Escape to thought-provoking realms and explore awe-inspiring vistas. Whelan's work is a blend of pop-culture-defining imagery and impassioned personal expression that resonates with sophisticated art collectors and his fellow artists. He is at the forefront of Alternative Realism as a contemporary art movement.
Award-winning artist Whelan has illustrated the work of almost every major author in speculative fiction. Here are featured all the artist's major recent paintings, as well as a series of 25 never-before-seen works produced especially for this book. Over 100 full-color reproductions.
The final volume sees gunslinger Roland on a roller-coaster mix of exhilarating triumph and aching loss in his unrelenting quest to reach the dark tower. Roland's band of pilgrims remains united, though scattered. Susannah-Mia has been carried off to New York to give birth, Terrified of what may happen, Jake, Father Callahan and Oy follow. Roland and Eddie are in Maine, looking for the site which will lead them to Susannah. As he finally closes in on the tower, Roland's every step is shadowed by a terrible and sinister creation. And finally, he realises, he may have to walk the last dark strait alone... You've come this far, Come a little farther, Come all the way, The sound you hear may be the slamming of the door behind you. Welcome to The Dark Tower.
A collection of 100 paintings by one of the foremost illustrators of fantasy and science fiction.
Gathers paintings used to illustrate science fiction, fantasy, and horror covers for paperbacks and shares the artist's comments on each work
As galactic armadas clash in quest of the ancient fleet of the Progenitors, a brutal alien race seizes the dying planet of Garth. The various uplifted inhabitants must battle their overlords of face ultimate extinction. At stake is the existence of Terran society and Earth and the fate of the entire Five Galaxies. THE UPLIFT WAR is the third book in David Brin's magnificent Uplift series. Winner of the Hugo award when it was first published, it is a sweeping, brilliantly crafted story of adventure and wonder from one of the greatest writers of science fiction.
The Unholy Legion John Carter desperately needed the aid of Barsoom's greatest scientist. But Ras Thavas was the prisoner of a nightmare army of his own creation - half-humans who lived only for conquest. And in their hidden laboratory seethed a horror that could engulf all of Mars. Cover art by Michael Whelan.
Les retrouvailles du ka-ten de Dix-Neuf auront été de courte durée, car les pistoleros doivent à nouveau se séparer pour accomplir les deux tâches dont dépend le sort de la Tour Sombre : mettre fin à l'ignoble labeur des Briseurs détruisant les Rayons, et sauver l'écrivain Stephen King d'une mort programmée qui les condamnerait inéluctablement. Et ce n'est là qu'un prélude à l'affrontement avec Mordred - monstre hybride enfanté par Mia/Susannah -, le dernier héritier de la lignée d'Eld mais aussi du Roi Cramoisi, lequel n'a pas dit son dernier mot. Pour Roland de Gilead, la Tour est à ce prix... un prix qu'il devra payer de tout son être, pour la survie de tous les mondes.
In Osten Ard, the evil of the Storm King covers the land, the country is riven by war, and nature, unbalanced by the tide of evil, slips into a permanent winter. Simon, once a kitchen boy, now a hero hiding in the troll stronghold of Yiquanuc, has prophetic dreams ... only he and his companions can save the land, but to do this he must embark on the second part of his quest ... to the Stone of Farewell.
Kutath ist ein uralter, sterbender Planet, von lebensfeindlichen Wüsten bedeckt, in denen eine tödliche Tierwelt sich einen erbarmungslosen Überlebenskampf liefert, mit gewaltigen tiefen Becken einstiger Meere, in die seit Jahrzehntausenden der Sand rinnt. Dies ist die Heimatwelt der Mri, der gefürchtetsten Kriegerrasse der Galaxis, die seit Jahrmillionen als Söldner im Dienst anderer Rassen gekämpft haben, zuletzt im Dienst der Regul - gegen die Menschheit. Sten Duncan, dem Ob Tak, Einzelkämpfer und Spezialist für gefährliche taktische Oberflächenaufgaben, ist es gelungen, das Vertrauen der letzten überlebenden Mri zu gewinnen, indem er einer ihresgleichen wurde. Sowohl Menschen wie Regul liebäugeln mit dem Gedanken, sich diese gefährliche Rasse ein für allemal vom Halse zu schaffen, indem sie Kutath in eine atomare Hölle verwandeln. Verzweifelt kämpft Duncan darum, den Holocaust zu verhindern.
Die Regul, die mächtige Handelsrasse der Galaxis, hat sich mit einem brutalen Vernichtungsschlag ihrer ehemaligen Söldner entledigt, der Mri, deren Rache sie fürchteten. Sten Duncan, ein terrestrischer Soldat, ein ObTak, Einzelkämpfer...
Die erste Buch der Trilogie über die wunderbaren Schicksale der Mri-Zivilisation. Der Konflikt von Interessen und Menschen, Vertretern einer fortgeschrittenen Handelsrasse - der Reguli und Söldnerkrieger - bietet der Autorin Raum, ihre Sicht auf eine Welt zu präsentieren, in der kommerzielle, ethische und psychologische Interessen und Gesetze aufeinanderprallen.
Treći dio sage Tada Willamsa <i>Sjećanje, Tuga i Trn</i>, nazvan <b>Toranj zelenog anđela</b> narastao je tijekom pisanja u tôm koji jednostavno nije bilo moguće ukoričiti u jednu knjigu, pa je objavljen u dvije knjige: Opsada i Oluja. Kralj Elija, sada već lutka u šakama prijetvornog Pyratesa, poslao je vojsku i grofa Fengbalda da dokrajči izbjeglice koji su se okupili oko utočišta njegova brata Jošue na Kamenu Oproštaja. Opsada Jošuina grada i očajnička bitka koju branitelji vode protiv nadmoćnog neprijatelja središnja je priča ove knjige. Preostali kamenčići u mozaiku polako se slažu, tajne se razotkrivaju jedna po jedna, a narod svijetlih Sitha pod vodstvom princa Jirikija mora donijeti odluku: umrijeti zatvorenih očiju ili uzeti oružje u ruke i stati u obranu ljudskog roda prije nego što se neprirodna oluja sruči na Osten Ard i uništi sve živo.