Читать онлайн Фантастика на английском.Читать бесплатно и без регистрации Фантастика. стр.142. booksonline.com.ua.

Автор:

Жанр:

Серия:

Дата добавления:

2013-11-28

Язык книги:

English

Кол-во страниц:

77

0

Books of Big Ideas often polarize reviewers, and Bruce Sterling’s latest novel is no exception. Either the best SF book of this or any other year (Cory Doctorow) or “a mess of a book about the mess of the world” (John Clute), The Caryatids, at the very least, illustrates Sterling's ability to raise voices (in praise or protest) 30 years after he laid the groundwork for the cyberpunk movement, without which contemporary SF would be a much rockier—and much less diverse—landscape. Sterling’s complex, controversial vision of our future invites comparison to Neal Stephenson (Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash) and William Gibson (Neuromancer). Love him or hate him, Bruce Sterling always has something important to say, and The Caryatids is worth a...

О КНИГЕ ОТЗЫВЫ В ИЗБРАННОЕ ЧИТАТЬ

The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump

Автор:

Turtledove Harry

Жанр:

Фэнтези;

Серия:

3

Дата добавления:

2013-12-03

Язык книги:

English

Кол-во страниц:

84

0

David Fisher is an EPA agent, assigned to investigate possible leaking from the Devonshire dump site, in part because of an increase of birth defects in the surrounding area. The most devastating birth defect is aphysica, being born without a soul. In this world the Other Side is very real and all the religions have their actual spiritual counterpart. The gods and whatnot need adoration to survive, so sometimes religions that lose adherents became endangered, and artificial temples and worshippers are made to save the entity. Fisher gets deeper and deeper into what turns into a plot to revive one of the most evil spirits in both...

О КНИГЕ ОТЗЫВЫ В ИЗБРАННОЕ ЧИТАТЬ

The Cask

Автор:

Freeman Wills Crofts

Жанр:

Научная фантастика;

Дата добавления:

2022-03-18

Язык книги:

English

Кол-во страниц:

111

0

Freeman Wills Crofts was one of many authors writing crime fiction in Britain in the 1920s and 30s, and was a contemporary and acquaintance of both Agatha Christie and Raymond..." data-title="Книга The Cask">

Description During the unloading of an Insular and Continental Steam Navigation Company ship arrived from Rouen, the Bullfinch, a cask falls, splits, and reveals its unexpected contents. As the dockworkers try to work out what to do, Mr. Léon Felix arrives and claims the cask as his own. His actions set into motion a complicated trail for the detectives of London’s Scotland Yard and Paris’s Sûreté to follow to the end. Freeman Wills Crofts was one of many authors writing crime fiction in Britain in the 1920s and 30s, and was a contemporary and acquaintance of both Agatha Christie and Raymond...

О КНИГЕ ОТЗЫВЫ В ИЗБРАННОЕ ЧИТАТЬ

Автор:

Жанр:

Серия:

Дата добавления:

2013-11-26

Язык книги:

English

Кол-во страниц:

29

0

When Princess Eilonwy is sent to the Isle of Mona for training, she is bewitched by the evil enchantress Achren, so Taran and other friends must try to rescue...

О КНИГЕ ОТЗЫВЫ В ИЗБРАННОЕ ЧИТАТЬ

The Castle of Otranto

Автор:

Horace Walpole

Жанр:

Научная фантастика;

Дата добавления:

2022-03-19

Язык книги:

English

Кол-во страниц:

37

0

Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, or Henry James. Walpole made a point of creating a novel that blends supernatural elements with more realistic depictions of characters and events.

The plot..." data-title="Книга The Castle of Otranto">

Description The Castle of Otranto is considered to be the first “Gothic” novel—that is, containing a combination of tropes, like hidden passages, haunted paintings, mysterious sounds, skeletal ghosts, ancestral curses, and unexplained deaths, that essentially invented the genre later made famous by authors like Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, or Henry James. Walpole made a point of creating a novel that blends supernatural elements with more realistic depictions of characters and events. The plot...

О КНИГЕ ОТЗЫВЫ В ИЗБРАННОЕ ЧИТАТЬ

Автор:

Жанр:

Серия:

Дата добавления:

2013-11-28

Язык книги:

English

Кол-во страниц:

80

0

О КНИГЕ ОТЗЫВЫ В ИЗБРАННОЕ ЧИТАТЬ

The Center Cannot Hold

Автор:

Turtledove Harry

Жанр:

Альтернативная история;

Серия:

3

Дата добавления:

2013-11-17

Язык книги:

English

Кол-во страниц:

155

0

О КНИГЕ ОТЗЫВЫ В ИЗБРАННОЕ ЧИТАТЬ

Автор:

Жанр:

Серия:

Дата добавления:

2013-11-17

Язык книги:

English

Кол-во страниц:

37

0

A former astronaut turned private detective is dispatched to Naples to discover the pattern in a mysterious series of deaths and disappearances occurring at a seaside...

О КНИГЕ ОТЗЫВЫ В ИЗБРАННОЕ ЧИТАТЬ

The Charing Cross Mystery

Автор:

J. S. Fletcher

Жанр:

Научная фантастика;Триллеры;

Дата добавления:

2022-03-18

Язык книги:

English

Кол-во страниц:

71

0

J. S. Fletcher originally wrote the story in 1922 for a weekly magazine, who called it Black Money. It was published in a single volume in 1923 as The Charing Cross Mystery and immediately had to be reprinted because of its popularity.

The novel is a classic Edwardian detective novel where the plot twists and turns as more and more..." data-title="Книга The Charing Cross Mystery">

Description The Charing Cross Mystery follows a young lawyer, Hetherwick, who happens to be on a train alongside a former police inspector who dies suddenly in front of him. The other man in the carriage runs off at the next stop and vanishes. Hetherwick takes it upon himself to investigate what turns out to be a murder. J. S. Fletcher originally wrote the story in 1922 for a weekly magazine, who called it Black Money. It was published in a single volume in 1923 as The Charing Cross Mystery and immediately had to be reprinted because of its popularity. The novel is a classic Edwardian detective novel where the plot twists and turns as more and more...

О КНИГЕ ОТЗЫВЫ В ИЗБРАННОЕ ЧИТАТЬ

The Chernagor Pirates

Автор:

Chernenko Dan

Жанр:

Фэнтези;

Серия:

3

Дата добавления:

2013-09-27

Язык книги:

English

Кол-во страниц:

117

0

While young King Lanius dreams of being more than a mere figurehead, his fellow sovereign, the usurper King Grus, is defending Avornis against the shadowy plots of the Banished One—the dark god cast from heaven, who seeks now to dominate the mortal world. With the barbarous, nomadic Menteshe in the south holding the Scepter of Mercy—and civil war raging among the Chernagor city-states in the north—Avornis finds itself threatened on two fronts. King Grus and his army are in the land of the Chernagors, hoping to quell the trouble—without becoming bogged down in a protracted war. Grus may be able to form an alliance against the Menteshe…Then again, it could be an inescapable trap. But the longer the kings go without acting on their dream of retaking the Scepter of Mercy,...

О КНИГЕ ОТЗЫВЫ В ИЗБРАННОЕ ЧИТАТЬ

The Chessmen of Mars

Автор:

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Жанр:

Фэнтези;

Дата добавления:

2022-03-17

Язык книги:

English

Кол-во страниц:

90

0

Martian series, was originally serialized in six parts in Argosy All-Story Weekly before being published as a novel in 1922. It introduces Tara, Princess of Helium, the headstrong daughter of John Carter, the Warlord of Mars. Just like the rest of the novels in the series, this one is packed with imaginative characters and locations. In true Barsoomian fashion, Burroughs regales us with an action-packed adventure: planet-shaking storms, daring swordfights, horrific dungeons, complex alien cultures, and wild escapes. While the story may be considered a standard..." data-title="Книга The Chessmen of Mars">

Description The Chessmen of Mars, the fifth installment in the Martian series, was originally serialized in six parts in Argosy All-Story Weekly before being published as a novel in 1922. It introduces Tara, Princess of Helium, the headstrong daughter of John Carter, the Warlord of Mars. Just like the rest of the novels in the series, this one is packed with imaginative characters and locations. In true Barsoomian fashion, Burroughs regales us with an action-packed adventure: planet-shaking storms, daring swordfights, horrific dungeons, complex alien cultures, and wild escapes. While the story may be considered a standard...

О КНИГЕ ОТЗЫВЫ В ИЗБРАННОЕ ЧИТАТЬ

The Chick Is In The Mail

Автор:

Freisner Esther

Жанр:

Фэнтези;

Серия:

3

Дата добавления:

2013-11-15

Язык книги:

English

Кол-во страниц:

53

0

An anthology of stories edited by Esther M. Freisner and Martin Harry GreenbergIn a collection of fantasy stories, warrior women take on pirates invading a charity ball, bring an obnoxious loremaster to justice, protect children from magically-summoned barbarian hordes, and rescue Tokyo from destructive...

О КНИГЕ ОТЗЫВЫ В ИЗБРАННОЕ ЧИТАТЬ

The Chieftan

Автор:

Norman John

Жанр:

Эпическая фантастика;

Серия:

3

Дата добавления:

2013-11-18

Язык книги:

English

Кол-во страниц:

75

0

This is the age of the Telnarians. Their vast, corrupt empire spans galaxies, ruling by terror, slavery, and the lash. But, their corruption and brutality could spell their downfall for, on a thousand worlds of swords and science, the savage souls of true men will not be forever chained. A heroic tide is rising-and one warrior is born to lead the barbarian horde. A peasant is sent to the arena, fodder for the carnage...but before the horrified gaze of noble ladies, the warrior named Dog slaughters headsmen, hunters, and beasts to win freedom as a full-fledged gladiator. Then, deep-space rebels attack an Empire ship where Dog performs combat killings for the amusement of the passengers-and the gladiator becomes a rebel. Now, a beautiful officer of the court finds her life depends on the...

О КНИГЕ ОТЗЫВЫ В ИЗБРАННОЕ ЧИТАТЬ

Автор:

Жанр:

Серия:

Дата добавления:

2013-11-17

Язык книги:

English

Кол-во страниц:

122

0

In a semi-tropical London, surrounded by paddy-fields, the people feed off the sun, like plants, the young are raised in Child Gardens and educated by viruses, and the Consensus oversees the country, “treating” non-conformism. Information, culture, law and politics are biological functions. But Milena is different: she is resistant to viruses and an incredible musician, one of the most extraordinary women of her age. This is her story and that of her friends, like Lucy the immortal tumour and Joseph the Postman whose mind is an information storehouse for others, and Rolfa, genetically engineered as a Polar Bear, whose beautiful singing voice first awakens Milena to the power of...

О КНИГЕ ОТЗЫВЫ В ИЗБРАННОЕ ЧИТАТЬ

The Child of the Cavern

Автор:

Jules Verne

Жанр:

Приключения: Прочее;Научная фантастика;

Дата добавления:

2022-03-17

Язык книги:

English

Кол-во страниц:

44

0

Description The Child of the Cavern follows engineer James Starr as he receives a letter from an old friend and co-worker, Simon Ford, requesting that he revisit a depleted coal mine in Scotland that he used to manage. Upon arriving, Starr finds the entire Ford family living in the mine, and Ford explains that a new coal vein has been located. Soon after Starr’s return, however, strange events start to occur, which seem to be supernatural. After a startling discovery, the characters continue to investigate these occurrences over the course of several...

О КНИГЕ ОТЗЫВЫ В ИЗБРАННОЕ ЧИТАТЬ

Автор:

Жанр:

Серия:

Дата добавления:

2013-12-01

Язык книги:

English

Кол-во страниц:

112

0

Peter is quick, daring, and full of mischief—and like all boys, he loves to play, though his games often end in blood. His eyes are sparkling gold, and when he graces you with his smile you are his friend for life, but his promised land is not Neverland. Fourteen-year-old Nick would have been murdered by the drug dealers preying on his family had Peter not saved him. Now the irresistibly charismatic wild boy wants Nick to follow him to a secret place of great adventure, where magic is alive and you never grow old. Even though he is wary of Peter's crazy talk of faeries and monsters, Nick agrees. After all, New York City is no longer safe for him, and what more could he possibly lose? There is always more to...

О КНИГЕ ОТЗЫВЫ В ИЗБРАННОЕ ЧИТАТЬ

The Children of the Crèche

Автор:

Gardner James

Жанр:

Научная фантастика;

Серия:

3

Дата добавления:

2013-09-14

Язык книги:

English

Кол-во страниц:

8

0

First publiched in L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future anthology (vol. VI) in 1990. Published in 2005 as part of Gravity Wells short stories...

О КНИГЕ ОТЗЫВЫ В ИЗБРАННОЕ ЧИТАТЬ

The Children of the Sky

Автор:

Vinge Vernor

Жанр:

Космическая фантастика;

Серия:

3

Дата добавления:

2013-11-27

Язык книги:

English

Кол-во страниц:

149

0

After nearly twenty years, Vernor Vinge has produced an enthralling sequel to his memorable bestselling novel A Fire Upon the Deep. Ten years have passed on Tines World, where Ravna Bergnsdot and a number of human children ended up after a disaster that nearly obliterated humankind throughout the galaxy. Ravna and the pack animals for which the planet is named have survived a war, and Ravna has saved more than one hundred children who were in cold-sleep aboard the vessel that brought them. While there is peace among the Tines, there are those among them—and among the humans—who seek power…and no matter the cost, these malcontents are determined to overturn the fledgling civilization that has taken root since the humans landed. On a world of fascinating wonders and...

О КНИГЕ ОТЗЫВЫ В ИЗБРАННОЕ ЧИТАТЬ