We the Underpeople

Author	Connie Willis
ISBN	0553562738

For Kivrin, preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity's history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking...

Author	G. Willow Wilson
ISBN	0802120202

In an unnamed Middle Eastern security state, a young Arab-Indian hacker shields his clients—dissidents, outlaws, Islamists, and other watched groups—from surveillance and tries to stay out of trouble. He goes by Alif—the first letter of the Arabic alphabet, and a convenient handle to hide...

Author	Tom Rob Smith
ISBN	0446402400

Former state security officer Leo Demidov is struggling to change as the Soviet Union changes around him. The two young girls he adopted have yet to forgive him for his part in the death of their parents, and they are not alone; now that the truth is out, Leo and his family are in grave danger from someone...

Author	Ursula K. Le Guin
ISBN	0441732968

A world shared by three native humanoid races - the cavern-dwelling Gdemiar, elvish Fiia, and warrior clan, Liuar - is suddenly invaded and conquered by a fleet of ships from the stars. Earth scientist Rocannon is on that world, and he sees his friends murdered and his spaceship destroyed. Marooned...

Author	Joyce Carol Oates
ISBN	0786714824

Teena Maguire should not have tried to shortcut her way home that Fourth of July. Not after midnight, not through Rocky Point Park. Not the way she was dressed in a tank top, denim cutoffs, and high-heeled sandals. Not with her twelve-year-old daughter Bethie. Not with packs of local guys running loose...

Author	Lynda La Plante
ISBN	0440214947

In the dark night of the soul . . . . If   Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison hadn't been a  woman, she might not have noticed the victim's shoes  . . . . and that they didn't match the size given on  the info sheet now so obviously misidentifying the dead blonde as a hooker named Della Mornay....

Author

Drew Karpyshyn

New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed video game writer Drew Karpyshyn returns with the second novel in an original epic fantasy series—perfect for fans of Terry Goodkind, Peter V. Brett, and Brandon Sanderson—about four young people who will either save the world or bring about its...

Author	Drew Karpyshyn
ISBN	0345549376

The Demon Cycle meets The Wheel of Time in this action-packed adventure! From New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed videogame writer Drew Karpyshyn comes the third and final novel in an original epic fantasy trilogy for fans of Terry Goodkind, Peter V. Brett, and Brandon Sanderson.
 
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Author	Tom Rob Smith
ISBN	0446550760

Tom Rob Smith—the bestselling, award-winning author of Child 44, and one of the most critically-acclaimed new writers of our time—returns with a thrilling and provocative new novel: Agent 6.

How far would you go to solve a crime against your family?

It is 1965. Leo Demidov, a...

Author	Drew Karpyshyn
ISBN	0345542231

Long ago the gods chose a great hero to act as their agent in the mortal world and to stand against the demonic spawn of Chaos. The gods gifted their champion, Daemron, with three magical Talismans: a sword, a ring, and a crown. But the awesome power at his command corrupted Daemron, turning him from savior...

Author

Ian Rankin

A new investigation threatens to unearth skeletons from Rebus's past in this "must-read" (Tana French) mystery.
Rebus' retirement is disrupted once again when skeletal remains are identified as a private investigator who went missing over a decade earlier. The remains, found in a rusted...

Author	Victor Kernbach
ISBN	9739211194

Victor Kernbach a fost un scriitor român de science fiction și specialist în mitologie, autor al unor lucrări din acest domeniu, între care se remarcă Dicționarul de mitologie generală.
Se naște în familia avocatului Eugen Kernbach și a Tamarei (născută Onilă). A fost nepot al...

Author

Victor Kernbach

Lasandu-l pe carmaci in luntre, intr-un loc bun ales de Auta si ferit de orice ochi nepoftiti, ceilalti trei, Nefert, Auta si barbatul gingasei femei straine pornira spre oras. hainele lor argintii si croite cu totul altminteri de cum se obisnuia pe Pamant atrageau luarea aminte a trecatorilor, desi...

Author

Victor Kernbach

Victor Kernbach a fost un scriitor român de science fiction și specialist în mitologie, autor al unor lucrări din acest domeniu, între care se remarcă Dicționarul de mitologie generală.
Se naște în familia avocatului Eugen Kernbach și a Tamarei (născută Onilă). A fost nepot al...

Author

Ion Hobana

Contine povestirile:

1. Stingaciul - Horia Arama
2. Stinca de brocart - Vladimir Colin
3. Ritmul ascuns al inimii - Constantin Cublesan
4. Columbiana - Mihu Dragomir
5. Pestera ulpilor - Cecilia Dudu
6. Ploaia de seara - Ion Hobana
7. Mi-am cumparat un robot - Eduard...

Author

Radu Tudoran

He was born in Blejoi, Prahova County, Romania, at 8 March 1910, his real name Nicolae Bogza, being the brother of Geo Bogza. His manifested strong nostalgia for traveling on the seas, he probably inherited from his father, Alexandru Bogza, clerk of the commercial marine.
After he finishes the...

Author	David Benatar
ISBN	0470674466

Does sexism against men exist? What it looks like and why we need to take it seriously This book draws attention to the "second sexism," where it exists, how it works and what it looks like, and responds to those who would deny that it exists. Challenging conventional ways of thinking, it examines controversial...

Author	David Benatar
ISBN	0190633816

Are our lives meaningful, or meaningless? Is our inevitable death a bad thing? Would immortality be an improvement? Would it be better, all things considered, to hasten our deaths by suicide? Many people ask these big questions -- and some people are plagued by them. Surprisingly, analytic philosophers...