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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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A Fall of Moondust
Автор: Arthur C. Clarke Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2002 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 08 марта 20092003-06-28
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Time is running out for the passengers and crew of the tourist cruiser Selene, incarcerated in a sea of choking lunar dust. On the surface, her rescuers find their resources stretched to the limit by the mercilessly unpredictable conditions of a totally alien environment. A brilliantly imagined story of human ingenuity and survival, «A Fall of Moondust» is a tour-de-force of psychological suspense and sustained dramatic tension by the field's foremost author.
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Time Out of Joint
Автор: Philip K. Dick Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2003 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 08 марта 20092005-05-28
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Ragle Gumm is an ordinary man leading an ordinary life, except that he makes his living by entering a newspaper contest every day — and winning, every day. But he gradually begins to suspect that his life — indeed his whole world — is an illusion, constructed around him for the express purpose of keeping him docile and happy. But if that is the case, what is his real world like, and what is he actually doing every day when he thinks he is guessing 'Where Will The Little Green Man Be Next?'
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The Penultimate Truth
Автор: Philip K. Dick Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2005 Страниц: 208 Дата загрузки: 17 октрября 20082007-05-16
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World War III is raging — or so the millions of people crammed in their underground tanks believe. For fiteen years, subterranean humanity has been fed on daily broadcasts of a never-ending nuclear destruction, sustained by a belief in the all powerful Protector. Now someone has gone to the surface and found no destruction, no war. The authorities have been telling a massive lie. Now the search begins to find out why.
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The Broken Gate
Автор: Anita Burgh Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2005 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20092007-05-18
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It is winter, 1901. The ancient facade of Cresswell Manor surveys a vast and rich estate — but the land has fallen into decay. Mortimer Cresswell is an old man now, and at his deathbed his family waits, patiently, to scrap over his fortune. Only Hannah, Mortimer's daughter, can see that the family has become consumed by private ambition, jealousy and greed. When Stanislas von Ehrlich, a self-made man of fortune, moves into the neighbourhood, the natural order of things changes, sparking a massive feud. And then von Ehrlich's headstrong, spoilt and beautiful daughter Esmeralda is drawn to a member of the Cresswell household, with the most far-reaching consequences. Before long, both families are set on a collision course so powerful it will completely alter their world.
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Thirteenth Tale
Автор: Diane Setterfield Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2007 Страниц: 480 Дата загрузки: 11 июня 20092010-04-17
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Angelfield House stands abandoned and forgotten. It was once home to the March family — fascinating, manipulative Isabelle, brutal, dangerous Charlie, and the wild, untamed twins, Emmeline and Adeline. But Angelfield House hides a chilling secret which strikes at the very heart of each of them, tearing their lives apart... Now Margaret Lea is investigating Angelfield's past — and the mystery of the March family starts to unravel. What has Angelfield been hiding? What is its connection with the enigmatic writer Vida Winter? And what is the secret that strikes at the heart of Margaret's own, troubled life? As Margaret digs deeper, two parallel stories unfold, and the tale she uncovers sheds a disturbing light on her own life...
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An Equal Music
Автор: Vikram Seth Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 1999 Страниц: 496 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20092002-02-26
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A chance sighting on a bus; a letter which should never have been read; a pianist with a secret that touches the heart of her music... «An Equal Music» is a book about love, about the love of a woman lost and found and lost again; it is a book about music and how the love of music can run like a passionate fugue through a life. It is the story of Michael, of Julia, and of the love that binds them.
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White Death: Stalin's Invasion of Finland 1939-40
Автор: Robert Edwards Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2007 Страниц: 328 Дата загрузки: 28 мая 20102009-05-15
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The Russian invasion of Finland in November 1939 was a critical turning point in world history. Only now, with the opening of the Russian archives can this extraordinary story be told in full. Two months after his cynical alliance with Hitler and their joint invasion of Poland, Stalin ordered the Red Army to crush the Finns. Everybody expected a walk-over: the odds were 10:1 in Stalin's favour. But the Finns fought bravely, and the Red Army — its high command decimated by Stalin's purges — fumbled to defeat after defeat. Tens of thousands of Russian soldiers died in the snow. Only after four months and the massing of over a million men and thousands of guns did the Russians break through and force the Finns to accept terms. The 'Winter War' revealed Stalin's army to be as badly led as it was poorly equipped. Hitler's generals, previously so nervous about their leader's plan to invade Russia that they contemplated a coup d'etat to remove him, were now convinced they could win. Stalin's blunder in Finland led directly to the Nazi invasion of Russia the following year. In Britain and France, the spectacle of Russia invading a neutral neighbour shattered the left-wing political parties (although the DAILY WORKER's headline on the opening day of the invasion was 'HEROIC RED ARMY SMASHES MARAUDING FINNS). Attlee expelled one pro-Russian MP and cleared the way for a coalition with the Conservatives. Paradoxically, the 'Winter War' also saved the Red Army and Stalin. With the results of the purges all too clear, Stalin promoted outspoken technocrats like Zhukov and accepted reforms that would enable the Russians to survive the German assault in 1941 and ultimately stop them at Stalingrad.
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The Harry Bosch Novels: Volume 3 (A Darkness More Than Night, City of Bones, Lost Light)
Автор: Michael Connelly Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2008 Страниц: 816 Дата загрузки: 17 сентября 20132010-10-07
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DARKNESS MORE THAN NIGHT Lead investigator on a murder case that saw the arrest of the son of a wealthy and powerful man, Harry Bosch now finds himself in the midst of a high stakes trial where his every method is questioned. Meanwhile, criminal profiler Terry McCaleb is called to a murder scene where the killer has left a message that seems to implicate Bosch. The pair, first at odds, must now work together to clear Harry's name… CITY OF BONES When the bones of a young boy are found scattered in the Hollywood Hills, Harry Bosch is drawn into a case that recalls the darkest memories from his own haunted past. Then a love affair begins to blossom for Bosch — until a disastrous mission leaves him in more trouble than ever before, as he faces an unimaginable decision… LOST LIGHT When he left the LAPD, Harry Bosch took a file with him — the case of a film production assistant murdered four years earlier during a $2 million robbery on a movie set. The LAPD think the stolen money was used to finance a terrorist training camp. Thoughts of the original murder victim are lost in the federal zeal, and when it seems the killer will be set free to aid the feds' terrorist hunt, Bosch finds himself in conflict with his old colleagues and the FBI.
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Dexter: An Omnibus
Автор: Jeff Lindsay Жанр: Orion Books Издательство: Orion Books Год: 2008 Страниц: 592 Дата загрузки: 13 октрября 20112011-09-12
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DARKLY DREAMING DEXTER: Dexter Morgan can't stand the sight of blood. Which makes his job as a blood spatter analyst for the Miami PD a little tricky. But it means that he's very tidy when it comes to his hobby: murder. After all, even though Dexter only ever kills bad people, he doesn't want to draw attention to it. But now there's another killer out there who's being a whole lot less subtle¿ DEARLY DEVOTED DEXTER: Miami's best-dressed serial killer is getting twitchy — he hasn't killed for months. Ever since their paths first crossed, Sergeant Doakes hasn't let Dexter Morgan out of his sight. Then a body turns up, mutilated and barely alive. To trap the torturer, Doakes and Dexter will have to work together, if they can trust each other. It's a devil's pact and one of them will have to be the bait... DEXTER IN THE DARK: When Dexter is brought in to analyse a charred headless corpse, it seems he's dealing with a killer even more sinister than he is, and one with a personal interest in him. And with Dexter now having a wedding to plan and a family to protect, the stakes are high. As he realises his step-children might share his blood-lust, if he's ever to help them target it, Dexter will first have to stay alive himself.
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