Jean Arnoldus Schalekamp Livres

De retour au royaume d'Ambre après avoir vaincu le prince Eric, Corwin découvre son frère Caine assassiné par de mystérieuses créatures d'Ombre, manifestement aux ordres d'un commanditaire occulte et vindicatif. La recherche du véritable meurtrier parmi les innombrables reflets d'Ambre va conduire Corwin, confronté à maints périls et intrigues, au seuil d'une révélation infiniment plus importante : la véritable nature de l'étrange royaume d'Ambre, de ses mystères et de ses contradictions. Ce troisième volume de la série des Princes d'Ambre repousse une fois encore les frontières du monumental et prodigieux univers imaginé par Roger Zelazny.

A world of peaceful aliens conquered by bloodthirsty yumens, their existence is irrevocably altered. Forced into servitude, the Athsheans find themselves at the mercy of their brutal masters. Desperation causes the Athsheans to retaliate against their captors, abandoning their strictures against violence. In defending their lives, they endanger the very foundations of their society. Every blow against the invaders is a blow to the core of Athsheans' culture. And once the killing starts, there is no turning back. Winner of the 1973 Hugo award for Best Novella, and nominated for many others, The Word for World is Forest is part of Le Guin's 'Hainish Cycle'. It explores a future history of Earth and pacifistic ideals in its depictions of violence, colonialism and resistance. 'A simple story that, like most things Le Guin wrote, packs a powerful emotional and critical punch'- Tordotcom 'Deeply moving and shocking by turns'- Suzanne Reid 'Le Guin writes in quiet, straightforward sentences about people who feel they are being torn apart by massive forces in society . . . and who fight courageously to remain whole' - The New York Times Book Review Welcome to The Best Of The Masterworks: a selection of the finest in science fiction

Une suite à ##2001 odyssée de l'espace## (1968), prétexte à un autre film. La critique, sauf quelques thuriféraires de rigueur dont Asimov et Sagan, a été unanimement déçue car comme disait un chroniqueur, dans cette sorte d'histoire, on préfère les bonnes vieilles incertitudes aux laborieuses explications.

Dès son retour des Flandres, le capitaine Alatriste doit honorer une autre mission, d'importance nationale. Il est chargé de déjouer le complot d'une bande de contrebandiers qui souhaite mettre la main sur l'or espagnol rapporté des Indes. Son fidèle page Iñigo et son ami Francisco de Quevedo l'aident à se constituer un groupe pour l'aider dans sa tâche. Composée de truands, de galériens de Séville et de spadassins, la fine équipe entre en scène avec fracas.

A determined group of colonists are attempting to establish a bridgehead on the planet Pandora, despite the savagery of the native lifeforms, as deadly as they are inhospitable. But they have more to deal with than just murderous aliens. Their ship's computer has been given artificial consciousness & has decided that it is God. Now it is insisting--with the considerable force of its impressive array of armaments to back it up--that the colonists find appropriate ways to worship It.

Tim Cornish, a creative writing student, sits composing a confession: an admission of a crime committed two years ago that has yet to be discovered. It began when he first encountered Ivo, a magnetic man, older than himself, and felt compelled to kiss him. By the time they travel together to Alaska's glacial wastes, Tim has fallen in and out of love with Ivo; his real passion is now only for Isabel whom he has met in Ivo's absence. The horror of Tim's subsequent journey with Ivo, battling with disgust and despair, may andure in his memory for ever

“[Chaim] Potok writes powerfully about the suffering of innocent people caught in the cross-fire of a war they cannot begin to understand. . . . Humanity and compassion for his characters leap from every page.”—San Francisco Chronicle As the Chinese and the army of the North sweep south during the Korean War, an old peasant farmer and his wife flee their village across the bleak, bombed-out landscape. They soon come upon a boy in a ditch who is wounded and unconscious. Stirred by possessiveness and caring the woman refuses to leave the boy behind. The man thinks she is crazy to nurse this boy, to risk their lives for some dying stranger. Angry and bewildered, he waits for the boy to die. And when the boy does not die, the old man begins to believe that the boy possesss a magic upon which all their lives depend. . . .

By the author of the classic The Snow Goose , a heartbreaking story about a young girl and her most unusual cat, who has magical powers that save her owner's life. Seven-year-old Mary adores her ginger cat, Thomasina, and is crushed when Thomasina falls sick, and Mary’s father, a grim, inflexible man who is the town vet, decrees that the only thing to be done is to put Thomasina down. Mary refuses to speak to her father, and then she herself contracts a life-threatening disease. In the meantime, however, Thomasina has been rescued—by the mysterious Lori, the Red Witch of the glen. Thomasina is now Tabitha, the descendant of an Egyptian goddess, and she is coming back to seek revenge! Thomasina, like Jenny of The Abandoned , Gallico’s other great feline heroine (Jenny is Thomasina’s great-aunt), tells her own story in her own way, witty, charming, divine, and sometimes as sharp as an unsheathed claw. Thomasina is a cat for the ages. Thomasina is a sheer delight.

Tekst van de toelichting die de joodse politicoloog aan het Beierse gerechtshof zond bij zijn eis tot schadeloosstelling voor het in de Tweede Wereldoorlog ondergane leed.