Fantasy & science fiction

Haven has lost the war at the Battle of Manticore, but can Honor, turning diplomat with the telepathic assistance of her tree cat Nimitz, bring this gently but firmly home to Haven?

The multiple-award-winning science fiction master returns to the universe that is his greatest triumph--the world of Hyperion and The Fall ofHyperion --with a novel even more magnificent than its predecessors.Dan Simmons''s Hyperion was an immediate sensation on its first publication in 1989.  This staggering multifaceted tale of the far future heralded the conquest of the science fiction field by a man who had already won the World Fantasy Award for his first novel (Song of Kali) and had also published one of the most well-received horror novels in the field, Carrion Comfort.  Hyperion went on to win the Hugo Award as Best Novel, and it and its companion volume, The Fall of Hyperion, took their rightful places in the science fiction pantheon of new classics.Now, six years later, Simmons returns to this richly imagined world of technological achievement, excitement, wonder and fear.  Endymion is a story about love and memory, triumph and terror--an instant candidate for the field''s highest honors.

A fabulous adventure into the last frontier of man!Attention! This is the last message you will receive until your mission is completed. You have sixty minutes once miniaturization is complete. You must be out of Benes' body before then. If not, you will return to normal size and kill Benes regardless of the success of the surgery.Four men and one woman reduced to a microscopic fraction of their original size, boarding a miniaturized atomic sub and being injected into a dying man's carotid artery. Passing through the heart, entering the inner ear where even the slightest sound would destroy them, battling relentlessly into the cranium.Their objective . . . to reach a blood clot and destroy it with the piercing rays of a laser. At stake . . . the fate of the entire world.

After scoring decisivevictories in both Dacia and Nordland, Major Tanya Degurechaff now must lead hertroops into another battle with the great powers. The chance of total victory isfinally within grasp but is the Empire too drunk on their recent successes tomove when the time comes??

For someone who's immortal, Never Dead Ned manages to die with alarming frequency, he just has the annoying habit of rising from the grave. As Ogre Company's newly appointed commander, Ned has only six months to whip it into shape or face an even more hideous assignment, but that's not the worst of his problems.

Since the time of prehistory, carpet makers have tied intricate knots to form carpets for the court of the Emperor. But, one day, the empire of the God Emperor vanish, and strangers begin to arrive from the stars in search of the hair carpets. What these strangers discover is beyond all belief, more than anything they could have ever imagined.

THIS GAME DEALS WITH COMPLEX ADULT THEMES AND CONTAINS ARTISTIC NUDITY. MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY. World of Gor collects the lore of the Gorean cycle of novels by John Norman into one reference volume, intended for use alongside the Tales of Gor roleplaying game. This reference work will also be useful to Gorean roleplayers and fans of all kinds, roleplayers or not as a resource for fan fiction, roleplaying and Gorean activities of all kinds. Illustrated in striking style by celebrated fetish and comic book artist Michael Manning (Spider Garden, Tranceptor) this book is also a visual treat for fans of Gor, giving his unique interpretation to Gor, its creatures and its people. John Norman's works by permission of the author and the author's agents Richard Curtis Associates, Inc. John Norman's works are published by Open Road Media

The Hyakki Academy athleticfestival is coming up, and Haruaki''s got his hands full! With TV cameras on him,there''s no way things will end well! Come along for the ride with a haplesshuman teacher as he fumbles his way through a class full of ghoulishstudents!

Having just returned fromtheir latest Expedition, Loki Familia''s search for the rumored second entranceto the Dungeon has brought them to the port town of Meren. A certain playfulgoddess is having the time of her life doing as she pleases right up until aforeign ship comes in to dock bringing a storm in its wake!

The party has defeated the Red Dragon and rescued Farin! But their quest won't be finished until they make it back out of the dungeon unscathed. The adventure's not complete until everyone returns alive...and full!

From soldier to general to emperor...to outcast! Aric of Dacia's bone-crushing climb to the throne of an alien world earned him scores of allies...and a legion of scorned enemies. Now, stripped of his crown and cast out of his kingdom, the man known as X-O Manowar must return to his roots as a sword-wielding warrior of Earth if he is to survive the relentless band of intergalactic bounty hunters that have been hired to kill him cold. But with few places left to turn, could the last Visigoth's best hope be the all-powerful...but insidious...weapon he once swore away: the X-O Manowar armor? X-O MANOWAR's whirlwind first year in the Valiant Universe comes to a climax here in a bold new volume from New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (ETERNITY) and explosive artist Ryan Bodenheim (The Dying & The Dead)! Collecting X-O MANOWAR (2017) #11-14.

The Shadow Lord Gargos has been defeated! But the battle to save humankind from his Astral invasion has taken a terrible toll on the Earth. Our world lies in ruin, and a sinister new power called the Coven has risen from the ashes, vying with the megacorporation Ultratech to rule the shattered nations. The heroes Kim Wu and Jago-their Astral powers weakened by their devastating war against Gargos-must band together with the scattered remnants of the Night Guard to forge a pathway into the Astral Plane. Here, in the birthplace of The Shadow Lord and The Guardians, festers the secret malevolence that threatens to destroy them all...and enslave the world forever.

This lavishly illustrated book showcases the highlights of the Tolkien archives held at the Bodleian Library. This stunning book is a perfect introduction to Tolkien's creative imagination, giving a unique insight into the life of this extraordinary writer, artist and scholar.

"Tim Lebbon's Relics opens a darkly beautiful glimpse into another world, one lurking in the shadows." James Rollins, New York Times bestseller

Collects three original Predator novels continuing the classic franchise. From the streets of New York in Concrete Jungle, to a frozen Russian wasteland in Cold War, to the New Mexico desert in Big Game - there's nowhere to hide from the Predator...

A sociopathic atheist salaryman gets pushed onto a speeding train by the man he just fired, meets God, and then gets reincarnated as an 11 year old girl child soldier in alternate universe WWI Germany.

'Summer was drawing to a close, and I realized that the book was monstrous.'Fantastical tales of mazes, puzzles, lost labyrinths and bookish mysteries, from the unique imagination of a literary magician.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

"The year is 2024: it's eighteen months since an unknown virus wiped out over eighty-five percent of the world's population. The remainder were faced with a new world order where violence and chaos rule unchallenged. Former I-400 Driver Bella De La Rosa is one of the fifteen percent--living every day as if it were her last. She must hone her racing skills to become a scavenger of the Freeway, and survive any way she can"--Back cover.

All your favorite Inklings are about to get embroiled in an all-out Splatoon Turf War!

THE OFFICIAL NOVELIZATION TO THE MOTION PICTURE "GHOST IN THE SHELL" FROM PARAMOUNT PICTURES, DREAMWORKS PICTURES AND RELIANCE ENTERTAINMENT.

The official prequel to the hit video game Mass Effect: Andromeda. Lieutenant Cora Harper joins the Andromeda Initiative. When key data is stolen by unknown parties, Alec Ryder personally recruits Harper to retrieve it before it can be used against the Initiative.

DNA War tells the story of anthropologist Jocasta Malvaux, trapped on a remote world infested with xenomorphs. In Original Sin, centuries after the death of the original Ripley, her clone has taken up the fight. And she has found that there is more to the alien horror than meets the eye...

The fifth volume in an extraordinary SF series set 200 years in the future when China rules the world. With Triad bosses and assassins, emperors, whores and visionaries, it is part heroic epic, part technological thriller, part romance - a compelling tale of fallen empires and ordinary people unified only by the dark history of their time.

This first-ever Prince Valiant boxed set collects over six years of Hal Foster Sunday strips along with tons of supplementary art, photos, and essays!