検索キーワード： 著者 "Dan Simmons" すべてのカテゴリー

Aenea wächst während der Reise mit Raul Endymion zu einer Frau heran und entwickelt sich zu "Derjenigen die lehrt". Nachdem Raul von Aenea fortgeschickt wird, um ihr altes Schiff zu bergen und so beide getrennt voneinander durch verschiedene Welten casten, kommt der Pax wieder auf Aeneas Spur. Und die Jagd beginnt von Neuem.

Das Abenteuer um Hyperion geht weiter. Auf dem Planeten Hyperion öffnen sich die mysteriösen Zeit-Gräber. Und das Rätsel, dass sie jahrelang in sich eingeschlossen hatten wird das Universum erschüttern. Nichts wird mehr sein wie es war...

Im Jahr 2700 - die Erde ist durch den Großen Fehler bereits vor langem zerstört worden - leben die Menschen auf 200 verschiedenen Planeten. Künstliche Intelligenzen - kurz KIs genannt - kontrollieren diese Welten in einem Computernetz. Sie haben sich zu den heimlichen Herrschern über die Menschen erhoben. Auf dem Planeten Hyperion, der außerhalb dieser Kernzone liegt, regiert eine Schreckensgottheit: das Shrike, einem rätselhaftes Wesen, halb organisch, halb mechanisch, und Inbegriff des Schmerzes und der Qual.

From the towering heights of Olympos Mons on Mars, the mighty Zeus and his immortal family of gods, goddesses, and demigods look down upon a momentous battle, observing - and often influencing - the legendary exploits of Paris, Achilles, Hector, Odysseus, and the clashing armies of Greece and Troy. Thomas Hockenberry, former 21st-century professor and Iliad scholar, watches as well. It is Hockenberry's duty to observe and report on the Trojan War's progress to the so-called deities who saw fit to return him from the dead.

A thrilling tale of high-altitude death and survival set on the snowy summits of Mount Everest, from the bestselling author of The Terror. It's 1924 and the race to summit the world's highest mountain has been brought to a terrified pause by the shocking disappearance of George Mallory and Sandy...

It’s the summer of 1960 and in the small town of Elm Haven, Illinois, five twelve-year-old boys are forging the powerful bonds that a lifetime of change will not break. From sunset bike rides to shaded hiding places in the woods, the boys’ days are marked by all of the secrets and silences of an idyllic childhood. But amid the sun-drenched cornfields, their loyalty will be pitilessly tested.

Die gefährliche Flucht von Aenea und ihrem Beschützer Raul Endymion durch die Portale der Zeit und die Welten nimmtihren Lauf. Der Pax ist ihnen jedoch unablässig auf den Fersen und hinterlässt nichts als Spuren der Vernichtung und des Todes. Aenea sieht sich gezwungen eine Entscheidung zu treffen, von der die gesamte Zukunft der Menschheit abhängt...

When Paha Sapa, a young Sioux warrior, "counts coup" on General George Armstrong Custer as Custer lies dying on the battlefield at the Little Bighorn, the legendary general's ghost enters him - and his voice will speak to him for the rest of his event-filled life. Seamlessly weaving together the...

The Terror: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! * The men on board the HMS Terror have every expectation of finding the Northwest Passage. But what they don't expect is a monstrous predator lurking behind the Arctic ice. When the...

In 1893, Sherlock Holmes and Henry James come to America together to solve the mystery of the 1885 death of Clover Adams, wife of the esteemed historian Henry Adams -- member of the Adams family that has given the United States two Presidents. Clover's suicide appears to be more than it at first...

If you're going to shoot Joe Kurtz, you'd better shoot to kill. Ex-PI Joe Kurtz's survival is on the line when an ambush leaves him badly wounded and his parole officer, Peg O'Toole, clinging to life. Their respective professions have ensured that neither suffers from a shortage of enemies, so...

Revenge has never been served so cold. Joe Kurtz, former investigator and convicted felon, is on parole. But the years he spent in Attica didn't make his old haunts any safer. Back on the streets of Buffalo, he's already marked by a local Mafia don. As if watching his back weren't enough work...

Once Joe Kurtz needed revenge -- and revenge cost him eleven years in Attica prison. Now Kurtz needs a job, and the price is going to be higher. Out of prison, out of touch, Kurtz signs on with the Byron Farino, Don of a Mob family whose son Kurtz had been protecting on the inside. Farino...

Darwin Minor travels a dangerous road. A Vietnam veteran turned reluctant expert on interpreting the wreckage of fatal accidents, Darwin uses science and instinct to unravel the real causes of unnatural disasters. He is very, very good at his job. His latest case promises to be his most...

At the height of World War II, the famous writer Ernest Hemingway sought permission from the U.S. government to operate a spy ring out of his house in the Cuban countryside. This much is true... It is the summer of ’42 and FBI agent Joe Lucas has come to Cuba at the behest of J. Edgar Hoover to keep an eye on Hemingway. The great writer has assembled a ragtag spy ring that he calls the “Crook Factory” to play a dangerous game of amateur espionage. But then Lucas and Hemingway, against all the odds, uncover a critical piece of intelligence - and the game turns deadly.

“Sink your teeth in” (People) to the scariest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire tales ever assembled—with stories from Stephen King, Dan Simmons, Bram Stoker, and many more.

Dale Stewart's life has become a shadow of what it once was. A respected college professor and successful novelist, he sabotaged his career and his marriage with an obsessive love affair that ended badly. With darkness closing in on him, Dale decides to return to his boyhood home in Illinois. Drawn by a recurring nightmare that has plagued him since his youth—and a troubling certainty that something is waiting for him there—he hopes to exorcise his demons.

Cuando el papa Julio XIV muere y resucita, la Hegemonía se ha convertido ya en una teocracia regida por Pax, organización cívico militar de la Iglesia católica. Gracias al control del parásito cruciforme, la Iglesia ofrece inmortalidad y la nueva fe es universal. Pax solo teme la llegada de un mesías. Y ese mesías existe. Se trata de Aenea, hija del cíbrido John Keats, que se ha refugiado durante casi trescientos años en las Tumbas del Tiempo de Hyperion.

On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his secret mistress, 53-year-old Charles Dickens -- at the height of his powers and popularity, the most famous and successful novelist in the world and perhaps in the history of the world -- hurtled into a disaster that changed his life...

Primera y aclamada entrega de la tetralogía «Los cantos de Hyperion», una saga fundamental de la ciencia ficción moderna que fue galardonada con tres premios Locus y el Hugo de 1990 por el presente título. La publicación de la serie a lo largo de la década de 1990 coronó a Dan Simmons como un referente indiscutible del género, capaz de construir un mundo al estilo de los Cuentos de Canterbury, y al mismo tiempo hacer un claro homenaje a John Keats.