Category: Fantasy Adventure Fiction

Im nine. Jh. n. Chr. ereignete sich in Island eine Serie von Vulkanausbrüchen, die eine Kaltperiode nach sich zog, die Entdeckung Amerikas verhinderte, durch Stürme auf dem Meer die Navigation mit Schiffen erschwerte und Nordeuropa mit Eis überzog. Europa versank in Territorial- und Religionskriegen.
Dampfkraft, Æronautik und Elektrizität läuteten eine Periode des wissenschaftlichen Fortschritts ein. Enormer Rohstoffbedarf auf der einen und erschwerte landwirtschaftliche Bedingungen auf der anderen Seite zementierten die Monarchie, die Konflikte der Adelshäuser und die Armut der Arbeiterklasse.
Eis und Dampf erzählt dreizehn Geschichten von zwölf namhaften Phantastik-Autoren, die die Welt des 2013 mit dem Deutschen Phantastik Preis ausgezeichneten Romans Die zerbrochene Puppe von Judith und Christian Vogt auf der Suche nach neuen Geschichten bereisten.
Dreizehn bisher unveröffentlichte Geschichten von Judith Vogts Der Puppenmacher, die auf den Spuren der beliebten friesischen Luftpiratin Tomke aus Die zerbrochenen Puppe wandelt und den Hintergrund der namensgebenden Puppe beleuchtet, über den unheimlichen Bericht der Entstehung der ersten Shellys bis hin zu Stefan Holzhauers Geschichte Das Ægyptische Axiom: Hochspannung ist garantiert.
Mit Beiträgen von Eevie Demirtel, Torsten Exter, Stefan Holzhauer, Ann-Kathrin Karschnick, Mike Krzywik-Gross, Christian Lange, Henning Mützlitz, Marcus Rauchfuß, Stefan Schweikert, Christian Vogt, Judith Vogt und André Wiesler.

at some point soon, all young children locate themselves on the intersection of fact and delusion. Ethan Williams is simply approximately to show fifteen and is misplaced in that very intersection. His nightly goals are taking on his way of life as relentless voices beckon to him and peculiar ghostlike beings stalk him. whereas protecting his ally Tucker from bullies and having a pipe dream in regards to the woman round the corner are the 2 major actions that experience occupied the previous couple of years of existence, Ethan is set to embark on a trip that would go away him something yet ordinary.
After Tucker mysteriously vanishes, Ethan reveals himself being swept away into diverse worlds. He holds the destiny of numerous worlds, together with the one one he has ever recognized, in his palms. Ethan is the achievement to an extended awaited prophecy in a spot that's charged with keeping the stability of fine and evil in all worlds. As a toddler, he was once taken and hidden until eventually the time was once correct. With cruelty and wickedness, evil has all started to penetrate and damage every little thing. Ethan needs to learn how to belief the voices of fact and make allowance his middle to lead him throughout the darkish areas. He has been given a present, a Legacy of sunshine, and it really is this very present units him aside and seeks to satisfy his impressive dreams.

The island of Kaipu faces definite destruction on the jaws of Okuno the negative, the large part-octopus and part-orca marine monster. Can anyone cease this indestructible creature? Can sturdy conquer bad evil? become aware of the hidden secrets and techniques of Kaipu and the treasure map that might switch the process heritage, Welcome to the paranormal global of Vasquez!

Frank Simian isn't just a mountain gorilla who can speak, but in addition has complex levels that allow him to information people on-line. Frank is the prisoner of a central authority facility and one in every of an alarming variety of mountain gorillas struggling with extinction. As a tender jungle boy learns the wonderful highbrow capability of the apes his humans kill, and a Jesuit priest questions the variations among guy and ape, Frank struggles with the key to a bad homicide.

Follow Frank's trip of non-public transformation from the highlands of the Congo, to Vatican urban, and past.

Hopefully, this tale will encourage and inspire readers to aid the plight of all endangered animals, and to work out them in a brand new mild.

Der offizielle Roman zum Bestseller-Game! Für lovers des dunklen Ritters gibt es derzeit wohl keine bessere Spielumsetzung als die Arkham-Reihe von Warner video games. Großartige Atmosphäre, kluges Gameplay und Hintergrundstorys, die direkt aus den Comics stammen könnten, lassen keine Wünsche offen. Der offizielle Roman bildet den erzählerischen history zum Game.

"Dreams of a King" is the 3rd within the "Dreams of Betrayal" sequence of technological know-how fiction adventures.

It can have been the yr 3021 however the remnants of humanity who in moderation populate the globe have lengthy on the grounds that misplaced count number of the years. Their lineage is going again just a couple of generations. past these handed-down thoughts, the remainder of heritage is fable and legend. on the center of these myths are the Ancients. The tales say they have been a race of superbeings who had as soon as governed the planet with powers past mind's eye. based on legend, they managed the essence of lifestyles and death.

No one particularly is familiar with what grew to become of the Ancients. All that is still are their mysterious ruins and the manna that haunts them. those that sought out their secrets and techniques have by no means lower back to percentage them, retailer one. yet the various Ancients' units nonetheless functionality and certainly one of them is hell bent on destroying the final of humankind. just one guy has the data to avoid wasting the planet, yet will he pass opposed to his survival instincts and use that power?

In the shire of Capernaum, on a daily basis is a fight to outlive. because the demise in their liked king, the realm open air the township gate has turn into adverse and forbidding, full of unspeakable hazards. Few who enterprise outdoors the safety in their citadel ever return.

Life for these inside of is little larger lower than the tough, sadistic regulate of the baron. dropped at the throne after his affair with the queen and the last word betrayal of his one time pal the previous king, the baron isn't pleased along with his subservience to the queen who ideas from behind the curtain so he plans to betray her in his quest for extra energy. the one stumbling blocks status in his method are a mysterious guy and his military of marauders threatening to overthrow his rule.

Laktos is a guy possessed of information from the traditional masters themselves, yet has no wish to use it. His unmarried want is to be along with his heart-mate, Inga. yet needs do not continuously come real. Separated through condition, their possibilities of ever seeing one another back are but to be determined. Their destiny is being decided some distance above within the heavens by way of an historic evil half-human satellite tv for pc with recommendations of genocide pulsing via its electro-organic brain.

Before Laktos can go back to his liked Inga, he needs to release the secrets and techniques of the Ancients. With advice from his holographic wizard buddy MOT, they race opposed to time to be able to store the earth from a undying evil with powers some distance past their mind's eye. followed by way of his newfound animal allies, armed basically along with his wits and broad-sword, he units out on a trip that might enormously switch the realm and his existence forever.

The Saga of Recluce chronicles the background of this international with world-building element and an inventive and disciplined magic approach. L. E. Modesitt, Jr. returns to his longest and bestselling myth sequence with quantity nineteen, The Mongrel Mage, which marks the start of a brand new tale arc.

In the realm of Recluce, robust mages can wield different types of magic—the white of Chaos or the black of Order. Beltur, although, has abilities not anyone dreamed of, abilities no longer visible in 1000's of years that mix either magics.

On the run from an influence hungry white mage, Beltur is taken in through Order mages who set him at the route to become aware of and hone his personal detailed presents and within the approach discover a home.

However, while the white mage he fled makes an attempt to invade his new domestic, Beltur needs to wish his new chanced on energy could be adequate to avoid wasting them all.

Saga of Recluce

#1 The Magic of Recluce / #2 The Towers of the sundown / #3 The Order battle / #4 The Magic Engineer / #5 The dying of Chaos / #6 Fall of Angels / #7 The Chaos stability / #8 The White Order / #9 Colors of Chaos / #10 Magi’i of Cyador / #11 Scion of Cyador / #12 Wellspring of Chaos / #13 Ordermaster / #14 Natural Order Mage / #15 Mage-Guard of Hamor / #16 Arms-Commander / #17 Cyador’s Heirs / #18 Heritage of Cyador

Story assortment: Recluce Tales

Other sequence by way of L.E. Modesitt, Jr.
The Imager Portfolio
The Corean Chronicles
The Spellsong Cycle
The Ghost Books
The Ecolitan Matter

At the Publisher's request, this identify is being bought with no electronic Rights administration software program (DRM) applied.

the ultimate ceremony is the second one publication within the sequence 'The young children of Adam', that is preceded
by way of: the second one Conflict

The Magii pursue and are pursued. At each twist and switch in their tortuous trip via time, they locate that their enemy expect their each circulation, which checks their loyalty

“In all of this, stable or undesirable, good intentioned or now not, traps could be set, each one for every different, the place the collateral harm for the unwary and blameless might be catastrophic; even these we hate and search to ruin could have their very own type who should be prepared to damage them, their masters, and take their mantle and glory of their victory, sooner than they flip their attractions at the remainder of us. within the base line, it truly is for us, the population of this frail planet, jam-packed with frail those people who are ruled by means of greed and evil, by way of the hidden enemy, who we worship and can't see, who pull the strings and use this international to capture those that were despatched to ruin them, to face up and matter and subscribe to our mysterious saviours within the their ultimate hour.” Andrew stopped his dictation, “God, what utter tripe, who may ever put up this rubbish,” he stated and became his Dictaphone off.”
Little did Andrew comprehend who he relatively was once, or how shut he used to be to a fact that might switch his life

The Legend of Dragonmoon - The Forests of Finnskogen: whilst Erica Campbell is summoned again to Norway to aid settle a kin dispute, she reveals that strangers were allowed into the large eco-friendly residence. Their intentions are blatantly devious, yet Aunt Kitty and her cousins are so preoccupied with their very own difficulties that they don’t appear to detect the risk. Finnskogen is now and not using a Tietäjä and Erica struggles to guard the paranormal forests from malevolent forces and to determine the reality in the back of the legend of Dragonmoon. And whilst Dragonmoon fails to seem, Erica is pressured to depend on a few unforeseen help...

“....At first, all she may perhaps see used to be a shadowy darkness. all at once yellow discs materialized within the murky water. Erica stared at them, slowly knowing what they have been - snake-like eyes have been taking a look up at her. She gasped and became, able to run, yet prior to she may perhaps circulate whatever not easy swept her legs out from less than her and he or she plunged headlong into the chilly waters of the lake ...”

Description
Jaunter

When Seven 12 months previous Brian Hedley’s mom is gunned down in an workplace taking pictures, the kid is usually threatened. A second later, he's at the table at the back of the shooter, hitting him at the head with a working laptop or computer keyboard. How did he get there? How did he circulate gadgets via area? the govt. desires to be aware of, so do participants of a Terrorist cellphone known as “Group Zero”. The americans imagine he's a probability to nationwide defense and need him ‘neutralised’. it sounds as if everyone seems to be opposed to him.

About the Author

Geoff used to be born in Jersey, then less than German profession, in the course of global conflict II. quickly after the battle, his relatives moved to Brisbane, Australia. He was once trained in any respect Souls’ university, Charters Towers – a slightly conventional boarding university after the English sort. What wisdom one didn’t examine in the course of the ears used to be good and really belted in during the rear finish, entire with blood blisters. His first touch with the cane was once for now not working round a activities oval quickly sufficient. He now prides himself on an entire disinterest on activities and is familiar with not anything approximately cricket. This resulted in his artistic and creative facets constructing. He had a manner with phrases, and used to be a talented debater.
After secondary tuition, he took to instructing, graduated, after which got a put up Graduate degree in Aboriginal schooling. For the subsequent thirty years, he lived with distant aborigines within the nice Western wilderness, to begin with as a main tuition instructor, and later as a faculty critical and Administrator. in this time, he took up writing, generally brief tales and movie scripts. It was once if you want to whereas away lonely hours within the wasteland evenings.
The improvement of miniature pcs took his curiosity, and He wrote to the dept suggesting they take a significant examine using pcs in schooling. as a result of the proximity of a U.S. Sigint facility at Alice Springs, a few of the scholars, particularly the yank young ones, have been drawn to computing. firstly they used Tandy point Ones and Apples. whereas very primitive in comparison to today’s machines, a number of the I.T. group reduce their tooth on computing lower than Geoff’s tutelage. They even equipped a ‘Dream 8080’ and acquired it operating.
Child welfare was once one other curiosity. Juveniles who dedicated offences have been saved in grownup prisons. many of the youngsters have been as younger as 9 years of age. Geoff fought tough to get first rate juvenile amenities equipped for them, and in addition did lot of analysis into psychological health problems in teenagers. whereas taking a relaxation from the barren region, Geoff labored with the schooling division as a District counsel Officer. He used to be liable for getting academic prone to handicapped kids around the outback. whereas on lengthy provider go away in Cairns, his relations domestic, he met up together with his previous geography instructor, Kevin Burry, who used to be bringing Trinity Anglican college to fruition. Kevin turned ailing with mind tumors, and the Bishop of North Queensland appointed Geoff because the voluntary performing vital to convey the college online, so Geoff spent his holiday from educating as imperative of 1 of Queenslands greatest colleges.
Returning to the Northern Territory, Geoff used to be requested to write down thirteen episodes of “The Jabiru path” for the North Australian movie company, and created the preliminary tales for “Police Rescue”. He additionally wrote “Extinct, yet Going domestic” for Humpty Doo Productions. Retiring from executive provider, he based “Young Actors global” to educate young ones to behave for advertisements and have motion pictures. He additionally took up ads and ran “Top finish Fliers” – one of many biggest ads vendors within the Northern Territory.