Former SAS Trooper turned MI6 Operative Aidan Snow returns in a short story preceding the release of the third Aidan Snow thriller ‘The Dangerous Deadly Elite’.As an ex-pat Brian Webb has a great life, a sexy wife and a perfect daughter. But all this is put in jeopardy when on his way home from a night of heavy drinking he is chased by a group of armed assailants. Who are his pursuers, what do they want from him and why are they shooting? Webb would rather not hang around to find out. Crashing a stolen car in an attempt to escape Webb is blooded, cornered and out of options… left with no other choice he calls the only person who would never let him down. He calls Aidan Snow.Arriving in Kyiv, Snow takes the law into his own hands in an attempt to find and rescue one of his oldest friends. With the ghosts of the past on his shoulders Snow must again rely on his SAS training and will not stop until he discovers the truth.

“Hit and Run” is a satisfying, well-written story that leads to unexpected places, a story that in the hands of a good writer resonates and stays with you long after you’ve finished reading it.

One moment of panic turned the driver into a hunted killer.

Ellie is on her way to visit her comatose mother when her sister sends her to repair physics. Each universe has skunkworks that generate the universe within it, making this multiverse a set of matryoshka dolls. The skunkworks that generate this universe have become faulty, and the physical constants suddenly… aren’t. In order to fix the skunkworks, to make physics self-consistent again, and to make the world work as it’s supposed to, Ellie will have to remember everything her mother has taught her.

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Imagine making all the lucky strokes of a lifetime again — in a single golf match? Mr. Fingerhaver did.

At last.

They were alone... with plumbers, carpenters, plasterers — and a bulldozer in the bedroom.

When Adrian and Paula move to a cottage in the countryside, they don’t know what to expect. At first, Adrian finds their new life idyllic, and insists on lots of long walks and fresh air, while Paula finds rural life lonely and dull.Then some small and oddly silent children start showing up – in the woods, the garden, and eventually inside the house itself. Their presence proves disturbing to Adrian, who is having second thoughts about the move they’ve made. It’s Paula now who seems more at home with country life, and Paula who starts to take a peculiar comfort from the mysterious new arrivals.Hunger is a haunting account of a marriage unsettled by a move – from a master of psychological suspense.

On a distant planet called Nova Prime, the United Ranger Corps defends the galaxy’s remaining humans from an alien race known as the Skrel and their genetically engineered predators, the Ursa. But one ordinary man may have just found the key to humanity’s last stand: a secret weapon hidden deep within his own psyche.“Ghost Stories: Hunted” is the first of six eBook short stories that lead up to the events of After Earth, the epic science fiction adventure film directed by M. Night Shyamalan and starring Jaden Smith and Will Smith.For all his charm, looks, and skills on the holographic battlefield, Daniel Silver has been drifting through life in Nova Prime City. After proposing to his girlfriend and getting rejected in the cruelest way possible, Daniel has no choice but to accept an altogether different kind of proposition. Sigmund Ryerson, an eccentric energy magnate, has asked him to lead a civilian expedition to take down an Ursa, the...

Long ago, when they were all a lot younger, Zenia stole a man from each of them. Then she died. Now she’s come back. Or has she? There’s a lot more than one kind of ghost.Margaret Atwood revisits her classic characters from The Robber Bride. This story first appeared in the July/August 2012 issue of The Walrus magazine.

Here’s a man who set out to be the perfect husband. It almost broke up his marriage!

Peter F. Hamilton has proven himself a modern master of epic space opera, carrying the tradition of far-future empire building begun by Heinlein and Asimov into the new millennium. But Hamilton is also a master of the short story, and when he tackles one of science fiction’s most enduring themes-time travel-the result is as provocative as it is entertaining.It starts in 2007 with a break-in. The victim: Marcus Orthew, the financial and technological genius behind Orthanics, the computer company whose radical products have delivered a one-two punch to the industry, all but knocking PCs and Macs out of the ring. The perpetrator: a man obsessed with Orthew. Just another simple case of celebrity stalking—or so everyone assumes at first, including Metropolitan Police Chief Detective David Lanson. But when Lanson interviews the suspect, he makes a startling claim: Orthew is from the future. Or, rather, a future—a parallel timeline. Thus begins the ride of a lifetime for Lanson, as his pursuit of the facts tumbles him headlong down a rabbit hole—and the hunter finds himself hunted.Originally published in The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, edited by George Mann and published by Solaris Oxford, UK, in 2007.

Эта серия книг посвящается архитекторам и художникам – шестидесятникам. Удивительные приключения главного героя, его путешествия, встречи с крупнейшими архитекторами Украины, России, Франции, Японии, США. Тяготы эмиграции и проблемы русской коммьюнити Филадельфии. Жизнь архитектурно-художественной общественности Украины 60-80х годов и Филадельфии 90-2000х годов. Личные проблемы и творческие порывы, зачастую веселые и смешные, а иногда грустные, как сама жизнь. Архитектурные конкурсы на Украине и в Америке. Книгу украшают многочисленные смешные рисунки и оптимизм авторов. Серия состоит из 15 книг, связанных общими героями и общим сюжетом. Иллюстрации Александра Штейнберга.

If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love won the 2013 Nebula Award for Best Short Story, and was nominated for the 2014 Hugo Award for Best Short Story.As a paleontologist lies in a coma, his fiancée tells him how things would be different if he were a Tyrannosaurus rex.

«Один из моих приятелей сообщил мне описание странного приключения, случившегося с ним во время его путешествия по Италии. Мой приятель не автор и не умеет рассказывать красно и витиевато; желаю, чтоб интерес самого происшествия заменил для моих читателей красоту рассказа. Повторяю, мой приятель не автор, но простой путешественник, турист, для очистки совести принявшийся за перо…»

«Один из моих приятелей сообщил мне описание странного приключения, случившегося с ним во время его путешествия по Италии. Мой приятель не автор и не умеет рассказывать красно и витиевато; желаю, чтоб интерес самого происшествия заменил для моих читателей красоту рассказа. Повторяю, мой приятель не автор, но простой путешественник, турист, для очистки совести принявшийся за перо…»

Tale of strange and exotic love.

From out where the pale emotions of civilization are lashed into fury by primitive passions, come this tale of weird abandon and exotic love.

This fascinating story of unconventional love by John MacDonald round out this collection of great stories by truly great writers.

Born in 1896, Liam O'Flaherty is regarded as one of the most gifted writers Ireland has ever produced. His name is as much associated with recklessness and bravado as with literary achievement: he was handsome and daring, and by the time he was thirty his reputation was enviable. O'Flaherty's buccaneering spirit made him decide to join the Irish Guards: after being invalided out of the British Army in 1917 he travelled to various parts of the world taking all kinds of menial jobs, and it was not until he had been exiled from Ireland in 1922 for a wild escapade in 'The Troubles' that he began to write. He has the Irish gift for humour and vividness; for the basis of his stories he chooses simple situations which he evokes with insight and real charm.