Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Down These Mean Streets
NEW FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION STORIES WITH A HARDBOILED NOIR TWIST—FOCUSING ON THE MEAN STREETS OF THE CITY “Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.” —Raymond Chandler Humans have always been fascinated by darkness. Especially the darkness of a city at night, when the black sky is made ever more inky by the pools of illumination dropped under streetlights. We harken to the sound of streetcars in the distance. We are drawn to the garish flash of club signs and marquees. We love the danger of shadowed alleyways, of wealth and poverty living side by side. We love the city. It’s a part of us. Whether the mean streets be in a...
Noir Fatale
NEW SCIENCE FICTION, URBAN FANTASY, AND MYSTERY STORIES WITH A NOIR THEME FROM BEST-SELLING AUTHORS LAURELL K. HAMILTON delivering an Anita Blake series story, LARRY CORREIA, penning a Grimnoir series adventure, an original Honor Harrington series tale from DAVID WEBER, AND MORE. The silky note of a saxophone. The echoes of a woman’s high heels down a deserted asphalt street. Steam rising from city vents to cloud the street-lit air. A man with a gun. A dame with a problem . . . NOIR. From the pulpy pages of Black Mask Magazine in the 1920s and 30s, through the film noir era of the 1940s, to today, noir fiction has lured many a reader and movie-goer away from the light and into the dark und...
Target Rich Environment
Larry Correia, the New York Times best-selling author of the wildly popular Monster Hunter International and Grimnoir Chronicles series of no-holds-barred urban fantasy and the Dead Six trilogy of military adventure novels, now sets his sights on the short story form. Together for the first time, fourteen action-packed tales of demons, monster, vampires, and cosmic horrors too terrible to name—and the men and women who take them all down. Oh, and toss in an interdimensional insurance salesman for good measure. You’ll also find: An elven princess from the pages of Monster Hunter International on a mission to redeem her people. A samurai pirate with a blood vendetta against an extremely la...
We Dare 4
Fifteen outstanding authors. Fifteen stories about bounty hunters and their bounties!There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.- Hemingway.Bounty hunting is one of those morally gray areas that exist at the periphery of civil society. Few people know anyone whose job it is to find and retrieve fugitives, and bring them before the courts. In the future, however, one can envision any number of ways of how bounty hunting can be used (or abused) for any number of problems. Alien monsters haunting your space station? Bring in a team of hunters, and watch the double-crosses fly. Indentured work...
Lovecká sezona
Larry Correia vám ve své první povídkové antologii nabízí čtrnáct povídek o démonech, monstrech, upírech a kosmických hrůzách příliš strašlivých, aby mohly být pojmenovány – a statečné muže a ženy, kteří se jim postaví. Zavítejte do světa Lovců monster, ať už do současnosti, kde elfská princezna musí přehodnotit svůj názor na krvelačné orky, nebo do předminulého století, kdy první lovecká společnost Bubby Shackleforda křižovala Západ divočejší, než si dokážete představit. Ve světě Grimnoirských kronik se soukromý detektiv Jake Sullivan snaží vypátrat ztraceného Léčitele a na palubě luxusní vzducholodě se zaplete do politických her nejmocnějších států na Zemi. A kromě známých hrdinů vás v této knize čeká i mnoho nových, ať už je to samuraj pronásledující obří mořskou příšeru, vyhlášený odstřelovač sledující vražedného mága, tankisté bojující s neporazitelným nepřítelem nebo jediný pojišťovací agent, který vás dokáže pojistit i pro případ mimozemské invaze a otevření bran pekelných.
Down These Mean Streets
NEW FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION STORIES WITH A HARDBOILED NOIR TWIST—FOCUSING ON THE MEAN STREETS OF THE CITY “Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.” —Raymond Chandler Humans have always been fascinated by darkness. Especially the darkness of a city at night, when the black sky is made ever more inky by the pools of illumination dropped under streetlights. We harken to the sound of streetcars in the distance. We are drawn to the garish flash of club signs and marquees. We love the danger of shadowed alleyways, of wealth and poverty living side by side. We love the city. It’s a part of us. Whether the mean streets be in a...
Sword & Planet
NEW STORIES IN THE GRAND SPACE FANTASY TRADITION! SCIENCE FICTION? FANTASY? IS IT TOO MUCH TO ASK FOR BOTH? The distant future—like the distant past—is a place of myths, of legends, and of great heroes. Cyborg knights battle extraterrestrial demons to rescue a peaceful village. A young girl unlocks an ancient power to protect her world from offworld colonists. Here are stories not where magic is science, but with magic and science. Not knights and castles, but knights and starships. Wizards and ray guns. Swords and planets. In D.J. Butler’s “Power and Prestige,” a pair of two-bit mercenaries are hired to solve a murder in a labyrinth beneath a crumbling city at the end of time. A y...
Hard Magic
#1 in the hard-hitting Grimnoir Chronicles by the New York Times best-selling creator of Monster Hunter International. Jake Sullivan is hardboiled private eye at war with evil magical powers in a dark and gritty urban fantasy that’s a cross between the The Maltese Falcon and Twilight. Twilight meets The Maltese Falcon in the first entry of the hard-hitting Grimnoir Chronicles urban fantasy saga by the New York Times best-selling creator of Monster Hunter International. Magical creeps dispatched in heaps! Jake Sullivan is a war vet, a licensed private eye, and the possessor of a seriously hardboiled attitude. He also happens to have the magical ability to make anything in his vicinity light...
Lovci monster: Alfa
Earl Harbinger, výkonný ředitel Lovců monster s.r.o., má tajemství – tajemství, se kterým se musí o každém úplňku zamykat do cely, jinak by sežralo každého na potkání. Ale zatímco ostatní vlkodlaci jsou lovnou zvěří, Earlovi vláda udělila výjimku, a protože to byla federální vláda, nebylo to zadarmo. Ve druhé světové válce, Vietnamu i na místech, o kterých spořádaní američtí občané nikdy neslyšeli, pak musel on a jemu podobní dokazovat, že si důvěru strýčka Sama opravdu zaslouží. Práce pro vládu, armádu nebo CIA Earl vždy považoval za nutné zlo, ale když se mu ozve bývalý řídící důstojník s tím, že do Ameriky přicestoval jeho starý nepřítel, vlkodlak z KGB proslulý svou brutalitou, neváhá ani na okamžik. V odlehlých lesích Michiganu se toho však děje mnohem víc, než se na první pohled zdá. Se soumrakem začíná poslední lov a v cestě mu stojí jen hrstka místních, spousta zbraní a Earl Harbinger, který tvrdohlavě odmítá převalit se na záda a hrát mrtvého. Alfa vlkodlak může být jeden.
