Jeff Vandermeer - City of Saints and Madmen.pdf
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Awards
World Fantasy (nominee)
Publisher's Weekly
A master of postmodern game playing, VanderMeer (The Exchange) here gathers all the fiction published in his earlier trade paper collection (also titled, in a typically Borgesian maneuver, City of Saints and Madmen), plus an equal amount of new material. Set in the haunted city of Ambergris, with its Borges Bookstore, these stories feature bizarre recurring characters and intensely self-referential plots. Among the highlights are the World Fantasy Award$winning Transformation of Martin Lake, the tale of a talented painter who's obsessed with a great composer; The Strange Case of X, which concerns an incarcerated lunatic found wandering the streets of Ambergris carrying the very book being discussed in this review; the wonderful new story The Cage, in which an antiques dealer becomes infected with a fungus that's slowly taking over much of the city; and, oddest of all perhaps, an untitled short story, which fills the entire dust jacket and concerns an unnamed traveler who has a close encounter with a giant squid in the river that runs through Ambergris. Other pieces take many forms, including a history of the city complete with footnotes, psychiatric records from a local hospital, an amazingly funny work of pseudo-biology entitled King Squid and entirely bogus bibliographies and glossaries. This beautifully written, virtually hallucinatory work isn't for every taste, but connoisseurs of the finest in postmodern fantasy will find it enormously rewarding. (May) Forecast: Recently named by Locus On-Line as one of the 10 best short-story writers in the field, VanderMeer has avoided doing the kind of thing the big, increasingly commercial houses are willing to take on. Serious review attention could break him out though it will take a novel that makes some concessions to the marketplace to lure a major publisher. Mass Market Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.
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Zdobywczyni HUGO, NEBULA, LOCUS 2010
To najbardziej oczekiwana powieść fantastyczna roku. Bacigalupi czerpie pomysły ze swoich wielokrotnie nagradzanych opowiadań i je rozwija, badając je głębiej i dokładniej niż dotąd. Wyniki
są imponujące. Już nigdy nie da się patrzeć na przyszłość tak samo, jak przedtem.
C. C. Finlay, autor serii "Traitor to the Crown".
"Pompa numer sześć"
Debiut Paolo Bacigalupiego - ten zbiór opowiadań pokazuje siłę i zasięg
opowiadania fantastycznego. Sednem twórczości Paolo jest krytyka społeczna, polityczna przypowieść i dyskurs ekologiczny. Każde z zawartych tu opowiadań ostrzega i jednocześnie zachwyca się tragikomedią ludzkich przeżyć. Utwory Paolo ukazywały się już w różnych dorocznych antologiach, były nominowane do Nebuli i Hugo oraz zdobywały nagrodę Theodore Sturgeona za najlepsze
opowiadanie fantastyczne.
In the divine struggle between good and evil, humans are hardly noticeable to the mal'akhim, but when an ancient seal is broken on the grounds of a California college campus, beings from dimensions beyond the balance of holy and unholy erupt from the earth. A retired priest and an ailing magickian must trust the mysterious Walker Between the Worlds and his skin-eating demon familiar as they step through Heisenbergian passages of probability and battle forces that are so far beyond demon they cannot be fully seen in earthly dimensions. Amidst the earthquakes and interdimensional intruders, the students and staff of California Hills University step across the boundaries of their knowledge and faith, revealing their true natures as the night erupts in earth and blood.
Pisząc powieści "Bohaterowie umierają" i "Ostrze Tyshalle'a", Matthew Stover stworzył nowy typ powieści fantasy i dostosowany do niego nowy rodzaj bohatera - Caine'a, niegdysiejszego ulicznego bandytę, obecnie supergwiazdę przemysłu rozrywkowego. Caine żyje w przyszłości, w której reality show odbywają się w innym wymiarze, w świecie, gdzie istnieje magia, a bogowie stąpają po ziemi.
Who will own the greatest treasures of all...? In the darkness of 13th Century Europe, the most precious wonders of the Christian world lie in a small church in the great ruined city of Constantinople, the spoils of a failed Crusade. The crown of thorns, the spear that pierced Jesus' side, the shroud bearing the imprint of Christ - all lie in the mysterious Chapel of Pharos, untouchable treasures beyond earthly price. On the other side of the globe, Petroc of Auneford sails into the sprawling Pool of London for the first time. He has left his old monastic world behind for that of the enigmatic Captain de Montalhac - purveyor of fine relics and other exotic trinkets to anyone with sufficient money and desire. But for Petroc, the trip is soon blighted by tragedy. Grief, however, is no guard against greed, and with rumours of the sale of the relics of Pharos growing, the Captain needs Petroc's help. The great powers of Christendom are gathering - all covet the power of the relics - and Petroc finds himself right in the eye of the storm. Stretching from the streets of London to the brothels of Venice and all the way to ruined palaces of Constantinople, THE VAULT OF BONES is an epic tale of faith, power, money and revenge.
Ghost Town is the hottest amusement park in the country, offering state-of-the-art chills and thrills involving the paranormal. The park's main ride is a haunted mansion that promises an encounter with a real ghost.
When Maia Peters visits during her senior year of college, she's not expecting to be impressed. Maia grew up as the only child of a pair of world-renowned "ghost hunters," so the paranormal is nothing new. In fact, the ride feels pretty boring until the very end. There, a face appears from the mist. The face of Jordin Cole, a girl who disappeared from campus a few months ago.
Convinced what she saw wasn't a hoax and desperate to find answers to Jordin's disappearance, Maia launches into a quest for answers. Joined by Jordin's boyfriend--a pastor's kid with very different ideas about the spirit realm--Maia finds herself in a struggle against forces she never expected to confront.
For twenty years, England and France have been at war. Now the war has come home…
On a sunny July day in 1815, Plymouth Sound is crowded with boats vying for a view of England's great battleship HMS Bellerophon. For aboard the vessel is the stout little Frenchman who threw the world into chaos. In London, some people clamor for Napoleon's execution, others for his exile, and still others for a civil trial on English soil. For one humble London detective, the debate has turned deadly. Bow Street Runner Henry Morton has a murder to solve--and Napoleon himself is at the heart of the matter.
The victim is a Frenchwoman, the mistress of a count. Soon Morton is racing through a demimonde of French expatriates, Bonapartists, fanatical Royalists, and one very dangerous, drunken petty crook. From an exotic London brothel to a scene of carnage on a Dartmoor farm, the detective enters a covert war over Napoleon's fate. And amid the betrayal, deception, and murder, Morton will face a waterloo of his own.
Japonia, rok 1867. Szlachetny książę Genji, przywódca klanu Okumichi, obdarzony zdolnością widzenia przyszłości, przeciwstawia się próbom izolacji Japonii od reszty świata. Skrycie zakochany w pięknej misjonarce Emily Gibson, wzbrania się przed ujawnieniem jej swoich uczuć. W sennych wizjach widzi ją konającą w połogu. O rękę Emily, przy cichej aprobacie Genji'ego, rywalizuje dwóch wpływowych i zamożnych cudzoziemców – porucznik Robert Farrington i plantator Charles Smith. Emily, przebywająca w Japonii od sześciu lat, również skrywa swoje prawdziwe uczucia. Lektura pochodzących z XIX wieku kronik klanu Okumichi, napawa ją dziwnym lękiem pomieszanym z niedowierzaniem. Na wyblakłych zwojach odnajduje historię pięknej księżniczki Shizuki, czarownicy i wizjonerki, opisy zdrad, spisków i tragicznych miłości, które kilkaset lat później uformowały Genji'ego jako przywódcę. Ze zdumieniem stwierdza, że zapisano tam także jej własną historię... Czy wypełnią się starodawne przepowiednie?
Powieść historyczna
The legendary warlord, Dardas, died more than two hundred and fifty years ago. Now, his spirit lives on in a host body, resurrected by a magician to lead a conquering army across the city-states of Isthmus.
But there are military scholars familiar with Dardas's tactics--scholars who may hold the key to stopping his army.
Maria Isabella Boyd's success as a Confederate spy has made her too famous for further espionage work, and now her employment options are slim. Exiled, widowed, and on the brink of poverty...she reluctantly goes to work for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in Chicago.
Adding insult to injury, her first big assignment is commissioned by the Union Army. In short, a federally sponsored transport dirigible is being violently pursued across the Rockies and Uncle Sam isn't pleased. The Clementine is carrying a top secret load of military essentials--essentials which must be delivered to Louisville, Kentucky, without delay.
Intelligence suggests that the unrelenting pursuer is a runaway slave who's been wanted by authorities on both sides of the Mason-Dixon for fifteen years. In that time, Captain Croggon Beauregard Hainey has felonied his way back and forth across the continent, leaving a trail of broken banks, stolen war machines, and illegally distributed weaponry from sea to shining sea.
And now it's Maria's job to go get him.
He's dangerous quarry and she's a dangerous woman, but when forces conspire against them both, they take a chance and form an alliance. She joins his crew, and he uses her connections. She follows his orders. He takes her advice.
And somebody, somewhere, is going to rue the day he crossed either one of them.
