Résultats pour "Exile" dans Science-Fiction et fantasy

Drizzt a quitté Menzoberranzan, sa ville natale, pour gagner les régions sauvages de l'Outre-terre. C'est le début pour lui d'une vie d'errance et de traque. Car Drizzt doit devenir un chasseur s'il veut prendre le dessus sur les créatures qui rôdent dans les profondeurs. Il peut heureusement compter sur l'aide de Guenhwyvar, sa fidèle panthère magique.

Do not hesitate. Do not contemplate mercy. The Lorian empire took everything from Dayne. His family. His home. His people. He will carve a bloody path through Epheria. He will have his vengeance, by blade and by blood. This is his story...the story of The Exile.

Hostile in ways that a surface-dweller could never know, the tunnel-mazes of the Underdark challenge all who tread there. Among these souls are Drizzt Do'Urden and his magical cat, Guenhwyvar. Exiled from his drow homeland, Drizzt must fight for a new home in the boundless labyrinth. Meanwhile, he must watch for signs of pursuit - for the dark elves are not a forgiving race.

Un des romans emblématiques d'Ursula K. Le Guin, qui a obtenu les prix Hugo, Nebula et Locus et qui n'a rien perdu de sa virulence politique. Bien au contraire... Deux planètes se font face. Anarres est une utopie concrète fondée sur la liberté absolue et la coopération. Mais loin d'être un paradis, c'est un monde pauvre et dur. Sur Urras, le capitalisme et le culte du profit règnent en maîtres.

It is 2030, and a three-person human crew are on a ship travelling to Mars as part of a colonizing mission. Four years earlier, three robots were sent to the planet to build the base for the humans but when the human crew arrive, they discover a third of the base has been destroyed and only two of the three robots remain. When the humans question the robots, the robots offer two overlapping but different stories: the first believes they were attacked by a hostile extraterrestrial "other," the second attests the attack was the result of a violent malfunction on the part of the third robot...

The penultimate volume in the Conclave of Shadows series from worldwide best-selling author Raymond E. Feist. Featuring one of the most fascinating characters and scenarios ever created in the genre, the series promises to become one of the great all-time classics in the field. Once absolute ruler of his nation, Kaspar, former duke of Olasko, has been cast into exile. Abandoned in the wilds of a continent on the other side of the world and left with nothing but his wits and determination, he must fight merely to survive.

Experience the beginning of an epic, time-twisting saga of revenge, betrayal and attempted atonement. John French takes the Ahriman you know and love from the Horus Heresy in new and interesting directions, making him both deeply sympathetic and thoroughly evil.

Part Fistful of Dollars, part The Martian, The Exile is set 150 years in the future as Mars, a barely habitable world, struggles with widespread corruption and brutality. In a desperate bid to find a way home to Earth, Bryce—a disgraced federal agent exiled from Earth—finds herself forced to join the local police force, while navigating dangers from every angle as she discovers there is little difference between criminals and law enforcement in this frontier world.

Andrew Wiggin is told that he can no longer live on Earth, and he realizes that this is the truth. He has become far more than just a boy who won a game: he is the Savior of Earth, a hero, a military genius whose allegiance is sought by every nation of the newly shattered Earth Hegemony. He is offered the choice of living in isolation on Eros, at one of the Hegemony's training facilities, but instead the 12-year-old chooses to leave his home world and begin the long relativistic journey out to the colonies.

Je suis flic, et à part une petite bizarrerie et un sérieux manque de sex-appeal dont je me passerais bien, ma vie est plutôt sympa. Mais un soir tout vole en éclat. Traquée par des types bizarres, je me retrouve baby-sittée par mon nouveau boss, un type beau à tomber aux instincts meurtriers peu rassurants, qui semble éprouver à mon égard une allergie aussi violente qu’inexplicable. Alors, telle Alice, je plonge dans le terrier du lapin blanc ; sauf que, dans mon cas, la curiosité n’y est pour rien : mon imbuvable garde du corps m’y a poussée.

The world changed the day the rifts happened. Trolls, elves, and other races from fantasy and myth emerged into a modern world, bringing magic with them. The world governments worked to segregate these new arrivals into refugee camps, which eventually became the nation of De’Vas. A nation of paranormals.

You know the biblical story of Daniel. But you’ve never experienced it like this. A breathtaking supernatural epic adventure of one of the most beloved heroes of the faith—retold with biblical and historical fidelity. Daniel is young, sharp, full of faith, and newly captive to King Nebuchadnezzar. But Babylon doesn’t want Daniel’s life—it wants his allegiance. In the House of the Tablet, he’s trained to speak the empire’s language and learn its “wisdom,” along with fellow captive Jews, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

Kelvin Wiltshire lives the life of a simple cook in a remote village on the far side of Trendham. The townsfolk think little of the man and his son and believe him to be just another refugee from the Terabinian war. On cold winter nights, they share rumors of the bloody conflict and the mysterious death of Will Cartwright, the mighty mage who had the power to command storms. They like the new cook. They fear the fallen king. But the two men are one and the same.

Two irresistible forces are rushing together to crush the planet Grayson between them, and only one woman, uncertain of her capabilities, weary unto death, and marked for murder -stands between her adopted planet and its devastation.

Exiled Charmer Leena Edenfrell is running out of time. Empty pockets forced her to sell her beloved magical beasts - an offense punishable by death - and now there's a price on her head. With the realm's most talented murderer-for-hire nipping at her heels, Leena makes Noc an offer he can't refuse: powerful mythical creatures in exchange for her life. Plagued by a curse that kills everyone he loves, Noc agrees to Leena's terms in hopes of finding a cure.

Draken vae Khellian, bastard cousin of the Monoean King, had risen far from his ignominious origins, becoming both a Bowrank Commander and a member of the Crown’s Black Guard. But when he is falsely condemned for the grisly murder of his beloved wife, he is banished from the kingdom and cast upon the distant shore of Akrasia, at the arse-end of the world.

Lost and cut off from Earth, the crew of the starship Valiant seeks a way home. In the 11th book of the Star Force series Cody Riggs collides with the overwhelming power of the Ancients. They fly incomprehensible ships and consider humans to be curiosities. Caught between ghosts of the past and demons of the present, Cody is abandoned by everyone. His girl, his crew, and even his ships change sides, exiling him in the cold depths of space.

Morgaine must meet her greatest challenge - Gault, who is both human and alien, and also seeks control of the world and its Gate. She will meet the true Gatemaster - a mysterious lord with power as great, or greater, than her own.

Aron of Darien, raised in exile after his homeland is conquered by a treacherous warlord, makes his way in the world on the strength of his wits and skill with a sword. Both are sorely tested when he is impressed into the service of the Earl of Nandor to rescue his heir from captivity in the fortress of Sarazan. The rescue goes awry. Aron and his companions are betrayed and must flee for their lives. Pursued by steel and magic, they find new friends and old enemies on the road that leads, after many turns, to the city of the High King. There Aron must face his father's murderer before risking everything in a fight to the death with the deadliest swordsman in the kingdom.

Three bloodthirsty guilds that control the decaying corner of space called the Reaches. This balance of power exists at a tipping point. One nudge and chaos reigns. Sela Tyron is willing to supply that nudge to help her partner with an important rescue. Even if it means trusting a shifty criminal. Or turning herself into a power-armored assassin.