Quitting her husband's house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season.Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council, and the only person who can explain anything, Lord Akeldama, unexpectedly leaves town. To top it all off, Alexia is attacked by homicidal mechanical ladybugs, indicating, as only ladybugs can, the fact that all of London's vampires are now very much interested in seeing Alexia quite thoroughly dead.While Lord Maccon elects to get progressively more inebriated and Professor Lyall desperately tries to hold the Woolsey werewolf pack together, Alexia flees England for Italy in search of the mysterious Templars. Only they know enough about the preternatural to explain her increasingly inconvenient condition, but they may be worse than the vampires — and they're armed with pesto.
Nunca rompa el c?rculo.En esta tercera parte de la innovadora Serie del c?rculo, Thomas Hunter s?lo tiene d?as para sobrevivir en dos mundos diferentes, llenos de peligro, enga?o y destrucci?n. El destino de ambos mundos depende de su singular habilidad de cambiar realidades por medio de sus sue?os. Ahora, guiando un peque?o grupo multiforme conocido como El C?rculo, Thomas se encuentra enfrentando nuevos enemigos, desaf?os interminables y el amor prohibido de una mujer de lo m?s ins?lita.Entre a la Gran B?squeda, donde Thomas y una peque?a banda de seguidores deben decidir r?pidamente en qui?n pueden confiar, tanto con sus propias vidas como con el destino de millones de personas.
Rincewind zostaje magicznie ?ci?gni?ty z Kosmosu, by sta? si? obiektem polowania wszystkich o?miu Obrz?dk?w Magicznych, pr?buj?cych odzyska? ukryte w jego umy?le Zakl?cie. W towarzystwie Dwukwiata z Baga?em i Cohena — najwi?kszego i najs?ynniejszego z bohater?w Dysku (cho? ostatnio troch? bez formy) — po licznych przygodach powraca do Ankh Morpork, by uczestniczy? w jednym z kluczowych wydarze? historii i kosmologii r?wnocze?nie. Na szcz??cie zako?czonym szcz??liwie.
Tiril, Erling i M?ri musz? si? rozdzieli?…Tiril, ?cigana przez dwu m??czyzn, ucieka na morze, kt?re wynosi jej ??d? na brzeg samotnej wysepki. Mijaj? miesi?ce, a Erling wci?? rozpaczliwie szuka zaginionej dziewczyny.Czarnoksi??nik M?ri wraca na Islandi?, by zrealizowa? swe zuchwa?e marzenie o zdobyciu magicznej ksi?gi, R?dskinny. ?miertelnie zagro?ony przekazuje telepatyczne przes?anie Tiril, kt?ra postanawia zrobi? wszystko, by mu pom?c…
Nalini Singh returns to the Psy/Changeling world and its “breathtaking blend of passion, adventure, and the paranormal” as a woman without a past becomes the pawn of a man who controls her future…Dev Santos discovers her unconscious and battered, with no memory of who she is. All she knows is that she’s dangerous. Charged with protecting his people’s most vulnerable secrets, Dev is duty-bound to eliminate all threats. It’s a task he’s never hesitated to complete…until he finds himself drawn to a woman who might yet prove the enemy’s most insidious weapon. Stripped of her memories by a shadowy oppressor, and programmed to carry out cold-blooded murder, Katya Haas is fighting desperately for her sanity itself. Her only hope is Dev. But how can she expect to gain the trust of a man who could very well be her next target? For in this game, one must die…
To gain access to the secrets of a legendary alchemist, Rome's vampires have allied themselves with creatures as evil and bloodthirsty as they are. The new leader of the city's vampire hunters-Lady Victoria Gardella Grantworth de Lacy-reluctantly turns to the enigmatic Sebastian Vioget for help, just as Maximilian Pesaro arrives to aid his fellow slayers, no matter what the sacrifice. Desire puts her at the mercy of Sebastian, while loyalty binds her to Max, but she does not know if she can trust either. Especially when a seductive vampire begins luring her into the shadows...
The novel deals with a government installation at Blind Lake, Minnesota, where scientists observe sentient life on a planet fifty-one light-years away, using telescopes powered by quantum computers that have advanced beyond human understanding. A sudden and unexplained facility lockdown extends into a long-term quarantine. Observation department head Marguerite Hauser tries to carry on with her work studying the alien life while taking care of her socially-challenged daughter Tess, warding off her ex-husband Ray, and deciding how she feels about houseguest and disgraced journalist Chris.Won Aurora Award for Best Long Form in 2004.Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2004.
From Robert Silverberg’s “Earthmen and Strangers” anthology, 1966:The Budrys story depicts meek, peaceful alien beings, intelligent but simple. Now we meet a very different sort of creature: a ravenous beast out of nightmare, rippling with strength, coursing with barely repressed violence. Yet Harlan Ellison’s Lad-nar and Algis Budrys’ Tylus both regard the Earthmen who visit them as supernatural beings. They recognize in them the skills and powers of superior civilizations. In this story, intelligence meets brute force in a conflict that is not quite a conflict, and a strange, curiously touching relationship develops between man and monster on this rugged lightning-blasted world.Harlan Ellison has been a professional writer since 1955, and this was one of his first published stories. It reveals the power and intensity of imagination that has since carried him to a successful career as an author of screenplays for television and motion pictures.
Spyder Lee is a happy man who lives in San Francisco and owns a tattoo shop. One night an angry demon tries to bite his head off before he's saved by a stranger. The demon infected Spyder with something awful - the truth. He can suddenly see the world as it really is: full of angels and demons and monsters and monster-hunters. A world full of black magic and mysteries. These are the Dominions, parallel worlds full of wonder, beauty and horror. The Black Clerks, infinitely old and infinitely powerful beings whose job it is to keep the Dominions ...
Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched around the Earth like a luminous fist, screaming to the heavens as the atmosphere burned them to ash. Two months since that moment of brief, bright surveillance by agents unknown. Two months of silence, while a world holds its breath.Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something ...
Blizna, rozgrywaj?ca si? w tym samym ?wiecie co Dworzec Perdido, to kreacjape?na rozmachu i m?odzie?czej energii, wida? w niej przy tym, ?e Mieville pr?buje szuka? oryginalno?ci tak?e w fabule. Kogo znu?y?y powtarzane w niesko?czono?? schematy fantasy tolkienowskiej i t?skni do ?wiat?w naprawd? innych, niepodobnych do niczego, co zna, powinien odwiedzi? uniwersum Chiny Mieville`a – t?dy prowadzi droga do fantastyki XXI wieku.Grupa skaza?c?w i niewolnik?w o groteskowo przetworzonych cia?ach jest transportowana drog? morsk? do m?odej kolonii Nowego Crobuzon. W podr??y ...
Grubbs Grady has so far escaped the family curse, but when he begins to experience alarming symptoms at the onset of the full moon, he is scared that the jaws of fate are opening and about to swallow him whole. He has cheated death, defeated demons, moved on with his life. But Grubbs is torn between the world of magic and his wolfen genes. Can he fight the beast inside or will he fall victim to his tainted blood?
What you can't see can kill you…For months Darian and her Shaede guardian Raif have searched for the Oracle who attempted to overthrow the Shaede Nation-and kill Darian in the bargain. But now that they've finally found the half-crazed Oracle, for their efforts they are granted a possibility too painful for Raif to imagine, and too enticing for Darian to ignore.Darian is determined to reunite Raif and the daughter he thought was dead, but her mission quickly proves dangerous when her lover Tyler is almost killed. And when a brooding and mysterious Fae warrior offers his guidance-at an extraordinary price-Darian finds herself willing to risk everything. As her single-minded hunt turns into an obsession, and she and Tyler grow further apart, Darian finds herself caught between the man she loves like a brother, and the man whose love she can't live without…
