The cyborg code-named "Slant" was sent out as an Independent Reconnaissance Unit during an interstellar war between Earth and its colonies. The fighting ended three hundred years ago, but Slant's computer does not admit this -- he is compelled to carry on as if the war were still raging. Then he comes across a planet where his sensors register "gravitational anomalies." The computer interprets these as enemy weapons research. The local inhabitants call the anomalies "magic." And don't miss the exciting sequel, "The Wizard and the War Machine," available on this web site!
During a brutally hot summer, New York Police detectives Rasche and Shaefer come across the murderous work of an alien predator and soon receive a sinister warning from the military to mind their own business. Original.
The sword that Garth had stolen from Dusarra marked him as the chosen of Bheleu, god of destruction, and gave him immense power. This power could only be used to destroy, and Garth wanted to build. He chose to refuse the god's gift. Bheleu did not intend to allow that.
Anti-Heroes, Lost Shepherds and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon's Firefly
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Firefly’s early demise left fans with a deep sense of loss and plenty of unanswered questions. From what was wrong with the pilot to what was right with the Reavers, from the use of Chinese to how correspondence between Joss and network executives might have gone, from a philosopher’s perspective on “Objects in Space” to a sex therapist’s analysis of Inara, Finding Serenity is filled with writing as exciting, funny and enthralling as the show itself.Contents:• Introduction / Jane Espenson• The Reward, the Details, the Devils, the Due / Larry Dixon• The Heirs of Sawney Beane / Lawrence Watt-Evans• Asian Objects in Space / Leigh Adams Wright• The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Firefly / Glenn Yeffeth• Who Killed Firefly? / Ginjer Buchanan• The Train Job Didn't Do the Job / Keith R.A. DeCandido• Serenity and Bobby McGee / Mercedes Lackey• Firefly vs. the Tick / Don DeBrandt• We're All Just Floating in Space / Lyle Zynda• More Than a Marriage of Convenience / Michelle Sagara West• "Thanks for the re-enactment, sir." / Tanya Huff• Whores and Goddesses / Joy Davidson• The Captain May Wear the Tight Pants, But It's the Gals Who Make Serenity Soar / Robert B. Taylor• I Want Your Sex / Nancy Holder• Just Shove Him in the Engine, or The Role of Chivalry in Joss Whedon's Firefly / John C. Wright• Mirror/Mirror: A Parody / Roxanne Longstreet Conrad• Star Truck / David Gerrold• Chinese Words in the 'Verse / Kevin M. Sullivan• Listening to Firefly / Jennifer Goltz• Kaylee Speaks: Jewel Staite on Firefly / Jewel Staite• Unofficial Glossary of Firefly Chinese / Kevin M. Sullivan
Ethshar und das Nordreich führen seit Hunderten von Jahren Krieg. Niemand erinnert sich mehr, warum oder wofür. Niemand träumt davon, dass es jemals enden könnte, bis ein Zauberer ein Schwert erschafft, das seinen Benutzer unbesiegbar macht.
Der junge Arlian ist der einzige Überlebende des Drachensommers. Sein Weg führt ihn in die dekadente Handelsstadt Manfort, wo ein skrupelloser Geheimzirkel die Magie der Drachen für seine eigenen dunklen Zwecke nutzt.
Der Übermensch namens Garth strebte nach unsterblichem Ruhm. Das Orakel sagte ihm, er solle dem Vergessenen König dienen, um diesen Ruhm zu erlangen. Doch dieser König schickte Garth nach einem Basilisken, dessen Blick Menschen zu Stein verwandeln konnte. Welchen vernünftigen Nutzen könnte jemand für ein solches Monster haben?
„Eine großartige Saga, die das Zeug zum Klassiker hat - von einem Autor, der sich hier endgültig als Meistererzähler des Genres erweist.“ Publishers Weekly Die Obsidian-Chroniken - Lawrence Watt-Evans' groß angelegte Saga um die Magie der Drachen. Epische Fantasy in der Tradition von Robert Jordan und Anne McCaffrey!
Za morzem w dalekim Starym Ethshar znajdowały się smoki, z którymi można było walczyć, księżniczki i złoto do zdobycia, magiczne zamki i wiedźmy znające tajemnicę nieśmiertelności. Ale do takich osiągnięć czarnoksiężnik, który znał tylko jedno zaklęcie, nie mógł aspirować. Tobas schował swoje aspiracje do pustego żołądka i wyruszył na poszukiwanie przygody...
It was definite Dumery had no magical talent at all. He could never fulfill his dream to become a wizard's apprentice. Hurt, angry, and mortally disappointed, he despaired of ever choosing a trade. But then Dumery spied a so-called great wizard humbling himself before a man selling dragon's blood the precious stuff that made difficult spells work. If Dumery couldn't be a wizard, maybe he could become a dragon-hunter and have all those scornful wizards crawling to him. So, leaving his family, city, and comfortable home, Dumery began trailing Kensher, the man in brown even though Kensher said he didn't need a dragon-hunting apprentice. But when Dumery finally caught up with Kensher, he would discover Kensher's great secret of how the precious fluid was obtained a secret from which only Kensher's kin could profit. Once again, Dumery would be left without career or future. Unless . . .
