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Сборник рассказов Марка Лоуренса, автор ставшей бестселлером серии "Разрушенная империя" • Откройте для себя четырнадцать историй из мира Разрушенной империи, полных убийств, хаоса, пафоса и глубоких рассуждений • Вас ждут похождения Красного Кента, сэра Макина, Райка, Барлоу и Нубанца, благодаря которым вы узнаете, как они начали свой путь и стали мужчинами, которых мы знаем по основной трилогии. Автор уделил внимание и самому Йоргу Анкрату. В книге он присутствует сразу в трёх ипостасях: шестилетнего мальчика, юного странника и молодого короля. А ещё в сборник вошла история о принце Ялане Кендете: лжеце, прохвосте, бабнике и трусе • Те, кто пока не успел познакомиться с трилогией, впервые окунутся в мир беззакония, где положиться можно лишь на острый меч и столь же острый ум, а озарённые пламенем свечей места так же опасны, как и тёмные переулки

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?

The second book in the Broken Empire series, Lawrence takes his young anti-hero one step closer to his grand ambition • To reach greatness you must step on bodies, and many brothers lie trodden in my wake. I’ve walked from pawn to player and I’ll win this game of ours, though the cost of it may drown the world in blood… • The land burns with the fires of a hundred battles as lords and petty kings fight for the Broken Empire. The long road to avenge the slaughter of his mother and brother has shown Prince Honorous Jorg Ancrath the hidden hands behind this endless war. He saw the game and vowed to sweep the board. First though he must gather his own pieces, learn the rules of play, and discover how to break them • A six nation army, twenty thousand strong, marches toward Jorg's gates, led by a champion beloved of the people

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

Les Miserables meets Six of Crows in this page-turning adventure as a young thief finds herself going head to head with leaders of Paris's criminal underground in the wake of a failed French Revolution • A city divided • A deadly betrayal • The French Revolution of 1828 has failed, and Paris is in mourning • The wretched of the city have gathered into guilds of thieves, assassins and worse, to form the Court of Miracles • When Eponine's sister is sold into the Guild of Flesh, both their fates are sealed. The only chance Eponine has of rescuing her is to join the Miracle Court and steal back what was taken • But to do that she'll have to become the greatest thief the city has ever known

All the horrors of Hell stand between Snorri Ver Snagason and the rescue of his family, if indeed the dead can be rescued • For Jalan Kendeth getting out alive and with Loki’s Key is all that matters. The key can open any lock and possession of it may enable Jal to to return to the three Ws that have been the core of his debauched life: wine, women, and wagering • But the Wheel of Osheim is turning ever faster and it will crack the world unless it’s stopped. When the end of all things looms, and there’s nowhere to run, even the worst coward must find new answers

The fate of the world hangs from the Moon • The green world overwhelms all of Yaz’s expectations. Everything seems different but some things remain the same: her old enemies are still bent on her destruction • The Corridor abounds with plenty and unsuspected danger. To stand a chance against the eyeless priest, Eular, and the god-like city-mind, Seus, Yaz will need to learn fast and make new friends • The Convent of Sweet Mercy, like the Corridor itself, is packed with peril and opportunity. Yaz needs the nuns’ help – but first they want to execute her • The fate of everyone squeezed between the Corridor’s vast walls, and ultimately the fate of those labouring to survive out on ice itself, hangs from the moon, and the battle to save the moon centres on the Ark of the Missing, buried beneath the emperor’s palace

On Abeth there is only the ice. And the Black Rock • For generations the priests of the Black Rock have reached out from their mountain to steer the ice tribes’ fate. With their Hidden God, their magic and their iron, the priests’ rule has never been challenged • But nobody has ever escaped the Pit of the Missing before • Yaz has lost her friends and found her enemies. She has a mountain to climb and even if she can break the Hidden God’s power her dream of a green world lies impossibly far to the south across a vast emptiness of ice. Before the journey can even start she has to find out what happened to the ones she loves and save those that can be saved • Abeth holds its secrets close, but the stars shine brighter for Yaz and she means to unlock the truth

The green world overwhelms all of Yaz’s expectations. Everything seems different but some things remain the same: her old enemies are still bent on her destruction • The Corridor abounds with plenty and unsuspected danger. To stand a chance against the eyeless priest, Eular, and the god-like city-mind, Seus, Yaz will need to learn fast and make new friends • The Convent of Sweet Mercy, like the Corridor itself, is packed with peril and opportunity. Yaz needs the nuns’ help – but first they want to execute her • The fate of everyone squeezed between the Corridor’s vast walls, and ultimately the fate of those labouring to survive out on ice itself, hangs from the moon, and the battle to save the moon centres on the Ark of the Missing, buried beneath the emperor’s palace

Все книги рано или поздно обратятся в прах. Но таящиеся на их страницах истории могут пережить бумагу, стены библиотек и даже язык, на котором они были впервые написаны • А величайшие из них могут добраться и до звёзд • Автор международного бестселлера "Принц терний" знакомит читателя с первой главой нового невероятного приключения, в котором кончик пера - главный источник силы, но этот факт не убережёт героев от кровопролития и охваченных пламенем городов • Эвар провёл всю свою жизнь в стенах огромной библиотеки, которая древнее иных империй и больше иных городов • Ливира - в облюбованном кошмарами наяву маленьком поселении, где не бывает гостей • Внешний мир никогда не обращал на них внимание • Но скоро это изменится • Их истории сплетутся воедино, охватывая разные миры и эпохи, и они не только узнают много нового о себе, но и раскроют тайны окружающей их вселенной

The long-awaited second book of the fourth story arc – Sword of the Canon – in the epic fantasy series, the Wars of Light and Shadow • Lysaer’s unstable integrity lies under threat of total downfall, and as his determined protector, Daliana will face the most frightening decision of her young life • Arithon, Master of Shadow, is marked for death and still hunted, when his critical quest to recover his obscured past entangles him in a web of deep intrigue and ancient perils beyond his imagining • Elaira’s urgent pursuit of the Biedar Tribes’ secret embroils her in the terrible directive of the Fellowship Sorcerers, while Dakar — the Mad Prophet — confronts the hard reckoning for the colossal mistake of his misspent past, and Tarens is steered by a destiny far from his crofter’s origins

A sharp, lyrical thriller of power, religion, and artificial intelligence • The world has changed, but Jerusalem endures. Overlooked by new superpowers, the Holy City of the future is a haven of spies and smugglers, exiles and extremists • A refugee with strange technological abilities searches for a place to disappear • An ambitious young criminal plots the heist that could make or destroy him • A corrupt minister harnesses the power of the past in a ruthless play for complete control • And the wheels of another plan - as old and intricate as the city itself - begin to turn…