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Voyager Classics – timeless masterworks of science fiction and fantasy • The classic collection of robot stories from the master of the genre • In these stories Isaac Asimov creates the Three Laws of Robotics and ushers in the Robot Age • Earth is ruled by master-machines but the Three Laws of Robotics have been designed to ensure humans maintain the upper hand • 1) A robot may not injure a human being or allow a human being to come to harm • 2) A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law • 3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law • But what happens when a rogue robot’s idea of what is good for society contravenes the Three Laws?

"Репликант-13" - захватывающий новый роман Джея Кристоффа, автора международных бестселлеров • В постапокалиптическом мире, в гигантской пустыне под радиоактивным небом, продолжается жизнь - и где-то там, на свалке, спрятаны смертельные секреты. Однако Ив не до чужих тайн - у нее свои заботы. Робот-гладиатор, над которым она работала полгода, случайно уничтожен; последние сбережения потеряны, к тому же Ив узнает, что у нее есть враги и они уже заказали гроб ее размера... Худшего дня у девушки, кажется, не было. Но нежданно обретенный друг меняет все в ее жизни: в компании робота, собачки-киборга и лучшей подруги они вместе рассекают пустыню, гоняясь за тайнами, которые нужно выведать, чтобы выжить • Книга на английском языке • A thrilling new series from Jay Kristoff, internationally best-selling author of The Nevernight Chronicle and The Illuminae Files

In a fallen kingdom, one girl carries the key to its forgotten past – and the demons that sleep at its heart… • Once, Lan had a different name. Now, she goes by the one the Elantian colonizers gave her. She spends her days scavenging for remnants of the past. For anything that might help her understand the strange mark burned into her arm by her mother, in her last act before she died • No one can see the mysterious mark – until the night Zen appears at the teahouse and saves her life • Zen is a practitioner, one of the fabled magicians of the Last Kingdom, whose abilities were rumoured to be drawn from the demons they communed with. Magic believed to be long lost. Magic to be hidden at all costs • Both Lan and Zen have secrets buried deep within

Prepare for the jaw-dropping finale of Sabaa Tahir's beloved New York Times bestselling An Ember in the Ashes fantasy series, and discover: Who will survive the storm? • Picking up just a few months after A Reaper at the Gates left off… • The long-imprisoned jinn are on the attack, wreaking bloody havoc in villages and cities alike. But for the Nightbringer, vengeance on his human foes is just the beginning • At his side, Commandant Keris Veturia declares herself Empress, and calls for the heads of any and all who defy her rule. At the top of the list? The Blood Shrike and her remaining family • Laia of Serra, now allied with the Blood Shrike, struggles to recover from the loss of the two people most important to her. Determined to stop the approaching apocalypse, she throws herself into the destruction of the Nightbringer

The second instalment of The Riftwar Legacy, The Assassins reveals Feist at his storytelling best. There is intrigue, humour and breakneck action aplenty here from the undisputed master of epic fantasy • Fresh back from the front, another foe defeated, Prince Arutha arrives to find all is not well in Krondor. A series of apparently random murders has brought an eerie quiet to the city. Where normally the streets are bustling with merchants and tricksters, good life and night life, now there seems to be a self-imposed curfew at sundown • Mutilated bodies have been turning up in the sewers, the Mocker' demense. The Thieves' Guild has been decimated - men, women, children, it matters not. The head of the Mockers is missing, presumed dead. Those few who survived the terrible attacks are lying low

Second in Feist & Wurts’ wonderful epic trilogy – one of the most successful fantasy collaborations of all time • Nobody knows how to play the Game of the Council better than Mara of the Acoma. But when you’re surrounded by deadly rivals intent on toppling you at every turn, you need to be the best simply to survive…

After years yearning for the gift of magic, Arrah has what she's always wanted - but it came at too steep a price. Now the last witchdoctor, she's left to pick up the pieces of a family that betrayed her, a kingdom plunged into chaos, and a love that can never be • While Arrah returns to the tribal lands to search for survivors, Rudjek hunts down the remnants of the demon army - and uncovers a plot that would destroy what's left of the world • The Demon King wants Arrah. If he can't be stopped, he will destroy everything, and everyone, standing in his way

An enchanting new novella set in the magical world of Sunday Times bestseller Threadneedle • Rowan is visiting her aunt – Winne the hedge witch – in the Welsh countryside, to get back to nature and hone her skills, as well as taking a break from her annoying sisters and enjoying some peace and quiet. However, Rowan soon comes to realise that hedges are a serious business and this isn’t quite the opportunity to rest and escape she thought it might be • Not only that, but mysterious events around the town are causing panic in the secret magical community and cowans – non-magical folk – are starting to take notice • Can Rowan hone her hedge craft, try to make some friends and solve the riddle of the mysterious goings-on, or is magic about to be revealed to the world … or at least Wales?

There’s a new horror behind every door… • Welcome to Silverweed Road – a once quiet suburban street where nothing is quite as it seems. In this macabre collection of twisted tales, were-foxes prowl, a swimming pool turns predatory, a haunted urn plots revenge, and a darts player makes a deal with the devil himself • As the residents vanish one by one, a sinister mystery slowly unpeels, lurking in the Woods at the road’s dead-end • Creepy, chilling, and witty by turn, Silverweed Road deals in love, loss, isolation, loneliness, obsession, greed,and revenge • Come take a walk through suburban hell. The neighbours will be dying to meet you …

Explosive fantasy set in a West African world of magic and legend, where one girl must sacrifice her life, year by year, to gain the power necessary to live up to the expectations of the mother she has never been good enough for • Perfect for fans of Sarah J Maas, Tomi Adeyemi and Black Panther • There’s magic in her blood • Arrah is a young woman from a long line of the most powerful witch doctors in the land. But she fails at magic, fails to call upon the ancestors and can't even cast the simplest curse • Shame and disappointment dog her • When strange premonitions befall her family and children in the kingdom begin to disappear, Arrah undergoes the dangerous and scorned process of selling years of her life for magic. This borrowed power reveals a nightmarish betrayal and a danger beyond what she could have imagined

Third instalment in Ausma Zehanat Khan's powerful epic fantasy quartet: a series that lies somewhere between N. K. Jemisin and George R.R. Martin, in which a powerful band of women must use all the powers at their disposal to defeat a dark and oppressive, patriarchal regime • When speech isn’t free, whose word can you trust? • The Companions of Hira used their wits and magic to battle against the Talisman, an organization whose hyper conservative agenda limits free thinking and subjugates women • They were defeated. But Arian continues to lead a disparate group of Companions in pursuit of the mystical artifact that could end the Talisman’s rule: The Bloodprint. For the arcane tome slipped out of their reach once more in the heat of battle. Through all they have endured, Arian’s band of allies has always remained united in the face of their enemy

Book two of Ausma Zehanat Khan’s powerful, unforgettable new series, The Khorasan Archives • Sides must be chosen • Truths must be told • Freedoms will be fought for • To battle the cruel and controlling patriarchal force named the Talisman, members of a resistance group, the Companions of Hira, risked their lives to procure the Bloodprint – a sacred text that holds the power to overthrow this terrifying regime. Though they harnessed the magic known as the Claim, their plans now lie in ashes and their number scattered – with the two women at the centre of the plot – Arian and Sinnia – left facing the most harrowing tortures • Yet hope flickers in the darkness • The Bloodprint survived, secreted to Ashfall, seat of the Black Khan. But the Khan’s court is built upon shifting layers of intrigue and lethal conspiracy, with enemies whose motives are steeped in the shadows