en-US Sun, 20 Apr 2025 17:46:15 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 213618143 The brilliant detective Ana Dolabra may have finally met her match in the gripping sequel to The Tainted Cup—from the bestselling author of The Founders Trilogy.

In the canton of Yarrowdale, at the very edge of the Empire’s reach, an impossible crime has occurred. A Treasury officer has disappeared into thin air—abducted from his quarters while the door and windows remained locked from the inside, in a building whose entrances and exits are all under constant guard.

To solve the case, the Empire calls on its most brilliant and mercurial investigator, the great Ana Dolabra. At her side, as always, is her bemused assistant Dinios Kol.

Before long, Ana’s discovered that they’re not investigating a disappearance, but a murder—and that the killing was just the first chess move by an adversary who seems to be able to pass through warded doors like a ghost, and who can predict every one of Ana’s moves as though they can see the future.

Worse still, the killer seems to be targeting the high-security compound known as the Shroud. Here, the Empire's greatest minds dissect fallen Titans to harness the volatile magic found in their blood. Should it fall, the destruction would be terrible indeed—and the Empire itself will grind to a halt, robbed of the magic that allows its wheels of power to turn.

Din has seen Ana solve impossible cases before. But this time, with the stakes higher than ever and Ana seemingly a step behind their adversary at every turn, he fears that his superior has finally met an enemy she can’t defeat.]]> 465 Robert Jackson Bennett 0593723821 Ž������� 0
Druga knjiga nam prikazuje Anu i Dina posle više godina saradnje. Takav život vidno glođe mučenog Dina, koji ima više muka na grbači nego ranije ali srećom ima i dobre apgrejde imunog sistema.

Osnova je opet neobjašnjivo ubistvo, i ako me istražni deo ovde malo razočarao, ništa drugo nije.

Načini na koje su se Ana i Din promenili, kao i njihov odnos - odlično. Kako lagano krcamo misterije Carstva i Khanuma, postaje sve zanimljivije.

Pogovor, vatren i ubitačan, potcrtava gadne događaje i situacije iz romana gadnim događajima i situacijama IRL.

Sve u svemu, dobar drugi deo koji standarno malo pada u intenzitetu* ali daje neku širu sliku pred željno očekivani nastavak.


* Jedem govna naravno, tri noći ne spavam čitajući ovo, to "malo" je samo u odnosu na prvu knjigu ]]> 4.55 2025
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Prva knjiga, The Tainted Cup, bila je fenomenalna. Neverovatan svet, likovi, i misterija ubistva, jer iako fantasy osnova je krimić.

Druga knjiga nam prikazuje Anu i Dina posle više godina saradnje. Takav život vidno glođe mučenog Dina, koji ima više muka na grbači nego ranije ali srećom ima i dobre apgrejde imunog sistema.

Osnova je opet neobjašnjivo ubistvo, i ako me istražni deo ovde malo razočarao, ništa drugo nije.

Načini na koje su se Ana i Din promenili, kao i njihov odnos - odlično. Kako lagano krcamo misterije Carstva i Khanuma, postaje sve zanimljivije.

Pogovor, vatren i ubitačan, potcrtava gadne događaje i situacije iz romana gadnim događajima i situacijama IRL.

Sve u svemu, dobar drugi deo koji standarno malo pada u intenzitetu* ali daje neku širu sliku pred željno očekivani nastavak.


* Jedem govna naravno, tri noći ne spavam čitajući ovo, to "malo" je samo u odnosu na prvu knjigu
]]> 3437354 In the spellbinding conclusion to the brilliant fantasy series, Doctrine of Labyrinths, two brothers discover their ultimate destiny.

Exiled from Melusine for the crime of heresy, Felix Harrowgate and his half-brother Mildmay journey to the land of Corambis to face judgement from a ruling body of wizards. Both brothers carry memories, regret, and-hidden deep in their hearts-hope.]]> 432 Sarah Monette 0441015964 Ž������� 0
TLDR: fenomenalan serijal ]]> 4.07 2009
author: Sarah Monette
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Doktrine su mi objašnjene kao (guglajte dalje na sopstvenu odgovornost, prvi hit je AO3 kategorija, zatekao sam neki Sasuke/Naruto fic i pobegao). Prvi put sam čuo za to, lepo kad naučiš nešto novo =] Ali da, u Doktrinama svi pate i povređeni su i povređuju druge i sebe i tako u krug. Izgleda mi da je i autorki bilo dosta, jer ova knjiga je kao neki auto au, kao da je napisala fic na sopstveni roman u kome likovi mogu da se bave sobom i izlaskom iz kruga nasilja, vraćanjem u "normalu" i oporavkom. S druge strane, nije joj bilo dosta, Felix je opet dobio svoju porciju žuči, neki novi likovi takođe, al makar je Mildmay bolje prošao. Felix je u #3 bio supermoćni genije koji savladava na prethodnoj stranici nepoznate filozofije i škole magije, ovde je to bolje balansirano rekao bih...

TLDR: fenomenalan serijal
]]> 219812 426 Sarah Monette 044101500X Ž������� 0 4.01 2007
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Glas je ovde drugačiji i ton i teme i ide se mravljim koracima po trnovitom putu isceljenja. Sačuvaj bože i dalje da neko razgovara ili prizna sebi, to se teško dešava.
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Mildmay the Fox was an assassin and a cat-burglar—until a curse caught up with him and his life changed forever. Haunted by death, his leg damaged by the curse that should have killed him, he does not know what awaits him in Mélusine, but for good or ill, his fate is tied to Felix’s, by blood…and by magic.

On their journey, Felix and Mildmay will encounter friends and enemies old and new, vengeful spirits and ancient goddesses. They will uncover secrets better left buried. But nothing can prepare them for what awaits their return: Felix’s former master, the cruel and decadent wizard Malker Gennadion…]]> 439 Sarah Monette 0441014046 Ž������� 0
Takođe ispostavlja se da je dosta vas ovo već čitalo samo ja izgleda nisam bio na tom času :D

Pozdravljam :D]]> 4.03 2006
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Preporuka ko kuća. Zanimljiv alt svet i istorijski i jezički i kulturološki, upečatljivi likovi, duboke teme, i potresno i duboko, edži a saosećajno, može da se priča o sto sitnica u kafani. Sitni minusići što je preko nekih dešavanja možda pretrčano jer se u nekom trenutnku toliko. toga. bitnog. dešava. a kako mi kažu upoznati 1. i 2. knjiga su zapravo bile jedan (ogroman) roman podeljen na insistiranje izdavača, tako da razumem...

Takođe ispostavlja se da je dosta vas ovo već čitalo samo ja izgleda nisam bio na tom času :D

Pozdravljam :D
]]> 492069 Mélusine �� a city of secrets and lies, pleasure and pain, magic and corruption �� and destinies lost and found.

Felix Harrowgate is a dashing, highly respected wizard. But his aristocratic peers don't know his dark past �� how his abusive former master enslaved him, body and soul, and trained him to pass as a nobleman. Within the walls of the Mirador �� Melusine's citadel of power and wizardry �� Felix believed he was safe. He was wrong. Now, the horrors of his previous life have found him and threaten to destroy all he has since become.

Mildmay the Fox is used to being hunted. Raised as a kept-thief and trained as an assassin, he escaped his Keeper long ago and lives on his own as a cat burglar. But now he has been caught by a mysterious foreign wizard using a powerful calling charm. And yet the wizard was looking not for Mildmay �� but for Felix Harrowgate.

Thrown together by fate, the broken wizard Felix and the wanted killer Mildmay journey far from Melusine through lands thick with strange magics and terrible demons of darkness. But it is the shocking secret from their pasts, linking them inexorably together, that will either save them, or destroy them.]]> 477 Sarah Monette 0441014178 Ž������� 0 3.66 2005
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Nestalo Katherine Addison. Ovo je okrutnije, ekstremnije, ali odlično.
]]> 58243480
We think a lot of things. It was perhaps inevitable that some of them would turn out to be wrong.

When the great incursion occurred, no one was prepared. How could they have been? Of all the things physicists had predicted, "the fabric of reality might rip open and giant monsters could come pouring through" had not made the list. But somehow, on a fine morning in May, that was precisely what happened.

For sisters Susan and Katharine Black, the day of the incursion was the day they lost everything. Their home, their parents, their sense of normalcy...and each other, because when the rift opened, Susan was on one side and Katharine was on the other, and each sister was stranded in a separate form of reality. For Susan, it was science and study and the struggle to solve the mystery of the altered physics inside the zones transformed by the incursion. For Katharine, it was monsters and mayhem and the fight to stay alive in a world unlike the world of her birth.

The world has changed. The laws of physics have changed. The girls have changed. And the one universal truth of all states of changed matter is that nothing can be completely restored to what it was originally, no matter how much you might wish it could be.

Nothing goes back.]]> 144 Mira Grant 1645240533 Ž������� 0 to-read 3.87 2021
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]]> 222409592 168 Ivana Nešić 8630040629 Ž������� 5
Ovo je jedan pitak humorističan vedar zabavan romančić, koji eto voli da preispituje neke stvari koje su autorku žuljale i ispisuje ih nanovo. Volimo mnogo T Kingfisher koja je doktorirala retelling nekih poznatijih bajki, ovo je na tom tragu i to vrlo uspelo.

Obično kad vam padne ruku nešto sa srpskom mitologijom ili je neki horor sa lokalnim monsterima, ili je neka FRP kampanja ćirilicom, i nema mnogo dela koja su zapravo slobodna a odgovorna u korišćenju te naše građe, i ne teraju čoveka na krindž. Svakako se najviše koristi lik Marka Kraljevića (Crni cvet, Zlatna knjiga, serijal Kosingas od žanrovaca, a ima ih još, o tome će Tijana znati više, pitajte je na razgovoru...) ali UZIDANA otvara nove teritorije, i nadam se da će biti još ovakvih knjiga. Ne nužno da ih Ivana piše, nego eto da vide ljudi kako može...

Ne mogu dovoljno da nahvalim upotrebu humora. Ivana, sestro, smešno je. Svaka čast. Častim te škripavac u kafani.]]> 4.73
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Čitao pun entuzijazma (i nadam se podrške) u fazi izrade, pa sam sad obnovio pred .

Ovo je jedan pitak humorističan vedar zabavan romančić, koji eto voli da preispituje neke stvari koje su autorku žuljale i ispisuje ih nanovo. Volimo mnogo T Kingfisher koja je doktorirala retelling nekih poznatijih bajki, ovo je na tom tragu i to vrlo uspelo.

Obično kad vam padne ruku nešto sa srpskom mitologijom ili je neki horor sa lokalnim monsterima, ili je neka FRP kampanja ćirilicom, i nema mnogo dela koja su zapravo slobodna a odgovorna u korišćenju te naše građe, i ne teraju čoveka na krindž. Svakako se najviše koristi lik Marka Kraljevića (Crni cvet, Zlatna knjiga, serijal Kosingas od žanrovaca, a ima ih još, o tome će Tijana znati više, pitajte je na razgovoru...) ali UZIDANA otvara nove teritorije, i nadam se da će biti još ovakvih knjiga. Ne nužno da ih Ivana piše, nego eto da vide ljudi kako može...

Ne mogu dovoljno da nahvalim upotrebu humora. Ivana, sestro, smešno je. Svaka čast. Častim te škripavac u kafani.
]]> 221288099 The Goblin Emperor, The Orb of Cairado offers an unlikely hero in historian Ulcetha Zhorvena.

Five years ago, Ulcetha was studying at the University of Cairado, working his way toward becoming a scholar first-class in the Department of History. Then a prize artifact disappeared and Ulcetha, deftly framed, was kicked out. Now he works for a crooked importer, using his knowledge of elven history to write provenances for the fake artifacts Salathgarad sells.

When the airship Wisdom of Choharo explodes, killing the emperor and three of his four sons, it takes with it Ulcetha's best friend, Mara Lilana. But Mara leaves behind a puzzle--the one thing Ulcetha can't resist. And the puzzle leads Ulcetha back to the Department of History... and maybe the chance to clear his name.]]> 120 Katherine Addison 1645242137 Ž������� 0 4.09 2025
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Novela je vrlo šokantna u poređenju sa matičnim serijalom jer je glavni elf strejt i čak ima čvrstih dokaza da je spolno opštio sa ženskom osobom suprotnog pola više od jednom. Toliko nedvosmislenosti i direktnosti u odnosima između likova nije bilo u prethodna tri romana. Van toga ovo je priča o doktorima društvenih nauka koji zabadaju jedan drugom noževe u leđa, što stvarno što u prenesenom značenju, dakle tale as old as time. Nije dobro mesto za ulazak u serijal, morate redom.
]]> 211004174
While his title may be gone, his duties are not. Celehar contends with a municipal cemetery with fifty years of secrets, the damage of a revethavar he’s terrified to remember, and a group of miners who are more than willing to trade Celehar’s life for a chance at what they feel they’re owed.

Celehar does not have to face these impossible tasks alone. Joining him are his mentee Velhiro Tomasaran, still finding her footing with the investigative nature of their job; Iäna Pel-Thenhior, his beloved opera director friend and avid supporter; and the valiant guard captain Hanu Olgarezh.

Amidst the backdrop of a murder and a brewing political uprising, Celehar must seek justice for those who cannot find it themselves under a tense political system. The repercussions of his quest are never as simple they seem, and Celehar’s own life and happiness hang in the balance.]]> 352 Katherine Addison 125081619X Ž������� 0
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Trebalo se ponovo naučiti preskakanju nečitljivih ugrofinskih pevajućih reči. Hteo sam da napišem "ko ne preskače taj je ćaci", pa sam iskrindžovao, al hajd, baš da vidim dal ću se sećati šta to znači za pet godina. Elem, Addison, jaoj, šta kazati, šta radi ovom Thari Celeharu a i nana čitaocima to je mučenje naživo, al ono senzualno, nojevom peruškom.


]]> 33292549
The mad ravings chase Deacon to his next gig. His saxophone doesn't call up his audience from their seats, it calls up monstrosities from across dimensions. As Deacon flees, chased by horrors and cultists, he stumbles upon a runaway girl, who is trying to escape her father, and the destiny he has waiting for her. Like Deacon, she carries something deep inside her, something twisted and dangerous. Together, they seek to leave Arkham, only to find the Thousand Young lurking in the woods.

The song in Deacon’s head is growing stronger, and soon he won’t be able to ignore it any more.]]> 64 Cassandra Khaw 0765397390 Ž������� 0 3.77 2017
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I ovo je sa previše prideva i pjesništva
]]> 29845449
Perhaps a proper understanding of the human condition requires examination of liminal concepts such as the weird and the eerie. These two modes will be analysed with reference to the work of authors such as H.P. Lovecraft, H.G. Wells, M.R. James, Christopher Priest, Joan Lindsay, Nigel Kneale, Daphne Du Maurier, Alan Garner and Margaret Atwood, and films by Stanley Kubrick, Jonathan Glazer and Christoper Nolan.]]> 134 Mark Fisher 1910924385 Ž������� 0 to-read 4.05 2016
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]]> 39079243 A comprehensive collection of the writings of Mark Fisher (1968-2017), whose work defined critical writing for a generation.This comprehensive collection brings together the work of acclaimed blogger, writer, political activist and lecturer Mark Fisher (aka k-punk). Covering the period 2004 - 2016, the collection will include some of the best writings from his seminal blog k-punk; a selection of his brilliantly insightful film, television and music reviews; his key writings on politics, activism, precarity, hauntology, mental health and popular modernism for numerous websites and magazines; his final unfinished introduction to his planned work on "Acid Communism"; and a number of important interviews from the last decade. Edited by Darren Ambrose and with a foreword by Simon Reynolds.]]> 821 Mark Fisher 1912248298 Ž������� 0 to-read 4.32 2018
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]]> 30199328 Cassandra Khaw bursts onto the scene with Hammers on Bone, a hard-boiled horror show that Charles Stross calls "possibly the most promising horror debut of 2016." A finalist for the British Fantasy award and the Locus Award for Best Novella!

John Persons is a private investigator with a distasteful job from an unlikely client. He’s been hired by a ten-year-old to kill the kid’s stepdad, McKinsey. The man in question is abusive, abrasive, and abominable.

He’s also a monster, which makes Persons the perfect thing to hunt him. Over the course of his ancient, arcane existence, he’s hunted gods and demons, and broken them in his teeth.

As Persons investigates the horrible McKinsey, he realizes that he carries something far darker. He’s infected with an alien presence, and he’s spreading that monstrosity far and wide. Luckily Persons is no stranger to the occult, being an ancient and magical intelligence himself. The question is whether the private dick can take down the abusive stepdad without releasing the holds on his own horrifying potential.

��

Finalist für den British Fantasy Award und den Locus Award

Charles ��
»Das möglicherweise vielversprechendste Horrordebüt des Jahres.«

Alle fünf Bände der 24er-Ausgabe von Cemetery Dance Germany SELECT sind von Vincent Chong illustriert, haben illustrierte Vor- und Nachsatzpapiere sowie 3 Innenillustrationen.

HINWEIS Gesamtausgabe &
Die fünf Bände von Cemetery Dance Germany SELECT '24 - LOVECRAFTIAN VIBES sind ebenfalls als Gesamtausgabe im Sammlerschuber erhältlich. Die Hardcover der ersten Auflage der Gesamtausgabe werden einen digitalen Farbschnitt erhalten. Ein bestehendes CDG-SELECT-Abo (direkt beim Verlag) zählt ebenfalls in Bezug auf die erste Auflage der Gesamtausgabe mit Farbschnitt.]]> 72 Cassandra Khaw 0765392704 Ž������� 0 Zanimljiva ktulu pričica 3.56 2016
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Zanimljiva ktulu pričica
]]> 208281043 91 Mike Maihack 8682640031 Ž������� 0
Ima tri dela









]]> 5.00 2023
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Preveo Draško, objavio Propolis, dete2 pročitalo & nosi okolo pokazuje svima jer je super

Ima tri dela










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]]> 13631120 180 Adrijan Sarajlija 8691547308 Ž������� 0 4.33 2012
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]]> 222666358 Knjiga je objavljena u ediciji „Znak sagite��, u tvrdom povezu, i sadrži trinaest pripovedaka, propraćenih odgovarajućim ilustracijama Urednik zbirke je Branislava Radević-Stojiljković.
U zbirci su zastupljene sledeće priče: Onaj koji više nije, Svjetlost i smrt, Legenda, Zmajeva kuhinja, Bes, Kompleks Bauman �� Kozlovski, Vi što maštate, Nebo nad Figisom, U ledu Tritona, Bekstvo iz Vašingtona, Šta sam imao, Dim-mak i Pismo.]]> 315 Adrijan Sarajlija 8677561358 Ž������� 0 to-read 5.00
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]]> 206101583 'A church is a sort of wood. A wood is a sort of church. They're the same thing really.'

Nineteen-year-old Merowdis Scott is an unusual girl. She can talk to animals and trees—and she is only ever happy when she is walking in the woods.

One snowy afternoon, out with her dogs and Apple the pig, Merowdis encounters a blackbird and a fox. As darkness falls, a strange figure enters in their midst—and the path of her life is changed forever.

From the internationally bestselling and prize-winning author of Piranesi and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an enchanting, beautifully illustrated short story set in the Strange universe. Featuring an introduction by Susanna Clarke and gorgeous illustrations from Victoria Sawdon truly worthy of the magic of this story, this is a mesmerising, must-have addition to any fantasy reader's bookshelf.]]> 64 Susanna Clarke 1639734481 Ž������� 0 3.47 2024
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]]> 18963 478 J.R.R. Tolkien 0395680921 Ž������� 0
Istorija Srednje zemlje je u stvari istorija pokušaja jednog profesora lingvistike i njegovog sina, opsednutog očevim delom, da uspostave nekakav red i strukturu u veličanstvenoj ali divljoj viziji koja sama sebi protivureči i preti da se sruši. I to je nekad zabavno ko da čitate word dokument sa uključenim track changes (nimalo), a nekad zapravo jeste.

Najupečatljiviji segment je Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth, Razgovor Finroda vilinskog kralja (poluvilenjaka/polumajara) sa mudrom ženom Andreth, tokom rata sa Morgotom, o tome kolko je sve sjebano u startu i kako se sa tim nositi, o veri i nadi i istrajnosti i tako to. Zicer za doktorat iz komparativne neke teologije (postoji naravno).]]> 4.19 1993
author: J.R.R. Tolkien
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Reko sam neću ovo nikad. Ali eto. Nisam se pokajao što sam čitao ali sam takođe i bio u pravu da je ovo verovatno bolje ne čitati i ne ulaziti u problematiku.

Istorija Srednje zemlje je u stvari istorija pokušaja jednog profesora lingvistike i njegovog sina, opsednutog očevim delom, da uspostave nekakav red i strukturu u veličanstvenoj ali divljoj viziji koja sama sebi protivureči i preti da se sruši. I to je nekad zabavno ko da čitate word dokument sa uključenim track changes (nimalo), a nekad zapravo jeste.

Najupečatljiviji segment je Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth, Razgovor Finroda vilinskog kralja (poluvilenjaka/polumajara) sa mudrom ženom Andreth, tokom rata sa Morgotom, o tome kolko je sve sjebano u startu i kako se sa tim nositi, o veri i nadi i istrajnosti i tako to. Zicer za doktorat iz komparativne neke teologije (postoji naravno).
]]> 136249588 1248 Hajime Komoto Ž������� 0 4.27
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]]> 27272297 Windswept, former labor organiser Padma Mehta’s worst nightmare comes true: she gets yanked out of early retirement.

After buying her favourite rum distillery and settling down, she thought she’d heard the last of her arch nemesis, Evanrute Saarien. But Saarien, fresh out of prison for his misdeeds in��Windswept, has just fabricated��a��new religion, positioning himself as its holy leader. He’s telling his congregation to go on strike, to fight the system. And unfortunately, they’re listening to him.

Now Padma’s summoned by the Union president to help stop this strike from happening. The problem is, she’s out of practice. And, the more she digs, the more she realises this whole strike business is more complicated than the Union president let on��

File Under: Science Fiction [ Fraud Almighty / City on Fire / Let’s Be Reasonable Please / All Outta Bubble Gum ]]]> 384 Adam Rakunas 0857664816 Ž������� 0 4.05 2016
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I ova je dobra i sindikalna, i u ovoj junakinja opet popije nonšalantno sve batine ovog sveta
]]> 21945456 752 Gardner Dozois 1466865296 Ž������� 0 4.15 2014
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mislim da mi je trebalo pet meseci -_-
]]> 158875813
On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist.

Ireland is falling apart. The country is in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny and Eilish can only watch helplessly as the world she knew disappears. When first her husband and then her eldest son vanish, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a collapsing society.

How far will she go to save her family? And what �� or who �� is she willing to leave behind?

Exhilarating, terrifying and propulsive, Prophet Song is a work of breathtaking originality, offering a devastating vision of a country at war and a deeply human portrait of a mother’s fight to hold her family together.]]> 259 Paul Lynch Ž������� 0 to-read 4.03 2023
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]]> 23995395
As Padma should know by now, there are no easy shortcuts on her planet. And suddenly retirement seems farther away than ever: she's just stumbled into a secret corporate mission to stop a plant disease that could wipe out all the industrial sugarcane in Occupied Space. If she ever wants to have another drink of her favorite rum, she's going to have to fight her way through the city's warehouses, sewage plants, and up the elevator itself to stop this new plague.

File Under: Science Fiction [ Plagues, Plots & Planets - One-Eyed Wonder - Bad Tips, Good Tipples - This Little Bar I Know ]]]> 400 Adam Rakunas 0857664786 Ž������� 0
Sam svet je fino postavljen kao deveta rupa na svirali na dnu kace najposlednjije faze kasnog sbemirskog kapitalizma, a naša junakinja se bori za prava radnika i sreću u penziji i posedovanju svog kapitala (ali odbijanju da mu se robuje) i pritom trpi apsolutno bizarnu količinu batina dok tepa i specijalce jer eto najbolja je. Ali ok, nek to pored zbrzanog kraja bude najveći problem u ovoj zabavnoj knjižici.

[spoilers removed]]]> 3.68 2015
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Ovo mi je izletelo u notifikacijama da neko hoće da čita (HVALA NEBOJŠA) i pošto ima najbolji sinopsis na svetu ekspresno je isplivalo na vrh moje tbr septičke jame, jer ako težimo automatizovanom luksuznom svemirskom gej komunizmu prvi korak je svemirski sindikat a drugi imanje sopstvene svemirske srećne mašine (kako u Srbiji zovemo kazan za pečenje rakije). Ovde nije rakija nego rum i nije šljiva već šećerna trska dakle EGZOTIK, a ja ne bio smeo da pijem pa je čitanje ok zamena.

Sam svet je fino postavljen kao deveta rupa na svirali na dnu kace najposlednjije faze kasnog sbemirskog kapitalizma, a naša junakinja se bori za prava radnika i sreću u penziji i posedovanju svog kapitala (ali odbijanju da mu se robuje) i pritom trpi apsolutno bizarnu količinu batina dok tepa i specijalce jer eto najbolja je. Ali ok, nek to pored zbrzanog kraja bude najveći problem u ovoj zabavnoj knjižici.

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]]> 210367505 TOP SECRET: A clear and present threat exists. Open-ended. Existential. Confirmation via uncanny op. Nature of same: Unknown. Initiating entity: Unknown. Priority: High.

Ten years after the publication of Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance �� award winners and international bestsellers all, the first the basis for a now-classic film �� Jeff VanderMeer brings us back for a surprise fourth and final foray into Area X.

Absolution opens decades before Area X forms, with a science expedition whose mysterious end suggests terrifying consequences for the future �� and marks the Forgotten Coast as a high-priority area of interest for Central, the shadowy government agency responsible for monitoring extraordinary threats.

Many years later, the Forgotten Coast files wind up in the hands of a washed-up Central operative known as Old Jim. He starts pulling a thread that reveals a long and troubling record of government agents meddling with forces they clearly cannot comprehend. Soon, Old Jim is back out in the field, grappling with personal demons and now partnered with an unproven young agent, the two of them tasked with solving what may be an unsolvable mystery. With every turn, the stakes get higher: Central agents are being liquidated by an unknown rogue entity and Old Jim’s life is on the line.

Old Jim’s investigation culminates in the first Central expedition into what has now been labeled Area X. A border has come down, and a full team �� well trained but eccentric �� has been assembled to find Area X’s “off switch�� somewhere in the volatile, dangerous terrain that has mysteriously defied all attempts to be explored, mapped, or controlled. A landscape that, one way or another, seems to consume all who enter it.

Sweeping in scope and rich with ideas, iconic characters, and unpredictable adventure, Absolution converges the past, present, and future in terrifying, ecstatic, and mind-bending ways. It is the final word on one of the most provocative and popular speculative fiction series of our time.]]> 441 Jeff VanderMeer 0374616590 Ž������� 0 to-read 3.61 2024
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Called in to investigate this mystery is Ana Dolabra, an investigator whose reputation for brilliance is matched only by her eccentricities.

At her side is her new assistant, Dinios Kol. Din is an engraver, magically altered to possess a perfect memory. His job is to observe and report, and act as his superior’s eyes and ears--quite literally, in this case, as among Ana’s quirks are her insistence on wearing a blindfold at all times, and her refusal to step outside the walls of her home.

Din is most perplexed by Ana’s ravenous appetite for information and her mind’s frenzied leaps—not to mention her cheerful disregard for propriety and the apparent joy she takes in scandalizing her young counterpart. Yet as the case unfolds and Ana makes one startling deduction after the next, he finds it hard to deny that she is, indeed, the Empire’s greatest detective.

As the two close in on a mastermind and uncover a scheme that threatens the safety of the Empire itself, Din realizes he’s barely begun to assemble the puzzle that is Ana Dolabra—and wonders how long he’ll be able to keep his own secrets safe from her piercing intellect.

Featuring an unforgettable Holmes-and-Watson style pairing, a gloriously labyrinthine plot, and a haunting and wholly original fantasy world, The Tainted Cup brilliantly reinvents the classic mystery tale.]]> 410 Robert Jackson Bennett 1984820702 Ž������� 0 4.28 2024
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Počelo je kao fini mali armchair detektivluk u fenomenalnom fantasy svetu, ali jedno ubistvo se pretvorilo u deset, pa u zaveru, pa u tri zavere, pa smo zamalo izbegli katastrofu [spoilers removed]. Velika preporuka.
]]> 203956677 A thrilling collection of thirteen short stories that span the worlds of the New York Times bestselling author of the Scholomance Trilogy, including a sneak peek at the land where her next novel will be set.

From the dragon-filled Temeraire series and the gothic, magical halls of the Scholomance trilogy to the fairy tale worlds of Spinning Silver and Uprooted, this stunning collection takes us from fairy tale to fantasy, myth to history, and mystery to science fiction as we travel through Naomi Novik’s most beloved stories.

In Buried Deep, we move from ancient Greece and Rome, through the Middle Ages and the Black Death, and into the modern era. We meet Mark Antony, Sherlock Holmes, and Elizabeth Bennet, in ways we have never seen them before. We visit exotic fantasy cities and alien civilizations among the stars.

Though the stories are vastly different, there is a unifying theme: the act of finding and seizing one’s destiny, and the lengths one will go to achieve that—be it turning pirate, captaining a fighting dragon, or shifting from marriage to seek your destiny with a sword.

And in the two tales original to this collection, we first reenter the remade Scholomance in the wake of El’s revolution and see what life is like for the new crop of students. Then, we get a glimpse at the world of Novik’s upcoming series, a deserted land, populated only by silent and enigmatic architectural behemoths whose secrets are yet to be unlocked.]]> 430 Naomi Novik 0593600355 Ž������� 0 to-read 3.99 2024
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The Metagalactic Grand Prix—part gladiatorial contest, part beauty pageant, part concert extravaganza, and part continuation of the wars of the past returns and the fate of the Earth is once again threatened. The civilizations opposed to humanity have been plotting and want to take down the upstarts. Can humanity rise again in this sequel to the beloved Hugo­ Award–nominated national bestselling Space Opera by New York Times bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente?]]> 384 Catherynne M. Valente 1534454527 Ž������� 0 to-read 3.59 2024
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]]> 203578812 A standalone darkly humorous thriller set in modern America's age of anxiety, by New York Times bestselling author Jason Pargin.

Outside Los Angeles, a driver pulls up to find a young woman sitting on a large black box. She offers him $200,000 cash to transport her and that box across the country, to Washington, DC.

But there are rules:

He cannot look inside the box.
He cannot ask questions.
He cannot tell anyone.
They must leave immediately.
He must leave all trackable devices behind.

As these eccentric misfits hit the road, rumors spread on social media that the box is part of a carefully orchestrated terror attack intended to plunge the USA into civil war.

The truth promises to be even stranger, and may change how you see the world.]]> 400 Jason Pargin 125028595X Ž������� 0 to-read 3.97 2024
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]]> 58388343 While we live, the enemy shall fear us.

All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the bowels of Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the all-powerful, reality-shaping weapon that gave the Majoda their victory over humanity.

They are what’s left. They are what must survive. Kyr is one of the best warriors of her generation, the sword of a dead planet. But when Command assigns her brother to certain death and relegates her to the nursery to bear sons until she dies trying, she knows she must take humanity’s revenge into her own hands.

Alongside her brother’s brilliant but seditious friend and a lonely, captive alien, she escapes from everything she’s ever known into a universe far more complicated than she was taught and far more wondrous than she could have imagined.

A thrillingly told queer space opera about the wreckage of war, the family you find, and who you must become when every choice is stripped from you, Some Desperate Glory is award-winning author Emily Tesh’s highly anticipated debut novel.]]> 438 Emily Tesh 1250834988 Ž������� 0 [spoilers removed]]]> 4.01 2023
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Za razliku od prethodne dve novele koje su fenomenalni mistični netolkinovski fantasy, ovo je poprilično dobar military sf / space opera. totalno verujem autorki kad u pogovoru kaže da nee ovo nije alegorija na sadašnje političke prilike dok nam piše roman o sebičnom i povlašćenom guščetu odraslom u make earth great again / zemlja je vječna dok su joj djeca verna kultu a koje odrasta u slobodnomislećijeg labuda kad joj se sruši prvo njen mali svet pa onda i ostatak univerzuma.
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]]> 62854842 In this spellbinding debut novel, two estranged half-sisters tasked with guarding their family's library of magical books must work together to unravel a deadly secret at the heart of their collection--a tale of familial loyalty and betrayal, and the pursuit of magic and power.

For generations, the Kalotay family has guarded a collection of ancient and rare books. Books that let a person walk through walls or manipulate the elements--books of magic that half-sisters Joanna and Esther have been raised to revere and protect.

All magic comes with a price, though, and for years the sisters have been separated. Esther has fled to a remote base in Antarctica to escape the fate that killed her own mother, and Joanna's isolated herself in their family home in Vermont, devoting her life to the study of these cherished volumes. But after their father dies suddenly while reading a book Joanna has never seen before, the sisters must reunite to preserve their family legacy. In the process, they'll uncover a world of magic far bigger and more dangerous than they ever imagined, and all the secrets their parents kept hidden; secrets that span centuries, continents, and even other libraries . . .]]> 416 Emma Törzs 0063253461 Ž������� 0 Ema je profesor pisanja, prošla Clarion, zanatski gledano ovo je najnapeglanija knjiga na svetu i pojeo sam je za tri dana. Sve je na mestu, sve je promišljeno, nema nijednog čuperka koji se odupro češlju. Iako je knjiganominalno o magiji, ta priča mi je najtanja. Prava priča su likovi i njihovi odnosi...]]> 3.98 2023
author: Emma Törzs
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Pomešao sa Emily Tesh pa skontao usput posle 30 strana, al nema veze.
Ema je profesor pisanja, prošla Clarion, zanatski gledano ovo je najnapeglanija knjiga na svetu i pojeo sam je za tri dana. Sve je na mestu, sve je promišljeno, nema nijednog čuperka koji se odupro češlju. Iako je knjiganominalno o magiji, ta priča mi je najtanja. Prava priča su likovi i njihovi odnosi...
]]> 195790847 A dark retelling of the Brothers Grimm's Goose Girl, rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic

Cordelia knows her mother is unusual. Their house doesn’t have any doors between rooms, and her mother doesn't allow Cordelia to have a single friend—unless you count Falada, her mother's beautiful white horse. The only time Cordelia feels truly free is on her daily rides with him. But more than simple eccentricity sets her mother apart. Other mothers don’t force their daughters to be silent and motionless for hours, sometimes days, on end. Other mothers aren’t sorcerers.

After a suspicious death in their small town, Cordelia’s mother insists they leave in the middle of the night, riding away on Falada’s sturdy back, leaving behind all Cordelia has ever known. They arrive at the remote country manor of a wealthy older man, the Squire, and his unwed sister, Hester. Cordelia’s mother intends to lure the Squire into marriage, and Cordelia knows this can only be bad news for the bumbling gentleman and his kind, intelligent sister.

Hester sees the way Cordelia shrinks away from her mother, how the young girl sits eerily still at dinner every night. Hester knows that to save her brother from bewitchment and to rescue the terrified Cordelia, she will have to face down a wicked witch of the worst kind.]]> 327 T. Kingfisher 1250244072 Ž������� 0 Jedna od boljih. 4.06 2024
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Jedna od boljih.
]]> 128669898
In this anthology curated from authors of all spectrums and nationalities you will
Movies Nick never made, Psycho dramas of his own making, his history delved into and twisted back through his own manic stare, Clones, Giant gaping maws, Blood, Dancing, Lizards, Sharks, Heat seeking Panthers, Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion and everything in between.

Featuring stories Michael Bettendorf,
Die Booth, Duncan Bradshaw,
David Charlesworth, Adrienne Clark,
Victor DeAnda, Pedro Faria,
Derek Hutchins, Justin Hunter,
Naching Kassa, Joe Koch,
Madison Mcsweeney, Kevin Redfern, Belicia Rhea,
Neil Sanzari, Danger Slater and Madeleine Swann]]> 118 Victor De Anda Ž������� 0 to-read 4.40
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]]> 31076583 229 Sarah J. Maas 168119631X Ž������� 0 3.77 2019
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]]> 61242426
The battle-weary orc aims to start fresh, opening the first ever coffee shop in the city of Thune. But old and new rivals stand in the way of success �� not to mention the fact that no one has the faintest idea what coffee actually is.

If Viv wants to put the blade behind her and make her plans a reality, she won't be able to go it alone.

But the true rewards of the uncharted path are the travelers you meet along the way. And whether drawn together by ancient magic, flaky pastry, or a freshly brewed cup, they may become partners, family, and something deeper than she ever could have dreamed.]]> 296 Travis Baldree Ž������� 0
Dakle za sve kojima se ogadio Džin Vulf, evo proze gde je što na umu potpuno i neskriveno na drumu. Volimo kafe i peciva i kafički au gde je sve sjajno i lepo iako je izgrađeno mučkim ubistvom s predumišljajem samohrane majke brojnog poroda (zubatih i mnogꙮkih monstruma).

Sad vidim ima i prikvel, pa se bacam na to, a očekujem od autora i grimdark pokolj iz kog se ovaj au izrodio.]]> 4.04 2022
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Dokusurio noćas, nakon što se dete1 ispovraćkalo u 3.00 pa mi se nije baš odmah dalo spavati.

Dakle za sve kojima se ogadio Džin Vulf, evo proze gde je što na umu potpuno i neskriveno na drumu. Volimo kafe i peciva i kafički au gde je sve sjajno i lepo iako je izgrađeno mučkim ubistvom s predumišljajem samohrane majke brojnog poroda (zubatih i mnogꙮkih monstruma).

Sad vidim ima i prikvel, pa se bacam na to, a očekujem od autora i grimdark pokolj iz kog se ovaj au izrodio.
]]> 62366354 In the second installment of Juno Dawson's irresistable fantasy trilogy (Lana Harper), a group of childhood friends and witches must choose between what is right and what is easy if they have any hope of keeping their coven--and their world--from tearing apart forever.

Niamh Kelly is dead. Her troubled twin, Ciara, now masquerades as the benevolent witch as Her Majesty's Royal Coven prepares to crown her High Preistess.

Suffering from amnesia, Ciara can't remember what she's done--but if she wants to survive, she must fool Niamh's adopted family and friends; the coven; and the murky Shadow Cabinet--a secret group of mundane civil servants who are already suspicious of witches. While she tries to rebuild her past, she realizes none of her past has forgotten her, including her former lover, renegade warlock Dabney Hale.

On the other end of the continent, Leonie Jackman is in search of Hale, rumored to be seeking a dark object of ultimate power somehow connected to the upper echelons of the British government. If the witches can't figure out Hale's machinations, and fast, all of witchkind will be in grave danger--along with the fate of all (wo)mankind.

Sharp, funny, provocative, and joyous, Juno Dawson's sequel reimagines everything you think you knew about her coven and her witches in a story that spans continents and dives deep into the roots of England and its witchcraft. Ciara, Leonie, Elle, and Theo are fierce, angry, sexy, warm--and absolutely unapologetic as they fight for what they believe in, all in the name of sisterhood.]]> 528 Juno Dawson 0143137158 Ž������� 0 4.20 2023
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Nastavlja da bude glupo ko noć na nove načine, ali i da vozi uprkos tome.
]]> 60475103 A Discovery of Witches meets The Craft in this the first installment of this epic fantasy trilogy about a group of childhood friends who are also witches.

If you look hard enough at old photographs, we’re there in the background: healers in the trenches; Suffragettes; Bletchley Park oracles; land girls and resistance fighters. Why is it we help in times of crisis? We have a gift. We are stronger than Mundanes, plain and simple.

At the dawn of their adolescence, on the eve of the summer solstice, four young girls--Helena, Leonie, Niamh and Elle--took the oath to join Her Majesty's Royal Coven, established by Queen Elizabeth I as a covert government department. Now, decades later, the witch community is still reeling from a civil war and Helena is now the reigning High Priestess of the organization. Yet Helena is the only one of her friend group still enmeshed in the stale bureaucracy of HMRC. Elle is trying to pretend she's a normal housewife, and Niamh has become a country vet, using her powers to heal sick animals. In what Helena perceives as the deepest betrayal, Leonie has defected to start her own more inclusive and intersectional coven, Diaspora. And now Helena has a bigger problem. A young warlock of extraordinary capabilities has been captured by authorities and seems to threaten the very existence of HMRC. With conflicting beliefs over the best course of action, the four friends must decide where their loyalties lie: with preserving tradition, or doing what is right.

Juno Dawson explores gender and the corrupting nature of power in a delightful and provocative story of magic and matriarchy, friendship and feminism. Dealing with all the aspects of contemporary womanhood, as well as being phenomenally powerful witches, Niamh, Helena, Leonie and Elle may have grown apart but they will always be bound by the sisterhood of the coven.]]> 452 Juno Dawson 0008478511 Ž������� 0 3.84 2022
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Da li je mnogo da ištem od knjige koju sam izabrao jer je bila neonski roze sa pentagramima da ima i worldbuilding i likove i radnju? Ovaj svet je zanimljiv al sestro vidno ne može to tako. S druge strane pročitao sam je i završio, u periodu kad sam rastrojen i ne da mi se. Sve u svemu plus uz duboki uzdah.
]]> 127306440
Retired soldier Alex Easton returns in a horrifying new adventure.

After their terrifying ordeal at the Usher manor, Alex Easton feels as if they just survived another war. All they crave is rest, routine, and sunshine, but instead, as a favor to Angus and Miss Potter, they find themself heading to their family hunting lodge, deep in the cold, damp forests of their home country, Gallacia.

In theory, one can find relaxation in even the coldest and dampest of Gallacian autumns, but when Easton arrives, they find the caretaker dead, the lodge in disarray, and the grounds troubled by a strange, uncanny silence. The villagers whisper that a breath-stealing monster from folklore has taken up residence in Easton’s home. Easton knows better than to put too much stock in local superstitions, but they can tell that something is not quite right in their home. . . or in their dreams.]]> 151 T. Kingfisher 1250830850 Ž������� 0 3.78 2024
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]]> 18309979 As human populations expand Hawjan found himself surrounded by humans who had built a housing complex in the area surrounding his village forcing him, his mother and grandfather to live in one of these villas that is now haunted by humans. Hawjan’s efforts to avoid interacting with the human family had failed, finding himself madly in love with Sawsan the human, Sawsan was a medical student, gentle and brilliant, barely a quarter of his age. Hawjan was unable to let her know about his feelings until he learned how to communicate with Sawsan through the Ouija board. He found out about her brain cancer that she had hidden from everyone including her family. As Sawsan’s suffering increased and her health deteriorated her father was easy prey for a sorcerer who tricked him into believing that Sawsan’s illness was a result of the devils who had haunted their new home, an so a deadly battle between Hawjan and the devils and sorcerer who had tried extort money from Sawsan’s father. With the help of Eyad (Sawsan’s colleague) who had agreed to Hawjan possessing him so that they would both risk their lives to save Sawsan and her father.]]> 260 Ibraheem Abbas Ž������� 0 3.38 2013
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Video preporuku kod Nnedi da je vrlo afrički(?). Vrlo je arapski. Verovatno nešto najnaivnije što sam pročitao poslednjih 10 godina, sa najšmokljastijim svemogućim junakom.
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Shane is a paladin with three problems. His god is dead, his client is much too attractive for his peace of mind, and a powerful organization is trying to have them both killed.

Add in a brilliant artificer with a device that may change the world, a glittering and dangerous court, and a demon-led cult, and Shane and Marguerite will be lucky to escape with their souls intact, never mind their hearts. . .]]> 446 T. Kingfisher Ž������� 0 4.17 2023
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Još jedan paladin srećno udomljen, još jedan zaobilazni korak bliže razrešenju misterije
]]> 61431922 Enter the brutal and elite world of a war college for dragon riders...

Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general—also known as her tough-as-talons mother—has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders.

But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don’t bond to “fragile�� humans. They incinerate them.

With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother’s daughter—like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant.

She’ll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise.

Yet, with every day that passes, the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom's protective wards are failing, and the death toll continues to rise. Even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret.

Friends, enemies, lovers. Everyone at Basgiath War College has an agenda—because once you enter, there are only two ways out: graduate or die]]> 528 Rebecca Yarros 1649374046 Ž������� 0
Ukratko, nije ovo bez šarma i inventivnosti, ali je sve nekako deluje jako proizvoljno i trapavo, od gluposti u rečenici na koje može prosečan čitalac da skrene pažnju a kamoli urednik, do same postavke koja je jako nategnuta i protivrečna sebi. Dođe mi krivo jer ovo je moglo da se upegla da bude bolje.

Re Zmajevi jahači sa Perna, nisam čitao serijal dalje od prve dve-tri knjige, vidim da je to otišlo na 20+ knjiga i ogroman fandom sa čim nisam upoznat, cenim da su te prve i najbolje a da je ostalo otišlo koekude... Paralele su neminovne pošto je ponovljena telepatska priroda odnosa zmaja i jahača, ponovljen je ceo imprinting i vezivanje na celi život, čak je i pojačan (sve vonja na američki milenijalski fetiš na one true love forever). Okruženje je isto neki falš srednji vek sa vojnom silom ali dok su Pernu pretnja Niti ovde je pretnja više establišment nego taj spoljni bauk i sa tim ima dosta problema...

Posebna tema je što knjiga koja je u osnovi fantasy sa zmajevima i jakim ljubavnim zapletom, koju bi inače mogli opušteno da date nekom od 12-14 godina, u trenutku kad se najzad uzmu oni se i pojebu, dakle promeni registar i pređe potpuno u pornografiju sa detaljnim opisima šta ona njemu šta on njoj i uz koji deo nameštaja, pa tako nekoliko puta uz pratnju munja i gromova. Kod Laurell K Hamilton je to makar (počelo) kao tvdi krimić i makar je ton konzistentan u tome da je za "odrasle". Kod Sare Maas je hot mess gde sve štrči na sve strane pa i elfovski penisi i bilo kakvav prisen zdravog razuma smo davno bacili kroz prozor (žena piše spolovilom uštekanim u mali mozak i to je to). U ovoj knjizi mi je to ogromna disonanca i ne znam čemu to.

Er booktalk tolko voli jebačinu u svom ya? Ili sam samo ja pogrešio što sam mislio da je ovo ljucka knjiga a ne roto treš sa kioska za bacanje posle čitanja? "Ninđa" romani za 2023?]]> 4.56 2023
author: Rebecca Yarros
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Na fb sam ukačio nečije kratke utiske o ovoj knjizi i pomenuli se zmajevi jahači sa Perna, pa sam uzeo da čitam iako su me upozorili silni booktalk hype koji je jako retko dobar znak.

Ukratko, nije ovo bez šarma i inventivnosti, ali je sve nekako deluje jako proizvoljno i trapavo, od gluposti u rečenici na koje može prosečan čitalac da skrene pažnju a kamoli urednik, do same postavke koja je jako nategnuta i protivrečna sebi. Dođe mi krivo jer ovo je moglo da se upegla da bude bolje.

Re Zmajevi jahači sa Perna, nisam čitao serijal dalje od prve dve-tri knjige, vidim da je to otišlo na 20+ knjiga i ogroman fandom sa čim nisam upoznat, cenim da su te prve i najbolje a da je ostalo otišlo koekude... Paralele su neminovne pošto je ponovljena telepatska priroda odnosa zmaja i jahača, ponovljen je ceo imprinting i vezivanje na celi život, čak je i pojačan (sve vonja na američki milenijalski fetiš na one true love forever). Okruženje je isto neki falš srednji vek sa vojnom silom ali dok su Pernu pretnja Niti ovde je pretnja više establišment nego taj spoljni bauk i sa tim ima dosta problema...

Posebna tema je što knjiga koja je u osnovi fantasy sa zmajevima i jakim ljubavnim zapletom, koju bi inače mogli opušteno da date nekom od 12-14 godina, u trenutku kad se najzad uzmu oni se i pojebu, dakle promeni registar i pređe potpuno u pornografiju sa detaljnim opisima šta ona njemu šta on njoj i uz koji deo nameštaja, pa tako nekoliko puta uz pratnju munja i gromova. Kod Laurell K Hamilton je to makar (počelo) kao tvdi krimić i makar je ton konzistentan u tome da je za "odrasle". Kod Sare Maas je hot mess gde sve štrči na sve strane pa i elfovski penisi i bilo kakvav prisen zdravog razuma smo davno bacili kroz prozor (žena piše spolovilom uštekanim u mali mozak i to je to). U ovoj knjizi mi je to ogromna disonanca i ne znam čemu to.

Er booktalk tolko voli jebačinu u svom ya? Ili sam samo ja pogrešio što sam mislio da je ovo ljucka knjiga a ne roto treš sa kioska za bacanje posle čitanja? "Ninđa" romani za 2023?
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New York Times bestselling author Gail Carriger brings you the thrilling conclusion to her Tinkered Starsong trilogy in which the true purpose of Dyesi divinity is revealed at last.

Can a group of performers take on an entire alien species? Do they want to, if the price of the truth is their own popularity and the safety of billions?

Phex, Missit, and their pantheons are the most popular gods in the galaxy and the aliens will stop at nothing to keep them singing. But with great fame comes great responsibility. As Phex finally understands the consequences of the music he produces, he is forced to choose between being a god and destroying humanity.

If you could sing peace into the bones of the universe, would you? Even if no one wanted salvation?

Ender's Game but make it Kpop in the final installment of the Tinkered Starsong trilogy (follows Divinity 36 and Demigod 12 ) in which the mystery of the Dyesi is finally uncovered.]]> 336 Gail Carriger 1944751467 Ž������� 0 4.46 2023
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New York Times bestselling author Gail Carriger continues her cozy and engaging scifi about the power of art, celebrity, and found family.

Phex and his pantheon have become demigods and are taking their show on a galaxy-wide tour. Phex is shockingly good at singing but his voice is intoxicating and one wrong note can kill so everyone wants a piece of him - sometimes literally. But the aliens in charge of the divinity are hiding something even more sinister and it’s hurting performers and audiences alike. When his lover is pitted against his pantheon, Phex will have to choose between the family he has found and the god he adores.

Let’s take this show on the road - where the show is divine and the road is through the stars. Be careful, the moment you start listening you may never want to stop, and you just might kill to keep the music alive.

Murderbot meets Eurovision in the second of the Tinkered Starsong trilogy (follows Divinity 36) in which the mystery of the Dyesi is finally uncovered.]]> 370 Gail Carriger 1944751564 Ž������� 0 4.31 2023
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name: Ž�������
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The Fall of the Kings

Generations ago the last king fell, taking with him the final truths about a race of wizards who ruled at his side. But the blood of the kings runs deep in the land and its people, waiting for the coming together of two unusual men. Theron Campion, a young nobleman of royal lineage, is heir to an ancient house and a modern scandal. Tormented by his twin duties to his family and his own bright spirit, he seeks solace in the University. There he meets Basil St. Cloud, a brilliant and charismatic teacher ruled by a passion for knowledge--and a passion for the ancient kings. Of course, everyone now knows that the wizards were charlatans and the kings their dupes and puppets. Only Basil is not convinced--nor is he convinced that the city has seen its last king...

From the Trade Paperback edition]]> 510 Ellen Kushner 0553585940 Ž������� 0 3.66 2002
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Welcome to Riverside, where the aristocratic and the ambitious battle for power and prestige in the city’s labyrinth of streets and ballrooms, theatres and brothels, boudoirs and salons. Into this alluring and alarming world walks a bright young woman ready to take it on and make her fortune. A well-bred country girl, Katherine knows all the rules of conventional society. Her biggest mistake is thinking they apply.

Katherine’s host and uncle, Alec Campion, the capricious and decadent Mad Duke Tremontaine, is in charge here—and to him, rules are made to be broken. When he decides it would be far more amusing for his niece to learn swordplay than to follow the usual path to ballroom and husband, her world changes forever. And there’s no going back. Blade in hand, it’s up to Katherine to find her own way through a maze of secrets and betrayals, nobles and scoundrels—and to gain the power, respect, and self-discovery that come to those who master. . . .

“Unholy fun, and wholly fun . . . an elegant riposte, dazzlingly executed.”—Gregory Maguire, New York Times bestselling author of Wicked]]> 378 Ellen Kushner 0553382683 Ž������� 0 3.92 2006
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Bila je sledeća i bila je otvorena i eto
]]> 68485 The Fall of the Kings now with three bonus stories.

A classic melodrama of manners, filled with remarkable plot twists and unexpected humor, takes fantasy to an unprecedented level of elegant writing and scintillating wit. Award-winning author Ellen Kushner has created a world of unforgettable characters whose political ambitions, passionate love affairs, and age-old rivalries collide with deadly results.

Swordspoint

On the treacherous streets of Riverside, a man lives and dies by the sword. Even the nobles on the Hill turn to duels to settle their disputes. Within this elite, dangerous world, Richard St. Vier is the undisputed master, as skilled as he is ruthless--until a death by the sword is met with outrage instead of awe, and the city discovers that the line between hero and villain can be altered in the blink of an eye.]]> 329 Ellen Kushner 0553585495 Ž������� 0 3.81 1987
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When Detective Stark, Molly’s old foe, investigates the author’s unexpected demise, it becomes clear that this death was murder most foul. Suspects abound, and everyone wants to know: Who killed J. D. Grimthorpe? Was it Lily, the new Maid-in-Training? Or was it Serena, the author’s secretary? Could Mr. Preston, the hotel’s beloved doorman, be hiding something? And is Molly really as innocent as she seems?

As the high-profile death threatens the hotel’s pristine reputation, Molly knows she alone holds the key to unlocking the killer’s identity. But that key is buried deep in her past, as long ago, she knew J. D. Grimthorpe. Molly begins to comb her memory for clues, revisiting her childhood and the mysterious Grimthorpe mansion where she and her dearly departed Gran once worked side by side. With the entire hotel under investigation, Molly must solve the mystery posthaste. Because if there’s one thing she knows for sure, it’s that secrets don’t stay buried forever.]]> 293 Nita Prose 0593356187 Ž������� 0 to-read 3.75 2023
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The year is 1921. Lesley Hamlyn and her husband, Robert, a lawyer and war veteran, are living at Cassowary House on the Straits Settlement of Penang. When “Willie�� Somerset Maugham, a famed writer and old friend of Robert's, arrives for an extended visit with his secretary Gerald, the pair threatens a rift that could alter more lives than one.

Maugham, one of the great novelists of his day, is beleaguered: Having long hidden his homosexuality, his unhappy and expensive marriage of convenience becomes unbearable after he loses his savings-and the freedom to travel with Gerald. His career deflating, his health failing, Maugham arrives at Cassowary House in desperate need of a subject for his next book. Lesley, too, is enduring a marriage more duplicitous than it first appears. Maugham suspects an affair, and, learning of Lesley's past connection to the Chinese revolutionary, Dr. Sun Yat Sen, decides to probe deeper. But as their friendship grows and Lesley confides in him about life in the Straits, Maugham discovers a far more surprising tale than he imagined, one that involves not only war and scandal but the trial of an Englishwoman charged with murder. It is, to Maugham, a story worthy of fiction.

A mesmerizingly beautiful novel based on real events, The House of Doors traces the fault lines of race, gender, sexuality, and power under empire, and dives deep into the complicated nature of love and friendship in its shadow.]]> 306 Tan Twan Eng 1639731938 Ž������� 0 to-read 3.98 2023
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Adam Binder has lost what matters most to him. Having finally learned the true identity of the warlock preying on his family, what was supposed to be a final confrontation with the fiend instead became a trap that sent Vic into the realm of the dead, where none living are meant to be. Bound by debt, oath, and love, Adam blazes his own trail into the underworld to get Vic back and to end the threat of the warlock once and for all.

But the road to hell is paved with more than good intentions. Demons are hungry and ghosts are relentless. What awaits Adam in the underworld is nothing he is prepared to face. If that weren’t enough, Adam has one more thing he must do if he and Vic are to return to world of the living: find the lost heart of Death herself.]]> 350 David R. Slayton 1094067989 Ž������� 0
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U trećoj i (zasad poslednjoj) knjizi serijala autor je razotkrio zašto se toliko kosmičkih sila vrti oko našeg beznačajnog junaka, na način koji mi se ne dopada previše ali makar ima smisla i drži vodu, čemu se nisam nadao. Svet je spašen, magijski brak naših junaka je raščaran ali evo ih dokazuju da je to stvarno ljubav a ne vlaške mađije, traume su donekle zalečene, porodica se okupila i upoznala i prihvatila. I upravo je o tome čar ovog serijala, jeste ovo priča o spašavanju sveta ali je ustvari priča o povezivanju sa prijateljima, porodicom, partnerom, o iskrenosti i isceljenju odnosa. Malko je trapavo pisano povremeno, ali je jako prijatno.


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Returning to Guthrie, Oklahoma, Adam Binder once again finds himself in the path of deadly magic when a dark druid begins to prey on members of Adam’s family. It all seems linked to the death of Adam’s father many years ago—a man who may have somehow survived as a warlock.

Watched by the police, separated from the man who may be the love of his life, compelled to seek the truth about his connection to the druid, Adam learns more about his family and its troubled history than he ever bargained for, and finally comes face to face with the warlock he has vowed to stop.

Meanwhile, beyond the Veil of the mortal world, Argent the Queen of Swords and Vic Martinez undertake a dangerous journey to a secret meeting of the Council of Races . . . where the sea elves are calling for the destruction of humanity.]]> 285 David R. Slayton 1094067970 Ž������� 0 4.11 2021
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]]> 53255694 Guthrie was a good place to be from, but it wasn’t a great place to live, not when you were like Adam, in all the ways Adam was like Adam.

Adam Binder hasn’t spoken to his brother in years, not since Bobby had him committed to a psych ward for hearing voices. When a murderous spirit possesses Bobby’s wife and disrupts the perfect life he’s built away from Oklahoma, he’s forced to ask for his little brother’s help. Adam is happy to escape the trailer park and get the chance to say I told you so, but he arrives in Denver to find the local magicians dead.

It ������’t long before Adam is the spirit’s next target. To survive the confrontation, he’ll have to risk bargaining with powers he’d rather avoid, including his first love, the elf who broke his heart.

The Binder brothers don’t realize that they’re unwitting pawns in a game played by immortals. Death herself wants the spirit’s head, and she’s willing to destroy their family to reap it.]]> 320 David R. Slayton 1094067962 Ž������� 0
[spoilers removed]]]> 3.87 2020
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Video preporuku za serijal na grupi Parasol Protectorate kao redak primer muškog autora u podžanru "gej elfovi", uzeo da čitam da odmorim mozak. Međutim, tri knjige kasnije...

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]]> 61884932 There’s a princess trapped in a tower. This ������’t her story.

Meet Toadling. On the day of her birth, she was stolen from her family by the fairies, but she grew up safe and loved in the warm waters of faerieland. Once an adult though, the fae ask a favor of Toadling: return to the human world and offer a blessing of protection to a newborn child. Simple, right?

But nothing with fairies is ever simple.

Centuries later, a knight approaches a towering wall of brambles, where the thorns are as thick as your arm and as sharp as swords. He's heard there's a curse here that needs breaking, but it's a curse Toadling will do anything to uphold…]]> 116 T. Kingfisher 1250244099 Ž������� 0 3.95 2023
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Detektivski predložak meša se sa snažno intoniranim društvenim romanom i, uz primese fantastike i saspensa, daje presek života alternativnog Beograda u kom su stvari potpuno čudne, neočekivane i suprotne našoj stvarnosti. U tom svetu građanskih protesta, tehnološkog kriminala i posvećenih državnih službenika, junakinja romana krči put kroz kišu metaka, brdo leševa i šum nesporazuma, ka konačnoj spoznaji koja je veća od nje same. - Dragan Babić.

Beograd u paralelnom univerzumu Miloša Petrika se, paradoksalno, suštinski ne razlikuje od današnjeg Beograda: krcat je dobrom hranom, uverljivim, živim likovima i, pa�� ponekim mrtvim likom. Pred vama je jedan pravi krimić, ispripovedan neobično inteligentno. - Ivana Nešić]]> 103 Miloš Petrik 8661730864 Ž������� 0

Sve u svemu ima sasvim dovoljno pluseva za ugodno čitanje a dovoljno minuseva da ima o čemu da se priča posle. Kupite na sajtu Rendeta a ne u knjižari jer ]]> 4.50
author: Miloš Petrik
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ELEKTRIČNI ORGANIZAM Petrika Miloša je prekratak roman, jedva 100 strana ali sa adekvatnim višestrukim zapetljancijama. Pisanje je fragmentarno i sa elipsama, možda je to moglo da se ispuni da se navuče na 120 strana, al hajd sad... odličan je na nivou pripovedanja, prosipanja forica i zapažanja, nažalost nešto je slabiji na nivou zapleta �� nisam kupio sve što se desilo ni rezon iza svega toga a to mi za detektivluk smeta. Mož biti obrazloženje da su ljudi prosto ponekad u trenutku glupi, možda sam i ja bio pa nisam skontao ali ...bah. Distopijska budućnost je nešto čudno raspoređena u odnosu na naš tajmlajn, nešto kaska nešto napreduje, aromatično je vrlo kratko povezana sa Sivom hronikom na način koji je lagodno mogao bit opširniji. Način prikazivanja LGBT+ likova i/li vegana je za pohvalu, tri (pečena) Bambija za Petrika!


Sve u svemu ima sasvim dovoljno pluseva za ugodno čitanje a dovoljno minuseva da ima o čemu da se priča posle. Kupite na sajtu Rendeta a ne u knjižari jer
]]> 63184332 288 Geezer Butler 0063242508 Ž������� 0
Dakle od tri knjige članova Sabbatha sve su dobre zapravo, a ako biste samo jednu onda uznite Ozijevu]]> 4.14
author: Geezer Butler
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Dobre su ove biografije matorih rokera, čekam Milića Vukašinovića da se seti...

Dakle od tri knjige članova Sabbatha sve su dobre zapravo, a ako biste samo jednu onda uznite Ozijevu
]]> 58772760 A hilariously filthy tale of sex, crime, and family dysfunction from the brilliantly twisted mind of John Waters, the legendary filmmaker and bestselling author of Mr. Know-It-All.

Marsha Sprinkle: Suitcase thief. Scammer. Master of disguise. Dogs and children hate her. Her own family wants her dead. She's smart, she's desperate, she's disturbed, and she's on the run with a big chip on her shoulder. They call her Liarmouth--until one insane man makes her tell the truth.

John Waters's first novel, Liarmouth, is a perfectly perverted "feel-bad romance," and the reader will thrill to hop aboard this delirious road trip of riotous revenge.]]> 240 John Waters 0374185727 Ž������� 0
Vrcavo je i zabavno i skrnavo i Votersovština je nekako odmah na 11 i ostaje na 11, u početku sam vrištao od smeha na svaku scenu i slao citate drugarima, al sam se zasitio a nisam pregurao trećinu.

Pisanje mi je bilo čudno, dok sam čitao čuo sam Votersa kako ovo preglumljuje iz sve snage, i sa zadovoljstvom sam našao da postoji audioknjiga i da je on narator, pa bih možda to preporučio sebi za kasnije...]]> 3.31 2022
author: John Waters
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average rating: 3.31
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Volim filmove i prozu i stendape Džona Votersa, al ovo mi nije leglo.

Vrcavo je i zabavno i skrnavo i Votersovština je nekako odmah na 11 i ostaje na 11, u početku sam vrištao od smeha na svaku scenu i slao citate drugarima, al sam se zasitio a nisam pregurao trećinu.

Pisanje mi je bilo čudno, dok sam čitao čuo sam Votersa kako ovo preglumljuje iz sve snage, i sa zadovoljstvom sam našao da postoji audioknjiga i da je on narator, pa bih možda to preporučio sebi za kasnije...
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Nakon što su proterani iz Bounvila, tri rođaka Boun dospeće u misterioznu dolinu. Tu ih čekaju pacolika stvorenja, Veliki Crveni Zmaj, dobrodušni meštani koji žive jednostavnim životom i jedna žilava baka kojoj je najveća zabava da se trka s kravama. Ali u toj dolini počiva i nešto drevno, što vekovima pokušava da se oslobodi iz zatočeništva. Sledi najveća �� i najzabavnija �� avantura u životima ove male družine.

„Boun�� je genijalni spoj avanture, fantastike i komedije, i jedna od najbolje ispripovedanih priča u svetu stripa. „Boun�� je ovenčan s 11 nagrada „Harvi�� i 10 nagrada „Ajzner��, kao i s pregršt sličnih priznanja u Italiji, Francuskoj, Nemačkoj, Španiji i drugim zemljama. Po oceni magazina „Tajm��, to je „najbolji strip za sve uzraste ikada napisan��.]]> 272 Jeff Smith 8630002425 Ž������� 0 4.67 2005
author: Jeff Smith
name: Ž�������
average rating: 4.67
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rating: 0
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]]> 123598068 86 M.R. Carey 1786368714 Ž������� 0 4.36
author: M.R. Carey
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average rating: 4.36
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Majk Keri zna znanje: i o mitskim bićima, i o volšebnicima koji ih love i progone, i o snalažljivim ljudskim srcima.
]]> 123230835 157 Boris Stanić 8681740237 Ž������� 0 * Iz blata gleda u zvezde
* Misliš da je emo priča a onda te zajebe s umetnos]]> 4.75
author: Boris Stanić
name: Ž�������
average rating: 4.75
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* štrokavi underground aesthetic
* Iz blata gleda u zvezde
* Misliš da je emo priča a onda te zajebe s umetnos
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Ten years after his prize-winning novel Chinaman established him as one of Sri Lanka’s foremost authors, Shehan Karunatilaka is back with a “thrilling satire�� (Economist) and rip-roaring state-of-the-nation epic that offers equal parts mordant wit and disturbing, profound truths.]]> 386 Shehan Karunatilaka 1908745908 Ž������� 0 to-read 3.89 2022
author: Shehan Karunatilaka
name: Ž�������
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Jedan od najboljih romana fantastike svih vremena

Gospa jednorog živi u šumi jorgovana, sasvim sama...

... ali ipak odlučuje da ostavi za sobom bezbednu začaranu šumu i zaputi se u potragu za svojim narodom. Na putu joj se pridružuju smotani čarobnjak Zevzik i nesalomiva Moli Jezavica, i gospa jednorog usput će naučiti štošta o životnim radostima i tugama, ali i o ljubavi, pre nego što se suoči sa svojom kobi u zamku turobnog vladara �� i pre nego što se uhvati ukoštac sa stvorenjem koje želi da uništi čitav njen rod��

U Poslednjem jednorogu čuveni i omiljeni romanopisac Piter S. Bigl ispreda pomalo bolnu priču o ljubavi, žalosti i čudima, koja je ganula milione čitalaca širom sveta.

„Piter S. Bigl nas obasjava sebi svojstvenom magijom.��
�� Ursula K. Legvin

„Silovita mašta koja oživljava pred našim očima.��
�� New York Times Book Review

„Poslednji jednorog je najbolja knjiga koju sam pročitao u životu. Morate je pročitati. Ako ste je već čitali, pročitajte je opet.��
�� Patrik Rotfus

„Piter S. Bigl je divan pisac, valjan čovek i princ odmetnik koji je rešio da čitaocima ukrade srca.��
�� Tad Vilijems]]> 232 Peter S. Beagle 8652148678 Ž������� 0
Hvala prevodilici na razmahanosti.]]> 3.79 1968
author: Peter S. Beagle
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average rating: 3.79
book published: 1968
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Zaboravio sam kolko je ovo setna knjiga.

Hvala prevodilici na razmahanosti.
]]> 59808603 Humankind discovers intelligent life in an octopus species with its own language and culture, and sets off a high-stakes global competition to dominate the future.

Rumors begin to spread of a species of hyperintelligent, dangerous octopus that may have developed its own language and culture. Marine biologist Dr. Ha Nguyen, who has spent her life researching cephalopod intelligence, will do anything for the chance to study them.

The transnational tech corporation DIANIMA has sealed the remote Con Dao Archipelago, where the octopuses were discovered, off from the world. Dr. Nguyen joins DIANIMA’s team on the islands: a battle-scarred security agent and the world’s first android.

The octopuses hold the key to unprecedented breakthroughs in extrahuman intelligence. The stakes are high: there are vast fortunes to be made by whoever can take advantage of the octopuses�� advancements, and as Dr. Nguyen struggles to communicate with the newly discovered species, forces larger than DIANIMA close in to seize the octopuses for themselves.

But no one has yet asked the octopuses what they think. And what they might do about it.

A near-future thriller about the nature of consciousness, Ray Nayler’s The Mountain in the Sea is a dazzling literary debut and a mind-blowing dive into the treasure and wreckage of humankind’s legacy.]]> 456 Ray Nayler 0374605955 Ž������� 0 to-read 3.87 2022
author: Ray Nayler
name: Ž�������
average rating: 3.87
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]]> 34943643 New York Times bestselling The Peripheral, a gifted "app-whisperer" is hired by a mysterious San Francisco start-up and finds herself in contact with a unique and surprisingly combat-savvy AI.]]> 413 William Gibson 1101986956 Ž������� 0 to-read 3.81 2020
author: William Gibson
name: Ž�������
average rating: 3.81
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]]> 29326263 156 Miloš Petrik Ž������� 0

ELEKTRIČNI ORGANIZAM Petrika Miloša je prekratak roman, jedva 100 strana ali sa adekvatnim višestrukim zapetljancijama. Pisanje je fragmentarno i sa elipsama, možda je to moglo da se ispuni da se navuče na 120 strana, al hajd sad... odličan je na nivou pripovedanja, prosipanja forica i zapažanja, nažalost nešto je slabiji na nivou zapleta �� nisam kupio sve što se desilo ni rezon iza svega toga a to mi za detektivluk smeta. Mož biti obrazloženje da su ljudi prosto ponekad u trenutku glupi, možda sam i ja bio pa nisam skontao ali ...bah. Distopijska budućnost je nešto čudno raspoređena u odnosu na naš tajmlajn, nešto kaska nešto napreduje, aromatično je vrlo kratko povezana sa Sivom hronikom na način koji je lagodno mogao bit opširniji. Način prikazivanja LGBT+ likova i/li vegana je za pohvalu, tri (pečena) Bambija za Petrika!


Sve u svemu ima sasvim dovoljno pluseva za ugodno čitanje a dovoljno minuseva da ima o čemu da se priča posle. Kupite na sajtu Rendeta a ne u knjižari jer ]]> 4.47 2016
author: Miloš Petrik
name: Ž�������
average rating: 4.47
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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Nabo sam slučajno Sivu hroniku dok sam pokušavao da tagujem ovu novu knjigu što sam kupio i pročitao prejuče i zaboravio ime ELEKTRIČNI ORGANIZAM tjmjkbžj elem pošto ne nalazim evo ovde


ELEKTRIČNI ORGANIZAM Petrika Miloša je prekratak roman, jedva 100 strana ali sa adekvatnim višestrukim zapetljancijama. Pisanje je fragmentarno i sa elipsama, možda je to moglo da se ispuni da se navuče na 120 strana, al hajd sad... odličan je na nivou pripovedanja, prosipanja forica i zapažanja, nažalost nešto je slabiji na nivou zapleta �� nisam kupio sve što se desilo ni rezon iza svega toga a to mi za detektivluk smeta. Mož biti obrazloženje da su ljudi prosto ponekad u trenutku glupi, možda sam i ja bio pa nisam skontao ali ...bah. Distopijska budućnost je nešto čudno raspoređena u odnosu na naš tajmlajn, nešto kaska nešto napreduje, aromatično je vrlo kratko povezana sa Sivom hronikom na način koji je lagodno mogao bit opširniji. Način prikazivanja LGBT+ likova i/li vegana je za pohvalu, tri (pečena) Bambija za Petrika!


Sve u svemu ima sasvim dovoljno pluseva za ugodno čitanje a dovoljno minuseva da ima o čemu da se priča posle. Kupite na sajtu Rendeta a ne u knjižari jer
]]> 124934812 The aliens are coming for us and they want our voices.

New York Times bestselling author Gail Carriger brings you a gloriously warm and unique scifi about the power of art, celebrity, and found family.

Phex is a barista on a forgotten moon. Which is fine �� he likes being ignored and he’s good at making drinks. Until one day an alien hears him singing and recruits him to become a god. Now Phex is thrust headfirst into the galaxy’s most cutthroat entertainment industry, where music is visible, the price of fame can kill, and the only friends he has want to be worshiped.

Welcome to the divinity. Where there is no difference between celebrity and religion, love and belief, acolyte and alien. Where the right kind of obsession can drive a person crazy or turn them divine.]]> 332 Gail Carriger 1944751661 Ž������� 0 4.40 2023
author: Gail Carriger
name: Ž�������
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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]]> 77781 337 N. Lee Wood 0441004504 Ž������� 0
Ni do kraja knjige nisam uspeo da dočitam i upamtim kako se zove ova arapska Ruritanija, a realno nije ni bitno, nisam konstatovao ni pola lokalne egzotike bednog siromaštva, dozlogrdila mi transkripcija u engleski pa da je s arapskog ili nekog jednako egzotičnog istočnoevropskog sveslovenskog.

Iz 2023. gledano zanimljiva je rustična budućnost gde novinari vuku teške rančeve sa opremom za obradu snimaka i kriptovanim satelitskim vezama, ometaju signale gedžetima, al to je sve standardna džejmsbondovska kinerpank galanterija. Ono što jeste zanimljivo su likovi: atipično neprivlačna junakinja u najboljim godinama* koja se u islamskoj zemlji uspešno predstavlja kao muško, sajdkik bezbednjak replikant sa standardnim pitanjima ljudskosti i slobodne volje, a između njih tenzija između fabrikantofobije, pankerske acab odbojnosti prema muriji, i upućenosti jednog na drugo u zaista opasnoj situaciji raspada režima.

Autorka je dosta bazala po svetu sa bivšim joj mužem Normanom Spinradom i kao i on emigrirala iz SAD. Dobra je to ekipa.

* Mojim
]]> 3.75 1996
author: N. Lee Wood
name: Ž�������
average rating: 3.75
book published: 1996
rating: 0
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Američka autorka ljuta na američke državne agencije i medije gladne krvi koji prave sranja po srednjem istoku.

Ni do kraja knjige nisam uspeo da dočitam i upamtim kako se zove ova arapska Ruritanija, a realno nije ni bitno, nisam konstatovao ni pola lokalne egzotike bednog siromaštva, dozlogrdila mi transkripcija u engleski pa da je s arapskog ili nekog jednako egzotičnog istočnoevropskog sveslovenskog.

Iz 2023. gledano zanimljiva je rustična budućnost gde novinari vuku teške rančeve sa opremom za obradu snimaka i kriptovanim satelitskim vezama, ometaju signale gedžetima, al to je sve standardna džejmsbondovska kinerpank galanterija. Ono što jeste zanimljivo su likovi: atipično neprivlačna junakinja u najboljim godinama* koja se u islamskoj zemlji uspešno predstavlja kao muško, sajdkik bezbednjak replikant sa standardnim pitanjima ljudskosti i slobodne volje, a između njih tenzija između fabrikantofobije, pankerske acab odbojnosti prema muriji, i upućenosti jednog na drugo u zaista opasnoj situaciji raspada režima.

Autorka je dosta bazala po svetu sa bivšim joj mužem Normanom Spinradom i kao i on emigrirala iz SAD. Dobra je to ekipa.

* Mojim

]]> 58724626
What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves.

Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all.]]> 165 T. Kingfisher 1250830753 Ž������� 0
Merged review:

Kratko, ali bolje tako. Da je veće, istanjilo bi se previše.]]> 3.86 2022
author: T. Kingfisher
name: Ž�������
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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date added: 2023/06/05
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Kratko, ali bolje tako. Da je veće, istanjilo bi se previše.

Merged review:

Kratko, ali bolje tako. Da je veće, istanjilo bi se previše.
]]> 58975864
What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves.

Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all.]]> 159 T. Kingfisher Ž������� 0 to-read 4.00 2022
author: T. Kingfisher
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average rating: 4.00
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]]> 60784409 A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones explores the dark, twisted roots lurking just beneath the veneer of a perfect home and family.

"Mom seems off."

Her brother's words echo in Sam Montgomery's ear as she turns onto the quiet North Carolina street where their mother lives alone.

She brushes the thought away as she climbs the front steps. Sam's excited for this rare extended visit, and looking forward to nights with just the two of them, drinking boxed wine, watching murder mystery shows, and guessing who the killer is long before the characters figure it out.

But stepping inside, she quickly realizes home ������’t what it used to be. Gone is the warm, cluttered charm her mom is known for; now the walls are painted a sterile white. Her mom jumps at the smallest noises and looks over her shoulder even when she’s the only person in the room. And when Sam steps out back to clear her head, she finds a jar of teeth hidden beneath the magazine-worthy rose bushes, and vultures are circling the garden from above.

To find out what’s got her mom so frightened in her own home, Sam will go digging for the truth. But some secrets are better left buried.]]> 247 T. Kingfisher 1250829798 Ž������� 0 3.65 2023
author: T. Kingfisher
name: Ž�������
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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date added: 2023/04/21
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Fini hororčić koga je trebalo da bude više, ili manje, nešto mi kratko
]]> 60784309 The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set on Jupiter, by Malka Older, author of the critically-acclaimed Centenal Cycle.

On a remote, gas-wreathed outpost of a human colony on Jupiter, a man goes missing. The enigmatic Investigator Mossa follows his trail to Valdegeld, home to the colony’s erudite university—and Mossa’s former girlfriend, a scholar of Earth’s pre-collapse ecosystems.

Pleiti has dedicated her research and her career to aiding the larger effort towards a possible return to Earth. When Mossa unexpectedly arrives and requests Pleiti’s assistance in her latest investigation, the two of them embark on a twisting path in which the future of life on Earth is at stake—and, perhaps, their futures, together.]]> 169 Malka Ann Older 1250860504 Ž������� 0 3.57 2023
author: Malka Ann Older
name: Ž�������
average rating: 3.57
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at: 2023/04/15
date added: 2023/04/21
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Manje zabavno nego što je zvučalo
]]> 62842748
The a political and trading alliance of a million worlds. Except that they’re really just one world, Earth, in many different realities. And when an A.I. threat arises that could destroy everything the Pandominion has built, they’ll eradicate it by whatever means necessary.

Scientist Hadiz Tambuwal is looking for a solution to her own Earth’s environmental collapse when she stumbles across the secret of inter-dimensional travel, a secret that could save everyone on her dying planet. It leads her into the middle of a war on a scale she never dreamed of. And she needs to choose a side before every reality pays the price.]]> 496 M.R. Carey 0316504564 Ž������� 0 to-read 4.31 2023
author: M.R. Carey
name: Ž�������
average rating: 4.31
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]]> 18490708
It's the eve of the twenty-second century: a world where the dearly departed send postcards back from Heaven and evangelicals make scientific breakthroughs by speaking in tongues; where genetically engineered vampires solve problems intractable to baseline humans and soldiers come with zombie switches that shut off self-awareness during combat. And it’s all under surveillance by an alien presence that refuses to show itself.

Daniel Bruks is a living fossil: a field biologist in a world where biology has turned computational, a cat's-paw used by terrorists to kill thousands. Taking refuge in the Oregon desert, he’s turned his back on a humanity that shatters into strange new subspecies with every heartbeat. But he awakens one night to find himself at the center of a storm that will turn all of history inside-out.

Now he’s trapped on a ship bound for the center of the solar system. To his left is a grief-stricken soldier, obsessed by whispered messages from a dead son. To his right is a pilot who hasn’t yet found the man she's sworn to kill on sight. A vampire and its entourage of zombie bodyguards lurk in the shadows behind. And dead ahead, a handful of rapture-stricken monks takes them all to a meeting with something they will only call “The Angels of the Asteroids.��

Their pilgrimage brings Dan Bruks, the fossil man, face-to-face with the biggest evolutionary breakpoint since the origin of thought itself.]]> 384 Peter Watts 076532802X Ž������� 0 3.81 2014
author: Peter Watts
name: Ž�������
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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Opet sam se dohvatio knjige za koju treba pamet u trenucima kad je nemam.
]]> 62991531
It’s business as usual on the set of another cheap sword-and-sandal production by Pharos Pictures—until the lead actress suddenly falls into a deep, mysterious sleep. Jordan Harper can talk down high-strung starlets and knock sense into stuntmen, but this…this is the kind of uncanny problem that he’d usually bring to Mrs. Hope. Unfortunately, the preternaturally capable secretary is on a business trip with the studio head. Harper must get to the bottom of the mystery on his own before another cast member succumbs—or worse, they blow the budget.]]> 38 Garth Nix 1662510020 Ž������� 0 3.28 2022
author: Garth Nix
name: Ž�������
average rating: 3.28
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> 62991529
When her husband dies unexpectedly, Maggie Royal is struck with sinister visions that foretell danger for her and for her five-year-old daughter. Her mother and grandmother were said to have “the sight,�� but it was never like this. With no one alive to turn to, Maggie must move quickly to uncover the meaning of her visions before her candle is snuffed out.]]> 37 Veronica G. Henry 1662509448 Ž������� 0 3.41 2022
author: Veronica G. Henry
name: Ž�������
average rating: 3.41
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> 62991463
Always mindful of the debt she owes, the girl finds her worth as a weapon in the hand of the Prince. Her victories make him a king, then an emperor. The bards sing her name and her enemies fear it. But the war never ends and the cost keeps rising—how many times will she repeat her own story?]]> 31 Alix E. Harrow 166250957X Ž������� 0 4.32 2022
author: Alix E. Harrow
name: Ž�������
average rating: 4.32
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> 62991434
The Fogg River Seminary, a girls�� school in a small Illinois town, is supposed to be just another stop on Maryse and Vasyl’s endless travels. They’ve made lucrative use of Maryse’s “foreign�� looks in their melodramatic séance act—and an act is all it is. Then, during their performance, a blizzard sweeps in and cuts them off from town completely. In the freezing halls, there’s a voice speaking the secrets of the dead, and Maryse has no choice but to listen…because this time, the voice is real.]]> 31 Nghi Vo 1662510098 Ž������� 0 3.61 2022
author: Nghi Vo
name: Ž�������
average rating: 3.61
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> 62991424
A fresh-faced newcomer arrives in an isolated, gang-run town and soon finds herself taking a job nobody else wants: bodyguard to a ghoul. Not just your average mindless, half-rotted shuffler, though. Lucille is a dancer who can still put on her own lipstick and whose shows are half burlesque, half gladiator match. But the stranger is no stranger to this particular ghoul. Both women are undercover in their own way. And both have something to lose if their connection comes to light.]]> 59 Tamsyn Muir 1662509456 Ž������� 0 3.99 2022
author: Tamsyn Muir
name: Ž�������
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> 55119872
Jessamyn Teoh is closeted, broke and moving back to Malaysia, a country she left when she was a toddler. So when Jess starts hearing voices, she chalks it up to stress. But there's only one voice in her head, and it claims to be the ghost of her estranged grandmother, Ah Ma. In life Ah Ma was a spirit medium, the avatar of a mysterious deity called the Black Water Sister. Now she's determined to settle a score against a gang boss who has offended the god--and she's decided Jess is going to help her do it.

Drawn into a world of gods, ghosts, and family secrets, Jess finds that making deals with capricious spirits is a dangerous business. As Jess fights for retribution for Ah Ma, she'll also need to regain control of her body and destiny. If she fails, the Black Water Sister may finish her off for good.]]> 371 Zen Cho 0425283437 Ž������� 0 3.84 2021
author: Zen Cho
name: Ž�������
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2021
rating: 0
read at: 2023/01/03
date added: 2023/01/03
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]]> 39325105 Harrow the Ninth, the sequel to Gideon the Ninth, turns a galaxy inside out as one necromancer struggles to survive the wreckage of herself aboard the Emperor's haunted space station.

She answered the Emperor's call.

She arrived with her arts, her wits, and her only friend.

In victory, her world has turned to ash.

After rocking the cosmos with her deathly debut, Tamsyn Muir continues the story of the penumbral Ninth House in Harrow the Ninth, a mind-twisting puzzle box of mystery, murder, magic, and mayhem. Nothing is as it seems in the halls of the Emperor, and the fate of the galaxy rests on one woman's shoulders.

Harrowhark Nonagesimus, last necromancer of the Ninth House, has been drafted by her Emperor to fight an unwinnable war. Side-by-side with a detested rival, Harrow must perfect her skills and become an angel of undeath �� but her health is failing, her sword makes her nauseous, and even her mind is threatening to betray her.

Sealed in the gothic gloom of the Emperor's Mithraeum with three unfriendly teachers, hunted by the mad ghost of a murdered planet, Harrow must confront two unwelcome questions: is somebody trying to kill her? And if they succeeded, would the universe be better off?]]> 512 Tamsyn Muir 1250313228 Ž������� 0
Raniću se.]]> 4.30 2020
author: Tamsyn Muir
name: Ž�������
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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Imam samo da kažem ČEKAJTE TREĆU pa tek onda čitajte sve. (Isto ako ste pročitali već Gideona).

Raniću se.
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The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.

Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead bullshit.

Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse. She packs up her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and prepares to launch her daring escape. But her childhood nemesis won't set her free without a service.

Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Reverend Daughter of the Ninth House and bone witch extraordinaire, has been summoned into action. The Emperor has invited the heirs to each of his loyal Houses to a deadly trial of wits and skill. If Harrowhark succeeds she will become an immortal, all-powerful servant of the Resurrection, but no necromancer can ascend without their cavalier. Without Gideon's sword, Harrow will fail, and the Ninth House will die.

Of course, some things are better left dead.]]> 448 Tamsyn Muir 1250313198 Ž������� 0 4.19 2019
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average rating: 4.19
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Ovako počinje debitantski roman Mirjane Drljević koji je bio apsolutno bez premca među 575 rukopisa pristiglih na naš prvi konkurs za neobjavljeni roman. Pred vama je izuzetno delo koje funkcioniše na mnogo nivoa, jer autorka suvereno vlada pravilima žanra i koristi ga kao osnovu na kojoj će izgraditi kompleksnu priču o nekoliko generacija, njihovim odnosima, prijateljstvu, ljubavi, roditeljstvu i zemlji koja se raspala u eksploziji čiji šrapneli čak i tri decenije kasnije pogađaju nedužne.

Brz, inteligentan, višeslojan i znalački vođen od početka do kraja, roman Niko nije zaboravljen i ničega se ne sećamo predstavlja veliko književno otkriće i značajan dobitak za savremenu srpsku prozu.]]> 262 Mirjana Drljević 8660840275 Ž������� 0 to-read 4.16
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]]> 58446227 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.

One of the Best Books of the Year: The New York Times, NPR, GoodReads

"One of [Mandel's] finest novels and one of her most satisfying forays into the arena of speculative fiction yet." --The New York Times

Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal--an experience that shocks him to his core.

Two centuries later a famous writer named Olive Llewellyn is on a book tour. She's traveling all over Earth, but her home is the second moon colony, a place of white stone, spired towers, and artificial beauty. Within the text of Olive's best-selling pandemic novel lies a strange passage: a man plays his violin for change in the echoing corridor of an airship terminal as the trees of a forest rise around him.

When Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, a detective in the black-skied Night City, is hired to investigate an anomaly in the North American wilderness, he uncovers a series of lives upended: The exiled son of an earl driven to madness, a writer trapped far from home as a pandemic ravages Earth, and a childhood friend from the Night City who, like Gaspery himself, has glimpsed the chance to do something extraordinary that will disrupt the timeline of the universe.

A virtuoso performance that is as human and tender as it is intellectually playful, Sea of Tranquility is a novel of time travel and metaphysics that precisely captures the reality of our current moment.]]> 259 Emily St. John Mandel 0593321448 Ž������� 0 to-read 4.04 2022
author: Emily St. John Mandel
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average rating: 4.04
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]]> 55277047 A stellar new science fiction adventure from the author who redefined space opera, set in his bestselling Revelation Space universe.]]> 496 Alastair Reynolds 0316462764 Ž������� 0 to-read 4.08 2021
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Hild is the king’s youngest niece. She has the powerful curiosity of a bright child, a will of adamant, and a way of seeing the world—of studying nature, of matching cause with effect, of observing human nature and predicting what will happen next—that can seem uncanny, even supernatural, to those around her. She establishes herself as the king’s seer. And she is indispensable—until she should ever lead the king astray. The stakes are life and death: for Hild, her family, her loved ones, and the increasing numbers who seek the protection of the strange girl who can read the world and see the future.

Hild is a young woman at the heart of the violence, subtlety, and mysticism of the early medieval age—all of it brilliantly and accurately evoked by Nicola Griffith’s luminous prose. Recalling such feats of historical fiction as Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and Sigrid Undset’s Kristin Lavransdatter, Hild brings a beautiful, brutal world—and one of its most fascinating, pivotal figures, the girl who would become St. Hilda of Whitby—to vivid, absorbing life.]]> 546 Nicola Griffith 0374280878 Ž������� 0 to-read 3.80 2013
author: Nicola Griffith
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While trying to help her family, Rosa discovers a strange magical box protected by a painted crow. But when she finds a way to open the box, she accidentally releases the Scarling, a vicious monster determined to destroy the Mandolini family at any cost.

With the aid of her former best friend and a painted crow named Payne, it’s up to Rosa to stop the Scarling before it unmakes the magical paintings that keep the city running, and hopefully save her family in the process!]]> 260 T. Kingfisher 1614505772 Ž������� 0 3.92 2022
author: T. Kingfisher
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average rating: 3.92
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Još jedan Kingfišerkin roman koji nisu pustili u "knjige za decu" mada komotno može
]]> 38929922 All the Fabulous Beasts collects 16 stunning and monstrous tales of love, rebirth, nature, and sexuality. A heady mix of myth and ontology, horror and the modern macabre.]]> 288 Priya Sharma 1988964024 Ž������� 0 to-read 4.13 2018
author: Priya Sharma
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]]> 44581536 Ormeshadow, a coming-of-age story as dark and rich as good soil.

Burning with resentment and intrigue, this fantastical family drama invites readers to dig up the secrets of the Belman family, and wonder whether myths and legends are real enough to answer for a history of sin.

Uprooted from Bath by his father's failures, Gideon Belman finds himself stranded on Ormeshadow farm, an ancient place of chalk and ash and shadow. The land crests the Orme, a buried, sleeping dragon that dreams resentment, jealousy, estrangement, death. Or so the folklore says. Growing up in a house that hates him, Gideon finds his only comforts in the land. Gideon will live or die by the Orme, as all his family has.]]> 176 Priya Sharma 1250241448 Ž������� 0 to-read 3.74 2019
author: Priya Sharma
name: Ž�������
average rating: 3.74
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]]> 854067
The Ragged Astronauts—first volume in an epic adventure filled with memorable characters, intense action, engaging notions, exotic locales.]]> 310 Bob Shaw 0708882277 Ž������� 0 3.70 1986
author: Bob Shaw
name: Ž�������
average rating: 3.70
book published: 1986
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Ovo je baš onako old skul, malo smara ali takođe ima dosta zanimljivih ideja.
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Go Marching In is set on a dying, post-cyberpunk Earth that’s been abandoned by the rich, who fled in generation ships. Muir describes the book as the start of “my novella series featuring Teresa Santos: a world-weary gunslinger who’s stopped hoping to escape Earth before it melts, and all the women who, for reasons unexplained, loved her.”]]> Tamsyn Muir Ž������� 0 to-read 4.11
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]]> 30363067 The Everything Box—the second entry in New York Times bestselling author Richard Kadrey’s comedic supernatural series—chaos ensues when Coop and the team at DOPS steal a not-quite-dead and very lovesick ancient Egyptian mummy wielding some terrifying magic.

Coop, a master thief sort of gone legit, saved the world from an ancient doomsday device—heroism that earned him a gig working for the Department of Peculiar Science, a fearsome top secret government agency that polices the odd and strange. Now Woolrich, Coop’s boss at the DOPS, has Coop breaking into a traveling antiquities show to steal a sarcophagus containing the mummy of a powerful Egyptian wizard named Harkhuf. With the help of his pals Morty, Giselle, and a professor that’s half-cat, half-robotic octopus, Coop pulls off the heist without a hitch.

It’s not Coop’s fault that when DOPS opened the sarcophagus they didn’t find the mummy they were expecting. Well, it was the right mummy, but it wasn’t exactly dead—and now it’s escaped, using a type of magic the organization hasn’t encountered before. Being a boss, Woolrich blames his underling for the screw up and wants Coop to find the missing Harkhuf and make it right, pronto.

Digging into Harkhuf’s history, Coop thinks the mummy is hunting for an ancient magical manuscript that will help him bring his old lover back to life.

Which wouldn’t be so bad if she wasn’t a warrior sorceress hell-bent on conquering the world with her undead armies.

Coop would very much like to run from the oncoming chaos. It’s one thing to steal a mummy, but another to have to deal with head-hunting bureaucrats, down-on-their luck fortune tellers, undead mailroom clerks, and a rather unimpressed elephant. Unfortunately, there’s nowhere to run. If he wants the madness to stop, he’s going to have to suck it up and play hero one more time. But if Coop manages to save the world AGAIN, he’s definitely going to want a lot of answers. And a raise.]]> 432 Richard Kadrey 0062389599 Ž������� 0 �ܲ��Dz��������ٱ� 3.68 2017
author: Richard Kadrey
name: Ž�������
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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„Pomozi onome ko ti u narednim danima potraži pomoć, inače neće valjati��, pisalo je u poruci koju je Miki dodelila sudbina u obliku belog miša. Da bi se spasao, trebalo je samo da popravi jedan slomljeni rog, a onda se ispostavilo da će morati i da zaustavi jedan rat i da stigne do kraja sveta. Hoće li uspeti da konačno uzme sudbinu u svoje ruke?]]> 128 Ivana Nešić 865291057X Ž������� 0 to-read 4.45 2022
author: Ivana Nešić
name: Ž�������
average rating: 4.45
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]]> 10108380 A CONTEMPORARY DEFENSE OF THE WORLD'S OLDEST PROFESSION

Chester Brown has never shied away from tackling controversial subjects in his work. In his 1992 book, The Playboy, he explored his personal history with pornography. His bestselling 2003 graphic novel, Louis Riel, was a biographical examination of an extreme political figure. The book won wide acclaim and cemented Brown's reputation as a true innovator.

Paying for It is a natural progression for Brown as it combines the personal and sexual aspects of his autobiographical work with the polemical drive of Louis Riel. Brown calmly lays out the facts of how he became not only a willing participant in but a vocal proponent of one of the world's most hot-button topics—prostitution. While this may appear overly sensational and just plain implausible to some, Brown's story stands for itself. Paying for It offers an entirely contemporary exploration of sex work—from the timid john who rides his bike to his escorts, wonders how to tip so as not to offend, and reads Dan Savage for advice, to the modern-day transactions complete with online reviews, seemingly willing participants, and clean apartments devoid of clichéd street corners, drugs, or pimps.

Complete with a surprise ending, Paying for It provides endless debate and conversation about sex work and will be the most talkedabout graphic novel of 2011.]]> 292 Chester Brown 1770460489 Ž������� 0 Plati pa se klati, Komiko, 2018? Isbn9788687919891 koga zanima

Elem ovo je po meni trebalo da bude webcomic a ne tvrdi povez, a ako ostane u kući biće makar conversation piece. Tema je pokrivena prilično jednostrano iz vizure osobe kojoj je prostitucija ok i koja opisujući najstariju delatnost uspe da se zadrži u nekakvoj kapitalističkoj srednjeklasnoj sanitizovanoj svima-dobro niši, predstavlja te okolnosti i iskustva kao univerzalne, i ne uspeva da
nađe i prikaže nijednu značajno lošu stranu prostitucije. ]]> 3.61 2011
author: Chester Brown
name: Ž�������
average rating: 3.61
book published: 2011
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Čitao srpsko izdanje Plati pa se klati, Komiko, 2018? Isbn9788687919891 koga zanima

Elem ovo je po meni trebalo da bude webcomic a ne tvrdi povez, a ako ostane u kući biće makar conversation piece. Tema je pokrivena prilično jednostrano iz vizure osobe kojoj je prostitucija ok i koja opisujući najstariju delatnost uspe da se zadrži u nekakvoj kapitalističkoj srednjeklasnoj sanitizovanoj svima-dobro niši, predstavlja te okolnosti i iskustva kao univerzalne, i ne uspeva da
nađe i prikaže nijednu značajno lošu stranu prostitucije.
]]> 62056018 352 Vlado Šušnjar 9997652754 Ž������� 0 to-read 4.00
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22000 B.C. A beautiful, ambitious angel stands on a mountaintop, surveying the world and its little inhabitants below. He smiles because soon, the last of humanity who survived the great flood will meet its end, too. And he should know. He’s going to play a big part in it. Our angel usually doesn’t get to do field work, and if he does well, he’s certain he’ll get a big promotion.

And now it’s time . . . .

The angel reaches into his pocket for the instrument of humanity’s doom. Must be in the other pocket. Then he frantically begins to pat himself down. Dejected, he realizes he has lost the object. Looking over the Earth at all that could have been, the majestic angel utters a single word.

“C������.��

2015. A thief named Coop—a specialist in purloining magic objects—steals and delivers a small box to the mysterious client who engaged his services. Coop doesn’t know that his latest job could be the end of him—and the rest of the world. Suddenly he finds himself in the company of The Department of Peculiar Science, a fearsome enforcement agency that polices the odd and strange. The box ������’t just a supernatural heirloom with quaint powers, they tell him.

It’s a doomsday device. They think . . .

And suddenly, everyone is out to get it.]]> 368 Richard Kadrey 0062389548 Ž������� 0 3.62 2016
author: Richard Kadrey
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average rating: 3.62
book published: 2016
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Supernatural heist, glavni junak sposoban ali i trapavi luzer, humoristično, nije epohalno ali je jako fino, preporuka za opuštanje
]]> 55858638 New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with A Deadly Education and The Last Graduate.

The one thing you never talk about while you're in the Scholomance is what you'll do when you get out. Not even the richest enclaver would tempt fate that way. But it's all we dream about, the hideously slim chance we'll survive to make it out the gates and improbably find ourselves with a life ahead of us, a life outside the Scholomance halls.

And now the impossible dream has come true. I'm out, we're all out--and I didn't even have to turn into a monstrous dark witch to make it happen. So much for my great-grandmother's prophecy of doom and destruction. I didn't kill enclavers, I saved them. Me, and Orion, and our allies. Our graduation plan worked to perfection: we saved everyone and made the world safe for all wizards and brought peace and harmony to all the enclaves of the world.

Ha, only joking! Actually it's gone all wrong. Someone else has picked up the project of destroying enclaves in my stead, and probably everyone we saved is about to get killed in the brewing enclave war on the horizon. And the first thing I've got to do now, having miraculously got out of the Scholomance, is turn straight around and find a way back in.]]> 407 Naomi Novik 0593158369 Ž������� 0 smrt-kapitalizmu 4.08 2022
author: Naomi Novik
name: Ž�������
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2022
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Scholomance je divna fantasy ya akciona trilogija (ZAVRŠENA!) koja je istovremeno vrlo jasna alegorija o kapitalizmu kao neprijatelju i osnovnom problemu, zaveri ćutanja i prećutkivanja, rešenju koje imamo i dostupno je ali koje je skoro ravno čudu...
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The zombies are coming back.

And all Nona wants is a birthday party.

In many ways, Nona is like other people. She lives with her family, has a job at her local school, and loves walks on the beach and meeting new dogs. But Nona's not like other people. Six months ago she woke up in a stranger's body, and she's afraid she might have to give it back.

The whole city is falling to pieces. A monstrous blue sphere hangs on the horizon, ready to tear the planet apart. Blood of Eden forces have surrounded the last Cohort facility and wait for the Emperor Undying to come calling. Their leaders want Nona to be the weapon that will save them from the Nine Houses. Nona would prefer to live an ordinary life with the people she loves, with Pyrrha and Camilla and Palamedes, but she also knows that nothing lasts forever.

And each night, Nona dreams of a woman with a skull-painted face...]]> 480 Tamsyn Muir 1250854113 Ž������� 0 4.36 2022
author: Tamsyn Muir
name: Ž�������
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> 40505188 In the sequel to the terrifying science fiction thriller, One Way, returning home from Mars may mean striking a deal with the very people who abandoned him.They were sent to build a utopia, but all they found on Mars was death.Frank Kitteridge has been abandoned. But XO, the greedy -- and ultimately murderous -- corporate architects of humanity's first Mars base made a costly mistake when they left him they left him alive. Using his skills and his wits, he's going to find a way back home even if it kills him.Little does he know that Mars isn't completely empty. Just over the mountain, there's another XO base where things are going terribly, catastrophically wrong. And when the survivors of that mission find Frank, they're going to want to take even the little he has away from him.If there's anything in Frank's favor, it's he's always been prepared to go to the extremes to get the job done. That's how he ended up on Mars in the first place. It just might be his ticket back.For more from S. J. Morden, check Way]]> 345 S.J. Morden 0316522198 Ž������� 0 ]]> 4.13 2019
author: S.J. Morden
name: Ž�������
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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Nit čito nit gledo Marsovca Endija Vira al ovaj serijal mora da bude nešto najsuprotnije suprotno na datu temu. Ništa optimizam, samo preživljavanje. Najgrozniji kapitalizam u svemiru. Horor je Korporacija. Preporuka.

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This story was originally published in the trade paperback edition of Harrow the Ninth but is now available as a published, single story, by Tordotcom.]]> 24 Tamsyn Muir Ž������� 0 4.37 2021
author: Tamsyn Muir
name: Ž�������
average rating: 4.37
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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