Павел Александрович Мейлахс родился в 1967 году. Закончил матмех ЛГУ. Публиковался в журналах «Новый мир», «Звезда», «Ваш город», в «Литературной газете». Автор книги «Избранник» (2002). Лауреат премии журнала «Звезда». Живет в Санкт-Петербурге.

Павел Александрович Мейлахс родился в 1967 году. Закончил матмех ЛГУ. Публиковался в журналах «Новый мир», «Звезда», «Ваш город», в «Литературной газете». Автор книги «Избранник» (2002). Лауреат премии журнала «Звезда». Живет в Санкт-Петербурге.

Талантливый норвежский писатель и драматург Александр Хьелланн (1849–1906) является ярким представителем реалистического направления в литературе Норвегии. Вслед за Ибсеном, который своей социальной драмой обновил европейский театр, Хьелланн своим социальным романом во многом определил не только лицо норвежской реалистической литературы, но и то ведущее место, которое она занимает среди других западноевропейских литератур второй половины XIX века.

Кэрри Андерс официально рассталась с Остином Томасом, когда получила работу своей мечты в большом городе. Втайне она скучает по нему и борется с искушением пробраться обратно в родной городок в Западной Вирджинии, чтобы увидеть его. Вот почему в этом году она не собирается домой на праздники. Ее сердце больше не выдержит утра, после которого ничего не изменится, а Остин ясно дал понять, что не заинтересован в переезде.

Остин ждал, когда Кэрри поймет, что она не может жить без него. Но когда он услышал, что она не приедет домой на Рождество, он решает принять меры. Если Кэрри не хочет приезжать домой, он привезет частичку дома к Кэрри — в виде участка с рождественскими елками рядом с ее квартирой. Он уверен, что ежедневные встречи сподвигнут ее вернуться с ним домой, на этот раз навсегда.

Их влечение друг к другу страстно, как никогда, но с такими противоречивыми Рождественскими пожеланиями сможет ли каждый из них получить то, что действительно хочет в этом году?

В подлиннике носит название «Short Cruises» (1906). Как кажется, на русский язык не переводился. Я бы охарактеризовал как «милые спокойные юмористические рассказы».Герои юмористических рассказов У. У. Джекобса, написанных в начале XX века, — «нижний средний класс», простые труженики: моряки, фермеры, горожане, домохозяйки. В своей повседневной жизни они совершают ошибочные шаги, попадают в затруднительные социальные ситуации, но с честью выходят из них.

Юнгфрау — это название высокой горы в Альпах.Так же назывался ресторанчик в альпийском городке, где проездом оказался герой рассказа.А в переводе с немецкого это слово означает: "девушка, молодая женщина"…

«— Нет. У меня идея получше. Чтобы стать одним из нас, ему нужно проникнуть в дом Ядовитого Плюща.— Ну что? Хватит смелости это сделать или останешься бздуном?»

Из сборника «Современная швейцарская новелла».

Шесть путников совершают паломничество к священному озеру. Они идут рядом, но каждый — своим путем…

A collection of short stories by the author of Madensky Square reveals the writer’s ability to write funny and erudite historical fiction.From Publishers WeeklyKnown for her neatly fashioned romance fiction, Ibbotson (Madensky Square) here collects 19 decorous stories of love gained and lost. With settings that range from the early 1990s to the present day, they generally feature surprise endings, some of them sadly contrived. In the title story, Max, a lawyer and confirmed bachelor in pre-WW I Vienna, attends the opera, where Helene, a singer of Wagnerian heft, is hurt in an onstage accident. She hires Max to file suit; they marry; later, Max takes a mistress. On his wife’s death he is free to marry his paramour, but Helene’s will dictates otherwise — she knew that forbidden fruit is sweetest. The London grocer in “Doushenka” is obsessed by Russia. Traveling to St. Petersburg, he falls in love with a young ballerina, but their relationship is ended by his sacrifice on her behalf, and for the rest of his life he must be content with the memories of his Great Love. A Great Love is the essential element in these old-fashioned tales, of which “Sidi” is the most celebratory-and blatantly sentimental. Eschewing the angst and alienation discussed in much contemporary fiction, Ibbotson offers leisurely details of a more genteel era whose passing she obviously laments. Her stories, however, are oversweet and ultimately cloying.From Library JournalWomen who enjoy romantic fiction will enjoy these heartwarming stories, first published in Great Britain in 1984. Ibbotson concentrates on the infinite variety of Great Love-its discovery, development, recognition, loss, and denouement. Her characters, males and females of all ages and professions, are frequently seen during the Christmas season and in prewar Vienna and Russia. In many stories, people find and lose each other-often with an O. Henry twist. Ibbotson, a winner of the Romantic Novelists Association award, writes charmingly about love, forgiveness, loss, and happiness. Highly recommended.Ellen R. Cohen, Rockville, Md.

Now a major motion picture, Stephen King’s brilliant and terrifying story of a marriage with truly deadly secrets.Darcy Anderson’s husband of more than twenty years is away on one of his routine business trips when the unsuspecting Darcy looks for batteries in the garage. Her toe knocks up against a hidden box under a worktable and in it she discovers a trove of horrific evidence that her husband is two men—one, the benign father of her children, the other, a raging rapist and murderer. It’s a horrifying discovery, rendered with bristling intensity, and it definitively ends “A Good Marriage.”About the AuthorStephen King is the author of more than fifty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Doctor Sleep and Under the Dome, now a major TV miniseries on CBS. His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller as well as the Best Hardcover Book Award from the International Thriller Writers Association. He is the recipient of the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.

WINNER OF THE BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION AWARD.When nuclear war breaks out and the nations of the Earth are destroyed, a group of US astronauts are marooned on the lunar surface. Using the “torsion field generator”, a WWII Nazi Wunderwaffe previously known as the Bell, they hope to find an alternate Earth that did not suffer nuclear armageddon. But once they do discover one, how will they return home? They have a single Lunar Module, which can carry only four astronauts into lunar orbit…

A murderous android discovers itself in All Systems Red, a tense science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates the roots of consciousness through Artificial Intelligence.One of the Verge’s Best Books of 2017“As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure.”In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety.But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern.On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ’droid—a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module, and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.” Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is.But when a neighboring mission goes dark, it’s up to the scientists and their Murderbot to get to the truth.

It is 1965 and Ginny Eckhardt is a science fiction writer. She’s been published in the big science fiction magazines and is friends with many of the popular science fiction authors of the day. Her husband, Walden, has just been selected by NASA as one of the New Nineteen Apollo astronauts… which means Ginny will be a member of the Astronaut Wives Club.Although the realities of spaceflight fascinate Ginny, her genders bars her from the United State space programme. Her science fiction offers little in the way of consolation—but perhaps there is something she can do about that…Covering the years 1965 to 1972, when Walden Eckhardt lifts-off aboard Apollo 15 as the mission’s lunar module pilot, this is Ginny’s life: wife, science fiction writer, astronaut wife… because that is ALL THAT OUTER SPACE ALLOWS.

It starts with a mystery: an old manor house is surrounded by an impenetrable bubble, and all that lives within it seems to wither and die.

Investigating, the Army find two men inside the house: men who vanished some 100 years ago but who have now reappeared, and as young as the day they disappeared.

There are rumours of a machine which could puncture the dimensions, allowing man to travel beyond the bounds of the Earth… and for other things to travel here.

Another day, another war.PRAISE FOR ANOTHER WAR:

‘Reading like a UNIT-era ‘Doctor Who’ this is a ‘us = good, them = bad’ story with no new-age sensibilities to worry about … a ‘Boy’s Own’ action adventure complete with tentacled monsters and baying mobs.’– Sue Davies, SFCrowsnest.co.uk

‘This short novel is fast-paced, action-packed, and a page-turner. It is a mix of horror, time-travel, military action, suspense, and science-fiction, with a little bit of ancient history thrown into the mix. For the most part, Morden’s writing is concise and fluid. Many of the scenes, particularly the action sequences, are very well done, almost cinematic in scope. This book would actually make a really good summer blockbuster popcorn movie.’– Chris Welch, Hellnotes

Shortlisted for the 2006 World Fantasy Award.

On the eve of Earth’s destruction, a young scientist discovers something too precious to lose, in a story of cataclysm and hope by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Divergent trilogy.

It’s only two weeks before an asteroid turns home to dust. Though most of Earth has already been evacuated, it’s Samantha’s job to catalog plant samples for the survivors’ unknowable journey beyond. Preparing to stay behind and watch the world end, she makes a final human connection.

As certain doom hurtles nearer, the unexpected and beautiful potential for the future begins to flower.

Veronica Roth’s Ark is part of Forward, a collection of six stories of the near and far future from out-of-this-world authors. Each piece can be read or listened to in a single thought-provoking sitting.

“I love Murderbot!”

—Ann Leckie

Artificial Condition is the follow-up to Martha Wells’s hugely popular science fiction action and adventure All Systems Red

It has a dark past—one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself “Murderbot”. But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more.

Teaming up with a Research Transport vessel named ART (you don’t want to know what the “A” stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue.

What it discovers will forever change the way it thinks…

At the Publisher’s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Imperial Library Corps has brought the light of civilization to the Galactic Periphery for millennia, but when a rogue admiral launches a surprise attack on the Empire will the libraries be abandoned as just another casualty of war?Amid the backdrop of interstellar conflict, a librarian at the edge of the galaxy must make a fateful decision which will determine the course of his life. “Bibliophile” is a 11,000-word novella imagining the future of libraries and those who depend on them. It is the first installment in a series of library-themed science fiction stories titled “L is for Librarian.”

Now a Lifetime original movie, Stephen King’s haunting story about an author of a series of mystery novels who tries to reconcile her old life with her life after a horrific attack and the one thing that can save her: Revenge.Tess Thorne, a famous mystery writer, faces a long drive home following a book signing engagement. Advised to take a shortcut at the suggestion of the event’s planner, Tess sets out for home, well after dark. On a lonely stretch of New England road, her tire blows out, and when a man in a pick up stops, it is not to help her, but to repeatedly assault her and leave her for dead. Tess survives, and she plots a revenge that will bring her face-to-face with another stranger: the one inside herself, capable of gruesome violence.