Ink: The Book of All HoursRandom House Worlds, 2009 M06 24 - 544 páginas Hal Duncan shattered the boundaries between genres with his stunning debut novel, Vellum, which shocked with the boldness of its ideas, seduced with the sensual beauty of its prose, and astonished with its imaginative sweep. Now Duncan returns with another epic tour de force that surpasses all expectations. Once, in the depths of prehistory, they were human. But in a moment of brutal transfiguration, they became unkin, beings who possessed the power to alter reality by accessing the Vellum: a realm of eternity containing every possibility, every paradox, every heaven . . . and every hell. The Vellum became a battleground where forces of order and chaos fought across time and space. The ultimate weapon in that bloody war spanning through history and myth, dreams and memory, was The Book of All Hours, a legendary tome within which the blueprint for all reality is inscribed, a volume long lost amid the infinite folds of the Vellum. Until, in 2017, it was found by Reynard Carter, a young man with the blood of unkin in his veins. Until Phreedom Messenger and her brother, Thomas, were swept up in an archetypal dance of death and rebirth. Until a hermit named Seamus Finnan found the courage to re-forge his broken soul, and a self-proclaimed angel called Metatron unleashed a plague of AI bitmites. Now, in the aftermath of the apocalypse, several survivors search desperately for the remnants of themselves scattered across the Vellum like torn pages, determined to use the blood of the unkin to rewrite The Book of All Hours, and to forge a new destiny for themselves and all humanity. Reality will never be the same. |
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Página 11
... flesh . Madness made real . Angels rumbling with demons . Gods with wings of steel sweeping down out of the skies to scatter humanity to dust . He staggers out of the alley , coat gripped closed with whiteknuckled hands . Behind him ...
... flesh . Madness made real . Angels rumbling with demons . Gods with wings of steel sweeping down out of the skies to scatter humanity to dust . He staggers out of the alley , coat gripped closed with whiteknuckled hands . Behind him ...
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... flesh , of wondrous wars and empires falling , of lost loves returning and enemies dissolving , of humanity shattering in the irruption of its own illu- sions and delusions - out of the Evenfall , we came . We brought down the Covenant ...
... flesh , of wondrous wars and empires falling , of lost loves returning and enemies dissolving , of humanity shattering in the irruption of its own illu- sions and delusions - out of the Evenfall , we came . We brought down the Covenant ...
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... flesh of unskinned musculature and tendons like an anatomical model , golden sun for one eye , silver moon for the other , it gazes impiteous as a shabti shambles past . It studies the clay creature with the blind face , eyeholes made ...
... flesh of unskinned musculature and tendons like an anatomical model , golden sun for one eye , silver moon for the other , it gazes impiteous as a shabti shambles past . It studies the clay creature with the blind face , eyeholes made ...
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... flesh and survivors huddled behind barricades , shooting shambling things that came at them out of the cracks in reality . But it's different now ; now the shadows and reflections released by the bitmites , creatures like the sylph ...
... flesh and survivors huddled behind barricades , shooting shambling things that came at them out of the cracks in reality . But it's different now ; now the shadows and reflections released by the bitmites , creatures like the sylph ...
Página 38
... flesh and bone , and step down from my throne to take man's form , if not to cause a royal ruckus ? " The Duke looks ponderous , face seeming graved from silent stone like he's just one more sculpture in this hall built out of dreams of ...
... flesh and bone , and step down from my throne to take man's form , if not to cause a royal ruckus ? " The Duke looks ponderous , face seeming graved from silent stone like he's just one more sculpture in this hall built out of dreams of ...
Contenido
Sección 18 | 331 |
Sección 19 | 337 |
Sección 20 | 363 |
Sección 21 | 367 |
Sección 22 | 391 |
Sección 23 | 397 |
Sección 24 | 418 |
Sección 25 | 424 |
Sección 9 | 167 |
Sección 10 | 173 |
Sección 11 | 204 |
Sección 12 | 233 |
Sección 13 | 239 |
Sección 14 | 271 |
Sección 15 | 277 |
Sección 16 | 291 |
Sección 17 | 297 |
Sección 26 | 447 |
Sección 27 | 453 |
Sección 28 | 477 |
Sección 29 | 483 |
Sección 30 | 510 |
Sección 31 | 531 |
Sección 32 | 533 |
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