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Chris Claremont
X-men: The Last Stand
English · Paperback / Softback
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Informationen zum Autor Chris Claremont is one of the bestselling comic writers in the world. He wrote The Uncanny X-Men for seventeen years as well as the novelization of the movie X-Men 2. He has been the co-creator of several top-selling series for Marvel Comics! including Excalibur! Wolverine! New Mutants! and! in the United Kingdom! Captain Britain. He wrote the Star Trek twenty-fifth-anniversary graphic novel Debt of Honor and a Next Generation sequel! Cry! Vengeance! for DC Comics! as well as Alien/Predator: The Deadliest of Species for Dark Horse. His debut novel was Firstflight! the story of a young female astronaut in the twenty-first century! to which he wrote two sequels! Grounded and Sundowner. He collaborated with George Lucas on three novels in The Chronicles of the Shadow War! and has delved into fantasy with the publication of Dragon Moon! a dark fantasy novel co-authored with his wife! Beth Fleisher. The couple lives in Brooklyn with their two children. Klappentext A novelization of the major motion picture! TAKE A STAND. The world has acquired a lethal new weapon against X-gene mutants! whose superhuman powers separate them-for better! for worse! forever-from ordinary mortals. Now! for the first time! mutants have a choice: retain their godlike abilities! though their powers may isolate and alienate them! or surrender them and become human. The mutant antibody is called a cure! but its invention may trigger a struggle that destroys every living soul on Earth. As Magneto declares all-out war against humanity and its dreaded cure! the U.S. president mobilizes the military. But it is Charles Xavier and the X-Men who truly must brace for the ultimate battle! for they alone are powerful enough to determine the outcome. Lessons of the past are useless in the coming life-and-death conflict! as new players-mutants possessing unprecedented! unearthly skills- take center stage. With so many joining forces with Magneto's evil Brotherhood! the X-Men will face their ultimate test against an enemy whose forces far outnumber their own. Now! as the world trembles! the Phoenix slowly rises. . . Chapter One The moment her best friend died, Jean Grey first dreamed of fire, and dancing among the stars. Neighbors since they were born, inseparable once they could crawl, she and Annie Malcolm shared toys and sandboxes, secrets and dreams, their parents, their entire lives. They had ten years together. They never saw the car that brought that to an end. Blind curve, guy’s in a hurry, Annie feeling competitive, totally focused on the Frisbee Jean had thrown. Reacting, not thinking, no consideration of anything but the prize, as a wayward breeze scooped the plastic disk up just beyond her reach. Tantalizing, infuriating, beyond wicked, to come so close and then fall short. For Annie, that was unacceptable. She made a spectacular catch. Jean cheered. Her smile was so special, a flash of pure delight that burned itself indelibly on Jean’s memory. Then she was gone, wiped away so suddenly, so completely, it was almost as though she’d never been, thrown aside like a sackcloth dummy. There was a flash of shape and color, something big and powerful moving too fast to properly register—afterwards, when Jean tried to describe the vehicle to the police, what came out was more monster than machine. It was the first time—the only time—that her perfect memory ever failed her. Or perhaps it was just that she didn’t care about the car. She heard a squeal as the driver fought for control, stomping on his brakes too late to make a difference, then the roar of an accelerating engine rapidly fading in the distance, as shock gave way to panic and he decided to save himself instead. Jean had eyes only for her friend, draped against...
Product details
Authors | Chris Claremont |
Publisher | Ballantine |
Languages | English |
Product format | Paperback / Softback |
Released | 15.05.2006 |
EAN | 9780345492111 |
ISBN | 978-0-345-49211-1 |
Dimensions | 106 mm x 175 mm x 24 mm |
Series |
A Del Rey Book X-Men A Del Rey Book X-Men |
Subject |
Fiction
> Suspense
> Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage
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