Pavel Bakič Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

Deset let od prvního vydání Jižní Zóny, děsivé i poetické trilogie o tajemné Oblasti X, nás autor zve na další neočekávanou výpravu. Zpočátku se dozvídáme o záhadném a děsivém konci jedné vědecké expedice - konci tajemně provázaném s budoucími událostmi a s manipulativními praktikami státní agentury známé jako Centrála. O mnoho let později se materiály ohledně expedice dostanou do rukou agenta Centrály Jima a podivný dojem, který z materiálů má, ještě zesílí, když se ocitne v terénu na takzvaném Zapomenutém pobřeží. S mladou a nezkušenou kolegyní postupně zjišťuje, že má co do činění nejen se skupinou nebezpečných podivínů zkoumajících paranormální jevy, ale že se v okolí znovu pohybuje tajemný Renegát, zodpovědný za tragický osud oné dávné expedice. Příběh vrcholí vysláním první výpravy do Oblasti X, za tajemnou bariéru, která někdejší Zapomenuté pobřeží odřízla od okolního světa. Očima elitního, ale výstředního agenta sledujeme, jak se dobře vycvičený tým pokouší v nejisté, proměnlivé krajině nalézt způsob, jak území navrátit jeho dřívější podobu...

Tajemný postapokalyptický thriller od autora bestsellerových fantasy sérií Loď kdesi uprostřed oceánu. Načervenalá mlha, která ne a ne zřídnout. A sedm lidí, kterým kdosi vymazal paměť. Ve chvíli, kdy se hrdinové na palubě probudí, nemají nejmenší tušení, odkud se na lodi vzali, kam mají namířeno ani co jsou vlastně zač. Jedinými vodítky jim jsou jizvy na hlavě, smyšlená jména vytetovaná na zápěstí a arzenál zbraní v podpalubí. Záhy však vyjde najevo, že každý člen skupiny je specialistou v určitém oboru, a že pokud chtějí přežít, budou muset táhnout za jeden provaz. Ovšem cesta, která je čeká, podrobí jejich vynucené spojenectví zatěžkávací zkoušce… a nejhrozivějším nepřítelem jim na ní budou jejich nejsilnější vzpomínky. Autor úspěšných fantasy sérií Stín krkavce, Draconis Memoria a Úmluva oceli přichází s napínavým příběhem z blízké budoucnosti, který nechává čtenáře tápat stejně jako postavy a až do poslední stránky přináší nová odhalení a zvraty.

Severian the Torturer continues his epic journey across the lands of Urth, carrying with him the Claw of the Conciliator and the great sword, Terminus Est. All his travels are leading towards a destiny that he dare not refuse. This is the fourth and last volume in the series.

Průřez padesáti lety literárních nočních můr, tedy povídkovým dílem jednoho z nejvýznamnějších současných autorů hororu, pro něž nejsou typické hektolitry krve, kvílení duchů ani hladová monstra.Autorovou doménou je naopak městská i venkovská paranoia, neklid a tíseň, rozklížené vztahy, děsivost cizích míst a neznámých lidí, hrůza každodennosti, nespolehlivost smyslů. Z povídek z let 1964 až 2012, které autor sám vybral pro toto reprezentativní české vydání, dýchá mrazivost moderního života. Díky pronikavému pozorovacímu talentu a schopnosti detekovat děsivé prvky v těch nejbanálnějších situacích se Campbell stal hlasem tiché hrůzy konce dvacátého století, velmistrem žánru, laureátem snad všech hororových ocenění a britskou žánrovou ikonou, o níž však český čtenář dosud z nějakého záhadného důvodu příliš neví.Nechte se odvést do zapadlých uliček anglických měst, do lesů i zchátralých panských sídel, kde vám hlas zkušeného a přesvědčivého vypravěče vysvětlí, co jste ve skutečnosti s úlekem zahlédli koutkem oka, když jste si mysleli, že kolem vás není živé duše.

Selected as a Best Crime Novel of the Month by The Times, Sunday Times, Independent, Guardian, Observer, Financial Times and Irish Times. Chosen as a Waterstones Thriller of the Month 'Lightseekers is the type of detective crime thriller that should be on everyone's shelves' Dorothy Koomson, author of My Other Husband 'A fast-paced thriller that offers insight into the ever present tensions in a poverty stricken community. An action-packed and spirited debut' Oyinkan Braithwaite, author of My Sister, the Serial Killer Winner of the 2019 UEA Crime Writing Prize, Lightseekers is the start of a major new crime series introducing investigative psychologist Dr Philip Taiwo. When three young students are brutally murdered in a Nigerian university town, their killings - and their killers - are caught on social media. The world knows who murdered them; what no one knows is why. As the legal trial begins, investigative psychologist Philip Taiwo is contacted by the father of one of the boys, desperate for some answers to his son's murder. But Philip is an expert in crowd behaviour and violence, not a detective, and after travelling to the sleepy town that bore witness to the horror, he soon feels dramatically out of his depth. Will he finally be able to uncover the truth of what happened to the Okriki Three? ----------------------- **Philip Taiwo returns in Gaslight - AVAILABLE TO BUY NOW**

An award-winning and bestselling SF writer, Kim Stanley Robinson is widely acknowledged as one of the most exciting and visionary writers in the field. His latest novel, 2312, imagined how we would be living 300 years from now. Now, with his new novel, he turns from our future to our past - to the Palaeolithic era, and an extraordinary moment in humanity's development. An emotionally powerful and richly detailed portrayal of life 30,000 years ago, it is a novel that will appeal both to his existing fans and a whole new mainstream readership.

"Autonomous is to biotech and AI whatNeuromancerwas to the Internet."--Neal Stephenson "Something genuinely and thrillingly new in the naturalistic, subjective, paradoxically humanistic but non-anthropomorphic depiction of bot-POV--and all in the service of vivid, solid storytelling."--William Gibson When anything can be owned, how can we be free Earth, 2144. Jack is an anti-patent scientist turned drug pirate, traversing the world in a submarine as a pharmaceutical Robin Hood, fabricating cheap scrips for poor people who can't otherwise afford them. But her latest drug hack has left a trail of lethal overdoses as people become addicted to their work, doing repetitive tasks until they become unsafe or insane. Hot on her trail, an unlikely pair: Eliasz, a brooding military agent, and his robotic partner, Paladin. As they race to stop information about the sinister origins of Jack's drug from getting out, they begin to form an uncommonly close bond that neither of them fully understand. And underlying it all is one fundamental question: Is freedom possible in a culture where everything, even people, can be owned?

An audacious and powerful debut novel"An extraordinary novel." Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven"American War, a work of a singular, grand, brilliant imagination, is a warning shot across the bow of the United States." David Means, author of HystopiaSarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, that unmanned drones fill the sky. And when her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she quickly begins to be shaped by her particular time and place until, finally, through the influence of a mysterious functionary, she is turned into a deadly instrument of war. Telling her story is her nephew, Benjamin Chestnut, born during war - part of the Miraculous Generation - now an old man confronting the dark secret of his past, his family's role in the conflict and, in particular, that of his aunt, a woman who saved his life while destroying untold others.A second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle - a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself.

Taut and intelligent' Prima Utterly addictive' Lisa Hall

'An outstanding debut' The most awaited books of 2017, Sunday Express Based on a real-life murder Blue Light Yokohama is set among Tokyo's glitteringly busy streets, where a family of four were killed in their own home. The first detective died trying to solve it. Now it is up to Inspector Iwata to unravel the truth . . . from the Publisher's description

It is winter in Area X. A new team embarks across the border on a mission to find a member of a previous expedition who may have been left behind. As they press deeper into the unknown—navigating new terrain and new challenges—the threat to the outside world becomes more daunting. In Acceptance, the last installment of Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy, the mysteries of Area X may have been solved, but their consequences and implications are no less profound—or terrifying.

Superhumans and dark magic collide in secret supernatural history of Twentieth Century events - the final book in this landmark series

Prescient and chilling, DeMille's #1 New York Times bestselling novel takes us into the heart of a new Cold War with a clock-ticking plot that has Manhattan in its crosshairs. After a showdown with the notorious Yemeni terrorist known as The Panther, John Corey has left the Anti-Terrorist Task Force and returned home to New York City, taking a job with the Diplomatic Surveillance Group. Although Corey's new assignment with the DSG-surveilling Russian diplomats working at the U.N. Mission-is thought to be "a quiet end," he is more than happy to be out from under the thumb of the FBI and free from the bureaucracy of office life. But Corey realizes something the U.S. government doesn't: The all-too-real threat of a newly resurgent Russia. When Vasily Petrov, a colonel in the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service posing as a diplomat with the Russian U.N. Mission, mysteriously disappears from a Russian oligarch's party in Southampton, it's up to Corey to track him down. What are the Russians up to and why? Is there a possible nuclear threat, a so-called radiant angel? Will Corey find Petrov and put a stop to whatever he has planned before it's too late? Or will Corey finally be outrun and outsmarted, with America facing the prospect of a crippling attack unlike anything it's ever seen before? Please note: Radiant Angel is published in the UK under the title A Quiet End.

Vijftig jaar na de dood van Winston Churchill onderzoekt Boris Johnson de ‘Churchillfactor’. Wat maakte Churchill, een van de belangrijkste leiders van de twintigste eeuw, zo uniek en briljant? Johnson ontrafelt de mythes en de misvattingen, het meer dan levensgrote beeld dat we van Churchill hebben. Hij beschrijft hem met gedrevenheid en een scherp gevoel voor humor: een man vol tegenstellingen, met een aanstekelijke bravoure, een adembenemende welbespraaktheid, groots strategisch inzicht en een intense menselijkheid. Churchill was een gevierd journalist en een geweldige redenaar. Hij won de Nobelprijs voor de literatuur in 1953. Hij was beroemd en berucht om zijn vermogen drank en chique diners te combineren met tot diep in de nacht doorwerken. Hij was moedig en kordaat. Zijn ruimdenkendheid maakte hem een pionier in de gezondheidszorg, het onderwijs en de sociale zekerheid, hoewel hij altijd onverbeterlijk politiek incorrect bleef. De Churchillfactor is een boek dat niet alleen mensen aanspreekt die geïnteresseerd zijn in geschiedenis. Het is een boek dat essentieel is voor iedereen die wil weten hoe een groot leider eruit ziet.

Op de luchthaven JFK in New York is alles en iedereen in staat van paraatheid gebracht om de overlopende Libische terrorist Asad op gepaste wijze te ontvangen. Het radiocontact met Vlucht 175 uit Parijs is weliswaar sinds enkele uren verbroken, maar de verkeersleiding vertrouwt op een goede afloop voor de honderden passagiers aan boord. Niemand had verwacht dat het zo vreselijk mis kon gaan. John Corey, geheim agent van de Anti Terrorist Task Force, bestormt al seen van de eersten de gelande jumbojet. Er is geen leven meer aan boord en Asad, bekend als de Leeuw, is spoorloos verdwenen. Samen met zijn sexy collega Kate Mayfield probeert John het brein van de ontsnapte terrorist te doorgronden. Wat is zijn missie? Terwijl de opgejaagde Leeuw een bloedig spoor van terreur door heel Amerika achterlaat, begrijpt John dat hij méér dan alleen zijn kracht en deskundigheid moet aanwenden om dit krankzinnig gevaarlijke spel zonder regels te overleven.

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The author of the ground-breaking science-fiction novels Neuromancer and Virtual Light returns with a fast-paced, high-density, cyber-punk thriller. As prophetic as it is exciting, Idoru takes us to 21st century Tokyo where both the promises of technology and the disasters of cyber-industrialism stand in stark contrast, where the haves and the have-nots find themselves walled apart, and where information and fame are the most valuable and dangerous currencies. When Rez, the lead singer for the rock band Lo/Rez is rumored to be engaged to an "idoru" or "idol singer" - an artificial celebrity creation of information software agents - 14-year-old Chia Pet McKenzie is sent by the band's fan club to Tokyo to uncover the facts. At the same time, Colin Laney, a data specialist for Slitscan television, uncovers and publicizes a network scandal. He flees to Tokyo to escape the network's wrath. As Chia struggles to find the truth, Colin struggles to preserve it, in a futuristic society so media-saturated that only computers hold the hope for imagination, hope and spirituality.

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