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Raquel Abbutt

    De Leowulf-trilogie - 1: Schaduw van ijs
    The Terminal Experiment
    Timelike Infinity
    Here in Cold Hell
    Ring
    • Here in Cold Hell

      • 400 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      Book II of the Lionwolf trilogy. Killed by the power of the god Zezeth, his true father, Lionwolf has been cast into a bleak and icy hell lit just by a cold blue sun. Here he and others of the living dead must wage endless combat and war to appease the whim of a deathly King whose face is made of stone. But when Lionwolf encounters the King's wife, she is none other than the beautiful, god-fashioned Chillel, his own former lover - and nemesis. As Lionwolf struggles in the toils of Hell, elsewhere in the hell-cold ice-age of the mortal earth, men and women work out their own destinies. An empire has fallen. Ru Karismi, Capital of the Kings, has been abandoned to the poisons of the White Death. Reivers cross the lands of the Jafn and the Ruk, preying wherever they wish.Against this unsettled backdrop, Jemhara the sorceress determines to save the Magician Thryfe from a dire self-inflicted punishment, and Saphay, now a goddess of the far north, seeks to lead her people to a new world. And from the depths of an ice-locked sea Zezeth's other terrifying son, the mountainous whale-leviathan Brightshade, is once more rising for vengeance.

      Here in Cold Hell2006
      3.2
    • De Leowulf-trilogie - 1: Schaduw van ijs

      • 366 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      In een wereld gevangen in een apocalyptische ijstijd, vol bevroren jungles en besneeuwde woestijnen wordt Safee, de dochter van de koning van Ru Karismi, weggestuurd om te trouwen met de leider van een barbarenstam. Onderweg wordt ze overvallen, maar weet te ontsnappen en wordt uiteindelijk gevonden door haar verloofde Atluan. Als Atluan sterft bij de geboorte van hun kind, Leowulf, wordt ze uit de stam gestoten en op de ijzige vlaktes achtergelaten om te sterven.Wederom slaagt Safee er echter in te overleven en ziet haar zoon in een paar jaar tijd opgroeien tot een volwassen man met goddelijke krachten. Uiteindelijk trekt hij de wijde wereld in om te ontdekken wie hij is: een man of een god. Het wordt een tocht van vele veroveringen en evenveel gevaren….

      De Leowulf-trilogie - 1: Schaduw van ijs2005
      3.0
    • Ring

      • 516 pages
      • 19 hours of reading

      Michael Poole's wormholes constructed in the orbit of Jupiter had opened the galaxy to humankind. Then Poole tried looping a wormhole back on itself, tying a knot in space and ripping a hole in time. It worked. Too well. Poole was never seen again. Then from far in the future, from a time so distant that the stars themselves were dying embers, came an urgent SOS--and a promise. The universe was doomed, but humankind was not. Poole had stumbled upon an immense artifact, light-years across, fabricated from the very string of the cosmos. The universe had a door. And it was open...

      Ring1998
      4.0
    • The Terminal Experiment

      • 352 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      To test his theories of immortality and life after death, Dr. Peter Hobson has created three electronic simulations of his own personality. The first has all knowledge of physical existence edited out, to simulate life after death. The second is without knowledge of aging or death, to simulate immortality. The third is unmodified, a control. Now they are free. One is a killer.

      The Terminal Experiment1997
      3.8
    • Timelike Infinity

      • 256 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      2000 years in the future, the solar system has fallen under the domination of an alien species, the Quax. But into this world appears a spaceship launched over 1500 years ago, intended to establish a link through which time travel is possible. To the humans this is a chance to reverse time.

      Timelike Infinity1997
      3.9