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Co przeraża nas najbardziej na świecie? Mafia? Zombie? Przyjaciele w opałach? Nie, to tylko drobnostki dla Ricka Mavericka. To, co naprawdę mrozi mu krew w lekko niesprawnych żyłach, to goniąca jego martwy tyłek przeszłość. I sernik pani Hicky. Rick Maverick nie spodziewał się od życia zbyt wiele, lecz gdy mafia potraktowała go jak najgorszego śmiecia, nie miał wyboru. Musiał wziąć sprawy we własne ręce – konkretnie wstać z grobu i upomnieć się o swoje. Szkoda tylko, że ...

Lata 2070–2071. Minęło prawie sześćdziesiąt lat od Dnia Przekroczenia, a na Długiej Ziemi rozwija się nowa, postludzka spoleczność Następnych. Dla Joshuy Valienté, dobiegającego siedemdziesiątki, nadszedł czas, by wyruszyć na jeszcze jedną, ostatnią samotną wyprawę do Wysokich Meggerów: po przygodę, która zmienia się w katastrofę. Kiedy staje wobec bezpośredniej groźby śmierci, jedyną nadzieją ocalenia staje się stado trolli. Kiedy jednak Joshua musi się zmierzyć z własn...

Na wyspie u wybrzeży Europy, niewidniejącej na żadnej z oficjalnych map, mieści się siedziba Uniwersytetu głoszącego doktrynę rewolucji. Końcem czerwca Rafael, wzorem pozostałych studentów, szykuje się do opuszczenia wyspy na czas wakacji. Wtedy spotyka Kersten – niezrównoważoną studentkę, która informuje go, że został powołany w szeregi Bractwa Sprawiedliwych – tajemnej organizacji działającej wewnątrz Uniwersytetu. W bractwie działają różne i nieprzeniknione siły...

Układ grecki, który na zawsze zmienił bieg wielu historii. Październik 1944 roku. Do Grecji na potajemne spotkanie przybywają przywódcy aliantów i Reichsführer-SS. Tam Himmler, świadomy nieuchronnego rychłego końca wojny, wtajemnicza ich w pewien plan. W wyniku wieloletnich badań i doświadczeń możliwe jest stworzenie człowieka o dowolnie wybranych cechach. Daje to niemal nieograniczone możliwości wpływania na dzieje świata. Nagle oczom zebranych ukazują się dwa naczynia...

The novel tells the prophetic story of man’s harnessing of the newly-discovered power of the atom, how this power nearly destroys civilization in a catastrophic war and foreshadows nuclear warfare years before research began and describes the chain reactions involved and the resulting radiation. It is presented as a history of the important events of the 20th century, jumping back and forth amongst narratives of different eyewitnesses and major players in those events. „The...

This book was written in 1899, and is one of the last science-fiction books Wells wrote before his turn towards social realism in his writing. In this dystopian novel, Graham falls into a coma-like sleep, a sleep that he wakes from some 203 years in the future. But times have changed. Due to the wise investments of a board of trustees, Graham’s money has compounded into the greatest fortune the world has ever seen, and the trustees have used it to virtually enslave the enti...

Like „The Time Machine”, this book may be considered as a further romance of the fourth dimension. „The Wonderful Visit” was paid by an angel, who by some accident, had got out of the angel into the human world, where his is accidentally shot by a vicar. The angel had trouble adjusting to life in a small English town. „The Wonderful Visit” is an 1895 novel by H. G. Wells. With an angel – a creature of fantasy unlike a religious angel – as protagonist and taking place in con...

Dedicated to all schoolmasters and schoolmistresses and every teacher in the world, this re-interpretation of the Book of Job is one of the author’s finest discussion novels. Written in 1918, this is the story of Job Huss, the headmaster of a progressive school. It is saturated with the ideas of educational reform and of the teaching of world history as the basis for a common civilization and is one of his most ambitious dialogue narratives. Essentially it is a modernized p...

Bert Smallways is the unlikely protagonist, a kind of Edwardian Mod, not interested in a steady career, always looking for a good time, riding his proto-scooter down to Brighton at the weekends. When Bert is accidentally scooped up by a German fleet, on its way to launch a surprise attack on the United States, he finds himself with a front row seat to the greatest war that has ever been – the war in the air! This new war is to be a different sort of war than all the wars th...

Decades ahead of his time, H.G. Wells leaps beyond the bounds of conventional imagination to tell the story of the Time Traveler. A seminal and hugely imaginative work of early science fiction, H.G. Wells’s „The Time Machine” is the first and greatest modern portrayal of time-travel and definitely a spiritual ancestor of every time travel story since. The book introduces a scientist who uses a Time Machine to be transferred into the age of a slowly dying earth. Humans have ...

One of the most famous science-fiction stories ever written, „The War of the Worlds” helped launch the entire genre by exploiting the concept of interplanetary travel. Thirty-five million miles into space, a species of Martians sets eyes on planet Earth. With their own planet doomed for destruction, the Martians prepare to invade. Their weapons are ready and their aim is ruthless. The war of the worlds is about to begin. „The War of the Worlds” describes the fictional 1895 ...

This is a short novel about a nineteen century Englishman who falls in a deep sleep only to awake over two hundred years later. The World has changed beyond recognition, and „The Sleeper” finds himself in a remarkable predicament – he has become the owner of the entire planet. However, his awakening profoundly shakes this state of affairs, and he suddenly finds himself at the very center of revolutionary social upheavals and a struggle for the ultimate power. But when he co...

„The Shape of Things to Come” is one of the great classics of science fiction. Originally written in 1929, this masterly work of science fiction has already confirmed H G Wells’ status as a remarkable soothsayer, and provides glimpses of what is perhaps yet to come. The book is written as a sort of historical account. It tells of how a world state could be considered an answer to Earth’s problems. After a large plague wipes out much of humanity, a dictatorship takes over, t...

Herbert George Wells is a huge name in the world of literature. He is known as the king of Science Fiction stories. He was an accomplished teacher, a best-selling novelist, a historian and a journalist, however, he established his name in the world through his passion for writing and will be remembered forever as „Father of Science Fiction”. „The King Who Was a King – The Book of a Film” is a fascinating treatise on the development of film written by H. G. Wells and first p...

Żyjąc tak długo, Michelle nauczyła się jednego: kiedy los daje ci kilka chwil szczęścia, złap je mocno i nie puszczaj, bo prędko mogą się nie powtórzyć. Tak też zrobiła, kiedy w jej życiu ponownie pojawił się brutalnie zabity przed laty brat, a na horyzoncie zajaśniała szansa na długo wyczekiwaną miłość ukochanego. Jednak radość Michelle z odzyskania Caanana zostaje zakłócona przez serię niepokojących zdarzeń, które bezsprzecznie wskazują na pojawienie się kolejnego wro...

Dwudziestopięcioletni Jack jako dziecko uległ wypadkowi samochodowemu, w którym zginęli jego rodzice. Gdy leżał w szpitalu, na jego piersi pojawiły się cztery znamiona, a w powracającym śnie widział cztery dwuletnie dziewczynki i słyszał słowa: znajdź, ucz, chroń. Jako dorosły mężczyzna odszukał cztery dziewczyny. Każda ma na ciele jedno z jego znamion. Wszystkie są pięknymi kobietami o nieprzeciętnej inteligencji, urodzonymi czternastego czerwca, dokładnie dwa lata po ...

Jak wygląda świat w antymaterii? Czy w odległej przyszłości życie w znanej nam formie będzie możliwe? Co jest po drugiej stronie lustra? ,,Stan wyższej świadomości” to historia człowieka, który, nie zdając sobie z tego sprawy, stracił wszystko, zyskując wiedzę. Na świecie zaczynają dziać się niepokojące wydarzenia. Kobiety w ciąży padają ofiarami bestialskich mordów, znikają dzieci zabrane z łona matek. Astronomowie obserwują dziwne zjawisko, tajemniczą mgłę zbliżającą ...

Depicting one man’s transformation and descent into brutality, H.G. Wells’s „The Invisible Man” is a riveting exploration of science’s power to corrupt. In this tale of psychological terror, a young scientist must live in the personal hell created by his own experiments. Using himself as the subject, the scientist discovers the key to invisibility; yet, he is unable to reverse the results. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but begins to become mentally ...

On a deceivingly beautiful island in the South Seas exists the sinister kingdom of Doctor Moreau. Edward Prendick is shipwrecked in the Pacific. Rescued by Doctor Moreau’s assistant he is taken to the doctor’s island home where he discovers the doctor has been experimenting on the animal inhabitants of the island, creating bizarre proto-humans...The main plot, a shunned biologist, Dr. Moreau, attempting to create a new species of animals by combining biological elements of ...

What happens when science tampers with nature? Mr. Bensington and Mr. Redwood create a new food material, Herakleophorbia, later called Boomfood, they hope will have beneficial uses to mankind. They come up with a substance that causes flora, fauna, and people to become giants. At first, there are giant nettles, mushrooms – but then it ramps up, with giant rats that can take down and eat horses and wasps so large one could hear them half a mile off. In the end it becomes a ...

Another H.G. Wells classic sci fi. The novel tells the story of a journey to the moon by the impecunious businessman Mr. Bedford and the brilliant but eccentric scientist Dr. Cavor. Bedford bankrupt businessman who is making a comeback by writing a play, through a series of circumstances, teams up with Professor Cavor a recluse scientist who does not realize his own potential. Together they build a contraption, sphere, that can cut off gravity waves. Once on the moon Bedfor...

A fictional biography of Rudolf „Rud” Whitlow, who builds a political party that slowly becomes a world dominant dictatorship. Wells wrote the work just before World War II as Hitler was consolidating his power in Germany. Rud, is a baby boy, and later, grew to be a young man who had a remarkable talent of oratory: the gift of gab. He is eventually encouraged to perform public speaking, lecturing and finally, revolutionary speeches. Through this character, Wells creates a p...

„The Brothers – A Story.” Herbert George Wells was a prolific English writer who wrote in a variety of genres, including the novel, politics, history, and social commentary. Wells returned to a literary genre in which he had always excelled: the satire written in the form of an allegory. In a land torn apart by civil war, Bolaris was fiercely loyal to the Strong Men. So when Number Four informed him that Ratzel, leader of the enemy, had been captured, it was naturally a cau...

This story was the first work of fiction in which an explorer traverses time through the use of a man-made device – a time machine – rather than through magic, divine intervention, or a natural phenomenon such as sleep. HG Wells’s „The Chronic Argonauts”, written seven years before his much more famous time travel work, „The Time Machine”. The mysterious Dr. Moses Nebogipfel arrives in a small Welsh town in 1887. The apprehensions of the simple rural folk eventually cause t...