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Daryl Gregory

    Questo autore pluripremiato fonde magistralmente elementi fantasy e di fantascienza per esplorare gli intricati aspetti della psiche umana e delle relazioni interpersonali. Le sue narrazioni si addentrano spesso in temi quali l'identità, la realtà e i confini della percezione, impiegando uno stile unico che è al contempo stimolante e avvincente. La sua capacità di creare personaggi credibili e trame avvincenti gli è valsa il plauso della critica e un pubblico fedele. Questo approccio innovativo alla narrativa di genere lo rende una voce distintiva nella letteratura contemporanea.

    Daryl Gregory
    The Album of Dr. Moreau
    Made To Order
    Harrison Squared
    Spoonbenders
    The Mythic Dream
    100 Paintings from the Collections of the National Trust
    • 2021

      The Album of Dr. Moreau

      • 176pagine
      • 7 ore di lettura

      "It's 2001, and the WyldBoyZ are the world's hottest boy band, and definitely the world's only genetically engineered human-animal hybrid vocal group. When their producer, Dr. M, is found murdered in his hotel room, the 'boyz' become the prime suspects. Was it Bobby the ocelot (the cute one), Matt the megabat (the funny one), Tim the pangolin (the shy one), Devin the bonobo (the romantic one), or Tusk the elephant (the smart one)? Las Vegas Detective Luce Delgado has only twenty-four hours to solve a case that goes all the way back to the secret science barge where the WyldBoyZ' journey first began--a place they used to call home."--Provided by publisher

      The Album of Dr. Moreau
    • 2021

      Revelator

      • 352pagine
      • 13 ore di lettura

      ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • The dark, gripping tale of a 1930’s family in the remote hills of the Smoky Mountains, their secret religion, and the daughter who turns her back on their mysterious god—from the acclaimed author of Spoonbenders. “Gods and moonshine in the Great Depression, written with a tenderness and brutality … this is as good as novels get.” —Stephen Graham Jones, author of The Only Good Indians In 1933, nine-year-old Stella is left in the care of her grandmother, Motty, in the backwoods of Tennessee. The mountains are home to dangerous secrets, and soon after she arrives, Stella wanders into a dark cavern where she encounters the family's personal god, an entity known as the Ghostdaddy. Years later, after a tragic incident that caused her to flee, Stella—now a professional bootlegger—returns for Motty's funeral, and to check on the mysterious ten-year-old girl named Sunny that Motty adopted. Sunny appears innocent enough, but she is more powerful than Stella could imagine—and she’s a direct link to Stella's buried past and her family's destructive faith. Haunting and wholly engrossing, summoning mesmerizing voices and giving shape to the dark, Revelator is a southern gothic tale for the ages.

      Revelator
    • 2021
    • 2020

      Made To Order

      • 400pagine
      • 14 ore di lettura

      A cutting-edge anthology, published on the 100th anniversary of the word Robot, exploring the impact it has had on the world.

      Made To Order
    • 2019

      The Mythic Dream

      • 368pagine
      • 13 ore di lettura

      "Madeleine L'Engle once said, 'When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe'. The Mythic Dream gathers together eighteen stories that reclaim the myths that shaped our collective past, and use them to explore our present and future. From Hades and Persephone to Kali, from Loki to Inanna, this anthology explores retellings of myths across cultures and civilizations."--Provided by publisher

      The Mythic Dream
    • 2017

      "A generations-spanning family of psychics--both blessed and burdened by their abilities--must use their powers to save themselves from the CIA, the local mafia, and a skeptic hell-bent on discrediting them in this hilarious, tender, magical novel about the invisible forces that bind us. The Telemachus family is known for performing inexplicable feats on talk shows and late-night television. Teddy, a master conman, heads up a clan who possess gifts he only fakes: there's Maureen, who can astral project; Irene, the human lie detector; Frankie, gifted with telekinesis; and Buddy, the clairvoyant. But when, one night, the magic fails to materialize, the family withdraws to Chicago where they live in shame for years. Until: As they find themselves facing a troika of threats (CIA, mafia, unrelenting skeptic), Matty, grandson of the family patriarch, discovers a bit of the old Telemachus magic in himself. Now, they must put past obstacles behind them and unite like never before. But will it be enough to bring The Amazing Telemachus Family back to its amazing life?"-- Provided by publisher

      Spoonbenders
    • 2015

      Harrison Squared

      • 271pagine
      • 10 ore di lettura

      Harrison is a lonely teenager, afraid of water ever since a boating accident as a toddler. And he and his mother have just moved to the worst possible place: Dunnsmouth, a Lovecraftian town on the Atlantic coast. When his mother disappears, Harrison tries to solve the mystery, putting him in conflict with a strange church, a killer, and the Deep Ones. It will take all his resourcesand an unusual host of alliesto defeat the danger and find his mother.

      Harrison Squared
    • 2014

      We Are All Completely Fine

      • 192pagine
      • 7 ore di lettura

      A group of outcasts with questionable states of mental health—including Stan, who was partially eaten by cannibals, and Greta, who may be a mass-murdering arsonist—are sought by a psychotherapist to uncover internal and external monsters. Original. 10,000 first printing.

      We Are All Completely Fine
    • 2014

      1300 Jahre vor Colonel George Taylors Ankunft auf dem Planeten der Affen haben die Primaten die Hoheit über die Menschen erlangt, während beide Zivilisationen nebeneinander existieren, jedoch die Harmonie täglich auf dem Prüfstand steht. An der Oberfläche gibt es immer mehr Unstimmigkeiten, während der humanoide Untergrund sich zum Widerstand gegen die Affenherrschaft organisiert. Eine mysteriöse Sekte führt diese Bewegung an und sorgt für Spannungen zwischen der hochschwangeren Sally, „Bürgermeisterin“ des Südteils von Mak und Anführerin der Menschen, und der Affenmatriarchin Stimme Alaya, die einst Adoptivgeschwister waren. Als eine wichtige öffentliche Figur einem geheimnisvollen Attentäter zum Opfer fällt, eskaliert die Situation. Daryl Gregorys Arbeit umfasst die 16 Ausgaben der monatlichen Heftserie sowie vier One-Shots, die nun in diesem limitierten Sammelband vereint sind. Die PLANET DER AFFEN-Saga zählt zu den langlebigsten SciFi-Reihen der Film- und TV-Geschichte, und der Konflikt zwischen Menschen und Affen ist seit dem ersten Filmklassiker von 1968 ein bekanntes Phänomen der Popkultur. Der Comicband spielt zwischen den aktuellen und alten Filmen und führt zahlreiche neue Charaktere ein, die die von Pierre Boulle erdachte Welt erweitern.

      Planet der Affen - die Chroniken von Mak
    • 2014

      Afterparty

      • 350pagine
      • 13 ore di lettura

      In a world where God is a drug, one woman has to get sober. Lyda Rose was one of the neuroscientists who helped create Numinous, which produces the illusion of a personal deity, but since unwittingly overdosing, she has been haunted by her own visions of an angel she calls Dr. Gloria. After a stay in an asylum, she thinks she's put it behind her. The others start overdosing. Who is still producing the drug, and why?

      Afterparty