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How far would you go to avenge the one you love? Would you go beyond death?<P>Born into the stifling confines of French upper society, Babette Varanus never thought that she would have to answer that question. Surrounded by wealth yet ostracized by her peers, Babette had little interest in love until she met Korbinian, a scandalous German baron with the audacity to regard her as his equal. But when the intrigues of her grandfather's enemies conspire to tear them apart, Varanus will...
| Автор | G.D. Falksen |
Life moves fast in the Thirty-Second Century. Attention is the only currency; memory, a luxury most cannot afford.<br />When an aging anonymous secretist turns author and writes a controversial memoir, they incur the enmity of their former employer, the dread Ministry of Secrets, a shadowy cult that’s become a social institution and cornerstone of Thirty-Second society. The Ministry dispatches its agents, the so-called Brims & Trenches, psychopathic frenemies and past allies of the...
| Автор | T Van Santana |
The Eternal Emperor was dead, and the five members of the Privy Council ruled in his place. But they quickly discovered that their power would collapse around them if they didn't locate the Emperor's secret source of Anti-Matter Two, the economic keystone of the Empire. And so they sent a team of crack commandos to capture Sten, one of their late ruler's few surviving confidantes. But Sten, as usual, had his own agenda. For he knew something about the Eternal Emperor that would...
| Автор | Allan Cole |
The Eternal Emperor had returned at last from the dead, to pick up the pieces of his crumbling Empire. But even that great leader could not halt the Empire’s decline alone. And so Sten – master spy, military strategist, and assassin – found himself appointed Ambassador Plenipotentiary to the Altaic Cluster, where a brewing civil war threatened the stability of the Empire itself. Quelling a civil war is nothing new for Sten, but as the war intensifies, he begins to suspect that he is up against...
| Автор | Allan Cole |
The stories collected in Nine Bar Blues weave emotion, spirit, and music, captivating readers with newfound alchemy and the murmurs of dark gods. Rooted in rhythm, threaded with magic, these tales encompass worlds that begin in river bottoms, pass through spectral gates, and end in distant uncharted worlds. These stories describe the pain that often accompanies the confines of sanctuary and the joy that is inextricably bound to the troubles of hard living. Nine Bar Blues sings a multiverse of...
| Автор | Sheree Renée Thomas |
"The Scientists Revolt" qualifies as a publishing curiosity. A collaboration between author Edgar Rice Burroughs (famous for Tarzan and the Martian novels, among others) and Ray Palmer (editor of numerous pulp magazines), it is a slam-bang pulp action story set in the 23rd Century, where the struggle of the intelligentsia against the proletariat has played out to rather silly results. Complete with 1920s-style archetypes (including hardboiled Irish cops), sci-fi trappings like matter...
| Автор | Edgar Rice Burroughs |
„Cyberpunk. Odrodzenie” pozwala zanurzyć się w otchłani gigantycznego, rozświetlonego neonami miasta, w którym rządzą zbrodnia i nauka przyszłości. Okryte mgłą i spowite deszczem wieżowce, wąskie, zatłoczone uliczki, pulsujące neony i wielkoformatowe reklamy dają tło rzeczywistości, w której kwitną przestępczość, nielegalny handel bronią, danymi, a nawet ludzkim ciałem. To świat, w którym jednostka nic nie znaczy, a za los ogółu odpowiadają wielkie korporacje i gangi. To Zakazane...
| Автор | Andrzej Ziemiański |
What's a billionaire heiress supposed to do when the world seems hell-bent on stopping her from completing her mission? Chloe is on the cusp of finishing her quest, but forces inside and outside the game are colluding to stop her. What is it going to take? Now, Chloe must take to corners of the game never designed to be experienced by human players. By tearing open the fabric of Obsidian's AI, can she find the missing pieces of the armor and save Hammersworth and the entire mortal...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
This dark comedy explores the lost universes of disgraced idol Dylan Greenyears. Dylan had always wanted to live as many lives as he could—that was the appeal of being an actor. But at the end of a brief stint as a Hollywood heartthrob, Dylan loses the lead in [i]Titanic and exiles himself and his wife to a recently settled exoplanet called New Taiwan.At first, life beyond Earth seems uncannily un-wondrous. Dylan teaches at an American prep school, raises a family with his high school...
| Автор | M. Thomas Gammarino |
It is 2023 a.D. and we’re in one of the tranquil municipalities of the Po Valley. Two families make dinner plans, as they have done so many times before. However, a twist of fate will provide two long-time friends, Alex Brugellis and Angelica Benassi, with a close encounter of the first kind with a UFO. They’ll be taken away from their respective families and transported to a surreal place, catapulted into an adventure that goes beyond their wildest imagination. It is 2023 a.D. and we’re in one...
| Автор | A. J. Mitar |
Im Jahr 2031 wird die Erde Opfer einer Invasion des Rod'Or-Imperiums und ihrer Söldner, der Ashrak. Der Krieg gegen die außerirdischen Eindringlinge dauert nicht einmal zehn Monate, bevor sämtliche Armeen der Menschheit mit ihren hochtechnisierten Waffenarsenalen unterliegen und die Städte der Erde in Schutt und Asche gelegt werden. Im Verlauf der nächsten Jahre landen immer wieder in unregelmäßigen Abständen Ashrakschiffe und verschleppen eine große Anzahl Menschen ins All. Gareth Finch...
| Автор | Stefan Burban |
The second part of the exciting fairytale space adventure! The Goldilocks continues to flee as the enemy hunts them down. During their escape into the Old Sultan Solar System, Commander Red and her computer companion Grimm encounter three space stations. Three little protectors named Pegg. These three monitor and protect the region of space around the core world inside the system. Red must reach that world if she is to save the Galactic Kingdom from certain doom. Is the mission in jeopardy? Will...
| Автор | Jeff Walker |
The Gorafrex is trying to power an ancient ship that could destroy not just Austin. Big sister Laura may have the key to solve it. It's not a problem she can solve alone, but she knows just who to call when she's in trouble. It's good to have friends who know the secrets your family is keeping. Nickie has to learn to control her magical music without killing herself or her sisters. Emily wants to be a Head Chef if she can just keep her magical feelings out of her cooking and...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
It was a dark and stormy night. Lord Byron, Mary Godwin (who would soon become Mary Shelley), Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John William Polidori were sheltering inside a Swiss castle reading ghost stories to one another to pass the time. Noting that everyone present had literary aspirations Byron challenged the assembly to each write a ghost story. This night was perhaps the most important literary night in history as both science fiction and vampire literature were birthed. Collected here for the...
| Автор | Mary Shelley |
Nach dem Hauseinsturz wartet bereits die nächste Katastrophe auf Lydia Frost und ihren Partner Jackson Payne. Scotland Yard hat einen Haftbefehl auf sie ausgestellt. Inspektor Flannagan, der ihnen in den hohen Norden gefolgt ist, nimmt die beiden fest. Doch die Reise zurück nach London nimmt ein jähes und vor allem blutiges Ende. Wer ist hinter ihnen her, und warum? Während Frost und Payne ums Überleben kämpfen, freundet sich David im Keller mit Anna an. Kann er mit ihr endlich aus den Händen...
| Автор | Luzia Pfyl |
Sea monkeys. 3-D specs. Hypno-coins. Ant farms. Kryptonite rocks. Miniature submarines made from cardboard. All available for a buck or less from the back page of comic books. And we blew our weekly allowance on these rip-offs, only to be disappointed when they turned out to be total crap. But what if these bogus products had side effects not advertised? In horror master Hunter Shea’s MAIL ORDER MASSACRE, sometimes you do get more than you paid for . . . JUST ADD WATER It’s been years...
| Автор | Hunter Shea |
Whatever June Coffin says, goes—literally. And it’s not just because she’s a chain smoking rebel. As a Siren, June has the ability to force people to obey any command she voices. But in a world where those with supernatural powers quickly become lab rats for science, she’d rather look out for herself than fight on the front lines…until her similarly gifted twin brother, Jason, is captured by Chicago’s Institute of Supernatural Research. To save Jason, June has no choice but to enter a hidden...
| Автор | Megan Morgan |
“Maberry will scare the hell out of you.” —Tess Gerritsen The final novel in the award-winning Pine Deep saga . . . In the Pennsylvania town of Pine Deep, a handful of brave souls prepare for an unspeakable evil that has been gathering strength for thirty years. On Halloween night, the legend that has haunted their community will return with a vengeance. The dead will rise, the damned will take human form, and a red wave of terror will consume every man, woman, and child. For the few left...
| Автор | Джонатан Мэйберри |
English Three, #1 Can three women stop the destruction of the Tower Bridge? Eliza, Miriam, and Jillian are friends by fate, employment, and society. In the London of 1894, they receive a directive from their mysterious boss to investigate, and stop, the Countess Wilmont's plot to destroy the newly erected Tower Bridge. Delving into a secret world of masterful training in martial arts, curious new technologies and weaponry, the women are armed and very dangerous. Their investigation reveals...
| Автор | Elysabeth Williams |
English Three, #2 Wanted for murder, with a missing alibi, what's an out-of-work burlesque dancer to do? A burlesque dancer at London's exclusive Miss Merriweather's, Delilah Knightly is abruptly fired after her costume falls apart twenty feet above the stage. Minutes after she packs her trunk and flounces out, her boss is murdered. Delilah's only alibi, a handsome stranger she fell over in an alleyway, vanishes. When she returns to speak with club's owner, Delilah is...
| Автор | Elysabeth Williams |
Hijacking a woman's spacecraft is definitely not the way to win her heart. Gerald Wolff is a convict blackmailed into hijacking the ship belonging to Jed, a star Archer and descendant of one of the highest Blood lineages in the known galaxy, while he is but an outcast half Blood. Jed has found Equilibrium by adhering to a strict code. Wolff's intrusion into her ship and her life upsets the balance of her obsessively controlled world. His very presence confuses her, yet they must work...
| Автор | Manda Benson |
The west isn't only wild. Sometimes it's just plain strange. When the airship The Merry Widow arrives in Professor Von Maxwell's city of gruff coal miners for fuel, the lonely men of Ironstation scramble to impress the all female crew. But the crew isn't in the mood for romance. On the run from a vicious bordello Madam, the ladies of The Merry Widow are recovering from a run-in with a pack of wild natives. Not to mention that their ship houses the world's greatest...
| Автор | Tonia Brown |
Beasts, #1 She killed a man who deserved life, and let live a man who deserved death. . . Zeta Verity killed a man who deserved to live, and let a man live who deserved death. Now she has a limited amount of time to stop him and bring justice to Callisto. Born to excel but living in the shadow of her auspicious ancestors, Zeta is posted to the newly terraformed Callisto to work with specially bred horses. Killing a spy in possession of stolen data is just another day's work. She's not...
| Автор | Manda Benson |
Das Gefängnis scheint ihnen diesmal sicher zu sein. Zu viele Beweise sprechen gegen ihre Unschuld – sind sie tatsächlich verantwortlich für Inspektor Flannagans Tod? Frost erleidet einen Zusammenbruch. Hat sie wirklich versagt? Wird Payne die Zusammenarbeit mit ihr beenden? Cecilia trifft eine folgenschwere Entscheidung, während Michael Cho eine Verschwörung aufdeckt, die offenen Krieg innerhalb der Dragons bedeuten könnte. Sein Leben ist in höchster Gefahr – und er hat niemanden, dem er noch...
| Автор | Luzia Pfyl |