Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks

"Addictive and immersive, this series is a must-read." --Entertainment Weekly The thrilling conclusion to #1 New York Times bestselling author V. E. Schwab's beloved world of parallel Londons--now at the brink of collapse. Loyalties will be tested, and sacrifices will be made... As darkness sweeps the Maresh empire, the once-precarious balance of power among the four Londons has reached its breaking point. Now, as an ancient enemy returns from another world to bring chaos and decay, friends and foes must unite in a desperate race to save themselves from the end of the world. "If you haven't picked up the Shades of Magic series before, do so. A Darker Shade of Magic is good; A Gathering of Shadows is better; A Conjuring of Light blows them both away. " --Culturess on A Conjuring of Light "All the hallmarks of a classic work of fantasy...Schwab has given us a gem of a tale." --Deborah Harkness, New York Times bestselling author of The All Souls trilogy Other books by V. E. Schwab The Inv

The second adventure in #1 New York Times bestselling author V. E. Schwab's beloved Shades of Magic trilogy--a dazzling world of parallel Londons where the balance of power is ever perilous, and for one city to flourish, another must die... Red London is caught up in the pageantry and thrills of the Essen Tach tournament, and another London is coming back to life...After all, a shadow that was gone in the night reappears in the morning. But magic must always live in balance--and so now, another London will fall. Other books by V. E. Schwab The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue Shades of Magic seriesA Darker Shade of MagicA Gathering of ShadowsA Conjuring of Light Villains DuologyViciousVengeful

"Addictive and immersive, this series is a must-read." --Entertainment Weekly Enter #1 New York Times bestselling author V. E. Schwab's beloved Shades of Magic trilogy--a dazzling world of parallel Londons where magic thrives, starves, or lies forgotten, and where power can destroy just as quickly as it can create. Kell is one of the last Antari--magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel Londons; Red, Grey, White, and, once upon a time, Black. Kell was raised in Arnes--Red London--and officially serves the Maresh Empire as an ambassador, traveling between the frequent bloody regime changes in White London and the court of George III in the dullest of Londons, the one without any magic left to see. Unofficially, Kell is a smuggler, servicing people willing to pay for even the smallest glimpses of a world they'll never see. It's a defiant hobby with dangerous consequences, which Kell is now seeing firsthand. After an exchange goes awry, Kell escapes to Grey London

In a parallel-world 21st-century San Francisco where the Kaiser's Germany won World War One and went on to dominate the world, Paul Gomes and his father Lawrence are secret agents for our timeline, p

Robert Sawyer's SF novels are perennial nominees for the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, or both. Clearly, he must be doing something right since each one has been something new and different. What they do have in common is imaginative originality, great stories, and unique scientific extrapolation. His latest is no exception.Hominids is a strong, stand-alone SF novel, but it's also the first book of The Neanderthal Parallax, a trilogy that will examine two unique species of people. They are alien to each other, yet bound together by the never-ending quest for knowledge and, beneath their differences, a common humanity. We are one of those species, the other is the Neanderthals of a parallel world where they, not Homo sapiens, became the dominant intelligence. In that world, Neanderthal civilization has reached heights of culture and science comparable to our own, but is very different in history, society, and philosophy.During a risky experiment deep in a mine in Canada, Ponter Boddit,

Bonus pull-out map included!Kell is one of the last Antari—magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel Londons; Red, Grey, White, and, once, Black. Unofficially, Kell is a smuggl

A tale set in a magical parallel universe at the eve of the Revolutionary War finds young thieftaker Ethan Kaille conjuring spells to solve crimes and facing an unknown conjurer of enormous power when

Robert J. Sawyer, the award-winning and bestselling writer, hits the peak of his powers in Humans, the second book of The Neanderthal Parallax, his trilogy about our world and parallel one in which it