The Sleep of Stone

Author	Raymond E. Feist
ISBN	0553564943

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To the forest on the shore of the Kingdom of the Isles, the orphan Pug came to study with the master magician Kulgan. His courage won him a place at court and the heart of a lovely Princess, but he was ill at ease with normal wizardry. Yet his...

Author	Raymond E. Feist
ISBN	0586071393

Phil Hastings was a lucky man-he had money, a growing reputation as a screenwriter, a happy, loving family with three kids, and he'd just moved into the house of his dreams in rural of magic-and about to be altered irrevocably by a magic more real than any he dared imagine. For with the Magic came the Bad...

Author	Harlan Ellison
ISBN	1887424350

In a future where humanity has become obsessed with timekeeping and punctuality, a single mysterious figure tries to make a change, by wasting everybody's time.

Try reading that in a deep movie trailer voice.

“Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman is a whimsical and satirical...

Author	Charlie Jane Anders
ISBN	0765379961

"If you control our sleep, then you can own our dreams... And from there, it's easy to control our entire lives."

Set on a planet that has fully definitive, never-changing zones of day and night, with ensuing extreme climates of endless, frigid darkness and blinding, relentless light, humankind...

Author	Dashiell Hammett
ISBN	0752852612

I’ll give you three good reasons—from least to most—why you should read Red Harvest: 1) it made possible the fine Leone film A Fistful of Dollars, 2) it inspired the Kurosawa masterpiece Iojimbo which influenced A Fistful of Dollars, and 3) it is an old school hard boiled, hardcore novel,...

Author	Kieron Gillen
ISBN	1632153270

The second volume of the award-winning urban fantasy series where gods are the ultimate pop stars and pop stars are the ultimate gods. Following the tragic and unjust death of Lucifer, it takes a revelation from Inanna to draw Laura back into the worlds of Gods and Superstardom to try and discover the...

Author	Kieron Gillen
ISBN	1632156318

After the detonation of FANDEMONIUM the gods-as-pop-stars of THE WICKED + THE DIVINE try living in the long dark shadow.

Team WicDiv are joined by a stellar cast of guest artists to put the spotlight on each of the gods. The multiple Eisner Award nominated series continues in the only way it knows...

Author	Raymond E. Feist
ISBN	0553564935

He held the fate of two worlds in his hands...

Once he was an orphan called Pug, apprenticed to a sorcerer of the enchanted land of Midkemia.. Then he was captured and enslaved by the Tsurani, a strange, warlike race of invaders from another world.

There, in the exotic Empire of Kelewan,...

Author	Kieron Gillen
ISBN	1632159139

When I read the last volume of this series I was about to give up. The story was all over the place and the art had become blah. I was willing to give it one more chance. I am so glad I did - this volume brought things back to where they used to be.



While there was still some confusion in the story,...

Author	Fritz Leiber
ISBN	1565048946

Fritz Leiber's Lankhmar series established the sword-swinging, maiden-rescuing, chivalrous, high adventure that has been the mainstay of the fantasy genre ever since. White Wolf presents the entire seven-novelette Lankhmar series in four volumes.The two greatest heroes ever are back, proving...

Author	Fritz Leiber
ISBN	0583133096

Fabulous Voyager...

Fritz Leiber, America's finest fantasist, is the winner of six Hugo Awards and three Nebula Awards. In this award-winning new collection you can be transported to a shadowy alternate reality where Germany won the Second World War; watch a man play dice with the devil;...

Author	Maureen F. McHugh
ISBN	1931520194

In her debut collection, Maureen F. McHugh examines the impacts of social and technological shifts on families. Using deceptively simple prose, she illuminates the relationship between parents and children and the expected and unexpected chasms that open between generations.

Contents:
Ancestor...

Author	Yoel Hoffmann
ISBN	0804831793

"A wonderful introduction the Japanese tradition of jisei, this volume is crammed with exquisite, spontaneous verse and pity, often hilarious, descriptions of the eccentric and committed monastics who wrote the poems." —Tricycle: The Buddhist Review

Although the consciousness of...

Author	Alfred Bester
ISBN	0679767835

Alfred Bester took science fiction into hyperdrive, endowing it with a wit, speed, and narrative inventiveness that have inspired two generations of writers. And nowhere is Bester funnier, speedier, or more audacious than in these seventeen short stories—two of them previously unpublished—that...

Author	Italo Calvino
ISBN	0156260557

Difficult Loves is eleven very short stories in which Calvino is like a biologist at a microscope: analysing the sensation of a few minutes or hours in minute detail, revealing the patterns, beauty, and secrets of the mundane. They reminded me a little of Nicholson Baker’s The Mezzanine, published...

Author

Alessandro Baricco

Prima scena.
Calciobalilla, flipper, videogioco. Prendetevi mezz'ora e passate dall'uno all'altro, in quest'ordine. Pensavate di giocare, invece avete attraversato lo spazio che separa una civiltà, quella analogica, da un'altra, quella digitale. Siete migrati in un mondo nuovo: leggero,...

Author

Georges Simenon

La sera in cui Lucien Gobillot – uno dei più celebri avvocati di Parigi, la cui brillante carriera deve molto alle relazioni di sua moglie negli ambienti politici e mondani della capitale – riceve la visita di quella ragazza con «un viso da bambina e da vecchia allo stesso tempo, un misto di ingenuità...

Author	Ludwig Von Bertalanffy
ISBN	0807604534

I'm usually a binary guy: there are books I like and can't get enough of, there are books I hate and reading through them is a chore. General System Theory by Ludwig von Bertalanffy was something in-between.

General System Theory is an attempt to formulate a new kind of branch of science. One that...