Ergebnis für "KingReihe Teil 8 Up in Smoke" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

In Brigant bereitet sich Prinzessin Catherine auf eine Vernunftehe vor, obwohl sie sich zu dem jungen Krieger Ambrose hingezogen fühlt. In Calidor sinnt der Diener March auf Rache für sein betrogenes Volk, während in Pitoria Kaufmannssohn Edyon in den Tag lebt und sich die Zeit mit Diebstählen vertreibt. Und in den nördlichen Ebenen riskiert die dreizehnjährige Tash ihr Leben auf der Jagd nach dem wertvollen Dämonenrauch. Durch politischen Intrigen, wechselnden Allianzen und verbotene Liebe sind die Leben dieser jungen Menschen verbunden.

These 18 darkly complex short stories and novellas touch upon human nature and perception, metaphysics and epistemology, and gender and sexuality, foreshadowing a world in which biological tendencies bring about the downfall of humankind. The Nebula Award-winning short story "Love Is the Plan, the Plan Is Death", the Hugo Award-winning novella The Girl Who Was Plugged In, and the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novella Houston, Houston, Do You Read? are included.

The Mage-King of Wessex has passed away, and the stage is set for a battle royal: the richest mage in England versus the most powerful coven of witches. And Conrad finds himself in the middle. The struggle is a civilized one at first - Lord Mowbray and the Daughters of the Goddess meet for a conference in Mowbray’s Mage Palace of Pellacombe, with Conrad, Mina, and Saffron sent to see fair play. Until first tragedy and then murder plunge the staff kingdom of Wessex into a dangerous crisis, and Conrad has to draw on all his team’s powers and his own experience to avoid a bloodbath.

Hessa is an Eangi: a warrior priestess of the Goddess of War, with the power to turn an enemy's bones to dust with a scream. Banished for disobeying her goddess's command to murder a traveller, she prays for forgiveness alone on a mountainside. While she is gone, raiders raze her village and obliterate the Eangi priesthood. Grieving and alone, Hessa - the last Eangi - must find the traveller and atone for her weakness and secure her place with her loved ones in the High Halls.