In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. Circe is a strange child - not powerful and terrible, like her father, nor gorgeous and mercenary like her mother. Scorned and rejected, Circe grows up in the shadows, at home in neither the world of gods or mortals. But Circe has a dark power of her own: witchcraft. When her gift threatens…
Jerome Burnel was once a hero. He intervened to prevent multiple killings and in doing so damned himself. His life was torn apart. He was imprisoned, brutalized.
But in his final days, with the hunters circling, he tells his story to private detective Charlie Parker. He speaks of the girl who was marked for death but was saved, of the ones who tormented him, and an entity that hides in a ruined stockade.
Parker is not like other men. He died, and was reborn. He is ready to wage war.
A tretise on Chinese philosophy worked from the ancient world , the new China, (and why China can never escape it's past) played in time with the world we live in today. One of the greatest works of (science) fiction I have ever read. Even Clarke, Asimov and other great writers would bow down before this work. Destined to become a Sci-Fi classic.
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Imagine the universe as a forest, patrolled by numberless and nameless predators. In this forest, stealth is survival - any civilisation that reveals its location is prey.
Earth has. Now the predators are coming.
Crossing light years, the Trisolarians will reach Earth in four centuries' time. But the sophons, their extra-dimensional agents and saboteurs, are already here. Only the individual human mind remains immune to their influence.
This is the motivation for the Wallfacer Project, a last-ditch…
This land is ancient, steeped in myth and history. Monsters, sleeping, wake. Ghosts stalk the land. Stories, legends, become real and even the warmest of loves can be shattered on the cold rock of Argyll. I woke one day, Under dark Skies, my hand on his belly, his taste on my tongue and knew that I would love him forever but sometimes forever does not last that long. Under Dark Skies. A monstrously good read. Don’t make any assumptions. Five Stars. Anne Welsh. “The Corbie Times” Under Dark Skies. Is all I hoped it would be. A great story. Authentic characters and history. Bernard Cornwall. Author. Historian. Under Dark Skies we live, Under Dark Skies we wake and sleep and Under Dark Skies we die.
