While searching for the lethal ingredient in a popular snack food, Remo and Chiun encounter an exotic beauty determined to make Chiun her instant enemy and Remo her love slave.
The third instalment in Jon Courtenay Grimwood's critically acclaimed series of Ashraf Bey mysteries Detective. Diplomat. Uncle. Killer. Ashraf Bey has been many things since arriving in El Iskandryia from Seattle. One thing he hasn't been, as yet, is a son to Moncef, Emir of Tunis - the father Raf has still to meet. Of course, Raf doesn't believe the Emir is his father anyway. (Given his mother's insistence that he's the son of a Swedish hitch hiker). And now it may be too late, since the rumours that don't have Emir Moncef escaping assassination have him hovering on the edge of death. Despite refusing a plea for help from the Emir's chief of security, Raf still finds himself being drawn towards Tunis. It seems he has his own part in an unfolding political crisis that began decades earlier with US anti-globalisation riots and the Emir's refusal to ratify the 2005 UN Accord on Biotechnology.
Dziesi?ta era kosmiczna Ziemi. Od kilkudziesi?ciu lat trwaj? prace nad budow? gwiazdolot?w, kt?re wezm? udzia? w wielkiej wyprawie mi?dzygalaktycznej. Si?? nap?dow? tych pojazd?w b?dzie energia Kosmosu, energia gwiazd, promieniowanie kosmiczne, si?y grawitacyjne innych uk?ad?w s?onecznych. Te niewyczerpane ?r?d?a energii pozwol? gwiazdolotom na rozwini?cie szybko?ci bliskiej pr?dko?ci ?wiat?a.Zadanie ekspedycji — nawi?za? kontakt z innymi cywilizacjami i zbada? kszta?t Kosmosu.
Festiwal strachu – nowa ksi??ka mistrza horror?w Grahama Mastertona.Kolejny, czwarty ju? na polskim rynku zbi?r znakomitych opowiada? mistrza horroru. Festiwal strachu zawiera dziesi?? kr?tkich, dot?d nie przet?umaczonych utwor?w, kt?re powsta?y w latach 2002 – 2004. Masterton mi?dzy innymi opowiada o roli si? nadprzyrodzonych w historii Anglii, ukazuje ludzkie obsesje i dewiacje we wsp??czesnym ?wiecie, przestrzega przed korzystaniem z fast food?w, przedstawia prawdziwe oblicze ?wi?tego Miko?aja – jak zwykle zaskakuj?c, strasz?c i bawi?c.
contain all three of Joel Arnold’s short story collections in one volume:• Bait and Other Stories• Bedtime Stories for the Apocalypse• Fetal Position and Other StoriesThis one volume holds over 120,000 words of fiction that will haunt and terrify you for days on end.Contains the award winning stories “Some Things Don’t Wash Off” and “Mississippi Pearl” as well as stories that have seen print in such venues as , , , and . Six of these stories have received honorable mentions in The Years Best Fantasy & Horror.In these three collections, you’ll meet:
Mit „Fiasko“ kn?pft Lem an jene Phase seines literarischen Schaffens an, die mit Romanen wie „Der Unbesiegbare“ (1967) und „Solaris“ (1972) seine bisher gr??ten erz?hlerischen Erfolge aufwies. „Fiasko“, ein Buch von grandiosem pessimistischem Zuschnitt, nimmt eine Idee auf, die die intellektuelle Science-fiction bislang gemieden hat: die M?glichkeit der Selbstzerst?rung unseres Planeten. Den Ausgangspunkt der Geschichte, die Lem ins 22. Jahrhundert datiert, bildet der Versuch eines Raumfahrtkommandos, mit einer au?erirdischen Zivilisation Kontakt aufzunehmen, doch kristallisiert sich als das eigentliche Thema des Romans bald der fatale Zustand jener fremden Zivilisation heraus. Im Verlauf eines hundertj?hrigen kalten Krieges ...
A new short story collection by Mercedes Lackey, Fiddler Fair demonstrates her wide range as a writer, running the gamut from her beloved Bardic fantasies to urban fantasy set in the modern world, from science fiction adventure to chilling horror.Learn what happens when animal rights fanatics try to "liberate" genetically reconstructed dinosaurs. Follow Lawrence of Arabia into the desert to meet a power beyond human comprehension, and be with King Arthur, reborn into the present day, when he again gains possession of the enchanted sword Excalibur. And, in a very weird encounter of the most bizarre kind, ...
Abner Marsh, Flu?schiffer auf dem Mississippi und ein Kolo? von einem Mann, steht nach der Flutkatastrophe von 1857 vor dem wirtschaftlichen Ruin. Da bietet ihm der Aristokrat Joshua York die Partnerschaft an, um das schnellste Dampfschiff auf dem Mississippi bauen zu lassen. F?r den Kapit?n scheint sich ein Traum zu verwirklichen.Doch w?hrend der Jungfernfahrt der entpuppt sich Joshua York zum Entsetzen Marshs als Vampir, und der Plan, als schnellster Dampfschiffkapit?n in die Geschichte einzugehen, tritt in den Hintergrund, denn York f?hrt den Flu? hinab, um die Letzten seiner kranken alten Rasse zu ...
The surprise attack of the Republic of Haven on Manticore has failed. The Peeps are in disarray, their leaders fighting for power in a bloody revolution, and the Royal Manitcoran Navy stands victorious. But success can be more treacherous than defeat for Honor Harrington.
It's only a trip to the movies but it turns into Marty's worst nightmare when she sees the guy behind her in the audience. Willy. The man who burst into her house and raped her ten years ago. Now he's out of jail and back in town - and looking for Marty. Marty's date says he's going to fix the creep. And the way he goes about it makes Marty sick. But when it comes to sick, there's no one to match Willy. He's a fiend... FIENDS is the lead-off novella in this collection of horror stores by ...
The second of three linked novels set in the strife-torn world of big science, operating out of the corrupt political heart of the developed world. In the interface between big science and big business lies the potential for the absolute destruction or salvation of our world, as new discoveries open ever more remarkable doorways into the future. And while good intentions may underlie the science that leads to these discoveries, human greed, on an individual, political or corporate basis, will always seek a way to exploit each and every new development. Combining superb narrative and beautiful writing, these will ...
Volume 14 of The Chronicles of Counter-Earth, and first installment in the Jason Marshall trilogy. Accidentally caught up in the capture of his dinner date by Gorean slavers, Jason Marshall is transported to Gor as the first male silk slave from Earth. At first humiliated and psychologically broken, Jason eventually begins to regain his honour, becoming a fighting slave, and awaiting his chance to win his freedom and seek the woman he loves.
Premio Nebula per il miglior racconto apparso nel 1984, questo «Figlio del Mattino» ? un’ulteriore riprova della bravura di Gardner Dozois.La tecnologia avanza molto pi? rapidamente del solito in tempo di guerra e quindi, nonostante le nostre aspettative, la Terza Guerra Mondiale, se mai dovesse scoppiare, probabilmente ci sorprenderebbe con armi imprevedibili e fantastiche come quella che Dozois ci presenta in questo piccolo e toccante capolavoro.
