Damien Broderick Bücher

Damien Broderick Die träumenden Drachen: Alf Dean, Anthropologe und zur kleinen Gruppe der Ureinwohner Australiens gehörend, forscht nach den Wurzeln seines Volkes. Bei der Untersuchung einer Ausgrabungsstätte stößt er auf eine geheimnisvoll leuchtende Kugel, die sich tief in einer Felsenhöhle befindet. Es handelt sich um das Tor eines Materietransmitters. Der Transmitter selbst steht sechshundert Kilometer entfernt unter dem Felsmassiv des Ayers Rock - in der Gruft der träumenden Drachen. DAMIEN BRODERICK wurde für diesen Roman mit dem DITMAR, dem SF-Literäturpreis Australiens, ausgezeichnet. Außerdem erhielt er von der amerikanischen Fachzeitschrift Locus den Preis als „Bester Nachwuchsautor des-Jahres". Mit den Träumenden Drachen liefert Damien Broderick eine Theorie für die Herkunft der Menschheit, die selbst Erich von Däniken in Staunen versetzen muß. Deutsche Erstveröffentlichung Science Fiction Bestseller

Maggie Roche, a struggling poet and single mother, becomes an unwitting time traveler after a series of bizarre events involving a cyborged rat and a conspiracy. Transported four thousand years into a future dominated by the Ull—powerful human-machine hybrids—she discovers her unique role as history's first true time traveler. As she navigates this alien world, Maggie finds herself pursued by allies and enemies alike, with the fate of the cosmos hanging in the balance.

A sequel to Godplayers finds alternate-universe resident August Seebeck discovering his unexpected heritage as a Player in the Contest of Worlds, for which he and his turbulent siblings must engage in a mysterious battle against a dangerous host of super-beings. Original.

August Seebeck is in his twenties, a man of average looks and intellect. Then comes the claim of his great-aunt Tansy that she has been finding corpses each Saturday night in her bath (they vanish by morning). August dismisses this tale as elderly fantasy until he stumbles upon a corpse being shoved into the second-floor bathroom window of his aunt's house. Even that wouldn't faze him, but then someone steps out of the mirror....August suddenly discovers he is a Player in the multi-universe Contest of Worlds and that his true family is quarrelsome on a mythic scale. His search for understanding follows a classic quest pattern of the Parsifal kind, except that August is nobody's fool.An epic quest that is funny and engrossing, Godplayers is in the best tradition of Zelazny, Van Vogt, and the Knights of the Round Table, from one of science fiction's hottest up-and-coming writers.