Araminta Station, Vance Jack

Автор: Vance, Jack
Название: Demon Princes
ISBN: 0312853165 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780312853167
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
Цена: 12250.00 T
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Jack Vance is undoubtedly one of the most gifted and versatile authors of science fiction today. The winner of a Hugo, a Nebula, and a World Fantasy Award, Vance lays claim to a career that spans more than five decades of critical acclaim and devoted readership. Tor Books has recognized his widespread audience and for years has brought classic Jack Vance novels back into print--most recently The Demon Princes, Volume One, and omnibus containing the first three books of Vance's beloved Demon Princes series. Tor now presents "The Demon Princes, Volume Two, " and omnibus containing the series' final two novels, "The Face "and "The Book of Dreams."

Kirth Gersen carries in his pocket a slip of paper with a list of five names written upon it--the names of five Demon Princes. The Demon Princes are a race of beings who disguise themselves as humans and delight in power and destruction. however, to Kirth they are merely murderers who killed his family and destroyed his home planet--and who deserves to die for those misdeeds. Three have already fallen in Kirth's hands, but there are two more names on his list, two more Princes who will live only long enough to regret their evil ways.

Lens Larque was just as unique as the other Demon Princes--uniquely appalling. He was personally ugly, startling vicious, and arrogant above all others. Larque's own mission was a villainy of the highest order, and his personal obsession with success kept him hidden well from attackers--almost well enough. Howard Alan Treesong poisoned his friends, tortured his colleagues, and wrote his own horrific holy book, "The Book of Dreams." But, clever as he may be, a galaxy-wide guessing game will be his undoing--and Kirth Gersen's sworn vengeance will be complete.

Автор: Vance, Jack
Название: The Demon Prince
ISBN: 0312853025 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780312853020
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
Цена: 12870.00 T
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Kirth Gersen carries in his pocket a slip of paper with a list of five names written on it. Theses are the names of the five Demon Princes who led the historic Mount Pleasant Massacre, which destroyed not only Kirth's family but his entrire world as well. He roams the universe, searching the endless galaxies of space, hunting down the Demon Princes and exacting his revenge. Three princes will fall before Kirth's work is done, and two more await their doom...

Автор: Vance, Jack
Название: Emphyrio
ISBN: 185798885X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781857988857
Издательство: Orion
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Цена: 11120.00 T
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Описание: Far in the future, the craftsmen of the distant planet Halma create goods which are the wonder of the galaxy, but the use of automation is punishable by death. When Amiante is executed for processing old documents with a camera, his son Ghyl rebels and decides to bring down the system.

Автор: Vance Jack
Название: Complete Lyonesse
ISBN: 0575090243 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780575090248
Издательство: Orion
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Цена: 30360.00 T
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Описание: Phenomenology, Logic, and the Philosophy of Mathematics, first published in 2005, is about logic, mathematical knowledge and mathematical objects. It is concerned with the role of reason and intuition in the exact sciences and it analyzes many of the central positions in the philosophy of logic and philosophy of mathematics: platonism, nominalism, intuitionism, formalism, pragmatism, and others.

Автор: Jack Vance
Название: Lyonesse
ISBN: 0575082712 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780575082717
Издательство: Orion
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Цена: 6060.00 T
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Описание: A magical and epic modern classic

Автор: Vance Jack
Название: The Eyes of the Overworld
ISBN: 1441814612 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781441814616
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 29880.00 T
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Описание: The Eyes of the Overworld is the first of Vancea (TM)s picaresque novels about the scoundrel Cugel. Here he is sent by a magician he has wronged to a distant unknown country to retrieve magical lenses that reveal the Overworld. Conniving to steal the lenses, he escapes and, goaded by a homesick monster magically attached to his liver, starts to find his way home to Almery. The journey takes him across trackless mountains, wastelands, and seas. Through cunning and dumb luck, the relentless Cugel survives one catastrophe after another, fighting off bandits, ghosts, and ghoulsa "stealing, lying, and cheating without insight or remorse leaving only wreckage behind. Betrayed and betraying, he joins a cult group on a pilgrimage, crosses the Silver Desert as his comrades die one by one and, escaping the Rat People, obtains a spell that returns him home. There, thanks to incompetence and arrogance he misspeaks the words of a purloined spell and transports himself back to the same dismal place he began his journey.

Автор: Vance, Jack
Название: Night Lamp
ISBN: 0312864728 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780312864729
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
Цена: 17160.00 T
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Описание: Found as a child with no memory of his past, adopted by a scholarly couple who raised him as their own, Jaro never quiet fit into the rigidly defined Society of Thanet. When his foster parents are killed in a mysterious bombing, Jaro Fath sets out to discover the truth of his origins--a quest that will take him across light-years and into the depths of the past.

Автор: Vance, Jack
Название: Ports of call
ISBN: 0312864744 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780312864743
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
Цена: 13480.00 T
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Автор: Vance Jack
Название: Rhialto the Marvellous
ISBN: 1441814736 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781441814739
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 29880.00 T
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Описание: Rhialto the Marvellous takes up the personal and political conflicts among a conclave of two dozen magicians of Ascolais and Almery in the 21st Aeon. The shocking appearance of the Llorio the Murtha, a powerful female force from an earlier aeon threatens to unbalance nature by a oeensqualminga or feminizing the magicians. This triggers a tremendous struggle for power and the other mages turn against Rhialto.
Hoping to reestablish his rightful place, Rhialto travels to other aeons to restore the missing Perciplex which projects the Mostrament, the constitution of the association. In his final adventure, Rhialto must, ultimately, travel to the very ends of time and space to confront an old adversary whom he had wronged and must commit further misdeeds to restore order.
Out of this welter of exotic politics, values systems, personal eccentricity, and magic, the figure of Rhialto slowly comes into focus and takes on dimension. He is a vain, apparently superficial man, not ashamed to demonstrate his melancholy to enhance his reputation. But he is courteous, patient, and subtle, even kind. He is self-aware and introspective as Cugel never could bea "the wisest and most sympathetic of all of Vancea (TM)s wizards.

Автор: Vance Jack
Название: Cugel`s Saga CD
ISBN: 1441814671 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781441814678
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 29880.00 T
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Описание: In Cugela (TM)s Saga, published 17 years after Eyes of the Overworld, the novel that first featured the scoundrel, Cugel against tests wits with Iucounu and acquires rudimentary powers. Though Vance puts himself in tradition of popular fantasy writers, one might assume that he had also grown up with Ovid and Herodotus, Homera (TM)s Odyssey, Don Quixote, and Candide. The Cugel tales lack some of the scope and pathos of the great adventure yarns, but, in the twenty-first century, they may be as close as one gets to the celebration of epic human perseverance.
a oeCugel the Clever is] a rogue so venal and unscrupulous that that he makes Harry Flashman look like Dudley Doright. How could you not love a guy like that? .... Judging from the number of times that Cugel has come back ... you cana (TM)t keep a bad man down.a a "George R.R. Martin, author of A Song of Ice and Fire.
a oeCugel the Clever is] a liar and thief in a doomed world of liars and thieves.... Probably the least attractive hero it would be possible to find, struggling through a universe like a Hieronymus Bosch painting, a hero only in that nearly everybody else he encounters in that universe is on the make too, and yet the Cugel stories are howlingly funny.a a "Kage Baker, author of Empress of Mars.