M?ody programista w czasie urlopu spotyka w lesie dw?ch sympatycznych naukowc?w, kt?rzy proponuj? mu prac? w swojej plac?wce w pobliskim miasteczku. Wizyta w tajemniczym Instytucie Bada? Czar?w i Magii staje si? pocz?tkiem wypadk?w, kt?re przecz? logice. Ich kulminacj? jest niezwyk?a podr?? do ?wiata wyobra?e?, kt?ra odbywa si? w kierunku odwrotnym do osi czasu…
After being sent back from the light, Alona Dare — former homecoming queen, current Queen of the Dead — finds herself doing something she never expected: working. Instead of spending days perfecting her tan by the pool (her typical summer routine when she was, you know,), Alona must now cater to the needs of other lost spirits. By her side for all of this — ugh — “helping of others” is Will Killian: social outcast, seer of the dead, and someone Alona cares about more than she’d like.Packed with romance, lovable characters, and a killer cliffhanger, is the out-of-this-world sequel to .
«Почему-то считается, что постапокалиптика должна быть мрачной, депрессивной. Пока живы люди, они будут смеяться над собой и над окружающей действительностью, пусть даже действительности этой приходит конец», — так считают составитель и авторы, пожалуй, самого забавного сборника современной российской фантастики.Олег Дивов, Андрей Левицкий, Виктор Ночкин, Александр Шакилов, Шимун Врочек и многие другие — такой постапокалиптики вы еще не читали! Готовьтесь! Будет страшно… смешно!
This is the anarchic comedy of one man who realizes his secret ambition to get into the music industry - managing a band called Gandhi's Hairdryer, but he's soon to find out something very odd about the band - something other-worldly.
Once upon a time (or last Thursday, as its sometimes known) the wicked queen had a fully functioning, if antiquated, Mirrors system and all was well in the kingdom. Then the humans hacked in and the system failed. Fairytales may never be the same again.
With all the hassle smokers get nowadays, it's hardly worth it. It's time to move on to something else. Something which doesn't bother anybody else.Yes, snuff is about to make its biggest ever comeback. And the guy who came up with that one is going to be a very wealthy individual.
The quest continues in the fourth volume in the ever-popular series. Against all odds, at the eleventh hour, and in the unlikeliest place of all, the intrepid Arthur Dent finds the girl of his dreams. After eight years and about 100,000 lightyears of intergalactic travel, he is looking a little down-at-the-heels himself, and she is heavily sedated because she thinks she is a hedgehog. She is also in the company of a brother that Arthur wouldn’t wish on a Vogon. But they are both in search of God’s Final Message to His Creation, and hey, this time they might actually find it.
A sourcerer is born - a wizard so powerful that by comparison all other magic is just mucking around in pointy hats.And his very existence brings the Discworld, which is of course flat and rides through space on the back of an enormous turtle, to the very verge of all-out thaumaturgical war*.All that stands in the way is Rincewind, the failed magician, who wants to save the world, or at least that part of it which contains him. More new characters join the Discworld adventure: Conina the barbarian hairdresser, Nijel the Destroyer (whose mother still makes him wear woolly underwear) and possibly the first yuppie genie, who's into lamps as a growth area.This time the adventure goes east, or hubwards, or whatever. It doesn't simply draw heavily on "Omar Khayyam", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", the "1001 Nights" and every Arabian B-movie ever made, it scribbles on them as well. . .
A satirical science fiction novel that criticises both Soviet bureaucracy and somewhat the Soviet scientific environment. Although the novel itself is not directed against state and a number of points underlined are true of modern day bureaucracy and science, it met with a cold reaction during Soviet times and was quite difficult to obtain, therefore achieving a “forbidden fruit” status.
