Medea : Erzählungen /
A deserted, dying planet. A woman left behind. The encounter with a strange astronaut. A picnic in ruins. - A fully automated and anonymous world. A perfect machine operated by perfect people. And a spirit that roams the machine and the dreams of men. - A queen in a widow's white robe, hidden f...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | German |
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Münich :
Apex-Verlag,
[2018]
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| Edition: | [Trade paperback edition] |
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| Summary: | A deserted, dying planet. A woman left behind. The encounter with a strange astronaut. A picnic in ruins. - A fully automated and anonymous world. A perfect machine operated by perfect people. And a spirit that roams the machine and the dreams of men. - A queen in a widow's white robe, hidden from the world in the highest tower of a castle that is neither of this world nor of any other world. And a raven-black visitor who tells that queen a sad story. - A tower in a lonely oasis. A magician; a warlike wanderer. And a curse that can be defeated, yet never broken. - A radioactive earth. Two classes: people exposed to the nuclear rain and people living under the protective safety of a dome. And a mother who sells her daughter to the highest bidder to save her from dying from cancer. - A witch from the north comes to a rich city in the thriving south - is she the messenger of a demonic god? A thief tries to solve the mysteries of the House of Mirrors - and he discovers the secret of human vanity. - After the Fall of Rome: In exchange for two precious scrolls from the Library of Alexandria, a former general of the Empire acquires a woman of unearthly beauty - and who is said to be able to create gold through magic. - At a time when heterosexuality is considered abnormal, a woman dares the unthinkable: she falls in love with a man. - A winged vampire creature. A princess that isn't a princess. And a love that is willing to make the greatest sacrifice possible. - In the year 2190: Cryo-technology that becomes the instrument of an invasion that is as perfidious as it is unstoppable... |
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| Item Description: | "MEDEA; Original-Zusammenstellun (original compilation); Apex-Verlag, 2018; Erzählungen; Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Christian Dörge; Illustriertes Paperback - 324 Seiten; ISBN: 978-3-746700-13-7"--Publisher Apex-Verlag website. The Cushing Library/Science Fiction copy was used to compile Daughter of the night: an annotated Tanith Lee bibliography. |
| Physical Description: | 324 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliography (page 310). |
| ISBN: | 9783746700137 3746700132 |