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Tajemný postapokalyptický thriller od autora bestsellerových fantasy sérií Loď kdesi uprostřed oceánu. Načervenalá mlha, která ne a ne zřídnout. A sedm lidí, kterým kdosi vymazal paměť. Ve chvíli, kdy se hrdinové na palubě probudí, nemají nejmenší tušení, odkud se na lodi vzali, kam mají namířeno ani co jsou vlastně zač. Jedinými vodítky jim jsou jizvy na hlavě, smyšlená jména vytetovaná na zápěstí a arzenál zbraní v podpalubí. Záhy však vyjde najevo, že každý člen skupiny je specialistou v určitém oboru, a že pokud chtějí přežít, budou muset táhnout za jeden provaz. Ovšem cesta, která je čeká, podrobí jejich vynucené spojenectví zatěžkávací zkoušce… a nejhrozivějším nepřítelem jim na ní budou jejich nejsilnější vzpomínky. Autor úspěšných fantasy sérií Stín krkavce, Draconis Memoria a Úmluva oceli přichází s napínavým příběhem z blízké budoucnosti, který nechává čtenáře tápat stejně jako postavy a až do poslední stránky přináší nová odhalení a zvraty.

Průřez padesáti lety literárních nočních můr, tedy povídkovým dílem jednoho z nejvýznamnějších současných autorů hororu, pro něž nejsou typické hektolitry krve, kvílení duchů ani hladová monstra.Autorovou doménou je naopak městská i venkovská paranoia, neklid a tíseň, rozklížené vztahy, děsivost cizích míst a neznámých lidí, hrůza každodennosti, nespolehlivost smyslů. Z povídek z let 1964 až 2012, které autor sám vybral pro toto reprezentativní české vydání, dýchá mrazivost moderního života. Díky pronikavému pozorovacímu talentu a schopnosti detekovat děsivé prvky v těch nejbanálnějších situacích se Campbell stal hlasem tiché hrůzy konce dvacátého století, velmistrem žánru, laureátem snad všech hororových ocenění a britskou žánrovou ikonou, o níž však český čtenář dosud z nějakého záhadného důvodu příliš neví.Nechte se odvést do zapadlých uliček anglických měst, do lesů i zchátralých panských sídel, kde vám hlas zkušeného a přesvědčivého vypravěče vysvětlí, co jste ve skutečnosti s úlekem zahlédli koutkem oka, když jste si mysleli, že kolem vás není živé duše.

Selected as a Best Crime Novel of the Month by The Times, Sunday Times, Independent, Guardian, Observer, Financial Times and Irish Times. Chosen as a Waterstones Thriller of the Month 'Lightseekers is the type of detective crime thriller that should be on everyone's shelves' Dorothy Koomson, author of My Other Husband 'A fast-paced thriller that offers insight into the ever present tensions in a poverty stricken community. An action-packed and spirited debut' Oyinkan Braithwaite, author of My Sister, the Serial Killer Winner of the 2019 UEA Crime Writing Prize, Lightseekers is the start of a major new crime series introducing investigative psychologist Dr Philip Taiwo. When three young students are brutally murdered in a Nigerian university town, their killings - and their killers - are caught on social media. The world knows who murdered them; what no one knows is why. As the legal trial begins, investigative psychologist Philip Taiwo is contacted by the father of one of the boys, desperate for some answers to his son's murder. But Philip is an expert in crowd behaviour and violence, not a detective, and after travelling to the sleepy town that bore witness to the horror, he soon feels dramatically out of his depth. Will he finally be able to uncover the truth of what happened to the Okriki Three? ----------------------- **Philip Taiwo returns in Gaslight - AVAILABLE TO BUY NOW**

Recently voted the greatest fantasy of all time, after The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun is an extraordinary epic, set a million years in the future, on an Earth transformed in mysterious and wondrous ways, in a time when our present culture is no longer even a memory. Severian, the central character, is a torturer, exiled from his guild after falling in love with one of his victims, and journeying to the distant city of Thrax, armed with his ancient executioner's sword, Terminus Est. This edition contains the first two volumes of this four volume novel, The Shadow of the Torturer and The Claw of the Conciliator

An award-winning and bestselling SF writer, Kim Stanley Robinson is widely acknowledged as one of the most exciting and visionary writers in the field. His latest novel, 2312, imagined how we would be living 300 years from now. Now, with his new novel, he turns from our future to our past - to the Palaeolithic era, and an extraordinary moment in humanity's development. An emotionally powerful and richly detailed portrayal of life 30,000 years ago, it is a novel that will appeal both to his existing fans and a whole new mainstream readership.

The characters in Autonomous are dealing with a fundamental question: Is freedom possible in a culture where everything, even people, can be owned?

Follow the tributaries of today's political combat a few decades into the future and you might arrive at something as terrifying as Omar El Akkad's debut novel, American War. Across these scarred pages rages the clash that many of us are anxiously speculating about in the Trump era: a nation riven by irreconcilable ideologies, alienated by entrenched suspicions. . . . both poignant and horrifying. -Ron Charles, The Washington Post Whether read as a cautionary tale of partisanship run amok, an allegory of past conflicts or a study of the psychology of war, American War is a deeply unsettling novel. The only comfort the story offers is that it's a work of fiction. For the time being, anyway. -Justin Cronin, The New York Times Book Review El Akkad . . . has an innate (and depressingly timely) feel for the textural details of dystopia; if only his grim near-future fantasy didn't feel so much like a crystal ball. -Leah Greenblat, Entertainment Weekly Powerful . . . If violence and conflict feel distant, journalist Omar El Akkad's debut novel brings them home. . . . Despite its future setting, it'd feel wrong to call American War a work of science fiction. Hell, it'd even feel off to call it dystopian, given that it's so few steps removed from our reality. -Kevin Nguyen, GQ American War is an extraordinary novel. El Akkad's story of a family caught up in the collapse of an empire is as harrowing as it is brilliant, and has an air of terrible relevance in these partisan times. -Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven El Akkad has created a brilliantly well-crafted, profoundly shattering saga of one family's suffering in a world of brutal power struggles, terrorism, ignorance, and vengeance. American War is a gripping, unsparing, and essential novel for dangerously contentious times. -Donna Seaman, Booklist (starred review) Terrifyingly plausible . . . Part family chronicle, part apocalyptic fable, American War is a vivid narrative of a country collapsing in on itself. - Publishers Weekly (starred review) Gripping and frightening . . . Well written, inventive, and engaging, this relentlessly dark tale introduces a fascinating character. . . . Highly recommended. -James Coan, Library Journal (starred review) Striking . . . A most unusual novel, one featuring a gripping plot and an elegiac narrative tone. -Rayyan Al- Shawaf, The Boston Globe Sarat is a fascinating character. . . . Thought- provoking [and] earnest . . . El Akkad's formidable talent is to offer up a stinging rebuke of the distance with which the United States sometimes views current disasters, which are always happening somewhere else. Not this time. -Jeff VanderMeer, Los Angeles Times Depicting a world uncomfortably close to the one we live in, American War is as captivating as it is deeply frightening. -Jarry Lee, Buzzfeed.com American War is terrifying in its prescient vision of the future. -Maris Kreizman, New York magazine/Vulture Astounding, gripping and eerily believable . . . masterful . . . Both the story and the writing are lucid, succinct, powerful and persuasive. -Lawrence Hill, The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Ambitious . . . [a] complex, thoroughly imagined domestic dystopia. -Terra Arnone, National Post (Toronto) Omar El Akkad has created an American future that is both terrifying and plausible. In a world seared and flooded by global warming, the U.S. has fractured again into North and South. The barbarism that ensues is all the more awful because we know the rivers and the cities. And we know these people: they are our neighbors; they are us. Through the eyes of a young girl El Akkad lets us see the soul-crushing toll of war. It was only in the stunned minutes after I'd finished the novel that I realized he had also taught us how to make a consummate terrorist. -Peter Heller, author of The Dog Stars and Celine American War, a work of a singular, grand, brilliant

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest for the twenty-first century, The Blind is a razor-sharp debut which examines the battles we all face to stay sane.