Феликс Гилман – лучшие книги

Перед вами увлекательный и неповторимый роман с оригинальным сюжетом, яркими персонажами, поразительно огромным, продуманным миром. Это невероятный сплав стимпанка, фэнтези, научной фантастики, вестерна и альтернативной истории. Запад. Безымянные земли. Место, где мир еще не завершён, и граница между реальностью и кошмаром размыта. Именно здесь возникла Республика Красной Долины. Двадцать лет она процветала, и это было лучшее время в истории Запада. Сегодня мир охвачен войной. Обостряется борьба между враждующими фракциями. В ходе нескончаемых сражений бойцы Линии и головорезы Стволов пытаются захватить власть. Республика теперь в…

Перед вами второй роман дилогии "Полумир" английского писателя Феликса Гилмана. Увлекательный и неповторимый роман с оригинальным сюжетом, яркими персонажами, поразительно огромным, продуманным миром. Невероятный сплав стимпанка, фэнтези, научной фантастики, вестерна и альтернативной истории.

In this breathtaking debut novel by Felix Gilman, one man embarks on a thrilling and treacherous quest for his people’s lost god—in an elaborate Dickensian city that is either blessed …or haunted.

Arjun arrives in Ararat just as a magnificent winged creature swoops and sails over the city. For it is the day of the return of that long-awaited, unpredictable mystical creature: the great Bird. But does it come for good or ill? And in the service of what god? Whatever its purpose, for one inhabitant the Bird sparks a long-dormant idea: to map the mapless city and liberate its masses with the power of knowledge.

As the creature soars across the land, shifting topography, changing the course of the river, and redrawing the territories of the city’s avian life, crowds cheer and guns salute in a mix of science and worship. Then comes the time for the Bird’s power to be trapped—within the hull of a floating warship called Thunderer, an astounding and unprecedented weapon. The ship is now a living temple to the Bird, a gift to be used, allegedly, in the interests of all of Ararat.

Hurtled into this convulsing world is Arjun, an innocent who will unwittingly unleash a dark power beyond his imagining—and become entangled in a dangerous underground movement that will forever transform Ararat. As havoc overtakes the streets, Arjun dares to test the city’s moving boundaries. In this city of gods, he has come to search among them, not to hide.

A tour de force of the imagination, and a brilliant tale of rebellion, Thunderer heralds the arrival of a truly gifted fantasy writer who has created a tale as rich, wondrous, and captivating as the world in which it is set.

Following his spectacularly reviewed Half-Made World duology, Felix Gilman pens a sweeping stand-alone tale of Victorian science fiction, arcane exploration, and planetary romance.

In 1893, young journalist Arthur Shaw is at work in the British Museum Reading Room when the Great Storm hits London, wreaking unprecedented damage. In its aftermath, Arthur’s newspaper closes, owing him money, and all his debts come due at once. His fiancé Josephine takes a job as a stenographer for some of the fashionable spiritualist and occult societies of fin de siècle London society. At one of her meetings, Arthur is given a job lead for what seems to be accounting work, but at a salary many times what any clerk could expect. The work is long and peculiar, as the workers spend all day performing unnerving calculations that make them hallucinate or even go mad, but the money is compelling.

Things are beginning to look up when the perils of dabbling in the esoteric suddenly come to a head: A war breaks out between competing magical societies. Josephine joins one of them for a hazardous occult exploration—an experiment which threatens to leave her stranded at the outer limits of consciousness, among the celestial spheres.

Arthur won’t give up his great love so easily, and hunts for a way to save her, as Josephine fights for survival...somewhere in the vicinity of Mars.

In this stunning follow-up to his acclaimed debut, Thunderer, Felix Gilman’s brave hero returns from one thrilling and dangerous quest only to confront another. In a magical landscape where time is meaningless, reality precarious, and countless selves work toward countless possible futures, one man must seek a city’s truth—and rediscover his own.

Imprisoned with a prophetic half human, half beast, the lost man learns his name: Arjun. Slowly the terrible memories emerge, and at last he remembers where—and when—he has been. . . .

In the last days of the once great city of Ararat, Arjun is just another ghost lost in the shadows of the Mountain. To some, the Mountain is a myth, to others, a weapon. Above all, it is a dark palace leaving its seekers to wander the city below. For no matter how far one walks, the Mountain never draws closer, and time itself becomes another trap.

Rescued by two sisters from the mindless Know-Nothings who erode what’s left of the city, Arjun volunteers to retrieve their long-lost third sister from a ghost like himself: Brace-Bel, another man out of time. It will require a perilous trek through ruins to a decadent mansion—one surrounded by traps and devices that could not possibly exist yet. And what awaits Arjun inside is something he could not possibly have imagined.

As he struggles to recover the lost girl and piece the fragments of his life back together, Arjun knows he must finally return to the beast to hear the rest of its prophecy. But each step is more treacherous than the last . . . and the beast who knows his fate may pose the most deadly trial yet.

A spellbinding novel of imagination and intrigue, Gears of the City will propel you into an adventure like no other, in a world like no other.

Эта книга дает исчерпывающий ответ на вопрос, почему 98% всех предлагаемых и рекламируемых диет не работают или попросту лгут! Но автор не превращает книгу целиком в разоблачительный документ. Наоборот - она предлагает универсальный код целостного оздоровления - программу омоложения, достижения оптимального уровня самочувствия и нормализации веса. В книге три части, посвященные, соответственно, обзору и критике "неправильных диет", программе избавления от лишнего жира, профилактике самых распространенных заболеваний, связанных с обменом веществ, и программе физического омоложения. Книга Феникс Гилман, основанная на ее тридцатилетнем опыте работы тренером и специалистом по спортивному и здоровому питанию, получила одобрение и рекомендации Института доктора Роберта Аткинса.

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