«Arthur Clarke — dice The New York Times— rompe todas las reglas. Escribe best sellers que no tienen sexo ni violencia, ni tensiones familiares, ni héroes convencionales.» Su popularidad es enorme, sin embargo. Baste recordar el éxito de Cita con Rama y 2010 Odisea dos. En esta nueva gran novela de ciencia ficción, Voces de un mundo distante, Clarke aborda uno de sus temas favoritos: el choque entre dos culturas. Thalassa es un verdadero paraíso. Un puñado de islas, en medio de un vasto y cálido océano planetario, donde se ha instalado una pequeña colonia humana que había emigrado de la Tierra antes de la destrucción del sistema solar, ocurrida doscientos años atrás. Los habitantes de Thalassa son felices. Viven en un mundo idílico, con abundantes recursos naturales. Pero su tranquilidad se rompe con la aparición del Magallanes, enorme nave espacial que conserva un millón de seres humanos hibernados, sobrevivientes de los últimos días de la tierra. Voces de un mundo distante es una novela inteligente e imaginativa, que explora los límites del conocimiento y el destino del hombre y del universo. Otra obra maestra del gran Arthur Clarke

Scherezade no teme a la muerte. No cree que el poder del mundo, representado por el Califa, consiga el exterminio de su imaginación. Hace mil años Scherezade atravesó mil y una noches contando historias al Califa para salvar su vida y la de las mujeres de su reino. Voces del desierto recrea los días de Scherezade y nos revela los sentimientos de una mujer entregada al arte de enhebrar historias cuyo hilo no puede perderse sin perder la vida. En esta novela, Nélida Piñon reinventa la fascinación de Las mil y una noches y nos hace vivir las voces del desierto, de donde vienen y hacia donde van los sueños

En mayo de 2009, pocos meses después de su regreso de Iraq, el joven soldado Damien Patchett se suicida disparándose con un revólver durante un paseo. Su padre, Bennett Patchett, que sospecha que algo turbio se esconde tras su muerte, acude a ver al detective privado Charlie Parker para pedirle que lo investigue. Extrañamente, ese mismo día, un agente de policía ha aparecido muerto junto a las ruinas calcinadas del siniestro bar Blue Moon. En sus pesquisas, Parker pronto descubrirá que Patchett formaba parte de un grupo de ex combatientes desencantados que cruzan a menudo la frontera entre Maine y Canadá, un lugar propicio para el tráfico no sólo de drogas, sino también de alcohol, personas y dinero. Entretanto, un misterioso anciano, enfermo pero capaz de una violencia despiadada, se acerca a Maine en busca de venganza. Charlie Parker necesitará la ayuda de sus amigos Louis y Ángel. Aun así, tendrá que vérselas con un ser al que teme más que a ningún otro

Rinchiusa nell’Avemo, il più impenetrabile carcere orbitale di massima sicurezza dell’intera galassia, Terra Viridian sconta la sua condanna senza poter sfuggire alla visione che le ha fatto massacrare senza motivo apparente più di millecinquecento persone. Una visione apocalittica, che lei stessa non comprende e all’esistenza della quale nessuno crede, ma la cui voce può significare un contatto totalmente nuovo per il genere umano. La scena cambia quando intorno a Terra iniziano ad agire strani personaggi: il Mago, capace di suonare Bach per ore e ore immerso in una profonda trance, Aaron, il poliziotto alla ricerca della gemella di Terra -Viridian misteriosamente scomparsa, e la Regina di Cuori, la musicista mascherata in grado di plasmare sonorità sempre nuove. Solo quando tutti questi destini si incroceranno nell’Averno, guidati da una voce a loro sconosciuta, arriverà il momento di giocare l’ultima partita

Voci di terra lontana (The Songs of Distant Earth) è il titolo di diversi lavori di fantascienza di Arthur C. Clarke, tra cui un racconto breve di fantascienza, e un romanzo del 1986 che portano lo stesso titolo. La storia è ambientata 1800 anni nel futuro, nel distante pianeta oceanico di Thalassa. Thalassa viene popolato da esseri umani tramite una navicella carica di embrioni, partita dalla Terra nel tentativo di salvare la razza umana. Il romanzo comincia con un’introduzione sui Thalassiani; Mirissa, un’attraente biologa marina, e il suo partner, Brant, mentre sono in barca vedono l’arrivo di una nave spaziale. È così che finisce la loro pacifica esistenza, con l’apparizione della Magellano, un’astronave proveniente dalla Terra che contiene un milione di persone ibernate. Gli eventi che portarono la Terra a salvare la razza umana sono spiegati nel libro tramite flash-back. Gli scienziati nel 1967 scoprirono che l’emissione di neutrini dal Sole, un risultato delle reazioni di fusione nucleare, erano molte meno di quelle che avrebbero dovuto essere. Meno di un decennio dopo venne confermato che non era un errore degli strumenti. Il Sole stava per trasformarsi in una nova nel giro di 3600 anni. La tecnologia era abbastanza avanzata da permettere diverse spedizioni di navicelle contenenti embrioni di esseri umani e di altri mammiferi, oltre a robot per crescerli, verso pianeti che erano considerati abitabili. La spedizione di esseri umani vivi non era stata nemmeno presa in considerazione poiché, essendo la velocità della luce un limite insuperabile e le distanze dei pianeti molto elevate, la durata del viaggio sarebbe stata comunque di secoli. Si era deciso quindi di inviare navi cariche di embrioni, dette navi inseminatrici, insieme ad un gruppo di robot che arrivato a destinazione si sarebbe occupato di preparare il territorio e allevare gli esseri umani

Peras Pettersonas (g. 1952) – šiandien skaitomiausias pasaulyje Norvegijos rašytojas; jis ilgą laiką dirbo bibliotekininku, vertėju ir tik vėliau ėmė rašyti knygas. “Vogti arklius” – šeštasis jo romanas, tapęs tikra literatūros sensacija. Už šį romaną autoriui buvo skirta International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award premija, New York Times redaktoriai ir žurnalistai įtraukė jį į geriausių 2007 metais pasirodžiusių knygų penketuką. Knyga beveik provokuojamai lėta ir intymi; tarsi basomis kojomis eitum per svetimą pasaulį – berniukiškai aiškų ir senatviškai ramų. Tai – tarsi Norvegijos kvintesencija, tas gyvenimas šiaurėje, susidedantis iš sniego, skausmo, ramybės, vienatvės, siūbuojančių eglių ir pėdų sniege. Trunas atsisveikina su miestu; pasitraukia į miško namelį, kur pro langus matyti ežeras. Pasitraukia į tipišką norvegišką vienumą. Būdamas šešiasdešimt septynerių, trokšta ramios ir išmintingos vienatvės – be muzikos, televizijos, su radijo žiniomis ir kale Lyra jis nori ramiai nugyventi jam skirtą laiką. Tačiau kaimynystėje taip pat gyvena vienišas vyriškis su šunimi. Tai – berniukas iš seniai praėjusios 1948-ųjų vasaros, po kurios viskas pakrypo kitaip. Mintimis Trunas nuolat persikelia į aną vasarą: paskutiniąją, kurią praleido su tėvu. Auksinę, šiltą, pilną iš tėvo perimtos gyvenimo išminties, nutviekstą kaimynų šeimoje įvykusios tragedijos, tėvo meilės draugo motinai ir pašėlusio lėkimo per mišką ant vogto arklio. Aną tolimą vasarą, kuriai praėjus tėvas nebesugrįžo į šeimą. Tačiau… mes juk patys nusprendžiame, kada mums skauda, sako herojus. Todėl viskas ne tragiška, o ramu ir vyriška. Šiame skandinaviškai tyliame, išmintingame, rūsčiame romane vėl atrandame išsiilgtą šiaurietišką ramybę

«Voice of Our Shadow is the most frightening novel I've read since Bram Stoker's Dracula. I thought it was a love story, and it was. Then I thought it was a ghost story, and it was, sort of. Then I thought it was a story of madness, and it might be, maybe. It is a cunning, magical, wonderful novel — funny, sexy, sad, and tender.» — PAT CONROY author of The Great Santini and The Water Is Wide Outwardly, Joseph Lennox is an ordinary young man, raised in a New York suburb and striving to make his way as a writer. Yet for him Vienna is not just one of the lures of Europe but a refuge in time and place, a refuge from a tragedy in his boyhood in which he played a far more complicit role than anyone realized. Joe's overbearing older brother, Ross, taunted him as they played near a railroad and touched the third rail, dying instantly. But he lives on in Joe's lonely guilt and dreams. Now, in Vienna, Joe finds friendship with the strangely mantic Paul and India Tate, and their destinies soon become erotically — and ominously — intertwined. Once again Joe is haunted by the specter of betrayal and death. In the end he must face the horrifying realization of how fragile is the barrier that separates the demons of our own conjuring from the inescapable reality of the unseen. Jonathan Carroll's first novel, The Land of Laughs, was dubbed by The Washington Post an «intricate, challenging, ultimately chilling tale.» Voice of Our Shadow, in its imaginative power and delineation of terrifying pursuit, will be seen as an even greater achievement

The conclusion of the story begun in "The Silence of Medair". A glossary of terms can be found at the end of the book. Medair an Rynstar wants only to leave. Five hundred years after the Empire she served fell before the Ibisian invasion, Medair has betrayed her Emperor’s memory by helping the descendants of the invaders. She knows she will be reviled, that to thousands she is hero-become-villain. Her one goal is to return to the hidden cave where she slept out of time, and hope that she wakes in a world where the name Medair an Rynstar has been forgotten. Assassins, armies, and desperate magic complicate Medair’s plan of escape, leading her inexorably to face the very people her choice has cost the most. She has learned that you can never to return to your past, or run from the consequences of your actions, but can she find a way to live in defeat?

A lonely young woman works as an announcer in Paris's gare du Nord train station. Obsessed with a man attached to another woman, she wanders through the world of dinner parties, shopping excursions, and chance sexual encounters with a sense of haunting expectation. As something begins to happen between her and the man she loves, she finds herself at a crossroads, pitting her desire against her sanity. This smashing debut novel sparkles with mordant humor and sexy charm

Mind games of the deadly kind: Telepaths to the left of them, telepaths to the right of them. And danger is all around Commander Susan Ivanova and Security Chief Michael Garibaldi when a Psi Corps Convention is held on Babylon 5. Someone will turn this meeting of mind readers into a real blast… as a bomb makes Babylon 5 a death trap. Voices: the prime suspect is resident telepath Talia Winters. With Talia’s old foes, thought-cops Bester and Gray, calling for her head, Ivanova and Garibaldi can’t openly help her. Now she’s running for her life through a perilous universe, and her psychic talent is her only weapon when her path is blocked by staggering intergalactic horrors: psi-cops closing in… and a killer waiting

Taking place in a kind of "internal space," populated by living ideas, Voices utilizes broken typography within the context of an equally broken narrative to examine an existence in which identity and self have become, themselves, imaginary, but have allowed human thought and feeling to reshape the very nature of perceptual reality. Language is given a new, unfamiliar shape: complete freedom to explore the framework of an intricate semiotic landscape

Ansul was once a peaceful town filled with libraries, schools, and temples. But that was long ago, and the conquerors of this coastal city consider reading and writing to be acts punishable by death. And they believe the Oracle House, where the last few undestroyed books are hidden, is seething with demons. But to seventeen-year-old Memer, the house is the only place where she feels truly safe. Then an Uplands poet named Orrec and his wife, Gry, arrive, and everything in Memer’s life begins to change. Will she and the people of Ansul at last be brave enough to rebel against their oppressors?

At a grand Reykjavik hotel the doorman has been repeatedly stabbed in the dingy basement room he called home. It is only a few days before Christmas and he was preparing to appear as Santa Claus at a children’s party. The manager tries to keep the murder under wraps. A glum detective taking up residence in his hotel and an intrusive murder investigation are not what he needs. As Erlendur quietly surveys the cast of grotesques who populate the hotel, the web of malice, greed and corruption that lies beneath its surface reveals itself. Everyone has something to hide. But most shocking is the childhood secret of the dead man who, many years before, was the most famous child singer in the country: it turns out to be a brush with stardom which would ultimately cost him everything. As Christmas Day approaches Erlendur must delve deeply into the past to find the man’s killer

Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz reaches back millennia to his homeland’s majestic past in this enchanting collection of early tales that brings the world of ancient Egypt face to face with our own times. From the Predynastic Period, where a cabal of entrenched rulers banish virtue in jealous defense of their status, to the Fifth Dynasty, where a Pharaoh returns from an extended leave to find that only his dog has remained loyal, to the twentieth century, where a mummy from the Eighteenth Dynasty awakens in fury to reproach a modern Egyptian nobleman for his arrogance, these five stories conduct timeless truths over the course of thousands of years. Summoning the power and mystery of a legendary civilization, they examplify the artistry that has made Mahfouz among the most revered writers in world literature

Raised in the grand chateau of Tourville, lovely young Claudine, with her widowed mother, had fled the solitude of the French countryside as revolution torched it, sparking flames that would forever alter the landscape, their destiny, and the face of history itself. Warmly ensconced and safe from harm in her mother's ancestral English home, Claudine discovers a new kind of danger; turning ripe and sensuous overnight, she is torn between the love of her new stepbrothers - David, steady, scholarly, the perfect husband ... if not the lover of her dreams; and Jonathon, so passionate, so willing to dare, far from the perfect husband, but as her first and foremost love, unsurpassed. Theirs is an amorous triangle that will burn bright through the years when England and all Europe struggle in a tyrant's grasp, till a moment on a rocky beach when one of the two men Claudine adores falls victim to a power beyond destiny

Raised in the grand chateau of Tourville, lovely young Claudine, with her widowed mother, had fled the solitude of the French countryside as revolution torched it, sparking flames that would forever alter the landscape, their destiny, and the face of history itself. Warmly ensconced and safe from harm in her mother's ancestral English home, Claudine discovers a new kind of danger; turning ripe and sensuous overnight, she is torn between the love of her new stepbrothers - David, steady, scholarly, the perfect husband ... if not the lover of her dreams; and Jonathon, so passionate, so willing to dare, far from the perfect husband, but as her first and foremost love, unsurpassed. Theirs is an amorous triangle that will burn bright through the years when England and all Europe struggle in a tyrant's grasp, till a moment on a rocky beach when one of the two men Claudine adores falls victim to a power beyond destiny

From the Pulitzer and Story Prize winner: sixteen new stories-provocative, funny, disturbing, magical-that delve into the secret lives and desires of ordinary people, alongside retellings of myths and legends that highlight the aspirations of the human spirit. Beloved for the lens of the strange he places on small-town life, Steven Millhauser further reveals inVoices in the Night the darkest parts of our inner selves to brilliant and dazzling effect. Here are stories of wondrously imaginative hyperrealism, stories that pose unsettling what-ifs or that find barely perceivable evils within the safe boundaries of our towns, homes, and even our bodies. Here, too, are stories culled from religion and fables: from Samuel, who in the masterly "A Voice in the Night" hears the voice of God calling him in the night; to a young, pre-enlightenment Buddha; to Rapunzel and her Prince awakened only to everyday disappointment. Heightened by magic, the divine, and the uncanny, shot through with sly humor,Voices in the Night seamlessly combines the whimsy and surprise of the familiar with intoxicating fantasies that take us beyond our daily lives, all done with the hallmark sleight of hand and astonishing virtuosity of one of our greatest modern storytellers

On one side of the border lies the modern world: the internet, homecoming dances, cell phones. On the other side dwell the ancient monsters who spark humanity's deepest fears: dragons. Seventeen-year-old Kay Wyatt knows she's breaking the law by rock climbing near the border, but she'd rather have an adventure than follow the rules. When the dragon Artegal unexpectedly saves her life, the rules are abruptly shattered, and a secret friendship grows between them. But suspicion and terror are the legacy of human and dragon interactions, and the fragile truce that has maintained peace between the species is unraveling. As tensions mount and battles begin, Kay and Artegal are caught in the middle. Can their friendship change the course of a war? In her young-adult debut, New York Times bestselling author Carrie Vaughn presents a distinctly twenty-first-century tale of myths and machines, and an alliance that crosses a seemingly unbridgeable divide

Peter Leonard has already begun to establish himself as a distinctive, must-have voice in suspense fiction. Now he delivers his most compelling, most jaw-dropping novel yet, introducing us to a character you're not likely to forget anytime soon. The year is 1971. The place is Detroit. Harry Levin, a scrap metal dealer and Holocaust survivor, has just learned that his daughter was killed in a car accident. Traveling to Washington, DC to claim the body, he learns that the accident was caused by a German diplomat who was driving drunk. This is only the beginning of the horror for Harry, though, as he discovers that the diplomat will never face charges - he has already been released and granted immunity. Enraged and aggrieved, Harry discovers the identity of his daughter's killer, follows him to Munich, and hunts him down. What Harry finds out about the diplomat and his plans will explode his life and the lives of everyone around him. Brimming with action and dark humor, Voices of the Dead, firmly positions Peter Leonard as a writer ever suspense fan needs to read

A striking mosaic of memories, observations, and legends that together reveal the author's own story and a grand, compassionate vision of life itself. In this kaleidoscope of reflections, renowned South American author Eduardo Galeano ranges widely, from childhood to love, music, plants, fear, indignity, and indignation. In the signal style of his bestselling and much-admired Memory of Fire trilogy-brief fragments that build steadily into an organic whole-Galeano offers a rich, wry history of his life and times that is both calmly philosophical and fiercely political. Beginning with blue algae, the earliest of life forms, these 333 vignettes alight on the Galeano family's immigration to Uruguay in the early twentieth century, the fate of love letters intercepted by a military dictatorship, abuses by the rich and powerful, the latest military outrages, and the author's own encounters with all manner of living matter, including generals, bums, dissidents, soccer stars, ducks, and trees. Out of these meditations emerges neither anger nor bitterness, but a celebration of a blessed life in a harsh world. Poetic and passionate, scathing and lyrical, delivered with Galeano's inimitable mix of gentle comedy and fierce moral judgment, Voices of Time is a deeply personal statement from a great and beloved writer

Cassie Black is lured back to a profession she'd left behind – robbing casino gamblers of their winnings – by a set up that looks too good to ignore. However, this one gambler has too much money, which means too much power and soon Cassie is running from a stone-cold killer

Si San-Antonio n'existait pas, faudrait-il l'inventer ? Oui, sans hésitation. Et bon, dans çui-là, y a Arthur Rubinyol, le fameux virtuose, qui vient sonner à l'agence. Alors ça effervescente tout azimut, on déroule le grand tapis rouge, en signe d'alléluia. Ben heureusement qu'il était rouge, le tapis ! Comme ça, le raisin se voyait moins ! Et puis y a le rabbin Machin, pardon, Moshé, qui se fait éventrer d'entrée de jeu. Sans causer de la Ricaine que j'ai levée dans l'avion et qui se met à tirlipoter le Vieux ! Si tu ajoutes à ces plaisanteries notre équipée finnoise au cours de laquelle Béru s'est respiré la mégère du bûcheron, t'auras compris qu'il s'en passe des bizarres dans cet opuscule ! Et tout ça à cause d'un vieux coco vindicatif. Tu parles d'une corne d'abondance !

Que reste-t-il à vendre lorsque la misère vous a tout pris ? Son corps, en entier ou en morceaux. Connu pour ses best-sellers, Franck Thilliez nous offre une nouvelle qui, à l’instar de ses thrillers documentés, repose sur des faits empruntés à la réalité de notre monde d’inégalités et d’argent roi. Compter cet auteur au catalogue SKA est une grande fierté. Une nouvelle incontournable d'un maestro du thriller français ! À ne rater sous aucun prétexte ! « Un Vol court mais percutant, qui fait froid dans le dos. » « Une nouvelle fort intéressante et instructive qui a pour vocation de mettre en lumière les travers de notre civilisation — mais peut-on encore parler de « civilisation » ? Né en 1973 à Annecy, Franck Thilliez vit actuellement dans le Pas-de-Calais. Il est notamment l’auteur de Train d’enfer pour Ange rouge (La Vie du Rail, 2003), L’Anneau de Moebius (Le Passage, 2008), Le Syndrome E (Fleuve noir, 2010) ou Pandemia (Fleuve noir, 2015). L’ensemble de ses titres, salués par la critique, se sont classés à leur sortie dans la liste des meilleures ventes

Vol’jin lautet der Name des tapferen Anführers des Dunkelspeerstammes. Seine Stärke und seine List sind selbst unter den mächtigsten Champions der Horde beispiellos. Auf dem legendären Kontinent Pandaria steht der Häuptling der Trolle nun aber seiner bislang größten Herausforderung gegenüber. Eine Prüfung, die seine Leben völlig neu defi nieren könnte, im Universum von World of Warcraft®. Die Attentäter Garrosh Höllschreis haben Vol’jin niedergestreckt und ihn zum Sterben zurückgelassen. Doch das Schicksal hat andere Pläne mit dem Trollhäuptling, denn Braumeister Chen Sturmbräu gelingt es, den Schwerverletzten in einem abgelegenen Bergkloster in Sicherheit zu bringen. Dort muss Vol’jin an der Seite eines mysteriösen Soldaten der Allianz nicht nur um sein Leben kämpfen, sondern auch gegen althergebrachte Vorurteile und Hassgefühle. Doch damit nehmen Vol’jins Probleme erst ihren Anfang, denn schon bald sieht er sich inmitten einer Invasion Pandarias durch die Zandalari – ein geachteter Trollstamm, getrieben von Allmachtsträumen. Sie bieten Vol’jin die Gelegenheit, grenzenlosen Ruhm zu ernten – das Geburtsrecht aller Trolle! Ein verlockendes Angebot, vor allem nach Höllschreis niederträchtigem Verrat. Es liegt nun allein in den Händen des Trollhäuptlings, ob er die Zukunft seines Volkes nachhaltig verändert, oder es zur ewigen Knechtschaft verdammt, in den Schatten der Horde

Either Galt Cavendish was going mad, as a result of a blow on his head, or there was something wrong with Cavendish's brother, Tim. For, despite records and photographs, Galt remembered nothing about Tim up to a period of about two years ago. And steadily, there grew upon him the impression that Tim was not really a human being, but

La trilogia dei «Dragonieri di Pern», di cui «Volo di Drago» è la prima parte, è uno dei più interessanti cicli narrativi che la fantascienza ha prodotto in questi ultimi anni nel suo sforzo di rinnovamento interno, tematico e stilistico; è il tentativo ad ampio respiro di creare «ex novo» una mitologia complessa e coordinata, che non sia un semplice adattamento di mitologie «terrestri». Esso è dovuto ad un nome nuovo, lanciato da John Campbell sulle pagine di «Analog», Anne McCaffrey, che si rivela scrittrice sensibile, originale e dalle notevoli doti letterarie. Sia i lettori che i critici statunitensi hanno testimoniato illoro apprezzamento per quest’opera, i cui diversi capitoli sono apparsi in più riprese sulle riviste di Campbell: i primi assegnando il Premio Hugo 1968 per il miglior romanzo breve alla parte iniziale del romanzo; i secondi il Premio Nebula 1969 per la stessa categoria all’ultima parte di esso. Anne McCaffrey è stata così la prima donna a vincere i due massimi premi fantascientifici americani

Aleksandrs Beks Volokolamskas šoseja Izdevniecība „Liesma" ' Rīga 1967 Noskannējis grāmatu un failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis Tulkojis Valdemārs Kalpiņš Mākslinieks Vasilijs Kovaļovs

Dalessius is twenty when he comes to work for one of the Enlightenment's most famous minds, the author and philosopher Voltaire. As the great man's calligrapher, Dalessius becomes witness to many wonders – and finds himself in the middle of a secret battle between the malevolent remnants of the all-but-dead Dark Ages and the progressive elements of the modern age. The calligrapher's role in this shadowy conflict will carry him to many perilous places – through the gates of sinister castles and to the doors of a bizarre bordello; toward life-and death confrontations with inventive henchmen, ingenious mechanical execution devices, poisonous fish, and murderous automatons. As the conspiracy to halt the Enlightenment's astonishing progress intensifies, young Dalessius's courage – as well as Voltaire's unique cunning and wit – are put to the ultimate test as they strive to ensure the survival of the future

“Voluptuous Panic is simultaneously appalling and thrilling, repellent and seductive, grotesque and gorgeous—not a typical coffee table book. It would go better with absinthe drunk from a human skull.” When Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin first appeared in the fall of 2000, it inspired wide acclaim and multiple printings. Anticipating the expanded edition, Feral House placed Voluptuous Panic out of print, and for the past year buyers paid as much as $460 to online dealers for a used copy. This sourcebook of hundreds of rare visual delights from pre-Nazi, Cabaret-period “Babylon on the Spree” has the distinction of being praised both by scholars and avatars of contemporary culture, inspiring hip clubgoers, filmmakers, gay historians, graphic designers, and musicians like the Dresden Dolls and Marilyn Manson. Voluptuous Panic’s expanded edition includes the new illustrated chapter, “Sex Magic and the Occult,” documenting German pagan cults and their bizarre erotic rituals, including instructions for entering into the “Sexual Fourth Dimension.” The deluxe hardcover edition also includes sensational accounts of hypno-erotic cabaret acts, Berlin Fetish prostitution (“The Boot Girl Visit”), gay life (“A Wild-Boy Initiation!”), descriptions and illustrations of Aleister Crowley’s Berlin OTO Secret Society, and sex crime (“the Curious Career and Untimely Death of Fritz Ulbrich”). Mel Gordon is professor of Theater at University of California, Berkeley, and also the author of Erik Jan Hanussen: Hitler’s Jewish Clairvoyant (Feral House), and The Grand Guignol: Theatre of Fear and Terror (DaCapo). An intriguing cache of recently discovered erotica from 1920s Berlin (photographs, theater programs, guidebooks and pictorial magazines) is on display in Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin. U.C. Berkeley theater professor Mel Gordon (The Grand Guignol) enhances the compelling visual images with snippets of personal memoirs, interviews and other sociological accounts that describe a sexually charged city brimming with prolific prostitution, homosexuality and drugs in the heady days before the Nazis came into full power. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc

La de Lacey Kincaid es la historia de una triunfadora de Nueva York. Propietaria de una próspera empresa, ha pasado del arroyo a la riqueza… más o menos. Porque Lacey guarda un secreto: su verdadero nombre es Lillian Dumont, y se crió entre algodones hasta que la muerte de sus adinerados padres y los malos tratos de su tío y tutor la obligaron a tomar medidas drásticas. No pensaba regresar a su antigua vida, ni recobrar la identidad a la que había renunciado, pero cuando Ty Benson, su primer amor, reaparece y la anima a reclamar su herencia, Lacey llega a la conclusión de que tal vez ser la heredera de los Dumont no sea tan mala idea. Su tío, sin embargo, no lo ve del mismo modo… y está dispuesto a hacer cualquier cosa para detenerla. Ty tendrá que proteger a Lacey para que una bala no acabe con su vida. Pero, si sobreviven, el futuro se presenta brillante para este chico de barrio y su recién estrenada chica de clase alta

Shea había quedado devastada cuando su amor de juventud la había abandonado para seguir su carrera. Alex Finlay había sido toda su vida, ¿Cómo podía culparla de haberse refugiado en su primo en busca de consuelo? Durante diez años, el pensamiento de que Shea se había casado con otro había acosado a Alex. Ahora volvía, rico y con éxito, para reunirse con la viuda. Nada parecía interponerse entre ellos excepto el secreto de Shea: Alex era el verdadero padre de su hijo. Cuando descubrió la verdad, Alex quiso formar una familia con Shea. Sólo había una cosa que se lo impedía: no podía dejar de pensar en ella como la mujer de su primo

Arthur, un joven arquitecto californiano, vuelve a Los Ángeles después de pasar una larga temporada en París. Sin embargo, durante todo este tiempo no ha conseguido olvidar a Lauren, el gran amor de su vida que le robó el corazón cuando, a raíz de un accidente, cayó en estado de coma. Gracias a la insistencia y la valentía de Arthur, Lauren siguió viviendo, a pesar de la opinión del doctor y de la madre de desenchufar los aparatos que la mantenían con vida. Éstos, avergonzados, le hicieron jurar que jamás confesaría la verdad a la joven, que no recuerda nada de aquellos meses. Arthur cumple su palabra, desaparece de su vida e intenta olvidarla. Cuando vuelve a Los Ángeles el destino hará que se reencuentren. Volver a verte. Ojala fuera cierto…2 Si la vida ofreciera a Arthur y Lauren otra oportunidad, ¿sabrían, en esta ocasión, superar todos los obstáculos? Una hermosa novela que demuestra que segundas partes sí pueden ser buenas

Informationen zum Buch »Wir sitzen hier beisammen, mitten in der Nacht. Schauen auf das Kind, und ich kann kaum ausatmen, so laut schlägt mein Herz. Ich bin fast toll vor Angst, dass du in der Ruhe zu lange auf meine Hände schaust und die Frau in mir siehst.« England, spätes 18. Jahrhundert: Von ihrem Vater, einem Arzt und Wissenschaftler, zur Botanikerin ausgebildet, träumt die junge Mary Linley davon, die Welt zu bereisen. Doch als sie nach dem Tod des Vaters verheiratet werden soll, sieht sie nur eine Möglichkeit, ihrer Berufung zu folgen. Sie gibt sich als Mann aus, um an Bord der Sailing Queen im Stab des Botanikers Sir Carl Belham auf Expeditionsfahrt zu gehen. Die Lebensbedingungen auf See erschüttern sie, denn Entbehrungen, Krankheiten und Tod prägen den Alltag. Dennoch glaubt sie, ihr Ziel erreicht zu haben: Sie erkundet fremde, faszinierende Länder. Erst durch die Liebe zu Sir Carl Belham erkennt sie, dass sie sich für ihre Ideale selbst verleugnet ... Informationen zur Autorin Liv Winterberg, 1971 geboren, studierte Germanistik, Theater-, Film- und Fernsehwissenschaft. Sie arbeitet als Journalistin, Drehbuchautorin und Rechercheurin. Mit ihrer Familie lebt sie in Berlin. ›Vom anderen Ende der Welt‹ ist ihr erster Roman

New series. Mars is changing. Seemingly overnight the once “Red” planet is turning to gray. Something is happening, something unnatural. A team of, literally, rocket scientists figure out a way to send a probe, very fast, to Mars to determine how and why it is changing. However, when the probe is destroyed well short of the formerly red planet, it’s apparent that Mars is being used as a staging ground. The only viable target for that staging ground is Earth. Ranging from rocket design to brilliant paranoids to “in your face” fighting in Iraq, Von Neumann Wars is a fast paced look at what would happen if the earth was attacked by a robot race that, quite accidentally, was bent on destroying civilization

Jana Vagnere Vongezers Vai mūsos ir kas spēcīgāks par izdzīvošanas instinktu? Gripa. Katru gadu uz planētas ar to saslimst miljoniem cilvēku, mēs esam pieraduši to uzskatīt par neizbēgamu ļaunumu, bet tādu, kuru spējam uzveikt. Kāds paliek mājās un dzer zāles, kāds staigā apkārt, aplipinot ari citus... Bet kas notiks, ja kādu dienu šāds vīruss būs daudz spēcīgāks par iepriekš piedzīvotajiem un karantīnas dēļ tiks slēgtas skolas, slimnīcas un pat pilsētas? Kad vīruss Maskavā izraisa epidēmiju un drīz vien izvēršas pandēmijā, vienpadsmit maskavieši - cits citam sveši -apvieno spēkus, lai kopā pārvarētu bīstamo ceļu uz Karēliju, kur cer patverties drošībā. Brauciens ved pāri visai valstij. Vai viņiem pietiks degvielas? Vai izdosies veiksmīgi veikt tālo ceļu? Vai dīvainā kompānija, kuru vieno tikai šī ārkārtas situācija, izturēs vai padosies? Katrs kilometrs ir konfrontācija ar nāvi, nezināmām briesmām, greizsirdību un bailēm, katra stunda -cilvēcības pārbaudījums. No krievu valodas tulkojusi Māra Poļakova Noskanējis grāmatu un  failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis imantslochmelis@inbox.lv Яна Вагнер ВОНГОЗЕРО Copyright © Jana Vagner, 2011 Перевод издания и создание его оригинал-макета осуществлен при финансовой поддержке Федерального агентства по печати и массовым коммуникациям в рамках Федеральной целевой программы “Культура России (2012-2018 гг.)" Издано при поддержке АНО "Институт перевода” Россия. Vāka dizainu adaptēja Ilze Isaka © Tulkojums latviešu valodā, Māra Poļakova, 2017

Under the Communist President-for-Life, a voodoo priest named Generalissimo Sacrist Corazon, the natives of the Caribbean Isle Baqia aren't complaining, thanks to a delicious drug they call "mung." When shot through with radiation, however, mung becomes a powerful weapon: it literally liquefies the opposition, and Generalissimo Corazon has no qualms about using it. After an innocent missionary becomes the latest victim of Corazon's mung machine, the world is alarmed, and deadly forces are inspired. The Chinese, the Russians, and the CIA all vie to control the mung machine, while CURE's own powerful weapons, Remo and Chiun, make their way to Baqia and further discover nuclear warheads aimed at the United States. Sacrist Corazon must be stopped, but has the Destroyer met his deadly voodoo match?

"From between the two shuffling dancers padded something on four feet. The canine-feline creature was more than just a head; it was a loose-limbed, graceful body fully eight feet in length, and the red eyes in the prick-eared head were those of a killer.... Words issued from between those curved fangs, words which Dane might not understand.... "Dane slid his blade out surreptitiously, setting its point against the palm of his hand and jabbing painfully; but the terrible creature continued to advance.... There was no blurring of its lines...." Dane Thorson of the space-ship Solar Queen knew there was only one way to win out over this hideous thing — a battle to the end between his rational mind and the hypnotic witchcraft of Lumbrilo, the mental wizard of the planet Khatka

CHALLENGE ME WITH MONSTERS! "From between the two shuffling dancers padded something on four feet. The canine-feline creature was more than just a head; it was a loose-limbed, graceful body fully eight feet in length, and the red eyes in the prick-eared head were those of a killer.... Words issued from between those curved fangs, words which Dane might not understand.... "Dane slid his blade out surreptitiously, setting its point against the palm of his hand and jabbing painfully; but the terrible creature continued to advance.... There was no blurring of its lines...." Dane Thorson of the space-ship Solar Queen knew there was only one way to win out over this hideous thing — a battle to the end between his rational mind and the hypnotic witchcraft of Lumbrilo, the mental wizard of the planet Khatka