Treachery! Treason! Trolls! Fooled into thinking they are returning heroes, the entourage's royal welcome is cut short when they mysteriously collapse; all but Nikki, the one nobody trusted. Lady Nicole Arendale's past is shrouded in mystery, but it's slowly unravelling as secrets long buried are exposed, threatening everyone's future. Never one to rely on anyone's help, she has no choice but to return to her previous life if she has any hope of saving them. Set on a path she neither expected...
StarCraft: The Dark Templar Saga (Warcraft: Blizzard Legends)
by Christie Golden
Jake Ramsey -- an unassuming, yet talented archaeologist -- has been given the chance of a lifetime. Hired to investigate a recently unearthed Xel'Naga temple, he knows this latest assignment will open up whole new possibilities for his career. Yet, when Jake discovers the remains of a long-dead protoss mystic, his hopes and dreams are irrevocably drowned in a flood of alien memories. Bonded to the spirit of the dead protoss, Jake has become the sole inheritor of the protoss's total history --...
With the Emperor slain by sorcery and a craven betrayer on the throne, to what future did the Legion march? Book Two of The Videssos Cycle Foul sorcery had slain the Emperor. Now the army of Videssos, betrayed by one man's craven folly, fled in panic from the savage victors. But there was no panic in the Legion, mysteriously displaced from Gaul and Rome into this strange world of magic. Wearily, Tribune Marcus Scaurus led his men through the chaos and enemy hordes in search of winter quarters...
The last book of the Wayfarerer Redemption, an enthralling continuation of The Axis trilogy, by the bestselling Australian author Sara Douglass The protecting magical forests of Minstrelsea have been blasted from the surface of Tencendor, leaving demons and Hawkchildren free to feed. At the Maze, Queteb stands victorious over the body of Caelum SunSoar yet boiling with anger that the true Enemy Reborn, the Starson, has escaped destruction. With his unholy army of demon-corrupted men an...
The Absolute at Large (Classics of Science Fiction) (Bison Frontiers of Imagination)
by Karel Capek
In this satirical classic, a brilliant scientist invents the Karburator, a reactor that can create abundant and practically free energy. However, the Karburator's superefficient energy production also yields a powerful by-product. The machine works by completely annihilating matter and in so doing releases the Absolute, the spiritual essence held within all matter, into the world. Infected by the heady, pure Absolute, the world's population becomes consumed with religious and national fervor, th...
Cast out of the Arabian city of Bessa by the new tyrannical sultan, a harem of 365 women must forge an army, a seraglio of steel, and use it to take back the city. But even if they succeed, their troubles will just be beginning--because their most dangerous enemy is within their own number ...
"If you pick a fight with Shroud, Lord of the Dead, you had better ensure your victory, else death will mark only the beginning of your suffering. A book giving its wielder power over the dead has been stolen from a fellowship of mages that has kept the powerful relic dormant for centuries. The thief, a crafty, power-hungry necromancer, intends to use the Book of Lost Souls to resurrect an ancient race and challenge Shroud for dominion of the underworld. Shroud counters by sending his most formi...
Jerry Cornelius is an English assassin, physicist, rock star, and messiah to the Age of Science. Cornelius's adventures have been credited with inspiring dozens of writers and artists to rethink the genre of science fiction. Set in a shifting, fluid version of the counter-culture 1960s, these books were among the most prominent 'New Wave' SF books. Jerry Cornelius is one of the most remarkable and distinctive characters in Moorcock's work, and his time-travelling, trippy and bizarre adventures a...
Beasts Beneath the Flesh (Eye of the Serpent, #1)
by Joseph W Colomban
Cedain is destined to collapse.Across a world rife with blood, betrayal, and brutality, five people wade through unexpected tragedies.An egotistical student, a fleeing refugee, a nomadic warrior, a fallen noble, and a criminal in hiding navigate the sinister dealings of politicians, two sudden wars, and nefarious lies that surface at Ashmount—a university dedicated to teaching the five branches of magic.Survival means adapting or dying.Fans of Joe Abercrombie and hard magic systems will enjoy na...
Many storylines converge in the fifth book of The King of Three Bloods. Civilizations continue to be erected in the new lands. The Pitters have overrun the known world, save only the Isle of Ilkchild and a few other strongholds. The Skull Worm, the right hand to the Pitter Emperor, is set to release a torrent of elite mercenaries upon the Island. Lord Arundel, the Son of the High King Sur Sceaf and Heir Apparent of the Herewardi Throne, is commissioned to reach a treaty with the young and power...
As a cartography student, Jak has always dreamed of finding the lost dragon gate and exploring and mapping distant worlds.Developing magical powers and becoming a powerful wizard? Not a chance.Wizards are cruel and inhumane, warring with each other from their great sky cities and keeping most of humanity enslaved. Jak wants nothing to do with them.But when he and his archaeologist mother unearth the gate, they attract the attention of the very wizards they sought to avoid. Even more troubling, J...
Bretonnia is a land shrouded in myth and magic, under siege from the strange creatures of its shadowy forests and those fallen to the lure of the Dark Gods. Against these fearsome foes stand the Knights of Bretonnia, calling upon their faith in the Lady and their guile with the sword to repel their legions of enemies. When young noble Calard starts upon the path to knighthood, he soon discovers the darkness hidden within his homeland and the price that must be paid by those seeking the holiest o...