Videssos Cycle: Volume Two - Legion of Videssos and Swords of the Legion

Informationen zum Autor Harry Turtledove is the award-winning author of the alternate-history works The Man with the Iron Heart, The Guns of the South, and How Few Remain (winner of the Sidewise Award for Best Novel); the Hot War books: Bombs Away, Fallout, and Armistice; the War That Came Early novels: Hitler’s War, West and East, The Big Switch, Coup d’Etat, Two Fronts, and Last Orders; the Worldwar saga: In the Balance, Tilting the Balance, Upsetting the Balance, and Striking the Balance; the Colonization books: Second Contact, Down to Earth, and Aftershocks; the Great War epics: American Front, Walk in Hell, and Breakthroughs; the American Empire novels: Blood and Iron, The Center Cannot Hold, and Victorious Opposition; and the Settling Accounts series: Return Engagement, Drive to the East, The Grapple, and In at the Death . Turtledove is married to fellow novelist Laura Frankos. They have three daughters—Alison, Rachel, and Rebecca—and two granddaughters, Cordelia Turtledove Katayanagi and Phoebe Quinn Turtledove Katayanagi. Klappentext The classic fantasy series from "one of alternative-history's stalwarts" (The New Yorker) continues in the adventure of a lifetime. Harry Turtledove's brilliant re-imaginings of major world events have thrilled fans for decades! but he first captured readers' attention with the Videssos Cycle! a unique blend of fantasy and speculative history. In this two-book volume! a Roman legion! thrown into another world! fights its way through sorcery! intrigue! and epic conflict. THE LEGION OF VIDESSOS Since the legion was mysteriously transported to this magical realm! Roman military tribune Marcus Aemilius Scaurus has valiantly served the rulers of the war-torn city of Videssos. However! Fortune is a fickle goddess. Returning in triumph after defeating a well-entrenched army of rebel mercenaries! Marcus is betrayed by a friend! seized as a traitor! and dragged before the Emperor. Only one person may be able to save him: the Emperor's niece. But consorting with her could lead to exile . . . or worse. SWORDS OF THE LEGION As prisoner of the Emperor! Marcus Scaurus is in a desperate situation. He stands condemned for treason! unless he can reclaim a rebel province from a fanatic usurper-without the aid of his Romans. Now! with just one centurion by his side! Marcus sets out to once again do the impossible. Soon the fates conspire against the men! driving them toward the torture chambers of an evil! deathless wizard-prince. But an audacious last hope rallies behind them-the soldiers of the legion are on the march. 9780345542595|excerpt Turtledove / VIDESSOS CYCLE VOLUME TWO I “Too hot and sticky,” Marcus Aemilius Scaurus complained, wiping his sweaty forehead with the heel of his hand. In late afternoon Videssos’ towering walls shaded the practice field just outside them, but it was morning now, and their gray stone reflected heat in waves. The military tribune sheathed his sword. “I’ve had enough.” “You northerners don’t know good weather,” Gaius Philippus said. The senior centurion was sweating as hard as his superior, but he reveled in it. Like most Romans, he enjoyed the Empire’s climate. But Marcus sprang from Mediolanum, a north Italian town founded by the Celts, and it was plain some of their blood ran in his veins. “Aye, I’m blond. I can’t help it, you know,” he said wearily; Gaius Philippus had teased him for his un-Roman looks as long as they had known each other. The centurion could have been the portrait on a denarius himself, with his wide, squarish face, strong nose and chin, and short cap of graying hair. And like nearly all his countrymen, Scaurus included, he kept on shaving even after two and a half years in Videssos, a bearded land. The Rom...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Harry Turtledove
• Verlag: Del Rey
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 16.04.2013
• EAN: 9780345542595
• ISBN: 978-0-345-54259-5
• Seiten: 832
• Abmessung: 155 mm x 234 mm x 33 mm
• Serien: The Videssos Cycle; The Videssos Cycle
• Thema: Belletristik > Science Fiction, Fantasy