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Qu'ils soient dignes de confiance, retors ou avides de pouvoir, les sorciers façonnent la magie à leur image. Parfois dangereux, souvent fascinants, ils intimident toujours les foules. Mais, peu importe leurs pouvoirs, ils ne sont pas sans failles.

Des magiciens bienveillants aux sorciers les plus machiavéliques, Gardner Dozois a rassemblé dans cette anthologie dix-sept textes des plus talentueux auteurs de la fantasy contemporaine.

Envoûteurs, chamanes, enchanteurs, devins et invocateurs. Découvrez le quotidien de ces personnages hors du commun qui n'utilisent pas toujours leurs talents à bon escient.

Avec : K. J. Parker, Robin Hobb, John Crowley, Matthew Hugues, YsabeauS. Wilce, Rachel Pollack, Eleanor Arnason, Tim Powers, Liz Williams, Garth Nix, Elizabeth Bear, Lavie Tidhar, Greg Van Eekhout, George R. R. Martin, Aandy Duncan, Kate Elliott, Scott Lynch.

Sorciers et magie

A l’autre bout du temps, un soleil rouge et obèse jette sur la Terre mourante sa lumière de fin du monde. Ceux qui arpentent cette terre agonisante sont les derniers héros de l’humanité. Ils s’appellent Cugel ou Rhialto, T’saïs ou Pandelume, ils sont mages ou voleurs, bretteurs ou escrocs, mais ils sont toujours flamboyants, car ils sont nés il y a de cela soixante ans, sous la plume de Jack Vance.Maître de la narration, créateur de mondes et styliste unique, Jack Vance est probablement l’auteur qui a suscité le plus de vocations. Des générations entières d’écrivains ont voulu marcher sur ses traces et devenir, à leur tour, des marchands de rêves.George R. R. Martin et Gardner Dozois ont réuni les plus grands noms des littératures de l’imaginaire – Glen Cook, Robert Silverberg, Jeff VanderMeer ou Walter Jon Williams – pour saluer, comme il se devait, Maître Jack Vance et son cycle de la Terre mourante.

Chansons de la terre mourante

La fantasy est un univers d'une richesse parfois insoupçonnée. La veine la plus épique, dont Tolkien est l'auteur emblématique, est à l'honneur dans cette anthologie inédite. Créatures étranges, pouvoirs surnaturels, guerrières et combattants féroces frôlant la mort à chaque coup d'épée et de formule magique sont réunis dans ces nouvelles. Comme dans Dangerous Women ou Vauriens, Gardner Dozois a choisi, pour illustrer cette thématique forte, les plus talentueux auteurs contemporains du genre, dont George R.R. Martin, Robin Hobb et Scott Lynch.

Epées et magie

An epic collection of fantasy tales in the grand tradition, including a never-before-published A Song of Ice and Fire story by George R. R. Martin and an introduction by Gardner Dozois.

 Fantasy fiction has produced some of the most unforgettable heroes ever conjured onto the page: Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian, Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné, Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Classic characters like these made sword and sorcery a cornerstone of fantasy fiction, and an inspiration for a new generation of writers, spinning their own tales of magical adventure.

 Now, in The Book of Swords, acclaimed editor and bestselling author Gardner Dozois presents an anthology of sixteen original epic stories by a stellar cast of modern masters, including George R. R. Martin, Robin Hobb, Garth Nix, Ken Liu, Daniel Abraham, Scott Lynch, Cecelia Holland, Ellen Kushner, and more on journeys into the outer realms of dark enchantment and intrepid adventure, featuring a stunning assortment of fearless swordsmen and warrior women who face down danger and death at every turn with courage, cunning, and cold steel.

The Book of Swords: Part 2

The Book of Swords - Tome 1

New epic fantasy in the grand tradition--including a never-before-published Song of Ice and Fire story by George R. R. Martin!    Fantasy fiction has produced some of the most unforgettable heroes ever conjured onto the page: Robert E. Howards Conan the Barbarian, Michael Moorcocks Elric of Melniboné, Fritz Leibers Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Classic characters like these made sword and sorcery a storytelling sensation, a cornerstone of fantasy fiction--and an inspiration for a new generation of writers, spinning their own outsize tales of magic and swashbuckling adventure.   Now, in  The   Book of Swords , acclaimed editor and bestselling author Gardner Dozois presents an all-new anthology of original epic tales by a stellar cast of award-winning modern masters--many of them set in their authors best-loved worlds. Join todays finest tellers of fantastic tales, including George R. R. Martin, K. J. Parker, Robin Hobb, Scott Lynch, Ken Liu, C. J. Cherryh, Daniel Abraham, Lavie Tidhar, Ellen Kushner, and more on action-packed journeys into the outer realms of dark enchantment and intrepid derring-do, featuring a stunning assortment of fearless swordsmen and warrior women who face down danger and death at every turn with courage, cunning, and cold steel.   FEATURING SIXTEEN ALL-NEW STORIES:    The Best Man Wins by K. J. Parker  Her Fathers Sword by Robin Hobb  The Hidden Girl by Ken Liu  The Sword of Destiny by Matthew Hughes  I Am a Handsome Man, Said Apollo Crow by Kate Elliott  The Triumph of Virtue by Walter Jon Williams  The Mocking Tower by Daniel Abraham  Hrunting by C. J. Cherryh  A Long, Cold Trail by Garth Nix  When I Was a Highwayman by Ellen Kushner  The Smoke of Gold Is Glory by Scott Lynch  The Colgrid Conundrum by Rich Larson  The Kings Evil by Elizabeth Bear  Waterfalling by Lavie Tidhar           The Sword Tyraste by Cecelia Holland  The Sons of the Dragon by George R. R. Martin        And an introduction by Gardner Dozois  When fine writer and expert editor [Gardner] Dozois beckons, authors deliver--and this surely will be one of the years essential anthologies.-- Kirkus Reviews  (starred review)

The book of swords

Commissioned by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, these tales of dangerous women by the most stellar names in fiction are available for the first time in three-volume paperback.

 George R. R. Martin is the bestselling author of A Song of Ice and Fire, the inspiration for HBO's hit series GAME OF THRONES.

 This third volume features an original short story by Joe Abercrombie. 'Some Desperado' centres on Shy South, the protagonist of Abercrombie's novel RED COUNTRY. Having robbed a bank, Shy is carrying 2, 000 silver pieces, and she's on the run when her horse catches an arrow. Marooned in a dusty ghost town, she faces up to a trio of murderous, flea-bitten criminals.

 This volume of stories about hard-living bad girls, killers and superheroes also includes contributions from worldwide bestselling authors Jim Butcher, Melinda Snodgrass and Pat Cadigan.

 DANGEROUS WOMEN 3Gardner Dozois's introductionJoe Abercrombie, 'Some Desperado'Diana Rowland, 'City Lazarus'Sherlynn Kenyon, 'Hell Hath No Fury'Melinda Snodgrass, 'The Hands That Are Not There'Pat Cadigan, 'Caretakers'Cecelia Holland, 'Nora's Song'Jim Butcher, 'Bombshells'

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