Estate 1960: l’Old Central School di Elm Haven nasconde segreti tenebrosi tra le sue mura cadenti. Dale Stewart e i suoi amici stanno per scoprire che la loro piccola città apparentemente tranquilla cela una presenza maligna. Quando il giovane Tubby Cooke scompare misteriosamente, i ragazzi si trovano coinvolti in una serie di eventi inquietanti che mettono alla prova il loro coraggio e la loro amicizia. Precipitati in un incubo che non sembra avere fine, Dale e i suoi amici realizzano che...

LOCUS AWARD WINNER • Multiple-award-winning science fiction master Dan Simmons concludes the renowned Hyperion Cantos with this magnificent “full-blooded action novel” (The New York Times Book Review).“An enormously satisfying conclusion to one of the major works of modern science fiction.”—LocusThe time of reckoning has arrived. As a final genocidal Crusade threatens to enslave humanity forever, a new messiah has come of ...

"A mix of Henry Jamesian and Stephen King style scariness . . . Surely the first psychological/horror masterpiece of the 21st century." — The Denver PostA once-respected college professor and novelist, Dale Stewart has sabotaged his career and his marriage—and now darkness is closing in on him. In the last hours of Halloween he has returned to the dying town of Elm Haven, his boyhood home, where he hopes to find peace in isolation. But moving into a long-de...

The multiple-award-winning science fiction master continues the epic adventure that began in Hyperion, where the opening of the Time Tombs threatens to alter the very fabric of time and space, in the second novel in the ground breaking Hyperion Cantos.The mysterious Time Tombs are opening and the Shrike that has risen from them may well control the fate of all mankind. The Ousters are laying siege to the Hegemony of Man and the AIs we created have turned against ...

Primera parte de la esperada conclusión del impresionante tour de force que ha sido Ilión.Una novela absorbente fruto de la maestría del autor.La Iliada de Homero reconstruida en un lejano futuro con elementos de ciencia ficción: los dioses son post-humanos que disponen de una «divina» tecnología cuántica, el monte Olimpo está en Marte y los nuevos robots «moravecs» de má...

" Dan Simmons : un géant de la fiction. " Lincoln Child.Par une nuit parisienne pluvieuse de mars 1893, Henry James, le célèbre écrivain américain, est sur le point de se jeter dans la Seine lorsqu'un homme l'en empêche. James le reconnaît : c'est Sherlock Holmes. Étrange, car il est censé avoir trouvé la mort deux ans plus tôt dans les chutes du Reichenbach.Le fameux détective se fait passer pour Jan Sigerson, un explorateur norvégien, et enquête sur le suic...

LOCUS AWARD WINNER • The multiple-award-winning science fiction master continues the epic adventure that began in Hyperion, where the opening of the Time Tombs threatens to alter the very fabric of time and space, in the second novel in the Hyperion Cantos.“One of the finest achievements of modern science fiction.”—The New York Times Book ReviewThe shadow of war has fallen on the Web. In the corridors of power on Tau Ceti ...

Hailed by STEPHEN KING as 'a brilliant, massive combination of history and supernatural horror'.And made into an acclaimed, chilling 10-part Ridley Scott-produced BBC TV seriesHailed as the most advanced scientific enterprise ever mounted, Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition in search of the fabled North-West Passage had every expectation of triumph.But for almost two years his ships HMS Terror and Erebus have been...

Robert Luczak, poète et journaliste américain, est envoyé à Calcutta par son journal pour retrouver un mystérieux manuscrit de Das, poète indien disparu plusieurs années auparavant. Accompagné par sa femme indienne et leur petite fille, Luczak découvre un monde miséreux, sale et accablant de chaleur. Sa mission, qui paraissait si ordinaire, se révèle glaçante. Elle le conduit dans une véritable descente aux enfers lorsqu'il croise la route des Kapalikas, secte adoratrice de la sanglante dé...

LOCUS AWARD FINALIST • The multiple-award-winning science fiction master returns to the world of Hyperion in this dazzling third novel of the Hyperion Cantos, introducing new characters who bear the fate of time itself in their hands.“An unfailingly inventive narrative . . . generously conceived and stylistically sure-handed.”—The New York Times Book ReviewTwo hundred and seventy-four years after the fall of the WorldWeb i...

The award-winning author of the Hyperion series shifts between dark fantasy, space opera, hard sci fi & mainstream fiction in this five-novella collection.An extraordinary artist with few rivals in his chosen arena, Dan Simmons possesses a restless talent that continually presses boundaries while tantalizing the mind and touching the soul. Now he offers us a superb quintet of novellas—five dazzling masterworks of speculative fiction, including "Orphans of the Helix...

Endymion is a story about love and memory, triumph and terror - and the third book of one of the science fiction's greatest sagas, the Hyperion Cantos, introducing new characters who bear the fate of time itself in their hands.Two hundred and seventy-four years after the fall of the WorldWeb in Fall of Hyperion, Raul Endymion is sent on a quest. Retrieving Aenea from the Sphinx before the Church troops reach her is only the beginning. Wi...