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Katzenjammer
by Francesca ZappiaAmerican Horror Story meets the dark comedy of Kafka’s The Metamorphosis as Cat searches for a way to escape her high school. A tale of family, love, tragedy, and masks—the ones others make for us, and the ones we make for ourselves. Katzenjammer will haunt fans of Chelsea Pitcher’s This Lie Will Kill You and E. Lockhart’s We Were Liars. Cat lives in her high school. She never leaves, and for a long time her school has provided her with everything she needs. But now things are changing. The hallways contract and expand along with the school’s breathing, and the showers in the bathroom run a bloody red. Cat’s best friend is slowly turning into cardboard, and instead of a face, Cat has a cat mask made of her own hardened flesh.Cat doesn’t remember why she is trapped in her school or why half of them—Cat included—are slowly transforming. Escaping has always been the one impossibility in her school’s upside-down world. But to save herself from the eventual self-destruction all the students face, Cat must find the way out. And to do that, she’ll have to remember what put her there in the first place.Using chapters alternating between the past and the present, acclaimed author Francesca Zappia weaves a spine-tingling, suspenseful, and haunting story about tragedy and the power of memories. Fans of Marieke Nijkamp’s This Is Where It Ends and Karen McManus’s One of Us Is Lying will lose themselves in the pages of this novel—or maybe in the treacherous hallways of the school. Includes interior illustrations from the author.
Nicu - el pequeño vampiro: muerta otra vez
by Elias Zapple Maria J. ManzanoDescripción del libro: No todo va bien en Transilvania. Después de que se produjera una misteriosa muerte, la familia de Nicu llama al famoso detective vampiro Vamlock para que investigue. Nicu tiene que detener una posible guerra sin cuartel entre los vampiros y los seres humanos así como asumir esa misma muerte. Pobre Nicu.
El chico sin nombre
by Ricardo Zárate"Si empiezas a tener pesadillas estando despierto, eso significa que el siguiente eres tú." Álex ama a su hermano con todas sus fuerzas, y hallarlo significa encontrarse a sí mismo# Por él haría lo que fuera. Dante fue secuestrado hace muchos años y su ausencia ha dejado un gran vacío en la vida de sus padres y su hermano Álex. Cuando la policía desestima el caso por falta de evidencias, Álex se siente más desamparado que nunca y clama por justicia, pues está convencido de que Dante sigue vivo; entonces decide que ya es hora de encontrarlo por su cuenta. Lo acompaña Ana, su mejor amiga; también un agente que sabe más de lo que aparenta, y además su propia habilidad para manejar la deep web a su antojo. Pero destapará una espeluznante cloaca con la que habría preferido no toparse nunca. A un hijo que pierde a sus padres se le llama huérfano. A una madre que pierde a su hijo se le llama dolorosa. ¿Y a quien pierde asu hermano#? "¿Cuál es mi nombre?", es lo que se pregunta Álex todos los días. Cierta noche, Álex colapsa el sitio web del Sistema de Seguridad Nacional para denunciar a los cuatro vientos que las autoridades no han logrado hallar a los secuestradores de su hermano mayor, Dante, quien desapareció años atrás. A cambio de no ser procesado por el ataque cibernético, la policía le pide que colabore con ellos para localizar a los dueños de una página web que vende objetos personales de asesinos seriales. El sitio ahora intenta vender un anillo de oro perteneciente a un importante político recién asesinado. Álex acepta colaborar como pirata informático, pues intuye que ese incidente está relacionado con los criminales que secuestraron a Dante. Así entra en contacto con una comunidad marginal y clandestina amante de lo macabro y descubre secretos inenarrables que tienen que ver con grandes ambiciones políticas. Está dispuesto a todo con tal de hallar a su hermano, pero a qué costo#
Enchanted Incognito
by W. I. ZardSo you want to hear my miserable tale? Bad idea. Go live vicariously through a girl whose life worked out the way she planned. A girl who didn't wake up one morning and find that her relatively simple, albeit disconnected life had been turned upside down and filled with the darkest of magic and worst of curses. Here I thought the SATs and college applications were complicated! Have you ever felt so completely lost and out of place you wondered if your life was really even yours? Well I have. I've lived most of my life feeling as though I were trapped in someone else's, so when I found out that I was born a witch, it all started to fall into place. That is until I met the tall, dark and mysterious Elliot and realized that dating in the mortal world has got nothing on the complication, desire and mistrust that surrounds romance in the magical world. It doesn't help that our families are mortal enemies either. Did Romeo and Juliet have to suffer plagued curses and time travel in their struggle? I think not. As tragic as their tale was, they were fully responsible for their fate, but not Athiya and Elliot. No, our story was completely out of our control.
House of Yesterday
by Deeba ZargarpurTaking inspiration from the author's own Afghan-Uzbek heritage, this contemporary YA debut is a breathtaking journey into the grief that lingers through generations of immigrant families, and what it means to confront the ghosts of your past.Struggling to deal with the pain of her parents’ impending divorce, fifteen-year-old Sara is facing a world of unknowns and uncertainties. Unfortunately, the one person she could always lean on when things got hard, her beloved Bibi Jan, has become a mere echo of the grandmother she once was. And so Sara retreats into the family business, hoping a summer working on her mom’s latest home renovation project will provide a distraction from her fracturing world.But the house holds more than plaster and stone. It holds secrets that have her clinging desperately to the memories of her old life. Secrets that only her Bibi Jan could have untangled. Secrets Sara is powerless to ignore as the dark truths of her family’s history rise in ghostly apparitions -- and with it, the realization that as much as she wants to hold onto her old life, nothing will ever be the same.Told in lush, sweeping prose, this story of secrets, summer, and family sacrifice will chill you to the bone as the house that wraps Sara in warmth of her past becomes the one thing she cannot escape…
El diario mágico (Zarola Kids #Volumen)
by ZarolaNo te pierdas la primera aventura de... ¡Zarola Kids! ¡Hola, Zarolitas! Me llamo Laura y soy una niña de lo más normal. Voy al cole, me gusta estar con mis amigos, tengo dos perros geniales y un canal de YouTube con un montón de seguidores. Bueno, esto no es MUY normal, pero, ¿sabéis qué es todavía más alucinante? Hace poco me encontré un DIARIO MÁGICO al que puedes pedir todo lo que se te ocurra. Lo escribes y ¡PUF!, se hace realidad. Suena muy divertido, pero hay que tener cuidado con lo que se desea... porque se puede cumplir! Unicornito y yo ya estamos listos para divertirnos. ¿Te unes a la primera aventura de Zarola Kids?
Sensational (Spectacle #2)
by Jodie Lynn ZdrokEighteen-year-old Nathalie Baudin, ever-curious reporter at the Paris morgue, is no stranger to death—even discounting the supernatural visions that give her disturbing glimpses into the minds of killers. Paris, 1889.When the Exposition Universelle opens in Paris, Nathalie welcomes a much-needed break from the heartache of her friend's murder. The fair is full of sensational innovations, cultural displays, and marvelous inventions from around the world.But someone is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the guillotine with a gruesome display of their own: beheaded victims in some of the Exposition’s most popular exhibits.Haunted by the past and burdened with new secrets, Nathalie struggles to use her wits and her gift. Yet she and her friends must stop the killer before the macabre display features one of them...At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Spectacle (Spectacle #1)
by Jodie Lynn ZdrokSpectacle is a YA murder mystery from debut author Jodie Lynn Zdrok in which a young reporter must use her supernatural visions to help track down a killer targeting the young women of Paris.Paris, 1887. Sixteen-year-old Nathalie Baudin writes the daily morgue column for Le Petit Journal. Her job is to summarize each day’s new arrivals, a task she finds both fascinating and routine. That is, until the day she has a vision of the newest body, a young woman, being murdered—from the perspective of the murderer himself.When the body of another woman is retrieved from the Seine days later, Paris begins to buzz with rumors that this victim may not be the last. Nathalie's search for answers sends her down a long, twisty road involving her mentally ill aunt, a brilliant but deluded scientist, and eventually into the Parisian Catacombs. As the killer continues to haunt the streets of Paris, it becomes clear that Nathalie's strange new ability may make her the only one who can discover the killer’s identity--and she'll have to do it before she becomes a target herself.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Black Pockets: And Other Dark Thoughts
by George ZebrowskiIn this masterful collection of horror stories, George Zebrowski divides these nineteen tales into personal, political, and metaphysical terrors—stories to scare you individually, stories to frighten you as a social animal, and stories that should terrify the entire human race. In &“I Walked with Fidel,&” a young man encounters a once politically powerful zombie; &“Jumper&” focuses on a young woman with a dark and troubled past, while in &“The Coming of Christ the Joker,&” the lighthearted banter of a celebrity TV talk show becomes something far more serious. &“A Piano Full of Dead Spiders&” is an eerie story of genius, its demands, and its delusions; in &“Passing Nights,&” the truth behind a recurring nightmare is revealed; &“The Soft Terrible Music&” depicts a man who must hide his past even from himself. And in the title story, the novella &“Black Pockets,&” Zebrowski asks: What happens to a man when his desire for revenge becomes all-consuming? With an introduction by Howard Waldrop and an afterword by the author, George Zebrowski reveals himself in Black Pockets and Other Dark Thoughts as a writer who can play on our more disturbing emotions even as he impels us to deeper thoughts.
Black Pockets: And Other Dark Thoughts
by George ZebrowskiIn this masterful collection of horror stories, George Zebrowski divides these nineteen tales into personal, political, and metaphysical terrors—stories to scare you individually, stories to frighten you as a social animal, and stories that should terrify the entire human race. In &“I Walked with Fidel,&” a young man encounters a once politically powerful zombie; &“Jumper&” focuses on a young woman with a dark and troubled past, while in &“The Coming of Christ the Joker,&” the lighthearted banter of a celebrity TV talk show becomes something far more serious. &“A Piano Full of Dead Spiders&” is an eerie story of genius, its demands, and its delusions; in &“Passing Nights,&” the truth behind a recurring nightmare is revealed; &“The Soft Terrible Music&” depicts a man who must hide his past even from himself. And in the title story, the novella &“Black Pockets,&” Zebrowski asks: What happens to a man when his desire for revenge becomes all-consuming? With an introduction by Howard Waldrop and an afterword by the author, George Zebrowski reveals himself in Black Pockets and Other Dark Thoughts as a writer who can play on our more disturbing emotions even as he impels us to deeper thoughts.
Brute Orbits
by George Zebrowski&“Like his previous tales of technocratically engineered futures (Macrolife; Stranger Suns; etc.), Zebrowski's latest evokes the pioneering SF of social philosopher Olaf Stapledon... In the 21st century, Earth incarcerates its undesirables in mined-out asteroids launched into new orbits for the duration of their sentences. "This use of distance as a better prison wall" is more than just an ingenious application of technology to the penal system: it's also a convenient trick for disposing of the socially misfit, since orbits are "accidentally" miscalculated to prevent their return. The narrative follows the histories of several of these "rocks" as their prisoners fight, unite and ultimately set out to create superior, self-contained cultures free of the taint of earthly ways. Individual asteroids house specific groups of offenders, ranging from hardened convicts to sexual deviants, juvenile delinquents and unwanted foreigners... Zebrowski argues his points with conviction.Publishers Weekly"A brilliant and dramatic philosophical reflection on the nature of society, technology . . . and humanity itself. Zebrowski is a deep thinker who writes about the big questions' in the grand tradition of Wells, Stapledon, and Clarke."-- Jack M. Dann, award-winning author of The Silent and The Memory CathedralHigh Crimes Call for High Punishment. It is the twenty-first century. Convicts are sentenced to asteroids that move in ever-widening solar orbits, timed to return when their terms run out. But a few ambitious administrators discover that small "errors" in velocity can rid them of selected groups altogether: the hardcore violent, the mentally defective, and especially the political dissidents. Enduring the black vise of interstellar space-time, these human rejects--men and women mixed together--create their own Darwinian societies, struggling to survive.Back on Earth, a handful of sympathetic and curious scientists have not forgotten these lost citizens. When a technological breakthrough makes it possible to overtake these scattered asteroids, a courageous team sets out to go where none has willingly gone before. What they discover in these "brute orbits" is both provocative and moving--a startling vision of humanity you will never forget.
Cave of Stars (Macrolife #2)
by George ZebrowskiOld Earth is gone. Humanity has been scattered to the stars. Some left their dying planet in spaceship arks, in search of new worlds to inhabit. Others, nanoengineered for near-immortality, explore the far reaches of interstellar space in gargantuan macrolife mobiles. An earth-like human society endures on the environmentally volatile planet of Tau Ceti IV—a rigid community of the faithful that has declared evil the science that caused the homeworld&’s destruction. The Church is the absolute power here; obedience and belief the rule. But His Holiness Peter III, the New Vatican&’s most powerful figure, himself harbors doubts, engendered by his love for his unacknowledged and illegitimate rebel daughter Josepha. And suddenly there is another assault on his tottering faith—and on the sacred traditions he has devoted his life to uphold. For an emissary, Voss Rhazes, has arrived from one of old Earth&’s journeying mobiles—the first off-planet human visitor ever to Tau Ceti—bearing remarkable hated technology that could shred the fragile emotional fabric of a family . . . and bring devastating chaos to their world.
In the Distance, and Ahead in Time: Stories (Five Star First Edition Science Fiction And Fantasy Ser.)
by George ZebrowskiThe ten stories of this collection present glimpses of our near, middle, and far futures "Heathen God," the author's first Nebula Award finalist, reveals the consequences of learning that our solar system may have been engineered by an alien race. "In the Distance, and Ahead in Time" and "Wayside World" depict the rediscovery of a ruined Earth's interstellar colonies by a new culture of mobile habitats. In "Transfigured Night" and "Between the Winds," we enter two possible destinies as we tamper with human reality and humankind mutates into vastly different offshoots.
Macrolife: A Mobile Utopia (Macrolife #1)
by George ZebrowskiSubtitled &“A Mobile Utopia,&” this pioneering novel about the meaning of space habitats for human history, presents spacefaring as no work did in its time, and since. A utopian novel like no other, presenting a dynamic utopian civilization that transcends the failures of our history. Epic in scope, Macrolife opens in the year 2021. The Bulero family owns one of Earth&’s richest corporations. As the Buleros gather for a reunion at the family mansion, an industrial accident plunges the corporation into a crisis, which eventually brings the world around them to the brink of disaster. Vilified, the Buleros flee to a space colony where young Richard Bulero gradually realizes that the only hope for humanity lies in macrolife—mobile, self-reproducing space habitats. A millennium later, these mobile communities have left our sunspace and multiplied. Conflicts with natural planets arise. John Bulero, a cloned descendant of the twenty-first century Bulero clan, falls in love with a woman from a natural world and experiences the harshness of her way of life. He rediscovers his roots when his mobile returns to the solar system, and a tense confrontation of three civilizations takes place. One hundred billion years later, macrolife, now as numerous as the stars, faces the impending death of nature. Regaining his individuality by falling away from a highly evolved macrolife, a strangely changed John Bulero struggles to see beyond a collapse of the universe into a giant black hole. Inspired by the possibilities of space settlements, projections of biology and cosmology, and basic human longings, Macrolife is a visionary speculation on the long-term future of human and natural history. Filled with haunting images and memorable characters, this is a vivid and brilliant work.
The Omega Point Trilogy: Ashes and Stars, The Omega Point, and Mirror of Minds
by George Zebrowski6599 A.D. The war between the Earth Federation and the Herculean Empire had been over for more than three centuries. The planet in the Hercules Globular Cluster was a cinder; the few descendants of the surviving Herculeans lived on Myraa's World, half a galaxy away, in what seemed to be a religious commune. But on an unnamed planet, deep within the Hercules Cluster, two survivors, father and son, gather their resources and plan a reign of terror against Federation worlds. But the woman Myraa has a different vision--one which excludes empires and warring armies. Subtly, she strives to shape events toward a different end. Rising to one of the most unusual climaxes in recent fantastic literature, this novel of chase and vengeance depicts a colorful, poetic future which is struggling to overcome its past. Filled with striking twists and vivid ideas, this is space opera at its most modern.
The Omega Point Trilogy
by George Zebrowskifrom the back cover 6599 A.D. The war between the Earth Federation and the Herculean Empire has been over for more than three centuries. The planet in the Hercules Globular Cluster was a cinder; the few descendants of the surviving Herculeans lived on Myraa's World, half a galaxy away, in what seemed to be a religious commune. But on an unnamed planet, deep within the Hercules Cluster, two survivors, father and son, gather their resources and plan a reign of terror against Federation worlds. But the woman Myraa has a different vision-one which excludes empires and warring armies. Subtly, she strives to shape events toward a different end. Rising to one of the most unusual climaxes in recent fantastic literature, this novel of chase and vengeance depicts a colorful, poetic future struggling to overcome its past. Filled with striking twists and vivid ideas, this is space opera at its most modern.
Stranger Suns
by George ZebrowskiThe orbiting tachyon detector was designed by physicist Juan Obrion to identify life in other star systems, but even though he expected to find some signs of life, he certainly didn't expect to find any life on Earth. When Obrion discovers that a culture has been concealed for many years far below Antarctica, he ventures out as part of a four-man team to explore the unknown. Juan, Lena, Malachi, and Magnus are awestruck when they discover a myriad of portals to parallel lands, but the maze they fall into makes them wonder if their journey will ever come to an end.
The Sunspacers Trilogy: Sunspacer, The Stars Will Speak, and Behind the Stars
by George ZebrowskiThe Sunspacers Trilogy is a trio of novels of an alternate, earth-based civilization. In Sunspacer, young and idealistic philosophy student Joe Sorby must come to terms with adulthood while negotiating the gross injustices of interplanetary commerce. In Stars Will Speak, an alien signal is broadcast from the farthest reaches of the known galaxy . . . but will the scientists of earth decipher its warning in time? In Behind the Stars, young Max Sorby returns to Earth after spending all of his life on a mobile space habitat, fearing that the only home he has ever known will be lost to him forever.
Swift Thoughts
by George ZebrowskiThis collection of stories showcases the work of George Zebrowski, one of science fiction&’s masters and a writer Hugo and Nebula Award winner Robert J. Sawyer has called &“one of the most philosophically astute writers in science fiction.&” Like the writers Olaf Stapledon, Arthur C. Clarke, and Stanislaw Lem, Zebrowski explores the &“big questions&”—the expansion of human horizons, and the growth of power over our lives and the world in which we live. In the title story, scientists push the boundaries of human mentality to keep pace with ever-evolving AIs. In &“The Eichmann Variations,&” a finalist for the Nebula Award, exact copies of captured Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann stand trial for his crimes against humanity, while in &“The Word Sweep,&” all speech must be rationed because spoken words take on physical form. In &“Wound the Wind,&” another Nebula Award finalist, unchanged humans roam freely until captured by those who know what&’s best for them, and in &“Stooges,&” a visiting alien hijacks the persona of Curly Howard. From hard science fiction (&“Gödel&’s Doom&”) to alternate history (&“Lenin in Odessa&”) to first alien contact (&“Bridge of Silence&”), and with an introduction by renowned physicist/writer Gregory Benford, this collection presents one of the most distinctive voices writing in the field of science fiction today.
Synergy: New Science Fiction, Vol. 1
by George ZebrowskiThis is an anthology of original science fiction stories selected by George Zebrowski, written by some of the best known writers of the 1980s, including: Bleak Velocities by Gregory Benford, Jewels in an Angel's Wing by Ian Watson, Signals by Charles L. Harness, Veritas by James Morrow, My Life as a Born-Again Pig by Frederik Pohl, Madonna of the Red Sun by W. Warren Wagar, Inside Out by Rudy Rucker, and What Should an SF Novel Be About by Brian W. Aldiss.
Synergy: New Science Fiction (Synergy Ser. #3)
by George ZebrowskiAn anthology of science fiction stories including: Before the Rainbow by Fruma Klass, Phylogenesis by Paul Di Philippo, All the Live Long Night by Bruce Clemence, Proserpina's Daughter by Gregory Benford and Paul A. Carter, The Author as Torturer by Ian Watson.
Synergy: New Science Fiction (Synergy #4)
by George ZebrowskiAn anthology of original science fiction stories including: The End of the World Ball by James Gunn, Oort Cloud by Robert Reed, Passages by Michael Cassutt, Chimera by Jayge Carr, The Farmer on the Wall by Marc Laidlaw, Old Four-eyes by Chad Oliver, The Final Dream by Daniel Pearlman, Antenna by Andrew Joron, and In the Tradition of an Immodest Proposal, Revisited by Pamela Sargent.
Synergy: New Science Fiction, Vol. 2
by George ZebrowskiThis book consists of the stories Diary of a Mad Deity by James Morrow, French Scenes by Howard Waldrop, Taking from the Top by Daniel Pearlman, Probability Pipeline by Rudy Rucker and Marc Laidlaw, The Daily Chernobyl by Robert Frazier, Backward, Turn Backward by James Tiptree, Jr. an introduction by George Zebrowski and an essay SF Poetry: A New Genre by Andrew Joron.
Faster Than Light
by George Zebrowski Jack DannShort stories and scientific articles about how we might do interstellar travel.
Garth Of Izar: Star Trek The Original Series (Star Trek: The Original Series)
by George Zebrowski Pamela SargentCaptain Garth of Izar, hero of the battle of Axanar which helped secure the future of the Federation, was once a legendary Starfleet Captain whose exploits were required reading at Starfleet Academy. In the 2260s he suffered serious injuries in an incident on Antos IV. The inhabitants of Antos repaired his body by teaching him the art of cellular metamorphosis, but did not realise that his injuries had rendered him criminally insane. After ordering the destruction of Antos IV, Garth was committed to the Federation rehab colony on Elba II, where, in 2268, he overpowered his keepers, escaping with the aid of the cellular-metamorphosis process, mastery of which enabled him to take on the appearance of any person he wished. Before his eventual recapture he had proclaimed himself lord of the universe and attempted to commandeer the Starship Enterprise. Now cured of his insanity by new techniques of experimental medicine, Garth of Izar must rebuild his shattered life. The opportunity to do so is provided on a mission to solve a diplomatic crisis -- a crisis that requires Garth to return to the very planet that caused his insanity so many years ago.