With her red hair flowing, her yellow eyes glinting like embers, and her face streaked with blood, Jirel is strong, fearless, and driven by honor. The fierce, proud, and relentless commander of warriors, standing tall above her enemies and simmering with rage, Jirel bids farewell to the world of treacherous men and walks through a forbidden door into Hell itself in pursuit of freedom, justice, and revenge.
These are the classic tales of blood and honor that catapulted C.L. Moore into the legendary ranks of such acclaimed writers as Robert E. Howard and Edgar Rice Burroughs in the golden age of sword and sorcery. First published in the magazine Weird Tales in the 1930s, Moore’s fantastic medieval adventures are heightened by a savage, romantic vision that helped define the genre, earning her recognition as a Grand Master for lifetime achievement by the World Fantasy Convention.
In the year ten billion A.D., Diaspar is the last city on Earth. Agelss and unchanging, the inhabitants see no reason to be curious about the outside world. But one child, Alvin – only seventeen and the last person to be born in Diaspar – finds that he is increasingly drawn to what lies outside the city walls. Even though he knows the Invaders, who devastated the world, may still be out there…
Later rewritten, expanded and republished as The City and the Stars, this early novella by one of the greats of science fiction remains a powerful and evocative depiction of the future of humanity…
The brand-new official Minecraft novel is an epic battle for survival! When humans enter the End, a pair of endermen must decide which side they’re really on.
For as long as they can remember, the twin endermen Fin and Mo have lived in the mysterious land of the End. On the outskirts of the great enderman city of Telos, they explore ancient ruins under the watchful gaze of the mighty ender dragon. They have everything they need in the end ship they call home, and know everything there is to know about their world—or so they think until the strangers from another dimension arrive.
The invaders are called humans, and they’ve come to steal artifacts and slay the ender dragon. Fin and Mo are ready to protect their home from the trespassers, but when they come face-to-face with the humans, they discover that they aren’t as prepared for battle as they’d thought. Caught off guard, the twins are trapped in the middle of a war between the endermen and the humans, with the future of their home at stake.
A pioneering work of dystopian fiction from one of Sweden's most acclaimed writers
Written midway between Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four, as the terrible events of the Second World War were unfolding, Kallocain depicts a totalitarian 'World State' which seeks to crush the individual entirely. In this desolate, paranoid landscape of 'police eyes' and 'police ears', the obedient citizen and middle-ranking scientist Leo Kall discovers a drug that will force anyone who takes it to tell the truth. But can private thought really be obliterated? Karin Boye's chilling novel of creeping alienation shows the dangers of acquiescence and the power of resistance, no matter how futile.
Kultowy cykl fantasy Andrzeja Sapkowskiego WIEDŹMIN w nowym serialowym wydaniu. Tomy 1-8. Wydanie w nowej szcie graficznej z obwolutą filmową.
W skład cyklu wchodzą tomy:
opowiadania:
- Ostatnie życzenie
- Miecz przeznaczenia
cykl Wiedźmiński:
- Krew elfów
- Czas pogardy
- Chrzest ognia
- Wieża Jaskółki
- Pani Jeziora
powieść:
Sezon Burz
Wybierzcie się w podróż, o jakiej nawet nie śnił Marko Polo. Razem z bohaterami będziecie przemierzać tajgę, stepy, góry, dżunglę, ocean i sawanny, spotykając mówiące tygrysy, wodnika i jego rodzinę, smoki, ziejące ogniem olbrzymy, ludzi zarówno bez głów, jak i z psimi głowami. Nie zabraknie też wampirów i rusałek. Wschód spotka się z Zachodem, a miłość Tatry i Lecha III zostanie wystawiona na ciężką próbę...
Jest rok 2454.
Nad osiągniętym po wielu trudach złotym wiekiem zachodzi słońce. Ludzkość przez trzy stulecia cieszyła się pokojem i dobrobytem, opartymi na ostrożnej cenzurze, analizie statystycznej o proroczych możliwościach, zapewniającej dobrobyt technologii… oraz odrobinie przelewu krwi.
Ale teraz równowaga została zachwiana i pojawiła się groźba wojny. Mycroft Canner wiedział, że wojna się zbliża, albowiem popełnił swe straszliwe zbrodnie po to, by jej zapobiec. Teraz jednak została mu tylko jedna, niespodziewania karta, której żaden statystyczny geniusz nie mógłby przewidzieć. Trzynastoletni chłopiec mający moc czynienia cudów. Dzięki swej władzy zmieniania myśli w materię, a martwej materii w żywą. Owo dziecko może ocalić świat albo go zgubić.
Drugi tom niewiarygodne śmiałego cyklu politycznej science fiction Terra Ignota autorstwa Ady Palmer, laureatki nagrody imienia Johna W., Campbella w roku 2017.
Isaac Asimov's ROBOT series - from the iconic collection I, ROBOT to four classic novels - contains some of the most influential works in the history of science fiction. Establishing and testing the THREE LAWS OF ROBOTICS, they continue to shape the understanding and design of artificial intelligence to this day.
Following the smash-hit sci-fi comedy The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is the second part in Douglas Adams' multi-media phenomenon and cult classic series. If you've done six impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliaways, the Restaurant at the end of the Universe? Which is exactly what the crew of the Heart of Gold plan to do. There's just the small matter of escaping the Vogans, avoiding being taken to the most totally evil world in the Galaxy and teaching a spaceship how to make a proper cup of tea. And did anyone actually make a reservation? Follow Arthur Dent's galactic (mis)adventures in the rest of the trilogy with five parts: Life, the Universe and Everything, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, and Mostly Harmless.
It started with fireballs raining down from the sky and crashing into the oceans' deeps. Then ships began sinking mysteriously and later 'sea tanks' emerged from the deeps to claim people . . .
For journalists Mike and Phyllis Watson, what at first appears to be a curiosity becomes a global calamity. Helpless, they watch as humanity struggles to survive now that water - one of the compounds upon which life depends - is turned against them. Finally, sea levels begin their inexorable rise . . .
The Kraken Wakes is a brilliant novel of how humankind responds to the threat of its own extinction and, ultimately, asks what we are prepared to do in order to survive.
Świat, w którym żyjemy, jest tylko jednym z wielu, jakie istnieją. Niestety, pozostałe będą dla nas dostępne dopiero po śmierci. Jednak... oddzielająca je bariera najwyraźniej przestała być szczelna, ponieważ w każdym ze światów w tym samym czasie giną potężne artefakty. Przedmioty te łączy pewien drobny szczegół...W Krainie Wyobraźni, Fantamagorium, spotykają się nieprzeciętne postaci z okradzionych krain, by odszukać złodzieja i odzyskać utraconą własność. Niektórym uczestnikom spotkania przyświeca jednak zupełnie inny cel... Niemniej na razie udaje się zebrać drużynę i można wyruszać w drogę. Którędy ona poprowadzi oraz co czeka na jej końcu? Wszystko to rozgrywa się w obrębie dwóch świadomości wyobraźni oraz realnego życia narratora, a zarazem uczestnika owych wydarzeń. Książka jest swobodnym snuciem przypuszczeń o ewentualnościach, jakie mogą być możliwe, jeśli otworzy się na nie umysł.
In the year 2301, guns are only museum pieces and benign telepaths sweep the minds of the populace to detect crimes before they happen. In 2301 murder is virtually impossible, but one man is about to change that …
Ben Reich, a psychopathic business magnate, has devised the ultimate scheme to eliminate the competition and destroy the order of his society. The Demolished Man is a masterpiece of imaginative suspense, set in a superbly imagined world in which everything has changed except the ancient instinct for murder.
In the sleepy English village of Midwich, a mysterious silver object appears and all the inhabitants fall unconscious. A day later the object is gone and everyone awakens unharmed – except that all the women in the village are discovered to be pregnant.
The resultant children of Midwich do not belong to their parents: all are blonde, all are golden eyed. They grow up too fast and their minds exhibit frightening abilities that give them control over others and brings them into conflict with the villagers just as a chilling realisation dawns on the world outside . . .
The Midwich Cuckoos is the classic tale of aliens in our midst, exploring how we respond when confronted by those who are innately superior to us in every conceivable way.
Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle is an irreverent and highly entertaining fantasy about the playful irresponsibility of nuclear scientists, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.
'All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.'
Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the founding fathers of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. For he is the inventor of Ice-nine, a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker's three eccentric children, to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean, to madness.
Will Felix Hoenikker's death wish come true? Will his last, fatal gift to humankind bring about the end that, for all of us, is nigh?
Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global apocalypse preys on our deepest fears of witnessing the end and, worse still, surviving it . . .
When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.'
When a freak cosmic event renders most of the Earth's population blind, Bill Masen - one of the lucky few to keep his sight - finds himself trapped in a London jammed with sightless mobs who prey on those who can still see. But another menace stalks blind and sighted alike. With nobody to stop them the Triffids - walking carnivorous plants with lethal stingers - rise up as humanity stumbles and falls . . .
Angry Birds meets Star Wars! Join Darth Vader on an adventure in this Level 2 Reader from DK. Angry Birds Star Wars Vader's Villains is a brand new book introducing readers to the world of Angry Birds and Star Wars. Combining missiles, the Force, lightsabers and Darth Vader as you've never seen him before - this DK Reader will be enjoyed by young learners and fans of the game with its light-hearted content and fun storyline. Angry Birds Star Wars Vader's Villains is a Level 2 Reader. These books have easy-to-read stories with word repetition, pictures and illustrated text boxes to build literacy skills. DK Readers are a multi-level reading programme guaranteed to capture a child's interest while developing reading skills and general knowledge - compatible with the framework for teaching literacy.
Valis (stylized as VALIS) is a 1981 science fantasy novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. The title is an acronym for Vast Active Living Intelligence System, Dick's gnostic vision of one aspect of God.
Private William Mandella is a reluctant hero in an interstellar war against an unknowable and unconquerable alien enemy. But his greatest test will be when he returns home. Relativity means that for every few months' tour of duty centuries have passed on Earth, isolating the combatants ever more from the world for whose future they are fighting.
Isaac Asimov's ROBOT series - from the iconic collection I, ROBOT to four classic novels - contains some of the most influential works in the history of science fiction. Establishing and testing the THREE LAWS OF ROBOTICS, they continue to shape the understanding and design of artificial intelligence to this day. On Aurora, the first and greatest of the Spacer planets, Elijah Baley and R. Daneel Olivaw investigate yet another seemingly impossible crime - this time, a roboticide. Someone has destroyed the positronic mind of R. Jander Panell, a humanoid twin to Daneel. His creator, the master roboticist Han Fastolfe, denies all involvement. So does Gladia Delmarre, the robot's owner. And lover.Working in the heart of Spacer politics and civilisation, Baley and Daneel soon realise that their decisions will have profound consequences not only on relations between Earth and the Outer Worlds, but on mankind's place in the galaxy.
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