Nachdem der Lichtbote nach seinem Sieg über die Finsternis die Welt sich selbst überlassen hatte, begannen die Kräfte des Bösen, die sich in die Dunkelzone geflüchtet hatten, wieder zu erstarken.
Als Mythor in der durch ALLUMEDDON veränderten Welt zu sich kommt, ist er sich seines Auftrags nicht bewusst, denn man hat ihn seiner Erinnerungen beraubt.
Als Mythor in der durch ALLUMEDDON veränderten Welt zu sich kommt, ist er sich seines Auftrags nicht bewusst, denn man hat ihn seiner Erinnerungen beraubt.
In an elegant and penetrating first short-story collection, Limbo, and Other Places I Have Lived, Lily Tuck's characters travel to unknown, exotic places and, while there, find themselves deeply immersed in observation -- of the natives, the local customs, the foreign landscape -- in an effort to discern some elemental truth about who they themselves are.
A strange assortment of humans and otherworldly beings joins a young soldier of God on his perilous quest through an alternate, technology-free reality ruled by an all-powerful EvilIn an alternate world where the Dark Ages never ended, "e;the Evil"e; that arises every five hundred years has prevented all manner of technological advancement, even well into the twentieth century.
The breathtaking history of the Deryni continues as the greatest hero of a medieval fantasy realm is forced to make the ultimate sacrificeThe evil king is dead, and thanks to the efforts of revered Deryni magic-user Camber of Culdi, a human liege occupies the throne of Gwynedd for the first time in nearly a century.
Three things warned the wizard's apprentice that something was wrong: first the deep-trodden prints of iron-shod hooves along the forest path-he sensed them through his boots before stooping to feel them out in the dark; next, the eerie drone of a bee unnaturally abroad by night; and finally, a faint aromatic odor of burning.
Once upon a time in Lankhmar, City of the Black Toga, in the world of Nehwon, two years after the Year of the Feathered Death, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser parted their ways.
A young king's ascension threatens a traitorous conspiracy of powerful nobles who plan to brutally eliminate all magic-users from their medieval realmThe brief reign of Alroy Haldane is nearly at an end, as the life of the young king of Gwynedd slowly slips away.
A coven of witches reaches out to one of its former warriors in a "e;wonderful"e; Lyra novel "e;filled with incredible world-building and characters"e; (Open Book Society).
In diesem kleinen Büchlein stellen sich zwei meiner Figuren vor, die auf den ersten Blick kaum etwas gemeinsam haben: Kurt, der Detektiv aus Oberbayern, der einige ausgesprochen eigenartige Gestalten zu seinen Freunden zählt, und Jekarina, ein junges Mädchen in einer fernen Welt, die so ganz anders ist als unsere.
