New Releases by Julian May

Tanuernes magt over Det mangefarvede Land er svækket, og de forskellige partiers strid om magten kulminerer under kærlighedsfesten, hvor også en gruppe eksilerede fra Det metafysiske oprør blander sig.

By A.D. 2110 nearly 100,000 humans had fled the civilized strictures of the Galactic Milieu for the freedom they thought existed at the end of the one-way time tunnel to Earth, six million B.C. But all of them had fallen into the hands of the Tanu, a humanoid race who''d fled their own galaxy to avoid punishment for their barbarous ways. And now the humans had made the Tanu stronger than the Firvulag, their degenerate brethren and ritual antagonists. Soon the Tanu would reign supreme. Or so they thought...

In the year 2034, Theo Quderian, a French physicist, made an amusing but impractical discovery: the means to use a one-way, fixed-focus time warp that opened into a place in the Rhone River valley during the idyllic Pliocene Epoch, six million years ago. But, as time went on, a certain usefulness developed. The misfits and mavericks of the future—many of them brilliant people—began to seek this exit door to a mysterious past. In 2110, a particularly strange and interesting group was preparing to make the journey—a starship captain, a girl athlete, a paleontologist, a woman priest, and others who had reason to flee the technological perfection of twenty-second-century life. Thus begins this dazzling fantasy novel that invites comparisons with the work of J.R.R. Tolkien, Arthur C. Clarke, and Ursula Le Quin. It opens up a whole world of wonder, not in far-flung galaxies but in our own distant past on Earth—a world that will captivate not only science-fiction and fantasy fans but also those who enjoy literate thrillers. The group that passes through the time-portal finds an unforeseen strangeness on the other side. Far from being uninhabited, Pliocene Europe is the home of two warring races from another planet. There is the knightly race of the Tanu—handsome, arrogant, and possessing vast powers of psychokinesis and telepathy. And there is the outcast race of Firvulag—dwarfish, malev-o olent, and gifted with their own supernormal skills. Taken captive by the Tanu and transported through the primordial European landscape, the humans manage to break free, join in an uneasy alliance with the forest-dwelling Firvulag, and, finally, launch an attack against the Tanu city of light on the banks of a river that, eons later, would be called the Rhine. Myth and legend, wit and violence, speculative science and breathtaking imagination mingle in this romantic fantasy, which is the first volume in a series about the exile world. The sequel, titled The Golden Torc, will follow soon.

Relates the history of Baltimore''s football team, detailing their 1971 Super Bowl game against the Dallas Cowboys.

A brief history of the Washington, D.C., football team that after a long losing period turned into one of the country''s strongest teams.

A brief history of the Masters Golf Tournament, an open tournament held each year at the Augusta, Georgia, National Golf Club.

A biography of the first Latin player to be elected to Baseball''s Hall of Fame.

Discusses the characteristics, habits, and habitat of the red fox, his relationship to man, and the characteristics of some of his relatives.

Traces Jim Brown''s rise to stardom with the Cleveland Browns.

Describes the life of the sea otter and its importance to the balance of nature.

Describes the microscopic animal and plant life that inhabits fresh and salt water emphasizing their importance in the food chain.

Explains the elements involved in weather changes and how forecasts are made.

Explains where snow comes from and the ways in which man has learned to cope with it and use it for recreation.

Traces the injury-plagued career of the New York Yankee slugger who won the Most Valuable Player Award three times in spite of also being the lifetime strikeout king.

A simple discussion of the protective coloring and shape of various animals.

Briefly describes the earliest Indian civilizations on the North American continent and traces the evolution of their culture from prehistory to the arrival of the white settlers.

Traces the evolution of the horse, from the early short legged relatives of eohippus through other prehistoric species to the modern horse.