Verlag: Edizioni Savine
An amazing novelet by Murray Leinster (Thrilling Wonder Stories, February 1947) Wonder Stories was an early American science fiction magazine which was published under several titles from 1929 to 1955.
On the run from assassins and worse, Wax and his friends cross the ice to a strange and deadly land. With several skars yet to find, the group heads to Tamas short on provisions and the means to buy them. Tamas has other ways of earning your stay, though, and what it costs may be more than Wax and Eujo can bear. Still, if they want to save their friends, their family, their world, the only answer is to play along. In the Dark Below, Ami plays a different game: keeping hope alive as more fiends crash into the isles and against a weakened Aegis. Desperate to untangle the mysteries behind the gods and these monsters, Ami takes a risk that could change everything, or destroy all she’s worked for. That same disaster befalls Gladdring, who balances his own survival in city where one’s life is measured by who he knows, what threats he can muster. The former Tenet finds knives in every corner, and if he means to survive, has to turn at least some against their owners. Success means vindication, a chance to put himself atop the shifting powers. Failure . . . no sense worrying about that miserable end. In The Dance of Gods, book five in The Seven Isles, legends meet their matches, steel clashes against monstrous terrors, and the fate of everyone rests on a single scene.Zum Buch
Richard MacBlair has all the answers Idina Moorfield needs and is finally willing to share them. Well, most of them. Who knew there was a whole special forces division? Dedicated to people exhibiting magical powers to deal with unique challenges? Things are starting to make a lot more sense to Idina. But a lot more changes may be coming her way. She has to face new challenges. A series of tests to determine if she's good enough for a new special forces group. Are there other monsters bigger and badder than the Olc out there? Has Richard taught her enough to help her advance? And stay alive.Zum Buch
Any war is made up of a horde of personal tragedies—but the greater picture is the tragedy of the death of a way of life. For a way of life—good, bad, or indifferent—exists because it is dearly loved....or at least that is the theory. Is freedom always a good thing? Is the act of destroying a way of life to spread 'freedom' something that is always wanted or desired, or is it just another brutal way of imposing slavery and a sad life on people who do not have any wish to change.Zum Buch
Willie's Planet by Mike Ellis - The most fitting place for a man to die is where he dies for man. Yet Willie chose a sterile, alien world that wouldn't even see a man for millions of years... Tom stood in front of the filtered porthole of the tiny cabin and soaked up the sunlight that came through. It felt good after ten months of deep space blackness. "By golly, Willie, this is luck," he said to the little man standing at the cabin's instruments, "our hundredth and last star, and it's an Earth type sun. How much difference is there from our sun?" Willie held the color chart up beside the spectrum screen. "Almost on. Couple of degrees difference." He tossed the chart on the desk and came to stand at Tom's side, the top of his head even with Tom's erect shoulder. His thin face was tense and worried. "Tom," he said, "I have a hunch about this star." He stared at the screen morosely. "I don't receive a thing," Tom chuckled, stretching his flat muscled arms to the low ceiling, his body making a triangle from his narrow hips to his wide shoulders. "What's the hunch?" "Ever have the feeling you'd been some place before when you'd actually never been there? I feel that about this star." Willie glanced at Tom with his bright blue eyes, then looked quickly away, a bit of a red flush high on his cheeks. "It's just because it's like our sun, that's all," Tom said. "No, it's not that, Tom. It's something else. I feel like we ought to get out of here. Maybe it's the planet." "Planet?" Tom said. "Yes," Willie said quietly, "an Earth type planet." "Earth type!" Tom shouted. "Ten thousand credits bonus! Get it on the screen, Willie. Let's see that spending money baby." Willie turned on the viewer. Dark and shadowy on one side, bright with blue-green color on the other, the planet floated on the screen. "The blue must be water and the green continents Damn, it's beautiful."Zum Buch
Lavinia Bellamy, young and rebellious, struggles to accept her parents' insistence on an arranged marriage. Unfortunately for young Vinnie, she's bound to fall victim to the social confines of Tesland, a country governed by a corrupt administration and catered to by a wealthy and dangerous young tech mogul. After time and circumstance ages her, Lavinia's trust in a seemingly charitable individual has a ripple effect that condemns the citizens of Tesland to civil unrest and suffering.Zum Buch
Trapped by privilege and bound by contract to marry a stranger, Helaine de Berzé feels like a caged bird in her own home. Haunted by secrets and surrounded by enemies in the guise of friendship, Helaine’s carefully controlled life shatters when betrayal strikes from within. Fleeing into the forbidden forest, she encounters the Wild Boy and the mythical unicorn he protects—beings of untamed magic who awaken her yearning for freedom and purpose. But Helaine’s escape is short-lived. When her father falls gravely ill, Father Robert—the family priest whose true agenda is hidden even from himself—demands she summon the unicorn to save him, even if it means sacrificing the legendary creature. As her people are gripped by fear of the plague, they too demand the unicorn’s death. Helaine is torn between loyalty to her family, the dictates of her heart, and her growing realization of the power she holds. With danger closing in from all sides, Helaine must decide whom to trust, how far she’ll go to protect those she loves, and whether she can ever return to the life she left behind.Zum Buch
