検索キーワード： 著者 "Marion Zimmer Bradley" すべてのカテゴリー

For the Hunters, the Hunt was a religion. The Sacred Prey, sentient beings collected from all over the galaxy, were literally given a fighting chance - they were allowed to choose weapons from an armory with every imaginable weapon and given time to train. Then they were taken to the place of the Hunt, where death awaited them. Those who survived until the eclipse of the red moon, however, were honored by the Hunters and rewarded with all the wealth they could desire. The trick, of course, was surviving.

Sybil Ellis was a 17-year-old orphan with very few options: If she didn't want to be a governess or a companion - and she didn't - she had to marry. So she married Dr. Philip Maynard, who was old enough to be her grandfather and treated her like a daughter. In fact, he treated her like Judith, the daughter he had lost, even to calling her by that name and having all of his new servants do likewise.

The heroine, Zadieyek of Gyre has been captured and sold as a slave, who has amnesia and remembers nothing of her life before the trip across the desert with the slavers - and, due to a head injury, remembers mercifully little of that. But she does know that she would rather fight in the arena than be a harlot for the men who do…While she remains a slave, she’s quite different from the typical 'slave girl' - she grows and develops, always searching for her memory and her past, convinced that this is not how her life is supposed to be. And, of course, she's right.

Über das sagenhafte Atlantis mit den See-Königtümern und das geheime Alte Reich herrscht ein Geschlecht von Priesterkönigen, das die Naturgewalten - die schöpferischen wie die zerstörerischen - in magischen Kulten bannt. Aus der Nacht der Dämonen brechen die Menschen auf zum strahlenden Tag des Lichts. Doch die Mächte des Bösen lauern darauf, von Neuem entdeckt zu werden...

Laura and Monique were cousins and, in childhood, had been as close as twins. So when Monique's husband, the Comte de Montigny, came to Laura and asked her to impersonate Monique in order to protect Monique's child, she agreed. His story of Monique's disappearance and suicide, however, did not sound like the actions of the cousin Laura had known, and the rest of Monique's family reacted with odd hostility to "Monique's" reappearance...She feared that Monique had been murdered - and that she would be next.

Nobody alive knew how the feud between Storn and Hammerfell had begun, but that didn't stop the fighting. When Storn's men burned Hammerfell's castle, his infant twin sons were separated, and each grew up thinking himself the rightful Duke of Hammerfell. Conn, raised in the mountains by his father's paxman, continued to fight the Storns. Alastair grew up with his mother in Thendara and planned to marry his cousin, Floria. But when Conn came to Thendara to seek King Aiden's help, and the twins encountered each other, it changed all their lives.

Leonie Hastur has a high degree of laran, the telepathic power of the Comyn caste, and wants to be Keeper of Arilinn Tower, which will give her as much power as her twin brother Lorill, Heir to Hastur. But she has a premonition that something strange and disturbing will come from the sky and change their world forever. She is correct. Ysaye Barnett loves life on shipboard and would happily stay right there, with her beloved computers, forever.

After Lew Alton unwittingly roused the fire demon Sharra, the Sword of Aldones was the only weapon that could lay her to rest again. But only one man could wield the sword, and getting it was an even bigger problem.

Dr. Randall Forth is so desperate to discover a cure for the 48-year-fever, known as Trailmen's fever, he persuades Dr. Jay Allison to undergo hypnosis. Once hypnotized, Jay Allison becomes Jason Allison, his hidden and polar opposite secondary personality.

In order to get away from the married doctor she had fallen in love with, Susan Moore took a job as a private psychiatric nurse on Sanctuary Island, at Duncarlie Castle. The castle had been brought over stone by stone from Scotland and people said it wasn't haunted.... But if there were no ghosts, there were tragedies that still held sway over the castle and its inhabitants. And Sanctuary Island was a sanctuary only for the birds who lived there, watched over by the enigmatic Park Ranger, Ross Hunter.

Morgaine, die Hohepriesterin des Nebelreichs Avalon und Schwester von Artus, erzählt die wahre Geschichte ihres königlichen Bruders...

Vi sono luoghi dove i due mondi sono vicini tra loro come le pieghe di un drappo. Uno di questi luoghi è quello che gli uomini chiamano Avalon. Qui, nascoste dalle nebbie che separano il regno di Faerie dal mondo degli uomini, tre sacerdotesse dell'Isola Sacra preparano il terreno per l'avvento del difensore, il leggendario Figlio di Cento Re, l'uomo destinato a salvare la Britannia... Per Caillean, che è stata costretta a lasciare la Casa della Foresta portando con sé Gawen, giovane erede di una mitica stirpe reale, la salvezza non giunge attraverso la vittoria.

Il suo nome è Eilan, figlia di una famiglia druidica e dotata della Vista. Il suo fato, da sempre, è quello di diventare sacerdotessa della Dea, custode della Casa della Foresta e dell'Isola Sacra, il futuro regno di Avalon. Ma Eilan, durante le celebrazioni di Beltane, ha scelto una strada diversa. La strada della ribellione e dell'amore. Si è infatti innamorata di Gaio, un soldato di sangue misto che è arrivato in Britannia con le truppe romane per soggiogare l'antica terra dei Druidi.

L'ascesa e la caduta di Camelot raccontata dalle donne che, insieme a Morgaine, hanno visto il mondo che conoscevano cambiare radicalmente. Fuggita da Avalon dopo aver scoperto le orribili macchinazioni della Dama del Lago, Morgaine è più che mai decisa a non essere una docile marionetta nelle mani di Viviane. Non immagina che il figlio che ha partorito e affidato a sua sorella Morgause diventerà un giorno lo strumento della distruzione del padre.

Potente maga dotata della Vista, Morgaine ha sempre avuto la capacità di scrutare nella mente delle persone e di conoscere i loro pensieri. Ora, in là con gli anni e in pace con il mondo e con se stessa, ha deciso di ripercorrere la propria vita e di narrare l'epica storia dell'ascesa e della caduta di Camelot. E ha scelto di farlo non attraverso le gesta eroiche dei cavalieri della Tavola Rotonda, ma attingendo a ciò che il suo potere le ha permesso di conoscere, per dare finalmente voce alle donne.

She was Eilan, the daughter of a Druidic warleader and gifted with visions. In a land struggling to survive both Roman conquerors and her own people's enemies, surely fate had marked her to become a priestess of the Forest House. But first Eilan had chosen a different, forbidden path - to love Gaius, a soldier of mixed blood among the legions sent to subdue her country. So she must hide a terrible secret when she is anointed as the new High Priestess.

I England glider tilhængerne af den gamle keltiske tro og kristendommen længere og længere fra hinanden, selvom der længe har hersket fred i Kong Arthurs rige. Hvad vil der ske, når det endelige opgør skal stå? Kan det fortsat lade sig gøre at holde dronningen og ridder Lancelets kærlighed skjult? Og kan striden om tronen løses uden at involvere Arthurs uægte søn Mordred? Tågerne omkring Avalon er en fantasyserie på fire bind, der dykker ned i legenden om Kong Arthur og ridderne af det runde bord i England i 4-500-tallet.

Presset af dronning Gwenhwyfar er Arthur begyndt at vise stadig større interesse for den kristne tro. Det fører til uenigheder med Avalons præstinder, og snart bryder striden mellem den gamle og den nye tro ud i lys lue. Det er endnu ikke lykkedes Gwenhwyfar at skænke ham en arving, og samtidig bliver det sværere og sværere at bevare hemmeligheden om Morgaines søn. "Tågerne omkring Avalon" er en fantasyserie på fire bind, der dykker ned i legenden om Kong Arthur og ridderne af det runde bord i England i 4-500-tallet.

Kassandra, der nu er præstinde i Slangemoderens tempel, modtager stadig syn og glimtvise beskeder fra fremtiden. Men selvom hun koncentrerer sig mere og mere om sit kald som præstinde, kæmper hun også med sine følelser. Hendes fødeby Troja er nu belejret af Ægæerne, men vil stadig ikke anerkende Kassandras forudsigelser og skæbnetro. "Kærlighedsgudindens gave" er anden del af serien "Flammer over Troja", som er en fri genfortælling af Homers verdensberømte "Iliaden".

Troja har ikke langt igen, men selvom hærføreren Hector er død, og byen er splittet af indre magtkampe, er der stadig ingen, der vil lytte til seersken Kassandra. Ikke andre end amazonernes dronning, der nu kommer byen til hjælp. Hvad er det mon, Ægæerne er i gang med at bygge derude på sletten foran byen? Og hvad bliver Kassandras skæbne, når den lange krig får en ende? "Jordrysterens hævn" er tredje og sidste del af serien "Flammer over Troja", som er en fri genfortælling af Homers verdensberømte "Iliaden".