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Chargement... Stories of the Raksura: Volume Two: The Dead City & The Dark Earth Below (édition 2015)par Martha Wells (Auteur), Jeremy Lassen (Directeur de publication), Matthew Stewart (Artiste de la couverture), Claudia Noble (Concepteur de la couverture)
Information sur l'oeuvreStories of the Raksura: Volume Two: The Dead City & The Dark Earth Below par Martha Wells
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In this collection of short stories, the winged Raksura and their associates deal with various lifeforms, red in tooth and claw. This collection is united by the common theme of deceptive danger: horrific things are disguised, invisible, and hidden, while people repeatedly misread the vicious-looking Moon. "The Dead City" gives a great prequel portrait of him, unloved and paranoid and trying to protect the strangers he has fallen among, while "The Dark Earth Below" becomes increasingly claustrophobic as Moon and the other Raksura try to identify a predator stalking closer and closer to their colony. It's great stuff -- as usual for Wells' work. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la sérieThe Books of the Raksura (novellas, vol. 2) Contient
Nominated for the 2018 Hugo Award for Best Series Moon, Jade, and other favorites from the Indigo Cloud Court return with two new novellas from Martha Wells. Martha Wells continues to enthusiastically ignore genre conventions in her exploration of the fascinating world of the Raksura. Her novellas and short stories contain all the elements fans have come to love from the Raksura books: courtly intrigue and politics, unfolding mysteries that reveal an increasingly strange wider world, and threats both mundane and magical. "The Dead City" is a tale of Moon before he came to the Indigo Court. As Moon is fleeing the ruins of Saraseil, a groundling city destroyed by the Fell, he flies right into another potential disaster when a friendly caravanserai finds itself under attack by a strange force. In "The Dark Earth Below," Moon and Jade face their biggest adventure yet; their first clutch. But even as Moon tries to prepare for impending fatherhood, members of the Kek village in the colony tree's roots go missing, and searching for them only leads to more mysteries as the court is stalked by an unknown enemy. Stories of Moon and the shape changers of Raksura have delighted readers for years. This world is a dangerous place full of strange mysteries, where the future can never be taken for granted and must always be fought for with wits and ingenuity, and often tooth and claw. With these two new novellas, Martha Wells shows that the world of the Raksura has many more stories to tell... Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Despite what the cover says, there are three short stories and two novellas in here, just like how the previous volume had four stories in it, not two.
If you really love the Raksura books, don't skip this. It's very good! ( )