The survivors live underground, as far from the Original World as possible and protected from the ultimate evil, Radiation. Then terrible monsters, who bring with them a screaming silence, are seen and people start to disappear. One young man realises he must question the nature of Darkness itself.Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1962.
The Summer King is missing; the Dark Court is bleeding; and a stranger walks the streets of Huntsdale, his presence signifying the deaths of powerful fey. Aislinn tends to the Summer Court, searching for her absent king and yearning for Seth. Torn between his new queen and his old love, Keenan works from afar to strengthen his court against the coming war. Donia longs for fiery passion even as she coolly readies the Winter Court for battle. And Seth, sworn brother of the Dark King and heir to the High Queen, is about to make a mistake that could cost his life. Love, despair, and betrayal ignite the Faery Courts, and in the final conflict, some will win . . . and some will lose . The thrilling conclusion to Melissa Marr's bestselling series will leave readers breathless.
MacKayla Lane's life is good. She has great friends, a decent job, and a car that breaks down only every other week or so. In other words, she's your perfectly ordinary twenty-first-century woman. Or so she thinks…until something extraordinary happens.When her sister is murdered, leaving a single clue to her death — a cryptic message on Mac's cell phone — Mac journeys to Ireland in search of answers. The quest to find her sister's killer draws her into a shadowy realm where nothing is as it seems, where good and evil wear the same treacherously seductive mask. She ...
Villejeune, Florida. A secluded little town at the edge of a vast, eerie swamp. Far from prying eyes. Far from the laws of civilization. Here folks live by their own rules — dark rites of altars and infants, candles and blood.Years ago the Andersons left town with a dream. Now they are back. To live out a nightmare. Something has been waiting for them. Something unspeakably evil. It feeds on the young and the innocent. And soon it will draw their teenage daughter into its unholy embrace….
England’s trilogy, (published in 1912, 1913 and 1914 as , and ) tells the story of 2 modern people who awake a thousand years after the earth was devastated by a meteor. They work to rebuild civilization. Richard A. Lupoff has noted that contains "an unfortunate element of racism" (the villains who menace the heroes are descended from African-Americans).
Ari has always been a little strange. She has long, thick, silver hair that remains unchanged no matter how much she cuts or dyes it. She has teal eyes that lure people in. And growing up with bounty hunting foster parents has taught her how to kick some serious butt. When she learns that her birth mother committed suicide in “New 2,” the reincarnation of hurricane-ravaged New Orleans, Ari travels there to uncover her past. New 2, it turns out, is full of unsettling entities like half-spider creatures, sword-wielding strangers, and vampires — including the supersexy Sebastian. Ari seems normal in comparison — but every creature she encounters, no matter how deadly, is afraid of her. And when she finds out why, the truth is worse than she ever imagined…
Ursula K. Le Guin is one of the finest contemporary fantasy writers, winner of many awards (the Hugo, the Nebula, the National Book Award among others) and author of many popular books, including the contemporary classic, the Earthsea trilogy, second only to Tolkien's famous «Ring» trilogy in renown. Here is a less familiar piece, a fantasy story about light and dark, life and war and magic, filled with omens of impending doom. It is sharply and cleanly written, like a fine blade honed and polished, cold steel. It's a story about death.
Истории Петра Семилетова – истории с привычными чудесами и с чудесами из ряда вон, истории страшные и мрачные, светлые и покойные. Иногда это мистические рассказы, что поймет каждый, кто дочитает их до конца. Не только вы читаете рассказы, но и они тоже читают вас.
Since childhood, Dessel has known only the abuse of his hateful father and the dangerous, soul-crushing labor of a cortosis miner. Deep in the tunnels of the desolate planet Apatros, endlessly excavating the rare mineral valued throughout the galaxy, Dessel dreams of the day he can escape — a day he fears may never come. But when a high-stakes card game ends in deadly violence, Dessel suddenly finds himself a wanted man.On the run from vengeful Republic forces, Dessel vanishes into the ranks of the Sith army, and ships out to join the bloody war against the Republic ...
He was the most powerful Sith lord who ever lived. But could he be the only one who never died?Darth Plagueis: one of the most brilliant Sith Lords who ever lived. Possessing power is all he desires. Losing it is the only thing he fears. As an apprentice, he embraces the ruthless ways of the Sith. And when the time is right, he destroys his Master — but vows never to suffer the same fate. For like no other disciple of the dark side, Darth Plagueis learns to command the ultimate power… over life and death.
In 1912, the entire European continent and all of the United Kingdom mysteriously vanished during the Miracle, replaced by an alien landscape known as Darwinia. Darwinia seems to be a slice of another Earth, one that diverged from our own millions of years ago and took a separate evolutionary path. As a 14-year-old boy, Guilford Law witnessed the Miracle as shimmering lights playing across the ocean sky. Now as a grown man, he is determined to travel to Darwinia and explore its mysteries. To that end he enlists as a photographer in the Finch expedition, which plans to steam up ...
Is evolution a gradual process, as Darwin believed, or can change occur suddenly, in an incredibly brief time span, as has been suggested by Stephen J. Gould and others? Greg Bear takes on one of the hottest topics in science today in this riveting, near-future thriller. Discredited anthropologist Mitch Rafelson has made an astonishing discovery in a recently uncovered ice cave in the Alps. At he mummified remains of a Neanderthal couple and their newborn, strangely abnormal child. Kaye Lang, a molecular biologist specializing in retroviruses, has unearthed chilling evidence that so-called junk DNA may have a previously unguessed-at ...
Im Finsterholz nahe der Grenze herrscht stets das Dunkel der Nacht. Ein m?chtiges Fort bewacht diesen unheimlichen Teil des Waldes, doch seit einiger Zeit ist der Kontakt abgerissen. Der Ranger Duncan MacNeil wird zusammen mit drei Gef?hrten ausgesandt, um das Schicksal des Forts und seiner Bewohner zu kl?ren. Die Gruppe findet das Geb?ude v?llig verlassen vor, und alles deutet auf ein schreckliches Verbrechen hin. Bald stellt sich heraus, dass tief unter dem Fort etwas Unvorstellbares lauert. Und als auch noch Gesetzlose in das Geb?ude eindringen, um einen angeblichen Goldschatz zu bergen, schlagen die M?chte der Finsternis zu, und die Ranger m?ssen sich mit den Verbrechern verb?nden. Einer nach dem anderen f?llt den Angriffen der Untoten und Trolle zum Opfer, bis Duncan dem m?chtigsten aller D?monen selbst gegen?bertreten muss… Der d?stere Geniestreich des erfolgreichen Autors von »Das Regenbogen-Schwert«.
Menschlicher Forschergeist sind keine Grenzen gesetzt. Kurz vor dem Jahre 2000 sind Mond und Mars bereits bezwungen.Die Venus dagegen, der Schwesterplanet der Erde, h?tet hinter einer dichten Wolkenh?lle auch vor den st?rksten irdischen Teleskopen ihre Geheimnisse.Deshalb startet die "SSSR-KS 3“, ein sowjetisches Raumschiff, mit zw?lf Wissenschaftlern an Bord in Richtung Venus. Die Landung gelingt, doch heftige Gewitter und sintflutartige Regen erschweren die Erkundung des Planeten.Alle bewegt die Frage: Gibt es hier vernunftbegabte Wesen? Sollen es die aufrecht gehenden schildkr?tenartigen Gesch?pfe sein, die dreien der Kosmonauten zum Verh?ngnis werden?Phantasiereich und glaubhaft gestaltet der Autor die Begegnung des Erdenmenschen mit Bewohnern einer anderen Welt und mit der ans Wunderbare grenzende Technik eines fremden Raumschiffs, das vor Jahrtausenden auf der Venus niedergegangen ist.
Pelewin: der Bulgakow des 21. Jahrhunderts.Der 19j?hrige Roma Schtorkin ist ein typischer Jugendlicher seiner Zeit: Seine Kindheit hat er noch in der Sowjetunion verbracht, an die er sich nur noch bruchst?ckhaft erinnern kann, jetzt, als Jugendlicher, lebt er in einem Russland der unendlich vielen M?glichkeiten, die alle nicht f?r ihn zu gelten scheinen.Umso begieriger meldet er sich auf eine Anzeige, die Zugang zur Elite verspricht. Und pl?tzlich wacht er in der Gesellschaft von Vampiren auf, die ein neues – das f?nfte – Imperium errichten wollen. Mit Roma an der Spitze …Der ...
