Eight thousand years ago Europe was a very different place. England was linked to Holland by a massive swathe of land. Where the North Sea is now lay the landmass of Northland. And then came a period of global warming.
NorthlandSerie
Questa saga trasporta i lettori in una preistoria alternativa, dove civiltà sconosciute e svolte storiche inaspettate plasmano la narrazione. Esplora un mondo che avrebbe potuto esistere ma non è mai esistito, scoprendo storie ricche di avventura e scoperte. Offre un'immersione profonda nel tempo che sfida la nostra comprensione del passato. Immergiti in racconti epici che forgiano una nuova storia per l'umanità.
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An epic wall has been built to keep the sea out. And the history of the world has been changed. A superb alternate history from an SF master.
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Iron Winter
- 512pagine
- 18 ore di lettura
Praised as “not only a gifted storyteller but also a master of speculative fiction" (Library Journal), bestselling author Stephen Baxter brings his epic Northland trilogy to a close as a once-thriving civilization faces winter without end.... Many generations ago, the Wall was built to hold back the sea. A simple dam, it grew into a vast linear city, home to scholars, builders, and merchants. But now days are growing shorter, temperatures colder, and in the wake of long winters come famine, destruction, and terror. As a mass exodus to warmer climes threatens to fracture Northland, one man believes he can outwit the cold and even salvage some scraps of the great civilization—before interminable gloom settles over the land; before the fires of war lay waste to an empire; before the ice comes....