“This Chance Planet” by Elizabeth Bear is a near future science fiction story about a young Russian waitress with ambitions to become an engineer and her musician boyfriend, who wants her to gestate a liver for money so his band can tour. Plus, there’s a dog.At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.

Inspired by Richard Matheson’s classic “Duel,” “Throttle,” by Joe Hill and Stephen King, is a duel of a different kind, pitting a faceless trucker against a tribe of motorcycle outlaws in the simmering Nevada desert. Their battle is fought out on twenty miles of the most lonely road in the country, a place where the only thing worse than not knowing what you're up against, is slowing down…

Inspired by Richard Matheson’s classic “Duel,” “Throttle,” by Joe Hill and Stephen King, is a duel of a different kind, pitting a faceless trucker against a tribe of motorcycle outlaws in the simmering Nevada desert. Their battle is fought out on twenty miles of the most lonely road in the country, a place where the only thing worse than not knowing what you're up against, is slowing down…

Bad blood and gas don’t mix the thunder stretch — the stretch where the hellions of the deadly oval meet to drive their bargain for glory — or death!

The latest short-story collection from Britain’s bestselling writer, ‘the greatest storyteller of our age’.

The fourteen new stories in To Cut a Long Story Short follow in the tradition of Jeffrey Archer’s storytelling.

An elderly man who doesn’t know which of his relations to leave his fortune to, declares himself bankrupt to find out who really cares about him — only to be surprised by the results.

A man listens in on a conversation on a crossed line, which changes his whole life.

A South African, a long-standing believer in apartheid, has a change of heart.

A criminal who wants the police to catch him so he can live off his ill-gotten gains.

Two old friends find themselves on opposite sides in a murder case.

A Henry Moore statue disappears and reappears in a different form.

A study of seven men, each of whom believes he should have the job of the man immediately above him.

This collection is Archer’s finest to date.

It’s a good class — the light-heavy. It’s seen fighters like Bob the Fitz, Tunney, Greb, Siki and Slapsey Maxie. But never before one like Junior Franklin.

That’s why these parents bribed their children to wait. It was a gamble, but it seemed the only way to stop them...

The saucer aliens are here. They’re healing the planet. They’ve got to be stopped.

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This was the big one he had to enter — the most important one of his life. It wasn’t to be held on a golf course, and just by entering he had to win.

Peter feels helpless, blaming himself for not being able to protect his wife, Gabrielle, when they disturb a burglary. Lost in a coma for two months, a bedside vigil is nearing an end as death beckons to keep them apart forever. The real world is always dead when you are TRAPPED IN A BROKEN MIND.

After we had been married a year, I realized two things. One: There was no mystery left — she had become totally predictable. Two: I had passed up the opportunity to use my marriage to business advantage.

A geometric figure is sometimes more complicated than it looks.

The man is rare who will give his life for what is merely the lesser of two evils. Merrick’s decision was even tougher: to save human beings at the expense of humanity, or vice versa?

Every era in history has had its Pop Ganlon’s. Along in years and not successful and not caring much anyway. A matter of living out their years, following an obscure path to oblivion.It was that way in ancient Egypt, just as it will be when the Solar System shrinks to our size. And once in a while such men are given an opportunity to contribute to the society that has forgotten them….

Stella thought she’d made up a lie on the spot, asking her childhood friend if he remembered the strange public broadcast TV show with the unsettling host she and all the neighborhood kids appeared on years ago. But he does remember. And so does her mom. So why doesn’t Stella? The more she investigates the show and the grip it has on her hometown, the eerier the mystery grows.

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«Он открыл дверь в темноту просмотрового зальчика.Раздалось резкое, как оплеуха: «Закройте дверь!» Он скользнул внутрь и выполнил приказ. Оказавшись в непроглядной тьме, тихонько выругался. Тот же тонкий голос с сарказмом произнес:– Боже! Вы Тервиллиджер?– Да, – отозвался Тервиллиджер.В более светлом пятне справа угадывался экран. Слева неистово прыгал огонек сигареты в невидимых губах…»