Лучшие книги Джейн Линдскольд

Пять тысячелетий назад произошла великая война между богами и демонами, и демоны, потерпев поражение, были изгнаны из родного измерения. Им пришлось обживать новое измерение, пустынное и бесплодное, и скорее всего, все они погибли бы, если бы не обнаружили канал, ведущий... на Землю!
Среди нынешнего поколения демонов особенно выделялся Кай Крапивник - мастер меча, мечтатель и стеклодув, создающий бутылки, в которых размещались целые миры. Он долго жил в покое и уединении, но однажды его покой был нарушен... Крапивнику пришлось обрести новых друзей и новых врагов, пройти через множество испытаний и доказать, что он не зря носит титул лорда Демона.
Перед вами - последнее произведение Роджера Желязны, законченное его женой и соавтором Джейн Линдсколд!

В этот том собрания сочинений знаменитого американского писателя Роджера Желязны вошли остросюжетные фантастические произведения, написанные им в соавторстве с Джейн Линдсколд.

К чему бы классик ни приложил руку, все получается хорошо. В "Доннерджеке" Роджер Желязны рисует нам систему миров, где не миф рождается из реальности, а то и другое живет самостоятельной жизнью и настолько тесно друг с другом связаны, что стоит только кому-нибудь из древних богов Вирту вытащить носовой платок, как сотни верующих в церковных приходах Веритэ начинают чихать.

Рене Корда - большой специалист в своей области. Его профессия называется скромно - создатель вселенных. Поэтому неудивительно, что именно к нему обращается за помощью правительство Земли, когда неизвестные злоумышленники останавливают время в двух карманных вселенных...

Мы привыкли думать, что все бабушки совсем отстали от современной жизни и ничему новому научить своих внуков уже не могут. Но у бабушки Рю и Юкари есть один маленький секрет... ((c) vmesto_konfet@fantlab.ru)

Эту книгу составил роман "Хрономастер", написанный Р. Желязны в соавторстве с супругой Джейн Линдскольд по мотивам одноимённой компьютерной игры.

Они встречаются раз в сто лет, чтобы бегать по полянам на дне морском, чтобы играть на облачных холмах, залитых луной. Он выходит из моря, отряхивая белую пену и соленую воду. Она спускается с неба, закутанная в грозовые облака и нити дождя. Но в этот раз они будут играть, поставив на кон жизнь младенца. Благодаря этому они многое переосмыслят.

Jane Lindskold's Through Wolf's Eyes; Wolf's Head, Wolf's Heart; and The Dragon of Despair told the story of Firekeeper, the young girl raised by sentient, language-using wolves who is then plunged back into human society, where her training as a pack animal stands her in good stead amidst political and dynastic intrigues. Now, in Wolf Captured, the focus returns to Firekeeper and her wolf companion Blind Seer, as they find themselves kidnapped and dragged overseas, and forced to maneuver for their lives in an unfamiliar and dangerous new society.

The Liglimoshti worship animals and portents, which rule their lives. And the Liglimoshti are aware, as the other countries are not, that Royal animals like Truth and Blind Seer exist, are intelligent, and can speak to each other. They've kidnapped Firekeeper and Blind Seer because they've never before heard of a human who could talk to animals. They want to see what Firekeeper can do. They want her to teach them how to do it.

Firekeeper's more than willing to talk to the animals there. But she fears that Liglim's Royal animals are being held in polite and unobtrusive bondage. She wants to find out the truth -- and, if necessary, free them...

The sequel to Through Wolf’s Eyes and Wolf’s Head, Wolf’s Heart

Smart like a human. Smart like a wolf. Better yet, smart like both.

With Through Wolf’s Eyes and Wolf’s Head, Wolf’s Heart, Jane Lindskold introduced us to young Firekeeper, one of the most appealing heroines in modern fantasy. Raised far from humans by smart, language-using wolves, then brought back to the court of Hawk Haven, Firekeeper has had to learn to cope with human society. And as it turns out, for one raised amidst intelligent social carnivores, the intrigues of the human pack aren't all that unfamiliar.
Now Melina Shield, the beautiful, unscrupulous, and thoroughly discredited sorceress whose power-hungry intrigues have already made so much trouble for Firekeeper, is once again using her power to cloud men's minds. She has induced the ruler of New Kelvin to marry her. This is bad news all round.

It's particularly bad news for Firekeeper. Melina has never abandoned her schemes to gain power through the use of forbidden ancient sorcery. And the leaders of the royal beasts who watch over this world have given Firekeeper -- and her intelligent wolf companion, Blind Seer -- the responsibility of stopping her.

The distant world Artemis is a pleasure planet created out of bare rock by a technologically advanced human empire that provided its richest citizens with a veritable Eden to play in. All tech was concealed and the animals (and the humans brought to live there) were bioengineered to help the guests enjoy their stay…but there was always the possibility of danger so that visitors could brag that they had "bested" the environment.

The Empire was shattered in a horrific war; centuries later humanity has lost much of the advanced technology and Artemis is a fable told to children. Until young archeologist Griffin Dane finds intriguing hints that send him on a quest to find the lost world. Stranded on Artemis after crashing his ship, he encounters the Huntress Adara and her psych-linked companion, the puma Sand Shadow. Their journey with her will lead Dane to discover the planet's secrets…and perhaps provide a key to give unimagined power back to mankind.

Book Description Plucky young Jenny Benet, a recently orphaned American girl who was raised on the Wild West frontier and educated at a Boston finishing school, has come to Egypt in company with her uncle Neville Hawthorne, a prominent British archaeologist. They're part of a team investigating the legendary Buried Pyramid, the tomb of the pharaoh Neferankhotep who may also have been Moses the Lawgiver.

But they're not the only ones interested in the site. Another party, led by the opulent and treacherous Lady Audrey Cheshire, is shadowing theirs. Someone who signs himself "The Sphinx" has been sending threatening letters written entirely in hieroglyphics. In Egypt, an ancient and shadowy organization seems determined to keep the tomb from being discovered.

But mortals may not be all that stands in their way.

Middle-aged Mira Fenn knows she has an uncomfortably exotic past. As a small girl, she lived in a ornate old house in tiny Las Vegas, New Mexico, tended by oddly silent servant women and ruled by her coldly flamboyant mother Colette. When Mira was nine, Colette went on one of her unexplained trips, only this time she never returned.

Placed with foster parents, Mira was raised in Ohio, normal save for her passion for color. On gaining adulthood, she learned that she still owned the New Mexico house. She also learned that, as a condition of being allowed to adopt her, Mira's foster parents had agreed to change their name, move to another state, and never ask why.

Years later, going through family papers after the deaths of her elderly foster parents, Mira finds documents that pique her curiosity about her vanished mother and the reasons behind her strange childhood and adoption.

Travelling back to New Mexico, she finds the house is and isn't as she remembers it. Inside, it's much the same. Outside, it's been painted in innumerable colors. As Mira continues to investigate her mother's life, events take stranger and stranger turns. The silent women reappear. Even as Mira begins to suspect the power to which she may be heir, the house itself appears to be waking up...

Shot through with magic and the atmosphere of the Southwest, this singular fantasy novel has all the storytelling vigor of Jane Lindskold's very popular Firekeeper series.

Генерал Домино Блейд, командовавшая силами Добра в войне против Каларана, должна вернуть на место добытый ею свиток Гвайкандер, содержащий заклинание, удержавшее дух тёмного полубога от возвращения в тело после его убийства. Дорога ведёт её в Озёрный край, который просто-таки кишит бандитами всех мастей...

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