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Pass through fairy tales into the magic of invisible worlds in these opulent stories by a beloved fantasy icon and author of the classic Riddlemaster trilogy.

This collection of 22 short stories by the author of Daughter of Hounds and Alabaster firmly established Caitlín R. Kiernan as one of the preeminent voices in dark fantasy today. Through a cycle of interconnected narratives, Kiernan unflinchingly explores a surreal world where the fantastic and the mundane are never separated by more than the insubstantial thickness of a shadow.

As two worlds reel from a colossal final pulse that cuts off all contact between them, two unimaginable discoveries raise the stakes even further. In a secret American facility, a power hidden from society for a decade is about to break free. And something much bigger, buried deep beneath the Scottish Highlands for thousands of years, is about to rise up.

Tony Prosdocimi lives in the bustling Metropolis of San Ventura – a city gripped in fear, a city under siege by the hooded supervillain, The Cowl. When Tony develops super-powers and acts to take down The Cowl, however, he finds that the local superhero team Seven Wonders aren’t as grateful as he assumed they’d be….

Webmind - the vast consciousness that spontaneously emerged from the infrastructure of the World Wide Web - has proven its worth to humanity by aiding in everything from curing cancer to easing international tensions. But the brass at the Pentagon see Webmind as a threat that needs to be eliminated. Caitlin Decter-the once-blind 16-year-old math genius who discovered, and bonded with, Webmind - wants desperately to protect her friend. And if she doesn't act, everything - Webmind included - may come crashing down.

We are a people of stories. We use them to entertain, to teach, and to instruct. Sometimes they warn us of the dangers of wandering too far into the woods, or they can be a detailed story to explain how magnificent landscapes came to be. Story has always been the way we pass time, the way we connect to each other, and most importantly, how we promote our values. Parables, especially, have a dual purpose. Not only do they keep us entertained, but they also make a point. Consider Aesop’s fables—tales of talking animals who learn valuable life lessons.

Book seven is the final installation in the Wonder World series.

The greatest heroes of the fiction have assembled to save the world. Only this time… they’re animals. In the late days of the Victorian era, Kip, an adorable Yorkshire terrier, is thrust into adventure when his girl, Dorothy Gale, and a magical slipper go missing. Desperate to find her, Kip teams up a rag-tag group of animal heroes that include the suave White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland, the brilliant and eccentric Toad from Wind and the Willows, the persnickety Cricket from Pinocchio and the Darling’s protective St. Bernard, Lulu, from Peter Pan. Together, they will uncover a plot...

Welcome to the Wonder Woman Comic Book podcast. I am going to cover the first 614 issues, story by story. The original and first 40 or 50 Wonder Woman comics came out quarterly and have 3 stories in each issue. So 1A, 1B, 1C then later it became bi-monthly and had two stories per issue, which means an A and a B. Eventually, it became a monthly issue, and then we will have one story per book. I look forward to exploring Wonder Woman’s comic book history with you and learning what makes Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman. The first ten episodes will be released every 4 days and after that the regular ...

W Is for Wonder collects the first 10 episodes of the adventures of W, a superhero like no other, who struggles between the hunger for justice and the need to use violence to achieve that very ideal of justice. Through the episodes, the listener follows W, a shadow running in the darkness of lonely NYC corners, chasing criminals, helping lost souls. Some nights are memorable for W and they are filled with successes in fighting crime; some nights W holds on to the daytime identity of Guinn McGovern, trying to deal with a normal social existence and the struggles of modern dating.

إميليو سالغاري الكاتب الإيطالي الشهير ذو الرصيد الكبير من الروايات، والذي أدهشنا في روايته التي أصدرها في سنة 1907 "زهرة القيامة ـ عجائب الألفية الثالثة"، تُعَد هذه الرواية العمل الأهم في تاريخِ أدب الخيال العلمي الإيطالي وفقاً لإجماع النقاد. لم يضع سالغاري حدوداً لمخيّلته في هذه الرِواية التي يصبُّ فيها نبوءاته المستقبلية ويطرح تساؤلاته الوجودية، على طريقته، في قالب مشوِّق من الأحداث.

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In a world plagued by zombies, two of the unlikeliest heroes set out on a mission that may just save humanity. After meeting Evelyn, an incredibly beautiful woman, they agree to help Evelyn's mother find her missing husband, a scientist working on a way to curb the eating habits of the zombies. His experiments have yielded zombies with the ability to speak. Can these two pull off what could be the greatest save of human life of all time? Or will the zombies armed with greater intelligence take even more away from the world?

Exiled to Earth by her mysterious superiors, Iris has been amusing herself and Panda by working for MIAOW, the Ministry for Incursions and Other Wonders. When a certain Professor Ramsbottom and his lovely assistant Audrey unearth a weird vehicle under a London railway station, Ms Wildthyme and her art critic chum are on the scene pretty sharpish. Among anachronistic skulls and crockery they discover the still-living forms of utterly perplexing, alien creatures.

There is a place between mystery and terror, greed and desire, love and despair. It is a place that reaches beyond the shadows of our hopes and the desert of our deepest fears. It is the realm of the imagination, that timeless place of magic and intrigue. Look up ahead. There is a lighted house on the hill. Deep within lie the Tales of Mystery and Wonder.

The Sussex Beekeeper at the Dawn of Time is an unconventional and breath-taking tour de force that flirts with the crossover and steampunk genres. The book knits together a transcribed oral memoir, newspaper clippings, and myriad letters and journal pages from across two millennia, much of it held together by the pithy comments of a certain elderly beekeeper residing in Sussex, England. While comparatively few, these notes are nonetheless the essential marble skeleton on which the whole denouement and structure of the book hangs.

An American teenager meets Adonis on a sailing cruise off the coast of Turkey. A merchant of the Silk Road encounters a dog - and a brother - from another world. An old lady on a distant planet attempts to help her great-grandson grow up in a world that will soon forget women ever existed. A Massachusetts boy refuses to visit fairyland. Another American teenager on vacation encounters three fallen angels and is transformed. Alex Jeffers’s first collection of fantastical stories is a treacherous box of delights.

A new wonder drug has the unexpected side effect of making people happy. But should people be happy all of the time? Suppose being happy required you never to disappoint anyone, no matter what they're requesting.... Then there was the energy source for every home that would free the country from its dependence on foreign oil - except that the prototype was rushed into production a bit too fast. Back on the bright side, another device not only couldn't possibly work, but didn't have any obvious uses. Then alien invaders landed and suddenly the crackpot device was the world's only hope.

Keeping up with Nerds can be difficult. There’s so much to talk about. Whether it be who the latest iteration of Batman is, what new Marvel movies are dropping next month, what this season’s line up of anime is going to be...there’s a lot of information to digest and process. Here, at "Your Resident Nerds", we want to lessen your burden so you can do less searching, and come to us for all your Nerd related needs. Whether it be the latest news dropping about comic books, anime, or movies, or perhaps just general discussions regarding nerd media, we have you covered. With our two gracious ...

This audiobook looks like it might be some erotic tale of space men and harems of space women. It's not, though it does hint at that! It's barely PG. It's a comic-book style, campy, short sci-fi story from 1947. It's fun and funny. It's camp in the sci-fi conventions of the day. Murray Leinster was a pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins. He wrote hundreds and hundreds of short stories in the sci-fi genre. It's not Philip K. Dick or Isaac Asimov. Let this be your introduction to Leinster's huge library, and if you love it there is so much more to enjoy! You'll be in good company.