This is the second, after *Turning Points* (2002), in another series of collections of new stories about the city of Sanctuary, originally the creation of editor Abbey and Robert Asprin in their Thieves' World, now long a setting exploited by a variety of authors. Sanctuary was founded by runaway slaves, hence the name, and remains a refuge for those able to call no other place home--a deadly fate, indeed, for there is no one there to guard one's back. Weapons, wizardry, music--any of these can start something in Sanctuary that only the boldest can finish. Editor Abbey unifies this book with the device of a shipwreck off the coast of Sanctuary, with the stuff looted from it cranking up the...

First in an all-new trilogy inspired by Isaac Asimov's legendary science fiction collection [i]I, Robot[/i]. 2035: Susan Calvin is beginning her residency at a Manhattan teaching hospital, where a select group of patients is receiving the latest in diagnostic advancements: tiny nanobots, injected into the spinal fluid, that can unlock and map the human mind. Soon, Susan begins to notice an ominous chain of events surrounding the patients. When she tries to alert her superiors, she is ignored by those who want to keep the project far from any scrutiny for the sake of their own agenda. But what no one knows is that the very technology to which they have given life is now under the...

М.3. РЕЙХЕРТ. ВЫЗОВ СЕРОГО БОГА За помощь древних богов приходится платить по слишком высокому счету. Сергей ЛУКЬЯНЕНКО. ИНКВИЗИТОР Если вы столкнулись в подъезде с незнакомцем, сжимающим деревянный кинжал, не пугайтесь — возможно, он пришел не за вами… Детективная повесть в стиле городской фэнтези. Марина и Сергей ДЯЧЕНКО. ТРОН Известные украинские прозаики задумались: какие неведомые силы таятся в детской игре? Нельсон БОНД. ЗВОНОК ИЗ ПРОШЛОГО О пользе определителей телефонных номеров. Знай герой рассказа, откуда звонит ему старинный приятель, возможно, не случилось бы то, что случилось… Майк РЕЗНИК. УЗКАЯ СПЕЦИАЛИЗАЦИЯ Африканские...