A Deal in Ostriches - formato ePub

En estos cuentos, los autores que inauguraron la ciencia ficción sorprenden con su capacidad para anticipar un mundo en el que el uso de la ciencia y la tecnología llevan al ser humano a plantearse dilemas...

Arthur Kipps, an orphaned draper’s assistant of humble means, unexpectedly inherits a large sum of money and that is when all his troubles begin. After being left a fortune by a rich uncle, Kipps finds...

Wells’s satire on literature, „Boon” was originally published under the pseudonym Reginald Bliss; a follow-up to the Fabian-savaging „The New Machiavelli”. It purports, however, to be by the fictional...

L'Île du Docteur Moreau, proposé ici dans une nouvelle traduction moderne, fluide et vivante, est un roman de science-fiction écrit par l’auteur anglais H.G. Wells et publié en 1896. Récit à la première...

H. G. Wells was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction. His writing career spanned more than sixty years, and his early science fiction novels earned him the title (along with Jules Verne and...

This story is essentially the history of the opening and of the realisation of the Great War as it happened to one small group of people in Essex, and more particularly as it happened to one human brain....

"The Red Room" is a short gothic story written by H. G. Wells in 1894. It was first published in the March 1896 edition of "The Idler" magazine.

In una cittadina della provincia inglese il Vicario, esperto ornitologo, spara a un angelo, proveniente evidentemente da un’altra dimensione, credendolo un uccello raro, ferendolo...  

La máquina del tiempo es una novela de ciencia ficción escrita por H.G.Wells y publicada en 1895. Wells es conocido por el público en general por la popularización del concepto del viaje en el tiempo...

En esta novela, paradigma del género de la ciencia ficción, H. G. Wells señaló algunas de las más serias preocupaciones científicas —insólitas si consideramos que se publicó por primera vez en 1895— como...

El primer gran clásico de la ciencia ficción que narró una invasión marciana en el planeta Tierra.El siglo XIX llega a si fin y los marcianos se preparan para invadir y conquistar la Tierra. Los temibles...

Relata las contradicciones de un joven y brillante científico que se desprende de toda ética en pro de su sed de dominio. Scafati recrea la atmósfera de una sociedad trastornada por un individuo que actúa...

Es la primera novela en la que se narró una invasión marciana. H. G. Wells, es junto con Julio Verne, el padre de la ciencia ficción. Esta edición recupera las ilustraciones de Henrique Alvim Corrêa,...

La Guerra de los Mundos es una de las obras maestras de Herbert George Wells. Publicada en 1898, constituye la primera descripción conocida de una invasión alienígena. Está narrada en primera persona,...

Publicada en 1895 y fruto de la imaginación de Wells, uno de los padres de la ciencia ficción, “La Máquina del Tiempo” nos cuenta las aventuras de un científico que logra descubrir las claves de la cuarta...

Obra que se halla en los inicios de la novela de ciencia-ficción, "La máquina del tiempo" (1895) sigue conservando el mismo poder de fascinación y vigor narrativo que le valieron el éxito inmediato en...

Why You Must Read This Book I Got Struck by 27 Thunderbolts is not just a collection of stories — it's a quiet thunder echoing through the heart. This book is for the ones who have loved deeply and lost...

For Beck, the buzz of the needle is a steady rhythm against the chaos he keeps buried deep. To his friends, he's a talented artist, quick with a grin, but beneath the surface lies a carefully guarded...

Save Our Souls is a collection of short stories that focuses on love and relationships, situational comedy, paranormal activity, 90's action/drama and sacrifice for the greater good."Two For the Show"...

Wilson just hauls cargo between systems. A space trucker. Until the Resistance to the Church Militant needs an agent smuggled out of Vatican Centro, just one step ahead of the Inquisitors.Who needs Wilson's...

Messing with my best buddy's little sister has quickly become my new favorite obsession.NoahFootball was my everything until a career-ending injury flipped my world upside down. Now, back in my hometown,...

When sparks start to fly, someone is bound to get burned.Beckett wants to spend his days protecting the members of his small hometown and his nights with someone special. As a firefighter, Beckett has...

An unsettling, poignant story about two troubled strangers finding refuge in each other during the pandemic As coronavirus spreads, paranoia overtakes a quiet northern Japanese town. People keep strict...

An old soldier carves a croft out of the Finnish forest and calls it home, but try as he might to tame the land, its wild magic endures. For centuries his descendants will work the farm, through days...

The Golden Hour is an epic dual timeline story which interweaves glory-seeking desert archaeologists, priceless treasures, Nefertiti’s tomb and the decadent cabarets of WW2 Cairo with restless expat lives...

‘A haunting and magnificent new voice.’ Sam J. Miller, author of Blackfish City ‘We can fix what we have done. We can undo the mistakes our ancestors made. We can set right what has been done wrong......

Three gorgeous men, one woman who fascinates them, and enough heat and love to scorch them all. Life on Darmain can be wild and so are the men. Kassius, Teague, and Berenger wanted Sephanie since the...

In GUARDIANS OF THE BAY, award-winning writer Annie Reed does what she does best—puts her own unique spin on the classic shapeshifter story.Elias Sandoval makes his living playing songs for tourists at...

***THE TWISTY NEW THRILLER FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR***Broadchurch meets Harlan Coben in the most compulsive thriller you'll read all year. Whether you've read Robert Gold before or whether...

**A 2025 Highlight in the Guardian, I-Paper, Prima, Irish Times, Irish Independent and Sunday Independent****A Bookseller '10 Titles Not to Miss' selection for April**'A profoundly compassionate novel...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Karla's Choice, comes a thrilling new detective novel.On the shore of a rundown holiday town, a young woman washes up dead. Martha Erskine, the matriarch of...

When the animals of Manor Farm overthrow their human master, they dream of a society where all are equal, free, and happy. But as the pigs take control, that dream slowly turns into a nightmare. Promises...

Mitch Caddo started out with the best of intentions—after his mother’s sudden death in a car crash, he finished law school and returned to Passage Rouge, the reservation where she grew up. Though an outsider...

‘A blackly funny twist on the Country House mystery, with bodies and wit galore’ John ConnollyAnd Then There Were None  meets The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle.Ten strangers. An old dark house. A...

‘Hilarious and heartbreaking’ MONICA ALI 'Deeply funny and knowing' MEG WOLITZER 'Witty, moving' ANN NAPOLITANO 'Poignant, funny and brilliantly told' POSY SIMMONDSAn often hilarious, surprisingly moving...

When an albatross strays too far from its home, or loses its bearings, it becomes an 'accidental', an unmoored wanderer. The protagonists of these eight stories each find the ordinary courses of their...

Thorston is attending an international school in Scotland. Thanks to the 'de Wit Foundation'. He has found a best friend in Jonas Falk since he arrived there. Jonas' father replaces the parents he no...

The discovery of an injection that wards off ageing is hijacked by ruthless men who hunger for immortality, with catastrophic consequences. Two women race against time to stop them, before it's too late...

A thriller of love and revenge, and an imaginative literary obituary for Kafka, bringing the Cold War to life, from Paris and Istanbul to West Berlin and Tel Aviv."Did Max Brod commit a crime by not fulfilling...

Charlie Hunter does not like Christmas, especially the lead into it -- cooking endless servings of Christmas dinner. So when she is asked by Graeme Strickland, Michelin-starred chef, egomaniac and friend,...

National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree 'A taut, energetic, tender and wholly original debut' George Saunders 'Sammartino's brilliance and originality shine out from every page' Jenny Offill David...

Cycling? It's one of my life's constants, it feeds my need for beauty, for delight and for aimless exploring . . . I hope to continue pedalling, nice and slowly, for the rest of my life, with the same...

'Clear your diaries for another marvellous Merrywell mystery!' Clare Chase 'Kept me guessing right until the end' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐...

Love was supposed to be their forever. Now, it's the mystery that might get Alex killed. Alex Mercer never thought his world would unravel so completely. Just weeks ago, his life was routine—luxury real...

The Boomer Crew's biggest gamble yet!The lads go to Monaco to make their fortune in the casinos; what's the worst that could happen? Well, Blakey's car might get trashed, Finley might lose all his money,...

A grown woman with a crush is bad enough.But a forty-three-year-old doctor—who's recently divorced and has a thirteen-year-old son—with a crush on the sexy bad boy who barely gives her the time of day?...