Metaphysical Fiction

Брат святого ордена доминиканцев инквизитор Бернар на воскресной мессе увидел прекрасную горожанку Маргариту Ситтов и потерял покой. Чтобы получить желаемое, брату Бернару нужно лишь забрать золотой медальон, дающий защиту своему владельцу. Через много веков защитный амулет попадает в руки скромного редактора Оксаны Карасевой.

Молодая талантливая программистка Хан Совон в детстве пережила трагедию, в которой продолжает себя винить. У нее проблемы с общением: она мечтает найти хотя бы одного друга. Для того чтобы с кем-нибудь подружиться, она разрабатывает приложение, исполняющее любые самые тайные и заветные желания. Так Совон пытается поддержать тех, кто считает свои мечты мелкими и незначительными, тех, кто стремится добиться отмщения или справедливости, тех, кто одинок или несчастен. Нужно только прийти на интервью в ее офис, и она настроит приложение индивидуально под каждого клиента.

When MIT physicist Dr. Velcro Threadbare builds a Sock Singularity Engine to solve the mystery of missing socks, she accidentally tears a hole in the fabric of reality—literally. Now socks across the multiverse have gained sentience, and they're not happy. The matched wage war against the unmatched. A pug named Sir Barksalot becomes the Sock Pope, preaching liberation through deliberate mispairing. Criminal flamingo syndicates trade in celebrity sock radiation.

In a museum by the sea, rooms breathe with salt and light. Called back to restore a fragile collection, an art conservator begins to mend not only varnish and glass, but the quiet fractures of a life paused mid-gesture. Each gallery carries a different weather—letters that taste of brine, photographs haloed by time, objects that refuse to forget. As tides lean against the windows and shadows arrive a moment late, she discovers that preservation isn’t the return of what was lost; it is the slow acceptance of what remains.

No one knows quite what to make of Nigel Considine. He calls himself "the High Executive", and he has inspired the entire continent of Africa to revolt and make war upon Europe. Is Considine a magician, a charismatic politician, a divinely annointed prophet, or the antichrist? A small circle of London friends all seem to disagree, even as Considine's influence is tearing England apart....

Thomas Tessler, devastated by a tragedy, has cloistered himself in his bedroom and shut out the world for the past three years. His wife, Silke, lives in the next room, but Thomas no longer shares his life with her, leaving his hideout only in the wee hours of the night to buy food at the store around the corner from their Manhattan apartment. Isolated, withdrawn, damaged, Thomas is hikikomori. Desperate to salvage their life together, Silke hires Megumi, a young Japanese woman attuned to the hikikomori phenomenon.

The Apocatastasis of Enoch is a work that stands between scripture, philosophy, and dream — a modern gospel of remembrance for the sleepless and the seeking. This monumental text unfolds across twenty-two celestial visions, each a spiritual initiation through the metals of the soul, the twenty-two paths of the Tarot, and the universal law of return — Apocatastasis: the restoration of all things to their divine origin.

Magister Coelus, the College’s young and brilliant theorist, finally has a student capable of learning theoretical magery at the level at which he can teach it. He invites her to help him with his current research project, which promises to funnel through the hands of one mage more power than any mage has ever had. Ellen, who knows more about both the theory and practice of magic than a first year student should know, refuses, arguing that the Cascade will do more harm than good.

Anthropologist Calliope Santiago awakens to find herself in a strange and sinister wasteland, a shadow of the New Mexico she knew. Empty vehicles litter the road. Everyone has disappeared - or almost everyone. Calliope, heavy-bellied with the twins she carries inside her, must make her way across this dangerous landscape with a group of fellow survivors in search of answers. Long-dead volcanoes erupt, the ground rattles and splits, and monsters come to ominous life. Calliope will be forced to reconcile the geological record with the heritage she once denied.

Lisa and Elliot have been best friends ever since the day they met as children. Popular, bright and sporty, Lisa was Elliot's biggest supporter when the school bullies made his life a misery, and for that, he will always be grateful. Twenty years later, life has pulled the pair apart, and Lisa is struggling. Her marriage is floundering, her teenage kids are being secretive and she's so tired she can't think straight. So when Elliot knocks on the door, looking much better than she remembers, she can't help but be delighted to see her old friend again.

David, a college student, takes a summer job at a run-down family resort in a dying English resort town. This is against the wishes of his family because it was at this resort where David's biological father disappeared fifteen years earlier. But something undeniable has called David there. The characters have a suspicious edge to them.

Caitlyn, a mom in her late 30s, appears to be suffering from a bout of depression. When her husband’s behavior becomes suspicious, and she is not allowed to ask questions in regards to his whereabouts, she suspects that he may be having an affair. So she sets out on an obsessive mission to discover the truth. But what will she find? Could her friend be the other woman? Or is her compulsive desire for a stranger causing her to want out of her marriage? Will her search for the truth lead her down a path of darkness that could destroy her life and the lives of those around her?

Anna glaubt, über die Erkenntnis zu verfügen, wie die Menschheit zur Umkehr und einem friedvollen Umgang mit sich und der Welt bewegt werden kann. In Alfredo findet sie einen Verbündeten, der ihr dabei hilft, ihre Einsichten niederzuschreiben. Doch das Projekt entwickelt sich zu einer lebensbedrohenden Gefahr.

Evie Lynn is running from something. She just can’t remember what or why. Terrified, and with only an address to go on, Evie makes her way across the country, assisted by two strangers. Closing in are two men who once claimed to love her. But now, they only want what she took from them, no matter the cost to Evie or to them.

En El hacedor confluyen las simbologías de Oriente y Occidente, el cosmos y las cosmogonías, los siglos, las dinastías, lo universal y lo profundamente local: Heráclito, Homero, Dante con Rosas, Facundo y Juan Muraña. Tal diversidad de temas se corresponde con una multiplicidad de géneros. Así, los relatos, poemas y ensayos de estas páginas terminan configurando uno de los libros más personales del autor; una miscelánea que da cuenta de las preocupaciones que recorren toda la obra borgiana.

In The Matisse Stories, this Booker Prize-winning author offers three elegant tales that explore the subtle interplays between mind and eye, heart and hand. In the first, Medusa’s Ankles, a fashionable woman watches her life take on darker, more ominous shades in the mirror of a beauty salon.

A crew of men are embarking on a voyage up a turbulent river through the rainforests of Guyana. Donne, their wild, domineering leader, is obsessed with hunting for a mysterious woman and exploiting Indigenous people as plantation labour. But their expedition is plagued by tragedies, haunted by drowned ghosts: spectres of the crew themselves, inhabiting a blurred shadowland between life and death. As their journey into the interior—their own hearts of darkness—deepens, it assumes a spiritual dimension, guiding them towards a new destination: the Palace of the Peacock.

After a fall from grace, intelligence officer Malculm Bysotič avoids further punishment when he is assigned to a bold and controversial new initiative: the forced eviction of all foreign travelers from the localities of Burel Hird. Hailed as a stabilizing effort, the program instead demands ever-more-frequent acts of bureaucratic cruelty. As the margins between just and unjust action continue to blur, Malculm is forced to question the motives and goals of the society he serves.

In December of 1945, in the Upper Egyptian desert, an Arab farmer and his brother left their village in search of sebakh, a soft soil which was used to fertilize crops, and while digging in the foot-hills of the mountains near the village of Nag Hammadi, they found something else. In the hole the brothers created, they stumbled upon a sealed earthenware jar which contained thirteen books, or codices, all bound in thick leather that was thousands of years old.

African literary scholars struggle to reconcile African mysticism with literary labels. Between Dystopias: The Road to Afropantheology encapsulates the essence of African mysticism and dystopia through original stories. Afropantheology explores various aspects of African mysticism and dystopia. "Mother's Love, Father's Place" and "02 Arena" are examples. It acknowledges Africa's journey from its origins to the future.