Melinda M. Snodgrass Pořadí knih (chronologicky)

Exploring the concept of Thucydides Trap, the book examines the historical pattern where a rising power threatens to displace an established one, leading to inevitable conflict. It delves into the dynamics of international relations, analyzing past instances of this phenomenon and its implications for contemporary global politics. By highlighting the lessons learned from history, the author argues for strategies to avoid catastrophic wars and foster stability in an increasingly competitive world.

A cop on the trail of a bizarre murder uncovers a hidden conspiracy—and shocking secrets about his late father—in this original graphic novel set in George R. R. Martin’s shared-world universe, Wild Cards. In 1946, an alien virus ravaged the world, its results as random as a hand of cards. From that fateful moment to the present day, those infected either draw the black queen and die, draw an ace and receive superpowers, or draw the joker and are bizarrely mutated. Today, Aces, Jokers, and uninfected humans live in relative peace. Francis “Franny” Black is an uninfected human cop, trying to police a world filled with people with the extraordinary powers that he lacks. Newly—and some would say too suddenly—promoted to detective, he has been working out of Wild Card Central, the precinct in Jokertown where the bulk of the virus victims fell in 1946. Franny’s father was one of the heroes of the precinct, killed in the line of duty, and Franny is finding it hard to fill his dead father’s shoes. That is, until he’s given a particularly insidious case and starts uncovering long-buried secrets that his father might have died to protect. Illustrated in a gorgeous, cinematic style by Michael Komarck and Elizabeth Leggett, this unique graphic novel is a visual feast certain to delight.

Războinice care manevrează cu măiestrie sabia, femei pilot, femei din spațiu, ucigașe în serie, femei fatale irezistibile, vrăjitoare, fete rele, rebele și supereroine. Toate, în palpitanta antologie Femei periculoase concepută de George R.R. Martin și Gardner Dozois. Joe Abercrombie, Jim Butcher sau Brandon Sanderson se întâlnesc cu Carrie Vaughn și Lev Grossman în paginile unei cărți în care cititorul va găsi SF, fantasy, horror, suspans, care contrazice orice așteptări și confirmă că, într-adevăr, imaginația nu are limite. În viitorul postapocaliptic și în trecutul îndepărtat, luptele se poartă mai ales pe căi nebănuite, personajele se dezvăluie mai ales așa cum nu ni le închipuim și poveștile se petrec mai ales ca în literatură: în deplină libertate.

V ulicích New Yorku propukají oslavy Dne divokých karet – výroční akce připadající na 15. září, při níž se vzpomíná na mrtvé a vzdává čest živým. Je to den ohňostrojů, pouličních trhů a průvodů, politických demonstrací a vzpomínkových hostin, pitek a rvaček v tmavých uličkách. Oslavy jsou rok od roku masovější a bouřlivější. A letos, v roce 1986, určitě proběhne u příležitosti čtyřicátého výročí zatím největší a nejlepší Den divokých karet. Na svátek se už chystají nejrůznější média i přívaly turistů a nálevny i restaurace očekávají rekordní obrat. V pozadí však číhá zvrácený génius, kterého nezajímá zábava ani veselí. Hvězdář má jen jeden cíl: zkázu.

Thracius Tracy Belmanor and the Infanta Mercedes have graduated and become officers in the Orden de la Estrella. Tracy's posting leads him to doubt the intentions of the League, when he is required to assimilate a Hidden World. Meanwhile, Mercedes' own posting--and her difficult marriage to Boho Cullen-- divides her loyalties.

Emperor's daughter Mercedes is the first woman ever admitted to the High Ground, the elite training academy of the Solar League's Star Command, and she must graduate if she is to have any hope of taking the throne. Her classmate Tracy has more modest goals--to rise to the rank of captain, and win fame and honor. But a civil war is coming and the political machinations of those who yearn for power threatens the young cadets. In a time of intrigue and alien invasion, they will be tested as they never thought possible.

The final battle approaches, the light of science and reason against an ancient supernatural army poised to destroy the world. Overwhelmed after a series of catastrophic events, Richard Oort is still determined to fight the horrific Old Ones.

A new generation of aces comes of age as twenty-one of them compete against each other in a series of tasks and stunts on the blockbuster TV reality show "American Hero," and John Fortune, son of the show's creator, discovers his destiny.

Decades after an alien virus changed the course of history, the surviving population of Manhattan still struggles to understand the new world left in its wake. Natural humans share the rough city with those given extraordinary-and sometimes terrifying-traits. While most manage to coexist in an uneasy peace, not everyone is willing to adapt. Down in the seedy underbelly of Jokertown, residents are going missing. The authorities are unwilling to investigate, except for a fresh lieutenant looking to prove himself and a collection of unlikely jokers forced to take matters into their own hands-or tentacles. The deeper into the kidnapping case these misfits and miscreants get, the higher the stakes are raised. Edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin and acclaimed author Melinda M. Snodgrass, Lowball is the latest mosaic novel in the acclaimed Wild Cards universe, featuring original fiction by Carrie Vaughn, Ian Tregillis, David Anthony Durham, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Mary Anne Mohanraj, David D. Levine, Michael Cassutt, and Walter John Williams. Perfect for old fans and new readers alike, Lowball delves deeper into the world of aces, jokers, and the hard-boiled men and women of the Fort Freak police precinct in a pulpy, page-turning novel of superheroics and mystery

Richard Oort, now CEO of Lumina Enterprises, has learned that an interdimensional gate has given the terrifying and grotesquely gluttonous Old Ones access to our universe. Richard tries to get the US government to intervene before a rising tide of irrationality abetted by religious leaders and spiritual hucksters reduces humanity to madness.

Richard Oort is a cop. He's also the last Paladin: product of a genetic fluke that enables him to wield Lucifer's sword. A reluctant hero, fated to defend the world against demonic forces that threaten to plunge us into another Dark Age, he becomes a central figure in the battle between Light and Darkness. But is he strong enough?

Сорок лет минуло с тех пор, как 15 сентября 1946 года над Манхэттеном был распылен чудовищный вирус «дикой карты», навсегда изменивший ход мировой истории. Америка, принявшая на себя основной удар, пострадала больше других, но за сорок лет кое-как научилась жить со своим новым лицом и бороться с могущественными преступниками-мутантами. Таинственный Астроном мертв, его египетские масоны разгромлены, далеко в космосе приручен и направлен прочь от Земли враждебный человечеству Рой… Однако «дикие карты» есть не в одной Америке, и силы хаоса действуют не только в тени манхэттенских небоскребов и на убогих улочках Джокертауна. Кругосветное турне, предпринятое сенатором Хартманном вместе с группой тузов и джокеров, подтверждает это буквально на каждой миле.

Ein Wild Card-Mosaikroman, verfasst von Howard Waldrop, Roger Zelazny und anderen, herausgegeben von George R. R. Martin. Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg verändert ein Virus die Geschichte und führt zu "Asse" mit Superkräften und "Joker" mit deformierten Erscheinungen. Die normalen Menschen müssen lernen, mit diesen Wild Cards zu leben.

Im System Taygeta ist ein Raumschiff spurlos verschunden – verschluckt von einer Raum-Zeit-Anomalie. Dieser Riß im Universum droht das ganze Sonnensystem zu vernichten und damit auch den Planeten Taygeta V. Bewohnt wird dieser Planet von geheimnisvollen seehundähnlichen Lebewesen, die im Augenblick ihres Todes eine Kristallträne verlieren – ein begehrtes Objekt für skrupellose Jäger. Diese Taygetianer gehen nur einer einzigen Beschäftigung nach: Sie singen Tag und Nacht. Spock entdeckt Ähnlichkeiten zwischen diesem mysteriösen Gesang und der Kommunikation der Wale. Um dem Geheimnis der taygetiaischen Gesänge auf die Spur zu kommen, verpflichtet Captain Kirk einen der bekanntesten Musiker der Föderation: Guy Maslin. Gegen seinen Willen begleitet der geniale Komponist die Mannschaft der Enterprise auf ihrer Mission. Doch auch die Klingonen interessieren sich für die Vorgänge im System Taygeta. Die Übermacht ihrer Raumkreuzer ist selbst die Enterprise nicht gewachsen. Als es zum Kampf kommt, sieht Captain Kirk nur noch einen Ausweg: den Sturz in den Raum-Zeit-Riß.