Acorn publishing jun 2020 (2 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Kelgan Defthand is accustomed to being top dog at the Academy of Magic as Senior Apprentice Mage. Compared to his peers, he's faster, more skillful, and well aware of it, but when he finds himself beset by fearful voices that come in the night, his confidence is shaken. Adding to his worries, Kelgan is summoned to Headmaster Sargal's presence - it looks like he's really in trouble. To his bewilderment, he finds he's being sent on a 'mission' with two hostile-seeming aristocratic twins, Neroma and Nevander Di Nerrill. Upon embarking on the mission, Kelgan soon realizes the world outside the cloistered Academy is a bit different than he imagined. First of all, there seems to be women doing magic! Secondly, he's not the only one hearing voices. Following a strange compulsion, Kelgan and the twins find themselves seeking the source of the voices, hoping to put an end to it. The fateful journey tests Kelgan's underdeveloped skills to the limit, and completing the mission could come at an unbearable cost to both to him and his companions. Once Kelgan accepts the challenge of Magehood, there's no going back.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The year is 2044. Housed in a secret complex beneath the eastern Arizona desert, a consortium of governments and corporations have undertaken a program on the scale of the Manhattan Project to bludgeon the laws of physics into submission and make time travel a reality. Fraught with insecurities, Marshall Grissom has spent his whole life trying not to call attention to himself, so he can't imagine he would be remotely suited for the role of time travel pioneer. He's even less enthusiastic about this corporate time-travel adventure when he learns that nudity is a job requirement. The task would better match the talents of candidates like the smart and beautiful Sheila Schuler, or the bristle-tough and rattlesnake-mean Marta Hamilton. As the project evolves into a clash between science and corporate greed, conflicts escalate. Those contributing the funding are mostly interested in manipulating time travel for profit, and will stop at nothing, including murder, to achieve their goals. …