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Jack Vance

    28 août 1916 – 26 mai 2013

    Ce maître des mots, écrivant sous de nombreux pseudonymes, est célébré pour sa maîtrise linguistique et son imagination débordante qui ont enrichi les genres de la science-fiction et du roman policier. Ses récits explorent des motivations humaines complexes et des dilemmes éthiques dans des univers inoubliables. Le style distinctif de Vance et sa profonde compréhension de la nature humaine en font un conteur intemporel. Les lecteurs sont captivés par sa capacité à créer des histoires fascinantes débordant de suspense et de profondeur intellectuelle.

    Jack Vance
    Lyonesse III - Madouc
    The Face
    The Demon Princes, Vol. 2
    The Green Pearl and Madouc
    Planete Geante
    Chroniques de Durdane
    • Sur la planète Durdane existe un ensemble de communautés disparates, le Shant, sur lequel règne l'Anome, aussi surnommé l'Homme sans Visage. Dans cette région, chaque femme, chaque homme se voit équipé à la fin de l'adolescence d'un torque explosif que l'Anome peut faire détoner à tout moment. La terreur qu'inspire ce juge et bourreau a maintenu une paix relative pendant des décennies. Mais au prix d'injustices flagrantes. Ainsi, la mère d'Etzwane est-elle réduite en quasi-esclavage par les hommes de son clan. Le jeune garçon part donc à la recherche de l'Homme sans Visage afin de faire libérer sa mère. Il ignore que sa quête l'entraînera plus loin qu'il ne l'avait imaginé.

      Chroniques de Durdane
    • L'attentat a réduit leur vaisseau en miettes et les a précipités sur la Planète Géante, un monde farouche et dangereux qui, quelques générations plus tôt, servait encore de lieu d'exil pour tous les parias de la galaxie. Pour survivre dans ce monde où l'absence de métaux interdit toute technologie, les occupants de l'épave n'ont plus qu'une solution : rejoindre à pied l'Enclave terrienne, de l'autre côté de la planète... à quelque 65 000 kilomètres de là ! En retraçant le périple de quelques intrépides à travers les paysages sauvages d'un monde démesuré, La Planète Géante conjugue le goût de la découverte d'un Daniel Defoe avec le souffle épique des meilleurs films de Sergio Leone.

      Planete Geante
    • The Green Pearl and Madouc

      • 776pages
      • 28 heures de lecture
      4,3(616)Évaluer

      In Lyonesse II: The Green Pearl and Madouc the magical lands of high enchantment - the Elder Isles, the land, long-vanished beneath the ocean, from which King Arthur's ancestors fled to Britain - come to brilliant life again. In this ancient land the realm of chivalry and the world of faerie exist side by side and it is a place of strange beauty, high adventure and eerie magic. Warring kings renew their conflicts, opposing magicians devise ever more strange and sinister stratagems and Madouc, ostensibly the daughter of the ill-fated Princess Suldrun but in reality a changeling, becomes embroiled in political rivalries, military adventures - and the quest for the Grail.

      The Green Pearl and Madouc
    • The Demon Princes, Vol. 2

      The Face * the Book of Dreams

      • 400pages
      • 14 heures de lecture
      4,3(107)Évaluer

      Celebrated for his remarkable versatility, Jack Vance has garnered numerous prestigious awards, including the Hugo and Nebula. His career spans over fifty years, captivating readers with his imaginative storytelling. Tor Books continues to honor his legacy by reissuing his classic works. The latest release, The Demon Princes, Volume Two, compiles the final two novels of the acclaimed Demon Princes series, featuring "The Face" and "The Book of Dreams," offering fans a chance to complete their collection of this beloved saga.

      The Demon Princes, Vol. 2
    • Lyonesse III - Madouc

      • 544pages
      • 20 heures de lecture
      4,2(57)Évaluer

      The World Fantasy Award-winning third volume of the LYONESSE trilogy brings attention to the faerie changeling Madouc. Where princess Suldrun once meekly endured the proprieties of Castle Haidion, Madouc defends herself with rotten fruit. Vexed, King Casmir arranges a contest to marry her off, but Madouc has other ideas, and enlists the stableboy "Sir Pom-pom" on an impromptu quest to find her father. During their travels, they encounter swindlers, faeries, trolls, ogres, a knight in search of his youth, and a relatively pedestrian item known as the Holy Grail. As the sorcerers Shimrod and Murgen investigate portents of cataclysm in the world of magic, Casmir plans a murder that will bring all the lands under his iron rule; however, his ambitions will be complicated by one small but important oversight-he's failed to allow for Madouc!

      Lyonesse III - Madouc
    • From the furthest borders of the Durdane, strange rumours are spreading. For in Caraz's land of exiles and murderers, deeds are being done more terrible than any of its most ruthless dwellers could commit. And so it is to the mountains of Caraz that Gastel Etzwane must turn, certain in his heart that his old foe is not yet finished. And sure enough, amidst the rocky wastes there moves a menace whose horror the men of Durdane can scarce imagine. For as Gastel Etzwane has long since guessed, their enemy, the monstrous Asutra, is simply not of their world...

      The Asutra
    • Ecce and Old Earth

      • 435pages
      • 16 heures de lecture
      3,0(1)Évaluer

      The planet Cadwal has an ecosystem unique in the human-explored galaxy; a thousand years past it was set aside as a natural preserve, protected by law and covenant against colonization and exploitation. But now the elite Conservator culture that has developed on Cadwal is facing a conspiracy of humans and aliens to open the planet, and its rich resources, to full commercial use. Glawen Clattuc, scion of one of the scientific houses of Cadwal, must discover who exactly is behind all the sabotage, and bring them to interplanetary justice. But Glawen soon discovers that he is investigating his own family - there are ancient crimes to be discovered, as well as the key that will resolve the crisis that threatens Cadwal and its way of life.

      Ecce and Old Earth
    • Alastor

      • 480pages
      • 17 heures de lecture
      4,2(600)Évaluer

      Three young men in strange worlds face dangers, meet tempting girls, and may be saved by the incognito Connatic, ruler of Alastor trillions. Planets have totally different climates and cultures, but evil humans are always greedy.Trullion: Home of ex-soldier Glinnes, whose brother has sold family island against their late father's wishes. Glinnes plays hussade to raise ozols to buy Ambray back. Starmenter pirates attack their big game, and $30M ransom vanishes, sought by all, especially alluring murderous gypsy Duissane.Marune: The home world of amnesiac Pardero. Really prince "Kraike" Efraim, the new heir almost loses his throne to his step-brother Destian. Step-mother Singhalissa plots with neighbor Rianlle. Fiancée Sthelany invites him to her room during the mirk long night of darkest emotions. Wyst: Inspirational planet to artist Jantiff, with egalistic new friends Skorlet and Esteban. Every meal has only gruff baked brown loaf, deedle tart drink, and wobbly custard sweet to fill in the chinks. The Whispers, representatives, invite the Connatic for their planet anniversary celebration, but plotters conspire.

      Alastor
    • Tales of the Dying Earth

      • 752pages
      • 27 heures de lecture
      4,2(4817)Évaluer

      The fourth in the Fantasy Masterworks series, the Dying Earth saga inspired writers like Michael Moorcock and Gene Wolfe, who freely acknowledges his debt to Vance in his own Book of the New Sun. Here, in one volume, is Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning author Jack Vance's classic Dying Earth saga comprising The Dying Earth, The Eyes of the Overworld, Cugel's Saga and Rhialto the Marvellous. Travel to a far distant future, when the sun bleeds red in a dark sky, where magic and science is one, and the Earth has but a few short decades to live ...

      Tales of the Dying Earth