In M. John Harrison’s dangerously illuminating new novel, three quantum outlaws face a universe of their own creation, a universe where you make up the rules as you go along and break them just as fast, where there’s only one thing more mysterious than darkness.In contemporary London, Michael Kearney is a serial killer on the run from the entity that drives him to kill. He is seeking escape in a future that doesn’t yet exist—a quantum world that he and his physicis...

In M. John Harrison’s dangerously illuminating new novel, three quantum outlaws face a universe of their own creation, a universe where you make up the rules as you go along and break them just as fast, where there’s only one thing more mysterious than darkness.In contemporary London, Michael Kearney is a serial killer on the run from the entity that drives him to kill. He is seeking escape in a future that doesn’t yet exist—a quantum world that he and his physicis...

The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea gives us a brilliant novel about an actor in the twilight of his life and his career: “a devastating account of a boy’s sexual awakening and the loss of his childhood…. Seamless [and] profound ... An unsettling and beautiful work.” —Wall Street JournalIs there a difference between memory and invention? That is the question that haunts Alexander Cleave as he reflects on his first, and perhaps only, lov...

EMPTY SPACE is a space adventure. We begin with the following dream:An alien research tool the size of a brown dwarf star hangs in the middle of nowhere, as a result of an attempt to place it equidistant from everything else in every possible universe. Somewhere in the fractal labyrinth beneath its surface, a woman lies on an allotropic carbon deck, a white paste of nanomachines oozing from the corner of her mouth. She is neither conscious nor unconscious, dead nor alive. There is ...

Desmond Cordray musste ein Irrer sein, ein mordender Wahnsinniger, ein verrückter Kannibale!Er lud mich ein zu einem Abendessen bei Kerzenschein in seinem düsteren Anwesen, das mehr einer Burg als einem Haus glich. Auf der Speisekarte standen Sellerie-Apfelsuppe, Rumpsteak mit Steinpilzsoße und Kartoffelgratin ...... und das Herz meiner guten Freundin Glenda Perkins!

" The chronicle of a scientist and humanitarian on a journey of discovery into the mysteries of death and what comes after . . . [a] lovely book." — #1 New York Times bestselling authorIn the groundbreaking book, Dr. John Lerma shares his valuable research on pre-death hallucinations from the countless terminally ill patients he lovingly cares for as a d...

An adrenaline-charged tale of unrelenting suspense that sparks with raw and savage energy... The newspapers scream out headlines that spark terror across the city. Ten murders on the New York City subway. Ten grisly crimes that defy all reason -- no pattern, no m.o., no leads for police to pursue. The press dubs the fiend the "Subway Psycho"; the NYPD desperately seeks their quarry before the city erupts in mass hysteria. But they won't find what they're looking for.Because they all t...

A retired cop returns to the mean streets of Nottingham on a murder case that resurrects a haunted past in this "elegantly told tale" ( Independent, UK).When Frank Elder's ex-wife calls him for a favor, he can't say no. Her friend Jennie's sister Claire has gone missing in Nottingham, and she wants him to look into it. Suddenly, he's back on the job . . . and back in the city where his life fell apart.Elder uncovers sexual secrets of Claire's that ta...

How can decisions remain stable in a world where uncertainty cannot be eliminated?Some parts of this work have been published on SSRN.As artificial intelligence becomes embedded in economic systems, governance, and infrastructure, decision-making is no longer purely human.The Arclight Framework explores the structural conditions under which decisions succeed or fail.Rather than offering prescriptions, it examines how judgment is shaped before choices are mad...

Culled from previously unpublished material, this collection of writing and photography by John Howard Griffin was taken from the period during which he was writing and revising what would be his most famous book, the bestselling Black Like Me. Living in exile in Mexico at the time, along with his young family and aging parents, Griffin had been forced from his home town of Mansfield, Texas, by death threats from local white racists. Knowing that he would become a controversial pu...

JOHN BURNSIDES HYMNE AUF DIE MAGIE DER VERGÄNGLICHKEIT: EINBLICK IN EINEN SCHARFEN GEIST UND EINE EMPFINDSAME SEELE. John Burnside – ein virtuoser Verehrer des Flüchtigen Für eine Sekunde nur ist er da, flackert auf, offenbart und entzieht sich uns wieder: der Augenblick. Er berührt uns in Form einer möglichen, aber nie geliebten Liebe, in der Anmut einer Schneeflocke, die sich sogleich auf unserer Haut in Wasser verwandelt, oder als kostbare Erinnerung gebannt in einer Fotografie. Betören...

A hospice doctor shares stories from his patients and their loved ones about transitioning to the next world and lessons we can learn from them.John Lerma's bestselling book, Into the Light, inspired thousands of readers to discover not only what awaits us as we prepare to make our journey from earth to heaven, but, more importantly, how to achieve heaven on earth. Now in Learning from the Light, Dr. Lerma shares more angelic messages given to his ...