Bøger af E.S. Wynn

In the midst of a new ice age, brave shamans hunt gods born of black glass and steel. The blood of these gods is sacred, and the shamans of each tribe are marked with the sacred blood in ways that give them strange, supernatural abilities. This is the first book in the story of Wind-Spark, a young shaman of the Eikus Tribe. It is a tale of initiation in the primal wilds of a far-future ice age where tools of stone and bone are used side by side with shards of steel stolen from the gods themselves.

Long before the people of Northern Europe had ever heard names like Orion or Scorpio, the ancient tribes of the Celtic, Germanic and Slavic peoples had their own unique systems of constellations and magic tied to the great shapes and phenomena of the skies. Sky Wolves is an exploration of the ancient Northern European sky lore that has almost been completely eradicated over the course of the past several thousand years. Each chapter presents a constellation in summary for the curious, then follows it with enough research and scholarly information for skeptics and passionate re-constructionists alike. The text is the result of years of scholarly research, designed and laid out in a way that makes it accessible to practitioners, researchers, shamans, and even people who just want a basic idea of what their Northern European ancestors saw in the sky before the constellations and myths of the classical zodiac all but erased the rich heritage of sky lore that we are, only now, starting to piece together again.

Vaetta is not human. Vaetta is a synthetic female who looks human, a Valkyrie-model agent, but far more than a mere robot. Her world is overcrowded, and its resources have reached the breaking point. The humans who govern this parallel Earth need a solution to their civilization's problems - and quick! The perfect opportunity seems to present itself when a strange, androgynous visitor appears from an inexplicable portal to another world. His name is Tyse, and he too is seeking help, because his people, a Wraeththu tribe, are also under threat. He reveals how his world is sparsely populated, following the demise of humankind and the rise of a civilization known as Wraeththu who now hold power. In Vaetta's world, the Wraeththu have never even appeared...To Vaetta's creators, Tyse's arrival seems to offer a golden opportunity - a resource-rich world ripe for the taking and the portal to reach it. The existing inhabitants, living in the ruins of a former civilization, and not even human, can hardly impede plans for mass colonization. Vaetta is chosen to lead a troupe of Valkyries to Tyse's Earth to scout, explore and begin preparations for invasion.But Vaetta soon discovers that her owners' assumptions are incorrect and what waits for her on the other side of the Conduit - the portal to Tyse's Earth - is a situation far beyond her own people's imaginations. Just who and what is the mysterious Dragon? Why do alien emotions begin to course through her synthetic mind? Some things just don't make sense to her, until a fatal meeting through which she discovers a history with far-reaching implications covering all realities.A deft and page-turning climax to E. S. Wynn's popular 'Gold Country' series, 'Voices of the Silicon Beyond' opens up intriguing new vistas in the Wraeththu Mythos.