Историческая фантастика
Различные книги в жанре Историческая фантастикаГитлерград
Действие происходит в 1960 году. Между Третьим Рейхом и Советским Союзом заключено перемирие, по которому за Рейхом остался и Новгород, и Ленинград, переименованный в Гитлерград. Для проведения мирных переговоров в Москву направляется посольство Германии Посольство атаковано. Расследование ведет совместная бригада следователей.
Стихия. Книга 1. Вероника: Проект «Горгона»
Вероника не просто красивая девушка из Берлина. Она обладает таинственными способностями, которые позволяют ей управлять чужой волей. Идет 1936 год, и ей следовало бы постараться, чтобы о ее талантах не узнали во властных структурах.Непреодолимые обстоятельства заставят девушку очень быстро повзрослеть и осознать, насколько жестокой бывает жизнь.В книге поднимаются актуальные во все времена темы гуманизма, свободы человека, а также ценности дружбы и любви.
Ангел [не] обыкновенный
Крылья у Бажены прорезались в одночасье…Подарок это Судьбы или проклятье?Таких, как она, найдется девять, и раньше они уже встречались. Теперь Птахам предстоит узнать, зачем им крылья, почему Прокламат так настойчиво за ними следит и кто такие Бдители. Ещё нужно будет научиться летать, а самой Бажене разобраться с чувствами к парню, крылья которого так непохожи на её собственные.
Kiss Me, Stranger
Set in an unnamed country sometime in the past, present, or future, Kiss Me, Stranger is the story of one woman's attempts to keep her family together while a civil war rages around her.Penelope, her husband and her fourteen children live in a small war-torn country built atop a landfill. After her husband and eldest son are drafted by opposing factions in the war, Penelope and her remaining children, desolate and nearly starving, are forced to scavenge for scrap–comprised of discarded consumer goods such as computers, televisions and automobiles–in the bombed-out city. When the government scrap collector makes an unreasonable demand in already unreasonable circumstances, Penelope slaps him across the face, leading to her arrest. Her subsequent escape sends her family on a journey literally into the heart of the landfill, where they come face to face with the stupidity, destruction and at times, dark humor, of war and modern consumer society.Featuring over fifty illustrations by the author, Kiss Me, Stranger is a comical and tragic commentary on war, violence, and consumerism.
Missile Paradise
Ron is extremely well-established in the writing community–he is a former president of AWP–and we will be bringing his extensive network to garner attention and reviews for the bookAdditional blurbs to come from Kevin Wilson, Bob Shacochis, Julia Glass and Alice McDermott Ron's awards for writing include a Faulkner Society gold medal, a Pushcart Prize, a New Letters Award, a Best of the Web Award, a Maryland Arts Council grant, and many others. Missile Paradise is set on the Marshall Islands, which are on the edge of Micronesia, smack dab in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and almost precisely on the equator. The U.S. tested 67 nuclear bombs in, on, and over the Marshall Islands from 1946 through 1958, and to this day, maintains a top secret missile testing program there.Ron lived in the Marshall Islands as a teenager–on that top-secret missile base, called Kwajalein. He returned there in the 1990s, and again in 2008, to establish a program to teach the Marshallese English.
The Metaphysical Ukulele
"Leave it to the audacious Sean Carswell to crack the code on this secret society of writers, especially after so many other publications (the [i]Believer, [i]Bitch, [i]Vanity Fair) have tried and failed. I'm humbled and grateful to be immortalized in this wily, coltish collection with fellow strummers Flannery, Herman and weird old Uncle Thom."—Pam Houston"On the surface, Carswell is a literary chameleon, moving effortlessly in and out of voices, genres, and styles, but underneath and above that, he is a born storyteller, always focused on his characters' hearts and minds and fitting ends."—Ben Loory, author of [i]Stories for Nighttime and Some for the DayWe all know Herman Melville, Jack Kerouac, Thomas Pynchon, Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Chandler, Chester Himes, and Pam Houston. Now meet their metaphysical ukuleles. Mixing the flair of literary invention with real events in each writer's life—Herman Melville living with a tribe of cannibals; Raymond Chandler holding [i]The Blue Dahlia hostage from Paramount Studios; Flannery O'Connor falling in love; Chester Himes threatening to decapitate his landlord, and many more—Sean Carswell takes the nonfiction of some our most famous writer's lives and turns it into exquisite fiction, with a ukulele thrown in for good measure. At times heartbreaking, at times absurd, the stories in this truly one-of-a-kind collection delightfully blur the line between what is life, and what is literature.[b]Sean Carswell is the author of the novels [i]Drinks for the Little Guy, [i]Train Wreck Girl, and [i]Madhouse Fog, and the short story collections [i]Barney's Crew and [i]Glue and Ink Rebellion. He co-founded the independent book publisher Gorsky Press and the music magazine [i]Razorcake. He currently teaches writing and literature at California State University, Channel Islands.
