Paul Melko

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EDITORIAL REVIEW: John Rayburn thought all of his problems were the mundane ones of an Ohio farm boy in his last year in high school. Then his doppelgänger appeared, tempted him with a device that let him travel across worlds, and stole his life from him. John soon finds himself caroming through universes, unable to return home—the device is broken. John settles in a new universe to unravel its secrets and fix it. Meanwhile, his doppelgänger tries to exploit the commercial technology he’s stolen from other Earths: the Rubik’s Cube! John’s attempts to lie low in his new universe backfire when he inadvertently introduces pinball. It becomes a huge success. Both actions draw the notice of other, more dangerous travelers, who are exploiting worlds for ominous purposes. Fast-paced and exciting, this is SF adventure at its best from a rising star.

Laurie J Marks

The Watcher's Mask

SUMMARY: Considered the wisest of all inhabitants of Callia, the many-souled people--shamans, magicians, and seers--are rendered nearly defenseless when an ambitious emperor with plans to rule Callia abducts their young. Original.

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Haruki Murakami

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Bad things come in threes for Toru Okada. He loses his job, his cat disappears, and then his wife fails to return from work. His search for his wife (and his cat) introduces him to a bizarre collection of characters, including two psychic sisters, a possibly unbalanced teenager, an old soldier who witnessed the massacres on the Chinese mainland at the beginning of the Second World War, and a very shady politician. Haruki Murakami is a master of subtly disturbing prose. Mundane events throb with menace, while the bizarre is accepted without comment. Meaning always seems to be just out of reach, for the reader as well as for the characters, yet one is drawn inexorably into a mystery that may have no solution. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is an extended meditation on themes that appear throughout Murakami's earlier work. The tropes of popular culture, movies, music, detective stories, combine to create a work that explores both the surface and the hidden depths of Japanese society at the end of the 20th century. If it were possible to isolate one theme in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, that theme would be responsibility. The atrocities committed by the Japanese army in China keep rising to the surface like a repressed memory, and Toru Okada himself is compelled by events to take responsibility for his actions and struggle with his essentially passive nature. If Toru is supposed to be a Japanese Everyman, steeped as he is in Western popular culture and ignorant of the secret history of his own nation, this novel paints a bleak picture. Like the winding up of the titular bird, Murakami slowly twists the gossamer threads of his story into something of considerable weight.

Hans Otto Meissner

Tokio '41

Op feiten gebaseerde roman over de laatste jaren van de Duits-Russische journalist Richard Sorge, die rond 1940 als meester-spion voor de Russische geheime dienst in Japan werkzaam was.

Norman Mailer

Tough Guys Don't Dance

A journey into the dark recesses of the American psyche in which a hapless writer with a passion for drink and rich women finds he has a bad case of alcoholic amnesia and must try to reconstruct the missing hours of a terrible evening that resulted in his car being drenched in blood.

James Morrow

Towing Jehovah

SUMMARY: A visit from Raphael, a despondent angel, who tells Anthony Van Horne that God has died and fallen into the sea, leads Van Horne on a bizarre mission to recover the divine corpse from the Atlantic and tow it to the Arctic. By the author of Only Begotten Daughter.

Juliet Marillier

Trilogie van de Zeven Wateren 4 - Erfgenaam van Zeven Wateren

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Bij de geboorte slaat de vreugde abrupt om in wanhoop als blijkt dat de pasgeborene is verdwenen, ontvoerd of... In plaats van de baby treffen ze in de wieg iets aan dat van bovennatuurlijke aard is anders laat de vondst zich niet omschrijven.
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Henry Miller

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