Райланд Грейс приходит в себя на борту космического корабля. Он не помнит своего имени и понятия не имеет, как здесь оказался. Единственное, что он знает наверняка, это то, что он спал, а сейчас проснулся и компанию ему составляет парочка мертвецов. Воспоминания приходят обрывочными картинками... Похоже, когда-то он работал школьным учителем, а потом... черт, да что же случилось потом?
Наконец восстановив череду произошедших событий, Райланд приходит в ужас от грандиозности вверенной ему задачи – предотвратить вымирание человеческого рода. Эта сверхсложная миссия – билет в один конец, и на Землю ему уже не вернуться. И помощи, похоже, ждать неоткуда…
Sarah Gailey3.9 The Echo Wife is a non-stop thrill ride, perfect for readers of Big Little Lies and enthusiasts of "Killing Eve" and "Westworld"
Martine is a genetically cloned replica made from Evelyn Caldwell’s award-winning research. She’s patient and gentle and obedient. She’s everything Evelyn swore she’d never be. And she’s having an affair with Evelyn’s husband.
Now, the cheating bastard is dead, and the Caldwell wives have a mess to clean up. Good thing Evelyn Caldwell is used to getting her hands dirty.
Christina Sweeney-Baird0.0 ‘A FIERCELY INTELLIGENT PAGE-TURNER…AT ONCE THOUGHTFUL AND HIGHLY EMOTIVE’ PAULA HAWKINS‘THE STUFF THAT CLASSICS ARE MADE OF’ AJ FINN‘BRILLIANT, PRESCIENT, UNPUTDOWNABLE’ JENNY COLGAN‘A TOUR DE FORCE – A FEMINIST REIMAGINING OF SOCIETY’ GILLIAN MCALLISTERGlasgow, 2025. Dr Amanda Maclean is called to treat a patient with flu-like symptoms. Within three hours he is dead. This is how it begins. The unknown virus sweeps through the hospital with deadly speed.The victims are all men. Dr Maclean raises the alarm. But by the time the authorities listen to her, the virus has spread to every corner of the world. Threatening families. Governments. Countries.Can they find a cure before it’s too late? Can they stopTHE END OF MEN?‘A POWERFUL, GRIPPING BOOK THAT HAS MADE ME FEEL A LITTLE BIT BETTER ABOUT THE WORLD WE ARE LIVING IN RIGHT NOW’ BRYONY GORDON‘COMPELLING AND HEART-BREAKING. A REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENT’ ABI DAR?‘MOVING, THOUGHT-PROVOKING AND TERRIFYINGLY PRESCIENT’ TAMMY COHEN‘DEVASTATING, PRESCIENT, COMPELLING AND CONFRONTING’ LAURA JANE WILLIAMS‘TOPICAL, TIMELY, IMAGINATIVE AND ULTIMATELY HOPEFUL’ KATIE KHAN, AUTHOR OF HOLD BACK THE STARS'AN INCREDIBLE ACHIEVEMENT – BOTH A BREATH-TAKING FEAT OF IMAGINATION AND A WISE, STEADY EYE ON THE WORLD AS IT IS' JESSICA MOOR, AUTHOR OF THE KEEPER
J.S. Dewes0.0 The Expanse meets Game of Thrones in J. S. Dewes' fast-paced, sf adventure The Last Watch, where a handful of soldiers stand between humanity and annihilation.
The Divide.
It’s the edge of the universe.
Now it’s collapsing—and taking everyone and everything with it.
The only ones who can stop it are the Sentinels—the recruits, exiles, and court-martialed dregs of the military.
At the Divide, Adequin Rake, commanding the Argus, has no resources, no comms—nothing, except for the soldiers that no one wanted.
Becky Chambers4.3 In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Hugo Award-winner Becky Chambers's delightful new Monk & Robot series gives us hope for the future.
It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again; centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend.
One day, the life of a tea monk is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor the old promise of checking in. The robot cannot go back until the question of what do people need? is answered.
But the answer to that question depends on who you ask, and how.
They're going to need to ask it a lot.
Becky Chambers's new series asks: in a world where people have what they want, does having more matter?
Аркади Мартин3.9 Инопланетная армада вторгается в космическое пространство империи Тейкскалаан. Чужие не выходят на связь и их не получается уничтожить. В отчаянной попытке наладить отношения с таинственными агрессорами, командующий имперским флотом вызывает дипломатов. Теперь Махит Дзмаре и Три Саргасс, все еще не оправившиеся от недавних потрясений в империи, сталкиваются с невыполнимой задачей ― попытаться общаться с враждебным существом. Их провал гарантирует миллионы смертей в бесконечной войне. Продолжение романа-лауреата премии Хьюго "Память, что зовется империя".
Чарльз Соул4.0 Золотой Век Ордена джедаев… До Войны клонов, до Империи, задолго до "Саги о Скайуокерах". Откройте для себя новую эпоху в Галактике "Звездных Войн". Эпоху Раcцвета Республики!
Под управлением величественной Республики в Галактике царит мир, на страже которого стоят благородные и мудрые рыцари-джедаи.
В ознаменование своих благих намерений Республика готова запустить на дальних окраинах Внешнего кольца маяк "Звездный свет" — новую космическую станцию, призванную подарить всем луч надежды.
Но пока Республика благоденствует, в тени уже таится страшный враг. И защитникам мира и справедливости придется столкнуться с угрозой, нависшей не только над Галактикой, но и самой Силой…
Everina Maxwell4.2 While the Iskat Empire has long dominated the system through treaties and political alliances, several planets, including Thea, have begun to chafe under Iskat's rule. When tragedy befalls Imperial Prince Taam, his Thean widower, Jainan, is rushed into an arranged marriage with Taam's cousin, the disreputable Kiem, in a bid to keep the rising hostilities between the two worlds under control.
But when it comes to light that Prince Taam's death may not have been an accident, and that Jainan himself may be a suspect, the unlikely pair must overcome their misgivings and learn to trust one another as they navigate the perils of the Iskat court, try to solve a murder, and prevent an interplanetary war... all while dealing with their growing feelings for each other.
Марта Уэллс4.1 В ожидании ответного хода корпорации «СерКриз», Киллербот вынужден находиться в постоянной боевой готовности, вместо просмотра любимых сериалов. Загадочное убийство на станции «Сохранение» может означать, что этот шаг сделан. Несмотря на предвзятое отношение к беглому автостражу, служба безопасности станции, привлекает его к расследованию, в результате которого открываются неожиданные обстоятельства.
Sara Flannery Murphy0.0 Orphan Black meets Margaret Atwood in this twisty supernatural thriller about female power and the bonds of sisterhood
Josephine Morrow is Girl One, the first of nine “Miracle Babies” conceived without male DNA, raised on an experimental commune known as the Homestead. When a suspicious fire destroys the commune and claims the lives of two of the Homesteaders, the remaining Girls and their Mothers scatter across the United States and lose touch.
Years later, Margaret Morrow goes missing, and Josie sets off on a desperate road trip, tracking down her estranged sisters who seem to hold the keys to her mother’s disappearance. Tracing the clues Margaret left behind, Josie joins forces with the other Girls, facing down those who seek to eradicate their very existence while uncovering secrets about their origins and unlocking devastating abilities they never knew they had.
Ryka Aoki4.0 Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in this defiantly joyful adventure set in California's San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian bargains, and queer alien courtship over fresh-made donuts.
Shizuka Satomi made a deal with the devil: to escape damnation, she must entice seven other violin prodigies to trade their souls for success. She has already delivered six.
When Katrina Nguyen, a young transgender runaway, catches Shizuka's ear with her wild talent, Shizuka can almost feel the curse lifting. She's found her final candidate.
But in a donut shop off a bustling highway in the San Gabriel Valley, Shizuka meets Lan Tran, retired starship captain, interstellar refugee, and mother of four. Shizuka doesn't have time for crushes or coffee dates, what with her very soul on the line, but Lan's kind smile and eyes like stars might just redefine a soul's worth. And maybe something as small as a warm donut is powerful enough to break a curse as vast as the California coastline.
As the lives of these three women become entangled by chance and fate, a story of magic, identity, curses, and hope begins, and a family worth crossing the universe for is found.
Нил Стивенсон3.5 Глобальное потепление грозит погубить планету. Но у одного человека появляется Большая идея. Ее воплощение, кажется, должно помочь остановить экологическую катастрофу. Проект объединяет людей разных культур и национальностей со всех континентов и уголков мира для борьбы с последствиями глобального потепления. Но не станет ли лекарство опаснее болезни?
С заразительным любопытством из-за широкого окна витрины она впитывает в себя окружающий мир — случайных прохожих, проезжающие машины и, конечно, живительное Солнце. Клара хочет узнать и запомнить как можно больше — так она сможет стать лучшей Искусственной Подругой своему будущему подростку.
От того, кто выберет Клару, будет зависеть её судьба.
Чистый, отчасти наивный взгляд на реальность, лишь слегка отличающуюся от нашей собственной, — вот, что дарит новый роман Кадзуо Исигуро. Каково это — любить? И можно ли быть человеком, если ты не совсем человек?
История, рассказанная с обескураживающей искренностью, заставит вас по-новому ответить на эти вопросы.
Matthew FitzSimmons0.0 A breakthrough in human cloning becomes one woman’s waking nightmare in a mind-bending thriller by the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of the Gibson Vaughn series.
In the near future, advances in medicine and quantum computing make human cloning a reality. For the wealthy, cheating death is the ultimate luxury. To anticloning militants, it’s an abomination against nature. For young Constance “Con” D’Arcy, who was gifted her own clone by her late aunt, it’s terrifying.
After a routine monthly upload of her consciousness—stored for that inevitable transition—something goes wrong. When Con wakes up in the clinic, it’s eighteen months later. Her recent memories are missing. Her original, she’s told, is dead. If that’s true, what does that make her?
The secrets of Con’s disorienting new life are buried deep. So are those of how and why she died. To uncover the truth, Con is retracing the last days she can recall, crossing paths with a detective who’s just as curious. On the run, she needs someone she can trust. Because only one thing has become clear: Con is being marked for murder—all over again.
S.B. Divya0.0 From the Hugo Award nominee S.B. Divya, Zero Dark Thirty meets The Social Network in this science fiction thriller about artificial intelligence, sentience, and labor rights in a near future dominated by the gig economy.
Welga Ramirez, executive bodyguard and ex-special forces, is about to retire early when her client is killed in front of her. It’s 2095 and people don’t usually die from violence. Humanity is entirely dependent on pills that not only help them stay alive, but allow them to compete with artificial intelligence in an increasingly competitive gig economy. Daily doses protect against designer diseases, flow enhances focus, zips and buffs enhance physical strength and speed, and juvers speed the healing process.
All that changes when Welga’s client is killed by The Machinehood, a new and mysterious terrorist group that has simultaneously attacked several major pill funders. The Machinehood operatives seem to be part human, part machine, something the world has never seen. They issue an ultimatum: stop all pill production in one week.
Global panic ensues as pill production slows and many become ill. Thousands destroy their bots in fear of a strong AI takeover. But the US government believes the Machinehood is a cover for an old enemy. One that Welga is uniquely qualified to fight.
Welga, determined to take down the Machinehood, is pulled back into intelligence work by the government that betrayed her. But who are the Machinehood and what do they really want?
A thrilling and thought-provoking novel that asks: if we won’t see machines as human, will we instead see humans as machines?
Терри Майлз3.6 С раннего детства К. искал во всем скрытые связи и закономерности, разгадывал головоломки. И вот, после психотравмы, ОКР и трагической гибели родителей, он увлекается опасной игрой «Кролики», окруженной противоречивыми слухами.
Говорят, что игре тысячи лет, а может, это и не игра вовсе. Главное, что ее победитель становится легендой и баснословно обогащается.
Однажды К. посещает один из победителей «Кроликов» и просит о помощи.
Распутывая клубок околоигровых тайн, К. вплотную подбирается к секретам собственной семьи, не зная, что по пятам за ним идет Тьма.
Мэтт Белл0.0 In the vein of Neal Stephenson and Jeff VanderMeer, an epic speculative novel from Young Lions Fiction Award–finalist Matt Bell, a breakout book that explores climate change, manifest destiny, humanity's unchecked exploitation of natural resources, and the small but powerful magic contained within every single apple.
In eighteenth-century Ohio, two brothers travel into the wooded frontier, planting apple orchards from which they plan to profit in the years to come. As they remake the wilderness in their own image, planning for a future of settlement and civilization, the long-held bonds and secrets between the two will be tested, fractured and broken—and possibly healed.
Fifty years from now, in the second half of the twenty-first century, climate change has ravaged the Earth. Having invested early in genetic engineering and food science, one company now owns all the world’s resources. But a growing resistance is working to redistribute both land and power—and in a pivotal moment for the future of humanity, one of the company’s original founders will return to headquarters, intending to destroy what he helped build.
A thousand years in the future, North America is covered by a massive sheet of ice. One lonely sentient being inhabits a tech station on top of the glacier—and in a daring and seemingly impossible quest, sets out to follow a homing beacon across the continent in the hopes of discovering the last remnant of civilization.
Hugely ambitious in scope and theme, Appleseed is the breakout novel from a writer “as self-assured as he is audacious” (NPR) who “may well have invented the pulse-pounding novel of ideas” (Jess Walter). Part speculative epic, part tech thriller, part reinvented fairy tale, Appleseed is an unforgettable meditation on climate change; corporate, civic, and familial responsibility; manifest destiny; and the myths and legends that sustain us all.
Адриан Чайковски3.3 The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us an extraordinary new space opera about humanity on the brink of extinction, and how one man's discovery will save or destroy us all.
The war is over. Its heroes forgotten. Until one chance discovery . . .
Idris has neither aged nor slept since they remade him in the war. And one of humanity's heroes now scrapes by on a freelance salvage vessel, to avoid the attention of greater powers.
After earth was destroyed, mankind created a fighting elite to save their species, enhanced humans such as Idris. In the silence of space they could communicate, mind-to-mind, with the enemy. Then their alien aggressors, the Architects, simply disappeared - and Idris and his kind became obsolete.
Now, fifty years later, Idris and his crew have discovered something strange abandoned in space. It's clearly the work of the Architects - but are they returning? And if so, why? Hunted by gangsters, cults and governments, Idris and his crew race across the galaxy hunting for answers. For they now possess something of incalculable value, that many would kill to obtain
Николь Корнхер-Стейс0.0 Like everyone else she knows, Mallory is an orphan of the corporate war. As a child, she lost her parents, her home, and her entire building in an airstrike. As an adult, she lives in a cramped hotel room with eight other people, all of them working multiple jobs to try to afford water and make ends meet. And the job she’s best at is streaming a popular VR war game. The best part of the game isn’t killing enemy combatants, though—it’s catching in-game glimpses of SpecOps operatives, celebrity supersoldiers grown and owned by Stellaxis, the corporation that runs the America she lives in.
Until a chance encounter with a SpecOps operative in the game leads Mal to a horrifying discovery: the real-life operatives weren’t created by Stellaxis. They were kids, just like her, who lost everything in the war, and were stolen and augmented and tortured into becoming supersoldiers. The world worships them, but the world believes a lie.
The company controls every part of their lives, and defying them puts everything at risk—her water ration, her livelihood, her connectivity, her friends, her life—but she can’t just sit on the knowledge. She has to do something—even if doing something will bring the wrath of the most powerful company in the world down upon her.
Ннеди Окорафор3.5 The day Fatima forgot her name, Death paid a visit. From hereon in she would be known as Sankofa―a name that meant nothing to anyone but her, the only tie to her family and her past.
Her touch is death, and with a glance a town can fall. And she walks―alone, except for her fox companion―searching for the object that came from the sky and gave itself to her when the meteors fell and when she was yet unchanged; searching for answers.
But is there a greater purpose for Sankofa, now that Death is her constant companion?
В фильмах ужасов последняя девушка — это та, кто остаётся в живых до самых титров. Та, кто даёт отпор, побеждает маньяка-убийцу и мстит за своих друзей. Но что с ней происходит дальше, после того как затихают сирены и уходят зрители?
Линнетт Таркингтон — реальная последняя девушка, которая пережила массовую резню двадцать два года назад, и это определило каждый день её жизни. И она не одинока. Уже более десяти лет она встречается с пятью другими выжившими девушками в группе поддержки для тех, кто пережил немыслимое и восстанавливает свою жизнь по кусочкам.
Вдруг одна из женщин исчезает и не приходит на встречу. Оправдываются худшие опасения Линнетт — кто-то знает о группе и полон решимости добить выживших.
Чак Вендиг3.8 Когда-то одержимый числами маньяк Эдмунд Риз провалил миссию, которую считал священной, – убить 99 девочек в парке Рэмбл-Рокс, на поле камней. Он был казнен на электрическом стуле, и нечто гораздо более темное, голодное и зловещее поселилось среди загадочных валунов…
Когда-то, ребенком, Нейт жил в сельском доме рядом с Рэмбл-Рокс со своим жестоким отцом. Он никому не рассказывал, что там случилось…
Когда-то Мэдди, еще маленькой девочкой, увидела в своей спальне то, чего не должна была видеть. Она пытается воскресить забытую детскую травму, создавая тревожные скульптуры…
Теперь Нейт и Мэдди Грейвз женаты и счастливы. Вместе с сыном Оливером они переезжают в дом детства Нейта. И то, что случилось когда-то, повторяется вновь. На этот раз с Оливером, – когда тот заводит дружбу со странным подростком. Подростком, полным очень темных секретов…
Ronald Malfi3.4 A masterful, heart-palpitating novel of small-town horror and psychological dread from a Bram Stoker nominee.
Aaron Decker's life changes one December morning when his wife Allison is killed. Haunted by her absence--and her ghost--Aaron goes through her belongings, where he finds a receipt for a motel room in another part of the country. Piloted by grief and an increasing sense of curiosity, Aaron embarks on a journey to discover what Allison had been doing in the weeks prior to her death.
Yet Aaron is unprepared to discover the dark secrets Allison kept, the death and horror that make up the tapestry of her hidden life. And with each dark secret revealed, Aaron becomes more and more consumed by his obsession to learn the terrifying truth about the woman who had been his wife, even if it puts his own life at risk.
Scott Carson0.0 Recently laid-off from his newspaper and desperate for work, war correspondent Nick Bishop takes a humbling job: writing a profile of a new mindfulness app called Clarity. It’s easy money, and a chance to return to his hometown for his first visit in years. The app itself seems like a retread of old ideas—relaxing white noise and guided meditations. But then there are the “Sleep Songs.” A woman’s hauntingly beautiful voice sings a ballad that is anything but soothing—it’s disturbing, really, more of a warning than a relaxation—but it works. Deep, refreshing sleep follows.
So do nightmares. Vivid and chilling, they feature a dead woman who calls Nick by name and whispers guidance—or are they threats? And soon her voice follows him long after the song is done. As the effects of the nightmares begin to permeate his waking life, Nick makes a terrifying discovery: no one involved with Clarity has any interest in his article. Their interest is in him. Because while he might not have any memory of it, he’s one of twenty people who have heard this sinister song before and the only one who is still alive.
Катриона Уорд3.7 "Мужчина примерно двадцати семи лет, в браке не состоит. Безработный или же занят ручным трудом. В общественном плане маргинал. Скорее всего, ранее привлекался за насильственные преступления. Мотивация для похищения ребенка сводится к…" Так Ди представляет маньяка, лишившего ее младшей сестры много лет назад. До сих пор полиция не может ничего сделать — зацепок нет. Только по крошечной улике — старой фотографии подозреваемого — Ди начинает собственное расследование. Хоть на ней и не видно лица, есть кое-что важное — адрес. Туда Ди и переедет. Никчемная улица. Последний дом.
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