Showing results for "Vladimir" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Telluria is set in the future, when a devastating holy war between Europe and Islam has succeeded in returning the world to the torpor and disorganization of the Middle Ages. Europe, China, and Russia have all broken up. The people of the world now live in an array of little nations that are like puzzle pieces, each cultivating its own ideology or identity, a neo-feudal world of fads and feuds, in which no one power dominates.

Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a Beheading embodies a vision of a bizarre and irrational world. In an unnamed dream country, the young man Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death by beheading for "gnostical turpitude", an imaginary crime that defies definition.

The first novel Nabokov wrote while living in America, and the most overtly political novel he ever wrote, Bend Sinister is a modern classic. While it is filled with veiled puns and characteristically delightful wordplay, it is, first and foremost, a haunting and compelling narrative about a civilized man caught in the tyranny of a police state. Professor Adam Krug, the country's foremost philosopher, offers the only hope of resistance to Paduk, dictator and leader of the Party of the Average Man.

His own ancestry and life very nearly the stuff of novels, it is no wonder Russian writer, philosopher, musical scholar, and politician Vladimir Odoyevsky had left behind an endlessly varied, fascinating, and captivating body of work. Imaginings of Years Past gives listeners a taste of the strange and wonderful literary legacy left behind by this strange and wonderful man.

Vladimir is about Vampires and humans coming together for a new world. They learn to coexist for many years until the humans try to manipulate the blood of the vampires' causing chaos. The two collide with Vladimir, the Lord of the Vampires planning to take over the world one night.

This strange tale by Vladimir Odoyevsky takes the listeners from Finnish backwater to St. Petersburg during the era of Peter the Great to Moscow in the years that followed Peter's death; from solid everyday reality to alchemy and surreal visions of a crazed brain. Follow us on this fantastic journey with the characters of Salamander.

Ae and Herman have decided to follow the path of heroes. In a world full of mysteries and extraordinary possibilities, they will have to pass a serious test of strength. On their way, they will learn more about their past and destiny, meet old friends and new enemies, and get the answer to the main question: what is Humanity 21A? A unique species of human capable of ignoring the limitations of space-time for the sake of survival? A dangerous virus? Or the lower caste of persecuted rebels, behind whose backs a gigantic shadow is already unfolding its wings?

La escritora Bárbara Myst lleva años escribiendo novelas de intriga con gran éxito comercial, cuya trama ha copiado de un enigmático libro que encontró en el garaje de su abuelo y cuyas historias le han abierto las puertas del éxito. Decidida a terminar con esta farsa que la atormenta, abandona temporalmente a su marido y a sus dos hijas y emprende un improvisado viaje a un pueblo llamado Dark Falls, situado en un recóndito lugar de Montana, Estados Unidos, en donde piensa empezar de cero y escribir una novela original y brillante.

After receiving a mysterious mission from the System, Ae and his friends passed the Test of Time, defeated their sworn enemies, and made their way to the capital of the Empire. A place where new adventures, clan wars, dangerous dungeons, and the best Dwarven cars are waiting for our heroes.

Humanity broke the System. The AI Project sent out a warning that they would come after us. The only chance to save at least some of us is to relocate to a new world. No one is waiting for us out there, but we're ready to fight for our place and prove that we're worthy of being here.

Nejpopulárnější kniha geniálního fantasy spisovatele J. R. R. Tolkiena. "Hobit" je v prvním plánu pohádkový příběh o velké cestě čaroděje Gandalfa, družiny trpaslíků a hobita Bilba Pytlíka za pokladem střeženým drakem Šmakem. V plánu druhém je to ovšem jeden z prvních kamenů rozsáhlého a světoznámého cyklu příběhů, legend a mýtů z dávné Středozemě, které svého autora proslavily po celém světě.

Eurasien, Mitte des 21. Jahrhunderts: Die Welt ist nach verschiedenen Religionskriegen, Revolutionen und Aufständen in weitgehend voneinander isolierte Kleinstaaten zerfallen, in denen unterschiedlichste politische Machtstrukturen herrschen. Es gibt u.a. das kommunistisch-orthodoxe Moskowien, eine Sowjetische Sozialistische Stalinrepublik und ein feudalistisches Neukölln mit Konrad von Kreuzberg an der Spitze, der die Salafisten zurückgeschlagen hat.

An old and insightful tale, Indian Tale About Four Deaf Men holds up surprisingly well in the modern context.

"Игра за выживание" - фантастический роман Владимира Мясоедова, жанр боевая фантастика, LitRPG, попаданцы. Достаться по наследству может многое. Богатырское здоровье, высокий интеллект, полный сундук старинных золотых монет....

Garin, ein Landarzt, will so schnell wie möglich in den Ort Dolgoje, um die Menschen dort gegen eine rätselhafte Krankheit zu impfen, die jeden Infizierten zum Zombie macht. Doch es herrscht Schneesturm, und Garins Pferde sind erschöpft. Also heuert er den einfältigen Brotkutscher Kosma an, dessen Schneemobil von fünfzig winzigen Pferdchen angetrieben wird. Und damit beginnen die Merkwürdigkeiten erst: Auf seiner Reise durch das Schneetreiben begegnet das ungleiche Paar Zwergen und Riesen, es gibt ein Radio mit "lebendigen" Bildern, eine Paste, die Filz "wachsen" lässt, eine pyramidale Wunderdroge und vieles mehr - eine Märchenwelt mit Ingredienzien einer Hochtechnologie-Gesellschaft.

Владимир Алексеевич Ильин - современный писатель-фантаст, обладающий ярким, узнаваемым стилем. В созданных им фантастических мирах всегда есть место человечности, житейской мудрости и доброму юмору. Роман "Шериф" - книга в популярном сегодня жанре ЛитРПГ.

Фантастический роман Владимира Мясоедова по миру Артёма Каменистого "S-T-I-K-S", жанр боевая фантастика.

"Шут и Некромантка" - фантастический роман Владимира Батаева, первый том первой книги цикла "За гранью добра и зла", жанр боевое фэнтези, попаданцы, юмористическое фэнтези. Новый мир может встретить совсем недружелюбно, а вместо приветственной делегации получишь какого-то мордоворота с ржавым тесаком.

"Шут и Пророчество" - фантастический роман Владимира Батаева, второй том первой книги цикла "За гранью добра и зла", жанр боевое фэнтези, попаданцы, юмористическое фэнтези. Если тебе пытаются навязать пророчество - лучше попытаться от его исполнения откосить.

Inspired by Ivan the Terrible’s “Memorial Book of the Disgraced” and his own spiritual crisis, Alyosha has been trying to record the memories of people in his life who "died before their time, leaving nothing behind except in my memory". In hospital, however, he changes tack and decides to dedicate his Memorial Book to the memories of the elderly patients in his ward, described to him as alumni of the early-Soviet Institute for Natural Genius. This plan, however, is hijacked by one patient who tells him a story that reaches even further back into the past of the Russian Revolution.