Résultats pour "ursula" dans Fantasy

Un jeune garçon nommé Arren apporte une inquiétante nouvelle : dans son pays, les sorciers ont oublié leur langage et perdu leur pouvoir. Le vieux Ged, l'archimage, doit remettre à l'endroit ce qui est à l'envers. Tous deux font voile vers des îles dévastées. Chez les Enfants de la Mer Ouverte, qui vivent sur des radeaux, Ged et Arren assistent au long bal, où les chanteurs oublient les paroles et se taisent.

A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants can change their gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the completely dissimilar culture that he encounters. Embracing the aspects of psychology, society, and human emotion on an alien world, The Left Hand of Darkness stands as a landmark achievement.

Outer Space, Inner Lands includes many of the best known Ursula K. Le Guin nonrealistic stories (such as "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," "Semley' s Necklace," and "She Unnames Them") which have shaped the way many listeners see the world. She gives voice to the voiceless, hope to the outsider, and speaks truth to power - all the time maintaining her independence and sense of humor.

¡Déjate llevar por la magia de Terramar! El mal medra, y la magia se ha pervertido. En todas partes hay miedo e incertidumbre; magos y reyes quieren que una mujer de Gont les muestre el camino. Tenar, sacerdotisa de Atuan, cuida de Therru, una muchacha que ha conocido el horror, y dedica toda su fuerza y sabiduría a protegerla de sus perseguidores y llegar a entender un mundo que está cambiando de una manera misteriosa.

So hatte sich Ursula ihren großen Tag nicht vorgestellt! Da wird man jahrelang ausgebildet, um am achtzehnten Geburtstag Köln gegen die Dämonen der Hunnen zu verteidigen, und dann läuft alles anders als erwartet! Nicht genug damit, dass zwei der elf Mitglieder ihres Teams spurlos verschwinden und Ursula notgedrungen Adam, seines Zeichens Exil-Amerikaner und Gelegenheitsstadtführer, in einer Bar auflesen muss; zusätzlich verschwinden plötzlich auch noch mitten im Kampf alle Hunnen - und mit ihnen auch Ursulas Ausbilderin Una.

Return to Earthsea with Ged, the brash young wizard who survived the enchanted labyrinth of The Tombs of Atuan. In the third episode of this brilliant fantasy saga, a much older Ged sets off on a harrowing quest for the source of a terrible darkness that is taking the magic out of Earthsea.

These stories are set in the familiar quasi-medieval worlds to which modern listeners are accustomed, and also stories rooted in the authentic myth-constructs of high antiquity, along with several that depend for their power on the juxtaposition of fantastic situations and terribly contemporary aspects of modern life on Earth. Together these stories make up a collection which provides reassuring proof of fantasy's eternal power in this technological age.

Eighteen-year-old Aela Everflame is finally old enough to enroll at the War College of Solarus. Reunited with her childhood friend Nathaniel after a long twelve months apart, she’s eager to begin the next chapter of her life. Despite her modest magical abilities, lack of social finesse, and terrible combat skills, Aela is a Fire Wielder—one of the sought-after "Flames" destined to join the Olympian Army.

Hunted by an ungrateful Persian royal family, the rogue agents Samuel and Mehrnaz are on the run to escape the empire they formerly served. Their destination (if they live to see it): the distant fabled land of India. There, on the far side of the Indus, the agents find ancient perils have returned in the weapons-blasted desert left behind by the earth-shattering Mahabharata War. Nightmarish creatures that have grown giant and twisted hunt down their human prey, while other animals have metamorphosized into something stranger still.