Locus and Hugo Award-winning author John Scalzi brings us a turbo-charged tale of a family business with a difference - as Charlie discovers when he inherits it. This one comes with a hidden headquarters, minions, talking cats and James Bond-like supervillain rivals.
'Starter Villain establishes Scalzi as SF's leading humourist' - SFX
Warning: supervillain in training. Risk of world domination.
Inheriting his late uncle's business proves complicated. It's also way more dangerous than Charlie could ever have imagined. Because his uncle had kept his supervillain status a secret - until now.
Divorced and emotionally dependent on his cat, Charlie wasn't…
There is a 25th anniversary edition of this book. which is one of the most sumptuous tomes I've ever had the pleasure of owning... or reading. It's a monster of a work, 750 pages of heavy paper, that weighs in at over 2-1/2 kg, profusely and perfectly illustrated, as well as beautifully designed and typeset. The end papers offer up a genealogy of the extended and intertwined families that populate the story.
It's a rich and complex story, deserving of the magnificent treatment.
Edgewood is many houses, all put inside each other, or across each other. It's filled with and surrounded by mystery and enchantment: the further in you go, the bigger it gets.
Smoky Barnable, who has fallen in love with Daily Alice Drinkwater, comes to Edgewood, her family home, where he finds himself drawn into a world of magical strangeness.
Crowley's work has a special alchemy - mixing the world we know with an imagined world which seems more true and real. Winner of the WORLD FANTASY AWARD, LITTLE, BIG is eloquent, sensual, funny and unforgettable, a true Fantasy Masterwork.
This is the worthy successor to The Martian and, in many ways, a much better book. It's infused with problem-solving, just like The Martian, but the plot is much more inventive, interesting and sophisticated. The unraveling of the central mystery is handled adroitly, the partnership the protagonist has to form is inventive and original. It is, without a doubt, a real page-turner, and the ending was (a) not what I predicted nd (b) much better.
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.
Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.
All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.
His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through…
In 2065, an alien starship enters the solar system, stops at Saturn, and then departs., triggering a space race between China and the USA. The goal-- get to Saturn, evaluate the potential threat and lay claim to any alien tech they can get their hands on... before the other side does!
