David Zindell

Neverness

The Broken God

The War in Heaven

The Wild (Requiem for Homo Sapiens)

What is the most human thing a human being can do?The question of what it means to be human lies at the heart of these stories of inner and outer adventures of the human spirit. In Shanidar, a restless, overly civilized man tires of the oppressive existence of the trillions of citizens of the Civilized Worlds spread across the stars. Goshevan seeks a different way of living, a way to be new. His quest takes him to the world of Icefall, home to the Order of Mystic Mathematicians and Other Seekers of the Ineffable Flame (and also the topological nexus of the galaxy). In the city of Neverness, whose streets are colored ice, he finds cutter who carks his body into the shape of the Neanderthal-like Alaloi who have long ago peopled the frozen islands west of Neverness. For the Alaloi, like Goshevan, have their own dreams of how human beings should live in a deadly and incomprehensible universe.In The Dreamer's Sleep, some of the same Elidi birdmen who dwell in Neverness have been enslaved and made to work in a mine. They, too, are dreamers; in fact, without the dreams of the one who tells them stories of flying free across open, blue skies, they cannot survive. In Caverns, survival is not the problem, but the scientist Richard Stone faces the cruelest of decisions: should he remain human for the sake of the woman he loves or should he become something incomprehensibly more? When The Rose Is Dead puts the survivors of war in the Endless City through the hell of memory and forgetting - and explores the possibilities of overcoming death through remembering those we love.Shanidar And Other Stories opens the gateway to Neverness, the internationally bestselling novel that introduces the epic A Requiem For Homo Sapiens trilogy. If you enjoy big-idea science fiction that explores the possibilities of radical transformation, transcendence, and explorations of consciousness, memory, and evolution - all wrapped up in page-turning stories - you'll love this book.Buy Shanidar And Other Stories today to join in the ancient quest to discover what it means to be human.

Shanidar and Other Stories

Why did the world get so screwed up? How can we best live in it? What can we do to find meaning and purpose in our lives when it seems we might destroy the earth?As visionary as the author's novels, David Zindell's memoir Splendor interweaves the intensely personal and the spiritual into a brilliant tapestry of literature, history, science, and evolution. Both a philosophical thriller and an age-old quest ranging over millennia, it also recounts meetings with Timothy Leary, Robin Williams, Ken Wilber, and others famous, infamous, and unknown who shaped the true Greatest Generation known as the Baby Boomers.From the terror of nuclear annihilation during the Cuban Missile Crisis to the shootings at Kent State and Virginia Tech, which touched the author personally, Zindell's new book tells of how a writer seeks experience and how that is translated into literature - and how writing itself can be an expression of the mysterious evolutionary force called splendor. This is one person's story and everyone's, for the flowering of our inherent splendor that will lead to a new way of living on earth is really just the story of the human race and how we will find our way toward an almost unimaginably brilliant future.

Splendor

The Lightstone

The Lord of Lies (The EA Cycle)

The Silver Sword. Part two

Danlo wi Soli Ringess and nine other elite lightship pilots journey into the vast chaos of the Wild, to fight the furious energy that threatens to destroy the galaxy. By the author of The Broken God. Original.

The Wild

A galactic search for the truth fires this magnificent epic of war and discovery on both a human and cosmic scale.The Wild: a chaotic place where ten elite lightship pilots dared to venture. A place where one of those pilots, Danlo wi Soli Ringess, will learn the fate of his father. Did Mallory Ringess die during that first expedition to the Wild? Or did he become a god? Opinions vary, but Danlo's search is focused on one objective: the truth. It is a truth that will not only reveal his father's assassin, but could also lay bare the secret to a killer virus that only Danlo survived.

On the island continent of Ea it is a dark time of chaos and war. Morjin, immortal fallen angel and Lord of Lies, seeks to enslave the entire world. His dreaded assassins are everywhere and land after land falls under his evil power. The one thing that has the potential to destroy him is an object that has been lost for ages: the fabulous Lightstone that legend tells was crafted by the ancient Star people. A call is sent out by one of the major rulers still free of Morjin's grip to all those who oppose the dreaded sorcerer. It is nothing less than a quest to find the Lightstone and give Men hope after ages of despair. It is a quest that none have seen the like of in ten generations. And most believe is doomed to fail. What hero is man enough, brave enough...or foolish enough to embark on such a mad quest? Valashu Elahad, the seventh and youngest Valeri prince of the royal house of Mesh is such a man. With his faithful companion Maram by his side Valashu will journey to the farthest reaches of Ea to try and reclaim this mystical object, to free the world of Morjin's evil and save his people from sure destruction. Along the way he will discover truths about friendship, courage...and love. And the terrible truth about the being who threatens to sunder his world.

Valashu and his companions continue on the quest to find The Lightstone. Many battles, much introspection, and a strong love subplot complicate our hero' s journey.

The Silver Sword

When the evil Lord Morjin continues to enslave the island continent of Ea, the land's free rulers set out to find a powerful object with which to destroy the lord, a quest during which Val begins to doubt his perceptions of reality.

How many terrible things can a man do in pursuit of good before he falls into a black hole of the soul from which there is no escape? Valashu Elahad rescued the Lightstone from the dark hell of Morjin's underground city of Agarttha only to see his triumph overturned. Once more, the Red Dragon has the sacred golden cup in his hands. He will use it to gain power over all Ea and to free the dark god Angra Mainyu imprisoned on the world of Damoom for a million years. If that happens, the entire universe of Eluru will fall into corruption and irreversible decay. Through the power of the Black Jade - the greatest black gelstei ever forged - Val will seek to understand the darkness inside himself so that he can use evil to fight evil. At the same time, he must sharpen the good inside himself into a bright silver sword that will cut through illusion and point the way to the Maitreya: the one person for whom the Lightstone was meant. Somewhere on Ea, this Lightbringer has been born, and Val must find him. Black Jade is the third book of the internationally acclaimed Ea Cycle that began with The Lightstone and Lord Of Lies. If you enjoy fast-paced adventure, a startling new cosmology, and an intricately-made world as rich as Tolkien's and with all the magic of an Arthurian romance, you'll love this book. Buy Black Jade now to join in an ancient and timeless quest.

Book Three of the Ea Cycle

Black Jade

Dans la Cité de la Lumière, le voyage de Danlo le Sauvage continue, " périlleux, comme la traversée d'un étroit pont glacé ". Devenu pilote de l'Ordre, il poursuit sa quête de la vérité. Pourquoi les étoiles meurent-elles ? Pourquoi l'univers tout entier est-il devenu shaida ? Confronté à diverses drogues, sectes et religions, plus redoutables et dangereuses les unes que les autres, Danlo, imprégné de la philosophie du langage fravashi, ennemi de toute croyance et de tout système de croyances, poursuivra inlassablement sa quête désespérée des Eddas des Anciens, les secrets des dieux. S'ensuivra un long et éprouvant voyage en lui-même, au sein des espaces cybernétiques, les espaces samadhi, dont on revient rarement indemne. Pourra-t-il guérir la blessure de l'humanité ? L'Art du Ringess, terrible religion de Mallory Ringess, son père, va-t-il se déclarer dans tout l'univers et tout anéantir ? L'ultime mission de Danlo dans le Vild, guerre de raison contre les doctrines des Architectes de l'Ancienne Eglise Cybernétique qui détruisent la galaxie, sera déterminante.

Le dieu brisé

A triumphant close to The Requiem for Homo Sapiens -- an epic tour de force that began with The Broken God and was followed by The Wild. Danlo wi Soli Ringess now has the greatest mission of his life to complete. With Bertram Jaspari's evil Architects terrorising the universe with their killing star -- the morrashar -- and Hanuman's Ringists intent on converting the rest of humanity to the Way of Ringess, Danlo must somehow try to prevent War in Heaven. Behind him travels an army of lightships, commanded by the ever-larger-than-life Bardo, falling from fixed-point to fixed-point throughout the deep, dark spaces of the Vild, ready to do battle, if they must, with the Ringists' fleet, lying in ambush for them beyond the Star of Neverness. War in Heaven brings to a cataclysmic finale the most amazing and awe-inspiring journey in modern science fiction, combining the ultimate in space adventure with philosophy, mathematics, spirituality and superb characterization. It is truly the greatest romantic epic of modern sf.

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