WORLD-ALTERING SCIENCE FICTIONTales of wonder and adventure, set on distant planets or in the future of our ownStories that go beyond the limits of Space and Time David G. Hartwell has brought together only the best of this year's new SF from established pros and audacious newcomers, selecting only those that share the universal quality of great science fiction.Our familiar world will look a little less familiar after you read one.Includes storiesby:Joe HaldemanUrsula K. Le GuinRobert SilverbergRoper Zelazny Views: 48
Enjoy today's most awesome and innovative science fiction, chosen by acclaimed editor David G. Hartwell from the best short fiction published over the last year. Like its two distinguished processors, Year's Best SF 3 is a cybercopia of astonishing stories from familiar favorites and rising stars, all calculated to blow your mind, scorch your, senses, erase your inhibitions, and reinitialize your intelligence. With stories from: Gregory Benford, Terry Bisson, Greg Egan, William Gibson, Nancy Kress, Robert Silverberg, Gene Wolfe and more... Views: 48
The first instalment of a thrilling new crusader series in the style of Conn Iggulden and Bernard Cornwell. France 1096. Crowds gather in a square in Sens to hear the man known as the Hermit speak. He talks of a pilgrimage to the city of Jerusalem, a pilgrimage filled with promises for Christian soldiers who march with him. In Jerusalem all sinners will be forgiven and the pious rewarded with great riches. Sybille's husband is a reckless man and easily swayed by the Hermit's words. Even knowing the jeopardy and risk of the road ahead Sybille has no choice but to follow her husband and join the march. Fulk, a young blacksmith, is hungry for adventure. The pilgrimage is exactly the excitement he's craving. For his brother Odo the march is far more serious and sparks a dangerous fanaticism even Fulk doesn't see coming. Jeanne and Guillemette have been treated badly by the men in their life but this is... Views: 47
The long-awaited return to Emma Newman's popular fantasy series, A Little Knowledge takes us back to the Split Worlds, where dynastic families feud across the ages, furthering the agendas of their cruel supernatural patrons.
"Emma Newman is an extraordinary new voice in SF/F." - Paul Cornell, Hugo Award winner, and author of London Falling and Saucer Country
Cathy and Will are now the Duchess and Duke of Londinium, the biggest Fae-touched Nether city, but they have different ideas of what their authority offers. Pressured by his Fae patron, Lord Iris, Will struggles to maintain total control whilst knowing he must have a child with his difficult wife. Cathy wants to muscle the Court through two hundred years of social change and free it from its old-fashioned moral strictures. But Cathy learns just how dangerous it can be for a woman who dares to speak out...
Meanwhile, as Sam learns more about the Elemental Court it becomes clear that the Fae are not the only threat to humanity. Sam realises that he has to make enemies of the most powerful people on the planet, or risk becoming the antithesis of all he believes in.
Threatened by secret societies, hidden power networks and Fae machinations, can Sam and Cathy survive long enough to make the changes they want to see in the world? Views: 47
The Agency by Donna AugustineDe Facto by Annie BelletVenom by Sarra CannonHoneysuckle Memories: A Scarlett Smith Memoir by Selene CharlesSpirits of Bourbon Street by Deanna ChaseThe Ghost & Mrs. MacKay by Kate DanleyFull Moon Mischief by Debra DunbarDog Days of Summer by Hailey EdwardsAtomic by C. GockelVictoria Gardella: Vampire Slayer by Colleen GleasonHighland Magic by Helen HarperContents May Have Shifted by Shawntelle MadisonIllusions by Christine PopeDying Night by SM ReineBrea's Tale: Arrival by Anthea SharpAngels and Demons by Colleen VanderlindenDragon's Fury by Phaedra Weldon Views: 47
From Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail, a newly collected book of his darkest stories.'The cruelest lies are often told in silence . . .'Why do we lie? Why do we deceive those we love most? What do we fear revealing? In these ten tales of deception master storyteller Roald Dahl explores our tireless efforts to hide the truth about ourselves.Here, among many others, you'll read about how to get away with the perfect murder, the old man whose wagers end in a most disturbing payment, how revenge is sweeter when it is carried out by someone else and the card sharp so good at cheating he does something surprising with his life.Dahl understood our deepest secrets, desires and fears and Deception is one of four books - the rest being Lust, Cruelty and Madness - that explore our hidden selves. Views: 47
A dash from an empty house at the sight of a murdered man with a dragon-topped hatpin protruding from one eye! An escape from the police on the back of a speeding roadster. The discovery that its driver, a curly-haired, beautiful girl, clutches in one hand the headless body of that same fatal dragon-topped hatpin!This is the first climax of breathless action that winds about the figure of Ford Harling, penniless derelict in Chicago, and plunges him into the heart of another famous web-work plot of Harry Stephen Keeler. He is caught in a maelstrom of circumstances that whirl about a stolen ruby, counterfeit bills, a nocturnal visit to a cemetery, and a peculiarly baffling murder involving a lovely heiress.It is the fastest-moving mystery ever written by Harry Stephen Keeler, expert in bafflement and tantalizing clues. Views: 47
A reconstruction of Melville's original text omits the "Pierre as author" subplot that was later assimilated and is accompanied by thirty full-color pictures by Maurice Sendak. Views: 47
