Editorial: Bu Classics Books
Shipwrecked and isolated, a group of castaways must master their environment and their fears to survive on a desolate, forgotten piece of land.
Life is hard when you’re trying to outrun a vengeful pirate king. When the intergalactic Gate Niko Larsen and her crew plan on traveling through turns out to be out of commission, they make the most of things, creating a popup restaurant, the Second Last Chance, to serve dozens of other stranded ships. Niko smells something suspicious when archaeologist Jezli Farren shows up claiming to be able to fix the Gate. Farren, however, may know an ancient site and a weapon that can stop Tubal Last before he can take his revenge. In one of the most dangerous places in the Known Universe, everyone must face their ghosts: Talon attempts a desperate and highly illegal act to regain his lost twin, Atlanta must discard her old role and find a new one, Dabry confronts memories of his lost daughter, and Niko must find Petalia again, despite her promise not to. Meanwhile, You Sexy Thing contemplates what it wants from life—which may be very different from what Niko and the rest of the crew want.Ver libro
It begins in an age of war unlike any known before… A time of unprecedented change, disaster and destruction matched only by the flowering mind… Humanity hears the choir of voices from the rest of the universe… Three who become legend rise in the ranks of Abraxas… Join a world of AI and posthumanity as they develop their understandings of the universe. A series of complex sci-fi adventures spanning thousands of years. Filled with everything from darkness and conflict witnessed by tragic heroes to the discovery of self by an AI teddy bear and its squid companion as they journey through the solar system. We are all born as animals. The Complete Collection · THE GODS, WHEN MORTAL · THE CONSTRUCT'S CHILDHOOD · THE ILLUSION OF CHOICE · MY RISE AND FALL IN THE AI APOCALYPSE · PLAYERS IN THE SILENCE · OTHER ONE SHOT STORIESVer libro
No one is safe.Secret McQueen thought she’d seen it all, but that was before she, Desmond and Holden came home to find New York City burning and the streets overwhelmed with the walking dead. Now, in a race against time, she must find out who is responsible for unleashing hell on Earth.For that, she’s going to need a whole new team of vampire wardens to help round up the perpetrators, who turn out to be a gang that makes Sons of Anarchy look like toddlers on tricycles.Her quest across the city brings old friends and enemies out of the woodwork and reminds Secret once and for all why mercy and forgiveness are not always prudent. Lives will be lost, sacrifices will be made, and when the dust settles, nothing will ever be the same again.With no time to mourn her losses, the only question remaining is if Secret can survive long enough to stop the apocalypse…or if this is the one challenge that will finally drown her in rivers of undead blood.Warning: The final book in the Secret McQueen series has it all: hot kisses, unexpected guests, and enough tear-jerking moments to require a whole box of tissues. You’ve been warned.Ver libro
On a rainy September morning that just so happens to be her sixteenth birthday, Ailen Bright, a chicken-legged, straw-haired teenager, decides to commit suicide via drowning in the family bathtub. The ornate marble tub, adhering to her abusive father's love for anything expensive and Italian, is decorated by five sirens - who seemingly help her escape the house when her father breaks down the bathroom door. After an almost-successful suicide attempt number two, which lands her at the bottom of a lake, she learns that sirens are, in fact, real, and they want to turn her into one of them. An amazing, yet dark look into the mind and heart of a suicidal teenager, this urban fantasy follows Ailen's struggle to figure out the meaning of life, the unraveling of her confusing feelings for her theatrically goofy best friend Hunter, and her desperate battle for her father's love. Print copies (incl. signed!) available from the author's website. The other Siren Suicides books are My Sisters in Death and The Afterlife Listed by Unglue.it.Ver libro
This is one of the best Retif stories that Laumer wrote. Retif, a cynical spacefaring diplomat who constantly has to overcome the red-tape-infused failures of people with names like Ambassador Grossblunder is forced again to use his wit and intelligence to solve a huge problem. The competent diplomat Retief, surrounded by venal and incompetent politicians and bureaucrats is faced witha revolt on a world ruled by gambling. His crafty use of all means at hand enable him to both sooth the situation and irritate his superiors at the same time. Laumer served as a military officer and in the diplomatic corps, giving his stories a noticeable authenticity.Ver libro
"The Doom that Came to Sarnath" (1920) is a fantasy short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. It is written in a mythic/fantasy style and is associated with his Dream Cycle. It was first published in The Scot, a Scottish amateur fiction magazine, in June 1920. The Doom That Came to Sarnath and Other Stories is also the title for a collection of short stories by Lovecraft, first published in February 1971. According to the tale, more than 10,000 years ago, a race of shepherd people colonized the banks of the river Ai, in a land called Mnar, forming the cities of Thraa, Ilarnek, and Kadatheron (not to be confused with Kadath), which rose to great intellectual and mercantile prowess. Craving more land, a group of these hardy people migrated to the shores of a lonely and vast lake at the heart of Mnar, founding the city of Sarnath...Ver libro
