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Hodiny tikají. Za pět povídek odbije půlnoc. Temná a mrazivá, vzbuzující beznaděj a podporující primitivní pudy. Dovolte vlastní imaginaci, aby vás schvátila. Žádný svět není tak magický jako ten ve vaší hlavě. Nakladatelství Canc uvádí sbírku, jež mapuje povídkovou tvorbu kontroverzního spisovatele Jana Hlubka od počátku až do roku 2023 a svými žánrovými přesahy tečuje několik literárních odvětví.
Murie
Sci-fi válečný příběh a "polokomiks" s prvky erotiky vznikl na základě soutěžní povídky. Osmnáctiletý sebevrah Formánek nastupuje na povinnou vojenskou službu s vědomím, že nepřežije ani první bitvu. Při výcviku zjistí, že Ruslandsko neválčí s rebely nebo jiným státem, ale s nelidskými obludami. Nikdo vojákům pořádně nevysvětlí důvod konfliktu a s nepřítelem se nedá komunikovat. Prostě ideální příležitost konečně zemřít. Potom ale Formánek potkává Madam a najednou má pro co, tedy pro koho žít. Sotva se mu začne trochu dařit, nakazí se Murií, jednou z nejnebezpečnějších oblud, a rozjede se s ním kolo marnosti a beznaděje. "Jenom umřít" by bylo ještě dobré. Nakladatelská anotace.
A Forgotten Murder
An English manor home, an unsolved mystery, too many suspects to count… It’s the perfect holiday for romance novelist Sara Medlar. Sara Medlar, her niece Kate and their friend Jack need a change of scenery so Sara arranges for them to visit an old friend in England. Upon arrival at Oxley Manor, a centuries-old estate converted to a luxury hotel, Kate and Jack quickly realize Sara is up to something. They learn that Sara has also invited a number of others to join them. When everyone assembles, Sara explains. Decades earlier, two people ran off together from Oxley and haven’t been heard from since—and Sara wants to solve the case. As the people who were there the night the two went mi...
Glorious Nemesis
Klíma's intense inner life and complex mental state are reflected in his peculiar writings. His eccentricity of style and often volatile prose were intended to convey the deep conflicts attending his thought processes, and this is perhaps best exemplified in the novella Glorious Nemesis. Set in the Tyrol, it is a balladic ghost story that explores the metaphysics of love and death, crime and reincarnation. Sider, a man of twenty-eight, is confronted by a giant mountain named Stag's Head and an ancient hovel standing under a high, black cliff. Out one day on a hike, he encounters two women who will mark his fate: the elder Errata, dressed in red, and the younger Orea, dressed in blue (the two colors of the Virgin Mary). From this point on Sider is on a quest for the All, the Absolute, and to achieve eternity by atoning for the misdeeds of a past life. Willing to risk his entire fortune and sanity, he succumbs to his dreams and hallucinations as Orea, or her doppelgänger, becomes for him a representation of the goddess Nemesis who initiates him into the mysteries of divine retribution.
Qualityland
What if the perfect world wasn't built for you? Welcome to QualityLand, the best country on Earth. Here, a universal ranking system determines the social advantages and career opportunities of every member of society. An automated matchmaking service knows the best partners for everyone and helps with the break up when your ideal match (frequently) changes. And the foolproof algorithms of the biggest, most successful company in the world, TheShop, know what you want before you do and conveniently deliver to your doorstep before you even order it. In QualityCity, Peter Jobless is a machine scrapper who can't quite bring himself to destroy the imperfect machines sent his way, and has become th...
Shared Fantasy
This classic study still provides one of the most acute descriptions available of an often misunderstood subculture: that of fantasy role playing games like Dungeons & Dragons. Gary Alan Fine immerses himself in several different gaming systems, offering insightful details on the nature of the games and the patterns of interaction among players—as well as their reasons for playing.
The Fantasy Role-Playing Game
Many of today's hottest selling games--both non-electronic and electronic--focus on such elements as shooting up as many bad guys as one can (Duke Nuk'em), beating the toughest level (Mortal Kombat), collecting all the cards (Pokemon), and scoring the most points (Tetris). Fantasy role-playing games (Dungeons & Dragons, Rolemaster, GURPS), while they may involve some of those aforementioned elements, rarely focus on them. Instead, playing a fantasy role-playing game is much like acting out a scene from a play, movie or book, only without a predefined script. Players take on such roles as wise wizards, noble knights, roguish sellswords, crafty hobbits, greedy dwarves, and anything else one ca...
Social Roles
Twelve field studies of specific social roles are used to show particular aspects of role enactment. The author uses the symbolic interaction perspective, along with sociological and social psychological theory to illustrate how people assimilate roles, enact the expected behaviour, or deal with unacceptable roles. The roles played by new army recruits, priests in a protest movement, and indigenous leaders in a poverty programme are among those researched. A framework for analyzing role enactment, and hints about studying roles in the field are also provided.
Escape Attempts
From sexual fantasies to holidays this marvellous book charts our escape attempts. In a series of dazzling commentaries the authors reveal the ordinary and extraordinary ways in which we seek to defy the despair of the breakfast table and the office But the book is much more than a first-rate cartography of everyday life. It crackles with important theoretical insights about how `normality' is managed. This fully revised edition contains a superb new introduction, `Life After Postmodernism', which exposes the conceits of the postmodernist adventure and which should be required reading for anyone interested in making sense of everyday life.
Esence hrůzy
V zapadlých koutech lidské duše se skrývají podvědomé instinkty, které nám pomáhají přežít. Udržují nás v bdělosti. Trénují nás. Varují. A to jednoduše proto, že je před čím. Svět je plný hrůz číhajících na každém kroku, mnohdy i tam, kde bychom je sotva čekali. Mají nejrůznější podobu, avšak zcela bez příkras lze říct, že mají společný punc, díky němuž se nám zastavuje dech. Svou osobitou esenci. Nejlepší autoři z Česka i Slovenska se spojili pod taktovkou Jana Hlubka, aby vám ji namíchali v té nejkoncentrovanější a nejaromatičtější verzi.
