Barrington J. Bayley Libri

Su Caean, il raggruppamento di mondi che occupa la sezione della spirale galattica nota come Braccio di Tzist, gli abiti non sono soltanto un ornamento ma una filosofia, un modo di vita, anzi il modo di vita. Ben diversa è la situazione nel vicino Ammasso di Ziode: i pianeti dell'Ammasso non comprendono la filosofia caeanica e la disapprovano. I vestiti caeanici sono proibiti ed è illegale ogni traffico o contatto con il vicino braccio della spirale, strane voci si mormorano sui poteri misteriosi degli addobbi caeanici, poteri che è meglio lasciare nel buio enigmatico in cui sono avvolti. Peder Forbarth, vestiarista di Ziode, ed il suo compare Rialto Mast decidono tuttavia di depredare un mercantile caeanico pieno di vestiti precipitato sul lontano pianeta Kyre. E quando Peder, irrompendo nell'astronave, si trova di fronte addirittura il leggendario abito di Frachonard, il più grande sarto di Caean, non sa resistere e lo indossa, trasferendone su di sé l'intrinseco ed inimmaginabile potenziale, un potenziale che cambierà tutta la sua vita. Perché gli abiti non solo vestono l'uomo, ma ne diventano parte integrante e ne mutano radicalmente il carattere!...

Cheyne Scarne was a gambler... and he took the big plunge when he bet his life to get to the inner circle of the Grand Wheel. Because the Wheel was the ultimate Syndicate - the final Mafia - that controlled all that was illegal in all the planets under human control. But Cheyne was not to know whether he had won or lost when he gained his point. Because the Wheel had plans for him. And they made him the historic offer he could not refuse. There was, it seemed, a similar gambling combine in the rest of the galaxy, bigger by far than the little group of stars held by Earthlings. And the Wheel wanted a cut in this. So Cheyne Scarne found himself selected to be humanity's own player in a game in which nobody knew the value of the cards and the rules of the game were infinitely variable!

Accidental exposure to a form of natural radiation had caused scientist Jason Hyde's eyes to turn colourless and emit blue rays which gave him the power to see through solid objects and to read the thoughts of human beings. Hyde has dedicated his life to investigating strange phenomena and protecting the world from all manner of abnormal threats!

As the Imperium's war-fleets launch a mission into the heart of Chaos, rogue trader Maynard Rugolo searches for wealth and power on the fringe worlds of the distant realm, until he encounters the devastating powers of Chaos.

The novel about: the absolutely ultimate weapon that can ever exist...The sub-human who found it and tried to use it...The beasts who manned humanity's last star fleet...The widening rim in the space-time continuum...The brief cosmic empire of the pigs...The theory of gravitaitational recession...The super-samurai who served the zen-gunner...The colonial girl who defied the galactic empire...And many more "nova" ideas from the author of whom Michael Moorcock said, "There is no one else to match him."