Here are 25 stories of science fiction that push the envelope by the biggest names in an emerging new crop of high-tech futuristic SF
- including Charles Stross Robert Reed Alastair Reynolds Peter Hamilton & Neal Asher. High-tech SF has made a significant comeback in the last decade as bestselling authors successfully blend the super-science of 'hard science fiction' with real characters in an understandable scenario. It is perhaps a reflection of how technologically controlled our world is that readers increasingly look for science fiction that considers the fates of mankind as a result of increasing scientific domination. This anthology brings together the most extreme examples of the new high-tech far-future science fiction pushing the limits way beyond normal boundaries. The stories include: A Perpetual War Fought Within a Cosmic String" "A Weapon That Could Destroy the Universe" "A Machine That Detects Alternate Worlds & Creates a Choice of Christs" " An Immortal Dead Man Sent To The End of the Universe" " Murder in Virtual Reality" "A Spaceship So Large That There is An Entire Planetary System Within It" & " An Analytical Engine At The End of Time" & " Encountering the Untouchable.""
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This title features 25 chilling short stories by outstanding female writers. Women have always written exceptional stories of horror & the supernatural. This anthology aims to showcase the very best of these from Amelia B. Edwards The Phantom Coach" published in 1864 through past luminaries such as Edith Wharton & Mary Elizabeth Braddon to modern talents including Muriel Gray Sarah Pinborough & Lilith Saintcrow. From tales of ghostly children to visitations by departed loved ones & from heart-rending stories to the profoundly unsettling depiction of extreme malevolence what each of these stories has in common is the effect of a slight chilling of the skin a feeling of something not quite present but nevertheless there. If anything this showcase anthology proves that sometimes the female of the species can also be the most terrifying..." ...

They know who they are & what theyre capable of
- cross them at your peril. No real hard bastard needs to brag or bully; most are
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This book features detailed accounts of over 30 contemporary cases or older cases reopened as a result of advances in forensic science. Crime scene investigations draw on a wide range of cutting-edge technology including genetic fingerprinting blood splatter analysis laser ablation toxicology & ballistics analysis. Cases covered here include: the abduction of Madeleine Mc Cann; the vindication of Colin Stagg convicted of having murdered Rachel Nickell; Hadden Clark who killed & ate a six-year-old child in Maryland; Robert Pickton the Vancouver farmer who fed his female victims to his pigs; the murder of Meredith Kercher in Perugia (was Amanda Knox guilty?) Lindsay Hawkers gruesome death in Japan; & Josef Fritzl & the cellar in which he imprisoned & raped his daughter. ...

This is a br&-new stunningly produced collection of over 650 erotic art photographs featuring the work of over 75 leading photographers from the US UK & elsewhere who have made a name for themselves with their nude & erotic work. Photographers include Trevor Watson Michele Serchuk Petter Hegre Roy Stuart Wolfgang Eichler Gilles Berquet & many more. These excitingly original images represent the very best of contemporary erotic photographic art. ...

The ultimate Sudoku title: not just a puzzle book but a comprehensive encyclopedia of the phenomenon to date featuring every major variant ever created. Here you will find close to 150 different kinds of Sudoku in 495 puzzles including Killer Sudoku Skyscraper Sudoku & multi-grid Samurai Sudoku. No other collection of Sudoku comes close; this is without doubt the most definitive volume of Sudoku variants ever compiled. It is another blockbuster from the puzzle master behind the bestselling Mammoth Book of Sudoku"." ...

Fall in love with someone out of this world. If love transcends all boundaries then paranormal romance is its logical conclusion. From the biggest names around here are 24 tales to take you to another time & place. Let Alyssa Day Sherrilyn Kenyon Cheyenne Mc Cray Jeaniene Frost Ilona Andrews Kelley Armstrong Maria V. Snyder Carrie Vaughn Allyson James Marland & others show you powers beyond your wildest imaginings. Within these pages mythical beasts magical creatures of all shapes & sizes heart-stoppingly handsome ghosts angels & mortals with extra-sensitive sensory perception play out the themes of extraordinary desires. ...

If love transcends all boundaries paranormal romance is its natural conclusion. This title features over twenty tales from some of the hottest names in romantic fiction to transport you to fantastical worlds in which mythical beasts magical creatures of all shapes & sizes heart-stoppingly handsome ghosts angels & mortals with extra-sensory powers live out extraordinary desires. It

Includes:: stories from Lara Adrian Ava Gray Sharon Shinn Robin D. Owens Karen Chance & many more. Praise for MBO Paranormal Romance": Paranormal romance readers are in for a treat with this amazing collection!
- Kresley Cole " New York Times" bestselling author."


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