There is no sanctuary in the night . . .Feared even by her own kind for her mastery of fire, the nightwalker Mira is summoned by the coven to take her rightful place as Elder. But with this honor comes grave responsibility — a commitment to the annihilation of the unleashed naturi. For now the foul creatures walk the earth — and neither vampire nor human will survive their horrific onslaught.A tide of blood is sweeping relentlessly across the European continent, as Mira is dispatched to Budapest for the most devastating test yet of her astonishing powers — and falls into a well-laid trap. With the dark secrets that haunt her growing darker by the hour, she must confront the terrible truth of her past and protect her fragile sanity in the face of unanticipated treachery — a betrayal by her trusted ally, her beloved enemy, the vampire slayer Danaus.
God's other son, Colin, who was edited out of the Bible when Jesus got artistic control, is a bit pissed off. Well wouldn't you be, with your brother stealing the lime-light like that? But now God's been murdered, and there's no way Colin's gonna let the meek inherit the Earth. He's in charge now, and there's gonna be some changes around here…
First published in 1981 collection Originally written for 1975 UCLA seminar called “10 Tuesdays Down a Rabbit Hole”, held by Harlan Ellison and other science fiction authors. The seminar was about writing a collection of science fiction short stories by different authors, all taking place on the same fictional planet Medea. It was an experiment in collaborative science-fictional world-building, featuring contributions by Hal Clement, Frank Herbert, and others. The complete cycle was published ten years later as (Bantam Spectra, 1985, ISBN 0-553-34170-7).
Caitlin was born blind, and when, newly arrived in tenth grade, she is offered a chance at an experimental procedure to give her sight, she leaps at it, despite previous disappointments. When she returns from the Tokyo hospital in which she underwent the procedure, it seems a failure. Soon enough, though, she discovers that, instead of reality, she is perceiving the Web. What’s particularly interesting is the background noise. Something strange is floating around behind the nodes of normal Webspace; a closer look reveals that, whatever it is, it’s not just meaningless noise. Caitlin’s story alternates ...
For seventeen-year-old Janie, getting sucked into other people's dreams is getting old. Especially the falling dreams, the naked-but-nobody-notices dreams, and the sex-crazed dreams. Janie's seen enough fantasy booty to last her a lifetime.She can't tell anybody about what she does -- they'd never believe her, or worse, they'd think she's a freak. So Janie lives on the fringe, cursed with an ability she doesn't want and can't control.Then she falls into a gruesome nightmare, one that chills her to the bone. For the first time, Janie is more than a witness to someone else's twisted psyche. She is a participant....
The new novel in Kelley Armstrong's bestselling Women of the Otherworld series showcases the fascinating Savannah Levine, a powerful young witch with a rebellious past and a troublesome heritage.The orphaned daughter of a sorcerer and a half-demon, Savannah is a terrifyingly powerful young witch who has never been able to resist the chance to throw her magical weight around. But at twenty-one she knows she needs to grow up and prove to her guardians, Paige and Lucas, that she can be a responsible member of their supernatural detective agency. So she jumps at the chance to fly ...
For once, Joanne Walker's not out to save the world. She's come to terms with the host of shamanic powers she's been given, her job as a police detective has been relatively calm, and she's got a love life for the first time in memory. Not bad for a woman who started out the year mostly dead.But it's Halloween, and the undead have just crashed Joanne's party.Now, with her mentor Coyote still missing, she has to figure out how to break the spell that has let the ghosts, zombies and even the Wild Hunt come back. Unfortunately, there's no shamanic handbook explaining how to deal with the walking dead. And if they have anything to say about it which they do no one's getting out of there alive.
IT DIDN'T TAKE TWO TO RAMBOIt didn't matter to Remo that his mentor Chiun told him he was acting like a child to want to go back to Vietnam on a mission of rescue and revenge.It didn't matter to Remo that his superior Smith ordered him to abandon a plan that could upset the delicate balance of world peace.Remo was out of his skull with remembered rage, and out of control of anyone who wanted to stop him from trying to spring a wartime buddy from a jungle hell. And the Destroyer plunged back into the past to fight a one-man war against an old enemy that would not die but could still kill without mercy and vanish like a ghoulish ghost....
Lestat, stw?rca Louisa de Pointe du Lac i Claudii — dwojga bohater?w — opowiada w?asn? histori?. Przebudziwszy si? po pi??dziesi?ciu pi?ciu latach zostaje gwiazd? rocka. Jego dzieje s? jednak d?ugie i mroczne si?gaj? osiemnastego wieku. By? w?wczas autorem w Pary?u, zosta? wampirem i podr??owa? po Europie w poszukiwaniu odpowiedzi na dr?cz?ce go pytania. Kiedy wreszcie odnalaz? pierwsze wampiry, z poszukiwacza sta? si? ?ciganym.
Zuerst beobachteten nur ein paar Wissenschaftler das Herannahen des Planeten »Wanderer«.Dann war er pl?tzlich f?r alle Menschen sichtbar und sp?rbar — ein neuer Planet, der an Naturgewalt alles ?bertraf was die Erde in ihrer langen Evolution erlebt hatte. Dieses Ph?nomen machte aus der Erde einen Ameisenhaufen. Der »Wanderer« brachte den Menschen den Tod. Aber f?r viele bedeutete er einen neuen Lebensinhalt.F?r Millionen von Menschen, die wie Ameisen ?ber die schwankende Kruste unseres Planeten hasteten, kam der »Wanderer« als Schrecken, um die Kenntnisse der Wissenschaft zu widerlegen, um die Welt zu zerst?ren — aber vielleicht auch, um Herz und Verstand der Menschen zu ?ffnen ...Dieses weitgespannte Werk des amerikanischen Autors wurde auf der Londoner Weltkonvention als bester Roman des Jahres 1965 mit dem internationalen SF-Preis ausgezeichnet.
He's a vampire from the big city . . .Phineas McKinney thought New York City was tough, until he was attacked by Malcontents—evil vampires who consider mortals to be snacks. Saved by the good vampires, Phin swore to devote his now undead life to stopping the Malcontents. He's got his job cut out for him when word comes that their enemy may be hiding in Wyoming. What does a city boy like him know about horses and campfires? Good thing he's got Brynley Jones with him . . . if only she didn't hate every vampire on earth.She's a werewolf princess . . .Bryn believes vampires are seductive and charming, and that makes them dangerous. So she's more than a little annoyed about teaming up with Phin, even if he is the only bloodsucker able to make her inner wolf purr. But as they hunt down the new leader of the Malcontents, danger threatens . . . and Phineas and Brynley discover a passion that will rock the foundation of their supernatural world.
NO ONE WANTED ANOTHER WARThomas Theisman didn't. After risking his life and a fresh round of civil war to overthrow the Committee of Public Safety's reign of terror and restore the Republic of Haven's ancient Constitution, an interstellar war was the last thing he wanted.Baron High Ridge didn't. The Prime Minister of Manticore was perfectly happy with the war he had. No one was shooting anyone else at the moment, and as long as he could spin out negotiations on the formal treaty of peace, his government could continue to milk all those "hostilities only" ...
The first battles began in the wilderness. The animals in the forests and glades struggled furiously for life and often fought with splendid courage. But they never won; they were always killed. And now it was man’s turn.
After bursting onto the fantasy scene with his acclaimed debut novel, , and following up with his blockbuster Mistborn trilogy, Brandon Sanderson proves again that he is today's leading master of what Tolkien called 'secondary creation,' the invention of whole worlds, complete with magics and myths all their own. is the story of two sisters, who happen to be princesses, the God King one of them has to marry, the lesser god who doesn't like his job, and the immortal who's still trying to undo the mistakes he made hundreds of years ago.Their world is one ...
The unthinkable happened five years ago and now two writers have set out to find what’s left of America.New York, Washington D.C., San Antonio, and parts of the Central and Western states are gone, and famine, epidemics, border wars and radiation diseases have devastated the countryside in between.It was a “limited” nuclear war, just a 36-minute exchange of missiles that abruptly ended when the superpowers’ communication systems broke down. But Warday destroyed much of civilization.Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka, old friends and writers, take a dangerous odyssey across the former United ...
Мир - несправедлив. Нет в нём ни совершенства, ни пресловутого равновесия плохое-хорошее. Но истина также и в том, что нет правды и выше. Лишь то, что ты хрипя от натуги выцарапаешь у судьбы, отказывая себе во всём кроме надежды, снова и снова бросаясь в бой - то и будет твоё. И ни равнодушно-насмешливо взирающие боги, ни слепая удача, ни ждущие случая предать друзья тебе не помогут. Рви глотки врагам, захлёбываясь пьянящим упоением смертельной битвы и их кровью - и возможно, возможно! - Возможно, когда-нибудь ты узнаешь - чего ты стоишь.
Мир - несправедлив. Нет в нём ни совершенства, ни пресловутого равновесия плохое-хорошее. Но истина также и в том, что нет правды и выше. Лишь то, что ты хрипя от натуги выцарапаешь у судьбы, отказывая себе во всём кроме надежды, снова и снова бросаясь в бой - то и будет твоё. И ни равнодушно-насмешливо взирающие боги, ни слепая удача, ни ждущие случая предать друзья тебе не помогут. Рви глотки врагам, захлёбываясь пьянящим упоением смертельной битвы и их кровью - и возможно, возможно! - Возможно, когда-нибудь ты узнаешь - чего ты стоишь.
