Mary Gentle: Ilario, Book Two: The Stone Golem

USA 2006, 361 pp., brochure, € 13.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
The action sweeps Ilario, a young hermaphrodite would-be painter, from giving Caesarian birth to a daughter in Venice to befriending Pharaoh-Queen Ty-ameny in Alexandria-in-exile at Constantinople where he meets the Alexandrine castrato-by-choice spy Rekhmire and Ramiro Carrasco, Ilario's would-be assassin and later slave. A turn of fate sees a Chinese war junk taking Ilario first home to Iberia to negotiate ... Weiterlesen

Jim Grimsley: The Last Green Tree

USA 2006, 400 pp., hardcover, € 24.89
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Jim Grimsley returns to the richly complex milieu of »The Ordinary« with a tale of magic, science, and an epic clash between godlike forces. The Great Mage rules over all of humanity, even as cybernetic links connect the varied worlds of the empire. Vast Gates allow travel from one planet to another, across unimaginable distances. The armies of the empire ... Weiterlesen

David T. Lord: Bound in Flesh

USA 2006, 298 pp., brochure, € 13.89
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Art critic Jean-Luc »Jack« Courbet and aspiring actor and model Claude Halloran have a wicked secret, one that has cost many their lives: they are vampires. Jack was transformed a century ago by his stepfather and he himself turned his lover Claude into a creature of the night. From New York to Paris to Las Vegas they roam the nightclubs ... Weiterlesen

Gregory Maguire: Son of a Witch

USA 2006, 337 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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10 years after the publication of »Wicked«, the author returns to the land of Oz. There he introduces us to Liir, an adolescent boy last seen hiding in the shadows of a castle after what Dorothy did in the »Witch«. Bruised, comatose, and left for dead in a gully, Liir is shattered in spirit as well as in form. But ... Weiterlesen

Storm Constantine: Der Zauber von Fleisch und Geist

Dt.v. Marion Müller. D 2006, 428 S., Broschur, € 15.32
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Der erste Teil der Wraeththu-Trilogie nun in deutscher Sprache: Pellaz lebt abgeschieden mit seiner Familie auf dem Land. Die Welt von Megalithika ist im Verfall begriffen. Doch davon wusste Pellaz nichts. In den Ruinen ist eine neue androgyne Spezies entstanden, die dem Homo sapiens die Weltherrschaft streitig macht: die Wraeththu. Sie sind stärker, intelligenter und viel schöner als ihre menschlichen ... Weiterlesen

David T. Lord: Bound in Flesh

USA 2006, 298 pp., brochure, € 13.89
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Art critic Jean-Luc »Jack« Courbet and aspiring actor and model Claude Halloran have a wicked secret, one that has cost many their lives: they are vampires. Jack has transformed a century ago by his stepfather and he himself turned his lover Claude into a creature of the night. From New York to Paris to Las Vegas they roam the nightclubs ... Weiterlesen

Gregory Maguire: Son of a Witch

USA 2006, 337 pp., brochure, € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
10 years after the publication of »Wicked«, the author returns to the land of Oz. There he introduces us to Liir, an adolescent boy last seen hiding in the shadows of a castle after what Dorothy did in the »Witch«. Bruised, comatose, and left for dead in a gully, Liir is shattered in spirit as well as in form. But ... Weiterlesen

Douglas Clegg: Mordred, Bastard Son

USA 2006, 260 pp., hardbound, € 23.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Douglas Clegg sets his rich imagination to the task of reinventing Arthurian legend. A young monk becomes enthralled by the story of a mysterious prisoner who begins to tell as he tends to his wounds. The prisoner is Mordred, bastard son of King Arthur Pendragon and his half sister Morgan Le Fay, who has been arrested for murder and treason. ... Weiterlesen

Storm Constantine: The Ghosts of Blood and Innocence

Wraeththu Histories Book 3. UK 2005, 448 pp., brochure, € 27.95
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As the Wraeththu struggle to uncover the secrets of their origins, it is now time for second generation hara - children of this hermaphrodite race - to make their mark on history. Darquiel har Aralis lives among the hidden tribe of Olopade in ignorance of who his family really is. All he knows is that he was brought to the ... Weiterlesen

John Butler: This Gay Utopia

USA 2005, 314 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Starbooks
Imagine a small town where an all-male university and a Naval station are the only components of activity in the isolated community. A university, where the school's longtime-honored attitude toward homosexuel activity is so tolerant it almost constitutes an endorsment of it and where taking a shower in the dormitory is often as much a sexual adventure as it is ... Weiterlesen

Jim Grimsley: The Ordinary

USA 2005, 368 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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The Twil Gate links two very different realms. On one side of the portal is Senal, an advanced technological civilization of some 30 billion inhabitants, all cybernetically linked and at war with machine intelligences many light-years away. On the other side is Irion, a land of myth and legend, where the world is flat and mighty wizards once ruled. Jedda ... Weiterlesen

Hal Bodner: Bite Club

USA 2005, 347 pp., brochure, € 14.49
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West Hollywood, California - a liberal and welcoming city, free from discrimination and hatred and safe if you're gay. But not safe anymore. Someone in town has a macabre passion for beautiful young men. Healthy, gym-toned male bodies keep turning up - tortured, drained of blood, missing parts, and quite dead. WeHo City Coroner Becky O'Brien is helpless to stop ... Weiterlesen

John M. Curlovich: The Blood of Kings

USA 2005, 254 pp., brochure, € 13.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Jamie, a hunky college sophomore, feeling brokenhearted after being dumped by his boyfriend, decides to audit a summer class on Egyptology taught by the magnetic Dr. Danilo Semenkaru. Several of the university's star athletes are then found murdered, their bodies completely desiccated, but Jamie has other things on his mind, as Danilo's attention turns decidedly nonprofessorial. Soon, he is swept ... Weiterlesen

Storm Constantine: The Shades of Time and Memory (II)

The Second Book of the Wraeththu Histories. USA 2004, 444 pp., brochure, € 25.99
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
TOR Doherty - Wreaththu Histories 2
The Wraeththu, once a wild and beautiful race living on the land and reveling in their power and sexuality, have become a bit more tamed as the years have passed. And with the creation of their city of Imanion, and the enthronement of the Tigron and Tigrina, the Wraeththu have become civilized. And no more are new Wraeththu created by ... Weiterlesen

Gregory Maguire: Wicked - The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

USA 2004, 409 pp., brochure, € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious Witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? Maguire creates a fantasy world so vivid that we will never look at the Oz the same ... Weiterlesen