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A Capo Horn due grandi oceani si scontrano in un incessante duello. Secondo una leggenda marinara, il Diavolo è rimasto incatenato sul fondo di questo tratto di mare in perenne tempesta. I pochi uomini che si avventurano oltre l'estrema frontiera, dove finisce il mondo, ingaggiano una strenua lotta per la sopravvivenza contro una natura spietata e al tempo stesso grandiosa, sublime, apocalittica. La solitudine è un nemico subdolo, corrode l'anima e corrompe la mente.

Lars Horn's Voice of the Fish, the latest Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize winner, is an interwoven essay collection that explores the trans experience through themes of water, fish, and mythology, set against the backdrop of travels in Russia and a back injury that left Horn temporarily unable to speak. In Horn's adept hands, the collection takes shape as a unified book: short vignettes about fish, reliquaries, and antiquities serve as interludes between longer essays, knitting together a sinuous, wave-like form that flows across the book.

In the English language ‘bittersweet’ is that most pivotal of words. The mixture of sadness and happiness that suggest both but often bringing us smartly to earth, smack dab in-between them both, with little of either.

From the age of steam and the heirs of Dr. Frankenstein to the asteroid belt to the halls of Miskatonic University, the writers at Book View Café have concocted a beakerful of quaint, dangerous, sexy, clueless, genius, insane scientists, their assistants (sometimes equally if not even more deranged, not to mention bizarre), friends, test subjects, and adversaries.

Book View Cafe celebrates its fifth anniversary with an anthology of our favorite stories. From the fantasy and science fiction of our roots to steampunk, romance, historical and mainstream; from humor to life's hardest challenges, across the spectrum from light to dark.

2042. Em um dia ensolarado de verão, Luis se aproxima de uma casa de subúrbio. Ele não sabe muito bem o que faz ali, está confuso, tonto e logo se desculpa por entrar sem avisar a um homem sentado no quintal da casa. Como ele foi parar ali? Ele estava em uma estação de trem, quando...