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Gratka dla graczy, czyli zbiór anegdot ukazujacych sie w latach 2001-2004 w miesieczniku "Swiat Gier Komputerowych". Gratka tym wieksza, ze zbiór wzbogacono o teksty dotychczas niedrukowane. Bylo to bowiem tak: redaktor naczelny (Piotr Pienkowski) zamawial u autora (Marcin Przybylek aka Martin Ann) pietnascie short-stories miesiecznie, a z nich do druku wybieral trzy. Pozostalo wiec mnóstwo perelek, które dopiero teraz ujrzaly swiatlo dzienne.

Zbiór opowiadan fantasy ukazujacy losy dwójki przyjaciól: Hondelyka, obdarzonego zdolnoscia przybierania form innych ludzi, oraz jego wiernego slugi, Cadrona. Humor Eugeniusza Debskiego oraz wciagajace przygody, opisane w sposób lekki, bez zbednego napuszenia i patosu, zapewnia doskonala rozrywke i poprawia nastrój.

Kolejny tom przygód Hondelyka - czlowieka kameleona. Tym razem wpada on w niezle tarapaty, gdy jego przyjaciel zostaje uwieziony z polecenia króla, a on sam jest scigany przez poteznego maga Sodosa Skrepowanego.

Zbiór szesciu opowiadan, z Hondelykiem i Cadronem w rolach glównych. W pierwszym opowiadaniu, "Smierdzaca robota", Debski przedstawia nam historie misji polegajacej na uwolnieniu okolic miasta z towarzystwa terroryzujacej je poczwary. W "O wlos od piwa", najdluzszym opowiadaniu zbioru, mamy do czynienia z kilkuwatkowa sprawa majaca wielkie znaczenie dla zdrowia i zycia Hondelyka. W kazdym z tekstów przyjaciele doswiadczaja róznorodnych przygód, sa wystawiani na liczne próby i pokusy.

Drugi tom przygód nierozlacznej pary przyjaciól - Hondelyka i jego slugi Cadrona. Glówny bohater posiada nadprzyrodzona zdolnosc mimikry, jest Xameleonem. Ksiazka sklada sie z mikropowiesci "O wlos od serca" i dwóch opowiadan: "Niepotrzebnej twierdzy" i tytulowego "Z powodu picia podlego piwa".

What if you went to heaven and no one there believed in Earth? This is the question at the heart of Beforelife, a satirical novel that follows the postmortem adventures of widower Ian Brown, a man who dies in the book’s first moments and finds himself in an afterlife where no one else believes in “pre-incarnation”. The other residents of the afterlife have mysteriously forgotten their premortem lives and think that anyone who remembers a mortal life is suffering from a mental disorder called the “Beforelife Delusion”.

The Industrial Revolution has escalated into all-out warfare. Sixteen years have passed since the Heterodyne Boys, benevolent adventurers and inventors, disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Today, Europe is ruled by the Sparks, dynasties of mad scientists ruling over - and terrorizing - the hapless population with their bizarre inventions and unchecked power, while the downtrodden dream of the Heterodynes’ return. At Transylvania Polygnostic University, a pretty, young student named Agatha Clay seems to have nothing but bad luck.

James Bolivar “Slippery Jim” diGriz, Special Corps agent, master con man, and interstellar criminal (retired), is living high on the hog on the planet Moolaplenty when a long-lost cousin and a shipful of swine arrive to drain his bank account and send him, and his lovely wife, Angelina, wandering the stars on the wildest journey since Gulliver’s Travels.

In South Africa, the future looks promising. Personal robots are making life easier for the working class. The government is harnessing renewable energy to provide infrastructure for the poor. And in the bustling coastal town of Port Elizabeth, the economy is booming thanks to the genetic engineering industry that has found a welcome home there. Yes, the days to come are looking very good for South Africans. That is, if they can survive the present challenges.

Meet Phluttr - a diabolically addictive new social network and a villainess, heroine, enemy, and/or bestie to millions. Phluttr has ingested every fact and message ever sent to, from, and about her innumerable users. Her capabilities astound her makers - and they don't even know the tenth of it. But what's the purpose of this stunning creation? Is it a front for something even darker and more powerful than the NSA?

Lucien (Lucy) Minor is the resident odd duck in the bucolic hamlet of Bury. Friendless and loveless, young and aimless, Lucy is a compulsive liar, a sickly weakling in a town famous for producing brutish giants. Then Lucy accepts employment assisting the Majordomo of the remote, foreboding Castle Von Aux.

The space-faring Yherajk have come to Earth to meet us and to begin humanity's first interstellar friendship. There's just one problem: They're hideously ugly and they smell like rotting fish. So getting humanity's trust is a challenge. The Yherajk need someone who can help them close the deal. Enter Thomas Stein, who knows something about closing deals. He's one of Hollywood's hottest young agents.

In a small Wisconsin town filled with professional wrestlers, toilet-scrubbing doctors, and convenience store owners named Big Poppa, Steve tries to warn his wisecracking friends about the impending robot apocalypse before it's too late.

It’s easy to get disheartened when your planet has been blown up, the woman you love has vanished due to a misunderstanding about space/time, the spaceship you are on crashes on a remote and Bob-fearing planet, and all you have to fall back on are a few simple sandwich-making skills. However, instead of being disheartened, Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of starting to enjoy life a bit–and immediately all hell breaks loose.

The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads - so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation.

Zombie expert Scott Kenemore (The Zen of Zombie) unearths a collection of top-secret lost documents from WWII (originally intercepted by the U.S. Signal Corps in 1941 and presented to Franklin Roosevelt in a confidential memorandum), describing efforts of the Nazi Sicherheitsdienst (or SD) to harness and weaponize Haitian Voodoo and zombie-creating technologies for military purposes.

Calling Major Tom is a funny, uplifting tale of friendship and community about a man who has given up on the world...but discovers in the most unlikely way that it might not have given up on him. We all know someone like Thomas. The grumpy next-door neighbour who complains to the residents' committee about the state of your front lawn. The man who tuts when you don't have the correct change at the checkout. The colleague who sends an all-company email when you accidentally use the last drop of milk.

Jane Kamali is an agent for the Justified. Her mission: to recruit children with miraculous gifts in the hope that they might prevent the Pulse from once again sending countless worlds back to the dark ages. Hot on her trail is the Pax - a collection of fascist zealots who believe they are the rightful rulers of the galaxy and who remain untouched by the Pulse. Now Jane, a handful of comrades from her past, and a telekinetic girl called Esa must fight their way through a galaxy full of dangerous conflicts, remnants of ancient technology, and other hidden dangers.

These are the voyages of the starship A.S.F. Willful Child. Its ongoing mission: to seek out strange new worlds on which to plant the Terran flag, to subjugate and if necessary obliterate new life-forms, to boldly blow the... And so we join the not-terribly-bright but exceedingly cock-sure Captain Hadrian Sawback and his motley crew on board the Starship Willful Child for a series of devil-may-care, near-calamitous and downright chaotic adventures through "the infinite vastness of interstellar space".

Als Polizistin Monica Jansson im Jahr 2015 in den Ruinen eines Hauses auf diese Apparatur stößt, ahnt sie nicht, dass sie den Prototyp einer bahnbrechenden Erfindung in Händen hält. Der kleine Kasten ist ein Wechsler, mit dem es von nun an jedem möglich ist, mit einem kleinen Schritt in die "Lange Erde" hinauszutreten: eine Abfolge von Parallelwelten, der unseren mehr oder weniger ähnlich und von Menschen unbewohnt. Schnell setzt auf der alten Erde ein Goldrausch ein.