»Black Jack« Geary musste als Kommandeur schon viele riskante Entscheidungen fällen. Doch seine Offiziere zweifeln an seinem Verstand, als er die Allianz-Flotte wieder ins Lakota-Sternensystem zurückbeordert, wo sie zuletzt beinahe zerstört wurde. Während er sich bemüht, dem Feind immer einen Schritt voraus zu sein, muss er sich Verschwörern aus den eigenen Reihen stellen — eine unbekannte Anzahl an Offizieren will ihn des Kommandos entheben. Geary weiß, dass seine Flotte sich keinesfalls innere Unruhen leisten kann. Denn sonst reißen die Syndics ihn und seine Leute in tausend Stücke…

Auf einem fremden Planeten kämpft seit sechzehn Jahren ein Häuflein Erdenmenschen den Kampf um’s Überleben. Durch eine Havarie ihres Raumschiffes, durch hohe Radioaktivität im Schiff und eisige Kälte außerhalb gezwungen, den Landeplatz zu verlassen, stoßen sie endlich nach qualvoller, viele Todesopfer kostender Überwindung einer Gebirgskette auf ein wärmendes Niederungsgebiet. Die Überlebenden versuchen, sich der „Wildnis“ anzupassen. Die „Erdgeborenen“ wissen um die Gefahr des Vergessens, ahnen den bereits spürbaren Rückfall in eine „Urzeit“, wenn es ihnen nicht gelingt, moralische und ethische Werte der menschlichen Zivilisation und deren jahrtausendealtes Wissen weiterzugeben an die „Jugend“, damit diese die Kraft aufbringt, eines Tages den Paß zu bezwingen, um zu dem Raumschiff zu gelangen, in der Hoffnung auf eine Rückkehr zur Erde …

Leah Ramsey has always loved historical romance novels and dressing in period costumes. So when she has a chance to time travel and experience the history for herself, she jumps at it—figuring it can't be too hard to catch the eye of a duke. After all, it happens all the time in her novels. Avery Russell, valet and prize pugilist, reluctantly helps Leah gain a position in the Duke of Granville's household . . . as a maid. Domestic servitude wasn't exactly what she had in mind, but she's determined to win her happily ever after. Even if the hero isn't exactly who she's expecting

Geek Love is the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set out — with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes — to breed their own exhibit of human oddities. There’s Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan. Iphy and Elly, the lissome Siamese twins.. albino hunchback Oly, and the outwardly normal Chick, whose mysterious gifts make him the family’s most precious — and dangerous — asset. As the Binewskis take their act across the backwaters of the U.S., inspiring fanatical devotion and murderous revulsion; as its members conduct their own Machiavellian version of sibling rivalry, Geek Love throws its sulfurous light on our notions of the freakish and the normal, the beautiful and the ugly, the holy and the obscene. Family values will never be the same

The nonfiction debut from the author of the international bestseller Sacred Games about the surprising overlap between writing and computer coding. Vikram Chandra has been a computer programmer for almost as long as he has been a novelist. In this extraordinary new book, his first work of nonfiction, he searches for the connections between the worlds of art and technology. Coders are obsessed with elegance and style, just as writers are, but do the words mean the same thing to both? Can we ascribe beauty to the craft of writing code? Exploring such varied topics as logic gates and literary modernism, the machismo of tech geeks, the omnipresence of an “Indian Mafia” in Silicon Valley, and the writings of the eleventh-century Kashmiri thinker Abhinavagupta, Geek Sublime is both an idiosyncratic history of coding and a fascinating meditation on the writer’s art. Part literary essay, part technology story, and part memoir, it is an engrossing, original, and heady book of sweeping ideas

Edward Lincoln ist ein berühmter Schauspieler. Auf der Leinwand mimt er den mutigen Helden, den stürmischen Liebhaber und liefert den Verbrechern halsbrecherische Verfolgungsjagden. Außerhalb der Filmstudios ist er nichts als ein zufriedener Familienvater und gewöhnlicher Bürger. Südafrika, wo Lincoln für seinen jüngsten Film Werbung machen soll, ist nun allerdings nicht gewöhnlich. Dort lauern die Gefahren nicht nur vor der Kamera: eine bis oben mit Sprengstoff gefüllte Goldmine, ein Naturreservat voller Raubtiere und ein unheilvolles Gestüt feuriger Vollblutpferde, die kein einziges Rennen gewinnen… Seine beste Rolle spielt Lincoln ohne Drehbuch, fern der klimatisierten Filmstudios, in der sengenden Afrikasonne. Und diesmal ist es kein Spiel. «Francis wählt für jedes Buch eine völlig neue Konstellation, er stellt jeweils neue Hauptfiguren in den Mittelpunkt und vermeidet bewußt den Seriencharakter, wie man ihn bei anderen Krimi-Autoren häufig findet. Ungewöhnlich knapp, bissig und scharfsinnig sind die Dialoge, die seinen Büchern den typischen Francis-touch verleihen. Zudem sind die Helden keine schießwütigen James-Bond-Draufgänger, sondern eher nachdenkliche, intelligente Softies, die allerdings kein Pardon mehr kennen, wenn sie von unbelehrbaren Schurken herausgefordert werden.«

Dick Francis "Gefälscht", originalausgabe: "In the Frame". Pferdemaler Charles Todd hat sich auf ein gemütliches Wochenende bei seinem Cousin eingestellt. Dieser jedoch empfängt ihn tief verstört — denn vor wenigen Stunden ist gerade seine Ehefrau ermordet worden. Der Verdacht der Polizei fällt schon bald auf Donald, der nicht die Kraft hat, die Vorwürfe zurückzuweisen. Todd scheut weder Mühe noch Gefahr, um Donalds Unschuld zu beweisen. Skrupellosen Kunsthändlern auf der Spur, reist er durch ganz Australien. Doch seine Nachforschungen bleiben nicht unbemerkt, und bald wird der Verfolger zum Verfolgten…

Dick Francis "Gegenzug",original: "The Edge".Schauplatz dieser Geschichte voller Dramatik und Intrigen ist ein Millionärsexpreß, der die spektakuläre Landschaft Kanadas durchquert. An Bord sind reiche Pferdebesitzer, die ihre Pferde in Toronto, Winnipeg und Vancouver an den Start begleiten wollen. Und ein eiskalter Erpresser, für den Mord nur eine Alternative unter vielen darstellt

Buch 1529 bei Hameln: Die junge Magd Johanna muss mitansehen, wie ein ihr aus Kindheitstagen bekannter Mann ihren grausamen Herrn, Ritter Eicheck, ermordet. Da sie die einzige Zeugin des Verbrechens ist, flieht sie von der Burg nach Hameln, um nicht selbst in Verdacht zu geraten. Bei der Gewürzkauffrau Margarethe Gänslein findet sie eine neue Anstellung als Magd. Margarethe ist eine starke, handelsbegabte Frau, die in einem prachtvollen Kaufmannshaus residiert. Die Herren der Stadt jedoch möchten sie wieder verheiratet wissen oder wenigstens einem Vormund unterstellen. Besonders der niederträchtige Apotheker Hasenstock, den ein düsteres Geheimnis mit Margarethes verstorbenem Mann verbindet, scheut keine Intrige, um an ihr Vermögen zu kommen. Als Johanna schließlich dem jungen, attraktiven Philipp in der Stadt begegnet, den sie als Ritter Eichecks Mörder wiedererkennt, ist ihr eines schnell bewusst: Nicht nur ihre Herrin droht in dem Strudel aus Gier und Gewalt unterzugehen, sondern auch sie selbst hat das blutige Geheimnis ihrer Vergangenheit eingeholt … Autorin Simone Neumann wurde 1977 in Höxter geboren. Nach ihrem Studium der Geschichte und Slavistik arbeitete sie in einem Münchner Verlag als Lektorin. Seit der Geburt ihrer beiden Kinder ist sie freie Redakteurin und Autorin und kann sich endlich einen Jugendtraum erfüllen – das Schreiben historischer Romane. Simone Neumann lebt in München

Entdeckungsreise zu einer Welt, die zum Schweigen verurteilt, aber mitten unter uns ist Wie erträgt man das Vergehen der Zeit, wenn man zur Untätigkeit gezwungen ist? Wie geht man um mit dem Verlust derer, die man geliebt hat? Wer trägt das Erbe weiter? Richard, emeritierter Professor, kommt durch die zufällige Begegnung mit den Asylsuchenden auf dem Oranienplatz auf die Idee, die Antworten auf seine Fragen dort zu suchen, wo sonst niemand sie sucht: bei jenen jungen Flüchtlingen aus Afrika, die in Berlin gestrandet und seit Jahren zum Warten verurteilt sind. Und plötzlich schaut diese Welt ihn an, den Bewohner des alten Europas, und weiß womöglich besser als er selbst, wer er eigentlich ist. Jenny Erpenbeck erzählt auf ihre unnachahmliche Weise eine Geschichte vom Wegsehen und Hinsehen, von Tod und Krieg, vom ewigen Warten und von all dem, was unter der Oberfläche verborgen liegt

Between the living and the dead is the Order of the Deacons, protectors of the Empire, guardians against possession, sentinels enlisted to ward off the malevolent haunting of the geists... Among the most powerful of the Order is Sorcha, now thrust into partnership with the novice Deacon, Merrick Chambers. They have been dispatched to the isolated village of Ulrich to aide the Priory with a surge of violent geist activity. With them is Raed Rossin, Pretender to the throne that Sorcha is sworn to protect, and bearer of a terrible curse. But what greets them in the strange settlement is something far more predatory and more horrifying than any mere haunting. And as she uncovers a tradition of twisted rituals passed down through the dark reaches of history, Sorcha will be forced to reconsider everything she thinks she knows. And if she makes it out of Ulrich alive, what in Hell is she returning to?

Būdama pusiau Vasaros šalies princesė, pusiau mirtingoji Megana negali prisitaikyti nei vienur, nei kitur. Atstumta Žiemos princo, kurio meile tikėjo, ji tampa klastingos Žiemos rūmų valdovės belaisve. Kai tarp Vasaros ir Žiemos karalysčių kyla karas, Megana supranta, kad tikrąjį pavojų kelia geležies fėjūnai, kuriuos yra mačiusi tik ji ir ją palikęs princas. Deja, ja niekas netiki. Dar blogiau. Iš Meganos atimamos stebuklingos galios. Tad nesvetingame pasaulyje jai tenka pasikliauti tik savo jėgomis. Pasitikėti aplinkiniais, ypač ją išdavusiu princu, būtų kvaila ir pražūtinga. Tačiau, netgi tapusi tvirta kaip geležis, Megana nepajėgia atsispirti savo pernelyg žmogiškos širdies balsui. Jau kurį laiką gyvenu Žiemos fėjūnų rūmuose. Kaip ilgai? Nežinau. Šioje vietoje laikas bėga kitaip nei įprasta. Nuo tos akimirkos, kai, savo nelaimei, atsidūriau Niekadaniekada šalyje, išorinis – mirtingųjų – pasaulis skaičiuoja dienas be manęs. Jeigu kada nors pavyks iš čia pasprukti ir pasiekti namus, gali pasirodyti, kad nuo mano išvykimo prabėgo keli šimtai metų ir visa mano šeima bei draugai seniai mirę. Stengiuosi apie tai kuo mažiau galvoti, bet kartais nepajėgiu atsikratyti slogių minčių. Aš esu Megana Čeis

Kai Megana buvo šešerių, pradingo jos tėvas. Nuo tada mergaitės neapleido jausmas, kad jos gyvenimas klostosi... keistai. Jai niekaip nesisekė pritapti mokykloje, nesijautė sava ir namie. Vieną dieną iš toli ją ėmė stebėti mįslingas jaunuolis, o pokštininkas geriausias draugas netikėtai tapo įtartinai globėjiškas – Megana pajuto, kad netrukus viskas pasikeis. Tačiau ji niekada nebūtų atspėjusi tiesos – kad yra paslaptingo fėjūnų karaliaus duktė ir bus neišvengiamai įtraukta į mirtiną karą. Dabar Meganai teks išsiaiškinti, kaip toli ji pasirengusi eiti, kad išgelbėtų tuos, kuriuos myli, kad sustabdytų blogį, kuriam nedrįsta pasipriešinti joks fėjūnas... ir kad apgintų meilę tam, kuris verčiau ją pasmerks mirčiai, nei įsileis į savo ledinę širdį

"Aš esu Megana Čeis. Maniau, kad viskas baigėsi. Kad laikas, kurį praleidau su fėjūnais, sunkūs sprendimai, kuriuos tekdavo priimti, aukojimasis dėl tų, kuriuos myliu, liko praeityje. Tačiau šturmas prasidėjo: geležies fėjūnų kariauna, kuri privertė mane sugrįžti, riaumodama puola. Atskiria nuo princo, kuris prisiekė nesitraukti nuo manęs nė per žingsnį. Įsuka į tokio galingo susirėmimo sūkurį, jog nė nežinau, ar pavyks išgyventi. Šįkart kelio atgalios nebebus. Mažiau nei po dvidešimt keturių valandų man sukaks septyniolika. Tiksliau sakant, man dar nėra septyniolikos. Aš pernelyg daug laiko praleidau Niekadaniekada. Čia nesensti arba tai vyksta taip lėtai, kad nė nepastebi. Todėl nors tikrame pasaulyje prabėgo ištisi metai, aš pati, matyt, tapau vos keliomis dienomis vyresnė nei tada, kai atsidūriau fėjūnų šalyje. Kita vertus, dabar tikrame pasaulyje pasijutau taip smarkiai pasikeitusi, kad tiesiog pati savęs nebeatpažinau."

In un paese, dove per ordine del sovrano tutto funziona al contrario e è proibito dire la verità, arriva Gelsomino dalla voce potentissima che con l'aiuto di simpatici amici sconfigge la prepotenza e fa trionfare la sincerità. In questo libro (uno dei primi) Rodari dà prova della sua straordinaria capacità di esplorare con occhio critico la realtà sociale e di muovere con brio e finezza di stile verso un universo fantastico costruito sull'altruismo, sulla generosità, sull'amicizia: Gelsomino con la sua voce e la sua simpatia ci invita a guardare con ottimismo al futuro. Età di lettura: da 6 anni

Romanas "Gema" buvo parašytas apie 1923-1924 metus, tačiau pirmą kartą išspausdintas tik 1998 metais. Nėra žinoma, kodėl jis liko nepublikuotas. Pats autorius jį laikė pirmuoju savo romanu, nors prieš tai jau buvo išleidęs "Svajonių kambarį". Taigi būtent su šiuo kūriniu prasideda tikroji rašytojo E. M. Remarko era. Autoriaus laiškai garsiai to meto aktorei Marlenai Dytrich leidžia teigti, jog ji įkvėpė rašytoją sukurti pagrindinės šio romano herojės Gemos paveikslą. Nepastovi, besiblaškanti moteris konfliktuoja su įvairių tipų vyrais-kitaip tariant, įvairiais požiūriais į gyvenimą, kol galų gale suranda savąjį "aš". Lietuvių kalba kūrinys publikuojamas pirmą kartą

The official novelization of Gemini Man, the latest film by Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee, starring two-time Academy Award-nominee Will Smith. Henry Brogan is an elite assassin who becomes the target of a mysterious operative who can seemingly predict his every move. To his horror, he soon learns that the man who’s trying to kill him is a younger, faster, cloned version of himself. This is the official novelization of the hotly anticipated Gemini Man, the latest film from Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee (Life of Pi; Brokeback Mountain; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), starring two-time Academy Award-nominee Will Smith

In principle, maximizing freedom of choice sounds like the highest of ideals. In practice, if too many make the same choice…

Genellan—a beautiful, Earthlike world where intelligent cliff dwellers waited in fear for the day the bear people would return, killing them for their fur… Genellan—the only refuge for a ship's crew and a detachment of spacer Marines, abandoned by a fleet fleeing from alien attackers. Stranded on Genellan, the humans struggled to make a home for themselves until—they hoped against hope—the fleet would return to rescue them. Lt. Sharl Buccari tried desperately to hold on to the threads of command over the spacers and the Marines—to keep her crew together and alive. Winter was coming. No one knew if the winged natives would be friend or foe. And now the bear people were returning, intent on destroying the humans—but not before stealing the secret of hyperlight drive, the key to interstellar flight…

The human journey is an emotional quest to find truth and meaning. Countless books have presented this story through the eyes of people who concluded their search with devotion to God, salvation by Jesus, or commitment to religion. But a growing number are choosing a different path, finding truth and meaning from the opposite perspective. Generation Atheist tells their stories. The people in this book come from different religious upbringings, races, sexual orientations, and genders. Many have gone through very emotional journeys in coming to a sustained, open atheistic worldview. Most were quite religious at one point in their lives. Through the internet, humanity is engaged in a global conversation unlike any before in history — about who we are, why we are here, and how we should live — and these individuals have an important perspective to share

They were called a generation without heroes. Then they were called upon to be heroes. Within hours of 9/11, America’s war on terrorism fell to those like the twenty-three Marines of the First Recon Battalion, the first generation dispatched into open-ended combat since Vietnam. They were a new pop-culture breed of American warrior unrecognizable to their forebears—soldiers raised on hip hop, video games and The Real World. Cocky, brave, headstrong, wary and mostly unprepared for the physical, emotional and moral horrors ahead, the “First Suicide Battalion” would spearhead the blitzkrieg on Iraq, and fight against the hardest resistance Saddam had to offer. Now a major HBO event, Generation Kill is the national bestselling book based on the National Magazine Award- winning story in Rolling Stone. It is the funny, frightening, and profane firsthand account of these remarkable men, of the personal toll of victory, and of the randomness, brutality and camaraderie of a new American War

Cass Neary made her name in the seventies as a photographer embedded in the burgeoning punk movement in New York City. Her pictures of the musicians and the hangers-on, the infamous, the damned, and the dead, earned her a brief moment of fame. Thirty years later she is adrift, on her way down, and almost out when an old acquaintance sends her on a mercy gig to interview a famously reclusive photographer who lives on an island in Maine. When she arrives Down East, Cass stumbles across a decades-old mystery that is still claiming victims, and she finds one final shot at redemption. Patricia Highsmith meets Patti Smith in this mesmerizing literary thriller. Praise for Elizabeth Hand’s previous novels: “Inhabits a world between reason and insanity—it’s a delightful waking dream.” “One of the most sheerly impressive, not to mention overwhelmingly beautiful books I have read in a long time.”

First published under the title The Quick and the Bomb

Главный герой романа, представитель поколения "П" с соответствующими юношескими идеалами, опускается до торговца в киоске, потом осваивает интеллектуальную халтуру на ниве рекламы, а в итоге становится... земным воплощением мужа богини Иштар, только вместо супружеской функции исполняет рекламную. Вся прелесть пелевинского романа в том, что его каждый воспринимает по-своему: это и глубокая эзотерика и блестящее надругательство над рекламой, и политический памфлет и философская фантастика

«Мы живем незаметной жизнью на периферии; мы стали маргиналами – и существует масса вещей, в которых мы решили не участвовать. Мы хотели тишины – и обрели эту тишину. Мы приехали сюда, покрытые ранами и болячками, с кишками, закрученными в узлы, и уже думали, что когда-нибудь нам удастся опорожнить кишечник. Наши организмы, пропитанные запахом копировальных машин, детского крема и гербовой бумаги, взбунтовались из-за бесконечного стресса, рожденного бессмысленной работой, которую мы выполняли неохотно и за которую нас никто не благодарил. Нами владели силы, вынуждавшие нас глотать успокоительное и считать, что поход в магазин – это уже творчество, а взятых видеофильмов достаточно для счастья. Но теперь, когда мы поселились здесь, в пустыне, все стало много, много лучше»

Роман «Generation „П“», ставший культовым в молодежной среде, посвящен явлению, проникшему во все поры нашей повседневной жизни, – рекламе. Многие склонны просто отмахиваться от нее, как от назойливой мухи, считая чем-то несерьезным. Но разве в нашу речь уже не вошли рекламные слоганы? Разве «рваная стилистика» рекламных клипов не влияет на наше сознание? Герой романа Вавилен Татарский полагает, что ему известна подлинная цена рекламы – ведь он ее создает. Но ему и в страшном сне не может привидеться истинная сила джинна, выпущенного им из бутылки…

Najnowsza historia Rosji, ewolucja od socjalizmu do raczkującego jeszcze kapitalizmu, przerażająca wręcz antyutopia, narkotyczne seanse spirytystyczne, wow-czynniki, koka i grzybki zażywane przez przedstawicieli generacji „P”, która wybrała pepsi, tak jak wcześniej wybierano Breżniewa... O tym jest „Generation P” Wiktora Pielewina, powieść — bardzo nieśmiało zaryzykowałabym stwierdzenie — społeczno-obyczajowa. Głównym bohaterem książki Pielewina jest Wawa Tatarski, który jest absolwentem literatury, a w nowej XXI-wiecznej rzeczywistości rosyjskiej odnajduje się jako copywriter. Wraz z nim i jego awansami stopniowo poznajemy mechanizmy reklamy i dowiadujemy się, że rządzi ona naszymi poczynaniami. Zagłębiając się w lekturę odkrywamy dosyć niepokojące prawdy: TV nas ogłupia, tym ogłupianiem steruje grupa ludzi, którzy kreują nasz świat. No dobrze, a kto kieruje nimi?

Viktors Peļevins GenerationP no krievu valodas tulkojis Arvis Kolmanis Copyright © Viktor Pelevin, 1999 Māksliniece Māra Kokina Apgāds «Jumava», izdevums latviešu valodā, 2001 Arvis Kolmanis, tulkojums latviešu valodā, 2001 VIDUSŠĶIRAS PIEMIŅAI Visas tekstā minētās tirdzniecības zīmes ir godāto īpašnieku īpašums, un visas tiesības saglabātas. Preču nosaukumi un politiķu vārdi nenorāda uz reāli eksistējošiem tirgus produktiem un tikai pieder pie tirdznieciski politiskās informācijas telpas elementu projekcijām, kas piespiedu kārtā inducēti kā individuālā prāta objekti. Autors lūdz tos uztvert tikai un vienīgi šādā nozīmē. Pārējās sakritības ir nejaušas. Autora uzskati var nesakrist ar viņa personisko viedokli. I'm sentimental, ifyou know what I mean; I love the country but I can't stand the scene. And I'm neither left or right. I'm just staying home tonight, Getting lost in that hopeless little screen. * Leonard Cohen *Esmu sentimentāls, ja jūs saprotat, ko es ar to domāju; Es mīlu valsti, bet nespēju izturēt, kas tajā notiek. Un es neesmu nedz kreisais, nedz labējais. Vienkārši šodien palikšu mājās, Izzūdot šajā mazajā ekrāniņā. Leonards Koens NO TULKOTĀJA Viktors Peļevins, vairāku romānu un stāstu krājumu autors, kura darbi iztulkoti daudzās pasaules valodās, ir viens no tiem retajiem mūsdienu rakstniekiem, kuram izdevies šodien gandrīz neiespējamais — savienot kulta rakstnieka statusu ar patiesi augstvērtīgu literatūru. Viņa darbi ir izraisījuši vētru profesionālo literatūrkritiķu aprindās — no pilnīga nolieguma un nozākāšanas līdz salīdzināšanai ar Borhesu, Kastaņedu, Tolstoju, Gogoli vai Bulgakovu, — un vienlaikus iemantojuši neiedomājamu popularitāti visplašākajos lasītāju slāņos. Peļevina proza ir aizraujoša, vienkārša un vienlaikus dziļa, viņa tekstos savijas mūsdienu realitāte un mistika, groteska un pseidofilozofiski ekskursi. Peļevins gan nesaudzīgi ironizē, gan veido intelektuālas konstrukcijas, izmantojot šodienas aktualitātes. Viņa jaunākā romāna "Generation P" sižeta pamatā ir jauna cilvēka karjera reklāmbiznesā — nodarbē, kuras nestie augļi jau tik dziļi iesakņojušies jebkura cilvēka ikdienā, ka asociējas ar jēdzienu "manipulācija ar cilvēka apziņu". Peļevins šo ideju attīsta tālāk līdz pat antiutopiskam un nebūt ne tik fantasmagoriskam pieņēmumam: izmantojot moderno informācijas tehnoloģiju iespējas, tiek manipulēts ar visu sabiedrību kopumā valsts (pasaules) mērogā. Tomēr, kā tas Peļevina daiļradei raksturīgi, sižetiskā līnija ir tikai karkass romāna daudzslāņainībai, kurā saplūst sadzīves reālijas, narkotiku izraisītas halucinācijas, ideoloģiski traktāti un mitoloģijas elementi. Peļevinu nevar izstāstīt, Peļevins ir jālasa. Krievu prātnieks Sergejs Korņevs raksta: "Peļevins ir viens no tiem autoriem, par kuru nav iespējams gūt nekādu priekšstatu, neizlasot viņa darbus." Teiktais pilnībā attiecas arī uz rakstnieka pēdējo romānu. A. Kolmanis

When Chicagoan Russell Stone finds himself teaching a Creative Nonfiction class, he encounters a young Algerian woman with a disturbingly luminous presence. Thassadit Amzwar's blissful exuberance both entrances and puzzles the melancholic Russell. How can this refugee from perpetual terror be so happy? Won't someone so open and alive come to serious harm? Wondering how to protect her, Russell researches her war-torn country and skims through popular happiness manuals. Might her condition be hyperthymia? Hypomania? Russell's amateur inquiries lead him to college counselor Candace Weld, who also falls under Thassa's spell. Dubbed Miss Generosity by her classmates, Thassa's joyful personality comes to the attention of the notorious geneticist and advocate for genomic enhancement, Thomas Kurton, whose research leads him to announce the genotype for happiness. Russell and Candace, now lovers, fail to protect Thassa from the growing media circus. Thassa's congenital optimism is soon severely tested. Devoured by the public as a living prophecy, her genetic secret will transform both Russell and Kurton, as well as the country at large. What will happen to life when science identifies the genetic basis of happiness? Who will own the patent? Do we dare revise our own temperaments? Funny, fast, and finally magical, Generosity celebrates both science and the freed imagination. In his most exuberant book yet, Richard Powers asks us to consider the big questions facing humankind as we begin to rewrite our own existence

When the body of twenty-eight-year-old social worker Kera Jacobsen shows up on Chief New York City Medical Examiner Laurie Montgomery’s autopsy table, at first it appears she was the victim of a tragic yet routine drug overdose. But for Laurie and her new pathology resident, the brilliant but enigmatic Dr. Aria Nichols, little things aren’t adding up. Kera’s family and friends swear she never touched drugs. Administrators from the hospital where Kera worked are insisting the case be shrouded in silence. And although Kera was ten weeks pregnant, nobody seems to know who the father was — or whether he holds the key to Kera’s final moments alive. As a medical emergency temporarily sidelines Laurie, impulsive Aria turns to a controversial new technique: using genealogic DNA databases to track down those who don’t want to be found. Working with experts at a start-up ancestry website, she plans to trace the fetus’s DNA back to likely male relatives in the hopes of identifying the mystery father. But when Kera’s closest friend and fellow social worker is murdered, the need for answers becomes even more urgent. Because someone out there clearly doesn’t want Kera’s secrets to come to light... and if Aria gets any closer to the truth, she and Laurie might find themselves a killer’s next targets

A major new novel about sex and the citizen by the award-winning author of Being Dead. The timid life of actor Felix Dern is uncorrupted by Hollywood, where his success has not yet been shackled with any intrusive fame. But in the theaters and the restaurants of his own city, "Lix" is celebrated and admired for his looks, for his voice, and for his unblemished private life. He has succeeded in courting popularity everywhere, this handsome hero of the left, this charming darling of the right, this ever-twisting weather vane. A perfect life? No, he is blighted. He has been blighted since his teens, for every woman he sleeps with bears his child. So now it is Mouetta's turn. Their baby's due in May. Lix wants to say he feels besieged. Another child? To be so fertile is a curse… In" Genesis," Jim Crace, winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award and the Whitbread Novel of the Year, charts the sexual history of a loving, baffled man, the sexual emancipation of a city, and the sexual ambiguities of humankind

Discover how the Amadis began in this fascinating prequel to the award-winning Soul Savers Series! While the land of Ancient Greece is plagued with mortals' wars, twins Cassandra and Jordan have lived more than a lifetime as outcasts. When their dying father divulges a secret that's been buried in his soul, his children come to opposite conclusions, launching them down two very different paths. Jordan descends down a road of darkness and discovers the Daemoni, servants to Satan. His passion to gain their inhuman abilities, especially that of immortality, nearly consumes him, but when he thinks he's achieved his ultimate goal, he yearns for his sister to share in his power. Cassandra, however, follows the path of healing and light. She cares for the wounded and dying on the battlefields, while praying for the end to such atrocities. But her brother is determined to bring her into the war of all ages - the one for human souls. Whether you've already immersed yourself in the world of the Amadis through the main Soul Savers Series, or this is your initial foray into Cook's world, you'll find yourself addicted and wanting more until long past the last word

It’s the year 2075. A remote island Republic has emerged from an аросalyptic, plague-ridden past. Its citizens are safe but not free. They live in complete isolation from the outside world. Approaching planes are gunned down, refugees shot on sight. Until one man rescues a girl from the sea…. Outstanding and original, Bernard Beckett’s dramatic narrative comes to a stunning close that will leave you reeling. This perfect combination of thrilling page-turner and provocative novel of ideas demands to be read again and again

The Global Civil War was about to make Humankind extinct, when the stupendous Super Dimensional Fortress dispatched to Earth by a dying alien genius changed all that forever. Humanity's only hope lay in a corps of untried young men and women gifted with powers they didn't fully understand. Then the most feared conquerors in the universe attacked, determined to destroy them for no reason they could comprehend

Bernards Bekets Genesis Stāsts par Ādamu No angļu valodas tulkojusi Aija Vālodze Starptautisko konfliktu rezultātā mūsu planēta ir pārdzīvojusi globālu bioloģisko karu. No nāves un inficēšanās draudiem izdevies izglābties tikai nelielai cilvēces daļai, kas apmetusies dzīvot uz salu grupas tālu no slimības epidēmijas izpostītajiem kontinentiem. Lai nepieļautu bioloģiskās infekcijas ievazāšanu, tiek nodibināta modri apsargāta Republika, kurā valda stingri iekšējie noteikumi. Par šo noteikumu neievērošanu draud bargs sods. Tomēr Ādams - jauneklis no Republikas privileģētās filozofu šķiras - izšķirošā situācijā izvēlas sekot nevis Republikas līdz absurdam stingrajiem noteikumiem, bet gan savai sirdij. Par dumpošanos viņam draud nāvessods, kas pēdējā brīdī tiek nomainīts pret mūža ieslodzījumu. Cietuma kamerā Ādamam jāuzturas kopā ar Mākslīgā intelekta programmas radīto «brīnumbērnu" Arti - mazu jocīga izskata robotiņu, kas, kā atklājas, nemaz tik nekaitīgs nav… Pēc daudziem gadiem, kad stāsts par Ādamu jau ir kļuvis par leģendu, viņa dzīves gājumu sāk pētīt skolniece Anaksa. Izvēloties šo tēmu, viņai nav ne jausmas, cik bīstama bijusi viņas izvēle. Tomēr visšokējošāko pārsteigumu autors lasītājam ir pietaupījis līdz grāmatas beigām… Bernards Bekets (Bernard Beckett) dzimis 1967. gadā Jaunzēlandē. Viņš studējis dramaturģiju, matemātiku un angļu literatūru, bet šobrīd strādā par vidusskolas skolotāju. Viens no Beketa slavenākajiem darbiem - romāns Genesis ir spilgts, Aizeka Azimova un Reja Bredberija tradīcijās ieturēts zinātniskās fantastikas žanra paraugs, kuru ar vienādu aizrautību lasa gan jaunieši, gan pieaugušie. Gudrs fantastikas žanra romāns, kurā tiek runāts par zināt­nes un filozofijas neērtajiem jautājumiem. Bekets izaicina lasītāja inteliģenci, uzdodot tam citu āķīgu mīklu pēc citas un ieaužot tās drūmā, bet vienlaikus intriģējošā nākotnes vīzijā. Age Romāna temps arvien paātrinās un spriedze pieaug, līdz vēstī­jums sasniedz savu kulmināciju - tik šokējošu, ka lasītājs jūtas kā no laivas izmests. Noteikti jāizlasa! Weekend Australian Maldinoši vienkāršā sižetā ievītas pārsteidzoši sarežģītas ide­jas. Bekets ir radījis nemirstīgu un cilvēcīgu stāstu, kas lasītāju vienlaikus aizrauj un šokē. SFSignal Beketa vīzija par distopisko sabiedrību ļoti atgādina Hakslija "Brīnišķīgo jauno pasauli", taču skarbais un precīzais stāstījums un satriecošais fināls pazīstamajā shēmā ienes jaunu elpu. Publishers Weekly "Stāstu par Ādamu" var lasīt kā visīstāko spriedzes romānu. Tekstā līdz pat pēdējam vārdam mutuļo neremdināmu ideju jūra, kas tīko izlauzties brīvībā. Amazon.com Anaksimanderas tēls ir viens no spožākajiem tēliem pēdējo gadu jaunatnes literatūrā. New Zealand Books Bekets ir sarakstījis ļoti atšķirīgu jaunatnes romānu - pašpār­liecinātu, intelektuālu, gandrīz aukstu kas noteikti fascinēs gudrus jauniešus. The Guardian Filozofisks un fantastisks romāns, veidots kā platoniskais dialogs 21. gadsimta apstākļos, brīdina lasītāju no iespējamām sekām cilvēces visatļautībai tehnoloģijas un vides jomās. Library Journal Atjautīgi konstruēts globāla "ļaunākā scenārija" iznākuma atainojums. Kirkus Reviews No angļu valodas tulkojusi Aija Vālodze Arņa Kilbloka vāka dizains ŠI grāmata ir beletristikas žanra darbs. Personāžu vārdi, tēli, nodarbošanās, aprakstītās organizācijas, vietas un notikumi ir autora izdoma vai fiktīva interpretācija. Jebkāda līdzība ar dzīviem vai mirušiem cilvēkiem, notikumiem vai darbības vietām ir pilnīgi nejauša. © Tulkojums latviešu valodā. Aija Vālodze © Tulkojums latviešu valodā. Apgāds Zvaigzne ABC Noskannējis grāmatu un FB2 failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis  ISBN 978-9934-0-1024-8 VAI TAD DVESELE IR KAUT KAS VAIRAK PAR TĀS ATSEVIŠĶO DAĻU KLUSAJIEM ČUKSTIEM? Duglass Hofstadters,

He was born Temujin, the son of a khan, raised in a clan of hunters migrating across the rugged steppe. Temujin’s young life was shaped by a series of brutal acts: the betrayal of his father by a neighboring tribe and the abandonment of his entire family, cruelly left to die on the harsh plain. But Temujin endured-and from that moment on, he was driven by a singular fury: to survive in the face of death, to kill before being killed, and to conquer enemies who could come without warning from beyond the horizon. Through a series of courageous raids against the Tartars, Temujin’s legend grew. And so did the challenges he faced-from the machinations of a Chinese ambassador to the brutal abduction of his young wife, Borte. Blessed with ferocious courage, it was the young warrior’s ability to learn, to imagine, and to judge the hearts of others that propelled him to greater and greater power. Until Temujin was chasing a vision: to unite many tribes into one, to make the earth tremble under the hoofbeats of a thousand warhorses, to subject unknown nations and even empires to his will

"...Psychosis. Misogyny. Misanthropy. Nihilism. Sadism. Necrophily. Erotopathy. Profanation. Alienation. Blasphemy. And every manner of irreverence, aberrant impulse, and outright satanism conceivable and inconceivable...." "€œEnjoy the tour, friends. Enjoy the gang-bang. You may need psych drugs afterwards, you may need an air-sick bag and a steam shower, but I feel confident that you will be provocatively moved by this book".€ - Edward Lee, from his introduction

«Genius loci» (Гений местности) – повесть-эссе, первая публикация отдельной книгой. Анатолий Королев – прозаик, драматург, эссеист. Автор романов «Голова Гоголя», «Эрон», «Человек-язык», «Змея в зеркале», «Быть Босхом», «Stop, коса!». Лауреат международной литературной русско-итальянской премии «Москва-Пенне» за роман «Голова Гоголя» (2000). Повесть-эссе «Genius loci» (Гений местности) рассказывает историю одного русского пейзажного парка. Повествование о фатальных годах и роковых героях ведет нас через полосы трех минувших столетий и, наконец, «швартуется» к ХХI веку… Чтение повести вполне сравнимо с прогулкой по аллеям огромного парка после летней грозы, когда каждая страница, как вдох свежего воздуха, полна озоном… «Гений местности» переведен на многие языки, публиковался в журналах и сборниках, но отдельной книгой выпускается впервые. Вы держите подлинный шедевр современной русской литературы… Не выпускайте его из рук…

New York Times Bestseller: This life story of the quirky physicist is “a thorough and masterful portrait of one of the great minds of the century” (The New York Review of Books). Raised in Depression-era Rockaway Beach, physicist Richard Feynman was irreverent, eccentric, and childishly enthusiastic—a new kind of scientist in a field that was in its infancy. His quick mastery of quantum mechanics earned him a place at Los Alamos working on the Manhattan Project under J. Robert Oppenheimer, where the giddy young man held his own among the nation’s greatest minds. There, Feynman turned theory into practice, culminating in the Trinity test, on July 16, 1945, when the Atomic Age was born. He was only twenty-seven. And he was just getting started. In this sweeping biography, James Gleick captures the forceful personality of a great man, integrating Feynman’s work and life in a way that is accessible to laymen and fascinating for the scientists who follow in his footsteps. To his colleagues, Richard Feynman was not so much a genius as he was a full-blown magician: someone who “does things that nobody else could do and that seem completely unexpected.” The path he cleared for twentieth-century physics led from the making of the atomic bomb to a Nobel Prize-winning theory of quantam electrodynamics to his devastating exposé of the Challenger space shuttle disaster. At the same time, the ebullient Feynman established a reputation as an eccentric showman, a master safe cracker and bongo player, and a wizard of seduction. Now James Gleick, author of the bestselling Chaos, unravels teh dense skein of Feynman‘s thought as well as the paradoxes of his character in a biography—which was nominated for a National Book Award—of outstanding lucidity and compassion

"[Genoa] invites us to pass our minds down a new but ancient track, to become, ourselves, both fact and fiction, and to discover something true about the geography of time." — William Gass, The New York Times "Genoa is a spectacular confrontation with Melville's work, the journals of Columbus and molecular biology — all folded into a hallucinatory narrative about two brothers and their different paths through the American century." — Publishers Weekly "Much like his great-grandfather, Herman Melville, Paul Metcalf brings an extraordinary diversity of materials into the complex patterns of analogy and metaphor, to affect a common term altogether brilliant in its imagination." — Robert Creeley "A unique work of historical and literary imagination, eloquent and powerful. I know of nothing like it." — Howard Zinn First published in 1965, Genoa is Paul Metcalf's purging of the burden of his relationship to his great-grandfather Herman Melville. In his signature polyphonic style, a storm-tossed Indiana attic becomes the site of a reckoning with the life of Melville; with Columbus, and his myth; and between two brothers — one, an MD who refuses to practice; the other, an executed murderer. Genoa is a triumph, a novel without peer, that vibrates and sings a quintessentially American song. Paul Metcalf (1917–99) was an American writer and the great-grandson of Herman Melville. His three volume Collected Works were published by Coffee House Press in 1996

W świecie przyszłości modyfikacja genetyczna umożliwia stworzenie człowieka o niebywałych umiejętnościach. Metamorfoza ciała ludzkiego osiąga punkt kulminacyjny w piętnastym roku życia. By ocalić dziewczynkę, która przechodzi właśnie najtrudniejszy etap przemiany mającej z niej uczynić specbojownika, Alex Romanow, specpilot, musi stawić czoło wyzwaniom, których rozstrzygnięcie zadecyduje o losie jego i całego świata…

Dentro de cincuenta años, las nuevas copiadoras-horno permitirán hacer copias perecederas de las personas. Esas copias, los llamados “ídem”, la gente de barro, tienen una vida prevista de un día, carecen de derechos legales o sociales, y son de diverso color según su función. Se les encargan las ocupaciones menos interesantes o las más peligrosas, todas las que rechazan los seres humanos verdaderos. Al final de su existencia, si es posible, los ídem “descargan” en su personaje original, el arquetipo o “archi”, las memorias recopiladas de ese día. Gente de barro narra las peripecias del detective Albert Morris y sus múltiples duplicados de barro en esa nueva sociedad. En el idemburgo se están haciendo copias pirata de una famosa cortesana, Gineen Wammaker, y Morris debe impedirlo. Un trabajo que no parece excesivamente difícil, pero que le llevará a descubrir una intrincada red de conspiraciones en en esa sociedad del futuro donde los ídem carecen de derechos y de todo tipo de consideración. David Brin, galardonado ya con diversos premios Nebula y Hugo, utiliza una narración detectivesca, del tipo hard-boiled, para mostrar las complejidades de una sociedad en la que existe una curiosa versión de los “replicantes” del Blade Runner cinematográfico. Novela finalista del premio Hugo 2003. Novela finalista del premio Arthur C. Clarke 2003

Gente de la ciudad fue publicada por la editorial Universitaria en 1961. Tras su lanzamiento, recibió el Premio Municipal de Santiago. En esta compilación Edwards reunió los siguientes relatos: “El cielo de los domingos”, “El fin del verano”, “A la deriva”, “El funcionario”, “Rosaura”, “Apunte”, “Fatiga” y “El último día”

A Mark lo asesinaron alrededor de las doce de la noche, mientras trabajaba en un acuerdo, un contrato para la liquidación del bufete que había fundado con Bennie Rosato, horas después de anunciar a su socia y ex amante su determinación de constituir su propia empresa. A medianoche Bennie remaba sola en la oscuridad, en la quietud del río, tratando de recobrar la calma, ajena a cuanto sucedía en el despacho y a la sórdida trampa que le habían tendido. «Una novela trepidante que dejará sin aliento al lector más valiente.»

    It should have been the perfect marriage for beautiful young Georgiana Burton. The husband her parents bad Picked for her, Lord Ralph Chartleigh, was wealthy, handsome, noble, and kind.     Unfortunately, he did not measure up to Georgian's notions of what a man should be. He was uninterested in society, impervious to fashions, had the worst of tailors, knew little of women - and was wary of the little he knew.     Clearly Georgiana had to teach him a great deal about life and even more about love… forgetting until it was almost too late how much she had to learn herself…

From the New York Times bestselling author of Ransom comes an exquisite, tender tale of love, adventure, and passion! In feudal England, Elizabeth Montwright barely escaped the massacre that destroyed her family and exiled her from her ancestral castle. Bent on revenge, she rode again through the fortress gates, disguised as a peasant...to seek aid from Geoffrey Berkley, the powerful baron who had routed the murderers. He heard her pleas, resisted her demands, and vowed to seduce his beautiful subject. Yet as Elizabeth fought the warrior's caresses, love flamed for this gallant man who must soon champion her cause... and capture her spirited heart!

A NEW NOVEL IN THE AWARD WINNING SERIES FROM MULTIPLE NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD! Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan returns to the planet that changed her destiny. FUTURE TENSE Three years after her famous husband’s death, Cordelia Vorkosigan, widowed Vicereine of Sergyar, stands ready to spin her life in a new direction. Oliver Jole, Admiral, Sergyar Fleet, finds himself caught up in her web of plans in ways he’d never imagined, bringing him to an unexpected crossroads in his career. Meanwhile, Miles Vorkosigan, one of Emperor Gregor’s key investigators, this time dispatches himself on a mission of inquiry, into a mystery he never anticipated – his own mother. Plans, wills, and expectations collide in this sparkling science-fiction social comedy, as the impact of galactic technology on the range of the possible changes all the old rules, and Miles learns that not only is the future not what he expects, neither is the past

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