Attractively packaged in an all-important shiny cover, and clocking in at just shy of 450 pages, Matthew Skelton's debut novel is a substantial and impressive addition to the oeuvre of modern children's books that many commentators say is undergoing something of a 'Golden Age'. Endymion Spring, feverishly sought after by many a publisher when it was completed and thrust forth upon the books community for acquisition, has catapulted its shy creator into a very large limelight. And it is attention richly deserved. It's a well-written book that impresses from the beginning. The author expertly interweaves two narratives with ...
Shaken by the crash landing of an alien vessel in the Pacific Ocean, humanity soon becomes embroiled in an ancient conflict that spans all of time and space. As a massive invasion force systematically dismantles the solar system and gathers Earth's survivors for harvest, a human resistance group from the future struggles to ensure a swift and final end to the conflict. Enemy is a story of war and the lives that it tears apart in its wake.The winner of the 2002 Booksurge Editor's Choice Award, Enemy is the first book in the Silver trilogy by Paul Evan Hughes.
In the wake of several dangerous railroad accidents where a masked samurai swordsman is seen repeatedly, Dr. Harold Smith sends his associates Remo Williams and Master Chiun to pose as DOT investigators.
By the end of the twenty-second century, Earth's ravaged environment has become a time bomb ticking down to global self-destruction. Despite the fortuitous arrival of faster-than-light space travel, the search for a new home has so far located only one candidate-Quraqua, a desolate planet scheduled for terraformation within a few months. For interstellar archaeologist Richard Wald and starship pilot Priscilla Hutchins, the looming renovation threatens critical research on the enigmatic alien ruins on Quraqua and its moon, which include a bizarre false city dubbed Oz. Rousing little interest on Earth and facing an unyielding terraformation committee, Wald and his ...
Kolejny tom "wolszczyzny" zawiera kr?tk? powie?? "Enklawa", w nowej, poprawionej i przeredagowanej wersji oraz kilka d?u?szych nowel, podzielonych na bloki: Ba?nie dla bezsennych, Party i Horrory na p??ne wieczory.Marcin Wolski nie zamyka si? w jednej konwencji, miesza je. ?ongluje, nagina do swoich potrzeb. Znajdziemy tu krymina?, polityczn? sensacj?, histori? alternatywn?, science fiction, romans, horror. Cz??? opowiada? jest po raz pierwszy prezentowana czytelnikowi. Wszystkie teksty ??czy wsp?lny rodow?d – Radio, na kt?rego zam?wienie i potrzeby powsta?y. A tak?e niepowtarzalny styl Marcina Wolskiego: humor, ironia, sensacyjne spi?cia fabu?y i zaskakuj?ca puenta. To proza, kt?r? uwielbiaj? czytelnicy w ka?dym wieku.
After the first flowering of the Terran Empire, which has grown increasingly decadent and corrupt, other civilizations in the galaxy threaten to take over the Terran's worlds. In this scenario steps the debonair, tough and pessimistic Dominic Flandry, half-Hans Solo, half-James Bond and a hero for the ages!
The year is 1972. Widowed Christina Parr, her daughter Morgan, and her brother-in-law Jeremy have returned to the remote northern Ontario mining town of Parr''s Landing, the place from which Christina fled before Morgan was born, seeking refuge. Dr. Billy Lightning has also returned in search of answers to the mystery of his father''s brutal murder. All will find some part of what they seek-and more. Built on the site of a decimated 17th-century Jesuit mission to the Ojibwa, Parr''s Landing is a town with secrets of its own buried in the caves around Bradley Lake. A three-hundred-year-old horror slumbers ...
Human society on Jevlen was falling apart -- and it looked as if JEVEX, the immense super-computer that managed all Jevlenese affairs, was at the heart of the matter. Except that the problems didn't stop when JEVEX was shut down. People were changing -- or being changed. It was almost as if the Jevlenese were being possessed…Meanwhile, in a very different universe, where magic worked and nothing physical was predictable, holy men caught glimpses of another place, a place where the shape of objects remained unchanged by motion, and cause led directly and logically to effect. And the best part was that when the heart was pure, the mind was focused, and circumstances were right, some lucky souls could actually make the transition to that other universe. If only they all could…
2010 D.C.S?lo unos pocos seres humanos que habitan en las primitivas colonias en ?rbita en torno a la Tierra logran escapar a la hecatombe Nuclear. Deben iniciar el ?xodo en busca de nuevos mundos lejos de la Tierra destruida.27.698 D.C.A estos mundos llegan los inmortales, seres con extra?os lazos con la vieja tierra, que parecen vivir eternamente, que pueden recorres a?os luz en s?lo unos d?as, y que utilizan sus extra?os poderes apara controlar la existencia de los simples mortales. En el planeta Pentecostes, un peque?o grupo se prepara para encontrar a los Inmortales y enfrentarse a ellos. Pero en la b?squeda deber?n transformase ellos mismos en inmortales y descubrir?n una nueva amenaza que se cierne no s?lo sobre ellos mismos sino sobre toda la galaxia.
De nos jours, ? la Nouvelle-Orl?ans, un jeune homme a ?t? convoqu? dans l’obscurit? d’une chambre d’h?tel pour ?couter la plus ?trange histoire qui soit. Tandis que tourne le magn?tophone, son myst?rieux interlocuteur raconte sa vie, sa vie de vampire.Comme l’interviewer, nous nous laissons subjuguer, fasciner et entra?ner ? travers les si?cles dans un monde sensuel et terrifiant o? l’atroce le dispute au sublime.V?ritable livre culte, premier volet des d?sormais incontournables «Chroniques des vampires», renouvelle totalement l’un des mythes les plus riches et les plus ambigus du fantastique.
Nunca un vampiro le hab?a contado su vida a un mortal. Louis de Pointe du Lac, con un cansancio de siglos a sus espaldas, es el primero en hacerlo frente a un periodista de San Francisco, al que le explica c?mo ha sido su existencia desde que fuera vampirizado por Lestat de Lioncourt en 1791. Louis y Lestat no son en realidad como la gente se imagina. Viven de la sangre humana y la muerte no les alcanza, es cierto, pero son sensibles e inteligentes, vulnerables, humanos y tal vez tienen m?s de v?ctimas que de verdugos...
Elf bittere Jahre lang war Mavra Chang eine Gefangene der Sechseck-Welt, wo Hunderte verschiedener und unvorstellbarer Rassen existierten, jede in ihrer eigenen, unvorstellbaren Umwelt. Ihre einst menschlichen Begleiter waren l?ngst in fremde Wesen verwandelt. Und auch Mavras K?rper war eine monstr?se, sinnlose Travestie ihrer einstigen Sch?nheit! ?ber ihr kreiste Obie, der Planetoid des Supercomputers, der ihr K?rper und Willenskraft zur?ckgeben konnte. Doch das Raumschiff, das allein ihr die R?ckkehr zu Obie erm?glicht, scheint f?r sie unerreichbar.Dennoch ist Mavra noch nicht bereit, sich dem Schicksal zu ergeben …
As the son of a serial killer, homicide detective Thomas 'Veck' DelVecchio, Jr., grew up in the shadow of evil. Now, on the knife-edge between civic duty and blind retribution, he atones for the sins of his father — while fighting his inner demons. Assigned to monitor Veck is Internal Affairs officer Sophia Reilly, whose interest in him is both professional and arousingly personal. And Veck and Sophia have another link: Jim Heron, a mysterious stranger with too many answers...to questions that are deadly. When Veck and Sophia are drawn into the ultimate battle between good and evil, their fallen angel savior is the only thing that stands between them and eternal damnation.
Eon has been studying the ancient art of Dragon Magic for four years, hoping he'll be able to apprentice to one of the twelve energy dragons of good fortune. But he also has a dark secret. He is actually Eona, a sixteen-year-old girl who has been living a dangerous lie for the chance to become a Dragon-eye, the human link to an energy dragon's power. It is forbidden for females to practice the Dragon Magic and, if discovered, Eon faces a terrible death. After a dazzling sword ceremony, Eon's affinity with the twelve dragons catapults him into the treacherous world of the Imperial court, where he makes a powerful enemy, Lord Ido. As tension builds and Eon's desperate lie comes to light, readers won't be able to stop turning the pages…
Eon has been revealed as Eona, the first female Dragoneye in hundreds of years. Along with fellow rebels Ryko and Lady Dela, she is on the run from High Lord Sethon's army. The renegades are on a quest for the black folio, stolen by the drug-riddled Dillon; they must also find Kygo, the young Pearl Emperor, who needs Eona's power and the black folio if he is to wrest back his throne from the selfstyled "Emperor" Sethon. Through it all, Eona must come to terms with her new Dragoneye identity and power-and learn to bear the anguish of the ten dragons whose Dragoneyes were murdered. As they focus their power through her, she becomes a dangerous conduit for their plans. .Eona, with its pulse-pounding drama and romance, its unforgettable fight scenes, and its surprises, is the conclusion to an epic only Alison Goodman could create.
In Equal Rites, a dying wizard tries to pass on his powers to an eighth son of an eighth son, who is just at that moment being born. The fact that the son is actually a daughter is discovered just a little too late…
