Mur Laffertyová je autorkou, jejíž díla se ponořují do hlubin lidské psychiky a společenských struktur. Prostřednictvím svých příběhů zkoumá hranice vědy, etiky a identity a nutí čtenáře přemýšlet o složitých dilematech. Její styl je charakteristický precizním jazykem a schopností budovat poutavé světy, které rezonují s univerzálními lidskými zkušenostmi. Laffertyová tak přináší díla, která jsou nejen zábavná, ale i podnětná k zamyšlení.
Max s Alison objeví v opuštěné chatě starý poničený deník. Jeho autor je nabádá, aby vstoupili přes bránu do světa plného nebezpečí, zvaného Nether. Svědomitá Alison chce z riskantní výpravy vycouvat, avšak náhoda je přenese do děsivé říše, která podrobí jejich přátelství těžké zkoušce.
Three early masterpieces from one of science fiction's great stylists.
Wolf Hall meets The Man in the High Castle in this mind-bending science fiction classic, now presented in an authoritative new edition from Library of America Plucked from time, Sir Thomas More arrives on the human colony of Astrobe in the year 2535 A.D., where there is trouble in utopia. Can he and his motley followers save this golden world from the Programmed Persons, and the soulless perfection they have engineered? The survival of faith itself is at stake in this thrilling, uncategorizable, wildly inventive first novel—but the adventure is more than one of ideas. As astonishingly as Philip K. Dick and other visionaries of the 1960s new wave, Lafferty turns the conventions of space-opera science fiction upside-down and inside-out. Here are fractured allegories, tales-within-tales, twinkle-in-the-eye surprises, fantastic byways, and alien subjectivities that take one's breath away. Neil Gaiman has described Lafferty “a genius, an oddball, a madman”; Gene Wolfe calls him “our most original writer." Long-hailed by insiders and now with an introduction by Andrew Ferguson as well as unpublished omitted passages included in the notes, Past Master deserves to perplex and delight a wider audience.
Witty urban fantasy from fan favourite Mur Lafferty, about a travel writer who agrees to write a guide to New Orleans - for the undead
Witty urban fantasy from 2013 John W. Campbell Award-winner and fan favourite Mur Lafferty, about a travel writer who finds she's agreed to write a guide to New York - for the undead.
Edited and collated by Jonathan Strahan, with a volume introduction by Neil Gaiman, THE BEST OF R.A. LAFFERTY is the authoritative collection of short fiction by R.A. Lafferty.
Mur Lafferty has given us the best adaptation of a Star Wars film yet.-Star Wars News Net If you liked the movie but were left wanting more, this novel has exactly what you need.-CNET A fun adventure tale within the larger Star Wars franchise that goes beyond the run-of-the-mill novelization treatment to explore a new bit of the world that we haven't yet seen.-The Verge
Nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel 2018Nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel 2018 In this Hugo nominated science fiction thriller by Mur Lafferty, a crew of clones awakens aboard a space ship to find they're being hunted-and any one of them could be the killer. Maria Arena awakens in a cloning vat streaked with drying blood. She has no memory of how she died. This is new; before, when she had awakened as a new clone, her first memory was of how she died. Maria's vat is one of seven, each one holding the clone of a crew member of the starship Dormire, each clone waiting for its previous incarnation to die so it can awaken. And Maria isn't the only one to die recently... Unlock the bold new science fiction thriller that Corey Doctorow calls Mur's "breakout book".
Amateur detective Mallory Viridian’s talent for solving murders ruined her life on Earth and drove her to live on an alien space station, but her problems still follow her in this witty, self-aware novel that puts a speculative spin on murder mysteries, from the Hugo-nominated author of Six Wakes. From idyllic small towns to claustrophobic urban landscapes, Mallory Viridian is constantly embroiled in murder cases that only she has the insight to solve. But outside of a classic mystery novel, being surrounded by death doesn’t make you a charming amateur detective, it makes you a suspect and a social pariah. So when Mallory gets the opportunity to take refuge on a sentient space station, she thinks she has the solution. Surely the murders will stop if her only company is alien beings. At first her new existence is peacefully quiet…and markedly devoid of homicide. But when the station agrees to allow additional human guests, Mallory knows the break from her peculiar reality is over. After the first Earth shuttle arrives, and aliens and humans alike begin to die, the station is thrown into peril. Stuck smack-dab in the middle of an extraterrestrial whodunit, and wondering how in the world this keeps happening to her anyway, Mallory has to solve the crime—and fast—or the list of victims could grow to include everyone on board….
Amateur sleuth Mallory Viridian is adjusting to life on her space station when a new threat emerges: the physical embodiment of the Internet, which is linked to a series of murders. As she navigates this dangerous situation, Mallory must use her wits and skills to uncover the truth behind the chilling events unfolding around her.