Dragonstar

Informationen zum Autor Barbara Hambly attended the University of California, Riverside, specializing in medieval history. To further her studies, she spent a year at the University of Bordeaux in the south of France and worked as a teaching and research assistant at UC Riverside, eventually earning a master’s degree in the subject. Her interest in fantasy began with reading The Wizard of Oz at an early age and has continued ever since. She now lives in Los Angeles. Klappentext The novels of New York Times bestselling author Barbara Hambly have broken new ground in the realm of fantasy. With a sweeping cast of characters whose powers are both awesome and heartachingly limited! the Dragon series is built around the touching relationship between a husband and wife separated by a flood of violence and chaos. Condemned to die for consorting with demons! dragonslayer Lord John Aversin sits in a dank prison cell and calculates the odds of escape! while smelling the smoke of the executioners' pyres. In Winterlands! Jenny Waynest pays a heavy price for choosing to be human! mourning the loss of her husband! Lord John! and the dangers that engulf her family. But in a season of the Dragon Star! strange miracles are about to transpire. As a pitched battle between the Hellspawn and the human rages! Jenny and John will be reunited in a city under siege. And there! they will have one last chance to understand all that has happened to them and why! who their true enemies and true allies are! and most of all! for what magical purpose each has been chosen. A vast adventure and a powerful mystery teeming with demons and witches! gnomes and dragons! Dragonstar explores profound issues of faith! fate! and technology-while obscuring long held boundaries between good and evil! love and hate! what is human and what is fantastic. With this glorious finale to a breathtaking series! Barbara Hambly establishes herself as one of the most visionary and inventive storytellers in the field of fantasy fiction today. The Demon Queen came in the dark hours before dawn; she shined in the blackness with the moony radience of rotting wood.    Chained, John Aversin raised his head and squinted at her; his breath came fast. The King’s guards had taken his spectacles from him when he’d been brought to the cell beneath the prison tower, and even at three feet—the cell measured barely six—she was blurred to him, which made him sure that this was no dream. That fact was perhaps the most frightening of all the things that frightened him that night. Prince Gareth, Regent for the mindbroken King of Bel, had promised he’d return Aversin’s spectacles to him with the guardsman he’d send to smuggle him out. That had been that afternoon, while the King’s men and those of the King’s councilor, Ector of Sindestray, were building a pyre in the square before the city’s market hall to burn him alive for trafficking with demons. “He’ll come with the midnight watch, when the courtyard is quiet,” the young man had promised, pushing his own thick-lensed spectacles up onto the bridge of his nose. “He’ll bring you a horse and food,” for it was customary to starve prisoners condemned to the stake. After three days in the dungeon, John was too light-headed and short of breath to put up much of a fight or run very far even if he could escape from his chains. “The man I’ll send—Captain Tourneval—is loyal to me, and will ask no questions.” By the dirty yellow torchlight that fell through the grilled trapdoor overhead—the cell’s only entrance, nearly twelve feet from the clayey rock of the floor—Gareth’s face, even to John’s myopic perception, had appeared haggard. Days without sleep deepened the lines that rulership and responsibility had put in the features of a boy who’d once ridden to the Winterlands to fetch John to the aid of the Realm, a boy who’d gone looking for the Dragonsbane of his precious...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Barbara Hambly
• Verlag: Del Rey
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.07.2003
• EAN: 9780345441713
• ISBN: 978-0-345-44171-3
• Seiten: 336
• Abmessung: 105 mm x 175 mm x 25 mm
• Thema: Belletristik > Science Fiction, Fantasy