Resultados para "Lucien" en Fantasía

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if the most important non-human intelligence in fiction isn't in a spaceship - it's a sixty-pound English bulldog? Alex Lucio's debut novel The Weight of a Dog returns in the form it was written to become: an immersive full-cast audio drama...

A nameless knight. A champion's fall. A squire caught between. When the mysterious Alaric challenges Ser Halden, an undefeated tournament champion who clawed his way up from nothing, their confrontation sparks more than rivalry. Halden's humiliating defeat leaves him keenly aware of the distance...

London has fallen. With the city breached and no sanctuary left, Cassius Jones is thrust into the chaos of a dying world. Monsters roam free, factions fracture, and the University lies in ruins. Cassius must navigate shifting allegiances and the complex politics of the teras—hybrids and...

In an England where monsters have spilled into the world out of myth, only London is magically protected from the monstrous threat. The University runs the city, allowing family of graduate Hunters, Healers, Scholars, and Artificers to live behind the wards.

Hunter Graves was the kind of man who lived behind glass—quiet, unreadable, a data analyst with a poker face and a life built on routine. But when a storm of lightning ripped his world apart, Hunter and everyone he knew were thrown into the Multiversal System, a brutal trial of survival where humanity was nothing more than raw material to be tested. Accepting the class of a healer, Hunter should have been relegated to the backline. Instead, his cold pragmatism and honed martial skill make him something far more dangerous: a fighter who refuses to die by the rules others set for him.

Professor Hector Rhoades thinks he knows the truth about the mysterious businesswoman Luci Inferi. Deciding to confront her with this "truth", he proceeds to confront her. Shortly thereafter, Hector discovers that all of his life-long preconceptions about life, the universe, friendship, and more aren't anything like he thought they were.

"Vampire und Drachen" ist ein episch angehauchtes Fantasy Abenteuer und für Hörer ab 16 Jahren geeignet. Ein Mann, namens Wulff, erzählt seinen Zuhörern eine unglaubliche Geschichte. Der erste Teil spielt noch in dieser, unserer realen Welt, in der Wulf fast stirbt, um in einer völlig anderen Welt wieder zu erwachen. Nachdem er sich vorerst an nichts erinnern kann, lernt er in dieser Welt zu leben. Er ist etwas Besonders, denn bevor er die Welten wechselte, rette er Lucie, einer Vampirfrau das Leben, indem er sie von seinem Blut trinken ließ.

Three generations have passed since the whispers of demons first spread across the lips of man. Since that first fateful night above Oakenfall, a kingdom has fallen, a god has died, and the streets have begun to pile with bodies, but nothing that Oakenfall has experienced so far can prepare it for what will befall it as Lucien returns from his travels. What started as a routine investigation of a haunted village, an easy task for a Mage Hunter like Lucien, sends him on a voyage that will see him set against old enemies of Oakenfall.

An amazing array of the most popular and exciting names in Fantasy are set to appear in the first in a brand new series of Fantasy anthologies featuring original fiction, from the master editor Jonathan Strahan. The authors appearing in the launch volume include Trudi Canavan, Elizabeth Bear, Daniel Abraham, Kate Elliott, Saladin Ahmed, Glen Cook, Scott Lynch, Ellen Klages, Ellen Kushner & Ysabeau Wilce, Jeffrey Ford, Robert Redick, and KJ Parker.

The end of the Trial is here... Hunter has never been patient, especially when patience means weakness. While humanity panics, fights against beasts, and tears itself apart under the weight of the Trial, Hunter moves with purpose. One dungeon falls, then a second, a third, a fourth, cleared faster than anyone expected. Every conquest sharpens him. Every boss slain feeds the storm of destructive mana boiling under his skin. His body evolves. His mind calcifies into something ruthless. But speed has a price. The Trial begins to break. And through it all, Hunter fights alone inside the Trial.

Hunter Graves has survived the opening days of the Trial, bloodied, hardened, and marked by a new profession: Exiled Tyrant. What began as a struggle for survival has turned into calculated evolution, each fight pushing him to grow faster, stronger, and colder than before. But the deeper he carves into this world, the clearer it becomes that something is wrong. The Trial isn’t following its rules.

L'audiolibro Amore e Psiche è la più nota delle favole contenute in "Le metamorfosi" di Apuleio. Narra delle difficili e dolorose vicende di Psiche...

Inizia con l'AudioBook del Primo e del Secondo Libro di "Le Metamorfosi" di Apuleio, un'avvincente avventura che racconta di magia; a volte le vicende spaventano, a volte meravigliano, a volte sono sensuali e esilaranti. Di sicuro questo straordinario e raro esempio di romanzo composto nell'antica Roma, è un documento storico di grande importanza: avvincente come un fantasy e interessante come un trattato storico, perché la vicenda si snoda nella società del tempo e evidenzia i modi di vivere dell'epoca, le usanze e le superstizioni della gente. Il nobile Lucio, il protagonista di questa epopea, narra in prima persona il suo viaggio fantastico nella magia, le sue vicissitudini, le trasformazioni e il cambiamento finale che non riguarderà solo il suo aspetto ma anche il suo animo.

Lucien, auteur prolifique du IIe siècle apr. J.-C., est né à Samosate, aux confins orientaux de l'Empire romain. Dans les "Histoires vraies", un de ses ouvrages les plus célèbres, il invite le lecteur à un voyage extraordinaire sur la Lune, dans le ventre d'une baleine, sur une île peuplée des grands héros du passé et sur des récifs défendus par des monstres effrayants. Entre fantaisie et pastiche des grandes références littéraires et mythologiques, on peut voir dans les "Histoires vraies" le premier récit de science-fiction de la littérature occidentale.

Sie lenken die Gedanken der Menschen aus dem Verborgenen und stürzen sie ins Unglück, Dämonen! Nur die Jäger können sie bezwingen. Dämonenjäger gelten als unmenschlich und brutal. Dennoch sind sie Godwanas einziger Schutz vor einem Feind, den normale Menschen nicht bekämpfen können. Wer als Dämonenjäger geboren wird hat keine Wahl, er muss seine Bestimmung erfüllen oder ist des Todes. So ergeht es auch der jungen Anjani. Weil sie ihre wahre Natur nicht ewig verbergen kann, entschließt sie sich schweren Herzens, ihre Familie zu verlassen und den Kampf aufzunehmen.

Die Hochkultur der Zwerge ist untergegangen. Zurück blieben nur erbärmliche Kreaturen, die ihre Seelenpein mit Pilzbier zu betäuben versuchen. Den Sinn für die Wirklichkeit gänzlich verloren, kennen die Zwerge nur einen Schuldigen für den Untergang ihres Reiches: die Menschen! Bei einem Unfall wird der Zwerg Fargil vom Nachschub an Pilzbier abgeschnitten. Zwangsweise ausgenüchtert erkennt er den Verfall seines Volkes, und will ihm zu neuer Größe verhelfen. Aber auch unter den Menschen gibt es jene, die nicht hinnehmen wollen, ständig von den Zwergen bedroht zu werden.

In un'Inghilterra invasa dai teras, mostri spietati dalle sembianze mitologiche, soltanto Londra rimane un luogo sicuro. La città, protetta magicamente da una frontiera che i teras non possono oltrepassare, è governata dall'Università, un'élite di studiosi e guerrieri che ha il compito di classificare queste creature ibride e annientarle. Tutti ambiscono a vivere all'interno delle mura, ma si tratta di un privilegio riservato solamente alle famiglie degli studenti che hanno superato le selezioni e l'addestramento dell'Università, seguendo una delle quattro specializzazioni.

Pico Mundo is een stadje in de Mohave-woestijn. Thomas, een kok in een plaatselijk restaurant, heeft een ongewoon talent: hij voelt het als de dood nabij komt. Daarom woont hij in the middle of nowhere: Pico Mundo zou veilig moeten zijn. Maar al dagenlang heeft hij nachtmerries over een slachtpartij. Als de toekomstige moordenaar het restaurant bezoekt, begrijpt hij dat hij moet ingrijpen, en snel ook.

A girl and her two brothers are transported back to the time of King Arthur, where they must return three magic talismans to their rightful owners or remain trapped forever in the distant past. The adventure begins when Sara Lowry wins a picnic basket at the Firemen's Strawberry Festival. She and her brothers, Greg and Eric, are staying with their uncle at his Hudson Valley estate while their parents are in Japan.

Four years have passed since Kaal led the Sky Dwellers to wage war against the land below. His forces have devastated one place after another, sparing no effort as they seek to conquer the world. Captured by his own brother during the first siege, Keil finds himself helpless to protect those whom he was forced to leave behind. It seems all he has left is the comfort of his dear wife, Sylvia, and the days spent with his children as they live in quiet confinement.