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Mccaffrey Anne

    Anne McCaffreyová byla průkopnicí, která se proslavila svými vizionářskými science fiction romány. Svou tvorbu zahájila jako reakci na nereálné zobrazení žen ve sci-fi padesátých a šedesátých let, čímž položila základ pro své pozdější úspěchy. Její mistrovské vyprávění nejvíce vyniká v jejích rozsáhlých cyklech, kde obratně proplétá témata a buduje podmanivé světy. McCaffreyová zanechala nesmazatelnou stopu v žánru science fiction.

    I fuorilegge di Pern
    Acorna's World
    Power lines
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    • Acorna's World

      • 384 stránek
      • 14 hodin čtení

      Acorna, the "unicorn girl" has made peace with her Linyaari past, and aboard the interplanetary salvage vessel Condor she is finally free. But dread overtakes her when a distress signal summons Acorna and her companions to a nearby planet. For among the myraid wonders of this world of sentient plants and intoxicating perfumes are unmistakable signs that everythng Acorna holds dear is in peril. A promise of world-shattering devastation is in the celestial winds-and impending catastrophe at the claws of the cold-blooded insectile race that seeks to eradicate all Linyaari and human life from the galaxy...the Khleevi!

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    • The miraculous and mysterious world of Petaybee was to be investigated. No-one - no-one outside Petaybee, that is - could believe that the planet was a living, breathing sentient entity, that every plant and animal was in symbiotic communication with the spirit of the Petaybean world. Matthew Luzon was one of the investigators, an arrogant, wily, manipulative man who didn't believe there was anything in the universe that couldn't be controlled by hard scientific methods. His plan was to crush Petaybee, strip it of its mineral assets, and subdue or destroy the inhabitants. Major Yanaba Maddock - who had been sent to Petaybee to die, but who now understood its secretive curative powers - with the help of Sean Shongili, Clodagh, and all the gifted ones of Kilcoole, was determined to fight for their world. It was a battle in which every human, every plant, and every secretive telepathic creature - most especially the famous orange felines of Petaybee - was to be put at risk. Luzon was determined to destroy them - whatever the cost.

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    • První kniha pentalogie Drakeni z Pernu. Děj knihy se podle vnitřní chronologie odehrává během devátého Míjení. Jednou za stovky let se k Pernu přiblíží jeho sesterská planeta Krvavice a s ní smrtonosná Vlákna. Jedinou ochranou před zkázou světa jsou draci a jejich jezdci. Nyní však Vlákna nepadala už po několik set oběhů. Draků je málo, dračí jezdci i prostí lidé na hrozbu zapomněli, stará dračí královna umírá a v líhništi tvrdne skořápka pouze jednoho jediného královského vejce. Poslední nadějí je mladá dívka Lessa a starobylý gobelín…

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