The fate of the world lies in their hands... Discover the magic, adventure and romance in award-winning author Christie Golden's The Final Dance Trilogy. Now, you can get all three books in one handy bundle: "On Fire's Wings," "In Stone's Clasp," and exclusively in eBook format, "Under Sea's Shadow."

A year after Natalie's husband died, another person is murdered in a similar fashion. As Natalie investigates, she finds that her suburban town of Oxrun Station, Connecticut holds many secrets.

Het is duizenden jaren na de val van God-Keizer Leto II die het rijk honderden generaties lang met strakke had regeerde om de mensheid over zijn "Gouden Weg" te loodsen zijn alternatief voor anarchie en verwoesting. Op zijn dood volgde de Verstrooiing van zjin voormalige onderdanen door het heelal. Van deze triljarden keren nu eindelijk kleine aantallen terug naar het uode rijk sterk veranderd, en er gaat een onbenoembare dreiging van hen uit. Sommigen hebben ginds blijkbaar nieuwe geestelijke vermogens verworven waarbij de "oude" mens in de schaduw komt te staan. De vrouwen van de Bene Gesserit en de fanatieke leven-kunstenaar van de Tleilaxu, twee gesloten genootschappen bijna zo oud als de geschiedenis, hebben zich allengs hersteld van de ontwrichtingen uit de onderworpen periode tijdens Leto II en strijden al met elkaar om het voortbestaan - aanvankelijk zonder zich goed te realiseren dat hun veranderde, vroegere soortgenoten die uit de Verstrooiing terugkeren, ook plannen hebben. Rakis - eens Arrakis of Duin, en opnieuw een woestijnwereld geworden waar de reusachtige zandwormen van eertijds onbetwist heersen - wordt het uiteindelijke strijdtoneel.

SUMMARY: 13 new stories about TESTING the bonds of fellowship on fantastical worlds The bonds of friendship and fellowship are key to many fine fantasy and science fiction novels, most notably Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring. Now top tale-spinners offer their own unique takes on fellowship in thirteen original stories, featuring a girl who finds her best friend through a portal to another world, an adventure on an alternate Earth where a not-quite Holmes and Watson take on a fascinating challenge, a group of urban mages playing the "True Game" for high stakes, a squire determined to help his master's ghost fulfill his final mission, and more. Together, these stories dramatically illustrate how fellowships can alter destiny and change worlds.

From Booklist

Well! Here's the definitive selection of the prolific and popular Harrison's short fiction. First, there is an autobiographical essay, but thereafter Harrison proffers one story for, if not necessarily from, each year of his career as a published writer. The topics are as wide-ranging as Harrison's interests and, in some cases, dislikes. "Rescue Operation" is an alien-contact classic. "Roommates" preaches on overpopulation and still tells a story. "The Man from P.I.G." and "Captain Honorario Harpplayer" display sardonic, even savage, humor. "The Robot Who Wanted to Know" gives us Harrison poaching in Asimov's territory. And so on across the gamut of Harrison's oeuvre. He has little use for the military and none for religion. His separate introductions to the stories can condescend to the major themes of sf, but this merely makes him the latest in the long list of those who write better fiction than nonfiction. Harrison has written well, even magnificently, and this volume contains some of his really good stuff. Roland Green
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

Review

“Definitive...Harrison has written well, even magnificently.” —_Booklist_

“Long overdue...Alternately thrilling and pensive, scary and hilarious, angry and accepting, Harrison’s fictions constitute one of the main monuments in modern SF.” —Paul Di Filippo, Scifi.com

SUMMARY: Jane Yellowrock is back on the prowl against the children of the night... The vampire council has hired skinwalker Jane Yellowrock to hunt and kill one of their own who has broken sacred ancient rules-but Jane quickly realizes that in a community that is thousands of years old, loyalties run deep...

From Library Journal

The conflict between the human Tanu and the reptilian Yilane reaches a climax as the two implacable enemies face each other in a battle for the destinies of their races. Harrison's conclusion to his alternate prehistory of Earth excels in its detailed depiction of an alien civilization that might have been. Recommended where the series is popular. JC
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Product Description

The rousing conclusion of an epic trilogy! In WEST OF EDEN and WINTER IN EDEN, master novelist Harry Harrison broke new ground with his most ambitious project ever. He brought to vivid life the world as it might have been, where dinosaurs survived, where their intelligent descendants, the Yilane, challenged humans for mastery of the Earth, and where the human Kerrick, a young hunter of the Tanu tribe, grew among the dinosaurs and rose to become their most feared enemy. Now, in RETURN TO EDEN, Harrison brings the epic trilogy to a stunning conclusion. After Kerrick rescues his people from the warlike Yilane, they find a safe haven on an island and there begin to rebuild their shattered lives. But with fierce predators stalking the forests, how long can these unarmed human outeasts hope to survive? And, of course, Kerrick cannot forget Vainte, his implacable Yilane enemy. She's been cast out from her kind, under sentence of death, but how long will her banishment last? For her strange attraction to Kerrick has turned into a halred even more powerful than her instinets - an obsession that compels her to hunt down Kerrick and kill him.

On the distant planet Dreenor lives the most powerful species in the Galaxy. All of the Universe is the creation of the Dreens, who possess the power of "idmaging", turning their throughts into reality. They can create whole worlds, of which the wild, ungovernable planet Earth is one. But suddenly Earth is a threat, its people on the verge of discovering interstellar travel, and with it, of gaining access to Dreenor itself - a paradox within a paradox, not to be permitted. While the elder Dreens plan Earth's destruction, a youngster, Ryll, embarks on an unauthorised jaunt across space. Forced for survival to merge bodies with an Earther whose mind is as strong as his own, he has to battle for control. And the future of all earthly life lies in the hand of a composite being, half wily, aggressive human, half naive adolescent alien, confused and far from home..

In the conclusion to the best-selling Wizard of 4th Street series, an unlikely alliance of three avatars, supported by the entire U.S. military of the future, faces the strongest and most dangerous of necromancers, the Dark Ones. Original.

Review

"Modesitt provides the very best in science fiction--thrilling adventure viewed through the crucible of the human spirit."-Romantic Times

Product Description

L. E. Modesitt, Jr's first major work was a trilogy of SF adventure novels published as paperback originals in the 1980s: Dawn for a Distant Earth, The Silent Warrior, and In Endless Twilight. Together they form The Forever Hero.

Thousands of years in the future, Earth is a desolate ruin. The first human ship to return in millennia discovers an abandoned wasteland inhabited only by a few degenerate or mutated human outcasts. But among them is a boy of immense native intelligence and determination who is captured, taken in, and educated, and disappears--to grow up to become the force behind a plan to make Earth flower again. He is, if not immortal, at least very long-lived, and he plans to build an independent power base out in the galaxy and force the galactic empire to devote centuries and immense resources to the restoration of the ecology of Earth.

Review

"Modesitt provides the very best in science fiction--thrilling adventure viewed through the crucible of the human spirit."-Romantic Times

Product Description

L. E. Modesitt, Jr's first major work was a trilogy of SF adventure novels published as paperback originals in the 1980s: Dawn for a Distant Earth, The Silent Warrior, and In Endless Twilight. Together they form The Forever Hero.

Thousands of years in the future, Earth is a desolate ruin. The first human ship to return in millennia discovers an abandoned wasteland inhabited only by a few degenerate or mutated human outcasts. But among them is a boy of immense native intelligence and determination who is captured, taken in, and educated, and disappears--to grow up to become the force behind a plan to make Earth flower again. He is, if not immortal, at least very long-lived, and he plans to build an independent power base out in the galaxy and force the galactic empire to devote centuries and immense resources to the restoration of the ecology of Earth.

Review

"Modesitt provides the very best in science fiction--thrilling adventure viewed through the crucible of the human spirit."-Romantic Times

Product Description

L. E. Modesitt, Jr's first major work was a trilogy of SF adventure novels published as paperback originals in the 1980s: Dawn for a Distant Earth, The Silent Warrior, and In Endless Twilight. Together they form The Forever Hero.

Thousands of years in the future, Earth is a desolate ruin. The first human ship to return in millennia discovers an abandoned wasteland inhabited only by a few degenerate or mutated human outcasts. But among them is a boy of immense native intelligence and determination who is captured, taken in, and educated, and disappears--to grow up to become the force behind a plan to make Earth flower again. He is, if not immortal, at least very long-lived, and he plans to build an independent power base out in the galaxy and force the galactic empire to devote centuries and immense resources to the restoration of the ecology of Earth.

The planet Llanthor's axis is perpendicular to the sun, so half the world is extremely hot and the other half cold. One of the human inhabitants, Manvar, dreams of leaving the frozen northern half for the more temperate regions near the planet's equator.

Product Description

This omnibus contains two novels by L.E. Modesitt that comprise a larger story unit, Timedivers Dawn and The Timegod (expanded from his first novel, The Fires of Paratime). They were formerly published in mass market original form and are now combined and published together for the first time, in trade paperback. They are somewhat reminiscent of the Change War stories of Fritz Lieber, and although they are science fiction, they contain intriguing connections to the fantasy universe of Modesitts Recluce novels.

About the Author

L.E. Modesitt, Jr., is the bestselling author of the fantasy series The Saga of Recluce. His science fiction includes Adiamante, the Ecolitan novels, and Archform: Beauty. He lives in Cedar City, Utah.

SUMMARY: Un rien qui dérape et nous voilà plongés dans un monde, le nôtre, soudain menaçant. Accablé d'une crainte sans nom, l'homme vit dans une tragédie. On l'a vu dans Paranoïa, le premier volet de cette série de nouvelles. Ici, les choses parcourues de secrètes vibrations deviennent brutalement étrangères. Objet familier comme cette divine machine à traitement de texte dotée de pouvoirs surnaturels... Engin maléfique, ce camion sournois, mastodonte aux instincts meurtriers, qui avance sans en avoir l'air... Partout l'ombre de la mort plane. Quand elle ne rôde pas dans le Chenal, elle se perd dans les profondeurs vides d'un miroir, silhouette à capuchon, à l'image de la Faucheuse qui tranche le fil de nos vies à tous.

Beschrijving De scherpschutter ploetert voort door een geheimzinnige wereld. Hij wil maar één ding: wraak. Zijn doelwit, de man in het zwart, vlucht voor hem uit door een helse woestijn avn zout en dodelijk kruid. Maar wordt hij wel opgejaagd? Of wordt de jager meegelokt naar waar zijn prooi hem hebben wil... Recensie(s) NBD|Biblion recensie De Scherpschutter is de laatste overlevende van een verdwenen rijk. Hij wil wraak op de Man in het Zwart en achtervolgt die door een geheimzinnige woestijn waar allerlei vreemde natuurelementen hem tegenhouden. Geholpen door de jongen Jake, vindt hij de man in het Zwart: dit wordt een confrontatie met zichzelf en zijn verleden... Dit is het eerste deel uit de Donkere Toren-cyclus van Stephen King, de 'meest verkopende schrijver aller tijden', wiens horror-romans bijna allemaal verfilmd zijn. Als fantasyschrijver produceert King in dit boek een aantal boeiende taferelen, maar geen coherente wereld. Hij weet dit blijkbaar zelf, want in zijn nawoord verdedigt hij zich: hoe de cyclus verder zal gaan, weet hij nog niet, maar hij moèst dit eerste deel schrijven. En dat is een western met fantasy-invloeden, alleen voor fervente King-liefhebbers. Ondertussen zijn twee vervolgen hierop verschenen, "Het teken van drie" en "Het verloren rijk". Pocketeditie; normale druk. (Biblion recensie, Bob van Laerhoven.)