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The Best British Short Stories 2014

de Mick Scully, Joanne Rush, Joanna Walsh, Elizabeth Baines, Jonathan Gibbs, Jay Griffiths, Siân Melangell Dafydd, Ailsa Cox, Stuart Evers, Claire Dean, David Constantine, David Grubb, Richard Knight, Vicki Jarrett, Anna Metcalfe, Philip Langeskov, Christopher Priest, Louise Palfreyman, Adam Wilmington, Nicholas Royle, M. John Harrison ...

Series series Best British Short Stories
'There is no more carefully chosen yet eclectic anthology series in existence in Britain today' – Susan Haigh, The Short ReviewBest British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor's ... Leer más

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'There is no more carefully chosen yet eclectic anthology series in existence in Britain today' – Susan Haigh, The Short ReviewBest British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor's
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Toujours le nord

de Vicki Jarrett ...

Traducido por Olivier Bérenval ...

Series series Science-Fiction
Océan Arctique, dans un futur proche.Isobel embarque pour une mission d’exploration pétrolière. Alors que des éco-activistes s’opposent à ces forages, elle et son équipe cartographient les fonds marins. Mais bientôt, l’impensable se produit : un phénomène inconnu secoue leur navire et met brutalement fi n à leur expédition.Vingt ans plus tard, le monde a basculé. La montée des eaux a transformé l ... Leer más

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Océan Arctique, dans un futur proche.Isobel embarque pour une mission d’exploration pétrolière. Alors que des éco-activistes s’opposent à ces forages, elle et son équipe cartographient les fonds marins. Mais bientôt, l’impensable se produit : un phénomène inconnu secoue leur navire et met brutalement fi n à leur expédition.Vingt ans plus tard, le monde a basculé. La montée des eaux a transformé l
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The Way Out

de Vicki Jarrett ...

A girl on a paper round gets more than she bargained for. A couple feels the strain when the money runs out. Life plays out in the call centre, the bingo hall and at the bus stop. Vicki Jarrett's debut collection – reissued here with the bonus story 'Up Dog Down Dog' – is a deftly observed insight into the lives of people just trying to get by. Jarrett, whose first novel, Nothing is Heavy, was ... Leer más

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A girl on a paper round gets more than she bargained for. A couple feels the strain when the money runs out. Life plays out in the call centre, the bingo hall and at the bus stop. Vicki Jarrett's debut collection – reissued here with the bonus story 'Up Dog Down Dog' – is a deftly observed insight into the lives of people just trying to get by. Jarrett, whose first novel, Nothing is Heavy, was
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Always North

de Vicki Jarrett ...

Narrado por Fiona McNeill ...

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9 hora 31 minutos

Shortlisted for the Kitschies award for Best Novel, Always North is a profound meditation on our consumption of the world, and the perception of time.Software engineer Isobel needs to eat like everyone, and that’s how she fell into the job that leads her to the most northerly place on our planet. As part of a weathered crew of sailors, scientists and corporate officers she sails into the ice where ... Leer más

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Shortlisted for the Kitschies award for Best Novel, Always North is a profound meditation on our consumption of the world, and the perception of time.Software engineer Isobel needs to eat like everyone, and that’s how she fell into the job that leads her to the most northerly place on our planet. As part of a weathered crew of sailors, scientists and corporate officers she sails into the ice where
... Leer más

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Infinite Detail

A Novel

de Tim Maughan ...

Narrado por Joe Sims, Marisa Calin ...

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9 hora 34 minutos

**A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST FIRST NOVELA timely and uncanny portrait of a world in the wake of fake news, diminished privacy, and a total shutdown of the Internet.**This program includes a bonus interview between the author and journalist Brian Merchant.BEFORE: In Bristol’s center lies the Croft, a digital no-man’s-land cut off from the surveillance, Big Data dependence, and corporate ... Leer más

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**A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST FIRST NOVELA timely and uncanny portrait of a world in the wake of fake news, diminished privacy, and a total shutdown of the Internet.**This program includes a bonus interview between the author and journalist Brian Merchant.BEFORE: In Bristol’s center lies the Croft, a digital no-man’s-land cut off from the surveillance, Big Data dependence, and corporate
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War of the Maps

de Paul McAuley ...

Narrado por Jonathan Oliver ...

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15 hora 43 minutos

"The underrated McAuley is in top form in this hard science fiction novel with heart." —Washington Post Book WorldOn a giant artificial world surrounding an artificial sun, one man—a lucidor, a keeper of the peace, a policeman—is on the hunt. His target was responsible for an atrocity, but is too valuable to the government to be truly punished. Instead he has been sent to the frontlines of the war ... Leer más

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"The underrated McAuley is in top form in this hard science fiction novel with heart." —Washington Post Book WorldOn a giant artificial world surrounding an artificial sun, one man—a lucidor, a keeper of the peace, a policeman—is on the hunt. His target was responsible for an atrocity, but is too valuable to the government to be truly punished. Instead he has been sent to the frontlines of the war
... Leer más

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Westside

A Novel

de W.M. Akers ...

Narrado por Bailey Carr ...

Series series A Gilda Carr Tiny Mystery
Completo

10 hora 50 minutos

“Superb . . . his research is excellent . . . his prose sharply crystalline.” -- New York Times***Book Review***“The Alienist meets The City & The City in this brilliant debut that mixes fantasy and mystery. Gilda Carr’s ‘tiny mysteries’ pack a giant punch."" --David Morrell, New York Times bestselling author of Murder As a Fine Art**A yo... ... Leer más

$28.99 USD

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“Superb . . . his research is excellent . . . his prose sharply crystalline.” -- New York Times***Book Review***“The Alienist meets The City & The City in this brilliant debut that mixes fantasy and mystery. Gilda Carr’s ‘tiny mysteries’ pack a giant punch."" --David Morrell, New York Times bestselling author of Murder As a Fine Art**A yo...
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The Rosewater Redemption

Book 3 of the Wormwood Trilogy

de Tade Thompson ...

Narrado por Bayo Gbadamosi ...

Series Audiolibro 3 - The Wormwood Trilogy
Completo

12 hora 43 minutos

Life in the newly independent city state of Rosewater isn't everything its citizens were expecting . . .Mayor Jacques finds that debts incurred during the insurrection are coming back to haunt him.Nigeria isn't willing to let Rosewater go without a fight . . .And among the city's alien inhabitants, a group has emerged who murder humans to provide bodies for their takeover . . .Operating across ... Leer más

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Life in the newly independent city state of Rosewater isn't everything its citizens were expecting . . .Mayor Jacques finds that debts incurred during the insurrection are coming back to haunt him.Nigeria isn't willing to let Rosewater go without a fight . . .And among the city's alien inhabitants, a group has emerged who murder humans to provide bodies for their takeover . . .Operating across
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Grail

de Elizabeth Bear ...

Narrado por Alma Cuervo ...

Series series Jacob's Ladder
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12 hora 15 minutos

Booklist calls the world of Hugo Award winner Elizabeth Bear's spellbinding Jacob's Ladder series "magnificently populated, well worth visiting." Here the trilogy that began with Dust and Chill draws to its stunning conclusion. The passengers of the generation spaceship Jacob's Ladder have found a new home at last. But the planet Grail is already inhabited-and its population of genetically ... Leer más

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Booklist calls the world of Hugo Award winner Elizabeth Bear's spellbinding Jacob's Ladder series "magnificently populated, well worth visiting." Here the trilogy that began with Dust and Chill draws to its stunning conclusion. The passengers of the generation spaceship Jacob's Ladder have found a new home at last. But the planet Grail is already inhabited-and its population of genetically
... Leer más

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Eden

de Tim Lebbon ...

Narrado por Heather Wilds ...

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10 hora 16 minutos

From the bestselling author of the Netflix Original movie The Silence comes a brand-new horror eco thriller.Earth’s rising oceans contain enormous islands of refuse, the Amazon rainforest is all-but destroyed, and countless species edge towards extinction. Humanity’s last hope to save the planet lies with the Virgin Zones, thirteen vast areas of land off-limits to people and given back to nature ... Leer más

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From the bestselling author of the Netflix Original movie The Silence comes a brand-new horror eco thriller.Earth’s rising oceans contain enormous islands of refuse, the Amazon rainforest is all-but destroyed, and countless species edge towards extinction. Humanity’s last hope to save the planet lies with the Virgin Zones, thirteen vast areas of land off-limits to people and given back to nature
... Leer más

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Chill

de Elizabeth Bear ...

Narrado por Alma Cuervo ...

Series series Jacob's Ladder
Completo

11 hora

Hugo Award winner Elizabeth Bear has won high praise for her thought-provoking science fiction. The second in her powerful Jacob's Ladder series, Chill finds the generation starship Jacob's Ladder with a new captain-Perceval. As Perceval struggles with the ship's recent damage, remnants of the rebellion still linger and a threat to the crew grows. "The world of Jacob's Ladder is magnificently ... Leer más

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Hugo Award winner Elizabeth Bear has won high praise for her thought-provoking science fiction. The second in her powerful Jacob's Ladder series, Chill finds the generation starship Jacob's Ladder with a new captain-Perceval. As Perceval struggles with the ship's recent damage, remnants of the rebellion still linger and a threat to the crew grows. "The world of Jacob's Ladder is magnificently
... Leer más

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Chilling Effect

A Novel

de Valerie Valdes ...

Narrado por Almarie Guerra ...

Series Audiolibro 1 - Chilling Effect
Completo

14 hora 15 minutos

A hilarious, offbeat debut space opera that skewers everything from pop culture to video games and features an irresistible foul-mouthed captain and her motley crew, strange life forms, exciting twists, and a galaxy full of fun and adventure.Captain Eva Innocente and the crew of La Sirena Negra cruise the galaxy delivering small cargo for even smaller profits. When her sister Mari is kidnapped by ... Leer más

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A hilarious, offbeat debut space opera that skewers everything from pop culture to video games and features an irresistible foul-mouthed captain and her motley crew, strange life forms, exciting twists, and a galaxy full of fun and adventure.Captain Eva Innocente and the crew of La Sirena Negra cruise the galaxy delivering small cargo for even smaller profits. When her sister Mari is kidnapped by
... Leer más

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