Raquel Abbutt Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

Book II of the Lionwolf trilogy. Killed by the power of the god Zezeth, his true father, Lionwolf has been cast into a bleak and icy hell lit just by a cold blue sun. Here he and others of the living dead must wage endless combat and war to appease the whim of a deathly King whose face is made of stone. But when Lionwolf encounters the King's wife, she is none other than the beautiful, god-fashioned Chillel, his own former lover - and nemesis. As Lionwolf struggles in the toils of Hell, elsewhere in the hell-cold ice-age of the mortal earth, men and women work out their own destinies. An empire has fallen. Ru Karismi, Capital of the Kings, has been abandoned to the poisons of the White Death. Reivers cross the lands of the Jafn and the Ruk, preying wherever they wish.Against this unsettled backdrop, Jemhara the sorceress determines to save the Magician Thryfe from a dire self-inflicted punishment, and Saphay, now a goddess of the far north, seeks to lead her people to a new world. And from the depths of an ice-locked sea Zezeth's other terrifying son, the mountainous whale-leviathan Brightshade, is once more rising for vengeance.

In een wereld gevangen in een apocalyptische ijstijd, vol bevroren jungles en besneeuwde woestijnen wordt Safee, de dochter van de koning van Ru Karismi, weggestuurd om te trouwen met de leider van een barbarenstam. Onderweg wordt ze overvallen, maar weet te ontsnappen en wordt uiteindelijk gevonden door haar verloofde Atluan. Als Atluan sterft bij de geboorte van hun kind, Leowulf, wordt ze uit de stam gestoten en op de ijzige vlaktes achtergelaten om te sterven.Wederom slaagt Safee er echter in te overleven en ziet haar zoon in een paar jaar tijd opgroeien tot een volwassen man met goddelijke krachten. Uiteindelijk trekt hij de wijde wereld in om te ontdekken wie hij is: een man of een god. Het wordt een tocht van vele veroveringen en evenveel gevaren….

Michael Poole's wormholes constructed in the orbit of Jupiter had opened the galaxy to humankind. Then Poole tried looping a wormhole back on itself, tying a knot in space and ripping a hole in time. It worked. Too well. Poole was never seen again. Then from far in the future, from a time so distant that the stars themselves were dying embers, came an urgent SOS--and a promise. The universe was doomed, but humankind was not. Poole had stumbled upon an immense artifact, light-years across, fabricated from the very string of the cosmos. The universe had a door. And it was open...

Peter Hobson è un esperto in ingegneria biomedica, quarantenne, affascinato dai problemi della vita dopo la morte e dalle possibilità di sopravvivenza che la tecnologia offre alla personalità umana. E infatti tutto comincia quando Hobson realizza un coraggioso esperimento per verificare le sue teorie sull'immortalità, creando tre simulazioni elettroniche di se stesso. Al primo alter ego di Hobson è stata cancellata la memoria della sua esistenza fisica: è una simulazione dell'anima. Al secondo è stata tolta la consapevolezza di invecchiare e di morire: è una simulazione dell'immortalità. Il terzo invece è un alter ego normale, non modificato. Ma i tre simulacri di Hobson non si accontentano di vivere nei ristretti confini della memoria di un computer e sono già fuggiti nell'universo sconfinato delle reti informatiche globali. Ma anche un'esistenza virtuale può non bastare, se la prospettiva è quella di interagire con il mondo vero e proprio... Anzi, uno di loro ha già scoperto la propria vocazione: diventare un killer.

2000 years in the future, the solar system has fallen under the domination of an alien species, the Quax. But into this world appears a spaceship launched over 1500 years ago, intended to establish a link through which time travel is possible. To the humans this is a chance to reverse time.