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| Author | : Ian Watson |
| Publisher | : Hachette UK |
| Total Pages | : 757 |
| Release | : 2010-02-25 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1849014280 |
Download The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Every short story in this wonderfully varied collection has one thing in common: each features some alteration in history, some divergence from historical reality, which results in a world very different from the one we know today. As well as original stories specially commissioned from bestselling writers such as James Morrow, Stephen Baxter and Ken MacLeod, there are genre classics such as Kim Stanley Robinson's story of how World War II atomic bomber the Enola Gay, having crashed on a training flight, is replaced by the Lucky Strike with profoundly different consequences. Praise for the editors: 'Mr Watson wreaks havoc with what is accepted - and acceptable.' The Times 'One of Britain's consistently finest science fiction writers.' New Scientist
| Author | : Paul Gravett |
| Publisher | : Running Press Adult |
| Total Pages | : 510 |
| Release | : 2008-08-12 |
| Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
| ISBN | : |
Download The Mammoth Book of Best Crime Comics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Mammoth Books: From history to manga, true crime to sci-fi, these anthologies feature top-name contributors and award-winning editors.
| Author | : Sean Wallace |
| Publisher | : Robinson |
| Total Pages | : 404 |
| Release | : 2012-04-05 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1780331355 |
Download The Mammoth Book of Steampunk Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An anthology focusing on newer elements of steampunk, one which deconstructs the staples of the genre and expands on them, rather than simply repeating them, with a greater spread both in terms of location and character. This is steampunk with a modern, post-colonial sensibility. Contributors include: Jeff VanderMeer, Caitlín Kiernan, Mary Robinette Kowal, Jay Lake, Cherie Priest, Cat Rambo, Catherynne M. Valente, Genevieve Valentine and many more.
| Author | : Packages |
| Publisher | : Packages |
| Total Pages | : 548 |
| Release | : 2000-05-24 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780785818809 |
Download New Sherlock Holmes Adventures Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
After Arthur Conan Doyle created the detective, Sherlock Holmes, many writers borrowed him to be the hero of their stories. The anthology offers a selection, old and new.
| Author | : Jon E. Lewis |
| Publisher | : Running PressBook Pub |
| Total Pages | : 630 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780786707478 |
Download The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness History 2000 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Takes a snapshot view of history from 2700 B.C. to 2000 A.D. and offers a collection of eyewitness accounts of the most memorable historical and social events taken from memoirs, diaries, letters and journals. Original.
| Author | : Maxim Jakubowski |
| Publisher | : C & R Crime |
| Total Pages | : 671 |
| Release | : 2014-02-20 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 147211180X |
Download The New Mammoth Book Of Pulp Fiction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Pulp fiction has been looked down on as a guilty pleasure, but it offers the perfect form of entertainment: the very best storytelling filled with action, surprises, sound and fury. In short, all the exhiliration of a roller-coaster ride. The 1920s in America saw the proliferation of hundreds of dubiously named but thrillingly entertaining pulp magazines in America – Black Mask, Amazing, Astounding, Spicy Stories, Ace-High, Detective Magazine, Dare-Devil Aces. It was in these luridly-coloured publications, printed on the cheapest pulp paper, that the first gems began to appear. The one golden rule for writers of pulp fiction was to adhere to the art of storytelling. Each story had to have a beginning, an end, economically-etched characters, but plenty going on, both in terms of action and emotions. Pulp magazines were the TV of their day, plucking readers from drab lives and planting them firmly in thrilling make-believe, successors to the Victorian penny dreadfuls of writers such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles Dickens. These stories exemplify the best of crime and mystery pulp fiction – its zest, speed, rhythm, verve and commitment to straightforward storytelling – spanning seven decades of popular writing.
| Author | : Mike Ashley |
| Publisher | : Robinson |
| Total Pages | : 481 |
| Release | : 2010-07-31 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 184901535X |
Download The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Here are 25 stories of science fiction that push the envelope, by the biggest names in an emerging new crop of high-tech futuristic SF - including Charles Stross, Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Peter Hamilton and Neal Asher. High-tech SF has made a significant comeback in the last decade, as bestselling authors successfully blend the super-science of 'hard science fiction' with real characters in an understandable scenario. It is perhaps a reflection of how technologically controlled our world is that readers increasingly look for science fiction that considers the fates of mankind as a result of increasing scientific domination. This anthology brings together the most extreme examples of the new high-tech, far-future science fiction, pushing the limits way beyond normal boundaries. The stories include: "A Perpetual War Fought Within a Cosmic String", "A Weapon That Could Destroy the Universe", "A Machine That Detects Alternate Worlds and Creates a Choice of Christs", "An Immortal Dead Man Sent To The End of the Universe", "Murder in Virtual Reality", "A Spaceship So Large That There is An Entire Planetary System Within It", and "An Analytical Engine At The End of Time", and "Encountering the Untouchable."
| Author | : Jon E. Lewis |
| Publisher | : Hachette UK |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2012-03-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1780337299 |
Download The Mammoth Book of How it Happened: World War I Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The spectre of the Great War still haunts us. No other conflict so dramatically illustrates the waste of life, and the slaughter of innocents, as that of 1914-18. And none has so dramatically shaped the modern world: the Russian Revolution, the rise of Hitler, the break-up of Empire, the supremacy of America and World War II all stem from the four years of the 'war to end all wars'. Here is the eye-witness chronicle of that war, from the trenches of Flanders to the staff rooms of the Imperial Germany Army, from T. E. Lawrence in the desert to the 'Red Baron' in the air, from Land Girls in England to German U-boat crews in the Atlantic, it leaves nothing out. And if all the horror of the war fought by the Tommies in the trenches is captured, so too are the machinations of the 'top brass' and politicians.
| Author | : Geoff Tibballs |
| Publisher | : Running Press |
| Total Pages | : 512 |
| Release | : 2000-09-12 |
| Genre | : Humor |
| ISBN | : 9780786707836 |
Download The Mammoth Book of Humor Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
More than 10,000 stories and jokes, limericks and one-liners, put-downs and puns in the ultimate, most comprehensive compendium of humor ever compiled. From boners and groaners to classic shaggy-dog stories and jokes for roasts and toasts, virtually every form of verbal humor on a whole raft of topics is represented in this not totally politically correct but always devilishly diverting collection of ticklers and howlers for any occasion. Humorous quotations, epigrams and epitaphs, newspaper misprints, misleading headlines ("MAGISTRATES MAY ACT ON INDECENT SHOWS"), limericks, puns, and the darnedest things said by kids ("a fjord is a Scandinavian car") also appear among the volume's ten thousand entries, which are arranged by category and fully indexed by subject. This format makes the book an easily accessible as well as invaluable companion to speech-makers for events great and small. So it is that The Mammoth Book of Humor meets the needs of both the maiden aunt looking for a wholesome joke to relate at a golden wedding anniversary and the best man who needs a blue one for the bachelor party. The volume even offers would-be wolves on the prowl pick-up lines-at the same time that it provides some snappy comebacks and a few ribald ripostes for the reluctant or disinterested prey. Waggish, witty, wisecracking, or whimsical, the humor is as various as it is vigorous on every page of this endlessly entertaining collection.
| Author | : Mike Ashley |
| Publisher | : Hachette UK |
| Total Pages | : 704 |
| Release | : 2009-09-24 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1849012539 |
Download The Mammoth Book of Merlin Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A superb collection of stories of magic and adventure from the golden age of Arthurian legend by bestselling writers. Enter into the darker realms of the age of the Knights of the Round Table, when magic held sway and Merlin vied with Arthur's heroic new world. Included are: Jane Yolen on Merlin's youth and coming of age; Marion Zimmer Bradley on Nimuë, Merlin's lover and doom; Charles de Lint on Merlin's influence through the centuries; Darrell Schweitzer on the legends of Merlin's birth; plus stories by Tanith Lee, Peter Tremayne, Phyllis Ann Karr, Jennifer Roberson, and many others. There is also a detailed introduction by Mike Ashley on the mystery and magic of Merlin and his world.
