Le monde: un disque immense, posé sur un pilier de diamant émergeant de l'Abîme. Depuis toujours, deux factions, les Rouges et les Noirs, se déchirent en de terribles querelles de pouvoir. Un tourbillon de trahisons et de meurtres rythme cette guerre. La venue du Visiteur, un mystérieux androïde tombé du ciel, changera-t-elle le cours de cette histoire sanglante ?

L'abîme

Clinical Trials in Oncology

La Tempête, il y a de centaines d'années, a 
balayé du globe toute trace de civilieation 
technologique. Le descendante de ceux qui ont échappé au désastre vivent dans une sorte de communauté tribale. Ils s'appellent Rien qu'Une Fois, Sept Mains, Rouge Peinte. Ils ne pratiquent ni l'agriculture ni l'élevage mais simplement la cueillette et la poursuite des énigmes. Ils écoutent les conteurs parler des anges, ces hommes qui vivaient avant la Tempête et se déplaçaient dans d'étranges machines. Un jour, Roseau Qui Parle décide de partir, afin de comprendre le monde.

L'été-machine

Demeure d'Edgewood, jadis construite par John Drinkwater, architecte excentrique passionné de sciences occultes, afin d'y loger sa famille. Edgewood : une maison qui n'en est pas une, mais dix, cent. Une folie architecturale sur laquelle le temps n'a plus de prise. Un refuge au milieu des bois pour les derniers vestiges d'un royaume imaginaire bientôt disparu. Edgewood : un endroit hors du monde où se nouent les fils de la vie, où l'amour, la mort et le souvenir tissent des liens invisibles autour des femmes et des hommes. Un lieu enchanteur où s'écrira le testament d'une époque, sous la forme d'un Conte, lorsque, pour la dernière fois, se réunira le Parlement des Fées.

Parlement des fees - tome 1

L'orée des bois (Le Parlement des Fées, #1)

His name is Caspar Last, and this is the unique chronicle of the vacation he took from the twentieth century. It begins - or does it? - when Caspar, a genius, poor of course, and resentful at that, decides to use his "time machine" to bring back a modest fortune. It begins - or maybe it doesn't - with a mysterious bequest to a secret Otherhood charged with preserving and extending the British Empire at any cost. From the bold colonial days of empire-builder Cecil Rhodes through the wide-eyed and wondrous possibilities of the present to a strange and haunting future of magi and angels, of men and many races other than our own, John Crowley's time-travel masterpiece surfs bravely along "the infinite, infinitely broken coastline of Time" to tell a story that takes place neither here nor there, but everywhen.

Great Work of Time

In the early years of the 1940s, as the nation's young men ship off to combat, a city springs up, seemingly overnight in the fields of Oklahoma: the Van Damme airplane factory, a gargantuan complex dedicated to the construction of the necessary machinery of warfare. Labourers - mostly women - flock to this place, enticed by the opportunity to be something more than wife and homemaker. For Vi, fleeing a dying ranch; for Connie, following an unfaithful husband; for Diane, leaving behind the hot music and soldier boys to pursue something different, adult, and real; their journeys will be liberating in ways they couldn't previously imagine, and will lead each of them to Prosper Olander - disabled artist, forger, friend, lover, and the true heart and soul of the temporary city - who will change their lives in profound and unexpected ways.

Four Freedoms

The Deep In a twilight land, two warring powers -- the Reds and the Blacks -- play out an ancient game of murder and betrayal. Then a Visitor from beyond the sky arrives to play a part in this dark and bloody pageant. From the moment he is found by two women who tend to the dead in the wake of battles, it is clear that the great game is to change at last. Beasts It is the day after tomorrow, and society has been altered dramatically by experimentation that enables scientists to combine the genetic material of different species, mixing DNA of humans with animals. Loren Casaubon is an ethologist drawn into the political and social vortex that results with Leo -- a creature both man and lion -- at its center. Engine Summer A young man named Rush That Speaks is growing up in a far distant world -- one that only dimly remembers our own age, the wondrous age of the Angels, when men could fly. Now it is the "engine summer of the world, " and Rush goes in search of the Saints who can teach him to speak truthfully, and be immortal in the stories he tells. The immortality that awaits him, though, is one he could not have imagined.

L'abîme

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