In that dawn of man and death of magic there yet remained one last untouched place - the small forest of Ealdwood - which kept the magic intact, and protected the old ways. It was that transitional time of the world, when man first brought the clang of iron and the reek of smoke to the lands which before had echoed only with fairy voices. In this brilliant novel - possibly Cherryh’s masterwork - the fate of billions has come down to a confrontation between two profoundly alien cultures on a single desert planet.īrought to Hestia to build a dam for the failing colony, Sam Merrit discovers that intelligent alien beings are responsible for sabotaging the colony Now at the peak of her career, this three-time Hugo Award winner launches her most ambitious work in decades, Hammerfall, part of a far-ranging series, The Gene Wars, set in an entirely new universe scarred by the most vicious of future weaponry, nanotechnology. Cherryh has been enthralling audiences for nearly thirty years with rich and complex novels. One of the most renowned figures in science fiction, C.J. Pyetr and Sasha’s flight to Kiev is interrupted when they stumble upon a wizard intent on bringing the spirit of his murdered daughter back to life And they were left alone, with the borrowed personas of their ancient namesakes, to face a crisis those venerable spirits were never designed to master.
Until a wandering instability, a knot in time, a ripple in the between sucked them into a spatial no-man’s-land from which there seemed to be no escape. They lived in a kind of dream, and had no idea of their origins, their prototypes in those old, old story tapes of romance, chivalry, heroism and betrayal. And they worked aboard the Maid, an anachronistic fantasy of a spaceship, decorated with swords, heraldic banners, old-looking beams masking the structural joints, and lamps that mimicked live flame. They were made people, clone servants designed to suit the fancy of their opulent owner, the Lady Dela Kirn. Their names were Lancelot, Elaine, Percivale, Gawain, Modred, Lynette and Vivien, but they were not characters from legend. Julius Caesar gathers his legions in an alternate universe in order to defeat the devil and conquer hellĪvoiding other humans because of the curse placed on him, Caithe mac Sliabhan nevertheless aids a strange couple who claim to be husband and wife but look like twins to Caith, and who are under the spell of a witch
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