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Other Tales: Volume V contains eight bizarre and incredible tales of science fiction and fantasy, including stories by eminent genre writers Fritz Leiber (author of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser) and Arthur Conan Doyle (creator of Sherlock Holmes) and an original Dungeons & Dragons-esque yarn by author and narrator Adriel Brandt.

"Porque la sangre es la vida" (For the Blood is the Life, 1905) es un clásico relato de vampiros de Francis Marion Crawford que utiliza la frase bíblica para ilustrar el terror vampírico: la sangre es el motor físico y espiritual que sostiene la existencia. Ambientado en Calabria, Italia, el cuento narra cómo una mujer joven se convierte en vampiro por venganza, requiriendo sangre humana para mantener su vida no-muerta.

The Romans have abandoned Britannia. It is now 425 CE, and the islands have been brutally invaded by barbarian tribes coming from all directions. These lands are now a series of lawless, squabbling kingdoms that haven’t been united since the death of High King Coel Hen roughly a decade before. Roman rule failed the Britons, and a former Roman auxiliary, Hall, has been asked to return and provide a safer future for the people of Britannia’s northmost kingdom, Ebrauc. Word has it that a Saxon warlord has united many tribesmen from Germania and Gaul.

The bestselling author of Chocolat and The Girl with No Shadow returns to Lansquenet in this enchanting new novel When Vianne Rocher receives a letter from beyond the grave, she has no choice but to follow the wind that blows her back to Lansquenet, the beautiful French village in which eight...

Five long years have passed since Drysten was thrown into a cell. All hope of his escape or release left him with the realization that his people had no idea he was alive. He was once a great warrior who fought proudly and ferociously for the very same king who cast him aside. He didn’t know how, but he knew he would find his revenge. One man placed into the cell beside him gave him the knowledge needed to wage war across the kingdom of Ebrauc.

What the Universe Learned is a speculative love story about two people whose connection destabilizes the systems meant to protect reality. As unseen forces attempt to separate them, the universe itself is forced to confront a radical question: can love be integrated rather than erased? Quiet, intimate, and philosophical, this novel explores consequence, choice, and what remains when control gives way to trust.

Im Herbst des Jahres 3583 erwacht in einer verlassenen Relaisstation des ehemaligen Solaren Imperiums ein geheimnisvoller Mann. Das besondere an ihm: In seinem Körper leben sieben menschliche Bewusstseine. Der "Mensch aus dem Nichts", der auch als "Mehrheitsmensch" bezeichnet wird, ist das erste der so genannten Konzepte... Wie es scheint, leben in den Konzepten die Bewusstseine jener zwanzig Milliarden Menschen, die verschwanden, als die Erde und der Mond durch den mysteriösen Schlund in eine andere Galaxis versetzt wurden.

"A truth we all know...but agree not to talk about..." was how the Clapping Lady from the secretive Consilience Foundation described it to a teenage Methuen Pryce in 2012 as they discussed his Segmented World model. But it was also a "truth" that Nick O’Grady, ambitious young CEO of the high-tech Allied Answers, had not "talked about" - that was until he invited Methuen to his plush New York office in the summer of ’23.

Pollen is a visitor from the far reaches of space, and his mission is to save the Earth from human destruction with the power of his mysterious, living ring. Accompanied by a ragtag group of friends, he journeys across the United States to deliver a message to the president and the world.

This is the tale of an undead man dragged through a prophecy as the world around him falls. What seems like a quick and easy messenger job quickly descends into a race to change the very fabric of existence. In a world that makes increasingly little sense, he must try to stay alive to bring a new balance to existence.

Auf der Erde und den anderen Welten, die von Menschen besiedelt sind, schreibt man das Jahr 427 Neuer Galaktischer Zeitrechnung. Nach wie vor operiert Perry Rhodan mit seiner Galaktischen Flotte in der Galaxis M 82. Mittlerweile ist die Flotte wieder vereint - steht aber weiterhin im Konflikt mit der Endlosen Armada. Dieser gigantische Heerwurm aus Millionen Raumschiffen unterschiedlichster Völker birgt uralte kosmische Geheimnisse.