Иэн Маклауд – лучшие книги

Всегда есть те, кто захотят платить любую цену за бессмертие и те, кто готовы нести любую тяжесть, лишь бы быть с любимым человеком. Иногда этот трудный симбиоз на время оживает.

Когда-то они втроем пришли в Вифлеем и принесли дары только что родившемуся младенцу. Тридцать лет спустя Бальтазар, последний из трех волхвов, снова отправляется в Иерусалим, чтобы посмотреть на Него.

Дэвид во всем хочет быть не хуже своего трагически погибшего брата Симона, одним из самых любимых увлечений которого была сборка игрушечных моделей самолетов. И вдруг отец неожиданно дарит Дэвиду великолепную модель для сборки – легендарную «Летающую крепость» в масштабе 1/72. Дэвид не ожидал, насколько серьезным испытанием станет для него сборка «Летающей крепости».
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Рассказ о любви художника Густава и достаточно богатой женщины Эланор, которая после смерти стала призраком в виртуальной реальности.
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In the aftermath of the last great battle of the American Civil War, a disillusioned Union medic stumbles across a strange figure picking amid the corpses, and his life is changed forever . . .

In the cathedral city of Strasbourg in the years before the French Revolution, a church restorer is commissioned to paint a series of portraits that chart the changing appearance of a beautiful woman over the course of her life, although the woman herself seems ageless . . .

In Prohibition-era New York, an idealistic young Marxist is catapulted into the realms of elite society, and forced to assume the identity of someone who never existed . . .

Hollywood, 1940. It s the Golden Age of the Feelies. All one-time actor and unlicensed matrimonial private eye Clark Gable has to do is impersonate a wealthy scriptwriter for a few hours, and sign the contract for the biopic of the inventor of a device which has changed entertainment forever. What could go wrong? Already, he s seeing ghosts but that s nothing unusual. Europe is devastated by war and America is sleep-walking into Fascism but what s that got to do with him? By turns wry and romantic, but always gripping, multi-award winning writer Ian R MacLeod s latest novel is a dazzling collision of science, fantasy and history. Like the…

Winner of the World Fantasy Award and the Sidewise Award for Alternate History: A pastel-hued yet chilling alternate vision of England, The Summer Isles views the nightmare that the country has become since Germany’s victory in the Great War, through the eyes of a man whose life lies close to the heart of history

In 1918 the Allies were defeated. A closeted gay teacher, Griffin Brooke has witnessed the monumental changes his nation has undergone since being crushed by Germany’s superior fighting forces twenty-two years earlier. First came the financial collapse and crippling inflation, then the fascist uprising in the thirties that brought John Arthur to power. Now, in 1940, England has resurrected itself—but at a terrible cost. With homosexuality decreed a serious crime against the state by the dictator who was once his most avid student, Griffin has remained silent while England’s gay population has mysteriously dwindled . . . along with the nation’s Jews.

But in the twilight of his years, elevated to the role of tutor in an Oxford college, Griffin is getting anxious. Thinking back on a life lived in shadow—and on his one great love affair with a young soldier during the height of the Great War—Griffin knows that revealing a secret he has guarded for decades could have devastating consequences for Britain, the world, and especially for the fascist tyrant Arthur, who cites his former teacher as a mentor and major influence.

Воительница Бесс, пройдя обучение и преобразование в Церкви Воительниц, превратилась в бронированного и неустрашимого истребителя чудовищ, порождаемых искажениями пространства-времени. Но почему-то интеллекты Церкви отправили её дожидаться очередного противника на поляну в отдалённом лесу, где, кажется, никто не живёт, кроме странной девочки, вооружённой лучевым пистолетом.