Notable Fantasy titles for Tuesday, October 27, 2009 – Kindle
Fantasy Genre
This was supposed to release today, but although the dates lists
delivery on 10/27, the buy option remains Kindle Pre-Order. Gibberish from
Amazon Customer Service
During a time of great upheaval, the citizens of Venice make a pact that will
change the world. The landsmen of the city broker a treaty with a water-dwelling
tribe of deepsmen, cementing the alliance through marriage. The mingling of the
two races produces a fresh, peerless strain of royal blood. To protect their
shores, other nations make their own partnerships with this new breed–and then,
jealous of their power, ban any further unions between the two peoples.
Dalliance with a deepswoman becomes punishable by death. Any “bastard” child
must be destroyed. This is an Earth where the legends of the deep are true–where
the people of the ocean are as real and as dangerous as the people of the land.
This is the world of intrigue and betrayal that Kit Whitfield brings to life in
an unforgettable alternate history: the tale of Anne, the youngest princess of a
faltering England, struggling to survive in a troubled court, and Henry, a
bastard abandoned on the shore to face his bewildering destiny, finding himself
a pawn in a game he does not understand. Yet even a pawn may checkmate a king.
Don't let the price fool you – This is a Book Bundle of the first 3 books in the
Temeraire Series (His Majesty's Dragon, Throne of Jade and Black Powder War).
Purchased separately, the total would be $19.17.
Together in one volume, here are the first three novels in Naomi Novik’s New
York Times bestselling Temeraire series, combining the gripping history of the
Napoleonic era, the thrill of Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern books, and
the excitement of Patrick O’Brian’s seafaring adventures. In His Majesty’s
Service also includes an exclusive original Temeraire short story. Capt. Will
Laurence is serving with honor in the British Navy when his ship captures a
French frigate harboring most a unusual cargo–an incalculably valuable dragon
egg. When the egg hatches, Laurence unexpectedly becomes the master of the young
dragon Temeraire and finds himself on an extraordinary journey that will shatter
his orderly, respectable life and alter the course of his nation’s history.
Thrust into England’s Aerial Corps, Laurence and Temeraire undergo rigorous
training while staving off French forces intent on breaching British soil. But
the pair has more than France to contend with when China learns that an imperial
dragon intended for Napoleon–Temeraire himself– has fallen into British hands.
The emperor summons the new pilot and his dragon to the Far East, a long voyage
fraught with peril and intrigue. From England’s shores to China’s palaces, from
the Silk Road’s outer limits to the embattled borders of Prussia and Poland,
Laurence and Temeraire must defend their partnership and their country from
powerful adversaries around the globe. But can they succeed against the massed
forces of Bonaparte’s implacable army?
On a September evening in 1931, John and Jack, two of the Caretakers of the Imaginarium Geographica, discover a cryptic warning on a medieval manuscript — which is not only addressed to them but seems to have been written by their friend, Hugo Dyson! But before they can discover the origin of the strange book, Hugo walks through a door in time — and vanishes into the past.
And in that moment, the world begins to change.
The Frontier, which separates our world from the Archipelago of Dreams, has fallen. Dark and terrible beasts roam throughout England. No one can be summoned from the Archipelago. And both worlds have fallen into darkness under the reign of a cruel and terrible king.
The only hope to restore the proper order of things lies on a forgotten island at the edge of the Archipelago, where a time travel device left by Jules Verne must be used to race through history itself — from the Bronze Age to ancient Alexandria and the founding of the Silver Throne — in one night. And in that single night, John and Jack will find that the only way to save their friend and stop the chaos destroying the world is to solve a 2,000-year-old mystery: Who is the Cartographer?
First time in electronic format, the Wheel of Time series will be released one
book a month. The new cover is not seen on the Amazon site for some
reason.
Spurning her royal heritage to be raised by the great warrior, Kessligh, her
exquisite swordplay astonishes all who witness it. But Sasha is still young,
untested in battle and often led by her rash temper. In the complex world of
Lenayin loyalties, her defiant wilfulness is attracting the wrong kind of
attention. Lenayin is a land almost divided by its two faiths: the Verenthane
of the ruling classes and the pagan Goeren-yai, amongst whom Sasha now lives.
The Goeren-yai worship swordplay and honour and begin to see Sasha as the great
spirit the Synnich who will unite them. But Sasha is still searching for what
she believes and must choose her side carefully. When the Udalyn people — the
symbol of Goeren-yai pride and courage — are attacked, Sasha will face her
moment of testing. How will she act? Is she ready to lead? Can she be the
saviour they need her to be?
Morlock Ambrosius returns! Travelling alone in the depths of winter, Morlock
Ambrosius (bitterly dry drunk, master of all magical makers, wandering
swordsman, and son of Merlin Ambrosius and Nimue Viviana) is attacked by an
unknown enemy. To unmask his enemy and end the attacks he must travel a long
crooked way through the world: past the soul-eating Boneless One, past a subtle
and treacherous master of golems, past the dragon-taming Khroi, past the
predatory cities of Sarkunden and Aflraun, past the demons and dark gnomes of
the northern woods. Soon he will find that his enemy wears a familiar face, and
that the duel he has stumbled into will threaten more lives than his own,
leaving nations shattered in its chaotic wake. And at the end of his long road
waits the death of a legend.
