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Quentin Tarantino's long-awaited first work of fiction - at once hilarious, delicious and brutal - is the always surprising, sometimes shocking new novel based on his Academy Award-winning film.

In the world of this novel, said to be an inspiration for Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle, the Confederacy has triumphed and become an imperialist nation. What is left of the United States has been drained of its resources and is trapped in a depression. Hodge, a young man living in a village in rural New York with his parents, decides to head to the city to escape his otherwise inevitable future of poverty and indentured servitude.

Two young Cambridge University students invent a time machine that accidentally creates a rip in SpaceTime which threatens to destroy the universe. The only way to stop it is to ensure they never create the rip in the first place. So they must travel back in time to prevent themselves from ever being born. But this turns out not be quite so easy, as they have to travel further and further back in time to try change their future.

Fifteen outstanding authors. Fourteen extraordinary stories. One best-selling universe. It’s the 22nd century. The galaxy has opened up to humanity as a hyperactive beehive of stargates and new technologies, and we suddenly find ourselves in a vast playground of different races, environments, and cultures. Enter the Four Horsemen universe, where only a willingness to fight and die for money separates humans from the majority of the other races. Enter a galaxy not only of mercenaries, but also of aliens, hired assassins, and accountants. Accountants?

“Queens don’t cry, that’s for princesses". Visions, it seems like everyone is having them. Anne, Murder, and Levi all share a vision across the Atlantic Ocean and 485 years. Time and space are crying out, London is calling. The future is in peril, Alice Noble...An impossible structure...New York is burning...We have existed in the shadows of your world for all of history. The blessed, the cursed, the mages and the witches. Sometimes you choose to ignore us. Sometimes we cover it up. We keep our heads down, lest you lot make them roll.

They say to be successful in life, you have to be the right person in the right place at the right time. "Mr. Chance…is being there." In the case of Fred, it was Mr. Chanceless…being nowhere. But using his imagination and power of deduction, he unlocked the secrets of the universe and solved the mystery of who killed the dinosaurs.

He knows he has a chance. Will he become the boss?

En su primer libro de cuentos, que abarca cuarenta años de su trabajo, el legendario creador de "Watchmen", "V de Vendetta", "From Hell" y otros clásicos modernos presenta nueve relatos que se adentran en el componente fantástico que subyace en la realidad. Un grupo de estudio paranormal sufre la infiltración de uno de los seres de otro mundo que pretenden investigar. En un burdel para especialistas fantásticos, dos concubinas se enamoran con consecuencias trágicas. Un anciano nostálgico decide visitar un balneario de su juventud y se topa con su pasado a la vuelta de la esquina.

Evan West lives, breathes, and exists for everything film. His heart beats at 24 frames per second. He aspires to be much more than a film trailer editor, but he’s lucky to live and work in Hollywood. When Evan crashes into a telephone pole one night, he’s thrust into a temporal vortex—and suddenly transported back to Hollywood in 1946 during the making of the beloved Christmas movie It’s a Wonderful Life.

A letter from Judas Iscariot is found under Jerusalem’s Temple Mount and exposes the storyline of Christ, the crucifixion and resurrection, as nothing more than a political ruse of a radical Jew. The Vatican and a Zionist cabal both seek to secure the letter, as anthropologist Gabe Turpin, a Tibetan lama, a Jesuit priest, and a Mossad operative teams with an old spymaster to pursue the relic through the wormholes of time and space.

On the wall before him, in the dimness of the room, a great circular screen glowed opaquely, awaiting his touch: a doorway into time and space, a doorway to beauty and deadly peril and everything that made livable for him a life that had, perhaps, gone on too long. The shadows leaped backward into three-dimensional vividness that wavered for a moment and then sharpened into focus upon a desert landscape under a vivid crimson sky.

The thinking woman's erotica. In Wales, a young woman's sensuality is awakened by an outrageous inheritance. In Oklahoma, a rainmaker offers a drought-stricken town salvation at a controversial price. In Sydney, a record producer struggles to balance wife and mistress - until one of them takes matters into her own hands.... Tobsha Learner's passionate short story collections, Quiver, Tremble, and Yearn, will consume you - and have you begging for more.