SUMMARY:The latest title from popular Forgotten Realms® author Richard Lee Byers. The dead are restless in the magic-rich realm of Thay, and an evil necromancer begins to gather them to his cause--a cause that will change the face of Faerûn forever. "From the Paperback edition." Views: 53
Meet Colton Wade, FMX rider... I'm just a small town guy who caught a lucky break. Now I'm living the dream, on the brink of high-flying super-stardom. But something's missing. That something is Taylor. She's my best friend. The one who makes me want to push harder and higher. The one I fall back on when shit gets tough. The one I'd give it all up for. I'd do anything to protect her. To make her dreams come true too. But a single night changes everything. And now the one she needs protection from...is me. Views: 53
Christmas is coming and DI Staffe is trying to make a go of it with his on-off girlfriend, Sylvie, when a murdered woman is discovered in a swanky City hotel room.Staffe becomes obsessed with Elena Danya, the dead, blonde and beguiling, high-end prostitute. When another, altogether more down-at-heel working girl, is killed and their mutual, aristocratic friend and bad-girl, Arrabella, goes missing, Staffe is drawn into the whole gamut of London's alien niches: brothels and gentleman's clubs; banks and tenement estates.The evidence begins to point to a coy sociopath and voyeuristic predator, Graham Blears, but Staffe is not convinced and is increasingly drawn away from the city and towards the roots of a tangled ménage of City banker, Russian oligarch, and Turkish playboy, forcing himself down into the higher echelons of the British establishment, whose barricades begin to stonewall the investigation.When his Chief, Pennington, cuts him loose, Staffe becomes the hunted instead of the hunter, with grave consequences for the women who are close to him. Views: 53
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A dissident faction of the Clan, the alternate universe group of families that has traded covertly with our world for a century or more, have carried nuclear devices between the worlds and exploded them in Washington, DC, killing the President of the United States. Now they will exterminate the rest of the Clan and keep Miriam alive only long enough to bear her child, the heir to the throne of their land in the Gruinmarkt world.The worst and deepest secret is now revealed: behind the horrifying plot is a faction of the US government itself, preparing for a political takeover in the aftermath of disaster. There is no safe place for Miriam and her Clan except, perhaps, in the third alternate world, New Britain--which has just had a revolution and a nuclear incident of its own.Charles Stross's Merchant Princes series reaches a spectacular climax in this sixth volume. Praised by Nobel laureate Paul Krugman as "great fun," this is state of the art, cutting edge SF grown out of a fantastic premise. Views: 53
Wade Crawford is not a good guy. He’s a bank robber and a ruthless killer, and now three people are dead and Wade is on the run. With the cops hot on his heels, he breaks into a seemingly ordinary house in a seemingly ordinary neighborhood to hide and wait on word from his partner. But this neighborhood is far from ordinary. Indeed it has a very specific purpose, and soon Wade will discover that life in prison would be preferable to the hellish torment Seldom Seen has in store for him. Review FB2Library.Elements.CiteItem FB2Library.Elements.CiteItem FB2Library.Elements.CiteItem Views: 53
Science Fiction. 5147 words long. First published in Analog, January 1974 Hugo Award Winner Views: 53
Nominee for the 2010 Prometheus AwardIn the 22nd century people have
spread into the Solar System. Born and raised in a twentieth of Earth's gravity
on the asteroid Pallas, young skater Llyra Ngu is grimly determined to compete
and win on mankind's homeworld—an ambition that many say will cripple or kill
her. Her older brother Wilson is equally set on quitting his job as a
surveyor's apprentice to become an asteroid hunter, a calling fraught with the
promise of fabulous riches and the danger of sudden death. He will find a full
share of romance and disappointment, love and loss, and pursue the asteroid
hunter's holy grail, the legendary Diamond Rogue. Llyra's training will
require years, and a journey that will take her to Ceres, at one tenth Earth's
gravity, where her father bosses the Ceres Terraformation Project, to the
one-sixth gravity of the Moon, to Mars and one third gravity, and finally to
Earth. Along the way, she will survive jealous rivals, a hostile press,
terrorist attacks, and the hijacking of a spaceliner in order to achieve her
goal. In the end, Llyra and Wilson will hear the call of the stars,
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Maggie O'Neill must turn on her own charms-mystical and otherwise-while investigating the death of one of her customers from the antique shop, Enchantments. Views: 53
