Book Preview Sen Dunsidan, Prime Minister of the Federation, paused to look back over his shoulder as he reached his sleeping chambers. There was no one there who shouldn’t be. His personal guard at the bedroom doorway, the sentries on watch at both ends of the hallway—no one else. There never was. But that didn’t … Read more
Book Preview The first instalment in a magical new SHANNARA trilogy Twenty years have passed since the events told in The Voyage Of The Jerle Shannara trilogy. Grianne Ohmsford, rescued from oblivion by her brother Bek, has renounced her former life as the evil Ilse Witch, and now serves as the head of a new … Read more
Book Preview Talismans of Shannara Terry Brooks I Busk settled down about the Four Lands, a slow graying of light, a gradual lengthening of shadows. The swelter of the late summer’s day began to fade as the sun’s red fireball sank into the west and the hot, stale air cooled. The … Read more
Book Preview CHAPTER I FIRE. It sputtered in the oil lamps that hung distant and solitary in the windows and entryways of her people’s homes. It spat and hissed as it licked at the pitch-coated torches bracketing road intersections and gates. It glowed through breaks in the leafy branches of the ancient oak and … Read more
Book Preview he King of the Silver River stood at the edge of the Gardens that had been his domain since the dawn of ‘ the age of faerie and iooked out over the world of mortal men. What he saw left him sad and discouraged. Every- where the land sickened and … Read more
Book Preview T he old man sat alone in the shadow of the Dragon’s Teeth and watched the coming darkness chase the day- light west. The day had been cool, unusually so for midsummer, and the night promised to be chill. Scattered clouds masked the sky, casting their silhouettes upon the earth, drifting in the … Read more
Book Preview Bal antine Books New York Agent and friend, the Queen of the Silver River WILLS WALKED the empty corridors of Hel , looking for the code. He walked these same corridors every day, al day, searching, thinking that there had to be someplace he had overlooked and that on this day he would … Read more
Book Preview LOGAN TOM HAD climbed out of the lower levels of the compound and was starting up the steps to the walls when he heard the cries. They were sudden and sharp and signaled shock and excitement. He was still inside and could not tell what was happening, but he redoubled his efforts instantly, … Read more
Book Preview HE IS FAST asleep in his bed on the night that the demon and the once-men come for his family. They have been watching the compound for days, studying its walls and the routine of the guards who ward them. They have waited patiently for their chance, and now it has arrived. An … Read more
Book Preview ONE A WINTER TABLEAU, STARK and compelling. Not a hundred yards from the west gates of the fortress walls of Paranor, a small clearing is revealed within the giant old growth, barely visible through the curtain of new snowfall. An earlier snow leaves the clearing and the surrounding forest in a foot-deep covering … Read more
Book Preview ONE “Darcon Leah,” Ajin said, calm and composed, ignoring the sword at her throat. A look of surprise flickered across Dar’s lean features. Ajin sensed he was having trouble comprehending who she was. Or more likely, what she was. She was certain that whomever he had expected to find beneath her war helmet … Read more
Book Preview ONE Tigueron, the leader of Orsis Guild and one of the most feared assassins in all Varfleet, sat alone at a table in the back of the Bullfinch tavern, waiting. Smoke from pipes clamped between teeth and oil lamps set upon tables clouded the air with a pungent haze, wafting to the rafters … Read more
Book Preview FOREWORD Mel Brooks is the funniest. That we all agree on. There is no need to debate it. All of us who try to make comedy know we will never be the best. Mel wins. What we can debate is which is the best Mel Brooks movie. Yes, this is a subjective question. … Read more
Book Preview Copyright © 2007 by James Robert Parish. All rights reserved Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New JerseyPublished simultaneously in Canada No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, except … Read more
Book Preview Preface The writing of this book serves as a kind of confession. You, the readers, will be my confidants. I’m going to tell you all my secrets. Things I’ve never told anybody. Things I don’t want anybody to know! I don’t want you to breathe a word of what you find out … Read more
Book Preview The Editor ALEXANDRA LEWIS is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Director of the Centre for the Novel at the University of Aberdeen. She holds a PhD from Trinity College, Cambridge, where she was Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Scholar, and has taught at the Universities of Cambridge, Warwick, and Goldsmiths, London. Her publications … Read more
Book Preview The Uplift War David Brin To Jane Goodall, Sarah Hardy, and all the others who are helping us at last to learn to understand. And to Diane Fossey, who died fighting so that beauty and potential might live. DAVID BRIN … Read more
Book Preview [Five Jaduras Earlier] What strange fate brought me, Fleeing maelstroms of winter, Past five galaxies? * On a forlorn planet (nude!) SO HE THOUGHT WHILE PERFORMING SWOOPING rolls, propelling his sleek gray body with exhilarated tail strokes, reveling in the caress of water against naked flesh. Dappled sunlight threw luminous shafts through crystal … Read more