Richard Kadrey
Author
Series
Another Coop heist volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Reminiscent of the edgy, offbeat humor of Chris Moore and Matt Ruff, the first entry in a whimsical, fast-paced supernatural series from the New York Times bestselling author of the Sandman Slim novels--a dark and humorous story involving a doomsday gizmo, a horde of baddies determined to possess its power, and a clever thief who must steal it back. again and again. 2000 B.C. A beautiful, ambitious angel stands on a mountaintop, surveying the world...
Author
Series
Sandman Slim volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Settled back in L.A., James Stark (aka Sandman Slim) must find a dead man, recover an ancient artifact, and outwit and outrun the angry old gods -- and natural-born killers -- on his tail.
3) Dead set
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the death of her father, Zoe loses herself in a dreamscape until a chance encounter at a used record store opens up a portal to the world of the restless dead, forcing her to decide how far she is willing to go to see her father again.
Author
Series
Sandman Slim volume 4
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Richard Kadrey's Sandman Slim-aka James Stark-is, quite simply, one of the most outrageous uber-anti-heroes ever to kick serious butt on this or any other world or dimension.
In his previous three adventures-Sandman Slim, Kill the Dead, and Aloha from Hell-Stark has fled Hell for California, taken on angels, demons, outlaw bikers, zombies, covert government operatives, and all manner of monsters, while saving humankind from total annihilation on...
Author
Series
Sandman Slim volume 3
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Harper Voyager paperback ed.
Language
English
Description
All hail Sandman Slim, author Richard Kadrey's ultra-extreme anti-hero and recent escapee from Lucifer's overheated Underworld playground. Legendary author William Gibson (Neuromancer) called Kadrey's first deliciously twisted Slim adventure "an addictively satisfying, deeply amusing, dirty-ass masterpiece," and in number three, Aloha from Hell, the ruthless avenger, a.k.a. Stark, finds himself trapped in the middle of a war between Heaven and Hell....
Author
Series
Another Coop heist volume 2
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Master thief Coop and his DOPS teammates trigger unexpected chaos when they steal a not-quite-dead and very lovesick Egyptian mummy that wields terrifying magic.
"Coop, a master thief sort of gone legit, saved the world from an ancient doomsday device--heroism that earned him a gig working for the Department of Peculiar Science, a fearsome top secret government agency that polices the odd and strange. Now Woolrich, Coop's boss at the DOPS, has Coop...
Author
Series
Sandman Slim volume 2
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
While acting as a bodyguard for Lucifer and wooing a former French porn star, half-human fallen angel Stark is bitten by one of the many zombies roaming the countryside. This causes his human side to die and turns him into an emotionless killing machine. The condition has a cure-- should he choose to take it.
8) Sandman Slim
Author
Series
Sandman Slim volume 1
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First Harper Voyager Paperback Edition.
Language
English
Description
Working as a hitman in Hell after being snatched by demons at the age of nineteen, James Stark escapes and returns to Los Angeles, where he plots to destroy the magic circle that stole his life.
10) Black Neurology
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Using my pull with an acquaintance at the city morgue, I convince the attending Medical Examiner to let me watch your autopsy."
11) Mudrosti
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Almost forty eight tons of the dying Russian space station, Mudrosti, enter the Earth's atmosphere somewhere over the Indian Ocean. Most of the debris burns up on re-entry, but thousands of tiny glass and metal particles shower down over the west coast of the United States. One of the particles enters the roof of an office building on the corner of Sansome and Clay Street in San Francisco's financial district. The particle, a fragment of a bolt that...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Brought in by their families, the country girls were usually modified at puberty. Coming in on their own, the city girls were usually modified later. Each girl was permitted to store her excised flesh and organs in canopic jars, in liquid nitrogen, 300 degrees below zero."
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Wallace Gerard, you are exceeding the speed limit by fifty miles per hour. The authorities have been alerted," said the car. Wallace "Big Wally" Gerard stomped harder on the accelerator, hoping that if he got down hard enough the car's chip-embedded voice might just start screaming.
14) Pleasure Cruise
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"It was Spring, the time of the annual Wagner festival, so he found himself on the Ammon Ra, a gilt airship drifting luxuriously from Cairo towards Berlin. The seats in the First Class observation car were upholstered in the hides of pandas and Tasmanian tigers, and stuffed with dodo bird feathers. A group of laughing Americans—loud, nouveau riche corporate psychics—were shooting angels off the starboard side of the craft. Burning cherubim fell...
15) Dark Jubilee
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Every 50 years, the ancients turned their world on its head. They called this period "Jubilee." All laws were suspended, all slaves freed. All lands won in battle were returned to their previous owners. Jubilee was a time of renewal and madness. A time to burn the fields — both physical and metaphysical.
16) SETI
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"A stray transgenic mouse from the bio lab downstairs eats a yellow peanut M&M while sitting atop a pile of discarded circuit boards and servo motors in the AI lab. A sophisticated optical system and biomechanical limbs lie nearby, gathering dust. The power supply is still plugged into the wall, abandoned there when the experiment turned out to be such a disappointment."
17) Concrete Bouquet
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"He's in love, but doesn't have the words to express it or the courage to say it."
18) Iron Wit
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Machines are constantly puzzled and saddened by people. "Why do they make us," the machines wonder, "and why do they give us such keen senses of humor when they seem to have none?"
19) Kabbalah Cowboys
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"It was a roughneck expedition a week out of LA and deep into Nevada's "Big Empty." In keeping with true western cowboy tradition, the roughnecks traveled on horseback. Specially bred and modified for the harsh climate, their steeds weren't much more than bone and gristle, fitted out with just enough wires and electrodes to keep their jerky-dry muscles moving."
20) Lotus Alley
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Sirikit dreamed of spirit houses for six nights running. She passed spirit houses everyday — on her way to work, when buying groceries, and on her increasingly infrequent dates with her boyfriend. Almost every building in Bangkok had a spirit house, a place for the spirits whose land had been covered by a human house, so they would have somewhere to live and wouldn't haunt the human dwelling."