Pyr Books: Novedades | Septiembre 2012

Estas son las novedades que ha publicado la editorial americana Pyr Books a lo largo de este mes de septiembre. Por un lado, ha llegado a las librerías la tercera entrega de la saga de fantasía épica de Sam Sykes, "The Aeons' Gate", de quien el propio Scott Lynch (Las mentiras de Locke Lamora) ha dicho que Sykes irrumpe en la mejor tradición de la fantasía épica con todo el vigor de la juventud, pero dotando a su obra de una sensibilidad propia. Búsquedas en tierras lejanas, una reina maléfica, ejércitos de beserkers, un ser amado, demonios, monstruos... De todo eso y más es lo que promete "The Aeons' Gate".

Por otro lado, una historia de fantasía protagonizada por vampiros ubicada en un futuro cercano con "Vampire Empire" (tras The Greyfriar y The Rift Walker), escrita por Clay y Susan Griffith, y la segunda entrega de "Everness" tras Planesrunner, de Ian McDonald (ciencia-ficción aventurera), completan las novedades de la editorial para este mes de septiembre, quienes nos preparan otra tanta de novedades para el próximo octubre.

Más información de las novedades:

The Skybound Sea, de Sam Sykes. Edición en rústica, 520 páginas, 17,95 dólares. A la venta. Género: Fantasía épica. Serie: The Aeons' Gate/3.

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Sinopsis:

She comes.

The skies bleed. The earth groans. The sea howls. The world is rent asunder as the Kraken Queen claws her way from hell. And the only ones standing in her way are a young man with a piece of steel and a voice in his head, his many companions, and their many, many problems.

As Lenk journeys to the Island of Jaga, the tomb of Ulbecetonth, he is hunted. By enemies, by the woman he loves, by the demon he has to kill, by an army of any number of bloodthirsty purple berserkers, savage lizardmen, vicious monsters, and colossal demons.

In the lands where sky and sea have forgotten they were ever separate, Lenk and the companions' destinies await at the tip of a sword and the mouth of hell.

The Kingmakers, de Clay Griffith y Susan Griffith. Edición en rústica, 374 páginas, 17,95 dólares. A la venta. Género: Fantasía. Serie: Vampire Empire/3.

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Sinopsis:

A war to the death.

Empress Adele has launched a grand crusade against the vampire clans of the north. Prince Gareth, the vampire lord of Scotland, serves the Equatorian cause, fighting in the bloody trenches of France in his guise as the dashing Greyfriar. But the human armies are pinned down, battered by harsh weather and merciless attacks from vampire packs.

To even the odds, Adele unleashes the power of her geomancy, a fearsome weapon capable of slaughtering vampires in vast numbers. However, the power she expends threatens her own life even as she questions the morality of such a weapon.

As the war turns ever bloodier and Adele is threatened by betrayal, Gareth faces a terrible choice. Their only hope is a desperate strike against the lord of the vampire clans—Gareth's brother, Cesare. It is a gamble that could win the war or signal the final days of the Greyfriar.

The Vampire Empire trilogy rushes to a heart-wrenching conclusion of honor and love, hatred and vengeance, sacrifice and loss.

Be My Enemy, de Ian McDonald. Edición en tapa dura, 280 páginas, 16,95 dólares. A la venta. Género: Ciencia-ficción. Serie: Everness/2.

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Sinopsis:

The next installment of the multiple-award-winning author's exciting YA series

Everett Singh has escaped with the Infundibulum from the clutches of Charlotte Villiers and the Order, but at a terrible price. His father is missing, banished to one of the billions of parallel universes of the Panoply of All World, and Everett and the crew of the airship Everness have taken a wild, random Heisenberg Jump to a random parallel plane. Everett is smart and resourceful, and, from a frozen earth far beyond the Plenitude, he plans to rescue his family. But the villainous Charlotte Villiers is one step ahead of him.

The action traverses the frozen wastes of iceball earth; to Earth 4 (like ours, except that the alien Thryn Sentiency occupied the moon in 1964); to the dead London of the forbidden plane of Earth 1, where the emnants of humanity battle a terrifying nanotechnology run wild—and Everett faces terrible choices of morality and power. But Everett has the love and support of Sen, Captain Anastasia Sixsmyth, and the rest of the crew of Everness—as he learns that the deadliest enemy isn't the Order or the world-devouring nanotech Nahn—it's yourself.

por Loren Sparrow septiembre 23, 2012