Ergebnis für "Into Infinity Pt. 2 Planetfall" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Eine Saga, die ans Ende aller Zeiten führt. Der Beginn eines einzigartigen Abenteuers, das eine Sonderstellung in Wolfgang Hohlbeins Werk einnimmt: Die Idee zu Infinity hat den Bestsellerautor über dreißig Jahre lang nicht ruhen lassen. Nun ist daraus sein größter Weltenentwurf geworden - eine Saga vom Kampf um den allmächtigen Turm und vom endlosen Krieg der Menschen gegen Feinde aus einer anderen Zeit.

Trained from birth in swordplay and combat, a young knight named Siris has journeyed to the Dark Citadel with a single purpose: fight through the army of Titans to face the tyrannical God King in one-on-one combat. This was his father's sacred mission, and his father's before him, going back countless generations in an effort to free their people from enslavement.

On the warship Messenger of Hermes, Ahzek Ahriman and his servant, Ignis, study a most unusual prisoner - a metal construct containing the consciousness of a member of a long-extinct race - the necrontyr.

As they interrogate the necron Setekh, he is also learning about them - over and over again as he uses ancient technology to relive the moment and plot his escape. Will he succeed, or will Ahriman prevail?

I'm learning to accept that my entire life has been a lie, and that with my mother's disappearance there are mysteries I may never uncover. Not to mention, my abilities are manifesting and I'm just beginning to understand what being part of an Infinity really means. As my relationship with each guy grows, so does the Infinity bond between us. Living with four moody guys - who give me butterflies with a simple look - can be slightly overwhelming. Still, I need answers, and moving forward is the only way to get them.

In his best-selling A Planet for Rent, Yoss pays homage to Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles and 334 by Thomas M. Disch. A critique of Cuba in the 90s, after the fall of the Soviet Union and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, A Planet for Rent marks the debut in English of an astonishingly brave and imaginative Latin American voice.