Один из величайших прозаиков своего поколения, Андре Асиман, в книге Homo Irrealis в форме эссе исследует, что значит время для художников и писателей, которые не могут постичь жизнь в настоящем. Понятие «ирреалис» не о прошлом или будущем — оно о том, что могло бы быть, никогда не происходило, но гипотетически еще может случиться. От размышлений о поэзии метро и временных резонансов пустых итальянских улиц до описания жизней и творчества Зигмунда Фрейда, Константиноса Кавафиса, Винфрида Зебальда, Джона Слоуна, Эрика Ромера, Марселя Пруста и Фернандо Пессоа и портретов Александрии и Санкт-Петербурга, Homo Irrealis — это анализ силы воображения, способного создать место вне крепкой хватки времени.

Inhumanity is a short novel that explores the darkest sides of love, revenge, and life but I must warn you that this book will cause your mind to enter the darkest parts of yourself and humankind.

The dictionary describes inhumanity as the quality or state of being cruel or barbarous, and is what you will find within these chapters, a story about people that have and will do cruel or barbarous actions to one another for their own gain. It was my intention to stretch my own limits of my imagination in creating this story and I found myself struggling to write the very words you are about to read. If you feel you have the courage and the mental resilience, then I urge you to move forward.

«— Я знаю, чтобы вы с отцом для меня хотели, но оставаться здесь не могу.Мэттью Гиббон быстро принял решение, вошел в спальню, упаковал чемодан и отправился на вокзал, где сел на поезд до Лондона».

Nobody ever told Marvin Mackleschmidt that becoming an interplanetary pilot would be easy. It’s even tougher, however, however, when you’re a little bit chicken. The kind of chicken that wears feathers and clucks, that is. When disaster strikes Lagrange station, can Marvin overcome his genetic handicap and save the hundreds of passengers whose lives depend on him?

In a 1916 story by Heinz von Lichberg, a man falls in love with his landlady’s daughter—and her name is Lolita.

In 1955 the writer Vladimir Nabokov became world famous with the novel Lolita, the story of a stormy obsession with a nymph that leads a man to his downfall. The work immediately became a contemporary classic.

However, recently it has been discovered that, almost forty years before, a dark German writer, Heinz von Lichberg, had already written and published a story entitled Lolita, in which a teenager from Alicante seduced a German scholar on a trip to Spain. Did Nabokov know this first Lolita? To what extent was he inspired by it?

In the aftermath of the Battle of Detroit, Corporal Jackson finds out how the 365th AIB got a mauling in the Public Residence Clusters, and why the Territorial Army may have lost control over a big chunk of Detroit.A novella in the Terms of Enlistment universe.

A gorgeous illustrated edition of a classic novella from the #1 bestselling author of A Game of Thrones—a chilling mystery set on a seemingly haunted spaceship, soon to be an original series on SYFY.

Featuring fifteen original illustrations, this is the definitive edition of an electrifying tale that combines the deep-space thrills of Alien, the psychological horror of The Shining, and, of course, the inimitable vision of George R. R. Martin.

When a scientific expedition is launched to study a mysterious alien race, the only ship available is the Nightflyer, a fully autonomous vessel manned by a single human. But Captain Royd Eris remains locked away, interacting with his passengers only as a disembodied voice—or a projected hologram no more substantial than a ghost.

Yet that’s not the only reason the ship seems haunted. The team’s telepath, Thale Lasamer, senses another presence aboard the Nightflyer—something dangerous, volatile, and alien. Captain Eris claims to know nothing about the elusive intruder, and when someone, or something, begins killing off the expedition’s members, he’s unable—or unwilling—to stem the bloody tide.

Only Melantha Jhirl, a genetically enhanced outcast with greater strength, stamina, and intelligence than other humans, has a chance of solving the mystery—and stopping the malevolent being that’s wiping out her shipmates.

But first she has to keep herself alive.

When the seeds rained down from deep space, it may have been the first stage of an alien invasion—or something else entirely. How much time do we have left, and do we even understand what timescale to use? As a slow apocalypse blooms across the Earth, planets and plants, animals and microbes, all live and die and evolve at different scales. Is one human life long enough to unravel the mystery?

Nine Last Days on Planet Earth is a Tor.com Original from the award-winning science fiction author Daryl Gregory.

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

Literary Awards: Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novelette (2019), Locus Award Nominee for Novelette (2019), Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Nominee (2019)

Спасибо благородным рыцарям с храбрыми сердцами.

Литмиру – за то, что свел нас вместе.

Форуму, а в особенности участникам авторского коллективного чтения – ребята, спасибо за то, что вы такие… да блин, просто спасибо, что ВЫ есть! Строгие критики и просто хорошие люди, с которыми можно поговорить о творчестве и обо всем на свете.

И конечно, нашим читателям, теперь уже общим.

С безмерной благодарностью, Ваши, Юля и Ди.

Граф, рыцарь и...

Призрак.

Published in Asimov’s Science Fiction June 2015The title of her latest story was adapted from the name of a shrine on I-95. “Our Lady of the Highways,” she tells us, “has probably inspired a song from every musician who has ever passed it.” The tale is, in part, a love letter to her touring van.

У меня есть все, о чем мечтает, каждая девушка. Десять лет назад, я не имела ничего - лишь дружбу и любовь всего лишь одного человечка. Нам было по девять, но это не так важно.

Он был моим щитом, от насмешек в приюте, был моим теплом, моим защитником, моим домом.

Эштон был моим лучшим другом.

До тех пор, пока однажды все не изменилось, и на долгие годы, судьба разлучила нас, а в его сердце поселилась ненависть ко мне.

Я хочу увидеть в его глазах мальчика из прошлого, но теперь я вижу там лишь...

чудовище.

Мы не должны были снова встретиться. Но так случилось, и с этого и началась моя история...

A high octane, darkly hilarious tale of one man’s journey to live a life after the global pandemic. Equal parts madness and hilarity, this gripping tale follows a broken mop wielding protagonist who runs into a slew of unusual, fascinating, and dangerous characters. Fans of apocalyptic fiction and absurdist humor will find themselves immersed in an original work of pandemic calamity. Few stories capture some of the more hellish aspects of social collapse; from dirty toilets to the disappearance of allergy medicine.

A genre-bending adventure tale that never lets up on the suspense and action, while giving readers a unique perspective on what really matters. Full of memorable characters, psychos, raiders, fellow travelers, our hero ends up the unlikely guardian of two young post-apocalyptic humans. Will they find their safe haven? Give this thriller a look if you’re looking for a fast, entertaining, and unusual ride.

The journey veers from mad cults, Katana armed survivors, to towns full of people on the brink of civil war. Our hero and companions are sure to inspire a new sense of possibility.

Copyright © Declan McCreary 2018

Pennsylvania is a short story, 16,500 words (about forty five pages,) and it is the first in the Pennsylvania series.Jedidiah Troyer is now a traveler. He has signed up for an emigration program that is colonizing the planet of New Pennsylvania. He just wants to start a farm and homestead on affordable land in a new Amish community. Space pioneering isn’t as easy as it sounds when you’re plain.… As he leaned over to pull his meal tray from the slot in the machine, he noticed the computer screen above the slot.Your charge: 2,000 UniletsYour balance: 598,000 Unilets598,000 Unilets! Wait a minute. That’s way too much. Something is wrong…

How did it start? A deadly virus from the Arctic. An international team of US, Russian, Chinese, and Korean scientist uncovered a prehistoric artifact frozen in the ice of the North. What they didn’t know is it carried a slumbering disease more fatal than the Medieval Black Plague.

Gideon Cole is the son of a US General stationed in San Francisco. Gideon is surprised when the first nuclear missile hits New York City, ushering in the Apocalypse. His Dad calls, telling him it’s time to head to a secret war bunker.

Along the way, as time is running out, they pick up Lynda Brodunvich and her father. Lynda was Gideon’s high school crush a decade ago.

Will they make it to the bunker in time, before the bombs drop? If the plague doesn’t wipe out humanity, will they destroy each other on apocalyptic scales? If they do, is this the end of the world? Or can two people begin mankind over again?

If you enjoy the dystopian genre, the end times, the last days theme, you’ll enjoy this book. With a Rise of the Machines, Terminator 3, style (without the evil robots), or Book of Eli, Armageddon theme, this author brings out a different aspect of what a nuclear holocaust could start. What if we could start the world over again? What would that be like?

In the near future, if Vegas games are ingeniously scam-proof, then the heists have to be too, in this imaginative and whip-smart story by the New York Times bestselling author of The Martian.

An IT whiz at the Babylon Casino is enlisted to upgrade security for the game of keno and its random-number generator. The new quantum computer system is foolproof. But someone on the inside is no fool. For once the odds may not favor the house—unless human ingenuity isn’t entirely a thing of the past.

Andy Weir’s Randomize 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.

In the near future, if Vegas games are ingeniously scam-proof, then the heists have to be too, in this imaginative and whip-smart story by the New York Times bestselling author of The Martian.

An IT whiz at the Babylon Casino is enlisted to upgrade security for the game of keno and its random-number generator. The new quantum computer system is foolproof. But someone on the inside is no fool. For once the odds may not favor the house—unless human ingenuity isn’t entirely a thing of the past.

Andy Weir’s Randomize 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.

Private detective and mutant shapeshifter Jeremy Stake (hero of the novels Deadstock and Blue War) has fallen on hard times in the far-future city of Punktown. When he is offered an opportunity to masquerade as another man to do his prison sentence for him, Stake agrees, but this is a new type of penitentiary – existing in its own pocket universe.

In this isolated prison, a series of gruesome murders has occurred, and the inmates soon force Stake to investigate. Can Stake catch a killer that might not even be human, without becoming just another victim?

Joseph loved life, his farm and his wife. Until he was torn away to fight in the war. His easy going attitude quickly died as he became a cold blooded killer for the Russian Army. His main objective remained of wanting to return to his simple life, but was this even possible?

At an isolated military academy in the mountains of Colorado, Grace Walker and a small group of cadets fight to survive when the Hemorrhage Virus reaches the campus.

Grace, the daughter of a Marine sniper who taught her how to protect herself knows the secrets of the emergency shelter at the Edgar Military Academy. She’s suspected for a long time that it was built as a bunker for someone other than the cadets. She’s about to get some answers to her questions.

Six cadets, ranging in age from fifteen to eighteen, take refuge in the shelter with Grace. Senior cadet, Luke Matthews’ uncle, Dr. Mike Matthews, works at the CDC. He promised to send someone to rescue Luke, his younger sister, Megan, and any other cadets in the shelter. Until rescue arrives the seven of them fight the infected and rescue other survivors who hid in the buildings on campus the night of the attack.

Surrounded by the infected, and cut off from the rest of the country, they’re unaware that the infection has nearly wiped out humanity.