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Фантастика, фэнтези, мистика и неклассифицируемые шадевры письменности (западные авторы)

Серия "Новая фантастика":

Дик Ф.К. "Король эльфов"
11.05.2012
Сборник рассказов. Перенос еще с февраля.

Пол Ф., Кларк А. "Последняя теорема"
15.05.2012
перенос с апреля
"The Last Theorem" (2008)
"Near-future SF novel about a student in Sri Lanka who, while isolated by cruise ship hijackers, deduces a simple proof to Fermat's famous 'last theorem', while aliens called Grand Galactics descend upon Earth with the intent to destroy a potentially dangerous species.
• The novel was planned by Clarke for many years, and finally finished by Pohl when Clarke's failing health prevented him from completing it."(с) Locus Online: New Books, first week August 2008

Серия "Diamonds. Мировая коллекция":

Харрис Д. "Джентльмены и игроки"
18.05.2012
"Gentlemen and Players" (2005), переиздание.

Серия "Интеллектуальный бестселлер. Открытие":

Цуцуи Я. "Паприка"
18.05.2012
Ясутака Цуцуи (Yasutaka Tsutsui) "Паприка" (1993)
Тот самый роман, по мотивам которого Сатоси Кон в 2006 году снял одноименное аниме.
http://www.jali.or.jp/tti/en/index.htm - англоязычная страница автора.

Серия "Книга на все времена":

Райс Э. "Слуга праха"
18.05.2012
перенос с апреля
"Servant of the Bones" (1996).
"Horror novel, first in a new trilogy featuring Azriel, an ancient Babylonian transformed into a powerful spirit"(с) база "Locus"
"Dark fantasy novel. A ghost is condemned to bear witness to 2500 years of Jewish history"(с) база "Locus"
С циклом, как я понимаю, не сложилось, так что сейчас роман считается внецикловым.
"Servant of the Bones is an autobiographical account of the creation and subsequent existence of a genie, Azriel. It is a story told as a fireside chat and includes historical accounts of Azriel's life as a displaced Jew/rich merchant's son in Babylon at the time of its conquest by Cyrus the Persian. There are also glimpses of life in ancient Miletus, in Strasbourg during a pogrom, and New York City of the 1990s."(с) англовикипеидя

Серия "Книга, покорившая мир":

Делилло Д. "Космополис"
21.05.2012
Don DeLillo "Cosmopolis" (2003)
Издатели готовятся к кроненберговской экранизации?
"Don DeLillo is a writer that many in the SF community regard as "one of us," or at any rate a second cousin once removed"(с) из рецензии Пола Уиткавера (Paul Witcover) на антологию "The Secret History of Science Fiction"
Но этот роман к фантастике притянуть, боюсь, не удастся ;)

Серия "Жестокие игры":

Китон К. "Ее зовут Тьма"
22.05.2012
Kelly Keaton (также публиковалась как Kelly Gay) "Darkness Becomes Her" (2011).
Имеется продолжение - "A Beautiful Evil" (в феврале 2012).
"A dark and lush paranormal romance set in a richly reimagined New Orleans"(с) Amazon.com
"Her first YA novel, Darkness Becomes Her, was released in February 2011. The book presents a post-disaster New Orleans, renamed New 2, which is largely abandoned and believed to be inhabited by paranormal beings. An isolated teenager named Ari returns to New 2 seeking answers about her past, finding new mysteries and allies along the way."(с) англовикипедия
Из рецензии Jill Heritage Maza в "School Library Journal": "Gr 9 Up - Fast-forward a generation. New Orleans, now called New 2, has been decimated by natural disaster. Nine prominent families have banded together to buy the city from the federal government; all that used to be New Orleans is now considered "beyond the rim," an area rumored to be riddled with supernatural beings and happenings. Enter Ari. Inexplicably abandoned by her mother soon after the city's fall, she is now a hardened 17-year-old living in Memphis. When she visits a sanitorium near the border where her mother spent her last days, her discoveries lead her deep into New 2. In search of information to help solve the puzzle of her origins, she soon realizes how intricately intertwined her fate is with that of the city and that it will be up to her to lift the curse that has plagued the women in her family for centuries. Darkness Becomes Her is part "Lightning Thief," part "Twilight," and part "Maximum Ride." Unfortunately, Keaton reveals the specifics of Ari's mother's delusion at the book's start, something if left uncovered until later would have packed a much greater punch. Yet, to write this title off as a predictable "been there, done that" experience doesn't do it justice either. For fans of any of the above-mentioned popular series, it's an excellent suggestion for a next read. Keaton paints richly detailed scenes of the New Orleans landscape and crafts fully realized, sympathetic characters. Ari's journey from loner to wary member of a band of misfits and her fall for one of them spins a compelling thread through her quest. Darkness Becomes Her will leave many readers clamoring for the next installment."
Англоаннотация: "Ari has always been a little strange. She has long, thick, silver hair that remains unchanged no matter how much she cuts or dyes it. She has teal eyes that lure people in. And growing up with bounty hunting foster parents has taught her how to kick some serious butt. When she learns that her birth mother committed suicide in “New 2,” the reincarnation of hurricane-ravaged New Orleans, Ari travels there to uncover her past. New 2, it turns out, is full of unsettling entities like half-spider creatures, sword-wielding strangers, and vampires—including the supersexy Sebastian. Ari seems normal in comparison—but every creature she encounters, no matter how deadly, is afraid of her. And when she finds out why, the truth is worse than she ever imagined…"
Сайт автора - http://kellykeaton.net

Оливер Л. "Пандемониум"
04.05.2012
Lauren Oliver "Pandemonium" (в марте 2012).
2-я часть подростковой паранормальной любовной трилогии с элементами антиутопии "Делириум", начатой романом "Делириум" ("Delirium", 2011).
Сайт автора - http://www.laurenoliverbooks.com
Англоаннотация: "I’m pushing aside
the memory of my nightmare,
pushing aside thoughts of Alex,
pushing aside thoughts of Hana
and my old school,
push,
push,
push,
like Raven taught me to do.
The old life is dead.
But the old Lena is dead too.
I buried her.
I left her beyond a fence,
behind a wall of smoke and ?ame.
Lauren Oliver delivers an electrifying follow-up to her acclaimed New York Times bestseller, Delirium. This riveting, brilliant novel crackles with the fire of fierce defiance, forbidden romance, and the sparks of a revolution about to ignite."

Серия "Сумерки":

Флинн А. "Зачарованный"
17.05.2012
Alex Flinn "Bewitching" (2012). Иногда фигурирует под названием "Bewitching: The Kendra Chronicles", что как бы намекает на дальнейшие продолжения.
В романе читатели снова встретятся с ведьмой Кендрой Хилферти, впервые появившейся в книге "Страшно красив" ("Beastly", 2007; также издавалась на русском как "Чудовище"; экранизирована).
Отрывок на английском http://www.alexflinn.com/pdf/Bewitching_excerpt.pdf
Описание книги из Teacher's Guide с сайта автора: "Kendra Hilferty, the witch who cast a spell on Kyle Kingsbury in Beastly, is back in a fairy-tale mash-up about her immortal existence—how she discovered she was a witch and the various ways she has used her powers to help people throughout the centuries (unfortunately, her attempts have often backfired!). As it turns out, Kendra has actually had a hand in Hansel and Gretel, The Princess and the Pea, and The Little Mermaid —but these are not the fairy tales you think you know! Kendra’s reminiscences are wrapped around a modern-day version of Cinderella, except the “ugly” stepsister is not who you think she is!"
Англоаннотация: "Bewitching can be a beast. . . .
Once, I put a curse on a beastly and arrogant high school boy. That one turned out all right. Others didn’t.
I go to a new school now—one where no one knows that I should have graduated long ago. I’m not still here because I’m stupid; I just don’t age.
You see, I’m immortal. And I pretty much know everything after hundreds of years—except for when to take my powers and butt out.
I want to help, but things just go awry in ways I could never predict. Like when I tried to free some children from a gingerbread house and ended up being hanged. After I came back from the dead (immortal, remember?), I tried to play matchmaker for a French prince and ended up banished from France forever. And that little mermaid I found in the Titanic lifeboat? I don’t even want to think about it.
Now a girl named Emma needs me. I probably shouldn’t get involved, but her gorgeous stepsister is conniving to the core. I think I have just the thing to fix that girl—and it isn’t an enchanted pumpkin. Although you never know what will happen when I start . . . bewitching."

Дероше Л. "В объятиях демона"
10.05.2012
Lisa DesRochers "Personal Demons" (2010)
1-я часть одноименной трилогии подростковой городской фэнтези, в которую также входит "Original Sin" (2011). В мае 2012 выходит третий роман цикла - "Last Rite" (2012).
Описание цикла из англовикипедии: "This young-adult, urban fantasy series centers around Frannie Cavanaugh, a good Catholic girl with a unique skill she’s unaware she possesses, who finds herself in a battle for not just her soul, but also her heart, between Lucifer Cain, a demon sent by the king of Hell to tag Frannie’s soul, and Gabriel, the angel sent to protect her."
Из рецензии John Peters в "Booklist": "In this steamy case of adolescent wish fulfillment, high-school senior Frannie finds herself caught between two impossibly hot new schoolmates who turn out to be a demon and an angel wrangling for her soul. Will she choose dark, thrillingly dangerous Luc (a First Level demon from his namesake’s Acquisitions Department, and her co-narrator) or blond, dazzling Gabe? Rather than go for a metaphorical level—Frannie, as it turns out, is being wooed because she possesses a psychic ability that would be invaluable to “the Almighty” and Lucifer alike—the author crafts a suitable plot for her Buffy-style protagonist, well endowed with innuendo-laden conversation, heavy breathing, and battles with hell-spawn set against a backdrop of shared school assignments and weekend parties. Ultimately, Frannie falls in love with Luc, as he intends, but to his stunned dismay, he finds himself reciprocating—introducing some wild twists in a tale that stands alone well enough but leaves avenues for sequels. Though the theology doesn’t bear close examination, readers may have to take breaks to cool down. Grades 9-12."
Англоаннотация: "Frannie Cavanaugh is a good Catholic girl with a bit of a wicked streak. She has spent years keeping everyone at a distance---even her closest friends---and it seems as if her senior year is going to be more of the same . . . until Luc Cain enrolls in her class. No one knows where he came from, but Frannie can’t seem to stay away from him.
What she doesn’t know is that Luc is on a mission. He’s been sent from Hell itself to claim Frannie’s soul. It should be easy---all he has to do is get her to sin, and Luc is as tempting as they come. Frannie doesn’t stand a chance. But he has to work fast, because if the infernals are after her, the celestials can’t be far behind. And sure enough, it’s not long before the angel Gabriel shows up, willing to do anything to keep Luc from getting what he came for. It isn’t long before they find themselves fighting for more than just Frannie’s soul.
But if Luc fails, there will be Hell to pay . . . for all of them."
Сайт автора - http://www.lisadwrites.com

Серия "Сумерки. Темные видения":

Смит Л.Д. "Темные видения. Страсть"
14.05.2012
"The Passion" (1995) - 3-я часть трилогии "The Dark Visions", начатой романами "Темные видения. Предчувствие" ("The Strange Power", 1994) и "Темные видения. Одержимость" ("The Possessed", 1995)
"young-adult horror novel, third in a series about a group of psychic teens. A powerful crystal is needed to stop a dangerous experiment that turns one teen into a psychic vampire." база "Locus"
Описание романа с сайта автора: "Finally having found a weapon with which to fight Dr. Zetes, Kaitlyn and the others return to the Zetes Institute. But no one is ever exactly what they seem, and the triple-twist ending of the book has one of Kait’s suitors backing off, seeing the passion she shares with the other."
Сайт автора - http://www.ljanesmith.net

Серия "Супер-герои":

Колфер Й. "Артемис Фаул. Парадокс времени"
17.05.2012
"Artemis Fowl and The Time Paradox" (2008; также издавался под названием "The Time Paradox"), роман.
Переиздание.

Колфер Й. "Артемис Фаул. Секретные материалы"
10.05.2012
"The Artemis Fowl files" (2004), сборник, который у нас часто считают романом.
Переиздание.


Серия "Черная Фэнтези":

Полански Д. "Низкий город. Книга 1. По лезвию бритвы"
15.05.2012
Daniel Polansky "Low Town" (2011; в Англии издан под названием "The Straight Razor Cure").
Дебютный роман, 1-я часть цикла "Low Town". В августе 2012 выйдет продолжение - "Tomorrow, the Killing" (2012)
"Low Town is a 2011 American fantasy noir novel by Daniel Polansky. It follows the quest of The Warden, a disgraced drug dealer, to solve the murder of a young girl. The work is notable for its unique blend of genres and autobiographical elements"(с) англовикипедия
"Daniel Polansky’s debut novel Low Town is hardboiled fantasy, taking the structure of a noir crime novel and setting it not in the mean streets of our world but in a fantasy universe."(с) из рецензии Тима Пратта (Tim Pratt) на сайте журнала "Locus"
"A first novel getting a lot of buzz, this noir fantasy novel follows the Warden, a disgraced ex-agent turned addict and drug dealer, as he investigates a child murder in the Low Town slums and realizes a powerful sorcerer must be involved. Polansky "deftly recombines fantasy and noir elements to create a pleasing cross-genre mystery.... In novels like these, narrative voice is paramount, and the Warden has a great voice. I hope to hear more from him." [Tim Pratt]"(с)Locus Online: Magazine: September 2011 New & Notable Books
Англоаннотация: "Drug dealers, hustlers, brothels, dirty politics, corrupt cops . . . and sorcery. Welcome to Low Town.
In the forgotten back alleys and flophouses that lie in the shadows of Rigus, the finest city of the Thirteen Lands, you will find Low Town. It is an ugly place, and its cham­pion is an ugly man. Disgraced intelligence agent. Forgotten war hero. Independent drug dealer. After a fall from grace five years ago, a man known as the Warden leads a life of crime, addicted to cheap violence and expensive drugs. Every day is a constant hustle to find new customers and protect his turf from low-life competition like Tancred the Harelip and Ling Chi, the enigmatic crime lord of the heathens.
The Warden’s life of drugged iniquity is shaken by his dis­covery of a murdered child down a dead-end street . . . set­ting him on a collision course with the life he left behind. As a former agent with Black House—the secret police—he knows better than anyone that murder in Low Town is an everyday thing, the kind of crime that doesn’t get investi­gated. To protect his home, he will take part in a dangerous game of deception between underworld bosses and the psy­chotic head of Black House, but the truth is far darker than he imagines. In Low Town, no one can be trusted.
Daniel Polansky has crafted a thrilling novel steeped in noir sensibilities and relentless action, and set in an original world of stunning imagination, leading to a gut-wrenching, unforeseeable conclusion. Low Town is an attention-grabbing debut that will leave readers riveted . . . and hun­gry for more."
Отрывок на английском - http://www.danielpolansky.com/us/excerpt
Сайт автора - http://www.danielpolansky.com

Серия "Книга-загадка, книга-бестселлер":

Роллинс Д. "Дьявольская колония"
03.05.2012
Джеймс Роллинс, он же Джеймс Клеменс, а в миру Джим Чайковски. "The Devil Colony" (2011), 7-я часть сериала "Sigma Force".
Описание романа из англовикипедии: "In the seventh in the series, The Devil Colony, published June 2011, Sigma Force deals with a mysterious nanotechnology that may have been mastered by an ancient Native American tribe. It is suggested that they may be possibly descended from Manasseh, a lost tribe of Israel. The team attempt to track down a lost map, journeying to Fort Knox, and the grave of Meriwether Lewis. Rollins refers to secret codes used by Thomas Jefferson and Meriwether Lewis. A coded message from Lewis leads Painter Crowe to John Trumbull's painting depicting the presentation of the Declaration of Independence."
Англоаннотация: "From New York Times bestselling author James Rollins comes a novel of boundless imagination and meticulous research, a book that dares to answer a frightening question at the heart of America: Could the founding of the United States be based on a fundamental lie? The shocking truth lies hidden within the ruins of an impossibility, a lost colony of the Americas vanished in time and cursed into oblivion. A place known only as The Devil Colony.
Deep in the Rocky Mountains, a gruesome discovery—hundreds of mummified bodies—stirs international attention and fervent controversy. Despite doubts about the bodies' origins, the local Native American Heritage Commission lays claim to the prehistoric remains, along with the strange artifacts found in the same cavern: gold plates inscribed with an unfathomable script.
During a riot at the dig site, an anthropologist dies horribly, burned to ashes in a fiery explosion in plain view of television cameras. All evidence points to a radical group of Native Americans, including one agitator, a teenage firebrand who escapes with a vital clue to the murder and calls on the one person who might help—her uncle, Painter Crowe, Director of Sigma Force.
To protect his niece and uncover the truth, Painter will ignite a war among the nation's most powerful intelligence agencies. Yet an even greater threat looms as events in the Rocky Mountains have set in motion a frightening chain reaction, a geological meltdown that threatens the entire western half of the U.S.
From the volcanic peaks of Iceland to the blistering deserts of the American Southwest, from the gold vaults of Fort Knox to the bubbling geysers of Yellowstone, Painter Crowe joins forces with Commander Gray Pierce to penetrate the shadowy heart of a dark cabal, one that has been manipulating American history since the founding of the thirteen colonies.
But can Painter discover the truth—one that could topple governments—before it destroys all he holds dear?"

Труссони Д. "Ангелология"
21.05.2012
Danielle [Anne] Trussoni "Angelology" (2010)
Дебютный роман. Продолжение пишется.
Описание романа из англовикипедии: "The story follows a nun in New York who unwittingly reignites an ancient war between Angelologists, a group who study angels, and a race of descendants of angels and humans called the Nephilim. The story blends ancient biblical pericopes, the myth of Orpheus, and the fall of rebel angels."
Права на экранизацию принадлежат Columbia Pictures. "The film will be produced by Will Smith's Overbrook production company and directed by Marc Forster, director of Finding Neverland and Quantum of Solace, among other films. The screenplay has been adapted by Michael Goldenberg, whose work includes Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Where the Wild Things Are."
Из рецензии Whitney Scott в Booklist: "Through the door opened by The DaVinci Code comes Trussoni’s entry in the hugger-mugger religious-society suspense subgenre, its textured prose as seamless as the never-ending stream of prayers offered up by St. Rose Convent’s Sisters of Perpetual Adoration. In that institution, celebrated for its angelic texts, lives Sister Evangeline, who prays, tends to library matters, and has become “a creature of obedience and duty” since her father brought her there when she was 12, two years after her mother’s death. The scholar Verlaine seeks concrete evidence linking the convent to Abigail Rockefeller, and before you can say, “I found this letter,” the multilayered process of Evangeline’s transformation has begun. The story takes flight in eminently readable fashion, effortlessly folding in technical information about things angelic and the religious life. It’s hard not to enjoy the secrets unearthed and appreciate what wings are to the angels who secretly walk among us—“a symbol of their blood, their breeding, . . . their position in the community. Displaying them properly brought power and prestige.” Powerfully entertaining."
Англоаннотация: "A thrilling epic about an ancient clash reignited in our time- between a hidden society and heaven's darkest creatures
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them.
Genesis 6:5
Sister Evangeline was just a girl when her father entrusted her to the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration in upstate New York. Now, at twenty-three, her discovery of a 1943 letter from the famous philanthropist Abigail Rockefeller to the late mother superior of Saint Rose Convent plunges Evangeline into a secret history that stretches back a thousand years: an ancient conflict between the Society of Angelologists and the monstrously beautiful descendants of angels and humans, the Nephilim.
For the secrets these letters guard are desperately coveted by the once-powerful Nephilim, who aim to perpetuate war, subvert the good in humanity, and dominate mankind. Generations of angelologists have devoted their lives to stopping them, and their shared mission, which Evangeline has long been destined to join, reaches from her bucolic abbey on the Hudson to the apex of insular wealth in New York, to the Montparnasse cemetery in Paris and the mountains of Bulgaria.
Rich in history, full of mesmerizing characters, and wondrously conceived, Angelology blends biblical lore, the myth of Orpheus and the Miltonic visions of Paradise Lost into a riveting tale of ordinary people engaged in a battle that will determine the fate of the world."
Сайт автора - http://www.danielletrussoni.org
A Reader's guide to Angelology - http://www.danielletrussoni.org/Angelology_RGG.pdf

Серия "Вселенная Игр":

Уоттс П. "Crysis. Легион"
21.05.2012
перенос с апреля
Тот самый Peter Watts. "Crysis: Legion" (2011), новеллизация игры "Crysis 2" (2011).
"... recently, he has been recruited by Crytek as a writer and art consultant on Crysis 2. Technological elements from Blindsight have been referenced in the fictional Crysis 2 "Nanosuit Brochure"(с) англовикипедия


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Серия "Проект Манга. Клеймор" (обложка):

Яги Н. "Клеймор. Книга 12. Души павших"
11.05.2012

Серия "Проект Манга. Наруто" (обложка):

Кисимото М. "Наруто. Книга 19. Наследие"
16.05.2012

Серия "Проект Манга. Стальной алхимик" (обложка):

Аракава Х. "Стальной алхимик. Книга 3"
04.05.2012

Серияя "Проект Манга. Тетрадь смерти" (обложка):

Обата Т. "Тетрадь смерти. Книга 11. Заодно"
28.05.2012

Серия "Проект Манга. Триган" (обложка):

Найто Я. "Триган Максимум. Книга 1. Герой возвращается"
03.05.2012

Comments

[jonik-9i.livejournal.com]

картинки?

[vorchunn.livejournal.com]

Какие картинки?

[russell-d-jones.livejournal.com]

Паприка - это хорошо
но что-то из заявленного в апреле никак не выйдет третий Песочный человек...

[vorchunn.livejournal.com]

Не знаю, может, просто со складов еще не расползлось?

[nheg.livejournal.com]

А у меня это все открылась одной строчкой :(
Хотя прикольно-то :)

[vorchunn.livejournal.com]

Странно.