Was wie ein harmloser Urlaubsflirt beginnt, wird schon bald viel mehr. Doch Shane kommt aus Irland und Britney aus Amerika, noch dazu wurde ihre Mutter vor Jahren von einem Iren getötet. Obwohl Joan, Britneys Vater, Shane über alle Maßen hasst, versuchen die beiden ihrer Liebe eine Chance zu geben, auch wenn das bedeutet, Joan nichts von ihrer Beziehung zu erzählen. Im Laufe der Jahre muss sich nicht nur Britney eingestehen, dass dies wenig Sinn ergibt, sondern auch Shane scheint unter ihr...

Ao longo dos anos, nossa cultura tem feito um trabalho extraordinário em estreitar nossa capacidade de questionar, duvidar e investigar. Guiados pela crença de que obstáculos, desafios e derrotas não fazem parte do sucesso, fomos orientados a fechar os olhos para nossos erros e pensar positivamente que, no final, tudo acabará bem.O produto disso não poderia ser outro senão pessoas superficiais e rasas, que reproduzem conceitos e comportamentos mecanicamente. Isso traz frustração, m...

Aaaand action! heißt es, sobald du dein Kinderzimmer verlässt und die Tür hinter dir zufällt. Sag jetzt nicht, du dachtest immer, dass deine kuscheligen Plüschies und mutigen Spielsachen die großen Abenteuer nur mit dir erleben? Dann hast du keine Ahnung. Denn sobald kein Trampler mehr in Sicht ist, wird mit allen Mitteln am Kuschelfaktor geschraubt, ob in Barbies Schönheitssalon oder mit einer alten Banane im Fell des Gegners.In Teams oder als Einzelplayer erleben sie die wildesten Reisen...

Karinette Lichtermann, xenolinguist, is one of many mission specialists aboard the List of Wealthy Donors, on a mission to encounter the alien civilisation responsible for an indecipherable radio signal first received on Earth five decades earlier.Humanity's first contact with an intelligent extraterrestrial species will be an unparalleled achievement... if all goes to plan.

Dimension6 magazine takes you on a journey beyond the borders of the real. Our third annual collection features stories from some of the best Australian and overseas writers working in the field today.‘In the Slip’ by Emillie Colyer - O wad some Power the giftie gie us to see oursels as ithers see us!‘Guitarrista’s Lament’ by Jeff Suwak - A Guitarrista’s life is full of laughter and sadness, more of each than most people know.‘Preservation of Faith’ by Dustin Adams ...

Cory needs the past to be forgotten.Portia needs to uncover what has been hidden, and Cory needs the work she's offering.'Soft Dim Skies' is a spare and gradual exploration into the unknown, on the most mysterious moon in the Solar System.

Here, between the realms of the Sky Father and Earth Mother, hellhounds race, ghosts drift aimless, and the taniwha stalks. Home fires drive them back, at the same time sparking stories and poems that traverse seconds, eons, and parsecs. Tales of gatekeepers, cloak wearers, and secret keepers. Of pigs with AK-47s or ruby-hued eyes, of love-struck moa, and unruly reflections. Stark truths, and beautiful possibilities…* WINNER * Sir Julius Vogel Award 2019 (SFFANZ) for Best C...

Tanja Morgenstein, daughter of a wealthy industrialist and a geochemist, is dead from exposure to Titan's lethal, chilled atmosphere, and Guerline Scarfe must determine why.This novella blends hard-SF extrapolation with elements of contemporary crime fiction, to envisage a future human society in a hostile environment, in which a young woman's worst enemies may be those around her.Matters Arising from the Identification of the Body won the 2018 Sir Julius Vogel Awa...

Gordon Mamon was the lift operator in a hotel that didn’t have a lift.The hotel, the ‘Skyward Suites 270’, was the lift.All Gordon wants to do, when he isn’t delivering room service, administering first aid, washing dishes, cleaning bathrooms, or forwarding service complaints, is to be able to finish his crossword in piece. But people keep inconsiderately dying of unnatural causes during their stay aboard his lift-module on the Skyward space elevator.Welcome ...

Barbara Cassin parte do grego antigo, da linguística e da psicanálise para pensar a tradução como prática literária, filosófica e como estratégia política para o acolhimento da diferença. Trabalhando com uma gama ampla de assuntos – dos tratados dos antigos sofistas à situação das mulheres nos campos de refugiados na França – e tendo como inimigo declarado o universal pretensamente absoluto, a tradução aparece como espaço "entre" as línguas e como solução democrática para o problema da alt...

Die Montagsgedicht gehen auf die Jahre 1928 bis 1930 zurück, in denen der junge Kästner wöchentlich ein Gedicht in der Berliner Zeitung "Montag Morgen" veröffentlichte. Als bissige Anmerkungen zum Zeitgeschehen liefern diese Gedichte ein schillerndes Panorama des Alltags in der Weimarer Republik und dem Belin der 20er Jahre. Dabei rückt die große Politik genauso in den Blik wie die Jagd nach einem als Nachtgespenst verkleideten Einbrecher, der traditionelle Berliner Sechstagerenne, die dam...

A collection of short stories about creatures which will warm the heart.