Shadowheart

Zusatztext “The plot springs from climax to climax as intrigues and secrets are unwound and revealed.” — Booklist “His books are immersive! drawing the reader into his work! seducing them to not notice the time flying past them as they delve further into Williams’ imagination.” — Sacramento Book Review "Perhaps the greatest thing I can say about Shadowheart is that through four long volumes of a story! Williams convinced me to care utterly for his characters and there’s a hole now in my life where they once lived. Few storytellers can do that. Williams does it with alarming regularity." — A Dribble of Ink “ Shadowrise and Shadowheart are as good an ending to a fantasy saga as I’ve ever had the pleasure of reading.” — Fantasy Book Critic “ Shadowheart was an immensely satisfying final entry to the series…. Anyone who likes their fantasy ‘Tolkienesque’ will be hard-pressed to find any author writing today better than Tad Williams.” — SFSite “All four volumes of Shadowmarch are must reads for any fan of high fantasy.” — BookLoons Informationen zum Autor Tad Williams has held more jobs than any sane person should admit to—singing in a band, selling shoes, managing a financial institution, throwing newspapers, and designing military manuals, to name just a few. He also hosted a syndicated radio show for ten years, worked in theater and television production, taught both grade-school and college classes, and worked in multimedia for a major computer firm. He is cofounder of an interactive television company, and is currently writing comic books and film and television scripts as well. Tad and his family live in London and the San Francisco Bay Area. You can find Tad Williams at tadwilliams.com.  Klappentext "When it comes to inventing new worlds, he's as skilled as J.R.R. Tolkien and Frank Herbert." -Christopher Paolini, bestselling author of Eragon. Southmarch Castle is about to be caught between two implacable enemies, the ancient, immortal Qar and the insane god-king, the Autarch of Xis. Meanwhile, its two young defenders, Princess Briony and Prince Barrick, are both trapped far away from home and fighting for their lives. And now, something is awakening underneath Southmarch Castle, something powerful and terrible that the world has not seen for thousands of years. Can Barrick and Briony, along with a tiny handful of allies, ordinary and extraordinary, find a way to save their world and prevent the rise of a terrible new age-an age of unending darkness? Something hammered Ferras Vansen hard in the back and knocked him forward so that he spilled Jasper and several of the warders like skittles. Vansen lost his spear and was feeling for it when something grabbed his collar and wrenched him another few paces across the stony cavern floor. “What . . . ?” He struggled to his knees, but before he could turn to see what had grabbed him, a nightmare shape lurched out of a dark place along the wall, a glowing obscenity that Vansen could not even under¬stand, twice as big as a cart horse and with more legs than anything that large should have. “Perin’s Hammer!” he shouted in sudden fright, shoving himself up¬right and stumbling backward from the huge creature so quickly that he lost his balance and fell down again. All around him the Funderlings were also retreating, howling in dismay and amazement. It was a monstrous spider or insect, something Vansen could not rec¬ognize and would not be able to see at all except for its own green-blue glow. It lumbered toward them with frightening speed, its armored body making a noise like the creaking of bellows-leather; when he saw it whole, he wished he hadn’t. The indistinct outline had not only spiderish legs but claws like a crab’s and some kind of huge tail swaying above its broad back. “Have you fire?”...

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The plot springs from climax to climax as intrigues and secrets are unwound and revealed. Booklist

His books are immersive, drawing the reader into his work, seducing them to not notice the time flying past them as they delve further into Williams imagination. Sacramento Book Review

"Perhaps the greatest thing I can say about Shadowheart is that through four long volumes of a story, Williams convinced me to care utterly for his characters and there s a hole now in my life where they once lived. Few storytellers can do that. Williams does it with alarming regularity." A Dribble of Ink

Shadowrise and Shadowheart are as good an ending to a fantasy saga as I ve ever had the pleasure of reading. Fantasy Book Critic

Shadowheart was an immensely satisfying final entry to the series . Anyone who likes their fantasy Tolkienesque will be hard-pressed to find any author writing today better than Tad Williams. SFSite

All four volumes of Shadowmarch are must reads for any fan of high fantasy. BookLoons

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Tad Williams
• Editore: Daw
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.11.2011
• EAN: 9780756406950
• ISBN: 978-0-7564-0695-0
• Pagine: 400
• Dimensioni: 151 mm x 229 mm x 40 mm
• Serie: Shadowmarch; Shadowmarch
• Categoria: Narrativa > Science Fiction, Fantasy