Fugues
- 496 pages
- 18 hours of reading





Sf thriller exploring our greatest journey and our greatest mystery -- death itself -- from the winner of both the Hugo and the Nebula awards. Psychologist Dr Joanna Lander has spent two years at Mercy General Hospital studying patients who have been declared clinically dead but then revived. Many have had near-death experiences, NDEs, which are remarkably similar the world over. Then brilliant young neurologist Richard Wright discovers a way to induce an NDE using psychoactive drugs. He's convinced that NDEs are a survival mechanism, and that through them more patients might be brought back from the edge of death. Patients like Joanna's young friend Masie, who is almost certain to die before she gets the heart transplant she desperately needs. So when Joanna realizes that Richard's project is under threat due to a shortage of suitable subjects, she volunteers to take the dangerous journey to the limits of knowledge herself. Immediately fascinated by her simulated near-death experiences, Joanna becomes increasingly desperate to discover the meaning behind the strangely familiar images and feelings she encounters. As she begins to unravel the mystery, her sense of dread grows. Becau
Les Fey, un peuple de guerriers et de guerrières impitoyables, ont utilisé leur maîtrise des arts militaires et de la magie pour étendre leur empire aux trois quarts du monde. Contre l'avis de son père, le Roi noir, le prince Rugar arme une flotte et appareille avec sa fille Gemme pour s'emparer de l'Île Bleue, escale indispensable sur la route du continent de Leut, l'unique partie du globe que les Fey ne contrôlent pas encore. La victoire des Fey est assurée. Comment des insulaires ne possédant même pas d'armée pourraient-ils résister à ces soldats brutaux capables d'ensorceler leurs adversaires ? Une fois sur l'Île Bleue, le carnage commence. Les Fey massacrent les insulaires et tout semble joué. C'est alors qu'une découverte totalement inattendue va faire basculer la situation.
Connie Willis' Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Doomsday Book uses time travel for a serious look at how people connect with each other. In this Hugo-winning companion to that novel, she offers a completely different kind of time travel adventure: a delightful romantic comedy that pays hilarious homage to Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat.When too many jumps back to 1940 leave 21st century Oxford history student Ned Henry exhausted, a relaxing trip to Victorian England seems the perfect solution. But complexities like recalcitrant rowboats, missing cats, and love at first sight make Ned's holiday anything but restful - to say nothing of the way hideous pieces of Victorian art can jeopardize the entire course of history.
THE HOST IT was the drug that gave the students a shared consciousness - a consciousness of filth and inhumanity, of horrifying excitement. IT was the evil vision that lead them to murder. IT lurks in Mike Tyler, kept at bay through medication. IT is the soul-consuming reality he must confront, for it requires Mike Tyler - his soul, his heart, his mind. Once it has Mike Tyler, it will come for you...