Annemarie van Ewijck Libros

Compilatie van 12 verhalen van bekende en minder bekende SF-schrijvers.

In a world dedicated to pleasure, one young rebel sets out on a forbidden quest--.Published for the first time in a single volume, Tanith Lee's duet of novels set in a hedonistic Utopia are as riveting and revolutionary as they were when they first appeared two decades ago.It's a perfect existence, a world in which no pleasure is off-limits, no risk is too dangerous, and no responsibilities can cramp your style. Not if you're Jang: a caste of libertine teenagers in the city of Four BEE. But when you're expected to make trouble--when you can kill yourself on a whim and return in another body, when you're encouraged to change genders at will and experience whatever you desire--you've got no reason to rebel...until making love and raising hell, daring death and running wild just leave you cold and empty.Ravenous for true adventures of the mind and body, desperate to find some meaning, one restless spirit finally bucks the system--and by shattering the rules, strikes at the very heart of a soulless society....

A science fiction novelette nominated for the 1976 Nebula Award.

In childhood something black settled on Mechail Korhlen and drank from his throat. Later somebody pitied him enough to kill his poor deformed body when he became an adult. But then he chose to return from beyond the veil to enact revenge and to follow Anjelen, ruler of the sinister monastery.

Short story collection. Contents: Cycloop (Cyclops, 1965) Het droomei (The hatchery of dreams, 1961) Afvaart om middernacht (The ship sails at midnight, 1950) Het betoverde woud (The enchanted forest) De grote optocht (The big trek, 1957) Middernacht in de spiegelwereld (Midnight in the mirror world, 1964)

Vodun, de tiran van Asgard, wil een superras kweken om het Oude Ierland aan zich te onderwerpen, maar wordt daarin gedwarsboomd door onder meer tweelingtovenaressen.

Op Verd-ochtend sprong de satyr Latuun op het muurtje voor het lyceum, kromde zijn gespierde bruine armen, stampte met zijn geitehoeven, en blies een wervelende uithaal op zijn dubbele fluit, ten teken dat Parilia was begonnen. Dan sprong hij de weg op en trok, melodieën pijpend van ijl getierelier en hese ondertonen, aan het hoofd van een bonte stoet de Wanseyweg op, zijn harige benen opgooiend, kuitenflikkers slaand, springend en stampend en pralend. Gekostumeerde feestvierders volgden hem op de voet en daarachter kwamen praalwagens, en mechanische monsters op wielen en fraaie dames en statige heren in weelderige koetsen. Muzikanten begeleidden de stoet, lopend of rijdend op platte wagens; een falanx van Kloeke Leeuwen in kostuums van taangeel bont liep op de achterpoten, stormde klauwend het publiek in en besprong er de knapste meisjes. Rijen opgetogen kinderen, kleine pierrotjes en pulcinella's, draafden heen en weer en strooiden handenvol bloemblaadjes in het rond, en doken soms onder de dansende benen van Latuun door. En wie mocht deze satyr wel zijn, onder het belust vertrokken masker? Latuuns identiteit werd geacht een goed bewaard geheim te zijn maar kennelijk konden Latuun en de man die hem speelde het goed vinden met eikaars persoonlijkheid...

Een avonturier onderneemt een lange, gevaarlijke tocht om zich te wreken op een gevreesd tovenaar.

First "Tiers" novel featuring Earth-born Kickaha. Jadawin and his wife have disappeared, leaving the World of Tiers threatened by invasion and chaos. Human bodies taken over by Lord minds are pouring through uncharted gates. They seek two domination of every private cosmos, and the death of the Trickster, who knows too much.

Explores further the magical world of Earthsea through five tales of events which occur before or after the time of the original novels, as well as an essay on the people, languages, history and magic of the place.

When magic ruled and kings were strong... South of Eire and west of Gaul was the land of the Elder Isles, a mystical place of fairy shees, valiant knights, and the powerful magic of sorcerers living and forgotten. Now, as Aillas of Troicinet and Casimir of Lyonesse parry and feint in a duel of wits, the mysterious aura of the Green Pearl enters their souls. Its menas are subtle, but its effects are great, and as the Kings of Elder ready their swords, even the worlds of the immortals tremble...

Science fiction-verhalen.

Nadat David van school is gestuurd, moet hij naar een internaat met de vreemde naam 'Grieselstate'. Er gebeuren daar onheilspellende dingen. Pas na een ontsnappingspoging wordt David alles duidelijk.

- RAINBIRD (Rainbird) - KAMELEON EN DROMEDARISSEN (Camels and Dromedaries) - CLEM (Clem) - WORDT VERVOLGD OP DE VOLGENDE STEEN (Continued on Next Rock) - INCIDENT OP ARAEA (Once on Aranea) - SODOMA EN GOMORRA, TEXAS (Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas) - DE MAN MET DE VONKEN IN ZIJN OGEN (The Man with the Speckled Eyes) - SPREKEN IS ZILVER (All But the Words) - DE BOVENNATUURLIJKE TIJGERS (The Transcendent Tigers) - DROOM (Dream) - WELIGE WERELD (World Abounding) - TRIP IN BLIK (Ride a Tin Can) - ALOYS (Aloys) - VOLMAAKT EN AFGEROND JUWEEL (Entire and Perfect Chrysolite) - GEVANGENEN IN HET TRAGE SCHILD (Incased in Ancient Rind) - DE LELIJKE ZEE (The Ugly Sea) - DE LACHENDE ROTSKLIPPEN (Cliffs That Laughed)

Dit meesterlijke fantasywerk is speciaal geselecteerd voor SF-lezers en benadrukt de overlap tussen science fiction en fantasy. Terwijl 'pure' SF zich richt op de wereld zoals deze is of kan zijn, verkent fantasy bovennatuurlijke elementen zoals draken, elfen en tovenaars. De variëteit in fantasy is enorm, van sprookjes tot zwaardensagen vol magie. Veel bekende fantasywerken zijn al in het Nederlands vertaald, en SF-lezers genieten vaak van hun eigen soort fantasy. Bekende auteurs zoals Jack Vance, Fritz Leiber, Ursula Le Guin, en Tolkien hebben bijgedragen aan dit genre. Deze bloemlezing biedt een breed scala aan verhalen, van heroic fantasy en sword & sorcery tot lichtere, romantische en humoristische verhalen. De selectie bevat werken van gerenommeerde schrijvers zoals Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, en Michael Moorcock, evenals minder bekende maar invloedrijke namen. Dit twintigtal verhalen is zorgvuldig gekozen om de smaak van de SF-lezer te bedienen, die zijn horizon wil verbreden zonder te ver van zijn vertrouwde terrein af te dwalen. De verhalen variëren van epische avonturen tot intrigerende schelmenverhalen, waardoor er voor ieder wat wils is.

In the skies over Oakland, California, a DC-10 and a 747 are about to collide. And in the far distant future, a time-travel team is preparing to snatch the passengers, leaving prefabricated smoking bodies behind for the rescue teams to find. And an air disaster investigator gets a phone call that changes his life … and the world as we know it.

When Robert Wolff found a strange horn in an empty house, he held the key to a different universe. To blow that horn would open up a door through space-time and permit entry to a cosmos whose dimensions and laws were not those our starry galxy knows. For that other universe was a place of tiers, world upon world piled upon each other like the landings of a sky-piercing mountain. The one to blow that horn would ascend those steps, from creation to creation, until he would come face to face with the being whose brain-child it was. But what if that maker of universes was a madman? Or an imposter? Or a super-criminal hiding from the wrath of his own superiors? The Maker of Universes is unlike any science-fiction novel you have ever read, it is wonderfully unique.

Na bijna 400 jaar is het zomer op Helliconia. De vooruitgang gaat moeizaam en men heeft het gevoel dat er voor elke gewonnen stap weer een halve wordt teruggezet. De koning van Borlien zit volop in de problemen, zowel maatschappelijk als persoonlijk. Tal van kleurrijke figuren zorgen voor de nodige opwinding. Gewetenloze intriges, moord en jaloezie houden de mensen in hun greep. Mensen zoals wij, met soms dwaze ideeën en wisselende humeuren. Rijk geschakeerde karakters, die raak en met diep psychologisch inzicht zijn beschreven.

De Helliconianen bereiden zich voor op de eeuwenlange winter. In het centrum van de belangstelling staat nu het koude continent Sibornal, waar men technologisch vergevorderd is. De sfeer is grimmig en de wrede maatregelen van de Oligarch houden onder meer het volledig uitroeien van de Fagers in. Avernus, het waarnemingsstation dat alle beelden opnam en uitzond, is in verval geraakt. Helliconia zal het tenslotte zonder de Aarde moeten redden, al heeft de Aarde Helliconia wel een geschenk gegeven dat misschien van grote waarde zal blijken te zijn.

This is the first volume of the Helliconia Trilogy - a monumental sage which goes beyond anything yet created by this master among today's imaginative writers. An entire solar system is revealed, and with it a world disturbingly reflecting our own, Helliconia: an Earth-like planet where dynasties change with the seasons . . . . . . Events and characters and animals stream across the pages of this gigantic novel. Cosmic in scope, it keeps an eye lovingly on the humans involved. So the 5,000 inhabitants of the Earth's observation station above Helliconia keep their eyes trained on the events of Oldorando and may long to intervene though the dangers are too great. So we on Earth have them all in our vision in one of the most consuming and magnificent novels of scientific romance.

New galaxy-hopping, picaresque adventure from a master storyteller. Sf grand master Vance's latest is a tongue-in-cheek swashbuckler about a young man, Myron Tany, who has taken a degree in space studies but has much to learn when he first boards a ship. Myron is in thrall to his zany aunt, who has heard of a faraway fountain of youth and sets off in her space yacht to find it. Her captain flatters her agreeably, and when Myron points out that the man is a swindler, she won't hear of it and maroons poor Myron on an inhospitable planet with barely his passage home. Luckily, the tramp cargo vessel Glicca is just then in need of a supercargo, and Myron signs on with cool, competent Captain Maloof, Chief Engineer/gambler Schwatzendale, and Chief Steward/photographer Wingo. The four enjoy a string of rare adventures on a spectacular series of planets. They acquire as passengers a group of pilgrims (and their mysterious luggage), or rather, pirates masquerading as religious pilgrims, and engage in to-the-death struggles with the pirates' pursuers; on Terce, Myron narrowly avoids being skinned (there is a flourishing trade in human skins) and eaten. Finally, they encounter a Swiftian, legalistic planet on which one may be punished or betrothed for the slightest whimsical offense. Myron is bound to commit one...

Traveling to the center of the galaxy to confront an invisible enemy that had drawn the earth into war decades earlier and now threatens to destroy the universe, psychic Dorthy Yoshida is unaware of her destined role in humanity's final battle. Reprint.

Things are going well for young film-maker Evan Casher - until he receives an urgent phonecall from his mother, summoning him home. He arrives to find her brutally murdered body on the kitchen floor and a hitman lying in wait for him. It is then he realises his whole life has been a lie. His parents are not who he thought they were, his girlfriend is not who he thought she was, his entire existence an ingeniously constructed sham. And now that he knows it, he is in terrible danger. So he is catapulted into a violent world of mercenaries, spies and terrorists. Pursued by a ruthless band of killers who will stop at nothing to keep old secrets buried, Evan's only hope for survival is to discover the truth behind his past. An absolute page-turner, Panic has been acclaimed as one of the most exciting thrillers of recent years.

The Tiers series chronicles the adventures of both Robert Wolff, a man from our world transported through space-time to a cosmos with dimensions and laws different from our own, and Kickaha the Trickster (a.k.a. Paul J. Finnegan, also from our contemporary world). Separately and together, the two heroes contend against the Lords who rule the separate universes, of which the marvelous many-leveled World of Tiers is the center. Mythological and legendary creatures and characters abound: centaurs and harpies, mermaids and Indians, aliens and beautiful women.

It's the story of one young woman, trapped on an island where the invading Parahuans are preparing to take over the planet, her only allies three mutated and intelligent otters. Her problem is to say alive long enough to get a message away from the island to the rest of the population and the warships of the Federation.