System Fiction

Derek Cooper is a retro gamer. His small flat is full to the brim with consoles, game cartridges, hulking great tube TVs, retro merchandise, and every handheld gaming device you can think of, and then some. They make him happy, so why not? When he decides his collection could do with an addition in the form of a real-life, full-size, good old-fashioned arcade cabinet, he can't possibly know what adventures lie ahead of him after he drags the heavy monolith out of a cellar in Watford to his flat and then painstakingly rebuilds the dud electronics, bringing it back to life.

Nicknamed Dewey Decimal for his obsessive attempts to bring order to the New York Public Library in the wake of disastrous events in the city, the hero of this series earns his keep as a bagman and enforcer for unscrupulous politicians and underworld figures. Now, he’s stumbled upon information concerning the gruesome murder of a prostitute that involves a prominent US senator - and finds himself chasing ghosts and fighting for his life, pursued by private military contractors and the ever-present specter of his own past....

In a razor-sharp legal thriller, Jack Kowalski must win two challenging trials to save his reputation and his career. Junior barrister Jack Kowalski is crushed. His client Timothy Smart appears to have committed a monstrous crime while on bail - a bail application Jack fought hard to win. When a high-profile Polish footballer is charged with rape and demands a fellow countryman represent him, Jack must overcome his guilt and get back to work.

An interdisciplinary work that brings life writing scholarship into conversation with prison studies and law and literature studies, Prison Life Writing theorizes how life writing works in prison, explains literature’s complicated entanglements with institutional power, and demonstrates the political and aesthetic innovations of one of America’s most fascinating literary genres.

A nasty threat from her father pushes a determined Melody to figure out a way to make progress in her quest to save her home realm. Clyde must learn to control his ridiculous new strength. An amazing evolution of the young man which you don’t want to miss. The mystery of the stone father continues to unravel. His grand scheme is currently unknown. Look out, Team Stone! The party must gather parts required for a platform intended to warp them to Utopius, Melody’s home realm. Clare’s the guide. However, will the author of Taint sit back and let the task be easy?

An undercover CIA officer discovers that the company he is investigating produces an artificial intelligence product that manipulates the behavior of the general public, and he must prove it to the media or be killed by a powerful corporation that has its own military.

Taj was looking forward to his two-year sabbatical from the Sol System Enforcers. At the young age of 62, he was hoping for another 50 years as an Enforcer, but right now, he needed time off. Taj, and his partner Taddy, were planning travel to Festival City in the Asteroid Belt. But, evil never rests. As Taj prepared for a peaceful retreat, his enemies had a different plan. Someone very powerful wanted Taj dead and wasn't afraid to target his family to prove their point. All Taj knew was that he must present himself in Armstrong City of Luna in a single day, or Taddy would die on the Carousel.

По выходу из S-рангового подземелья меня ждала шокирующая новость – на особняк деда, где находились сёстры, кто-то напал. Какова цель тех ублюдков – неизвестно. Что случилось с девочками – тоже. Мне предстоит выяснить это самому. И ничто не сможет встать у меня на пути.

Стоило выбраться наружу, как проблемы посыпались одна за другой: сначала пропажа сестёр, затем объявление родственничков, и в качестве вишенки на торте–волна прорывных врат, возникших по всему миру...

Если бы заранее знал, чем обернётся рейд в E-ранговые врата, ни за что бы не согласился пойти сюда вновь! "Я не хочу умирать..."—такой была последняя мысль, когда мою плоть живьём раздирали монстры. Мне оставалось лишь проклинать судьбу, за то, что оказался не в том месте и не в то время. Ещё один шанс—это всё, чего я хотел.

Immortality comes at a steep price. Faced with a heartrending loss, Lox walks down a dark path. He knew there would be a cost for immortality, but he didn’t know he would have to face it so soon.

Die System-Apokalypse kommt nach Australien, wo sie die ansässigen Organismen verwandelt und dem ohnehin schon gefährlichsten Kontinenten der Welt immer noch gefährlichere Kreaturen bringt. Kira Kent, ihres Zeichens Pflanzenbiologin, überrascht das System, als sie gerade mit ihren beiden Kindern im Schlepptau eine Nachtschicht auf der Arbeit einlegt.

Twenty-one-year-old narcoleptic Angel Duet knows her father harbors secrets. He loves and protects her, but his suspicious refusal to discuss her mother's death drives Angel to worship an image created from the little history she does have: her father's sketchy stories and her mother's treasured photography, studies of clouds that have hung in the their foyer for more than twenty years. When her father's girlfriend moves in, the photographs come down, and Angel's search for truth becomes an obsession.

Clyde and Team Stone triumphed something with all odds set against them, including the weight of Taint itself. The stone-viper games were but phase one of what is to come. The universal apocalypse in which Celestial wants to avoid.... A dark revelation: What lies beyond the authors of Taint and Purity? What else slumbers...?

Eine handvoll Außenseiter macht sich auf die Suche nach einem mysteriösen Alien-Schiff. Der abenteuerliche Sci-Fi-Roman in den Weiten des Sonnensystems. Auf der Marskolonie Adventiva wird Ray von seinem narzisstischen Vater zum Militärdienst gezwungen. Er entkommt schließlich der Unterdrückung und schlägt sich zu den Raumstationen im Sonnensystem durch. Dort trifft er auf einen Mann der Erde, der nach einem verschollenen außerirdischen Schiff sucht.

The Alcazar station has been attacked! Project Ibex, under the command of former teammate Irene has begun cutting a bloody path throughout the galaxy, delivering a single message. Humanity has arrived! From Tachyon to Boron and beyond Hrafn squad will pursue the Veles across the galaxy. Alliances will be forged; enemies will be made and the thin red line between hero and villain will be towed in the name of peace.

In its oppressive atmosphere of fog, mist, and mud, nothing conjures up the dreary days of November and its "implacable" weather like the celebrated opening of Bleak House. The plot concerns a long-running legal dispute (Jarndyce and Jarndyce) that has far-reaching consequences for all involved. Dickens' assault on the flaws of the British judiciary system is based in part on his own experiences as a law clerk.

A hundred millennia has passed since the events of Iron Gods. The Spin is dying, and its few inhabitants live unknowingly in the relative paradise of one of hundreds of virtual realities - "vrealities" - or they scrape a living out of remains of the real world. As the vrealities drain the last resources of the Spin, a rebellion which could kill millions sparks and gains momentum. In a remote star system, an ancient insectoid called Skarbo the Horologist has studied The Spin for several lifetimes. Himself near to death, he makes a final journey to see the object of his studies.

Zwei Wochen System-Apokalypse, aber die Transformationen haben gerade erst begonnen. Mutierte Insekten, fleischfressende Kröten und wütende Yetis standen bis jetzt noch nie auf dem Stundenplan, doch wenn die Welt untergeht, muss man sich eben anpassen. Als Mutter eines Teenagers war Kira auf alles gefasst, nur nicht auf das Jüngste Gericht.

John und seine tapfere Crew von Überlebenden haben es satt, galaktische Kopfgeldjäger und Attentäter zu spielen. Nachdem ihre letzte Mission sie extrem unter Druck setzt, reisen sie zur Station Spaks. Aber selbst dort, unter Rebellen und Piraten, holt John die galaktische Politik wieder ein. Als die Hyperdrive-Triebwerke zahlreicher Feindschiffe noch mehr Ärger bringen, findet John in der Rebellenstation Antworten auf die System-Quest, aber auch neue Fragen.