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The Gist Hunter and Other Stories

Author : Matthew Hughes
Publisher : Night Shade
ISBN 13 : 9781597800204
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Gist Hunter and Other Stories written by Matthew Hughes and published by Night Shade. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gist Hunter & Other Stories chronicles nine unique stories set in the Dying Earth-esque planet that expands the universe of Matthew Hughes’s Archonate novels. This series of stories best introduces and plays companion pieces to Black Brillion, Fool Me Twice, and Fools Errant. The tales of Henghis Hapthorn, Old Earth’s “foremost freelance discriminator,” combines the best of mystery and science fantasy while recalling the excellence of Gene Wolfe’s arch irony and the witty mannerisms of Jack Vance. Though fantastical, something is true-to-life in Hapthorn’s amusing and bewildered set of conversations and circumstances. It’s a futuristic pull with just the right quirk. The stories of lowly student Guth Bandar and his slightly off-beat and unconventional studies slowly reveal the complexities and wonder of the amazing noösphere. As Banter roams through life and studies, the incredibly vital noösphere acts as the Archonate’s collective unconsciousness. Bandar’s rise from his student status to veteran noönaut will have him quickly realize that a little learning is dangerous learning when spread too thin. The Gist Hunter & Other Stories is a perfect introduction to the great work by Matthew Hughes, and one that admirers of science fiction and fantasy will respect and enjoy. Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.

Crack the Sky

Author : Hunter Blain
Publisher : Preternatural Chronicles
ISBN 13 : 9781947709782
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Crack the Sky written by Hunter Blain and published by Preternatural Chronicles. This book was released on 2021-08-23 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the heart of darkness... do what must be done. Depweg is lost in time, unwittingly finding himself in a stream of reality that has broken off from the single river our universe safely resides upon. John has no choice but to do the impossible and retrieve his best friend or risk the two parallel timelines crashing into one another. Teaming up with the newcomer, Jose, our hero must act quickly to prevent a catastrophic flood of crashing realities. Poised at the center of our galaxy, lies the most destructive force in the known universe, and John will get a first-hand experience at its unimaginable power. To save Depweg, our hero must travel through the supermassive blackhole, and back in time to find a single needle in a thousand haystacks. Waking up in a strange place, Depweg is gifted with something he hadn't known he had craved since John had first told him of the unstoppable prophecy and coming apocalypse; solace. For the first time in years, Depweg can take a breath, finding peace in the knowledge that the end of the world is far, far away. There's only one thing that could make his relaxing vacation even better while simultaneously providing the perfect reason to never go back... Having lost everyone he cares about, a defeated, hopeless young man will allow chaos into his heart in exchange for a chance at revenge for the fallen. All too late, he realizes the cost as the law of unintended consequences proves to be absolute, and a war is waged on people the young man once called friend. Behind the scenes, powerful marionettes pluck at fraying strings, guiding the story toward its inevitable conclusion. Will John be able to cut away his strings to become a real boy? Or will he remain a puppet to his fate... If you like Jim Butcher, Shayne Silvers, Cameron O'Connell, Kevin Hearne, Steve McHugh, Ilona Andrews, Patricia Briggs, Shannon Mayer, or K.F. Breene, you won't be able to put down the highly addictive Preternatural Chronicles. "Hunter Blain is my spirit animal." -- Shayne Silvers, Amazon Top 25 Bestselling Author Available in digital, print, and audiobook formats. What Amazon readers are saying: ★★★★★ 'Let me count the ways I blood thee...' ★★★★★ 'Move over Dresden!' ★★★★★ 'The Preternatural Chronicles MUST come to Netflix. Now.' ★★★★★ 'John Cook puts the G.O.A.T. in gloat.' ★★★★★ 'Shayne Silvers has found the next author to take over Urban Fantasy.' ★★★★★ 'I need John Cook to have a story with Nate Temple. Please.' ★★★★★ 'John Cook loves vegans. Especially when they are served raw.' ★★★★★ 'The only thing that sparkles about this vampire is his fangs in the moonlight.' ★★★★★ 'All the twisted humor of Pulp Fiction, but with a vampire. It's more like Gulp Fiction.' ★★★★★ 'If John Wick was a vampire and hung out with Ryan Reynolds on the weekends.' ★★★★★ 'Revenge is for amateurs, but vengeance is for professional vampires who take their jobs seriously. Like John Cook.' ★★★★★ 'Fans of Morbius, Blade, Buffy, Shade of Devil, and Deadpool will love the Preternatural Chronicles.' ★★Nine out of ten people who recommend things loved Hunter Blain's books, according to a rigged and heavily-biased research study overseen by Argento Publishing...★★ Books in the Preternatural Chronicles: Deliverance--Book 0.5: B07V3GBZ47 I'm Glad You're Dead--Book 1: B07PG3CGG8 Dawn and Quartered--Book 2: B07SS6PDJY Shadow of a Doubt--Book 3: B0821YGZPQ Moonlight Equilibrium--Book 3.5: B086RY3WHZ Mouth of Madness--Book 4: B086FX5B87 What the Hell--Book 5: B088BG92DX Holy Sheoly--Book 6:

The Spiral Labyrinth

Author : Matthew Hughes
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1473225426
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (732 download)

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Download or read book The Spiral Labyrinth written by Matthew Hughes and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-01-17 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was bad enough when Henghis Hapthorn, Old Earth's foremost discriminator and die-hard empiricist, had to accept that the cosmos was shortly to rewrite its basic operating system, replacing rational cause-and-effect with detestable magic. Now he finds himself cast forward several centuries, stranded in a primitive world of contending wizards and hungry dragons, and without his magic-savvy alter ego. Worse, some entity with a will powerful enough to bend space and time is searching for him through the Nine Planes, bellowing "Bring me Apthorn!" in a voice loud enough to frighten demons. Praise for Matthew Hughes: "Matthew Hughes does Jack Vance better than anyone except Jack himself" - George R.R. Martin "Heir apparent to Jack Vance" - Booklist "Hughes's boldness is admirable"- New York Review of Science Fiction "Hughes effortlessly renders fantastic worlds and beings believable"- Publishers Weekly "A towering talent"- Robert J. Sawyer "A treasure" - David Gerrold

The Meaning of Luff and Other Stories

Author : Matthew Hughes
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 1473225477
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (732 download)

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Download or read book The Meaning of Luff and Other Stories written by Matthew Hughes and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Old Earth's penultimate age, the corpulent master criminal Luff Imbry moves through the halfworld like a full-fleshed shark. Thief, forger, confidence man, and sometimes go-between, he maps out his illicit operations with exquisite care then carries them out with courage and panache. But, often, things don't go as Luff planned, and he must call upon a talent for improvisation and a ruthless will to survive. This collection brings together seven short stories and novelettes previously published in Postscripts, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and the anthology Forbidden Planets, plus two novellas formerly only available in limited editions. It offers Luff Imbry in all his moods and guises. Finalist for the 2014 Endeavour Award.

Marc Jillson & The Gazebo

Author : Anyta Sunday
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783947909223
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Marc Jillson & The Gazebo written by Anyta Sunday and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Want true, heart-throbbing romance? Put down the Cheetos, and stop being a jackass. The question is, can I do it? I've been an epic dick to my friends, my uncle. Him. Travis Hunter. Photographer, econ-student, paraplegic. Can I redeem myself? Apologize? Make a fresh start? Hunter seems to think so. Even roped me into saving his favorite gazebo from the bulldozers. The confidence of this man amazes me. He's no bullshit where I'm all bullshit. I throw up walls where he knocks them down. He's beautiful, too. Strong arms inked with hummingbirds, a wide teasing mouth, and blue eyes that read me like an open book. He looks at me, and I look away. These shivery feelings I have for Hunter? They can't happen. I don't deserve him. Where did I put those Cheetos? "Marc Jillson & The Gazebo" is a sweet, sexy M/M romance with humor and a definite HEA. This New Adult, college, redemption story is book two in the "Love Inscribed" series. Content warning: References of past homophobic violence, mentions of the Vietnam War and the draft The books in the "Love Inscribed" series are standalone romances, and can be read in any order: LIAM DAVIS & THE RAVEN: Liam & Quinn's story MARC JILLSON & THE GAZEBO: Marc & Hunter's story

Fair Play

Author : Deeanne Gist
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476738521
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Fair Play written by Deeanne Gist and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of It Happened at the Fair comes a historical love story about a lady doctor and a Texas Ranger who meet at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. Saddled with a man’s name, Billy Jack Tate makes no apologies for taking on a man’s profession. As a doctor at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, she is one step closer to having her very own medical practice—until Hunter Scott asks her to give it all up to become his wife. Hunter is one of the elite—a Texas ranger and World’s Fair guard specifically chosen for his height, physique, character, and skill. Hailed as the toughest man west of any place east, he has no patience for big cities and women who think they belong anywhere but home. Despite their differences of opinion, Hunter and Billie find a growing attraction until Hunter discovers an abandoned baby in the corner of a White City exhibit. He and Billy team up to make sure this foundling isn’t left in the slums of Chicago. As they fight for the underprivileged children in the Nineteenth Ward, an entire playground movement is birthed. But when the fair comes to an end, one of them will have to give up their dream. Will Billy exchange her doctor’s shingle for the domesticated role of a southern wife, or will Hunter abandon the wide open spaces of home for a life in the “gray city,” a woman who insists on being the wage earner, and a group of ragamuffins who need more than one breathing space?

All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

Author : Bryn Greenwood
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250074134
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book All the Ugly and Wonderful Things written by Bryn Greenwood and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Struggling to raise her little brother Donal, eight-year-old Wavy is the only responsible adult around. Obsessed with the constellations, she finds peace in the starry night sky above the fields behind her house, until one night her star-gazing causes an accident. After witnessing his motorcycle wreck, she forms an unusual friendship with one of her father's thugs, Kellen, a tattooed ex-con with a heart of gold. By the time Wavy is a teenager, her relationship with Kellen is the only tender thing in a brutal world of addicts and debauchery"--

Ugly Girls

Author : Lindsay Hunter
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374533865
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (745 download)

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Download or read book Ugly Girls written by Lindsay Hunter and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the chaotic breakdown of a friendship that shapes and unravels the identities of two rebellious girls in the wake of a stalker's predations.

The Other

Author : Matthew Hughes
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 1473225450
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (732 download)

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Download or read book The Other written by Matthew Hughes and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Luff Imbry, an insidiously clever confidence man ...He likes good wine, good food, and good stolen goods, and he always maintains the upper hand. When a business rival gets the drop on him, he finds himself abandoned on Fulda--a far-off, isolated world with a history of its own. Unable to blend in and furious for revenge, Imbry has to rely on his infamous criminal wit to survive Fulda's crusade to extinguish The Other. Hailed as the heir apparent to Jack Vance, Matthew Hughes brings us this speculative, richly imagined exploration of society on the far edges of extreme. A central character in Black Brillion, Luff Imbry is at last front and center in Hughes's latest rollercoaster adventure through a far-future universe.

The Road to Woop Woop and Other Stories

Author : Eugen Bacon
Publisher : Meerkat Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781946154316
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (543 download)

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Download or read book The Road to Woop Woop and Other Stories written by Eugen Bacon and published by Meerkat Press, LLC. This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eugen Bacon's work is deemed cheeky with a fierce intelligence in text that's resplendent, delicious, dark and evocative. NPR called her novel Claiming T-Mo 'a confounding mysterious tour de force.' The Road to Woop Woop and Other Stories imbues the same lushness in a writerly language that is Bacon's own. This peculiar hybrid of the untraditional, the extraordinary within, without and along the borders of normalcy will hypnotize and absorb the reader with tales that refuse to be labeled. The stories in this collection are dirges that cross genres in astounding ways. Over 20 provocative tales, with seven original to this collection, by an award-winning African-Australian author.

Devil or Angel and Other Stories

Author : Matthew Hughes
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 1473225493
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (732 download)

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Download or read book Devil or Angel and Other Stories written by Matthew Hughes and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning author of Majestrum, Template, and The Other, this collection of short stories ranges from the thoughtful to the whimsical. Most of them appeared first in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and Asimov's. Others were written for the bespoke anthologies: Songs of the Dying Earth, Old Mars, and Welcome to the Greenhouse; one is published here for the first time.

The Grace Year

Author : Kim Liggett
Publisher : Wednesday Books
ISBN 13 : 1250145465
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Grace Year written by Kim Liggett and published by Wednesday Books. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Instant New York Times Bestseller! Kim Liggett's The Grace Year is a speculative thriller in the vein of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Power. Survive the year. No one speaks of the grace year. It’s forbidden. In Garner County, girls are told they have the power to lure grown men from their beds, to drive women mad with jealousy. They believe their very skin emits a powerful aphrodisiac, the potent essence of youth, of a girl on the edge of womanhood. That’s why they’re banished for their sixteenth year, to release their magic into the wild so they can return purified and ready for marriage. But not all of them will make it home alive. Sixteen-year-old Tierney James dreams of a better life—a society that doesn’t pit friend against friend or woman against woman, but as her own grace year draws near, she quickly realizes that it’s not just the brutal elements they must fear. It’s not even the poachers in the woods, men who are waiting for a chance to grab one of the girls in order to make a fortune on the black market. Their greatest threat may very well be each other. With sharp prose and gritty realism, The Grace Year examines the complex and sometimes twisted relationships between girls, the women they eventually become, and the difficult decisions they make in-between. “A visceral, darkly haunting fever dream of a novel and an absolute page-turner.” – Libba Bray, New York Times bestselling author

Miss Muriel and Other Stories

Author : Ann Petry
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810135574
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Miss Muriel and Other Stories written by Ann Petry and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young black girl watches as her aunt’s multiple suitors disrupt her family’s privacy. The same girl, now on the cusp of adulthood, shares her family’s growing fears that her father has disappeared. Acclaimed author Ann Petry penned these and the other unforgettable narratives in Miss Muriel and Other Stories more than seventy years ago, yet in them contemporary readers recognize characters who exist today and dilemmas that recur again and again: the reluctance of African Americans to seek help from the police, the rage that erupts in a black man worn down by brutality, the tyranny that the young can visit on their elders regardless of race. Originally published between 1945 and 1971, Petry’s stories capture the essence of African American experience since the 1940s.

People of the Earth

Author : W. Michael Gear
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 146681778X
Total Pages : 613 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book People of the Earth written by W. Michael Gear and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-11-03 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors and award-winning archaeologists W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear bring the stories of these first North Americans to life in this and other volumes in the magnicent North America's Forgotten Past series. Set five thousand years ago and ranging through what is now Montana, Wyoming, northern Colorado, and Utah, People of the Earth follows the migration of the Uto-Aztecan people south out of Canada. It is the unforgettable tale of a woman torn between two peoples and two dreams, of the two men who love her and the third who must have her, and of the vision given to the peoples long ago by the spirit of the wolf. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Majestrum

Author : Matthew Hughes
Publisher : Gateway
ISBN 13 : 1473225418
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (732 download)

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Download or read book Majestrum written by Matthew Hughes and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE TALES OF HENGHIS HAPTHORN Henghis Hapthorn is the foremost penetrator of mysteries and uncoverer of secrets in a decadent, far-future Old Earth, one age before Jack Vance's Dying Earth. A superb rationalist, he has long disdained the notion that the universe has an alternative organizing principle: magic. But now a new age is dawning, overturning the very foundations of Hapthorn's existence, and he must struggle to survive in a world where all the rules are changing. In MAJESTRUM, Hapthorn is on the trail of an unknown killer who collects body parts from his victims. The search leads him off-planet, into the Ten Thousand Worlds of The Spray, then turns in an unexpected direction as the freelance discriminator learns that an ancient and evil power is plotting to reassert its dominion over Old Earth.

The Book of Swords

Author : George R. R. Martin
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0399593772
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Swords written by George R. R. Martin and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New epic fantasy in the grand tradition—including a never-before-published Song of Ice and Fire story by George R. R. Martin! Fantasy fiction has produced some of the most unforgettable heroes ever conjured onto the page: Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Barbarian, Michael Moorcock’s Elric of Melniboné, Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Classic characters like these made sword and sorcery a storytelling sensation, a cornerstone of fantasy fiction—and an inspiration for a new generation of writers, spinning their own outsize tales of magic and swashbuckling adventure. Now, in The Book of Swords, acclaimed editor and bestselling author Gardner Dozois presents an all-new anthology of original epic tales by a stellar cast of award-winning modern masters—many of them set in their authors’ best-loved worlds. Join today’s finest tellers of fantastic tales, including George R. R. Martin, K. J. Parker, Robin Hobb, Scott Lynch, Ken Liu, C. J. Cherryh, Daniel Abraham, Lavie Tidhar, Ellen Kushner, and more on action-packed journeys into the outer realms of dark enchantment and intrepid derring-do, featuring a stunning assortment of fearless swordsmen and warrior women who face down danger and death at every turn with courage, cunning, and cold steel. FEATURING SIXTEEN ALL-NEW STORIES: “The Best Man Wins” by K. J. Parker “Her Father’s Sword” by Robin Hobb “The Hidden Girl” by Ken Liu “The Sword of Destiny” by Matthew Hughes “‘I Am a Handsome Man,’ Said Apollo Crow” by Kate Elliott “The Triumph of Virtue” by Walter Jon Williams “The Mocking Tower” by Daniel Abraham “Hrunting” by C. J. Cherryh “A Long, Cold Trail” by Garth Nix “When I Was a Highwayman” by Ellen Kushner “The Smoke of Gold Is Glory” by Scott Lynch “The Colgrid Conundrum” by Rich Larson “The King’s Evil” by Elizabeth Bear “Waterfalling” by Lavie Tidhar “The Sword Tyraste” by Cecelia Holland “The Sons of the Dragon” by George R. R. Martin And an introduction by Gardner Dozois “When fine writer and expert editor [Gardner] Dozois beckons, authors deliver—and this surely will be one of the year’s essential anthologies.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Radio Freefall

Author : Matthew Jarpe
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765357199
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book Radio Freefall written by Matthew Jarpe and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-11-04 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a power-hungry computer magnate plots to take over the world, a motley band of rock stars, misfits, and a mysterious blues musician with superhuman technical skills may become Earth's only defense.