Navy SEAL Brendon O’Neil spent the past decade executing dangerous missions across the globe. He never expected to be deployed in his own country. A biological weapon has hit much of the world—including the United States. People are turned into twisted creatures hellbent on destruction. As the country tumbles headlong into utter collapse, O’Neil leads a team of SEALs fighting to defend America against the devastation sweeping city after city. When vital intel points to the potential culprits of this manmade disaster, O’Neil and his highly skilled team are picked to deliver a crucial strike that might help turn this gruesome war around. These elite operators could be America and the world’s best hope. His team is prepared to give their lives for the ruthless mission they undertake. But sometimes the cost of success is far greater than death. Note: Hybrid is a standalone novel in the universe of The Tide. It can be read completely on its own with no need to read the rest of the series. For experienced Tide readers, the events of the novel take place in parallel with Books 5 and 6. For the most spoiler-free experience, it is recommended reading any time after Book 6 of the main Tide series

Once on your scent, it’s too late to run… Dieter Harmon stared in shock at the hiker’s corpse, the head hanging only by a tangled ribbon of flesh. But what horrified him was the sight of claw marks on the victim’s chest. Something has gone terribly wrong with the government’s plan to return wolves to Yellowstone. As Dieter seeks answers, he is drawn into an escalating battle with Jack Corey, the chief park ranger. This is Corey’s dream project. Wolves have been missing from the primitive beauty of Yellowstone for decades—it is past time to bring them back. For Jack Corey, this bitter fight is personal. And to his advantage, he knows well that in the remote backcountry tragic “accidents” happen. That is where Dieter Harmon sets out to track a gruesome hybrid wolf that shouldn't even exist. But he soon finds that two predators are stalking him. They are very different in nature, but equally deadly

A virus engineered for genocide has been released in Colorado Springs, leading to mass, and seemingly unexplained violence. Some of the survivors of the infection begin to evolve into something that is both less than and more than human. The race is on to prevent world-wide release of the virus

StarCraft: Hybrid, by Mickey Neilson, is a Blizzard-authorized StarCraft short story published in Amazing Stories Magazine, issue 601. Amazing Stories Magazine is now defunct

I lost my humanity in a government experiment, and now find myself hunted because of it. Demons, vampires and even angels-everyone wants a piece of me. I say bring it on and prepare to die, because I intend to fight for my right to live. A chance meeting with a giant shifter and his best friend-an actual genie with a bottle-has evened the odds just as a prophecy involving me increases the danger. But, this Hybrid Misfit isn’t about to give up, and with my lovers supporting me, I will change the world-and discover that two naked men in bed is better than one

John is a test subject in a secret military research project. Betrayal within the ranks of project’s security officers, sets of avalanche of events leading to the deaths of two of John’s friends and to John finding himself at the edge of the dark abyss of death. Join him in his fight for freedom and revenge on the hot desert sun, in the hallways of underground facilities and help him discover his humanity

In Hominids, Nebula Award-winning author Robert J. Sawyer introduced a character readers will never forget: Ponter Boddit, a Neanderthal physicist from a parallel Earth who was whisked from his reality into ours by a quantum-computing experiment gone awry-making him the ultimate stranger in a strange land. In that book and in its sequel, Humans, Sawyer showed us the Neanderthal version of Earth in loving detail-a tour de force of world-building; a masterpiece of alternate history. Now, in Hybrids, Ponter Boddit and his Homo sapien lover, geneticist Mary Vaughan, are torn between two worlds, struggling to find a way to make their star-crossed relationship work. Aided by banned Neanderthal technology, they plan to conceive the first hybrid child, a symbol of hope for the joining of their two versions of reality. But after an experiment shows that Mary's religious faith--something completely absent in Neanderthals - is a quirk of the neurological wiring of Homo sapiens' brains, Ponter and Mary must decide whether their child should be predisposed to atheism or belief. Meanwhile, as Mary's Earth is dealing with a collapse of its planetary magnetic field, her boss, the enigmatic Jock Krieger, has turned envious eyes on the unspoiled Eden that is the Neanderthal world . . . . Hybrids is filled to bursting with Sawyer's signature speculations about alternative ways of being human, exploding our preconceptions of morality and gender, of faith and love. His Neanderthal Parallax trilogy is a classic in the making, and here he brings it to a stunning, thought-provoking conclusion that's sure to make Hybrids one of the most controversial books of the year

Trzecia i ostatnia czesc trylogii o dwoch rownoleglych swiatach — blizniaczych Ziemiach — naszej, zdominowanej przez czlowieka i drugiej, opanowanej przez Neandertalczykow. W Hybrydach Ponter Boddit i jego partnerka z Ziemi Homo sapiens, Mary Vaughan, staja przed koniecznoscia pogodzenia zycia w dwoch swiatach. Usiluja znalezc sposob, aby ich niezwykly zwiazek mogl przetrwac pomimo pietrzacych sie trudnosci i roznic. Za pomoca zakazanej neandertalskiej technologii planuja poczac dziecko, pierwszego hybryda — symbol nadziei na polaczenie dwoch tak odmiennych wersji rzeczywistosci. Tymczasem na Ziemi zamieszkalej przez Homo sapiens zaczyna zmieniac sie pole magnetyczne planety, dlatego szef Mary, tajemniczy Jock Krieger, coraz czesciej z zazdroscia spoglada na nie zdewastowany przez czlowieka raj, jakim jest neandertalski swiat

First published in 1978, this novel of international intrigue by Carlos Fuentes is set in Mexico, and features the Mexican secret service. It is the story of the attempt by the Mexican government to retain control of a recently discovered national oil field. Secret agents from Arab lands, Israel, and the United States attempt to wrest control of the source for their own purposes. In a plot thick with dirty tricks, violence, sex, amazing coincidences, and betrayals, the novel's movie-loving hero, Felix Maldonado, confronts the villains

Hydroplane is a story collection filled with the urgency of erotic obsession. Its breathless voices, palpable in their desire, are propelled by monomania, rushing from one preoccupation into another: a garage, a painting class, a basketball game, boys. Their words take on kinetic force, an almost headlong momentum, as though, while reading, one were picking up speed, veering out of control. The past returns. Rumination are continuous. A stranger at a bus stop is indistinguishable from the narrator's deceased grandfather; party guests turn ghoulish, festivities merge with nightmares. Each of Steinberg's stories builds as if telegraphed. Each sentence glissades into the next as though in perpetual motion, as characters, crippled by loss, rummage through their recollections looking for buffers to an indistinct future

Hyenas marks the always-welcome return of Joe R. Lansdale’s most indelible fictional creations: Hap Collins and Leonard Pine. Once again, the embattled but resilient duo find themselves enmeshed in a web of danger, duplicity, and escalating mayhem. The result is a tightly compressed novella that is at once harrowing, hilarious, and utterly impossible to put down. The story begins with a barroom brawl that is both brutal and oddly comic. The ensuing drama encompasses abduction, betrayal, robbery, and murder, ending with a lethal confrontation in an East Texas pasture. Along the way, readers are treated to moments of raucous, casually profane humor and to scenes of vivid, crisply described violence, all related in that unmistakable Lansdale voice. An essential addition to an already imposing body of work, Hyenas shows us both the author and his signature characters at their inimitable best. It doesn’t get better than this. Hyenas also includes the bonus Hap Collins short story, “The Boy Who Became Invisible”. From Publishers Weekly In Lansdale's wry, casually violent novella about roughneck buddies Hap Collins (white and straight) and Leonard Pine (African-American and gay), the two knights-errant befriend a hapless fellow whose younger, weaker brother has fallen in with extremely bad company—he's just joined a gang of bank robbers whose leader is used to increasing his own share of the loot by killing the other gang members. As usual, the dialogue is deadpan tart and the action extreme but convincing. Readers will find themselves simultaneously grinning and flinching. The book also includes "The Boy Who Became Invisible," a story Hap tells about something he witnessed years before, perhaps explaining why he's inclined to stand up for people who aren't as good at defending themselves as he and Leonard grew up to be. Lansdale (Vanilla Ride) once again proves he's the East Texas master of redneck noir.  

Новая книга автора международного бестселлера «Hygge. Секрет датского счастья» о том, как использовать пространство, освещение и датский дизайн, чтобы ваш дом преобразился в соответствии с вашими потребностями. Сегодня важнее, чем когда-либо, сделать наши дома удобным и комфортным жизненным пространством, местом, где мы чувствуем себя в безопасности. Только дома можно по-настоящему быть собой, расслабляться, а также переживать моменты, которые будут потом вспоминаться вместе с родными и близкими. Вдохновленная датским дизайном и традициями, прекрасная книга Майка Викинга подсказывает, как создать уют, взяв за основу то, как живут счастливейшие люди в мире – датчане. «Суть хюгге состоит в том, чтобы сделать обычное жилище настоящим домом – местом, с которым вы чувствуете связь и где вам действительно комфортно. Подумайте над тем, что может позитивно сказаться на вашем здоровье и благополучии, а затем преобразуйте личное пространство так, чтобы ваши идеи воплотились в реальность». (Майк Викинг) В формате PDF A4 сохранён издательский дизайн

В Рейтинге стран мира по уровню счастья ООН датчане регулярно занимают первое место. Но как им удается радоваться жизни, когда за окном скверная погода, день так короток, что его и не заметишь, а на работе нескончаемый аврал? Для этого у датчан имеется собственная жизненная философия, которая укладывается в несколько немудреных правил, позволяющих создать атмосферу покоя, тепла и дружелюбия, – хюгге. О том, что это такое, рассказывает в своей книге Майк Викинг, основатель и руководитель знаменитого Института исследования счастья в Копенгагене

Hygge (хюгге) – это настоящий секрет счастья! Счастья, покоя, неспешности, уюта и душевного тепла. Стиль hygge родился в Скандинавии, и сегодня он стремительно набирает популярность во всем мире, покоряя сердца людей, уставших от суеты, стрессов, одиночества, хандры… Ведь hygge – это не только теплые носки и свитер с норвежским узором, мерцающие свечи и огонь в камине, ароматные булочки с корицей и горячий шоколад в глиняной кружке… Hygge – это целая философия! Это образ жизни. Это умение успевать все без суеты, умение достигать своих целей без надрыва, умение черпать силы в расслабленности. Hygge – это не только тепло, уют и вкусная еда, это также любовь, дружба и душевное равновесие. И возможность сделать мир лучше. Hygge – это не какая-то там блажь. Это жизненная необходимость!

Prétextat Tach, prix Nobel de littérature, n'a plus que deux mois à vivre. Des journalistes du monde entier sollicitent des interviews de l'écrivain que sa misanthropie tient reclus depuis des années. Quatre seulement vont le rencontrer, dont il se jouera selon une dialectique où la mauvaise foi et la logique se télescopent. La cinquième lui tiendra tête, il se prendra au jeu. Si ce roman est presque entièrement dialogué, c'est qu'aucune forme ne s'apparente autant à la torture. Les échanges, de simples interviews, virent peu à peu à l'interrogatoire, à un duel sans merci où se révèle alors un homme différent, en proie aux secrets les plus sombres

W obliczu zbliżającej się nieuchronnie międzygalaktycznej wojny na planetę Hyperion przybywa siedmioro Pielgrzymów: Kapłan, Żołnierz, Poeta, Uczony, Kapitan, Detektyw i Konsul. Mają za zadanie dotrzeć do mitycznych Grobowców Czasu, by odnaleźć mieszkającą w nich, budzącą grozę istotę. Zna ona jednak, być może, tajemnicę, która pozwoli zapobiec zagładzie całej ludzkości. Każdy z Pielgrzymów będzie mógł przedstawić jej swoją prośbę, lecz wysłuchany zostanie tylko jeden. Pozostali będą musieli zginąć. Nagroda Hugo w roku 1990

Dopo l’Egira, nell’universo è stata creata una federazione di pianeti: l’Egemonia dell’Uomo. Ma al di fuori della sua giurisdizione esiste un pianeta chiamato Hyperion. E su Hyperion è in attesa una creatura metallica, sanguinaria, dotata di poteri semidivini: lo Shrike. Alcuni lo adorano. Altri lo temono. Altri ancora hanno giurato di distruggerlo. Lo Shrike li attende tutti, amici e nemici, nella Valle delle Tombe del Tempo, dove enormi strutture cupe provenienti dal futuro si ritraggono verso il passato recando oscuri messaggi. Alla vigilia dell’Armageddon, con l’intera galassia in guerra, sette pellegrini si mettono in viaggio verso le Tombe, alla ricerca delle risposte agli enigmi delle loro vite. Ognuno di loro custodisce un terribile segreto e una disperata speranza, e ognuno è disposto a morire, per portare a termine la ricerca. E forse dovrà morire, perche lo Shrike uccide tutti i pellegrini che gli si avvicinano… meno uno. E il superstite vedrà realizzato il desiderio che più gli sta a cuore. Per prepararsi all’incontro con lo Shrike, ogni personaggio racconta agli altri la propria storia, la storia che l’ha portato su Hyperion. E con il procedere dei racconti ci viene rivelata una cultura interstellare d’incredibile complessità e varietà, che diventa a poco a poco sempre più reale e coinvolgente

The Hugo Award Winner—1990 On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all. On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galaxy at war, seven pilgrims set forth on a final voyage to Hyperion seeking the answers to the unsolved riddles of their lives. Each carries a desperate hope—and a terrible secret. And one may hold the fate of humanity in his hands

«Наконец, делом занялись газеты. „Нью-Йорк таймс“ поместила сначала небольшую заметку в середине номера. Спустя неделю она посвятила вопросу целую колонку на первой странице второй части, а потом сообщения начали появляться на первых страницах газет. Обычно было что-то вроде: „Доктор такой-то считает, что прокатившаяся по стране эпидемия hyperpilositis, или сверхволосатости (Красивое слово, верно? Жаль, что не помню фамилии врача, его придумавшего) вызвана тем, этим, пятым или десятым“. В феврале пришлось отменить наш ежегодный бал, поскольку почти никто из студентов не смог уговорить своих девушек прийти на него. По той же причине значительно снизилась посещаемость кинотеатров. Всегда можно было получить хорошее место, даже около восьми. Однажды я прочел в газете забавное сообщение, что прекращены съемки фильма «Тарзан и люди-осьминоги», поскольку актеры действовали в нем в плавках и оказалось, что они вынуждены каждые несколько дней стричься и брить все тело, чтобы их не путали с гориллами.»

Dr. Lauren Crawford is a brilliant research scientist who discovers a revolutionary treatment for cancer that not only extends life, but much improves the quality of life for terminal cancer patients. The treatment, in some instances, can even cure certain cancers. On the evening before Dr. Crawford holds a press conference to announce that the FDA has given preliminary approval of her new cancer treatment, somebody follows her to her car and puts three bullets in her head. Was it a planned murder with a motive, a mugging gone badly, or merely a random act of violence? Two New York City homicide detectives, Amaris Dupree and T.J. Brown, are assigned to the investigation. The detectives evaluate the circumstances surrounding Dr. Crawford’s death, and follow a trail of clues that exposes a sequence of startling facts. One by one, the detectives carefully examine each suspect and piece together a puzzle with unimaginable implications. As the investigation gets more intense, and the detectives get closer to solving the murder mystery, someone threatens Dupree’s life. The detectives now realize that Dr. Crawford’s murder was much more than a homicide. And if they don’t arrest the murderer soon, Dupree might be the next victim

Dr. Frank Simmons works in the University of Edinburgh’s medical school. One of his PhD students, brilliant loner Gavin, announces his intention to find a cure for cancer and actually makes a major breakthrough. Oddly, no one seems to be interested, and a picture emerges of a cancer research industry caught in a desperate paradox: it can only justify its existence by not curing cancer. Disinterest soon turns to open warfare as Simmons and Gavin’s work is sabotaged. A truly compelling story, this fast-paced scientific thriller blends superb dialogue with thought-provoking ideas

Shocking, erudite, and affecting, these twenty-odd short stories, "micro-novels," and vignettes span a vast territory, from Mexico City to Washington, D.C. to the late nineteenth-century Adriatic to the blood-soaked foothills of California's gold-rush country, introducing an array of bewildering characters: a professor of Latin American literature who survives a tornado and, possibly, an orgy; an electrician confronting the hardest wiring job of his career; a hapless garbage man who dreams of life as a pirate; and a prodigiously talented Polish baritone waging musical war against his church. Hypothermia explores the perilous limits of love, language, and personality, the brutal gravity of cultural misunderstandings, and the coldly smirking will to self-destruction hiding within our irredeemably carnal lives

The latest installment in the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award-winning Reykjavik Murder Mystery series. One cold autumn night, a woman is found hanging from a beam in her summer cottage. At first sight it appears to be a straightforward case of suicide; the woman, María, had never recovered from the loss of her mother two years earlier and had a history of depression. But when Karen, the friend who found her body, approaches Erlendur and gives him the tape of a séance that María had attended, his curiosity is aroused. Driven by a need to find answers, Erlendur embarks on an unofficial investigation to find out why the woman's life ended in such an abrupt and tragic manner. At the same time, he is haunted by the unresolved cases of two young people who went missing thirty years before, and, inevitably, his discoveries raise ghosts from his own past

Hypérion marquera durablement la science-fiction. Ce splendide roman a reçu le prix Hugo aux Etats-Unis et son auteur s’annonce un rival dangereux pour Stephen King lui-même. Hypérion est un livre-univers, comme le Dune de Frank Herbert, un roman d’aventures haletant mais aussi un exploit littéraire impressionnant qui ressuscite dans l’avenir le poète anglais John Keats et fait écho à son oeuvre majeure, Hypérion. Au 28° siècle, sur la planète Hypérion, les dangers s’amoncellent. Celui de la guerre avec l’approche de la flottes des Extros en perpétuel conflit avec l’Hégémonie. Celui du gritche, figure mythologique et meurtrière que révère l’Eglise des Templiers. Celui de l’ouverture des Tombeaux du Temps qui dérivent de l’avenir vers le passé à la rencontre d’une imprévisible catastrophe. Dans l’espoir de sauver Hypérion et d’accomplir leurs destins suspendus, sept pèlerins se dirigent ensemble vers le sanctuaire du gritche. Il y a le père Lenar Hoyt, prêtre catholique, qui a vu l’enfer ; le colonel Kassad, dit le Boucher de Bressia, à la recherche d’un rêve ; Martin Silenus, le poète, qui a connu la Vieille Terre et perdu les mots ; Brawne Lamia, la belle détective, qui a aimé un John Keats synthétique : le Consul qui a régné sur Hypérion ; Sol Weintraub, l’érudit, dont la fille perd des années ; et le templier Het Masteen, qui garde ses secrets. Autant d’énigmes, autant d’histoires, qu’ils choisissent de conter avant d’affronter les labyrinthes d’Hypérion. Autant de styles différents

By the early 1970s, President John F. Kennedy has survived several assassination attempts and-martyred, heroic-is now in his third term. Twenty-two-year-old Eugene Allen returns home from his tour of duty in Vietnam and begins to write a war novel-a book echoing Catch-22 and Slaughterhouse-Five-about veterans who have their battlefield experiences "enfolded," wiped from their memories through drugs and therapy. In Eugene's fictive universe, veterans too damaged to be enfolded stalk the American heartland, reenacting atrocities on civilians and evading the Psych Corps, a federal agency dedicated to upholding the mental hygiene of the nation by any means necessary. This alternative America, in which a veteran tries to reimagine a damaged world, is the subject of Hystopia, the long-awaited first novel by David Means. The critic James Wood has written that Means's language "offers an exquisitely precise and sensuous register of an often crazy American reality." Means brings this talent to bear on the national trauma of the Vietnam era in a work that is outlandish, ruefully funny, and shockingly violent. Written in conversation with some of the greatest war narratives from the Iliad to the Rolling Stones' "Gimme Shelter," Hystopia is a unique and visionary novel