Detective John Corey, last seen in Plum Island, now faces his toughest assignment yet: the pursuit and capture of the world's most dangerous terrorist -- a young Arab known as "The Lion" who has baffled a federal task force and shows no sign of stopping in his quest for revenge against the American pilots who bombed Libya and killed his family. Filled with unrelenting suspense and surprising plot twists at every terrifying turn, THE LION'S GAME is a heartstopping race against time and one of Nelson DeMille's most riveting thrillers.
Seznámit čtenáře s antologií Locus – To nejlepší z fantasy a science fiction a nehýřit přitom samými superlativy je obtížné. Jde totiž o pečlivě sestavený výběr mistrovských povídek fantastického žánru posledních třiceti let. Kniha vychází z množství skvělých prací odměněných cenou Locus, což je ocenění udělované každoročně čtenáři stejnojmenného odborného magazínu, jenž je ve světě pokládán za patrně nejdůležitější zdroj informací o literární fantastice.
Editoři Jonathan Strahan a Charles N. Brown na sebe vzali nelehký úkol vybrat z vítězných povídek ty nejlepší a zároveň nejpopulárnější příběhy. Vznikl tak výběr, který přímo demonstruje sílu žánru – jeho tematickou rozmanitost, čtenářskou atraktivitu, myšlenkovou i stylistickou volnost a především sílu ničím neomezované autorské představivosti. Jste-li příznivcem literární fantastiky, není proč váhat, a pokud je pro vás science fiction a fantasy pouze únikovým čtením plným nesmyslných vesmírných bitev a kouzelných amuletů, přesvědčte se, že i tyto žánry mají, stejně jako obecná literatura, svoje hlubiny a vrcholy. A tato kniha přináší jednoznačně pouze vrcholná díla od těch nejlepších autorů.
"The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the difference.' Marking the fiftieth anniversary of Winston Churchill's death, Boris Johnson explores what makes up the 'Churchill Factor"--The singular brilliance of one of the most important leaders of the twentieth century. Taking on the myths and misconceptions along with the outsized reality, he portrays - with characteristic wit and passion-a man of multiple contradictions, contagious bravery, breath-taking eloquence, matchless strategizing, and deep humanity. Fearless on the battlefield, Churchill had to be ordered by the King to stay out of action on D-Day; he pioneered aerial bombing, yet hated the destruction of war and scorned politicians who had not experienced its horrors. He was a celebrated journalist, a great orator and won the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was famous for his ability to combine wining and dining with many late nights of crucial wartime decision-making. His open-mindedness made him a pioneer in health care, education, and social welfare, though he remained incorrigibly politically incorrect. Most of all, as Boris Johnson says, 'Churchill is the resounding human rebuttal to all who think history is the story of vast and impersonal economic forces'. THE CHURCHILL FACTOR is a book to be enjoyed not only by anyone interested in history: it is essential reading for anyone who wants to know what makes a great leader."
In the Matrix of cyberspace, angels and voodoo zaibatsus fight it out for world domination and computer cowboys like Turner and Count Zero risk their minds for fat crumbs.
Tajemný postapokalyptický thriller od autora bestsellerových fantasy sérií Loď kdesi uprostřed oceánu. Načervenalá mlha, která ne a ne zřídnout. A sedm lidí, kterým kdosi vymazal paměť. Ve chvíli, kdy se hrdinové na palubě probudí, nemají nejmenší tušení, odkud se na lodi vzali, kam mají namířeno ani co jsou vlastně zač. Jedinými vodítky jim jsou jizvy na hlavě, smyšlená jména vytetovaná na zápěstí a arzenál zbraní v podpalubí. Záhy však vyjde najevo, že každý člen skupiny je specialistou v určitém oboru, a že pokud chtějí přežít, budou muset táhnout za jeden provaz. Ovšem cesta, která je čeká, podrobí jejich vynucené spojenectví zatěžkávací zkoušce… a nejhrozivějším nepřítelem jim na ní budou jejich nejsilnější vzpomínky. Autor úspěšných fantasy sérií Stín krkavce, Draconis Memoria a Úmluva oceli přichází s napínavým příběhem z blízké budoucnosti, který nechává čtenáře tápat stejně jako postavy a až do poslední stránky přináší nová odhalení a zvraty.
An award-winning and bestselling SF writer, Kim Stanley Robinson is widely acknowledged as one of the most exciting and visionary writers in the field. His latest novel, 2312, imagined how we would be living 300 years from now. Now, with his new novel, he turns from our future to our past - to the Palaeolithic era, and an extraordinary moment in humanity's development. An emotionally powerful and richly detailed portrayal of life 30,000 years ago, it is a novel that will appeal both to his existing fans and a whole new mainstream readership.
Recently voted the greatest fantasy of all time, after The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun is an extraordinary epic, set a million years in the future, on an Earth transformed in mysterious and wondrous ways, in a time when our present culture is no longer even a memory. Severian, the central character, is a torturer, exiled from his guild after falling in love with one of his victims, and journeying to the distant city of Thrax, armed with his ancient executioner's sword, Terminus Est. This edition contains the first two volumes of this four volume novel, The Shadow of the Torturer and The Claw of the Conciliator
Follow the tributaries of today's political combat a few decades into the
future and you might arrive at something as terrifying as Omar El Akkad's
debut novel, American War. Across these scarred pages rages the clash that
many of us are anxiously speculating about in the Trump era: a nation riven by
irreconcilable ideologies, alienated by entrenched suspicions. . . . both
poignant and horrifying. -Ron Charles, The Washington Post Whether read as a
cautionary tale of partisanship run amok, an allegory of past conflicts or a
study of the psychology of war, American War is a deeply unsettling novel. The
only comfort the story offers is that it's a work of fiction. For the time
being, anyway. -Justin Cronin, The New York Times Book Review El Akkad . . .
has an innate (and depressingly timely) feel for the textural details of
dystopia; if only his grim near-future fantasy didn't feel so much like a
crystal ball. -Leah Greenblat, Entertainment Weekly Powerful . . . If violence
and conflict feel distant, journalist Omar El Akkad's debut novel brings them
home. . . . Despite its future setting, it'd feel wrong to call American War a
work of science fiction. Hell, it'd even feel off to call it dystopian, given
that it's so few steps removed from our reality. -Kevin Nguyen, GQ American
War is an extraordinary novel. El Akkad's story of a family caught up in the
collapse of an empire is as harrowing as it is brilliant, and has an air of
terrible relevance in these partisan times. -Emily St. John Mandel, author of
Station Eleven El Akkad has created a brilliantly well-crafted, profoundly
shattering saga of one family's suffering in a world of brutal power
struggles, terrorism, ignorance, and vengeance. American War is a gripping,
unsparing, and essential novel for dangerously contentious times. -Donna
Seaman, Booklist (starred review) Terrifyingly plausible . . . Part family
chronicle, part apocalyptic fable, American War is a vivid narrative of a
country collapsing in on itself. - Publishers Weekly (starred review) Gripping
and frightening . . . Well written, inventive, and engaging, this relentlessly
dark tale introduces a fascinating character. . . . Highly recommended. -James
Coan, Library Journal (starred review) Striking . . . A most unusual novel,
one featuring a gripping plot and an elegiac narrative tone. -Rayyan Al-
Shawaf, The Boston Globe Sarat is a fascinating character. . . . Thought-
provoking [and] earnest . . . El Akkad's formidable talent is to offer up a
stinging rebuke of the distance with which the United States sometimes views
current disasters, which are always happening somewhere else. Not this time.
-Jeff VanderMeer, Los Angeles Times Depicting a world uncomfortably close to
the one we live in, American War is as captivating as it is deeply
frightening. -Jarry Lee, Buzzfeed.com American War is terrifying in its
prescient vision of the future. -Maris Kreizman, New York magazine/Vulture
Astounding, gripping and eerily believable . . . masterful . . . Both the
story and the writing are lucid, succinct, powerful and persuasive. -Lawrence
Hill, The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Ambitious . . . [a] complex, thoroughly
imagined domestic dystopia. -Terra Arnone, National Post (Toronto) Omar El
Akkad has created an American future that is both terrifying and plausible. In
a world seared and flooded by global warming, the U.S. has fractured again
into North and South. The barbarism that ensues is all the more awful because
we know the rivers and the cities. And we know these people: they are our
neighbors; they are us. Through the eyes of a young girl El Akkad lets us see
the soul-crushing toll of war. It was only in the stunned minutes after I'd
finished the novel that I realized he had also taught us how to make a
consummate terrorist. -Peter Heller, author of The Dog Stars and Celine
American War, a work of a singular, grand, brilliant
