“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.” Satan Burger is the international cult hit that has grown such an enormous following over the past 10 years that it not only launched the career of underground author Carlton Mellick III, but inspired an entire literary movement. Absurd philosophies, dark surrealism, and the end of the human race… God hates you. All of you. He closed the gates of Heaven and wants you to rot on Earth forever. Not only that, he is repossessing your souls and feeding them to a large vagina-shaped machine called the Walm—an interdimensional doorway that brings His New Children into the world. He loves these new children, but He doesn’t love you. They are more interesting than you. They are beautiful, psychotic, magical, sex-crazed, and deadly. They are turning your cities into apocalyptic chaos, and there’s nothing you can do about it… Featuring: a narrator who sees his body from a third-person perspective, a man whose flesh is dead but his body parts are alive and running amok, an overweight messiah, the personal life of the Grim Reaper, lots of classy sex and violence, and a motley group of squatter punks that team up with the devil to find their place in a world that doesn’t want them anymore

Über den Autor Karl May wurde am 25.2.1842 in Hohenstein-Ernstthal als Sohn eines armen Webers geboren und war bis zum 5. Lebensjahr blind. Als Volksschullehrer wurde May wegen Diebstahls entlassen und verbrachte insgesamt 7 1/2 Jahre wegen Eigentumsvergehen und Betrügereien aus finanzieller Notlage im Gefängnis. Zunächst schrieb er erzgebirgische Dorfgeschichten und Humoresken für Zeitschriften in Dresden, später Kolportageromane. Mit seinen Reiseerzählungen, die in Nordamerika oder im Orient spielten, wurde May berühmt. Karl May starb am 30.3.1912 in Radebeul bei Dresden. Entstehungsgeschichte Ab 1892 brachte der Freiburger Verleger Friedrich Ernst Fehsenfeld eine Buchreihe mit Mays Reiseerzählungen heraus. Nach dem großen Erfolg des Orientzyklus (Band 1 bis 6) kamen weitere Bände hinzu. »Satan und Ischariot« erschien zunächst ohne Obertitel in der Wochenzeitschrift »Deutscher Hausschatz in Wort und Bild« und wurde später als Band 20 bis 21 veröffentlicht. Ein gestrichener Manuskriptteil wurde sehr viel später vom Karl-May-Verlag in Band 79 aufgenommen. Der vorliegende Text wurde nach den jeweiligen Buch-Erstauflagen von 1896/1897 und 1897 erfaßt

Über den Autor Karl May wurde am 25.2.1842 in Hohenstein-Ernstthal als Sohn eines armen Webers geboren und war bis zum 5. Lebensjahr blind. Als Volksschullehrer wurde May wegen Diebstahls entlassen und verbrachte insgesamt 7 1/2 Jahre wegen Eigentumsvergehen und Betrügereien aus finanzieller Notlage im Gefängnis. Zunächst schrieb er erzgebirgische Dorfgeschichten und Humoresken für Zeitschriften in Dresden, später Kolportageromane. Mit seinen Reiseerzählungen, die in Nordamerika oder im Orient spielten, wurde May berühmt. Karl May starb am 30.3.1912 in Radebeul bei Dresden. Entstehungsgeschichte Ab 1892 brachte der Freiburger Verleger Friedrich Ernst Fehsenfeld eine Buchreihe mit Mays Reiseerzählungen heraus. Nach dem großen Erfolg des Orientzyklus (Band 1 bis 6) kamen weitere Bände hinzu. »Satan und Ischariot« erschien zunächst ohne Obertitel in der Wochenzeitschrift »Deutscher Hausschatz in Wort und Bild« und wurde später als Band 20 bis 21 veröffentlicht. Ein gestrichener Manuskriptteil wurde sehr viel später vom Karl-May-Verlag in Band 79 aufgenommen. Der vorliegende Text wurde nach den jeweiligen Buch-Erstauflagen von 1896/1897 und 1897 erfaßt

Über den Autor Karl May wurde am 25.2.1842 in Hohenstein-Ernstthal als Sohn eines armen Webers geboren und war bis zum 5. Lebensjahr blind. Als Volksschullehrer wurde May wegen Diebstahls entlassen und verbrachte insgesamt 7 1/2 Jahre wegen Eigentumsvergehen und Betrügereien aus finanzieller Notlage im Gefängnis. Zunächst schrieb er erzgebirgische Dorfgeschichten und Humoresken für Zeitschriften in Dresden, später Kolportageromane. Mit seinen Reiseerzählungen, die in Nordamerika oder im Orient spielten, wurde May berühmt. Karl May starb am 30.3.1912 in Radebeul bei Dresden. Entstehungsgeschichte Ab 1892 brachte der Freiburger Verleger Friedrich Ernst Fehsenfeld eine Buchreihe mit Mays Reiseerzählungen heraus. Nach dem großen Erfolg des Orientzyklus (Band 1 bis 6) kamen weitere Bände hinzu. »Satan und Ischariot« erschien zunächst ohne Obertitel in der Wochenzeitschrift »Deutscher Hausschatz in Wort und Bild« und wurde später als Band 20 bis 21 veröffentlicht. Ein gestrichener Manuskriptteil wurde sehr viel später vom Karl-May-Verlag in Band 79 aufgenommen. Der vorliegende Text wurde nach den jeweiligen Buch-Erstauflagen von 1896/1897 und 1897 erfaßt

Deux trajectoires, deux lignes de fuite. Hier encore, François était quelqu'un. Un homme qu'on regardait avec admiration, avec envie. Aujourd'hui, il n'est plus qu'un fugitif tentant d'échapper à son assassin. Qui le rattrapera, où qu'il aille. Quoi qu'il fasse. Paul regarde derrière lui ; il voit la cohorte des victimes qui hurlent vengeance. Il paye le prix de ses fautes. L'échéance approche… Dans la même voiture, sur une même route, deux hommes que tout semble opposer, et qui pourtant fuient ensemble leur destin différent. Rouler droit devant. Faire ce qu'ils n'ont jamais fait. Puisque l'horizon est bouché, autant tenter une dernière percée. Flamboyante. « Maîtresse du genre, Karine Giébel signe un nouveau thriller implacable. Un très bon roman noir. »

At long last, twenty-five years after the Hungarian genius László Krasznahorkai burst onto the scene with his first novel, Satantango dances into English in a beautiful translation by George Szirtes. Already famous as the inspiration for the filmmaker Béla Tarr’s six-hour masterpiece, Satantango is proof, as the spellbinding, bleak, and hauntingly beautiful book has it, that “the devil has all the good times.” The story of Satantango, spread over a couple of days of endless rain, focuses on the dozen remaining inhabitants of an unnamed isolated hamlet: failures stuck in the middle of nowhere. Schemes, crimes, infidelities, hopes of escape, and above all trust and its constant betrayal are Krasznahorkai’s meat. “At the center of Satantango,” George Szirtes has said, “is the eponymous drunken dance, referred to here sometimes as a tango and sometimes as a csardas. It takes place at the local inn where everyone is drunk. . Their world is rough and ready, lost somewhere between the comic and tragic, in one small insignificant corner of the cosmos. Theirs is the dance of death.” “You know,” Mrs. Schmidt, a pivotal character, tipsily confides, “dance is my one weakness.”

A smiling emissary of death, I sat among the broken men of Skid Row — heartlessly playing eeny meeny miney moe to choose which one would die!

A gripping, evocative, and ingenious mystery which pays homage to Agatha Christie, Satellite People is the second Norwegian mystery in Hans Olav Lahlum's series. Oslo, 1969: When a wealthy man collapses and dies during a dinner party, Norwegian Police Inspector Kolbjorn Kristiansen, known as K2, is left shaken. For the victim, Magdalon Schelderup, a multimillionaire businessman and former resistance fighter, had contacted him only the day before, fearing for his life. It soon becomes clear that every one of Schelderup's 10 dinner guests is a suspect in the case. The businessman was disliked, even despised, by many of those close to him; and his recently revised will may have set events in motion. But which of the guests – from his current and former wives and three children to his attractive secretary and old cohorts in the resistance – had the greatest motive for murder? With the inestimable help of Patricia – a brilliant, acerbic young woman who lives an isolated life at home, in her wheelchair – K2 begins to untangle the lies and deceit within each of the guests' testimonies. But as the investigators receive one mysterious letter after another warning of further deaths, K2 realizes he must race to uncover the killer, before they strike again

From the author of Remainder (the major feature-film adaption of which will be released in 2015) and C (short-listed for the Booker Prize), and winner of the Windham Campbell Prize, a novel that promises to give us the first and last word on the world-modern, postmodern, whatever world you think you are living in. When we first meet U., our narrator, he is waiting out a delay in the Turin airport. Clicking through corridors of trivia on his laptop he stumbles on information about the Shroud of Turin-and is struck by the degree to which our access to the truth is always mediated by a set of veils or screens, with any world built on those truths inherently unstable. A "corporate ethnographer," U. is tasked with writing the "Great Report," an ell-encompassing document that would sum up our era. Yet at every turn, he feels himself overwhelmed by the ubiquity of data, lost in buffer zones, wandering through crowds of apparitions. Madison, the woman he is seeing, is increasingly elusive, much like the particulars in the case of the recent parachutist's death with which U. is obsessed. Add to that his longstanding obsession with South Pacific cargo cults and his developing, inexplicable interest in oil spills. As he begins to wonder if the Great Report might remain a shapeless, oozing plasma, his senses are startled awake by a dream of an apocalyptic cityscape. In Satin Island, Tom McCarthy captures-as only he can- the way we experience our world, our efforts to find meaning (or just to stay awake) and discern the narratives we think of as our lives

Anytime, anyplace, Ethan Crane's your man. An agent's agent, he's tough, smart, and fearless. Exactly the guy you want when the stuff hits the fan-and precisely the kind Beth Whitney avoids like the plague. It took a fiancé (make that ex-fiancé) in the business to teach her, but she's learned her lesson: Don't. Date. Agents. Ever. It's this little rule that's kept her gainfully employed at the agency, doing her part for world security from behind a desk. So when a case throws the two together, Beth's determined to keep it strictly professional. So far, so good-except for the steamy kisses, the red-hot phone sex, and…What was that rule again? To Ethan, Beth couldn't be less his type if her father ran the agency, which, oh yeah, her father does run the agency. Still he can't help but be impressed by her inspired work in the field-a total turn on. Off the field it's even better. Seems the old adage that opposites attract happens to agents too. Even if Beth insists it's just a fantasy. But hot pursuit of a notorious information broker is what they should focus on-not each other. That can wait until they've accomplished a job well done. Or can it?

Vladimirs Antonovs Satja Sai Baba Varbūt vienas no pašām slavenākajām mūslaiku materializācijām ir tās, kuras rada Satja Sai Baba — indiešu svētais vīrs, kurš dzīvo Andra Pradešas štatā attālā Dienvidindijas nostūrī. Saskaņā ar neskaitāmu aculiecinieku teikto, Sai Baba spēj radīt daudz ko vairāk nekā tikai sāli un dažus akmentinus. Maikls Talbots "Hologrāfiskais Visums Владимир Антонов Сатья Саи Баба — Христос наших дней Viņš piedzima 1926. gadā. Viņam dots vārds — Satja Nārajana Radžu. Viņš auga visu mīlēts, jo allaž bija labs, vienmēr piedeva vienaudžu pārestības, nekad neatdarīja "ļaunumam ar ļaunu". Un vēl… skolas gados Viņš izklaidēja skolas­biedrus, cienājot ar saldumiem, kurus vilka ārā no neapšaubāmi tukšas somas, tos materializējot! Četrpadsmit gadu vecumā Viņš… negaidīti paziņoja Saviem vecākiem, ka vairs neies skolā, jo zina visu. Un ka Viņš ir pārdzimis Indijā visiem zināmais musulmaņu svētais Sai Baba no Širdī (Baba sanskritā nozīmē godpilno Tēvs), kurš bija pametis materiālo ķermeni 8 gadus pirms Viņa pašreizējā ķermeņa piedzimšanas. Un ka Viņš atstāj vecāku mitekli, vēlēdamies palīdzēt cilvēkiem un veltīt savu dzīvi Patiesības sludināšanai par Dievu un par to, kā iemantot Visaugstāko Brīvību, Saplūstot ar Viņu. Sai Baba bieži izsniedz dārgus gredzenus, juvelierizstrādājumus un no zelta pagatavotus priekšmetus pūlim, kurš ik dienu ierodas viņu apciemot un apbrīno kā svēto. Tāpat viņš materializē lielus pārtikas daudzumus, un, kad šie dažādie gardumi krīt no viņa rokām, tie ir vēl čurkstoši karsti — tik karsti, ka cilvēki dažkārt tos nevar noturēt rokās. Viņš var pagatavot saldu sīrupu un ar rokām (un pat no pēdām) liet smaržīgu eļļu, un, kad ir pabeidzis to darīt, uz viņa ādas nav nekādu lipīgas vielas pazīmju. Viņš var radīt tādus neredzētus priekšmetus kā rīsa graudiņus ar smalkiem, bet precīzi izgrebtiem Krišnas attēliem. Maikls Talbots "Hologrāfiskais Visums" isbn 978-9984-38-849-6 JUMAVA Vladimirs Antonovs Satja Sai Baba Laimas Šķetres grafiskais noformējums Atbildīgā redaktore Kristīne Kirkila Tehniskā redaktore Irēna Soide Korektore Gita Juhņēuiča Maketētājs Ilgonis Riņķis Grāmatas vāka noformējumam izmantots Ineses Jakubouskas foto, 45. lapaspusē — Jura Lorenča fotogrāfija © Apgāds "Jumava", izdevums latviešu valodā © Arvis Kolmanis, tulkojums latviešu valodā © Laima Šķetre, grafiskais noformējums ISBN 978-9984-38-849-6 www.jumava.lv Noskannējis grāmatu un FB2 failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis Izdevējs — SIA "Jumava", Dzirnavu ielā 73, Rīgā, LV-1011 Iespiests LĢ1A tipogrāfijā "Latvijas karte", O. Vācieša ielā 43, Rīgā, LV-1004 Šī grāmata ir uzrakstīta pēc Satjas Sai lūguma un pēc tās iznākšanas Krievijā saņēmusi Viņa personisko svētību Viņa āšramā Indijā. Pēcāk teksts papildināts ar materiāliem no personiskām sarunām ar Vinu

Trevanian's Shibumi was a landmark bestseller, one of the classic international bestselling thrillers of the twentieth century. Now, chosen by Trevanian's heirs, the hugely admired writer Don Winslow returns with an irresistible "prequel": Satori. It is the fall of 1951 and the Korean War is raging. Twenty-six-year-old Nicholai Hel has spent the last three years in solitary confinement at the hands of the Americans. Hel is a master of hodo korosu or "naked kill," and fluent in over six languages. Genius and mystic, he has honed extraordinary "proximity sense" – an extra-awareness of the presence of danger – and has the skills to be the world's most formidable assassin. The Americans need him. They offer Hel freedom in exchange for one small service: go to Beijing and kill the Soviet Union's Commissioner to China. It's almost certainly a suicide mission, but Hel accepts. Now he must survive violence, suspicion and betrayal while trying to achieve the ultimate goal of satori – the possibility of true understanding and harmony with the world

Boriss Djačenko Satraukums Ķēniņa ielā Par mazo rīdzinieku Vovkas, Ļovkas, Ērika, Zvaigznītes, Jāņa un viņa mazā brālīša Kārlīša piedzīvojumu pārbagātajām gaitām 1936. gada pavasara nogalē. Vecajiem Rīgas iedzīvotājiem šis stāsts atsauks atmiņā viņu bērnības un jaunības dienas, bet jaunos lasītājus ievedīs pavisam svešādā pasaulē. No vācu valodas tulkojis Ingus Liniņš RIGA «LIESMA» 1989 Boris DJacenko AUFRUHR IN DER KONIGSGASSE 1959 Milteldeutscher Verlag Halle (Saale) Mākslinieks Uldis Ozoliņš by Mltteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale), 1959 © 1. Linlņš, tulkojums latviešu valodā, 1989 © U. OzoliņS, Ilustrācijas, 1989 © P. Baugis, pficvārds, 1989

BORISS DJACENKO SATRAUKUMS ĶĒniŅa IELĀ No vācu valodas tulkojis Ingus Liniņš RIGA «LIESMA» 1989 Boris DJacenko AUFRUHR IN DER KONIGSGASSE 1959 Milteldeutscher Verlag Halle (Saale) Mākslinieks Uldis Ozoliņš by Mltteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale), 1959 © 1. Linlņš, tulkojums latviešu valodā, 1989 © U. OzoliņS, Ilustrācijas, 1989 © P. Baugis, pficvārds, 1989

Saturday brings Yom Kippur to Barnard's Crossing and Rabbi Small is preparing as usual. But his prayers and fasting are interrupted when a member of his congregation is found dead in his car. The police call it accidental. The insurance company calls it suicide. Only Rabbi Small's pregnant wife, Miriam, thinks it's murder. Now it's up to him to prove her right… *** “Harry Kemelman has come through as a winner again… A good tale well told.” – The New York Times “Another Sholem Aleichem… An excellent storyteller… Here is detective work at its best.” – Detroit Press “Detailed with humor and intelligence. Top quality!” – Bestsellers “Wise and witty.” – Saturday Review

Cal Innes is fresh out of prison and ducking a past muddied with ties to local gang lord «Uncle» Morris Tiernan. But when Tiernan finds out Innes is working as an unlicensed PI and calls in a favor Innes doesn't owe, Innes is thrust into a cat-and-mouse game with Tiernan's psychotic son, Mo. Ordered to track down a rogue casino dealer who's absconded with a hefty chunk of cash, Innes finds that the case points north to Newcastle. With Tiernan's son on his tail and a Manchester cop determined to put Innes back in jail, Saturday's child has to work hard to keep living

Nowhere this year, we think, will anybody come across a sweeter, gentler, more enchanting short story. This is for reading now — this afternoon or tonight BY JOHN D. MACDONALD

Saturn — fascynująca i tajemnicza planeta z wielkimi pierścieniami i księżycami, z których Tytan jest najprawdopodobniej obdarzony życiem. Wreszcie możliwe jest zbadanie Saturna i nie będzie to zwykły lot załogowy, a wyprawa jakiej dotąd nie było. Wielki habitat „Goddard” to olbrzymi statek, samowystarczalna arka z dziesięcioma tysiącami ludzi na pokładzie. Naukowcami, dysydentami i ludźmi niepokornymi, którym nie podobają się rządy religijnych fanatyków na Ziemi. Płonne są jednak ich nadzieje, że Nowa Moralność czy inni fanatycy nie zechcą mieć kontroli nad habitatem. A wśród uczestników wyprawy jest siostra Pancho Lane, szefowej Astro Corp, i laureatka Nobla za osiągnięcia w dziedzinie nanotechnologii — Kris Cardenas

Die   nicht   allzu   ferne   Zukunft:   Christliche   und   islamische  Fundamentalisten haben einen so großen politischen Einfluss  auf   der   Erde   erlangt,   dass   Wissenschaftler   und   andere  »Säkularisierte«  gezwungen sind, den Planeten zu verlassen.  Im   Mondorbit   ist   für   sie   ein   riesiges   Habitat,   die  Goddard,  entstanden, das mehr als zehntausend Menschen aufnehmen  kann   und   zum   Saturn   gesteuert   werden   soll,   um   dort   als  Außenposten der menschlichen Zivilisation und als Basis für  die   Erforschung   des   Ringplaneten   und   seiner   Monde   zu  dienen. Doch niemand ahnt, dass eine Gruppe von religiösen  Fanatikern mit an Bord ist, die nur ein Ziel kennt: Die Macht  im Habitat zu  übernehmen, die Wissenschaftler kaltzustellen  und die Ungläubigen zu bekehren — und sei es mit Gewalt. Als  die Goddard den Jupiter passiert, sehen sie die Zeit gekommen,  um loszuschlagen…

Second in size only to Jupiter, bigger than a thousand Earths but light enough to float in water, home of cushing gravity and delicate, seemingly impossible rings, it dazzles and attracts us: Saturn. Earth groans under the rule of fundamentalist political regimes. Crisis after crisis has given authoritarians the upper hand. Freedom and opportunity exist in space, for those with the nerve and skill to run the risks. Now the governments of Earth are encouraging many of their most incorrigible dissidents to join a great ark on a one-way expedition, twice Jupiter’s distance from the Sun, to Saturn, the ringed planet that baffled Galileo and has fascinated astronomers ever since. But humans will be human, on Earth or in the heavens — so amid the idealism permeating Space Habitat Goddard are many individuals with long-term schemes, each awaiting the right moment. And hidden from them is the greatest secret of all, the real purpose of this expedition, known to only a few…

“Fans of Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers will eat this up.” For fans of THE MARTIAN, an extraordinary new thriller of the future from #1 New York Times–bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author John Sandford and internationally known photo-artist and science fiction aficionado Ctein. Over the course of thirty-seven books, John Sandford has proven time and again his unmatchable talents for electrifying plots, rich characters, sly wit, and razor-sharp dialogue. Now, in collaboration with Ctein, he proves it all once more, in a stunning new thriller, a story as audacious as it is deeply satisfying. The year is 2066. A Caltech intern inadvertently notices an anomaly from a space telescope—something is approaching Saturn, and decelerating. Space objects don't decelerate. Spaceships do. A flurry of top-level government meetings produces the inescapable conclusion: Whatever built that ship is at least one hundred years ahead in hard and soft technology, and whoever can get their hands on it exclusively and bring it back will have an advantage so large, no other nation can compete. A conclusion the Chinese definitely agree with when they find out. The race is on, and an remarkable adventure begins—an epic tale of courage, treachery, resourcefulness, secrets, surprises, and astonishing human and technological discovery, as the members of a hastily thrown-together crew find their strength and wits tested against adversaries both of this earth and beyond. What happens is nothing like you expect—and everything you could want from one of the world’s greatest masters of suspense

Sex oozes from every page of this erotic futuristic thriller. In a far-future class-driven android society, most of the populace are slave-chipped and owned by wealthy aristos. When low-caste but unenslaved android Freya offends an aristo and needs to get off-world, she takes a courier position with the mysterious Jeeves Corporation, but the job turns out to have dangers of its own. Designed as a pleasure-module, Freya isn’t quite as obsolete as she could be, as androids have sex with each other incessantly. Hugo-winner Charles Stross has a deep message of how android slavery recapitulates humanity’s past mistakes, but he struggles to make it heard over the moans and gunshots. Readers nostalgic for the SF of the ’60s will find much that’s familiar (including Freya’s jumpsuit-clad form on the cover), but that doesn’t quite compensate for the flaws

Vasilijs Ardamatskis «Saturns» gandrīz nav redzams. Stāsts. Balstoties uz patiesiem notikumiem uzrakstītā pirmā no grāmatu sērijas par padomju izlūkdienesta virsnieku cīņu ar Abvēras skolu "Saturns". Grāmata ir aizraujoša, ar interesantu sižetu. Ļoti spilgti aprakstīta intelektuālā cīņa starp padomju izlūkdienesta virsnieku un Abvēras virsniekiem. Tulkojusi A. Mukina Mākslinieks  V. Grants Izdevniecība «Liesma» Rīgā 1966 Noskanējis grāmatu un  failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis imantslochmelis@inbox.lv Yandex – GRĀMATAS - https://disk.yandex.ru/d/2JO3dvhReBIF-A

На безумие Питера Хейла отзывается его собственная, застывшая внутри тьма