Ergebnis für "The Last Man" in Fantasy

In the gleaming vertical city of Eterra, beauty is not decoration—it is doctrine. White corridors curve beneath false heavens. Stars burn in mathematically perfect constellations. Every surface is polished, every voice measured, every truth sealed beneath layers of civic silence. For generations the ruling regime has hidden a living force beneath the living crust of their world: an ancient, breathing presence so vast that their ancestors chose to build an entire civilization as its cage.

The Wandering Inn has a princess who solves problems rather than creates them, and her name is Lyonette. Yet what happens when the innkeeper returns to manage her inn? Lyonette must learn to be a good employee rather than manage everything herself, and sharing power is never easy.... Nor is it ever simple in war, but that is where Geneva Scala remains. In bloodier and increasingly brutal battlefields, The Last Light of Baleros is now growing in fame, but there is no future there. 

Brought to you by Penguin. The audiobook of The Last Continent is read by Colin Morgan (Merlin; Testament of Youth; Belfast). BAFTA and Golden Globe award-winning actor Bill Nighy (Love Actually; Pirates of the Caribbean; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) reads the footnotes, and Peter...

Brought to you by Penguin. The first book in the epic Masters of Rome series. Rome. 110BC. A city which is home to Gaius Marius, prosperous but lowborn, a proud and disciplined soldier emboldened by his shrewdness and self-made wealth. It is also home to Lucius Cornelius Sulla, a handsome young...

What happens when a society decides that survival depends on narrowing the truth? In the towering prison-city of Eterra, order is maintained not through spectacle or open brutality, but through clean hands, quiet rooms, and the careful rationing of reality. Truth is never simply forbidden. It is measured, softened, corrected, and distributed only in forms the population can survive. Seran has been raised to believe in that system. A rising young doctrinal officer, Seran is disciplined, intelligent, and disturbingly good at his work.

The Last Architect of EterraBook One of The Eterra CycleBeneath the iron tiers of Eterra, in the starving dark below the city’s polished heights, survival is not a right. It is a ration. Aelit has spent her life hiding what she is. In the lowest levels of the Megapolis, where children disappear, workers vanish into dust-choked corridors, and obedience is enforced with mechanical cruelty, one mistake is enough to condemn a person forever.

Margaret Atwood puts the human heart to the ultimate test in an utterly brilliant new novel that is as visionary as The Handmaid's Tale and as richly imagined as The Blind Assassin. Stan and Charmaine are a married couple trying to stay afloat in the midst of an economic and social collapse. Job...

The first book In the Leybound series. A gritty epic fantasy novel from Peter Roberts that will throw you into a world embroiled in war, where the battlefield is a crucible for men and magic.

SIE IST EINE KÄMPFERIN, EINE ZERSTÖRERIN UND SO VIEL MEHR. Die Welt liegt im Sterben, überall lauern übernatürliche Kreaturen – und Kai kann sich an absolut nichts erinnern. Sie weiß nur, dass sie ihr gestohlenes Amulett zurückholen muss, ohne das sie sich taub und leer fühlt. Als sie in einem Dorf auf den attraktiven Schmied Jadon trifft, bietet dieser ihr nicht nur seine Hilfe an, sondern zieht sie auch in seinen Bann.

'Addictive, propulsive, and unputdownable . . . A thunderously great read' Joe Hill, Number One New York Times bestselling author 'A violent and intense grimdark tale in a dark fantasy world' Grimdark Magazine 'No Man's Land delivers on every front. It's a refreshingly original action-packed...

In a world where magic is forgotten, monsters lurk in the dark woods, and honorable soldiers are few, this utterly gripping epic fantasy tells the story of an out-of-practice wizard and a hot-headed sargent who are thrust into the heart of a mystery that threatens to unravel their kingdom's...

エテラそれは錆びた鉄沈黙そして忘却の上に築かれた世界陽光はもはや神話となり都市は空へ伸びる代わりに疲れ果てた石と腐食した金属の層となって地下へ地下へと食い込んでいく下層区画に生きる者たちは秩序の名のもとに呼吸し監視され黙らされ使い潰される異端審問庁と偽りの神が支配するこの世界では沈黙こそが生存の条件だったアエリトはその沈黙を十年前に叩き込まれた幼い夜彼女は父を奪われた自分の内に眠る危険な力火花が目覚めた瞬間番人たちが現れ彼女の人生は壊された以来アエリトは他人の記録死んだ名前忘れ去られた身分を渡り歩きながらセクターゼロの片隅で息を潜めて生き延びてきた異常体として狩られぬように自分自身の力に呑み込まれぬようにだが埋もれたはずの遺物は失われていなかった忘れられたはずの歴史もまだ死んではいなかったひとつの音叉抹消された記録封じられた防護壕虚無の番人そして地の底へ続く古い道やがてアエリトは粗野だが捨てきれない良心を持つロナン危険な知識に魅せられたケイル世界を“音”として見るサイラそして深部に眠る太古の力と結びついた存在たちとともにエテラの内部へと降りていくそこに広がっているのは単なる廃墟ではない都市の下に葬られた文明の残骸壊れた秩序の根世界の骨組みそのものに触れる建築沈黙の底で脈打ち続ける惑星の生きた記憶下へ進むほど真実は残酷になる異端審問庁が恐れていたものは何だったのかなぜ火花は禁じられた

L. E. Modesitt, Jr., New York Times bestselling fantasy author, continues his sweeping Saga of Recluce series and concludes his four book story arc (From the Forest, Overcaptain, and Sub-Majer's Challenge). The Mirror Lancer Alyiakal has been ordered to Mirror Lancer Headquarters and promoted to...

The gateway between past and present has opened, and evil forces of enormous power are unleashed. To close the gateway, the Sword of God must be found, and all that is known is that it shines in the clouds above the City of Beasts - a city ruled by the Dark Queen. Only one man can stand at the gateway of time - Jon Shannow, the Last Guardian. The hunters from his past who seek his death are but the first obstacle.

Nyssa Volari is dying. But that is impossible, because she is a Soulblight vampire, blessed by Nagash with blood-fuelled immortality. More than that, Nyssa is a fighter – one of the handful of Kastelai vampires not dissolved into true death when the Crimson Keep abandoned them a century ago. With her blades and her will, she carved a kingdom out of the Broken Plains of Aqshy. These things matter little, for Nyssa's blood is cursed. It destroyed the vampire she called father, and as it threatens to do the same to her, Nyssa's allies abandon her one by one.

The sky has opened. For the first time in living memory, the people of Eterra have seen the truth above them—and the truth is more terrible than the lie. Aelit and her companions shattered the ancient lock that held their world in darkness. They broke the Dome, destroyed the governing power of Sector Zero, and gave the buried city its first glimpse of the stars. But freedom does not arrive gently.

As soon as I open my eyes, I know that something’s wrong. The last thing I remember was being cryogenically frozen, but now I was in a strange room, surrounded by advanced technology I had never seen before. My confusion only grew as I explored this new world—a future that was nothing like I ever could have imagined.

Explore three visionary science fiction stories from Philip K. Dick in Mutants, Aliens, and Dystopian Futures. Featuring The Golden Man, The Last of the Masters, and Beyond Lies the Wub, this collection blends strange evolution, alien encounters, rebellion, and unsettling visions of humanity’s...

"For the First Men, the end was only the beginning." Journey into the staggering imagination of Olaf Stapledon in this first volume of the definitive future history of mankind. Narrated by Luke Meinier Dalofin, Part 1 of Last and First Men chronicles the twilight of the First Men—the humans of...

Ryiah's world was shattered the night she discovered King Blayne's nefarious plans. Now, she has to betray the one she loves most in order to save the realm from war. Torn between love and duty, Ry finds herself on a perilous mission to help the rebels and convince the kingdom of Pythus not to honor its pact with the corrupt king of Jerar - all the while deceiving the most powerful mage in the realm, the very man sworn to protect the Crown and hunt the rebels at all costs: her husband.