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Negli anni Novanta, i grandiosi progetti di colonizzazione interplanetaria sono stati dimenticati e Marte è ancora pressoché disabitato. Il lungo periodo di disinteresse ha favorito lo sviluppo di ogni sorta di traffici, dal contrabbando alla speculazione sulle aree che costeggiano la preistorica rete di canali, e la vita sul pianeta rosso è dura, come sempre è stata sulla Terra. L'avido Arnie Kott, il Membro Supremo del potente Sindacato degli Idraulici, è uno spietato affarista, determinato a sfruttare a proprio vantaggio ogni risorsa che il pianeta può ancora offrire.

Wie aus dem Nichts tauchen unbekannte Dämonen in London auf - so bestialisch und grausam, dass selbst Staysy, Jack, Hassan und Sachiko das Blut in den Adern gefriert. Die neuen Dämonen scheinen urbanen Legenden und harmlosen Internet-Scherzen entsprungen zu sein. Aber wie konnten sie sich materialisieren und in der realen Welt Menschen töten? Während die Dämonenseuche weltweit um sich greift, jagen die Trainees der Sinclair Academy dem Ursprung hinterher.

In London scheint es ein bestialischer Mörder auf ahnungslose Touristen abgesehen zu haben. Achtzehn Tote werden innerhalb weniger Wochen in verlassenen U-Bahn-Schächten gefunden. Den Opfern wurden die Kehlen zerrissen, die Körper sind mit Bisswunden übersät. Zur gleichen Zeit müssen die Trainees der Sinclair-Academy einer Prophezeiung nachgehen, der zufolge sich unterhalb Londons eine Armee von Nicht-Leben versammelt und an die Oberfläche drängt.

Inszenierte Lesung mit Geräuschen und Musik. Seltsame Dinge geschehen in Little Middleton: Die Bewohner besorgen sich magische Waffen und es kommt zu einem sprunghaften Anstieg übernatürlicher Aktivitäten. Grund genug für die Trainees der Sinclair Academy dem Dorf einen Besuch abzustatten. Dort angekommen entdecken sie die übel zugerichtete Leiche eines berühmten Fußballstars. In seinem Blut finden sich Hinweise, dass jemand Experimente an Menschen durchführt.

In London häufen sich die Meldungen über verbrannte Menschen. Männer und Frauen, Reiche und Arme, Unschuldige und Verbrecher - alle Opfer sind durch spontane Selbstentzündung in Flammen aufgegangen. Schon bald finden die Trainees den Grund für diese mysteriösen Todesfälle heraus: Der wahre König von London ist zurückgekehrt und hat seine vier apokalyptischen Reiter auf Menschenjagd geschickt. Um den König aufzuhalten, müssen die Trainees die sagenumwobene Fetzenkrone finden.

In a 1978 interview, Phillip K. Dick said "I've always had this funny feeling about reality. It just seems very feeble to me sometimes. It doesn't seem to have the substantiality that it's suppose to have." Fortunately for us, Dick translated his feelings about reality into some of the greatest science fiction writing of all time. This collection features five stories from early in his career, when he found his voice as a writer.

UN forces have retreated to a moon base in the aftermath of early Soviet victories in a nuclear conflict. In response, the UN forces developed special robots, called "Claws", which feature spinning blades and rudimentary artificial intelligence. Six years later, the Soviet leadership asks for negotiations to end the war. A UN officer travels back to earth to discover that not only have the Claws learned to replicate themselves, they have also created a much deadlier cyborg that threatens humanity itself.

In "The Gun", a group of space explorers are shot down above a deserted planet. While some of the crew work on repairing the ship, the remainder set out to investigate the planet. Otherwise unpopulated, they discover the huge gun that shot them down sitting atop a trove of cultural artifacts from a bygone civilization. What harm could come of dismantling the gun and taking a few of the artifacts home with them?

A group of telegraphists are on the edge of their seats awaiting news of the prime minister who is dying. But a storm causes a power cut, and one of the men, Old Shayler, recalls a stormy night 15 years ago, where a man was killed, and not by the lightning....

All Dag Gates wants is a place to call home. (And to practice magic freely.) All Stefan Bjorne wants is peace in his adoptive country. (And less paperwork.) All Mikkel Vinters wants is both of them. (No, really, he could do wedding bells.) So why, pray tell, is half the magical community set on denying them all their wishes?

Bad boys were never my thing, unless they existed within the pages of a book. Until Alex Moss came to my rescue like some sort of avenging angel. He saved my life, which is why I believed him when he told me the threat against my life was back, and only he could protect me. With his dark hair, golden eyes, and broad shoulders, the warlock was hard to resist. Yet even as his kisses made me crave more, there was something about him that frightened me. It wasn’t until I tasted his blood that I knew it wasn’t magic that brought us together, but fate. The warlock is MINE.

"Don't live in the darkness, Amy Jennings." Adolescence is difficult enough, especially when your family members are vampires and werewolves. But somehow Amy Jennings survived it. Now a young woman, Amy has come back to Collinsport, determined to forget the horrors of childhood and start anew. But growing up means confronting the truth about the world around you and Amy's rite of passage has only just begun.