New York Times Bestseller: This epic novel of the conquest of the Ming dynasty " does for 17th-century China what James Clavell's Shogun did for 16th-century Japan" ( The Christian Science Monitor).Francis Arrowsmith is a man without a country, a soldier-of-fortune in search of a war. An English orphan raised in France by exiled Jesuits, he hopes to make a quick pile out of his rare skills in bu...

Space-O-Matic permet de découvrir le travail de Manchu sur ses illustrations de romans SF, magazines scientifiques et celles réalisées pour les couvertures de " Série B " (Arctica, Jour J, Lady Spitfire). Ce art of présente également en avant-première un making of de sa collaboration avec Industria Mechanika pour qui il a conçu une Steamcar au 1/35 en résine. Le tout dans une excellent qualité de reproduction.

Inspector Nayland Smith has unearthed a plot that could mean the end of civilization as we know it. He's just arrived in London, chasing the greatest criminal mind ever to come from the East. But when he arrives to warn Sir Crichton Davies that he is in danger, he finds he is too late. Sir Crichton has become the first victim of the insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu.

In 1908 at the age of two, Henry Pu Yi ascended to become the last emperor of the centuries-old Manchu dynasty. After revolutionaries forced Pu Yi to abdicate in 1911, the young emperor lived for thirteen years in Peking’s Forbidden City, but with none of the power his birth afforded him. The remainder of Pu Yi’s life was lived out in a topsy-turvy fashion: fleeing from a Chinese warlord, becoming head of a Japanese puppet state, being confined to a Russian prison in Siberia, and enduring ...

Il existe une loi dans la nature dont, à ma connaissance, personne n’a jamais fait mention à ce jour. Chaque heure qui passe voit naître et mourir une infinité de minuscules êtres vivants — bactéries, microbes, « animalcules » — dont l’existence n’a guère d’incidence si l’on excepte sa présence massive et l’accumulation de ses effets infimes. Ces êtres vivants minuscules sont dépourvus de toute perception élaborée et ils ne souffrent pas beaucoup. Cent billions d’entre eux pourraient mouri...

« Nous allons ici entreprendre un voyage au-delà des frontières propre à faire voler en éclat bon nombre d’idées préconçues sur le réel et la fiction, sur la politique et la littérature, sur le jeu et le sérieux, et ce en compagnie de l’esprit génial et excentrique d’Iain M. Banks. Un des rares auteurs contemporains à s’être frotté non seulement à l’utopie positive, mais également à ce genre conservateur qu’est le space opera. Il a fait le pari de créer une utopie qui en reste une, une uto...

We meet first Dr Petrie who is immediately surprised by a late night visitor, "a tall, lean ... square cut ... sun baked" man who turns out to be his good friend (Commissioner Sir Denis) Nayland Smith of Burma, formerly of Scotland Yard, who has come directly from Burma. We then learn that various men associated with India are the target of assassination by the Chinese Dr Fu Manchu, who seems to have been active in Burma (as distinct from India), in places such as Rangoon, Prome, Moulmein ...

Dr. Petrie's expertise is called upon when a deadly plague begins to ravage the French Riveria. Accompanying him on his trip is his friend, the botanist Alan Sterling. As Petrie and Sir Dennis Nayland Smith struggle to contain the horror, Sterling cannot stop thinking of the mysterious Fleurette, unaware that the beautiful girl he chanced upon was raised by the emperor of evil himself, Dr. Fu Manchu.

"El misterioso Dr. Fu-Manchú" de Sax Rohmer fue publicada por primera vez en 1913, iniciando una serie de 13 novelas que tenían como protagonista al maléfico, diabólico, y summun de villanos: Dr. Fu-Manchú, agente fiel y eficaz, "secretario" de una potente sociedad secreta china.Frente a tan temible encarnación del "peligro amarillo" el autor situó a dos blancos defensores del orden: Nayland Smith y el Doctor Petrie (personajes que recuerdan a Sherlock Holmes y a Watson), quienes de...

The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu began as a serial of connected stories in the British paper The Story Teller in October, 1912. In 1913, the serial stories were collected and published in Great Britain as a book entitled The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu. Also in 1913, the Fu-Manchu stories began to be serialized in the United States in Collier's. Later in 1913, Rohmer slightly rewrote the stories to remove the serialization and turn them into chap...

"A GENTLEMAN de vous voir, docteur."De l'autre côté de la commune une horloge sonnait la demi-heure."Dix heures et demie!" Je l'ai dit. "Un visiteur tard. Montrez-le, s'il vous plaît."J'ai poussé mon écriture de côté et relevai l'abat-jour, comme traces sonné sur le palier. L'instant d'après, j'avais sauté sur mes pieds, pour, un homme grand et maigre, avec sa coupe carrée, rasé de près le visage brûlé par le soleil à la teinte de café,...

"The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu" is the first novel in the Dr. Fu Manchu (sometimes "Fu-Manchu") series by Sax Rohmer. It collates various short stories published the preceding year. "The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu" was written by Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward, known better under his pseudonym, Sax Rohmer. Sax Rohmer was a prolific eng novelist. He is best remembered for his series of novels featuring the master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)