Otaku is the debut novel from former NFL player and tech enthusiast Chris Kluwe, with a story reminiscent of Ready Player One and Ender’s Game. Ditchtown. A city of skyscrapers, built atop the drowned bones of old Miami. A prison of steel, filled with unbelievers. A dumping ground for strays, runaways, and malcontents. Within these towering monoliths, Ashley Akachi is a young woman trying her best to cope with a brother who’s slipping away, a mother who’s already gone, and angry young men who want her put in her place. Ditchtown, however, is not the only world Ash inhabits. Within Infinite Game, a virtual world requiring physical perfection, Ash is Ashura the Terrible, leader of the Sunjewel Warriors, loved, feared, and watched by millions across the globe. Haptic chambers, known as hapspheres, translate their every move in the real to the digital―and the Sunjewel Warriors’ feats are legendary. However, Ash is about to stumble upon a deadly conspiracy that will set her worlds crashing together, and in the real, you only get to die once…

Dwudziestoletnia Sol Angelica wybierała się w wielki świat. Nareszcie była wolna, nareszcie mogła zrealizować swoje marzenia i odszukać Wzgórze Czarownic, mogła też do woli czcić Księcia Ciemności. Ale Sol nie pochłaniały wyłącznie czary i zło. Miała w sobie również wiele ciepła i miłości. Dla swoich bliskich była gotowa ryzykować życiem, a nawet je poświęcić…

Jest XXVII wiek. Człowiek już dawno podzielił się na kilka podgatunków, a zmodyfikowane zwierzęta stanowią część ludzkiej społeczności. W galaktyce znów grasują Inhibitorzy, wyrafinowane maszyny, które tępią wszystkie istoty inteligentne. Ocaleńcy z poprzedniej wojny wyruszają w kierunku odległego gazowego giganta. Tam, na lodowym księżycu Hela, żyje ktoś, kto umiałby pokonać odwiecznego wroga. Na Heli panuje dziwna teokracja. Źródłem tamtejszej religii było nietypowe zjawisko astronomiczne, a ośrodkami kultu są wielkie wędrujące po globie katedry, które zmierzają ku otchłani. Do jednej z katedr trafia wrażliwa, lecz bezkompromisowa nastolatka Rashmika. Dziewczyna potrafi kontaktować się z istotami z sąsiedniej kosmicznej brany. Czy dzięki swym parapsychicznym zdolnościom ocali ludzkość?

Do układu Trilandu dotarły sygnały z okolic gwiazdy OnOff. Ich natura wskazywała, że są wytworem istot o zaawansowanej technologii. W stronę OnOff ruszają dwie floty międzygwiezdne — Queng Ho i Emergentów. Queng Ho to kupcy, natomiast o Emergentach niewiele wiadomo oprócz tego, że na ich planecie panują tyrańskie rządy. Czy tak różne społeczności zdołają dojść do porozumienia i nawiązać przyjacielskie stosunki z Obcymi, czy też dojdzie do zbrojnej konfrontacji?

VILJAMS ŠEKSPĪRS KOPOTI RAKSTI IV OTELLO LATVIJAS VALSTS IZDEVNIECĪBA 1964 Redakcijas kolēģija: M. Ķempe, E. Smiļģis, J. Sudrabkalns Kārļa Egles sakārtojums Mākslinieki A. Stankevičs un V. Ozoliņš OTHELLO, THE MOOR OF VENICE Tulkojuši Kārlis Egle un Pauls Kalva Noskannējis grāmatu un FB2 failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis

one world among many…eleven stories about them all What if Lincoln never became president, and the Civil War never took place? What if Columbus never discovered America, and the Inca developed a massive, technologicallyadvanced empire? What if magic was real and a half-faerie queen ruled England? What if an author discovered a book written by an alternate version of himself? These are just some of the possible pathways that readers can take to explore the Other Earths that may be waiting just one page away

The stories in Other Kinds are about a place. They are stories about the woods, houses hidden in the gaps between mountains. Behind them, the skeletons of old and powerful machines rust into the slate and leaves. Water red with iron leeches from the empty mines and pools near a stone foundation. The boy there plays in the bones because he is a child and this will be his childhood. He watches while winter comes falling slowly down over the road. Sometimes he remembers a girl, her hair and the perfume she wore. These are stories about her and where she might have gone. He waits for sleep because in the next story he will leave. The boy watches an airplane blink red past his window. From here, you can't hear its violence

For over half a century, Richard Matheson has enthralled and terrified readers with such timeless classics as I Am Legend, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Duel, Somewhere in Time, and What Dreams May Come. Now the Grand Master returns with a bewitching tale of erotic suspense and enchantment…. 1918. A young American soldier, recently wounded in the Great War, Alex White comes to Gatford to escape his troubled past. The pastoral English village seems the perfect spot to heal his wounded body and soul. True, the neighboring woods are said to be haunted by capricious, even malevolent spirits, but surely those are just old wives’ tales. Aren’t they? A frightening encounter in the forest leads Alex into the arms of Magda Variel, an alluring red-haired widow rumored to be a witch. She warns him to steer clear of the wood and the perilous faerie kingdom it borders, but Alex cannot help himself. Drawn to its verdant mysteries, he finds love, danger… and wonders that will forever change his view of the world. Other Kingdoms casts a magical spell, as conjured by a truly legendary storyteller

A new novel from award-winning Lebanese writer Iman Humaydan. Did I live many lives or only one life enough for many women? asks Miriyam in Other Lives. This third novel by Lebanese writer, Iman Humaydan, starkly and poignantly demonstrates how war, violence and dislocation have an impact not only on the lives of people who live through them but what life itself means, particularly for women. In Other Lives, Miriyams travels take her from her Shouf mountain village to Beirut, Melbourne and Paradise, Australia to Nairobi, Mombasa and Cape Town. Unwilling to be tied down by geography, language or men, Miriyam forges a path through the world that is at once hers uniquely and also deeply informed by her lifes experiences. Again and again, she is drawn back to the Lebanon of her birth and childhood, only to find it no longer there. She is forced to confront the ghosts of the civil warher dead brother, her disappeared lover, and the life that she left behind when she immigrated to Australia. Humaydan deftly explores one womans negotiation of love and war, intimacy and loss, migration and home in a way that speaks beyond individual but to a collective experience

What does a man really know about love? Francis Widmer is a well-bred, beautiful, provocative young woman with a good mind. When she is raped by Harry Koslak, she decides to press charges. Her attorney father sends her to George Thomassy, as successful criminal lawyer. Thomassy, against his better judgment, involves himself in the case and finds himself attracted to Francine more than he cares to admit. Stein lays bare the unsavory, manipulative aspects of criminal law as he explores today's sexuality — its cruelties, hypocrisies, joys and mysteries

For eight-year-old Rufus, life has become complicated. His mother and father, Josie and Tom, have divorced amicably enough, and are set to pursue their separate paths. But other people have had to become involved - like Matthew, who has just married Josie, and Elizabeth, Tom's new friend. And even worse, there are the other children - Matthew's three resentful teenagers, who have been conditioned by their own mother Nadine to hate Josie. Rufus is supposed to regard them as family now, although he doesn't see why he should. Most of the time Matthew's children live with Nadine, in a slum-like cottage in the depths of the country. Nadine is determined that they should hate their new life as much as she does. They come to their father for weekends, and make it clear how much they loathe their new stepmother. Rufus secretly prefers to be with his father in his quiet house in Bath, and realises that he does not necessarily hate the idea of a stepmother - not if she was like Elizabeth, sane and friendly and welcoming. But where other people's children are concerned, neat solutions seldom occur

Other Times, Other Worlds Among these superb stories— A Child Is Crying — A frightening look at a seven-year-old boy whose intelligence far surpasses that of top military experts... Flaw — An intensely dramatic story that challenges the reach for the stars... But Not to Dream — The startling tale of a scientist who prefers the strange and elusive world of insects to his own family... Ring Around the Redhead — The story of a murder case that hinges on the testimony of a stranger from another planet... These are just a few of the tantalizing tales from this extraordinary collection of science fiction

Provocative and disturbing, Truman Capote's first published novel is a meditation on how fate can debase youthful expectations. Joel Knox seeks his long-absent father and his own future, but nothing turns out as planned

What if you could not only travel any location in the world, but to any possible world? We can all imagine such “other worlds”—be they worlds just slightly different than our own or worlds full of magic and wonder—but it is only in fiction that we can travel to them. From The Wizard of Oz to The Dark Tower, from Philip Pullman’s The Golden Compass to C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, there is a rich tradition of this kind of fiction, but never before have the best parallel world stories and portal fantasies been collected in a single volume—until now. “Anthologist Adams presents readers with a wide variety of alternate Earths, some only slightly askew and others completely unfamiliar. […] Adams’s selections are mirrors reflecting one other with the best images of alternate realities. Readers will greatly enjoy this exploration of our world's foremost and ascendant speculative authors.” “Reminds longtime readers of fantasy and sci-fi what we love about the genre, while also and aptly demonstrating to newcomers that these stories are about so much more than dragons and multitentacled monsters. It comes highly recommended to both and all.”

Amara is never alone. Not when she's protecting the cursed princess she unwillingly serves. Not when they're fleeing across dunes and islands and seas to stay alive. Not when she's punished, ordered around, or neglected. She can't be alone, because a boy from another world experiences all that alongside her, looking through her eyes. Nolan longs for a life uninterrupted. Every time he blinks, he's yanked from his Arizona town into Amara's mind, a world away, which makes even simple things like hobbies and homework impossible. He's spent years as a powerless observer of Amara's life. Amara has no idea . . . until he learns to control her, and they communicate for the first time. Amara is terrified. Then, she's furious. All Amara and Nolan want is to be free of each other. But Nolan's breakthrough has dangerous consequences. Now, they'll have to work together to survive--and discover the truth about their connection

Shortlisted for the Douglas Stewart prize for non fiction and the Community Relations Commission Award in NSW and the Age Non-Fiction Book of the Year. I left too early, before tanks rolled into Moscow in 1991, and before Gorbachev was put under home arrest in a failed coup. I left before Russia and Ukraine became separate countries, before the KGB archives were opened, before the Russian version of Wheel of Fortune, before the word ‘Gulag’ appeared in textbooks. I left before Chechnya, before the mass renaming of cities and streets, before you could go into a shop and actually purchase the books of Brodsky, Pasternak and Nabokov. I left too early, I missed the whole point. I was not there when my generation was cornered by history. Maria Tumarkin travels with her Australian-born teenage daughter, Billie, back to Russia and Ukraine to have her experience first-hand the seismic shifts of her family’s native country. For Maria the trip back is no simple stroll down memory lane. Splintered and scattered across the world, her generation has ended up inhabiting vastly different realities. Along with exploring the political and cultural fallout of a century of turmoil, Maria wanted to bring together the worlds of her mother and daughter – the different continents, histories and experiences they encompassed. Before they set off, Maria wistfully imagined her and Billie’s hearts beating in unison as they travelled back to a past they could both understand, forging a nearly superhuman bond along the way. But, in Maria and Billie’s case, the past was not simply another country, but one that no longer existed. Otherland is the story of a six-week trip traversing three generations, three lifetimes and three profoundly different but profoundly interconnected stories of mothers and daughters. “For the most part her account is fascinating, even exhilarating, and there is barely a dead word in the book. Tumarkin’s viewpoint is unfailingly insightful with an overlay of pungent Russian humour.” “The literary beauty of Otherland is essentially textual: multiple layers of memory and reflection, intertwining historical commentary, cultural and literary criticism, and personal reminiscence. It is at once a roadtrip of anecdotes peppered with yearning and longing as well as a politico-cultural window on a huge part of 20th century history.”

Dez thought she knew who her mother was, who she was. Thought she had friends, a boy who loved her, and a school where she finally fit in. But across the veil linking our world and the next lurks a monster which can annihilate. . .or liberate her. Now she must confront it there with help from one boy who loves her and one who can't stand the sight of her. Dez thought she understood her tiger form, her deepest self. But in this treacherous place, she'll have to choose between the two halves of her soul--and determine which world survives. Othersphere is the third and final installment in Nina Berry's acclaimed young adult Otherkin series, which blends romance, fantasy, and action in a powerful story of friendship and self-acceptance

After Evan Arden was imprisoned by the enemy for a year and a half, he returned from the desert as a military hero. He’d suffered some minor injuries during his captivity, was discharged from the Marines with just a touch of shellshock, but was considered otherwise unharmed. Now he wonders how he ended up where he is now – incarcerated in Chicago’s Metropolitan Correctional Center for using his sharpshooting expertise to take out the neighborhood park with a high-powered sniper rifle and multiple rounds of ammunition. Lia Antonio, the woman he rescued from the desert heat the previous year, is the only person who can bring him out of his sleep-deprived psychosis and mounting PTSD. When she does, Evan knows he can’t just let her go again. He’s never considered leaving the business before – who retires from the mafia? – but he’s determined to get both Lia and himself out of harm’s way. Evan faces forces from multiple directions as a deal to get him out of jail turns more deadly and dangerous than he ever could have imagined. With a three-way mob war on the horizon and the feds holding evidence over his head, Evan has no choice but to throw himself into the middle of another war-zone. In his efforts to make things right in his own mind, Evan crosses the wrong man and finds himself on the business end of the cross-hairs. With his observation skills and intelligence, he tries to keep a step ahead of his former co-workers, but this time, it isn’t just his own life on the line – he’s got to protect Lia from the man who once called him son

In this thrilling and hugely entertaining collection of novellas and short stories, Kelley Armstrong returns one last time to her bestselling Otherworld series. Among other tales, the werewolf pack is on the hunt for an old and very dangerous enemy; two very different vampires attempt to settle an old feud; a supernatural date turns hot enough to burn down a building and — in a brand-new novella — Paige and Lucas have a huge decision to make about their future. Featuring much-loved characters, this final collection completes several important storylines, making it a must-have for Kelley Armstrong’s many fans

Momotarō, Click-Clack Mountain, The Sparrow Who Lost Her Tongue, The Stolen Wen, Urashima-san… The father reads these old tales to the children. Though he's shabbily dressed and looks to be a complete fool, this father is a singular man in his own right. He has an unusual knack for making up stories. Once upon a time, long, long ago… Even as he reads the picture book aloud in a strangely imbecilic voice, another, somewhat more elaborate tale is brewing inside him. Dazai Osamu wrote The Fairy Tale Book (Otogizoshi) in the last months of the Pacific War. The traditional tales upon which Dazai's retellings are based are well known to every Japanese schoolchild, but this is no children's book. In Dazai's hands such stock characters as the kindhearted Oji-san to Oba-san ("Grandmother and Grandfather"), the mischievous tanuki badger, the fearsome Oni ogres, the greedy old man, the "tongue-cut" sparrow, and of course Urashima Taro (the Japanese Rip van Winkle) become complex individuals facing difficult and nuanced moral dilemmas. The resulting stories are thought-provoking, slyly subversive, and often hilarious

En una sociedad aún inmersa en los principios victorianos, la familia Barnett no se diferencia de las demás familias de posición acomodada que procuran educar a sus hijos en los mismos esquemas rígidos. Un padre autoritario, magnate de la industria maderera, y una madre que se limita a cumplir su papel de mujer sometida, intentarán imponer su voluntad y casar a su hija Lorna con un hombre acaudalado a quien la joven no ama. La navegación, el deporte preferido del señor Barnett, permitirá a Jens Harken, un joven de clase baja, relacionarse laboralmente con la familia y conocer a Lorna. La pasión que nace entre ambos deberá enfrentarse a diversos avatares y los dos jóvenes tendrán que luchar por defender un amor que ha dado su fruto

Knuts Hamsuns (1859–1952) Izlase divos sējumos Otrais sējums Pāns Glāna nāve Viktorija Zem rudens zvaigznēm Ceļinieks klusi koklē Stāsti Mīlestības vergi Saules dēls Viesizrāde Vislielākais blēdis Izdevniecība Liesma Rīga 1976 Knuta Hamsuna labākie darbi jau sen ir kļuvuši par pasaules jaunākās klasiskās literatūras neatņemamu sastāvdaļu. Viņa daiļrades mantojuma mākslinieciskā nozīme ir visai ievērojama. Nesaraujamām saitēm saistīts ar savu dzimteni — nelielu valsti Ziemeļeiropas nomalē, saaudzis ar šās zemes skarbo dabu, it kā pilnīgi iegrimis gausajā dzīvē, kāda rit Norvēģijas mazpilsētās un šērās ieslēptajos zvejnieku ciematos, iekļāvies šās dzīves nosvērtajā un ierastajā ritumā, Hamsuns tomēr pratis savos romānos, lugās un novelēs skart jautājumus... ko pasaulei atnesis divdesmitais gadsimts ar tā civilizācijas pretrunām... Izlase: 2 sēj. / [Sast.: V. Ņeustrojevs, I. Jahņina. No norv. val. tulk. E. Kliene]. 2. sēj. Pāns. Glāna nāve. Viktorija. Zem rudens zvaigznēm. Ceļinieks klusi koklē. Stāsti - Mīlestības vergi. Saules dēls. Viesizrāde. Vislielākais blēdis

El “vidrio lento” es un cristal que absorbe poco a poco la luz de los sucesos que ocurren delante de él, los cuales resultan visibles meses o años después. A partir de esta idea, Bob Shaw construye una excelente y a la vez original novela. La profética visión de lo que podría ser un invento de estas características y la problemática social de su uso, desde el crimen casi perfecto hasta la verificación por parte de la justicia al cabo de cinco años— hacen de esta novela una obra maestra de ciencia ficción en el mas puro sentido de la palabra