From the co-author of the viral New York Times bestseller This is How Your Lose the Time War. "A classic space opera...a universe we've never seen before." - Delilah S. Dawson, New York Times bestselling author From Hugo Award finalist Max Gladstone comes a smart, swashbuckling, wildly imaginative adventure; the saga of a rag-tag team of brilliant misfits, dangerous renegades, and enhanced outlaws in a war-torn future. A wildly successful innovator to rival Steve Jobs or Elon Musk, Vivian Liao is prone to radical thinking, quick decision-making, and reckless action. On the eve of her greatest achievement, she tries to outrun people who are trying to steal her success. In the chilly darkness of a Boston server farm, Viv sets her ultimate plan into motion. A terrifying instant later, Vivian Liao is catapulted through space and time to a far future where she confronts a destiny stranger and more deadly than she could ever imagine. The end of time is ruled by an ancient, powerful Empress who blesses or blasts entire planets with a single thought. Rebellion is literally impossible to consider--until Vivian Liao arrives. Trapped between the Pride-a ravening horde of sentient machines-and a fanatical sect of warrior monks who call themselves the Mirrorfaith, Viv must rally a strange group of allies to confront the Empress and find a way back to the world and life she left behind. A magnificent work of vivid imagination and universe-spanning action, Empress of Forever is a feminist Guardians of the Galaxy crossed with Star Wars and spiced with the sensibility and spirit of Iain M. Banks and William Gibson. "Empress of Forever is tense and vast, complex and twisty, a space opera epic that's a lot faster on the draw than Star Wars or Star Trek ever dreamed of being. But at its core, it's an epic about the value of empathy and the importance of compassion. It's amazingly good."-Locus "With Empress of Forever, Max Gladstone's remarkable talent is operating at full stretch, demonstrating the strength, power, and originality at his command. This unique and propulsive novel yields a deep, cellular-level enchantment filled at every turn with curiosity and delight."-Peter Straub "Empress of Forever is a story that will make you weep with wonder. The whole book is filled with the kind of snark that I love and an endless majesty of stars. It broke me to pieces and then stitched me back together with golden thread. Simply glorious."-K.B. Wagers, author of Behind the Throne "Galaxy-saving space opera with cool original settings and a unique band of adventurers that change each other for the better. It was a wild ride and I really enjoyed it."-Martha Wells, Hugo Award-winning author of The Murderbot Diaries "Incorporates wonder and wit to create a feminist, humanist playground. Introduces one mind-blowing concept after another, capitalizing on the concept of personal power while candidly addressing personal failure. This feast for the imagination intelligently captures the complexities of a variety of relationships in an adrenaline-fueled series of escapades and will leave readers both exhausted and elated."-Publishers Weekly, starred review "A fantastic tale of adventure on the grandest scale of epic space opera, spanning galaxies full of battles and traps as well as trade and negotiation, all told with humor as the crew seeks allies, weapons, and ships to fight back against The Empress to save the galaxy-and so Viv can find her way home."-Booklist, starred review "Vivian is an amazing woman: with no more than her sharp wit in a universe of AIs and enhanced beings, she still ends up being the key to the truth. Gladstone's epic space opera and fast-paced adventure will thrill readers."-Library Journal, starred review Also Available by Max Gladstone: The Craft Sequence 1. Three Parts Dead 2. Two Serpents Rise 3. Full Fathom Five 4. Last First Snow 5. Four Roads Cross 6. Ruin of Angels The Craft Wars 1. Dead Country 2. Wicked Problems Last Exit Empre

The new omnibus from the Afterblight series, following the break out successes of both School´s Out Forever and Hooded Man. WHEN THE WORLD ENDED... The Cull swept the world in the early years of the twenty-fi rst century, killing billions and ending civilisation. Only a fortunate few, blessed with the right blood type, were spared. In the chaos of the Afterblight, scientists, priests—even armed robbers—may become leaders, or heroes. Three incredible writers, including the bestselling author of the Shadows of the Apt series Adrian Tchaikovsky, lead us into the apocalypse. In Malcolm Cross’s Orbital Decay, the team in the International Space Station watch helplessly as the world is all but wiped out. Exiled from Earth by his blood-type, astronaut Alvin Burrows must solve the mystery of the “Pandora” experiment, even as someone on the station takes to murdering the crew one by one... In C. B. Harvey’s Dead Kelly, fugitive and convict “Dead” Kelly McGuire returns from hiding out in the Bush to the lawless city of Melbourne. McGuire has three jobs to do: to be revenged on his old gangmates, to confront some uncomfortable truths about his past, and—ultimately—to discover his own terrible destiny... In Adrian Tchaikovsky’s The Bloody Deluge, Katy Lewkowitz and her friend and old tutor Dr. Emil Weber, fl eeing the depredations of the so-called New Teutonic Order, take refuge among the strangely anachronistic survivors at the monastery of Jasna Góra in Western Poland. A battle of faith ensues, that could decide the future of humankind...

"Daring, original and compulsive. As if Cordwainer Smith had written a Warhammer novel." -- Gareth L. Powell "A high-octane ride through an endlessly inventive world, where calendars are weapons of war and dead soldiers can assist the living. Bold, fearlessly innovative and just a bit brutal, this is a book that deserves to be on every awards list." -- Aliette de Bodard "For sixteen years Yoon Ha Lee has been the shadow general of science fiction, the calculating tactician behind victory after victory. Now he launches his great manoeuvre. Origami elegant, fox-sly, defiantly and ferociously new, this book will burn your brain. Axiomatically brilliant. Heretically good." -- Seth Dickinson "A striking space opera by a bright new talent." -- Elizabeth Bear "Starship Troopers meets Apocalypse Now - and they've put Kurtz in charge... Mind-blistering military space opera, but with a density of ideas and strangeness that recalls the works of Hannu Rajaniemi, even Cordwainer Smith. An unmissable debut." -- Stephen Baxter "I love Yoon's work! Ninefox Gambit is solidly and satisfyingly full of battles and political intrigue, in a beautifully built far-future that manages to be human and alien at the same time. It should be a treat for readers already familiar with Yoon's excellent short fiction, and an extra treat for readers finding Yoon's work for the first time." -- Ann Leckie "Beautiful, brutal and full of the kind of off-hand inventiveness that the best SF trades in, Ninefox Gambit is an effortlessly accomplished SF novel. Yoon Ha Lee has arrived in spectacular fashion." -- Alastair Reynolds

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HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics. 'The place, with its grey sky and withered garlands, its bared spaces and scattered dead leaves, was like a theatre after the performance-all strewn with crumpled playbills.' Revered as one of the greatest ghost stories ever told, James's The Turn of the Screw is an eerie Victorian masterpiece. When an inexperienced governess goes to work at Bly, a country house in Essex to look after a young boy Miles and his sister Flora, all manner of strange events begin to occur. The governess spots a ghostly man and woman around the grounds and is told by the housekeeper that the valet and previous governess haunt the house. It soon becomes clear that the children are inexplicably connected to these ghosts in some way and the young governess struggles to protect the children, although from exactly what, she is not sure. Exploring the psychological and sexual fears of an era, this ambiguous, suspenseful and anxiety-inspiring novella remains one of Henry James's most well-known tales.

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Lace up cambered climbing shoe designed for powerful edging on steep terrainDesigned for the climber that has one thing in mind: edging power. The structure of the vegan synthetic upper and stiff heel rand forces your toes forward into a power position creating a shoe that begs to stand on small features on a steep face. The love bump midsole places your toes into a crimped power position, while the knuckle box provides room, so you do not smash your toes against the top of the toe rand, these two features work in parallel to eliminate dead space under your toes and creates a comfortable and powerful sensation out of the box. The asymmetric lacing system provides a custom fit for a wide variety of foot shapes. Specifications Vegan GeschlechtUnisex MaterialsSynthetic ClosureLace MidsoleMX-P 1.6mm Half-length Love Bump midsole & 1mm half length rubber midsole Outsole4.2mm TRAX SAS Vegan Activity Indoor Bouldering Indoor Sport Climbing Outdoor Bouldering Outdoor Sport Climbing Trad climbing Style Slab Vertical Over hangs Roof Width Wide Power Stiff Recommended Level Advanced Fit Aggressive

Lace up cambered climbing shoe designed for powerful edging on steep terrainDesigned for the climber that has one thing in mind: edging power. The structure of the vegan synthetic upper and stiff heel rand forces your toes forward into a power position creating a shoe that begs to stand on small features on a steep face. The love bump midsole places your toes into a crimped power position, while the knuckle box provides room, so you do not smash your toes against the top of the toe rand, these two features work in parallel to eliminate dead space under your toes and creates a comfortable and powerful sensation out of the box. The asymmetric lacing system provides a custom fit for a wide variety of foot shapes. Specifications Vegan GeschlechtUnisex MaterialsSynthetic ClosureLace MidsoleMX-P 1.6mm Half-length Love Bump midsole & 1mm half length rubber midsole Outsole4.2mm TRAX SAS Vegan Activity Indoor Bouldering Indoor Sport Climbing Outdoor Bouldering Outdoor Sport Climbing Trad climbing Style Slab Vertical Over hangs Roof Width Wide Power Stiff Recommended Level Advanced Fit Aggressive

Low volume lace up cambered climbing shoe designed for powerful edging on steep terrainDesigned for the climber that has one thing in mind: edging power. The structure of the vegan synthetic upper and stiff heel rand forces your toes forward into a power position creating a shoe that begs to stand on small features on a steep face. The love bump midsole places your toes into a crimped power position, while the knuckle box provides room, so you do not smash your toes against the top of the toe rand, these two features work in parallel to eliminate dead space under your toes and creates a comfortable and powerful sensation out of the box. The asymmetric lacing system provides a custom fit for a wide variety of foot shapes. Specifications Vegan GeschlechtUnisex MaterialsSynthetic ClosureLace MidsoleMX-P 1.6mm Half-length Love Bump midsole & 1mm half length rubber midsole Outsole4.2mm TRAX SAS Vegan Activity Indoor Bouldering Indoor Sport Climbing Outdoor Bouldering Outdoor Sport Climbing Trad climbing Style Slab Vertical Over hangs Roof Width Narrow Power Stiff Recommended Level Advanced Fit Aggressive

Low volume lace up cambered climbing shoe designed for powerful edging on steep terrainDesigned for the climber that has one thing in mind: edging power. The structure of the vegan synthetic upper and stiff heel rand forces your toes forward into a power position creating a shoe that begs to stand on small features on a steep face. The love bump midsole places your toes into a crimped power position, while the knuckle box provides room, so you do not smash your toes against the top of the toe rand, these two features work in parallel to eliminate dead space under your toes and creates a comfortable and powerful sensation out of the box. The asymmetric lacing system provides a custom fit for a wide variety of foot shapes. Specifications Vegan GeschlechtUnisex MaterialsSynthetic ClosureLace MidsoleMX-P 1.6mm Half-length Love Bump midsole & 1mm half length rubber midsole Outsole4.2mm TRAX SAS Vegan Activity Indoor Bouldering Indoor Sport Climbing Outdoor Bouldering Outdoor Sport Climbing Trad climbing Style Slab Vertical Over hangs Roof Width Narrow Power Stiff Recommended Level Advanced Fit Aggressive

Lace up cambered climbing shoe designed for powerful edging on steep terrainDesigned for the climber that has one thing in mind: edging power. The structure of the vegan synthetic upper and stiff heel rand forces your toes forward into a power position creating a shoe that begs to stand on small features on a steep face. The love bump midsole places your toes into a crimped power position, while the knuckle box provides room, so you do not smash your toes against the top of the toe rand, these two features work in parallel to eliminate dead space under your toes and creates a comfortable and powerful sensation out of the box. The asymmetric lacing system provides a custom fit for a wide variety of foot shapes. Specifications Vegan GeschlechtUnisex MaterialsSynthetic ClosureLace MidsoleMX-P 1.6mm Half-length Love Bump midsole & 1mm half length rubber midsole Outsole4.2mm TRAX SAS Vegan Activity Indoor Bouldering Indoor Sport Climbing Outdoor Bouldering Outdoor Sport Climbing Trad climbing Style Slab Vertical Over hangs Roof Width Wide Power Stiff Recommended Level Advanced Fit Aggressive

Lace up cambered climbing shoe designed for powerful edging on steep terrainDesigned for the climber that has one thing in mind: edging power. The structure of the vegan synthetic upper and stiff heel rand forces your toes forward into a power position creating a shoe that begs to stand on small features on a steep face. The love bump midsole places your toes into a crimped power position, while the knuckle box provides room, so you do not smash your toes against the top of the toe rand, these two features work in parallel to eliminate dead space under your toes and creates a comfortable and powerful sensation out of the box. The asymmetric lacing system provides a custom fit for a wide variety of foot shapes. Specifications Vegan GeschlechtUnisex MaterialsSynthetic ClosureLace MidsoleMX-P 1.6mm Half-length Love Bump midsole & 1mm half length rubber midsole Outsole4.2mm TRAX SAS Vegan Activity Indoor Bouldering Indoor Sport Climbing Outdoor Bouldering Outdoor Sport Climbing Trad climbing Style Slab Vertical Over hangs Roof Width Wide Power Stiff Recommended Level Advanced Fit Aggressive

Lace up cambered climbing shoe designed for powerful edging on steep terrainDesigned for the climber that has one thing in mind: edging power. The structure of the vegan synthetic upper and stiff heel rand forces your toes forward into a power position creating a shoe that begs to stand on small features on a steep face. The love bump midsole places your toes into a crimped power position, while the knuckle box provides room, so you do not smash your toes against the top of the toe rand, these two features work in parallel to eliminate dead space under your toes and creates a comfortable and powerful sensation out of the box. The asymmetric lacing system provides a custom fit for a wide variety of foot shapes. Specifications Vegan GeschlechtUnisex MaterialsSynthetic ClosureLace MidsoleMX-P 1.6mm Half-length Love Bump midsole & 1mm half length rubber midsole Outsole4.2mm TRAX SAS Vegan Activity Indoor Bouldering Indoor Sport Climbing Outdoor Bouldering Outdoor Sport Climbing Trad climbing Style Slab Vertical Over hangs Roof Width Wide Power Stiff Recommended Level Advanced Fit Aggressive

Lace up cambered climbing shoe designed for powerful edging on steep terrainDesigned for the climber that has one thing in mind: edging power. The structure of the vegan synthetic upper and stiff heel rand forces your toes forward into a power position creating a shoe that begs to stand on small features on a steep face. The love bump midsole places your toes into a crimped power position, while the knuckle box provides room, so you do not smash your toes against the top of the toe rand, these two features work in parallel to eliminate dead space under your toes and creates a comfortable and powerful sensation out of the box. The asymmetric lacing system provides a custom fit for a wide variety of foot shapes. Specifications Vegan GeschlechtUnisex MaterialsSynthetic ClosureLace MidsoleMX-P 1.6mm Half-length Love Bump midsole & 1mm half length rubber midsole Outsole4.2mm TRAX SAS Vegan Activity Indoor Bouldering Indoor Sport Climbing Outdoor Bouldering Outdoor Sport Climbing Trad climbing Style Slab Vertical Over hangs Roof Width Wide Power Stiff Recommended Level Advanced Fit Aggressive

Lace up cambered climbing shoe designed for powerful edging on steep terrainDesigned for the climber that has one thing in mind: edging power. The structure of the vegan synthetic upper and stiff heel rand forces your toes forward into a power position creating a shoe that begs to stand on small features on a steep face. The love bump midsole places your toes into a crimped power position, while the knuckle box provides room, so you do not smash your toes against the top of the toe rand, these two features work in parallel to eliminate dead space under your toes and creates a comfortable and powerful sensation out of the box. The asymmetric lacing system provides a custom fit for a wide variety of foot shapes. Specifications Vegan GeschlechtUnisex MaterialsSynthetic ClosureLace MidsoleMX-P 1.6mm Half-length Love Bump midsole & 1mm half length rubber midsole Outsole4.2mm TRAX SAS Vegan Activity Indoor Bouldering Indoor Sport Climbing Outdoor Bouldering Outdoor Sport Climbing Trad climbing Style Slab Vertical Over hangs Roof Width Wide Power Stiff Recommended Level Advanced Fit Aggressive

Low volume lace up cambered climbing shoe designed for powerful edging on steep terrainDesigned for the climber that has one thing in mind: edging power. The structure of the vegan synthetic upper and stiff heel rand forces your toes forward into a power position creating a shoe that begs to stand on small features on a steep face. The love bump midsole places your toes into a crimped power position, while the knuckle box provides room, so you do not smash your toes against the top of the toe rand, these two features work in parallel to eliminate dead space under your toes and creates a comfortable and powerful sensation out of the box. The asymmetric lacing system provides a custom fit for a wide variety of foot shapes. Specifications Vegan GeschlechtUnisex MaterialsSynthetic ClosureLace MidsoleMX-P 1.6mm Half-length Love Bump midsole & 1mm half length rubber midsole Outsole4.2mm TRAX SAS Vegan Activity Indoor Bouldering Indoor Sport Climbing Outdoor Bouldering Outdoor Sport Climbing Trad climbing Style Slab Vertical Over hangs Roof Width Narrow Power Stiff Recommended Level Advanced Fit Aggressive

Packed with striking photography,Eyewitness Universeexplores the incredible celestial bodies in our Solar System. Become an eyewitness to outer space and beyond, in this picture-led reference guide that will take you on a visual tour of the Universe. Children will be mesmerized by how past, present, and future space exploration has helped our understanding of the Sun, our Solar System, rocky planets, gas giants, and explosive stars. This beautifully illustrated guide for kids aged 9+ gives an insight into far-off galaxies and out-of-this-world objects captured by powerful space telescopes. Striking photographs and detailed illustrations help you learn the secrets of pulsars and black holes, and how they are created by dead stars. Throughout the pages of this newly-revised book on fossils, you can expect to find: - A fresh new look; new photographs, updated information, and a new“eyewitness” feature. - Amazing facts, updated diagrams, statistics, and timelines. - Brand new eyewitness accounts from experts in the field. Eyewitness Universeintroduces the ultimate guide to incredible celestial bodies and our Solar System. Children can find out how the Universe started with a Big Bang and what scientists think will eventually happen to it. This all-encompassing guide to the Universe is a must-have for curious children aged 9+ with a thirst for learning, as well as teachers, parents and librarians. So, what’s new? Part of DK’s best-selling Eyewitness series, this popular title has been reinvigorated for the next generation of information-seekers and stay-at-home explorers, with a fresh new look, up to 20 percent new images, including photography and updated diagrams, updated information, and a new“eyewitness” feature with fascinating first-hand accounts from experts in the field. Explore the series! Globally, the Eyewitness series has sold more than 50 million copies over 30 years. Learn the incredible systems that keep your body functioning withEyewitness Human Body, take a trip aboard the most famous ship in history withEyewitness Titanic, explore one of the most brutal conflicts of the 20th century withEyewitness World War I, or explore the creatures and plants that lived long ago withEyewitness Fossil.

England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith's son from Putney emerges from the spring's bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen, before Jane dies giving birth to the male heir he most craves.Cromwell is a man with only his wits to rely on; he has no great family to back him, no private army. Despite rebellion at home, traitors plotting abroad and the threat of invasion testing Henry's regime to breaking point, Cromwell's robust imagination sees a new country in the mirror of the future. But can a nation, or a person, shed the past like a skin? Do the dead continually unbury themselves? What will you do, the Spanish ambassador asks Cromwell, when the king turns on you, as sooner or later he turns on everyone close to him?With The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, between royal will and a common man's vision: of a modern nation making itself through conflict, passion and courage.

The new omnibus from the Afterblight series, following the break out successes of both School´s Out Forever and Hooded Man. WHEN THE WORLD ENDED... The Cull swept the world in the early years of the twenty-fi rst century, killing billions and ending civilisation. Only a fortunate few, blessed with the right blood type, were spared. In the chaos of the Afterblight, scientists, priests—even armed robbers—may become leaders, or heroes. Three incredible writers, including the bestselling author of the Shadows of the Apt series Adrian Tchaikovsky, lead us into the apocalypse. In Malcolm Cross’s Orbital Decay, the team in the International Space Station watch helplessly as the world is all but wiped out. Exiled from Earth by his blood-type, astronaut Alvin Burrows must solve the mystery of the “Pandora” experiment, even as someone on the station takes to murdering the crew one by one... In C. B. Harvey’s Dead Kelly, fugitive and convict “Dead” Kelly McGuire returns from hiding out in the Bush to the lawless city of Melbourne. McGuire has three jobs to do: to be revenged on his old gangmates, to confront some uncomfortable truths about his past, and—ultimately—to discover his own terrible destiny... In Adrian Tchaikovsky’s The Bloody Deluge, Katy Lewkowitz and her friend and old tutor Dr. Emil Weber, fl eeing the depredations of the so-called New Teutonic Order, take refuge among the strangely anachronistic survivors at the monastery of Jasna Góra in Western Poland. A battle of faith ensues, that could decide the future of humankind...

Through the lens of horror—from Halloween to Hereditary —queer and trans writers consider the films that deepened, amplified, and illuminated their own experiences. Horror movies hold a complicated space in the hearts of the queer community: historically misogynist, and often homo- and transphobic, the genre has also been inadvertently feminist and open to subversive readings. Common tropes—such as the circumspect and resilient “final girl;” body possession, costumed villains, secret identities, and things that lurk in the closet—spark moments of eerie familiarity and affective connection. Still, viewers often remain tasked with reading themselves into beloved films, seeking out characters and set pieces that speak to, mirror, and parallel the unique ways queerness encounters the world. It Came from the Closet features twenty-five essays by writers speaking to this relationship, through connections both empowering and oppressive. From Carmen Maria Machado on Jennifer’s Body , Jude Ellison S. Doyle on In My Skin , Addie Tsai on Dead Ringers , and many more, these conversations convey the rich reciprocity between queerness and horror.