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Julian May

    July 10, 1931 – October 17, 2017

    Julian May was an American author who wrote science fiction, fantasy, horror, factual works, and children's books. Her extensive body of work explored complex questions about human existence and the future. May often delved into themes of memory, identity, and the intersection of science and spirituality. Her distinctive style blended intricate scientific concepts with profound psychological insight, drawing readers into captivating narratives.

    The Saga of the Exiles - 1: The Many-Coloured Land
    The Golden Torc
    Jack the Bodiless
    Diamond Mask
    Magnificat
    Intervention
    • Intervention

      • 673 pages
      • 24 hours of reading

      Intervention sets the scene for Julian May's new trlogy of the Galactic Milieu. This has been split into two books: The Surveillance (containing Prologue, The Surveillance, and The Disclosure) and The Metaconcert, containing The Intervention and Epilogue. For 60 000 years the five races of the Galactic Milieu have watched and waited for the time when human mental development on Earth is ready for the Intervention ...As the twentieth century draws to its end, phenomenal mental powers are displayed by 'operants' all across our planet... They can 'farspeak' one another telepathically. They can build mental shields and they are capable of coercion by power of mind.One of there is Rogatien Remillard, a dealer in secondhand books, whose memories - written a century on - form the core of this chronicle. They tell of a world where the mind has become a weapon; and of two brothers, each possessed of extraordinary powers - one a peace-bringer, the other an advocate of evil...

      Intervention
      4.3
    • A promising future is envisioned, but a rebellion leads to destruction.

      Magnificat
      4.0
    • Diamond Mask

      • 450 pages
      • 16 hours of reading

      As the 21st century nears its end, humanity faces a pivotal moment in its evolution towards Unity within the Galactic Milieu. However, a faction of rebels, driven by a desire to preserve human individuality, conspires against this integration. Behind their efforts lurks Fury, a powerful and deranged metapsychic entity intent on seizing control of humanity. Jack the Bodiless, a mutant genius with extraordinary abilities, stands in opposition to Fury, determined to resist becoming a pawn in its dangerous game.

      Diamond Mask
      4.1
    • Jack the Bodiless

      • 448 pages
      • 16 hours of reading

      In the year 2051, Earth stood on the brink of acceptance as full member of the Galactic Milieu, a confederation of worlds spread across the galaxy. Leading humanity was the powerful Remillard family, but somebody--or something--known only as "Fury" wanted them out of the way.Only Rogi Remillard, the chosen tool of the most powerful alien being in the Milieu, and his nephew Marc, the greatest metapsychic yet born on Earth, knew about Fury. But even they were powerless to stop it when it began to kill off Remillards and other metapsychic operants--and all the suspects were Remillards themselves.Meanwhile, a Remillard son was born, a boy who could represent the future of all humanity. His incredible mind was more powerful even than his brother Marc's--but he was destined to be desroyed by his own DNA...unless Fury got to him first!From the Paperback edition.

      Jack the Bodiless
      4.1
    • The Golden Torc

      • 377 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      Exiled beyond the time-portal into the world of six million years ago, the misfits of the 22nd century are enmeshed in the age-old war of two alien races. In this strange world, each year brings the ritual combat between the Firvulag and the Tanu. This is the sequel to The Many-Coloured Land.

      The Golden Torc
      4.2
    • The Saga of the Exiles - 1: The Many-Coloured Land

      Book One in the Saga of the Exiles

      • 411 pages
      • 15 hours of reading

      Book One in the Saga of the Exiles The epic odyssey of the misfits amd mavericks of the 22nd Century who pass through the time-doors of the Pliocene Epoch into the battleground of two warring races from a planet far away... (Source: back cover)

      The Saga of the Exiles - 1: The Many-Coloured Land
      4.1
    • The Adversary

      • 480 pages
      • 17 hours of reading

      The Frivulag are rising, while the children of the metaphysic rebels are to re-open the time gate - sole escape route back to the Galatic Milieu - and Marc Remillard, the adversary, takes up his destined role in the power play.

      The Adversary
      4.1
    • A Pliocene Companion

      • 290 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      Throughout the ages and across the world in many shapes and guises, as healers, mystics and literary figures, wizards have played an important part in real-life communities and in the imagination of many cultures. Often illuminating the future and explaining the past, wizards have always had a very powerful role. This text traces the origins and legends of wizards, charting their myriad expressions through time and across cultures. It also includes a number of meditations and practices at the end of each chapter that enable us to make use of some of the legendary skills of the wizard.

      A Pliocene Companion
      4.0
    • The Nonborn King

      • 386 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      This is the third book in The Saga of the Exiles series. The domination of the Tanu has been broken. In the aftermath of cataclysm, Aiken Drum seizes the hour to grasp control of the Pilocene world. There are those, human and Tanu, who rally to him - and those who fear and hate him.

      The Nonborn King
      4.0
    • Sky Trillium

      • 400 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      Fantasy.

      Sky Trillium
      3.7
    • In the epic conclusion to The Rampart Worlds trilogy, interstellar maverick Helly Frost sets out to prove that a proposed pact with the alien Haluk could destroy the Commonwealth of Humans and sets out for the Sagittarius Whorl, a hostile and remote region of the galaxy to uncover evidence to expose the Haluk plot against humankind. Original.

      Sagittarius Whorl
      3.8
    • Orion Arm

      • 400 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      After Helly Spur's attempts to break the Galapharma conspiracy with the Haluk against the Human Worlds, this carries on where "Perseus Spur" left off. Helly and his companions attempt to capture a crucial witness to the conspiracy, who has taken refuge on a hostile planet.

      Orion Arm
      3.7
    • Perseus Spur

      • 336 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      Exiled to a remote planet in the Perseus Spur, the rebellious Asahel Frost becomes Helmut Icicle, a man without a past. But someone remembers Asahel Frost enough to have him assassinated, which brings Frost back to life. Helmut is caught in a conspiracy as convoluted as it is deadly.

      Perseus Spur
      3.7
    • Blood Trillium

      • 450 pages
      • 16 hours of reading

      Twelve years after Haramis, Kadiya, and Anigel restored the balance of a world threatened by Orogastus, the sisters learn of a sorcerer marooned on a remote island called the Land of Fire

      Blood Trillium
      3.6
    • Conqueror's Moon

      • 464 pages
      • 17 hours of reading

      With his father on his deathbed, Prince Conrig of Cathra and his lover, the seductive sorceress Princess Ullanoth of Moss, have hatched a plan to reunite the warring kingdoms of High Blenholm under one supreme rule, in the first volume of the Boreal Moon Tale series. Reprint.

      Conqueror's Moon
      3.4
    • Cosmo classici della fantascienza: Maschera di diamante

      Edizione integrale

      • 558 pages
      • 20 hours of reading

      Il XXI secolo è alla fine. Trent'anni sono passati da quando il pacifico Milieu Galattico ha accolto la Terra nella sua federazione e presto l'umanità sarà chiamata a far parte dell'Unità, la mente collettiva che raccoglie le razze aliene dell'universo. Ma non tutti ci credono. Un gruppo di ribelli, il cui numero cresce ogni giorno, trama per salvaguardare l'individualità della razza umana. E i ribelli hanno un sostenitore segreto: Furia, l'insana creatura metapsichica che non si ferma davanti a nulla pur di raggiungere ilsuo scopo ed esercitare il pieno controllo sull'umanità.

      Cosmo classici della fantascienza: Maschera di diamante
      4.3
    • Schattenmond. Roman

      • 733 pages
      • 26 hours of reading

      König Konrig hat die Insel Hoch Blenholm mit dunkler Magie vereint, doch seine Kräfte schwinden. Er drängt seinen Sohn Orrion zur Heirat mit der Tochter eines Verbündeten, doch dieser will seine Jugendliebe wählen und schließt einen Pakt, der ihn als König ungeeignet macht. Während die Salka angreifen, steht das Schicksal Blenholms auf der Kippe.

      Schattenmond. Roman
      3.5
    • Het Land der Zieners - 2: De interventie

      • 327 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      Avontuur en conflict in de toekomst als mensen speciale psychische krachten ontwikkelen, maar onderling niet in vrede kunnen leven.

      Het Land der Zieners - 2: De interventie
      3.6
    • Sneeuwmaan, Stormmaan, Winterwende, Windmaan, Groenemaan, Eindelijk lente. Melk en Bloesem volgen later. Dan volgt de Donder, Gods geschater. Als Maïs na Oogst zijn gunsten brengen zal Vervloekt de Jager de Maan van Boreal. De IJsmaan met zijn laatse droevenis Zorgt dat Blenholmes jaar weer over is. Koning Conrig Wincantor heeft zijn droom, het vestigen van een Soevereiniteit over heel Hoog Blenholme, in vervulling zien gaan. Een nieuw tijdperk breekt aan voor de vier domeinen van het eens zo verdeelde eiland – een tijdperk dat welvaart en rust brengt, maar waarin ook gevaren op de loer liggen. Zo heeft de verbannen alchemist Vra-Killian een aantal machtige zegels verborgen in het Cala-paleis. Deze zegels, vervaardigd door de mythische Salka en door het wrede Beaconvolk van magische krachten voorzien, zullen van hem de machtigste man van Blenholme maken en hem helpen de ultieme wraak te nemen.

      De boeken van Boreal - 2: De getijden van Blenholme
      3.0
    • Het land der zieners

      • 407 pages
      • 15 hours of reading

      In het land der zieners heeft de menselijke geest een reuzenstap gedaan. Over de gehele wereld worden kinderen met buitengewone gaven geboren. Sommigen zijn genieën, andere normaal. Maar elk van hen bezit metaphysische krachten die het oude menselijke ras met verbazing en angst vervullen. De genieën houden hun talenten aanvankelijk angstvallig geheim. En wanneer ze zichzelf blootgeven worden ze met afschuw bejegend, uitgebuit en vervolgd. Ze worden verscheurd door twijfel over de rol die ze moeten spelen: zijn ze voorbestemd om het ras dat hen voortbracht en dat zich omringt met nucleaire wapens aan zich te onderwerpen om hen van de totale oorlog te redden? De hoofdpersonen van dit boek zijn leden van de familie Remillard, wier afstammelingen een rol speelden in het Veelkleurig land.

      Het land der zieners
      3.6
    • Black Trillium

      • 491 pages
      • 18 hours of reading

      Late one stormy night, three princesses are born. As each baby is placed into her mother's arms, the Archimage Binah bestows on her a gift of great power - a pendant containing a bud of the long extinct black trillium. One day that power will be all that protects the princesses from certain doom.

      Black Trillium
      3.6
    • Perseův bodec

      • 341 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      Když se Asahel Frost stal vyhnancem bez občanských práv a přijal jméno Helmut Icicle, usídlil se na Kedge-Lockaby, aby se pomalu upil k smrti. Netušil ale, že se bude muset vrátit do soukolí Koncernů a Společností, aby zachránil svou sestru – a zároveň i sebe, protože se ho někdo evidentně pokouší zabít...

      Perseův bodec
      4.0