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vorchunnФантастика, фэнтези, мистика и неклассифицируемые шадевры письменности (западные авторы). Часть 1
Серия "Хроники Нарнии":
Клайв. С. Льюис "Хроники Нарнии. Покоритель зари. Книга по фильму"
Перенос с сентября
К премьере фильма "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader"? Как-то рановато, она же в декабре.
Клайв С. Льюис "Покоритель зари", или Плавание на край света (кинообложка)"
Серия "Хроники Нарнии - суперобложка":
Клайв Стейплз Льюис "Племянник Чародея" (суперобложка)
"The Magician's Nephew" (1955)
Клайв Стейплз Льюис "Лев, Колдунья и Платяной шкаф" (суперобложка)
"The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" (1950)
Клайв Стейплз Льюис "Конь и его мальчик" (суперобложка)
"The Horse and His Boy" (1954)
Клайв Стейплз Льюис "Принц Каспиан" (суперобложка)
"Prince Caspian" (1951)
Клайв Стейплз Льюис "Покоритель зари" или плавание на край света" (суперобложка)
"The Voyage of the "Dawn Treader" (1952)
Клайв Стейплз Льюис "Серебряное кресло" (суперобложка)
"The Silver Chair" (1953)
Клайв Стейплз Льюис "Последняя битва" (суперобложка)
"The Last Battle" (1956)
Серия "Сенсация":
К.С. Льюис "Сказание об аде и рае, или Расторжение брака"
"Книга знаменитого ученого, писателя, поэта, филолога, литературоведа и богослова. Автора "Хроник Нарнии", пользующихся огромной популярностью в последнее время. Книги К. Льюиса проповедуют Евангелие, утешают, назидают и спасают людей от неверия. "Его книги- это искуссные аллегории, затрагивающие важнейшие искания человеческой души".
"The Great Divorce" (1945)
"The Great Divorce is a work of fantasy by C. S. Lewis that is complementary to Lewis' earlier book The Screwtape Letters.
The working title was Who Goes Home? but the real name was changed at the publisher's insistence. The title refers to William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. The Great Divorce was first printed as a serial in a religious publication called The Guardian (not connected to the modern British newspaper of the same name) in 1944 and 1945, and soon thereafter in book form.
...
It has been announced that Mpower Pictures and Beloved Pictures are currently working on a film adaptation of The Great Divorce. Stephen McEveety will lead the production team and author N. D. Wilson has been tapped to write the script.[1] A 2011 release is planned" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Divorce )
Серия "Некрономикон. Миры Говарда Лавкрафта":
Говард Лавкрафт "Комната с заколоченными ставнями"
Судя по всему, переиздание одного из вариантов сборника "The Shuttered Room and Other Tales of Horror" (1970/1971), в который вошли произведения, дописанные Августом Дерлетом (August Derleth)
"There are two completely different collections with the same title on the cover (though not on the title page), 1971 Beagle/Ballantine and the 1970 Panther edition, The Shuttered Room and Other Tales of Horror. Do not merge these titles!"(с)ISFDB
Содержание издания 1970 года:
7 • The Survivor • (1954) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth
31 • Wentworth's Day • (1957) • shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth
43 • The Peabody Heritage • (1957) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth
67 • The Gable Window • (1957) • shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth
85 • The Ancestor • (1957) • shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth
101 • The Shadow Out of Space • (1957) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth
123 • The Lamp of Alhazred • (1957) • shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth
135 • The Fisherman of Falcon Point • (1959) • shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth
141 • The Dark Brotherhood • (1966) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth
169 • The Shuttered Room • (1959) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth
Содержание сборника 1971 года:
3 • The Shuttered Room • (1959) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth
49 • Witches' Hollow • (1962) • shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth
69 • The Horror from the Middle Span • (1967) • shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth
97 • The Shadow in the Attic • (1964) • shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth
127 • The Fisherman of Falcon Point • (1959) • shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth
135 • The Dark Brotherhood • (1966) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth
Серия "Вспомнить все. Миры Филипа Дика":
Филип Дик "Игроки с Титана"
1 окт
Перенос с сентября.
Ранее описывался так: "Третий том полного собрания сочинений самого парадоксального гения фантастики ХХ века. Отличное подарочное оформление! В издание помимо заглавного вошли романы "Сдвиг времени по-марсиански" и "Симулякры".
"Игроки с Титана" ("The Game-Players of Titan", 1963; также издавался как "Игроки Титана");
"Martian Time-Slip" (1964; это переработка новеллы "All We Marsmen" (в августе, октябре и декабре 1963 в журнале "Worlds of Tomorrow");
"The Simulacra" (1964).
Филип Дик "Порог между мирами"
"Доктор Бладмани, или Как мы стали жить после бомбы" ("Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along after the Bomb", 1965; номинировался на "Nebula"-1966);
"Порог между мирами" (возможно, это "Counter-Clock World" (1967)? или "The Crack in Space" (1966; в 2003 под названием "Cantata-140")?);
"Когда наступит прошлый год" ("Now Wait for Last Year", 1966; издавался под названиями "В ожидании прошлого" и "Наркотик времени").
Серия "Шедевры фантастики":
Роберт Сильверберг "На дальних мирах"
Филип Дик "Свободное радио Альбемута"
Серия "Проект "Бестселлер":
Дэн Симмонс "Друд, или Человек в черном"
"Впервые на русском! От автора знаменитых бестселлеров "Террор", "Песнь Кали" и др. Симонс не нуждается в сравнении. Он великий сам по себе и этот триллер подтверждает это еще больше. Основываясь на реальных биографических событиях, Друд исследует до сих пор нераскрытую тайну последних дней жизни самого знаменитого писателя в мире Чарльза Диккенса, глубоко и оригинально, подтверждая слова Линкольна Чайлда о Симонсе как о гении среди современных романистов"
"Drood" (2009). Номинировался на "Locus"-2010 (3 место в категории "fantasy novel").
"Historical thriller based on the last five years of Charles Dickens' life and his uncompleted novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood, as narrated by fellow novelist Wilkie Collins"(с) Locus Online: New Books, February 2009
"It's historical horror as only Dan Simmons can write it, steeped in details of Victorian London, a mystery (with a hint of the supernatural) about Charles Dickens and his unfinished novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, as narrated by Dickens's secretly jealous friend, Wilkie Collins"(с) Locus Online: New and Notable Books, April 2009
Gary K. Wolfe в рецензии в журнале "Locus" (январь 2009):
"Drood reads quickly and generates the suspense of a classic thriller, and the various descriptions of literary politics, stagecraft, and the minutiae of Victorian publishing only serve to amplify the impact of the periodic Awful Revelations; things seem to settle down for several chapters while Collins writes and produces a new play, for example, and then, wham."
Рецензия в "Publishers Weekly":
"Bestseller Simmons (The Terror) brilliantly imagines a terrifying sequence of events as the inspiration for Dickens's last, uncompleted novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, in this unsettling and complex thriller. In the course of narrowly escaping death in an 1865 train wreck and trying to rescue fellow passengers, Dickens encounters a ghoulish figure named Drood, who had apparently been traveling in a coffin. Along with his real-life novelist friend Wilkie Collins, who narrates the tale, Dickens pursues the elusive Drood, an effort that leads the pair to a nightmarish world beneath London's streets. Collins begins to wonder whether the object of their quest, if indeed the man exists, is merely a cover for his colleague's own murderous inclinations. Despite the book's length, readers will race through the pages, drawn by the intricate plot and the proliferation of intriguing psychological puzzles, which will remind many of the work of Charles Palliser and Michael Cox."
Из "Bookmarks Magazine":
"The narrative of Drood may be full of subplots and blind alleys, but the mystery of whether it is a good novel or not turns on a single question: is it too long? The most enthusiastic reviewers did not seem to notice the book's nearly 800-page girth. Most critics, while positive, were also apologetic, claiming that Simmons needed such space to air his considerable research, or that the novel could only succeed if it also assumed the proportions of 19th-century books whose authors were paid by the word. A few less-patient reviewers opined that Simmons simply needed to pull out the red pen. But despite their differences, all the critics agreed that, in its best parts, Drood is fantastically imaginative, eerily erudite, mischievous, and macabre."
Из "The New Yorker":
"In this creepy intertextual tale of professional jealousy and possible madness, Wilkie Collins tells of his friendship and rivalry with Charles Dickens, and of the mysterious phantasm named Edwin Drood, who pursues them both. Drood, cadaverous and pale, first appears at the scene of a railway accident in which Dickens was one of the few survivors; later, Dickens and Collins descend into London's sewer in search of his lair. Meanwhile, a retired police detective warns Collins that Drood is responsible for more than three hundred murders, and that he will destroy Dickens in his quest for immortality. Collins is peevish, vain, and cruel, and the most unreliable of narrators: an opium addict, prone to nightmarish visions. The narrative is overlong, with discarded subplots and red herrings, but Simmons, a master of otherworldly suspense, cleverly explores envy's corrosive effects."
Отрывок на английском - здесь.
Майкл Крайтон "Пиратские широты"
"Впервые на русском! "Парк юрского периода", "Сфера", "Конго" и другие бестселлеры Майкла Крайтона изданы во множестве стран, общее число экземпляров превысило сто пятьдесят миллионов. Роман "Пиратские широты" был обнаружен в архиве прославленного писателя уже после его смерти. Уже начались съемки фильма-блокбастера!"
Michael Crichton (1942 - 2008). "Pirate Latitudes" (2009)
Из новостей с сайта "Locus" (запись от 6 апреля 2009): "According to recent announcements, the late Michael Crichton left behind a finished pirate novel and a partial techno-thriller novel, and HarperCollins plans to publish them. The completed work is a departure from his usual science-based fare; Pirate Latitudes is an adventure story set in Jamica in the 17th century. According to Jonathan Burnham, Harper publisher, "it's packed through with great detail about navigation and how pirates operated, and links between the New World and the Caribbean and Spain," adding that HarperCollins plans a print run of one million copies in the US, to be released on November 24, 2009. The publisher also said they intend to work with Crichton's agent Lynn Nesbit and the Crichton estate to choose a co-writer to finish the other work, the sequel to Next."
Англоаннотация: "From one of the best-loved authors of all time comes an irresistible adventure of swashbuckling pirates in the New World, a classic story of treasure and betrayal.
The Caribbean, 1665. A remote colony of the English Crown, the island of Jamaica holds out against the vast supremacy of the Spanish empire. Port Royal, its capital, is a cutthroat town of taverns, grog shops, and bawdy houses.
In this steamy climate there's a living to be made, a living that can end swiftly by disease - or by dagger. For Captain Charles Hunter, gold in Spanish hands is gold for the taking, and the law of the land rests with those ruthless enough to make it.
Word in port is that the galleon El Trinidad, fresh from New Spain, is awaiting repairs in a nearby harbor. Heavily fortified, the impregnable harbor is guarded by the bloodthirsty Cazalla, a favorite commander of the Spanish king himself. With backing from a powerful ally, Hunter assembles a crew of ruffians to infiltrate the enemy outpost and commandeer El Trinidad, along with its fortune in Spanish gold. The raid is as perilous as the bloodiest tales of island legend, and Hunter will lose more than one man before he even sets foot on foreign shores, where dense jungle and the firepower of Spanish infantry stand between him and the treasure. . . .
Pirate Latitudes is Michael Crichton at his best: a rollicking adventure tale pulsing with relentless action, crackling atmosphere, and heart-pounding suspense."
Здесь этот роман про пиратов перечисляю, пожалуй, исключительно из-за жанровых заслуг автора.
Серия "Апокалиптика":
Колин Уилсон "Мир пауков. Книга третья. Маг"
7 окт
"Маг" ("The Magician", 1992). Переиздание 3-го романа цикла "Spider World", начатого книгами "Башня" ("The Tower", 1987 в Англии) и "Дельта" ("The Delta", 1987). В цикл также входит "Shadowlands" (2002).
"sf novel. Volume three in the series"(с) база "Locus"
Серия "Рэй Брэдбери. Вино из фантазий":
Рэй Брэдбери "Марсианские хроники"
"Цикл удивительных марсианских историй Рэя Брэдбери - классическое произведение, вошедшее в золотой фонд мировой литературы"
Надцатое переиздание.
Рэй Брэдбери "Из праха восставшие"
"Роман, писавшийся более полувека - с 1945 года до 2000-го.Роман, развившийся из рассказов "Апрельское колдовство", "Дядюшка Эйнар" и "Странница", на которых выросло не одно поколение советских, а потом и российских читателей. Роман, у истоков которого стоял знаменитый художник Чарли Аддамс - создатель "Семейки Аддамсов".И семейка Эллиотов, герои "Из праха восставших", ничуть не уступает Аддамсам"
"Из праха восставшие. Семейные воспоминания" ("From the Dust Returned", 2001; номинировался на "World Fantasy Award"-2002, "Bram Stoker Award"-2002 и "Locus"-2002 (8 место в категории "fantasy novel"))
Переиздание (2009, Эксмо, серия "Интеллектуальный бестселлер. Читает весь мир").
Серия "Интеллектуальный бестселлер. Читает весь мир":
Рэй Брэдбери "И грянул гром: 100 рассказов"
21.09.2010
"Под этой обложкой собраны сто лучших рассказов Рэя Брэдбери, опубликованных за последние сорок лет: лирические зарисовки из жизни городка Гринтаун в штате Иллинойс, фантастические рассказы о покорении Красной планеты, леденящие душу истории из тех, что лучше всего читать с фонариком под одеялом... Романтические и философские, жизнерадостные и жуткие, все они написаны неповторимым почерком мастера"
Судя по наличию в книге рассказа "И грянул гром" и количеству рассказов, могу предположить, что это сборник "The Stories of Ray Bradbury" (1990).
Содержание есть здесь - http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?THSTRSFRBR1990
Жозе Сарамаго "Книга имен"
"Впервые на русском языке! Самый новый шедевр от лауреата Нобелевской премии и одного из величайших писателей современности!"
Jose [de Sousa] Saramago (1922 – 18 июня 2010). Судя по названию, это таки "Todos os Nomes" (1997; издавался на английском как "All the Names").
А "самый новый шедевр" - это "Каин" ("Cain", 2009). И новее не будет.
Англоаннотация: "Senhor Jose is a low-grade clerk in the city's Central Registry, where the living and the dead share the same shelf space. A middle-aged bachelor, he has no interest in anything beyond the certificates of birth, marriage, divorce, and death that are his daily routine. But one day, when he comes across the records of an anonymous young woman, something happens to him. Obsessed, Senhor Jose sets off to follow the thread that may lead him to the woman-but as he gets closer, he discovers more about her, and about himself, than he would ever have wished.
The loneliness of people's lives, the effects of chance, the discovery of love-all coalesce in this extraordinary novel that displays the power and art of Jose Saramago in brilliant form."
Эксмодайджест: "Герой «Книги имен», служащий Главного архива записи актов гражданского состояния — архива настолько исполинского, что в нем можно заблудиться и пропасть без вести, — одержим единственной страстью: он собирает газетные вырезки, с помощью которых ста
рается восстановить биографии ста знаменитых современников, но быстро убеждается, что каждый из них в той или иной мере скрывает правду о себе."
Страница романа в англовикипедии - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_Names
Некоторые считают Сарамаго магреалистом, некоторые - фантастом. Ну пусть и здесь побудет.
Серия "Книга-загадка, книга-мистика":
Джо Хилл "Рога"
6 окт
Joe Hill (настоящее имя Джозеф Хиллстром Кинг (Joseph Hillstrom King)), сын Стивена Кинга.
"Horns" (2010).
Страница романа на сайте автора - http://joehillfiction.com/?page_id=1300
"Fantasy thriller about a man, Ig, who wakes up one morning to find horns sprouting from his forehead."(c) Locus Online: New Books, late February 2010
"The inexplicably weird mixes with a murder mystery in this convoluted horror novel delving into the depths of human nature, about a man suspected of killing the woman he loves, who suddenly grows horns and finds he has the devilish ability to make people to tell him their darkest secrets."(c) Locus Online: April 2010 New & Notable Books
Рецензия из "Bookmarks Magazine":
"Critics across the board felt possessed by Horns and strongly recommended it to horror fans and general readers alike. But the devil is in the details, and it seemed as if each reviewer felt obligated to find a minor flaw in the book. Some disliked the structure of its plot, others felt the tone to be uneven, and a few were overwhelmed by the book's many devil references and puns. All of those critics, though, were ultimately persuaded by Hill's sympathetic characters, his combination of the best of horror with psychological fiction, and his consistent originality."
Рэй Олсон (Ray Olson) в "Booklist":
"One hangover-headache morning, Ig Perrish gropes his forehead and discovers “a pair of knobby, pointed protuberances.” As he proceeds to stumble through the day, person after person he encounters, including the nurse and doctor he consults about the horns, tell him things about their desires and intentions that they should keep to themselves, and whenever he touches someone, he instantly knows their darkest secrets. Most disconcerting, he finds out that virtually everyone thinks that, lack of evidence notwithstanding, he really did sexually assault and murder his lover since high school, Merrin Williams, almost exactly a year ago. Only his brother, Terry, a TV talk-show star, doesn’t, but that, Ig learns through his special powers, is because Terry knows Merrin was killed by someone near and dear to her and Ig both. Ig determines on making the culprit die as painfully as Merrin died. Hill’s a terrific descriptive writer, and realistic dialogue comes easily to him, but those skills don’t help this diffuse revenge caper move as crisply as it ought to, and they don’t compensate for the cookie-cutter sameness of its characters. Except for Ig and the Merrin, everyone in Ig’s little world is a covert creep seething with mean spirits; although he’s becoming steadily more demonic, Ig himself is the nicest guy around. Worst, the big-showdown climax comes off as splatter-movie farcical after the longueurs of the preceding 300-plus pages."
Клайв Баркер "Проклятая игра"
"The Damnation Game" (1985; номинировался на "Bram Stoker Award"-1986 (среди дебютантов), "World Fantasy Award"-1986, "Locus"-1986 (15 место) и выдвигался на "Booker Prize"-1987)
Переиздание (впервые на русском - в 1994 в составе собрания сочинений в издательстве "Кэдмэн"; переиздавался "Эксмо" в серии "Книги крови Клайва Баркера").
Серия "Книга-загадка, книга-мистика. Дин Кунц":
Дин Кунц "Дверь в декабрь"
"The Door to December" (1991; переработан из романа, впервые вышедшего в 1985 году под псевдонимом Ричард Пейдж (Richard Paige)).
"оккультный триллер"(с) база "Locus"
Переиздание (как минимум, 2005 в серии "Дин Кунц. Коллекция")
Дин Кунц "Ложная память"
"False Memory" (1999), психологийческий триллер.
Переиздание (как минимум, 2006 в серии "Дин Кунц. Коллекция")
Серия "Энн Райс. Королева мистики":
Энн Райс "Песнь серафимов"
Вообще-то, "Songs of the Seraphim" - название цикла. В него в настоящее время входит роман "Angel Time" (2009). Его продолжение, "Of Love and Evil", выйдет в конце ноября 2010.
Англовикипедия о романе:
"Angel Time is a novel by American author Anne Rice released on 27 October 2009. The book is the first in Rice's Songs of the Seraphim series, which tells the story of Toby O'Dare, an assassin with a tragic past. The author's inspiration for the book, and the primary setting of the story, is the Mission Inn in Riverside, California, a large historic Mission Revival style hotel.[1] The book debuted on the November 15, 2009 New York Times Bestseller list at #13."
Из интервью:
"Question: The hero of Angel Time is Toby O’Dare, a boy who had a tough life growing up in New Orleans and who goes on to become a skilled assassin before meeting Malchiah. How does Toby compare to your past protagonists? What is unique about him?
Anne Rice: Well, Toby is deeply flawed, much like the vampires. He’s an assassin, and he has done terrible things, and questionable things. But he turns around in the very first book of the series and sets out to do the bidding of the angels in helping others. I think of all those characters I’ve created, Toby is most like Michael Curry in The Witching Hour. But Toby has done things Michael would never do. Toby is a deeply flawed human who is offered a chance to be saved; and he takes it. Maybe he’s a first among my characters in that he is given an opportunity to redeem himself through the mercy of God, and then to do good to make up for all the evil he had done before. Toby is also a crafty character. He’s pragmatic. Having been a clever assassin, he knows how to plot to do good. That was interesting to me, to have him struggling to save people from harm, and having to figure out a somewhat complex way to do it.
...
Question: How did you imagine the concept of Angel Time (as opposed to Normal Time)? And what sources did you reference while reading about angels?
Anne Rice: I came up with the concept of Angel Time through meditating on it; really, figuring that from God’s standpoint there is no linear time. I felt certain that the angels would be able to move back and forth in our linear time, and to grasp how some one can be lifted from one century and put down in another to work a solution that then becomes part of the very future from which the original person came. I think meditation led to this definition of Angel Time, more than any actual reading. It seemed logical to me that the angels could do this. I did read theology about angels, of course, including St. Thomas Aquinas and books by Catholic writers who have studied angels and all the biblical references to them. It all starts with the Bible, of course and how angels appear in those pages. But the scholars Pascal Parente and Peter Kreeft help me to cover the sources. I stayed away from other writers’ more fanciful conjectures about angels. I wanted the biblical facts, and the way that the theologians interpreted them."
Из рецензии в "Publishers Weekly":
"Full of provocative moral reflections, this kickoff to bestseller Rice's new Songs of the Seraphim religious romance series centers on hired assassin Toby O'Dare, a one-time aspirant to the priesthood until personal tragedy unmoored his life. Guardian angel Malchiah visits Toby, who's just consummated his latest kill, and offers him redemption for his sins. After accepting the offer, Toby is whisked away to 13th-century England, where, in the guise of a Dominican friar, he becomes the protector of a Jewish couple accused wrongly by the gentile populace of having murdered their young daughter for her conversion to Christianity. Two eloquently told if clunkily joined digressions give the backstory on Toby and on the persecution of the Jews in medieval Europe. Readers will revel in Rice's colorful recreation of the historical past and in her moving depiction of characters struggling to reconcile matters of the heart with their personal sense of faith. 250,000 first printing "
Англоаннотация:
"It’s the present day. Toby O’Dare—aka Lucky the Fox—is a contract killer of underground fame on assignment to kill once again. He’s a soulless soul, a dead man walking. His nightmarish world of lone and lethal missions is disrupted when a mysterious stranger, a seraph, offers him a chance to save rather than destroy lives. O’Dare, who long ago dreamt of being a priest, seizes his chance. Now he is carried back through the ages to thirteenth-century England, to dark realms where accusations of ritual murder have been made against Jews, where children suddenly die or disappear. In this primitive setting, O’Dare begins his perilous quest for salvation, a journey of danger and flight, loyalty and betrayal, selflessness and love."
Серия "Терри Пратчетт":
Терри Пратчетт "Вор Времени"
Ура, ура, ура. "Thief of Time" (2001), 26-й роман цикла "Плоский мир", 5-й в подцикле про Смерть.
Наличествуют Смерть, его внучка Сюзан, коварные Аудиторы и кучаразного народаразных существ.
"Humorous fantasy novel, “Discworld” #26", "Humorous fantasy novel. Volume 26 in the “Discworld” series. The first fully accurate clock threatens to end the world."(с) база "Locus"
Из рецензии в "Publishers Weekly":
"Here we go again! In the newest appealing installment of the Discworld series, Pratchett (The Truth) takes on religion, time and... kung-fu movies? The cast includes Death; Miss Susan, Death's granddaughter; Jeremy Clockson, a clockmaker; Lobsang, a novice monk; and Lu-Tze, a sweeper at the temple of the History Monks. When a mysterious lady asks Jeremy to make a clock that is perfectly timed (even to the last tick), trouble begins it seems that such a clock would have the power to stop time completely. There would be no yesterday, no tomorrow, no next minute; in fact, everything and everyone would stop in its tracks. It's up to Miss Susan, Lobsang and Lu-Tze to figure out who in the end has decided to build the dangerous clock and how to stop him before the world crashes to a halt. Along the way we learn Rule One: "Do not act incautiously when confronting a little bald wrinkly smiling man," which is a very good lesson to learn. We also find out that Lobsang has more in store for his future than to be an apprentice monk. The story includes a quick nod to James Bond flicks with Qu, the monk who supplies gadgets to Lu-Tze and Lobsang, and at the end of Time the four (no, make that five) horsemen of the Apocalypse get to ride out for a jaunt. You don't need to catch all the in-jokes to enjoy the fun."
Эксмодайджест:
"Человек! Если ты это читаешь, значит, ты существуешь. Мы, Аудиторы, наблюдаем за тобой, регистрируем тебя, изучаем тебя. И очень скоро мы до тебя доберемся. Сразу после того, как уничтожим этот презренный Плоский мир с его слонами, черепахой и напрочь чокнутыми обитателями.
Ты это читаешь? Значит, мы идем к тебе!"
Отрывок на английском - http://www.harpercollins.com/features/pratchettbooks/excerpt.aspx?isbn=9780061031328
Заглянуть внутрь английского издания - http://www.harpercollins.com/browseinside/index.aspx?isbn13=9780061808593
Джон Мур "Принц быстрого реагирования"
John Moore "Slay and Rescue!" (1993 под именем John F. Moore).
Переиздание (впервые - 2000, АСТ, серия "Век Дракона" под названием "Срази и спаси!" в переводе И.Гуровой; перепечатывался Эксмо в 2004 в серии "Юмористическая fantasy" в переводе А.Кузнецовой).
Серия "Черная Фэнтези":
Глен Кук "Золотые сердца с червоточинкой"
Эммм, "Сладкозвучный серебряный блюз" ("Sweet Silver Blues", 1987) и "Золотые сердца с червоточинкой" ("Bitter Gold Hearts", 1988). Первый и второй романы из цикла о частном детективе Гаррете ("Garrett, P.I.").
АСТ расстается с хитовыми авторами?
Серия "Книга-загадка, книга-бестселлер":
Линкольн Чайлд "Лед-15"
"Впервые на русском! От знаменитого создателя бестселлеров "Из глубины", "Золотой город", "Граница льдов". Исследования на Аляске, связанные с глобальным потеплением, приводят ученых к сенсационной находке доисторического животного, вмерзшего в лед и прекрасно сохранившегося. Но согласно местной легенде, этот зверь воплощение зла и трогать его нельзя.."
Эксмодайджест: "Группа ученых проводит на Аляске исследования, связанные с глобальным потеплением. Неожиданно они обнаруживают в глубине ледяной пещеры огромное доисторическое животное, вмерзшее в лед и прекрасно сохранившееся. Местные жители из племени тунитов
встревожены, ведь, согласно их легенде, этот зверь является воплощением зла и его ни в коем случае нельзя трогать…"
Lincoln Child "Terminal Freeze" (2009)
Автор по поводу выхода книги: "When people ask why I write thrillers, I frequently give this answer: when I was in nursery school, my parents once gave me an empty notebook. As you might expect, I filled the first few pages with childish scrawls. But then I turned to the last page and drew something so frightening, I could never ever bring myself to look at it again.
That’s basically what I’ve been trying to do ever since: write a story so scary, even I wouldn’t dare read it.
Whether I’ve accomplished that in Terminal Freeze is your call to make. But while putting the novel together, I was careful to choose elements that increased my personal uneasiness factor. A forbidding and dangerous landscape, far from the safety and comfort of civilization. A deserted army base, unused for half a century, full of dead-ends and dark forgotten corners. And that most atavistic of terrors: a vicious enemy, as deadly as it is mysterious, that stalks and kills with impunity--and an apparently limitless appetite for death.
So I hope you’ll consider Terminal Freeze my contribution to that time-honored literary genre, the Campfire Tale From Hell. We’ve all heard them: the Thing hiding in the bedroom closet; the hook-wielding lover’s lane murderer. They tend to stay with you into the cold light of day, and they can be damnably hard to forget. If I’ve managed to even approach the level of fear that kind of story evokes, then I’ve done my job as a storyteller.
That childhood notebook of mine is now long gone. And yet I often think of it still, and wonder if--even today--I might have a little difficulty turning over that final page."
Рецензия в "Publishers Weekly": "In this taut, suspenseful SF thriller from bestseller Child (Deep Storm), an obscure scientific expedition in Alaska's remote Federal Wilderness Zone stumbles on the frozen body of what appears to be a saber-tooth tiger in a cave, though only the eyes are clearly visible through the ice. When news of the find reaches the cable television network sponsoring the expedition, Emilio Conti, a legendary documentary filmmaker, rushes to the scene, where he plans to film the thawing of the animal on live TV. After the frozen creature disappears, Conti suspects sabotage, until horribly eviscerated corpses begin to pile up at the military base hosting the expedition. Paleoecologist Evan Marshall suspects that the prehistoric beast is responsible—and that the initial identification of it as a saber-tooth was mistaken. While the story line of a horrific monster picking off a shrinking group of survivors in a confined area is nothing new, Child's superior writing raises this above the pack."
Англоаннотация: "A breathtaking discovery at the top of the world . . .
A terrifying collision between modern science and Native American legend . . .
An electrifying new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Lincoln Child.
Two hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle lies Alaska’s Federal Wildlife Zone, one of the most remote and inhospitable places on Earth. But for paleoecologist Evan Marshall and a small group of fellow scientists, an expedition to the Zone represents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study the effects of global warming.
Everything about the expedition changes, however, with an astonishing find. On a routine exploration of a glacial ice cave, the group discovers an enormous ancient animal, encased in solid ice. The media conglomerate sponsoring their research immediately intervenes and arranges the ultimate spectacle—the creature will be cut from the ice, thawed, and revealed live on television. Despite dire warnings from the local Native American village, and the scientific concerns of Marshall and his team, the “docudrama” plows ahead . . . until the scientists make one more horrifying discovery. The beast is no regular specimen—it may be an ancient killing machine. And they may be premature in believing it dead.
In this riveting new thriller, Lincoln Child weaves together a stunning Arctic landscape, a terrifying mythic creature, and a pervasive mood of chaos—and fear. With Terminal Freeze, Child demonstrates why he has become a major bestselling author, and why his novels electrify and enthrall so many."
На сайте автора на английском выложены первая и вторая главы романа.
Также имеется отрывок на Амазоне.
Мэтт Бронливи "Орден дракона"
"Впервые на русском! Новый автор, Метт Бронливи - известный продьюсер, автор песен, работавший со многими популярными звездами. Его дебютный роман в жанре "теологический триллер" высоко оценила критика. Читать этот роман - все равно что смотреть много-бюджетный фильм. По 10-бальной шкале, он получил бы 11"
Matt Bronleewe. Если это тот самый дебютный роман, то это "Illuminated" (2007), 1-я книга цикла "August Adams Adventure", в который также входят "House of Wolves" (2008) и "The Deadly Hours" (2009).
Сайт автора - http://www.mattbronleewe.com
Об авторе: "Matt Bronleewe is a record producer and songwriter from Nashville, Tennessee. He was a founding member of the band Jars of Clay, and has worked with Grammy-award-winning artists including Michael W. Smith and Rebecca St. James, as well as multiplatinum-selling international artists such as Natalie Imbruglia. He and his wife, Karin, have three children, George, Cole, and Grace."
Англоаннотация: "August Adams has failed his family before. He's sacrificed relationships in pursuit of adventure, fame, and money. Now the very lives of those he loves depend on his ability to decipher a centuries-old puzzle encrypted in the colorful hand-painted illuminations that adorn three rare Gutenberg Bibles.
It's a secret that could yield unimaginable wealth, undermine two major religions, and change the course of Western civilization. Two ruthless, ancient organizations are willing to do anything to get their hands on it. And August has the span of one transatlantic flight to figure it out."
Серия "Global Book":
Лоуренс Норфолк "Носорог для Папы Римского"
"Впервые на русском - монументальный роман прославленного автора "Словаря Ламприера". Норфолк снова изображает мир на грани эпохальной метаморфозы: погрязший в роскоши и развлечениях папский Рим, как магнит, притягивает искателей приключений и паломников, тайных и явных эмиссаров сопредельных и дальних держав, авантюристов всех мастей".
Lawrence Norfolk. "The Pope's Rhinoceros" (1996).
Норфолк известен у нас как автор романов "Словарь Ламприера" ("Lempriere's Dictionary", 1991; награжден "Somerset Maugham Award"-1992) и "В обличье вепря" ("In the Shape of a Boar", 2000; номинировался на "James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction"-2000).
Рецензия в "Publishers Weekly":
"Set in the 16th century, Norfolk's epic second novel takes its premise from an actual event: an unsuccessful Portuguese attempt to bring a rhinoceros to Rome by ship, in order to curry political favor with Pope Leo X. But historical fact is no more than a springboard for Norfolk's extremely (perhaps excessively) elaborate and occasionally mythic fictional construction. At the novel's center is Salvestro, a somewhat reluctant soldier of fortune who becomes a steadfast companion to Bernardo, a dim-witted hulk with fearsome physical strength. After they have been used as pawns in a maze of machinations and deceptions within the Italian military, the pair escape back to Salvestro's Baltic home town; but soon afterward, they return to Italy as guides for a group of beleaguered monks. In Rome, Salvestro and Bernardo become mixed up in the attempt to procure the exotic rhinoceros, undertaking a perilous sea voyage that deposits them on an equally perilous African coast. While some may enjoy Norfolk's whirligig of deceptions and double crosses, less patient readers will find the narrative frustrating. Norfolk indulges a penchant for withholding information, and his vaguely delineated, staggeringly complex plot twists involve a huge cast of characters. As he proved in the intellectually heavyweight Lempriere's Dictionary, he's clearly a virtuoso stylist. But in the end, this novel, more a tour de force of technical mastery than a compelling narrative, impresses more than it entertains."
Эдвард Б. Сент-Джон (Edward B. St. John) в "Library Journal":
"Pope Leo X was one of the most power-hungry and profligate political figures of the Renaissance. Raised in the lavish Medici court, he was a difficult person to impress. Expansionist Portugal hoped to win Leo's favor by presenting him with a rhinoceros, a creature about as exotic as a unicorn in 16th-century Italy. Norfolk's second historical novel, following the critically acclaimed Lempriere's Dictionary (LJ 6/15/92), focuses on the adventures of Salvestro and Bernardo, two clueless treasure hunters who get caught up in the rhino quest. There are scores of minor characters, including Fiametta, an obscenely obese prostitute; Towser the Executioner; a Vatican housecat; and the virgin Amalia, whose white dress is impervious to Roman dirt. Pychonesque anachronisms abound: the Roman countryside is an "ectopia," and music at papal celebrations is provided by the proto-punk band King Caspar and the Mauritians. Despite its postmodern trappings, this is essentially an old-fashioned and aimless picaresque novel. For larger fiction collections."
Маргарет Фланаган (Margaret Flanagan) в "Booklist":
"The acclaimed author of Lempriere's Dictionary (1992) furnishes another richly textured romp steeped in history, legend, and excitement. Utilizing an obscure historical event as a springboard, Norfolk manages to weave a fantastic tale calculated to fascinate and amuse sophisticated readers. In 1516, in a creative attempt to curry papal favor for their imperialist ambitions, the Portuguese commissioned a ship to sail from India to Italy in order to transport and deliver a rare and exotic rhinoceros to Pope Leo X. This amusing incident provides the fodder for a highly original and inventive narrative adventure. A sumptuous, multilayered period piece densely packed with vivid detail and description."
Англоаннотация:
"In the tradition of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Umberto Eco, Lawrence Norfolk has created a dizzyingly dense and impressively erudite fantasy of a novel, a vast edifice based around a single, actual historical event: the sinking off the coast of Italy of a Portugese ship bound on a bizarre mission, to deliver an African rhino to Pope Leo X. Norfolk takes his readers on a world tour of the 16th century, from the flophouses of Rome to the rain forest of West Africa, and along the way he piles historical esoterica upon philosophical rumination upon myriad subplots and minor characters. The chains of event and coincidence and the encyclopedic references will exhaust some readers long before the mad quest for the rhino meets its watery end, but Norfolk's baroque talent remains inexhaustible."
Где-то как-то можно сказать, что это фантастика. Хотя "Locus" Норфолка фантастом таки не считает.
Серия "Интеллектуальный бестселлер (мини)":
Федерико Андахази "Дела святые"
"Впервые на русском! От знаменитого аргентинского автора "Анатома" и "Милосердные" - роман о городке Кинто-дель-Медио, обитатели которого жили привольно, спали спокойно и умирали достойно, пока дьявол не запустил свои нечистые лапы в этот оазис праведной жизни".
Federico Andahazi. Понятия не имею. Как вариант - "La ciudad de los herejes".
Сайт автора (англоязычная версия присутствует) - http://www.andahazi.com
Здесь, по-моему, все-таки для массовости
Серия "Интеллектуальный бестселлер. Открытие":
Иэн Бэнкс "Империя!", или Крутые подступы к Гарбадейлу"
"Впервые на русском! Трагикомическая семейная сага от автора скандально знаменитой "Осиной Фабрики", головоломного "Моста" и рок-н-рольной "Улицы отчаяния".
Перенос с сентября.
Iain M[enzies] Banks, правда, без среднего инициала на обложке, потому как не фантастика. "The Steep Approach to Garbadale" (2007; рабочими названиями романа были "Matter" и "Empire!").
Страница романа в англовикипедии - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Steep_Approach_to_Garbadale
Страница книги на сайте автора - http://www.iain-banks.net/uk/the-steep-approach-to-garbadale/
"Associational novel by the author whose SF books appear as by "Iain M. Banks". (His most recent SF novel was The Algebraist.) This book is about a rebellious member of a family that's considering selling the basis of its fortune, a board game called Empire!, to an American corporation"(с) Locus Online: New Books, first week April 2007
Рецензия в "Publishers Weekly": "The latest offering from Banks (The Wasp Factory) gives a scion's-eye view of an eccentric, splintering Scottish business family. Having secured immense wealth via the Empire! board game (invented by a relative in 1880) and its various offshoots, the Wopuld family must now decide whether to sell the company: the American Spraint Corporation wants Empire! as a jewel in its crown. As the family gathers to celebrate matriarch Grandma Win's 80th birthday and have a board meeting, Win dispatches grandson Fielding to find his cousin Alban, who has fled the family to become a forester, in order to solidify her vision of the family legacy. Banks flashes back through Alban's painful memories of his mother (who committed suicide) and his cousin Sophie (whom he loved) as he heads home. The book contains a plethora of family secrets, none of which fully drive the plot, but the gothic setting, big passions and light humor suffice. Bank's 23rd book isn't his best, but it carries one all the way up its craggy steeps."
Аннотация к западному изданию: "Dark family secrets and a long-lost love affair lie at the heart of Iain Banks's fabulous new novel. The Wopuld family built its fortune on a board game called Empire! - now a hugely successful computer game. So successful, the American Spraint Corp wants to buy the firm out. Young renegade Alban, who has been evading the family clutches for years, is run to ground and persuded to attend the forthcoming family gathering - part birthday party, part Extraordinary General Meeting - convened by Win, Wopuld matriarch and most powerful member of the board, at Garbadale, the family's highland castle. Being drawn back into the bosom of the clan brings a disconcerting confrontation with Alban's past. What drove his mother to take her own life? And is he ready to see Sophie, his beautiful cousin and teenage love? Grandmother Win's revelations wll radically alter Alban's perspective for ever."
Серия "Мона Лиза":
Элис Хоффман "Седьмое небо"
"Впервые на русском! Новый роман признанного мастера тонкого психологического романа. Общий тираж ее книг составляет более 50 миллионов экземпляров"
Alice Hoffman. "Seventh Heaven" (1990).
"мэйнстримный роман о ребёнке-телепате и жизни в пригороде"(с) база "Locus"
Рецензия в "Publishers Weekly":
"In the full flowering of her extraordinary talent, Hoffman has produced a wise, poignant and uplifting novel luminous with the sensitive evocation of ordinary lives. The setting is a Long Island, N.Y., housing development from 1959 to 1960, a place of conforming, happy families where husbands mow the lawns of the tract houses and wives meet for coffee, where "safety hung over the neighborhood like a net." The arrival of Nora Silk, a brassy divorcee with two young children, is the catalyst for disturbing changes and events, some of them violent. Plucky, impetuous, innocently seductive and a messy housekeeper, Nora is anathema to the subdivision wives, who ostracize her and whose children torment her eight-year-old clairvoyant son, Billy. But as Nora's presence disturbs the community, it is slowly revealed that behind the identical facades of the houses are secret lives of turmoil, restlessness and longing. As in all Hoffman novels, mundane existence is disrupted in surprising ways: families disintegrate, a teenager dies, a placid housewife disappears. And ultimately Nora, whose optimism about her dead-end life is unquenchable, becomes an instrument of healing. Hoffman has intuitive grasp of the thoughts and feelings that are masked by conventional behavior. Like some of her characters, she seems to have a spooky ability to read thoughts; how else to account for her unerring understanding of people of nearly every age and across a broad social spectrum? She has a gift for perceiving the cruelty of children and the wide gulf that yawns between the most loving, attentive parents and their offspring's unknown wishes and deeds. As usual, she tells more than a compulsively readable story. She does magic, she unsettles you and she leaves you feeling emotionally purged and satisfied".
Лорел Бельски (Lauren Bielski) в "Library Journal":
"In felicitously recording the lives of newcomers-on-the-block Nora Silk and her sons, baby James and young Billy, Hoffman proves once again that she can tell a charming story about suburbia that is, at once, mundane and oddly transcendent. Nora, a young, sexy divorcee, moves to the suburbs of New York City following her divorce (in 1959 a scandalous event). All alone, she manages work, her sons, and assorted domestic responsibilities with quirky flair, if not thoroughness (and occasional help from assorted magic spells inherited from her grandfather). Hoffman takes the reader back to that apparently innocent time and into a "nice" neighborhood, where the sunny replicated exteriors of the houses hide sometimes desperate lives within. Nora and her neighbors signal lifestyles of the future: a woman walks out on her family, another goes back to work; a boy is abused and strikes back; a father leaves home. Combining reality with magic, this novel surpasses At Risk (LJ 7/88). It should attract a wide readership."
Англоаннотация:
"In the late 1950s, when Nora Silk moves into Hemlock Street, the entire neighborhood sucks in its breath. A divorcee who wears Toreador pants and lets her kids eat sweets before school, Nora is a walking scandal. But when the block's husbands, wives, and children get to know her, they begin to see other things in Nora--and this Long Island town won't ever be the same..."
Кристи Филипс "Хранитель забытых тайн"
"Впервые на русском! От автора бестселлера "Письмо Россетти". Расшифровка старинного дневника помогает раскрыть загадку давно забытых преступлений, совершенных во времена правления английского короля Карла Второго"
Christi Phillips. "The Devlin Diary" (2008).
Англоаннотация:
"London, 1672: A vicious killer stalks the court of Charles II, inscribing his victims' bodies with mysterious markings. Are these the random murders of a madman? The deadly consequence of a personal vendetta? Or the grisly result of a hidden conspiracy? Cambridge, 2008: A Trinity College history professor is found dead, the torn page of a seventeenth-century diary in his hand. His death appears to be an accident, but the college's newest Fellow Claire Donovan and historian Andrew Kent suspect otherwise. The professor's last research subject was Hannah Devlin, a physician to the king's mistress and the keeper of a diary that holds the key to a series of unsolved murders in 1670s London. Through the arcane collections of Trinity's Wren Library, the British Library, and the Royal Society, Claire and Andrew follow the clues Hannah left behind, unearthing secrets of the past and present as both stories unfold to their shocking conclusions."
Судя по всему, здесь перечисляю лишь для массовости.
Серия "Хроники Нарнии":
Клайв. С. Льюис "Хроники Нарнии. Покоритель зари. Книга по фильму"
Перенос с сентября
К премьере фильма "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader"? Как-то рановато, она же в декабре.
Клайв С. Льюис "Покоритель зари", или Плавание на край света (кинообложка)"
Серия "Хроники Нарнии - суперобложка":
Клайв Стейплз Льюис "Племянник Чародея" (суперобложка)
"The Magician's Nephew" (1955)
Клайв Стейплз Льюис "Лев, Колдунья и Платяной шкаф" (суперобложка)
"The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" (1950)
Клайв Стейплз Льюис "Конь и его мальчик" (суперобложка)
"The Horse and His Boy" (1954)
Клайв Стейплз Льюис "Принц Каспиан" (суперобложка)
"Prince Caspian" (1951)
Клайв Стейплз Льюис "Покоритель зари" или плавание на край света" (суперобложка)
"The Voyage of the "Dawn Treader" (1952)
Клайв Стейплз Льюис "Серебряное кресло" (суперобложка)
"The Silver Chair" (1953)
Клайв Стейплз Льюис "Последняя битва" (суперобложка)
"The Last Battle" (1956)
Серия "Сенсация":
К.С. Льюис "Сказание об аде и рае, или Расторжение брака"
"Книга знаменитого ученого, писателя, поэта, филолога, литературоведа и богослова. Автора "Хроник Нарнии", пользующихся огромной популярностью в последнее время. Книги К. Льюиса проповедуют Евангелие, утешают, назидают и спасают людей от неверия. "Его книги- это искуссные аллегории, затрагивающие важнейшие искания человеческой души".
"The Great Divorce" (1945)
"The Great Divorce is a work of fantasy by C. S. Lewis that is complementary to Lewis' earlier book The Screwtape Letters.
The working title was Who Goes Home? but the real name was changed at the publisher's insistence. The title refers to William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. The Great Divorce was first printed as a serial in a religious publication called The Guardian (not connected to the modern British newspaper of the same name) in 1944 and 1945, and soon thereafter in book form.
...
It has been announced that Mpower Pictures and Beloved Pictures are currently working on a film adaptation of The Great Divorce. Stephen McEveety will lead the production team and author N. D. Wilson has been tapped to write the script.[1] A 2011 release is planned" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Divorce )
Серия "Некрономикон. Миры Говарда Лавкрафта":
Говард Лавкрафт "Комната с заколоченными ставнями"
Судя по всему, переиздание одного из вариантов сборника "The Shuttered Room and Other Tales of Horror" (1970/1971), в который вошли произведения, дописанные Августом Дерлетом (August Derleth)
"There are two completely different collections with the same title on the cover (though not on the title page), 1971 Beagle/Ballantine and the 1970 Panther edition, The Shuttered Room and Other Tales of Horror. Do not merge these titles!"(с)ISFDB
Содержание издания 1970 года:
7 • The Survivor • (1954) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth
31 • Wentworth's Day • (1957) • shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth
43 • The Peabody Heritage • (1957) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth
67 • The Gable Window • (1957) • shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth
85 • The Ancestor • (1957) • shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth
101 • The Shadow Out of Space • (1957) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth
123 • The Lamp of Alhazred • (1957) • shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth
135 • The Fisherman of Falcon Point • (1959) • shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth
141 • The Dark Brotherhood • (1966) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth
169 • The Shuttered Room • (1959) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth
Содержание сборника 1971 года:
3 • The Shuttered Room • (1959) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth
49 • Witches' Hollow • (1962) • shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth
69 • The Horror from the Middle Span • (1967) • shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth
97 • The Shadow in the Attic • (1964) • shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth
127 • The Fisherman of Falcon Point • (1959) • shortstory by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth
135 • The Dark Brotherhood • (1966) • novelette by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth
Серия "Вспомнить все. Миры Филипа Дика":
Филип Дик "Игроки с Титана"
1 окт
Перенос с сентября.
Ранее описывался так: "Третий том полного собрания сочинений самого парадоксального гения фантастики ХХ века. Отличное подарочное оформление! В издание помимо заглавного вошли романы "Сдвиг времени по-марсиански" и "Симулякры".
"Игроки с Титана" ("The Game-Players of Titan", 1963; также издавался как "Игроки Титана");
"Martian Time-Slip" (1964; это переработка новеллы "All We Marsmen" (в августе, октябре и декабре 1963 в журнале "Worlds of Tomorrow");
"The Simulacra" (1964).
Филип Дик "Порог между мирами"
"Доктор Бладмани, или Как мы стали жить после бомбы" ("Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along after the Bomb", 1965; номинировался на "Nebula"-1966);
"Порог между мирами" (возможно, это "Counter-Clock World" (1967)? или "The Crack in Space" (1966; в 2003 под названием "Cantata-140")?);
"Когда наступит прошлый год" ("Now Wait for Last Year", 1966; издавался под названиями "В ожидании прошлого" и "Наркотик времени").
Серия "Шедевры фантастики":
Роберт Сильверберг "На дальних мирах"
Филип Дик "Свободное радио Альбемута"
Серия "Проект "Бестселлер":
Дэн Симмонс "Друд, или Человек в черном"
"Впервые на русском! От автора знаменитых бестселлеров "Террор", "Песнь Кали" и др. Симонс не нуждается в сравнении. Он великий сам по себе и этот триллер подтверждает это еще больше. Основываясь на реальных биографических событиях, Друд исследует до сих пор нераскрытую тайну последних дней жизни самого знаменитого писателя в мире Чарльза Диккенса, глубоко и оригинально, подтверждая слова Линкольна Чайлда о Симонсе как о гении среди современных романистов"
"Drood" (2009). Номинировался на "Locus"-2010 (3 место в категории "fantasy novel").
"Historical thriller based on the last five years of Charles Dickens' life and his uncompleted novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood, as narrated by fellow novelist Wilkie Collins"(с) Locus Online: New Books, February 2009
"It's historical horror as only Dan Simmons can write it, steeped in details of Victorian London, a mystery (with a hint of the supernatural) about Charles Dickens and his unfinished novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, as narrated by Dickens's secretly jealous friend, Wilkie Collins"(с) Locus Online: New and Notable Books, April 2009
Gary K. Wolfe в рецензии в журнале "Locus" (январь 2009):
"Drood reads quickly and generates the suspense of a classic thriller, and the various descriptions of literary politics, stagecraft, and the minutiae of Victorian publishing only serve to amplify the impact of the periodic Awful Revelations; things seem to settle down for several chapters while Collins writes and produces a new play, for example, and then, wham."
Рецензия в "Publishers Weekly":
"Bestseller Simmons (The Terror) brilliantly imagines a terrifying sequence of events as the inspiration for Dickens's last, uncompleted novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, in this unsettling and complex thriller. In the course of narrowly escaping death in an 1865 train wreck and trying to rescue fellow passengers, Dickens encounters a ghoulish figure named Drood, who had apparently been traveling in a coffin. Along with his real-life novelist friend Wilkie Collins, who narrates the tale, Dickens pursues the elusive Drood, an effort that leads the pair to a nightmarish world beneath London's streets. Collins begins to wonder whether the object of their quest, if indeed the man exists, is merely a cover for his colleague's own murderous inclinations. Despite the book's length, readers will race through the pages, drawn by the intricate plot and the proliferation of intriguing psychological puzzles, which will remind many of the work of Charles Palliser and Michael Cox."
Из "Bookmarks Magazine":
"The narrative of Drood may be full of subplots and blind alleys, but the mystery of whether it is a good novel or not turns on a single question: is it too long? The most enthusiastic reviewers did not seem to notice the book's nearly 800-page girth. Most critics, while positive, were also apologetic, claiming that Simmons needed such space to air his considerable research, or that the novel could only succeed if it also assumed the proportions of 19th-century books whose authors were paid by the word. A few less-patient reviewers opined that Simmons simply needed to pull out the red pen. But despite their differences, all the critics agreed that, in its best parts, Drood is fantastically imaginative, eerily erudite, mischievous, and macabre."
Из "The New Yorker":
"In this creepy intertextual tale of professional jealousy and possible madness, Wilkie Collins tells of his friendship and rivalry with Charles Dickens, and of the mysterious phantasm named Edwin Drood, who pursues them both. Drood, cadaverous and pale, first appears at the scene of a railway accident in which Dickens was one of the few survivors; later, Dickens and Collins descend into London's sewer in search of his lair. Meanwhile, a retired police detective warns Collins that Drood is responsible for more than three hundred murders, and that he will destroy Dickens in his quest for immortality. Collins is peevish, vain, and cruel, and the most unreliable of narrators: an opium addict, prone to nightmarish visions. The narrative is overlong, with discarded subplots and red herrings, but Simmons, a master of otherworldly suspense, cleverly explores envy's corrosive effects."
Отрывок на английском - здесь.
Майкл Крайтон "Пиратские широты"
"Впервые на русском! "Парк юрского периода", "Сфера", "Конго" и другие бестселлеры Майкла Крайтона изданы во множестве стран, общее число экземпляров превысило сто пятьдесят миллионов. Роман "Пиратские широты" был обнаружен в архиве прославленного писателя уже после его смерти. Уже начались съемки фильма-блокбастера!"
Michael Crichton (1942 - 2008). "Pirate Latitudes" (2009)
Из новостей с сайта "Locus" (запись от 6 апреля 2009): "According to recent announcements, the late Michael Crichton left behind a finished pirate novel and a partial techno-thriller novel, and HarperCollins plans to publish them. The completed work is a departure from his usual science-based fare; Pirate Latitudes is an adventure story set in Jamica in the 17th century. According to Jonathan Burnham, Harper publisher, "it's packed through with great detail about navigation and how pirates operated, and links between the New World and the Caribbean and Spain," adding that HarperCollins plans a print run of one million copies in the US, to be released on November 24, 2009. The publisher also said they intend to work with Crichton's agent Lynn Nesbit and the Crichton estate to choose a co-writer to finish the other work, the sequel to Next."
Англоаннотация: "From one of the best-loved authors of all time comes an irresistible adventure of swashbuckling pirates in the New World, a classic story of treasure and betrayal.
The Caribbean, 1665. A remote colony of the English Crown, the island of Jamaica holds out against the vast supremacy of the Spanish empire. Port Royal, its capital, is a cutthroat town of taverns, grog shops, and bawdy houses.
In this steamy climate there's a living to be made, a living that can end swiftly by disease - or by dagger. For Captain Charles Hunter, gold in Spanish hands is gold for the taking, and the law of the land rests with those ruthless enough to make it.
Word in port is that the galleon El Trinidad, fresh from New Spain, is awaiting repairs in a nearby harbor. Heavily fortified, the impregnable harbor is guarded by the bloodthirsty Cazalla, a favorite commander of the Spanish king himself. With backing from a powerful ally, Hunter assembles a crew of ruffians to infiltrate the enemy outpost and commandeer El Trinidad, along with its fortune in Spanish gold. The raid is as perilous as the bloodiest tales of island legend, and Hunter will lose more than one man before he even sets foot on foreign shores, where dense jungle and the firepower of Spanish infantry stand between him and the treasure. . . .
Pirate Latitudes is Michael Crichton at his best: a rollicking adventure tale pulsing with relentless action, crackling atmosphere, and heart-pounding suspense."
Здесь этот роман про пиратов перечисляю, пожалуй, исключительно из-за жанровых заслуг автора.
Серия "Апокалиптика":
Колин Уилсон "Мир пауков. Книга третья. Маг"
7 окт
"Маг" ("The Magician", 1992). Переиздание 3-го романа цикла "Spider World", начатого книгами "Башня" ("The Tower", 1987 в Англии) и "Дельта" ("The Delta", 1987). В цикл также входит "Shadowlands" (2002).
"sf novel. Volume three in the series"(с) база "Locus"
Серия "Рэй Брэдбери. Вино из фантазий":
Рэй Брэдбери "Марсианские хроники"
"Цикл удивительных марсианских историй Рэя Брэдбери - классическое произведение, вошедшее в золотой фонд мировой литературы"
Надцатое переиздание.
Рэй Брэдбери "Из праха восставшие"
"Роман, писавшийся более полувека - с 1945 года до 2000-го.Роман, развившийся из рассказов "Апрельское колдовство", "Дядюшка Эйнар" и "Странница", на которых выросло не одно поколение советских, а потом и российских читателей. Роман, у истоков которого стоял знаменитый художник Чарли Аддамс - создатель "Семейки Аддамсов".И семейка Эллиотов, герои "Из праха восставших", ничуть не уступает Аддамсам"
"Из праха восставшие. Семейные воспоминания" ("From the Dust Returned", 2001; номинировался на "World Fantasy Award"-2002, "Bram Stoker Award"-2002 и "Locus"-2002 (8 место в категории "fantasy novel"))
Переиздание (2009, Эксмо, серия "Интеллектуальный бестселлер. Читает весь мир").
Серия "Интеллектуальный бестселлер. Читает весь мир":
Рэй Брэдбери "И грянул гром: 100 рассказов"
21.09.2010
"Под этой обложкой собраны сто лучших рассказов Рэя Брэдбери, опубликованных за последние сорок лет: лирические зарисовки из жизни городка Гринтаун в штате Иллинойс, фантастические рассказы о покорении Красной планеты, леденящие душу истории из тех, что лучше всего читать с фонариком под одеялом... Романтические и философские, жизнерадостные и жуткие, все они написаны неповторимым почерком мастера"
Судя по наличию в книге рассказа "И грянул гром" и количеству рассказов, могу предположить, что это сборник "The Stories of Ray Bradbury" (1990).
Содержание есть здесь - http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?THSTRSFRBR1990
Жозе Сарамаго "Книга имен"
"Впервые на русском языке! Самый новый шедевр от лауреата Нобелевской премии и одного из величайших писателей современности!"
Jose [de Sousa] Saramago (1922 – 18 июня 2010). Судя по названию, это таки "Todos os Nomes" (1997; издавался на английском как "All the Names").
А "самый новый шедевр" - это "Каин" ("Cain", 2009). И новее не будет.
Англоаннотация: "Senhor Jose is a low-grade clerk in the city's Central Registry, where the living and the dead share the same shelf space. A middle-aged bachelor, he has no interest in anything beyond the certificates of birth, marriage, divorce, and death that are his daily routine. But one day, when he comes across the records of an anonymous young woman, something happens to him. Obsessed, Senhor Jose sets off to follow the thread that may lead him to the woman-but as he gets closer, he discovers more about her, and about himself, than he would ever have wished.
The loneliness of people's lives, the effects of chance, the discovery of love-all coalesce in this extraordinary novel that displays the power and art of Jose Saramago in brilliant form."
Эксмодайджест: "Герой «Книги имен», служащий Главного архива записи актов гражданского состояния — архива настолько исполинского, что в нем можно заблудиться и пропасть без вести, — одержим единственной страстью: он собирает газетные вырезки, с помощью которых ста
рается восстановить биографии ста знаменитых современников, но быстро убеждается, что каждый из них в той или иной мере скрывает правду о себе."
Страница романа в англовикипедии - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_Names
Некоторые считают Сарамаго магреалистом, некоторые - фантастом. Ну пусть и здесь побудет.
Серия "Книга-загадка, книга-мистика":
Джо Хилл "Рога"
6 окт
Joe Hill (настоящее имя Джозеф Хиллстром Кинг (Joseph Hillstrom King)), сын Стивена Кинга.
"Horns" (2010).
Страница романа на сайте автора - http://joehillfiction.com/?page_id=1300
"Fantasy thriller about a man, Ig, who wakes up one morning to find horns sprouting from his forehead."(c) Locus Online: New Books, late February 2010
"The inexplicably weird mixes with a murder mystery in this convoluted horror novel delving into the depths of human nature, about a man suspected of killing the woman he loves, who suddenly grows horns and finds he has the devilish ability to make people to tell him their darkest secrets."(c) Locus Online: April 2010 New & Notable Books
Рецензия из "Bookmarks Magazine":
"Critics across the board felt possessed by Horns and strongly recommended it to horror fans and general readers alike. But the devil is in the details, and it seemed as if each reviewer felt obligated to find a minor flaw in the book. Some disliked the structure of its plot, others felt the tone to be uneven, and a few were overwhelmed by the book's many devil references and puns. All of those critics, though, were ultimately persuaded by Hill's sympathetic characters, his combination of the best of horror with psychological fiction, and his consistent originality."
Рэй Олсон (Ray Olson) в "Booklist":
"One hangover-headache morning, Ig Perrish gropes his forehead and discovers “a pair of knobby, pointed protuberances.” As he proceeds to stumble through the day, person after person he encounters, including the nurse and doctor he consults about the horns, tell him things about their desires and intentions that they should keep to themselves, and whenever he touches someone, he instantly knows their darkest secrets. Most disconcerting, he finds out that virtually everyone thinks that, lack of evidence notwithstanding, he really did sexually assault and murder his lover since high school, Merrin Williams, almost exactly a year ago. Only his brother, Terry, a TV talk-show star, doesn’t, but that, Ig learns through his special powers, is because Terry knows Merrin was killed by someone near and dear to her and Ig both. Ig determines on making the culprit die as painfully as Merrin died. Hill’s a terrific descriptive writer, and realistic dialogue comes easily to him, but those skills don’t help this diffuse revenge caper move as crisply as it ought to, and they don’t compensate for the cookie-cutter sameness of its characters. Except for Ig and the Merrin, everyone in Ig’s little world is a covert creep seething with mean spirits; although he’s becoming steadily more demonic, Ig himself is the nicest guy around. Worst, the big-showdown climax comes off as splatter-movie farcical after the longueurs of the preceding 300-plus pages."
Клайв Баркер "Проклятая игра"
"The Damnation Game" (1985; номинировался на "Bram Stoker Award"-1986 (среди дебютантов), "World Fantasy Award"-1986, "Locus"-1986 (15 место) и выдвигался на "Booker Prize"-1987)
Переиздание (впервые на русском - в 1994 в составе собрания сочинений в издательстве "Кэдмэн"; переиздавался "Эксмо" в серии "Книги крови Клайва Баркера").
Серия "Книга-загадка, книга-мистика. Дин Кунц":
Дин Кунц "Дверь в декабрь"
"The Door to December" (1991; переработан из романа, впервые вышедшего в 1985 году под псевдонимом Ричард Пейдж (Richard Paige)).
"оккультный триллер"(с) база "Locus"
Переиздание (как минимум, 2005 в серии "Дин Кунц. Коллекция")
Дин Кунц "Ложная память"
"False Memory" (1999), психологийческий триллер.
Переиздание (как минимум, 2006 в серии "Дин Кунц. Коллекция")
Серия "Энн Райс. Королева мистики":
Энн Райс "Песнь серафимов"
Вообще-то, "Songs of the Seraphim" - название цикла. В него в настоящее время входит роман "Angel Time" (2009). Его продолжение, "Of Love and Evil", выйдет в конце ноября 2010.
Англовикипедия о романе:
"Angel Time is a novel by American author Anne Rice released on 27 October 2009. The book is the first in Rice's Songs of the Seraphim series, which tells the story of Toby O'Dare, an assassin with a tragic past. The author's inspiration for the book, and the primary setting of the story, is the Mission Inn in Riverside, California, a large historic Mission Revival style hotel.[1] The book debuted on the November 15, 2009 New York Times Bestseller list at #13."
Из интервью:
"Question: The hero of Angel Time is Toby O’Dare, a boy who had a tough life growing up in New Orleans and who goes on to become a skilled assassin before meeting Malchiah. How does Toby compare to your past protagonists? What is unique about him?
Anne Rice: Well, Toby is deeply flawed, much like the vampires. He’s an assassin, and he has done terrible things, and questionable things. But he turns around in the very first book of the series and sets out to do the bidding of the angels in helping others. I think of all those characters I’ve created, Toby is most like Michael Curry in The Witching Hour. But Toby has done things Michael would never do. Toby is a deeply flawed human who is offered a chance to be saved; and he takes it. Maybe he’s a first among my characters in that he is given an opportunity to redeem himself through the mercy of God, and then to do good to make up for all the evil he had done before. Toby is also a crafty character. He’s pragmatic. Having been a clever assassin, he knows how to plot to do good. That was interesting to me, to have him struggling to save people from harm, and having to figure out a somewhat complex way to do it.
...
Question: How did you imagine the concept of Angel Time (as opposed to Normal Time)? And what sources did you reference while reading about angels?
Anne Rice: I came up with the concept of Angel Time through meditating on it; really, figuring that from God’s standpoint there is no linear time. I felt certain that the angels would be able to move back and forth in our linear time, and to grasp how some one can be lifted from one century and put down in another to work a solution that then becomes part of the very future from which the original person came. I think meditation led to this definition of Angel Time, more than any actual reading. It seemed logical to me that the angels could do this. I did read theology about angels, of course, including St. Thomas Aquinas and books by Catholic writers who have studied angels and all the biblical references to them. It all starts with the Bible, of course and how angels appear in those pages. But the scholars Pascal Parente and Peter Kreeft help me to cover the sources. I stayed away from other writers’ more fanciful conjectures about angels. I wanted the biblical facts, and the way that the theologians interpreted them."
Из рецензии в "Publishers Weekly":
"Full of provocative moral reflections, this kickoff to bestseller Rice's new Songs of the Seraphim religious romance series centers on hired assassin Toby O'Dare, a one-time aspirant to the priesthood until personal tragedy unmoored his life. Guardian angel Malchiah visits Toby, who's just consummated his latest kill, and offers him redemption for his sins. After accepting the offer, Toby is whisked away to 13th-century England, where, in the guise of a Dominican friar, he becomes the protector of a Jewish couple accused wrongly by the gentile populace of having murdered their young daughter for her conversion to Christianity. Two eloquently told if clunkily joined digressions give the backstory on Toby and on the persecution of the Jews in medieval Europe. Readers will revel in Rice's colorful recreation of the historical past and in her moving depiction of characters struggling to reconcile matters of the heart with their personal sense of faith. 250,000 first printing "
Англоаннотация:
"It’s the present day. Toby O’Dare—aka Lucky the Fox—is a contract killer of underground fame on assignment to kill once again. He’s a soulless soul, a dead man walking. His nightmarish world of lone and lethal missions is disrupted when a mysterious stranger, a seraph, offers him a chance to save rather than destroy lives. O’Dare, who long ago dreamt of being a priest, seizes his chance. Now he is carried back through the ages to thirteenth-century England, to dark realms where accusations of ritual murder have been made against Jews, where children suddenly die or disappear. In this primitive setting, O’Dare begins his perilous quest for salvation, a journey of danger and flight, loyalty and betrayal, selflessness and love."
Серия "Терри Пратчетт":
Терри Пратчетт "Вор Времени"
Ура, ура, ура. "Thief of Time" (2001), 26-й роман цикла "Плоский мир", 5-й в подцикле про Смерть.
Наличествуют Смерть, его внучка Сюзан, коварные Аудиторы и куча
"Humorous fantasy novel, “Discworld” #26", "Humorous fantasy novel. Volume 26 in the “Discworld” series. The first fully accurate clock threatens to end the world."(с) база "Locus"
Из рецензии в "Publishers Weekly":
"Here we go again! In the newest appealing installment of the Discworld series, Pratchett (The Truth) takes on religion, time and... kung-fu movies? The cast includes Death; Miss Susan, Death's granddaughter; Jeremy Clockson, a clockmaker; Lobsang, a novice monk; and Lu-Tze, a sweeper at the temple of the History Monks. When a mysterious lady asks Jeremy to make a clock that is perfectly timed (even to the last tick), trouble begins it seems that such a clock would have the power to stop time completely. There would be no yesterday, no tomorrow, no next minute; in fact, everything and everyone would stop in its tracks. It's up to Miss Susan, Lobsang and Lu-Tze to figure out who in the end has decided to build the dangerous clock and how to stop him before the world crashes to a halt. Along the way we learn Rule One: "Do not act incautiously when confronting a little bald wrinkly smiling man," which is a very good lesson to learn. We also find out that Lobsang has more in store for his future than to be an apprentice monk. The story includes a quick nod to James Bond flicks with Qu, the monk who supplies gadgets to Lu-Tze and Lobsang, and at the end of Time the four (no, make that five) horsemen of the Apocalypse get to ride out for a jaunt. You don't need to catch all the in-jokes to enjoy the fun."
Эксмодайджест:
"Человек! Если ты это читаешь, значит, ты существуешь. Мы, Аудиторы, наблюдаем за тобой, регистрируем тебя, изучаем тебя. И очень скоро мы до тебя доберемся. Сразу после того, как уничтожим этот презренный Плоский мир с его слонами, черепахой и напрочь чокнутыми обитателями.
Ты это читаешь? Значит, мы идем к тебе!"
Отрывок на английском - http://www.harpercollins.com/features/pratchettbooks/excerpt.aspx?isbn=9780061031328
Заглянуть внутрь английского издания - http://www.harpercollins.com/browseinside/index.aspx?isbn13=9780061808593
Джон Мур "Принц быстрого реагирования"
John Moore "Slay and Rescue!" (1993 под именем John F. Moore).
Переиздание (впервые - 2000, АСТ, серия "Век Дракона" под названием "Срази и спаси!" в переводе И.Гуровой; перепечатывался Эксмо в 2004 в серии "Юмористическая fantasy" в переводе А.Кузнецовой).
Серия "Черная Фэнтези":
Глен Кук "Золотые сердца с червоточинкой"
Эммм, "Сладкозвучный серебряный блюз" ("Sweet Silver Blues", 1987) и "Золотые сердца с червоточинкой" ("Bitter Gold Hearts", 1988). Первый и второй романы из цикла о частном детективе Гаррете ("Garrett, P.I.").
АСТ расстается с хитовыми авторами?
Серия "Книга-загадка, книга-бестселлер":
Линкольн Чайлд "Лед-15"
"Впервые на русском! От знаменитого создателя бестселлеров "Из глубины", "Золотой город", "Граница льдов". Исследования на Аляске, связанные с глобальным потеплением, приводят ученых к сенсационной находке доисторического животного, вмерзшего в лед и прекрасно сохранившегося. Но согласно местной легенде, этот зверь воплощение зла и трогать его нельзя.."
Эксмодайджест: "Группа ученых проводит на Аляске исследования, связанные с глобальным потеплением. Неожиданно они обнаруживают в глубине ледяной пещеры огромное доисторическое животное, вмерзшее в лед и прекрасно сохранившееся. Местные жители из племени тунитов
встревожены, ведь, согласно их легенде, этот зверь является воплощением зла и его ни в коем случае нельзя трогать…"
Lincoln Child "Terminal Freeze" (2009)
Автор по поводу выхода книги: "When people ask why I write thrillers, I frequently give this answer: when I was in nursery school, my parents once gave me an empty notebook. As you might expect, I filled the first few pages with childish scrawls. But then I turned to the last page and drew something so frightening, I could never ever bring myself to look at it again.
That’s basically what I’ve been trying to do ever since: write a story so scary, even I wouldn’t dare read it.
Whether I’ve accomplished that in Terminal Freeze is your call to make. But while putting the novel together, I was careful to choose elements that increased my personal uneasiness factor. A forbidding and dangerous landscape, far from the safety and comfort of civilization. A deserted army base, unused for half a century, full of dead-ends and dark forgotten corners. And that most atavistic of terrors: a vicious enemy, as deadly as it is mysterious, that stalks and kills with impunity--and an apparently limitless appetite for death.
So I hope you’ll consider Terminal Freeze my contribution to that time-honored literary genre, the Campfire Tale From Hell. We’ve all heard them: the Thing hiding in the bedroom closet; the hook-wielding lover’s lane murderer. They tend to stay with you into the cold light of day, and they can be damnably hard to forget. If I’ve managed to even approach the level of fear that kind of story evokes, then I’ve done my job as a storyteller.
That childhood notebook of mine is now long gone. And yet I often think of it still, and wonder if--even today--I might have a little difficulty turning over that final page."
Рецензия в "Publishers Weekly": "In this taut, suspenseful SF thriller from bestseller Child (Deep Storm), an obscure scientific expedition in Alaska's remote Federal Wilderness Zone stumbles on the frozen body of what appears to be a saber-tooth tiger in a cave, though only the eyes are clearly visible through the ice. When news of the find reaches the cable television network sponsoring the expedition, Emilio Conti, a legendary documentary filmmaker, rushes to the scene, where he plans to film the thawing of the animal on live TV. After the frozen creature disappears, Conti suspects sabotage, until horribly eviscerated corpses begin to pile up at the military base hosting the expedition. Paleoecologist Evan Marshall suspects that the prehistoric beast is responsible—and that the initial identification of it as a saber-tooth was mistaken. While the story line of a horrific monster picking off a shrinking group of survivors in a confined area is nothing new, Child's superior writing raises this above the pack."
Англоаннотация: "A breathtaking discovery at the top of the world . . .
A terrifying collision between modern science and Native American legend . . .
An electrifying new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Lincoln Child.
Two hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle lies Alaska’s Federal Wildlife Zone, one of the most remote and inhospitable places on Earth. But for paleoecologist Evan Marshall and a small group of fellow scientists, an expedition to the Zone represents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study the effects of global warming.
Everything about the expedition changes, however, with an astonishing find. On a routine exploration of a glacial ice cave, the group discovers an enormous ancient animal, encased in solid ice. The media conglomerate sponsoring their research immediately intervenes and arranges the ultimate spectacle—the creature will be cut from the ice, thawed, and revealed live on television. Despite dire warnings from the local Native American village, and the scientific concerns of Marshall and his team, the “docudrama” plows ahead . . . until the scientists make one more horrifying discovery. The beast is no regular specimen—it may be an ancient killing machine. And they may be premature in believing it dead.
In this riveting new thriller, Lincoln Child weaves together a stunning Arctic landscape, a terrifying mythic creature, and a pervasive mood of chaos—and fear. With Terminal Freeze, Child demonstrates why he has become a major bestselling author, and why his novels electrify and enthrall so many."
На сайте автора на английском выложены первая и вторая главы романа.
Также имеется отрывок на Амазоне.
Мэтт Бронливи "Орден дракона"
"Впервые на русском! Новый автор, Метт Бронливи - известный продьюсер, автор песен, работавший со многими популярными звездами. Его дебютный роман в жанре "теологический триллер" высоко оценила критика. Читать этот роман - все равно что смотреть много-бюджетный фильм. По 10-бальной шкале, он получил бы 11"
Matt Bronleewe. Если это тот самый дебютный роман, то это "Illuminated" (2007), 1-я книга цикла "August Adams Adventure", в который также входят "House of Wolves" (2008) и "The Deadly Hours" (2009).
Сайт автора - http://www.mattbronleewe.com
Об авторе: "Matt Bronleewe is a record producer and songwriter from Nashville, Tennessee. He was a founding member of the band Jars of Clay, and has worked with Grammy-award-winning artists including Michael W. Smith and Rebecca St. James, as well as multiplatinum-selling international artists such as Natalie Imbruglia. He and his wife, Karin, have three children, George, Cole, and Grace."
Англоаннотация: "August Adams has failed his family before. He's sacrificed relationships in pursuit of adventure, fame, and money. Now the very lives of those he loves depend on his ability to decipher a centuries-old puzzle encrypted in the colorful hand-painted illuminations that adorn three rare Gutenberg Bibles.
It's a secret that could yield unimaginable wealth, undermine two major religions, and change the course of Western civilization. Two ruthless, ancient organizations are willing to do anything to get their hands on it. And August has the span of one transatlantic flight to figure it out."
Серия "Global Book":
Лоуренс Норфолк "Носорог для Папы Римского"
"Впервые на русском - монументальный роман прославленного автора "Словаря Ламприера". Норфолк снова изображает мир на грани эпохальной метаморфозы: погрязший в роскоши и развлечениях папский Рим, как магнит, притягивает искателей приключений и паломников, тайных и явных эмиссаров сопредельных и дальних держав, авантюристов всех мастей".
Lawrence Norfolk. "The Pope's Rhinoceros" (1996).
Норфолк известен у нас как автор романов "Словарь Ламприера" ("Lempriere's Dictionary", 1991; награжден "Somerset Maugham Award"-1992) и "В обличье вепря" ("In the Shape of a Boar", 2000; номинировался на "James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction"-2000).
Рецензия в "Publishers Weekly":
"Set in the 16th century, Norfolk's epic second novel takes its premise from an actual event: an unsuccessful Portuguese attempt to bring a rhinoceros to Rome by ship, in order to curry political favor with Pope Leo X. But historical fact is no more than a springboard for Norfolk's extremely (perhaps excessively) elaborate and occasionally mythic fictional construction. At the novel's center is Salvestro, a somewhat reluctant soldier of fortune who becomes a steadfast companion to Bernardo, a dim-witted hulk with fearsome physical strength. After they have been used as pawns in a maze of machinations and deceptions within the Italian military, the pair escape back to Salvestro's Baltic home town; but soon afterward, they return to Italy as guides for a group of beleaguered monks. In Rome, Salvestro and Bernardo become mixed up in the attempt to procure the exotic rhinoceros, undertaking a perilous sea voyage that deposits them on an equally perilous African coast. While some may enjoy Norfolk's whirligig of deceptions and double crosses, less patient readers will find the narrative frustrating. Norfolk indulges a penchant for withholding information, and his vaguely delineated, staggeringly complex plot twists involve a huge cast of characters. As he proved in the intellectually heavyweight Lempriere's Dictionary, he's clearly a virtuoso stylist. But in the end, this novel, more a tour de force of technical mastery than a compelling narrative, impresses more than it entertains."
Эдвард Б. Сент-Джон (Edward B. St. John) в "Library Journal":
"Pope Leo X was one of the most power-hungry and profligate political figures of the Renaissance. Raised in the lavish Medici court, he was a difficult person to impress. Expansionist Portugal hoped to win Leo's favor by presenting him with a rhinoceros, a creature about as exotic as a unicorn in 16th-century Italy. Norfolk's second historical novel, following the critically acclaimed Lempriere's Dictionary (LJ 6/15/92), focuses on the adventures of Salvestro and Bernardo, two clueless treasure hunters who get caught up in the rhino quest. There are scores of minor characters, including Fiametta, an obscenely obese prostitute; Towser the Executioner; a Vatican housecat; and the virgin Amalia, whose white dress is impervious to Roman dirt. Pychonesque anachronisms abound: the Roman countryside is an "ectopia," and music at papal celebrations is provided by the proto-punk band King Caspar and the Mauritians. Despite its postmodern trappings, this is essentially an old-fashioned and aimless picaresque novel. For larger fiction collections."
Маргарет Фланаган (Margaret Flanagan) в "Booklist":
"The acclaimed author of Lempriere's Dictionary (1992) furnishes another richly textured romp steeped in history, legend, and excitement. Utilizing an obscure historical event as a springboard, Norfolk manages to weave a fantastic tale calculated to fascinate and amuse sophisticated readers. In 1516, in a creative attempt to curry papal favor for their imperialist ambitions, the Portuguese commissioned a ship to sail from India to Italy in order to transport and deliver a rare and exotic rhinoceros to Pope Leo X. This amusing incident provides the fodder for a highly original and inventive narrative adventure. A sumptuous, multilayered period piece densely packed with vivid detail and description."
Англоаннотация:
"In the tradition of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Umberto Eco, Lawrence Norfolk has created a dizzyingly dense and impressively erudite fantasy of a novel, a vast edifice based around a single, actual historical event: the sinking off the coast of Italy of a Portugese ship bound on a bizarre mission, to deliver an African rhino to Pope Leo X. Norfolk takes his readers on a world tour of the 16th century, from the flophouses of Rome to the rain forest of West Africa, and along the way he piles historical esoterica upon philosophical rumination upon myriad subplots and minor characters. The chains of event and coincidence and the encyclopedic references will exhaust some readers long before the mad quest for the rhino meets its watery end, but Norfolk's baroque talent remains inexhaustible."
Где-то как-то можно сказать, что это фантастика. Хотя "Locus" Норфолка фантастом таки не считает.
Серия "Интеллектуальный бестселлер (мини)":
Федерико Андахази "Дела святые"
"Впервые на русском! От знаменитого аргентинского автора "Анатома" и "Милосердные" - роман о городке Кинто-дель-Медио, обитатели которого жили привольно, спали спокойно и умирали достойно, пока дьявол не запустил свои нечистые лапы в этот оазис праведной жизни".
Federico Andahazi. Понятия не имею. Как вариант - "La ciudad de los herejes".
Сайт автора (англоязычная версия присутствует) - http://www.andahazi.com
Здесь, по-моему, все-таки для массовости
Серия "Интеллектуальный бестселлер. Открытие":
Иэн Бэнкс "Империя!", или Крутые подступы к Гарбадейлу"
"Впервые на русском! Трагикомическая семейная сага от автора скандально знаменитой "Осиной Фабрики", головоломного "Моста" и рок-н-рольной "Улицы отчаяния".
Перенос с сентября.
Iain M[enzies] Banks, правда, без среднего инициала на обложке, потому как не фантастика. "The Steep Approach to Garbadale" (2007; рабочими названиями романа были "Matter" и "Empire!").
Страница романа в англовикипедии - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Steep_Approach_to_Garbadale
Страница книги на сайте автора - http://www.iain-banks.net/uk/the-steep-approach-to-garbadale/
"Associational novel by the author whose SF books appear as by "Iain M. Banks". (His most recent SF novel was The Algebraist.) This book is about a rebellious member of a family that's considering selling the basis of its fortune, a board game called Empire!, to an American corporation"(с) Locus Online: New Books, first week April 2007
Рецензия в "Publishers Weekly": "The latest offering from Banks (The Wasp Factory) gives a scion's-eye view of an eccentric, splintering Scottish business family. Having secured immense wealth via the Empire! board game (invented by a relative in 1880) and its various offshoots, the Wopuld family must now decide whether to sell the company: the American Spraint Corporation wants Empire! as a jewel in its crown. As the family gathers to celebrate matriarch Grandma Win's 80th birthday and have a board meeting, Win dispatches grandson Fielding to find his cousin Alban, who has fled the family to become a forester, in order to solidify her vision of the family legacy. Banks flashes back through Alban's painful memories of his mother (who committed suicide) and his cousin Sophie (whom he loved) as he heads home. The book contains a plethora of family secrets, none of which fully drive the plot, but the gothic setting, big passions and light humor suffice. Bank's 23rd book isn't his best, but it carries one all the way up its craggy steeps."
Аннотация к западному изданию: "Dark family secrets and a long-lost love affair lie at the heart of Iain Banks's fabulous new novel. The Wopuld family built its fortune on a board game called Empire! - now a hugely successful computer game. So successful, the American Spraint Corp wants to buy the firm out. Young renegade Alban, who has been evading the family clutches for years, is run to ground and persuded to attend the forthcoming family gathering - part birthday party, part Extraordinary General Meeting - convened by Win, Wopuld matriarch and most powerful member of the board, at Garbadale, the family's highland castle. Being drawn back into the bosom of the clan brings a disconcerting confrontation with Alban's past. What drove his mother to take her own life? And is he ready to see Sophie, his beautiful cousin and teenage love? Grandmother Win's revelations wll radically alter Alban's perspective for ever."
Серия "Мона Лиза":
Элис Хоффман "Седьмое небо"
"Впервые на русском! Новый роман признанного мастера тонкого психологического романа. Общий тираж ее книг составляет более 50 миллионов экземпляров"
Alice Hoffman. "Seventh Heaven" (1990).
"мэйнстримный роман о ребёнке-телепате и жизни в пригороде"(с) база "Locus"
Рецензия в "Publishers Weekly":
"In the full flowering of her extraordinary talent, Hoffman has produced a wise, poignant and uplifting novel luminous with the sensitive evocation of ordinary lives. The setting is a Long Island, N.Y., housing development from 1959 to 1960, a place of conforming, happy families where husbands mow the lawns of the tract houses and wives meet for coffee, where "safety hung over the neighborhood like a net." The arrival of Nora Silk, a brassy divorcee with two young children, is the catalyst for disturbing changes and events, some of them violent. Plucky, impetuous, innocently seductive and a messy housekeeper, Nora is anathema to the subdivision wives, who ostracize her and whose children torment her eight-year-old clairvoyant son, Billy. But as Nora's presence disturbs the community, it is slowly revealed that behind the identical facades of the houses are secret lives of turmoil, restlessness and longing. As in all Hoffman novels, mundane existence is disrupted in surprising ways: families disintegrate, a teenager dies, a placid housewife disappears. And ultimately Nora, whose optimism about her dead-end life is unquenchable, becomes an instrument of healing. Hoffman has intuitive grasp of the thoughts and feelings that are masked by conventional behavior. Like some of her characters, she seems to have a spooky ability to read thoughts; how else to account for her unerring understanding of people of nearly every age and across a broad social spectrum? She has a gift for perceiving the cruelty of children and the wide gulf that yawns between the most loving, attentive parents and their offspring's unknown wishes and deeds. As usual, she tells more than a compulsively readable story. She does magic, she unsettles you and she leaves you feeling emotionally purged and satisfied".
Лорел Бельски (Lauren Bielski) в "Library Journal":
"In felicitously recording the lives of newcomers-on-the-block Nora Silk and her sons, baby James and young Billy, Hoffman proves once again that she can tell a charming story about suburbia that is, at once, mundane and oddly transcendent. Nora, a young, sexy divorcee, moves to the suburbs of New York City following her divorce (in 1959 a scandalous event). All alone, she manages work, her sons, and assorted domestic responsibilities with quirky flair, if not thoroughness (and occasional help from assorted magic spells inherited from her grandfather). Hoffman takes the reader back to that apparently innocent time and into a "nice" neighborhood, where the sunny replicated exteriors of the houses hide sometimes desperate lives within. Nora and her neighbors signal lifestyles of the future: a woman walks out on her family, another goes back to work; a boy is abused and strikes back; a father leaves home. Combining reality with magic, this novel surpasses At Risk (LJ 7/88). It should attract a wide readership."
Англоаннотация:
"In the late 1950s, when Nora Silk moves into Hemlock Street, the entire neighborhood sucks in its breath. A divorcee who wears Toreador pants and lets her kids eat sweets before school, Nora is a walking scandal. But when the block's husbands, wives, and children get to know her, they begin to see other things in Nora--and this Long Island town won't ever be the same..."
Кристи Филипс "Хранитель забытых тайн"
"Впервые на русском! От автора бестселлера "Письмо Россетти". Расшифровка старинного дневника помогает раскрыть загадку давно забытых преступлений, совершенных во времена правления английского короля Карла Второго"
Christi Phillips. "The Devlin Diary" (2008).
Англоаннотация:
"London, 1672: A vicious killer stalks the court of Charles II, inscribing his victims' bodies with mysterious markings. Are these the random murders of a madman? The deadly consequence of a personal vendetta? Or the grisly result of a hidden conspiracy? Cambridge, 2008: A Trinity College history professor is found dead, the torn page of a seventeenth-century diary in his hand. His death appears to be an accident, but the college's newest Fellow Claire Donovan and historian Andrew Kent suspect otherwise. The professor's last research subject was Hannah Devlin, a physician to the king's mistress and the keeper of a diary that holds the key to a series of unsolved murders in 1670s London. Through the arcane collections of Trinity's Wren Library, the British Library, and the Royal Society, Claire and Andrew follow the clues Hannah left behind, unearthing secrets of the past and present as both stories unfold to their shocking conclusions."
Судя по всему, здесь перечисляю лишь для массовости.
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Date: 2010-10-05 03:44 pm (UTC)Дик в шедеврах - второй том лучших романов, на этот раз из позднего периода. Состав опять же был на фантлабе.
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Date: 2010-10-09 07:07 pm (UTC)Писала машина Тьюринга? :)
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Date: 2010-10-18 10:15 am (UTC)"Впервые на русском! От автора знаменитых бестселлеров "Террор", "Песнь Кали" и др.
... а раньше Симмонса представляли как гениального автора цикла "Песни Гипериона"...
а, ну да! ЭКСМО симмонсовской фантастикой не занимается...