From the award-winning author Brian Evenson comes Immobility, a far-future thriller that looks at a post-human world struggling to stay humanWhen you open your eyes things already seem to be happening without you. You don't know who you are and you don't remember where you've been. You know the world has changed, that a catastrophe has destroyed what used to exist before, but you can't remember exactly what did exist before. And you're paralyzed from the w...

From a modern master of the form, a new short story collection that dexterously walks the tightrope between literary fiction, sci-fi, and horror.A newborn’s absent face appears on the back of someone else’s head, a filmmaker goes to gruesome lengths to achieve the silence he’s after for his final scene, and a therapist begins, impossibly, to appear in a troubled patient’s room late at night. In these stories of doubt, delusion, and paranoia, no belief, no claim to ...

A prequel to Dead Space, the novel focuses on the birth of Unitology. In this novel set centuries before the events of the main series, geophysicist Michael Altman investigates an alien artefact called The Black Marker.We have seen the future.A universe cursed with life after death.It all started deep beneath the Yucatan peninsula, where an archaeological discovery took us into a new age, bringing us face-to-face with our origins and destiny...

A prequel to Dead Space, the novel focuses on the Black Marker. This novel set centuries before the events of the main series, elaborates on the lore of the Markers established in Dead Space 2 and 3.Two hundred and fifty years in the future, extinction threatens mankind. Tampering with dangerous technology from the Black Marker—an ancient alien artifact discovered on Earth eighty years earlier— Earthgov hopes to save humanity. But the Mar...

Il prevosto Fochs, membro della Chiesa del Sangue dell'Agnello, è inquieto. Le sue notti sono turbate da orrendi incubi in cui abusa di alcuni ragazzini della congregazione, allo scopo di purificarli dal male. In un altro sogno uccide una giovane in una radura vicino a casa. Tormentato dal pensiero della colpa e sollecitato dalla moglie, Fochs accetta finalmente di vedere uno psicoanalista. Il dottor Feshtig tiene nota delle loro sedute, finché la cronaca cittadina non si popola di episodi...

Dopo l'amputazione di una mano Kline, agente sotto copertura, vive un'esistenza solitaria: trascorre il tempo nel suo appartamento, refrattario a qualsiasi tipo di contatto. Un giorno, però, il telefono squilla. "È la fortuna che bussa," dicono due sconosciuti, offrono un'interessante opportunità di lavoro. Kline non ne vuole sapere ma i suoi interlocutori non stanno davvero chiedendo. Viene quindi portato controvoglia nel quartier generale della Confraternita della Mutilazione, ed entra n...

“Perhaps tomorrow I will wake up another person. Perhaps tomorrow I will wake up not a person at all.”From the “master of literary horror” (GQ) comes a collection of new stories tracing the limits and consequences of artificial intelligence and “post-human” relationships. Populated by twins stepping into worlds of absence, bears who lick their cubs into creation, and artificial beings haunted by their less-than-human nature, each page sketches a world wher...

Explore all aspects of programming with Python in this comprehensive resource. Expert programmer Brian Evenson guides you from the fundamentals of using modules through the use of advanced objectorientation classes. Salient Features:1 Learn how to develop complex applications, create multimedia software, and develop interactive Web sites. 2 While written with the experienced programmer in mind, it is an invaluable source-book for the beginning programmer as well. 3 The book also covers how...

As climate change wreaks havoc on the earth and the fate of humanity grows dire, a scientist makes a plan to save humanity that would shame the devil.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

"A creepy, mind-bending quest of identity and mystery, told with a master's skill. No one explores inner landscapes quite like Brian Evenson." —Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times–bestselling author of AnnihilationX doesn't have a name. He thought he had one—or many—but that might be the result of the failing memories of the personalities imprinted within him. Or maybe he really is called X.He's also not as human as he believes himself to be.

A post-human civilization of synthetic beings, fixated on the concept of children, grapples with the meaning of life…after all life ceases to exist.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Un vagabondo trova riparo in una casa abbandonata ma curiosamente tirata a lucido. Un regista si spinge a misure estreme pur di ottenere il rumore di fondo che desidera per la sua scena finale. Uno psicoterapeuta inizia, contro ogni verosimiglianza, a comparire a tarda notte nella stanza di un paziente difficile. Un impiegato non può far altro che spostarsi di città in città per liberarsi della sensazione costante di essere osservato. Due sorelle non stanno davvero nella pelle all'idea di ...