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The Deserted Land: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Jian XianIn the abandoned domain of the Mysterious Sky Continent's god race, the humans and demons continued to fight endlessly. The evil spirits had awoken unexpectedly, and the evil races from the foreign lands would descend upon the Profound Heaven Continent. Human youths occasionally obtained divine blood and became disciples of the Great Void Sect. Everything began here.
The Deserted Land: Volume 2 (Volume 2 #2)
by Jian XianIn the abandoned domain of the Mysterious Sky Continent's god race, the humans and demons continued to fight endlessly. The evil spirits had awoken unexpectedly, and the evil races from the foreign lands would descend upon the Profound Heaven Continent. Human youths occasionally obtained divine blood and became disciples of the Great Void Sect. Everything began here.
The Deserted Land: Volume 3 (Volume 3 #3)
by Jian XianIn the abandoned domain of the Mysterious Sky Continent's god race, the humans and demons continued to fight endlessly. The evil spirits had awoken unexpectedly, and the evil races from the foreign lands would descend upon the Profound Heaven Continent. Human youths occasionally obtained divine blood and became disciples of the Great Void Sect. Everything began here.
The Deserted Land: Volume 4 (Volume 4 #4)
by Jian XianIn the abandoned domain of the Mysterious Sky Continent's god race, the humans and demons continued to fight endlessly. The evil spirits had awoken unexpectedly, and the evil races from the foreign lands would descend upon the Profound Heaven Continent. Human youths occasionally obtained divine blood and became disciples of the Great Void Sect. Everything began here.
The Deserter
by Peadar O. GuilinTo save his tribe, the cannibal Stopmouth must abandon it. Leaving the stone-age world of the Surface behind, he travels to the Roof, the mysterious hi-tech world suspended above. But the Roof has its own problems. The nanotechnology that controls it is collapsing. And now a rebellion against the ruling Commission is about to erupt.Hunted by the Commission's nano-enhanced agents, Stopmouth must succeed in a desperate hunt of his own: to find the woman he loves. Only she knows how to save his tribe. But in this super-sophisticated world, all he has to fight with are his raw strength and fierce courage.From the Hardcover edition.
The Deserters
by Mathias EnardFrom the winner of the Prix Goncourt, an epic, furious novel that shows the dangers of ideology and the aftermath of war A filthy and exhausted soldier emerges from the Mediterranean wilderness—he is escaping from an unspecified war, trying to flee incessant violence and find refuge in solitude. Meanwhile, on September 11, 2001, aboard a small cruise ship, a scientific conference takes place to pay tribute to renowned East German mathematician Paul Heudeber, a committed communist and anti-fascist, and a survivor of the camps at Buchenwald.The tension grows between these two narrative threads, and—pulled together in Mathias Énard’s enchanting, brilliant, erudite prose—time itself seems to become tightly interwoven, drawn together by the immense stakes of love and politics, loyalty and belief, hope and survival.
The Desolations of Devil's Acre: Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children #6)
by Ransom RiggsThe epic conclusion to the #1 bestselling Miss Peregrine&’s Peculiar Children series by Ransom Riggs!Jacob and his friends will face deadly enemies and race through history&’s most dangerous loops in this thrilling page-turner. The Desolations of Devil's Acre is the newest installment, and final adventure, in the beloved Miss Peregrine&’s Peculiar Children series. The last thing Jacob Portman saw before the world went dark was a terrible, familiar face. Suddenly, he and Noor are back in the place where everything began—his grandfather&’s house. Jacob doesn&’t know how they escaped from V&’s loop to find themselves in Florida. But he does know one thing for certain: Caul has returned. After a narrow getaway from a blood- thirsty hollow, Jacob and Noor reunite with Miss Peregrine and the peculiar children in Devil&’s Acre. The Acre is being plagued by desolations—weather fronts of ash and blood and bone—a terrible portent of Caul&’s amassing army. Risen from the Library of Souls and more powerful than ever, Caul and his apocalyptic agenda seem unstoppable. Only one hope remains—deliver Noor to the meeting place of the seven prophesied ones. If they can decipher its secret location.
The Destined Queen
by Deborah HaleFor as long as she can remember, Maura Woodbury has been a ward of the wizard Langbard, sheltered by his quiet power from the worst of her country's long occupation by the Han. She knows the legend of THE WAITING KING, who is said to lie asleep in the mountains until his destined queen awakens him and together they will win their country's freedom. But it is only a legend. An impossible tale people pretend to believe because they have no real hope. But she is the princess-enchantress whose destiny is to find and wake THE WAITING KING. At the conclusion of THE WIZARD'S WARD, Maura had found the crown of the Waiting King and realized Rath, her companion and a notorious outlaw, was the one prophesized to claim it. But though Rath was to be king, he was just a man, with no superpowers or abilities that would chase the Han from their kingdom. Stricken by doubt so soon after achieving their goals, Maura and Rath debate their choices: should they fulfill their destiny as king and queen by overthrowing the Han or strive for a quiet peaceful life? Unsure of their decision, they move toward their goal, hoping the way will become clearer. An encounter with a child oracle and Idrygon of the Council gives Rath and Maura hope that they will liberate Umbria. After their marriage and coronation the two are separated, as Maura must work with Delyon to recover a magical staff. Rath's jealousy and fears are ignited as his wife leaves on a dangerous mission with a man he feels far worthier of her. On her journey, Maura discovers her father may have been a Han death-mage, and this knowledge, which she keeps secret from Rath, becomes a tool the ambitious general Idrygon uses against her. Idrygon blackmails Maura into following his way of war by threatening to tell Rath of her parentage. But when she finally tells Rath--rather than have the blood of his countrymen on her hands--he is relieved because of a prophecy he'd heard from the Oracle, that his heir would have Han blood. At the final battle, Maura discovers the whereabouts of the magical staff that will help Rath rule. But Idrygon isn't done with his menace. He tells Rath to use the staff's power--one wish, however great--to destroy the Han completely and then become king in name only while Idrygon rules. If Rath doesn't agree, Idrygon will spread the word of Rath's outlaw past, and Rath will always have to fight for power over his people. Maura doesn't believe he should destroy the Han, partially because her father was Han, but she leaves the decision to Rath. In the end, Rath wishes that the Giver's will be done, and the Han are defeated. Information about character's clothing/appearance: When Maura confronts the deathmage she wears a cream linen undergown, green wool tunic, leather sash with many pockets. The death mage looks like: black robed and hooded with thin hands, holding slender metal wands with small gems imbedded in the tips. When Maura is crowned by the oracle she wears a yellow gown the color of midsummer sunshine and the hero wears robes that seemed to have been woven from threads of the deep blue Vestan sky When Maura is on the ship she wears a cream linen undergown, green wool tunic, leather sash with many pockets and the hero wears black leather vest, light shirt, dark breeches and boots.
The Destiny Of The Dead: The Song of the Tears, Volume Three (A Three Worlds Novel) (Song Of The Tears Ser. #Vol. 3)
by Ian IrvineNish and his remaining allies are trapped on the Range of Ruin, surrounded by the relentless army of his father, the God-Emperor. And Nish's choices seem limited: a humiliating surrender, or a suicidal fight to the death. Yet Nish must fight, and win, as he's needed to counter an unprecedented threat facing the whole of Santhenar. The danger is Stilkeen, a shape-shifting being, who has erupted from the void consumed by a need for retribution. Its chthonic power was stolen in ages past - and Stilkeen wants it back. But the chthonic fire Stilkeen sensed has now escaped to run wild through Santhenar's Antarctic territories. Even if Nish defeats his father, there may be no way to stop the fire, or Stilkeen, before everything is consumed.
The Destiny Of The Dead: The Song of the Tears, Volume Three (A Three Worlds Novel) (Song Of The Tears Ser.)
by Ian IrvineNish and his remaining allies are trapped on the Range of Ruin, surrounded by the relentless army of his father, the God-Emperor. And Nish's choices seem limited: a humiliating surrender, or a suicidal fight to the death. Yet Nish must fight, and win, as he's needed to counter an unprecedented threat facing the whole of Santhenar. The danger is Stilkeen, a shape-shifting being, who has erupted from the void consumed by a need for retribution. Its chthonic power was stolen in ages past - and Stilkeen wants it back. But the chthonic fire Stilkeen sensed has now escaped to run wild through Santhenar's Antarctic territories. Even if Nish defeats his father, there may be no way to stop the fire, or Stilkeen, before everything is consumed.
The Destiny of the Sword (The Seventh Sword #3)
by Dave DuncanA sword-and-sorcery classic from the Aurora Award–winning author of the King&’s Blades series. Wally Smith, having died on Earth, finds himself reincarnated as a swordsman in another world and entrusted by the presiding goddess with a mission that has no appeal for him at all. Can he bring together all the swordsmen to finally defeat the sorcerors and their terrible technology? Wally is not quite convinced he should, but goddesses can be very persuasive . . . This is the third and final exciting book, after The Reluctant Swordsman and The Coming of Wisdom, in the Seventh Sword Trilogy.
The Destroyer Goddess (In Fire Forged, Part Two)
by Laura ResnickThis is the sequel to the White Dragon and is the second part of the duology "Forged in the Fire." A fantasy.
The Destroyer of Worlds: A Return to Lovecraft Country
by Matt Ruff“Ruff renders a very high-concept, imaginary world with such vividness that you can’t help but feel it’s disturbingly real.”—Christopher MooreIn this thrilling adventure, a blend of enthralling historical fiction and fantastical horror, Matt Ruff returns to the world of Lovecraft Country and explores the meaning of death, the hold of the past on the present, and the power of hope in the face of uncertainty.Summer, 1957.Atticus Turner and his father, Montrose, travel to North Carolina, where they plan to mark the centennial of their ancestor’s escape from slavery by retracing the route he took into the Great Dismal Swamp. But an encounter with an old nemesis turns their historical reenactment into a real life-and-death pursuit.Back in Chicago, George Berry fights for his own life. Diagnosed with cancer, he strikes a devil’s bargain with the ghost of Hiram Winthrop, who promises a miracle cure—but to receive it, George will first have to bring Winthrop back from the dead.Meanwhile, fifteen-year-old Horace Berry, reeling from the killing of a close friend, joins his mother, Hippolyta, and her friend Letitia Dandridge on a research trip to Nevada for The Safe Negro Travel Guide. But Hippolyta has a secret—and far more dangerous—agenda that will take her and Horace to the far end of the universe and bring a new threat home to Letitia’s doorstep.Hippolyta isn’t the only one keeping secrets. Letitia’s sister, Ruby, has been leading a double life as her white alter ego, Hillary Hyde. Now, the supply of magic potion she needs to transform herself is nearly gone, and a surprise visitor throws her already tenuous situation into complete chaos.Yet these troubles are soon eclipsed by the return of Caleb Braithwhite. Stripped of his magic and banished from Chicago at the end of Lovecraft Country, he’s found a way back into power and is ready to pick up where he left off. But first he has a score to settle. . . .
The Destroyers of Lan-kern (Lan-Kern #2)
by Peter TremayneLan Kern, that mysterious land of forests and coast, strange creatures and dangerous men, once known as Cornwall... Through its perilous landscape two men pursue a deadly rivalry. One is Yaghus, once Frank Dryden. The other is Cador, his arch enemy But stalking both of them and Lan Kern itself is a greater threat from the bowels of the earth...
The Destruction of the Temple
by Barry MalzbergThe year is 2016, and President Kennedy is being murdered - again and again and again The director has come to the charred ruins of New York to re-enact a mad dream from the past - the assassination of President Kennedy. As actors, he has the primitive race who inhabit the city. With them and his glamorous, dark haired lover, he rehearses everything - the motorcade, the shots, the panic. But at the last moment it all goes wrong. When the flower-filled limousine rounds the bend, the passenger is not Kennedy - but the Director himself. Shots ring out in a wild explosion of roses
The Destruction of the Temple
by Barry N. MalzbergThe year is 2016, and President Kennedy is being murdered - again and again and again.The director has come to the charred ruins of New York to re-enact a mad dream from the past - the assassination of President Kennedy. As actors, he has the primitive race who inhabit the city. With them and his glamorous, dark haired lover, he rehearses everything - the motorcade, the shots, the panic.But at the last moment it all goes wrong. When the flower-filled limousine rounds the bend, the passenger is not Kennedy - but the Director himself.Shots ring out in a wild explosion of roses.
The Destructives
by Matthew De AbaituaTheodore Drown is a destructive. A recovering addict to weirdcore, he's keeping his head down lecturing at the university of the moon. Twenty years after the appearance of the first artificial intelligence, and humanity is stuck. The AIs or, as they preferred to be called, emergences have left Earth and reside beyond the orbit of Mercury in a Stapledon Sphere known as the university of the sun. The emergences were our future but they chose exile. All except one. Dr Easy remains, researching a single human life from beginning to end. Theodore's life. One day, Theodore is approached by freelance executive Patricia to investigate an archive of data retrieved from just before the appearance of the first emergence. The secret living in that archive will take him on an adventure through a stunted future of asylum malls, corporate bloodrooms and a secret off-world colony where Theodore must choose between creating a new future for humanity or staying true to his nature, and destroying it.From the Paperback edition.
The Detainee
by Peter LineyPeter Liney honed his strong narrative skills and attention to detail during his long career as a writer of German, Australian, British, and South African television and radio programs. In his debut novel, The Detainee, Liney has crated a dystopian world in which the state has gone bust and can no longer support its weakest members. The Island is a place of hopelessness. The Island is death. And it is to this place that all the elderly and infirm are shipped, the scapegoats for the collapse of society. There's no escape, not from the punishment satellites that deliver instant judgment for any crime--including escape attempts--and not from the demons that come on foggy nights, when the satellites are all but blind. But when one of the Island's inhabitants, the aging "Big Guy" Clancy, finds a network of tunnels beneath the waste, there is suddenly hope--for love, for escape, and for the chance to fight back.
The Detainee Omnibus: The Island means the end of all hope in this thrillingly dark dystopian omnibus
by Peter LineyThere is no point trying to run. There is no point trying to escape. The island means the end of all hope, until Clancy finds a reason to fight back. Peter Liney's thrilling dystopian The Detainee omnibus includes The Detainee, Into the Fire and In Constant Fear.When the fog comes down and the drums start to beat, the inhabitants of the island tremble: the punishment satellites, which keep the tyrannical Wastelords at bay, are blind in the darkness, and the islanders become prey. The inhabitants are the old, the sick, the poor: the detritus of Society, dumped on the island with the rest of Society's waste. There is no point trying to run. There is no point trying to escape. The satellites - the invisible eyes of the law - mete out instant judgement from the sky. The island is the end of all hope, until Clancy finds a blind woman living in a secret underground warren and discovers a reason to fight . . .'Impressively dark' - Financial Times
The Detainee: the Island means the end of all hope
by Peter Liney'Of all the dystopian novels I have read in recent years, Peter Liney's The Detainee is one the best written, most engaging, heart-tugging and cinematic of all' - Amazon ReviewerThere is no point trying to run. There is no point trying to escape. The island means the end of all hope, until Clancy finds a reason to fight back. When the fog comes down and the drums start to beat, the inhabitants of the island tremble: the punishment satellites, which keep the tyrannical Wastelords at bay, are blind in the darkness, and the islanders become prey. The inhabitants are the old, the sick, the poor: the detritus of Society, dumped on the island with the rest of Society's waste. There is no point trying to run. There is no point trying to escape. The satellites - the invisible eyes of the law - mete out instant judgement from the sky. The island is the end of all hope, until Clancy finds a blind woman living in a secret underground warren and discovers a reason to fight . . .'Impressively dark' - Financial Times
The Detainee: the Island means the end of all hope (The Detainee #4)
by Peter Liney'Of all the dystopian novels I have read in recent years, Peter Liney's The Detainee is one the best written, most engaging, heart-tugging and cinematic of all' - Amazon ReviewerThere is no point trying to run. There is no point trying to escape. The island means the end of all hope, until Clancy finds a reason to fight back. When the fog comes down and the drums start to beat, the inhabitants of the island tremble: the punishment satellites, which keep the tyrannical Wastelords at bay, are blind in the darkness, and the islanders become prey. The inhabitants are the old, the sick, the poor: the detritus of Society, dumped on the island with the rest of Society's waste. There is no point trying to run. There is no point trying to escape. The satellites - the invisible eyes of the law - mete out instant judgement from the sky. The island is the end of all hope, until Clancy finds a blind woman living in a secret underground warren and discovers a reason to fight . . .'Impressively dark' - Financial Times
The Detainee: the Island means the end of all hope (The Detainee #4)
by Peter LineyWhen the fog comes down and the drums start to beat, the inhabitants of the island tremble: for the punishment satellites - which keep the tyrannical Wastelords at bay - are blind in the darkness, and the islanders become prey. The inhabitants are the old, the sick, the poor: the detritus of Society, dumped on the island with the rest of Society's waste. There is no point trying to escape, for the satellites - the invisible eyes of the law - mete out instant judgement from the sky. The island is the end of all hope - until 'Big Guy' Clancy finds a blind woman living in a secret underground warren, and discovers a reason to fight.(P)2014 WF Howes Ltd
The Detective & the Chinese High-Fin: A John Darvelle Mystery (The John Darvelle Mysteries #2)
by Michael CravenFinalist for the 2017 Shamus AwardMichael Craven, author of The Detective & The Pipe Girl, delivers another mystery—for fans of Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiaasen—featuring private detective John Darvelle, who must crack a cold case that pulls him into the high-stakes world of exotic fish collectors.Private Detective John Darvelle is back—drinking cheap beer, playing ping-pong and sharing his philosophy on everything from work/life balance to restaurants with bad air-conditioning. (He doesn’t believe in the former, he despises the latter.)Darvelle is hired to find the killer of Keaton Fuller, a well-born Los Angeles man gunned down in his own driveway. The cops couldn’t solve the case, in part because everyone who came in contact with Keaton despised him. Translation: Anybody could have done it. Following a trail of the dead man’s betrayals, Darvelle finds himself in the exotic, high-stakes world of rare tropical fish. The fish are certainly valuable enough to kill for, but is there something more menacing going on?As Darvelle relentlessly drives toward the truth, a showdown awaits that is at once riveting, visceral, and very, very dangerous. It’s a case only he could solve—just as long as he’s willing to put his life on the line.
The Detective Inspector Chen Novels Volume One: Snake Agent, The Demon and the City, and Precious Dragon (The Detective Inspector Chen Novels)
by Liz WilliamsThree paranormal mysteries in an “exotic amalgam of police procedural, SF, comic fantasy, and horror . . . a delight from start to finish” (Locus). Det. Inspector Wei Chen of Singapore Three’s Thirteenth Precinct is “a detective whose beat reaches to the fringes of Heaven and Hell” (Booklist). Along with his demon partner from Hell’s vice squad, Zhu Irzh, Chen is the man to turn to for paranormal problems that are literally out of this world. Snake Agent: This “entertaining supernatural mystery” introduces an occult detective who is as serious as his beat is strange (Publishers Weekly). With a demon for his beloved wife, Det. Inspector Wei Chen possesses a comfort with the supernatural that most mortals cannot match. But his journey to Hell to find the waylaid ghost of Pearl Tang, the deceased daughter of a wealthy industrialist, will take him further into the abyss than ever before—to a mystifying place where he will need the help of a demonic detective to survive. Getting into Hell is easy. Getting out is another story. “Snake Agent combines disparate elements of Chinese mythology, urban fantasy, science fiction and mystery to create a rich milieu and a highly entertaining story.” —Jacqueline Carey, New York Times–bestselling author The Demon and the City: In this “wildly imaginative” second novel, demon Zhu Irzh has been assigned to aid the Singapore Three police department as they investigate cases that overlap this world and the world to come (Publishers Weekly). With Detective Inspector Chen on a well-deserved vacation, Zhu Irzh’s first murder case involves the savage killing of a rich would-be witch outside of the occult market. Soon he’s unearthed a supernatural conspiracy that proves Hell holds no monopoly on evil. Chen just may have to cut his vacation short. “Uniquely imaginative . . . [a] surreal fusion of Chinese mythology, paranormal high jinks, and satisfyingly suspenseful sleuthing.” —Booklist Precious Dragon: Chen and Zhu Irzh have been assigned to escort the Heavenly functionary Mi Li Qi on a diplomatic mission to the underworld. Soon after they check in to their hellish hotel, Qi vanishes into the abyss. Now they must follow her into the bowels of a demonic bureaucracy, where they will be forced to dodge all manner of otherworldly dangers if they wish to avoid a political incident with apocalyptic ramifications. “One of the most colorfully imaginative packages in recent fantasy.” —Booklist
The Detective Inspector Chen Novels Volume Two: The Shadow Pavilion and The Iron Khan (The Detective Inspector Chen Novels)
by Liz WilliamsTwo paranormal mysteries in an “exotic amalgam of police procedural, SF, comic fantasy, and horror . . . a delight from start to finish” (Locus). Det. Inspector Wei Chen of Singapore Three’s Thirteenth Precinct is “a detective whose beat reaches to the fringes of Heaven and Hell” (Booklist). Along with his demon partner from Hell’s vice squad, Zhu Irzh, Chen is the man to turn to for paranormal problems that are literally out of this world. The Shadow Pavilion: An assassin is trying to kill the Emperor of Heaven, and Detective Inspector Chen does not have his demonic partner, Zhu Irzh, to fall back on. Irzh has vanished, Chen’s wife is in danger, and a psychotic Bollywood star is on the warpath. Good thing the occult detective is no stranger to chaos—because if he doesn’t restore order quickly, this could be the end of the universe. “[A] clever mix of Chinese folklore and police procedural . . . The plot zips along . . . Williams seamlessly blends the occult with modern issues like feminism and illegal immigration to create a thoroughly original fantasy.” —Publishers Weekly The Iron Khan: No mortal has ever heard of the Book. Few in Heaven even believe it is real. But Mhara, the Emperor of Heaven, knows the Book is very real, very powerful, and very much missing. It has a mind of its own, and it appears to have wandered off—taking the secrets of the universe with it. No ordinary mortal, Detective Inspector Chen has a lot on his plate: His wife is pregnant, his demonic partner is tracking the movement of an immortal horde, and he’s the only one who can retrieve the Book and restore order to the cosmos. Before all Hell breaks loose . . . “Williams continues to expand her unique future Asia, stuffing it with lively characters, chop-socky action, demonic intrigue, amazing magic, and a tasty dash of screwball comedy. This fantasy mystery adventure will delight readers who crave originality and excitement.” —Publishers Weekly