Ну хорошо, выжить не удалось — по крайней мере, в общепринятом смысле. Это пассив. В активе — примирение с отцом и возвращение в Хёнкон. Можно снова возвратиться к учебе, благо и научных руководителей теперь завались, и верный друг рядом. Да еще и изобретательные паладары не устают делать жизнь интереснее, выдумывая разные забавные штучки типа виртуального махания руками и прыгания с облака на облако. Способности прогрессируют, связь с другом только усиливается, впереди необъятное поле для экспериментов… …вот только безмятежностью вокруг и не пахнет. Кольчоны все чаще накрывают паллийские города, люди восстают из мертвых, электрические штормы вырываются на свободу, и энергоплазма из жуткой экзотики становится неприятной повседневностью. А еще, грозит Палле гибель или нет, люди остаются людьми. Ненависть, застарелые обиды и фанатизм воплощаются в мстителях — благородных, самоотверженных, но всё-таки террористах. Прошлое настигает десятилетия спустя, месть уничтожает всё, в том числе своих носителей, и даже в посмертии им не суждено обрести покой. И даже в тихом защищенном Хёнконе не удается спрятаться от жестокой реальности окружающего мира

Life appears peaceful on Loggerhead Island – rescued from financial disaster, the research institute is flourishing once more. But the tranquility is quickly shattered when Tory Brennan and her technophile gang discover a mysterious box buried in the ground. A seemingly innocent treasure hunt soon turns into a nightmarish game of puzzles, as it becomes clear that one false move will lead to terrible, explosive consequences. The clock is ticking. Can Tory and the Virals crack the code in time to save the city – and their own lives?

Code Blue — Emergency is a 1987 science fiction novel written by author James White and is part of the Sector General series. White said in an interview that originally he intended to end the series with Star Healer (1985), by which time the central characters had reached the top levels in their careers. However Ballantine Books persuaded him to continue, and he extended the stories’ range by introducing new central characters beginning with Code Blue — Emergency. The protagonist of the story is Sommaradvan healer Cha Thrat. She bravely saved a human pilot who crashlanded on her planet, despite a complete lack of knowledge about his physiology. Contact with her species was established by the accident, so knowledge of their social customs is still virtually non-existent. However, she is invited to join the Sector General staff. Cha Thrat innocently wreaks havoc by following her instincts and social customs. First she befriends a hypochondriac Chalder. Next, she is invited to assist at a therapeutic surgery operation to amputate the limb of a Hudlar, which will prolong its life (see Star Healer.) When given the honor of cutting the limb, she obliges — and then deliberately cuts her own arm off as well, in accordance with the custom of her people. Next she saves the untouchable patient Khone (see Star Healer), and then finds a weird parasite species on a derelict spaceship. Due to the chaos she causes, every department in the hospital now refuses to allow her near their patients. O’Mara values her unusual approaches, and decides to add her to his staff

The face of terror is hard to recognize—especially when it’s homegrown. Blair Powell is set to join her father on the campaign trail even though a domestic terrorist group has already launched one attack on President Andrew Powell's life. The orchestrators of the assassination attempt are still at large, and Andrew's opponent is a popular ultra-conservative with questionable ties to the radical right. Blair's wife, DHS Deputy Director Cameron Roberts has been charged with the task of tracking down those responsible for the attack, while secretly searching for proof that a powerful senator is involved in treason. Cam has an ace in the hole no one knows about, however—an agent deep undercover in the stronghold of a radical militia group, FBI SA Loren McElroy. Cam's biggest challenge is running the terrorists to ground without getting McElroy and her renegade handler, Skylar Dunbar, killed in the cross fire

Until he hung up his gunbelts to raise a family, Smoke Jensen was the last mountain man...and a force of nature. But Lee Slater and his gang of lowlife desperadoes didn't know that. Stirring up a motherlode of trouble for the retired gunslinger was Slater's first mistake. Shooting Smoke Jensen's wife Sally was his second. He wasn't going to live to make a third

n this classic Cold War thriller, #1 New York Times bestselling author Ken Follett puts his own electrifying twist on the space race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. "Code to Zero's split-second suspense proves that...[Follett is] a hell of storyteller."—Entertainment Weekly

Resident Evil - Code Veronica

ПРОДОЛЖЕНИЕ БЕСТСЕЛЛЕРА «THE ONE. ЕДИНСТВЕННЫЙ» «Если хочешь сохранить секрет, надо скрывать его и от себя». – Джордж Оруэлл, «1984» В XXI веке информация – бог. Но как ее защитить? Любое хранилище можно взломать, кроме… Несколько обычных людей выбраны правительством для участия в уникальной программе защиты данных. После новейших биоинженерных операций они становятся ходячими тайниками, Носителями. Отныне их мозг содержит сверхсекретные сведения, зашифрованные в генетическом коде. Взамен они получили шанс решить все свои проблемы и начать жизнь с чистого листа. Вместе Носители знают все грязные тайны, всю правду, скрывающуюся за каждой государственной ложью, за каждой теорией заговора. Но можно ли им доверять? Ведь у них тоже есть секреты, и они сделают все, чтобы их защитить… Триллер в духе «Черного зеркала» от лауреата премии International Thriller Writers Award 2021 Лучший фантастический триллер-2021 по версии Wall Street Journal «Роман прямо напрашивается: "NETFLIX, экранизируй меня!"» – My Chestnut Reading Tree «С этой книгой я, словно кролик, выхваченный из тьмы фарами, зачарованно смотрел на источник света – и был безжалостно сбит тем, что оказалось за ним». – Books from Dusk till Dawn «Завораживающе и в то же время невероятно пугающе». – Totally Booked «Увлекательный и крайне правдоподобный триллер Маррса поднимает интересные вопросы о нашем будущем, где наука станет играть первую скрипку». – Booklist «Чрезвычайно мощная комбинация умного сюжета, проблем технофобии, конспирологического триллера и шокирующих личных историй». – SFX Magazine «Маррс поистине блестящ в лихих поворотах сюжета и адреналиновой гонке повествования». – Питер Джеймс «Шок на каждой следующей странице». – Wall Street Journal

A stylish, thrilling game of spy vs. spy played by Villanelle, a peerless international assassin, and Eve, the fiercely intelligent MI6 analyst whose mission is to take her out—soon to be a BBC America series Villanelle (a codename, of course) is one of the world’s most skilled assassins. A catlike psychopath whose love for the creature comforts of her luxurious lifestyle is second only to her love of the game, she specializes in murdering the world’s richest and most powerful. But when she murders an influential Russian politician, she draws a relentless foe to her tail. Eve Polastri (not a codename) is a former MI6 operative hired by the national security services for a singular task: to find and capture or kill the assassin responsible, and those who have aided her. Eve, whose quiet and otherwise unextraordinary life belies her quick wit and keen intellect, accepts the mission. The ensuing chase will lead them on a trail around the world, intersecting with corrupt governments and powerful criminal organizations, all leading towards a final confrontation from which neither will emerge unscathed. Codename Villanelle is a sleek, fast-paced international thriller from an exciting new voice in fiction

Будущее всё же наступило, и его можно назвать светлым. Космические корабли бороздят ближний космос, семимильными шагами развивается наука. Цивилизация, в прошлом пережившая ряд сокрушительных ударов со стороны природы и ядерную войну, испытывает небывалый подъём. Вот-вот должен произойти очередной прорыв, который откроет человечеству дорогу к звёздам. Но именно в такие моменты привычный порядок вещей становится наиболее уязвимым, настоящее — хрупким и зыбким, а грядущее — пугающим и туманным. Особенно если в игру вступают тени прошлого. Что может сделать пара учёных, по случайности оказавшихся на самом острие событий? Покажет лишь время

Peter Seibel interviews 15 of the most interesting computer programmers alive today in Coders at Work, offering a brand-new companion volume to Apress’s highly acclaimed best-seller Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston. As the words “at work” suggest, Peter Seibel focuses on how his interviewees tackle the day-to-day work of programming, while revealing much more, like how they became great programmers, how they recognize programming talent in others, and what kinds of problems they find most interesting

Isaac Vainio’s life was almost perfect. He should have known it couldn’t last. Living and working as a part-time librarian in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Isaac had finally earned the magical research position he dreamed of with Die Zwelf Portenære, better known as the Porters. He was seeing a smart, fun, gorgeous dryad named Lena Greenwood. He had been cleared by Johannes Gutenberg to do libriomancy once again, to reach into books and create whatever he chose from their pages. Best of all, it had been more than two months since anything tried to kill him. And then Isaac, Lena, and Porter psychiatrist Nidhi Shah are called to the small mining town of Tamarack, Michigan, where a pair of septuagenarian werewolves have discovered the brutally murdered body of a wendigo. What begins as a simple monster-slaying leads to deeper mysteries and the discovery of an organization thought to have been wiped out more than five centuries ago by Gutenberg himself. Their magic rips through Isaac’s with ease, and their next target is Lena Greenwood. They know Lena’s history, her strengths and her weaknesses. Born decades ago from the pages of a pulp fantasy novel, she was created to be the ultimate fantasy woman, shaped by the needs and desires of her companions. Her powers are unique, and Gutenberg’s enemies mean to use her to destroy everything he and the Porters have built. But their plan could unleash a far darker power, an army of entropy and chaos, bent on devouring all it touches. The Upper Peninsula is about to become ground zero in a magical war like nothing the world has seen in more than five hundred years. But the more Isaac learns about Gutenberg and the Porters, the more he questions whether he’s fighting for the right cause. One way or another, Isaac must find a way to stop a power he doesn’t fully understand. And even if he succeeds, the outcome will forever change him, the Porters, and the whole world