THE SOULFORGE

Author: Weis Margaret
Genre: Fantasy
Series: Dragonlance: The Raistlin Chronicles #1
Formats: FB2, EPUB, MOBI

A mage's soul is forged in the crucible of magic. Raistlin Majere is six years old when he is introduced to the archmage who enrolls him in a school for the study of magic. There the gifted and talented but tormented boy comes to see magic as his salvation. Mages in the magical Tower of High Sorcery watch him in secret, for they see shadows darkening over Raistlin even as the same shadows lengthen over all Ansalon.

Finally, Raistlin draws near his goal of becoming a wizard. But first he must take the drea Test in the Tower of High Sorcery. It will change his life forever — if he survives...

Tailchaser’s Song

Author: Tad Williams
Genre: Fantasy
Series: Worlds of Honor #4
Formats: FB2, EPUB, MOBI

Fritti Tailchaser, a young ginger tom cat sets out to stray from his home and clan, the Meeting Wall Clan, in search of his catfriend Hushpad after strange disappearances of the Folk have been reported. He and the kitten Pouncequick set out on a long journey to visit the Court of Harar with the intention of finding out the mystery of the disappearances--a journey that will take them to cat Hell and beyond...

Shadowplay

Author: Tad Williams
Genre: Fantasy
Series: Shadowplay #2
Formats: FB2, EPUB, MOBI

Shadowplay…

The Oath and the Measure

Author: Michael Williams
Genre: Fantasy
Series: Dragonlance: The Meetings Sextet #4
Formats: FB2, EPUB, MOBI

The Oath and the Measure…

Galen Beknighted

Author: Michael Williams
Genre: Fantasy
Series: Dragonlance: Heroes 2 #3
Formats: FB2, EPUB, MOBI

Galen Beknighted…

The Crimson Gold

Author: Whitney-Robinson Voronica
Genre: Fantasy
Series: Forgotten Realms: The Rogues #3
Formats: FB2, EPUB, MOBI

The Crimson Gold…

Second Ending

Author: James White
Genre: Science fiction
Formats: FB2, EPUB, MOBI

“Five miles below the surface, Ross was awakened from the deep sleep of suspended animation to find himself in an empty world. There was no noise, or people, and no motion save for the steady activity of the hospital robots” (blurb). Ross, the sole survivor of World War Last, must meet up with some other human beings — even if he’s got to create them himself. And, with the hibernation technique and omnicompetent robots at his command, he eventually does just that. After a fashion. White’s most beautifully fitted piece of work, with this fitting Dedication: “TO PEGGY, who isn’t the last girl on Earth, just the only one.”

Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1962...

Darwinia

Author: Robert Charles Wilson
Genre: Science fiction
Formats: FB2, EPUB, MOBI

In 1912, the entire European continent and all of the United Kingdom mysteriously vanished during the Miracle, replaced by an alien landscape known as Darwinia. Darwinia seems to be a slice of another Earth, one that diverged from our own millions of years ago and took a separate evolutionary path. As a 14-year-old boy, Guilford Law witnessed the Miracle as shimmering lights playing across the ocean sky. Now as a grown man, he is determined to travel to Darwinia and explore its mysteries.

To that end he enlists as a photographer in the Finch expedition, which plans to steam up the Rhine (or what was once the Rhine) and penetrate the continent’s hidden depths as far as possible. But Law has brought an unwanted companion with him, a mysterious twin who seems to have lived — and died — on an Earth unchanged by the Miracle. The twin first appears to Guilford in dreams, and he brings a message that Darwinia is not what it seems to be — and Guilford is not who he seems to be...

Dean's List

Author: Caitlyn Willows
Genre: Adult Novels
Formats: FB2, EPUB, MOBI

Leigh Dean is shocked to find one of her new students is a flash from the past, but now he is all grown up. Unable to get past the age gap, she makes a flimsy excuse and walks away.

Dan Jefferson has lusted after a woman from his youth and now that he has found her again, he is determined to not let her go. He is ready, willing, and able to give her everything she needs.

Leigh realizes that maybe she was hasty. Dan sweeps her excuse to the side and wonders what she will do without her job to hide behind. Leigh has a little secret that she thinks will be the final straw, but just maybe Dan will surprise her.

Dean’s List is a wonderful story of discovery and fulfillment. Leigh and Dan had met in another lifetime but were unprepared; fate has given them a second chance. What better dream than the one that comes true? I found this story outstanding and when Dan finally gets his hand on Leigh they go up in flames. Will their fire turn into love, or just a one night stand? You have to read this if for no other reason than to see if Dan can keep his woman...

To Say Nothing of the Dog

Author: Connie Willis
Genre: Humorous fiction
Formats: FB2, EPUB, MOBI

What a stitch! Willis’ delectable romp through time from 2057 back to Victorian England, with a few side excursions into World War II and medieval Britain, will have readers happily glued to the pages. Rich dowager Lady Schrapnell has invaded Oxford University’s time travel research project in 2057, promising to endow it if they help her rebuild Coventry Cathedral, destroyed by a Nazi air raid in 1940. In effect, she dragoons almost everyone in the program to make trips back in time to locate items — in particular, the bishop’s bird stump, an especially ghastly example of Victorian decorative excess.

Time traveler Ned Henry is suffering from advanced time lag and has been sent, he thinks, for rest and relaxation to 1888, where he connects with fellow time traveler Verity Kindle and discovers that he is actually there to correct an incongruity created when Verity inadvertently brought something forward from the past. Take an excursion through time, add chaos theory, romance, plenty of humor, a dollop of mystery, and a spoof of the Victorian novel, and you end up with what seems like a comedy of errors but is actually a grand scheme "involving the entire course of history and all of time and space that, for some unfathomable reason, chose to work out its designs with cats and croquet mallets and penwipers, to say nothing of the dog. And a hideous piece of Victorian artwork.

Nominated for Nebula Award in 1998.

Won Hugo and Locus Awards in 1999...

Remake

Author: Connie Willis
Genre: Science fiction
Formats: FB2, EPUB, MOBI

In the Hollywood of the future there’s no need for actors since any star can be digitally recreated and inserted into any movie. Yet young Alis wants to dance on the silver screen. Tom tries to dissuade her, but he fears she will pursue her dream — and likely fall victim to Hollywood’s seamy underside, which is all to eager to swallow up naive actresses. Then Tom begins to find Alis in the old musicals he remakes, and he has to ask himself just where the line stands between reality and the movies.

Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1996...

Conventions of War

Author: Walter Jon Williams
Genre: Combat Fiction
Series: Dread Empire Fall #3
Formats: FB2, EPUB, MOBI

There are only two people who can defeat the Naxids and save the Empire — and neither is looking hopeful. Sula is on the ground trying to start a revolution with an army of three. Lord Gareth Martinez is with the Fleet raiding into enemy territory when he uncovers a murderous plot to see him and the Fleet destroyed...

The Praxis

Author: Walter Jon Williams
Genre: Combat Fiction
Series: Dread Empire Fall #1
Formats: FB2, EPUB, MOBI

The Dark Queen

Author: Michael Williams
Genre: Fantasy
Series: Dragonlance: Villains #6
Formats: FB2, EPUB, MOBI

The Dark...

Before the Mask

Author: Michael Williams
Genre: Fantasy
Series: Dragonlance: Villains #1
Formats: FB2, EPUB, MOBI

Before the Mask…

This Is Not a Game

Author: Walter Jon Williams
Genre: Science fiction
Formats: FB2, EPUB, MOBI

THIS IS NOT A GAME is a novel built around the coolest phenomenon in the world. That phenomenon is known as the Alternate Reality Game, or ARG. It's big, and it's getting bigger. It's immersive and massively interactive, and it's spreading through the Internet at the speed of light…

To the player, the Alternate Reality Game has no boundaries. You can be standing in a parking lot, or a shopping center. A pay phone near you will ring, and on the other end will be someone demanding information.

You'd better have the information handy.

ARGs combine video, text adventure, radio plays, audio, animation, improvisational theater, graphics, and story into an immersive experience.

Now, one of science fiction's most acclaimed writers, Walter Jon Williams, brings this extraordinary phenomenon to life in a pulse-pounding thriller. This is not a game. This is a novel that will blow your mind...

The Claw of the Conciliator

Author: Gene Wolfe
Genre: Science fiction, Fantasy
Series: Book of the New Sun #2
Formats: FB2, EPUB, MOBI

Gene Wolfe’s The Book of the New Sun is an extraordinary epic, set a million years in the future, on an Earth transformed in mysterious and wonderful ways. Severian is a torturer, exiled from his guild after falling in love with one of his victims, and now journeying to the distant city of Thrax, armed with his ancient executioner’s sword, Terminus Est.

Won Nebula Award for Best novel in 1981.

Won Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel in 1982.

Nominated for Hugo and World Fantasy Awards in 1982...

The Taken

Author: Inger Ash Wolfe
Genre: Thriller
Formats: FB2, EPUB, MOBI

The eagerly awaited second novel from the author of the widely acclaimed debut mystery The Calling.

DI Hazel Micallef is still recovering from back surgery when a report comes in that a body has been found in a nearby lake, snagged under several feet of water. But as DC Wingate says, the whole thing is way too eerie. The first installment of a story has just been published in the local paper: a passage that describes in detail just such a discovery. Real life is far too close to fiction for coincidence.

The second novel featuring Hazel Micallef is a stunning and suspenseful exploration of the obsessive far reaches of love. It will confirm Inger Ash Wolfe as one of the best mystery writers there is...

Nine-tenths of the Law

Author: L. A. Witt
Genre: Adult Novels
Formats: FB2, EPUB, MOBI

Nine-tenths of the Law…

Android Karenina

Author: Leo Tolstoy, Ben H. Winters
Genre: Classic prose, Fantasy
Formats: FB2, EPUB, MOBI

Literary hybrids of Jane Austen novels and zombie stories? That’s so last year. Quirk Books, which released the best‐selling novels Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, has seen the future of the mashup novel, and it is Leo Tolstoy and robots.” -New York Times

“Anna’s nightmare, one of the most famous passages in Anna Karenina, clearly anticipates the “steampunk‐inspired” atmosphere of Android Karenina… Tolstoy didn’t know about steampunk or cyborgs, but he did know about the nightmarishness of steam power, unruly machines, and the creepy half‐human status of the Russian peasant classes.” -Elif Batuman, author of The Possessed, via The New Yorker

“Whenever a truly pulpy trend reaches its apotheosis like this, I can’t help but wonder if we’ll get a new classic out of it.” -io9

“No word on whether she’ll [Anna] be bionically rebuilt following the ending, though. It’s good that this series is branching out to other authors…” -Entertainment Weekly

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Android Karenina – Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters co-author Ben H. Winters is back with an all-new collaborator, legendary Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, and the result is Android Karenina-an enhanced edition of the classic love story set in a dystopian world of robots, cyborgs, and interstellar space travel.

As in the original novel, our story follows two relationships: the tragic adulterous romance of Anna Karenina and Count Alexei Vronsky, and the much more hopeful marriage of Konstantin Levin and Kitty Shcherbatskaya.These four, yearning for true love, live in a steampunk-inspired 19th century of mechanical butlers, extraterrestrial-worshiping cults, and airborne debutante balls. Their passions alone would be enough to consume them-but when a secret cabal of radical scientific revolutionaries launches an attack on Russian high society's high-tech lifestyle, our heroes must fight back with all their courage, all their gadgets, and all the power of a sleek new cyborg model like nothing the world has ever seen.

Filled with the same blend of romance, drama, and fantasy that made the first two Quirk Classics New York Times best sellers, Android Karenina brings this celebrated series into the exciting world of science fiction.

Leo Tolstoy wrote two of the greatest novels in world literature: War and Peace and Anna Karenina.

Ben H. Winters is coauthor of Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, which was hailed by The Onion A.V. Club as a "sheer delight" and by Library Journal as "strangely entertaining, like a Weird Al version of an opera aria." Mr. Winters lives in Brooklyn...

Marauder

Author: William F. Wu
Genre: Science fiction
Series: Isaac Asimov’s Robots In Time
Formats: FB2, EPUB, MOBI

Marauder…

True To The Game III

Author: Teri Woods
Genre: Thriller
Formats: FB2, EPUB, MOBI

The third and most explosive installment of the groundbreaking True to the Game trilogy will take you on a marathon race through the mean streets of Philly. Starting off where the second installment's dramatic cliffhanger left us, True III will finally reveal Gena's mysterious stalker and savior, as well as introduce a new killer so vicious, so cunning, so ruthless, he'll have you looking over your shoulder with each turn of the page.

The crooked cops are searching for the money, Gena's family members are now the target for Gena who's hiding from everything and everyone, as the race is on for Gena's survival. Will she manage to keep the money, can she get out of town and make a new life for herself, and will her family survive the maniacal killer that is hell bent on tracking her down? Will Gena stay, True to the Game?

Lucid Intervals

Author: Stuart Woods
Genre: Thriller
Formats: FB2, EPUB, MOBI

A brand-new page-turning Stone Barrington novel from the perennially entertaining New York Times-bestselling author.

It seems like just another quiet night at Elaine's. Stone Barrington and his former cop partner, Dino, are enjoying some pasta when in walks former client and all around sad sack Herbie Fisher…with a briefcase containing $14 million in cash.

Herbie claims to have won the money on a lucky lotto ticket, but he also says he needs a lawyer-and after a single gunshot breaks the window above his head and sends diners scrambling, Stone and Dino suspect Herbie might need a bodyguard and a private investigator, too...

This Old Murder

Author: Valerie Wolzien
Genre: Detectives
Formats: FB2, EPUB, MOBI

Just about a decade ago, Valerie Wolzien, who was then a housewife, began composing her first mystery novel on a warped old card table in her basement. All her subsequent whodunits pay implicit tribute to that hard-won apprenticeship: Each of them has the conciseness and seamlessness that only revision can bring.

In this engaging home construction drama which has all the excitement of a slippery roof, contractor Josie finds herself twice famous and once accused. After a PBS remodeling series invades her site, Ms. Pigeon fights back intrusive media people. But when the hostess of the show turns up as a bloody corpse, Josie's curses turn into pleas. Straight-edge sleuthing...

Death In Duplicate

Author: Valerie Wolzien
Genre: Thriller
Formats: FB2, EPUB, MOBI

DOUBLE THE LOVE, DOUBLE THE DEATH

Susan Henshaw and her husband, Jeb, are the proud grandparents of beautiful twins, and their daughter and son-in-law are temporarily moving into the Henshaws' Connecticut home with their tiny bundles of joy. Added to the mix are two giant bullmastiffs and a nanny. Though a bit overwhelmed, Susan and Jeb are delighted to be a part of the chaos.

But a neighbor, Nadine Baines, soon starts to rain on their parade. She recognizes the nanny as a suspect in several recent shady deaths at a nursing home. The day after this troubling revelation, Nadine is found in her kitchen with a knife protruding from her chest. Is the nanny the culprit? Are Susan's grandchildren at risk? With murder so close to home and another possibly following, Susan must investigate-and she uncovers a tangled conspiracy beyond her wildest imagination...