Jon Courtenay Grimwood

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29 Bibliotheken, 1 aktueller Leser, 1 Gruppe und 6 Rezensionen

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Jon Courtenay Grimwood wurde auf Malta geboren wuchs anschließend aber in Großbritannien und Skandinavien auf.
Er arbeitet für zahlreiche Zeitschriften und Magazine und ist tätig als Romanautor. Er lebt mit seiner Frau in London und Winchestert. Der Autor ist viel auf Reisen unterwegs.

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Silberklinge

505 Seiten, Science-Fiction & Fantasy: venedig, fantasy, werwölfe, kämpfe, engel
(rezensiert von Feder) ________________ Der junge Tycho ist anders. Blass, mit langem silbrigen Haar und diesen erstaunlichen Augen, sticht er aus der breiten Masse heraus. Ein Edelmann könnte er sein, aus einem fernen Land. Doch die Wahrh
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The Outcast Blade

432 Seiten, Science-Fiction/Fantasy:
As the Byzantine and German emperors plot war against each other, Venice's future rests in the hands of three unwilling people:§The newly knighted Sir Tycho. An ex-slave and trained assassin who defeated the Mamluk navy but cannot make the woman he loves love him back. Tortured by secrets, afraid of the daylight, he sees no reason to save a city he hates.§The grieving Lady Giulietta. Impossibly rich, deeply spoilt. A virgin, a mother, a widow... Both emperors want her hand for their sons in marriage. All she wants is to retire from the poisonous world of the Venetian court to mourn her husband in peace.§And finally a naked, mud-strewn girl who crawls from a paupers' grave on an island in the Venetian lagoon and begins by killing the men who buried her.§All love affairs are complicated at times but on this one hangs the fate of Europe's richest city and two empires...
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Pashazade

326 Seiten, murder, alternate future, thriller, roman, fiction
Man stelle sich eine fiktive, der realen Welt sehr ähnliche Welt in der nahen Zukunft vor... eine Welt, die trotz des ersten Weltkrieges osmanisch und in entsprechenden Traditionen verhaftet blieb. Pashazade ist ein packender, exotischer Thriller und viel
(1 Bibliothek, 0 Leser, 1 Rezension)

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Felaheen

357 Seiten, Sach-/Fachbuch:
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The Fallen Blade

432 Seiten, Science-Fiction/Fantasy:
Venice in the early fifteenth century is at the height of its power. In theory Duke Marco commands. But Marco is a simpleton so his aunt and uncle rule in his stead. Within the Serene Republic, their word is law, but for all their influence, Venice's fate still lies in other hands . . .§Lady Giulietta is the Duke's cousin. She enjoys greater privilege than many can even dream of, but her status will demand a terrible price.§Atilo Il Mauros is head of the Assassini , the shadow army that enforces Venice's will - both at home and abroad.§Prince Leopold zum Bas Friedland is the bastard son of the German emperor and leader of the krieghund - the only force in Venice more feared than Atilo's assassins.§And then there is Atilo's angel-faced apprentice. Only a boy, Tycho is already stronger and faster than any man has a right to be. He can see in the dark, but sunlight burns him. It is said that he drinks blood.§Award-winning author Jon Courtenay Grimwood seamlessly blends history, politics and dark fantasy in a compelling vision of a Venice that might have been.
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Effendi: The Second Arabesk (Arabesk)

alternate future, ottoman empire, thriller
CHAPTER 1 18th October Nine days before the Grand Jury met in an upstairs office at Champollion Precinct, Ashraf Bey sat through a warm Iskandryian evening, bombed out of his skull, at a pavement table outside Le Trianon, drinking cappuccino and listening to DJ Avatar wreak havoc on the words of a Greek philosopher. The afternoon call to prayer had finished echoing from the mosque on Boulevard Saad Zaghloul and the bells from l'Eglise Copte had yet to begin. If it hadn't been for a sense of dread hanging over El Iskandryia, this could have been a Monday in October like any other. Horse-drawn caliches, their brasses shined and wheel bosses polished, rumbled up the Corniche, from the fat seawall known as the Silsileh all the way north to Fort Qaitbey, where the ancient Pharos lighthouse once stood. And at both ends of the sweeping Corniche, at Silsileh in the shadow of Iskandryia's famous library, and at Fort Qaitbey, groups of tourists watched as fishermen set hooks or mended and untangled nets, waiting for the evening tide. It was a tourist who'd taken the taxi that stopped outside Le Trianon, with its window down and sound system up too loud, giving Raf the chance to hear the city's favourite DJ one more time. "And remember . . ." Avatar's voice was street raw. "Rust never sleeps. Coming at you from the wrong side of those tracks, this for the Daddy, the Don . . ." Most of Raf's officers thought DJ Avatar came up with SpitNoWhere on his own; if they thought at all, which Raf considered unlikely. So they happily stamped the corridors at Police HQ, humming along, not knowing that the unchopped original went, "In a rich man's house, there's nowhere to spit but his face." Raf hadn't known that, at least not until recently, but the fox in his head did. And while the fox couldn't say why, the General's aide de camp had just delivered to Raf an engraving of hell, inscribed with the words, "At its centre hell is not hot." It had at least been able to identify the picture as late Victorian, unquestionably by Gustave Dore . . . ". . . ou know," said the fox, before all this happened. ". . . ese things, they occur." The fox had a grin like the Cheshire cat, except that no cat ever owned so many teeth or carried its tail wrapped up round its shoulders like a stole. Come to that, few cats took afternoon tea at Le Trianon. These things could have been Raf becoming Chief of Detectives by default, or his recent refusal to marry the daughter of a billionaire. "Why?" Raf asked. "Why do they occur?" But the fox didn't answer. Sighing, Raf took a gulp of cold cappuccino to wash away the taste of cheap speed and fixed his gaze on the pedestrians who streamed past his cafe table, separated from the terrace where he sat by a silk rope and the assiduous attention of two bodyguards. The only pedestrians to meet Raf's stare were those, mainly tourists, who didn't realize who he was. They just saw a blond young man in dark glasses, wearing an oddly old-fashioned suit, the kind with a high collar. "Come on," said Raf, searching inside his head. "You can tell me." He ignored his two guards, who looked at each other, then hurriedly looked away. Raf didn't doubt that they could see tears trickling from under his glasses, but he didn't much care either. The fox was saying good-bye. The beast had been dying for years. Its abilities limited by memory conflicts, failed backup and the fact that, these days, the animal could only feed on neon light. Once Tiri had been state of the art. Feeding on daylight, infrared and ultraviolet, or so it told Raf. White light, black light--back then anything went. The fox sharpened Raf's reflexes, steadied his ne
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9Tail Fox

280 Seiten,
Sergeant Bobby Zha of the SFPD is desperate to find out who murdered him. But he also needs the answers to some other questions. Like, why is he in another man's body? Why is someone trying to kill him, again... And why is he being haunted by a nine-tailed Celestial fox?
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End of the World Blues

348 Seiten,
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Redrobe

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Remix

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Stamping Butterflies

432 Seiten,
One of the most exciting cutting edge SF authors in the UK joins Gollancz with his most ambitious novel yet.
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End Of The World Blues

352 Seiten,
The stunning new novel from the critically acclaimed master of literary SF.
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Arabesk

896 Seiten,
'Among the very best of contemporary SF authors' Iain Banks
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Pashazade

368 Seiten,
A re-issue for the books that established Grimwood's reputation as one of the most stylish and thoughtful of SF writers
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Effendi

376 Seiten,
Ashraf Bey is a fugitive from the US justice system. As the US, France and Germany try to dominate both the present and the future of the Middle East, Ashraf must become both saviour and avenger, which is far from easy.
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Lucifer's Dragon

384 Seiten,
Passion di Orchi, obscenely rich daughter of a Mafia boss, decides to rebuild Venice - in the middle of the Pacific. A century later, the daughter of Count Ryuchi plays a virtual reality game, and finds that the virtual world is all too real.
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Geburtsort:	Malta
Genres:	Science-Fiction & Fantasy
Website:	http://www.j-cg.co.uk/

Jon Courtenay Grimwood

Lebenslauf von Jon Courtenay Grimwood

Bekannteste Bücher

Silberklinge

The Outcast Blade

Pashazade

Felaheen

The Fallen Blade

Effendi: The Second Arabesk (Arabesk)

9Tail Fox

End of the World Blues

Redrobe

Remix

Stamping Butterflies

End Of The World Blues

Arabesk

Pashazade

Effendi

Lucifer's Dragon

Hörbücher

The Outcast Blade

The Outcast Blade

The Fallen Blade

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