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A. A. Attanasio

    A novelist and student of the imagination, this author is captivated by the irrational powers that illuminate our inner lives, such as fantasies, visions, and hallucinations. Their particular intrigue lies in the creative intelligence that scripts our dreams. This soulful energy is then channeled into the most precise definition of human identity: story. The author explores the profound connection between our inner world and the narratives we create.

    The Dark Shore
    Hunting the Ghost Dancer
    In Other Worlds
    The Last Legends of Earth
    Radix
    Crow, The
    • 2001

      Crow, The

      Hellbound

      • 256 pages
      • 9 hours of reading
      3.6(81)Add rating

      Ademon named Dren is looking for salvation. Satan's fiery underworld has become a foreign place to him. He feels he is different from the other souls. He's changed over time. He's ready for redemption. But getting out of hell is no easy task. Escaping was the easy part. But now, alone in a world unfamiliar to him, Dren must save a single soul in order to pass on to the heavens above. Billy is a young hoodlum working for a big-time mobster. Like Dren he has also changed. He wants out of the seedy underworld he calls his home. Just, one more run, one more big payday, and he's finished with it all. He'll, get his cash, grab the woman he loves, and be gone forever. But the mob doesn't look kindly on deserters. Satan has sent two rogue demons from hell to stop Dren. The mob has hired a conjurer named Nadja to kill Billy. In the end, the two must call on the powers of the Crow to, save them both -- waging a full-scale war on the mobsters of Earth above and the lord of darkness below.

      Crow, The
    • 1996

      The Dark Shore

      • 500 pages
      • 18 hours of reading

      In an epic fantasy set in the dawn of Creation, the world of Irth is filled with wizards, witch queens, and powerful magic emanating from the Abiding Star. The nobility, who control most of this mystic energy, inhabit floating cities and engage in treacherous power struggles. Those who fail in their ambitions are cast into the abyss beyond the Edge, landing in the cold realm of the Dark Shore—Earth—where no one has ever returned. Until now. Hu’dre Vra, a former scavenger who discovered a magical sword but misused it, has emerged from the Dark Shore with formidable black magic. Leading an army of cacodemons immune to Irth's enchantments, he seeks vengeance on those who exiled him. However, resistance arises against his reign of terror. The inventive thief Ripcat and his clever partner Dogbrick join forces with the brave noblewoman Jyoti and her companions, including her family's ancient sorcerer, Caval. Together, they must summon their courage, wits, and lives to confront the brutal minions of the Dark Shore. This tale weaves a magically charged narrative of a once-charmed world facing supernatural evil that threatens to consume it.

      The Dark Shore
    • 1995

      Der Drache und das Einhorn erzählt die uralten Sagen um Merlin und König Arthur aus einem faszinierend neuen Blickwinkel. Im Mittelpunkt steht Ygrane, die Mutter des Retterkönigs der Kelten, und die dramatische Geschichte von der Zeugung und Geburt ihres Sohnes.

      Der Drache und das Einhorn
    • 1992

      Hunting the Ghost Dancer

      • 480 pages
      • 17 hours of reading

      In order to be accepted into a new tribe, Timov and Hamr, two survivors of a doomed people, must hunt the savage ghost dancer, a vicious Neanderthal that has been terrorizing the tribe. By the author of Radix and Wyvern. Reprint.

      Hunting the Ghost Dancer
    • 1990

      In Other Worlds

      • 230 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      One star-chained evening in a Manhattan bathroom, Carl Schirmer spontaneously combusts! His body transforms into light, mysteriously snatched from his banal life by an alien intelligence 130 billion years in the future. There, all spacetime is collapsing into a cosmic black hole, the Big Crunch – and a bold, cosmic destiny awaits Carl. Rebuilt from the remnants of his light by extraterrestrials for a cryptic purpose, he awakens in time’s last world, the strangest of all – the Werld. At the edge of infinity, Carl discovers the Foke, nomadic humans who travel among the floating islands of the Werld. The Foke teach him how to live – and love – at the end of time, and he loses his heart to his plucky guide, the beautiful Evoë. Their life together in this blissful kingdom that knows no aging or disease brings them to rapture – until Evoë falls prey to the zōtl, a spidery intelligence who hunt the Foke and eat the chemical by-products of their pain. In order to save his beloved from a gruesome death, Carl must return to Earth – 130 billion years earlier – where he is shocked to discover that the Earth he’s come back to is not the one he left. Can he meet the harsh demands of his task before the zōtl find him and begin ravishing the Earth?

      In Other Worlds
    • 1990

      The Last Legends of Earth

      • 450 pages
      • 16 hours of reading

      Set in the artificial planetary system of Chalco-Doror, which is no more and no less than a vast cosmic machine, The Last Legends of Earth is a love story, a gripping saga of struggle against alien control, and an examination of the machinery of creation and destruction. Above all, it is world-building of the highest and grandest order, on a scale rarely seen in science fiction since the great works of Olaf Stapledon.

      The Last Legends of Earth
    • 1989
    • 1987