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A carregar... The Wild Machines : The Book Of Ash No. 3 (1999)por Mary Gentle
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Mary Gentle's Ash quartet is one of the best fantasy series anywhere. This alternate history of 15th century Europe from France to Carthage has a woman warrior as hero and all the adventure, violence (NOT for the faint of heart -- some is very brutal, especially in #2), camaraderie, heroism, swords, agony, history of the nobility, questing, magic (or science?), and suspense you could hope for in a medieval sci-fi series. It's worth searching for the hard-to-find last volume (Lost Burgundy #4) for the marvelous pay-off to the series. Présentation de l'éditeur : Cendres a réussi à échapper au roi-calife de Carthage et aux Machines sauvages. Malgré tout, la menace pèse toujours sur elle, sur la Bourgogne et sur le reste de la Chrétienté. D'autant qu'à Dijon, la rumeur prétend que le duc Charles est au plus mal. Les Wisigoths, menés par la Faris, vont bientôt venir à bout des remparts de la ville, et la fuite semble à Cendres la seule issue possible. Pourtant, une question continue de hanter la jeune mercenaire : pourquoi la Bourgogne ? Oeuvre monumentale, fantasy uchronique sensuelle et brutale, Le livre de Cendres, dont Les Machines sauvages est le troisième volume, a été récompensé par le British Science Fiction Award, le Sidewise Award et les prix Bob Morane et Julia Verlanger. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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There is More Than One History Of The World... In an unremembered past of savagery, magic, and miracles, one figure blazed like a fiery comet across the blood-soaked fields of Europe and North Africa -- a fierce combatant and brilliant strategist named Ash, unequalled in battle, who vanished into the mists of a history long forgotten, until now.The armies of the Visigoth Empire have smashed the might of Europe, plunging the conquered lands into unnatural night.Only Burgundy fights on, battered but unbeaten, still warm in the embrace of the sun. It is the heart of the continent, supreme in culture and force of arms. But the beleaguered Duchy's ultimate fate lies in the hands of its rightful ruler, Duke Charles, trapped behind the walls of Dijon -- a city under siege by the brutal soldiers of the Faris, Ash's dark twin. Like Ash, the Faris hears the words of the dread machinery that seeks the extermination of all humankind. Unlike Ash, she heeds them.Fresh from the horrors of Carthage -- and the apocalyptic seductions of the Wild Machines -- Ash must decide whether to lead an army to near-certain doom, in an attempt to lift the siege of Dijon. For if the great city falls, and Charles dies, the sun will rise on the world no more...and humanity will descend into a darkness without end. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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