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The Book of Dead Days
Автор: Marcus Sedgwick Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2004 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 13 февраля 20092008-03-22
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The days between 27 December and New Year's Eve are dead days — days when spirits roam and magic shifts restlessly just beneath the surface of our everyday lives. There is a man, Valerian, whose time is running out, who must pay the price for the pact he made with evil so many years ago. His servant is Boy, a child with no name and no past; a child he treats with contempt, but who serves his master well and finds solace in the company of his only friend, Willow. Unknown to any of them it is Boy who holds the key to their destiny. Set in dark threatening cities and the frozen countryside in a distant time and place of the author's making, 'The Book of Dead Days' conjures a spell-binding story of sorcery and desperate magic as Valerian, Boy and Willow battle to stop time and cling to life. Beautifully evoked, dramatic and emotionally powerful, this is a real page turner.
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My Swordhand is Singing
Автор: Marcus Sedgwick Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2007 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 22 апреля 20112011-03-19
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In the bitter cold of an unrelenting winter Tomas and his son, Peter, arrive in Chust and despite the inhospitability of the villagers settle there as woodcutters. Tomas digs a channel of fast-flowing waters around their hut so they have their own little island kingdom. Peter doesn't understand why his father has done this, nor why his father carries a long battered box everywhere they go, and why he is forbidden to know its mysterious contents. But when a band of gypsies comes to the village Peter's drab existence is turned upside down. He is infatuated by the beautiful gypsy princess, Sofia, intoxicated by their love of life and drawn into their deadly quest. For these travellers are Vampire Slayers and Chust is a dying community — where the dead come back to wreak revenge on the living. Amidst the terrifying events that follow, Peter is stunned to see his father change from a disillusioned man to the warrior hero he once was. Marcus draws on his extensive research of the vampire legend which permeates traditions throughout the world and sets his story in the forbidding and remote landscapes of the 17th century. Written in his usual distinctive voice, this is also the story of a father and his son, of loss, redemption and resolution.
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Voices
Автор: Ursula Le Guin Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2007 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 14 марта 20102012-08-31
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Memer is a child of rape; when the Alds took the beautiful city of Ansul, they descecrated or destroyed everything of beauty. The Waylord they imprisoned and tortured for years until finally he is freed to return to his home. Though crippled, he is not destroyed. His life still has purpose. Memer is the daughter of his House, the daughter of his heart. The Alds, a people who love war, cannot and will not read: they believe that in words lie demons that will destroy the world. All the city's libraries, the great treasure trove of knowledge of ages past, are burned, except for those few volumes secreted inthe Waylord's hidden room. But times are changing. Gry Barre of Roddmant and Orrec Caspro of Caspromant have arrived in the city. Orrec is a story-teller, the most famous of all: he has the gift of making. His wife Gry's gift is that of calling; she walks with a halflion who both frightens and fascinates the Alds. This is Memer's story, and Gry's and Orrec's, and it is the story of a conquered people craving freedom.
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Angel
Автор: Cliff McNish Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2008 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 13 октрября 20112009-12-23
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It's been many years since fourteen-year-old Freya's life was ruled by an obsession with angels — an obsession which destroyed her family. She has a burgeoning social life at school, and feels adjusted in the world. But then the angels return, and Freya discovers that she herself is a guardian angel. What makes matters worse is the arrival of the strange new girl, Stephanie, who craves for herself the angelic power that Freya resists. Learning to harness this difficult new friendship and her otherworldly abilities are complicated tasks, fraught with difficult decisions to make and dangerous situations to negotiate. Every time Freya helps one of her wards, she puts her own life at risk. And then there are her fellow angels — understanding what they want from her is perhaps the hardest task of all.
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Powers
Автор: Ursula Le Guin Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2008 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20122009-06-21
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The final part in the story that started with «Gifts», and the tale of Gry Barre of Roddmant and Orrec Caspro of Caspromant, two children with extraordinary powers. They play a part in «Voices» too, the sequel to «Gifts», in which Memer, a girl who has grown up in a captured city, is part of the people's fight for freedom. And now, in «Powers», we have the conclusion to Ursula Le Guin's beautifully written, powerful and moving story of the Western Isles, a tale that will leave every reader begging for more.
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The First Book of Lankhmar
Автор: Fritz Leiber Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2001 Страниц: 768 Дата загрузки: 22 марта 20092004-04-25
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From the moment when they first met, in the commission of the same, audacious theft, Fafhrd, the giant barbarian warrior from the Cold Waste, and the Gray Mouser, master thief, novice wizard and expert swordsman, felt no ordinary affinity. Forged over the gleam of sharpened steel as, back to back, they faced their foes, theirs was a friendship that would take them from adventure to misadventure across all of Nehwon, from the caves of the inner earth to the waves of the outer sea. But it was in the dark alleys and noisome back streets of the great fog-shrouded city of Lankhmar that they became legends. «The First Book of Lankhmar» includes the first four volumes of the hugely enjoyable Swords series.
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Valis
Автор: Philip K. Dick Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2001 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 26 декабря 20092003-05-24
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It began with a blinding light, a divine revelation from a mysterious intelligence that called itself Valis. And with that, the fabric of reality was ripped open and laid bare so that anything seemed possible, but nothing seemed quite right. Part science fiction, part theological detective story — in which God plays both the missing person and the perpetrator of the ultimate crime, «Valis» is both disorienting and eerily funny, and a joy to read.
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Jem
Автор: Frederik Pohl Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2001 Страниц: 304 Дата загрузки: 16 мая 20092003-05-12
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The discovery of another habitable world might spell salvation to the three bitterly competing power blocs of the resource-starved 21st century; but when their representatives arrive on Jem, with its multiple intelligent species, they discover instead the perfect situation into which to export their rivalries. Subtitled, with savage irony, 'The Making of a Utopia', Jem is one of Frederik Pohl's most powerful novels.
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Martian Time-Slip
Автор: Philip K. Dick Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 1999 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 21 июля 20092001-07-18
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Mars is a desolate world. Largely forgotten by Earth, the planet remains helpless in the stranglehold of Arnie Kott, who as boss of the plumber's union has a monopoly over the vital water supply. Arnie Kott is obsessed by the past; the native Bleekmen, poverty-stricken wanderers, can see into the future; while to Manfred, an autistic boy, time apparently stops. When one of the colonists, Norbert Steiner, commits suicide, the repercussions are startling and bizarre.
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Ubik
Автор: Philip K. Dick Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2000 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 07 апреля 20092002-07-28
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Glen Runciter is dead. Or is he? Someone died in the explosion orchestrated by his business rivals, but even as his funeral is scheduled, his mourning employees are receiving bewildering messages from their boss. And the world around them is warping and regressing in ways which suggest that their own time is running out. If it hasn't already.
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Second Variety: Volume Two Of The Collected Stories
Автор: Philip K. Dick Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 1999 Страниц: 416 Дата загрузки: 16 марта 20092002-04-27
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The stories within «Second Variety» were written between 1952 and 1955, while America was in the grip of McCarthyism. The concerns of the time are reflected in stories such as «Second Variety», which tells of an endless war fought by ever more cunning and sophisticated robots, or 'Imposter' where a man accused of being an alien spy finds his whole identity called into question. Using his marvellously varied, quirky and idiosyncratic style, Dick speaks up for ordinary people against militarism, paranoia and xenophobia.
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Father-Thing: Volume Three Of The Collected Stories
Автор: Philip K. Dick Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 1999 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 13 декабря 20092002-04-19
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“The Father Thing” contains the stories written in 1956, just before the publication of Dick's first novel, “Solar Lottery”. The stories are a mix of the previously uncollected and some of his most famous pieces such as “Foster, You're Dead” a powerful extrapolation of nuclear war hysteria, and “The Golden Man”, a very different story about a super-evolved mutant human.
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Philip K: Dick: Three Early Novels
Автор: Philip K. Dick Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2000 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 18 мая 20092004-03-24
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At the beginning of his career, Philip K. Dick, whose later work won him widespread acclaim as the world's greatest sf writer, wrote a number of short novels which were published as paperback originals back-to-back in dual volumes with works by writers who were then more famous. Considerably more straightforward than his later novels, these stories are nevertheless unmistakably the work of the author of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Ubik in their quirky exuberance and originality.
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Man Plus
Автор: Frederik Pohl Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2000 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 07 апреля 20092002-07-28
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Ill luck made Roger Torraway the subject of the Man Plus Programe, but it was deliberate biological engineering which turned him into a monster — a machine perfectly adapted to survive on Mars. For according to computer predictions, Mars is humankind's only alternative to extinction. But beneath his monstrous exterior, Torraway still carries a man's capacity for suffering.
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We Can Remember It Wholesale: Volume Five Of The Collected Stories
Автор: Philip K. Dick Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2000 Страниц: 400 Дата загрузки: 13 октрября 20092004-03-19
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The fifth and final part of the complete collected stories shows Philip K. Dick at the very height of his outstanding powers. The twenty-five tales were written between 1963 and 1981, just a few months before he died, and include two stories which have been turned into box office smashes: the title story, filmed as Total Recall, and «The Little Black Box», which grew into his masterpiece Blade Runner.
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Tales of the Dying Earth
Автор: Jack Vance Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2000 Страниц: 752 Дата загрузки: 09 февраля 20092001-06-05
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The fourth in the Fantasy Masterworks series, the Dying Earth saga inspired writers like Michael Moorcock and Gene Wolfe, who freely acknowledges his debt to Vance in his own Book of the New Sun. Here, in one volume, is Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning author Jack Vance's classic Dying Earth saga comprising The Dying Earth, The Eyes of the Overworld, Cugel's Saga and Rhialto the Marvellous. Travel to a far distant future, when the sun bleeds red in a dark sky, where magic and science is one, and the Earth has but a few short decades to live...
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Horrid Henry
Автор: Francesca Simon Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 1998 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20092000-10-21
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Horrid Henry tries to be perfect for one day; he learns to dance, quarrels with his arch-enemy Moody Margaret and goes on holiday.
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Horrid Henry Tricks the Tooth Fairy
Автор: Francesca Simon Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 1997 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20091999-10-21
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Four stories about Horrid Henry, in which he tries to trick the tooth fairy, has Moody Margaret to stay and sends her packing, makes teachers run screaming from school, and wrecks a wedding.
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The Story of Scotland (illustr: )
Автор: Richard Brassey Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 1999 Страниц: 40 Дата загрузки: 14 июля 20092000-06-25
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The story of Scotland from the Ice Age to the Vikings, the Picts and the Romans, to Robert the Bruce, Mary Queen of Scots, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Flora Macdonald, Sir Walter Scott, Logie Baird, Keir Hardie and many more famous Scots up to the present day. Each page is packed with colourful pictures and witty captions and speech bubbles, and a pithy text gives the facts and tells the story.This is a fun book, but it covers the material in a way that will make it attractive both to schools and to tourists. With NESSIE, THE LOCH NESS MONSTER a continuing bestseller in Scotland, Richard Brassey is the perfect author/illustrator for a book that should have a long life ahead. His co-author, Stewart Ross, is an ex-teacher with a special interest in Scottish history.
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Witch Hill
Автор: Marcus Sedgwick Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2001 Страниц: 176 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 20092003-07-24
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The fire was a family tragedy that Jamie can't forget, even in his dreams. And now there is something terrifying happening to him in Crownhill, the village where he's been sent to get over his problems. Something to do with an evil old witch who gets into his nightmares, and a frightened girl, the victim of a long-ago witch hunt, whose presence lingers on. A present-day boy, a seventeenth-century girl, an ancient crone: for a single moment their lives are fused by fire. And as the dark secrets of Crownhill are revealed Jamie has to confront his worst fears in order to free himself from the horrors of the past. Marcus Sedgwick weaves extracts from reports of a seventeenth-century witch hunt into a tense and brilliant novel.
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