In Pliocene Europe, warring races of aliens and humans face a new threat from North America in the third novel of the Locus Awardâ??winning sci-fi series. A group of misfits from the twenty-second century have travelled six million years back in time to the Pliocene Epoch. But instead of an uninhabited paradise, they discover a land overrun with two alien racesâ??each possessing great psychic powersâ??locked in bitter war. After escaping the knightly Tanu, a group of humans forms an uneasy alliance with the dwarfish Firvulag. But even after they succeed in destroying the Tanu capital, the war is far from over. Aiken Drum, a human with awesome mental powers, has usurped the Tanu throne. Aiken faces opposition from skeptical Tanu factions, as well as the revitalized Firvulag, who now out-number the Tanu-human coalition that Aiken has patched together. But another menace emerges to threaten Aiken's rule: a group of fearsome rogues from the year 2083, who have been living quietly in North America for decades. Led by Marc Remillard, they now seek to take advantage of the chaos in King Aiken's Many-Colored Land in order to seize control of the time-portal. The Nonborn King features the same blend of adventure, rich pageantry, humor, and fantastic eroticism that characterized The Many-Colored Land and The Golden Torc.… (plus d'informations)
La Tierra multicolor y El Torque de Oro narraban las aventuras de un grupo de inapdaptados del año 2010 que deciden aventurarse al Exilio, retrocediendo seis millones de años en el tiempo e iniciando una nueva vida en el mundo del plioceno de la Tierra. Pero este mundo se halla ocupado ya, y las dos razas alienÃgenas que se lo disputan, los altÃsimos Tanu, que han esclavizado a todos los terrestres que han cruzado hasta entonces el portal del tiempo, y los enanos Firvulag, que habitan en los bosques, se hallan en pugna constante. Al final de El Tirque de Oro, en un clÃmax de emoción, Felice Landry, la ex-jugadora de anillo-hockey, crea un cataclismo que inunda y destruye la capital de los Tanu, poniendo fin asà a la hegemonÃa de esta raza sobre la Europa del plioceno. El protagonista del El Rey Nonato es ahora Aiken Drum, un joven aventurero de sorprendentes habilidades y poderes mentales y desmedida ambición, que recoge los restos de la desmoronada civilización Tanu y se erige en rey de la misma, consiguiendo usurpar su trono. Pero tiene que enfrentarse a la oposición de los Tanu, que odian ahora a los humanos, a los propios humanos libres, que no confÃan en sus fantásticos poderes mentales, a Felice Landry, que ha jurado destruirlo, y a los revitalizados Firvulag, que ahora superan enormenete en número a la coalición Tanu-humana que Aiken pretende conservar a toda costa.
Aan het eind De Gouden Halsring weet Felice Landry met haar buitengewoon krachtige psychische vermogens een gigantische overstroming te ontketenen, een vloed die de hoofdstad van de Tanu vernietigt, waarmee een eind komt aan hun overheersing.
In De Troonveroveraar weet de jonge ambitieuze avonturier Aiken Drum, ondanks felle tegenstand, zich de troon van de Tanu toe te eigenen.
Zijn rijk wordt echter bedreigd door de komst van een groep mensen uit Noord-Amerika, die van de chaos in koning Aikens Veelkleurig Land gebruik maken door de tijdpoort in bezit te nemen... ( )
Book 3 in the series and I'm gripped. It's really well written, interesting characters, feels really original to me. Written in 1983 and can easily be read today. I'm enjoying it. ( )
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Whatever we may do, excess will always keep its place in the heart of man, in the place where solitude is found. We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and others. Rebellion, the secular will not to surrender . . . is still today at the basis of the struggle. Origin of form, source of real life, it keeps us always erect in the savage, formless movement of history.
In Pliocene Europe, warring races of aliens and humans face a new threat from North America in the third novel of the Locus Awardâ??winning sci-fi series. A group of misfits from the twenty-second century have travelled six million years back in time to the Pliocene Epoch. But instead of an uninhabited paradise, they discover a land overrun with two alien racesâ??each possessing great psychic powersâ??locked in bitter war. After escaping the knightly Tanu, a group of humans forms an uneasy alliance with the dwarfish Firvulag. But even after they succeed in destroying the Tanu capital, the war is far from over. Aiken Drum, a human with awesome mental powers, has usurped the Tanu throne. Aiken faces opposition from skeptical Tanu factions, as well as the revitalized Firvulag, who now out-number the Tanu-human coalition that Aiken has patched together. But another menace emerges to threaten Aiken's rule: a group of fearsome rogues from the year 2083, who have been living quietly in North America for decades. Led by Marc Remillard, they now seek to take advantage of the chaos in King Aiken's Many-Colored Land in order to seize control of the time-portal. The Nonborn King features the same blend of adventure, rich pageantry, humor, and fantastic eroticism that characterized The Many-Colored Land and The Golden Torc.
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