Dragonshadow

Zusatztext "She writes darn good books! our Barbara!" --ANNE MCCAFFREY "FIRST-RATE HIGH FANTASY . . . ELEGANT! INTELLIGENT! AND ENTERTAINING." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) "I might be slightly prejudiced for dragons! and I am definitely prejudiced in favor of anything Barbara Hambly wants to do with her main characters! Lord John and Jenny . . . She handles the action with great skill and charm! and the universe with beautiful imagery." --ANNE MCCAFFREY Informationen zum Autor At various times in her life, Barbara Hambly has been a high-school teacher, a model, a waitress, a technical editor, a professional graduate student, an all-night clerk at a liquor store, and a karate instructor. Born in San Diego, she grew up in Southern California, with the exception of one high-school semester spent in New South Wales, Australia. Her interest in fantasy began with reading The Wizard of Oz at an early age and has continued ever since. She attended the University of California, Riverside, specializing in medieval history. 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. She now lives in Los Angeles. Klappentext Lord John Aversin-with the help of his mageborn wife! Jenny Waynest-has fought and defeated two dragons! earning the title of Dragonsbane. But there are creatures more terrifying than dragons. Demonspawn from a dark dimension have learned to drink the magic-and the souls-of mages and dragons alike! turning their victims into empty vessels. And now they've stolen John and Jenny's mageborn son! twelve-year-old Ian. In desperation! John seeks the help of the eldest and strongest dragon: Morkeleb the Black. But the demons have allies! too: a vast army poised to plunge the Realm into civil war. In the coming struggle! Morkeleb will sacrifice what he values most. Jenny will question everything she trusts and believes in. And John will embark on a perilous quest for the only things capable of defeating such powerful demons-even more powerful demons . . . Dragonsbane, they called him. Slayer of dragons. Or a dragon, anyway. And, he'd later found out, not such a very big one at that. Lord John Aversin, Thane of the Winterlands, leaned back in the mended oak chair in his library as the messenger's footfalls retreated down the tower stairs, and looked across at Jenny Waynest, who was curled up on the windowsill with a cat dozing in her lap. "Bugger," he said. The night's first appreciable breeze—warm and sticky as such things were in the Winterlands in summer—brought the grit of woodsmoke through the open window and made the candle flames shudder among the heaped books. "A hundred feet long," Jenny murmured. John shook his head. "Gaw, any dragon looks a hundred feet long if you're under it." He pushed his round-lensed spectacles more firmly onto the bridge of his long nose. "Or in a position where you have to think about bein' under it in the near future. I doubt it's over fifty. That one we slew over by Far West Riding wasn't quite thirty ..." He nodded to the cold fireplace, where the black spiked mace of the golden dragon's tail-tip hung. "And Morkeleb the Black was forty-two, though I thought he'd whack me over the back of the head when I asked could I measure him." He grinned at the memory, but behind the spectacles Jenny could see the fear in his eyes. Almost as an afterthought he added, "We'll have to go after it." Jenny stroked the cat's head. "Yes." Her voice was inaudible. The cat purred and made bread on her knee. "Funny, that." John got to his feet and stretched to get the crick out of his back. "I've put together every account I can find of past Dragonsbanes—all them old ballads and tales—and matched 'em up as well as I could with the King-lists." He gestured to the vast rummage that covered desk and ...

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Hambly
• Publisher: Del Rey
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.01.2000
• EAN: 9780345421883
• ISBN: 978-0-345-42188-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 175 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Winterlands; Winterlands
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy