______________________________________________________ ___________________________________ О книге: Фэнтези-роман, повествующий о молодом человеке, разыскивающем магический Шар, который украден Священным «Hedgehog» из Йорла, который намерен уничтожить весь мир.
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Аннотация: Jonathan Quintain is a naive young man reluctant to assume leadership after the Baron abandons the castle with his mistress and half of the staff. When a spell cast by the inept advisor and castle mage, Gamitof Pym, goes awry, the castle is turned upside down-freeing an underestimated hedgehog prisoner and displacing the magical Orb.
Following a battle for the now-ruined castle, Jonathan learns that Walpole, the so-called Sacred Hedgehog of Yurle, has the Orb and has captured the realm's child-king. With nothing left at home for a young man's appetite for adventure, he and his friends set off into the desolate land of Yurle to save their king and stop Walpole's plan for the end of humankind.
An entertaining and fun-filled adventure, Of Quills and Kings provides readers with an amusing and engaging fantasy filled with unique and memorable characters-heroes and villains alike-and adventures that can be enjoyed again and again by both young adult and adult readers alike.
______________________________________________________ ___________________________________ О книге: Научно-фантастический роман, действие которого происходит в средневековом будущем, когда грамотные и ученые люди остались только в специальных монастырях. В центре сюжета – группа молодых людей, которые, проведя большую часть жизни в таком монастыре, волей обстоятельств оказываются во внешнем мире.
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Аннотация: Anathem, the latest invention by the New York Times bestselling author of Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle, is a magnificent creation: a work of great scope, intelligence, and imagination that ushers readers into a recognizable—yet strangely inverted—world.
Fraa Erasmas is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the outside «saecular» world by ancient stone, honored traditions, and complex rituals. Over the centuries, cities and governments have risen and fallen beyond the concent's walls. Three times during history's darkest epochs violence born of superstition and ignorance has invaded and devastated the cloistered mathic community. Yet the avout have always managed to adapt in the wake of catastrophe, becoming out of necessity even more austere and less dependent on technology and material things. And Erasmas has no fear of the outside—the Extramuros—for the last of the terrible times was long, long ago.
Now, in celebration of the week-long, once-in-a-decade rite of Apert, the fraas and suurs prepare to venture beyond the concent's gates—at the same time opening them wide to welcome the curious «extras» in. During his first Apert as a fraa, Erasmas eagerly anticipates reconnecting with the landmarks and family he hasn't seen since he was «collected.» But before the week is out, both the existence he abandoned and the one he embraced will stand poised on the brink of cataclysmic change.
Powerful unforeseen forces jeopardize the peaceful stability of mathic life and the established ennui of the Extramuros—a threat that only an unsteady alliance of saecular and avout can oppose—as, one by one, Erasmas and his colleagues, teachers, and friends are summoned forth from the safety of the concent in hopes of warding off global disaster. Suddenly burdened with a staggering responsibility, Erasmas finds himself a major player in a drama that will determine the future of his world—as he sets out on an extraordinary odyssey that will carry him to the most dangerous, inhospitable corners of the planet . . . and beyond.
______________________________________________________ ___________________________________ О книге: Роман-фэнтези, заключительный том фэнтезийной трилогии «First Law».
Эта трилогия имела значительный успех, заставив говорить об авторе как о новой звезде мирового фэнтези. Причем, цикл Аберкромби очень тепло приняли как простые фанаты жанра, так и литературные критики – такое бывает нечасто.
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Аннотация: The end is coming.
Logen Ninefingers might only have one more fight in him–but it's going to be a big one. Battle rages across the North, the king of the Northmen still stands firm, and there's only one man who can stop him. His oldest friend, and his oldest enemy: it's time for the Bloody-Nine to come home.
With too many masters and too little time, Superior Glokta is fighting a different kind of war. A secret struggle in which no one is safe, and no one can be trusted. As his days with a sword are far behind him, it's fortunate that he's deadly with his remaining weapons: blackmail, threats, and torture.
Jezal dan Luthar has decided that winning glory is too painful an undertaking and turned his back on soldiering for a simple life with the woman he loves. But love can be painful too–and glory has a nasty habit of creeping up on a man when he least expects it.
The king of the Union lies on his deathbed, the peasants revolt, and the nobles scramble to steal his crown. No one believes that the shadow of war is about to fall across the heart of the Union. Only the First of the Magi can save the world, but there are risks. There is no risk more terrible, than to break the First Law...
______________________________________________________ ___________________________________ О книге: Фэнтези-роман, восьмая книга цикла «Малазанская «Книга Павших», открывает новые страницы истории Великой Малазанской империи, властители которой своими неуемными амбициями неуклонно ведут ее к гибели.
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Аннотация: In Darujhistan, the city of blue fire, it is said that love and death shall arrive dancing. It is summer and the heat is oppressive, but for the small round man in the faded red waistcoat, discomfiture is not just because of the sun. All is not well. Dire portents plague his nights and haunt the city streets like fiends of shadow. Assassins skulk in alleyways, but the quarry has turned and the hunters become the hunted.
Hidden hands pluck the strings of tyranny like a fell chorus. While the bards sing their tragic tales, somewhere in the distance can be heard the baying of Hounds...And in the distant city of Black Coral, where rules Anomander Rake, Son of Darkness, ancient crimes awaken, intent on revenge. It seems Love and Death are indeed about to arrive...hand in hand, dancing.
A thrilling, harrowing novel of war, intrigue and dark, uncontrollable magic, Toll the Hounds is the new chapter in Erikson's monumental series — epic fantasy at its most imaginative and storytelling at its most exciting.
______________________________________________________ ___________________________________ О книге: Научно-фантастический роман, дебютный роман сына Джона Ле Карре, о последствиях Заканчивающейся Войны, в которой Gonzo Lubitsch и его друзья протестуют против военных действий направленных на Jorgmund Pipe, которые защищают Жилую Зону от беспорядков извне.
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Аннотация: A wildly entertaining debut novel, introducing a bold new voice that combines antic humor with a stunning futuristic vision to give us an electrifyingly original tale of love, friendship and the apocalypse.
There couldn’t be a fire along the Jorgmund Pipe. It was the last thing the world needed. But there it was, burning bright on national television. The Pipe was what kept the Livable Zone safe from the bandits, monsters and nightmares the Go Away War had left in its wake. The fire was a very big problem.
Enter Gonzo Lubitsch and his friends, the Haulage & HazMat Emergency Civil Freebooting Company, a team of master troubleshooters who roll into action when things get particularly hot. They helped build the Pipe. Now they have to preserve it—and save humanity yet again. But this job is not all it seems. It will touch more closely on Gonzo’s life, and that of his best friend, than either of them can imagine. And it will decide the fate of the Gone-Away World.
Equal parts raucous adventure, comic odyssey, geek nirvana and ultracool epic, The Gone-Away World is a story of—among other things—pirates, war, mimes, greed and ninjas. But it is also the story of a world, not unlike our own, in desperate need of heroes—however unlikely they may seem.
______________________________________________________ ___________________________________ О книге: Научно-фантастический роман, девятая совместная работа Брайана Герберта, сына автора оригинальной версии «Дюны» Фрэнка Герберта, и Кевина Дж. Андерсона. Книга связывает события двух стартовых томов Саги Фрэнка Герберта «Дюна» и «Мессия Дюны». Новый роман повествует о том, как армии фанатиков Муад’Дибба завоевали Галактику. А Пол мучался вопросом — не утратил ли он контроль над джихадом?
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Аннотация: Frank Herbert'sDune ended with Paul Muad’Dib in control of the planet Dune. Herbert’s next Dune book, Dune Messiah, picked up the story several years later after Paul’s armies had conquered the galaxy. But what happened between Dune and Dune Messiah? How did Paul create his empire and become the Messiah? Following in the footsteps of Frank Herbert, New York Times bestselling authors Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson are answering these questions in Paul of Dune.
The Muad’Dib’s jihad is in full swing. His warrior legions march from victory to victory. But beneath the joy of victory there are dangerous undercurrents. Paul, like nearly every great conqueror, has enemies--those who would betray him to steal the awesome power he commands. . . .
And Paul himself begins to have doubts: Is the jihad getting out of his control? Has he created anarchy? Has he been betrayed by those he loves and trusts the most? And most of all, he wonders: Am I going mad?
Paul of Dune is a novel everyone will want to read and no one will be able to forget.
______________________________________________________ ___________________________________ О книге: Фэнтези-роман, второй в трилогии «The Enduring Flame», следующий за «The Phoenix Unchained» (2007) и являющаяся сиквелом к раннее написанной авторами трилогии «Obsidian», переносит действие на 1000 лет назад, когда и магия и тьма еще только появились в мире.
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Аннотация: In The Phoenix Endangered, second in The Enduring Flame, Tiercel, a budding High Mage, and Harrier, a reluctant Knight-Mage, develop greater power—and learn of the evils of war when they see the devastation caused by the fanatical armies of the Wild Mage Bisochim.
The desert tribespeople led by young Shaiara flee Bisochim’s evil, seeking a legendary oasis deep in the desert—a refuge that may hold the key to stopping Bisochim and preserving the Balance between Light and Darkness . . . or that may be the cause of Light’s ultimate downfall.
______________________________________________________ ___________________________________ О книге: Научно-фантастический роман, действие которого происходит во вселенной «Освоенный космос» Ларри Нивена, также как и роман «Флот Миров» (2007), является приквелом к циклу «Мир-Кольцо».
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Аннотация: For too long, the Puppeteers have controlled the fate of worlds. Now Sigmund is pulling the strings...
Covert agent Sigmund Ausfaller is Earth's secret weapon, humanity's best defense against all conspiracies, real and potential — and imaginary — of foes both human and alien. Who better than a brilliant paranoid to expose the devious plots of others?
He may finally have met his match in Nessus, representative of the secretive Puppeteers, the elder race who wield vastly superior technologies. Nessus schemes in the shadows with Earth's traitors and adversaries, even after the race he represents abruptly vanishes from Known Space.
As a paranoid, Sigmund had always known things would end horribly for him. Only the when, where, how, why, and by whom of it all had eluded him. That fog has begun to lift...
But even Sigmund has never imagined how far his investigations will take him — or that his destiny is entwined with the fates of worlds.
______________________________________________________ ___________________________________ О книге: Фэнтези–роман, третья часть трилогии «Наследие», начатой некогда нашумевшим романом «Эрагон». Не то что б приключения юного Эрагона и его драконицы Сапфиры были так занимательны. Однако настойчивый маркетинг превратил два предыдущих романа в международные бестселлеры. Наверняка чаша сия не минует и последний том.
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Аннотация: OATHS SWORN . . . loyalties tested . . . forces collide.
Following the colossal battle against the Empire’s warriors on the Burning Plains, Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have narrowly escaped with their lives. Still there is more at hand for the Rider and his dragon, as Eragon finds himself bound by a tangle of promises he may not be able to keep.
First is Eragon’s oath to his cousin Roran: to help rescue Roran’s beloved, Katrina, from King Galbatorix’s clutches. But Eragon owes his loyalty to others, too. The Varden are in desperate need of his talents and strength—as are the elves and dwarves. When unrest claims the rebels and danger strikes from every corner, Eragon must make choices— choices that take him across the Empire and beyond, choices that may lead to unimagined sacrifice.
Eragon is the greatest hope to rid the land of tyranny. Can this once-simple farm boy unite the rebel forces and defeat the king?
______________________________________________________ ___________________________________ О книге: Мистический триллер в атмосфере классического нуара 1930-х годов. Впрочем действие перенесено в далекое будущее. Героиня романа — знаменитая актриса, имеющая двух любовников: частного детектива-колдуна и загадочного космического первопроходца. Она любит обоих, но так не может продолжаться вечно...
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Аннотация: Lovecraft mets Blade Runner. This is a stand-alone supernatural horror novel with a 30s noir atmosphere. Gene Wolfe can write in whatever genre he wants--and always with superb style and profound depth. Now following his World Fantasy Award winner,Soldier of Sidon, and his stunning Pirate Freedom, Wolfe turns to the tradition of H.P. Lovecraft and the weird science tale of supernatural horror.
Set a hundred years in the future, An Evil Guest is a story of an actress who becomes the lover of both a mysterious sorcerer and private detective, and an even more mysterious and powerful rich man, who has been to the human colony on an alien planet and learned strange things there. Her loyalties are divided--perhaps she loves them both. The detective helps her to release her inner beauty and become a star overnight. And the rich man is the benefactor of a play she stars in. But something is very wrong. Money can be an evil guest, but there are other evils. As Lovecraft said, «That is not dead which can eternal lie.»
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