exist together-and forge a united front against Julian Ashton, a vampire who has been hunting down and destroying his own kind…

A bolygó neve Pyrrus… egy különös hely, ahol az összes állat, növény és természeti erő mintha egyetlen cél érdekében esküdött volna össze: elpusztítani az embert.

A telepesek itt szuperemberek… kétszer olyan erősek, mint a szokványos emberek, és a reflexeik egészen lélegzetelállítóak.

Szükségük is van rá. Mert ha élni akarnak, gyilkolniuk kell…

Jason dinAltra, a csillagközi szerencsejátékosra és hazardőrre vár a feladat, hogy rájöjjön, miért vált ilyen ellenségessé a Pyrrus bolygó az ember rövid itt-tartózkodása alatt…

HAKS

RAENŪNA LASITJĒ

HAKS

Kādreiz tas bija izcils zinātnisks atklājums. Gēns, kurš izmaina cilvēka prātu un ļauj cilvēka smadzenem pieslēgties

datoram. Tagad tas ir nāvīgs vārds Tas ļauj cilvēkiem iegūt neierobežotu varu,  tāpēc šos cilvēkus nogalina pirms tie paspēj izaugt lieli. Haks- tā saucas šis piedzīvojumu stāsts kurš aizvedīs tevi tālā nākotnē

Raenona Lasitjē sarakstīja grāmatu "Haks"septiņpadsmit gadu vecumā. Viņa piedzima un uzauga Londonā, pašlaik studē Oksfordā. Viņai nav ne kaķu, ne zirgu, ne gaļēdāju augu, tomēr ir kāda jauna iecere. Pašlaik rakstniece strādā pie "Haka" turpinājuma.

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Nākotne ir mūsu vidū, reiz rakstīja slavenā kareivja Sveika radītājs Jaroslavs Hašeks, un tie bija prātīgi vārdi. Arī Haks vēsta Tev par tālu nākotni, kas patiesībā ir ļoti tuvu. Mūsu plakano divdimensiju televīziju šeit aizstājusi telpiskā bolovīzija, bet dzīvokļos un transporta līdzekļos tālruņa lomu pilda holokoms — tas ļauj gan sazināties, gan aplūkot sarunu biedru vai viesi pie ārdurvīm un ļauj arī pieslēgties datoriem. Haka nākotnes pasaulē ikviens var noīrēt ne tikai vieglo automašīnu — skimmeri, bet arī nelielu lidaparātu — flailcru. Flaiteri stipri līdzinās taksometriem filmā "Piektais elements", un tos, tāpat kā jebko citu nākotnes pasaulē, pārvalda datori.

Haks vēsta Tev par cilvēkiem, kas spēj "saaugt" ar datoriem. Tie nav lādi datoram pielipuši puiši, kādus Tu varbūt pazīsti, — ar lielām, piesarkušām acīm, bālu seju. Par tiem sacerētas daudzas anekdotes. Reiz kāds datorists esot atradis vardīti, kas teikusi: "Noskūpsti mani, par princesi pārvērtīšos!" Protams, ka datorists skūpstīties nevēlējās, jo nezināja, ko iesākt ar princesi, taču runājoša varde viņam šķita teicama lieta!

Skaistā, tumšmatainā Reivena patiešām atšķiras no šādiem datoristiem. Viņas apziņas impulsi šaujas caur pasaules datortīklu kā nazis caur sviestu, un neviens serveris, ne parole nespēj tiem pretoties! Kāds tur brīnums, ka valdība nolēmusi ikvienu Haku nāvei, pat nezinot, ko īsti prot datorcilvēki ar noslēpumaino Haku gēnu.

Taču Haks ir grāmata arī par saprašanos, jo raibajā komandā, kas cīnās pret Datordrošības policijas (DDP) slepeno nodaļu, bieži vien viss atkarīgs no spējas savaldīt dusmas un īgnumu un palīdzēt draugiem.

Pirms Tu sāc lasīt šo grāmatu, padomā — vai Tu pazīsti kādu sešpadsmitgadīgu meiteni, kas raksta fantastisku piedzīvojumu romānu? Raenona Lasitjē ir tieši tāda meitene, un šī ir viņas grāmata!

Tulkotājs

Veltīts Maruškai, bez kuras šī grāmata nekad nebūtu uzrakstīta.

arī Pīteram, Tanakvī un Viktorijai — par to, ka jūs tādi esat.

SATURS

1.   Taustīšanās miglā 11

2.   Pravietisks sveiciens 29

3.   Dīvainas lietas 42

4.   Liktenīgā tikšanās 57

5.   Gaisma sabiezē 74

6.   neierastas rūpes 88

7.   Dabas kļūda 106

8.   Elle ir drūma 122

9.       nāvējošais zobens 139 lū.

Sprādzienu vilni 153

11. Asinis pret asinīm 167

12. meli kā patiesība 181

Thor, the Norse god of thunder, is worse than a blowhard and a bully — he's ruined countless lives and killed scores of innocents. After centuries, Viking vampire Leif Helgarson is ready to get his vengeance, and he's asked his friend Atticus O'Sullivan, the last of the Druids, to help take down this Norse nightmare.

One survival strategy has worked for Atticus for more than two thousand years: stay away from the guy with the lightning bolts. But things are heating up in Atticus's home base of Tempe, Arizona. There's a vampire turf war brewing, and Russian demon hunters who call themselves the Hammers of God are running rampant. Despite multiple warnings and portents of dire consequences, Atticus and Leif journey to the Norse plain of Asgard, where they team up with a werewolf, a sorcerer, and an army of frost giants for an epic showdown against vicious Valkyries, angry gods, and the hammer-wielding Thunder Thug himself.

Atticus O'Sullivan, last of the Druids, lives peacefully in Arizona, running an occult bookshop and shape-shifting in his spare time to hunt with his Irish wolfhound. His neighbors and customers think that this handsome, tattooed Irish dude is about twenty-one years old — when in actuality, he's twenty-one centuries old. Not to mention: He draws his power from the earth, possesses a sharp wit, and wields an even sharper magical sword known as Fragarach, the Answerer.

Unfortunately, a very angry Celtic god wants that sword, and he's hounded Atticus for centuries. Now the determined deity has tracked him down, and Atticus will need all his power — plus the help of a seductive goddess of death, his vampire and werewolf team of attorneys, a sexy bartender possessed by a Hindu witch, and some good old-fashioned luck of the Irish — to kick some Celtic arse and deliver himself from evil.

Atticus O'Sullivan, last of the Druids, lives peacefully in Arizona, running an occult bookshop and shape-shifting in his spare time to hunt with his Irish wolfhound. His neighbors and customers think that this handsome, tattooed Irish dude is about twenty-one years old — when in actuality, he's twenty-one centuries old. Not to mention: He draws his power from the earth, possesses a sharp wit, and wields an even sharper magical sword known as Fragarach, the Answerer.

Unfortunately, a very angry Celtic god wants that sword, and he's hounded Atticus for centuries. Now the determined deity has tracked him down, and Atticus will need all his power — plus the help of a seductive goddess of death, his vampire and werewolf team of attorneys, a sexy bartender possessed by a Hindu witch, and some good old-fashioned luck of the Irish — to kick some Celtic arse and deliver himself from evil.

En sus andanzas por los burgos y los campos de Francia, Leola se topa con un enigma trágico: trovadores, muchachas o vecinos inician el relato de la historia del Rey Transparente y caen fulminados tras unas pocas frases. Nyneve, que parece estar al tanto del enigma, reacciona siempre con furia ante la sola mención del nombre de ese rey misterioso. El acertijo sólo lo conocerá el lector en las últimas páginas: se trata, en realidad, de una fábula moral que resume la filosofía de toda la novela.

Leola se verá armada caballero a los diecisiete años por la duquesa Dhuoda, una sanguinaria dama que sin embargo la fascina y que esconde una terrible historia. Aprende que la lucha es una danza y consigue batirse con éxito en justas y torneos. Conoce la corte de Leonor de Aquitania y su cortejo de poetas, filósofos e ingeniosos polemistas que debaten sobre el Fino Amor y la alta teología. Se convierte, al fin, en un `Mercader de Sangre`, en un mercenario a sueldo de las clases más bajas de la sociedad.

Los años pasan, y Leola pierde dos dedos de la mano y tiene el cuerpo lleno de cicatrices. Se enamora de Gastón, un filósofo que busca la piedra filosofal, mientras estalla la herejía albigense. La guerra no se hace esperar, y Léola y Nyneve se pondrán al lado de los cátaros, que para ellas representan el lado de la bondad y la cordura.

For Captain Honor Harrington, it's sometimes hard to know who the enemy is. Offered a chance to reclaim her career, she is given command of a "squadron" of merchantment, and ordered to stop the pirates who are plundering the Kingdom's commerce. But the pirates are not all they seem.

The Divine Bliss Mission in India is just another money hustle - till its leader begins using his disciples to penetrate the higher U.S. echelons. The Blissful Master, alias whiz-kid Dom, has a nice line in drug-induced bliss for the converted and a sideline in painful death for unbelievers that have cost CURE four Agents. Remo and Chiun hit India, Dom flees, but curvaceous follower Joleen is prepared to embrace a new master - the outraged Chiun. Leaving behind them a trail of blissful dead, the three head for home - and more trouble.

With the defences of the Southern Appalachians sundered, the only thing standing between the ravening Posleen hordes and the soft interior of the Cumberland Plateau are the veterans of the 555th Mobile Infantry. Dropped into Rabun Pass, the only question is which will run out first: power, bullets or bodies.

With the defences of the Southern Appalachians sundered, the only thing standing between the ravening Posleen hordes and the soft interior of the Cumberland Plateau are the veterans of the 555th Mobile Infantry. Dropped into Rabun Pass, the only question is which will run out first: power, bullets or bodies.

'The door closed with a sickening thud of finality, shutting my friends out and leaving me alone with my enemy, a fallen angel, and the monstrous bird creature his ancient lust had created. Then I did something I'd only done twice before in my life. I fainted.' It's all happening, though Zoey Redbird wishes it wasn't. She has her friends back, which is great. But a dark angel has taken over the House of Night, supported by High Priestess Neferet. Not so great. This leaves Zoey hiding out with the (supposedly friendly) red fledglings in Tulsa's prohibition-era tunnels. The not greatness continues. Zoey has some boy-thoughts to distract her, with a chance to make-up with super-hot-ex Eric. But thoughts of the archer that died, semi-permanently, in her arms also keep distracting her. Then he shows up as Neferet's newest minion. Well, hell. Zoey and friends need a plan to put things right, soon, if she's to keep both head and heart intact.

Not suitable for younger readers

What secrets lie shrouded in darkness?

Okay, so jogging through Central Park after midnight wasn't a bright idea. But Margrit Knight never thought she'd encounter a dark new world filled with magical beings — not to mention a dying woman and a mysterious stranger with blood on his hands. Her logical, lawyer instincts told her it couldn't all be real — but she could hardly deny what she'd seen . . . and touched.

The mystery man, Alban, was a gargoyle. One of the fabled Old Races who had hidden their existence for centuries. Now he was a murder suspect, and he needed Margrit's help to take the heat off him and find the real killer.

As they worked together to figure out who was framing Alban, Margrit discovered that this man with a heart — and body — of stone made her feel more alive than ever, And as the dead pile up, it's a race against the sunrise to clear Alban's name and keep them both alive . . .

A covenant broken. A hell unleashed... New York City's only legal counsel to the fabled Old Races, Margrit Knight is levelheaded in all matters extraordinary. But when she's summoned to negotiate a peace treaty among rival factions, her own mortal world threatens to fall apart. Margrit's been in hot water before, but reentering the underworld brings a new set of problems. And a new set of friends and enemies, including a ruthless vampire mobster, a dragonlord who won't take no for an answer, a band of subversive selkies...oh, and Alban Korund, the sexy gargoyle who got her into this mess — and whose granite-strong touch still haunts her every fantasy...

War has erupted among the five Old Races, and Margrit is responsible for the death that caused it. Now New York City's most unusual lawyer finds herself facing her toughest negotiation yet. And with her gargoyle lover, Alban, taken prisoner, Margrit's only allies—a dragon bitter about his fall, a vampire determined to hold his standing at any cost and a mortal detective with no idea what he's up against—have demands of their own.

Determined to rescue Alban and torn between conflicting loyalties as the battle seeps into the human world, Margrit soon realizes the only way out is through the fire.…

…Poznajmy najpierw komisarza Petera Glebskego który mimo polsko brzmiącego nazwiska jest niezbyt bystrym przedstawicielem policji jakiegoś bliżej nie określonego alpejskiego państwa. Nie żeby polscy przedstawiciele prawa byli jakoś bardzo bystrzy ale w kryminałach przyzwyczajeni jesteśmy jednak do błyskotliwych śledczych.

Glebsky jest zmęczonym, wielce zasłużonym komisarzem policji który przyjeżdża na długo oczekiwany urlop do jak się wydawało spokojnego miejsca zagubionego gdzieś wysoko w górach. Ma niestety typowe przypadłości policjanta. Dużo pije, trzyma się regulaminu oraz narzeka na szefa (który to notabene wysyła go w to miejsce na urlop). Gdy wiec jeden z gości dwumetrowy Szwed Olaf Andvarforsen zostaje znaleziony w swoim pokoju ze skręconym karkiem przystępuje do kolejnego typowego, rutynowego śledztwa.

Sprawdza ślady, przesłuchuje wszystkich gości, zamyka podejrzanych ale to nie zbyt przybliża go do rozwiązania sprawy. Wszystkich podejrzewa, na dodatek pojawia się dziwna postać Loirevic, cudem uratowana spod lawiny która chce się spotkać z ofiarą. Jest też tajemnicza walizka, oferta przekupstwa, pogróżki i „dobre rady od życzliwych”. Glebsky w związku z tym nie śpi, jeszcze więcej pije i zupełnie nie przyjmuje rad od przyjaciół.

Co gorsza traci czujność. Najpierw wiec solidnie obrywa od przesłuchiwanego oprycha potem twardo trzymając się procedur pozwala na masowe zabójstwo które zostaje dokonane przez przybyłą helikopterem bandę nasłaną przez byłego hitlerowca a obecnie senatora Goldenwassera. Wprawdzie sprawiedliwość dopada przestępców a komisarz Glebsky awansuje, żeni się ma dzieci i wnuki. Na starość jednak wspomina ze smutkiem że nie wszystko tak poszło jak powinno…

Darren Shan, Mr. Crepsley and Vancha Marsch, are the hunters of the dusk. Their quarry — the Vampaneze Lord. But friends old and new may stand in their way… THE SAGA OF DARREN SHAN BOOK 7 It is six years after Darren was made a Vampire Prince and following a grim prophesy made by Mr. Tiny, the vampires know the ascension of the Vampaneze Lord is at hand. Mr. Tiny warns the vampires that there will be only three opportunities for the Vampaneze Lord to be vanquished and only three vampires who may succeed: Vancha Marsch, Larten Crepsley… and Darren Shan. Leaving the enclave of Vampire Mountain, Harkat, Darren and Mr. Crepsley are shadowed by a creature of the night, do battle with the vampaneze, meet the mysterious Evanna and pay a visit to some old friends at the Cirque Du Freak. But no friend can prevent the bloody trail of bodies — the Vampaneze Lord may be more than a match for the hunters of the dusk.

Это книга о свободе.

Одному, чтобы стать свободным, достаточно дома у холодного моря, банковского счета, далекого работодателя и женщины, которая ничего не требует. Другому необходима власть — реальная, экономическая, абсолютная. А у третьей рушится мир под ногами. Однако, мир, построенный на стремлении к свободе рано или поздно обрушится.

Ее можно окрасить в определенный цвет. Взять в кавычки и сделать брендом. А можно попытаться вывести ее формулу.

Самую простую. H2O.

This is a story about a cat and a dog and their undying devotion to their human master. It doesn’t have anything in common with the family films you have seen. It is a masterpiece you have to listen to.

Cat with armor in the city of the dead. Dog chase after the Cat and a story told with epic esoteric language. The master was a god. The dog and the cat learn the master’s words from the small animal in their dreams and set out on a mission to rescue their master.

The story is fantastic and make you interested in more, the world is a singularity one where humans have evolved and can make copies of their own minds. Unrestricted copy led to the creation of Plurals some of which evolved to transhuman civilizations out among the stars. Now human law limit every human to one copy at a time. The master breaks the law and is sentenced to a virtual prison. It’s from there the animals have to rescue him.

The language in the story is poetic and it sounds fantastic coming from someone not born to the language.

The story hints on things that might be in Hannu’s upcoming novel. There is a war going on among the stars and its there the small animal are going, to the Big Dogs.

The story is also amusing and fun imagine the dog become a musician to earn money and the cat had a gladiator career that lasted a while.

Per Hiero Desteen was a priest, a telepath—and a highly trained killer. Together with his great riding moose and the young bear who was his friend, he was on an extraordinary mission. For this was five thousand years after the holocaust known as The Death. Now the evil Brotherhood of the Unclean was waging all-out war against the few remnants of normal humanity, determined to wipe out all traces of its emerging civilization. Hiero’s task was to bring back a lost secret of the ancients that might save the humans. But his path lay through the very heart of the territory ruled by the Unclean and their hordes of mutated, intelligent, savage beast followers. And the Unclean were waiting for him!

Повесть в жанре «черного юмора» о последствиях евгенического эксперимента по выращиванию сверхчеловека, проводимого в ближайшем будущем.

The final dramatic conclusion to Darren Shan's international phenomena, The Demonata. Expect the unexpected!

The girl gazes up at me. She's even younger than I thought, clutching a small teddy bear in one hand. 'Are you the bogey man?' she whispers, eyes round.

'Yes,' I croak, then take hold of her head with my huge, scarred, blood-soaked hands and crush…" Beranabus and Dervish are gone. Bec has formed an unholy alliance with Lord Loss. Kernel is blind, held on Earth against his will. Grubbs is mad with grief and spinning out of control. The demons are crossing. The Disciples are falling. The Shadow is waiting. Welcome to the end.

In the midst of conflict and unrest the Prince of Hed solves the puzzle of his future when he learns to harp the wind, discovers who the shape changers are, and understands his own relationship to Deth, harpist of the wizard Ohm.

Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1980.

An expedition team of scientists is exploring the planet Mercury. The constant rumblings of earthquakes and wind have shaken their ship, the Albireo. A small explorative party departs on tractors. It’s then when the volcanic reaction starts. And it looks like the end of the team unless man’s intelligence can beat the malevolent nature of a fiery planet!

Für Harry Potter, den Cousin Dudleys, bleibt da nicht mehr viel übrig und so bekommt er seinen Platz im alten Schrank unter der Treppe. Harry hat sich schon damit abgefunden, dass er bei Onkel Vernon und Tante Petunia ein ungeliebter Gast ist, doch da seine Eltern schon in seiner frühesten Kindheit bei einem Autounfall gestorben waren, ist er gezwungen, sich mit seinem Schicksal abzufinden. Bis eines Tages, kurz nach seinem elften Geburtstag ein Brief eintrifft: Harry ist in der Hogwarts-Schule für Hexerei und Zauberei aufgenommen. Nicht vergessen soll er bitte seinen Zauberstab und es bleibt ihm freigestellt, ob er eine Eule, eine Katze oder eine Kröte mitbringt. Das Schuljahr beginnt wie jedes Jahr am 1. September und die Fahrt geht mit dem Zug um elf Uhr auf Gleis neundreiviertel los – das finden wirklich nur die Eingeweihten.

Für Harry ist das alles ein Riesenfest; endlich kann er den miesepetrigen Verwandten und dem verwöhnten Dudley entkommen. An der neuen Schule wird Harry herzlich aufgenommen und jede Menge Abenteuer warten bereits auf ihn.

Edward York is an illegal clone, genetically engineered for perfection — but something went wrong. His twin sister, Ambassador Samantha York, is a gorgeous genius, but the physically perfect Edward is condemned by his faulty brain to service in the human Navy’s Outward Fleet Explorer Corps, a collection of misfits who call themselves the Expendables, and with good reason. After Edward fails to save his sister’s life on the war-torn planet Troyen, he is sent away on a Navy starship in which all other crew and passengers die in the same instant, leaving Edward alone — and trapped with unknown, destructive nanotechnology. If that isn’t trouble enough, his fate is mysteriously tied to that of Troyen’s native race, the Mandasar, in a complex interstellar web of conspiracy and treachery. And his only allies may be five young Mandasar; a human-alien symbiont with motives of her own; and the most infamous Expendable in the Corps, the hated Admiral Festina Ramos.

In addition to Hunted, James Alan Gardner has written two previous novels featuring Festina Ramos, Expendable and Vigilant; his novel Commitment Hour is set in the same universe.

Even in Grundy, Alaska, it’s unusual to find a naked guy with a bear trap clamped to his ankle on your porch. But when said guy turns into a wolf, recent southern transplant Mo Wenstein has no difficulty identifying the problem. Her surly neighbor Cooper Graham—who has been openly critical of Mo’s ability to adapt to life in Alaska—has trouble of his own. Werewolf trouble. For Cooper, an Alpha in self-imposed exile from his dysfunctional pack, it’s love at first sniff when it comes to Mo. But Cooper has an even more pressing concern on his mind. Several people around Grundy have been the victims of wolf attacks, and since Cooper has no memory of what he gets up to while in werewolf form, he’s worried that he might be the violent canine in question. If a wolf cries wolf, it makes sense to listen, yet Mo is convinced that Cooper is not the culprit. Except if he’s not responsible, then who is? And when a werewolf falls head over haunches in love with you, what are you supposed to do anyway? The rules of dating just got a whole lot more complicated. . .

Times are hard for newly minted vampire Merit. Ever since shapeshifters announced their presence to the world, humans have been rallying against supernaturals--and they're camping outside of Cadogan House with protest signs that could turn to pitchforks at any moment. Inside its doors, things between Merit and her Master, green-eyed heartbreaker Ethan Sullivan are ... tense. But then the mayor of Chicago calls Merit and Ethan to a clandestine meeting and tells them about a violent vamp attack that has left three women missing. His message is simple: get your House in order. Or else. Merit needs to get to the bottom of this crime, but it doesn't help that she can't tell who's on her side. So she secretly calls in a favor from someone who's tall, dark, and part of underground vamp group that may have some deep intel on the attack. Merit soon finds herself in the heady, dark heart of Chicago's supernatural society--a world full of vampires who seem too ready to fulfill the protesting human's worst fears, and a place where she'll learn that you can't be a vampire without getting a little blood on your hands...

The author of Spider-Touched and Ghostland continues her tale of a postapocalyptic world where the afterlife has come to life...

Born into a world of violence and paid-for sex, Rebekka longs for a family of her own and dreams of freeing those trapped in the shapeshifter brothels of the red zone. A witch's prophecy claims she'll one day use her gift to heal the Weres made outcast by their mixed human-animal forms.

But Rebekka knows that everything comes at a cost. A plea to save five children sends her into the arms of Aryck, a Jaguar enforcer—and into territory controlled by pure Weres. It's a place where humans and outcasts aren't welcomed, where plague threatens and the fate of the Weres hangs in the balance. And where the choices Rebekka and Aryck make are paid for with their hearts...if not their souls.

The author of Spider-Touched and Ghostland continues her tale of a postapocalyptic world where the afterlife has come to life...

Born into a world of violence and paid-for sex, Rebekka longs for a family of her own and dreams of freeing those trapped in the shapeshifter brothels of the red zone. A witch's prophecy claims she'll one day use her gift to heal the Weres made outcast by their mixed human-animal forms.

But Rebekka knows that everything comes at a cost. A plea to save five children sends her into the arms of Aryck, a Jaguar enforcer—and into territory controlled by pure Weres. It's a place where humans and outcasts aren't welcomed, where plague threatens and the fate of the Weres hangs in the balance. And where the choices Rebekka and Aryck make are paid for with their hearts...if not their souls.

“One of the most remarkable prose stylists to emerge from the noir tradition in this century.” – Stephen King

Starred Review. Huston's third Joe Pitt vampire novel (after Already Dead and No Dominion) takes his Manhattan-based hard-boiled hero on a dangerous trip into the undead communities across the bridge in Brooklyn. The various vampire clans in New York are on the brink of conflict. Leadership has fallen apart, and to make things worse, a Van Helsing is running amok and has recently murdered a longtime supplier of contraband blood. Worst of all, Pitt's AIDS-stricken girlfriend, Evie, is in the hospital failing fast. Once again, he's faced with an almost classical dilemma: infecting her with the vampire virus will destroy the illness that's killing her, but she'll be a vampire. Sent to Brooklyn to meet with a rogue clan of carnival freak vampires, Pitt ends up battling a group of radical Jewish bloodsuckers called the lost tribe of Gibeah. As always, Huston's formidable writing chops are on full display: his action scenes are unparalleled in crime fiction and his dialogue is so hip and dead-on that Elmore Leonard should be getting nervous.

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Former Earthman Tarl Cabot is now a powerful Tarnsman of the brutal and caste-bound planet of Gor, also known as Counter-earth. He embarks on an adventure in the dangerous and mysterious wilderness of Gor, pitting his warrior skills against treacherous outlaws, bandits and fighters.Three different women are working to bring change to Tarl's far-from-peaceful life on Gor: Talena, his onetime queen and first love; Elizabeth, his brave fighting partner; and the Amazonian Verna, chief of the fierce and wild panther women.As Tarl journeys through the wilderness, the fates of these three remarkable women are finally decided.

Former Earthman Tarl Cabot is now a powerful Tarnsman of the brutal and caste-bound planet of Gor, also known as Counter-earth. He embarks on an adventure in the dangerous and mysterious wilderness of Gor, pitting his warrior skills against treacherous outlaws, bandits and fighters.Three different women are working to bring change to Tarl's far-from-peaceful life on Gor: Talena, his onetime queen and first love; Elizabeth, his brave fighting partner; and the Amazonian Verna, chief of the fierce and wild panther women.As Tarl journeys through the wilderness, the fates of these three remarkable women are finally decided.

Vara este în toi, dar o ceaţă neobişnuită pentru acest anotimp bate în ferestre. Harry este în camera sa, aşteptând ca pe ace vizita domnului profesor Dumbledore în persoană. Una dintre ultimele ocazii în care l-a vazut pe director a fost când acesta purta un duel aprig cu Lordul Cap-de-Mort, iar lui Harry nu-i vine să creadă că domnul profesor Dumbledore chiar îţi va face apariţia tocmai în casa familiei Dursley. De ce îl vizitează acum? Ce este atât de important, încât nu poate aştepta până când Harry se va întoarce la Hogwarts peste câteva săptămâni? Al şaselea an la Hogwarts al lui Harry a debutat deja într-un mod ciudat, dat fiind că lumea Încuiată şi cea Magică încep să se împletească.

Trzecia i ostatnia czesc trylogii o dwoch rownoleglych swiatach — blizniaczych Ziemiach — naszej, zdominowanej przez czlowieka i drugiej, opanowanej przez Neandertalczykow. W Hybrydach Ponter Boddit i jego partnerka z Ziemi Homo sapiens, Mary Vaughan, staja przed koniecznoscia pogodzenia zycia w dwoch swiatach. Usiluja znalezc sposob, aby ich niezwykly zwiazek mogl przetrwac pomimo pietrzacych sie trudnosci i roznic. Za pomoca zakazanej neandertalskiej technologii planuja poczac dziecko, pierwszego hybryda — symbol nadziei na polaczenie dwoch tak odmiennych wersji rzeczywistosci. Tymczasem na Ziemi zamieszkalej przez Homo sapiens zaczyna zmieniac sie pole magnetyczne planety, dlatego szef Mary, tajemniczy Jock Krieger, coraz czesciej z zazdroscia spoglada na nie zdewastowany przez czlowieka raj, jakim jest neandertalski swiat.

V románu Hluboké pastviny autor opustil vesmír, aby čerpal inspiraci ve stejně tajemných a nebezpečných hloubkách oceánů. Vzniklo tak, zejména díky reálnosti příběhu, jedno z jeho nejlepších děl. Přelidněné lidstvo hledá nové možnosti obživy i v oceánech, kde obrovské plantáže slouží k hromadnému chovu velryb. Zde farmaří i Franklin, astronaut, který musel změnit zaměstnání a jehož strmou kariéru román sleduje. Při své práci zažívá v neprozkoumaných hlubinách mnohá dobrodružství, která jsou mnohdy nebezpečnější než ta v kosmu.

Neandertalski fizyk Ponter Boddit, podczas eksperymentu z komputerem kwantowym przypadkiem przekracza barierę między wszechświatami i zostaje przeniesiony do naszego świata.

Niemal natychmiast zostaje rozpoznany jako Neandertalczyk. Czuje się obcy w dziwnym dla niego świecie, nie potrafi porozumieć się z otoczeniem, a do tego musi przejść kwarantannę. Na szczęście znajduje kilkoro przyjaciół, w tym specjalistkę w dziedzinie genetyki, Kanadyjkę Mary Vaughan, kobietę, z którą zaczyna go łączyć szczególna więź.

Tymczasem w świecie Pontera, jego partner, Adikor Huld, musi stawić czoło podejrzeniom o morderstwo. Jak ma dowieść własnej niewinności, skoro nie wie, co się stało z jego przyjacielem?

The “Back Cover” information for this book is quite misleading. This is only “science fiction” in the most literal sense of the phrase — it is fiction about science. The single fantastical element is only theorized — a Sender of the message in question. The book is cerebral in nature, which makes me question why exactly it is referred to as a “thriller” on the back cover. . though there is a tension in the book, like in most good literature, I would not choose to describe it as a “thriller”. The most thrilling thing about this book is that there exists an author who is willing to explore topics as diverse as psychology, morality, linguistics, physics, mathematics, ethics, and philosophy in one book. This is a more thoughtful, realistic, and rewarding book than others in the same vein such as Sagan’s Contact.

Их называют "сборщики пепла", потому что им приказано искать все, что осталось от цивилизации, погибшей более ста лет назад. Все, что может помочь выжить остаткам человечества, пережившим в убежищах ядерную зиму. Но руины прошлого — это еще один повод начать новую войну.

Год 2115, который не наступил. Мир, который был уничтожен. Люди — потомки тех поколений, которые в глубине убежищ рождались и умирали, никогда не увидев солнечного света. Но восьмидесятилетняя ядерная зима закончилась, и узники убежищ вышли на поверхность, чтобы получить в наследство жестокий мир, где свирепствуют смертельные болезни, хищники и безжалостные кланы Диких, идет тайная война между военными группировками за обладание научным и технологическим наследием прошлого, чудом уцелевшим после Катастрофы. Мир третьего ледникового периода, населенный мутантами, на которых охотится человек по имени Зих. И так уж обернется, что пути Зиха и таинственных "сборщиков пепла" — бойцов элитного постъядерного спецназа HEAVEN, — однажды пересекутся. У них разные цели, но цена победы или поражения велика — жизнь. Жизнь одного-единственного человека, и жизни всех, кто пережил ядерную зиму.

Druhá kniha příběhů o Willovi a jeho přátelích z hradu Redmontu. Araluenské království se chystá na válku proti Morgarathovi a Will s Horácem doprovázejí Gilana s poselstvím do Celtiky. Celtické vesnice a doly jsou však opuštěné. Tři poslové zjistí, proč tomu tak je, až když objeví hladovou a vyčerpanou dívku: Morgarath poslal své odporné stvůry, aby Celtiky zotročily.

Zatímco Gilan rychle ujíždí zpátky do Araluenu, aby podal zprávu králi, Will s Horácem odhalí pravou příčinu Morgarathova jednání. Chystá se překvapivý útok ze tří stran a Araluenu hrozí neodvratná porážka - pokud naši dva přátelé něco nepodniknou.

Книга, написанная по сюжету игры Half-Life 2. Продолжает сюжет книги серии HL1

Есть люди, которые родились для оперативной работы. Случается, человек понимает это не сразу, но когда распробует… С Крайневым так и произошло. Однажды побывав в прошлом, во время Великой Отечественной, он уже не смог отказаться от смертельно опасной работы партизанского разведчика. И вот новый рейд, новое задание, старые враги и верные боевые товарищи. А на карте – тысячи жизней и успех операции «Багратион».

Lady Alexia Maccon, soulless, is at it again, only this time the trouble is not her fault. When a mad ghost threatens the queen, Alexia is on the case, following a trail that leads her deep into her husband's past. Top that off with a sister who has joined the suffragette movement (shocking!), Madame Lefoux's latest mechanical invention, and a plague of zombie porcupines and Alexia barely has time to remember she happens to be eight months pregnant.

Will Alexia manage to determine who is trying to kill Queen Victoria before it is too late? Is it the vampires again or is there a traitor lurking about in wolf's clothing? And what, exactly, has taken up residence in Lord Akeldama's second best closet?

Meriel Owen, next in line to control the largest organization of witches in the country, is asked to investigate the owner of a notorious club reportedly siphoning magic from the font of the Clan. It’s a direct violation of the Clan Code of Conduct, but one look at Dominic Bright and Meriel’s willing to make a deal. One taste of the sexually feral outlaw witch, and she’s eager to go further: he’s her bond mate, a legal conduit into the world of Clan witches and their magic.

Playing by the rules isn’t Dominic’s style, but bonding with Meriel — night after explosive night — is. However, Meriel has unwittingly invited someone else into her world: Dominic’s mother, a dangerous and poisonously influential magic addict whose lust for death and power corrupts all she touches. Now her shadow is closing in on Meriel, her Clan, and the man Meriel loves, and it’s casting them all into the inescapable heart of darkness.

No one said fighting monsters was going to be easy …

You can't see them, but they're here: hiding in the pools of shadow outside a Chicago burger joint …wreaking havoc in Kansas City …feeding in sleazy "blood brothels" that cater to humans who itch to get bitten.

Cole was designing video games when he learned the truth - that foul creatures of the night lust for our blood …and our world. Now he's a "Skinner," a member of an ancient secret society of warriors entrusted with keeping the terror at bay. Monsters once chained to the wilderness are suddenly free and descending, razor claws ripping, on the unsuspecting city. No one knows what's coming - but Cole and his seductive partner, Paige, will be the first to dive into the meat grinder.

Hluboko pod ledem Antarktidy objeví sonda francouzské polární základny něco naprosto nečekaného, zvláštního, nepředstavitelného. Stopy neznámé civilizace, trosky budov, schodišť, ulic. A jejich přístroje zachytí signál fungujícího ultrazvukového vysílače. Znamená to snad, že uprostřed změti pohřbených, gigantických zřícenin něco nebo někdo žije a volá? Co najdou vědci a technici Mezinárodní expedice, která je pověřená najít odpověď na tuto otázku? Jak dopadne konfrontace civilizace XX. století s mnohem vyvinutější civilizací, která zničila sama sebe? Kde jsou hranice lásky, víry, nenávisti? Před námi se otevře hlubina času, abychom do ní mohli s úžasem pohlédnout.

Discover MESKLIN — Gravity: 3g at the equator, 700g at the poles!

Hal Clement is a Grand Master of SF, and the one most associated with the subgenre of hard SF. From his classic stories in Astounding in the 1940s through his novels of the 1950s and on to the recent Half Life, he has made a lasting impression on SF readers, and on writers, too. For many of them, Clement’s work is the model of how to write hard SF, and this book contains the reasons why. Here are all the tales of bizarre, unforgettable Mesklin: the classic novel Mission of Gravity and its sequel, Star Light, as well as the short stories “Under” and “Lecture Demonstration.” Also included is “Whirligig World,” the famous essay Clement published in Astounding in 1953. It describes the rigorous process he used to create his intriguingly plausible high-gravity planet, with its odd flattened shape, its day less than eighteen minutes long, and its many-limbed, noble natives. Come to Mesklin and learn why The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction called Mission of Gravity “one of the best loved novels in SF.”

Профессор с ассистентом испытывают свою машину, которая позволяет заглядывать в будущее. На этот раз подопытным кроликом оказался жизнерадостный мужчина, который попросил, чтобы был хэппи-энд. Во время эксперимента выяснилось, что будущего у него нет и жить ему осталось всего несколько минут. Но профессор с ассистентом попытаются спасти его от возможной гибели.

The editors of the New York Times bestselling Death's Excellent Vacation bring home a new collection...with a never-before-published Sookie Stackhouse story!

 There's nothing like home renovation for finding skeletons in the closet or otherwordly portals in the attic. Now, for any homeowner who's ever wondered, "What's that creaking sound?" or fans of "how to" television who'd like a little unreality mixed in with their reality shows, editors Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner return with an all-new collection of the paranormal perils of Do-It-Yourself.

 Sookie Stackhouse resides in these pages, in a never-before-published story by #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris. And New York Times bestselling authors Patricia Briggs, James Grady, Heather Graham, Melissa Marr, and nine other outstanding writers have constructed more frightening and funny fixer-upper tales guaranteed to shake foundations and rattle readers' pipes.

Un experimento científico hace posible la inesperada interacción entre dos universos paralelos, con la salvedad de que, en uno de ellos, la especie humana que ha predominado son los Neanderthales y no los Cromagnones, como ha ocurrido en nuestro mundo. Ponter Boddit y su hombre-compañero Adikor Huld, físicos neanderthales, han abierto un puente entre dos universos dando lugar a una sorprendente comparación entre culturas radicalmente distintas. Una de esas diferencias es la percepción del hecho religioso, del todo ausente en los neanderthales.

En Híbridos, unos científicos de nuestro mundo especulan con la idea de que la propensión a tener creencias y experiencias religiosas podría provenir de una mutación genética que no se había producido en los neanderthales, pero sí en los cromagnones. El neanderthal Ponter Boddit y su amada Homo Sapiens, Mary Vaughan, desean tener una hija; la moderna tecnología neanderthal de reproducción asistida se lo permite, pero hay que tomar una importante decisión: ¿qué será mejor para su hija, tener creencias religiosas o no tenerlas?

Drugi tom cyklu o przygodach Honor Harrington. Tym razem bohaterka obejmuje dowództwo konwoju do systemu Yeltsin. Przedstawicielem Jej Królewskiej Mości zostaje admirał Courvosier, przyjaciel i mentor Honor, a celem ich misji jest zawarcie sojuszu z władzami planety Grayson. Manticore potrzebuje bowiem sprzymierzeńców w zbliżającej się wojnie. Królewskie Ministerstwo Spraw zagranicznych przeoczyło jednak drobną kulturową różnicę, zlecając zadanie Honor na planecie Grayson kobiety nie mają żadnych praw i nawet sama obecność Harrington stanowi obelgę dla wszystkich męskich obywateli. Na dodatek Grayson niespodziewanie zostaje zaatakowana przez fanatyków z planety Masada, a w boju ginie admirał. Czy Honor będzie w stanie ocalić planetę przed nuklearną zagładą?

Przybita ostatnimi wydarzeniami i rozgoryczona rozwojem sytuacji lady Honor Harrington udaje się na planetę Grayson, by zając się zarządzaniem domeną Harrington i zaleczyć wewnętrzne rany.

Spokój jednak nie jest pisany — z jednej strony atakują wrogowie wewnętrzni, dla których kobieta — patron stanowi obrazę, z drugiej zewnętrzni: zrewolucjonizowana Ludowa Republika Haven kolejny raz próbuje zdobyć system Yeltsin. Na drodze do zwycięstwa jednych i drugich stoi tylko jedna przeszkoda — admirał lady Honor Harrington. Admirał, ale nie Królewskiej Marynarki…

Szósty tom przygód Honor Harrington. Szósty tom przygód Honor Harrington, która wraca w nim do Royal Manticoran Navy, ale jako dowódca grupy czterech statków pułapek, czyli jednostek handlowych przerobionych na okręty wojenne, z załogami, na których nie można zbytnio polegać. Ma oczyścić z piratów obszar Konfederacji Silesiańskiej, gdzie marynarka handlowa ponosi przez nich duże straty. Jak się jednak okazuje, nie wszyscy oni są wyłącznie piratami, a na dodatek starzy wrogowie w Gwiezdnym Królestwie Manticore nie zapomnieli o Honor Harrington i zrobili, co mogli, by tak zadanie, jak i przeciwnik oraz środki, które dano jej do dyspozycji, gwarantowały przegraną…

Honor Harrington zostaje powieszona, a nagranie z egzekucji rozpowszechnione. Admirał Esther McQueen pierwszy raz od lat przejmuje inicjatywę i kontratakuje, zmuszając Sojusz Manticore do obrony. Grayson rośnie w siłę, a Królewska Marynarka testuje nowe uzbrojenie i nową klasę okrętów.

Tymczasem na Hadesie, planecie więziennej, Honor leczy rany odniesione w trakcie ucieczki. O tym, że przeżyła, wiedzą jedynie dwie osoby. Dzięki pomocy więźniów Harrington opanowuje planetę i obiecuje zabrać ich ze sobą. Jest tylko jeden problem — uwięzionych jest prawie czterysta tysięcy, a ona ma zwyczaj dotrzymywać słowa.

Fantázia, dobrodružstvo… Nebolo hádam ešte obdobia v dejinách ľudstva, ktoré by dávalo toľko živnej pôdy pre nekonečný rozlet tvorivej ľudskej fantázie, ako je tomu dnes. A nebolo ani obdobia, v ktorom by sa tak rýchlo menil obsah pojmu dobrodružstvo. Najmarkantnejšie to vidíme v súčasnej sovietskej fantastickej a dobrodružnej literatúre, z ktorej neveľký výber predkladáme slovenskému čitateľovi. Prvé tri poviedky našej knižky sú venované problematike medzihviezdnych a medziplanetárnych letov. Zem — písal svojho času K. Ciolkovskij — je kolíska ľudstva. No nemožno večne žiť iba v kolíske. Cesta človeka do vesmíru, spôsob života v kozmických lodiach, úporné hľadania seberovných bytostí v nekonečnom priestore a osobitosti stretnutia s nimi — to sú najpálčivejšie otázky, ktoré priťahujú nielen sovietskych spisovateľov-fantastov, ale i milióny pozemšťanov z polovice dvadsiateho storočia. Popri dnes už po celom svete známom I. Jefremovovi (slovenský čitateľ ho pozná z Hmloviny Andromedy) predstavujú sa nám tu doteraz neznámi mladí autori V. Žuravľovová (Belasá planéta) a V. Saparin (Nebeská kulu). Ich fantastické poviedky prekvapujú bohatou umeleckou invenciou. Prvé stretnutie pozemšťanov s Venušanmi (Nebeská kulu), plné dramatizmu a neočakávaných obratov, netápá v abstraktných sférach, je podané tak, akoby šlo o autentický príbeh, reálne a umelecky pôsobivo, ba so zaujímavým autorovým pokusom načrtnúť psychológiu nezemského človeka. Tak isto príbeh dvojčlennej posádky polorozbitej medziplanetárnej lode (Belasá planéta), ktorej sa po ťažkých útrapách podarí pristáť na Marse, popri všetkej „vedeckosti“ udivuje živou obrazotvornosťou mladej sovietskej autorky. Poviedky V. Savčenka (Prebudenie profesora Berna) a V. Saparina (Posledný pilot) sme zaradili vedľa seba, pretože, ako sa nám zdá, navzájom sa doplňujú. Kým prvá poviedka polemizuje s „teóriami“ o nevyhnutnej atómovej záhubě ľudstva a vštepuje vieru v jeho šťastnú budúcnosť, Posledný pilot je zasa pokusom nahliadnuť do tejto budúcnosti, do krásneho, plnokrvného života budúcich pokolení. Knižku uzatvárajú dve rozsiahlejšie poviedky I. Jefremova Havrania jurta a Afaneor, Acharchellenova dcéra. Tematicky čerpajú z oblastí navzájom vzdialených (na jednej strane dramatický príbeh sovietskeho inžiniera, ktorý s nasadením vlastného života nachádza bohaté rudné nálezisko, a na druhej strane obraz šľachetného saharského Tuarega, čo zachráni francúzsku karavánu, odsúdenú na smrť, a vymôže si za to cestu do Sovietskeho sväzu), obidve sú však charakteristické pre súčasnú sovietsku dobrodružnú literatúru: nejde v nich o hromadenie vonkajších efektov, ale o činy, ktorých pohnútkami a konečným cieľom je služba kolektívu, ľudu, pokroku.

Half-vampire Catherine Crawfield is going after the undead with a vengeance, hoping that one of these deadbeats is her father-the one responsible for ruining her mother's life. Then she's captured by Bones, a vampire bounty hunter, and is forced into an unholy partnership.

In exchange for finding her father, Cat agrees to train with the sexy night stalker until her battle reflexes are as sharp as his fangs. She's amazed she doesn't end up as his dinner-are there actually good vampires? Pretty soon Bones will have her convinced that being half-dead doesn't have to be all bad. But before she can enjoy her newfound status as kick-ass demon hunter, Cat and Bones are pursued by a group of killers. Now Cat will have to choose a side… and Bones is turning out to be as tempting as any man with a heartbeat.

Hartraft's Marauders are heading for a frontier garrison. But a Tsurani patrol is sent to support an assault on the same garrison. Both enemies arrive at the same time to discover the garrison has been overrun by a horde of moredhel (dark elves). Can they band together to survive?

Say you’ve spent the first 10 years of your life sleeping under the stairs of a family who loathes you. Then, in an absurd, magical twist of fate you find yourself surrounded by wizards, a caged snowy owl, a phoenix-feather wand, and jellybeans that come in every flavor, including strawberry, curry, grass, and sardine. Not only that, but you discover that you are a wizard yourself! This is exactly what happens to young Harry Potter in J. K. Rowling’s enchanting, funny debut novel, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. In the nonmagic human world—the world of “Muggles”—Harry is a nobody, treated like dirt by the aunt and uncle who begrudgingly inherited him when his parents were killed by the evil Voldemort. But in the world of wizards, small, skinny Harry is famous as a survivor of the wizard who tried to kill him. He is left only with a lightning-bolt scar on his forehead, curiously refined sensibilities, and a host of mysterious powers to remind him that he’s quite, yes, altogether different from his aunt, uncle, and spoiled, piglike cousin Dudley.

A mysterious letter, delivered by the friendly giant Hagrid, wrenches Harry from his dreary, Muggle-ridden existence: “We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.” Of course, Uncle Vernon yells most unpleasantly, “I AM NOT PAYING FOR SOME CRACKPOT OLD FOOL TO TEACH HIM MAGIC TRICKS!” Soon enough, however, Harry finds himself at Hogwarts with his owl Hedwig . . . and that’s where the real adventure—humorous, haunting, and suspenseful—begins. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, first published in England as Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, continues to win major awards in England. So far it has won the National Book Award, the Smarties Prize, the Children’s Book Award, and is short-listed for the Carnegie Medal, the U. K. version of the Newbery Medal.

Christine Warren 'Devil's Bargain'

Supernatural bounty hunter Lilli Corbin made a pact with the Prince of Hell: She agreed to recover a book of prophecies. When she learns it could trigger the apocalypse, Lilli is forced to make the ultimate choice: save her soul, or the man she loves?

Marjorie M. Liu 'The Robber Bride'

Welcome to a post-apocalyptic world where women are fed on for their life forces. Now it's up to Maggie, one of the last female survivors, to hunt down and destroy an army of darkness.

Caitlin Kittredge 'Down in the Ground Where the Dead Men Go'

Ava is a demon slayer who needs help from mage Jack Winter to reach the demon underworld — a place of dark seduction.and, maybe, one of no return.

Jenna Maclaine 'Sin Slayer'

London 1889. Jack the Ripper is killing off the city's vampire population, and now it's up to Cin Craven to hunt him down — and save the infected Michael, the love of her undead life.

In volumul patru, avem de-a face cu un Harry care stie sa isi stapaneasca acum puterile si care nu doreste altceva decat sa fie un vrajitor normal, ca toti colegii lui de paisprezece ani. Din intamplare insa, Harry nu este „normal” nici macar dupa standardele vrajitoresti…

Three years ago, Sophie Mercer discovered that she was a witch. It's gotten her into a few scrapes. Her non-gifted mother has been as supportive as possible, consulting Sophie's estranged father--an elusive European warlock--only when necessary. But when Sophie attracts too much human attention for a prom-night spell gone horribly wrong, it's her dad who decides her punishment: exile to Hex Hall, an isolated reform school for wayward Prodigium, a.k.a. witches, faeries, and shapeshifters.

By the end of her first day among fellow freak-teens, Sophie has quite a scorecard: three powerful enemies who look like supermodels, a futile crush on a gorgeous warlock, a creepy tagalong ghost, and a new roommate who happens to be the most hated person and only vampire on campus. Worse, Sophie soon learns that a mysterious predator has been attacking students, and her only friend is the number-one suspect.

As a series of blood-curdling mysteries starts to converge, Sophie prepares for the biggest threat of all: an ancient secret society determined to destroy all Prodigium, especially her. 

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 life.

Ryan Cawdor’s post holocaust odyssey across America is about to come full circle — Ryan Cawdor is going home.

Forced away from Front Royal years earlier by a power-mad brother who had already committed fratricide, Ryan had roamed a devastated America searching out the small pockets of life where civilization was being reborn.

Emerging from a gateway in the ruins of New York City, Ryan decides to put his own house in order — it’s time to avenge the deaths of his father and older brother.

Accompanied by Krysty Wroth and J.B. Dix, Ryan Cawdor comes face to face with the harsh reality of post holocaust America. In the Deathlands, honor and fair play are words of the past. Vengeance is a word to live by.

Hugo Best Novelette Winner (2002)

Nebula Best Novelette Winner (2003)

Locus Poll & Awards Best Novelette Winner (2002)

Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Shortlist (2002)

Seiun Awards Best Translated Short Story (2004)

Twenty-one stories for mature audiences only!

This collection of Joe R. Lansdale stories represents the best of the “Lansdale” genre—a strange mixture of dark crime, even darker humor, and adventure tales. Though varied in setting and theme, all the stories are pure Lansdale—eerie, amusing, and occasionally horrific. In “The Pit,” modern gladiators square off against one another using Roman methods. An alternate-history tale called “Trains Not Taken” shows Buffalo Bill as an ambassador and Wild Bill Hickok as a clerk. Lansdale’s love of large lizards and humor are evident in the stories “Godzilla’s Twelve Step Program” and “Bob the Dinosaur Goes to Disneyland.”

The career of Joe R. Lansdale has spanned more than twenty-seven years, in which period he has written over two hundred short stories. This collection is the best of these. As Lansdale states in his Introduction, ". these stories are the ones I think best reflect my work." Some of these are obviously horrific ab initio: others, the realization will slowly, surely creep upon one. Others will visit alternate history, humor, or dark crime. Mixing the impossible, the improbable, and the never-before-thought-of, Lansdale uses his innate East Texas storytelling abilities to perfection. As an added bonus, each story starts with an introduction by Lansdale, describing the story-behind-the-story.

First published in paperback as 'Herogiri' by Random House India, 2010.

What happens when fate chooses an ordinary man for an extraordinary mission?

Arnab Bannerjee has little excitement in his life other than tracking down missing books as the Assistant Librarian in a small college in Delhi. All that changes one day when he is beaten and left for dead after a robbery. Arnab awakens to discover that he has developed fantastic superhuman powers and he tries to master his new¬found powers and to use them for good. As a hooded superhero he takes to the streets on a one-man crusade against injustice. However he soon realizes that in a society where the only power that matters comes from having money or the right connections, one man, even a superhero, can make little difference.

When he embarks on a final, desperate mission, he realizes that to succeed, he has to become a part of the very system he loathes by tapping into a motley set of allies such as the Minister who wants to use his powers to rig elections, the corrupt policeman who shot Arnab for exposing him and the corporate tycoon who wants to sign him up as a brand ambassador!

At one level, Heroes R Us seeks to entertain with a delightfully contemporary take on the superhero genre, and at another level it asks the provocative question of whether in the dark and corrupt times we live in, there is any place left for heroes. Slumdog Millionaire meets Spiderman in this exciting novel that will entertain and make you think at the same time.

Another night on the Nightside…An ancient evil looms over Santa Luz. Prostitutes are showing up dead and eviscerated. And Jill Kismet just might be able to get her revenge against an old enemy.

There's just one problem. Someone wants Jill dead-again. And if they have to open up Hell itself to kill her, they will.

Sometimes, even when you're Jill Kismet, you don't have a prayer…

First in the long-running series of erotic horror tales! Robert Bloch, Richard Matheson, Robert R. McCammon, Graham Masterton, Harlan Ellison, Ramsey Campbell, David J. Schow, Lisa Tuttle, F. Paul Wilson, Theodore Sturgeon, and other masters of the macabre take readers into their private world of fear, fantasy, and fatal attraction — in 24 tales of dread and debauchery, riveting stories of sex and terror.

First in the long-running series of erotic horror tales! Robert Bloch, Richard Matheson, Robert R. McCammon, Graham Masterton, Harlan Ellison, Ramsey Campbell, David J. Schow, Lisa Tuttle, F. Paul Wilson, Theodore Sturgeon, and other masters of the macabre take readers into their private world of fear, fantasy, and fatal attraction — in 24 tales of dread and debauchery, riveting stories of sex and terror.

When the world of Armageddon is attacked by orks, the Black

Templars Space Marine Chapter are amongst those sent to

liberate it. Chaplain Grimaldus and a band of Black Templars

are charged with the defence of Hive Helsreach from the

xenos invaders in one of many battlezones. But as the ork

numbers grow and the Space Marines dwindle, Grimaldus

faces a desperate last stand in an Imperial temple. Determined

to sell their lives dearly, will the Black Templars hold on long

enough to be reinforced, or will their sacrifice ultimately be in

vain?

When the world of Armageddon is attacked by orks, the Black

Templars Space Marine Chapter are amongst those sent to

liberate it. Chaplain Grimaldus and a band of Black Templars

are charged with the defence of Hive Helsreach from the

xenos invaders in one of many battlezones. But as the ork

numbers grow and the Space Marines dwindle, Grimaldus

faces a desperate last stand in an Imperial temple. Determined

to sell their lives dearly, will the Black Templars hold on long

enough to be reinforced, or will their sacrifice ultimately be in

vain?

In Hotter Blood, sex and horror are coupled to an ecstatic effect. This is the second in the provocative anthology series that defined a genre and spanned a generation. Grant Morrison’s Bram Stoker- nominated “The Braille Encyclopedia” spearheads a collection of 24 original stories, with additional contributions from horror stars like Richard Laymon and Nancy Collins, comic book talents Kurt Busiek and John Byrne, and superstar horror director Mick Garris. Explore the dark side of having your lover in “The Tub” with you, find out when “Confession” isn’t good for the soul, and feed your hunger for erotic horror with this delectable collection…

Cemetery Dance called Hotter Blood “outstanding,” Gauntlet labeled it “aggressive and riveting, a virtual Who’s Who of modern horror,” and to 2AM Magazine, it’s “Amazing… highly recommended.”

In Hotter Blood, sex and horror are coupled to an ecstatic effect. This is the second in the provocative anthology series that defined a genre and spanned a generation. Grant Morrison’s Bram Stoker- nominated “The Braille Encyclopedia” spearheads a collection of 24 original stories, with additional contributions from horror stars like Richard Laymon and Nancy Collins, comic book talents Kurt Busiek and John Byrne, and superstar horror director Mick Garris. Explore the dark side of having your lover in “The Tub” with you, find out when “Confession” isn’t good for the soul, and feed your hunger for erotic horror with this delectable collection…

Cemetery Dance called Hotter Blood “outstanding,” Gauntlet labeled it “aggressive and riveting, a virtual Who’s Who of modern horror,” and to 2AM Magazine, it’s “Amazing… highly recommended.”

ALERT: HUMANITY HAS BEEN UPGRADED. YOU ARE NOW OBSOLETE.

Kyle Straker volunteered to be hypnotized at the annual community talent show, expecting the same old lame amateur acts. but when he wakes up, his world will never be the same. televisions and computers no longer work, but a strange language streams across their screens. Everyone's behaving oddly. It's as if Kyle doesn't exists.

Is this nightmare a result of the hypnosis? Will Kyle wake up with a snap of fingers to roars go laughter? Or is this something much more sinister?

Narrated on a set of found cassette tapes at an unspecified point in the future, Human.4 is an absolutely chilling look at technology gone too far.

In a Russia where the Decembrists' rebellion was successful and the Trans-Siberian railroad was completed before 1854, Sasha Trubetskaya wants nothing more than to have a decent debut ball in St. Petersburg. But her aunt's feud with the emperor lands Sasha at university, where she becomes one of its first female students — an experiment, she suspects, designed more to prove female unsuitability for such pursuits than offer them education. The pressure intensifies when Sasha's only friends — Chinese students — start disappearing, and she begins to realize that her new British companion, Jack, has bigger secrets than she can imagine! Sasha and Jack find themselves trying to stop a war brewing between the three empires. The only place they can turn to for help is the Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace, newly founded by the Taiping rebels. Pursued by the terrifying Dame Florence Nightingale of the British Secret Service, Sasha and Jack escape across Siberia via train to China. Sasha discovers that Jack is not quite the person she thought he was…but then again, neither is she.

Once Jenny Casey was somebody’s daughter. Once she was somebody’s enemy. Now the former Canadian special forces warrior lives on the hellish streets of Hartford, Connecticut, in the year 2062. Racked with pain, hiding from the government she served, running with a crime lord so she can save a life or two, Jenny is a month shy of fifty, and her artificially reconstructed body has started to unravel. But she is far from forgotten. A government scientist needs the perfect subject for a high-stakes project and has Jenny in his sights. Suddenly Jenny Casey is a pawn in a furious battle, waged in the corridors of the Internet, on the streets of battered cities, and in the complex wirings of her half-man-made nervous system. And she needs to gain control of the game before a brave new future spins completely out of control.

When the king decides to go on vacation, he orders Skeeve, a bumbling apprentice sorcerer, to take his place.

When the king decides to go on vacation, he orders Skeeve, a bumbling apprentice sorcerer, to take his place.

Het vierde boek in de Foundation-serie.

Vijf eeuwen na de stichting van de Eerste Foundation bestaat de dreiging van Het Muildier niet meer; op Trantor heerst vrede en welvaart.

Maar: bestaat de Tweede Foundation nog? En: wat is er waar van de geruchten over het bestaan van andere wezens, die een hogere intelligentie hebben dan de mens? Golan Trevize, de ambitieuze raadsman van de Eerste Foundation, wordt erop uit gestuurd om deze vragen te beantwoorden. Zijn missie, die op den duur uitgroeit tot een speurtocht naar de legendarische Oude Aarde, brengt het voortbestaan van de Melkweg in gevaar…

Lunes, 9 de agosto de 1999. El siglo está en sus postrimerías. Nueva York posee una población de 35 millones de seres humanos. Viven hacinados en las casas, en los cementerios de coches que en otro tiempo fueron aparcamientos, en los viejos barcos anclados a orillas del Hudson, en los depósitos militares cerrados hace tiempo... y algunos ni siquiera tienen un techo donde guarecerse y viven simplemente en las calles. El petróleo se ha agotado, los vegetales se están agotando, la carne es un artículo de súper lujo, la gente vive a base de galletas y sucedáneos extraídos del mar, el agua está racionada, y cualquier accidente puede romper este precario equilibrio. Y en Nueva York vive el policía Andrew Rusch, cuyo trabajo es investigar los crímenes que se producen diariamente en la ciudad, pero también cargar contra las muchedumbres que simplemente piden comida y agua.

Peor en ese miserable mundo, que puede ser el nuestro dentro de muy pocos años, en el que todo escasea excepto la necesidad, ni siquiera la policía tiene efectivos suficientes para llevar a cabo su trabajo.

Lily Parker is new to St. Sophia’s School for Girls, but she’s already learned that magic can be your best friend…or your worst enemy. They say absolute power corrupts absolutely. Turns out, even a little magic can turn you to the dark side. That’s why Lily has to learn how to control her newly discovered paranormal abilities, on top of avoiding the snobs who think they run her school, nursing a crush on a cute sophomore with a big, werewolf-y secret, and fighting the good fight with her best friend Scout as they take on Chicago’s nastiest nightlife—including the tainted magic users known as Reapers. Then Lily’s invited to a private meeting with Sebastian. He’s hot, powerful, and offering to help her harness the magic flowing in her veins in a way no one else can. He’s also a Reaper. Lily can’t hide her suspicions. But she’ll soon find out that the line between good and evil isn’t always clear…

Ver voorbij de machtige ijsmuur die de noordgrens van het koninkrijk sinds mensenheugenis beschermt, roert zich een vergeten vijand. Maar ieders blik is naar het zuiden gericht: naar het van intriges vergeven hof. De macht van de koning is tanende, zijn Hand is een verdachte dood gestorven en velen zijn uit op eigen gewin.

Toch zijn er nog trouwe onderdanan. De Starks van Winterfell, hard en onverzettelijk zoals hun bevroren domein, zijn niet de minsten van hen. Als de koning Eddard Stark benoemt tot zijn nieuwe Hand, dreigt dit zowel zijn familie als het rijk te splijten. Edelvrouwen en moordenaars, soldaten en tovenaars, vogelvrijen en bastaards — niemand kan afzijdig blijven in het dodelijkste aller conflicten: het spel der tronen.

Al loro ritorno sulla Terra gli astronauti scoprono che le cose sono cambiate dalla loro partenza, e che il mondo è popolato solo da donne. L’uomo è considerato un pericoloso residuo del passato.

Vincitore dei premi Hugo e Nebula per il miglior romanzo breve (Novella) in 1977.

7-s book about young wizard Harry Potter.

The Hugo Award Winner–2003

Hominids examines two unique species of people. We are one of those species; the other is the Neanderthals of a parallel world where they became the dominant intelligence. The Neanderthal civilization has reached heights of culture and science comparable to our own, but with radically different history, society and philosophy.

Ponter Boddit, a Neanderthal physicist, accidentally pierces the barrier between worlds and is transferred to our universe. Almost immediately recognized as a Neanderthal, but only much later as a scientist, he is quarantined and studied, alone and bewildered, a stranger in a strange land. But Ponter is also befriended—by a doctor and a physicist who share his questing intelligence, and especially by Canadian geneticist Mary Vaughan, a woman with whom he develops a special rapport.

Ponter’s partner, Adikor Huld, finds himself with a messy lab, a missing body, suspicious people all around and an explosive murder trial. How can he possibly prove his innocence when he has no idea what actually happened to Ponter?

As a handler, Corine Solomon can touch any object and know its history. It's too bad she can't seem to forget her own. With her ex-boyfriend Chance in tow—lending his own supernatural brand of luck—Corine journeys back home to Kilmer, Georgia, in order to discover the truth behind her mother's death and the origins of "gift".

 But while trying to uncover the secrets in her past, Corine and Chance find that something is rotten in the state of Georgia. Inside Kilmer's borders there are signs of a dark curse affecting the town and all its residents—and it can only be satisfied with death...

«Homecoming» is a short story, published in the 2003 Legends II anthology. This is the tale of Carillion, a Jamaillian noblewoman and artist, exiled to the Rainwilds. This story is a prequel to the The Liveship Traders Trilogy, and explains the backstory of the Bingtown and Rain Wild Traders.

Profesionální kosmický pilot Petr Chrumov se vrací se svým nákladním raketoplánem z hlubin vesmíru zpět na zemi. Už na cestě zjistí, že neletí jako obvykle sám, ale že má společnost — Cizáka z civilizace počtářů. Tento reptiloid způsobí, že místo na kosmdromu přistanou s pozemským pilotem a jeho strojem na opuštěné silnici na ruském Dálném východě. Nouzové přistání se zdaří, ale v nastalém zmatku Cizák zmizí. Posléze se opět vynoří ve společnosti Chrumovova dědečka, významného odborníka na mimozemské civilizace. Starého pána i mladého pilota přiměje, aby odcizili pozemský raketoplán a s pomocí civilizace počtářů i dalších „slabých“ ras pak zlikvidovali blíže nespecifikované nebezpečí, hrozící planetě Zemi. I tento příběh má všechny přednosti Lukjaněnkovy tvorby — strhující děj, svižné dialogy, téměř detektivní zápletku a nečekané rozuzlení.

Harry Potter a jeho kamarádi Ron a Hermiona jsou už ve třetím ročníku bradavické Školy čar a kouzel. Harry se nemohl dočkat začátku školního roku, když ale přijede do Bradavic, panuje tam napjatá atmosféra a strach. Proč? Na svobodu uprchl vězeň z Azkabanu, nebezpečný vrah Sirius Black — prý nástupce lorda Voldemorta, Pána zla. A stopa vede — kam jinam než do školy v Bradavicích. Proto je na obranu povolán strážce Azkabanu, který slyšel Siriuse Blacka mluvit ze spaní. Říkal: „ON je v Bradavicích.“ Harry je v nebezpečí a neochrání ho ani zdi bradavické školy, ani jeho přátelé. Zrádce se může skrývat přímo ve škole…

A Leibowitz-rend apátságában a Memorabíliákat gyűjtik, a Tűzözön előtti civilizáció becses írott emlékeit. Nem veszélytelen hivatás ez, hiszen a tudományellenes közhangulat épp a tudományt, a kultúrát okolja az új nyomorúságért.

A szerzet a kőkorszaki körülmények között is jó munkát végez. A nemzedékről nemzedékre átmenekített és megőrzött források révén az emberiség újra megalkotja az „első” gőzgépet, az „első” izzólámpát, majd természetesen az „első” atommáglyát.

És 1200 évvel a Tűzözön után végre ismét elhárulnak a technikai akadályok az újabb Tűzözön elől…

Az először 1959-ben megjelent (és 1988-ban magyarul is közreadott) amerikai regény valóságos mérföldkő a sci-fi irodalom történetében, műfajának klasszikusa. Szerzője, Walter M. Miller (1923–1996) szinte nem is írt egyebet. Hiába próbálkozott, képtelen volt tökéletes művét felülmúlni. Könyvét második világháborús élményei ihlették: bombázótiszt volt az itáliai hadszíntéren. Ötvenhárom bevetésen vett részt, ő találta telibe a Benedek-rendiek ősi apátságát. A tragédia súlya egész életében nyomasztotta. Önkezével vetett véget életének.

Un orfanello dotato di misteriosi poteri, due zii molto antipatici e… si entra nell’eccitante universo del Meraviglioso!

Un ragazzino con gli occhiali grossi ha conquistato la copertina del Time: si chiama Harry Potter. Nel giorno del suo undicesimo compleanno Harry si rende conto di essere dotato di straordinari poteri magici. E di potersi finalmente vendicare di tutte le angherie subite dagli odiosi zii che l’hanno allevato malvolentieri al posto dei genitori spariti nel nulla. Dovrà però frequentare la scuola di magia e stregoneria di Hogwarts, la migliore d’Inghilterra, in un castello dove è custodita la prodigiosa Pietra Filosofale che può sconfiggere le forze del male…

Continuano le avventure dell’apprendista stregone più famoso del mondo. Lo avevamo lasciato alla bizzarra Scuola di Magia e Stregoneria di Hogwarts, dove aveva sconfitto il terribile Lord Voldemort. Lo ritroviamo ora alle prese con alcuni insegnanti come il severissimo professor Piton o come il vanesio professor Allock. Ma, soprattutto, alle prese con una serie di strani episodi che cominciano a capitare nella scuola. Molti studenti cadono vittime di un incantesimo che li trasforma in pietra: la causa sembra essere una terrificante creatura che si nasconde nella misteriosa Camera dei Segreti…

Alla fine dello scorso volume, abbiamo lasciato Harry Potter sconvolto, solo e preoccupato. Il suo amato padrino Sirius Black è morto, e le parole di Albus Silente sulla profezia gli confermano che lo scontro con Lord Voldemort è ormai inevitabile. Niente è più come prima: l’ultimo legame con la sua famiglia è troncato, perfino Hogwarts non è più la dimora accogliente dei primi anni, mentre Voldemort è più forte, crudele e disumano che mai. Harry stesso sa di essere cambiato. La frustrazione e il senso di impotenza dei quindici anni hanno ceduto il posto a una fermezza e a una determinazione diverse, più adulte. Nella sesta e penultima avventura di Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling arricchisce il suo scenario di indizi e segreti stupefacenti; sospetti e verità che non offrono risposte ma moltiplicano gli enigmi; nuovi personaggi e nuove magie ma anche inattese rivelazioni su personaggi già noti. Mescolando la suspense dell’indagine con la passione dell’amore adolescente, Harry Potter e il Principe Mezzosangue avvince il lettore e lo lascia, stregato, in attesa dell’ultimo atto.

Příběh plný divů a hříček, v němž nepochybně najdou zalíbení všichni fantastové od devíti do devadesáti devíti let i více. Neznámou mladou britskou autorku učinila její prvotina rázem slavnou, když za ni v roce 1997 dostala prestižní Zlatou cenu (Smarties Book Prize) a její Harry Potter se rozletěl na triumfální turné do světa. Až do svých jedenáctých narozenin si o sobě tento hrdina myslel, že je jen obyčejný chlapec. Pak ale dostal soví poštou dopis, kterým byl zván ke studiu na prestižní soukromé Škole čar a kouzel v Bradavicích, a jeho život se rázem změnil. Leccos se dozvídá o minulosti svých zemřelých rodičů, získá pár dobrých kamarádů, naučí se mistrovsky hrát famfrpál a kvůli Kameni mudrců podstoupí smrtelný souboj se zloduchem Voldemortem…

Harry se vrací do školy a netuší, že tentokrát mu hrozí smrtelné nebezpečí. V Bradavicích se začínají dít prapodivné věci, při kterých tuhne krev v žilách, a nikdo z žáků netuší, že pradávná legenda se stala skutečností…

Tajemná komnata se znovu otevřela!

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The old mill has been silent for a hundred years, its dread secrets locked from view. Still, the people of Westover, Massachusetts, remember… and whisper of that terrible day when horrifying flames claimed eleven innocent young lives. The day the mill's doors slammed shut-forever.

But now, the last of the once-powerful Sturgess family is about to unlock those doors again… and unleash an elemental fury. For behind the padlocks, deep within the dark, abandoned building, a terrible vengeance waits. A vengeance conceived in HELLFIRE.

Nineteen-year-old Remy King is on a mission to get across the wasteland left of America, and nothing will stand in her way - not violent marauders, a spoiled rock star, or an army of flesh-eating zombies.  

Подробности борьбы за датский престол известны всем из знаменитой пьесы Шекспира. Но настоящая подоплека событий осталась скрыта от великого драматурга. Был и еще один малозаметный персонаж, который пытался чужими руками расчистить себе путь к престолу.

They Thought They Knew How The Universes Worked-THEY WERE WRONG. In the almost two centuries since the discovery of the first inter-universal portal, Arcana has explored scores of other worlds . . . all of them duplicates of their own. Multiple Earths, virgin planets with a twist, because the "explorers" already know where to find all of their vast, untapped natural resources. Worlds beyond worlds, effectively infinite living space and mineral wealth.And in all that time, they have never encountered another intelligent species. No cities, no vast empires, no civilizations and no equivalent of their own dragons, gryphons, spells, and wizards.But all of that is about to change. It seems there is intelligent life elsewhere in the multiverse. Other human intelligent life, with terrifying new weapons and powers of the mind . . . and wizards who go by the strange title of "scientist."

They Thought They Knew How The Universes Worked-THEY WERE WRONG. In the almost two centuries since the discovery of the first inter-universal portal, Arcana has explored scores of other worlds . . . all of them duplicates of their own. Multiple Earths, virgin planets with a twist, because the "explorers" already know where to find all of their vast, untapped natural resources. Worlds beyond worlds, effectively infinite living space and mineral wealth.And in all that time, they have never encountered another intelligent species. No cities, no vast empires, no civilizations and no equivalent of their own dragons, gryphons, spells, and wizards.But all of that is about to change. It seems there is intelligent life elsewhere in the multiverse. Other human intelligent life, with terrifying new weapons and powers of the mind . . . and wizards who go by the strange title of "scientist."

They Thought They Knew How The Universes Worked-THEY WERE WRONG. In the almost two centuries since the discovery of the first inter-universal portal, Arcana has explored scores of other worlds . . . all of them duplicates of their own. Multiple Earths, virgin planets with a twist, because the "explorers" already know where to find all of their vast, untapped natural resources. Worlds beyond worlds, effectively infinite living space and mineral wealth.And in all that time, they have never encountered another intelligent species. No cities, no vast empires, no civilizations and no equivalent of their own dragons, gryphons, spells, and wizards.But all of that is about to change. It seems there is intelligent life elsewhere in the multiverse. Other human intelligent life, with terrifying new weapons and powers of the mind . . . and wizards who go by the strange title of "scientist."

IT ALL STARTED AS A MISTAKE!Both Arcana and Sharona had explored scores of universes, each a duplicate of its own, without ever encountering another human civilization.Then that changed.Two survey expeditions met in the cool shadows of an autumn forest. No one knows who shot first, but both sides have suffered heavy casualties, and each blames the other. Now both sides want possession of Hell's Gate, the cluster of inter-universal portals and their survey forces met in blood . . . and neither is prepared to let the other have it..Arcana's wizards, dragons, and gryphons are about to meet Sharona's bolt-action rifles, machine guns, and mortars. Transport dragons are about to meet steam locomotives. And all that either side really knows is that neither of them has ever seen a war like the one about to begin.

IT ALL STARTED AS A MISTAKE!Both Arcana and Sharona had explored scores of universes, each a duplicate of its own, without ever encountering another human civilization.Then that changed.Two survey expeditions met in the cool shadows of an autumn forest. No one knows who shot first, but both sides have suffered heavy casualties, and each blames the other. Now both sides want possession of Hell's Gate, the cluster of inter-universal portals and their survey forces met in blood . . . and neither is prepared to let the other have it..Arcana's wizards, dragons, and gryphons are about to meet Sharona's bolt-action rifles, machine guns, and mortars. Transport dragons are about to meet steam locomotives. And all that either side really knows is that neither of them has ever seen a war like the one about to begin.

IT ALL STARTED AS A MISTAKE!Both Arcana and Sharona had explored scores of universes, each a duplicate of its own, without ever encountering another human civilization.Then that changed.Two survey expeditions met in the cool shadows of an autumn forest. No one knows who shot first, but both sides have suffered heavy casualties, and each blames the other. Now both sides want possession of Hell's Gate, the cluster of inter-universal portals and their survey forces met in blood . . . and neither is prepared to let the other have it..Arcana's wizards, dragons, and gryphons are about to meet Sharona's bolt-action rifles, machine guns, and mortars. Transport dragons are about to meet steam locomotives. And all that either side really knows is that neither of them has ever seen a war like the one about to begin.

With his epic novels of alternate history, Harry Turtledove shares a stunning vision of what might have been—and what might still be—if one moment in history were changed. In the WorldWar and Colonization series, an ancient, highly advanced alien species found itself locked in a bitter struggle with a distant, rebellious planet—Earth. For those defending the Earth, this all-out war for survival supercharged human technology, made friends of foes, and turned allies into bitter enemies. For the aliens known as the Race, the conflict has yielded dire consequences. Mankind has developed nuclear technology years ahead of schedule, forcing the invaders to accept an uneasy truce with nations that possess the technology to defend themselves. But it is the Americans, with their primitive inventiveness, who discover a way to launch themselves through distant space—and reach the Race’s home planet itself. Now—in the twenty-first century—a few daring men and women embark upon a journey no human has made before. Warriors, diplomats, traitors, and exiles—the humans who arrive in the place called Home find themselves genuine strangers on a strange world, and at the center of a flash point with terrifying potential. For their arrival on the alien home world may drive the enemy to make the ultimate decision—to annihilate an entire planet, rather than allow the human contagion to spread. It may be that nothing can deter them from this course.

Videssos was beset by enemies. A pretender held the throne--a despot who cared little that barbarian hordes and rival realms carved away at his empire, so long as the wealth and booty of the land satisfied his unbridled appetites.

Few stood against him. And those few soon found their heads on pikes.

Only one name held hope for freedom: Maniakes. And from his exile on the very edge of the civilized world, young Maniakes took up the challenge, rallied his forces, and sailed off to topple the tyrant.

But the tyrant would use every means at his disposal--fair or most hideously foul--to destroy the crusading upstart. And even if Maniakes could stay alive, he would still have to pull together a battered, divided land as well as fend off a host of enemies--and thwart the former friend who had become his empire's most deadly foe!

Новый роман знаменитой игровой вселенной "Halo"!

Впервые на русском языке полная история великого и трагического противостояния!

В кровавом сражении между людьми и ковенантами, разразившемся на мире-кольце Гало, все надежды человечества оказались возложены на одинокого воина-спартанца. Джон-117, больше известный как Мастер-Шеф, - один из немногих выживших в отчаянном, жестоком поединке за планету-крепость Предел.

Защитники Предела - последнего форпоста на пути ковенантов к сердцу человеческой цивилизации - не могли позволить превосходящим силам противника прорваться к Земле. У них было немного шансов. И среди них тот факт, что Предел был испытательным полигоном для создания первого поколения суперсолдат, лучших воинов Вселенной. Но даже лучшие воины Вселенной не бессмертны…

«Наконец, делом занялись газеты. „Нью-Йорк таймс“ поместила сначала небольшую заметку в середине номера. Спустя неделю она посвятила вопросу целую колонку на первой странице второй части, а потом сообщения начали появляться на первых страницах газет. Обычно было что-то вроде: „Доктор такой-то считает, что прокатившаяся по стране эпидемия hyperpilositis, или сверхволосатости (Красивое слово, верно? Жаль, что не помню фамилии врача, его придумавшего) вызвана тем, этим, пятым или десятым“.

В феврале пришлось отменить наш ежегодный бал, поскольку почти никто из студентов не смог уговорить своих девушек прийти на него. По той же причине значительно снизилась посещаемость кинотеатров. Всегда можно было получить хорошее место, даже около восьми. Однажды я прочел в газете забавное сообщение, что прекращены съемки фильма «Тарзан и люди-осьминоги», поскольку актеры действовали в нем в плавках и оказалось, что они вынуждены каждые несколько дней стричься и брить все тело, чтобы их не путали с гориллами.»

Though he died at age 34, Cyril M. Kornbluth left behind a vast body of classic SF writings (he sold his first story at age 15, in 1939). His Share of Glory, introduced by Frederik Pohl (Kornbluth's erstwhile collaborator), edited by Timothy P. Szczesuil, collects for the first time the 56 short stories that Kornbluth wrote solo.

Titel der amerikanischen Originalausgabe CEMETARY WORLD

Hypérion marquera durablement la science-fiction. Ce splendide roman a reçu le prix Hugo aux Etats-Unis et son auteur s’annonce un rival dangereux pour Stephen King lui-même.

Hypérion est un livre-univers, comme le Dune de Frank Herbert, un roman d’aventures haletant mais aussi un exploit littéraire impressionnant qui ressuscite dans l’avenir le poète anglais John Keats et fait écho à son oeuvre majeure, Hypérion.

Au 28° siècle, sur la planète Hypérion, les dangers s’amoncellent. Celui de la guerre avec l’approche de la flottes des Extros en perpétuel conflit avec l’Hégémonie. Celui du gritche, figure mythologique et meurtrière que révère l’Eglise des Templiers. Celui de l’ouverture des Tombeaux du Temps qui dérivent de l’avenir vers le passé à la rencontre d’une imprévisible catastrophe.

Dans l’espoir de sauver Hypérion et d’accomplir leurs destins suspendus, sept pèlerins se dirigent ensemble vers le sanctuaire du gritche. Il y a le père Lenar Hoyt, prêtre catholique, qui a vu l’enfer ; le colonel Kassad, dit le Boucher de Bressia, à la recherche d’un rêve ; Martin Silenus, le poète, qui a connu la Vieille Terre et perdu les mots ; Brawne Lamia, la belle détective, qui a aimé un John Keats synthétique : le Consul qui a régné sur Hypérion ; Sol Weintraub, l’érudit, dont la fille perd des années ; et le templier Het Masteen, qui garde ses secrets.

Autant d’énigmes, autant d’histoires, qu’ils choisissent de conter avant d’affronter les labyrinthes d’Hypérion. Autant de styles différents.

Autoři si zaspekulovali nad tím, co všechno by se mohlo stát, kdyby obyvatelé jiné, technicky vyspělejší planety vyslali na Zem své pozorovatele, kteří by se vzhledem i chováním připodobnili standardu našich splečenských vrstev. Díky zlomyslné náhodě první kontakt navážou se členy zločineckého gangu, který začne plně využívat jejich schopností. Naštěstí brzy prohlédnu, ale když se snaží vymknout z područí bandy, jsou pronásledováni a posledním útočištěm před odletem na vlastní planetu se jim stane hotel U mrtvého alpinisty, vysoko v horách, v uzavřeném údolí, navíc v posledních dnech odříznutém od okolného světa lavinovým závalem.

Zde tedy začíná vlastní zápletka, do níž je vtaženo i několik náhodných hostů hotelu, především detektiv Glebski, který zde chtěl strávit dva týdny zaslouženého odpočinku a zatím se stává ústřední postavou děje, v němž se proplétají dvě tajemné historie, jedna humorná a neškodná, druhá dramatičtější a tragická, v němž si téměř každý na něco s něčím hraje, kde jedni jsou zaskakováni činností druhých, logika lidí se kříží s logikou mimozemšťanů — a s touto spoustou záhad, tajemství a nedorozumění se marně potýká se svou profesionální rutinou náš nešťastný hrdina.

For the poor, hardworking citizens of the Confederacy's fringe worlds, the Guild Wars have exacted a huge toll. Swayed by the promise of financial rewards, a new batch of recruits joins the fight alongside a slew of mysteriously docile criminals — and a few dubious military leaders. Eighteen-year-old Jim Raynor, full of testosterone and eager to make things right at home, ships off to boot camp and finds his footing on the battlefield, but he soon discovers that the official mission is not what he's really fighting for.

For the first time ever, StarCraft enthusiasts will learn the origins of the enduring friendship between the young upstart Jim Raynor and the streetwise soldier Tychus Findlay. Watch as they battle on the front lines of a fierce interplanetary war and bear witness to the Confederacy's rank corruption — corruption so reprehensible that it rains immeasurable death and destruction upon the government's own people.

Azkabanból, a gonosz varázslókat őrző rettegett és szuperbiztos börtönből megszökik egy fogoly. A Mágiaügyi Minisztériumban tudják, hogy a veszélyes szökevény Roxfortba tart, a Boszorkány- és Varázslóképző Szakiskolába. A varázslónövendék Harry Potter és barátai számára a harmadik tanév sem csak a vizsgák izgalmait tartogatja…

After Ishmael Wang is promoted to the environmental section, he's caught in a swirl of mystery, doubt, belief, lust and a really nice fitting pair of jeans. He has to come to grips with what it means to be a spacer while he's still trying to figure out what it means to be a man.

Join Ishmael, Brillo, Pip, and the rest of the crew of the Lois McKendrick as they help the newest member of the crew adjust to life in the Deep Dark.

Dopo l’Egira, nell’universo è stata creata una federazione di pianeti: l’Egemonia dell’Uomo. Ma al di fuori della sua giurisdizione esiste un pianeta chiamato Hyperion. E su Hyperion è in attesa una creatura metallica, sanguinaria, dotata di poteri semidivini: lo Shrike. Alcuni lo adorano. Altri lo temono. Altri ancora hanno giurato di distruggerlo. Lo Shrike li attende tutti, amici e nemici, nella Valle delle Tombe del Tempo, dove enormi strutture cupe provenienti dal futuro si ritraggono verso il passato recando oscuri messaggi. Alla vigilia dell’Armageddon, con l’intera galassia in guerra, sette pellegrini si mettono in viaggio verso le Tombe, alla ricerca delle risposte agli enigmi delle loro vite. Ognuno di loro custodisce un terribile segreto e una disperata speranza, e ognuno è disposto a morire, per portare a termine la ricerca. E forse dovrà morire, perche lo Shrike uccide tutti i pellegrini che gli si avvicinano… meno uno. E il superstite vedrà realizzato il desiderio che più gli sta a cuore. Per prepararsi all’incontro con lo Shrike, ogni personaggio racconta agli altri la propria storia, la storia che l’ha portato su Hyperion. E con il procedere dei racconti ci viene rivelata una cultura interstellare d’incredibile complessità e varietà, che diventa a poco a poco sempre più reale e coinvolgente.

Dopo l’Egira, nell’universo è stata creata una federazione di pianeti: l’Egemonia dell’Uomo. Ma al di fuori della sua giurisdizione esiste un pianeta chiamato Hyperion. E su Hyperion è in attesa una creatura metallica, sanguinaria, dotata di poteri semidivini: lo Shrike. Alcuni lo adorano. Altri lo temono. Altri ancora hanno giurato di distruggerlo. Lo Shrike li attende tutti, amici e nemici, nella Valle delle Tombe del Tempo, dove enormi strutture cupe provenienti dal futuro si ritraggono verso il passato recando oscuri messaggi. Alla vigilia dell’Armageddon, con l’intera galassia in guerra, sette pellegrini si mettono in viaggio verso le Tombe, alla ricerca delle risposte agli enigmi delle loro vite. Ognuno di loro custodisce un terribile segreto e una disperata speranza, e ognuno è disposto a morire, per portare a termine la ricerca. E forse dovrà morire, perche lo Shrike uccide tutti i pellegrini che gli si avvicinano… meno uno. E il superstite vedrà realizzato il desiderio che più gli sta a cuore. Per prepararsi all’incontro con lo Shrike, ogni personaggio racconta agli altri la propria storia, la storia che l’ha portato su Hyperion. E con il procedere dei racconti ci viene rivelata una cultura interstellare d’incredibile complessità e varietà, che diventa a poco a poco sempre più reale e coinvolgente.

Shy, dreamy Emily Sanders is able to foresee future events with the gift of premonitions, but they aren’t always quite right. With frustration, Emily can not yet manage to control her visions, and the other students usually don’t take her seriously. As Emily works on controlling her gift and her premonitions become clearer, her classmates find themselves in a situation where they are forced to listen to her, but will it be too late?

Hospital Station is a 1962 science fiction book by author James White and is the first volume in the Sector General series. The book collects together a series of five short stories previously published in New Worlds magazine between 1957 and 1960.

“Medic” — During the construction of Sector 12 General Hospital, construction worker O'Mara is suspected of negligently causing the death of two alien workers. Pending an investigation he is restricted to quarters and given the aliens' child to care for.

“Sector General” — The first story of the main series' narrative. Doctor Conway has spent two months on the station and is about to be confronted with several emergencies as well as his first educator tape.

“Trouble with Emily” — Conway is ordered to assist with a project involving a large dinosaur-like alien.

“Visitor at Large” — A SRTT shape-changing alien runs amok in the hospital. Conway and a newly arrived Prilicla are enlisted to capture it.

“Out-Patient” — Following the recovery of a badly injured alien from a wrecked ship, Conway must pursue a radical treatment.

Sept ans ont passé depuis Le Silence des agneaux. Depuis, Hannibal Lecter vit sous nom d'emprunt à Florence, en Italie, où le faux docteur, vrai serial killer, mène la grande vie. Sur ses traces, Clarice Sterling, agent modèle du FBI. Mais elle n'est pas la seule à le pister : Mason Verger, une des premières victimes d'Hannibal Lecter, attend sa vengeance. La lutte peut-elle être égale entre cet homme cloué à son lit d'hôpital, accroché à son respirateur artificiel, qui tente de tirer parti de toutes les potentialités d'Internet pour mener sa traque, et le redoutable Lecter ?

Instead of the deadly force it once was, magic is now a useless novelty. But not for Shame Flynn and Terric Conley, “breakers” who have the gift for reverting magic back to its full-throttle power. In the magic-dense city of Portland, Oregon, keeping a low profile means keeping their gifts quiet. After three years of dealing with disgruntled magic users, Shame and Terric have had enough of politics, petty magic, and, frankly, each other. It’s time to call it quits.

When the government discovers the breakers’ secret—and its potential as a weapon—Shame and Terric suddenly become wanted men, the only ones who can stop the deadly gift from landing in the wrong hands. If only a pair of those wrong hands didn’t belong to a drop-dead-gorgeous assassin Shame is falling for as if it were the end of the world. And if he gets too close to her, it very well could be....

Ray Aldridge informs us that his latest „outrageous overambitious“ project is to write a programming language, the sole purpose of which is to depict human emotion. When not devoting his time to emotional perceptions as subjective phenomena, Ray edits a computer newsletter.

Two of his short stories have recently appeared in our pages: The Flesh Tinker and the Loneliest Man (July 1987) and Eyebright (May 1989).

Anna Strong—kick-ass bounty hunter and vampire—has made some enemies in her time. But it’s not just her old foes she should be worried about…

Anna’s shape-shifting friend Culebra finally opens up to her about his life before he owned Beso de la Muerte, a bar catering to supernatural clientele. As if summoned by the conversation, Culebra’s past stumbles into his bar in the form of an old buddy cashing in a favor.

Soon Anna, Culebra and her ex, DEA agent Max, find themselves deep in Mexico, dealing with drug cartel infighting, old vendettas and missing girls. Mexico just may prove to be Anna’s best match yet…

THE ZONE 3 • HUNTER-KILLER

The Russian plan a sea borne attack on the NATO flank through the Baltic. Parachuted on to a Swedish island Major Revells’ team ambush the Soviet warships and transports using captured weapons to ensure it is not NATO that takes the blame.

SYNOPSIS

The Warsaw Pact land forces, brought to a halt by determined NATO defences and counter attacks, plan a powerful sea borne assault on the NATO flank through the Baltic sea in the depths of winter. Parachuted on to a Baltic island in the grip of viciously cold weather, the Special Combat Force has to avoid detection. If they are discovered then some of the Scandinavian countries, presently in a precarious state of neutrality might no longer supply the west with essential materials. To avoid any such accusation Revells’ men have to employ an array powerful captured weapons to destroy the enemy warships and transports. In terrible frigid conditions they must fight first the cold and then without being detected, rain destruction on the massively armed Soviet task force.

PUBLISHED

First NEL Paperback Edition March 1981

First IMPRINT Publication E-Book Edition May 2005

First Revision IMPRINT Publications E-Book Edition April 2007

THE ZONE 1 • HARD TARGET

The Zone, a chemical and nuclear contaminated hell, a broad swathe of Europe where the Warsaw Pact mass attacks have been stalled by NATO. Major Revells’ men have to enter it to destroy a Russian tank workshop concealed in the midst of a refugee camp.

SYNOPSIS

Major Revells’ tank hunter team are given the suicidal task of hunting down and destroying a crack Russian tank repair workshop. The elite unit is upgrading weapons and armour, getting it ready for a massed assault on the NATO front line. Crossing the severely contaminated terrain of the Zone the Special Combat Force have to enter the dangerous world of the refugees to find their target. They encounter a renegade group of East German deserters, the reviled Grepos, border guards. Through them they discover that the workshop has been sited underground, close to a huge refugee camp. Invulnerable to assault by any conventional means without unacceptable civilian losses, Revells’ men have to risk everything to attack at point blank range.

PUBLISHED

First NEL Paperback Edition November 1980

First IMPRINT Publication E-Book Edition May 2005

First Revision IMPRINT Publications E-Book Edition April 2007

The Conglomerate’s most dangerous convicts have made the prison ship Perdition their home. And they will defend it…

Perdition is under siege. Mercenaries have boarded the station with orders to take control of the facility—and execute the prisoners. Their commander is offering full pardons to the first five inmates willing to help the mercs complete their mission.

Dresdemona “Dred” Devos hasn’t survived hard time just to surrender to the Conglomerate’s armored thugs. Leading a ragtag army of inmates, Dred and her champion, Jael, wage a bloody guerilla war of chaos and carnage against impossible odds. But no matter how dire the outlook, the Dread Queen never backs down…

A utopia where the most privileged get to do whatever they want to do with their lives, indulging their slightest whims via the bodies whose wombs they occupy; a soldier’s wife tries to love a husband who is little more than backup memory; a society in which the citizens all make merry for nine remarkable days, and on the tenth get a taste of hell; the last ragged survivors of an expedition to a savage backwater world hunt down an infamous war criminal; a divorcing couple confront their myriad troubles to gain resolution, reason, respect—but not without sacrifice. Introducing these stories (and more) from Adam-Troy Castro, whose short fiction has been nominated for two Hugos, three Stokers, and eight Nebulas.

A utopia where the most privileged get to do whatever they want to do with their lives, indulging their slightest whims via the bodies whose wombs they occupy; a soldier’s wife tries to love a husband who is little more than backup memory; a society in which the citizens all make merry for nine remarkable days, and on the tenth get a taste of hell; the last ragged survivors of an expedition to a savage backwater world hunt down an infamous war criminal; a divorcing couple confront their myriad troubles to gain resolution, reason, respect—but not without sacrifice. Introducing these stories (and more) from Adam-Troy Castro, whose short fiction has been nominated for two Hugos, three Stokers, and eight Nebulas.

Crash II: Highrise Hell — A post-apocalyptic / dystopian thriller.

WARNING: THIS BOOK CONTAINS SCENES OF BRUTAL VIOLENCE. READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.

21st century society has been rendered obsolete and London has fallen into the hands of violent gangs.

George had begun to question his membership in the gang of murderers and rapists but now that blood coats his hands, he can feel his humanity slipping away.

All he wants to do is leave, but the leader of the gang is his psychotic brother-in-law and the only one who knows where George’s pregnant sister is being kept. With just a few weeks left until she gives birth, George knows that leaving the gang now would mean condemning her and the child to the life he wants to escape.

Not sure if his sister even is still alive but more than aware of the truck full of innocent women suffering as the behaviour of the gang plummets to new levels of depravity, George questions just how far he can let it go—or who he should try to save—before he walks away.

With time running out, George needs to make a decision between his family and his conscience.

Whichever decision he makes, someone will suffer.

What the reviewers say:

A scary look into what could happen to this World

Once I started I couldn’t put it down

This is one of the best post apocalyptic books I have read and I look forward to the next volume.

I read this book in one sitting—couldn’t put it down. This guy really has a way with words, I will be looking up some more of his writing next! Highly recommend!

Crash II: Highrise Hell — A post-apocalyptic / dystopian thriller.

WARNING: THIS BOOK CONTAINS SCENES OF BRUTAL VIOLENCE. READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.

21st century society has been rendered obsolete and London has fallen into the hands of violent gangs.

George had begun to question his membership in the gang of murderers and rapists but now that blood coats his hands, he can feel his humanity slipping away.

All he wants to do is leave, but the leader of the gang is his psychotic brother-in-law and the only one who knows where George’s pregnant sister is being kept. With just a few weeks left until she gives birth, George knows that leaving the gang now would mean condemning her and the child to the life he wants to escape.

Not sure if his sister even is still alive but more than aware of the truck full of innocent women suffering as the behaviour of the gang plummets to new levels of depravity, George questions just how far he can let it go—or who he should try to save—before he walks away.

With time running out, George needs to make a decision between his family and his conscience.

Whichever decision he makes, someone will suffer.

What the reviewers say:

A scary look into what could happen to this World

Once I started I couldn’t put it down

This is one of the best post apocalyptic books I have read and I look forward to the next volume.

I read this book in one sitting—couldn’t put it down. This guy really has a way with words, I will be looking up some more of his writing next! Highly recommend!