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Area X - The Southern Reach Trilogy
'A contemporary masterpiece' Guardian
ALL THREE VOLUMES OF THE EXTRAORDINARY SOUTHERN REACH TRILOGY - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY ALEX GARLAND (EX MACHINA) AND STARRING NATALIE PORTMAN, OSCAR ISAAC, GINA RODRIGUEZ AND TESSA THOMPSON
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades, explored only in a series of expeditions dispatched by a secret government agency called the Southern Reach. So far these expeditions have returned - when they have returned - with more questions than answers. The first group came back with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; the second expedition ended in mass suicide; the members of the eleventh expedition returned but soon all died of cancer. At the beginning of the Southern Reach Trilogy, we join the twelfth expedition: four female scientists prepared to map the terrain, to document and analyse samples. But once they cross into Area X it becomes apparent that the rules of nature as they understand them do not apply.
Back at headquarters, the Southern Reach itself falls into disarray, its arcane bureaucracy and obsessive secrecy collapsing into paranoia and paralysis. Those tasked with understanding and controlling Area X seem doomed to respond only with irrational, desperate measures. Is it possible that one last mission across the border can save them?
Together for the first time in one volume, the three celebrated novels of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy - Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance - tell an exhilarating, disturbing, and all but unbearably suspenseful story of humanity engaged in what might be an existential confrontation with nature. It is destined to become a classic of its kind.
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City of Saints and Madmen
From the author of Annihilation, now a major motion picture on Netflix.
In the city of Ambergris, a would-be suitor discovers a sunlit street can become a killing ground in the blink of an eye. An artist receives an invitation to a beheading and finds himself enchanted. And a patient in a mental institution is convinced he's imagined a city called Ambergris, invented its every last detail, and that he's really from a place called Chicago. Ambergris is a cruelly beautiful metropolis - a haven for artists and thieves, for composers and murderers. And once there, anything can happen.
These tales of Ambergris include the World Fantasy Award-winning novella, The Transformation of Martin Lake.
From Jeff VanderMeer, an author praised by writers such as Laren Beukes, China Mieville and Michael Moorcock, City of Saints and Madmen is by turns sensuous and terrifying. This collection of four linked novellas is the perfect introduction to VanderMeer's vividly imagined worlds.
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Veniss Underground
From the author of Annihilation, now a major motion picture on Netflix Dreams and nightmares entwine as three fellow travellers strive to achieve their deepest desires.Nicholas seeks to escape his demons in the city of Veniss' shadowy underground. But in so doing, he makes a deal with the devil himself. His twin sister, Nicola, embarks on a feverish search for him. And while discovering the city's hidden secrets, she'll spin her own hypnotic tale.Nicola's lover Shadrach is haunted by her mysterious disappearance. In the grip of despair, he decides to embark on a mythic journey. Shadrach must steel himself to visit the nightmarish levels deep beneath the surface of the city to bring his love back to the light. For these depths hold perils that are both complex and chilling. There, he will find wonders beyond imagining . . . and horrors greater than the heart can bear.Literary alchemist Jeff VanderMeer has produced a triumph of the imagination, revealing the mysterious city of Veniss through three intertwined voices. Veniss Underground is an unforgettable journey exploring the limits of love, memory and obsession. This edition includes the novella Balzac's War.
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Shriek - An Afterword
From the author of Annihilation, now a major motion picture on Netflix.Janice Shriek, ex-society figure, narrates this tale with flamboyant intensity and under increasingly urgent conditions. We follow the adventures of her brother Duncan, an historian obsessed with a doomed love affair, and learn of a secret that may kill or transform him. We witness a war between rival publishing houses that will change Ambergris forever. And we're introduced to the gray caps, a marginalized people armed with advanced fungal technologies, who've been waiting underground for their chance to mould the future of the city. Shriek: An Afterword by the Nebula Award winning author Jeff VanderMeer is an epic yet personal look at life, love and death in the vividly imagined city of Ambergris. And, through this tumultuous story of the family Shriek, the author shows his genius at capturing and displaying the bizarre. Praised by China Mieville, The Times, Guardian and many others, this tale relates the scandalous, heart-breaking and horrifying secret history of two squabbling siblings and their confidantes, protectors, and enemies.
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Expedíció - A Déli végek-trilógia 1. része
A könyv új kiadása filmes védőborítóval, alatta az új kiadása borítójával.
Az X Térséget a kormányzat már harminc éve környezeti katasztrófa sújtotta övezetnek álcázza, így mostanra az érintetlen és burjánzó vadonnak látszó terület csupa misztikum és rejtély az emberek szemében. A Déli Végek nevű titkos ügynökség ez idő alatt számos expedíciót küldött a hely felderítésére - szinte mindegyik tragikus véget ért.
Most indul útnak a tizenkettedik expedíció.
A kutatócsoport négy nőből áll: egy antropológusból, egy geodétából, egy pszichológusból és egy biológusból. A küldetésük felderíteni a terepet és mintákat gyűjteni, feljegyezni minden tudományos megfigyelést a környezetről és egymásról, valamint mindenek felett elkerülni az X Térség természetfeletti hatását.
Az expedíció mindenre felkészülve indul útnak, és hamar megdöbbentő felfedezéseket tesz - például talál egy megmagyarázhatatlan topográfiai jelenséget és olyan életformákat, amik meghaladják a megértés képességét -, de mégsem ezek, hanem a tagok egymás elől gondosan elrejtett titkai változtatnak meg mindent.
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Kontroll - A Déli végek-trilógia 2. része
A Déli Végek nevű titkos ügynökség immáron harminc éve küld expedíciókat az X Térségbe, ebbe a távoli és a civilizációtól rejtélyesen elzárt, veszedelmes vidékre, a természetfeletti jelenségek titkainak kiderítése céljából. A tizenkettedik expedíció után azonban a Déli Végek mély válságba kerül, ezért megbízzák John Rodriguezt - ismertebb nevén Kontrollt -, hogy állítsa helyre a rendet. Számos kihallgatás, rengeteg titkos dokumentum és közel kétszáz órányi videofelvétel megtekintése után úgy tűnik, mintha feltárulna előtte az X Térség vészterhes valósága - ám amit Kontroll megtud, az végzetes lehet számára, ugyanis nemcsak a Déli Végeket illetően kell szembenéznie a kegyetlen igazsággal, hanem saját magával kapcsolatban is.
A Kontroll hajmeresztő folytatása az Expedíciónak, és a Déli Végek-trilógia befejezését olyan mesteri cselekményszövéssel készíti elő, amire a sci-fiben rég nem volt példa.
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Anihilace (1x Audio na CD - MP3)
Oblast X byla desítky let odříznutá od zbytku kontinentu. Rozlehlé pozůstatky lidské civilizace znovu opanovala příroda.
První expedice se vrátila se zprávami o nedotčené, rajské krajině. Všichni členové druhé expedice spáchali sebevraždu. Třetí expedice zanikla při přestřelce, když se její členové obrátili proti sobě. Účastníci jedenácté expedice se vrátili jako stíny svých dřívějších já a během několika měsíců po návratu zemřeli na agresivní rakovinu. Nyní se chystá dvanáctá
Na místo dorazí s tím, že očekávají neočekávané, a Oblast X skutečně dostojí své pověsti brzy objeví obrovskou topografickou anomálii a formy života, které se vymykají veškerému chápání. Avšak tím, co všechno změní, jsou především tajemství, která si do Oblasti X přinesli sami účastníci expedice. Oblast X byla desítky let odříznutá od zbytku kontinentu. Rozlehlé pozůstatky lidské civilizace znovu opanovala příroda.
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Wonderbook Revised and Expanded
Wonderbook has become the definitive guide to writing science fiction and fantasy by offering an accessible, example-rich approach that emphasizes the importance of playfulness as well as pragmatism. It also exploits the visual nature of genre culture and employs bold, full-color drawings, maps, renderings, and visualizations to stimulate creative thinking. On top of all that, the book features sidebars and essays from some of the biggest names working in the field today, including George R.
R. Martin, Lev Grossman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Moorcock, and Karen Joy Fowler. For the fifth anniversary of the original publication, Jeff VanderMeer has added an additional 32 pages of diagrams, illustrations, and writing exercises creating the ultimate volume of inspiring advice that is also a stunning and inspiring object.
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Kniha divů
Kniha divů by se také dala nazvat biblí začínajících i pokročilejších spisovatelů. Nabízí komplexní pohled a rady týkající se stylu, struktury a metodologie tvůrčího psaní, doplněné komentáři od slavných a úspěšných autorů ze světa fantastiky i mimo něj.
Získáte cenné rady, jak strukturovat příběh, mistrně vystavět zápletku či rozvinout děj. Naučíte se budovat charakteristiku postav a tvořit svoje nové, zcela originální literární světy.
Dead Astronauts
Under the watchful eye of The Company, three characters - Grayson, Morse and Chen - shapeshifters, amorphous, part human, part extensions of the landscape, make their way through forces that would consume them. A blue fox, a giant fish and language stretched to the limit.
A messianic blue fox who slips through warrens of time and space on a mysterious mission. A homeless woman haunted by a demon who finds the key to all things in a strange journal. A giant leviathan of a fish, centuries old, who hides a secret, remembering a past that may not be its own. Three ragtag rebels waging an endless war for the fate of the world against an all-powerful corporation. A raving madman who wanders the desert lost in the past, haunted by his own creation: an invisible monster whose name he has forgotten and whose purpose remains hidden.
Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts presents a City with no name of its own where, in the shadow of the all-powerful Company, lives human and otherwise converge in terrifying and miraculous ways. At stake: the fate of the future, the fate of Earth - all the Earths.
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Acceptance
The highly anticipated third volume of the haunting, disturbing and evocative Southern Reach trilogy. It is winter in Area X. A new team embarks across the border, on a mission to find a member of a previous expedition who may have been left behind. As they press deeper into the unknown - navigating new terrain and new challenges - the threat to the outside world becomes only more daunting. In this last instalment of the Southern Reach Trilogy, the mysteries of Area X may have been solved, but their consequences and implications are no less profound - or terrifying.
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Borne
In a ruined, nameless city of the future, a woman named Rachel, who makes her living as a scavenger, finds a small green lump of a creature she names ''Borne'' entangled in the fur of Mord, a gigantic, despotic bear. Mord once prowled the corridors of the biotech organization known as the Company, which lies at the outskirts of the city, until he was experimented on, grew large, learned to fly and broke free. Driven insane by his torture at the hands of the Company, Mord terrorizes the city.
Borne somehow reminds Rachel of the island nation of her birth, now long lost to rising seas. She feels an attachment she resents; attachments are traps, and in this world any weakness can kill you. Yet when she takes Borne to her subterranean sanctuary, the Balcony Cliffs, Rachel convinces her lover, Wick, not to render Borne down to raw genetic material for the drugs he sells -- she cannot break that bond.
Wick is a special kind of supplier, because the drug dealers in the city don't sell the usual things. They sell tiny creatures that can be swallowed or stuck in the ear, and that release powerful memories of other people's happier times or pull out forgotten memories from the user's own mind -- or just produce beautiful visions that provide escape from the barren, craterous landscapes of the city.
Against his better judgment, out of affection for Rachel or perhaps some other impulse, Wick respects her decision. Rachel, meanwhile, despite her loyalty to Wick, knows he has kept secrets from her. Searching his apartment, she finds a burnt, unreadable journal titled ''Mord,'' a cryptic reference to the Magician (a rival drug dealer) and evidence that Wick has planned the layout of the Balcony Cliffs to match the blueprint of the Company building. What is he hiding? Why won't he tell her about what happened when he worked for the Company?
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Dead Astronauts
Under the watchful eye of The Company, three characters - Grayson, Morse and Chen - shapeshifters, amorphous, part human, part extensions of the landscape, make their way through forces that would consume them. A blue fox, a giant fish and language stretched to the limit.
A messianic blue fox who slips through warrens of time and space on a mysterious mission. A homeless woman haunted by a demon who finds the key to all things in a strange journal. A giant leviathan of a fish, centuries old, who hides a secret, remembering a past that may not be its own. Three ragtag rebels waging an endless war for the fate of the world against an all-powerful corporation. A raving madman who wanders the desert lost in the past, haunted by his own creation: an invisible monster whose name he has forgotten and whose purpose remains hidden.
Jeff VanderMeer's Dead Astronauts presents a City with no name of its own where, in the shadow of the all-powerful Company, lives human and otherwise converge in terrifying and miraculous ways. At stake: the fate of the future, the fate of Earth - all the Earths.
Hummingbird Salamander
A speculative thriller about the end of all things, set in the Pacific Northwest. A harrowing descent into a secret world.
Security consultant and former wrestler 'Jane Smith' receives an envelope with a key to a storage unit that holds a taxidermied hummingbird and clues leading her to a taxidermied salamander. Silvina, the dead woman who left the note, is a reputed ecoterrorist and the daughter of an Argentine industrialist. By taking the hummingbird from the storage unit, Jane sets in motion a series of events that quickly spin beyond her control.
Soon, Jane and her family are in danger, with few allies to help her make sense of the true scope of the peril. Is the only way to safety to follow in Silvina's footsteps? Is it too late to stop? As she desperately seeks answers about why Silvina contacted her, time is running out-for her and possibly for the world.
Hummingbird Salamander is Jeff VanderMeer at his brilliant, cinematic best, wrapping profound questions about climate change, identity, and the world we live in into a tightly plotted thriller full of unexpected twists and elaborate conspiracy.
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Hummingbird Salamander
A speculative thriller about the end of all things, set in the Pacific Northwest. A harrowing descent into a secret world.
Security consultant and former wrestler 'Jane Smith' receives an envelope with a key to a storage unit that holds a taxidermied hummingbird and clues leading her to a taxidermied salamander. Silvina, the dead woman who left the note, is a reputed ecoterrorist and the daughter of an Argentine industrialist. By taking the hummingbird from the storage unit, Jane sets in motion a series of events that quickly spin beyond her control.
Soon, Jane and her family are in danger, with few allies to help her make sense of the true scope of the peril. Is the only way to safety to follow in Silvina's footsteps? Is it too late to stop? As she desperately seeks answers about why Silvina contacted her, time is running out-for her and possibly for the world.
Hummingbird Salamander is Jeff VanderMeer at his brilliant, cinematic best, wrapping profound questions about climate change, identity, and the world we live in into a tightly plotted thriller full of unexpected twists and elaborate conspiracy.
Lacná kniha Borne (-95%)
Rachel guberálásból él a jövő egy porig rombolt, névtelen városában. Az egyik nap egy furcsa teremtményt talál Mord, a gigantikus zsarnoki medve bundáján, aki egykoron a Vállalat nevű biotech cég folyosóin nevelkedett, majd a rajta végzett kísérletek után megnőtt, a kínzások eredményeként pedig megőrült és elszabadult. Azóta rettegésben tartja a várost, de ugyanakkor élelemmel is ellátja a bujkáló lakókat.
Rachel a teremtményt Borne-nak nevezi el, aki először semmire se hasonlít - egy kis zöld dudor csupán, ami akár a Vállalattól is eredhet. A Vállalatról pedig azt pletykálják, hogy habár jelentős károkat szenvedett el, de mindmáig létrehoz furcsa lényeket, és olyan távoli helyekre küldi őket, ahova még nem ért el a pusztulás.
Rachel és Borne között különösen szoros kapcsolat alakul ki, de ebben a világban minden kötelék csapda, és bármilyen gyengeség könnyen megölheti az embert. A lány hazaviszi a teremtményt a földalatti menedékébe, és a drogokkal kereskedő szeretőjét, Wicket is sikerül meggyőznie, hogy fogadják be a titokzatos jövevényt. De ebben a furcsa háromszögben mindenkinek titkai vannak, és amit Rachel a Vállalat épületének elfeledett mélységében talál, az mindent és mindenkit örökre megváltoztat.
Jeff VanderMeer a lenyűgöző Déli Végek-trilógia után egy olyan, a műfajt még jobban feje tetejére állító regénnyel jelentkezik, ahol sem a múlt, sem a jelen, sem a jövő nem az, aminek látszik. A Borne az év egyik legeredetibb regénye, amely szerzőjét végérvényesen teszi korunk egyik legfontosabb sci-fi írójává.
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