Magic Opera

Роман Через смерть - второй в тетралогии Защита периметра. Главный герой - отличный тактик в играх, посвящённых космическим сражениям. Его нанимают как флотоводца для ведения наиболее крупных баталий в игровых мирах. Но однажды герой получает необычное предложениe.

Михаил Атаманов - популярный российский писатель-фантаст, работающий в разных жанрах. Наибольшую известность получили его книги в жанре ЛитРПГ. Предлагаем послушать вторую книгу цикла Искажающие реальность. Человечество вступило в онлайн-игру, которая искажает реальность.

S.P. Somtow’s much anthologized story The Fallen Country, and the acclaimed young adult novel that derived from it, have been favorites since the 1980s when they first appeared. In 2015, wearing his other hat as one of the leading contemporary opera composers, Somtow premiered his opera The Snow Dragon, a third variation on this theme, taking the characters into a whole new dimension. This volume collects all three variants — short story, novel, and opera libretto, to form a fascinating study in the evolution of a writer’s mind over a thirty-five year period. The Snow Dragon is the ...

Tiffany knows what happened. Esper has fallen to the darkness within her. Rather than fleeing to safety, she escapes the presence of Dark Esper to find a way to bring back the woman she thinks of as a mother. But before she can drag Esper down the road to redemption, she'll first have to wade into hell to find her. Meanwhile, Esper is being hunted by the latest in a long string of bounty hunters and assassins looking to collect the astronomical price on her head. What makes this one think she's got any better chance than all the rest that have tried and failed?

Home is where the bark is. Fleeing from an unwinnable battle, Tanny is forced to find a planet where she can take refuge from a syndicate with galaxy-spanning reach. The first planet that meets the bill is a wild, forbidden world, home to all manner of monsters. But she has an ace up her sleeve; one of her closest allies was born there. But even with the help of a local, can Tanny and her crew survive long enough to contact help?

The syndicate had given her an ultimatum: disappear. Watched and wary, Fujita Hiroko obeyed for years, burying herself in work. Now one of the galaxy's most recognized faces, owner of the universe's must-see tourist trap, she can't hide any longer. And that's going to cost her. The Ruckers don't take kindly to loose ends, and they don't want their history with the station director coming to light. Already struggling to keep up with the demands of the massive influx of pilgrims, scientists, and tourists to Astral Prime, Hiroko won't be prepared for what's coming her way.

Whack! When a mystery man lands smack-dab on the front of their ship while flying through space, the Guardians of the Galaxy bring him aboard to take a closer look. Is he an angel? With that eye patch, could he be...a pirate? Turns out it’s Thor, the God of Thunder, and he’s just as confused by the Guardians as they are by him: a rabbit captaining a ship, and a talking tree he can understand? As the most unlikely team this side of the galaxy, the pirate angel, the talking tree, and captain rabbit head off to Nidavellir in hopes of tracking down the dwarves.

Not the popular music from 1972 but much older. Special classical music called opera, with singing that tells a story. This was the music that Viktor loved. Viktor is a charming ancient dragon who has been coming to the Metropolitan Opera House for many years. He befriends a taxi driver and his ten-year-old son to help him meet the new tenor opera star, who woke him up.

Искажающие реальность - первая книга из одноимённого цикла. Действие происходит в будущем. Во всех средствах массовой информации навязчиво повторяется некое послание от инопланетной расы. В нём говорится, что наша цивилизация созрела для вступления в игру, искажающую реальность.

The galaxy is in a state of panic. A horror has been unleashed, and it's a threat to every inhabited planet. Luckily, it currently rampages across a sparsely populated part of the Black Ocean. But even that callous view only holds limited hope for the fortunate species whose worlds lay safer by virtue of distance. Sooner or later, someone is going to have to destroy it. Hiroko plays the role of diplomat. In the face of a threat to all species, she hopes to forge a multi-species alliance to combat the monster.

Hast du das schon einmal erlebt? Du hast alles versucht, hast alles geopfert, was dir wertvoll war, aber am Ende deiner Suche stellst du fest, dass deine Prinzessin in einem anderen Schloss war‘? Ein anderer Mensch hätte vielleicht aufgegeben, aber selbst der Tod konnte Clem Denisov nicht aufhalten. Er ist einer jener Männer, die keine Angst vor Entbehrungen haben, auch wenn ihn das ein wenig altmodisch macht. Der Tod eines Klienten ändert für ihn nichts - die Quest muss vollendet werden. Schließlich sterben immer noch Spieler in der realen Welt, wo sie nur ein einziges Leben haben.

When a strange, blue-haired man from a neighboring planet kidnaps his sister, Typhon is partially to blame. Now, he has nowhere to turn. Will his team of mercenaries be enough? Or, will Typhon have to use his forbidden magic to rescue the princess? Typhon is powerful. More powerful than he knows. Magic is outlawed on his planet, so Typhon must keep his gift a secret from his father, the king. Some secrets aren't meant to be kept.

Nia Courant is an interstellar lawyer with a shadowed past. Gyle Martan is an academic official who is not at all what he seems. Both are outsiders in the space-station city called Wendis. When an outing in the famous Zoned Park of Wendis turns into a dangerous game designed by unknown enemies, Nia and Martan become allies in danger and adversaries in love.

Михаил Атаманов - популярный российский писатель-фантаст, работающий в разных жанрах. Наибольшую известность получили его книги в жанре ЛитРПГ. Главного героя тетралогии "Защита периметра" зовут Роман. Он отличный тактик в играх, посвящённых космическим сражениям.

When a survey team unearths buildings on prospective mining planet, at first, it’s hailed as an archeological jackpot. But the ancient structures are more advanced than anyone’s seen. And the hedge against technology is a wizard. Cedric and Hiroko lead a team to study the mysterious underground facility from a lost age. And when they discover the alien caretaker, he’s none too happy that primitives have infested his home.

They toyed with forces they didn't understand. Now, the inhabitants of Astral Prime are going to pay the price. Their foray into an alternate universe has not gone unnoticed. Nor will it go uninvestigated. While Jace Jarvis attempts to reassemble the pieces of a broken life, a new foe threatens to steal that life away yet again. With Hiroko shepherding a new flock and Cedric guarding the planet below, Astral Prime faces an invasion they might not be able to stop. They'll have to turn to the unlikeliest of allies if there's any hope to save the station.

With Astral Prime in chaos, Kendra hatches a desperate attempt to use forbidden alien technology to bring her lover back from the dead. As the struggle for control of the station unfolds, her efforts go horribly awry and plunge everyone into a strange and unfamiliar universe. Stranded in a desolate sector of an unknown universe, the citizens of the station cling to hope and ration their supplies of food, water, and medical essentials. But what hope can there be for rescue when even they don't know where they are?

The galaxy has gone from troubled to doomed. Now faced with a multiplying threat, the races of the Milky Way are faced with a foe who cannot be stopped, cannot be turned back. And yet, for the sake of their own survival, they fight on in the desperate hope that they can hold out long enough to prevail. And they're running out of time. One of the ARGO core worlds may be next on the menu for the world-devouring monsters. As Cedric frantically searches for an alternative way to combat the abominations, Hiroko attempts to halt the proliferation of ancient weapons.

Unleashed from an alternate universe, the space-borne leviathan dubbed "void kraken" terrorizes the galaxy. The most powerful weapons barely scratch it. Whole fleets fall before it. Its movements are erratic. It's motives inscrutable. All anyone knows for sure is that if it isn't stopped, it's going to eat its way through the galaxy. Fujita Hiroko feels responsible for the beast's presence in the Milky Way. She tries to rally support to combat the creature, to form an unprecedented inter-species alliance to find a way to stop its rampage

The ancient solution to get magic and tech to coexist lies within an alien structure older than any race in the galaxy. Now, the balance of power threatens to tip. As factions reinforce their fleets for a war to claim the ultimate technological prize, Hiroko finds herself trapped between three races—one of them her own—in a quest where even victory promises disaster.