Приключенческое героическое фэнтези о человеке, который вынужден отказаться от своей уютной жизни и отправиться искать счастье среди богов, пиратов, войн и драконов. Студент. Острослов. Любовник. Авантюрист. Солдат поневоле. Вообще-то Квиллифер совсем не солдат. Он слишком обаятелен, влюблен и изучает юриспруденцию. Но все трагически меняется, он теряет семью и родной город. Сначала злой рок забрасывает Квиллифера в банду разбойников, потом интриги приводят его в политику, а затем его судьба оказывается в руках прекрасной, но коварной богини. Разгорается пожар гражданской войны, и Квиллифер оказывается в самом его эпицентре. Пусть он только солдат поневоле, в его руках возможность изменить...

Fantasy fiction has produced some of the most unforgettable heroes ever conjured onto the page: Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Barbarian, Michael Moorcock’s Elric of Melniboné, Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Classic characters like these made sword and sorcery a storytelling sensation, a cornerstone of fantasy fiction—and an inspiration for a new generation of writers, spinning their own outsize tales of magic and swashbuckling adventure. Now, in The Book of Swords, acclaimed editor and bestselling author Gardner Dozois presents an all-new anthology of original epic tales by a stellar cast of award-winning modern masters—many of them set in their authors’ best-loved worlds....

[img]https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/5159gcymfbL._SY346_.jpg[/img] [i] Shattered Victory[/i] Star-crossed lovers Gareth Martinez and Caroline Sula have decisively beaten the forces of the corrupt Zanshaa government. It seems all there’s left to do is to travel to the capital of Zanshaa to reunite the empire under the banner of the Restoration. Before they can sweep up the pieces, though, it’s revealed that any advance would spring an enemy trap. To make things worse, their opponents have more resources than Martinez and Sula could have imagined, and a superior force is now aimed at the heart of the Restoration. [i]Shattered Love[/i] But before Martinez and Sula can contend...

From the first appearances of Roger Zelazny’s short fiction in the early 1960s, it was clear that a dazzling new genius had burst into the field of speculative literature. Over the years, that incendiary talent blazed even brighter in novels such as Lord of Light, The Dream Master, and Creatures of Light and Darkness—incomparable works whose lyrical prose, imaginative virtuosity, masterful plotting, and unique blend of timeless myth and cutting-edge science won Zelazny the acclaim of critics and readers alike . . . as well as six Hugos and three Nebula Awards. His groundbreaking Amber novels are still counted among the most original and well-beloved fantasy series of all time. Zelazny...

Quillifer’s archenemy, the beautiful and vengeful goddess Orlanda, predicts his inescapable fall from power, and Quillifer has to admit that she may be right. Quillifer has risen high at court. The butcher’s son is now a lord, and now is the confidential agent of the state, the caretaker of the kingdom’s secrets, and the secret lover of the young and brilliant Queen Floria. He finds himself surrounded by perils. The nobles are at odds with one another, but united in despising Quillifer. Someone has brought deadly poison into court, and Quillifer fears the Queen may be the intended victim. Another assassination plot is aimed at Quillifer himself, and an enemy nation has landed troops...

Gabriel is one of the Aristoi, the elite class that hold dominion over a glittering interstellar culture, their rule more absolute than that of any Old Earth tyrant. When another of the Aristoi is murdered, Gabriel finds that the foundations of his civilization are tottering, and that his own power may have its roots in the greatest lie in all history. In order to defend himself and the interstellar order, Gabriel must go on a quest into the heart of barbarism and chaos, and discover within himself his own lost, tattered humanity.

[img]https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51p3oRxybFL._SX328_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg[/img] Following The Accidental War, the second book of a brand-new series set in the Praxis—an epic mix of space opera and military science fiction, from a grand master of science fiction, Walter Jon Williams. The Praxis, the empire of now extinct Shaa, has again fallen into civil war, with desperate and outnumbered humans battling several alien species for survival. Leading the human forces are star-crossed lovers Gareth Martinez and Caroline Sula, who must find a way to overcome their own thorny personal history to defeat the aliens and assure humanity’s survival. But even if the human...

[b]“Walter Jon Williams is always fun, but this may be his best yet, a delight from start to finish, witty, colorful, exciting and amusing by turns, exquisitely written.” —George R. R. Martin[/b] [b]“Chock full of derring-do, blood and thunder, swashbuckling, and other good stuff evocative of Rafael Sabatini, Sir Walter Scott, and the penny-bloods.” —Paul Di Filippo, author of The Big Get-Even[/b] [b]Quillifer—now a member of the nobility—finds himself further immersed in court politics as the outcast princess Floria is suddenly in a position of power with a rebellion stoked by a certain brilliant tactician, in this thrilling sequel to Quillifer.[/b] Rogue. Joker. Lover. Reluctant...

Когда-то их было четверо: Дагмар, Остин, Би-Джей, Чарли. Они любили играть… Но когда один из них погиб в мирном городе, застреленный на парковке, оставшиеся в живых начинают совсем другую игру. Оказавшись посредине опасных игр русской мафии и международных финансов, геймдизайнер Дагмар использует все свои ресурсы — в том числе миллионы онлайн-игроков ее игровой империи, чтобы выследить убийцу. В этом триллере «ближнего прицела» Уолтер Й. Уильямс создает напряженное повествование об интригах, убийствах, играх, в которых нет дополнительной жизни, и людях, которые играют в игры. Для лиц старше 18 лет.

Blending fast-paced military science fiction and space opera, the first volume in a dynamic trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of The Praxis, set in the universe of his popular and critically acclaimed Dread Empire’s Fall series—a tale of blood, courage, adventure and battle in which the fate of an empire rests in the hands of a cadre of desperate exiles. It’s been seven years since the end of the Naxid War. Sidelined for their unorthodox tactics by a rigid, tradition-bound military establishment, Captain Gareth Martinez and Captain the Lady Sula are stewing in exile, frustrated and impatient to exercise the effective and lethal skills they were born to use in fighting...