The Clockwork Circus. Life is a Story - story.one
Title | The Clockwork Circus. Life is a Story - story.one PDF eBook |
Author | McKay H. Finney |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 62 |
Release | 2023-08-31 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3710842131 |
The Clockwork Circus is visiting the steaming city of Duesfer, bringing many strange and wonderous things, and a spectacular show full of steam, fire and daring acts. But not is all as it seems, and the performers are hiding a secret, one that would ruin them if it came out. So when they receive a strange letter, they're left with only one choice: disappear into the night, never to perform again, or do exactly as they're told.
Geek Love
Title | Geek Love PDF eBook |
Author | Katherine Dunn |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 366 |
Release | 2011-05-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0307794482 |
National Book Award Finalist • Here is the unforgettable story of the Binewskis, a circus-geek family whose matriarch and patriarch have bred their own exhibit of human oddities—with the help of amphetamines, arsenic, and radioisotopes. One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Their offspring include Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan . . . Iphy and Elly, the lissome Siamese twins . . . albino hunchback Oly, and the outwardly normal Chick, whose mysterious gifts make him the family’s most precious—and dangerous—asset. As the Binewskis take their act across the backwaters of the U.S., inspiring fanatical devotion and murderous revulsion; as its members conduct their own Machiavellian version of sibling rivalry, Geek Love throws its sulfurous light on our notions of the freakish and the normal, the beautiful and the ugly, the holy and the obscene. Family values will never be the same.
The Night Circus
Title | The Night Circus PDF eBook |
Author | Erin Morgenstern |
Publisher | Anchor |
Pages | 389 |
Release | 2011-09-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0385534647 |
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Two starcrossed magicians engage in a deadly game of cunning in the spellbinding novel that captured the world's imagination. • "Part love story, part fable ... defies both genres and expectations." —The Boston Globe The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night. But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway: a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them both, this is a game in which only one can be left standing. Despite the high stakes, Celia and Marco soon tumble headfirst into love, setting off a domino effect of dangerous consequences, and leaving the lives of everyone, from the performers to the patrons, hanging in the balance.
The Rosewater Insurrection
Title | The Rosewater Insurrection PDF eBook |
Author | Tade Thompson |
Publisher | Orbit |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2019-03-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0316449067 |
The Rosewater Insurrection continues the award-winning science fiction trilogy by one of science fiction's most engaging voices. All is quiet in the city of Rosewater as it expands on the back of the gargantuan alien Wormwood. Those who know the truth of the invasion keep the secret. The government agent Aminat, the lover of the retired sensitive Kaaro, is at the forefront of the cold, silent conflict. She must capture a woman who is the key to the survival of the human race. But Aminat is stymied by the machinations of the Mayor of Rosewater and the emergence of an old enemy of Wormwood. Innovative and genre-bending, Tade Thompson's ambitious Afrofuturist series is perfect for fans of Jeff Vandermeer, N. K. Jemisin, and Ann Leckie. Praise for The Wormwood Trilogy: "Smart. Gripping. Fabulous!" —Ann Leckie, award winning-author of Ancillary Justice "Mesmerising. There are echoes of Neuromancer and Arrival in here, but this astonishing debut is beholden to no one." —M. R. Carey, bestselling author of The Girl with All the Gifts "A magnificent tour de force, skillfully written and full of original and disturbing ideas." —Adrian Tchaikovsky, Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author of Children of Time The Wormwood Trilogy Rosewater The Rosewater Insurrection The Rosewater Redemption
The Clockwork Cathedral
Title | The Clockwork Cathedral PDF eBook |
Author | Heather Blackwood |
Publisher | |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2013-05 |
Genre | New Orleans (La.) |
ISBN | 9780988805415 |
Book 1 of The Time Corps Chronicles Medical student Felicia Sanchez is only trying to help an injured man when she slips through a time rip and into 19th century New Orleans, one very different than the one she knows from history books. The only person who can get her home is Professor Seamus Connor, a former convict seeking a quiet life of obscurity. But even the "mad Irishman" knows that recreating a freak accident is next to impossible. With the help of a local street urchin, they discover that their problems run deeper than solely getting Felicia back to her own time. The three of them must unravel the secrets of a steam engine that operates upon a scientific impossibility and the mysteries of a grand cathedral at the center of town, where clockwork automatons perform for rapt audiences. But can a convict, a guttersnipe and an accidental time traveler prevent the destruction of a city and the death of thousands? Others are watching, and Felicia may not be the only time traveler in New Orleans.
Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories
Title | Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Gavin J. Grant |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013-02-12 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0763657972 |
“Chockful of gear-driven automatons, looming dirigibles, and wildly implausible time machines . . . should please steampunks of all ages.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review) Imagine an alternate universe where tinkerers and dreamers craft and re-craft a world of automatons, clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that never were. Visionaries Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant have taken a genre already rich, strange, and inventive and challenged fourteen masters of speculative fiction, including two graphic storytellers, to embrace its established themes and refashion them in surprising ways and settings. The result is an anthology that defies its genre even as it defines it.
Carter Beats the Devil
Title | Carter Beats the Devil PDF eBook |
Author | Glen David Gold |
Publisher | Hachette UK |
Pages | 576 |
Release | 2009-07-23 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1848944101 |
Charles Carter, dubbed Carter the Great by Houdini himself, was born into privilege but became a magician out of need: only when dazzling an audience can he defeat his fear of loneliness. But in 1920s America the stakes are growing higher, as technology and the cinema challenge the allure of magic and Carter's stunts become increasingly audacious. Until the night President Harding takes part in Carter's act only to die two hours later, and Carter finds himself pursued not only by the Secret Service but by a host of others desperate for the terrible secret they believe Harding confided in him. Seamlessly blending reality and fiction, Gold lays before us a glittering and romantic panorama of our modern world at a point of irrevocable change.