Если ты ухитрился поступить в Академию Магических Искусств, то легкими твои будни уж точно не назовешь. Лекции и практикумы, зубрежка и тренировки… Жизнь и верно пошла тяжелая, а вот насколько она окажется интересной — зависит только от тебя. Но если ты в равной мере наделен как талантом, так и способностью совать свой нос куда не просят, скучно не будет наверняка. Вот только… кто окажется страшнее: василиск, Фенрир Волк или разгневанный декан?
Between the living and the dead is the Order of the Deacons, protectors of the Empire, guardians against possession, sentinels enlisted to ward off the malevolent haunting of the geists... Among the most powerful of the Order is Sorcha, now thrust into partnership with the novice Deacon, Merrick Chambers. They have been dispatched to the isolated village of Ulrich to aide the Priory with a surge of violent geist activity. With them is Raed Rossin, Pretender to the throne that Sorcha is sworn to protect, and bearer of a terrible curse. But what greets them in the strange settlement is something far more predatory and more horrifying than any mere haunting. And as she uncovers a tradition of twisted rituals passed down through the dark reaches of history, Sorcha will be forced to reconsider everything she thinks she knows. And if she makes it out of Ulrich alive, what in Hell is she returning to?
He was born Temujin, the son of a khan, raised in a clan of hunters migrating across the rugged steppe. Temujin’s young life was shaped by a series of brutal acts: the betrayal of his father by a neighboring tribe and the abandonment of his entire family, cruelly left to die on the harsh plain. But Temujin endured-and from that moment on, he was driven by a singular fury: to survive in the face of death, to kill before being killed, and to conquer enemies who could come without warning from beyond the horizon.Through a series ...
W ?wiecie przysz?o?ci modyfikacja genetyczna umo?liwia stworzenie cz?owieka o niebywa?ych umiej?tno?ciach. Metamorfoza cia?a ludzkiego osi?ga punkt kulminacyjny w pi?tnastym roku ?ycia. By ocali? dziewczynk?, kt?ra przechodzi w?a?nie najtrudniejszy etap przemiany maj?cej z niej uczyni? specbojownika, Alex Romanow, specpilot, musi stawi? czo?o wyzwaniom, kt?rych rozstrzygni?cie zadecyduje o losie jego i ca?ego ?wiata…
In a post-Apocalyptic world where supernaturals have emerged from hiding, wealthy humans delight in decadence while the religious gain power through temptation. For the masses, fear reigns from birth to death, and the afterlife holds beings that only the bravest can summon—or dare to desire…Taken from her home and family, shamaness Aisling McConaughey has no choice except to enter the “ghostlands” in order to learn the fate of a wealthy man’s mistress. But there is always a price to pay for the use of her power. To save the woman’s life she must summon ...
Scattered among poor, desolate farms, the clans of the Uplands possess gifts. Wondrous gifts: the ability—with a glance, a gesture, a word—to summon animals, bring forth fire, move the land. Fearsome gifts: They can twist a limb, chain a mind, inflict a wasting illness. The Uplanders live in constant fear that one family might unleash its gift against another. Two young people, friends since childhood, decide to use their gifts. One, a girl, refuses to bring animals to their death in the hunt. The other, a boy, wears a blindfold lest his eyes and his anger kill.In this beautifully crafted story, Ursula K. Le Guin writes of the proud cruelty of power, of how hard it is to grow up, and of how much harder still it is to find, in the world’s darkness, gifts of light.• PEN Center USA Children’s literature award (2005)• The Judy Lopez Memorial Award for Children’s Literature Honor (2005) AWARDS
“Gilgamesh el rey” es una de las m?s recientes obras de Silverberg, escrita despu?s de una de sus ?ltimas etapas de inactividad. Silverberg nos plantea en este libro una reexploraci?n de la epopeya/mito de Gilgamesh, enfocada aqu? no desde el punto de vista del h?roe, sino del hombre. La figura legendaria del rey-dios de Sumer se convierte as? en un personaje profundamente humano, con todos sus miedos, debilidades y ansias. Su temor a la muerte le llevar? a un desesperado periplo en busca de la inmortalidad y a tomar conciencia de la verdad absoluta de la vida. Escrita en primera persona, como un diario ?ntimo, “Gilgamesh el rey” tiene a un tiempo la fuerza de la ?pica que le ha dado origen y la profundidad de un inimitable estudio psicol?gico.
Welcome to Gil's All Night Diner, where zombie attacks are a regular occurrence and you never know what might be lurking in the freezer….Duke and Earl are just passing through Rockwood county in their pick-up truck when they stop at the Diner for a quick bite to eat. They aren't planning to stick around-until Loretta, the eatery's owner, offers them $100 to take care of her zombie problem. Given that Duke is a werewolf and Earl's a vampire, this looks right up their alley. But the shambling dead are just the tip of a particularly spiky iceberg....
Otto milioni di copie vendute per otto libri pubblicati: un record che nessun altro autore fantastico e fantascientifico ha mai eguagliato. Abraham Merritt, che siamo lieti di presentare sulle pagine di « Futuro » con uno dei suoi pi? noti capolavori, ? una figura dominante nella letteratura immaginativa americana. Capostipite di una «scuola» che ha fra i suoi esponenti Fritz Leiber, Jack Vance ed Ira Levin, ? il pi? grande ed affascinante creatore di mondi fantastici. Mondi dimenticati in luoghi inaccessibili, nascosti tra le pieghe del tempo, perduti tra i labirinti di altre sconosciute dimensioni. « Gli abitatori del miraggio » lo presenta in questa ...
On the night of her twenty-fifth birthday, alone in her apartment, Air Force Sergeant Christine Canady wished for one thing: a little magic in her life. After drinking way too much champagne, she performed, of all crazy things, a goddess-summoning ritual, hoping that it would somehow make her life a little less ordinary... but she never believed the spell would actually work!When her military plane crashes into the ocean, CC's mission overseas takes an unexpected turn. She awakens to find herself in a legendary time and place where magic rules the land—occupying the body of the mythic mermaid Undine. But there is danger in the waters and the goddess Gaea turns this modern, military gal into a beautiful damsel so that she can seek shelter on land. CC is soon rescued (literally) by a knight in shining armor. She should be falling in love with this dream-come-true, but instead she aches for the sea and Dylan, the sexy merman who has stolen her heart.
