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Una saga épica del maestro británico de la fantasía (LA SOMBRA DE LOS DIOSES) EL MUNDO HA ESTALLADO EN MIL PEDAZOS... … Y JAMÁS SE PODRÁ RECOMPONER. CORBAN solo desea convertirse en un guerrero del rey Brenin, para proteger y servir. Pero ese día llegará antes de lo previsto, y pagará...

To free his possessed brother from six soul-devouring tyrants, a man must wield dangerous double-edged magic, in the second book of this epic fantasy series. Fleeing a mage massacre at the Academy of Ash, Erik and his fellow Cinders continue to ascend the legendary Baldred's Pillar. As they...

DRAGONS, ASSASSINS, AND NINJAS! By a Baen Fantasy and Adventure Finalist and Indie Star They call themselves my found family, but they slaughtered my kin. Now, I will pay back the murderers in blood tenfold. Their ruin is a mirror they polished themselves. They took me as a child and hammered me...

Última entrega de esta saga de fantasía de John Gwynne. Varg ha dejado atrás el sufrimiento de su vida pasada y se ha convertido en un miembro de pleno derecho de los Hermanos de Sangre. Pero, ahora, sus nuevos camaradas y él se enfrentan al mayor desafío de sus vidas: matar un dragón...

Kaius has done the impossible: escaped the Great Depths alive, forged an unbreakable brotherhood with Porkchop, and claimed a Heroic Class. But his growing strength, the forbidden secrets behind his Legacy Skills, and never-before earned Honours have awakened ancient System protocols.

Notes From The Author: The following is a short story I wrote in the Elantris world back in January of 2006. At that point, Elantris had only been out in stores for about seven or eight months, but I actually hadn't written anything new on the story or world since 2000, when I'd finished the...

The When Swords Fall Silent anthology showcases the imaginations and talents of more than a dozen of the best modern science-fiction and fantasy authors, with each tale centered around one or more characters burdened with a bloody task they will see to completion no matter the cost. Every story takes you for a vicious ride through a world of shadow and death, each as unique in perspective and execution as the contracts carried out within.

Minalan the Spellmonger, in his guise as Mirkandar the Magnificent, Doge of Farise, is in a bind: the Duke of Merwyn has sent an armada of seventy ships to conquer his newly-independent realm...and Minalan has never fought a battle at sea. Thankfully, the legendary warmage Durgan Jole has a plan, and with the help of his fellow wizards from Sevendor, Minalan feels confident that Farise can survive the invasion. He doesn't want to kill that many people, but Merwyn has left him little choice.

The Snow Panthers will have to take on their biggest challenge yet. One that can kill them and half the continent. A new powerful enemy is trying to return to the world of the living after a thousand years in an ice prison. This one is not like any other enemy that the Panthers have confronted. This enemy is a Dragon. An immortal king. Will they manage to survive this new and incredibly powerful enemy? Will they save Tremia from it?

This book is part 3 in The Mind of Tolkien series. Why did Númenor fall? In Tolkien’s Tragedy, writer and podcaster John Carswell turns to the most devastating story in Tolkien’s legendarium: the rise and ruin of Númenor, the greatest realm of Men. Set at the heart of the Second Age, Númenor’s story is not merely one of political collapse or military defeat, but of moral failure —pride, envy, the fear of death, and the slow seduction of power.

Captains Hawk and Fisher, the only honest cops in Haven, are up to their ears in the usual Haven business when a messenger from a far away land finds them and reveals their real identities and mission - bring a killer to justice and ascend to the throne.

Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself. With no other resources at his disposal, Sylveste forges a dangerous alliance with the cyborg crew of the starship Nostalgia for Infinity. But as he closes in on the secret, a killer closes in on him because the Amarantin were destroyed for a reason.

Is there more than one history of the world? This is the question Pierce Moffett is seeking to answer when, jilted and newly jobless, he gets off a bus by chance in the Faraway Hills and steps unawares into a story that has been awaiting him there. His search will bring him into contact with Rosie Rasmussen, another seeker marked by loss. And it will lead them both on a path toward the longed-for country of our oldest dreams and most unanswerable desires, toward a magnificent discovery.

Huon is weak. A surgecaller who escaped into the wilds, his only goal was to survive. Now he is Oathbound, forced to fight in an arena, forced to become stronger than he’d thought possible. As he realizes he can become strong, the need for revenge fills his heart, and a new goal forms in his mind. But his goal is impossible: Kill the dragon rider, the Immortal of Fire. To succeed, he’ll have to do more than just survive - he’ll have to advance beyond anything the realm has ever seen.

Minalan the Spellmonger has a problem: Mycin Amana, the undead consort of Korbal the Necromancer, is not only occupying one of the largest castles in the kingdom; she’s also occupying the recently-dead body of his former lover, rapist, and mother of his children, Isily of Greenflower. As the crises in the heart of the kingdom grows, Minalan is tasked to force the so-called Witch Queen of Darkfaller from her new stronghold using any means necessary. Unfortunately, the castle belongs to his rival in the royal court and future monarch Prince Tavard, whose ideas are doomed to failure.

Xavier Collins was sitting in class when the System integrated Earth into the Greater Universe, where countless vast kingdoms, empires, and collectives battle for domination. He didn't know what choosing to be a Champion would entail. He just liked the sound of it. But when he's teleported to the aptly-named Tower of Champions, he must face challenges against those who have known about the System since birth.

The city of Haven has changed Hawk and Fisher from what they once were...but what, or who, were they? Discontent and a political assassination draw them to the Forest Kingdom. King Harald is dead and the kingdom is in turmoil. The King's Questor seeks out Hawk and Fisher to find the killer break some spells and help restore a kind of peace.

A plague of divinity! When Minalan summoned humanity's gods to support him in his negotiations with the aquatic Vundel, it was an impressive feat... but the gods did not merely fade away afterwards. The various manifestations of divine power, filtered through the collective subconscious of...

It's the moment Kieran and Lexi have been preparing for. The Magical Summit. Ready or not, they will take their assembled team into the belly of the beast. The stakes couldn't be higher. If the powers that be don't approve of Kieran, he will not earn the official title of the Demigod of San Francisco. The real danger concerns Lexi, however. With Kieran away in meetings, she must brave the treacherous halls of the Summit with just her crew and her wards, fighting for social placement and status, open to attack from all angles.

The incredible final book in the phenomenon fantasy series described as “future classics" follows one man's dangerous journey through a labyrinthine world and the mysteries he uncovers along the way. (Los Angeles Times). "Josiah Bancroft is a magician. His books are that rare alchemy...