tor publishing group feb 2020 (8 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Kristen Simmons, the author of the Article 5 series and Metaltown, brings her remarkable imagination to this intrigue-filled contemporary drama where good kids are needed to do some very bad things in The Deceivers. An Anthony Award Nominee for Best Young Adult Novel!Welcome to Vale Hall, the school for aspiring con artists. When Brynn Hilder is recruited to Vale, it seems like the elite academy is her chance to start over, away from her mom's loser boyfriend and her rundown neighborhood. But she soon learns that Vale chooses students not so much for their scholastic talent as for their extracurricular activities, such as her time spent conning rich North Shore kids out of their extravagant allowances. At first, Brynn jumps at the chance to help the school in its mission to rid the city of corrupt officials-because what could be better than giving entitled jerks what they deserve But that's before she meets her mark-a senator's son-and before she discovers the school's headmaster has secrets he'll stop at nothing to protect. As the lines between right and wrong blur, Brynn begins to realize she's in way over head.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Die letzte Schlacht rückt immer näherIn einer Welt aus Licht und Schatten, wo das Gute und das Böse einst einen ewigen Krieg begannen, versucht Rand al'Thor, seiner Bestimmung als »Wiedergeborener Drache« gerecht zu werden. Doch der Winter kehrt zurück und legt sich kalt um Rands Herz. Während die junge Elayne Anspruch auf den Thron von Andor erhebt, wird die Situation für Mat in Ebou Dar durch die Invasion der Seanchaner immer brenzliger. Doch die Königin hat ihn zu ihrem Geliebten erwählt und weigert sich, ihn ziehen zu lassen .

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Aus den Nebeln der Zeit erhebt sich eine düstere Macht .Rand al'Thor, der Wiedergeborene Drache, hat die Bestimmung die Völker im Krieg gegen die Fintsernis zu einen. Nun bricht er nach Illian auf, um den Verlorenen Sammael vom Thron zu stoßen. Indessen versuchen seine Vertrauten Elayne, Aviendha und Mat, der Schale der Winde habhaft zu werden, welche die Macht besitzt, das vom Dunklen manipulierte Wetter wieder ins Gleichgewicht zu bringen .

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A legend of Space Opera is back with Knight, the second book in New York Times bestselling author Timothy Zahn's Sibyl's War series.Nicole Hammond was just trying to survive on the streets of Philadelphia, then she and her partner Bungie were abducted by a race of mysterious moth-like aliens and taken to a strange ship called the Fyrantha.Now she is a Sibyl, a special human that has the ability to communicate with the aliens and their ship, and no one is happy. Competing factions control different parts of the Fyrantha with the humans and other sentient aliens caught in the middle. But Nicole is done being bullied, and now she has a plan to take control of the ship. She just has to outsmart war profiteers and slavers to do it.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Winner of the 2020 Hugo Award for Best NovelA Locus, and Nebula Award nominee for 2019A Best Book of 2019: Library Journal, Polygon, Den of GeekAn NPR Favorite Book of 2019A Guardian Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of 2019 and 'Not the Booker Prize' NomineeA Goodreads Biggest SFF Book of 2019 and Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee'A Memory Called Empire perfectly balances action and intrigue with matters of empire and identity. All around brilliant space opera, I absolutely love it.'-Ann Leckie, author of Ancillary JusticeAmbassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely independent mining Station, has died. But no one will admit that his death wasn't an accident-or that Mahit might be next to die, during a time of political instability in the highest echelons of the imperial court.Now, Mahit must discover who is behind the murder, rescue herself, and save her Station from Teixcalaan's unceasing expansion-all while navigating an alien culture that is all too seductive, engaging in intrigues of her own, and hiding a deadly technological secret-one that might spell the end of her Station and her way of life-or rescue it from annihilation.A fascinating space opera debut novel, Arkady Martine's A Memory Called Empire is an interstellar mystery adventure.'The most thrilling ride ever. This book has everything I love.'-Charlie Jane Anders, author of All the Birds in the SkyAnd coming soon, the brilliant sequel, A Desolation Called Peace!

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST!Charlie Jane Anders, the nationally bestselling author of All the Birds in the Sky delivers a brilliant new novel set in a hauntingly strange future with #10 LA Times bestseller The City in the Middle of the Night.WOULD YOU GIVE UP EVERYTHING TO CHANGE THE WORLD Humanity clings to life on January-a colonized planet divided between permanently frozen darkness on one side, and blazing endless sunshine on the other.Two cities, built long ago in the meager temperate zone, serve as the last bastions of civilization-but life inside them is just as dangerous as the uninhabitable wastelands outside.Sophie, a young student from the wrong side of Xiosphant city, is exiled into the dark after being part of a failed revolution. But she survives-with the help of a mysterious savior from beneath the ice.Burdened with a dangerous, painful secret, Sophie and her ragtag group of exiles face the ultimate challenge-and they are running out of time.WELCOME TO THE CITY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT 'Like a classic from another timeline. this book has notes of Ursula K. Le Guin and Phillip Pullman.' -Robin Sloan, author of Sourdough.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A 2021 Hugo Award Finalist!A 2021 Locus Award Finalist!A 2020 ALA Booklist Top 10 SF/F Pick!A Booklist Editor's Choice Pick!Book Riot's Best Books of 2020 So Far!Named a Best of 2020 Pick for NPR | NYPL | Booklist | Bustle | Den of GeekIn Upright Women Wanted, award-winning author Sarah Gailey reinvents the pulp Western with an explicitly antifascist, near-future story of queer identity.'That girl's got more wrong notions than a barn owl's got mean looks.'Esther is a stowaway. She's hidden herself away in the Librarian's book wagon in an attempt to escape the marriage her father has arranged for her-a marriage to the man who was previously engaged to her best friend. Her best friend who she was in love with. Her best friend who was just executed for possession of resistance propaganda. The future American Southwest is full of bandits, fascists, and queer librarian spies on horseback trying to do the right thing.Praise for Upright Women Wanted'A good old-fashioned horse opera for the 22nd century. Gunslinger librarians of the apocalypse are on a mission to spread public health, decency, and the revolution.'-Charles Stross 'A dazzling neo-western adventure. . . . Gailey's gorgeous writing and authentic characters make this slim volume a pure delight.'-Publishers Weekly, starred review.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the internationally bestselling author of the Mars Trilogy and New York 2140 Before Kim Stanley Robinson terraformed Mars, he wrote three science fiction novels set in Orange County, California, where he grew up. These alternate futures-one a post-apocalypse, one an if-this-goes-on future reminiscent of Philip K. Dick, and one an ecological utopia-form a whole that illuminates, enchants, and inspires--collected here as Three Californias.What if. there was a limited nuclear war that left the United States blockaded, fragmented, the few survivors living in the ruins of a once-great nation What if. this goes on, and technology continues to accelerate, and power continues to be consolidated into corporate culture, a developer's dream world gone mad: an endless sprawl of condos, freeways, and malls, and designer drugs What if. a revolution happens, and the US addresses climate change in a responsible way. Is a future green Utopia all that great when you're young and in love This Tor Essentials edition of Three Californias includes an introduction by Francis Spufford, bestselling author of Golden Hill and Red Plenty.'[Robinson] invites us to share his characters' intensely personal, intensely local attachment to what they have. The result may shame you into entertaining new hope for the future.'-The New York Times on Pacific Edge.