A mysterious amnesiac is found at a distant spaceport. The science of the Alastor Cluster is unable to do anything but determine his home planet and culture: he is a Rhune from the planet Marune - Alastor 933. When he returns home, he learns that he is a powerful landowner whose household is faced with an important alliance. But which of these scheming nobles destroyed his memory?
Ronald Thompson knows he is not guilty of the murder for which he is about to be executed. There are only two days left to unmask the real villain - a terrifying psychopath who has killed before and has unfinished business with his victim's family.
Magnus Ridolph, at first glance, did not look like an interstellar troubleshooter. He was not tall and muscular, his skin had not been turned to a rugged color by the numerous distant suns he had visited, and his voice and manner seemed far too mild for an adventurer. Yet there was a chill hardness in his mild blue eyes that warned of the deceptiveness in his appearance. Throughout the galaxy, there were men and other beings - Yellowbirds, Tau Gemini ant-things, Hecatian anthropes - who could testify to the deadliness that lurked behind those eyes. In Magnus Ridolph, Jack Vance has created one of the most memorable characters of his award-winning career.
Two deadly rivals fight a battle of wits along the treacherous waterways of an alien world. In Showboat World, Jack Vance returns to the exotic and fantastic Big Planet, a world colonised by criminals and outcasts. Apollon Zamp is adept at dodging the dangers of sailing a showboat from port to perilous port along the Vissel River. And his labours aren't helped by his archrival, Garth Ashgale, constantly threatening to undermine Zamp's plans. But their rivalry reaches boiling point when Zamp sets out to compete at the Grand Festival at Nornune, with a menacing Ashgale not far behind. "One of the finest writers the science fiction field has ever known" Poul Anderson
In 1994 fledgling journalist Louis Theroux was given a one-off gig on Michael Moore's TV Nation, presenting a segment on apocalyptic religious sects. Gawky, socially awkward and totally unqualified, his first reaction to this exciting opportunity was panic. But he'd always been drawn to off-beat characters, so maybe his enthusiasm would carry the day. Or, you know, maybe it wouldn't... In Gotta Get Theroux This, Louis takes the reader on a joyous journey through his life and unexpectedly successful career. Nervously accepting the BBC's offer of his own series, he went on to create an award-winning documentary style that has seen him immersed in worlds as diverse as racist US militias and secretive pro-wrestlers, the violent gangs of Johannesburg and extreme drinkers in London. Arguably his biggest challenge was corralling celebrities in his When Louis Met series, with Jimmy Savile proving most elusive. Blindsided when the revelations about Savile came to light, Louis was to reflect again on the nature of evil he had spent decades uncovering. Filled with wry observation, larger-than-life characters, and self-deprecating humour, this is Louis at his insightful and honest best.
MET KONINGEN GEEN VREDE (No Truce with Kings)RECHT EN GENADE (The Sharing of Flesh)KONINGIN VAN LUCHT EN DUISTERNIS (The Queen of Air and Darkness)BOKKENZANG (Goat Song)DE MAN DIE TE VROEG KWAM (The Man Who Came Early)
Een duistere, nagenoeg onbekende episode uit de geschiedenis eindelijk blootgelegd: hoe het christendom met geweld probeerde de klassieke beschaving te vernietigen. De vroege christenen waren gewelddadig, militant en tot op het bot onverdraagzaam. Wie zich niet naar het nieuwe geloof voegde werd vervolgd, gemarteld en vermoord. Tempels werden gesloopt, beelden aan stukken geslagen, een grootse literatuur vrijwel volledig vernietigd. Eeuwen van duisternis vertelt over een strijdvaardige nieuwe religie, die in het begin van onze jaartelling opdook en willens en wetens de klassieke beschaving om zeep heeft geholpen.
