Julian May
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In the year 2034, Theo Quderian, a French physicist, made an amusing but impractical discovery: the means to use a one-way, fixed-focus time warp that opened into a place in the Rhone River valley during the idyllic Pliocene Epoch, six million years ago. But, as time went on, a certain usefulness developed. The misfits and mavericks of the future-many of them brilliant people-began to seek this exit door to a mysterious past. In 2110, a particularly...
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With its richly imagined universe and large cast of finely-drawn characters, Julian May's Saga of Pliocene Exile has won devoted fans across the globe who find new layers, details, and ideas with each reading.
Covering all four novels-The Many-Colored Land, The Golden Torc, The Nonborn King, and The Adversary. This reading guide offers a plot chronology, the author's original maps, a descriptive listing of all the characters, and three delightful...
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The Many-Colored Land, the first volume in Julian May's dazzling series of science fiction-fantasy novels, began with a des perate act of exile. A group of talented misfits from a future society chose to pass through a time-portal into the unknown dangers of a world six million years past, the world of the Pliocene. They emerged in a proto-Kurope inhabited by two extraterrestrial races - the chivalric Tanu and the dwarfish, forest-dwelling Tirvulag....
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In the final novel of the award-winning sci-fi saga, both humans and aliens face destruction as a new time-portal opens a path back to the twenty-second century.
Human time-travelers from the sophisticated Galactic Milieu of the twenty-second century came to the Pliocene Epoch seeking a Garden of Eden. What they found was slavery under the knightly Tanu race, who had been exiled to Earth from a far galaxy. Freed by the usurper Aiken Drum, the humans...
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Ganadora del premio Locus a la mejor novela de ciencia ficción. Finalista de los premios Hugo, Nébula, Prometheus y Fantasía mitopoética de literatura adulta.
Los sujetos más inadaptados y problemáticos de cada rincón del armonioso Medio Galáctico son exiliados al Plioceno. Otros muchos se exilian por propia voluntad. Al plioceno se puede viajar gracias al extravagante invento de Theo Guderian, ubicado en L'Auberge du Portail, regido por Madame...
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They have always been among us-the telepaths, the persons possessing higher mind-powers that have been called "metapsychic"-but they have always been few and far between and their abilities weak or erratic. Until now ...Human evolution makes a quantum leap. And all over the world, people begin to be born with extraordinary minds. Some of them are geniuses and some are very ordinary. But all of these metapsychic operants have mind-powers that "normal"...
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A powerful malevolence reemerges in a terrifying new guise to threaten a feuding royal family and enslave the realm in the continuation of the acclaimed Saga of the Trillium Twelve years have passed since three princesses joined together to defeat the powerful evil poisoning their kingdom, but over time their relationship has become strained. When impetuous Kadiya, devoted champion of the aboriginal Oddlings, loses the talisman entrusted to her, she...
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In Pliocene Europe, warring races of aliens and humans face a new threat from North America in the third novel of the Locus Award-winning sci-fi series.
A group of misfits from the twenty-second century have travelled six million years back in time to the Pliocene Epoch. Instead of an uninhabited paradise, they discover a land overrun with two alien races-each possessing great psychic powers-locked in bitter war. After escaping the knightly Tanu,...
9) Sky Trillium
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As a world crumbles, beset by devastating natural catastrophes, three royal sisters must reclaim a lost magic to rescue their shattered home world from a plague of ancient malevolence, in this continuation of the magnificent Saga of the Trillium The story that began with Black Trillium-the brainchild of Julian May, Andre Norton, and Marion Zimmer Bradley, three of fantasy fiction's greats-takes glorious flight in Sky Trillium as author May carries...
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"Una de las más extraordinarias sagas de ciencia ficción que se han escrito". (Peter F. Hamilton)
"Una saga hechizante y absorbente de punta a punta".
(Fritz Leiber)
"Es uno de los futuros mejor pensados de la historia de la ciencia ficción".
(Joe W. Haldeman)
"Consideré al instante a La Tierra Multicolor como un clásico. Estoy muy contento por poder decir que El torque Oro es una digna sucesora. El concepto es escandalosamente original. Alcanza...
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2022
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Long-time frenemies Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn take the spotlight, as Hell in a Cell looms. While KO's rivalry with Shane McMahon gets increasingly heated, Sami, in the midst of a losing streak, reconnects with his fellow Canadian. Will Kevin finally bring Sami to his side? This volume also features a short story co-written by WWE Superstar Samoa Joe, finally revealing his reasons for leaving NXT. Prepare to fight anyone, anywhere with writer Dennis...
13) Black Trillium
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Three royal sisters must undertake separate but equally perilous quests in order to defeat the dark sorcery that has ravaged their kingdom in book one of the Saga of the Trillium, an ingenious collaboration by three classic names in fantasy fiction. Peace has long reigned in Ruwenda thanks to the magical protection of the Archimage Binah. The realm's devoted guardian is aging, however, and her magic is weakening. When the kingdom's triplet princesses...
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BOOM! Studios
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2022
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This oversized WWE special highlights everything we love about the Thanksgiving tradition that rules autumn in sports entertainment - Survivor Series! Features stories across all eras, from the epic showdown between Brock Lesnar and Goldberg twelve years in the making, to the infamous controversial classic that still enrages WWE fans to this day - the Montreal Screwjob.
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BOOM! Studios
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2022
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ARE YOU READY? The most iconic time in Sports Entertainment history comes to life in untold stories of the WWE. This anthology includes stories looking at Stone Cold Steve Austin, the rivalry between the Brothers of Destruction, Undertaker and Kane, and DX's infamous invasion of a certain wrestling program "down South"...
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BOOM! Studios
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2022
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WrestleMania is the biggest event in the world of sports entertainment, and we're celebrating it with an oversized one-shot showcasing the biggest WWE Superstars! This year's special includes a closer look at one of the greatest matches of all time: Macho Man Randy Savage vs. Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat at WrestleMania III.
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BOOM! Studios
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2022
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Go further than what you get to see on WWE Network. WWE: Then. Now. Forever. Volume Three brings you back to some of the most shocking moments of WWE's past! Be there when Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat and Randy "Macho Man" Savage lock horns at Wrestlemania III, watch The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin seek WWE supremacy, and go along for the ride with D-Generation X as they head down South... An all-star team of writers and artists, including Aaron...