✓ Hammerfall || ß PDF Download by ☆ C.J. Cherryh
By C.J. Cherryh | Comments: ( 297 ) | Date: ( Dec 06, 2019 )
One of the most renowned figures in science fiction, C J Cherryh has been enthralling audiences for nearly thirty years with rich and complex novels Now at the peak of her career, this three time Hugo Award Winner launches her most ambitious work in decades, Hammerfall, part of a far ranging series, The Gene Wars, set in an entirely new universe scarred by the most viciOne of the most renowned figures in science fiction, C J Cherryh has been enthralling audiences for nearly thirty years with rich and complex novels Now at the peak of her career, this three time Hugo Award Winner launches her most ambitious work in decades, Hammerfall, part of a far ranging series, The Gene Wars, set in an entirely new universe scarred by the most vicious of future weaponry, nanotechnology In this brilliant novel possibly Cherryh s masterwork the fate of billions has come down to a confrontation between two profoundly alien cultures on a single desert planet The mad shall be searched out and given to the Ila s messengers No man shall conceal madness in his wife, or his son, or his daughter, or his father Every one must be delivered up The Book of the Ila s Au itMarak has suffered the madness his entire life He is a prince and warrior, strong and shrewd and expert in the ways of the desert covering his planet In the service of his father, he has dedicated his life to overthrowing the Ila, the mysterious eternal dictator of his world For years he has successfully hidden the visions that plague him voices pulling him eastward, calling Marak, Marak, Marak, amid mind twisting visions of a silver tower But when his secret is discovered, Marak is betrayed by his own father and forced to march in an endless caravan with the rest of his world s madmen to the Ila s city of Oburan.Instead of death, Marak finds in Oburan his destiny, and the promise of life if he can survive what is surely a suicidal mission The Ila wants him to discover the source of the voices and visions that afflict the mad Despite the dangers of the hostile desert, tensions within the caravan, and his own excruciating doubts, Marak miraculously reaches his goal only to be given another, even impossible mission by the strange people in the towers.According to these beings who look like him yet act differently than anyone he has ever known, Marak has a slim chance to save his world s people from the wrath of the Ilas enemies But to do so, he must convince them all warring tribes, villagers, priests, young and old, as well as the Ila herself to follow him on an epic trek across the burning desert before the hammer of the Ila s foes falls from the heavens above.Written with deceptive simplicity and lyricism, this riveting, fast paced epic of war, love, and survival in a brave new world marks a major achievement from the masterful C.J Cherryh.
- Title: Hammerfall
- Author: C.J. Cherryh
- ISBN: 9780061052606
- Page: 275
- Format: Hardcover
About Author:
C.J. Cherryh
Currently resident in Spokane, Washington, C.J Cherryh has won four Hugos and is one of the best selling and most critically acclaimed authors in the science fiction and fantasy field She is the author of than forty novels Her hobbies include travel, photography, reef culture, Mariners baseball, and, a late passion, figure skating she intends to compete in the adult USFSA track She began with the modest ambition to learn to skate backwards and now is working on jumps She sketches, occasionally, cooks fairly well, and hates house work she loves the outdoors, animals wild and tame, is a hobbyist geologist, adores dinosaurs, and has academic specialties in Roman constitutional law and bronze age Greek ethnography She has written science fiction since she was ten, spent ten years of her life teaching Latin and Ancient History on the high school level, before retiring to full time writing, and now does not have enough hours in the day to pursue all her interests Her studies include planetary geology, weather systems, and natural and man made catastrophes, civilizations, and cosmology in fact, there s very little that doesn t interest her A loom is gathering dust and needs rethreading, a wooden ship model awaits construction, and the cats demand their own time much urgently She works constantly, researches mostly on the internet, and has books stacked up and waiting to be written.
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✓ Hammerfall || ß PDF Download by ☆ C.J. Cherryh
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✓ Hammerfall || ß PDF Download by ☆ C.J. Cherryh
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2019-09-09T09:16:49+00:00