Список рекомендованных книг-2015 от журнала "Локус" — 81 книга

All Ryan wanted to do is stay inside on an autumn day and play his favorite fantasy roleplaying video game, Wild Hunt Online, where he creeps through dark forests hunting magical creatures and dodging malevolent monsters. But his parents send him out to get some fresh air, and he wanders into the scraggly patch of woods behind his house. (Yeah, right Hey, Ryan . . . don t do it! Nah, they never listen, do they!) And when Ryan strays from the path, the familiar forest is transformed into a world of dark wonders even stranger than the one in his game. Ryan encounters a peculiar boy named Silas, who seems to come from another time, and who claims he's been trapped in those deep woods for a long time and now Ryan's trapped, too. They both have one chance to escape, or be trapped in the woods forever. They join forces to face terrible giants, mysterious witches, and stranger creatures from the dark side of Faerie, combining Ryan's sense of strategy with Silas's long familiarity with the dangers of the wood . . . and forging an unlikely friendship in the process.

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Solnechnaja2201 2 февраля 2016 г., 20:21

The long-awaited new blockbuster from Carnegie-medal-winning author Philip Reeve. Come with me, Zen Starling, she had said. The girl in the red coat. But how did she know his name? The Great Network is a place of drones and androids, maintenance spiders and Station Angels. The place of the thousand gates, where sentient trains criss-cross the galaxy in a heartbeat. Zen Starling is a petty thief, a street urchin from Thunder City. So when mysterious stranger Raven sends Zen and his new friend Nova on a mission to infiltrate the Emperor's train, he jumps at the chance to traverse the Great Network, to cross the galaxy in a heartbeat, to meet interesting people - and to steal their stuff. But the Great Network is a dangerous place, and Zen has no idea where his journey will take him...

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Solnechnaja2201 2 февраля 2016 г., 20:31

Впервые Саймон Сноу появился в произведении Рейнбоу Рауэлл «Фанатка». Кэт, героиня романа, в детстве зачитывается книгами Джеммы Т. Лесли о мальчике-волшебнике, а потом начинает писать фанфики, которые быстро становятся популярными среди таких же, как она, фанатов. И хотя «Так держать!» — это часть фэнтезийной серии в рамках «Фанатки», этот роман — отдельная книга.

На восьмом году обучения в школе Уотфорд Саймон пытается примириться с тем, что он, как говорят пророчества, Избранный и должен уничтожить Тоскливиуса Коварного, разрушающего магический мир. Однако Баз, его сосед по комнате, маг и тайный вампир, считает, что Саймон — худший из всех Избранных, потому что не умеет управлять своей силой. Однажды к Саймону является дух матери База и просит найти ее убийцу. Саймон и Баз решают сообща заняться поисками убийцы, а заодно выяснить, кто насылает разные темные силы на Уотфорд...

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Solnechnaja2201 18 декабря 2018 г., 18:58

Bone Gap is the story of Roza, a beautiful girl who is taken from a quiet midwestern town and imprisoned by a mysterious man, and Finn, the only witness, who cannot forgive himself for being unable to identify her kidnapper. As we follow them through their melancholy pasts, their terrifying presents, their uncertain futures, acclaimed author Laura Ruby weaves a heartbreaking tale of love and loss, magic and mystery, regret and forgiveness—a story about how the face the world sees is never the sum of who we are.

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Solnechnaja2201 2 февраля 2016 г., 20:33

The graphic novel debut from rising star Noelle Stevenson, based on her beloved and critically acclaimed web comic, which Slate awarded its Cartoonist Studio Prize, calling it "a deadpan epic."

Nemeses! Dragons! Science! Symbolism! All these and more await in this brilliantly subversive, sharply irreverent epic from Noelle Stevenson. Featuring an exclusive epilogue not seen in the web comic, along with bonus conceptual sketches and revised pages throughout, this gorgeous full-color graphic novel is perfect for the legions of fans of the web comic and is sure to win Noelle many new ones.

Nimona is an impulsive young shapeshifter with a knack for villainy. Lord Ballister Blackheart is a villain with a vendetta. As sidekick and supervillain, Nimona and Lord Blackheart are about to wreak some serious havoc. Their mission: prove to the kingdom that Sir Ambrosius Goldenloin and his buddies at the Institution of Law Enforcement and Heroics aren't the heroes everyone thinks they are.

But as small acts of mischief escalate into a vicious battle, Lord Blackheart realizes that Nimona's powers are as murky and mysterious as her past. And her unpredictable wild side might be more dangerous than he is willing to admit.

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Solnechnaja2201 2 февраля 2016 г., 20:34

Тюрьма на севере штата Нью-Йорк – место, оказаться в котором не пожелаешь даже злейшему врагу. Жесткая дисциплина, разлука с близкими, постоянные унижения – лишь малая часть того, с чем приходится сталкиваться юным заключенным. Ори Сперлинг, четырнадцатилетняя балерина, осужденная за преступление, которое не совершала, знает об этом не понаслышке.

Но кому есть дело до ее жизни? Судьба обитателей «Авроры-Хиллз» незавидна. Но однажды все меняется: мистическим образом каждый август в тюрьме повторяется одна и та же картина – в камерах открываются замки, девочки получают свободу, а дальше…

А дальше случается то, что еще долго будет мучить души людей, ставших свидетелями тех событий.

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Solnechnaja2201 6 августа 2018 г., 23:26

У шестерых подростков, родившихся в 2000 году и проживающих в одном городе, не было ни малейшего шанса встретиться: слишком уж разными были их жизни… Если бы не их уникальные способности. Итану достался Голос, который помогал исполнять все его желания. Келси могла организовывать толпу и управлять ее настроением. Незрячая Райли умела "заимствовать" зрение других. Чизара могла уничтожить всю электронику вокруг одной лишь силой мысли. Натаниэль мог сосредотачивать внимание группы людей на себе и вести их. Тибо же умел не задерживаться в памяти любого человека больше чем на минуту.

Им надо научиться управлять своими способностями прежде, чем они успеют нанести кому-то вред…

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Solnechnaja2201 18 сентября 2017 г., 23:31

The mind-bending conclusion to the Twinmaker series, perfect for fans of the Uglies series, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sean Williams.

Clair's world has been destroyed—again. The only remaining hope of saving her friends is for her and Q to enter the Yard, the digital world of Ant Wallace's creation. The rules there are the same as those of the real world: Water is real; fire is real; death is real. But in the Yard there are two Clair Hills, and their very existence causes cracks that steadily widen.

Getting inside is the easy part. Once there, she has to earn the trust of her friends, including the girl who started it all—her best friend, Libby. Together they must fight their way through the digital and political minefield in the hope of saving the world once and for all. And this time Clair has to get it right . . . or lose everything.

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Solnechnaja2201 2 февраля 2016 г., 20:38

In this sparkling debut, magic and mayhem clash with the British elite...

The Royal Society of Unnatural Philosophers, one of the most respected organizations throughout all of England, has long been tasked with maintaining magic within His Majesty’s lands. But lately, the once proper institute has fallen into disgrace, naming an altogether unsuitable gentleman—a freed slave who doesn’t even have a familiar—as their Sorcerer Royal, and allowing England’s once profuse stores of magic to slowly bleed dry. At least they haven’t stooped so low as to allow women to practice what is obviously a man’s profession…

At his wit’s end, Zacharias Wythe, Sorcerer Royal of the Unnatural Philosophers and eminently proficient magician, ventures to the border of Fairyland to discover why England’s magical stocks are drying up. But when his adventure brings him in contact with a most unusual comrade, a woman with immense power and an unfathomable gift, he sets on a path which will alter the nature of sorcery in all of Britain—and the world at large…

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Solnechnaja2201 2 февраля 2016 г., 20:51

In a dusty caravanserai in seventeenth-century mumtazabad, cyrah, a young wanderer, meets a man who says he is a monster. Their encounter fills her with revulsion and dread, yet changes her forever. In present-day kolkata, college professor alok mukherjee meets a man who claims to be a werewolf. Alone and estranged after a divorce, alok is drawn to the stranger's hypnotic allure, unable to tell delusion from truth, trickery from magic.// beginning in mughal india by the foot of the taj mahal and ulminating in the lush, dangerous forests of the sunderbans in twenty-first century india, the devourers is a story about shape-shifters, hunters with second selves who prey on humans and live in the shadows of civilization. But it is also about what it means to be human, and the transformative powers of love. Utterly gripping and wholly original, it reinvents the literary fantasy novel for india, imbuing it with depth, emotion and richness.

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Solnechnaja2201 2 февраля 2016 г., 20:53

Завтра Бару Корморан выйдет на пляж и увидит на горизонте алые паруса.

Империя Масок нагрянет, вооружившись монетами и чернилами, доктринами и компасами, мылом и ложью. Чужаки завоюют Тараноке, родной остров Бару, перепишут его культуру, запретят его обычаи и отнимут одного из ее отцов. Но Бару терпелива. Она проглотит свою ненависть и станет частью Маскарада. Она пробьется наверх и заполучит власть, чтобы освободить свой народ.

Проверяя ее верность, Маскарад прикажет Бару навести порядок в далеком Ордвинне, притоне мятежников, шпионов и герцогов-бунтарей. Но Бару весьма искушена в политических играх, а ее безжалостность в вопросах тактики может сравниться лишь с ее целеустремленностью. И теперь она готова нанести последний удар и сполна выплатить цену свободы.

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Solnechnaja2201 3 февраля 2018 г., 21:18

Following a failed alien invasion the world left is sparsely populated with psychologically scarred survivors, some of them technologically-enhanced women. Lo, leader of the small safe haven of Saugatuck, find their technological enhancements put to the test when a spaceship arrives bearing two men with both wonderful and terrifying news. Is this the beginning of a new era of reconstruction -- or the start of a new battle for survival? Not everyone in town wants to fight every comer. Not everyone in town shares Lo's mistrust of outsiders. This is the story not only of Lo's battle to protect the safe isolation of her unique community, but also of her struggle to come to terms with a constantly changing and uncertain world.

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Solnechnaja2201 2 февраля 2016 г., 20:56

Двое мужчин, полные противоположности друг другу по характеру и склонностям – беспечный бездельник Куни Гару и суровый воин Мата Цзинду, сын свергнутого правителя, объединились в восстании против тирана-императора. Они быстро стали лучшими друзьями в сражениях с гигантскими имперскими армиями, драпированными шелками боевыми дирижаблями и коварными тысячелетними божествами. Но когда императорская власть падет, друзья обнаружат, что члены фракций, стоящие за каждым из них, придерживаются разных взглядов на то, как построить мир в обескровленном войной государстве.

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Solnechnaja2201 6 февраля 2017 г., 17:18

The Weave tells a first-contact story in which humans, seeking to exploit the much-needed resources of a system inhabited by creatures they assume are ''primitive'' and defenceless, discover their mistake the hard way. Human Caty Sanjuro, a seasoned marine and dedicated xenologist, and native Sundown, a determined astronomer, struggle to establish communication across the many barriers that divide their species, at first because they share a passionate interest in alien species, but finally because they know that only they can bridge the differences across species threatening catastrophe for both sides.

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Solnechnaja2201 2 февраля 2016 г., 21:00

A literary fantasy about love, music and sorcery, set against the background of Mexico City.

Mexico City, 1988: Long before iTunes or MP3s, you said “I love you” with a mixtape. Meche, awkward and fifteen, has two equally unhip friends -- Sebastian and Daniela -- and a whole lot of vinyl records to keep her company. When she discovers how to cast spells using music, the future looks brighter for the trio. With help from this newfound magic, the three friends will piece together their broken families, change their status as non-entities, and maybe even find love...
Mexico City, 2009: Two decades after abandoning the metropolis, Meche returns for her estranged father’s funeral. It’s hard enough to cope with her family, but then she runs into Sebastian, and it revives memories from her childhood she thought she buried a long time ago. What really happened back then? What precipitated the bitter falling out with her father? And, is there any magic left?

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Solnechnaja2201 2 февраля 2016 г., 21:01

A high fantasy following a young woman's defiance of her culture as she undertakes a dangerous quest to restore her world's lost magic in Ilana C. Myer's Last Song Before Night.
Her name was Kimbralin Amaristoth: sister to a cruel brother, daughter of a hateful family. But that name she has forsworn, and now she is simply Lin, a musician and lyricist of uncommon ability in a land where women are forbidden to answer such callings-a fugitive who must conceal her identity or risk imprisonment and even death.
On the eve of a great festival, Lin learns that an ancient scourge has returned to the land of Eivar, a pandemic both deadly and unnatural. Its resurgence brings with it the memory of an apocalypse that transformed half a continent. Long ago, magic was everywhere, rising from artistic expression-from song, from verse, from stories. But in Eivar, where poets once wove enchantments from their words and harps, the power was lost. Forbidden experiments in blood divination unleashed the plague that is remembered as the Red Death, killing thousands before it was stopped, and Eivar's connection to the Otherworld from which all enchantment flowed, broken.
The Red Death's return can mean only one thing: someone is spilling innocent blood in order to master dark magic. Now poets who thought only to gain fame for their songs face a challenge much greater: galvanized by Valanir Ocune, greatest Seer of the age, Lin and several others set out to reclaim their legacy and reopen the way to the Otherworld-a quest that will test their deepest desires, imperil their lives, and decide the future.

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Solnechnaja2201 2 февраля 2016 г., 21:03

Лондон, 1883 год. Молодой телеграфист Таниэль Стиплтон, вернувшись домой в свою крошечную квартиру в Пимлико, обнаруживает на подушке оставленные таинственным посетителем ручные золотые часы изысканной работы. Пока он пытается разобраться, как к нему попал неожиданный дорогой подарок, часы спасают ему жизнь — заставив молодого человека покинуть место, где через мгновение произойдет мощный взрыв, который разрушит Скотланд-Ярд и кварталы вокруг. Так Таниэль оказывается втянут в полицейское расследование.

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Solnechnaja2201 2 февраля 2016 г., 21:03

The Earth is dying, and our hopes are pinned on Ubastis, an untamed paradise at the edge of colonized space. But such an influx of people threatens the planet's unstudied ecosystem — a tenuous research colony must complete its analysis, lest humanity abandon one planet only to die on another.

The Ubasti colonists barely get by on their own. To acquire the tools they need, they are relegated to selling whatever they can to outside investors. For xenobiologist Vashti Loren, this means bringing Offworlders on safari to hunt the specimens she and her fellow biologists so desperately need to study.

Haunted by the violent death of her husband, the heroic and celebrated Lasse Undset, Vashti must balance the needs of Ubastis against the swelling crush of settlers. Vashti struggles in her role as one of the few colonists licensed to carry deadly weapons, just as she struggles with her history of using them. And when she discovers a genetically engineered soldier smuggled onto the surface, Vashti must face the nightmare of her husband's murder all over again. Standing at the threshold of humanity's greatest hope, she alone understands the darkness of guarding paradise.

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Solnechnaja2201 2 февраля 2016 г., 21:05

Gunslinging, chain smoking, Stetson-wearing Taoist psychopomp, Elouise "Lou" Merriwether might not be a normal 19-year-old, but she's too busy keeping San Francisco safe from ghosts, shades, and geung si to care much about that. It's an important job, though most folks consider it downright spooky. Some have even accused Lou of being more comfortable with the dead than the living, and, well... they're not wrong. When Lou hears that a bunch of Chinatown boys have gone missing somewhere deep in the Colorado Rockies she decides to saddle up and head into the wilderness to investigate. Lou fears her particular talents make her better suited to help placate their spirits than ensure they get home alive, but it's the right thing to do, and she's the only one willing to do it. On the road to a mysterious sanatorium known as Fountain of Youth, Lou will encounter bears, desperate men, a very undead villain, and even stranger challenges. Lou will need every one of her talents and a whole lot of luck to make it home alive... From British Fantasy Award nominee Molly Tanzer comes debut novel Vermilion, a spirited weird Western adventure that puts the punk back into steampunk.

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Solnechnaja2201 2 февраля 2016 г., 21:05

He is England's greatest knight, the man who saved the life of Alfred the Great and an entire kingdom from a Viking invasion. But when he is called back into service to combat a plague of monstrous beasts known as abominations, he meets a fate worse than death and is condemned to a life of anguish, solitude, and remorse.

She is a fierce young warrior, raised among an elite order of knights. Driven by a dark secret from her past, she defies her controlling father and sets out on a dangerous quest to do what none before her ever have―hunt down and kill an abomination, alone.

When a chance encounter sets these two against one another, an incredible twist of fate will lead them toward a salvation they never thought possible―and prove that the power of love, mercy, and forgiveness can shine a hopeful light even in history’s darkest age.

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Solnechnaja2201 2 февраля 2016 г., 21:06