A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year: In a dystopian future New York, a girl's diary chronicles her life as society begins to crumble around her.Until recently, Lola Hart's biggest problem was her annoying little sister. Now the twelve-year-old girl's once comfortable life is slowly falling apart. Her mother is a teacher, but she's lost her job. Her father is a writer, but no one is buying his scripts. It's gotten so bad that they can no longer afford their Ma...

"A remarkable novel" of a post-Communist Russia filled with gangsters and oligarchs, and one man's shady business deal that could land him in a world of trouble ( The Boston Globe).Part speculative fiction, part satire, Let's Put the Future Behind Us is a romp through 1990s Russia, as the closed society of the Soviet Union morphs into a modern capitalist free-for-all and Max Borodin finds himself, his wife, and his mistress in mortal danger—in "a ...

One man struggles to survive in a dystopian near-future New York City in this acclaimed novel that "performs feats of brilliance on so many levels" ( Entertainment Weekly).In a decaying and violent near-future New York, the remnants of civic order are maintained with brute force by the conglomerate Dryco. But even Dryco is falling apart from the inside. Seamus O'Malley is bodyguard and confidant to Mister Dryden, the CEO, and an admirer of Dryden's persona...

A young Elvis Presley is kidnapped into the future to be the new messiah in this "jarringly potent" novel from the author of Ambient (William Gibson).Winner of the Philip K. Dick AwardAt once a biting satire and a taut sci-fi thriller, Elvissey is the story of Isabel and John, a troubled couple who are sent through a "window" from the year 2033 to a strangely altered 1954. They are on a desperate mission to kidnap a young ...

Come racconterebbe la propria discesa agli inferi una ragazzina di 12 anni? Così, come Lola in Atti casuali di violenza insensata la (de)scrive a Anne, il suo diario.Tutto comincia con fatti di ordinaria amministrazione: un padre che non trova a chi vendere le proprie sceneggiature e una madre traduttrice e insegnante che non riesce a lavorare se non a ritmi forsennati. Due sorelline in tenera età e una grande, grande città: New York. Eppure gli echi di una diffusa ...

“Futurist wunderkind Womack concludes his heralded Ambient series with this intriguing, clever novel set in an alternate, semi-historical 1968” (Publishers Weekly).It’s 1968, and Walter Bullitt, part-time US government freelancer and collector of “race records,” stays busy testing new psychotropics on himself and unsuspecting citizens. Walter’s conscience never interferes with his work—until he’s asked to help sabotage Bobby Kennedy’s presidential campaign...

AMBIENT ist ein Gleichnis, das den Zerfall der westlichen Zivilisation in den ersten Jahrzehnten des 21. Jahrhunderts am Beispiel eines kaputten, verkommenen, von Gewalt und Anarchie zerrissenen New York vor Augen führt.AMBIENT erzählt die Geschichte von Seamus O'Malley, eines Leibwächters und Vertrauten des Multimilliardärs Thatcher Dryden und von Stella, der ständigen Begleiterin und persönlichen Lieblingshure seines Brötchengebers.Was jedoch als einfacher Fall von erwide...

Die amerikanischen Agenten Robert Luther Biggenstaff und sein Leibwächter und Nahkampfspezialist Jake sind in Moskau, um an die Erfindung eines genialen russischen Wissenschaftlers zu kommen: eine Zeitmaschine. Durch einen Doppelagenten verraten, werden sie in die Enge getrieben, aber es gelingt ihnen, mit dem Gerät in die Vergangenheit zu fliehen.Doch im New York des Jahres 1939, in dem sie landen, ist einiges anders, als sie es aus den Geschichtsbüchern kennen: Die Sklaverei wurd...

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Der Aufstieg und der Fall eines neuen Messias in der trostlosen Welt New Yorks zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts, der die dekadente Abgestumpftheit seiner Mitmenschen zu durchbrechen versucht...Ein Buch von höchstem sprachlichem Feingefühl, von knallharter Action und voll von schwarzem Humor.»Der Durchbruch eines jungen Autors, der die Sensibilität eines William Gibson über den Cyberpunk hinaus und die Gewalt von CLOCKWORK ORANGE ins Transzendente gesteigert hat.**«

This "toothy follow-up to Datlow's first-rate Blood Is Not Enough " offers "admirably inventive variations on vampirism" ( Kirkus Reviews ).Featuring stories by Jonathan Carroll, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and Robert Silverberg, A Whisper of Blood is a "consistently engrossing anthology" from award-winning editor Ellen Datlow ( Publishers Weekly). Continuing to expan...

A World Fantasy Award–winning anthology of erotic horror stories, including dark tales of desire by Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen Dedman, Harry Crews, and others.The title of this acclaimed anthology comes from the French term "la petite mort," a seventeenth-century euphemism for orgasm. It was thought that part of a man's life-force was drained from him each time he climaxed. In Little Deaths, renowned horror editor Ellen Datlow collects twenty-two stories th...