New Releases by Daniel Abraham

Het fantasydebuut van een groot talent. De Andat zijn natuurkrachten die door de Poëten gebonden kunnen worden en belichaamd in menselijke vorm. De handel in de Zomersteden is afhankelijk geworden van hen. De langverwachte crisis komt als de Andat Zaadloos erin lijkt te slagen zijn meester, de Poëet Heshai-kvo, tot waanzin te drijven en zo zijn vrijheid te herwinnen. Tot overmaat van ramp raakt Heshai-kvo’s leerling Maati betrokken bij een complot om de stad ten val te brengen. Met hem is Otah, zijn voormalige leermeester, die door de dood van zijn broers plots de opvolger van de heerser van de stad lijkt te zijn geworden. Daniel Abraham is zonder twijfel een van de grootste nieuwe talenten van de nieuwe lichting fantasyauteurs. De Andat bevat geloofwaardige personages, magie en avontuur, politieke intriges, verteld met een fijn gevoel voor drama.

Een groots fantasyepos van een erkend stilist in het genre. Als jongetje werd Otah Machi verbannen uit zijn ouderlijk huis, de heersende Machi-dynastie. Decennia later heeft hij deelgenomen aan wereldveranderende gebeurtenissen. Toch is hij nooit teruggekeerd naar Machi. Nu ligt zijn vader - de Khai, of heerser, van Machi - op sterven en zijn oudste broer Biitrah is vermoord. Otah beseft dat hij terug moet keren naar Machi, vanwege redenen die zelfs hij niet kan bevatten. Subtiele magie, politieke intriges, een scherp gevoel voor menselijk drama en een meeslepende vertellersstem kenmerken het werk van Daniel Abraham, die daarmee een plek in de top van de fantasywereld heeft veroverd.

The vampire epic by best-selling author George R.R. Martin, presented as a graphic novel for the very first time! From George R.R. Martin, author of the New York Times best-selling novel series A Song of Ice and Fire, comes a moonlit tale of feuding vampire clans, death, and debauchery in the bayou! Set in 1857 along the muddy Mississippi, FEVRE DREAM introduces Abner Marsh, a remarkably ugly man who longs to captain the fastest steamboat on the river. When a pale, mysterious gentleman named Joshua – who keeps strange hours and stranger friends – approaches him with an offer of partnership, Abner’s dreams appear to come true… though he may have unleashed a nightmare on the unsuspecting shores! Adapted by Hugo-nominated author Daniel Abraham and artist Rafa Lopez, this graphic novel stays faithful to Martin’s original dark vision, immersing the reader in the tortures and joys of vampire society. Includes an original introduction by the legendary author!

"Everything I look for in a fantasy." -- George R. R. Martin All paths lead to war. . . Marcus'' hero days are behind him. He knows too well that even the smallest war still means somebody''s death. When his men are impressed into a doomed army, staying out of a battle he wants no part of requires some unorthodox steps. Cithrin is an orphan, ward of a banking house. Her job is to smuggle a nation''s wealth across a war zone, hiding the gold from both sides. She knows the secret life of commerce like a second language, but the strategies of trade will not defend her from swords. Geder, sole scion of a noble house, has more interest in philosophy than in swordplay. A poor excuse for a soldier, he is a pawn in these games. No one can predict what he will become. Falling pebbles can start a landslide. A spat between the Free Cities and the Severed Throne is spiraling out of control. A new player rises from the depths of history, fanning the flames that will sweep the entire region onto The Dragon''s Path -- the path to war. The Dagger and the Coin The Dragon''s Path The King''s Blood The Tyrant''s Law The Widow''s House The Spider''s War

L''Empire galtique a de tout temps convoité les richesses des cités du Khaiem, mais le pouvoir des andats avait jusque-là réussi à le dissuader d''attaquer. C''était sans compter sur Balasar Gice, l''impitoyable général en chef de l''armée de Galt. Conscient du pouvoir des andats, cet homme n''a qu''une obsession : les empêcher de détruire le monde, comme ils l''ont déjà fait plusieurs siècles auparavant. Mais le général détient désormais une arme secrète qui, s''il l''employait, annihilerait à jamais le Khaiem et ses esprits magiques. Tandis que l''armée de Galt approche, Otah Machi s''efforce de rallier les autres cités du Khaiem à sa cause afin de lever une armée. Arrivera-t-il à les persuader d''accepter la tutelle d''un unique souverain ? Dans le cas contraire, rien n''empêcherait alors des hordes de Galts de déferler sur le Khaiem et de faire tomber les cités les unes après les autres...

"Contains material originally published in George R.R. Martin''s wild cards #1-6."

In 1946, an alien virus is accidentally unleashed that changes the world forever. Most of those infected die horribly, said to have drawn the Black Queen as their fated card. Ninety percent of those who survive mutate into Jokers - deformed, broken, hated, and feared. But a handful are lucky enough to become Aces, gaining superpowers that allow them to achieve almost anything the mind can conceive - both in dreams and in nightmares. Sixty years later, an Ace named Croyd Crenson, better known as the Sleeper, is framed for the murder of a young nurse in New York City''s Jokertown. As Crenson investigates the killing to clear his name, he has to fight to stay awake, or else his unusual ability will change him into something else entirely. Meanwhile, a group of teenagers in Whiteoak, Colorado, accidentally activate the dormant wild-card virus, wiping out nearly the entire town. As the teens are sent to the Jokertown clinic, they discover that not all Jokers are bad and not all Aces are good. Set in the world of the novels edited by George R.R. Martin and featuring a brand-new set of characters, as well as appearances from many old favorites, Wild Cards: The Hard Call is an original story written specifically for comics that will enchant new readers and old fans alike.

Having struggled to prepare his people for a future without their magic protectors, ruler Otah Machi realizes he has run out of time when his city is targeted by an expansionist empire from across the sea.

From the #1 New York Times bestseller, the third of a new generation of Wild Cards tales.

''I once got together all my top people, and asked each one ''Who do you report to?'', writes legendary businessman S. Daniel Abraham. And everybody gave the obvious answer, ''I report to Joe, '' ''I report to Danny.'' And I said to them, ''You''re all wrong, you all report to the consumer. That''s who we report to, that''s who we work for''. In I Work fo..

The poets and their magical andat have protected the cities of the Khaiem against their rivals in Galt for generations. Otah, Khai of the Winter City of Machi, has tried for years to prepare his people for a future in which the andat can no longer be safely harnessed but his warnings have been ignored, and now it''s too late.

Presents a collection of high fantasy and science fiction stories, including "The cambist and Lord Iron," "Flat Diane," and "Exclusion."

Fifteen years have passed since the devastating war between the Galt Empire and the cities of the Khaiem in which the Khaiem''s poets and their magical power known as "andat" were destroyed, leaving the women of the Khaiem and the men of Galt infertile. The emperor of the Khaiem tries to form a marriage alliance between his son and the daughter of a Galtic lord, hoping the Khaiem men and Galtic women will produce a new generation to help create a peaceful future. But Maati, a poet who has been in hiding for years, driven by guilt over his part in the disastrous end of the war, defies tradition and begins training female poets. With Eiah, the emperor''s daughter, helping him, he intends to create andat, to restore the world as it was before the war. Vanjit, a woman haunted by her family''s death in the war, creates a new andat. But hope turns to ashes as her creation unleashes a power that cripples all she touches. As the prospect of peace dims under the lash of Vanjit''s creation, Maati and Eiah try to end her reign of terror. But time is running out for both the Galts and the Khaiem. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Ruler Otah Machi, who has struggled to prepare his people for a future without their magic protectors, realizes that he has run out of time when his city is targeted by an expansionist empire from across the sea.

A new benchmark in modern SF. A sharp, clever, funny morality tale that answers the biggest question of all: what makes us human?

From the #1 New York Times bestseller, the launch of a new generation of Wild Cards tales

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The sequel to A Shadow in Summer, "a thoroughly engrossing debut novel from a major new fantasist." (George R. R. Martin)

From debut author Daniel Abraham comes A Shadow in Summer, the first book in the Long Price Quartet fantasy series. The powerful city-state of Saraykeht is a bastion of peace and culture, a major center of commerce and trade. Its economy depends on the power of the captive spirit, Seedless, an andat bound to the poet-sorcerer Heshai for life. Enter the Galts, a juggernaut of an empire committed to laying waste to all lands with their ferocious army. Saraykeht, though, has always been too strong for the Galts to attack, but now they see an opportunity. If they can dispose of Heshai, Seedless''s bonded poet-sorcerer, Seedless will perish and the entire city will fall. With secret forces inside the city, the Galts prepare to enact their terrible plan. In the middle is Otah, a simple laborer with a complex past. Recruited to act as a bodyguard for his girlfriend''s boss at a secret meeting, he inadvertently learns of the Galtish plot. Otah finds himself as the sole hope of Saraykeht, either he stops the Galts, or the whole city and everyone in it perishes forever. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The powerful city-state of Saraykeht is a bastion of peace and culture. However, the Galts, with secret forces inside the city, now see an opportunity to attack. Otah, a simple labourer with a complex past, learns of the Galtish plot and finds himself as the sole hope of Saraykeht.

For more than fifteen years, entrepreneur Dan Abraham, founder and former chairman of Slim-Fast Foods, chose to utilize his considerable resources to facilitate Mideast peace. Together with Utah Congressman Wayne Owens, Abraham made more than sixty trips to the Middle East between 1988 and 2002, meeting with Arab leaders Hosni Mubarak, Hafez Assad, Crown Prince (now King) Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah of Jordan, Abu Mazen, and Yasser Arafat, and Israeli prime ministers Yitzhak Shamir, Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak, and Ariel Sharon. Using his business experience with difficult negotiations, Abraham took an active behind-the-scenes role, setting up critical one-on-one meetings between key figures. He urged these leaders to articulate not what they wanted, but what they needed, to make peace, fostering significant advances in the peace process. Since Owens’ untimely death in 2002, Abraham has continued to arrange peacemaking meetings on his own. Drawing from meeting transcripts, diary entries, and extensive handwritten notes, Abraham writes in the first person about these extraordinary, often private meetings, giving us rare “you are there” insight into historically significant events. In his pragmatic and hopeful book, he writes, “I am a great optimist, particularly about a region of the world that usually brings out people’s most pessimistic inclinations— Israel and its neighbors.”