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After strangling a mime in the King’s court, Fain encounters a crazy old man who offers to grant him three wishes. What will Fain ask for?‘Fain knew at once what had happened – he had travelled back in time as he had wished, but his clothing hadn’t. «I’ve read about how tricky this wishing game can be. Genies seem to revel in deliberately misunderstanding the simplest orders.»'Looping through his own past and offending kings and leaders throughout the world, Fain searches for the means to...
| Автор | Steve Aylett |
"A book to rival TWILIGHT and VAMPIRE DIARIES, and one that will have you wanting to keep reading until the very last page! If you are into adventure, love and vampires this book is the one for you!" <br>–Vampirebooksite.com (Turned)<br><br>BETRAYED is book #3 in the #1 Bestselling series THE VAMPIRE JOURNALS, which begins with TURNED (Book #1)! <br><br>In BETRAYED (Book #3 in the Vampire Journals), Caitlin Paine awakes from a deep coma to discover she has been...
| Автор | Morgan Rice |
What could possibly be funny about two Tibetan boys climbing a mountain behind their village and finding a very strange object? Would any sane person laugh when the object turned out to be a time capsule created by an advanced civilisation over 300,000 years ago? And what about when the time capsule produces a hologram showing an enlightened society built on the principle of empowerment, a society which managed to destroy itself? <br><br>How can anybody find it amusing when a heroin...
| Автор | Ian Purdie |
Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by William Morris:<br><br>CHILD CHRISTOPHER AND GOLDILIND THE FAIR<br>A DREAM OF JOHN BALL<br>The Hollow Land<br>HOPES AND FEARS FOR ART<br>THE HOUSE OF THE WOLFINGS<br>OLD FRENCH ROMANCES DONE INTO ENGLISH<br>THE SUNDERING FLOOD<br>THE TABLES TURNED<br>THE WATER OF THE WONDROUS ISLES<br>The Well at the World's End<br>THE WORLD OF ROMANCE
| Автор | William Morris |
Kristoffer Snider is an unlikely hero: an outcast musical prodigy. But when an evil force captures the power of music to rule the world, only Kristoffer can save the day.<br><br>As music disappears and the idyllic land of Greenwood begins to fall apart, Kristoffer uses his unique gift to battle the malevolent Urizen, his underling Alistair Vull, and a trio of muses who may not be what they first seem. Kristoffer must venture into the mysterious forest outside Greenwood, and with the...
| Автор | Jason Peterson |
'My sandals were made to glide over the marble floor of the Palace of Mycenae, not to walk the road like a common market trader. Of course, as a princess, I was unused to walking. Only female slaves and whore are seen in public. Only female slaves and whores walk…' Electra is the final book in The Delphic Women trilogy. Electra is forced to flee her home after witnessing the shocking murder of her father, Agamemnon. But life outside the palace walls is frightening. The free and...
| Автор | Kerry Greenwood |
Sorceress, Princess of Colchis, Securer of the Golden Fleece.<br /> <br />Her very name is a byword for infamy.<br /> <br />Legend has it that she murdered her own children for revenge.<br /> <br />But love in Ancient Greece was often a dangerous game; and legends are not always what they seem.<br /> <br />Medea, devoted wife of Jason, was also a loving mother, a loyal friend of Herakles and a brave adventurer with the Argonauts.<br /> <br...
| Автор | Kerry Greenwood |
Strap yourself in as three tales from award winning speculative fiction author David McDonald take you on a tour of time and space. Visit a frozen post apocalyptic Earth, a galactic delivery service, and very Australian dystopia to discover what happens to ordinary people faced with extraordinary choices or challenges.<br /> <br />Cold Comfort<br />Ice spiders, snow bears and deadly cold are only most obvious of the dangers a young trader faces as she searches for the secrets...
| Автор | David McDonald |
Lenardo, a master Reader with strong telepathic powers, meets Aradia, a Lady Adept who can use her powers both to heal and destroy. Together they defeat an evil Lord Adept. When the war's over, though, what then? Can they actually build an empire together? Each then decides to sacrifice their own powers to weaken the other's. Is this treachery–or something else entirely? And then a new menace appears on the horizon. There's a fine line between love and hate. The Savage Empire,...
| Автор | Jean Lorrah |
In the house with two front doors, Watson Congruent's father sells souvenirs from the long-canceled TV show, The Adventures of Captain Conquer, and is also trying to build an actual «motivator,» the device that powered the Captain's huge spaceship. And then one day Watson comes home from school to find both his house and father–vanished! With the help of some eccentric Captain Conquer fans, including the man with forty pounds of brains in his nose, Watson sets out to find his...
| Автор | Mel Gilden |
Set in an alternative reality where «All the President's men» do not get caught at Watergate, this «shockingly believable» novel presents the frightening scenario of what could happen if a powerful but paranoid American chief executive goes out of control. <P> "—The dirty tricks have just begun; rape, murder, plot and counterplot…are nothing to this imperial President…" –Publishers Weekly. <p> "[T]he authors have brought a chilling sense of reality to their...
| Автор | Michael Kurland |
In this classic science fiction novel, Romain Ségétan, a brilliant scientist whose creativity is intimately linked to his erotic experience, particularly in its visual dimension, is struggling to develop a technology to capture and control the «waves of time,» which will allow recurrent images and other echoes of the past to be brought forward into clearer focus. After being temporarily blinded by a jealous rival in love, he feels impelled to celebrate the restoration of his sight by means of a...
| Автор | Leon Daudet |
Trapped in the Warsaw ghetto in 1942, teenager Rachel Zilber escapes the horror by writing about the adventures of Zap-Gun Jack and Princess Anya of Mars. When her parents are captured by the Nazis, Rachel's transported into her make-believe world, but the danger is far from over. Together with Katie, a girl from the future, Rachel joins Jack and a rag-tag band of misfits to fight the evil Lord Ares III of Mars and restore Princess Anya to her rightful place on the Martian throne. «A...
| Автор | Martin Berman-Gorvine |
In a place where no stars appear in the night sky, a group of strangers whose ancestries reach back to an earlier apocalyptic disaster are brought together to track down a resurrected corpse that might hold the key to the End of the World. Described by science fiction legend Jack Dann as «one of the strangest and most interesting visions to come out of the modern horror/fantasy genres,» acclaimed author Robert Hood's Fragments of a Broken Land: Valarl Undead is an epic tale of greed, dying...
| Автор | Robert Hood |
In the third book of this epic science-fantasy series, Torlo Hannis leads a series of missions against the tyranny of Kamina. When he's captured and forced to entertain savage Mutis in their cruel killing arenas, the strange Muti, Sziat, guides Torlo on a puzzling journey that reveals the true extend of the empire's malice. Now the Prophet Kalinis is demanding that all must submit to its absolute power. Can Torlo and Sziat successfully challenge this…CONQUEST OF NOOMAS? The thrilling...
| Автор | Charles Nuetzel |
Here in THE FOREST OF FOREVER dwells the last Minotaur, and here too are the other lingering dwellers in that folk-whispered country where dwell the beasts that are human and the humans that are beasts… Also in this series: DAY OF THE MINOTAUR Thomas Burnett Swann (1928 – 1976) was an American poet, critic and fantasy author. The bulk of Swann's fantasy fits into a rough chronology that begins in ancient Egypt around 2500 BC and chronicles the steady decline of magic and...
| Автор | Thomas Burnett Swann |
SHE FLED FROM ASSASSINATION…<br /><br />… pursued by a killer AI created by super-science. Princess Lassandra, with the help of her guardian AI, took a chance—her only chance—on an untested theory for Teleportation. What she did not know was whether it would work at all or where it would send her.<br /><br />Least of all did she expect to land on an unknown backward planet called Earth.<br /><br />She and her AI discovered a freak side-effect of the...
| Автор | Paul Kocourek |
The place: England; the time: the 1880s. Sir Mortimer Brobury dies suddenly, and his son David inherits his title. With his new wife Judith, he moves into Ladygrove Manor, the ancestral home. At first their lives are untroubled–until Judith falls pregnant. Suddenly there's a sinister change in the atmosphere at Ladygrove. An invisible presence prevents Judith from entering the Maze in the Manor gardens–where previously she had wandered freely. And the ruins of the old chapel seem haunted by...
| Автор | John Burke |
In 2035 A.D., a plague strikes terror throughout the world. Transsexuals are the carriers of Tensen's virus – a death sentence for their sex partners. Already overwhelmed by pollution and over-population, humanity lashes out at this new threat.<P> Thirty-year-old transsexual Cean Rowan has always felt connected to Boadicea, Queen of the Iceni, one of Britain’s early tribes. Threatened and humiliated by the Romans, in 61 A.D. Boadicea led a rebellion and almost succeeded in driving...
| Автор | Lyn McConchie |
What happens when two U.S. Naval Astronauts land on the planet Harlech, where there is no government, no law – indeed, no concept of sin! Public nudity is a way of life and the paternalism of children is of little interest to their mothers. This wry, amusing, and suspenseful satire is truly John Boyd at his best. <P> Praise for John Boyd's The Last Starship from Earth <P> "This is the best anti-Utopia, the strongest satire on trends in our present culture, I have seen...
| Автор | John Boyd |
The year is 1862. Dan Fields, a Corporal in Stonewall Jackson's Rebel Army, is marching near Bath, Virginia. At the height of a blizzard, he touches the cross at his neck and remembers his Granny's warning: «You won't die in this war, but you may wish you had.» Seeking refuge, he stumbles into a cave, and suddenly finds himself in 2010. Cold and starving, Dan stumbles onto the farm of beautiful Allie Johnson, who saves his life. But Dan has been followed into the future by his...
| Автор | Sally Walker Brinkmann |
Seventeen fantasies by one of the field's most prolific short story authors, including tales of…mad gods, specters returning from the beyond, inexplicable enigmas from outer space, a romantic and surreal interlude of the legendary madman, Tom O'Bedlam, time travel to allow an irate professor to settle the Shakespearean authorship controversy, and the King Arthur legend–plus genuinely frightening horror, including the celebrated story, «The Dead Kid.» Mike Ashley calls the author...
| Автор | Darrell Schweitzer |
At an 1847 revival of Meyerbeer’s opera Robert le Diable, the ghost of Blaise Thibodeaux, the author of La Résonance du temps, appears in one of the boxes, just as Thibodeaux had predicted to Auguste Dupin that it would, thirteen years before. Unfortunately, Dupin is unable to attend the performance, leaving his uninformed friend and narrator Reynolds to try to make sense of the apparition and all the confusing circumstances surrounding it. Once Dupin has returned to the intellectual fray,...
| Автор | Brian Stableford |
Compiled in one book, the essential collection of speculative science fiction books:<br><br>Looking Backward 2000-1887, Edward Bellamy <br>Flatland, a romance of many dimensions, Edwin Abbott Abbott <br>Utopia, Thomas More <br>Gulliver of Mars, Edwin L. Arnold <br>The Emerald City of Oz, L. Frank Baum <br>The Time Machine, H. G. (Herbert George) Wells <br>Anthem, by Ayn Rand <br>A Voyage to Arcturus, David Lindsay <br>20000 Leagues...
| Автор | H. G. Wells |