Ergebnis für "The Old Knowledge" in Literatur & Belletristik

Around three and a half thousand years ago, members of a small community of Bronze Age people spent several days away from their usual activities of farming, hunting, weaving and food processing in order to construct a burial mound.

After fleeing from the destruction of Vamont, Salvos splits from her companions to begin her quest for knowledge and power. She will study under both Fairykind and Humankind, if necessary, to learn the skills she needs to reunite with her first companion. Meanwhile, Daniel shall have to face his past, while Edithe will continue her fight in the bloody company war between the Valiant Dreamers and Iron Champions. Alone and without her companions, Salvos will have no choice but to adapt and overcome these new obstacles that bar her path to her goal.

This first collection of tales by Rosalie Parker contains eight stories that explore the uncanny in the modern world. As Glen Cavaliero observes in his introduction, "like all good stories of the preternatural, these in The Old Knowledge have a subversive effect." In them, "the world of logical, predictable reality is seen to be at risk from rejected modes of knowledge which can thwart the materialist and victimise those innocents who stumble into another order of reality."

Beautiful, brilliant, and dangerous, Morn Hyland is an ex-police officer for the United Mining Companies - and the target of two ruthless, powerful men. One is the charismatic ore-pirate Nick Succorso, who sees Morn as booty wrested from his vicious rival, Angus Thermopyle. Thermopyle once made the mistake of underestimating Morn and now he's about to pay the ultimate price. Both men think they can possess her, but Morn is no one's trophy - and no one's pawn. Meanwhile, within the borders of Forbidden Space, wait the Amnioin, an alien race capable of horrific atrocities....

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