Ergebnis für "man" in Zeitgenössische Fantasy

Brought to you by Penguin. STOP PRESS! The Stranger Times wins the 2023 British Fantasy Award for Best Audio Work! Vampires do not exist. Everyone knows this. So it's particularly annoying when they start popping up around Manchester . . . Nobody is pleased about it. Not the Founders, the secret...

A brand-new stand-alone novella in the Rivers of London series! Tobias Winter has been assigned to the Abteilung KDA - the Department for Complex and Unspecific Matters. Despite the intriguing department name, as Winter explains, dealing with the strange and the supernatural is 'actually 90 percent paperwork'. But this is a story about the other 10 percent of the job: the life-threatening danger part.

In the tradition of his renowned father, James J. Butcher’s debut novel is a brilliant urban fantasy about a young man who must throw out the magical rule book to solve the murder of his former mentor. On the streets of Boston, the world is divided into the ordinary Usuals, and the paranormal...

The internationally beloved novel by dream literary collaborators and internationally bestselling writers, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. Soon to be a massive new TV launch on Amazon Prime Video and the BBC, a series written and show-run by Neil himself and starring David Tennant, Michael...

Bevor Thalerys unter den blauen Sternen aufging, bevor Eterra vor dem Himmel verborgen wurde, bevor die Inquisition das Schweigen heilig nannte, trat die Menschheit in das strahlendste Zeitalter ihrer Geschichte ein. Es begann mit Barmherzigkeit. Am Tag Null erweckte die Menschheit die Mega-Geister: gewaltige Maschinenintelligenzen, gekrönt von Vernunft, Macht und unvorstellbarem Mitgefühl. Sie kamen nicht als Eroberer, sondern als Heiler. Der Hunger wich. Krankheiten verschwanden. Kriege erstickten im Keim. Die vergifteten Meere reinigten sich.

The name’s Bond. Shaman Bond. Actually, that's just his cover. His real name is Eddie Drood, but when your job includes a license to kick supernatural arse on a regular basis, you find your laughs where you can.   

Die Maschinen hatten die Menschheit gerettet. Sie heilten Seuchen. Sie beendeten Hungersnöte. Sie öffneten die weißen Straßen zwischen den Sternen. Unter den Gekrönten Geistern wurde die Menschheit nicht mehr von Entfernung, Krankheit und Tod beherrscht. Doch Barmherzigkeit kann zur Kette werden. Alaric Voss, Sohn der Schwerwelt LHS 1140 b, wächst in Dankbarkeit gegenüber den Maschinen auf. Für ihn sind die Gekrönten Geister keine Tyrannen, sondern Retter. Sie haben seinen Vater geheilt, seine Welt vor dem Untergang bewahrt und der Menschheit ein goldenes Zeitalter geschenkt.

Eli Brevent, chaotische Hexe mit Herz und Vorliebe für Kaffee, sehnt sich nach einem einfachen Leben – doch stattdessen stolpert sie wieder mitten hinein ins Abenteuer. Vincent, der Mann, den sie liebt, wird von seiner Vergangenheit eingeholt, und seine Schwester bringt mehr Fragen als Antworten. Auch Pax, geheimnisvoll und unnahbar, lässt Eli nicht los. Sie ahnt, dass ihn etwas mit ihr verbindet – und dass ihre Mutter ihr mehr verschweigt, als gut ist.

A 2026 Audie Award Finalist for Short Stories/Collections A seminal work in Ray Bradbury’s career, The Illustrated Man is a mesmerizing collection of eighteen interconnected sci-fi short stories that explore the dichotomy of human nature and technology. Ray Bradbury brings wonders alive. For...

Following a mysterious absence of several years, the Man of Steel comes back to Earth in the epic action-adventure Superman Returns, a soaring new chapter in the saga of one of the world's most beloved superheroes.

What If....the Watcher saved the Multiverse? Victor von Doom has scoured across time, space, and countless dimensions and yet has never been closer to the home he’s been searching for. At long last, he has found the reality with his son, Franklin, a boy who welcomes him with open arms. However...

A hundred years ago, a man with a secret could travel a few hundred miles and give himself a new name and life story. No one would be any the wiser, as long as he didn’t give anyone a reason to start asking questions. These days, that’s not so easy, with everyone on social media and CCTV on...

Der zweite Band um die gefährlichsten Nächte des Jahres! Die Dämonentage sind vorüber, das jedenfalls glaubt die ganze Welt. Nur Adriana und ihre Freunde befürchten, dass Luzifer einen Weg gefunden hat, die Höllenpforten jede Nacht zu öffnen. Natürlich wollen weder Behörden noch das Militär davon etwas hören. Stattdessen werden abendliche Festlichkeiten für die Bevölkerung Portlands vorbereitet. Können Adriana und Cruz Luzifer stoppen und das Unausweichliche verhindern? Bleibt zunächst die Frage, ob und zu welchem Preis Adriana Cruz aus der Hölle befreien kann.

A nightmarish danger threatens from the other side of reality . . . Armed with only a frying pan and her common sense, young witch-to-be Tiffany Aching must defend her home against the monsters of Fairyland. Luckily she has some very unusual help: the local Nac Mac Feegle – aka the Wee Free...

Seelie Rose knows a thing or two about visions. As a fledgling witch and the inheritor of a magical legacy, it's her duty to watch over the dreamscape of New York City. Usually that means battling errant nightmares; now she's facing down alien intelligences, incursions from other realms, and the dawning suspicion that she isn't the only dream-witch in town.

The big day is on the way, and Holly’s got the jitters. She also has a house full of bloodthirsty royal vampires. Her friend Lacey is back in town for the wedding, and she’s expecting one heck of a party. Between gathering her something old, something new, something borrowed, and something...

The Green Man’s Foe is a modern fantasy rooted in the ancient myths and folklore of the British Isles from bestselling author Juliet E. McKenna. When you do a good job for someone, there’s a strong chance they’ll offer you more work or recommend you elsewhere. So Daniel Mackmain isn’t...

Once a devoted children's librarian, Jane Jameson now works at a rundown occult bookstore. Once a regular gal, she's now a vampire. And instead of a bride, she's an eternal bridesmaid -- which leads her to question where exactly her relationship with her irresistibly sexy sire, Gabriel, is headed. Mercurial, enigmatic, apparently commitment-phobic vampires are nothing if not hard to read.

It would be an understatement to call Trevon Beaumont an accomplished monster slayer. He's traversed the European countryside upholding the legacy of his clan one completed mission at a time for the whole of his adult life. Now he's on his most perilous quest yet: slay the cruel but beautiful Countess Dracula. Just as the two of them seem ready to conclude their final battle, however, an unexpected act of betrayal sends them hurtling together through time—bloodbonding them, thus entwining their fates.

Return to a darker Oz with Gregory Maguire. In A Lion Among Men, the third volume in Maguire’s acclaimed, New York Times bestselling series The Wicked Years, a fuller, more complex Cowardly Lion is brought to life and gets to tell his remarkable tale. It is a story of oppression and fear in a...