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Dan Simmons: Black Hills

Скачать книгу (размер 2 360 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 464) Аннотация: Paha Sapa, 'Black Hills', is a Red Indian shaman who as a young boy at the Battle of Little Bighorn takes the ghost of the dying General Custer into his own body. Sixty years later as an old man working as a dynamiter on Mount Rushmore, he plots to blow it up. Meanwhile, Custer finds himself trapped in a strange, dark place and begins to write sensuous, heartbreaking missives to his beloved wife.…

Dan Simmons: Carrion Comfort

Скачать книгу (размер 3 992 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 784) Аннотация: The past. Caught behind the lines of Hitler's Final Solution, Saul Laski is one of the multitudes destined to die in the notorious Chelmno extermination camp. But he will soon fall into the clutches of an evil far older and greater than the Nazis themselves. The present. A rare few individuals have the Ability — the psychic power to influence the minds of others. Each year they meet to discuss…

Dan Simmons: Drood

Скачать книгу (размер 4 155 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 816) Аннотация: Sealed for one hundred and twenty-five years, Wilkie Collins's scribbled words launch a feverish descent into the underbelly of Victorian London as he is dragged into Charles Dickens's pursuit of a spectral figure known only as Drood.

Dan Simmons: Ilium: Totally Space Opera

Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: Taking the events and characters of the Iliad as his jumping — off point, Dan Simmons has created an epic of time travel and savage warfare. Travellers from 40,000 years in the future return to Homer's Greece and rewrite history forever, their technology impacting on the population in a godlike fashion. This is broad scope space opera rich in classical and literary allusion, from one of the key…

Dan Simmons: The Terror

Скачать книгу (размер 4 808 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 944) Аннотация: The men on board Her Britannic Majesty’s Ships Terror and Erebus had every expectation of triumph. They were part of Sir John Franklin’s 1845 expedition – as scientifically advanced an enterprise as had ever set forth – and theirs were the first steam-driven vessels to go in search of the fabled North-West Passage. But the ships have now been trapped in the Arctic ice for nearly two years. Coal…

Dan Simmons: Song of Kali

Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Calcutta, a monstrous city of immense slums, disease and misery, is clasped in the foetid embrace of an ancient cult. At its decaying core is the Goddess Kali: the dark mother of pain, four-armed and eternal, her song the sound of death and destruction. Robert Luczak has been hired by a New York magazine to find a noted Indian poet who has reappeared, under strange circumstances, years after he…

Dan Simmons: Children of the Night

Скачать книгу (размер 2 319 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 456) Аннотация: Does a Romanian infant's blood hold the key to a cure for AIDS? The Hugo Award-winning author of Summer of Night brings an evil legacy to life in the ultimate vampire novel.

Dan Simmons: The Fall of the Hyperion

Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: In the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in «Hyperion», Simmons returns us to a far future resplendent with drama and invention. On the world of Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. And the secrets they contain mean that nothing — nothing anywhere in the universe — will ever be the same.

Dan Simmons: A Winter Haunting

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: A once-respected college professor and novelist, Dale Stewart has sabotaged his career and his marriage — and now darkness is closing in on him. In the last hours of Halloween he has returned to the dying town of Elm Haven, his boyhood home, where he hopes to find peace in isolation. But moving into a long-deserted farmhouse on the far outskirts of town — the one-time residence of a strange and…

Dan Simmons: Rise of Endymion

Скачать книгу (размер 3 665 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 720) Аннотация: The magnificent conclusion to one of the greatest science fiction sagas of our time. The time of reckoning has arrived. As a final genocidal Crusade threatens to enslave humanity forever, a new messiah has come of age. She is Aenea and she has undergone a strange apprenticeship to those known as the Others. Now her protector, Raul Endymion, one-time shepherd and convicted murderer, must help her…

Dan Simmons: Endymion

Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: The multiple-award-winning science fiction master returns to the universe that is his greatest triumph — the world of Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion — with a novel even more magnificent than its predecessors. Dan Simmons's Hyperion was an immediate sensation on its first publication in 1989. This staggering multifaceted tale of the far future heralded the conquest of the science fiction field…

Dan Simmons: Hyperion

Скачать книгу (размер 2 447 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 481) Аннотация: On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all. On the eve of Armageddon, with the entire galaxy at…

Dan Simmons: The Hollow Man

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: Jeremy Bremen has a secret. All his life he's been cursed with the ability to read minds. He knows the secret thoughts, fears, and desires of others as if they were his own. For years, his wife, Gail, has served as a shield between Jeremy and the burden of this terrible knowledge. But Gail is dying, her mind ebbing slowly away, leaving him vulnerable to the chaotic flood of thought that threatens…