Contemporary Science Fiction

When he was 19, James Stark was considered to be one of the greatest natural magicians, a reputation that got him demon-snatched and sent downtown - to Hell - where he survived as a gladiator, a sideshow freak entertaining Satan's fallen angels. That was 11 years ago. Now, the hitman who goes only by Stark has escaped and is back in L.A. Armed with a fortune-telling coin, a black bone knife, and an infernal key, Stark is determined to destroy the magic circle.

Brianna Hai runs an occult shop that sells useless trinkets to tourists - and real magic supplies to witches and warlocks. The magical painting that hangs in Brianna's apartment is the last portal between the fae and human worlds.

Ysabel is a contemporary fantasy that centers on the Saint-Sauveur Cathedral of Aix-en-Provence, where a 15-year-old boy accompanies his father on a photo shoot. Befriending a whip-smart American girl and confronting a knife-wielding maniac, the boy finds that the ancient site shimmers with mysteries of fantastical design.

Beignets de prédiction, grimoires volants, serpillière enchantée et pilleur d'âmes... Bienvenue dans le monde ensorcelant de Magic Charly! On peut avoir un chat doué de capacités hors du commun et tout ignorer de l'existence des magiciers. C'est le cas de Charly Vernier, jusqu'à ce qu'il découvre que sa grand-mère pourrait être un membre éminent de cette société. Mais elle court un grave danger. S'il veut la sauver -et se sauver lui-même- Charly n'a pas le choix, il lui faut devenir apprenti magicier.

Le temps de lire cette phrase naîtront sept cent millions de fourmis... Cent millions d’années avant que l'humanité n'apparaisse sur terre, le peuple des fourmis, réparti sur et sous toute la surface du globe, a conçu des civilisations, érigé des empires, bâti des cités, pensé l'art de la guerre et s'en est donné les moyens. Un monde qui rivalise avec celui de l'homme, et peut le submerger sous son invincible déferlement. Fondé sur de rigoureuses données scientifiques, un thriller aussi fascinant qu'angoissant qui fit date. Attention où vous mettrez les pieds.

La trahison du démon que j'aime est sans conteste la pire épreuve de ma vie d'hybride. Je suis anéantie dans un monde en proie au chaos depuis que Kel m'a abandonnée sans la moindre explication, comme si je n'avais jamais existé. Pourtant, mon instinct de Traqueuse me souffle que la vérité m'échappe... et mon cœur de femme se révolte, incapable de se résigner.

Son nom est Druss. Bûcheron hargneux le jour, époux tendre le soir, il mène une existence paisible au milieu des bois. Mais un jour une troupe de mercenaires envahit son village pour tuer les hommes et capturer les femmes. Druss arrive trop tard sur les lieux du massacre. Son père gît dans une mare de sang et Rowena, sa femme, a disparu... S'armant de Snaga, une hache ayant appartenu à son grand-père, il se lance à la poursuite des ravisseurs. La route sera longue pour ce jeune homme inexpérimenté et sa quête le mènera jusqu'au bout du monde.

Entre l’entité qui menace d’engloutir la ville et des loups-garous furieux, mon quotidien est loin d’être tranquille... Depuis que j’ai plongé dans le monde des surnaturels, il semble que les catastrophes s’enchaînent à un rythme effréné. Si je pensais enfin pouvoir respirer, c’était sans compter sur les rebondissements de ma vie "normalement calme". Nikolas, le novice d’Alexander, subit le rejet de ses anciens amis magiciens, Zéphira, la directrice de l’académie, s’effondre sous le poids de ses responsabilités, et Ivan, notre magicien maladroit, découvre qu’il a un dangereux don de persuasion.

Robyn Peltier moved to Los Angeles after her young husband's sudden death. Though she's still grieving, the challenges of her new life as the PR consultant to Portia Kane - the world's most famous celebutante wannabe - can sometimes be amusing, even distracting. But when her client is gunned down in a nightclub, Robyn is suddenly on the run as the prime suspect in the murder. And as more bodies pile up around her, it seems like only Hope Adams, Robyn's best friend, and Hope's somewhat spooky boyfriend Karl are on Robyn's side. But it's not the police Hope is worried about, and the only way Hope can keep her friend alive is by letting her enter a world she's safer knowing nothing about.

À la suite de la crue catastrophique qui a frappé l'expédition vers la cité légendaire des Anciens, les survivants se retrouvent et s'efforcent de reconstituer un groupe cohérent, malgré les disparitions ; de nouvelles relations se forment, inattendues ou inespérées, d'autres poursuivent une évolution cahoteuse et malaisée, comme les dragons malformés qui continuent de grandir et de rêver de devenir un jour les maîtres du ciel, de la terre et de la mer.

Morgan is not who she thought she was. She is not a regular 16-year-old girl. She is a witch. A real, ancestral witch. Her parents are not her biological parents, and she and her sister share no blood. Even in the coven, she is too powerful now, too different to belong. She is alone except for Cal, who is now her boyfriend. Cal tells her he loves her, and she needs to believe him. He helps Morgan accept the truth: Wicca is in her blood.

Le passé - tel qu'il était peut-être - fait surgir sur le miroir l'ombre d'un présent - différent de ce qu'il fut ? Un événement éditorial sans précédent. Une œuvre hypnotique et troublante. Un roman d'aventures. Une histoire d'amour. Deux êtres unis par un pacte secret. Dans le monde bien réel de 1984 et dans celui dangereusement séduisant de 1Q84 va se nouer le destin de Tengo et d'Aomamé...

Mags was a Herald of Valdemar. But he had once lived the brutal life of a child slave. When he was Chosen by his Companion Dallen, his young life was saved, and he slowly adjusted to being well fed, educated, and treasured as a trainee in the Herald's Collegium at Haven. Singled out by the King's Own Herald, Mags would thrive in his secret training as a spy. His unusually strong Gift - an ability to Mindspeak and Mindhear anyone, not just others who were Gifted - made him a perfect undercover agent for the king.

Strange things exist on the periphery of our existence, haunting us from the darkness looming beyond our firelight. Black magic, weird cults, and worse things loom in the shadows. The Children of Old Leech have been with us from time immemorial. And they love us.... Donald Miller, geologist and academic, has walked along the edge of a chasm for most of his nearly 80 years, leading a charmed life between endearing absent-mindedness and sanity-shattering realization. Now, all things must converge.

On a quest to find her sister's killer, Mac is a major player in a deadly game, but with one great advantage: she knows how to find the Sinsar Dubh, an ancient book of magic so dark it corrupts anyone who touches it. What Mac soon discovers is worse than she had imagined. Surrounded by treachery, her enemies indistinguishable from her allies, she can be certain of only one thing: as All Hallows' Eve approaches, her time is running out.

Once a devoted children's librarian, Jane Jameson now works at a rundown occult bookstore. Once a regular gal, she's now a vampire. And instead of a bride, she's an eternal bridesmaid -- which leads her to question where exactly her relationship with her irresistibly sexy sire, Gabriel, is headed. Mercurial, enigmatic, apparently commitment-phobic vampires are nothing if not hard to read.

When you've lost everything you love, how do you fight the darkness? Ava left Istanbul with a new identity, new name, and new magic she could barely control. Laid low by Malachi's sacrifice, she searches for help from the fabled Irina. But will the secretive women of the Irin race welcome or shun her? Ava's origins are still a mystery, and her powers are darker than any they've encountered before. The Irin world hangs in the balance.

Regan Earle was a robotics scientist that inadvertently caused the robot takeover of the world. When his last creation completes a decade-long plan to end his own life, he ends up surprised. Creation offers him a second chance to test his wits and cunning in another world. Fate, however, is fickle and Regan ends up as a Dungeon Core...with all his memories. Is the world of Murgin ready to face such a dungeon? Let's find out....

In her ninth adventure, Sookie has just tied on her cocktail waitress apron for a night's work when a special report comes on the television. The time has come. The wereanimals have revealed themselves.

The virtual world of Barliona is a place of rest and entertainment - but not for everyone. It has become a survival arena for Daniel Mahan after he was sentenced to eight years in its virtual jail. Mahan has been through it all: the back-breaking work in the mines, betrayal by other prisoners, and finally, the retrial which has released him into Barliona's common world. What more could one want? Mahan could have kept a low profile and enjoyed relative freedom while serving the rest of his time.