Ver voorbij de machtige ijsmuur die de noordgrens van het koninkrijk sinds mensenheugenis beschermt, roert zich een vergeten vijand. Maar ieders blik is naar het zuiden gericht: naar het van intriges vergeven hof. De macht van de koning is tanende, zijn Hand is een verdachte dood gestorven en velen zijn uit op eigen gewin.Toch zijn er nog trouwe onderdanan. De Starks van Winterfell, hard en onverzettelijk zoals hun bevroren domein, zijn niet de minsten van hen. Als de koning Eddard Stark benoemt tot zijn nieuwe Hand, dreigt dit zowel zijn familie als het rijk te splijten. Edelvrouwen en moordenaars, soldaten en tovenaars, vogelvrijen en bastaards — niemand kan afzijdig blijven in het dodelijkste aller conflicten: het spel der tronen.
Het jaar 2034 De Fransa natuurkundige Theo Guderian doet een curieuze ontdekking: een poort door de tijd die leidt naar de Rhonevallei van het Plioceen — zes miljoen jaar geleden.Een reis waarvan geen weg terug is en daarom voor de wetenschap niet interessant. Lang na de dood van de ontdekker wordt een bruikbare toepassing voor de poort gevonden: ieder die niet past of zich niet thuisvoelt in het Galactisch bestel kan zich vrijwillig laten verbannen naar deze mysterieuze omgeving in het verre verleden. In 2110 maakt een buitengewoon gemeleerd gezelschap van’onaangepaste’maar talentvolle persoonlijkheden gebruik van deze mogelijkheid om de technologische perfectie van de 22ste eeuw te ontvluchten. Maar aan de andere kant van de poort heerst niet de idyllische eenvoud die zij er hoopten aan te treffen. Zij worden opgewacht door twee buitenaardse,oorlogszuchtige rassen die hen genadeloos misbruiken voor hun eeuwenouden strijd.
Three years ago, Sophie Mercer discovered that she was a witch. It's gotten her into a few scrapes. Her non-gifted mother has been as supportive as possible, consulting Sophie's estranged father--an elusive European warlock--only when necessary. But when Sophie attracts too much human attention for a prom-night spell gone horribly wrong, it's her dad who decides her punishment: exile to Hex Hall, an isolated reform school for wayward Prodigium, a.k.a. witches, faeries, and shapeshifters. By the end of her first day among fellow freak-teens, Sophie has quite a scorecard: three powerful enemies who look like supermodels, ...
Lily Parker is new to St. Sophia’s School for Girls, but she’s already learned that magic can be your best friend…or your worst enemy. They say absolute power corrupts absolutely. Turns out, even a little magic can turn you to the dark side. That’s why Lily has to learn how to control her newly discovered paranormal abilities, on top of avoiding the snobs who think they run her school, nursing a crush on a cute sophomore with a big, werewolf-y secret, and fighting the good fight with her best friend Scout as they take on Chicago’s nastiest nightlife—including the tainted magic users known as Reapers. Then Lily’s invited to a private meeting with Sebastian. He’s hot, powerful, and offering to help her harness the magic flowing in her veins in a way no one else can. He’s also a Reaper. Lily can’t hide her suspicions. But she’ll soon find out that the line between good and evil isn’t always clear…
Four of the bestselling names in romance and fantasy come together in this collection of thrilling novellas featuring powerful women who know how to handle a hex or two.
Un experimento cient?fico hace posible la inesperada interacci?n entre dos universos paralelos, con la salvedad de que, en uno de ellos, la especie humana que ha predominado son los Neanderthales y no los Cromagnones, como ha ocurrido en nuestro mundo. Ponter Boddit y su hombre-compa?ero Adikor Huld, f?sicos neanderthales, han abierto un puente entre dos universos dando lugar a una sorprendente comparaci?n entre culturas radicalmente distintas. Una de esas diferencias es la percepci?n del hecho religioso, del todo ausente en los neanderthales.En H?bridos, unos cient?ficos de nuestro mundo especulan ...
Neferet's true nature has been revealed to the Vampyre High Council, so Zoey and the gang might finally get some help in defending themselves and their beloved school against a gathering evil that grows stronger every day. And they'll need it, because Neferet's not going down without a fight. .
Winter, 1862. A malevolent spirit roams the cold and gloomy streets of Victorian London, the vampiric ghost of John Polidori, the onetime physician of the mad, bad and dangerous Romantic poet Lord Byron. Polidori is also the supernatural muse to his niece and nephew, poet Christina Rossetti and her artist brother Dante Gabriel.But Polidori's taste for debauchery has grown excessive. He is determined to possess the life and soul of an innocent young girl, the daughter of a veterinarian and a reformed prostitute he once haunted. And he has resurrected Dante's dead wife, transforming her into a horrifying ...
Per Hiero Desteen was a priest, a telepath—and a highly trained killer. Together with his great riding moose and the young bear who was his friend, he was on an extraordinary mission. For this was five thousand years after the holocaust known as The Death. Now the evil Brotherhood of the Unclean was waging all-out war against the few remnants of normal humanity, determined to wipe out all traces of its emerging civilization. Hiero’s task was to bring back a lost secret of the ancients that might save the humans. But his path lay through the very heart of the territory ruled by the Unclean and their hordes of mutated, intelligent, savage beast followers. And the Unclean were waiting for him!
When an American national ascends the throne in China and begins a territorial war, Remo Williams and his martial arts master, Chiun, rush in to restore peace.
Ebenso wie seine Romane b?rgen auch die Kurzgeschichten des Meisters hautnahen Horrors f?r Schreckensqualit?ten vom Feinsten. Namenlose Kreaturen, m?rderische Ratten, mysteri?se Erscheinungen halten Einzug in die geheimsten Winkel unseres Nervensystems ...Dean Koontz gilt als Meister hautnahen Horrors, und er vers?umt es auch in seinen schaudererregenden Kurzgeschichten nicht, den Leser in eine eiskalte Welt puren Entsetzens zu entf?hren.Namenlose Kreaturen, die einem notorischen Dieb das F?rchten lehren, m?rderische Ratten, entkommen aus einem Versuchslabor, und Wesen aus anderen Welten ersch?ttern unser Vertrauen in das Erdendasein nachhaltig ......
Lacey Hillcrest of Pensacola, 50 years old and a devout Pentecostal, had been diagnosed with inoperable lymphatic cancer and given six months to live. Five years later she was still alive. She attributed her survival to a decorative silver-plated cross received from her sister, Gracey Balfour.On the morning of 27 June, Mrs Hillcrest and her sister patronized the Museum of Quackery and Pseudoscience, owned and managed by one Linus C. Velikovsky, where she got to know about placebo. Within a month she was dead.The charge against Mr Velikovsky was negligent homicide.
During a war between two planets in the same solar systemeach occupied by adapted humanswhat is thought to be a cosmic superstring is discovered. After being cut, this object collapses into four cylindrical pieces, each about the size of a tube train. Each is densely packed with either alien technology or some kind of life. They are placed for safety in three ozark cylinders of a massively secure space station. There, a female research scientist subsequently falls pregnant, and gives birth to quads. Then she commits suicidebut why? By the end of the war one of the contesting planets has been devastated by the hilldiggersgiant space dreadnoughts employing weapons capable of creating mountain ranges. The quads have meanwhile grown up and are assuming positions of power in the post-war society. One of them will eventually gain control of the awesome hilldiggers.
