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On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his secret mistress, 53-year-old Charles Dickens — at the height of his powers and popularity, the most famous and successful novelist in the world and perhaps in the history of the world — hurtled into a disaster that changed his life forever.
Did Dickens begin living a dark double life after the accident? Were his nightly forays into the worst slums of London and his deepening obsession with corpses, crypts, murder, opium dens, the use of lime pits to dissolve bodies, and a hidden subterranean London mere research… or something more terrifying?
Just as he did in , Dan Simmons draws impeccably from history to create a gloriously engaging and terrifying narrative. Based on the historical details of Charles Dickens's life and narrated by Wilkie Collins (Dickens's friend, frequent collaborator, and Salieri-style secret rival), explores the still-unsolved mysteries of the famous author's last years and may provide the key to Dickens's final, unfinished work: . Chilling, haunting, and utterly original, is Dan Simmons at his powerful best.
As an expert in accident reconstruction, it is Darwin Minor’s job to use science and instinct to unravel the real causes of unnatural disasters. But a series of seemingly random high-speed fatal car wrecks — accidents which seem staged — is leading him down a dangerous road.
Ex-astronaut Richard Baedecker sees everything he has ever done as merely preparation for something bigger and his quest for higher meaning leads him to a mysterious young woman who shows him the "places of power" in his own past.
When was published in 1985, Dan Simmons was virtually unknown, having published only a few short stories. But this sharp, vivid novel struck a raw nerve. A startled and amazed readership could only gasp in wonder and horror at the apparent ease with which the author made readers feel that they were living the nightmarish reality he so potently conveyed in the pages of this blood-curdling novel.
Here is Calcutta, perhaps the foulest and most crime-ridden city in the world: filthy, stench-ridden, crawling with vermin both human and otherwise, possessed of evils so vile that they beggar description.
In this steaming, fetid cradle of chaos, the ordeal of an American man and his family plays out, moment by moment, page by page, in a novel so truly frightening that otherwise jaded readers will quail in fear at its gut-wrenching finale.
One of the great masterpieces of horror of this century, will leave an indelible imprint on your soul. Once you read it, you'll never forget it. . . . Never.
A remarkable novel about secrets, desire, memory, passion, and possibility.
Newlywed Grace Monroe doesn’t fit anyone’s expectations of a successful 1950s London socialite, least of all her own. When she receives an unexpected inheritance from a complete stranger, Madame Eva d’Orsey, Grace is drawn to uncover the identity of her mysterious benefactor.
Weaving through the decades, from 1920s New York to Monte Carlo, Paris, and London, the story Grace uncovers is that of an extraordinary women who inspired one of Paris’s greatest perfumers. Immortalized in three evocative perfumes, Eva d’Orsey’s history will transform Grace’s life forever, forcing her to choose between the woman she is expected to be and the person she really is.
A saloon owner and a former CIA agent team up to help a pair of assassins escape death The twins who walk into Mac McCorkle's bar look identical, despite their differing genders. Their names are Wanda and Walter Gothar, and from the steel in their eyes it's apparent that their business isn't the friendly kind. They've come seeking help from Mac and his partner, Padilla, an ex-CIA agent who has skulked in the world's darkest corners. Anxious for a big payday, the twins took an assignment out of their depth, working as bodyguards for a Saudi prince who came to Washington to sign an oil deal. The job fell apart, and now the twins are being pursued by the world's two finest killers—who take out Walter without breaking a sweat. Now Mac and Padilla are faced with a choice: Save Wanda, or join her in the grave.
Rockville, TN, seems like a normal small town. But in reality it-s become a nest of evil, the home of the Lamia, an ancient shape-shifting creature that survives by harvesting souls through seduction and manipulation. The Lamia has managed to enslave many of the young men in town, and many of the young women have become her priestesses.
As M.E. Thomas says of her fellow sociopaths, we are your neighbors, co-workers, and quite possibly the people closest to you: lovers, family, friends. Our risk-seeking behavior and general fearlessness are thrilling, our glibness and charm alluring. Our often quick wit and outside-the-box thinking make us appear intelligent--even brilliant. We climb the corporate ladder faster than the rest, and appear to have limitless self-confidence. Who are we? We are highly successful, non-criminal sociopaths and we comprise 4% of the American population (that's 1 in 25 people!).
The story of Bertie and his dysfunctional family continues in this fifth instalment alongside the familiar cast of favourites – Big Lou, Domenica, Angus Lordie, Cyril and others – in their daily pursuit of a little happiness. With customary charm and deftness, Alexander McCall Smith has again given us a clever, witty and utterly delightful new novel.
Eines Tages findet Jurka ein blaues Heft, und damit beginnt für ihn und seine beiden Freunde Petka und Dimka der Traum von Atlantis — dem herrlichen Inselreich, in dem die Menschen glücklich und im Überfluß lebten, bis es vor Tausenden von Jahren mit all seinen Bewohnern, Schätzen und Palästen nach einer schrecklichen Katastrophe im Meer versank. Wo mag dieses Atlantis gelegen haben? Vielleicht sogar hier im Norden, nahe ihrer kleinen Stadt Ust-Kamensk. Die drei Freunde sind entschlossen, es zu suchen. Ob sie Atlantis finden werden?
Gli osservatori è la versione di una storia sugli UFO fatta da uno scrittore di talento come Robert Silverberg: una vicenda in apparenza trita e banale diventa nelle sue mani un racconto avvincente i cui protagonisti spiccano con figure vive e reali dalla carta stampata.
In una notte illune del 1982 il cielo del Nuovo Messico viene vivacemente illuminato da un’improvvisa esplosione: una stella lucente fiorita in un lampo biancazzurro che si muove da nordest verso sudovest, sopra la valle del Rio Grande ed i polverosi piccoli puebli, va a spegnersi dopo l’ultima accecante vampata nei pressi di Albuquerque.Ma soltanto tre esseri umani scopriranno che la stella cadente apparsa in cielo è in realtà un disco volante precipitato sulla Terra per un’avaria ai motori, soltanto Charley Estancia, il giovane messicano del pueblo di San Miguel dalla sveglia intelligenza, Kathryn Mason, la vedova melanconica e solitaria di Albuquerque, e Tom Falkner, colonnello delle forze aereeamericane, vedranno con i loro occhi gli alieni venuti dalle stelle, gli osservatori extraterrestri che studiano e controllano lo sviluppo della civiltà umana. Soltanto loro sapranno del pericolo che corre la Terra e potranno impedire lo scoppio di un conflitto galattico. Una storia umana e affascinante che solo un maestro come Silverberg poteva.
A fantasy masterpiece from a five-time Hugo Award winner!
A war-dragon of Babel crashes in the idyllic fields of a post-industrialized Faerie and, dragging himself into the nearest village, declares himself king and makes young Will his lieutenant. Nightly, he crawls inside the young fey's brain to get a measure of what his subjects think.
Forced out of his village, Will travels with female centaur soldiers, witnesses the violent clash of giants, and acquires a surrogate daughter, Esme, who has no knowledge of the past and may be immortal. Evacuated to the Tower of Babel -- infinitely high, infinitely vulgar, very much like New York City -- Will meets the confidence trickster Nat Whilk. Inside the Dread Tower, Will becomes a hero to the homeless living in the tunnels under the city, rises as an underling to a politician, and meets his one true love - a high-elven woman he dare not aspire to.
You've heard of hard SF: This is hard fantasy from a master of the form.
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