The countdown has begun, the destruction of the planet seems inevitable. After a final telepathic discussion with the medium Marta Kulgina, Aaron Goodwin knows how to stop the count. The only solution is on Mars! And it is on the red planet that the cosmonaut Elena Chevtchenko has been left alone
You know that group of people in school that everyone fears? Popular. Beautiful. The in-crowd? That was my family. Kind of. We were above that group. We held court over everyone else. We were the best looking. We were the mysterious and elusive ones. Most of the girls wanted to (and did) date the
Mason doesn't aim to be the one true Perl-based templating system for building web sites, but it's led many programmers to abandon their custom solutions when they've seen how much easier using Mason can be. It's a powerful, open source, Perl-based web site development and delivery engine, with
Have you ever woken up and expected to see destruction everywhere? In 48 hours, I lost everything. I came home to find my girlfriend of four years with another man. The next day a plane crash ripped my family away from me, shattering me in the process. In many ways, I died that day, too. The
Finally, her eyes moved over to my face and to do so, she had to tilt her head back – that’s how small she was. She couldn’t meet my eyes without tilting her head. She’d need a fucking ladder to be eye-level with me. Another two seconds passed before our eyes locked, but once they did, I swear, my
Secrets buried in the sand… Former US Army Captain Mia Starr has built a new life for herself in Denver, far away from camel spiders and sand—and the terrible secrets of her first deployment to Iraq. She isn’t looking for a relationship, especially not with an intrusive photojournalist. Joaquin
Lately Kimihiro Watanuki’s dreams have been pleasant escapes that have given him the chance to talk to his new friend Haruki Dômeki. But now he’s falling asleep a lot–and starting to think that his entire life with the witch Yûko might be taking place in some kind of dreamworld. Then one night his
With the growing popularity of Linux and the advent of Darwin, Unix has metamorphosed into something new and exciting. No longer perceived as a difficult operating system, more and more users are discovering the advantages of Unix for the first time. But whether you are a newcomer or a Unix power
A deadly plague has been loosed upon Gotham City, forcing Gotham’s wealthiest citizens to take refuge in a gilded ghetto of their own design, unaware that money is no protection from the virus. Now it’s up to Batman and Robin to find a cure for the mysterious virus, with the help of Catwoman and
By the time Rock Hudson's death in 1985 alerted all America to the danger of the AIDS epidemic, the disease had spread across the nation, killing thousands of people and emerging as the greatest health crisis of the 20th century. America faced a troubling question: What happened? How was this
