______________________________________________________ ___________________________________ О книге: Фэнтези-роман — очередной вклад в многотомную фэнтезийную серию «Хроники Мидгарда». Любопытно, что поначалу автор сочинял свой цикл как прямой фанфик Толкина, действие которого происходило в Средиземье. Однако наследники Профессора резко встали на дыбы, потому пришлось перенести действие в новый мир, хоть и очень похожий на вселенную «Властелина Колец». Несколько лет назад ряд романов серии выпускало в России издательство «Азбука».
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Аннотация: The myth of a lost city carved of precious jade has proven irresistible to many in Mithgar. Now Aravan, captain of the Elven ship Eroean, has undertaken a quest to find it. With his true love Aylis, the Magekind Seeress, beside him and a crew of men and dwarves, he sets sail to follow the lure of legend.
The journey will be long and perilous—and the voyagers will find more than treasure awaiting them in the City of Jade. They will find dark sorcery and great danger, and some among them will find death.
______________________________________________________ ___________________________________ О книге: Фэнтези-роман. Третья книга цикла «Герои умирают». Это технофэнтези о суперубийце Кейне, участнике необычного риалити-шоу, герои которого забрасываются в параллельный Земле магический мир. В новой книге Кейн возвращается в земли, где давным-давно одержал свою первую большую победу над племенем Черных Ножей.
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Аннотация: In Heroes Die and Blade of Tyshalle, Matthew Stover created a new kind of fantasy novel, and a new kind of hero to go with it: Caine, a street thug turned superstar, battling in a future where reality shows take place in another dimension, on a world where magic exists and gods are up close and personal. In that beautiful, savage land, Caine is an assassin without peer, a living legend born from one of the highest-rated reality shows ever made. That season, Caine almost single-handedly defeated–and all but exterminated–the fiercest of all tribes: the Black Knives. But the shocking truth of what really took place during that blood-drenched adventure has never been revealed . . . until now.
Thirty years later, Caine returns to the scene of his greatest triumph–some would say greatest crime–at the request of his adopted brother Orbek, the last of the true Black Knives. But where Caine goes, danger follows, and he soon finds himself back in familiar territory: fighting for his life against impossible odds, with the fate of two worlds hanging in the balance.
Just the way Caine likes it.
______________________________________________________ ___________________________________ О книге: Авторский сборник, состоящий из 25 рассказов в жанре ужасов, ранее не публиковавшихся, за исключением некоторых, напечатаных в 1992 году в антологии от издательства «Big Black House».
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Аннотация: An artist is summoned to paint the portrait of sinister Mr. Finster in a decaying mansion . . . A suburban couple is vexed by the inveterate lawn-mowing of a ghost . . . In ice-bound Vermont, one farmer's crop is suspiciously bountiful . . . A miniature nymph is found swimming in an office water cooler . . . These are the bizarre conceptions of Jonathan Thomas, a powerful new writer of weird, horrific, and supernatural fiction who introduces himself to the reading public with this rich and varied short story collection. Thomas is, however, a practiced hand at terror-weaving, and his work spans the spectrum from comic fantasy to psychological suspense to science fiction. Unifying all his tales is a prose style of singular fluency and grace, enlivened by keen observation and mordant satire. «Jonathan Thomas has an enviably impressive range-from the gentle to the gruesome, from science fiction through fantasy to the spectral and horrific-but his wit is reliable, and so is the clarity of his eye, and the precision of his prose. He's an asset to all his fields.»-Ramsey Campbell. «Thomas's dynamism in plot-weaving and his pungently satirical prose testify to a prodigious fund of creativity and a fine eye for observing the little absurdities of life in the twenty-first century.»-From S. T. Joshi's Foreword.
______________________________________________________ ___________________________________ О книге: Научно-фантастический роман. По сюжету – это космическая опера далекого будущего, герой которой – капитан звездолета, нашедший загадочный артефакт давно исчезнувшей расы. За ценнейшим предметом начинается настоящая охота, в которой замешаны разведки разных галактических империй, да еще и космические пираты.
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Аннотация: A triumph of the New Space Opera: fast, complicated, wonder-filled!
Hugo Award finalist and Robert A. Heinlein Award–winning SF writer Michael Flynn now turns to space opera with stunningly successful results. Full of rich echoes of space opera classics from Doc Smith to Cordwainer Smith, The January Dancer tells the fateful story of an ancient pre-human artifact of great power, and the people who found it.
Starting with Captain Amos January, who quickly loses it, and then the others who fought, schemed, and killed to get it, we travel around the complex, decadent, brawling, mongrelized interstellar human civilization the artifact might save or destroy. Collectors want the Dancer; pirates take it, rulers crave it, and they’ll all kill if necessary to get it. This is a thrilling yarn of love, revolution, music, and mystery, and it ends, as all great stories do, with shock and a beginning.
______________________________________________________ ___________________________________ О книге: Подростковый фэнтези-роман — очередной том детского антропоморфного фэнтези про аббатство Рэдволл. На этот раз в центре внимания – шайка Воронов, которые охотятся за древним сокровищем. У нас цикл о зверях, ведущих себя подобно людям.
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Аннотация: On a moonless night, two rats follow hypnotic lights into the forest, never to be seen again. Such is the power of the Doomwytes, sinister ravens led by the deadly Korvus Skurr. And when the young mouse Bisky persuades the creatures of Redwall Abbey to go in search of a fabled treasure, hidden long ago by one of the abbey’s most notorious thieves, they do not suspect Skurr and his ravens will be vying for that very treasure.
Bisky and his fellow Redwallers must summon all their courage to face the evil horde of slithering snakes and vicious ravens. From underground tunnels to the tops of trees, the fearless Redwallers, with the help of their woodland friends, battle some of their most vicious enemies yet in an exhilarating, terrifying treasure hunt.
______________________________________________________ ___________________________________ О книге: Фэнтези-роман, Это первая книга цикла «Collegium Chronicles» – приквела к знаменитому фэнтезийно-романтическому сериалу Лэки о Герольдах Валдемара. По свидетельству критиков, Лэки вновь возвращается к книгам, скроенным по принесшей ей некогда успех схеме.
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Аннотация: In this chronicle of the early history of Valdemar, Mercedes Lackey’s bestselling world, a thirteenyear- old orphan named Magpie escapes a life of slavery in the gem mines when he is chosen by one of the magical Companion horses of Valdemar to be trained as a Herald. Thrust into the center of a legend in the making, Magpie discovers talents he never knew he had—and witnesses the founding of the great Heralds’ Collegium.
______________________________________________________ ___________________________________ О книге: Антология, состоящая из 14 рассказов, действия которых разворачиваются в школе магических исскуств, включает в себя произведения Кристин Кэтрин Раш, Лауры Резник, Дианы Дуэйн, Эстер Фриснер, Джоди Линн Най и Сары Зеттел. ______________________________________________________ ___________________________________
Аннотация: move over, hogwarts...
High school is different for everyone. For some, it’s a time to shine, and for others, a time to survive. Then there are the students who attend those special schools for the gifted. But what if there was a school that catered to those rarest of students—those who can do magic?
These fourteen tales explore the challenges that students of the magical arts may face in a high school of their very own. If you think chemistry is tough, try alchemy. If you ever fell victim to a school bully, how would you deal with a bully gifted with powerful magic? And if you needed more time to study, what spell could give you all the time you desired?
These are just a few of the magical adventures that will await you when you enter Salem Township Public High School #4— otherwise known as Witch High...
______________________________________________________ ___________________________________ О книге: Роман-фэнтези, посвященное группе солдат-ветеранов, которые ушли в отставку из королевской армии и отправились на поиски сокровищ. Действие происходит в мире, напоминающем европейский XVIII век.
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Аннотация: Hoping for a better life, five war veterans colonize an abandoned island. They take with them everything they could possibly need — food, clothes, tools, weapons, even wives.
But an unanticipated discovery shatters their dream and replaces it with a very different one. The colonists feel sure that their friendship will keep them together. Only then do they begin to realize that they've brought with them rather more than they bargained for.
For one of them, it seems, has been hiding a terrible secret from the rest of the company. And when the truth begins to emerge, it soon becomes clear that the war is far from over.
With masterful storytelling, irresistible wit, and extraordinary insight into human nature, K.J. Parker is widely acknowledged as one of the most original and exciting fantasy writers of modern times. THE COMPANY, K.J. Parker's first stand-alone novel, is a tour de force from an author who is changing the face of the fantasy genre.
______________________________________________________ ___________________________________ О книге: Научно-фантастический роман. Действие происходит в 23 веке, когда у правительства Земли возникает острейший конфликт с поселенцами на других планетах. Известный обозреватель журнала «Locus» Гэри Вулф назвал эту книгу одним из самых лучших НФ-романов истекающего года.
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Аннотация: Twenty-third century Earth, ravaged by climate change, looks backwards to the holy ideal of a pre-industrial Eden. Political power has been grabbed by a few powerful families and their green saints. Millions of people are imprisoned in teeming cities; millions more labour on Pharaonic projects to rebuild ruined ecosystems. On the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, the Outers, descendants of refugees from Earth's repressive regimes, have constructed a wild variety of self-sufficient cities and settlements: scientific utopias crammed with exuberant creations of the genetic arts; the last outposts of every kind of democratic tradition. The fragile detente between the Outer cities and the dynasties of Earth is threatened by the ambitions of the rising generation of Outers, who want to break free of their cosy, inward-looking pocket paradises, colonise the rest of the Solar System, and drive human evolution in a hundred new directions. On Earth, many demand pre-emptive action against the Outers before it's too late; others want to exploit the talents of their scientists and gene wizards. Amid campaigns for peace and reconciliation, political machinations, crude displays of military might, and espionage by cunningly wrought agents, the two branches of humanity edge towards war...
______________________________________________________ ___________________________________ О книге: Фэнтези-роман — заключительный том фэнтезийного цикла «Mistborn».
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Аннотация: Who is the Hero of Ages?
To end the Final Empire and restore freedom, Vin killed the Lord Ruler. But as a result, the Deepness---the lethal form of the ubiquitous mists---is back, along with increasingly heavy ashfalls and ever more powerful earthquakes. Humanity appears to be doomed.
Having escaped death at the climax of The Well of Ascension only by becoming a Mistborn himself, Emperor Elend Venture hopes to find clues left behind by the Lord Ruler that will allow him to save the world. Vin is consumed with guilt at having been tricked into releasing the mystic force known as Ruin from the Well. Ruin wants to end the world, and its near omniscience and ability to warp reality make stopping it seem impossible. She can’t even discuss it with Elend lest Ruin learn their plans!
The conclusion of the Mistborn trilogy fulfills all the promise of the first two books. Revelations abound, connections rooted in early chapters of the series click into place, and surprises, as satisfying as they are stunning, blossom like fireworks to dazzle and delight. It all leads up to a finale unmatched for originality and audacity that will leave readers rubbing their eyes in wonder, as if awaking from an amazing dream.