All three volumes of the worldwide bestselling Mars trilogy. Mars – the barren, forbidding planet that epitomises mankind’s dreams of space conquest. From the first pioneers who looked back at Earth and saw a small blue star, to the first colonists – hand-picked scientists with the skills necessary to create life from cold desert – Red Mars is the story of a new genesis. It is also the story of …
The Marines have landed on Mars to guard the unearthed secrets of an ancient and dangerous alien race: Ourselves…This bundle includes the complete Heritage Trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Ian Douglas.The Year is 2040.Scientists have discovered something astonishing in the subterranean ruins of a sprawling Martian city: startling evidence of an alternative history that threatens to spl…
Planet by planet, galaxy by galaxy, the inhabited universe has fallen to the alien Xul…This bundle includes the complete Inheritance Trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Ian Douglas.Now only one obstacle stands between them and total domination: the warriors of a resilient race the world-devourers nearly annihilated centuries ago . . .A power vast, ancient, and terrifying, the mighty Xul h…
In the future, earth's warriors have conquered the heavens. But on a distant world, humanity is in chains…This bundle includes the complete Legacy Trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Ian Douglas.Many millennia ago, the human race was enslaved by the An – a fearsome alien people whose cruel empire once spanned the galaxies, until they were defeated and consigned to oblivion. But a research…
England’s Forgotten Queens‘The gripping tale of Elizabeth of Lancaster, sibling of Henry IV. Packed with love, loss and intrigue’ – Sunday Express S MagazineOne betrayal is all it takes to change history1382. Daughter of John of Gaunt, sister to the future King Henry IV, Elizabeth of Lancaster has learned the shrewd tricks of the court from England’s most powerful men.In a time of political turmoi…
Ray Bradbury’s first ever poetry collection, available in ebook for the first time.Carried into strange and enticing realms by his fantastic stories, the multitudes of his admirers have never doubted that the author of Dandelion Wine, The Martian Chronicles, and other uniquely imaginative works of short and long fiction is a poet. But, even so, the intensity of feeling, the imaginative range, the …
Случайное научное открытие послужило началом потрясающего приключения, которое моментально вышло за пределы науки, размыв их. Герои, пройдя неожиданным и странным путем, оказываются перед лицом совершенно необычной ситуации. Научное и технологическое приключение становится также личным приключением для каждого из них, позволив им сделать открытия в области собственной интимности и сексуальности, к…
Një zbulim i rastësishëm shkencor është fillimi i një aventure tronditëse që shtyhet menjëherë drejt kufijve të shkencës dhe tenton ti tejkalojë ato. Protagonistët sillen nëpër shtigje të pazakonta, të papritura, dhe përballen me situata plotësisht jashtë të zakonshmes. Aventura e shkencës dhe e teknologjisë bëhet edhe aventurë e brendshme për disa nga ata, duke zbuluar pamje të intimitetit dhe se…
Μια τυχαία επιστημονική ανακάλυψη είναι η αρχή μίας συγκλονιστικής περιπέτειας, που ξεκινά στα όρια της επιστήμης και απειλεί να τα ξεπεράσει. Οι πρωταγωνιστές βρίσκονται σε πρωτόγνωρες και απρόσμενες διαδρομές αντιμετωπίζοντας καταστάσεις πέραν των συνηθισμένων. Αυτή η περιπέτεια της επιστήμης και της τεχνολογίας γίνεται, επίσης, εσωτερική περιπέτεια για ορισμένους από αυτούς, οι οποίοι ανακαλύπτ…
Un esperimento sulle drosofile che mira al prolungamento dell'esistenza ha un esito clamoroso: quei moscerini della frutta, che naturalmente vivono otto settimane, continuano a esserci per mesi e poi per anni, sempre in piena salute. Si comincia a supporre con plausibilità che siano divenute imperiture. Certuni, d’altro canto, pensano che il merito non sia stato solo dei ricercatori, ma che sia in…
Оно обитает на далеком острове, где-то в океане. Оно древнее, как сама Земля. Оно уничтожило все вокруг себя – и бешено рвется в широкий мир. Оно – вселенское зло, уготовившее для людей мучительную, адскую гибель. Этот демон никогда не насытится – и никогда не остановится. Если его не остановить… Подробный гид по творчеству Джеймса Роллинса читайте в ЛитРес: Журнале
Молодой ученый Хари Селдон открывает алгоритмы, позволяющие математически предсказывать общественное развитие. Он называет это психоисторией. А вот для императора Клеона Первого психоистория – возможность предсказывать и направлять развитие его Галактической империи. Именно поэтому Селдон, как главный теоретик психоистории, становится самым разыскиваемым человеком в колонизированной вселенной. Пер…
Richard Sharpe, with enemies on every side, survives Marshall Massena’s attack and ends at the lines of Torres Vedras.Sharpe’s job as Captain of the Light Company is under threat and he has made a new enemy, a Portuguese criminal known as Ferragus. Discarded by his regiment, Sharpe wages a private war against Ferragus – a war fought through the burning, pillaged streets of Coimbra, Portugal’s anci…
Richard Sharpe is fighting for his Irish battalion and his own honour through the blood-stained streets of the town.Quartered in a crumbling Portuguese fort, Richard Sharpe and his men are attacked by an elite French unit, led by an old enemy of Sharpe’s, and suffer heavy losses.The army’s high command blame Sharpe for the disaster and his military career seems to be ruined. His only hope is to re…
Major Sharpe finds himself a fugitive, hunted by enemy and ally alike.Major Richard Sharpe awaits the opening shots of the army’s campaign with grim expectancy. For victory depends on the increasingly fragile alliance between Britain and Spain – an alliance that must be maintained at any cost.Pierre Ducos, the wily French intelligence officer, sees a chance both to destroy the alliance and to achi…