The Sky-Blue Wolves

Zusatztext Praise for the Novels of the Change "[A] richly realized story of swordplay and intrigue."-- Entertainment Weekly "[An] epic series."--Amazing Stories "Nobody wrecks a world better than S. M. Stirling! and nobody does a better job of showing that people remain people! with all their high points and low! in the wreckage."--Harry Turtledove! New York Times bestselling author of Joe Steele "Absorbing."--The San Diego Union-Tribune "[A] vivid portrait of a world gone insane...full of bloody action! exposition that expands character! and telling detail that makes it all seem very real."--Statesman Journal (Salem! OR) Informationen zum Autor S. M. Stirling is the author of many science fiction and fantasy novels. A former lawyer and an amateur historian, he lives with his wife, Jan. Klappentext S. M. Stirling presents the stunning and epic conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Change series, now in paperback. Many years ago, when advanced technology failed and humanity found itself in a turbulent, postapocalyptic world, extraordinary men and women birthed a new society from the ashes. Two generations after the Change, Crown Princess Órlaith struggles to preserve the hard-won peace her father brought to Montival-the former western North America. But the Change opened many doors, and through them Powers strong and strange and terrible came, to walk once more among humankind. With her fire-forged friend and ally, Japanese Empress Reiko, Órlaith must take up her sword to stop the spread of the mad malignancy behind the Yellow Raja, who has imprisoned her brother Prince John. And from the emerging superpower of Mongolia, the Sky-Blue Wolves of the High Steppe ride once more beneath the banner of Genghis Khan-the thunder of their hooves resounding across a world in turmoil. CHAPTER ONE   Pearl Harbor   Aupuni o Hawaii   (Kingdom of Hawaii)   December 4th   Change Year 46/2044 AD     TUUNNNNGGG.     Órlaith Arminger Mackenzie felt the massive frame of the frigate Sea-Leopard quiver beneath her feet as the fourteen-shot broadside cut loose, the catapults on the gun-deck below shaking the thick Douglas fir and Garry-oak structure of the warship as it sailed parallel to the coastline and across the land-breeze with a slow rocking-horse motion. The three masts and their stripped minimal shapes of battle-sail towered above her, and the other five frigates of the Montivallan Navy squadron traced a line behind her that might have been drawn with a ruler, white wakes against the cerulean blue of the ocean.     A little farther out from shore were the smaller, less drilled ships of the allied fleets, the navies of Hawai'i and Dai-Nippon, and the transports and barges that bore the troops who would storm ashore to put right the sneak attack and invasion. It was the task of the warships to soften their way.     Bolts and eighteen-pound roundshot arched out, a near-flicker as they left the launching troughs, arching away into invisibility with distance. That drew a merciful veil over what would be happening on shore as they slashed into the massed ranks of the Korean invasion forces, the dense black mass on the white beach, sparkling here and there with edged metal. They raised their square shields in a futile gesture against missiles designed to shatter the thick timber frames of warships or the stone of fortress walls.     What was it Da said? Órlaith thought grimly. Yes, that it's a great pity that fighting evil starts with killing evil's conscripted farmers.     Odors of tarred rope and wood, hot canvas and sweat and metal oiled with canola gone slightly rancid in the mild warmth overwhelmed the scented breeze ...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: S M Stirling, S.m. Stirling
• Editore: Ace Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9780451490681
• ISBN: 978-0-451-49068-1
• Pagine: 352
• Dimensioni: 158 mm x 237 mm x 30 mm
• Serie: A Novel of the Change; A Novel of the Change
• Categoria: Narrativa > Science Fiction, Fantasy