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Considered the first full-length detective novel in the English language, T.S. Eliot described The Moonstone as 'the first and greatest English detective novel'. The stone of the title is an enormous yellow diamond plundered from an Indian shrine after the Siege of Seringapatam. Given to Miss Verinder on her 18th birthday, it mysteriously disappears that very night. Suspicion falls on three Indian jugglers who have been seen in the neighbourhood. Sergeant Cuff is assigned to the case....

Here is a modern novelette in H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos. Imagine David Cronenberg directing Dr. Strangelove, based on a script by H. P. Lovecraft. Imagine an alternate history in which nuclear bombs are not the ultimate weapon, but instead are merely a stepping stone to eldritch technologies accessible through certain trans-dimensional forces first encountered in 1920s Antarctica, technologies that neither the United States nor the USSR can quite contain.

À l'institut St Mary de recherche historique, les historiens n'étudient pas seulement le passé, ils le visitent. Derrière l'innocente façade de St Mary, le secret du voyage dans le temps a été découvert et reste bien gardé. Les chercheurs en Histoire ont ainsi une méthode de travail tout à fait particulière : ils "étudient en temps réel les événements majeurs de l'Histoire ". En se faisant passer pour d'inoffensifs excentriques, ils tentent de répondre à certaines questions qui n'ont jamais été résolues, sans jamais toucher au cours de l'Histoire.

While J. Robert Oppenheimer and his Manhattan Project team struggle to develop the A-bomb, Edward Teller wants something even more devastating: a weapon based on nuclear fusion - the mechanism that powers the sun. But Teller’s research leads to a terrifying discovery: by the year 2030, the sun will eject its outermost layer, destroying the entire inner solar system - including Earth. After the war ends, Oppenheimer’s physicists combine forces with Albert Einstein, computing pioneer John von Neumann, and rocket designer Wernher von Braun.  

Lila Mae Watson - the first black female inspector in the world's tallest city - has the highest performance rating of anyone in the Department of Elevator Inspectors. This upsets her superiors, because Lila is an Intuitionist: she inspects elevators simply by the feelings she gets riding in them. When a brand new elevator crashes, Lila becomes caught in the conflict between her Intuitionist methods and the beliefs of the power-holding Empiricists.

"Paradise is a loan. The debt collectors are here." For ten thousand years the Sienoan people have existed as gods. In Sienoa – a city of gleaming crystal – both hunger and death are merely things people once talked about. The ‘Pulse’, providing endless, unsoiled power, means every desire is satisfied before anyone even has it.

In 1942, New Chicago was born. The goal was to build a new world that promised the American dream. Now, two years later, the city is a volatile mixture of high society and organized crime. Smiling corporate devils peddle the future while wrestling for control with criminal kingpins from a rapidly fading era. Caught in the middle of this transitional period are the young Whitlock siblings and their friends—the last remaining members of the infamous Whitlock gang, once led by their now-deceased father.

Disgraced. Beheaded. And out for revenge . . . We all know what happened to Henry VIII’s second wife, Anne Boleyn. But what if she woke up the day after her execution and took it upon herself to seek justice? “Fabulous! A marvelously inventive and mythic reworking of the story of Anne Boleyn...

Et si le dénouement de la Seconde Guerre mondiale n'était pas celui que l'on connaissait ? 200 ans après la victoire d'Hitler, Germania n'est plus un mythe. La race aryenne tant espérée par le Führer domine le monde et toutes les autres ethnies ont été éradiquées de la planète. Krista, jeune Aryenne, travaille dans un Lebensborn. Elle a été élevée dans le moule de la race pure et ne connaît que ce mode de vie, jusqu'au jour où elle suit malgré elle une femme dans les égouts de la ville.

Outside the ruins of San Francisco, a former UC Berkeley professor of literature recounts the chilling sequence of events which led to his current lowly state - a gruesome pandemic which killed nearly every living soul on the planet, in a matter of days. Modern civilization tottered and fell, and a new race of barbarians - the western world's brutalized workers - assumed power everywhere. Over the space of a few decades, all learning has been lost.

The American Civil War: Following the election of anti-slavery President-elect Abraham Lincoln, the Southern States of South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas have all officially left the United States of America. Lincoln follows up with the call for a 75,000-soldier army to be levied to invade the South and suppress the breakaway states. The move is quickly followed by Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee, which have not yet seceded, to join the Confederacy rather than supply troops to fight their Southern neighbors.

Romanzo di fantascienza e romanzo femminista, dopo cinquant'anni La female man ( The Female Man , 1975) non ha perso il suo contenuto provocatorio. «La fantascienza è connaturata al pensiero radicale» ha dichiarato l'autrice: «è molto efficace se si vogliono presentare le preoccupazioni di un gruppo marginale, perché queste si collocano in un mondo in cui le cose sono diverse». E niente è più diverso della "female man", un essere che incorpora le caratteristiche di entrambi i sessi, protagonista di questa storia che fin dal titolo appare come un monstrum linguistico.

Imagine a horse-powered world where magic is used for mending, making, and healing. Magical ability is rare, but Ky Vaux—a peasant boy from a poor family—can not only mend and make, but is extremely powerful and hopes to fulfill his dream of working as a healer. Ky’s gift of magic is now supporting Ky, his mother, his sister, and even his cousins. But for Ky, taking care of his family isn’t enough. He wants to help others, the poor children of the city and those who're being tortured by a sadistic noble …

Should a man wish to pen a story of The Leatherwood, where should he begin? When angels sang and glory flooded the land with righteous delight? When First Nation sojourners found a hidden realm? When the first settlers braved an impenetrable wilderness frontier? When those that followed picked up tattered threads of civilization? When the very land itself was divided for gain? I should be remiss to settle for such known methods of description. Since The Leatherwood is so far more! Being the launching grounds for intrepid warriors, it is home to so much beyond that which anyone should know.

Die Saat von Nibiru – Die ersten Götter entführt die Leser und Leserinnen auf eine faszinierende Reise zu den Ursprüngen der Menschheit – und weit darüber hinaus. Paru, ein junger Absolvent der Akademie auf dem Planeten Nibiru, gehört zu einer neuen Generation, die darauf vorbereitet wird, eine entscheidende Mission zu erfüllen: Die Suche nach einer neuen Heimat für sein Volk, das im Inneren eines sterbenden Planeten lebt. Was wie eine wissenschaftliche Expedition beginnt, entwickelt sich bald zu einer spirituellen und politischen Zerreißprobe.

In a future where memories can be stolen and weaponized, one man's gift for reading data makes him the most dangerous target in the solar system. Tyler Grant is a Resonant—someone who can hear the electromagnetic whispers that others can't. He makes his living recovering data from dead ships, staying invisible, keeping his head down. It's safer that way when the Memory Regulation Bureau tracks people like him.

A fictional Greek mythology of a feisty Goddess and her misguided anger towards humanity as well as how she copes in a world she is mere myth after decades of being worshipped.

Ich heiße Michael Kaiser und in mir arbeiten Nanomaschinen. Aber das wusstet ihr bereits. Das unerwartete Auftauchen meiner übermächtigen Urgroßmutter zwingt mich, meine Pläne zu ändern. Denn ein Wort von ihr würde genügen, um meine geliebte Familie ins Verderben zu stürzen. Alle fürchten sie aufgrund ihrer Stärke.

Ten years have passed since the story began. Ivan Morozov is no longer the prey—he has become the hunter. He's done adapting to circumstances—his goal now is to rise above them and shape the world to his will.

Alex leads the group in search of a human camp in the center of the valley. Everyone has their wits about them as they all know one false step could be fatal. Until now, their main enemies have been monsters and the Storm, but the Other Side has attracted plenty of attention from elsewhere and now it's not just creatures who the group have to look out for. A band of mercenaries is heading their way....