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Ex-spy ‘Belle Boyd’ is retired – more or less. Retired from spying on the Confederacy anyway. Her short-lived marriage to a Union navy boy cast suspicion on those Southern loyalties, so her mid-forties found her unemployed, widowed and disgraced. Until her life-changing job offer from the staunchly Union Pinkerton Detective Agency. When she’s required to assist Abraham Lincoln himself, she has to put any old loyalties firmly aside – for a man she spied against twenty years ago.Lincoln’s friend Gideon Bardsley, colleague and ex-slave, is targeted for assassination after the young inventor made a breakthrough. Fiddlehead, Bardsley’s calculating engine, has proved an extraordinary threat threatens the civilized world. Meaning now is not the time for conflict. Now Bardsley and Fiddlehead are in great danger as forces conspire to keep this secret, the war moving and the money flowing. With spies from both camps gunning for her, can even the notorious Belle Boyd hold the war-hawks at bay? далее

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The air pirate Andan Cly is going straight. Well, straighter. Although he’s happy to run alcohol guns wherever the money’s good, he doesn’t think the world needs more sap, or its increasingly ugly side-effects. But becoming legit is easier said than done, and Cly’s first legal gig — a supply run for the Seattle Underground — will be paid for by sap money. New Orleans is not Cly’s first pick for a shopping run. He loved the Big Easy once, back when he also loved a beautiful mixed-race prostitute named Josephine Early — but that was a decade ago, and he hasn’t looked back since. Jo’s still thinking about him, though, or so he learns when he gets a telegram about a peculiar piloting job. It’s a chance to complete two lucrative jobs at once, one he can’t refuse. He sends his old paramour a note and heads for New Orleans, with no idea of what he’s in for — or what she wants him to fly. But he won’t be flying. Not exactly. Hidden at the bottom of Lake Pontchartrain lurks an astonishing war machine, an immense submersible called the Ganymede. This prototype could end the war, if only anyone had the faintest idea of how to operate it…. If only they could sneak it past the Southern forces at the mouth of the Mississippi River… If only it hadn’t killed most of the men who’d ever set foot inside it. далее

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Maria Isabella Boyd’s success as a Confederate spy has made her too famous for further espionage work, and now her employment options are slim. Exiled, widowed, and on the brink of poverty…she reluctantly goes to work for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in Chicago.Adding insult to injury, her first big assignment is commissioned by the Union Army. In short, a federally sponsored transport dirigible is being violently pursued across the Rockies and Uncle Sam isn’t pleased. The Clementine is carrying a top secret load of military essentials—essentials which must be delivered to Louisville, Kentucky, without delay.Intelligence suggests that the unrelenting pursuer is a runaway slave who’s been wanted by authorities on both sides of the Mason-Dixon for fifteen years. In that time, Captain Croggon Beauregard Hainey has felonied his way back and forth across the continent, leaving a trail of broken banks, stolen war machines, and illegally distributed weaponry from sea to shining sea.And now it’s Maria’s job to go get him.He’s dangerous quarry and she’s a dangerous woman, but when forces conspire against them both, they take a chance and form an alliance. She joins his crew, and he uses her connections. She follows his orders. He takes her advice.And somebody, somewhere, is going to rue the day he crossed either one of them. далее

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После событий в подземном городе Ирдишхорте жизнь журналиста Рауля Маршанда начинает налаживаться. Однако гибель изобретателя Самюэля оставляет в памяти неизгладимый след. Волей судьбы Рауль сталкивается с женщиной, которая заставит его поставить точку в событиях прошлого. далее

Добро пожаловать в таинственный мир панка! Мир, в котором можно выгодно продать собственный глаз или пришить себе недостающую часть тела. Мир, где вполне реально покататься на настоящем шагоходе, увидеть великие стройки альтернативного будущего. А также: летающие города, войны магии и технологий, заточение души внутри уродливой машины, механические тайны древней Руси, солдат, напичканных биоимплантами и многое другое — всё это панк, который не знает границ для фантазии!Стежки. Виктория РадионоваЗапах мечты. Андрей ВаонБюджетное долголетие. Сергей КонновВесёлого Рождества, доктор Дулитл! Елена ЧерепнинаВстань или сдохни. Аня ТэЛетящие над бездной. Сергей РезниковДневник. Дарья СтранникЧерепанк. Дмитрий НиколовЖелезный князь Иоанна Васильевича. Марина ЕкатериничеваПсихопанк. Михаил РощинКукла. Наталья СолнечнаяПитомцы. Татьяна ИльюшинаПсков. Константин ЧихуновИллюстраторы: Маргарита Автухова; София Протосовицкая; Валерия Радионова далее

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Жемчужина - это удивительный мир стимпанка. События данной повести разворачиваются начиная с 11 месяца лета 994 года по календарю Жемчужины. Место действия - к востоку от ФНТ. Судьба стрелка с воздушного пиратского корабля "Серый орел". далее

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Действие разворачивается в альтернативной Франции, в 1894 году. Из-за затянувшейся войны в Европе предприятия находятся на грани банкротства. Финансовый фонд под видом помощи обманным путем завладевает большей частью промышленности страны. Эта участь постигает и молодого промышленника из Лиона. Не желая мириться с несправедливостью, он начинает расследование и путь к правде, полный приключений. далее

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 A hit man who kills with coincidence... A detective caught in a war between two worlds... A man whose terrible appetites hide an even darker secret . . . Dark Horse once again teams up with Hugo and Bram Stoker award-winning editor Ellen Datlow (Lovecraft Unbound) to bring you this masterful marriage of the darkness without and the darkness within. Supernatural Noir is an anthology of original tales of the dark fantastic from twenty modern masters of suspense, including Brian Evenson, Joe R. Lansdale, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Nick Mamatas, Gregory Frost, Jeffrey Ford, and many more.   CONTENTS |             —             Introduction — Ellen Datlow             The Dingus — Gregory Frost             The Getaway — Paul G. Tremblay             Mortal Bait — Richard Bowes             Little Shit — Melanie Tem             Ditch Witch — Lucius Shepard             The Last Triangle — Jeffrey Ford             The Carrion Gods in Their Heaven — Laird Barron             The Romance — Elizabeth Bear             Dead Sister — Joe R. Lansdale             Comfortable in Her Skin — Lee Thomas             But for Scars — Tom Piccirilli             The Blisters on My Heart — Nate Southard             The Absent Eye — Brian Evenson             The Maltese Unicorn — Caitlín R. Kiernan             Dreamer of the Day — Nick Mamatas             In Paris, in the Mouth of Kronos — John Langan далее