This author delved into the world of fantasy, perhaps inspired by the proximity of his birth date to that of a renowned colleague. His translation work spans a wide spectrum, from literary fiction to specialized texts, where his craft has resulted in over a hundred translated books. He also gained experience in international trade and collaborated with television, contributing to the localization of popular series. His work thus serves as a bridge between various genres and formats, enriching the literary landscape.
Travis McGee a jeho přítel Meyer v noci na opuštěné dálnici sjedou do odvodňovací stoky, když jejich auto uhýbá mladé ženě oblečené jen v noční košili, která jim přeběhne přes cestu. Pěšky dojdou do servisu, kde jsou šerifem zatčeni pro úkladnou vraždu osoby, kterou vůbec neznají, a ocitnou se v okresním vězení, odkud je dostane advokát. Ten cítí příležitost výdělku při pozdějším zastupování pravých zločinců, proto zaplatí McGeeovi, aby po nich pátral.
Consisting entirely of staff emails, this novel invites the reader to spend a fortnight in the company of Miller Shanks, an advertising agency that scales dizzying peaks of incompetence, backstabbing and pure sleaze.
The Tales of Beedle the Bard, a wizarding classic, first came to Muggle readers' attention in the book known as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Now, thanks to Hermione Granger's new translation from the ancient runes, we present this stunning edition with an introduction, notes, and illustrations by J.K. Rowling, and extensive commentary by Albus Dumbledore. Never before have Muggles been privy to these richly imaginative tales: "The Wizard and the Hopping Pot," "The Fountain of Fair Fortune," "The Warlock's Hairy Heart," "Babbitty Rabbitty and Her Cackling Stump," and of course "The Tale of the Three Brothers." But not only are they the equal of fairy tales we know and love, reading them gives new insight into the wizarding world.
Black Mask je legendární americký magazín, který v době své největší slávy vydával první práce D. Hammetta, R. Chandlera, E. S.
Gardnera a dalších skvělých autorů detektivek. Mnozí z nich se časem proslavili jako zakladatelé „drsné školy americké detektivky“,
ta vzápětí významně ovlivnila komiks i fi lm, později literaturu science fi ction. Český výbor na základě antologií Otty Penzlera pořídil
Pavel Medek, znalec a sběratel americké drsné školy. Záměrně do něj zařadil povídky, jež česky zatím nikdy nevyšly.
The most advanced scientific enterprise ever mounted, Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition in search of the fabled North-West Passage had every expectation of triumph. But for almost two years his ships HMS Terror and Erebus have been trapped in the Arctic ice. Supplies of fuel and food are running low. Scurvy, starvation and even madness beging to take their toll. And yet the real threat isn't from the constantly shifting, alien landscape, the flesh-numbing temperatures or being crushed by the unyielding, frozen ocean. No, the real threat is far more terrifying. There is something out there in the frigid darkness. It stalks the ships and snatches men. It is a nameless thing. At once nowhere and everywhere, this terror has become the expedition's nemesis ...
Libby Day was just seven years old when her evidence put her fifteen-year-old brother behind bars. Since then, she has been drifting. But when she is contacted by a group who are convinced of Ben's innocence, Libby starts to ask questions she never dared to before. Was the voice she heard her brother's? Ben was a misfit in their small town, but was he capable of murder? Are there secrets to uncover at the family farm or is Libby deluding herself because she wants her brother back? She begins to realise that everyone in her family had something to hide that day... especially Ben. Now, twenty-four years later, the truth is going to be even harder to find. Who did massacre the Day family?
Can you commit the perfect crime? Pilgrim is the codename for a man who doesn�e(tm)t exist. The adopted son of a wealthy American family, he once headed up a secret espionage unit for US intelligence. Before he disappeared into anonymous retirement, he wrote the definitive book on forensic criminal investigation. But that book will come back to haunt him. It will help NYPD detective Ben Bradley track him down. And it will take him to a rundown New York hotel room where the body of a woman is found facedown in a bath of acid, her features erased, her teeth missing, her fingerprints gone. It is a textbook murder �e" and Pilgrim wrote the book. What begins as an unusual and challenging investigation will become a terrifying race-against-time to save America from oblivion. Pilgrim will have to make a journey from a public beheading in Mecca to a deserted ruins on the Turkish coast via a Nazi death camp in Alsace and the barren wilderness of the Hindu Kush in search of the faceless man who would commit an appalling act of mass murder in the name of his God.
A perennial bestseller in the wizarding world and one of the most popular books in the Hogwarts School library, Quidditch Through the Ages contains all you will ever need to know about the history, the rules - and the breaking of the rules - of the noble sport of Quidditch. Packed with fascinating facts, this definitive guide by the esteemed Quidditch writer Kennilworthy Whisp charts the game's history from its early origins in the medieval mists on Queerditch Marsh, through to the modern-day sport loved by so many wizard and Muggle families around the world. With comprehensive coverage of famous Quidditch teams, the commonest fouls, the development of racing brooms, and much more, this is a must-have sporting bible for all Harry Potter fans, Quidditch lovers and players, whether the weekend amateur or the seasoned Chudley Cannons season-ticket holder. This brand new edition of the most famous sports book in the wizarding world pairs J.K. Rowling's original text, with gorgeous jacket art by Jonny Duddle and line illustrations throughout by Tomislav Tomic. A contribution from the sale of each book will go to Comic Relief.
V prvních svou svazcích Síň slávy: Nejlepší SF povídky všech dob jste si mohli přečíst nejlepší krátké povídky z počátků SF jako žánru. Tato kniha, která byla sestavena podle stejných kritérií a na první dva díly navazuje, obsahuje jedenáct novel – jedenáct nejlepších příběhů z počátku SF. Myšlenka, která stále u zrodu edice Síň slávy mistrů SF, byla ocenit i povídky a novely, které byly napsány před rokem 1966 a neměly proto možnost získat jedno z vrcholných ocenění žánru – cenu Nebula. Antologie byla poprvé publikována v roce 1973 a přitáhla ke čtení SF desítky tisíc čtenářů, kterým odhalila zázraky fantazie a představila počátky tohoto napínavého žánru. Tato sbírka nejlepších SF zahrnuje díla většího rozsahu, které vybralo více než 400 autorů SF sdružených do organizace SFWA jako vůbec nejlepší díla science fiction historie. Z hlasování vyšlo vítězně deset novel, avšak někteří autoři zde byli zastoupeni vícekrát, proto editor soubor pozměnil a doplnil o další z nejpopulárnějších SF autorů a vzhledem k rozsahu rozdělil do dvou knih
The Sanctuary of the Redeemers is a desolate place - a place where hope & joy aren't welcome. Most of its occupants have been brought here as young boys, against any will they might have had. One boy watches the latest arrivals. He doesn't remember anything of his former life or know anything of his future. Meet the Angel of Death.
Míroví vyjednavači, kteří trpělivě hledají východisko z dlouholeté bezvýchodné arabsko-izraelské krize na Středním východě, stojí krůček od úspěchu. Dvě násilná a zdánlivě spolu nesouvisející úmrtí - profesora Šimona Guttmana, domnělého atentátníka na izraelského ministerskéhopředsedu, a archeologa Ahmeda Noura, domnělého kolaboranta s Izraelci - však zhatí jakékoli naděje na smírné řešení konfliktu. Americká vláda sáhne po svém posledním trumfu a vyšle do Tel Avivu bývalou excelentní vyjednavačku Maggie Costellovou. Ta je však záhy vtažena do pátrání po příčínách obou úmrtí a zjistí - i za pomoci oblíbené počítačové on-line hry Second Life -, že mezi oběma zavražděnými, byť každý z nich patřil do opačného tábora, existovalo pevné osobní i profesní pouto, a že jejich smrti předcházelo objevení něčeho, co by mohlo mít pro urovnání nesmiřitelného sváru arabského a izraelského národa zásadní význam. Veřejné odhalení tohoto objevu nesmírné historické hodnoty však není v zájmu všech zúčastněných.
Povídky v této sbírce shrnují hororové a strašidelné příběhy, které Robert E. Howard napsal v letech 1925–1932, tedy od počátku své tvorby až na práh třicátých let, kdy se stal jedním z nejoblíbenějších autorů amerických magazínů věnujících se fantastice. Dvanáct povídek a dvě básně potěší čtenáře syrové hrůzy, která se ukrývá v prastarých mohylách, zakletých palácích, ve ztichlých domech a zdánlivě všedních předmětech, v nichž však číhají zlovolné síly, připravené kdykoli zaútočit. Howardova poetika je dodnes originální a působivá právě svou jednoduchostí a stylistickou prostotou, např. ve slavných povídkách „Hadí sen“, „Chřestící kosti“, „Duch Toma Molyneauxe“ či „Příšera z mohyly“. Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) se proslavil jako duchovní otec neohroženého barbara Conana a jeden ze zakladatelů dnes tolik populárního fantasy žánru meč & magie. Potěšením pro Howardovy příznivce byla kniha Z Divokého západu (Albatros 2009), v níž byly shrnuty autorovy nejlepší westernové příběhy. Krok ze tmy jen dokládá tezi, že autor byl a je jedním z nejvlivnějších tvůrců dobrodružné literatury 20. století.
Keď potulný minstrel vyveští Wiglafovi z ruky, že sa stane hrdinom, Wiglaf sa vyberie naplniť svoj osud a prihlási sa do Akadémie drakobijcov. Lenže ako sa môže stať drakobijcom chlapec, ktorý neznáša pohľad na krv?
Ever since Harry Potter had come home for the summer, the Dursleys had been so mean and hideous that all Harry wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he’s packing his bags, Harry recieves a warning from a strange impish creature who says that if Harry returns to Hogwarts, disaster will strike. And strike it does. For in Harry’s second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor and a spirit who haunts the girls’ bathroom. But then the real trouble begins – someone is turning Hogwarts students to stone. Could it be Draco Malfoy, a more poisonus rival than ever? Could it possible be Hagrid, whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most suspects…Harry Potter himself! --back cover
Harry has yet again spent the summer holidays at the Dursleys'. He has had plenty to think about, though - from the death of his beloved godfather Sirius Black, to the terrifying chase through the Ministry of Magic by the Death Eaters, to the fierce duel he witnessed between Professor Dumbledore and Lord Voldemort. It is the middle of the summer, but there is an unseasonal mist pressing against the windowpanes. Harry is waiting nervously for a visit from Professor Dumbledore himself. He can't quite believe that Professor Dumbledore will actually appear at the Dursleys' of all places. Why is the Professor coming to visit him now? What is it that cannot wait until Harry returns to Hogwarts in a few weeks' time? Harry's sixth year at Hogwarts has already got off to an unusual start, as the worlds of Muggle and magic start to intertwine J.K. Rowling charts Harry Potter's adventures in his sixth year at Hogwarts with a mix of detail and humour that is unsurpassed, pace that is breathless and above all a flair that is magical.
Harry is waiting in Privet Drive. The Order of the Phoenix is coming to escort him safely away without Voldemort and his supporters knowing — if they can. But what will Harry do then? How can he fulfil the momentous and seemingly impossible task that Professor Dumbledore has left him? --back cover
Ve sborníku najdeme šest méně známých povídek, které opět dokazují Chandlerovo vypravěčské mistrovství. Povídka Tužka je rovněž zajímavá tím, že Chandler ji napsal v době, kdy se věnoval pouze románům a znovu se v ní objevuje jeho oblíbený detektiv Phil Marlow. Závěrečný svazek českého vydání díla Raymonda Chandlera doplňuje chronologie autorova života a tvorby. Povídky: - Vyděrači nestřílejí (Blackmailers Don't Shoot) - Bronzové dveře (The Bronze Door) - Na horách zločin neznáme (No Crime in the Mountains) - Šňupavý prášek profesora Binga (Professor Bingo's Snuff) - Tužka (The Pencil) - Anglické léto (English Summer)
First published in the 1930s in Black Mask , this early collection of Chandler's detective stories illustrates his sparse, dramatic style and introduces the type of private eye who would later evolve into the character of Philip Marlowe.
Hidden in the Harry Potter stories are references to mythical creatures, legendary characters, real history and J.K. Rowling's own life. This book of secrets helps you to uncover these hidden clues, revealing the facts and magical places that inspired the Harry Potter series.
Taran, the assistant pig-keeper, is sent to accompany Eilonwy of the Red Gold Hair on a visit to the Isle of Mona. But then Eilonwy is kidnapped and taken to Caer Colur, the stronghold of the evil Achren. Taran and his companions must rescue her.
Soukromý detektiv Všivák Muldoon řeší nový zapeklitý případ, v kterém jde opět o krk. A nejen jemu, ale i jeho přátelům a mnoha dalším broukům v Zahradě. Neohrožený „Ferda Mravenec nové generace" se ve stylu detektivek drsné školy vydává po stopě zločinu. A anglický spisovatel Paul Shipton slaví s příběhy sympatického hmyzího detektiva úspěchy po celém světě.
Harry Potter is due to start his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizadry. He is desperate to get back to school and find out why his friends Ron and Hermione have been so secretive all summer. However, what Harry is about to discover in his new year at Hogwarts will turn his whole world upside down.
Isserley picks up hitchhikers with big muscles. She, herself, is tiny-like a kid peering up over the steering wheel. She has a remarkable face and wears the thickest corrective lenses anyone has ever seen. Her posture is suggestive of some spinal problem. Her breasts are perfect; perhaps implants. She is strangely erotic yet somehow grotesque, vulnerable yet threatening. Her hitchhikers are a mixed bunch of men-trailer trash and travelling postgrads, thugs and philosophers. But Isserley is only interested in whether they have families and whether they have muscles. Then, it's only a question of how long she can endure her pain--physical and spiritual--and their conversation. Michel Faber's work has been described as a combination of Roald Dahl and Franz Kafka, as Somerset Maugham shacking up with Ian McEwan. At once humane and horrifying, Under the Skin takes us on a heart-thumping ride through dangerous territory-our own moral instincts and the boundaries of compassion.
J.K. Rowling invites you to explore a new era of the Wizarding World . . . When Magizoologist Newt Scamander arrives in New York, he intends his stay to be just a brief stopover. However, when his magical case is misplaced and some of Newt's fantastic beasts escape, it spells trouble for everyone . . . Inspired by the original Hogwart's textbook by Newt Scamander, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original screenplay marks the screenwriting debut of J.K. Rowling, author of the beloved and internationally bestselling Harry Potter books. A feat of imagination and featuring a cast of remarkable characters and magical creatures, this is epic adventure-packed storytelling at its very best. Whether an existing fan or new to the wizarding world, this is a perfect addition for any film lover or reader's bookshelf. *** Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is available now! ***
When Harry and his best friends go back for their third year at Hogwarts, the atmosphere is tense. There's an escaped mass-murderer on the loose and the sinister prison guards of Azkaban have been called in to guard the school. Lessons, however, must go on and there are lots of new subjects in third year - Care of Magical Creatures and Divination among others - to take Harry's mind off things!
A classic novel from George R.R. Martin, author of the hit HBO TV series A GAME OF THRONES Haviland Tuf is an honest space-trader (one of the few), and he likes cats. So how is it that, despite being up against the worst villains in the universe, he has become the proud owner of the last working seedship, pride of Earth's Ecological Engineering Corps? We'll leave that aside for now - just be thankful that the most powerful weapon in space is in good hands, hands which now control cellular material for thousands of outlandish creatures. With his unique equipment and powerful spacecraft, Tuf is set to tackle the myriad problems that human settlers have created during their colonisation of far flung worlds. Hosts of hostile monsters, a population addicted to procreation, a dictator who is willing to unleash plagues to get his own way - and all that stands between the colonists and disaster is Tuf's ingenuity, and his reputation as an honest dealer in a universe of rogues ...
When The Call of the Wild was published the first printing of 10,000 copies
sold out immediately and it is still one the best known stories written by an
American author. Buck, a happy, quiet dog living in sunny California, is
kidnapped and sent north to begin a new hard life as a sled dog during the
Klondike Gold Rush. Read about his adventures and the many problems he has to
face in this new cruel world. Discover how he begins to change and how he
responds to the Call of the Wild. Prvých 10 000 kusov knihy The Call of the
Wild (Volanie divočiny) sa vypredalo ihneď a dodnes je to jedným z
najznámejších príbehov napísaných americkým autorom. Pokojného a šťastného psa
Buck zo slnečnej Kalifornie unesú a pošlú na sever, kde sa začína nový ťažký
život – ťahá snežný záprah počas zlatej horúčky na Klondiku. Prečítajte si o
dobrodružstvách a mnohých problémoch, ktorým musel čeliť v novom, krutom
svete. Zistite, ako sa začína meniť a čeliť volaniu divočiny.
Jak maximálně využít své schopnosti a přednosti. Tato velmi čtivá kniha špičkového manažera shrnuje praktické zkušenosti, které vás mohou přivést k úspěchu v prioritní oblasti vašeho života. Autor nás provádí světem efektivního využití času, zhodnocení schopností a myšlenek, maximálního nasazení, účinné spolupráce a úspěšného vyjednávání. Udržuje svižné tempo a v závěru exceluje, zejména v kapitolách o taktice a strategii vyjednávání.
Ve srovnání se svým starším bestsellerem dokáže lépe zobecnit podstatu úspěchu, uvádí postoje a jednání, které k němu vedou, a poskytuje praktické rady. Oživují ho příběhy známých vrcholových sportovců, jejichž obchodní záležitosti zajišťovala jeho firma IMG. Kniha vychází z praxe a zkušeností s těmi nejlepšími.
McCormack jako podnikatel zdůrazňuje význam pracovního prostředí, ale chápe, že podnikání je pouze jednou z perspektiv. Podle něj vítězí ve sportu ti, kteří dávají 110 %. Každý, kdo spojí svůj talent s disciplínou, soustředěním a odhodláním, může dosáhnout úspěchu. Ti, kteří se nechtějí snažit, mohou zůstat v pohodlí minimálního úsilí.
Somewhere, from among the four human-settled worlds of the Warden Diamond, hostile aliens were spying on Earth. But no agent could be sent to investigate and report back. All trips to the Warden worlds were one-way. There, a microscopic symbiont invaded all life forms, after which life became impossible outside the Warden system. The same organism destroyed any form of machinery, so no message could be beamed back by normal means. That called for extraordinary means, of course. One agent was chosen, then four men were stripped of their own minds and personalities, and his was imposed upon them. Hooked up properly, he could then receive their reports, without ever leaving safe territory. Each man was assigned one world to conquer. His mission was first to find the Overlord of that world and kill him, then to take over his link with the aliens. Of course all this must be done with no help beyond his own naked ability... This first book of Jack Chalker's epic tetralogy deals with Cal Tremon, who was sent to Lilith, a planet that was a paradise - but a paradise designed in hell! -from the back cover
Set in a richly imagined world, this sequel continues the epic saga of the Four Lords of the Diamond, delving deeper into the complex relationships and power struggles among the lords. As alliances shift and new threats emerge, characters face moral dilemmas and personal challenges that test their loyalties. The narrative weaves together themes of ambition, betrayal, and the quest for dominance, promising readers an exhilarating journey filled with intrigue and adventure.
A collection of tales to invade and paralyse the mind as the safe light of day is infiltrated by the shadows of the night. As you read, the clutching fingers of terror brush lightly across the nape of the neck, reach round from behind to clutch and lock themselves, white-knuckled, around the throat. This is the horror of ordinary people and everyday objects that become strangely altered; a world where nothing is ever quite what it seems, where the familiar and the friendly lure and deceive. A world where madness and blind panic become the only reality.
Arguably the greatest science fiction writer who ever lived, Isaac Asimov also possessed one of the most brilliant and original minds of our time. His accessible style and far-reaching interests in subjects ranging from science to humor to history earned him the nickname "the Great Explainer." I. Asimov is his personal story—vivid, open, and honest—as only Asimov himself could tell it.Here is the story of the paradoxical genius who wrote of travel to the stars yet refused to fly in airplanes; who imagined alien universes and vast galactic civilizations while staying home to write; who compulsively authored more than 470 books yet still found the time to share his ideas with some of the great minds of our century. Here are his wide-ranging thoughts and sharp-eyed observations on everything from religion to politics, love and divorce, friendship and Hollywood, fame and mortality. Here, too, is a riveting behind-the-scenes look at the varied personalities—Campbell, Ellison, Heinlein, Clarke, del Rey, Silverberg, and others—who along with Asimov helped shape science fiction.As unique and irrepressible as the man himself, I. Asimov is the candid memoir of an incomparable talent who entertained readers for nearly half a century and whose work will surely endure into the future he so vividly envisioned.
Cena Nebula Awards – počínaje rokem 1965 je každoročně organizována, volena a vyhlašována společností Američtí spisovatelé science fiction a fantasy (SFWA) k poctění nejlepších SF děl posledních 12 měsíců. Je udělována v pěti kategoriích: povídka, noveleta, novela, román a scénář (rozhlasový, televizní, filmový). Tento výběr seznamuje s vítěznými díly za rok 1966 ve dvou kategoriích a je doplněn o dalších osm nominovaných povídek.
Isaac Asimov pro vás vybral sedm povídek a novel z dob, kdy science fiction vycházela ještě v proslulých pulpových magazínech a zakládala svou budoucí slávu. Představí se Clifford D. Simak a jeho „nejklasičtější“ Planeta rudého slunce; Robert A. Heinlein a jeho nejlepší časová smyčka Sám sobě v patách; Edmond Hamilton a jeho podivná bytost v Prokleté galaxii; Charles R. Tanner a jeho dobrodružné příběhy o Tumithakovi a další… Ocenění: Antologie (1995) – vítěz... celý text
Navy Commander Bellany is assigned to investigate the crash of a weather balloon in the Swiss Alps. However, for him it is also the beginning of a journey of terror into the incomprehensible.
America's foremost authority on business management analyzes trends in management practices across the world and discusses how to take advantage of changes in the global economy, in a best-seller featuring a new introduction by the author. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.
Příběh se odehrává ve světě vysokých financí Jeho hlavní hrdina Peregrin St.Giles se nechtěně ocitne v centru mezinárodní padělatelské aféry,jejímž účelem je zvrátit pozici dolaru na světovém měnovém trhu.
Detektivní román o dvou kanadských policistech, kteří při návštěvě Prahy řeší případ záhadné smrti uprostřed skupiny disidentů. Obětí zločinu se stal korunní svědek, který jediný mohl vnést světlo do nevyjasněných okolností smrti Jana Masaryka.
Dan Davis was tricked by an unscrupulous business partner and a greedy fiancee into spending thirty years in suspended animation just when he was on the verge of a success beyond his wildest dreams. But when he awoke in the future, he discovered he had the means to travel back in time -- and get his revenge!
