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Фантастика, фэнтези, мистика и неклассифицируемые шадевры письменности (западные авторы)
Серия "Лучшие мировые детективы":
Рэй Брэдбери "Смерть - дело одинокое. Кладбище для безумцев. Давайте все убьём Констанцию"
21.06.2011
"Новая серия!!! Лучшие детективы лучших авторов! Один автор - один том! Подарочное издание для поклонников как классических, так и современных детективов!"
Переиздание условной детективной-нуарной трилогии Брэдбери: "Death is a Lonely Business" (1985), "A Graveyard for Lunatics: Another Tale of Two Cities" (1990) и "Let's All Kill Constance" (2002).
Серия "Темный мир":
Роберт Р. Маккаммон "Они жаждут"
10.06.2011
"Книга, ставшая культовой сразу после своего выхода и закрепившая за Маккаммоном статус признанного мастера жанра!"
"They Thirst" (1981), очередное переиздание.
Серия "Книга-загадка, книга-бестселлер":
Гордон Далквист "Черная книга смерти"
15.06.2011
"Впревые на русском! Продолжение романа "Стеклянные книги пожирателей снов" не обманет ожиданий многочисленных поклонников серии".
Gordon Dahlquist "The Dark Volume" (2008 в Англии, 2009 в США).
Продолжение дебютного романа Далквиста "Стеклянные книги пожирателей снов" ("The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters", 2006; номинировался на "Locus"-2007 (5 место среди дебютантов))
"Historical fantasy novel, sequel to The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters (2006, recently reprinted in two trade paperback volumes), set in a steampunkish alternate world similar to Victorian Europe. In this book the three heroes are propelled into a new quest"(с) Locus Online: News: Monitor Listing: New Books late March 2009
"Readers unfamiliar with bestseller Dahlquist's 2006 debut, The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, which is set in an alternate world similar to Victorian Europe, may have trouble following this complicated sequel, despite the preparatory word on what has already happened at the start. In The Glass Books, West Indies plantation heiress Celeste Temple, naval surgeon Abelard Svenson and criminal Cardinal Chang joined forces to combat an evil cabal that smelted a mineral into a psychotropic blue glass that captures human memory. Temple, who survived the previous book's cinematic climax involving a gunfight in a sinking dirigible, finds herself suspected of a series of mysterious murders, while Svenson and Chang discover new enemies to thwart. Too much going on at the same time, including less than engaging confrontations with various over-the-top villains, undermines a clever concept that may yet be the basis for a solid adventure series"(с)Publishers Weekly
"Dahlquist’s sequel to The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters (2007) is dark indeed. The daunting “Preparatory Word” details what has gone before: who killed whom and what alchemical experiments have already taken place. If you haven’t read the first book, good luck! That said, fans of Tobsha Learner’s Soul (2008) and Jonathan Barnes’ Somnambulist (2008) will enjoy this surreal Victorian journey into the nightmarish possibilities of mind swapping. Miss Temple awakens after a dirigible crash with fragmented memories of murder and precious cargo. Separated from her companions, she flees hostile villagers in the company of the not-quite-honest Eloise, launching a seemingly endless series of adventures involving exquisite pain, sexual revelations, and near-death experiences. Meanwhile, a powerful cabal seeking a lost glass book is subverted by its victims, among them a blue-glass whore and a wily contessa. The idea of glass “books,” which absorb a person’s essence through a nasty “process,” is what makes this sometimes bewildering, overpopulated novel fascinating. It’s a big-concept story full of potent psychological metaphors, and if those metaphors never quite gel, they still offer readers much to contemplate"(с) Jen Baker в Booklist
Отрывок на английском - http://www.randomhouse.com/book/36145/the-dark-volume-by-gordon-dahlquist
Боб Хостетлер "Усыпальница"
15.06.2011
"Впервые на русском! В новой книге серии - адреналин и приключения Индианы Джонса с триллерами Стива Берри. Политические интриги, уникальные находки, напряженное ожидание, исторические факты, романтика и трансформация веры".
Христианский писатель и проповедник Bob Hostetler. Судя по всему, это "The Bone Box" (2008).
Англоаннотация: "Combining the adrenaline-fueled adventure of Indiana Jones with the thrills of a Steve Berry Novel, The Bone Box is the latest in biblical archeological suspense.
Archeologist and agnostic Randall Bullock has come to Israel to try and resurrect his crumbling career and shattered life. Teaming up with Miri Sharon, a beautiful representative of Israeli Antiques Authority, the two unearth a stone casket marked "Joseph, son of Caiaphas," which contains several fragile scrolls that document the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
This discovery launches Miri and Randall, along with his estranged nineteen-year-old daughter, Tracy, into a race to validate the monumental find, no matter what the Israeli authorities, media circus, and archaeological rivals want the world to believe. Forced to face the power of this historical resurrection, Randall must also struggle with his own beliefs -- or lack of them -- while trying to keep the consequences of their discovery from taking a disastrous turn.
The Bone Box, fraught with political intrigue, is a suspense-filled blend of historical fact, romance, and transforming faith. Through all the danger and struggle, Randall discovers how easy -- and deadly -- it is to ignore the evidence and reject the true story of Christ".
Сайт автора - http://www.bobhostetler.com
Отрывок на английском - http://web.me.com/bobhoss/Bob_Hostetler/Bone_Box_Preview.html
За фантастику никто не считает. Здесь оставляю для массовости.
Серия "Книга-загадка, книга-мистика. Дин Кунц":
Дин Кунц "Дьявольское семя"
06.06.2011
"Один из ранних романов Дина Кунца, привлекший к автору множество теперь уже постоянных поклонников его творчества. Искусственный интеллект стал слишком похож на своих создателей, и теперь главное его желание - создать новую расу себе подобных..."
"Demon Seed" (1973, переработан в 1997). Очередное переиздание.
"SF/horror novel"(с) база "Locus"
Серия "Книга-фантазия":
Патрик Ротфусс "Имя ветра"
15.06.2011
"Переиздание в популярной серии первой книги трилогии "Хроника убийцы короля". Сразу после выхода этот роман удостоился высших оценок от признанных мастеров жанра - Урсулы Ле Гуин, Джорджа Мартина и Робин Хобб. К выпуску планируется второй роман эпопеи"
"Имя ветра" ("The Name of the Wind", 2007; награжден "Quill Award"-2007; по результатам "SF Site Poll""-2008 занял 1 место в категории "sf/fantasy book"; номинировался на "Locus"-2008 (2 место среди дебютных романов и 17-е - в категории "fantasy novel")).
1-я часть запланированной трилогии героической фэнтези "Kingkiller Chronicle", в которую в настоящее время также входит "The Wise Man's Fear" (вышел 21 марта 2011). Далее запланирован "The Doors of Stone".
Переиздание (Эксмо, серия "Мастера Меча и Магии", 2010).
Роман хорош, закрытую серию жалко (тех циклов, издание которых Эксмо убило, еще жальче).
Серия "Новая фантастика":
Стивен Холл "Дневники голодной акулы"
08.06.2011
"Впервые на русском - самый поразительный дебют в британской прозе последних лет! Этого автора сравнивают с Филипом Диком и Майклом Крайтоном, Дугласом Адамсом и Харуки Мураками".
Дебютный роман британца Steven Hall "The Raw Shark Texts" (2007; вошел в шорт-лист "Arthur C. Clarke Award"-2008).
Смешно будет, если у нас издадут эту книгу без иллюстраций.
"The title is a play on "Rorschach Tests", which are inkblot tests"(с) англовикипедия
"Surreal psychological conspiracy thriller/fantasy novel with typograhical illustrations. A man’s recurring spells of amnesia could be a psychological problem — or something much stranger"(с) база "Locus"
"Metaphysical SF novel about a man who's lost his memory and is told he's victim of "dissociative condition" since his girlfriend drowned three years before"(c) Locus Online: New Books, late March 2008
"The Raw Shark Texts takes place in our own world; however, certain aspects that do not exist in our familiar world exist in the book, hidden from the general public by dedicated organizations. Foremost among these are so-called "conceptual creatures", life forms that exist within and feed upon ideas. Another new concept is the idea of "un-space", the unvisited, unnamed, and uninhabited empty areas beneath the normally-used parts of the urban landscape. This area is documented and managed by a group known as the Un-Space Exploration Committee"(с) англовикипедия
"Hall's debut, the darling of last year's London Book Fair, is a cerebral page-turner that pits corporeal man against metaphysical sharks that devour memory and essence, not flesh and blood. When Eric Sanderson wakes from a lengthy unconsciousness, he has no memory. A letter from "The First Eric Sanderson" directs him to psychologist Dr. Randle, who tells Eric he is afflicted with a "dissociative condition." Eric learns about his former life—specifically a glorious romance with girlfriend Clio Aames, who drowned three years earlier—and is soon on the run from the Ludovician, a "species of purely conceptual fish" that "feeds on human memories and the intrinsic sense of self." Once he hooks up with Scout, a young woman on the run from her own metaphysical predator, the two trek through a subterranean labyrinth made of telephone directories (masses of words offer protection, as do Dictaphone recordings), decode encrypted communications and encounter a series of strange characters on the way to the big-bang showdown with the beast. Though Hall's prose is flabby and the plethora of text-based sight gags don't always work (a 50-page flipbook of a swimming shark, for instance), the end result is a fast-moving cyberpunk mashup of Jaws, Memento and sappy romance that's destined for the big screen"(c)Publishers Weekly
"Almost everyone loves this much-hyped first novel, including, according to USA Today, Nicole Kidman, who asked Steven Hall if he'd change the main character into a woman for the movie. (He declined.) Although a few critics found Hall's prose imperfect, most applauded his achievement in transforming hefty subjects (memory, identity, meme theory, grief) into an energetic thriller, in which ideas—such as those implied by the "Ludovician shark"—come to life. Only the New York Times panned the book, finding it formulaic and overly clever. Readers who are prepared to tolerate (or be amused by) a few typographical gimmicks and manipulations, as well as an engaging story, are in for a treat"(c) Bookmarks Magazine
И обратите внимание на рецензию Одри Ниффенеггер (Audrey Niffenegger): "Eric Sanderson has lost his memory, his girl, his life as he once knew it. His pre-amnesiac self is sending him letters, a sort of correspondence course on how to be Eric Sanderson. Unfortunately, this previous self didn't really have it all together either. This is too bad, because the source of all the trouble is a conceptual shark, a Ludovician shark, no less. Soon Eric is on the run, trying to piece it all together and find true love before his mind gets wiped by the shark for the twelfth and probably final time.
Steven Hall is an inventive, funny and extremely smart writer. I am a letterpress printer and a typophile, and I was drawn to his book because of the typography: The Raw Shark Texts is riddled with typographic games, codes, a flip book, and a boatload of very elegant plot devices that hinge on collisions between the Information Age and the imagination. At one point Eric and Scout, his guide/love interest, are speeding away from the conceptual shark on a motorbike. Scout eludes the shark by exploding a letter bomb, a bomb made out of old metal type; the type diverts the shark into a stream of random letterforms. At this I practically fell off the couch with admiration.
There's plenty to groove on in The Raw Sharks Texts even if you're not a type maven. There's echoes of Cyberpunk, Borges, Auster; there is adventure on the high seas, lost love, an exploration of what it means to be human in the age of intelligent machines. The Raw Sharks Texts is huge fun, and I gleefully recommend it."
На английском ни одного сравнения Холла "с Филипом Диком и Майклом Крайтоном, Дугласом Адамсом и Харуки Мураками" мне, честно говоря, не попадалось.
Сайт книги - http://www.rawsharktexts.com
Сайт автора - http://steven-hall.org
Серия "Черная Фэнтези":
Роберт Асприн "Кровные узы. Новая кровь. Беспокойные союзники. Воровское небо"
07.06.2011
"Третья книга, собравшая заключительные антологии расссказов о загадочном и опасном Мире Воров"
9-12 антологии из серии "Classic Thieves' World" - "Кровные узы" ("Blood Ties", 1986), "Новая кровь" ("Aftermath", 1987), "Беспокойные союзники" ("Uneasy Alliances", 1988) и "Воровское небо" ("Stealer's Sky", 1999).
Антологии, выпущенные Линн Эбби (3 штуки), равно как и романы участников проекта, наши издатели традиционно игнорируют. Впрочем, могли бы и само 12-книжие не переиздавать, ничего шедеврального в нем нет.
Серия "Интеллектуальный бестселлер (мини)":
Пол Остер "Тимбукту"
20.06.2011
"От прославленного автора "Нью-Йоркской трилогии" и "Книги иллюзий", "Левиафана" и "В стране уходящей натуры" проникновенно с классической простотой и сдержанной печалью. Трогательная история странствий нью-йоркского поэта Вилли Гуревича и его верного пса по кличке Мистер Зельц, который наследует по прямой Каштанке и Белому Биму Черное Ухо"
Paul [Benjamin] Auster. "Timbuktu" (1999). Повесть/короткий роман.
"Timbuktu is a 1999 novella by Paul Auster. It is about the life of a dog, Mr Bones, who is struggling to come to terms with the fact that his homeless master is dying.
The story, set in the early 1990s, is told through the eyes of Mr Bones, who, although not anthropomorphised, has an internal monologue in English. The story centres around his last journey with his ailing master, Willy G Christmas, to Baltimore, but the details of both of their early lives are told in flashback.
The title of the book comes from the concept of the afterlife as proposed by Christmas, a self-titled poet, who believed it was a beautiful place called Timbuktu. A major running theme in the book is Mr Bones' worry that dogs will not go to Timbuktu, and he won't see Willy again after death.
The novella also draws on themes of existentialism, finding purpose in one's life, and a meditation on late 20th century America. It has now been made into a play by Croatian director Borut Separovic"
http://www.paulauster.co.uk
Здесь, наверное, только за предыдущие заслуги.
Сирил Массаротто "Сто чистых страниц"
09.06.2011
"Впервые на русском. Один из лучших современных французских романов. От автора бестселлера "Бог-мой приятель", после публикации которого автор проснулся знаменитым"
Cyril Massarotto. "Cent pages blanches" (2011). Судя по французской аннотации, герой книги унаследовал по завещанию эти самые сто чистых страниц, после чего всё заверте...
Для массовости, ага. Кстати, на родине автора книжка в твердом переплете не выходила.
Серия "Интеллектуальный бестселлер. Мифы":
Дженет Уинтерсон "Бремя"
14.06.2011
"Этот явно фантастический и неоднозначный древнегреческий сюжет был выбран Дженет Уинтерсон для международного проекта "Мифы", как она сама выразилась, по "глубоко личным причинам". Ведь, как и для каждого современного человека, для нее - знаменитой бунтарки и кавалера ордена Британской империи - история бремени, свободы, ответственности, одиночества, поисков себя не может не являться "глубоко личной".
Jeanette Winterson. Ее книга, написанная для проекта "Canongate Myth Series" в оригинале называется "Weight" (2005)
"Fantasy novel, a retelling of the story of Atlas and Hercules, part of the multi-author series The Myths"(с) база "Locus"
"Short novel in Canongate's "Myths" series, about the meeting between Atlas and Heracles
• Claude Lalumie`re's review for Locus Online said the characters are fascinating but the book's "potential is squandered""(c) Locus Online: New Books, end of December 2005
Страница книги на сайте автора - http://www.jeanettewinterson.com/pages/content/index.asp?PageID=354
Филип Пулман "Добрый человек Иисус и негодник Христос"
27.06.2011
"Впервые на русском! Поистине ошеломляющая ( и невероятно остроумная ) книга, написанная в рамках международного проекта Мифы. Неоднозначная, но при этом увлекательнейшая трактовка "самой великой истории человечества"
Кто не помнит Филипа Пулмана, автора трилогии "Темные начала" и еще кое-чего?
"The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Chris" (2010)
"Historical fantasy, or alternate history, novel that imagines Jesus and Christ as twin brothers born of Mary"(с) Locus Online: New Books, 2nd week June 2010
"The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ is a novel by Philip Pullman. Published in 2010 by Canongate Books,[1] as part of the Canongate Myth Series, it retells the story of Jesus as if he were two people, brothers, "Jesus" and "Christ," with contrasting personalities; Jesus being a moral and godly man, and his brother Christ a calculating figure who wishes to use Jesus' legacy to found a powerful Church.
The book has attracted controversy, as well as hate mail sent to Pullman by Christian fundamentalists threatening him with damnation. Pullman's historical understanding has been criticised by Professor Gerald O'Collins.[5] Diarmaid MacCulloch reviewed the book positively for Literary Review"(с) англовикипедия
Официальный сайт книги - http://thegoodmanjesusandthescoundrelchrist.co.uk/site/
Джулиан Барнс "Нечего бояться"
17.06.2011
"Впервые на русском! Смешная и откровенная книга одного из самых ярких прозаиков современной Британии, автора многочисленных международных бестселлеров. Новый роман очень многогранен - это и семейная хроника, и размышления на тему смерти и страха смерти, торжество искусства, спор с Богом и о нем. Обязательна для чтения".
Julian [Patrick] Barnes. "Nothing to be Frightened of" (2008)
Просто процитирую описание с сайта автора: "‘I don’t believe in God, but I miss him.’ Julian Barnes’ new book is, among many things, a family memoir, an exchange with his brother (a philosopher), a meditation on mortality and the fear of death, a celebration of art, an argument with and about God, and a homage to the French writer Jules Renard. Though he warns us that ‘this is not my autobiography’, the result is like a tour of the mind of one of our most brilliant writers.
When Angela Carter reviewed Barnes’s first novel, Metroland, she praised the mature way he wrote about death. Now, nearly thirty years later, he returns to the subject in a wise , funny and constantly surprising book, which defies category and classification – except as Barnesian."
К проекту "Мифы" не относится. Оставляю для массовости.
Серия "Книга на все времена":
Джин М. Ауэл "Дети Земли. Книга третья. Охотники на мамонтов"
17.06.2011
"Эта захватывающая сага о жестоком и прекрасном древнем мире принесла ее автору Джин Ауэл всемирную известность и стала одним из самых читаемых литературных произведений нашего времени. Книги, входящие в серию "Дети Земли", были изданы многомиллионными тиражами во многих странах мира".
Jean M. Auel. "The Mammoth Hunters" (1985).
3-я часть цикла "Дети Земли" ("Earth's Сhildren"), начатого романами "Клан Пещерного Медведя" ("The Clan of the Cave Bear", 1980) и "Долина лошадей" ("The Valley of Horses", 1982). В цикл также входят "Путь через равнину" ("The Plains of Passage", 1985), "Под защитой камня"("The Shelters of Stone", 2002) и "The Land of Painted Caves" (вышла 29 марта 2011).
База журнала "Locus": "Prehistoric sf novel, third in the “Earth’s Children” series. The first printing of over 1 million copies set a new record", "sf novel, third in the prehistoric saga “Earth’s Children”", "sf novel of prehistoric times, “Earth’s Children” #3", "sf/historical novel of prehistoric times, #3 in the “Earth’s Children” series", "fantasy novel. Volume 3 in the “Earth’s Children” series", "prehistoric fantasy novel, third book of the “Earth’s Children” series", "prehistoric adventure with fantasy elements. Third of the “Earth’s Children” series".
Англовикипедия о цикле - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth's_Children
Сайты автора - http://www.jeanauel.com и http://www.jeanmauel.co.uk
Серия "Жестокие игры":
Кэт Фоллз "Обитатели тьмы. Книга 1. Темный дар"
14.06.2011
"Впервые на русском языке!Новое имя в модном жанре "постапокалиптика"! Грандиозный потоп разделил человечество на две противоборствующие стороны - тех, кто живет на малых островках оставшейся суши, и тех, чьим домом стал подводный мир..."
Kat Falls. "Dark Life" (2010)
Дебютный роман, 1-я часть цикла "Dark Life". Продолжение, которое называется "Rip Tide", должно выйти в августе 2011.
Описание с сайта автора: "Dark Life is set in the near future when global warming has caused the oceans to rise and reduced America to half its former size. Fifteen-year-old Ty and his family live on an ocean floor homestead. When outlaws attack the pioneer settlement, Ty teams up with a girl from the “Topside” who’s come subsea to search for her brother. Together they face dangerous sea creatures and venture into the frontier town’s rough underworld to discover the secret behind the outlaws’ eerie abilities."
"Sixteen-year-old Ty, first child born to the pioneers who live in the depths of the ocean, has little patience for topsiders (land dwellers) until he meets feisty Gemma, who immediately enlists his help to locate her missing older brother. Their search is interrupted by pirate attacks of the notorious Seablite Gang and an ultimatum from the Commonwealth Government (located topside) that makes the pioneers responsible for stopping the raids. Ty and Gemma uncover connections between the pirates, illicit medical experiments, and Gemma's missing sibling, who happens to have secret supernatural gifts—like Ty. Although set in an undersea future, this rousing adventure has all the hallmarks of a western, including outlaws, homesteaders, and plenty of shoot-'em-up action (only with harpoonlike weapons). Good guys and bad guys are fairly obvious, as is the outcome, but the exotic setting and well-conceived details about undersea living, along with likable characters and a minor surprise at the end, will keep readers turning the pages. Try this with the ecofiction of David Klass. Grades 6-9"(с) Cindy Welch в "Booklist"
Англоаннотация: "Dive deep into the vivid underwater world of Dark Life!
The oceans rose, swallowing the lowlands. Earthquakes shattered the continents, toppling entire regions into the rising water. Now, humans live packed into stack cities. The only ones with any space of their own are those who live on the ocean floor: the Dark Life.
Ty has spent his whole life living deep undersea. When outlaws attack his homestead, he finds himself in a fight to save the only home he has ever known. Joined by Gemma, a girl from Topside, Ty ventures into the frontier's rough underworld and discovers some dark secrets to Dark Life. Secrets that threaten to destroy everything."
Сайт автора - http://katfalls.com
Серия "Проект "Бестселлер":
Брайан Д'Амато "Хранитель солнца, или Ритуалы Апокалипсиса"
16.06.2011
"Впервые на русском!Выдающаяся, уникальная, особенная книга о попытке предотвратить гибель мира 21 декабря 2012 года".
Brian D'Amato. Выбирать в его библиографии практически нечего, так что это, вероятно, "In the Courts of the Sun" (2009), начинающий трилогию "Sacrifice Game".
Об авторе и книге на русском - http://www.bookclub.ua/read/damato/
Сайт автора - http://www.briandamato.com
Серия "Мона Лиза":
Элис Хоффман "Ночь огней"
24.06.2011
"Впервые на русском! Новая книга от признанного мастера тонкого психологического романа. Дерзко смешивая комедию и трагедию , Хоффман создает повествование, в котором неприятные сложности современного брака превращаются в миф…"
Alice Hoffman "Illumination Night" (1987)
В своей рецензии Maureen O'Neal: "It is a lovely, uniquely imaginative story of an elderly woman, a young couple and boy giant on Martha's Vineyard. Illumination Night refers to a 4th of July tradition on the island. Hoffman's characters are so vulnerable, and believable, and memorable that I immediately went and found all of Hoffman's books. There is always a magical element in all of Hoffman's books that prompts us to look at life and people in a whole new way".
http://www.alicehoffman.com
Предыдущие изданные на русском книги Хоффман "Locus" в своей базе упоминал, про эту молчит. Будем считать, что книга тут перечислена за прошлые заслуги автора.
Серия "Грандмастер приключений":
Линн Шоулз, Джо Мур "Заговор Грааля"
08.06.2011
"Всем поклонникам Дэна Брауна посвящается! Новый взгляд на многовековую загадку! В эпицентре захватывающих событий - журналистка Коттен Стоун. И поверьте на слово - она найдет Святой Грааль гораздо быстрее профессора Лэнгдона!"
Lynn Sholes, Joe Moore "The Grail Conspiracy" (2005), 1-я часть цикла "Cotten Stone", в который также входят "Last Secret" (2006), "The Hades Project" (2007) и "731 Legacy" (2008).
Переиздание (2006, Эксмо, серия "Книга, о которой говорят").
Сайт Линн Шоулз - http://www.lynnsholes.com
Клайв Касслер, Пол Кемпрекос "Змей"
14.06.2011
"Впервые на русском языке! Новый захватывающий приключенческий роман от мастера жанра! У берегов Северной Африки обнаруживают затонувшее судно, в трюме которого похоже находятся легендарные сокровища индейцев, вывезенные Колумбом из открытой им Америки"
Клайв Касслер (Clive [Eric] Cussler), Пол Кемпрекос (Paul Kemprecos) "Serpent" (1999).
1-я книга цикла "NUMA Files" (ответвление от "Dirk Pitt"), в который также входят написанные Касслером и Кемпрекосом "Blue Gold" (2000), "Fire Ice" (2002), "White Death" (2003), "Lost City" (2004), "Polar Shift" (2005), "The Navigator" (2007), "Medusa" (2009), а также созданный Касслером и Грэмом Брауном (Graham Brown) "Devil's Gate" (2011).
Англоаннотация: "When Kurt Austin, the leader of a courageous National Underwater & Marine Agency exploration team, rescues beautiful marine archaeologist Nina Kirov off the coast of Morocco, he becomes the next target of Texas industrialist Don Halcon. A madman bent on carving a new nation out of the southwestern United States and Mexico, Halcon's scheme hinges on Nina's recent discovery involving Christopher Columbus, and a priceless pre-Columbian antiquity buried in the battered remains of the sunken Italian luxury liner Andrea Doria. Only Kurt Austin and his crack NUMA team stand between Halcon and the Andrea Doria's silent steel hull -- and if their deadly mission fails, Halcon will ride to power on a wave of death and destruction."
Серия "Шарлин Харрис. Мировой мега-бестселлер":
Шарлин Харрис "День мертвеца"
06.06.2011
"От автора знаменитейшего сериала "Настоящая кровь"! (начало показа 4-го сезона - в июне) Впервые на русском! 1-я книга о Харпер Коннелли - девушке, обладающей очень необычным даром…"
Charlaine Harris. "Grave Sight" (2005)
1-я часть цикла "Харпер Коннелли" ("Harper Connelly", вариант названия "Harper Connelly Mysteries"). Остальные романы цикла перечислены ниже.
"fantasy novel. First in a new series about a psychic investigator", "mystery with dark fantasy elements, the first about psychic investigator Harper Connelly, who can see the dead’s last moments"(с) база "Locus"
В июне 2011 выйдет одноименная книжка из серии комиксов по этому роману (всего будет 3 тома).
Из рецензии в "Publishers Weekly": "Ever since Harper Connelly survived a zap from a lightning bolt, she's been able to find dead people, a skill that makes the protagonist in the first installment of Harris's new series a tad more bizarre than the mind-reading heroine of the author's Sookie Stackhouse books (Dead as a Doornail, etc.). Harper travels to the Ozark town of Sarne, Ark., to find a missing teenage girl's body, accompanied by her stepbrother, Tolliver, who acts as her manager and bodyguard and with whom she shares a thinly disguised physical attraction that they manage to keep at bay by engaging in casual sex with various partners. Finding the body takes no time at all, but leaving town afterward isn't so easy. When Harper's life is threatened and Tolliver ends up in jail on trumped-up charges, it quickly becomes apparent that something sinister is going on in Sarne. Harris delivers a knuckle-gnawing tale populated with well-developed, albeit edgy characters. A nifty puzzle toward the end will challenge the most jaded mystery buffs"
Отзыв Jenny McLarin в "Booklist": "Prolific author Harris debuts a series that just might surpass all her others in popularity. Harper Connolly is honest, ethical, loyal, and, in many people's eyes, quite odd. Since being hit by lightning, Harper has a strange gift: she can find dead people and reveal how they died. Harper is so down-to-earth and delivers the story in such a straightforward way that even the most hardened realist eventually will accept the premise. In this first outing, Harper and her manager and stepbrother Tolliver travel to a small town in Arkansas to determine what happened to a local teenager. Once there, they learn that someone is willing go to great lengths--even murder--to bury a secret. While absorbing the usual mixture of awe, revulsion, and fear that her "gift" inspires in the locals, Harper tries to uncover the secret they are trying desperately to hide. Future stories may shed more light on Harper and Tolliver's relationship, which seems curiously close for a sister and stepbrother. A strong debut that will have readers dying for more".
Шарлин Харрис "Подарок мертвеца"
08.06.2011
"От автора знаменитейшего сериала "Настоящая кровь"! (начало показа 4-го сезона - в июне) Впервые на русском! 2-я книга о Харпер Коннелли - девушке, обладающей очень необычным даром…"
Charlaine Harris. "Grave Surprise" (2006)
2-я часть цикла "Харпер Коннелли" ("Harper Connelly", вариант названия "Harper Connelly Mysteries")
В цикл также входят "An Ice Cold Grave" (2007) и "Grave Secret" (2009).
"paranormal mystery, the second in the Harper Connelly series"(с) база "Locus"
Из рецензии в "Publishers Weekly": "At the start of Harris's winning second supernatural caper to feature Harper Connelly (after 2005's Grave Sight), a skeptical anthropology professor, Clyde Nunley, tests Harper's gift of clairvoyance in a historic Memphis cemetery, where Harper correctly senses a fresh corpse in the wrong grave. Strangely, the body turns out to be a missing 12-year-old girl, Tabitha Morgenstern, whom Harper failed to locate in Nashville on a case two years earlier. The hotel suite of Harper and her manager and stepbrother, Tolliver Lang, both of whom fall under suspicion, becomes a magnet for a medley of amusing characters, including Memphis cops, Tabitha's assorted relatives and a drunken Clyde Nunley, who, shortly after accusing Harper of fraud, is found dead in the same grave as Tabitha. Peppered with the author's trademark deadpan wit, this book should help make Harper and Tolliver as popular as Sookie Stackhouse, the heroine of Harris's vampire mystery series (Definitely Dead, etc.)"
Из отзыва Sue O'Brien в "Booklist": "After Harper Connelly was struck by lightning as a teenager, she developed an unusual ability--she is able to locate bodies and see how the victims died, although she cannot identify the murderers. Harper and her stepbrother, Tolliver Lang, are at Bingham College doing a demonstration for a class, identifying bodies and causes of death in an old graveyard, when Harper finds the body of Tabitha Morgenstern, a kidnapped young girl she had failed to locate months ago. To clear their names--the police consider Harper and Tolliver suspects in the crime--they set out to find the real killer. Harper and Tolliver are likable, well-developed characters whose unhappy past binds them together as they care for one another and work together. Harper craves normalcy as she wonders whether her talent is a gift or a curse. The supernatural elements are integrated believably into the plot in this engrossing mystery, the second in a series".
Серия "Сумерки. Проклятые":
Нэнси Холдер, Дебби Виге "Проклятые. Книга первая. Ведьма"
15.06.2011
"Впервые на русском языке! Первая книга популярного цикла! Семнадцатилетняя Холли Катерс и не подозревала, что именно ей придется вступить в многовековую борьбу между двумя колдовскими кланами…"
Nancy [Lindsay Jones] Holder, Debbie Viguie. "Witch" (2002)
1-я часть подросткового цикла темной фэнтези про ведьм "Wicked". В цикл также входят "Curse" (2002), "Legacy" (2003), "Spellbound" (2003) и "Resurrection" (2009).
Права на съемки фильма по первым двум книгам куплены студией "DreamWorks".
Англовикипедия: "Wicked is the name of a series of young adult novels written by Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguie...
The five novels depict a family feud between a coven of witches called the Cahors and a coven of warlocks called the Deveraux. Holly Cathers, the main character is the lone survivor of the rafting trip her family took with her best friend, Tina. When her legal guardian is injured, Holly is taken to Seattle to live with her aunt and her two cousins, Nicole and Amanda. Upon arriving, she is given a small cat who is deaf. Strange incidents occur, such as strange visions and dreams. Eventually, Holly realizes she is a witch and that she carries the soul of Isabeau of the Cahor house. Holly belongs to the Cahor house and reveals this to Amanda. It appears, Nicole already knows about witchcraft. When Holly's aunt dies, they are left in the custody of her uncle, Richard. Nicole is performing as Juliet in the play and suddenly a fure starts. Holly and her cousins discover that Michael and his son, Eli are behind this. Michael is a warlock of House Deveraux. He had an affair with Holly's aunt, Marie-Claire Anderson. Jeraud (Jer), Michael's other son attempts to stop him with his girlfriend and his two best friends. Jer and Holly have a strange connection and before at a party they had almost fallen into bed with one another. Jer saves Holly from being burned, but her cousins drag her away before she can save Jer. In the end of Witch, Jer is burned and horribly scarred."
Англоаннотация: "Holly Cathers’s world shatters when her parents are killed in a rafting accident. She is wrenched from her home in San Francisco and sent to Seattle to live with her aunt, Marie-Claire, and her twin cousins, Amanda and Nicole. But sorrow and grief soon give way to bewildered fascination as one by one, strange incidents begin to occur. Such as the fact that any desire Holly whispers to her cat seems to come true. Or the fact that a beloved friend is injured after a freak attack from a vicious falcon. Or the fact of an undeniably magnetic and familiar attraction to a boy Holly barely knows. Holly, Amanda, and Nicole are about to be launched into a dark legacy of secrets, alliances, and machinations, where ancient magics yield dangerous results, where possession is commonplace, and where reincarnation is taken for granted – and the three girls must take on roles in an intergenerational feud the like of which they could never have imagined…"
Отрывок на английском - http://nancyholder.com/wp-content/uploads/WickedChpt1.pdf
Сайты авторов - http://www.nancyholder.com и http://www.debbieviguie.com
Серия "Темная любовь":
Райчел Мид "Дитя бури"
01.06.2011
"Впервые на русском языке! От автора культовой "Академии Вампиров"! Гарантированные продажи! Мир летит в пропасть, но древнее пророчество все же оставляет надежду на спасение…Эльфы, силы тьмы, древнее пророчество - фирменный рецепт успеха от Рачел Мид!"
Richelle Mead. "Storm Born" (2008) - 1-я часть цикла "Dark Swan", героиня которого - Евгении Маркхем (Eugenie Markham), наемная/свободная шаманка, сражающаяся с призраками и магическими существами, проникающими в наш мир из Иномирья (Otherworld).
В цикл также входят "Thorn Queen" (2009) и "Iron Crowned" (2011). В следующем году к ним добавится "Shadow Heir" (2012), который, предположительно, завершит цикл.
Англоаннотация: "Just typical. No love life to speak of for months, then all at once, every horny creature in the Otherworld wants to get in your pants...
Eugenie Markham is a powerful shaman who does a brisk trade banishing spirits and fey who cross into the mortal world. Mercenary, yes, but a girl's got to eat. Her most recent case, however, is enough to ruin her appetite. Hired to find a teenager who has been taken to the Otherworld, Eugenie comes face to face with a startling prophecy--one that uncovers dark secrets about her past and claims that Eugenie's first-born will threaten the future of the world as she knows it.
Now Eugenie is a hot target for every ambitious demon and Otherworldy ne'er-do-well, and the ones who don't want to knock her up want her dead. Eugenie handles a Glock as smoothly as she wields a wand, but she needs some formidable allies for a job like this. She finds them in Dorian, a seductive fairy king with a taste for bondage, and Kiyo, a gorgeous shape-shifter who redefines animal attraction. But with enemies growing bolder and time running out, Eugenie realizes that the greatest danger is yet to come, and it lies in the dark powers that are stirring to life within her..."
Отрывок на английском - http://www.richellemead.com/excerpt/excerpt5.htm
Рейчел Кейн "Повелители стихий. Книга 1. Злой ветер"
14.06.2011
"Впервые на русском языке! Первая книга нового цикла о жизни и невероятных приключениях Джоанн Болдуин, жрицы погоды. Для нее укрощение любой непогоды - пустяк, но как разобраться с тучами, которые сгустились над ее жизнью?"
Rachel Caine (один из псевдонимов Роксаны Лонгстрит Конрад (Roxanne Longstreet Conrad)), также издавалась у нас как Рэйчел Кейн.
И вот тут Эксмо с рекламой, извиниите, облажалось. Дело в том, что и цикл не новый, и "Злой ветер" ("Ill Wind", 2003), начинающий цикл "Хранители погоды" ("Weather Warden"), уже издавался на русском в 2006-м - в серии "Холод страха" изд-ва АСТ. Равно как еще два романа этого цикла - "Солнечный удар" ("Heat Stroke", 2004) и "Фактор холода" ("Chill Factor", 2005). На этом АСТ остановилось, но на самом деле, в цикл также входят "Windfall" (2005), "Firestorm" (2006), "Thin Air" (2007), "Gale Force" (2008), "Cape Storm" (2009) и "Total Eclipse" (2010).
Серия "Люди против магов":
Дэвид Уитли "Стражи полуночи"
22.06.2011
"Впервые на русском! Дебютный роман Дэвида Уитли напомнит приключения Оливера Твиста и Гарри Поттера. По отзывам с аmazon.com, все прочитавшие с нетерпением ждут продолжения!"
Британец David Whitley. "The Midnight Charter" (2009; выдвигался на "Carnegie Medal"-2010)
Дебютнй роман, 1-я часть подростковой фэнтезийной трилогии "Agora Trilogy", в которую также входит "The Children of the Lost" (2010). Вроде бы в этом году должна выйти последняя книга цикла - "The Canticle of Whispers".
Англовикипедия о книге: "The book is set in a fantasy world called Agora, which is governed by an extreme form of capitalism. Anything can be bought and sold- including thoughts, ideas, emotions and ultimately people. Children are traded by their parents, and only on their twelfth birthday are they allowed to become traders themselves.
There is no money in Agora. Instead, people are ranked according to their reputation. It only takes a small rumour or wrongdoing to send even the most powerful merchant down to the bottom, where they normally become "debtors". With nothing left to trade, they are stuck at the bottom, with no means to climb back up the social hierarchy.
Agora is surrounded by walls. Nobody enters the city, and nobody leaves the city. The city itself is split into twelve districts, all named after Zodiac signs. The Director of Receipts watches over the city, and his Receivers police it."
Из рецензии Sue Giffard в "School Library Journal": "Grade 6–8—In the city-state of Agora (or "marketplace"), everything is for sale and all goods and services can and must be traded or bartered. Children are property until they come of age at 12, and those who are poor are sold like any other commodity. Two such children are Lily, an orphan who enters into a service contract with old Count Stelli, an astrologer. Most of Mark's family dies of the plague and his father sells him to Doctor Theophilus, son of the Count. Their lives intersect and diverge when they switch places. Lily questions the values of Agoran society and sets up a free shelter for citizens needing help. Mark is drawn in to intrigue and mystery as he becomes a prominent fortune-teller. There is a sense of darkness and danger at the heart of this society, which is embodied in the Midnight Charter, a document that predicts the coming of the Protagonist and the Antagonist, and that suggests that these two figures, possibly Mark and Lily, will alter their world forever. Whitley creates a number of memorable and full-bodied characters, along with a claustrophobic sense of a society set up as a utopia closing in on itself, and a morality that is at the extreme edge of reason. Exciting and gripping from the first heart-stopping line, this first book in a trilogy takes readers only part of the way to resolving the predictions of the Midnight Charter and its relationship to Mark and Lily. Readers will anxiously await the next installment as they reach the cliff-hanger ending".
Англоаннотация: "In a society based on trade, where everything can be bought and sold, the future rests on the secrets of a single document-and the lives of two children whose destiny it is to discover its secrets. In this spellbinding novel, newcomer David Whitley has imagined a nation at a crossroads: misshaped by materialism and facing a choice about its future. He has brought to life two children who will test the nation's values-and crafted a spellbinding adventure story that will keep readers turning the pages until the very end.
For readers who love Philip Pullman, THE MIDNIGHT CHARTER combines great storytelling with a compelling vision - a many layered adventure with powerful and timely implications."
Отрывки на английском - http://www.davidwhitley.co.uk/site/DAWH/UploadedResources/DW_download_ch_01.pdf и http://www.davidwhitley.co.uk/site/DAWH/UploadedResources/DW_download_ch_04.pdf
Сайт автора - http://www.davidwhitley.co.uk
Серия "Трансформеры":
Алан Дин Фостер "Трансформеры"
27.06.2011
"Впервые на русском языке! К премьере третьего фильма "Трансофрмеры"! Узнайте, как все начиналось! Десептиконы и Автоботы ждут вас!"
"The Veiled Threat" (2009), первый в серии "Transformers".
Алан Дин Фостер "Трансформеры. Месть падших"
27.06.2011
"Впервые на русском языке! К премьере третьего фильма "Трансофрмеры"! Узнайте, как все начиналось! Десептиконы и Автоботы ждут вас!"
"Revenge of the Fallen" (2009), второй в серии "Transformers"
А также манга
Серия "Проект Манга. Сновидения":
Куини Чан "Сновидения. Коллекционное издание"
20.06.2011
"Мистическая история о престижной школе для девочек, где есть все - и таинственные сны, и страшные тайны, и загадочные картины. Впервые все три части под одной обложкой!"
Серия "Проект Манга. Икс" (обложка):
CLAMP "Икс. Книга 3. Семь светил. Часть первая"
15.06.2011
"Продолжение легендарной манги, выходящей уже двадцать лет и до сих пор пользующейся неизменным успехом. Мир, где герой делает выбор, и его лучший друг тут же встает на противоположную сторону…"
Серия "Проект Манга. Наруто" (обложка):
Масаси Кисимото "Наруто. Книга 15. Манускрипт ниндзя Наруто!!!"
20.06.2011
"Манга, без преувеличения завоевавшая мир - ее несколько раз экранизировали, создали видеоигры и коллекционную карточную игру. Мальчик, желающий стать великим ниндзя, продолжает упорно учиться…"
Серия "Проект Манга. Хеллсинг" (обложка):
Кота Хирано "Хеллсинг. Книга 1"
17.06.2011
"Легендарная мистическая сага. Вампиры, католики и протестанты - все сплелись в один клубок. Благодаря увлекательной истории и потрясающему рисунку пользуется неизменной популярностью".
Серия "Лучшие мировые детективы":
Рэй Брэдбери "Смерть - дело одинокое. Кладбище для безумцев. Давайте все убьём Констанцию"
21.06.2011
"Новая серия!!! Лучшие детективы лучших авторов! Один автор - один том! Подарочное издание для поклонников как классических, так и современных детективов!"
Переиздание условной детективной-нуарной трилогии Брэдбери: "Death is a Lonely Business" (1985), "A Graveyard for Lunatics: Another Tale of Two Cities" (1990) и "Let's All Kill Constance" (2002).
Серия "Темный мир":
Роберт Р. Маккаммон "Они жаждут"
10.06.2011
"Книга, ставшая культовой сразу после своего выхода и закрепившая за Маккаммоном статус признанного мастера жанра!"
"They Thirst" (1981), очередное переиздание.
Серия "Книга-загадка, книга-бестселлер":
Гордон Далквист "Черная книга смерти"
15.06.2011
"Впревые на русском! Продолжение романа "Стеклянные книги пожирателей снов" не обманет ожиданий многочисленных поклонников серии".
Gordon Dahlquist "The Dark Volume" (2008 в Англии, 2009 в США).
Продолжение дебютного романа Далквиста "Стеклянные книги пожирателей снов" ("The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters", 2006; номинировался на "Locus"-2007 (5 место среди дебютантов))
"Historical fantasy novel, sequel to The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters (2006, recently reprinted in two trade paperback volumes), set in a steampunkish alternate world similar to Victorian Europe. In this book the three heroes are propelled into a new quest"(с) Locus Online: News: Monitor Listing: New Books late March 2009
"Readers unfamiliar with bestseller Dahlquist's 2006 debut, The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, which is set in an alternate world similar to Victorian Europe, may have trouble following this complicated sequel, despite the preparatory word on what has already happened at the start. In The Glass Books, West Indies plantation heiress Celeste Temple, naval surgeon Abelard Svenson and criminal Cardinal Chang joined forces to combat an evil cabal that smelted a mineral into a psychotropic blue glass that captures human memory. Temple, who survived the previous book's cinematic climax involving a gunfight in a sinking dirigible, finds herself suspected of a series of mysterious murders, while Svenson and Chang discover new enemies to thwart. Too much going on at the same time, including less than engaging confrontations with various over-the-top villains, undermines a clever concept that may yet be the basis for a solid adventure series"(с)Publishers Weekly
"Dahlquist’s sequel to The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters (2007) is dark indeed. The daunting “Preparatory Word” details what has gone before: who killed whom and what alchemical experiments have already taken place. If you haven’t read the first book, good luck! That said, fans of Tobsha Learner’s Soul (2008) and Jonathan Barnes’ Somnambulist (2008) will enjoy this surreal Victorian journey into the nightmarish possibilities of mind swapping. Miss Temple awakens after a dirigible crash with fragmented memories of murder and precious cargo. Separated from her companions, she flees hostile villagers in the company of the not-quite-honest Eloise, launching a seemingly endless series of adventures involving exquisite pain, sexual revelations, and near-death experiences. Meanwhile, a powerful cabal seeking a lost glass book is subverted by its victims, among them a blue-glass whore and a wily contessa. The idea of glass “books,” which absorb a person’s essence through a nasty “process,” is what makes this sometimes bewildering, overpopulated novel fascinating. It’s a big-concept story full of potent psychological metaphors, and if those metaphors never quite gel, they still offer readers much to contemplate"(с) Jen Baker в Booklist
Отрывок на английском - http://www.randomhouse.com/book/36145/the-dark-volume-by-gordon-dahlquist
Боб Хостетлер "Усыпальница"
15.06.2011
"Впервые на русском! В новой книге серии - адреналин и приключения Индианы Джонса с триллерами Стива Берри. Политические интриги, уникальные находки, напряженное ожидание, исторические факты, романтика и трансформация веры".
Христианский писатель и проповедник Bob Hostetler. Судя по всему, это "The Bone Box" (2008).
Англоаннотация: "Combining the adrenaline-fueled adventure of Indiana Jones with the thrills of a Steve Berry Novel, The Bone Box is the latest in biblical archeological suspense.
Archeologist and agnostic Randall Bullock has come to Israel to try and resurrect his crumbling career and shattered life. Teaming up with Miri Sharon, a beautiful representative of Israeli Antiques Authority, the two unearth a stone casket marked "Joseph, son of Caiaphas," which contains several fragile scrolls that document the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
This discovery launches Miri and Randall, along with his estranged nineteen-year-old daughter, Tracy, into a race to validate the monumental find, no matter what the Israeli authorities, media circus, and archaeological rivals want the world to believe. Forced to face the power of this historical resurrection, Randall must also struggle with his own beliefs -- or lack of them -- while trying to keep the consequences of their discovery from taking a disastrous turn.
The Bone Box, fraught with political intrigue, is a suspense-filled blend of historical fact, romance, and transforming faith. Through all the danger and struggle, Randall discovers how easy -- and deadly -- it is to ignore the evidence and reject the true story of Christ".
Сайт автора - http://www.bobhostetler.com
Отрывок на английском - http://web.me.com/bobhoss/Bob_Hostetler/Bone_Box_Preview.html
За фантастику никто не считает. Здесь оставляю для массовости.
Серия "Книга-загадка, книга-мистика. Дин Кунц":
Дин Кунц "Дьявольское семя"
06.06.2011
"Один из ранних романов Дина Кунца, привлекший к автору множество теперь уже постоянных поклонников его творчества. Искусственный интеллект стал слишком похож на своих создателей, и теперь главное его желание - создать новую расу себе подобных..."
"Demon Seed" (1973, переработан в 1997). Очередное переиздание.
"SF/horror novel"(с) база "Locus"
Серия "Книга-фантазия":
Патрик Ротфусс "Имя ветра"
15.06.2011
"Переиздание в популярной серии первой книги трилогии "Хроника убийцы короля". Сразу после выхода этот роман удостоился высших оценок от признанных мастеров жанра - Урсулы Ле Гуин, Джорджа Мартина и Робин Хобб. К выпуску планируется второй роман эпопеи"
"Имя ветра" ("The Name of the Wind", 2007; награжден "Quill Award"-2007; по результатам "SF Site Poll""-2008 занял 1 место в категории "sf/fantasy book"; номинировался на "Locus"-2008 (2 место среди дебютных романов и 17-е - в категории "fantasy novel")).
1-я часть запланированной трилогии героической фэнтези "Kingkiller Chronicle", в которую в настоящее время также входит "The Wise Man's Fear" (вышел 21 марта 2011). Далее запланирован "The Doors of Stone".
Переиздание (Эксмо, серия "Мастера Меча и Магии", 2010).
Роман хорош, закрытую серию жалко (тех циклов, издание которых Эксмо убило, еще жальче).
Серия "Новая фантастика":
Стивен Холл "Дневники голодной акулы"
08.06.2011
"Впервые на русском - самый поразительный дебют в британской прозе последних лет! Этого автора сравнивают с Филипом Диком и Майклом Крайтоном, Дугласом Адамсом и Харуки Мураками".
Дебютный роман британца Steven Hall "The Raw Shark Texts" (2007; вошел в шорт-лист "Arthur C. Clarke Award"-2008).
Смешно будет, если у нас издадут эту книгу без иллюстраций.
"The title is a play on "Rorschach Tests", which are inkblot tests"(с) англовикипедия
"Surreal psychological conspiracy thriller/fantasy novel with typograhical illustrations. A man’s recurring spells of amnesia could be a psychological problem — or something much stranger"(с) база "Locus"
"Metaphysical SF novel about a man who's lost his memory and is told he's victim of "dissociative condition" since his girlfriend drowned three years before"(c) Locus Online: New Books, late March 2008
"The Raw Shark Texts takes place in our own world; however, certain aspects that do not exist in our familiar world exist in the book, hidden from the general public by dedicated organizations. Foremost among these are so-called "conceptual creatures", life forms that exist within and feed upon ideas. Another new concept is the idea of "un-space", the unvisited, unnamed, and uninhabited empty areas beneath the normally-used parts of the urban landscape. This area is documented and managed by a group known as the Un-Space Exploration Committee"(с) англовикипедия
"Hall's debut, the darling of last year's London Book Fair, is a cerebral page-turner that pits corporeal man against metaphysical sharks that devour memory and essence, not flesh and blood. When Eric Sanderson wakes from a lengthy unconsciousness, he has no memory. A letter from "The First Eric Sanderson" directs him to psychologist Dr. Randle, who tells Eric he is afflicted with a "dissociative condition." Eric learns about his former life—specifically a glorious romance with girlfriend Clio Aames, who drowned three years earlier—and is soon on the run from the Ludovician, a "species of purely conceptual fish" that "feeds on human memories and the intrinsic sense of self." Once he hooks up with Scout, a young woman on the run from her own metaphysical predator, the two trek through a subterranean labyrinth made of telephone directories (masses of words offer protection, as do Dictaphone recordings), decode encrypted communications and encounter a series of strange characters on the way to the big-bang showdown with the beast. Though Hall's prose is flabby and the plethora of text-based sight gags don't always work (a 50-page flipbook of a swimming shark, for instance), the end result is a fast-moving cyberpunk mashup of Jaws, Memento and sappy romance that's destined for the big screen"(c)Publishers Weekly
"Almost everyone loves this much-hyped first novel, including, according to USA Today, Nicole Kidman, who asked Steven Hall if he'd change the main character into a woman for the movie. (He declined.) Although a few critics found Hall's prose imperfect, most applauded his achievement in transforming hefty subjects (memory, identity, meme theory, grief) into an energetic thriller, in which ideas—such as those implied by the "Ludovician shark"—come to life. Only the New York Times panned the book, finding it formulaic and overly clever. Readers who are prepared to tolerate (or be amused by) a few typographical gimmicks and manipulations, as well as an engaging story, are in for a treat"(c) Bookmarks Magazine
И обратите внимание на рецензию Одри Ниффенеггер (Audrey Niffenegger): "Eric Sanderson has lost his memory, his girl, his life as he once knew it. His pre-amnesiac self is sending him letters, a sort of correspondence course on how to be Eric Sanderson. Unfortunately, this previous self didn't really have it all together either. This is too bad, because the source of all the trouble is a conceptual shark, a Ludovician shark, no less. Soon Eric is on the run, trying to piece it all together and find true love before his mind gets wiped by the shark for the twelfth and probably final time.
Steven Hall is an inventive, funny and extremely smart writer. I am a letterpress printer and a typophile, and I was drawn to his book because of the typography: The Raw Shark Texts is riddled with typographic games, codes, a flip book, and a boatload of very elegant plot devices that hinge on collisions between the Information Age and the imagination. At one point Eric and Scout, his guide/love interest, are speeding away from the conceptual shark on a motorbike. Scout eludes the shark by exploding a letter bomb, a bomb made out of old metal type; the type diverts the shark into a stream of random letterforms. At this I practically fell off the couch with admiration.
There's plenty to groove on in The Raw Sharks Texts even if you're not a type maven. There's echoes of Cyberpunk, Borges, Auster; there is adventure on the high seas, lost love, an exploration of what it means to be human in the age of intelligent machines. The Raw Sharks Texts is huge fun, and I gleefully recommend it."
На английском ни одного сравнения Холла "с Филипом Диком и Майклом Крайтоном, Дугласом Адамсом и Харуки Мураками" мне, честно говоря, не попадалось.
Сайт книги - http://www.rawsharktexts.com
Сайт автора - http://steven-hall.org
Серия "Черная Фэнтези":
Роберт Асприн "Кровные узы. Новая кровь. Беспокойные союзники. Воровское небо"
07.06.2011
"Третья книга, собравшая заключительные антологии расссказов о загадочном и опасном Мире Воров"
9-12 антологии из серии "Classic Thieves' World" - "Кровные узы" ("Blood Ties", 1986), "Новая кровь" ("Aftermath", 1987), "Беспокойные союзники" ("Uneasy Alliances", 1988) и "Воровское небо" ("Stealer's Sky", 1999).
Антологии, выпущенные Линн Эбби (3 штуки), равно как и романы участников проекта, наши издатели традиционно игнорируют. Впрочем, могли бы и само 12-книжие не переиздавать, ничего шедеврального в нем нет.
Серия "Интеллектуальный бестселлер (мини)":
Пол Остер "Тимбукту"
20.06.2011
"От прославленного автора "Нью-Йоркской трилогии" и "Книги иллюзий", "Левиафана" и "В стране уходящей натуры" проникновенно с классической простотой и сдержанной печалью. Трогательная история странствий нью-йоркского поэта Вилли Гуревича и его верного пса по кличке Мистер Зельц, который наследует по прямой Каштанке и Белому Биму Черное Ухо"
Paul [Benjamin] Auster. "Timbuktu" (1999). Повесть/короткий роман.
"Timbuktu is a 1999 novella by Paul Auster. It is about the life of a dog, Mr Bones, who is struggling to come to terms with the fact that his homeless master is dying.
The story, set in the early 1990s, is told through the eyes of Mr Bones, who, although not anthropomorphised, has an internal monologue in English. The story centres around his last journey with his ailing master, Willy G Christmas, to Baltimore, but the details of both of their early lives are told in flashback.
The title of the book comes from the concept of the afterlife as proposed by Christmas, a self-titled poet, who believed it was a beautiful place called Timbuktu. A major running theme in the book is Mr Bones' worry that dogs will not go to Timbuktu, and he won't see Willy again after death.
The novella also draws on themes of existentialism, finding purpose in one's life, and a meditation on late 20th century America. It has now been made into a play by Croatian director Borut Separovic"
http://www.paulauster.co.uk
Здесь, наверное, только за предыдущие заслуги.
Сирил Массаротто "Сто чистых страниц"
09.06.2011
"Впервые на русском. Один из лучших современных французских романов. От автора бестселлера "Бог-мой приятель", после публикации которого автор проснулся знаменитым"
Cyril Massarotto. "Cent pages blanches" (2011). Судя по французской аннотации, герой книги унаследовал по завещанию эти самые сто чистых страниц, после чего всё заверте...
Для массовости, ага. Кстати, на родине автора книжка в твердом переплете не выходила.
Серия "Интеллектуальный бестселлер. Мифы":
Дженет Уинтерсон "Бремя"
14.06.2011
"Этот явно фантастический и неоднозначный древнегреческий сюжет был выбран Дженет Уинтерсон для международного проекта "Мифы", как она сама выразилась, по "глубоко личным причинам". Ведь, как и для каждого современного человека, для нее - знаменитой бунтарки и кавалера ордена Британской империи - история бремени, свободы, ответственности, одиночества, поисков себя не может не являться "глубоко личной".
Jeanette Winterson. Ее книга, написанная для проекта "Canongate Myth Series" в оригинале называется "Weight" (2005)
"Fantasy novel, a retelling of the story of Atlas and Hercules, part of the multi-author series The Myths"(с) база "Locus"
"Short novel in Canongate's "Myths" series, about the meeting between Atlas and Heracles
• Claude Lalumie`re's review for Locus Online said the characters are fascinating but the book's "potential is squandered""(c) Locus Online: New Books, end of December 2005
Страница книги на сайте автора - http://www.jeanettewinterson.com/pages/content/index.asp?PageID=354
Филип Пулман "Добрый человек Иисус и негодник Христос"
27.06.2011
"Впервые на русском! Поистине ошеломляющая ( и невероятно остроумная ) книга, написанная в рамках международного проекта Мифы. Неоднозначная, но при этом увлекательнейшая трактовка "самой великой истории человечества"
Кто не помнит Филипа Пулмана, автора трилогии "Темные начала" и еще кое-чего?
"The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Chris" (2010)
"Historical fantasy, or alternate history, novel that imagines Jesus and Christ as twin brothers born of Mary"(с) Locus Online: New Books, 2nd week June 2010
"The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ is a novel by Philip Pullman. Published in 2010 by Canongate Books,[1] as part of the Canongate Myth Series, it retells the story of Jesus as if he were two people, brothers, "Jesus" and "Christ," with contrasting personalities; Jesus being a moral and godly man, and his brother Christ a calculating figure who wishes to use Jesus' legacy to found a powerful Church.
The book has attracted controversy, as well as hate mail sent to Pullman by Christian fundamentalists threatening him with damnation. Pullman's historical understanding has been criticised by Professor Gerald O'Collins.[5] Diarmaid MacCulloch reviewed the book positively for Literary Review"(с) англовикипедия
Официальный сайт книги - http://thegoodmanjesusandthescoundrelchrist.co.uk/site/
Джулиан Барнс "Нечего бояться"
17.06.2011
"Впервые на русском! Смешная и откровенная книга одного из самых ярких прозаиков современной Британии, автора многочисленных международных бестселлеров. Новый роман очень многогранен - это и семейная хроника, и размышления на тему смерти и страха смерти, торжество искусства, спор с Богом и о нем. Обязательна для чтения".
Julian [Patrick] Barnes. "Nothing to be Frightened of" (2008)
Просто процитирую описание с сайта автора: "‘I don’t believe in God, but I miss him.’ Julian Barnes’ new book is, among many things, a family memoir, an exchange with his brother (a philosopher), a meditation on mortality and the fear of death, a celebration of art, an argument with and about God, and a homage to the French writer Jules Renard. Though he warns us that ‘this is not my autobiography’, the result is like a tour of the mind of one of our most brilliant writers.
When Angela Carter reviewed Barnes’s first novel, Metroland, she praised the mature way he wrote about death. Now, nearly thirty years later, he returns to the subject in a wise , funny and constantly surprising book, which defies category and classification – except as Barnesian."
К проекту "Мифы" не относится. Оставляю для массовости.
Серия "Книга на все времена":
Джин М. Ауэл "Дети Земли. Книга третья. Охотники на мамонтов"
17.06.2011
"Эта захватывающая сага о жестоком и прекрасном древнем мире принесла ее автору Джин Ауэл всемирную известность и стала одним из самых читаемых литературных произведений нашего времени. Книги, входящие в серию "Дети Земли", были изданы многомиллионными тиражами во многих странах мира".
Jean M. Auel. "The Mammoth Hunters" (1985).
3-я часть цикла "Дети Земли" ("Earth's Сhildren"), начатого романами "Клан Пещерного Медведя" ("The Clan of the Cave Bear", 1980) и "Долина лошадей" ("The Valley of Horses", 1982). В цикл также входят "Путь через равнину" ("The Plains of Passage", 1985), "Под защитой камня"("The Shelters of Stone", 2002) и "The Land of Painted Caves" (вышла 29 марта 2011).
База журнала "Locus": "Prehistoric sf novel, third in the “Earth’s Children” series. The first printing of over 1 million copies set a new record", "sf novel, third in the prehistoric saga “Earth’s Children”", "sf novel of prehistoric times, “Earth’s Children” #3", "sf/historical novel of prehistoric times, #3 in the “Earth’s Children” series", "fantasy novel. Volume 3 in the “Earth’s Children” series", "prehistoric fantasy novel, third book of the “Earth’s Children” series", "prehistoric adventure with fantasy elements. Third of the “Earth’s Children” series".
Англовикипедия о цикле - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth's_Children
Сайты автора - http://www.jeanauel.com и http://www.jeanmauel.co.uk
Серия "Жестокие игры":
Кэт Фоллз "Обитатели тьмы. Книга 1. Темный дар"
14.06.2011
"Впервые на русском языке!Новое имя в модном жанре "постапокалиптика"! Грандиозный потоп разделил человечество на две противоборствующие стороны - тех, кто живет на малых островках оставшейся суши, и тех, чьим домом стал подводный мир..."
Kat Falls. "Dark Life" (2010)
Дебютный роман, 1-я часть цикла "Dark Life". Продолжение, которое называется "Rip Tide", должно выйти в августе 2011.
Описание с сайта автора: "Dark Life is set in the near future when global warming has caused the oceans to rise and reduced America to half its former size. Fifteen-year-old Ty and his family live on an ocean floor homestead. When outlaws attack the pioneer settlement, Ty teams up with a girl from the “Topside” who’s come subsea to search for her brother. Together they face dangerous sea creatures and venture into the frontier town’s rough underworld to discover the secret behind the outlaws’ eerie abilities."
"Sixteen-year-old Ty, first child born to the pioneers who live in the depths of the ocean, has little patience for topsiders (land dwellers) until he meets feisty Gemma, who immediately enlists his help to locate her missing older brother. Their search is interrupted by pirate attacks of the notorious Seablite Gang and an ultimatum from the Commonwealth Government (located topside) that makes the pioneers responsible for stopping the raids. Ty and Gemma uncover connections between the pirates, illicit medical experiments, and Gemma's missing sibling, who happens to have secret supernatural gifts—like Ty. Although set in an undersea future, this rousing adventure has all the hallmarks of a western, including outlaws, homesteaders, and plenty of shoot-'em-up action (only with harpoonlike weapons). Good guys and bad guys are fairly obvious, as is the outcome, but the exotic setting and well-conceived details about undersea living, along with likable characters and a minor surprise at the end, will keep readers turning the pages. Try this with the ecofiction of David Klass. Grades 6-9"(с) Cindy Welch в "Booklist"
Англоаннотация: "Dive deep into the vivid underwater world of Dark Life!
The oceans rose, swallowing the lowlands. Earthquakes shattered the continents, toppling entire regions into the rising water. Now, humans live packed into stack cities. The only ones with any space of their own are those who live on the ocean floor: the Dark Life.
Ty has spent his whole life living deep undersea. When outlaws attack his homestead, he finds himself in a fight to save the only home he has ever known. Joined by Gemma, a girl from Topside, Ty ventures into the frontier's rough underworld and discovers some dark secrets to Dark Life. Secrets that threaten to destroy everything."
Сайт автора - http://katfalls.com
Серия "Проект "Бестселлер":
Брайан Д'Амато "Хранитель солнца, или Ритуалы Апокалипсиса"
16.06.2011
"Впервые на русском!Выдающаяся, уникальная, особенная книга о попытке предотвратить гибель мира 21 декабря 2012 года".
Brian D'Amato. Выбирать в его библиографии практически нечего, так что это, вероятно, "In the Courts of the Sun" (2009), начинающий трилогию "Sacrifice Game".
Об авторе и книге на русском - http://www.bookclub.ua/read/damato/
Сайт автора - http://www.briandamato.com
Серия "Мона Лиза":
Элис Хоффман "Ночь огней"
24.06.2011
"Впервые на русском! Новая книга от признанного мастера тонкого психологического романа. Дерзко смешивая комедию и трагедию , Хоффман создает повествование, в котором неприятные сложности современного брака превращаются в миф…"
Alice Hoffman "Illumination Night" (1987)
В своей рецензии Maureen O'Neal: "It is a lovely, uniquely imaginative story of an elderly woman, a young couple and boy giant on Martha's Vineyard. Illumination Night refers to a 4th of July tradition on the island. Hoffman's characters are so vulnerable, and believable, and memorable that I immediately went and found all of Hoffman's books. There is always a magical element in all of Hoffman's books that prompts us to look at life and people in a whole new way".
http://www.alicehoffman.com
Предыдущие изданные на русском книги Хоффман "Locus" в своей базе упоминал, про эту молчит. Будем считать, что книга тут перечислена за прошлые заслуги автора.
Серия "Грандмастер приключений":
Линн Шоулз, Джо Мур "Заговор Грааля"
08.06.2011
"Всем поклонникам Дэна Брауна посвящается! Новый взгляд на многовековую загадку! В эпицентре захватывающих событий - журналистка Коттен Стоун. И поверьте на слово - она найдет Святой Грааль гораздо быстрее профессора Лэнгдона!"
Lynn Sholes, Joe Moore "The Grail Conspiracy" (2005), 1-я часть цикла "Cotten Stone", в который также входят "Last Secret" (2006), "The Hades Project" (2007) и "731 Legacy" (2008).
Переиздание (2006, Эксмо, серия "Книга, о которой говорят").
Сайт Линн Шоулз - http://www.lynnsholes.com
Клайв Касслер, Пол Кемпрекос "Змей"
14.06.2011
"Впервые на русском языке! Новый захватывающий приключенческий роман от мастера жанра! У берегов Северной Африки обнаруживают затонувшее судно, в трюме которого похоже находятся легендарные сокровища индейцев, вывезенные Колумбом из открытой им Америки"
Клайв Касслер (Clive [Eric] Cussler), Пол Кемпрекос (Paul Kemprecos) "Serpent" (1999).
1-я книга цикла "NUMA Files" (ответвление от "Dirk Pitt"), в который также входят написанные Касслером и Кемпрекосом "Blue Gold" (2000), "Fire Ice" (2002), "White Death" (2003), "Lost City" (2004), "Polar Shift" (2005), "The Navigator" (2007), "Medusa" (2009), а также созданный Касслером и Грэмом Брауном (Graham Brown) "Devil's Gate" (2011).
Англоаннотация: "When Kurt Austin, the leader of a courageous National Underwater & Marine Agency exploration team, rescues beautiful marine archaeologist Nina Kirov off the coast of Morocco, he becomes the next target of Texas industrialist Don Halcon. A madman bent on carving a new nation out of the southwestern United States and Mexico, Halcon's scheme hinges on Nina's recent discovery involving Christopher Columbus, and a priceless pre-Columbian antiquity buried in the battered remains of the sunken Italian luxury liner Andrea Doria. Only Kurt Austin and his crack NUMA team stand between Halcon and the Andrea Doria's silent steel hull -- and if their deadly mission fails, Halcon will ride to power on a wave of death and destruction."
Серия "Шарлин Харрис. Мировой мега-бестселлер":
Шарлин Харрис "День мертвеца"
06.06.2011
"От автора знаменитейшего сериала "Настоящая кровь"! (начало показа 4-го сезона - в июне) Впервые на русском! 1-я книга о Харпер Коннелли - девушке, обладающей очень необычным даром…"
Charlaine Harris. "Grave Sight" (2005)
1-я часть цикла "Харпер Коннелли" ("Harper Connelly", вариант названия "Harper Connelly Mysteries"). Остальные романы цикла перечислены ниже.
"fantasy novel. First in a new series about a psychic investigator", "mystery with dark fantasy elements, the first about psychic investigator Harper Connelly, who can see the dead’s last moments"(с) база "Locus"
В июне 2011 выйдет одноименная книжка из серии комиксов по этому роману (всего будет 3 тома).
Из рецензии в "Publishers Weekly": "Ever since Harper Connelly survived a zap from a lightning bolt, she's been able to find dead people, a skill that makes the protagonist in the first installment of Harris's new series a tad more bizarre than the mind-reading heroine of the author's Sookie Stackhouse books (Dead as a Doornail, etc.). Harper travels to the Ozark town of Sarne, Ark., to find a missing teenage girl's body, accompanied by her stepbrother, Tolliver, who acts as her manager and bodyguard and with whom she shares a thinly disguised physical attraction that they manage to keep at bay by engaging in casual sex with various partners. Finding the body takes no time at all, but leaving town afterward isn't so easy. When Harper's life is threatened and Tolliver ends up in jail on trumped-up charges, it quickly becomes apparent that something sinister is going on in Sarne. Harris delivers a knuckle-gnawing tale populated with well-developed, albeit edgy characters. A nifty puzzle toward the end will challenge the most jaded mystery buffs"
Отзыв Jenny McLarin в "Booklist": "Prolific author Harris debuts a series that just might surpass all her others in popularity. Harper Connolly is honest, ethical, loyal, and, in many people's eyes, quite odd. Since being hit by lightning, Harper has a strange gift: she can find dead people and reveal how they died. Harper is so down-to-earth and delivers the story in such a straightforward way that even the most hardened realist eventually will accept the premise. In this first outing, Harper and her manager and stepbrother Tolliver travel to a small town in Arkansas to determine what happened to a local teenager. Once there, they learn that someone is willing go to great lengths--even murder--to bury a secret. While absorbing the usual mixture of awe, revulsion, and fear that her "gift" inspires in the locals, Harper tries to uncover the secret they are trying desperately to hide. Future stories may shed more light on Harper and Tolliver's relationship, which seems curiously close for a sister and stepbrother. A strong debut that will have readers dying for more".
Шарлин Харрис "Подарок мертвеца"
08.06.2011
"От автора знаменитейшего сериала "Настоящая кровь"! (начало показа 4-го сезона - в июне) Впервые на русском! 2-я книга о Харпер Коннелли - девушке, обладающей очень необычным даром…"
Charlaine Harris. "Grave Surprise" (2006)
2-я часть цикла "Харпер Коннелли" ("Harper Connelly", вариант названия "Harper Connelly Mysteries")
В цикл также входят "An Ice Cold Grave" (2007) и "Grave Secret" (2009).
"paranormal mystery, the second in the Harper Connelly series"(с) база "Locus"
Из рецензии в "Publishers Weekly": "At the start of Harris's winning second supernatural caper to feature Harper Connelly (after 2005's Grave Sight), a skeptical anthropology professor, Clyde Nunley, tests Harper's gift of clairvoyance in a historic Memphis cemetery, where Harper correctly senses a fresh corpse in the wrong grave. Strangely, the body turns out to be a missing 12-year-old girl, Tabitha Morgenstern, whom Harper failed to locate in Nashville on a case two years earlier. The hotel suite of Harper and her manager and stepbrother, Tolliver Lang, both of whom fall under suspicion, becomes a magnet for a medley of amusing characters, including Memphis cops, Tabitha's assorted relatives and a drunken Clyde Nunley, who, shortly after accusing Harper of fraud, is found dead in the same grave as Tabitha. Peppered with the author's trademark deadpan wit, this book should help make Harper and Tolliver as popular as Sookie Stackhouse, the heroine of Harris's vampire mystery series (Definitely Dead, etc.)"
Из отзыва Sue O'Brien в "Booklist": "After Harper Connelly was struck by lightning as a teenager, she developed an unusual ability--she is able to locate bodies and see how the victims died, although she cannot identify the murderers. Harper and her stepbrother, Tolliver Lang, are at Bingham College doing a demonstration for a class, identifying bodies and causes of death in an old graveyard, when Harper finds the body of Tabitha Morgenstern, a kidnapped young girl she had failed to locate months ago. To clear their names--the police consider Harper and Tolliver suspects in the crime--they set out to find the real killer. Harper and Tolliver are likable, well-developed characters whose unhappy past binds them together as they care for one another and work together. Harper craves normalcy as she wonders whether her talent is a gift or a curse. The supernatural elements are integrated believably into the plot in this engrossing mystery, the second in a series".
Серия "Сумерки. Проклятые":
Нэнси Холдер, Дебби Виге "Проклятые. Книга первая. Ведьма"
15.06.2011
"Впервые на русском языке! Первая книга популярного цикла! Семнадцатилетняя Холли Катерс и не подозревала, что именно ей придется вступить в многовековую борьбу между двумя колдовскими кланами…"
Nancy [Lindsay Jones] Holder, Debbie Viguie. "Witch" (2002)
1-я часть подросткового цикла темной фэнтези про ведьм "Wicked". В цикл также входят "Curse" (2002), "Legacy" (2003), "Spellbound" (2003) и "Resurrection" (2009).
Права на съемки фильма по первым двум книгам куплены студией "DreamWorks".
Англовикипедия: "Wicked is the name of a series of young adult novels written by Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguie...
The five novels depict a family feud between a coven of witches called the Cahors and a coven of warlocks called the Deveraux. Holly Cathers, the main character is the lone survivor of the rafting trip her family took with her best friend, Tina. When her legal guardian is injured, Holly is taken to Seattle to live with her aunt and her two cousins, Nicole and Amanda. Upon arriving, she is given a small cat who is deaf. Strange incidents occur, such as strange visions and dreams. Eventually, Holly realizes she is a witch and that she carries the soul of Isabeau of the Cahor house. Holly belongs to the Cahor house and reveals this to Amanda. It appears, Nicole already knows about witchcraft. When Holly's aunt dies, they are left in the custody of her uncle, Richard. Nicole is performing as Juliet in the play and suddenly a fure starts. Holly and her cousins discover that Michael and his son, Eli are behind this. Michael is a warlock of House Deveraux. He had an affair with Holly's aunt, Marie-Claire Anderson. Jeraud (Jer), Michael's other son attempts to stop him with his girlfriend and his two best friends. Jer and Holly have a strange connection and before at a party they had almost fallen into bed with one another. Jer saves Holly from being burned, but her cousins drag her away before she can save Jer. In the end of Witch, Jer is burned and horribly scarred."
Англоаннотация: "Holly Cathers’s world shatters when her parents are killed in a rafting accident. She is wrenched from her home in San Francisco and sent to Seattle to live with her aunt, Marie-Claire, and her twin cousins, Amanda and Nicole. But sorrow and grief soon give way to bewildered fascination as one by one, strange incidents begin to occur. Such as the fact that any desire Holly whispers to her cat seems to come true. Or the fact that a beloved friend is injured after a freak attack from a vicious falcon. Or the fact of an undeniably magnetic and familiar attraction to a boy Holly barely knows. Holly, Amanda, and Nicole are about to be launched into a dark legacy of secrets, alliances, and machinations, where ancient magics yield dangerous results, where possession is commonplace, and where reincarnation is taken for granted – and the three girls must take on roles in an intergenerational feud the like of which they could never have imagined…"
Отрывок на английском - http://nancyholder.com/wp-content/uploads/WickedChpt1.pdf
Сайты авторов - http://www.nancyholder.com и http://www.debbieviguie.com
Серия "Темная любовь":
Райчел Мид "Дитя бури"
01.06.2011
"Впервые на русском языке! От автора культовой "Академии Вампиров"! Гарантированные продажи! Мир летит в пропасть, но древнее пророчество все же оставляет надежду на спасение…Эльфы, силы тьмы, древнее пророчество - фирменный рецепт успеха от Рачел Мид!"
Richelle Mead. "Storm Born" (2008) - 1-я часть цикла "Dark Swan", героиня которого - Евгении Маркхем (Eugenie Markham), наемная/свободная шаманка, сражающаяся с призраками и магическими существами, проникающими в наш мир из Иномирья (Otherworld).
В цикл также входят "Thorn Queen" (2009) и "Iron Crowned" (2011). В следующем году к ним добавится "Shadow Heir" (2012), который, предположительно, завершит цикл.
Англоаннотация: "Just typical. No love life to speak of for months, then all at once, every horny creature in the Otherworld wants to get in your pants...
Eugenie Markham is a powerful shaman who does a brisk trade banishing spirits and fey who cross into the mortal world. Mercenary, yes, but a girl's got to eat. Her most recent case, however, is enough to ruin her appetite. Hired to find a teenager who has been taken to the Otherworld, Eugenie comes face to face with a startling prophecy--one that uncovers dark secrets about her past and claims that Eugenie's first-born will threaten the future of the world as she knows it.
Now Eugenie is a hot target for every ambitious demon and Otherworldy ne'er-do-well, and the ones who don't want to knock her up want her dead. Eugenie handles a Glock as smoothly as she wields a wand, but she needs some formidable allies for a job like this. She finds them in Dorian, a seductive fairy king with a taste for bondage, and Kiyo, a gorgeous shape-shifter who redefines animal attraction. But with enemies growing bolder and time running out, Eugenie realizes that the greatest danger is yet to come, and it lies in the dark powers that are stirring to life within her..."
Отрывок на английском - http://www.richellemead.com/excerpt/excerpt5.htm
Рейчел Кейн "Повелители стихий. Книга 1. Злой ветер"
14.06.2011
"Впервые на русском языке! Первая книга нового цикла о жизни и невероятных приключениях Джоанн Болдуин, жрицы погоды. Для нее укрощение любой непогоды - пустяк, но как разобраться с тучами, которые сгустились над ее жизнью?"
Rachel Caine (один из псевдонимов Роксаны Лонгстрит Конрад (Roxanne Longstreet Conrad)), также издавалась у нас как Рэйчел Кейн.
И вот тут Эксмо с рекламой, извиниите, облажалось. Дело в том, что и цикл не новый, и "Злой ветер" ("Ill Wind", 2003), начинающий цикл "Хранители погоды" ("Weather Warden"), уже издавался на русском в 2006-м - в серии "Холод страха" изд-ва АСТ. Равно как еще два романа этого цикла - "Солнечный удар" ("Heat Stroke", 2004) и "Фактор холода" ("Chill Factor", 2005). На этом АСТ остановилось, но на самом деле, в цикл также входят "Windfall" (2005), "Firestorm" (2006), "Thin Air" (2007), "Gale Force" (2008), "Cape Storm" (2009) и "Total Eclipse" (2010).
Серия "Люди против магов":
Дэвид Уитли "Стражи полуночи"
22.06.2011
"Впервые на русском! Дебютный роман Дэвида Уитли напомнит приключения Оливера Твиста и Гарри Поттера. По отзывам с аmazon.com, все прочитавшие с нетерпением ждут продолжения!"
Британец David Whitley. "The Midnight Charter" (2009; выдвигался на "Carnegie Medal"-2010)
Дебютнй роман, 1-я часть подростковой фэнтезийной трилогии "Agora Trilogy", в которую также входит "The Children of the Lost" (2010). Вроде бы в этом году должна выйти последняя книга цикла - "The Canticle of Whispers".
Англовикипедия о книге: "The book is set in a fantasy world called Agora, which is governed by an extreme form of capitalism. Anything can be bought and sold- including thoughts, ideas, emotions and ultimately people. Children are traded by their parents, and only on their twelfth birthday are they allowed to become traders themselves.
There is no money in Agora. Instead, people are ranked according to their reputation. It only takes a small rumour or wrongdoing to send even the most powerful merchant down to the bottom, where they normally become "debtors". With nothing left to trade, they are stuck at the bottom, with no means to climb back up the social hierarchy.
Agora is surrounded by walls. Nobody enters the city, and nobody leaves the city. The city itself is split into twelve districts, all named after Zodiac signs. The Director of Receipts watches over the city, and his Receivers police it."
Из рецензии Sue Giffard в "School Library Journal": "Grade 6–8—In the city-state of Agora (or "marketplace"), everything is for sale and all goods and services can and must be traded or bartered. Children are property until they come of age at 12, and those who are poor are sold like any other commodity. Two such children are Lily, an orphan who enters into a service contract with old Count Stelli, an astrologer. Most of Mark's family dies of the plague and his father sells him to Doctor Theophilus, son of the Count. Their lives intersect and diverge when they switch places. Lily questions the values of Agoran society and sets up a free shelter for citizens needing help. Mark is drawn in to intrigue and mystery as he becomes a prominent fortune-teller. There is a sense of darkness and danger at the heart of this society, which is embodied in the Midnight Charter, a document that predicts the coming of the Protagonist and the Antagonist, and that suggests that these two figures, possibly Mark and Lily, will alter their world forever. Whitley creates a number of memorable and full-bodied characters, along with a claustrophobic sense of a society set up as a utopia closing in on itself, and a morality that is at the extreme edge of reason. Exciting and gripping from the first heart-stopping line, this first book in a trilogy takes readers only part of the way to resolving the predictions of the Midnight Charter and its relationship to Mark and Lily. Readers will anxiously await the next installment as they reach the cliff-hanger ending".
Англоаннотация: "In a society based on trade, where everything can be bought and sold, the future rests on the secrets of a single document-and the lives of two children whose destiny it is to discover its secrets. In this spellbinding novel, newcomer David Whitley has imagined a nation at a crossroads: misshaped by materialism and facing a choice about its future. He has brought to life two children who will test the nation's values-and crafted a spellbinding adventure story that will keep readers turning the pages until the very end.
For readers who love Philip Pullman, THE MIDNIGHT CHARTER combines great storytelling with a compelling vision - a many layered adventure with powerful and timely implications."
Отрывки на английском - http://www.davidwhitley.co.uk/site/DAWH/UploadedResources/DW_download_ch_01.pdf и http://www.davidwhitley.co.uk/site/DAWH/UploadedResources/DW_download_ch_04.pdf
Сайт автора - http://www.davidwhitley.co.uk
Серия "Трансформеры":
Алан Дин Фостер "Трансформеры"
27.06.2011
"Впервые на русском языке! К премьере третьего фильма "Трансофрмеры"! Узнайте, как все начиналось! Десептиконы и Автоботы ждут вас!"
"The Veiled Threat" (2009), первый в серии "Transformers".
Алан Дин Фостер "Трансформеры. Месть падших"
27.06.2011
"Впервые на русском языке! К премьере третьего фильма "Трансофрмеры"! Узнайте, как все начиналось! Десептиконы и Автоботы ждут вас!"
"Revenge of the Fallen" (2009), второй в серии "Transformers"
А также манга
Серия "Проект Манга. Сновидения":
Куини Чан "Сновидения. Коллекционное издание"
20.06.2011
"Мистическая история о престижной школе для девочек, где есть все - и таинственные сны, и страшные тайны, и загадочные картины. Впервые все три части под одной обложкой!"
Серия "Проект Манга. Икс" (обложка):
CLAMP "Икс. Книга 3. Семь светил. Часть первая"
15.06.2011
"Продолжение легендарной манги, выходящей уже двадцать лет и до сих пор пользующейся неизменным успехом. Мир, где герой делает выбор, и его лучший друг тут же встает на противоположную сторону…"
Серия "Проект Манга. Наруто" (обложка):
Масаси Кисимото "Наруто. Книга 15. Манускрипт ниндзя Наруто!!!"
20.06.2011
"Манга, без преувеличения завоевавшая мир - ее несколько раз экранизировали, создали видеоигры и коллекционную карточную игру. Мальчик, желающий стать великим ниндзя, продолжает упорно учиться…"
Серия "Проект Манга. Хеллсинг" (обложка):
Кота Хирано "Хеллсинг. Книга 1"
17.06.2011
"Легендарная мистическая сага. Вампиры, католики и протестанты - все сплелись в один клубок. Благодаря увлекательной истории и потрясающему рисунку пользуется неизменной популярностью".
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- Так вы и пишете? Как это должно быть приятно сочинителю! Вы, верно, и в журналы помещаете?
- Да, и в журналы помещаю. Моих, впрочем, много есть сочинений: "Женитьба Фигаро", "Роберт-Дьявол", "Норма". Уж и названий даже не помню. И всё случаем: я не хотел писать, но театральная дирекция говорит: "Пожалуйста, братец, напиши что-нибудь". Думаю себе: "Пожалуй, изволь братец!" И тут же в один вечер, кажется, всё написал, всех изумил.
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