Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: Time is of the essence in Terry Pratchett’s twenty-sixth Discworld novel. Time is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be managed. And on the Discworld that is the job of the Monks of History, who store it and pump it from the places where it’s wasted (like underwater — how much time does a codfish need?) to places like cities, where there’s never enough time. But the construction of the world’s…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 288 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 450) Аннотация: The dazzling new science fiction adventure from the extraordinary imaginations of Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter — the fourth novel in a collaborative series that has been hailed as 'sense-of-wonder SF at its best.' (Independent on Sunday). 2045-2059. In spite of the world-changing upheavals of Step Day and the Yellowstone eruption — humanity is spreading further into the Long Earth, and…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: In a matter of days, Peter McDowell loses everything he has worked so hard for — including his marriage. Stripped of everything, he has only one place he can retreat to: the home he left twenty years ago. There, he comes face to face with his brother for the first time in years. At first, Peter dreads seeing Michael again — but to his surprise their reunion is tender and real. Only later, as…
Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: «Sleep, Pale Sister», a powerful, atmospheric and blackly gothic evocation of Victorian artistic life, was originally published before Joanne Harris achieved worldwide recognition with «Chocolat». Henry Chester, a domineering and puritanical Victorian artist, is in search of the perfect model. In nine-year-old Effie he finds her. Ten years later, lovely, childlike and sedated, Effie seems the…