Sandman Slim investigates Death’s death in this hip, propulsive urban fantasy through a phantasmagoric LA rife with murder, mayhem, and magic.

James Stark has met his share of demons and angels, on earth and beyond. Now, he’s come face to face with the one entity few care to meet: Death.

Someone has tried to kill Death—ripping the heart right out of him—or rather the body he’s inhabiting. Death needs Sandman Slim’s help: he believes anyone who can beat Lucifer and the old gods at their own game is the only one who can solve his murder.

Stark follows a sordid trail deep into LA’s subterranean world, from vampire-infested nightclubs to talent agencies specializing in mad ghosts, from Weimar Republic mystical societies to sleazy supernatural underground fight and sex clubs. Along the way he meets a mysterious girl—distinguished by a pair of graveyard eyes—as badass as Slim: she happens to be the only person who ever outwitted Death. But escaping her demise has had dire consequences for the rest of the world . . . and a few others.

For years, Slim has been fighting cosmic forces bent on destroying Heaven, Hell, and Earth. This time, the battle is right here on the gritty streets of the City of Angels, where a very clever, very ballsy killer lies in wait.

Раздел: Романы. Фэнтези

Solnechnaja2201 1 февраля 2016 г., 21:14

«Просыпайся, гений» – с этих слов начинается новый потрясающий роман Стивена Кинга, книга о силе Слова, в какой-то степени продолжающая историю, которую писатель начал в романе «Мистер Мерседес», и в то же время перекликающаяся с одним из лучших его произведений – «Мизери».
Гений – писатель Ротстайн, прежде бунтарь, а теперь затворник вот уже долгие годы ничего не публикует. Но это не значит, что он ничего не пишет. В его доме – множество черновиков, ждущих «своего часа». Сборники стихов, рассказы и даже продолжение знаменитой саги, изменившей судьбу едва ли не целого поколения фанатов Ротстайна. Но теперь крутой поворот делает судьба самого писателя – черновики похищают, а Ротстайна жестоко убивают…
Однако пройдёт много лет, прежде чем блокноты писателя вновь всплывут на поверхность, чтобы самым непостижимым образом соединить людей, имевших отношение к трагическим событиям, связанным с Мистером Мерседесом...

Раздел: Романы. Фэнтези

Solnechnaja2201 1 мая 2016 г., 01:15

Wasp's job is simple. Hunt ghosts. And every year she has to fight to remain Archivist. Desperate and alone, she strikes a bargain with the ghost of a supersoldier. She will go with him on his underworld hunt for the long-long ghost of his partner and in exchange she will find out more about his pre-apocalyptic world than any Archivist before her. And there is much to know. After all, Archivists are marked from birth to do the holy work of a goddess. They're chosen. They're special. Or so they've been told for four hundred years.

Archivist Wasp fears she is not the chosen one, that she won't survive the trip to the underworld, that the brutal life she has escaped might be better than where she is going. There is only one way to find out.

Раздел: Романы. Фэнтези

Solnechnaja2201 1 февраля 2016 г., 21:17

Начало «Голодному дому» положила история, которую Митчелл начал публиковать в своем Твиттере в канун Хеллоуина; история, примыкающая к его прошлому роману — «Костяные часы» («Простые смертные»). Итак, добро пожаловать в проулок Слейд. Его не так-то легко отыскать в лабиринте улочек лондонской окраины. Найдите в стене маленькую черную железную дверь. Ни ручки, ни замочной скважины; но дотроньтесь до двери — и она откроется. Вас встретит залитый солнцем старый сад и внушительный особняк — слишком роскошный для этого района, слишком большой для этого квартала.

Раздел: Романы. Фэнтези

Solnechnaja2201 6 февраля 2017 г., 17:10

Дверник – деревня в Польнии, расположенная в живописной долине. Реки здесь быстры, горы высоки, жители дружны. Вот только рядом с Дверником находится Чаща – таинственный лес, живой и жестокий. Он похищает людей, лишает их воли и изменяет до неузнаваемости.

В Двернике и живут Агнешка и Кася, подруги, любящие друг друга как сестры. Их счастливые дни омрачает лишь одно: они знают, что однажды им придется расстаться. Скоро в деревню прибудет Дракон, могущественный волшебник, единственный, кто может уберечь поселян от тлетворного влияния Чащи, которая не щадит ни детей, ни взрослых, оставляя в них навеки следы порчи. Но цена за освобождение от кошмара слишком высока: раз в десять лет Дракон забирает в свою башню самую красивую и самую талантливую девушку. Ни у кого нет сомнений, кто станет его следующей жертвой – Кася. Агнешка люто ненавидит Дракона и знает, что никогда не смирится с потерей. Но в этот раз он сделает неожиданный выбор, забрав ту, которая изменит жизнь всей Польнии.

Раздел: Романы. Фэнтези

Solnechnaja2201 18 декабря 2018 г., 18:55

An unnamed man wakes to find himself facing the loss of everything that matters most to him. Against all odds, he escapes with his life and heads out into the turbulence of the wider world, recreating himself, step by step, as he goes along.

That wider world is dominated by an empire that has existed for decades in a state of near perpetual war. A host of colorful characters will help to shape the destiny of the empire, and its constantly shifting array of allies and adversaries; among them, a master military strategist, a former pacifist who inherits his father's moribund arms business, a beautiful forger and a very lucky counterfeiter. Each of them, together with corrupt bureaucrats and the nomadic 'savages' of the title, plays a part in a gradually unfolding drama of conflict and conquest played for the highest of stakes.

A story of war, politics, intrigue, deception, and survival, ''Savages'' is a hugely ambitious, convincingly detailed novel that is impossible to set aside. Filled with schemes, counter-schemes, sudden reversals of fortune, and brilliantly described accounts of complex military encounters, it is, by any measure, an extraordinary entertainment, the work of a writer whose ambition, range, and sheer narrative power have never been more thoroughly on display.

Раздел: Романы. Фэнтези

Solnechnaja2201 1 февраля 2016 г., 21:23

Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross presents the next case in The Laundry Files, “a weirdly alluring blend of super-spy thriller, deadpan comic fantasy, and Lovecraftian horror” (Kirkus Reviews).

Dominique O’Brien—her friends call her Mo—lives a curious double life with her husband, Bob Howard. To the average civilian, they’re boring middle-aged civil servants. But within the labyrinthian secret circles of Her Majesty’s government, they’re operatives working for the nation’s occult security service known as the Laundry, charged with defending Britain against dark supernatural forces threatening humanity.

Mo’s latest assignment is assisting the police in containing an unusual outbreak: ordinary citizens suddenly imbued with extraordinary abilities of the super-powered kind. Unfortunately these people prefer playing super-pranks instead of super-heroics. The Mayor of London being levitated by a dumpy man in Trafalgar Square would normally be a source of shared amusement for Mo and Bob, but they’re currently separated because something’s come between them—something evil.

An antique violin, an Erich Zann original, made of human white bone, was designed to produce music capable of slaughtering demons. Mo is the custodian of this unholy instrument. It invades her dreams and yearns for the blood of her colleagues—and her husband. And despite Mo’s proficiency as a world class violinist, it cannot be controlled…

Раздел: Романы. Фэнтези

Solnechnaja2201 1 февраля 2016 г., 21:25

Pacific Fire: Another thrilling ride through Greg van Eekhout's wildly imaginative world of California Bones, featuring entertaining new characters and a dangerous magical plot unfolding in Los Angeles.

I'm Sam. I'm just this guy.

Okay, yeah, I'm a golem created from the substance of his own magic by the late Hierarch of Southern California. With a lot of work, I might be able to wield magic myself. I kind of doubt it, though. Not like Daniel Blackland can.

Daniel's the reason the Hierarch's gone and I'm still alive. He's also the reason I've lived my entire life on the run. Ten years of never, ever going back to Los Angeles. Daniel's determined to protect me. To teach me.

But it gets old. I've got nobody but Daniel. I'll never do anything normal. Like attend school. Or date a girl.

Now it's worse. Because things are happening back in LA. Very bad people are building a Pacific firedrake, a kind of ultimate weapon of mass magical destruction. Daniel seemed to think only he could stop them. Now Daniel's been hurt. I managed to get us to the place run by the Emmas. (Many of them. All named Emma. It's a long story.) They seem to be healing him, but he isn't going anyplace soon.

Do I even have a reason for existing, if it isn't to prevent this firedrake from happening? I'm good at escaping from things. Now I've escaped from Daniel and the Emmas, and I'm on my way to LA.

Раздел: Романы. Фэнтези

Solnechnaja2201 1 февраля 2016 г., 21:27