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If you’re going to launch a series dedicated to the very best science fiction and fantasy writers of the century, it makes sense to start with Stanley G. Weinbaum. „The Planetary Series” includes ten stories set on worlds of Earth’s solar system following several centuries of human exploration and settlement. It features a host of fascinating alien creatures, including birdlike Martians (features in „A Martian Odyssey” and its sequel „Valley of Dreams”) and The Red Peri and...

„The Manderpootz Series” includes the three stories of Stanley G. Weinbaum’s early science fiction trilogy. He is best known for his short story „A Martian Odyssey” which has been influencing Science Fiction since it was first published in 1934. Weinbaum is considered the first writer to contrive an alien who thought as well as a human, but not like a human. In a series of comedies featuring the eccentric scientist Professor Manderpootz – including the Alternate-History sto...

From the unsurpassed imagination of the creator of Conan, Robert E. Howard, here are three tales of boxing, suspense and high adventure. „Three Tales of the Ring” is an excellent sampler of his non-sword and sorcery output, with a very strong emphasis on the gothic and the macabre. The collection includes such Howard’s masterpieces as „The Apparition in the Prize Ring”, „Alleys of Darkness”, „Cupid vs Pollux”. „The Apparition In the Prize Ring” is a ghostly little boxing st...

Honor zwykła kończyć to, co zaczęła. Liga Solarna jest potęgą. Przez wieki reprezentowała dziedzictwo ludzkości i była przewodnikiem dla Diaspory. Mandaryni rządzący obecnie Ligą nie przypominają jednak jej założycieli, słyną z korupcji i gwałtowności. I zdecydowali, że Gwiezdne Imperium Manticore ma zostać zniszczone. Honor Harrington nosi mundur Royal Manticoran Navy już od pół wieku. Mało kto zna wojnę tak jak ona i mało kto stracił w walkach tylu bliskich i przyja...

Po raz pierwszy na świecie, pióro w pióro, Adam Silvera i Becky Albertalli! Twórca głośnej, adaptowanej przez HBO, powieści Nasz ostatni dzień w duecie z autorką zekranizowanego Twój Simon! Bestsellerowi autorzy, Becky Albertalli i Adam Silvera, łączą swoje umiejętności, tworząc błyskotliwą opowieść o dwóch kompletnie różniących się od siebie chłopakach, którzy nie są do końca pewni, czy los chce ich złączyć, czy rozdzielić. Arthur jest w Nowym Jorku tylko ...

„Wilczerka” to wyjątkowa, pięknie ilustrowana opowieść o sile miłości i przyjaźni, lojalności, o wierności sobie i swoim ideałom, a także wolności, która jest najcenniejszą wartością.Tym razem autorka przenosi czytelnika w przeddzień rewolucji, w zaśnieżone lasy Rosji, gdzie w maleńkiej chatce mieszkają Fieodora i jej matka. Fieodora uczy się, jak sprawiać, by oswojone wilki mogły powrócić do swojej dzikiej natury. To ważne zadanie: ludzie tutaj mówią, że ten, kto zabije wilk...

Anglia, rok 1577. Elżbieta I Tudor wtrąca do więzienia spiskującą Marię I Stuart, a matka Alyce zostaje spalona na stosie za czary. Dziewczynie udaje się uciec z więzienia i choć zabija łowcę czarownic, to tak naprawdę jest to dopiero początek pogoni… Kiedy Alyce odkrywa, że jest zdolna do czarnej magii, zaczynają się nią interesować potężne siły polityczne. Tylko dlaczego jest dla nich aż tak ważna? Wkrótce dziewczyna zostanie wrzucona w sam środek sekretnej polity...

An Irish-American warrior passes himself of as a Kurd and sets out to steal the treasure of Tartary. This is one of Robert E, Howard’s fast-paced short stories, featuring lots of fights and sliced entrails. Not one of his best works, in my opinion, as it somehow lacks substance. It seemed all hell and no notion.

The battle in the meadowlands of the Euphrates was over, but not the slaughter. On that bloody field where the Caliph of Bagdad and his Turkish allies had broken the onrushing power of Doubeys ibn Sadaka of Hilla and the desert, the steel-clad bodies lay strewn like the drift of a storm. The great canal men called the Nile, which connected the Euphrates with the distant Tigris, was choked with the bodies of the tribesmen, and survivors were panting in flight toward the whit...

So thay brought the envoys, pallid from months of imprisonment, before the canopied throne of Suleyman the Magnificent, Sultan of Turkey, and the mightiest monarch in an age of mighty monarchs. Under the great purple dome of the royal chamber gleamed the throne before which the world trembled– gold-paneled, pearl-inlaid. An emperor’s wealth in gems was sewn into the silken canopy from which depended a shimmering string of pearls ending a frieze of emeralds which hung like a...

This early work by Robert E. Howard was originally published in 1936. „Knife Country” is a novel from the El Borak series of Texans in the early 20th century in Afghanistan. Very interesting book.

The tall Englishman, Pembroke, was scratching lines on the earth with his hunting knife, talking in a jerky tone that indicated suppressed excitement: „I tell you, Ormond, that peak to the west is the one we were to look for. Here, I’ve marked a map in the dirt. This mark here represents our camp, and this one is the peak. We’ve marched north far enough.

The Sowers of the Thunder is a short story by Robert E. Howard (published in Oriental Stories, Winter 1932) that takes place in Outremer (the Crusader states) in the time of General Baibars and deals with the General’s friendly/adversarial relationship with Cahal Ruadh O’Donnell, an Irish Crusader with a troubled past cut in the Howardian mold. Both the Siege of Jerusalem (1244) and the Battle of La Forbie feature in the plot.

The long low craft which rode off-shore had an unsavory look, and lying close in my covert, I was glad that I had not hailed her. Caution had prompted me to conceal myself and observe her crew before making my presence known, and now I thanked my guardian spirit; for these were troublous times and strange craft haunted the Caribees.

Once it was called Eski-Hissar, the Old Castle, for it was very ancient even when the first Seljuks swept out of the east, and not even the Arabs, who rebuilt that crumbling pile in the days of Abu Bekr, knew what hands reared those massive bastions among the frowning foothills of the Taurus. Now, since the old keep had become a bandit’s hold, men called it Bab-el-Shaitan, the Gate of the Devil, and with good reason.

Dziedzictwo Kopernika to dwanaście artefaktów o nadzwyczajnej mocy. Ten, kto je znajdzie, zyska nieograniczoną władzę i będzie mógł zmienić losy świata. Wyścig już się rozpoczął!Minęły dwa miesiące, odkąd rodzina Kaplanów wytropiła drugi artefakt i nie ustaje w poszukiwaniach trzeciego. Niespodziewanie do akcji znowu wkracza Galina Krause, zagrażając czwórce bohaterów. Wade, Darrell, Lily i Becca nie mają innego wyjścia, jak tylko stawić jej czoła. Trwa walka z czasem, a wyzw...

Zojce i Krzysztofowi niebo runęło na głowy. Bo można pokonać każdą przeszkodę, ale jak wygrać z pojawiającą się nagle biologiczną matką panny młodej? Która na dodatek oświadcza, że pan młody jest jej przyrodnim bratankiem… Zojka robi więc to, do czego przyzwyczaiła się od dzieciństwa. Ucieka. Choć tym razem gdzieś w głębi serca wie, że wróci. Bo tak jak nie mogłaby żyć bez powietrza, nie mogłaby żyć bez ukochanego Krzysia. Krzysztof wierzy, że jej ucieczka nie jest bezpow...

Robert E. Howard is famous for creating such immortal heroes as Conan the Cimmerian, Solomon Kane, and Bran Mak Morn. Less well-known but equally extraordinary are his non-fantasy adventure stories set in the Middle East and featuring such hero as Francis Xavier Gordon. Texas gunfighter F. X. Gordon traveled the world before settling in 1920s Afghanistan. The Afghans dubbed him „El Borak” for his quick thinking and skill with a sword and gun. The respected Gordon frequently...

One moment the glade lay empty; the next a man poised tensely at the edge of the bushes. No sound warned the red squirrels of his coming, but the birds that flitted about in the sunlight took sudden fright at the apparition and rose in a clamoring swarm. The man scowled and glanced quickly back the way he had come, fearing the bird-flight might have betrayed his presence. Then he started across the glade, placing his feet with caution. Tall and muscular of frame, he moved w...

Kirby O’Donnell is a Howard hero less familiar to most readers. Howard only wrote three stories about O’Donnell’s exploits, of which only two actually saw print during his lifetime -- „The Treasures of Tartary” and „Swords of Shahrazar” -- neither in Weird Tales.

Francis Xavier Gordon was a living legend in the Middle and Far East. The boars called him El Borac, „Swift,” the title earned by his awkward abilities with a gun, a knife and a sword. Now, the mighty El Borak must stretch its forces to prevent the Turkish uprising, protect the hermits from murders and stop the dangerous amir without allowing him to seize control over India.

From Robert E. Howard’s fertile imagination sprang some of fiction’s greatest heroes, including Conan the Cimmerian, King Kull, and Solomon Kane. But of all Howard’s characters, none embodied his creator’s brooding temperament more than Bran Mak Morn. The last king of the Picts, Bran Mak Morn exists in a brutal, savage world set in the same universe as H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. Unlike most of his race, Morn eschewed violence and actively sought peace among the other ...

The singing of the swords was a deathly clamor in the brain of Godric de Villehard. Blood and sweat veiled his eyes and in the instant of blindness he felt a keen point pierce a joint of his hauberk and sting deep into his ribs. Smiting blindly, he felt the jarring impact that meant his sword had gone home, and snatching an instant’s grace, he flung back his vizor and wiped the redness from his eyes.

The Turks, cruelly lead by the scurrilous Bayazid, crushingly defeat a bunch of European Christians who were invading so as to steal land from the Turks, or something. But one of the Europeans, a Scott, Donald MacDeesa escapes with his life and hooks up with Ak Boga, who who had secretly been spying on the carnage. Ak Boga works for the Amir of Samarcand, one Timour the Lame.