The human Imperium stands at its height of glory - thousands of worlds have been brought to heel by the conquering armies of mankind. At the peak of his powers, Warmaster Horus wields absolute control - but can even he resist the corrupting whispers of Chaos?
Среди войны и разрушения, царящих в далёком мрачном будущем, у молодой империи Тау есть только одна цель — объединить всю Галактику под знаменем всеобщего блага. Когда представитель правящей элиты Тау совершает аварийную посадку в тылу Имперских сил, Каису, молодому воину из Касты Огня, поручено провести рискованную спасательную операцию и, возможно, пожертвовать жизнью ради Высшего Блага. Но по мере того, как растёт число потерь в ходе операции, Каис быстро убеждается в том, что безжалостная правда войны имеет очень мало общего с учебными боями на его родной планете.
Квантовые принципы идеальной конспирации, или как создаются нераскрываемые тайные общества. Буденновские шашки и дизайн интерьеров. Индоевропейские иероглифы и киберреинкарнация. Мошенничество, как разновидность перформанса. Графическая этимология и отпечатки из предвечности. Как устроить скандальную выставку и превратить в масштабное шоу ее последствия. Какова площадь государства, границы которого очерчены разлетающимися осколками взорванных бомб. Вечность и время, любовь и ненависть в узорах древнеегипетских идеограмм. Принцип предельности информации и власть, восстающая из кромешной тьмы. Бешеный гитарный саундтрэк к книге by RustyFusion cyberpunk band (www.rustyfusion.com).
Два пилота из не слишком дружащих стран, один - террорист на службе государства, а второй - подавшийся в сектанты на почве несчастной любви к принцессе, - против пиратов Архипелага. Вроде как "Черепашки-ниндзя против Дракулы и Кащея Бессмертного". Клад в конце прилагается.
It is the 31st millennium, and humanity is at the peak of its powers. As the Great Crusade, led by Warmaster Horus, continues to conquer the galaxy, Fulgrim, Primarch of the Emperor's Children, leads his warriors into battle against a vile alien foe. From the blood of this campaign are sown the seeds that will lead this proud Legion to treachery, taking them down the darkest of paths of corruption. Leading up to the carnage of the Dropsite Massacre on Isstvan V, this is the tale of Fulgrim's tragic fall from grace.
A volume of visions of future wars, fought with weapons out of nightmare, by today’s top writers of military science fiction, as well as some writers who are not usually associated with military SF, such as best-selling writer Gregory Benford, and award-winning author Kristine Katherine Rusch. Also present are Michael Z. Williamson, author of the strong selling novels “Freehold” and “The Weapon”, award-winning author of “Bolo Strike”, William H. Keith, and more.Through the centuries, weapons have changed radically, but the soldier has remained much the same. But in the future, soldiers, too, may undergo radical changes. As editor Joe Haldeman puts it, “Weapons are an extension of the soldier, and also an extension of the culture or species that produced the soldier. And they are sometimes more dangerous to the soldier than the enemy…”
The Global Civil War was about to make Humankind extinct, when the stupendous Super Dimensional Fortress dispatched to Earth by a dying alien genius changed all that forever. Humanity's only hope lay in a corps of untried young men and women gifted with powers they didn't fully understand. Then the most feared conquerors in the universe attacked, determined to destroy them for no reason they could comprehend.
Former SEAL Michael Harmon, Team Name “Ghost”, retired for service injuries, is not enjoying college life. But things are about to change, if not for the better. When he sees a kidnapping a series of, at the time logical, decisions leave him shot to ribbons and battling a battalion of Syrian commandos with only the help of three naked co-eds who answer to the names “Bambi,” “Thumper” and “Cotton Tail.” A fast-paced, highly-sexual, military-action thriller that ranges from a poison factory in the Mideast to the Florida Keys to Siberia, the novel will keep you guessing what twisted fate will bring next for the man once known as… Ghost. Keep an eye on him or… poof, he’ll be gone.
…Our choice was simple: we could be cannon fodder, or we could be… fodder. We could send our forces to fight and die (as only humans can) against a ravening horde that was literally feeding on its interstellar conquests — or remain as we were — virtually weaponless and third in line for brunch.We chose to fight.Thanks to alien technology and sheer guts, the Terrans on two worlds fought the Posleen to a standstill. Thank God there was a moment to catch our breath, a moment, however brief, of peace.Now, for the survivors of ...
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sixty-thousand light-years from Earth, the corrupt Terran Confederacy holds the Koprulu sector tightly in its tyrannical grip, controlling every aspect of its citizens' lives. One man dares to stand up to this faceless empire and vows to bring it to its knees: Arcturus Mengsk -- genius propagandist, tactician, and freedom fighter. A monstrous act of bloody violence sows the seeds of rebellion in Arcturus, but he is not the first Mengsk to rail against such oppression. Before Arcturus grew to manhood, his father, Angus Mengsk, also defied the Confederacy and sought to end its brutal reign. The destiny of the Mengsk family has long been tied to that of the Confederacy and the Koprulu sector, but as a new empire rises from the ashes of the past and alien invaders threaten the very existence of humanity, what will the future hold for the next generation...?
Snakefish, California, is rich in the currency of post-holocaust America. Gasoline.Almost leveled by the soviet missiles that annihilated most of the West Coast, Snakefish is in the midst of a reconstruction, financed by a commodity far more valuable than the usual Deathlands jack.But greed and man's lust for power threaten to shatter the hard won peace and tranquillity of this fledgling community as disparate factions that fight for control of the substance that will give them wealth beyond their wildest dreams.Ryan Cawdor and his companions emerge from a gateway and step into the path of a smoldering war for power.
