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Widely regarded as Sadegh Hedayat's masterpiece, The Blind Owl is the most important work of literature to come out of Iran in the past century. On the surface, this work seems to be a tale of doomed love, but soon basic facts become obscure and the listener realizes this book is much more than a love story. Although The Blind Owl has been compared to the works of Kafka and Poe, it defies categorization. By preserving the spirit as well as the structure of Hedayat's writing, this edition brings the English listener into the world of The Blind Owl as never before.

In his fiction, HG Wells explored various fantasy and science fiction sub-genres, from alien invasion narratives through time travel to dystopian tales. He was also an innovator and pioneer in matters of plot and style, as proven by the 33 short stories in The Country of the Blind and Other Stories. The tale of the title is about a mountaineer who discovers a secluded valley of blind people. When he tries to tell them about the sense of sight, they scoff and attribute it to an over-active imagination.

Choosing a college when your family is struggling can be difficult, but it isn’t supposed to be world ending. And the falling meteor is seriously limiting Matt’s options. Now in the aftermath, his home city is locked down by a mysterious dome, corporations are looking to monopolize a wealth of new untapped resources, and people are suddenly developing powers via a System that seems to have borderline sinister intentions.

Antarctic ice. In the world where hundreds of millions of people have been displaced from their homes by the Deluge - a hundred-foot-rise in sea level from melting ice caps - Partricia Beenan is lucky. She is still an American citizen with the right to live on the continent, unlike so many 'wetfoots' whose homes lie deep under the waves or the refugees from nations now completely under water.

Robert Charles Wilson, says The New York Times, "writes superior science fiction thrillers." His Darwinia won Canada's Aurora Award; his most recent novel, The Chronoliths, won the prestigious John W. Campbell Memorial Award. Now he tells a gripping tale of alien contact and human love in a mysterious but hopeful universe.

As Trafford Sewell struggles to work through the usual crowds of commuters, he is confronted by the intimidating figure of his Parish Confessor. Why has Trafford not been streaming his every moment of sexual intimacy onto the community website like everybody else? Does he think he's different or special in some way? Better than his fellow man and woman? Does he have something to hide? Imagine a world where everyone knows everything about everybody.

This 1911 collection of thirty-three stories, selected and revised by the author from amongst his huge output of short fiction, includes tales of comedy, horror, monsters, and strange worlds. In his Introduction, Wells writes that the book brings together, “All the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again,” and that, “No short story of mine of the slightest merit is excluded from this volume.”

The incomparable Ray Bradbury is in the driver's seat, off on 21 unforgettable excursions through fantasy, time, and memory, and there are surprises waiting around every curve and behind each mile marker. The journey promises to be a memorable one.

Year 2197. Earth is suffering from the consequences of an environmental catastrophe. Cities the size of continents are drowning in a toxic industrial fog. Max Bourne is a typical teenager. Like billions of other people, he is forced to live in the protective shell of the individual life support module. His habitat is the virtual Layer. But one day, circumstances force the young man to leave the in-mode. He has no idea that fate will lead him through unimaginable hardships, bring him face to face with military AIs, and teach him to survive in the distant Outlands.

I was gifted as a slave-bride to an alien giant. That's the start of my day. At least I have my guide dog, Kota, with me. I'd be lost without her...literally. Yes. I'm blind. And our new alien owner is kind enough that he's not holding me to the wife or slave deal even though that's what I was intended for. We've basically been dropped into a scene from Little House on the Alien Prairie, complete with his one-room cabin, and he's been the perfect gentleman. He's pretty great, and I'm actually starting to wish I could take him home with me.

KurtisP385XL47Ruth: Game Changer. Prodigal daughter. Spy. The Cybers detect an alien signal from the water-world Cyvrus, a violation of its WorldPlan and another sign that their control of a peaceful but static humanity is slipping. They send Agent Kurtis to investigate, still unaware that she's a double agent for the human Resistance. What she finds could tear apart the fragile balance of the galactic system: a laboratory of human clones prepared by alien invaders in the Cyber system....

Lumerian Knight Falden Corshival is an ancient. Leader of what remains of his people, he and his elite warriors have avoided capture for more than 2,000 years. He believed they were safe on Earth. He was wrong. When a nosy investigative reporter sets up a blind date with an alien group dealing in the intergalactic black market, Falden knows he must do whatever it takes to find out who she is and what she knows, including pretending to be her unknown contact. Unfortunately, Falden has spent a millennia out of the dating scene. Worse, he has no understanding of human courting rituals.

"Im Land der Blinden ist der Einäugige König" – oder etwa nicht? Als der Bergsteiger Núñez in ein abgelegenes Tal stürzt, entdeckt er eine Gesellschaft, in der alle Menschen blind sind. Doch anstatt ihn als Sehenden zu bewundern, halten sie ihn für den Absonderlichen. Núñez muss erkennen, dass seine vermeintliche Überlegenheit nichts zählt – und dass das wahre Grauen nicht immer mit den Augen zu sehen ist. H. G. Wells‘ Das Land der Blinden ist eine zeitlose Parabel über Wahrnehmung, Macht und die Relativität der Normalität.

From MauHaus Productions comes the anthology narrative podcast series A Blind Play of Social Forces. Radio Dramas for the 21st Century that explore the human condition and the social forces we must navigate.

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"Слепой рывок" - фантастический роман Андрея Ливадного, эпизод первый 2197-2215 годы, цикл "История Галактики", жанр боевая фантастика, космическая фантастика. 2197 год. Земля переживает последствия экологической катастрофы. Города, занимающие площадь материков, находятся во власти токсичного промышленного тумана.

Un montañero llamado Núñez, en su intento por coronar el Parascotopetl, el Matterhorn de los Andes, resbala y cae por una ladera nevada. Al incorporarse comprueba aturdido que se encuentra en un valle aislado del resto del mundo por profundos precipicios, el País de los Ciegos. Los ancestros de sus habitantes huyeron de la represión española y una extraña enfermedad se propagó entre ellos, provocando que todos sus descendientes nacieran ciegos.

"El país de los ciegos: Y Núñez se encontró a sí mismo intentando explicar el ancho mundo del que había caído, el cielo y las montañas, la visión y otros prodigios como aquellos ... Y ellos se negaron a creer o a entender nada de lo que les dijo ... Ni siquiera comprendieron muchas de sus palabras. Durante catorce generaciones, aquella gente había estado ciega y aislada del mundo de los videntes. Los nombres de las cosas alusivas a la visión se habían olvidado y habían cambiado."