Margaret Ball Bücher

Anne McCaffrey ist eine der ganz großen Erzählerinnen der Fantasy und Science Fiction. Ihr Buch Ein Raumschiff namens Helva wurde für den HUGO Award nominiert. Ihre neue große Serie erzählt von aufregende Geschichten von >menschlichen< Raumschiffen. Nancia ist ein junges, schüchternes Mädchen - und ein Gehirnschiff: Die Steuereinheit eines großen interstellaren Raumschiffes. Zusammen mit ihrem Partner Forister soll sie ein paar junge Leute zu den Zentralwelten bringen. Doch Nancias Geduld wird auf eine harte Probe gestell. Denn die Leute an Bord haben ganz andere Pläne als ihre Kommandantin... Nancia stehen allergrößte Schwierigkeiten bevor.

Drei rauhbeinige Erzsucher stoßen auf eine Fluchtkapsel, in der sich ein kleines Mädchen befindet. Niemand weiß, woher das Kind stammt, auf dessen Stirn ein Horn wächst. Sie flüchten auf den Banditenplaneten Kezdet. Doch Kezdet birgt ein düsteres Geheimnis... §Auftakt eines farbenprächtigen Science-fiction-Zyklus von den berühmten Bestsellerautorinnen.

Thalia Kostis will be the first to tell you it's not magic, it's theoretical math when she walks a Möbius strip through walls to her office at the Institute for Applied Topology. CIA Case Officer Bradislav Lensky doesn't care what it is, as long as she can help track down a smuggling ring and the terrorists in their safe house in Austin. The other magicians nearby don't agree, and don't care for new rivals either! Now Thalia and the rest of her misfit crew are in a race against time, terrorists, common sense, grackles, and their graduate advisor to save the day!

The only good elf is a dead elfOr so the militant order of Durandine monks thought, and they planned on making sure that all the elves in their world were very, very good. The elves of the Three Realms have sent out one last spell to bring help—nd received it: a staff member from the New Age Psychic Center in Austin, Texas. Unless the stranger from Texas can restore the magic of the Three Realms, the elves—and the Texan—are truly doomed.

Twenty-seven years after the fall of Constantinople... Caterina, Countess of San Florian, keeps a book of important things she's learned, from poison antidotes to cosmetic recipes, from charms for toothache to ways of raising and commanding demons. Having a reasonable care for her soul, she has never actually tried demonic magic. Yet. Gian, captain of her personal guard, has an innate magical talent that does not rely on incantations, but warns him of danger and awakens him to opportunities. It makes him nervous. And Sultan Mehmed II wants one last great victory. San Florian would be an excellent base of operations for his army to attack Venice. On the run from Venice to Constantinople after the Turkish-aided takeover of San Florian, Gian and Caterina will need all their wits and every scrap of magic they can employ to escape, to survive, and to recapture their city.

Examines the critical works of Sir Walter Scott for the opportunity it offers to consider the relation of the critical to the creative mood, an interesting problem when it is presented concretely in the work of a great writer.