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Sixteen-year-old Canny Mochrie's parents go away on a vacation, so they send her off on a trip of her own with her step-brother Sholto and his opinionated girlfriend Susan, who are interviewing the survivors of a strange coal mine disaster and researching local folklore in 1959 Southland, New Zealand. Canny is left to herself to wander in a mysterious and enchanting nearby valley, occupied al...

“It is like nothing else I’ve ever read. The characters are so real, you’ll feel like you know exactly what they look like and how their voices sound and what they would say or do in any given situation. More than that, you’ll want to hang out with them. Then the world is so amazing and unique. You will want to go there. You will want to walk into ‘the Place.’ And you will want to sleep in a dream...

Hollywood, 1929. While Conrad Cole is working late on elaborate plans for his aeroplanes and his films, a mysterious stranger appears at his door. Xas soon finds himself caught up in the glamorous and treacherous world of movie-making and entangled with both Cole and a young woman who owes her life to the eccentric director. Both of them are drawn to Xas without knowing his secret - that und...

“It is like nothing else I’ve ever read. The characters are so real, you’ll feel like you know exactly what they look like and how their voices sound and what they would say or do in any given situation. More than that, you’ll want to hang out with them. Then the world is so amazing and unique. You will want to go there. You will want to walk into ‘the Place.’ And you will want to sleep in a dream...

Добро пожаловать на страницы антологии, в которой собрано четырнадцать рассказов в жанре стимпанк - четырнадцать причудливых картин прошлого, будущего и не-вполне-настоящего! Поклонники стимпанка найдут в этой книге всё, чего ожидают: здесь будут и переулки, смутно освещенные газовыми фонарями, и бесстрашные беспризорники, и паровые машины, и небывалые изобретения. Писатели и художники, чьи произв...

One sunny spring morning the Tasman Bay settlement of Kahukura is overwhelmed by a mysterious mass insanity. A handful of survivors find themselves cut off from the world, and surrounded by the dead. As they try to take care of one another, and survive in ever more difficult circumstances, it becomes apparent that this isn't the first time that this has happened, and that they aren't all survivors...

Франция XIX века. Юный Собран, сын винодела, знакомится с ангелом, внешне похожим на Иисуса Христа. И все в жизни Собрана складывается удачно: он наследует отцовскую винодельню, женится на девушке своей мечты. Но ангел оказывается падшим. Винодел сходит с ума, повреждается рассудком его жена, а в провинции совершается несколько жестоких убийств юных девушек… Тонкий интригующий роман погружает чита...

Sixteen-year-old Canny Mochrie's parents go away on a vacation, so they send her off on a trip of her own with her step-brother Sholto and his opinionated girlfriend Susan, who are interviewing the survivors of a strange coal mine disaster and researching local folklore in 1959 Southland, New Zealand. Canny is left to herself to wander in a mysterious and enchanting nearby valley, occupied al...

“It is like nothing else I’ve ever read. The characters are so real, you’ll feel like you know exactly what they look like and how their voices sound and what they would say or do in any given situation. More than that, you’ll want to hang out with them. Then the world is so amazing and unique. You will want to go there. You will want to walk into ‘the Place.’ And you will want to sleep in a dream...

Hollywood, 1929. While Conrad Cole is working late on elaborate plans for his aeroplanes and his films, a mysterious stranger appears at his door. Xas soon finds himself caught up in the glamorous and treacherous world of movie-making and entangled with both Cole and a young woman who owes her life to the eccentric director. Both of them are drawn to Xas without knowing his secret - that und...

“It is like nothing else I’ve ever read. The characters are so real, you’ll feel like you know exactly what they look like and how their voices sound and what they would say or do in any given situation. More than that, you’ll want to hang out with them. Then the world is so amazing and unique. You will want to go there. You will want to walk into ‘the Place.’ And you will want to sleep in a dream...

Добро пожаловать на страницы антологии, в которой собрано четырнадцать рассказов в жанре стимпанк - четырнадцать причудливых картин прошлого, будущего и не-вполне-настоящего! Поклонники стимпанка найдут в этой книге всё, чего ожидают: здесь будут и переулки, смутно освещенные газовыми фонарями, и бесстрашные беспризорники, и паровые машины, и небывалые изобретения. Писатели и художники, чьи произв...