wyszukanych pozycji: 704
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ZuZu's Petals: Wee, Wicked Whispers: Collected Short Stories 2007 - 2008
ISBN: 9781544277271 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 30 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The ZuZu is a futuristic time clipper, a spacecraft capable of zapping backward and forward in time. As it embarks on its latest combat mission, one of the crew smuggles a forbidden keepsake onboard. This is a rose-shaped medallion given to him by his youngest daughter. After a spectacular military victory, he finds the petals missing, along with the entire population of his home world. Can he alter space and time to return his family to the present as he remembers it? The smallest things count in large amounts, given sufficient time. Worry for the smallest details, for these trifles...
The ZuZu is a futuristic time clipper, a spacecraft capable of zapping backward and forward in time. As it embarks on its latest combat mission, one o...
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Live-Jack: A Novella for the Age of Automata
ISBN: 9781973800613 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Dire questions inevitably linger when someone disappears from a troubled marriage... from a troubled life... from the entire world. When Efren Sinclair's wife takes a permanent vacation from their comfortable existence, all eyes turn to him, accusatory and condemning. Everyone is certain he murdered her. Nobody believes the 'woman' calling his children each night before bedtime is Leah Sinclair. Instead, his family and friends suspect her husband has alibied himself with an industrial grade Live-Jack, an artificially intelligent system capable of passing the forensic Turing Test for...
Dire questions inevitably linger when someone disappears from a troubled marriage... from a troubled life... from the entire world. When Efren Sinclai...
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Constant is the Sound: Violence Redeeming: Collected Short Stories 2009 - 2011
ISBN: 9781543286069 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 24 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Through all the green, growing places of the world, water flows. It is a force of destruction and the gift of life. Without it, nothing could thrive, despite the fact that it sometimes also destroys. Listen to this music of the Earth, for constant is the sound. It is the incessant symphony of life, the raucous discord of biology. In its chaotic rhythms, our heartbeats.
Through all the green, growing places of the world, water flows. It is a force of destruction and the gift of life. Without it, nothing could thrive, ...
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An Abiding Silence: Shores of Silver Seas: Collected Short Stories 2000 - 2006
ISBN: 9781544660219 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 26 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. On a lonely plot of land in the middle of a desolate night, a forlorn man sits drinking and smoking on his porch as he watches a sinister shadow slowly, intrepidly crossing the abandoned rows of a forgotten farm. While a damaged siphon pump works rhythmically in the distance, he ponders the nature of destiny and fate. Will he survive the evening? Something black and terrifying crosses fallow rows, bound for your porch lamp in the darkness. Welcome or no, fate never knocks.
On a lonely plot of land in the middle of a desolate night, a forlorn man sits drinking and smoking on his porch as he watches a sinister shadow slowl...
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Lucky Thirteen: Death Eidolons: Collected Short Stories 2014
ISBN: 9781543238068 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 36 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. He drives a specially modified Snow Cat, shuttling roughnecks to the wildest gas fields on Earth, which are situated along a frozen peninsula in the far northern wastes of Siberia. For decades, he has simultaneously battled the elements and violent bandits, but he must now confront the most difficult test of his life. After a global catastrophe, he is perhaps one of the last men left alive, but he survives with the hope that somehow his young daughter is waiting for him on the far side of the globe. It's the end of the world, but it's not the end of -Lucky Thirteen- or its tenacious driver....
He drives a specially modified Snow Cat, shuttling roughnecks to the wildest gas fields on Earth, which are situated along a frozen peninsula in the f...
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The Mountains Keep Their Dead: Shores of Silver Seas: Collected Short Stories 2000 - 2006
ISBN: 9781544655444 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 42 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. At the last stop for provisions before they make their climb into the snowy mountains of Colorado, the locals tease these teenaged tourists about their lack of preparation for such a cold and unforgiving frontier. Though they scoff, these unfortunate youths will soon learn why the old-timers claim that the mountains sometimes keep their dead. When they put out the 'TIRE CHAINS' signs, beware. It's not just the ice, it's the snow, too.
At the last stop for provisions before they make their climb into the snowy mountains of Colorado, the locals tease these teenaged tourists about thei...
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Mister's Monster: Death Eidolons: Collected Short Stories 2014
ISBN: 9781543220001 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 44 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A ravaged, remnant human population claims the Earth's dismal daylight hours, while bloodthirsty savages rule the night. One aging warrior struggles to take back the darkness. He fights bloodlust with bloodlust, but his most powerful weapon is a terrible one that might turn on him at any moment. He knows his one-sided war is a fragile thing, because he understands his victory will be decided as a desperate race against time. Yet history leaves him no option but to fight. In a bleak post-apocalyptic future, monster confronts monster for ultimate control of the planet. One man and one beast...
A ravaged, remnant human population claims the Earth's dismal daylight hours, while bloodthirsty savages rule the night. One aging warrior struggles t...
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Long is the Journey, Short is the Sojourn: Wee, Wicked Whispers: Collected Short Stories 2007 - 2008
ISBN: 9781544617916 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 24 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A marauding legion of starving aliens arrive on Earth for a brief but terrifying raid on the planet. For a few unbelievably deadly days they will raid humankind to fill their larder before they can continue on their indeterminate journey. Though the invaders are impervious to most human defenses, one man finds safety with a household pet They are many and they are hungry. Human beings are defenseless. You never needed a cat so badly
A marauding legion of starving aliens arrive on Earth for a brief but terrifying raid on the planet. For a few unbelievably deadly days they will raid...
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Skitters: Nightland: Collected Short Stories 2016
ISBN: 9781542673846 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Insomnia is a special kind of torture. Its short-term effects are something everyone experiences from time to time, but its long-term effects are known only to an unfortunate few. These effects include panic attacks, paranoia, and phobias. Eventually, hallucinations and convulsions become noticeable, followed by symptoms of dementia, coma and then death. Inevitably, the difference between waking and sleeping dissolves and the two become inseparable. After months of restlessness, a chronically sleepless man loses the ability to differentiate between nightmares, daydreams and reality. While...
Insomnia is a special kind of torture. Its short-term effects are something everyone experiences from time to time, but its long-term effects are know...
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Toltaca: Wee, Wicked Whispers: Collected Short Stories 2007 - 2008
ISBN: 9781544281346 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 26 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Built of stone with untold expenditures of human blood and sweat, it is an ancient city standing above the towering canopies of an endless primordial forest. For generations, human sacrifices fed her before her magic failed and her inhabitants abandoned her. She will return to the forest, creeper on creeper, root upon root. This is her story. This is the story of Toltaca. Within the depths of a heart of darkness, human kind builds a city of stone. Its siren song of civilization is undeniable. For a time.
Built of stone with untold expenditures of human blood and sweat, it is an ancient city standing above the towering canopies of an endless primordial ...
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Experiential Billionaire: Build a Life Rich in Experiences and Die With No Regrets
ISBN: 9798988837428 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Dragon Tear
ISBN: 9781489733269 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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The Disease That Rots the World: Shores of Silver Seas: Collected Short Stories 2000 - 2006
ISBN: 9781544656137 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 26 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. They are the outcast, forgotten, overlooked refuse of the world. Nothing matters to them, and they matter to no-one. He retains a zest for life, despite its futility, but she has decided to stop the train and step off. He will watch her go without a word, but she will take his heart with her. Sunset over the water and the two of them standing at the center of a high bridge. One must make the hardest choice of a lifetime.
They are the outcast, forgotten, overlooked refuse of the world. Nothing matters to them, and they matter to no-one. He retains a zest for life, despi...
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The Dumping Game: Death Eidolons: Collected Short Stories
ISBN: 9781543220889 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 46 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Wealthy and bored, this unique human being has discovered an unusual way to pass the time of day. His story will both amuse and disturb you, for you, all of you, might at one time or another become the victim of his elaborate pranks. This is the story of an ordeal he calls his -Dumping Game-. As its name implies, it begins with garbage and ends with garbage, but its ultimate goal is the destruction of human lives and the dismantlement of otherwise happy families. Depending upon your own disposition, you will love him or hate him. One thing is certain, however... he loathes you Follow along...
Wealthy and bored, this unique human being has discovered an unusual way to pass the time of day. His story will both amuse and disturb you, for you, ...
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Human Resources: Wee, Wicked Whispers: Collected Short Stories 2007 - 2008
ISBN: 9781544618272 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 24 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In the not-so-distant future, human beings are reduced to commodities; components too easily replaced. Everyone has their place and life is at least livable, provided the machine encounters no errors or glitches. This is the story of one such glitch and the horrifying freedom it produces for a simple human cog. We're all consumers. Cogs in a vast machine. Let's hope we remain a vital, integral part of it all.
In the not-so-distant future, human beings are reduced to commodities; components too easily replaced. Everyone has their place and life is at least l...
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The Templar Chalice: Nightland: Collected Short Stories 2016
ISBN: 9781542675543 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. On Friday the 13th, 1307, the Knights Templar ceased to exist. Imprisoned, tortured and executed, in a single day every soldier of that once-powerful order became a capital offender with no hope for reprieve. Fabulously wealthy at the time, the Templars owned vast estates that safeguarded legendary caches of treasure. Though their enemies seized much of their property, rumors of lost hordes echo through history to the present day. Having survived the disastrous purge of 1307, a Templar sergeant and chaplain flee to the relative safety of Portugal, where they learn the fate of the order's most...
On Friday the 13th, 1307, the Knights Templar ceased to exist. Imprisoned, tortured and executed, in a single day every soldier of that once-powerful ...
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Eidetic: Wee, Wicked Whispers: Collected Short Stories 2007 - 2008
ISBN: 9781544638607 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 26 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. When the constraints of the mission make it impossible to use electronics or cameras, they send him. Like the endless reel of a forever camera, his mind records the faces that pass before his vision, all set indelibly into the tissues of his brain. He has a photographic memory, after all. It is his greatest skill. It is his devilish curse. This spy has no need to keep a secret camera. His memory is photographic. Yet, everyone needs to forget from time to time.
When the constraints of the mission make it impossible to use electronics or cameras, they send him. Like the endless reel of a forever camera, his mi...
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Never the Twain Shall Meet: Dark Matter: Collected Short Stories 2015
ISBN: 9781542816816 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 26 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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The Violent Kind: Wee, Wicked Whispers: Collected Short Stories 2007 - 2008
ISBN: 9781544608228 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 26 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Tired of the endless lies of youth and the unfulfilled promises of adulthood, one man decides to put reality to the ultimate test. Standing in line at a bank to make a final withdrawal with a handgun in his pocket, he remains unconcerned when a gang of criminals burst into the lobby. After all, they still believe in the lies he has long since abandoned, and he is of the violent kind. He's bound to snap, the violent kind. Sometimes goodness spoils the bad.
Tired of the endless lies of youth and the unfulfilled promises of adulthood, one man decides to put reality to the ultimate test. Standing in line at...
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Bloody Cain: Nightland: Collected Short Stories 2016
ISBN: 9781542655903 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. God's second son. Humankind's second sin. His crime, the first crime. Therefore, the greatest. After he murdered his brother, the bloody stone tumbled from his left hand, and he covered his youthful victim with earth. This, a tale told endlessly throughout eons of human existence. Yet, history has always told it wrong, for his is a story without end. A fallen angel or a cursed man, one incarnate immortal soul walks among humankind through endless centuries of history. He is as irredeemable as he is unrepentant.
God's second son. Humankind's second sin. His crime, the first crime. Therefore, the greatest. After he murdered his brother, the bloody stone tumbled...
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