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Elysia (Titus Crow Ser. #6)
by Brian LumleyThe Titus Crow novels are full of acts of nobility and heroism. Titus Crow and his faithful companion fight the forces of darkness - the infamous and deadly Elder Gods of H.P. Lovecraft - wherever they arise. The powerful Cthulhu and his dark minions are bent on ruling the earth - or destroying it, yet time after time, Titus Crow drives the monsters back into the dark from whence they came. Elysia is the sixth book in the Titus Crow series.
Elysian Fields (Sentinels Of New Orleans Ser. #3)
by Suzanne JohnsonNew Orleans is under attack from a copycat who is mimicking the crimes of a serial killer who terrorized the streets almost a century earlier. Drusilla Jaco could happily live without the advances of the 200-year-old undead pirate Jean Lafitte, but through him DJ learns the terrible truth: this is no copycat - someone has resurrected the original Axeman of New Orleans. And to make matters worse, the attacks aren't random at all. He's after her.So there's an undead serial killer on her back. A loup-garou who's going loco. The Elders are insisting on magic lessons from the world's most annoying wizard. And former partner - and sometime Neanderthal - Alex Warin has just turned up on DJ's to-do list. DJ is about to discover that life in Louisiana has more twists and turns than the mighty Mississippi.
Elysian Fields (Sentinels of New Orleans #3)
by Suzanne JohnsonA necromancer dredges up a historic terror in this urban fantasy thriller set in post-Katrina New Orleans.New Orleanians are under attack from an undead serial killer. The Axeman of New Orleans was supposed to have claimed his last victim in 1919—so what’s he doing stalking the streets now? A tip from the undead pirate Jean Lafitte leads DJ Jaco to the unknown necromancer behind the Axeman’s resurrection. And his ultimate target is a certain blonde wizard. Namely, DJ.Getting the Axeman back in his grave isn’t easy—especially when DJ has more trouble piling up around her. Jake Warin’s loup-garou nature is spiraling downward, enigmatic neighbor Quince Randolph is acting weirder than ever, the Elders are insisting on lessons in elven magic from the world’s most annoying wizard, and former partner Alex Warin just turned up on DJ’s to-do list. Not to mention big maneuvers are afoot in the halls of preternatural power.Suddenly, moving to the Beyond as Jean Lafitte’s pirate wench could be DJ’s best option.
Elysium Fire
by Alastair ReynoldsFeaturing Inspector Dreyfus - one of Alastair Reynolds most popular characters - this is a fast paced SF crime story, combining a futuristic setting with a gripping tale of technology, revolution and revenge.One citizen died a fortnight ago. Two a week ago. Four died yesterday . . . and unless the cause can be found - and stopped - within the next four months, everyone will be dead. For the Prefects, the hunt for a silent, hidden killer is on . . .Alastair Reynolds has returned to the world of The Prefect for this stand-alone SF mystery in which no one is safe. The technological implants which connect every citizen to each other have become murder weapons, and no one knows who or what the killer is - or who the next targets will be. But their reach is spreading, and time is not on the Prefects' side.
Elysium Fire
by Alastair ReynoldsFeaturing Inspector Dreyfus - one of Alastair Reynolds most popular characters - this is a fast paced SF crime story, combining a futuristic setting with a gripping tale of technology, revolution and revenge. One citizen died a fortnight ago. Two a week ago. Four died yesterday . . . and unless the cause can be found - and stopped - within the next four months, everyone will be dead. For the Prefects, the hunt for a silent, hidden killer is on . . . Alastair Reynolds has returned to the world of The Prefect for this stand-alone SF mystery in which no one is safe. The technological implants which connect every citizen to each other have become murder weapons, and no one knows who or what the killer is - or who the next targets will be. But their reach is spreading, and time is not on the Prefects' side.Read by John Lee(p) 2018 Hachette Audio
Elysium Fire (The Prefect Dreyfus Emergencies #2)
by Alastair ReynoldsElysium Fire is a smoldering tale of murderers, secret cultists, tampered memories, and unthinkable power, of bottomless corruption and overpowering idealism from the king of modern space opera. Ten thousand city-state habitats orbit the planet Yellowstone, forming a near-perfect democratic human paradise. But even utopia needs a police force. For the citizens of the Glitter Band that organization is Panoply, and the prefects are its operatives.Prefect Tom Dreyfus has a new emergency on his hands. Across the habitats and their hundred million citizens, people are dying suddenly and randomly, victims of a bizarre and unprecedented malfunction of their neural implants. And these "melters" leave no clues behind as to the cause of their deaths. . .As panic rises in the populace, a charismatic figure is sowing insurrection, convincing a small but growing number of habitats to break away from the Glitter Band and form their own independent colonies.
Elysium Girls
by Kate PentecostFrom a lush, dazzlingly original new voice in young adult fantasy comes an epic clash of witches, gods and demons as the fate of humanity hangs in the balance. <P><P>Elysium, Oklahoma, is a town like any other. Respectable. God-fearing. Praying for an end to the Dust Bowl. Until the day the people of Elysium are chosen by two sisters: Life and Death. And the Sisters like to gamble against each other with things like time, and space, and human lives. Elysium is to become the gameboard in a ruthless competition between the goddesses. <P><P>The Dust Soldiers will return in ten years' time, and if the people of Elysium have not proved themselves worthy, all will be slain. <P><P>Nearly ten years later, seventeen-year-old Sal Wilkinson is called upon to lead Elysium as it prepares for the end of the game. But then an outsider named Asa arrives at Elysium's gates with nothing more than a sharp smile and a bag of magic tricks, and they trigger a terrible accident that gets both Sal and Asa exiled into the brutal Desert of Dust and Steel. <P><P>There Sal and Asa stumble upon a gang of girls headed by another exile: a young witch everyone in Elysium believes to be dead. As the apocalypse looms, they must do more than simply tip the scales in Elysium's favor -- only by reinventing the rules can they beat Life and Death at their own game in this exciting fantasy debut.
Ema the Captive
by César Aira Chris AndrewsEma The Captive, César Aira's second novel, is perhaps closest in style to his popular An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter and The Hare In nineteenth-century Argentina, Ema, a delicate woman of indeterminate origins, is captured by soldiers and taken, along with with her newborn babe, to live as a concubine in a crude fort on the very edges of civilization. The trip is appalling (deprivations and rapes prevail along the way), yet the real story commences once Ema arrives at the fort, where she takes on a succession of lovers among the soldiers and Indians, leading to a brave and grand entrepreneurial experiment. As is usual with Aira's work, the wonder of the book is in the details of customs, beauty, and language, and the curious, perplexing reality of human nature.
Emanon Volume 2: Emanon Wanderer Part One
by Shinji Kaijo Dana LewisEmanon's wanderings across late-1960s Japan bring her across other lives in small country towns, with each encounter leaving people transformed in her wake. Yet when love once again leads to pregnancy and the start of a new cycle in Emanon's birth and rebirth, she is confronted with something she has never before borne: twins, one of them, for the first time, a boy. Will he too grow up to inherit her immortal memories, as all her daughters have before? Vol. 2 of four.
Emanon Volume 3: Emanon Wanderer Part Two
by Shinji KajioWhat happens when the woman who remembers everything...forgets who she herself is?In 1973, Ryozo, a young hiker on a mountain trail in far southern Japan, comes across a disoriented girl who doesn't know her own name, carrying on her the small change of a dozen different nations...and a bag with the initials "E.N." Haunted by nightmares of primordial seas and forests, she tries to find a new life with Ryozo--and reconnect somehow with her endless past.
Emanon Volume 4: Emanon Wanderer Part Three
by Shinji Kajio Kenji TsurutaEmanon is strange even for an immortal—a person with a mind over three billion years old, her consciousness endlessly migrating from new body to new body over the entire history of life&’s evolution on Earth.Emanon Volume 4 tells the story of her existence in that odd decade called the 1980s, as Emanon&’s latest incarnation grows from a grade schooler who seeks to conceal her intelligence, to a teen trying to avoid a relationship with the superhuman classmate pursuing her, to a young adult facing the death from old age of her best friend Hikari—a mortal time-jumper whose own life has crossed that of Emanon many times in the past, and will do so again many times in the future…but who dies at last in the here and now.
Emaster Sensei: Invasión zombi
by E-MasterSensei¡PRECAUCIÓN! Un virus letal ha sido liberado en Human Labs y todo el planeta corre el riesgo de convertirse en zombi! La humanidad pende de un hilo y solo un grupo de sobrevivientes será el único que puede regresar al mundo a la normalidad. Este es el comienzo de una gran aventura en un mundo desolado y al borde del colapso. E-MasterSensei y Pepito elCrack, junto con otros aliados, se enfrentarán en la ciudad de Hilltown y en los bosques de Greenville contra zombis nunca antes vistos con habilidades terroríficamente sorprendentes. El objetivo principal será sobrevivir y luchar contra los zombis en una pandemia global que arrasó con todas las civilizaciones del planeta. Solo los más aptos podrán seguir con vida, mucha suerte.
An Embarrassment of Corpses: An Oliver Swithin Mystery (Oliver Swithin Mysteries #1)
by Alan Beechey"Greenwood fans will welcome her thoughtful second reinterpretation of a well-known Greek myth. Among Greenwood's other talents, she displays a gift for writing songs of the period." —Publishers Weekly STARRED reviewIn this, the third and final book in Kerry Greenwood's Delphic Women series, Greenwood takes us into Troy as it struggles to rise from the ashes of the Trojan War. But while others have told the story as a struggle of men, Greenwood gives this mythology a compelling and exciting female viewpoint.The women of Troy are in terrible transition. Cassandra, the tragic heroine of the second Delphic Woman novel, is King Agamemnon's captive. Queen Clytemnestra has taken a lover who has thrown her own loyalties into question. And then there's Electra, daughter of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon. What compels the young beauty? What secret is she hiding? What are her intentions? Are they dark or justified?Cast aside everything you think you know about the Electra myth and allow yourself to view this classic story from a different perspective. Greenwood's conclusions will surprise and enrapt you.
Embassy of the Dead: Book 1 (Embassy of the Dead #1)
by Will MabbittThe first book in a spookily funny new series, where the living meets the dead and survival is a race against time. Perfect for fans of Skulduggery Pleasant and Who Let the Gods Out.Welcome to the Embassy of the Dead. Leave your life at the door. (Thanks.)When Jake opens a strange box containing a severed finger, he accidentally summons a grim reaper to drag him to the Eternal Void (yep, it's as fatal as it sounds) and now he's running for his life! But luckily Jake isn't alone - he can see and speak to ghosts.Jake and his deadly gang (well dead, at least) - Stiffkey the undertaker, hockey stick-wielding, Cora, and Zorro the ghost fox - have one mission: find the Embassy of the Dead and seek protection. But the Embassy has troubles of its own and may not be the safe haven Jake is hoping for . . .
Embassy of the Dead: Book 1 (Embassy of the Dead #1)
by Will MabbittThe first book in a spookily funny new series, where the living meets the dead and survival is a race against time. Perfect for fans of Skulduggery Pleasant and Who Let the Gods Out.Welcome to the Embassy of the Dead. Leave your life at the door. (Thanks.)When Jake opens a strange box containing a severed finger, he accidentally summons a grim reaper to drag him to the Eternal Void (yep, it's as fatal as it sounds) and now he's running for his life! But luckily Jake isn't alone - he can see and speak to ghosts.Jake and his deadly gang (well dead, at least) - Stiffkey the undertaker, hockey stick-wielding, Cora, and Zorro the ghost fox - have one mission: find the Embassy of the Dead and seek protection. But the Embassy has troubles of its own and may not be the safe haven Jake is hoping for . . .
Embassytown: La Ciudad Embajada
by China MiévilleEn un original universo futurista se entremezclan intriga política, una sugerente historia personal y un estremecedor conflicto social que amenaza con desatar una guerra apocalíptica entre humanos y extraterrestres. Una aclamada y ambiciosa novela de ciencia ficción del múltiple ganador del Arthur C. Clarke Award. En medio de la capital de un planeta ubicado en la más remota periferia del universo, se erige la Ciudad Embajada, un enclave diplomático asentado por colonos humanos. Aquí los humanos no son la única forma de vida inteligente. Avice, una de los colonos, goza de un raro y especial vínculo con los seres autóctonos, los enigmáticos Anfitriones... Aunque no puede hablar con ellos. Los únicos humanos que han dominado su peculiar Idioma son un pequeño cuadro de Embajadores. De repente el frágil equilibrio en que conviven humanos y extraterrestres se verá trastornado por la llegada de un nuevo Embajador. En cuanto los Anfitriones escuchen su insólito discurso, los cambios no se harán esperar. Y al avecinarse un cataclismo de proporciones incalculables, Avice se dará cuenta de que el único camino de salvación es que ella intente lo imposible: comunicarse directamente con los Anfitriones. Reseñas:«Es uno de los mejores libros de ciencia ficción de esta (o cualquier otra) década, y seguramente traspasará las fronteras del género.»Library Journal «Embassytown es una lograda obra de arte.»Ursula K. Le Guin, The Guardian «Complejo e imaginado de forma brillante, Embassytown hace lo que siempre hacen los mejores libros de ciencia ficción: plantea preguntas y examina ideas imposibles de plasmar en un contexto real... Y como la mejor ficción, Embassytown educa e incita a sus lectores al pensamiento mientras los deleita y fascina en igual medida.»The Miami Herald «Original, sofisticada, llena de ideas subversivas y plagada de imágenes extraterrestres inolvidables... Una sorprendente, y a veces brutal, rapsodia de usos del lenguaje.»The Christian Science Monitor «Una poderosa e inspiradora aproximación a cómo el lenguaje puede unir, pero también dividir, culturas.»The Financial Times «Miéville [es] uno de los fabulistas actuales más estimulantes.»Los Angeles Times
Embassytown: La Ciudad Embajada
by China MiévilleUna de las novelas más icónicas de China Miéville, galardonada con el premio Locus a la mejor novela de ciencia ficción. En un original universo futurista se entremezclan intriga política, una sugerente historia personal y un estremecedor conflicto social que amenaza con desatar una guerra apocalíptica entre humanos y extraterrestres. En medio de la capital de un planeta ubicado en la más remota periferia del universo, se erige la Ciudad Embajada, un enclave diplomático asentado por colonos humanos. Aquí los humanos no son la única forma de vida inteligente. Avice, una de los colonos, goza de un raro y especial vínculo con los seres autóctonos, los enigmáticos Anfitriones... Aunque no puede hablar con ellos. Los únicos humanos que han dominado su peculiar Idioma son un pequeño cuadro de Embajadores. De repente el frágil equilibrio en que conviven humanos y extraterrestres se verá trastornado por la llegada de un nuevo Embajador. En cuanto los Anfitriones escuchen su insólito discurso, los cambios no se harán esperar. Y al avecinarse un cataclismo de proporciones incalculables, Avice se dará cuenta de que el único camino de salvación es que ella intente lo imposible: comunicarse directamente con los Anfitriones. Reseñas:«Es uno de los mejores libros de ciencia ficción de esta (o cualquier otra) década, y seguramente traspasará las fronteras del género.»Library Journal «Embassytown es una lograda obra de arte.»Ursula K. Le Guin, The Guardian «Complejo e imaginado de forma brillante, Embassytown hace lo que siempre hacen los mejores libros de ciencia ficción: plantea preguntas y examina ideas imposibles de plasmar en un contexto real... Y como la mejor ficción, Embassytown educa e incita a sus lectores al pensamiento mientras los deleita y fascina en igual medida.»The Miami Herald «Original, sofisticada, llena de ideas subversivas y plagada de imágenes extraterrestresinolvidables... Una sorprendente, y a veces brutal, rapsodia de usos del lenguaje.»The Christian Science Monitor «Una poderosa e inspiradora aproximación a cómo el lenguaje puede unir, pero también dividir, culturas.»The Financial Times «Miéville [es] uno de los fabulistas actuales más estimulantes.»Los Angeles Times
Embassytown: A Novel
by China MiévilleNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn the far future, humans have colonized a distant planet, home to the enigmatic Ariekei, sentient beings famed for a language unique in the universe, one that only a few altered human ambassadors can speak. Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist, has returned to Embassytown after years of deep-space adventure. She cannot speak the Ariekei tongue, but she is an indelible part of it, having long ago been made a figure of speech, a living simile in their language. When distant political machinations deliver a new ambassador to Arieka, the fragile equilibrium between humans and aliens is violently upset. Catastrophe looms, and Avice is torn between competing loyalties: to a husband she no longer loves, to a system she no longer trusts, and to her place in a language she cannot speak—but which speaks through her, whether she likes it or not.Praise for Embassytown&“A breakneck tale of suspense . . . disturbing and beautiful by turns. I cannot emphasize enough how terrific this novel is. It's definitely one of the best books I've read in the past year, perfectly balanced between escapism and otherworldly philosophizing.&”—io9&“Embassytown is a fully achieved work of art. . . . Works on every level, providing compulsive narrative, splendid intellectual rigour and risk, moral sophistication, fine verbal fireworks and sideshows, and even the old-fashioned satisfaction of watching a protagonist become more of a person than she gave promise of being.&”—Ursula K Le Guin &“The Kafkaesque writer journeys to the distant edges of the universe in his latest sci-fi thriller.&”—Entertainment Weekly&“Utterly astonishing . . . A major intellectual achievement.&”—Kirkus Reviews&“Brilliant storytelling . . . The result is a world masterfully wrecked and rebuilt.&”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Embedded
by Dan AbnettHE'D DO ANYTHING TO GET A STORY. When journalist Lex Falk gets himself chipped into the brain of a combat soldier, he thinks he has the ultimate scoop - a report from the forbidden front line of a distant planetary war, live to the living rooms of Earth. When the soldier is killed, however, Lex has to take over the body and somehow get himself back to safety once more... broadcasting all the way.Heart-stopping combat science fiction from the million-selling Warhammer 40,000 author.File Under: Science Fiction [ Future Warefare | Chipped-In | Anything For a Story | Get Out Alive! ]From the Paperback edition.
The Embedding (S.F. MASTERWORKS)
by Ian WatsonIan Watson's brilliant debut novel was one of the most significant publications in British SF in the 1970s. Intellectually bracing and grippingly written, it is the story of three experiments in linguistics, and is driven by a searching analysis of the nature of communication. Deep in the Brazilian jungle, an isolated tribe face eviction from their ancestral lands - and the psychedelic fungus that makes their religious language possible.In a British laboratory, a brilliant linguist conducts cutting-edge experiments - but does his search for answers come at too high a cost?And in the ultimate test of linguistics, First Contact presents a challenge unlike any humanity has faced before . . .Fiercely intelligent, energetic and challenging, The Embedding immediately established Watson as a writer of rare power and vision, and is now recognized as a modern classic of SF.
The Embedding
by Ian WatsonIan Watson's brilliant debut novel was one of the most significant publications in British sf in the 1970s. Intellectually bracing and grippingly written, it is the story of three experiments in linguistics, and is driven by a searching analysis of the nature of communication. Fiercely intelligent, energetic and challenging, it immediately established Watson as a writer of rare power and vision, and is now recognized as a modern classic.
The Embedding
by Ian WatsonAliens wish to trade their advanced knowledge with humans in return for insights into Earth's complex language structures.
Ember
by Kristen Callihan"Callihan has a great talent for sexual tension and jaw-dropping plots that weave together brilliantly in the end."--- Diana Gabaldon, New York Times bestselling authorAfter a fire consumes the Ellis family fortune, the beautiful and resourceful Miranda finds herself faced with an impossible dilemma: enter a life of petty crime or watch her family succumb to poverty. But once her fiancée learns of her descent into danger--and of the strange, new powers she's discovered --saving her family may come at the high price of her heart. When Lord Benjamin Archer's one chance for redemption is destroyed by corrupt London antiquarian Hector Ellis, he vows to take what Ellis values most-his daughter Miranda. Forced to hide his face behind masks, Archer travels the world hoping to escape the curse that plagues him so that he can finally claim his prize.But once Archer returns home to London, will it be revenge he seeks? Or will the flame-haired beauty ignite new, undeniable desires? Word Count: 21,850 words.
Ember (Darkest London #1)
by Kristen CallihanAfter a fire consumes the Ellis family fortune, the beautiful and resourceful Miranda finds herself facedwith an impossible dilemma: enter a life of petty crime or watch her family succumb to poverty. But once herfiancée learns of her descent into danger - and of the strange, new powers she's discovered - saving herfamily may come at the high price of her heart. When Lord Benjamin Archer's one chance for redemption is destroyed by his enemy, Hector Ellis, he vows to take what Ellis values most - his daughter Miranda. Forced to hide his face behind masks, Archer travels the world hoping to escape the curse that plagues him so that he can finally claim his prize. But once Archer returns home to London, will it be revenge he seeks? Or will the flame-haired beauty ignite new, undeniable desires?For fans of Diana Gabaldon, Cassandra Clare, Amanda Quick and Gail CarrigerPraise for Kristen Callihan:'Callihan has a great talent for sexual tension and jaw-dropping plots that weave together brilliantly in the end.' Diana Gabaldon 'Evocative and deeply romantic, fascinating from the very first page.' Nalini Singh"A sizzling paranormal with dark history and explosive magic! Callihan is an impressive new talent." Larissa Ione
Ember
by James K. DeckerPlagued by overpopulation, disease, and starvation, humanity was headed for extinction--until an alien race called the haan arrived. And then the real trouble began. Dragan Shao is a dedicated soldier, but he's seen--and delivered--too much death and despair as a border zone guard. After he secures a discharge, he travels to the gritty city of Hangfei, where he hopes being a security guard patrolling the impact rim--the wasteland that surrounds the haan spaceship since it crash-landed fifty years ago--will be a less devastating duty. But that's before he receives a distress signal from a girl more in need of saving than himself... Don't miss James K. Decker's The Burn Zone