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Un cautivador canto a la amistad El vapor más majestuoso del Misisipi surca un río de sangre... En 1857, la cuenca del Misisipi bulle de actividad: los vapores señorean sus aguas en feroz competencia. Cuando Joshua York le ofrece sacar a flote sus naviera a cambio de unas pocas condiciones, sencillas aunque misteriosas, el capitan Marsh ve realizado su sueño: ser el patron del vapor mas rapido del rio. Pero los sueños de ambos se veran infiltrados por una pesadilla que anegara de sangre los fondeaderos. Para su segunda novela en solitario, Martin eligio el Misisipi de Mark Twain como escenario historico de la que ha llegado a consagrarse como una de las novelas de vampiros mas celebradas de todos los tiempos. Una atmosfera sobrecogedora construida con maestria, la recreacion impecable del marco historico y un tratamiento del monstruo cercano a la ciencia ficcion que remite al mismisimo Stoker han convertido _Sueño del Fevre_ en otra novela de referencia de un escritor tan rotundo como polivalente

Si sois fans de la ficción que va más allá del blanco y el negro, esta antología de historias del número 1 de ventas del New York Times George R. R. Martin y el galardonado editor Gardner Dozor''is, esta llena de sutiles sombres de gris. Veintiuna historias originales escritas por una lista estelar de colaboradores os deleitaran por igual con giros ingeniosos y cambios impresionantes. El propio George R. R. Martin presenta una historia de Juego de Tronos completamente inedita en la que hace una cronica de uno de los canallas mas grandes en toda la saga de Cancion de Hielo y Fuego. Adentraos en las narraciones de Gillian Flynn, Joe Abercrombie, Neil Gaiman, Patrick Rothfuss, Scott Llynch, Cherie Priest, Garth Nix y Connie Willis, asi como de otros maestros a la hora de hacer magia con las palabras, en esta galeria de historias de canallas que os robara el corazon y, aun asi, os lo enriquecera.

In 1946, an alien virus that rewrites human DNA was accidentally unleashed in the skies over New York City. It killed ninety percent of those it infected. Nine percent survived to mutate into tragically deformed creatures. And one percent gained superpowers. The Wild Cards shared-universe series, created and edited since 1987 by New York Times #1 bestseller George R. R. Martin ("The American Tolkien" --Time magazine) along with Melinda Snodgrass, is the tale of the history of the world since thenand of the heroes among the one percent.Now a new generation of heroes has taken its place on the world stage, its members crucial players in international events. At the United Nations, veteran ace John Fortune has assembled a team of young aces known as the Committee, to assist at trouble spots around the worldincluding a genocidal war in the Niger Delta, an invasion of zombies in hurricane ravaged New Orleans, and a freak nuclear explosion in a small Texas town.

Return to the unique and evocative world of The Dying Earth in this tribute anthology featuring the most distinguished fantasists of our day. Here are twenty-two brand-new adventures set in the world of Jack Vance's greatest novel. A dim place, ancient beyond knowledge. The sun is feeble and red. A million cities have fallen to dust. Here live a few thousand souls, dying, as the Earth dies beneath them. Just a few short decades remain to the long history of our world. At the last, science and magic are one, and there is evil on Earth, distilled by time ! Earth is dying. Half a century ago, Jack Vance created the world of the Dying Earth, and fantasy has never been the same. Now, for the first time, Jack has agreed to open this intriguing and darkly beautiful world to other fantasists, to play in as their very own. The list of twenty-two contributors eager to honour Jack Vance by writing for this anthology includes Neil Gaiman, Tad Williams, Elizabeth Hand, Tanith Lee, Dan Simmons, Robert Silverberg, and George R.R. Martin himself.

The ice dragon was a creature of legend and fear, for no man had ever tamed one web design canning. When it flew overhead, it left in its wake desolate cold and frozen land web design canning. But Adara was not afraid web design canning. For Adara was a winter child, born during the worst freeze that anyone, even the Old Ones, could remember web design canning.Adara could not remember the first time she had seen the ice dragon. It seemed that it had always been in her life, glimpsed from afar as she played in the frigid snow long after the other children had fled the cold. In her fourth year she touched it, and in her fifth year she rode upon its broad, chilled back for the first time. Then, in her seventh year, on a calm summer day, fiery dragons from the North swooped down upon the peaceful farm that was Adaras home. And only a winter childand the ice dragon who loved hercould save her world from utter destruction. The Ice Dragon marks the highly anticipated childrens book debut of George R.R. Martin, the award-winning author of the New York Times best-selling series A Song of Ice and Fire and is set in the same world. Illustrated with lush, exquisitely detailed pencil drawings by acclaimed artist Yvonne Gilbert, The Ice Dragon is an unforgettable tale of courage, love, and sacrifice by one of the most honored fantasists of all time.

La novela río más espectacular jamás escrita. Las huestes de los fugaces reyes de Poniente, descompuestas en hordas, asuelan y esquilman una tierra castigada por la guerra e indefensa ante un inviern

Canción de hielo y fuego: Libro cuarto La novela río más espectacular jamás escrita. Mientras los vientos del otoño desnudan los árboles, las últimas cosechas se pudren en los pocos campos que no han sido devastados por la guerra, y por los rios teñidos de rojo bajan cadaveres de todos los blasones y estirpes. Y aunque casi todo Poniente yace extenuado, en diversos rincones florecen nuevas e inquietantes intrigas que ansian nutrirse de los despojos de un reino moribundo. George R.R. Martin continua sumando hordas de seguidores incondicionales mientras desgrana, con pulso firme y certero, una de las experiencias literarias mas ambiciosas y apasionantes que se hayan propuesto nunca en el terreno de la fantasia. Festin de cuervos, como la calma que precede a la tempestad, desarrolla nuevos personajes y tramas de un retablo tenso y sobrecogedor.La saga Cancion de hielo y fuego en edicion de lujo: Juego de tronos, Choque de reyes, Tormenta de espadas y Festin de cuervos.La saga Cancion de hielo y fuego en bolsillo: Juego de tronos, Choque de reyes, Tormenta de espadas y Festin de cuervos.

Continuing the most imaginative and ambitious epic fantasy since The Lord of the RingsThe last of the Targaryons, Daenerys Stormborn, the Unburnt, has brought the young dragons in her care to their terrifying maturity. Now the war-torn landscape of the Seven Kingdoms is threatened by destruction as vast as in the violent past.Tyrion Lannister, a dwarf with half a nose and a scar from eye to chin, has slain his father and escaped the Red Keep in Kings Landing to wage war from the Free Cities beyond the narrow sea.The last war fought with dragons was a cataclysm powerful enough to shatter the Valyrian peninsula into a smoking, demon-haunted ruin half drowned by the sea.A Dance with Dragons brings to life dark magic, complex political intrigue and horrific bloodshed as events at the Wall and beyond the sea threaten the ancient land of Westeros.

Con la saga "Le Cronache del Ghiaccio e del Fuoco", George R. R. Martin si è affermato come uno dei maestri indiscussi del fantasy. Ma la sua multiforme opera si estende ben al di là dei confini dei Sette Regni e ben oltre la grande Barriera di ghiaccio. Le torri di cenere offre un'affascinante panoramica sul lavoro di questo autore pressoché unico, in grado di muoversi tra generi diversi e tematiche complesse sempre con il medesimo, folgorante impatto narrativo. Le torri di cenere offre molte prove dell'eclettico genio narrativo di George R. R. Martin. Da L'eroe a Solitudine del secondo tipo, da Al mattino cala la nebbia a Questa torre di cenere, una proposta antologica in grado di guadagnarsi un posto d'onore in qualsiasi libreria, una lettura fondamentale per avere una prospettiva unica su uno dei più grandi esploratori dell'immaginario del nostro tempo.

HBOs hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martins internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A FEAST FOR CROWS is the fourth volume in the series.A Feast for Crows brings to life dark magic, intrigue and terrible bloodshed as the war-torn landscape of the Seven Kingdoms is threatened by destruction as vast as any in its violent past. The War of the Five Kings has ripped Westeros apart. The bloodthirsty, treacherous and cunning Lannisters occupy the Iron Throne, with allies as ruthless as themselves. Lord Frey was host at the Red Wedding, so called for the massacre of the guests, their screams unheard above the music of the feast. Euron Crows Eye is as black a pirate as ever raised a sail, sworn to deliver the whole of Westeros to the ironborn.No less to be feared are their enemies. The Starks of Winterfell and the Martells of Dorne seek vengeance for their dead. And the last of the Targaryens, Daenerys Stormborn, will bring fire and blood to Kings Landing when her young dragons reach their terrifying maturity. The last war fought with dragons was a cataclysm powerful enough to shatter the Valyrian peninsula, now a smoking, demon-haunted ruin half drowned by the sea.Against a backdrop of alchemy and murder, victory may go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel and the coldest hearts.

HBOs hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martins internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A GAME OF THRONES is the first volume in the series.Summers span decades. Winter can last a lifetime. And the struggle for the Iron Throne has begun. It will stretch from the south, where heat breeds plot, lust and intrigues; to the vast frozen north, where a 700-foot wall of ice protects the kingdom from the dark forces that lie beyond.As Warden of the North, Lord Eddard Stark counts it a curse when King Robert bestows on him the office of the Hand. His honour weighs him down at court where a true man does what he will, not what he mustand a dead enemy is a thing of beauty.The old gods have no power in the south, Starks family is split and there is treachery at court. Worse, a vengeance-mad boy has grown to maturity in exile in the Free Cities beyond the sea. Heir of the mad Dragon King deposed by Robert, he claims the Iron Throne.In the game of thrones, you win or you die.

Unos pocos archipiélagos, diseminados en un océano tormentoso y traicionero, albergan una población que se mantiene en contacto gracias a los voladores. Maris, hija de pescadores, fue adoptada por uno de ellos y logro realizar su sueño, ponerse alas y surcar el cielo, alas unicas, irremplazables, heredadas de los colonizadores de Refugio y uno de los ultimos vestigios de su tecnologia. Alas que, por derecho, heredara su torpe hermanastro... condenandolo asi a perderlas algun dia en el fondo del oceano.Refugio del Viento pone de manifiesto el tremendo potencial de la ciencia ficcion como instrumento de critica y analisis social. Martin y Tuttle hacen gala de una subyugante capacidad de fabulacion y construyen una poderosa metafora sobre la lucha por la libertad y la batalla por los derechos civiles, pero tambien una narracion pletorica en imagenes arrebatadoras narrada con una sensibilidad sin parangon.

HBOs hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martins internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A CLASH OF KINGS is the second volume in the series.The Iron Throne once united the Sunset Lands, but King Robert is dead, his widow is a traitor to his memory, and his surviving brothers are set on a path of war amongst themselves. At Kings Landing, the head of Lord Eddard Stark rots on a spike for all to see. His daughter Sansa is betrothed still to his killers son Joffrey Queen Cerseis son, though not the son of her late husband Robert. Even so, Joffrey is now a boy-king, Cersei is his regent, and war is inevitable.In Dragonstone, Roberts brother Stannis has declared himself king, while his other brother Renly proclaims himself king at Storms End and Eddard Starks fifteen year old son Robb wears the crown of the north at Winterfell.A comet in the night sky, red and malevolent, the colour of blood and flame, can only be an omen of murder and war. Stanniss child Princess Shireen dreams of dragons waking from stone. And a white raven has brought word from the Citadel itself, foretelling summers end. It has been the longest summer in living memory, lasting ten years, and the smallfolk say it means an even longer winter to comeThe first rule of war is never give the enemy his wish. But winter will be the biggest enemy. From beyond the Wall the undead and Others clamour for freedom, and from beyond the sea the long-dead Dragon Kings daughter hatches her revenge. Robb Stark will be exceedingly lucky to reach adulthood.