Ergebnis für "N K" in Anthologien & Kurzgeschichten

Domenico Acerbi grew up ready to give his life for the Family. Ready to follow orders and exceed expectations. A proud man of honor. The last thing he wants to deal with is training the Don’s son for his future role within the organization. Lazy, annoying, spoiled, and as hot as a Sicilian summer, Seth Villani is no mafia material. But a man who could never become a threat might just be what Domenico needs. Seth Villani wants nothing to do with the mafia. Unfortunately, he doesn’t get a say when he’s pulled back into the fold.

Deep in the Amazonian jungle, there is a mansion with a rose garden and a hen house where juicy tomatoes are the perfect shade of red, and marble countertops glisten. Inside, where even the shadows don’t reach, something is rotting, and the perfect facade can only hold the stench for so long.

What will become of our self-destructed planet? The answer shatters all expectations in this subversive speculation from the Hugo Award - winning author of the Broken Earth trilogy. An explorer returns to gather information from a climate-ravaged Earth that his ancestors, and others among the planet’s finest, fled centuries ago. The mission comes with a warning: A graveyard world awaits him. But so do those left behind - hopeless and unbeautiful wastes of humanity who should have died out ages ago.

For some, it’s the end of the world. For others, it’s just the beginning. With brilliant imagination, today’s most visionary writers point to the future in a collection curated by bestselling author Blake Crouch. These stories range from darkly comic to deeply chilling, but they all look forward. Featuring stories by Andy Weir, Amor Towles, Veronica Roth, N. K. Jemisin, Paul Tremblay, and Blake Crouch; with narration by Evan Rachel Wood, David Harbour, Jason Isaacs, Rosa Salazar, Steven Strait, and Janina Gavankar.

It was a dark and stormy knight, and nine dark defenders embarked upon a most perilous quest. They're the ultimate defenders of humanity, modern day knights who do dark deeds for all the right reasons. In this all-star collection, nine of today's hottest paranormal authors bring us thrilling, all-new stories of supernatural knights that are brimming with magic mystery and mayhem.

A gritty and thrilling anthology of 28 new short stories in tribute to pulp noir master, Cornell Woolrich, author of 'Rear Window', the inspiration behind Alfred Hitchock's classic film. Featuring Neil Gaiman, Kim Newman, James Sallis, A.K. Benedict, USA Today-bestseller Samantha Lee Howe, Joe R. Lansdale and many more.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, curates this groundbreaking anthology of all-new stories of Black horror, exploring not only the terrors of the supernatural but the chilling reality of injustice that...

Book View Cafe celebrates its fifth anniversary with an anthology of our favorite stories. From the fantasy and science fiction of our roots to steampunk, romance, historical and mainstream; from humor to life's hardest challenges, across the spectrum from light to dark.

From science fiction and fantasy author K.N. Salustro comes a collection of short stories written over the course of 2020. There are no plagues in this audiobook, the extreme weather comes from a mythical creature, and the biggest disaster you’ll see takes place on a spaceship when someone tries to make baked goods with an incendiary combination of ingredients.

ಡಾ. ಕೆ. ಎನ್ ಗಣೇಶಯ್ಯ ಅವರ 'ನೇಹಲ' ಕಥಾ ಸಂಕಲನದಲ್ಲಿ ಒಟ್ಟು 8 ಕತೆಗಳಿದ್ದು, ಇತಿಹಾಸ, ಸ್ಕೈ-ಫೈ, ಮನೋವಿಜ್ಞಾನ, ಸಾಮಾಜಿಕ ಕಳಕಳಿ ಹೀಗೆ ವಿಭಿನ್ನ ವಿಭಾಗಕ್ಕೆ ಸೇರಿದವಾಗಿವೆ.

ಎರಡು ಅಸ್ಥಿಪಂಜರಗಳಿಂದಾಗಿ ಬಿಚ್ಚಿಕೊಂಡ ರಾಜಾ ದೇವರಾಯನ ಕಾಲದ ದುರಂತ. ಸುರಸುಂದರಿ ನೇಹಲಳಿಗಾಗಿ ಕಾದಾಡಿದ ಅರಸರಲ್ಲಿ ಯಾರಿಗೂ ದಕ್ಕದ ಅವಳು, ಕೈಗೆ ಸಿಕ್ಕಷ್ಟು ಸಂಪತ್ತು ಕಟ್ಟಿಕೊಂಡು ಮಲಯಾಬಾದಿಗೆ ಬಂದು ಗೆದ್ದಳೇ? ಸೋತಳೆ?

If you love axe-wielding barbarians, shape-shifting dragons, possessed toys, or cryptic assassins, then grab your traveling pack and join in the adventures.

ಹದಗೆಟ್ಟ ಗ್ರಹಗತಿಯಿಂದಾಗಿ ತನ್ನ ಹಣೆಬರಹ ತಾನೇ ಬರೆದುಕೊಂಡ ಲೀಲಾವತಿ, ಎರಡನೇ ಭಾಸ್ಕರಾಚಾರ್ಯರ 'ಲೀಲಾವತಿ' ಪುಸ್ತಕಕ್ಕೆ ಮಾತ್ರ ಕಾರಣಳಲ್ಲ. ಅಮ್ಮನ ಸಾವಿನ ಸತ್ಯಕ್ಕೂ, ಅಪ್ಪನ ಘನತೆಯ ತತ್ವಕ್ಕೂ ಮೀರಿ ಮಾನವೀಯತೆ ಮೆರೆದಿದ್ದಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ಮಹಾನಳು.

ಪರಮ ಶಿವಭಕ್ತ ಏಕಾಂತ ರಾಮಯ್ಯನ ಕಥೆಯ ಹಿನ್ನೆಲೆ ಬಲು ರೋಚಕ. ತಾನೇ ಕತ್ತರಿಸಿಕೊಂಡ ತನ್ನ ರುಂಡ, ಮತ್ತೆ ತನ್ನದೇ ದೇಹಕ್ಕೆ ಸೇರುವ ಹಿಂದೆ ಇರುವುದು ರಾಮಯ್ಯನ ಭಕ್ತಿಯೆ? ಯುಕ್ತಿಯೇ? ಪವಾಡವೇ? ತಂತ್ರವೇ? ಇದಾವುದೂ ಅಲ್ಲವಾದರೆ, ಯಾರ ತ್ಯಾಗದ ಫಲವದು?

ನಾನು' ಎಂದರೆ ಯಾರು? ದೇಹವೇ? ಆತ್ಮವೇ? ಇಂಥ ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆಗೆ ಗುರಿಯಾಗುವ ಮಹಾಸಂಸ್ಥಾನದ ರಾಜಗುರು ನಿಜಕ್ಕೂ ಯಾರು? ಆಧ್ಯಾತ್ಮದ ಪರದೆ ಕಟ್ಟಿ ಆಡುತ್ತಿರುವ ನಾಟಕಕಾರರ ಸೂತ್ರಧಾರಿಯೆ ಅವನು? ಇಲ್ಲ ಅದೇ ನಾಟಕದಲ್ಲಿ ಪಾತ್ರಧಾರಿಯೆ?

ಜಗತ್ತಿನ ಈ ಮೂಲೆಯ ವಿಜ್ಞಾನಿ, ಆ ಮೂಲೆಯ ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿ, ಒಂದೇ ಜನ್ಮದ ಎರಡು ಬಗೆಯ ಸಂಬಂಧಗಳಿಗೆ ಸಿಕ್ಕು, ಅವರ ಜೀವನವೂ ಸಿಕ್ಕುಸಿಕ್ಕಾಗಲು ಕಾರಣರ್ಯಾರು? ಸಮಾಜದ ಕಟ್ಟುಪಾಡುಗಳೇ? ಮಡಿವಂತಿಕೆಯ ಮನಸ್ಥಿತಿಯೇ? ಏನು ಆ ಎರಡು ಬಗೆಯ ಬಂಧ?

ತನ್ನ ಸಾಧನೆಯ ಹಪಾಹಪಿಗೆ ಹೆಣೆದ ಷಡ್ಯಂತ್ರಕ್ಕೆ ತಾನೇ ಸಿಕ್ಕು, ಮುಕ್ಕಾದ ವಿದ್ಯಾರ್ಥಿಗೆ ಬೇಕಿದ್ದದ್ದು ತಾಳ್ಮೆ. ಆದರೆ ಮೇಲುಗೈ ಸಾಧಿಸಿದ ಪಾಪ ಪ್ರಜ್ಞೆ, ಅವಳ ಗುರುವನ್ನೂ ಬಿಡದೇ ಕಾಡಿದಾಗ ಹುಟ್ಟಿದ ಕತೆ.

ಅಲ್ಲೂರಿ ಸೀತಾರಾಮರಾಜು ಆಪ್ತ ಭಂಟ ಬೋನಂಗಿ ಪಾಂಡು ಪಡಾಲ, ಸಿಕ್ಕಬಹುದಾದ ಸ್ವಾತಂತ್ರ್ಯವನ್ನು ತ್ಯಾಗ ಮಾಡಿ, ಅಂಡಮಾನ್ ಜೈಲು ಸೇರಿದ ಕಥೆ. ಸುಟ್ಟ ಜೈಲಿನ ಜೊತೆ ತಾನೂ ಸುಟ್ಟು ಬೂದಿಯಾದ ಸೀತಾರಾಮನ ಗುಪ್ತಚರೆ, ಗುಡಿ ಮಲ್ಲಪ್ಪನ ಪತ್ನಿಯ ಧೀರ ಕಥೆ.

Like all great metropolises before it, when a city gets big enough, old enough, it must be born; but there are ancient enemies who cannot tolerate new life. Thus New York will live or die by the efforts of a reluctant midwife...and how well he can learn to sing the city's mighty song.

There is a river that flows through the misty landscape of imagination, seeping up through the rocky earth high in the Appalachian Mountains. It winds southward through the foothills and the piedmont: It tumbles past the fall line, widens and deepens, and then meanders across the coastal plain until it finally reaches the gulf of Mexico.And all along its length the great river inspires stories to tease listeners into wonder, or send a shiver down their spines.