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Who is Killing the Great Capes of Heropa?

Author : Andrez Bergen

Publisher : John Hunt Publishing

Page : 522 pages

File Size : 35,56 MB

Release : 2013-09-27

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1782792341

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Heropa: A vast, homogenized city patrolled by heroes and populated by adoring masses. A pulp fiction fortress of solitude for crime-fighting team the Equalizers, led by new recruit Southern Cross - a lifetime away from the rain-drenched, dystopic metropolis of Melbourne. Who, then, is killing the great Capes of Heropa? In this paired homage to detective noir from the 1940s and the '60s Marvel age of trail-blazing comic books, Andrez Bergen gloriously redefines the mild-mannered superhero novel. ,



Bullet Gal

Author : Andrez Bergen

Publisher : John Hunt Publishing

Page : 186 pages

File Size : 32,89 MB

Release : 2016-11-25

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1785355635

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Teenage gunsel-cum-aspiring-hero Mitzi (last name unknown) breezes into Heropa with twin 9 mm pistols blazing - only to be targeted for recruitment, betrayal and assassination. French femmes fatale, an out-of-touch super-powered elite, and one hell of an underlying mystery, figure heavily in this fusion neo-noir, science-fiction dystopia. Interweaving the scrappy one-liners is a story much more than the sum of its parts, concerning questions about grand creative process.



Small Change

Author : Andrez Bergen

Publisher : John Hunt Publishing

Page : 133 pages

File Size : 39,60 MB

Release : 2015-12-11

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1785352202

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While chain-smoking Roy Scherer might aspire to fill loafers better worn by Marlowe, Hammer and Spade, reality wears such a whim thin. His clients veer from immortal to monster-brow-beaten, and he’s up against foes that howl at the moon, one case of Lazarus Syndrome, dismembered talking heads, and a vengeful Japanese spirit. Scherer's only allies? Ditzy, bookish assistant Suzie Miller, her gung-ho, mostly inebriated father Art, an ageless ballet dancer with martial-arts skills, and a Smith & Wesson boasting silver-plated rounds.



The Condimental Op

Author : Andrez Bergen

Publisher : Perfect Edge

Page : 312 pages

File Size : 25,84 MB

Release : 2013-07-26

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1782791884

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A collection of noir, surreal stories, comicbook asides, hardboiled moments, fantasy, dystopia, sci-fi, snapshots of Japanese culture, and the existentialism of contemporary experimental electronic music. This is Bergen's baptismal short story collection, bringing together recent short stories, never-before-seen older material, new comicbook art, and a range of incisive pop-culture articles written about music and Japan from 1999 to 2013. ,



Depth Charging Ice Planet Goth

Author : Andrez Bergen

Publisher : John Hunt Publishing

Page : 319 pages

File Size : 40,41 MB

Release : 2014-07-25

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1782796487

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She's a disturbed, quiet girl, but Mina wants to do some good out there. It's just that the world gets in the way. This is Australia in the 1980s, a haven for goths and loners, where a coming-of-age story can only veer into a murder mystery.



The Word for World is Forest

Author : Ursula K. Le Guin

Publisher : Tor Books

Page : 190 pages

File Size : 25,28 MB

Release : 2010-07-06

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 142998354X

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The award-winning masterpiece by one of today's most honored writers, Ursula K. Le Guin! The Word for World is Forest When the inhabitants of a peaceful world are conquered by the bloodthirsty yumens, their existence is irrevocably altered. Forced into servitude, the Athsheans find themselves at the mercy of their brutal masters. Desperation causes the Athsheans, led by Selver, to retaliate against their captors, abandoning their strictures against violence. But in defending their lives, they have endangered the very foundations of their society. For every blow against the invaders is a blow to the humanity of the Athsheans. And once the killing starts, there is no turning back. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.



Cosmonaut Keep

Author : Ken MacLeod

Publisher : Macmillan

Page : 402 pages

File Size : 46,34 MB

Release : 2010-04-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1429977159

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Ranging from a gritty near-future Earth to a distant alien world, Ken MacLeod's Cosmonaut Keep is contemporary science fiction at its highest level.A visionary epic filled with daring individuals seeking a place for themselves in a vast, complex, and enigmatic universe. Matt Cairns is a 21st-century outlaw Programmer who takes on the shady jobs no one else will touch. Against his better judgment, he accepts an assignment to crack the Marshall Titov, a top-secret orbital station operated by the European Space Agency. But what Matt will discover there will propel him on an extraordinary and quite unexpected journey. Gregor Cairns is an exobiology student and descendant of one of Terra Nova's first families. Hopelessly infatuated with a lovely young trader's daughter, he is unaware that his research partner, Elizabeth, has fallen in love with him. Together, Gregor and Elizabeth confront the great work his family began three centuries earlier-to rediscover the secret of interstellar travel. Cosmonaut Keep is a 2002 Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.



A Fatal Facade

Author : Linda M. James

Publisher : Roundfire

Page : 257 pages

File Size : 42,39 MB

Release : 2013-08-30

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1782791019

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A FATAL FACADE is a crime thriller focusing on the lives of four people who become involved with Paolo Cellini, a 30-year-old wealthy art dealer who is killed in his marbled bathroom in Chelsea, London. Each person is linked to Cellini in unusual ways: his lover, Bianca Vella, a Maltese nightclub-singer who worships him; Rico Batas, his Filipino nightclub-manager who hates him; his other lover, Angelica Logan, a woman with too many terrible secrets and Jack Bradley, an ex-DCI, who needs to redeem himself to his family and his colleagues by discovering the truth about the life and death of Cellini. Jack’s obsessive search takes him down dark, disturbing avenues into the secret lives of these people who are almost crushed under the weight of Cellini’s narcissistic personality. Jack knows that one of them killed him but even he is stunned by the secrets he unearths. The novel explores the universal themes of human frailty and our need to find forgiveness. For what man or woman can honestly say ‘I have never done anything wrong.’ ,



100 Years of Vicissitude

Author : Andrez Bergen

Publisher : John Hunt Publishing

Page : 269 pages

File Size : 18,50 MB

Release : 2012-10-26

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1780995989

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"First up, a disclaimer. I suspect I am a dead man. I have meagre proof, no framed- up certification, nothing to toss in a court of law as evidence of a rapid departure from the mortal coil. I recall a gun was involved, pressed up against my skull, and a loud explosion followed." Thus begins our narrator in a purgatorial tour through twentieth-century Japanese history, with a ghostly geisha who has seen it all as a guide and a corrupt millionaire as her reluctant companion. Thrown into the milieu are saké, B-29s, Lewis Carroll, Sir Thomas Malory, Melbourne, 'The Wizard of Oz', and a dirigible - along with the allusion that Red Riding Hood might just be involved. ,



Mad Gods and Englishmen

Author : Ian Armer

Publisher : John Hunt Publishing

Page : 160 pages

File Size : 26,61 MB

Release : 2012-12-31

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1846949548

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Private Investigator Tommy Storm is hired by a top Hollywood film producer to find his missing daughter and her leading man lothario. As Storm and his goody two-shoes doppelganger investigate the case, sinister forces conspire to commit the ultimate murder. The question is: who is on the side of the angels, and can either Storm tell the difference? As the truth unravels, Storm must contend with divine double dealings, saving his genitalia, the end of the world, the Second Coming, extremely violent debt collection, sexy dames, the meaning of it all and where the hell he can get a drink! So join Tommy on the case of a lifetime as he saves the world, his balls and maybe even gets the girl…unless it all goes hideously wrong. Which, of course, it will... ,