Tor publishing group dez 2012 (2 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The inspiration for the HBO original series DUNE: PROPHECY, coming Fall 2024!It is 83 years after the last thinking machines were destroyed in the Battle of Corrin, after Faykan Butler took the name of Corrino and established himself as the first Emperor of a new Imperium.The war hero Vorian Atreides has turned his back on politics and Salusa Secundus. The descendants of the disgraced Abulurd Harkonnen have sworn vengeance against Vor, blaming him for the downfall of their noble family.Raquella Berto-Anirul has formed the Bene Gesserit School and, through a terrible ordeal, has become the first Reverend Mother.The descendants of Aurelius Venport and Norma Cenva use mutated, spice-saturated Navigators who fly precursors of Heighliners.And Gilbertus Albans, ward of the hated thinking machine Erasmus, is teaching humans to become Mentats.while hiding an unbelievable secret.Led by the fanatic Manford Torondo, the Butlerian movement, fiercely opposed to all forms of 'dangerous technology,' sweeps across the known universe in mobs, millions strong, destroying everything in its path.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Hailed as 'one of the literary giants of SF' by the Denver Post, Gene Wolfe has repeatedly won the field's highest honors, including the Nebula, the Hugo, and the World Fantasy awards. Peace is Gene Wolfe's first full-length novel, a work that shows the genius that later flourished in such acclaimed works as The Fifth Head of Cerberus and The Book of The New Sun. Originally published in 1975, Peace is a spellbinding, brilliant tour de force of the imagination. The melancholy memoir of Alden Dennis Weer, an embittered old man living out his last days in a small midwestern town, the novel reveals a miraculous dimension as the narrative unfolds. For Weer's imagination has the power to obliterate time and reshape reality, transcending even death itself. Powerfully moving and uncompromisingly honest, Peace ranks alongside the finest literary works of our time.…