"The Soviet and post-Soviet world, with its untold multitude of crimes, is a natural breeding ground for ghost stories. No one writes them more movingly than Russian author Sergei Lebedev, who in this stunning volume probes a collective guilty conscience marked by otherworldliness and the denial of misdeeds. These eleven tales share a mystical topography in which the legacy of totalitarian regimes is ever-present--from Katyn to Chechnya, from Lithuanian...

"The world wears computerized contact lenses that control technology with the blink of an eye. Consumers are as thrilled as they are surveilled. Newsight Incorporated became a household name when it released its debut product: Lenses. Now, Newsight is more than a household name...it's in the household. It sees everything its customers see, both in the real world and in the simulated one. But not everyone is content to be watched. A teenage boy named...

Since the Eagle Party took power in the United States, all schools and public utilities have been privatized, churches and libraries closed, and independent news media shut down. Drones buzz overhead in constant surveillance of the populace, and the internet has been replaced by the network of the New Society Corporation. Environmental degradation and unchecked climate change have brought raging wildfires to the Western states and disastrous flooding...

"Powieść angielskiego pisarza i publicysty George`a Orwella należy do ścisłego kanonu literatury światowej. W alegoryczny i genialny sposób autor przedstawia reżim totalitarny, jego narodziny, mechanizmy i przemiany. W literackiej wizji Orwella przenośnią do utopijnego systemu jest folwark, z którego zwierzęta zagrodowe wygnały ludzi i w którym zajęły ich miejsce, by rządzić się same. Wydana w 1945 roku książka była wielkim ostrzeżeniem...

Since the Night of Endless Swords, a bloody battle the Kings of Sharakhai narrowly won, the kings have been hounding the rebels known as the Moonless Host. Many have been forced to flee the city, including Çeda, who discovers that the King of Sloth is raising his army to challenge the other kings' rule. When Çeda finds the remaining members of the Moonless Host, now known as the thirteenth tribe, she sees a tenuous existence. Çeda hatches a plan...

"Що трапилося з нашим світом? Чому пожежники спалюють будинки, а не гасять пожежі? Чому люди не читають книги, не ходять пішки і майже не розмовляють одне з одним? Як виглядатиме наша Земля та якими будуть люди, якщо заборонити їм читати книги? Зі сторінок...

"Skotnyĭ dvor: V osnovu skotizma li͡ahly sim zapovideĭ, prydumani svyni͡amy, i nakresledi nymy z͡h farboi͡u na tort͡si velykoho komory: 1. Toĭ, khto khodyt' na dvokh nohakh, - voroh. 2. Toĭ, khto khodyt' na chotyr'okh (tak samo i͡ak i toĭ, u koho kryla), - odyn. 3. Tvaryna ta ne nosyt' odi͡ah. 4. Tvaryna ta ne spyt' u liz͡hku. 5. Tvaryna ta ne p'i͡e spyrtnoho. 6. Tvaryna ta ne vb'i͡e inshu tvarynu. 7. Vsi tvaryny rivni. Ale vyi͡avylosi͡a,...