Résultats pour "Robert Jackson" dans Fantastique

The city of Bulikov once wielded the powers of the gods to conquer the world, enslaving and brutalizing millions - until its divine protectors were killed. Now Bulikov has become just another colonial outpost of the world's new geopolitical power, but the surreal landscape of the city itself - first shaped, now shattered, by the thousands of miracles its guardians once worked upon it - stands as a constant, haunting reminder of its former supremacy. Into this broken city steps Shara Thivani.

In Daretana’s greatest mansion, a high imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, when a tree erupted from his body. Even here at the Empire’s borders, where contagions abound and the blood of the leviathans works strange magical changes, it’s a death both terrifying and impossible.

The city of Voortyashtan was once the home of the goddess of death, war, and destruction, but now it's little more than a ruin. General Turyin Mulaghesh is called out of retirement and sent to this hellish place to find a Saypuri secret agent who's gone AWOL in the middle of a mission. But the ghosts of past wars have followed her there, and soon she begins to wonder what happened to the souls in the afterlife when the gods were defeated by her people, the Polis. Do the dead sleep soundly in the land of death?

Sancia Grado is a thief, and a damn good one. And her latest target, a heavily guarded warehouse on Tevanne’s docks, is nothing her unique abilities can’t handle. But unbeknownst to her, Sancia’s been sent to steal an artifact of unimaginable power, an object that could revolutionize the magical technology known as scriving. The Merchant Houses who control this magic - the art of using coded commands to imbue everyday objects with sentience - have already used it to transform Tevanne into a vast, remorseless capitalist machine.

Sigrud je Harkvaldsson has nothing left to live for. He is a fugitive and an exile, wanted for murder throughout the empire of Saypur. His entire existence has seemed only to visit suffering and death upon those he wants most to protect - while he himself has emerged from each battle cruelly unscathed, inexplicably immune to forces both natural and divine. Then his closest friend and ally, former prime minister Shara Komayd, is assassinated.

A few years ago, Sancia Grado would’ve happily watched Tevanne burn. Now, she’s hoping to transform her city into something new. Something better. Together with allies Orso, Gregor, and Berenice, she’s about to strike a deadly blow against Tevanne’s cruel robber-baron rulers and wrest power from their hands for the first time in decades. But then comes a terrifying warning: Crasedes Magnus himself, the first of the legendary hierophants, is about to be reborn. And if he returns, Tevanne will be just the first place to feel his wrath.

Toute l'économie de l'opulente cité de Tevanne repose sur une puissante magie : l'enluminure. A l'aide de sceaux complexes, les maîtres enlumineurs donnent aux objets des pouvoirs insoupçonnés et contournent les lois de la physique.

In the canton of Yarrowdale, at the very edge of the Empire’s reach, a Treasury officer has disappeared into thin air—vanishing from a room within a heavily guarded tower, its door and windows locked from the inside. To solve the case, the Empire calls on its most brilliant and mercurial detective, the great Ana Dolabra. At her side, as always, is her bemused assistant Dinios Kol. Ana soon discovers that they are investigating not a disappearance but a murder—and one of surpassing cunning, carried out by an opponent who can pass through warded doors like a ghost.

Sancia, Clef, and Berenice have gone up against long odds in the past. But the war they’re fighting now is one even they can’t win. This time, they’re not facing robber-baron elites or even an immortal hierophant, but an entity whose intelligence is spread over half the globe—one that uses the magic of scriving to control not just objects but human minds. To fight it, they’ve used scriving technology to transform themselves and their allies into an army—a society—unlike anything humanity has seen before.

Some places are too good to be true. Under a pink moon, there is a perfect little town not found on any map. In that town, there are quiet streets lined with pretty houses, houses that conceal the strangest things. After a couple years of hard traveling, ex-cop Mona Bright inherits her long-dead mother's home in Wink, New Mexico. And the closer Mona gets to her mother's past, the more she understands that the people of Wink are very, very different....

Long lost to the public in out-of-print pulp magazines, dusty Victorian anthologies, and the pages of now defunct newspapers, these vintage vampire stories have truly proved immortal. Resurrected now for the year 2011, this is a stunning collection of nineteenth-century vampire stories by heavyweights such as Sabine Baring-Gould and Bram Stoker. These rare stories are arranged in chronological order from 1846 to 1913 and are compiled by two of the world's leading vampire anthologists and experts.

Roi déchu, ancien prisonnier politique, espion d’élite de Saypur, Sigrud je Harkvaldsson n’est pas un homme comme un autre. Rendu fou par la mort de sa fille, il a tué plusieurs soldats innocents. Et le voilà désormais obligé de vivre dans la clandestinité. Mais le meurtre de sa plus vieille amie, l’ancienne Première ministre Shara Komayd, va le replonger dans son domaine d’excellence. La traque. La violence. L’assassinat. La destruction.

L'entreprise de Sancia Grado, une jeune femme capable de faire revivre le passé des objets et d'entendre leur enluminure, est au bord de la faillite face à la nombreuse concurrence. Pour échapper au Hiérophante, une ancienne puissance qui s'intéresse de près à ses pouvoirs, Sancia doit percer le secret des origines de l'enluminure.

Best-selling author Robert Jackson Bennett has won widespread critical acclaim for his unique brand of darkly inventive fiction. In The Troupe, 16-year-old George Carole joins vaudeville in search of Heironomo Silenus, the man he believes to be his father. But what he discovers casts a dark pall over his world: Silenus' troupe hides a dangerous secret - one that invites death to all in its vicinity.

Autrefois puissante cité divine capable de conquérir et d'asservir les peuples établis à sa proximité, Bulikov est tombée. Ses dieux protecteurs ont été exterminés par un chef de guerre venu de Saypur. Et une mystérieuse catastrophe a eu lieu dans la foulée : le Cillement. Soixante-dix ans plus tard, Bulikov n'est plus que l'ombre d'elle-même. Restent toutefois visibles, çà et là, certains vestiges des miracles qui l'ont façonnée, notamment d'immenses escaliers brisés qui ne relient plus la terre aux cieux.

Autrefois, Sancia Grado n'était qu'une jeune voleuse dotée d'un talent rare. Puis elle a appris à utiliser ce talent et a battu les grandes maisons marchandes de Tevanne à leur propre jeu. Avec Clef et Bérénice, elle a même éliminé un hiérophante immortel – mais la guerre qu'ils mènent maintenant semble perdue d'avance. Sancia et ses alliés n'affrontent plus les élites de l'enluminure ou un hiérophante revenu d'un passé oublié ; cette fois, ils veulent détruire une entité dont l'intelligence est répartie sur la moitié du globe : un fantôme bien caché, qui utilise la magie pour posséder les objets, mais aussi contrôler les esprits humains.

Alors qu’elle profite d’une retraite bien méritée au bord de l’océan, passant ses journées à boire du vin, à pêcher et à transformer chacun de ses proches voisins en ennemi mortel, la générale Turyin Mulaghesh reçoit la visite d’un fonctionnaire de Saypur. La Première ministre Shara Komayd a une mission pour elle.

San Francisco's only PI with an eye into the supernatural, is having one of those months. His bad mood drives him to his local pub where he encounters his latest client, a Leprechaun who's lost his adopted niece, a runaway Dryad, and that's where the problems begin. Some days it pours and when Landau Bain, the city's crankiest wizard, arrives on Tony's doorstep, he knows what's coming down isn't rain.

Detective Gabriella Versado has seen a lot of bodies. But this one is unique even by Detroit's standards: half boy, half deer, somehow fused together. As stranger and more disturbing bodies are discovered, how can the city hold on to a reality that is already tearing at its seams? If you're Detective Versado's geeky teenage daughter, Layla, you commence a dangerous flirtation with a potential predator online. If you're desperate freelance journalist Jonno, you do whatever it takes to get the exclusive on a horrific story.

A trolley car pulls into the station. Four minutes before, the inhabitants were seen boarding at the previous station. All are dead. And all of them are union. The year is 1919. The McNaughton Corporation is the pinnacle of American industry. They built airships that cross the seas. Guns that won the Great War. And above all, the city of Evesden. But something is rotten at the heart of Evesden. Caught between the union and the company, between the police and the victims, Hayes must find the truth behind the city before it kills him.