Новинки Дианы Дуэйн

Собрание трех романов Дианы Дуэйн о вечном противостоянии Человека-Паука и Венома.

Человек-Паук. Веном-фактор. Веном выходит из-под контроля, по-видимому, убивая одного из невинных, которых он поклялся защищать. Веном сошел с ума или Нью-Йорку угрожает еще один подозреваемый?

Человек-Паук. Проблема Ящера. Ящер неистовствует в Эверглейдс, в попытках найти себе лекарство. Пока Человек-Паук пытается остановить его, вызывая лишь новые разрушения, Веном практически одержим убийством Ящера. Что у врагов супергероя общего, и имеет ли это какое-то отношение к таинственной группе наемников, действующей в Эверглейдс?

Человек-Паук. Дело Осьминога. Доктор Осьминог собирает ядерные бомбы и разработал план по созданию хаоса во всем мире. Человек-Пауку и Веному придется оставить в стороне свои разногласия и объединиться, чтобы победить Доктора Осьминога, прежде чем он опустошит планету.

What happens between book 9 of the Young Wizards series, A Wizard of Mars, and the forthcoming book 10, Games Wizards Play? Diane Duane answers the question in this volume, collecting together the three canonical works that constitute a "transitional trilogy" between books 9 and 10 -- a 150,000-word extravaganza of untold tales to help keep you going until the tenth book comes out in February 2016.

Interim Errantry contains:
* The novella Not On My Patch, the tale of an unusual Halloween in the Young Wizards' neighborhood, featuring overage Trick Or Treating, suburban zombies, and the Attack of the Killer Pumpkins.
* The novelette How Lovely Are Thy Branches, a holiday-themed Young Wizards story in which an alien wizard who looks a lot like a Christmas tree gets the gift he wants most -- decorations -- and a memorable party and sleepover party are disrupted by a superblizzard and an incursion of alien ghosts.
*The new original Young Wizards novel Lifeboats, the tale of a distant world threatened by unavoidable doom, an intervention that takes thousands of Earth's wizards, young and old, into harm's way, and a Valentine's Day that absolutely doesn't go as planned...

So settle down with a pumpkin spice latte (or a hot cocoa, or even just some tea and saltines...) and get ready to enjoy the highlights of autumn 2010 and winter 2011 in the Young Wizards universe!

Every eleven years, Earth's senior wizards hold the Invitational: an intensive three-week event where the planet's newest, sharpest young wizards show off their best and hottest spells. Wizardly partners Kit Rodriguez and Nita Callahan, and Nita's sister, former wizard-prodigy Dairine Callahan, are drafted in to mentor two brilliant and difficult cases: for Nita and Kit, there’s Penn Shao-Feng, a would-be sun technician with a dangerous new take on managing solar weather; and for Dairine, there's shy young Mehrnaz Farrahi, an Iranian wizard-girl trying to specialize in defusing earthquakes while struggling with a toxic extended wizardly family that demands she perform to their expectations.

Together they're plunged into a whirlwind of cutthroat competition and ruthless judging. Penn's egotistical attitude toward his mentors complicates matters as the pair tries to negotiate their burgeoning romance. Meanwhile, Dairine struggles to stabilize her hero-worshipping, insecure protégée against the interference of powerful relatives using her to further their own tangled agendas. When both candidates make it through to the finals stage on the dark side of the Moon, they and their mentors are flung into a final conflict that could change the solar system for the better . . .

or damage Earth beyond even wizardly repair.

When the renowned saurian Species Archivist to the Powers that Be summons young wizard Kit Rodriguez to participate in an urgent off-planet intervention intended to save many millions of lives, Kit’s hardly going to say “no.”

He soon discovers that not only he, but his wizardly partner Nita Callahan and her sister Dairine, his friend Ronan Nolan, and thousands of other wizards from Earth have also been drafted in to intervene on the distant world called Tevaral. The planet’s single huge moon Thesba has become tectonically unstable and will soon break up, raining its massive fragments down onto the surface of Tevaral and completely destroying it. The wizards’ mission: to extract Tevaral’s hominid population and “raft” them off-planet to new homeworlds before the apocalyptic disaster begins.

There’s only one problem: millions of the people of Tevaral don’t want to go.

Kit, Nita and thousands of their fellow Earth wizards must now race against time to find a way to save the Tevaralti despite their near-symbiotic relationship with their beloved world and its unique life forms. As doomsday inexorably draws nearer, hope is fading fast, and it seems like it’s going to take a miracle to keep the people of Tevaral from being wiped out. True, wizardry is all about miracles. But will one turn up in time?...

"Young WIzards: Lifeboats" is a 90,000 word canonical work in the Young Wizards universe, and falls between YW book 9, "A Wizard of Mars", and the forthcoming book 10, "Games Wizards Play".

December 20th, 2010: It’s the day before the Winter Solstice. The biggest pre-Christmas blizzard for decades is heading straight for the New York metropolitan area. But tonight in one small corner of Nassau County there’s a holiday party at Juan and Marina Rodriguez’s house. And the guest of honor is a being from three hundred lightyears away who looks a whole lot like a Christmas tree... and wants to be decorated. The ensuing festivities (with an epic sleepover in the middle) bring together a cast of old and new friends to eat, drink, exchange presents, and see a few things the likes of which this world has never seen before…

This 30,000+ word novelette is a canonical work in the Young Wizards universe and takes place between the events of "A Wizard of Mars" and the forthcoming "Games Wizards Play" (now available for preorder from Amazon) It's also available in "Interim Errantry", also available from Amazon -- the Young Wizards compendium volume containing the Halloween story "Not On My Patch" and the new original novel "Young Wizards: Lifeboats".

In the hotly anticipated ninth installment of the Young Wizards series, Kit and Nita become part of an elite team investigating the mysterious “message in a bottle,” which holds the first clues to the secrets of the long-lost inhabitants of Mars. But not even wizardry can help them cope with the strange events that unfold when the “bottle” is uncorked and a life form from another era emerges.

Though the Martians seem friendly, they have a plan that could change the shape of more than one world. As the shadow of interplanetary war stretches over both worlds, Kit and Nita must fight to master the strange and ancient synergy binding them to Mars and its last inhabitants. If they don’t succeed, the history that left Mars lifeless will repeat itself on Earth.

2 девушки играют в видеоигры, летая на планерах в виртуальном мире.