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Julian May

    10 juillet 1931 – 17 octobre 2017

    Julian May était une auteure américaine qui a écrit de la science-fiction, de la fantasy, de l'horreur, des ouvrages de vulgarisation et des livres pour enfants. Son œuvre considérable a exploré des questions complexes sur l'existence humaine et l'avenir. May s'est souvent penchée sur les thèmes de la mémoire, de l'identité et de l'intersection entre la science et la spiritualité. Son style distinctif mêlait des concepts scientifiques complexes à une profonde perspicacité psychologique, entraînant les lecteurs dans des récits captivants.

    Jack the Bodiless
    Diamond Mask
    Magnificat
    Intervention
    La Saga des Exilés 1 - 2
    Le Cycle du Trillium: Le talisman écarlate - Texte intégral inédit
    • Naguère vaincu et exilé sur les terres de la Glace et du Feu, le magicien Orogastus brave une nouvelle fois les trois princesses de la maison royale de Ruwenda, Haramis, Anigel et Kadiya. Depuis les terres de Tuzamen, dont il s'est emparé, il convoite les trois talismans qui confèrent aux princesses leurs pouvoirs, et qui, en signe de dissensions et de menaces, sont devenus écarlates... La romancière des " Dames du Lac " et de " La Princesse de la nuit " sait comme personne nous entraîner au cœur des plus fascinantes légendes, rendre vivants et proches les personnages les plus mythiques. Ce prodigieux talent de conteuse rencontre ici celui de Julian May pour nous conduire dans un univers fantastique, un monde de sortilèges où se perpétue la lutte éternelle du Bien contre le Mal.

      Le Cycle du Trillium: Le talisman écarlate - Texte intégral inédit
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    • Intervention

      • 673pages
      • 24 heures de lecture

      Intervention sets the scene for Julian May's new trlogy of the Galactic Milieu. This has been split into two books: The Surveillance (containing Prologue, The Surveillance, and The Disclosure) and The Metaconcert, containing The Intervention and Epilogue. For 60 000 years the five races of the Galactic Milieu have watched and waited for the time when human mental development on Earth is ready for the Intervention ...As the twentieth century draws to its end, phenomenal mental powers are displayed by 'operants' all across our planet... They can 'farspeak' one another telepathically. They can build mental shields and they are capable of coercion by power of mind.One of there is Rogatien Remillard, a dealer in secondhand books, whose memories - written a century on - form the core of this chronicle. They tell of a world where the mind has become a weapon; and of two brothers, each possessed of extraordinary powers - one a peace-bringer, the other an advocate of evil...

      Intervention
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    • A promising future is envisioned, but a rebellion leads to destruction.

      Magnificat
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    • Diamond Mask

      • 450pages
      • 16 heures de lecture

      As the 21st century nears its end, humanity faces a pivotal moment in its evolution towards Unity within the Galactic Milieu. However, a faction of rebels, driven by a desire to preserve human individuality, conspires against this integration. Behind their efforts lurks Fury, a powerful and deranged metapsychic entity intent on seizing control of humanity. Jack the Bodiless, a mutant genius with extraordinary abilities, stands in opposition to Fury, determined to resist becoming a pawn in its dangerous game.

      Diamond Mask
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    • Jack the Bodiless

      • 448pages
      • 16 heures de lecture

      In the year 2051, Earth stood on the brink of acceptance as full member of the Galactic Milieu, a confederation of worlds spread across the galaxy. Leading humanity was the powerful Remillard family, but somebody--or something--known only as "Fury" wanted them out of the way.Only Rogi Remillard, the chosen tool of the most powerful alien being in the Milieu, and his nephew Marc, the greatest metapsychic yet born on Earth, knew about Fury. But even they were powerless to stop it when it began to kill off Remillards and other metapsychic operants--and all the suspects were Remillards themselves.Meanwhile, a Remillard son was born, a boy who could represent the future of all humanity. His incredible mind was more powerful even than his brother Marc's--but he was destined to be desroyed by his own DNA...unless Fury got to him first!From the Paperback edition.

      Jack the Bodiless
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    • The Golden Torc

      • 377pages
      • 14 heures de lecture

      Exiled beyond the time-portal into the world of six million years ago, the misfits of the 22nd century are enmeshed in the age-old war of two alien races. In this strange world, each year brings the ritual combat between the Firvulag and the Tanu. This is the sequel to The Many-Coloured Land.

      The Golden Torc
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    • The Saga of the Exiles - 1: The Many-Coloured Land

      Book One in the Saga of the Exiles

      • 411pages
      • 15 heures de lecture

      Book One in the Saga of the Exiles The epic odyssey of the misfits amd mavericks of the 22nd Century who pass through the time-doors of the Pliocene Epoch into the battleground of two warring races from a planet far away... (Source: back cover)

      The Saga of the Exiles - 1: The Many-Coloured Land
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    • The Adversary

      • 480pages
      • 17 heures de lecture

      The Frivulag are rising, while the children of the metaphysic rebels are to re-open the time gate - sole escape route back to the Galatic Milieu - and Marc Remillard, the adversary, takes up his destined role in the power play.

      The Adversary
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    • A Pliocene Companion

      • 290pages
      • 11 heures de lecture

      Throughout the ages and across the world in many shapes and guises, as healers, mystics and literary figures, wizards have played an important part in real-life communities and in the imagination of many cultures. Often illuminating the future and explaining the past, wizards have always had a very powerful role. This text traces the origins and legends of wizards, charting their myriad expressions through time and across cultures. It also includes a number of meditations and practices at the end of each chapter that enable us to make use of some of the legendary skills of the wizard.

      A Pliocene Companion
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    • The Nonborn King

      • 429pages
      • 16 heures de lecture

      On Earth, six million B.C., two species of alien ruled, the graceful humanoid Tanu and their twisted brethren, the Firvulag. Then men from twenty-second century Earth arrived through a one-way time tunnel -- and soon the aliens were locked in a battle to the death, for the humans had upset the precarious balance of power that existed between them. But when the tides of combat had receded, no one group held firm control, though Aiken Drum, man of no woman born, had declared himself the Nonborn King . . . .

      The Nonborn King
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    • Sky Trillium

      • 400pages
      • 14 heures de lecture

      Fantasy.

      Sky Trillium
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    • In the epic conclusion to The Rampart Worlds trilogy, interstellar maverick Helly Frost sets out to prove that a proposed pact with the alien Haluk could destroy the Commonwealth of Humans and sets out for the Sagittarius Whorl, a hostile and remote region of the galaxy to uncover evidence to expose the Haluk plot against humankind. Original.

      Sagittarius Whorl
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    • Orion Arm

      • 400pages
      • 14 heures de lecture

      After Helly Spur's attempts to break the Galapharma conspiracy with the Haluk against the Human Worlds, this carries on where "Perseus Spur" left off. Helly and his companions attempt to capture a crucial witness to the conspiracy, who has taken refuge on a hostile planet.

      Orion Arm
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    • Perseus Spur

      • 336pages
      • 12 heures de lecture

      Exiled to a remote planet in the Perseus Spur, the rebellious Asahel Frost becomes Helmut Icicle, a man without a past. But someone remembers Asahel Frost enough to have him assassinated, which brings Frost back to life. Helmut is caught in a conspiracy as convoluted as it is deadly.

      Perseus Spur
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    • Black Trillium

      • 503pages
      • 18 heures de lecture

      Three infant princesses receive the mystically protective Black Trillium at birth and learn to use their strengths and conquer their weaknesses to withstand the dangers that face them

      Black Trillium
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    • Conqueror's Moon

      • 464pages
      • 17 heures de lecture

      With his father on his deathbed, Prince Conrig of Cathra and his lover, the seductive sorceress Princess Ullanoth of Moss, have hatched a plan to reunite the warring kingdoms of High Blenholm under one supreme rule, in the first volume of the Boreal Moon Tale series. Reprint.

      Conqueror's Moon
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    • An explanation of chlorophyll and the part it plays in the life of green plants and the complex biological systems of the earth

      Why Plants are Green Instead of Pink
    • Cosmo classici della fantascienza: Maschera di diamante

      Edizione integrale

      • 558pages
      • 20 heures de lecture

      Il XXI secolo è alla fine. Trent'anni sono passati da quando il pacifico Milieu Galattico ha accolto la Terra nella sua federazione e presto l'umanità sarà chiamata a far parte dell'Unità, la mente collettiva che raccoglie le razze aliene dell'universo. Ma non tutti ci credono. Un gruppo di ribelli, il cui numero cresce ogni giorno, trama per salvaguardare l'individualità della razza umana. E i ribelli hanno un sostenitore segreto: Furia, l'insana creatura metapsichica che non si ferma davanti a nulla pur di raggiungere ilsuo scopo ed esercitare il pieno controllo sull'umanità.

      Cosmo classici della fantascienza: Maschera di diamante
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    • Perseův bodec

      • 341pages
      • 12 heures de lecture

      Když se Asahel Frost stal vyhnancem bez občanských práv a přijal jméno Helmut Icicle, usídlil se na Kedge-Lockaby, aby se pomalu upil k smrti. Netušil ale, že se bude muset vrátit do soukolí Koncernů a Společností, aby zachránil svou sestru – a zároveň i sebe, protože se ho někdo evidentně pokouší zabít...

      Perseův bodec
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    • Schattenmond. Roman

      • 733pages
      • 26 heures de lecture

      König Konrig hat die Insel Hoch Blenholm mit dunkler Magie vereint, doch seine Kräfte schwinden. Er drängt seinen Sohn Orrion zur Heirat mit der Tochter eines Verbündeten, doch dieser will seine Jugendliebe wählen und schließt einen Pakt, der ihn als König ungeeignet macht. Während die Salka angreifen, steht das Schicksal Blenholms auf der Kippe.

      Schattenmond. Roman
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    • Sneeuwmaan, Stormmaan, Winterwende, Windmaan, Groenemaan, Eindelijk lente. Melk en Bloesem volgen later. Dan volgt de Donder, Gods geschater. Als Maïs na Oogst zijn gunsten brengen zal Vervloekt de Jager de Maan van Boreal. De IJsmaan met zijn laatse droevenis Zorgt dat Blenholmes jaar weer over is. Koning Conrig Wincantor heeft zijn droom, het vestigen van een Soevereiniteit over heel Hoog Blenholme, in vervulling zien gaan. Een nieuw tijdperk breekt aan voor de vier domeinen van het eens zo verdeelde eiland – een tijdperk dat welvaart en rust brengt, maar waarin ook gevaren op de loer liggen. Zo heeft de verbannen alchemist Vra-Killian een aantal machtige zegels verborgen in het Cala-paleis. Deze zegels, vervaardigd door de mythische Salka en door het wrede Beaconvolk van magische krachten voorzien, zullen van hem de machtigste man van Blenholme maken en hem helpen de ultieme wraak te nemen.

      De boeken van Boreal - 2: De getijden van Blenholme
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    • Het land der zieners

      • 407pages
      • 15 heures de lecture

      In het land der zieners heeft de menselijke geest een reuzenstap gedaan. Over de gehele wereld worden kinderen met buitengewone gaven geboren. Sommigen zijn genieën, andere normaal. Maar elk van hen bezit metaphysische krachten die het oude menselijke ras met verbazing en angst vervullen. De genieën houden hun talenten aanvankelijk angstvallig geheim. En wanneer ze zichzelf blootgeven worden ze met afschuw bejegend, uitgebuit en vervolgd. Ze worden verscheurd door twijfel over de rol die ze moeten spelen: zijn ze voorbestemd om het ras dat hen voortbracht en dat zich omringt met nucleaire wapens aan zich te onderwerpen om hen van de totale oorlog te redden? De hoofdpersonen van dit boek zijn leden van de familie Remillard, wier afstammelingen een rol speelden in het Veelkleurig land.

      Het land der zieners
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