Ergebnis für "Victory City" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Südindien im 14. Jahrhundert: Die neunjährige Waise Pampa Kampana wird von der Göttin Parvati auserkoren, ihre menschliche Hülle und ihr Sprachrohr in die Welt zu sein. Im Auftrag der Göttin erschafft Pampa aus einer Handvoll Samen eine Stadt: Bisnaga – Victory City, das Wunder der Welt. All ihr Handeln beruht auf der großen Aufgabe, die ihr die Göttin gestellt hat: den Frauen in einer patriarchalen Welt eine gleichberechtigte Rolle zu geben. Aber die Schöpfungsgeschichte Bisnagas nimmt mehr und mehr ihren eigenen Lauf.

In the wake of an insignificant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history. After witnessing the death of her mother, the grief-stricken Pampa Kampana becomes a vessel for the goddess Parvati, who begins to speak out of the girl's mouth. Granting her powers beyond Pampa Kampana's comprehension, the goddess tells her that she will be instrumental in the rise of a great city called Bisnaga - literally 'victory city' - the wonder of the world.

In the wake of an unimportant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history. After witnessing the death of her mother, the grief-stricken Pampa Kampana becomes a vessel for a goddess, who begins to speak out of the girl’s mouth. Granting her powers beyond Pampa Kampana’s comprehension, the goddess tells her that she will be instrumental in the rise of a great city called Bisnaga—“victory city”—the wonder of the world.

The Dacian kingdom and Rome are at peace, but no one thinks that it will last. Sent to command an isolated fort beyond the Danube, centurion Flavius Ferox can sense that war is coming but also knows that enemies may be closer to home. Many of the Brigantes under his command are former rebels and convicts, as likely to kill him as obey an order. And then there is Hadrian, the emperor's cousin, and a man with plans of his own.

A raíz de una insignificante batalla entre dos reinos anclados en el olvido de la India del siglo XIV, una niña de nueve años tieneun inesperado encuentro que cambiará el curso de la historia. Tras presenciar la muerte de su madre, la niña, Pampa Kampana, seconvierteen receptáculo de una diosa que empieza a hablar por su boca. La diosa le otorga poderes que escapan a la comprensión de PampaKampana y le confía que vaaser fundamental en la erección de una gran ciudad llamada Bisnaga, literalmente “ciudad de la victoria”, la maravilla del mundo.

On an Earth where chimps are the psychic slaves of the human race, he has begun to rattle the cage. Follow Victory Chimp as he moves from adolescence to adolescence to adolescence across the multiverse. Victory Chimp and Occula battle the immortal Chon as wave upon wave of illusion and pain conspire to imprison them within time's dominion. One Earth awaits Victory Chimp's return. Will he survive?