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Tausend Jahre vor den Ereignissen des "Drachenbeinthrons" wird die Geschichte der Sithi und Nornen erzählt. Unter den Sithi Osten Ards gibt es keine anderen zwei, die so geliebt und bewundert werden wie die beiden Söhne der Herrscherfamilie: Hakatri, ein stets verlässlicher Junge, und sein stolzer und leidenschaftlicher kleiner Bruder Ineluki, der spätere Sturmkönig. Sein Temperament reißt den jüngeren hin, einen gleichermaßen kühnen wie schrecklichen Schwur zu leisten: Er will das tödliche und furchtbare Ungeheuer Hidohebhi zur Strecke bringen und vernichten.

Pride often goes before a fall, but sometimes that prideful fall is so catastrophic that it changes history itself. Among the immortal Sithi of Osten Ard, none are more beloved and admired than the two sons of the ruling family, steady Hakatri and his proud and fiery younger brother Ineluki -...

Ein neuer Krieg zieht herauf in Osten Ard. König Simons und Königin Miriamels Verbündete haben einen Pakt mit der grausamen Nornenkönigin geschlossen. Jetzt steht dem Einmarsch der Elbenarmeen in die Königreiche von Osten Ard nichts mehr im Wege und auch die Völker des Reiches bekämpfen sich untereinander. Können Simon, Miriamel und ihre Freunde der Nornenkönigin auf ihrer Suche nach der Hexenholzkrone zuvorkommen und die sich abzeichnende Katastrophe verhindern? Und kann ihr Enkel Prinz Morgan noch rechzeitig Hilfe holen?

I’ve been told to go to Hell more times than I can count. But this time I’m actually going. My name’s Bobby Dollar, sometimes known as Doloriel, and of course, Hell isn’t a great place for someone like me—I’m an angel. They don’t like my kind down there, not even the slightly...

The Dragonbone Chair: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! Kitchen-boy Simon is bored, restless and fourteen years old - a dangerous combination. It seems, however, that his life has just taken a turn for the better when he's apprenticed...

Otherland is civilisation's most stunning achievement: a private, multidimensional universe built by the greatest minds of the 21st century. But this most exclusive of places is also a jealously guarded secret, created and controlled by the Grail Brotherhood, a private cartel known to a few and made up of the world's most powerful and ruthless individuals. The purpose of Other is still a mystery. But it may not remain so for long. For a small band of adventurers has penetrated the secrecy that surrounds it and has broken into the amazing worlds with worlds it contains. 

Otherland is a realm of the imagination where anything can happen, a triumph of technology, a virtual world of enormous complexity and possibility. But Otherland is owned and controlled by a secret cartel, The Grail Brotherhood, whose motives remain shrouded in mystery. Trapped in this extraordinary world, the quest of a small band of companions to unlock the secrets of Otherland is running perilously short of time. For the Brotherhood has finally set the date for the Ceremony when they will make their bid for immortality. The journey will lead them through a strangely unfinished land and an endlessly labyrinthine house.

Otherland - a display of mankind's extraordinary intellect, a multidimensional universe built by the geniuses of the 21st century and controlled by the private cartel known as the Grail Brotherhood, powerful and ruthless. But now Otherland is out of control. Fleeing through broken realities, a small band of adventurers struggle to avert the nightmare that Otherland could become. The only hope may lie in an alliance with their enemy. But time is running out - and Otherland's most terrifying secret is yet to be revealed.

Simon and Miriamele, royal husband and wife, face danger from every side. Their allies in Hernystir have made a pact with the dreadful Queen of the Norns to allow her armies to cross into mortal lands. The ancient, powerful nation of Nabban is on the verge of bloody civil war, and the fierce nomads of the Thrithings grasslands have begun to mobilize, united by superstitious fervor and their age-old hatred of the city-dwellers. But as the countries and peoples of the High Ward bicker among themselves, battle, bloodshed, and dark magics threaten to pull civilizations to pieces.

ANYONE CAN GO THERE... COMING BACK IS ANOTHER STORY. The first in a four-audiobook series, Otherland: City of Golden Shadow is a complex suspense novel of the near future, where virtual reality has expanded to encompass all aspects of society -- and national, physical, and mental boundaries are...

Bobby Dollar is an angel—a real one. He knows a lot about sin, and not just in his professional capacity as an advocate for souls caught between Heaven and Hell. Bobby’s wrestling with a few deadly sins of his own—pride, anger, even lust. But his problems aren’t all his fault. Bobby...

From the New York Times–bestselling author comes the second entry in the popular Otherland series. A small band of adventurers has penetrated the veil of secrecy that prevents the uninitiated from entering Otherland. But having broken into the amazing worlds within worlds that make up this...

Where does an angel go when he's been to Hell and back? Renegade angel Bobby Dollar does not have an easy afterlife. After surviving the myriad gruesome dangers Hell oh-so-kindly offered him, Bobby has returned empty-handed – his demon girlfriend Casmira, the Countess of Cold Hands, is still...

A group of adventurers searching for a cure for comatose children find themselves trapped in a sequence of virtual worlds, the only opponents of a conspiracy of the rich to live forever in a dream. Now, they are forced to make an uneasy alliance with their only surviving former enemy against his...

Mountain of Black Glass is the third volume of Tad Williams' highly acclaimed four-book series, Otherland. A truly unique reading experience combining elements of science fiction,fantasy, and techno-thriller, it is a rich epic tale in which virtual reality could prove the key to a whole new...

Der 2. Teil des 2. Bandes: Die Fortsetzung um das Schicksal von Osten Ard. Die Gefahr lauert von allen Seiten. Die alte und mächtige Nation der Nabban befindet sich am Rand eines blutigen Bürgerkriegs und die wilden Nomaden des Graslandes schließen sich zusammen, vereint in ihrem alten Hass auf alle Stadtbewohner. Aber während sich die Länder und Völker des Hochkönigtums untereinander in Streitereien und Intrigen ergehen, drohen Kampf, Blutvergießen und dunkle Magie sie selbst zu zerstören.

To Green Angel Tower: Storm: : Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! In order for the Storm King to cement his power over Osten Ard, he must find and defeat the rebel forces massing against him. But the rebels, led by the exiled Prince...

To Green Angel Tower: Siege : Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience!* In order for the Storm King can cement his power over Osten Ard, he must find and defeat the rebel forces massing against him. But the rebels, led by the exiled Prince...

The Stone of Farewell: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience!* Following a brutal civil war, Osten Ard has been crushed under the rule of the two villainous High Kings. A single hope remains: if the rebels can find the three swords of...