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Mit Milliarden auf meinem Konto und meiner eigenen Risikokapitalgesellschaft bin ich der lebende amerikanische Traum. Mein einziges Problem? Nach einem Autounfall leidet meine Mutter an Gedächtnisproblemen.

Darren hat es sein ganzes Leben lang einfach gehabt. Er schloss Harvard im Alter von 18 Jahren ab und drei Jahre später hatte er bereits einen lukrativen Job an der Wall Street - alles ist möglich, wenn man schummeln kann, indem man die Zeit verlässt. Dank seiner Fähigkeit weiß er alles, außer, warum er das tun kann, was er tut.

Orphaned and blind seven-year-old Callie has a service animal - a goat with extraordinary powers. Ben Hemoth is a down-on-his luck news reporter facing prison. Needing to save his job and his reputation, he teams up with Venus, a young seductress caught up with a teenage drug gang. When a mysterious letter arrives detailing a top-secret investigative operation, Ben and Venus think they've found their chance for redemption. The mission? Investigate a goat.

I don't know what the humans are so cranky about. Their enclosures are large, they ingest over 1,000 calories per day, and they're allowed to mate. Plus, they have me: an Autonomous Servile Unit, housed in a mobile/bipedal chassis. I do my job well: keep the humans healthy and happy.

Belvaille has cemented its place as the most important system in the galaxy and Hank is working as an official Factotum, negotiating deals between gangs and noblemen under the watchful eye of the Arch Minister. When his ever-capable butler, Cliston, is approached to become the General Manager of a Super Class glocken team, Hank is hired not only as protection, but as a player. Hank finds himself thrown into the most grueling bloodsport in the galaxy and tasked with finding out how and why players are being abducted.

At 35, Mike Cohen lives the American dream. With billions in the bank and his own venture capital firm, he's succeeded beyond his Russian immigrant mother's wildest hopes. The only problem? A car accident that leaves Mike's mother with memory problems. Brainocytes, a new technology developed by one of Mike's portfolio companies, may be the answer to his mother's injury - and offer applications that push the limits of the human mind. Only Mike isn't the only one who sees its potential.

A wandering alien life form seeks a compatible host to share its life. The life has lived for a long time and shared life with many life forms. Throughout the alien's life it is able to find suitable hosts for short periods of time and in other hosts life is hard and risky. Finally the alien life form travels to a planet and finds the perfect species to share its life with.

Hundreds of alien creatures gather at the Collundrome, an asteroid party venue, for the Pan-Galactic Prom Show, the biggest bash in the known universe. Funk Toast, an Earth band, is slated to headline the event. But Knolar Jex, intergalactic pirate and terrorist, has his own nefarious plans for this year’s extravaganza.

Hank was a dying breed on the space station Belvaille. The criminal gangs that had once made their homes there were forced out by the corporations that had taken over since the facility became an Independent Protectorate. Instead of the gentlemanly gang wars that had once dominated the scene, and made Hank's services prized as a negotiator, the city was now plagued by the clash of corporate armies using heavy weapons. Even tanks roamed the streets regularly.

Gratka dla graczy, czyli zbiór anegdot ukazujacych sie w latach 2001-2004 w miesieczniku "Swiat Gier Komputerowych". Gratka tym wieksza, ze zbiór wzbogacono o teksty dotychczas niedrukowane. Bylo to bowiem tak: redaktor naczelny (Piotr Pienkowski) zamawial u autora (Marcin Przybylek aka Martin Ann) pietnascie short-stories miesiecznie, a z nich do druku wybieral trzy. Pozostalo wiec mnóstwo perelek, które dopiero teraz ujrzaly swiatlo dzienne.

Zbiór opowiadan fantasy ukazujacy losy dwójki przyjaciól: Hondelyka, obdarzonego zdolnoscia przybierania form innych ludzi, oraz jego wiernego slugi, Cadrona. Humor Eugeniusza Debskiego oraz wciagajace przygody, opisane w sposób lekki, bez zbednego napuszenia i patosu, zapewnia doskonala rozrywke i poprawia nastrój.

Kolejny tom przygód Hondelyka - czlowieka kameleona. Tym razem wpada on w niezle tarapaty, gdy jego przyjaciel zostaje uwieziony z polecenia króla, a on sam jest scigany przez poteznego maga Sodosa Skrepowanego.

Zbiór szesciu opowiadan, z Hondelykiem i Cadronem w rolach glównych. W pierwszym opowiadaniu, "Smierdzaca robota", Debski przedstawia nam historie misji polegajacej na uwolnieniu okolic miasta z towarzystwa terroryzujacej je poczwary. W "O wlos od piwa", najdluzszym opowiadaniu zbioru, mamy do czynienia z kilkuwatkowa sprawa majaca wielkie znaczenie dla zdrowia i zycia Hondelyka. W kazdym z tekstów przyjaciele doswiadczaja róznorodnych przygód, sa wystawiani na liczne próby i pokusy.

Drugi tom przygód nierozlacznej pary przyjaciól - Hondelyka i jego slugi Cadrona. Glówny bohater posiada nadprzyrodzona zdolnosc mimikry, jest Xameleonem. Ksiazka sklada sie z mikropowiesci "O wlos od serca" i dwóch opowiadan: "Niepotrzebnej twierdzy" i tytulowego "Z powodu picia podlego piwa".

What if you went to heaven and no one there believed in Earth? This is the question at the heart of Beforelife, a satirical novel that follows the postmortem adventures of widower Ian Brown, a man who dies in the book’s first moments and finds himself in an afterlife where no one else believes in “pre-incarnation”. The other residents of the afterlife have mysteriously forgotten their premortem lives and think that anyone who remembers a mortal life is suffering from a mental disorder called the “Beforelife Delusion”.

The Industrial Revolution has escalated into all-out warfare. Sixteen years have passed since the Heterodyne Boys, benevolent adventurers and inventors, disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Today, Europe is ruled by the Sparks, dynasties of mad scientists ruling over - and terrorizing - the hapless population with their bizarre inventions and unchecked power, while the downtrodden dream of the Heterodynes’ return. At Transylvania Polygnostic University, a pretty, young student named Agatha Clay seems to have nothing but bad luck.

James Bolivar “Slippery Jim” diGriz, Special Corps agent, master con man, and interstellar criminal (retired), is living high on the hog on the planet Moolaplenty when a long-lost cousin and a shipful of swine arrive to drain his bank account and send him, and his lovely wife, Angelina, wandering the stars on the wildest journey since Gulliver’s Travels.

In South Africa, the future looks promising. Personal robots are making life easier for the working class. The government is harnessing renewable energy to provide infrastructure for the poor. And in the bustling coastal town of Port Elizabeth, the economy is booming thanks to the genetic engineering industry that has found a welcome home there. Yes, the days to come are looking very good for South Africans. That is, if they can survive the present challenges.

Meet Phluttr - a diabolically addictive new social network and a villainess, heroine, enemy, and/or bestie to millions. Phluttr has ingested every fact and message ever sent to, from, and about her innumerable users. Her capabilities astound her makers - and they don't even know the tenth of it. But what's the purpose of this stunning creation? Is it a front for something even darker and more powerful than the NSA?

Lucien (Lucy) Minor is the resident odd duck in the bucolic hamlet of Bury. Friendless and loveless, young and aimless, Lucy is a compulsive liar, a sickly weakling in a town famous for producing brutish giants. Then Lucy accepts employment assisting the Majordomo of the remote, foreboding Castle Von Aux.