Bücher von Ken Liu

Sixteen of Ken Liu's latest science fiction and fantasy stories - plus a new novelette.

With the invasion of Dara complete, and the Wall of Storms breached, the world has opened to new possibilities for the gods and peoples of both empires as the sweeping saga of the award-winning Dandelion Dynasty continues in this third book of the ';magnificent fantasy epic' (NPR).Princess Thra, once known as Empress na of Dara, entrusted the throne to her younger brother in order to journey to Ukyu-Gond to war with the Lyucu. She has crossed the fabled Wall of Storms with a fleet of advanced warships and ten thousand people. Beset by adversity, Thra and her most trusted companions attempt to overcome every challenge by doing the most interesting thing. But is not letting the past dictate the present always possible or even desirable? In Dara, the Lyucu leadership as well as the surviving Dandelion Court bristle with rivalries as currents of power surge and ebb and perspectives spin and shift. Here, parents and children, teachers and students, Empress and Pkyu, all nurture the seeds of plans that will take years to bloom. Will tradition yield to new justifications for power? Everywhere, the spirit of innovation dances like dandelion seeds on the wind, and the commoners, the forgotten, the ignored begin to engineer new solutions for a new age. Ken Liu returns to the series that draws from a tradition of the great epics of our history from the Aeneid to the Romance on the Three Kingdoms and builds a new tale unsurpassed in its scope and ambition.

The epic story of the Dandelion Dynasty continues in the third book in the series. As the conquerors and the conquered jockey for position in the new regimes, tradition gives way to new justifications for power.

Wer ist Luke Skywalker? Viele kennen seinen Namen, doch wenige haben den legendären Jedi getroffen. Einige nennen ihn einen unbarmherzigen Kriegsverbrecher, andere sagen, er sei nicht mal Mensch sondern ein Droide! Ob er nun Mensch oder Mythos ist, all jene, die behaupten, ihm begegnet zu sein, haben ein unvergessliches Abenteuer zu erzählen...