5 Ergebnisse.

Born in a shipyard in Germany before the First World War, BAVARIA is an innocent creature with no conception of what she is to become: a floating palace, one of the great liners that have since sailed into legend. Through war and peace, boom and bust, Depression and hope, in her own words she tells of her transformation into the ship aptly named ROMANTIC--and her fall from grace, together with mankind.

Who is Steven Giamotti? A teenage psychopath stalking a swank Eastern prep school? A self-proclaimed messiah with the power to raise the dead, racing toward a desolate Pacific island aboard a hijacked submarine? A suave and charming Manhattan financier who may or may not be secretly building the world's ultimate weapon? A traveler from another universe on a mission to expand human consciousness-or destroy it? Or is he just a character in a boo...

Entombed forever in a custom-built world he cannot escape, Steven Giamotti is finally retired from the business of conquering universes. But while he's happily spending his winter years as Napoleon in Tolstoy's War and Peace, elsewhere strange things are happening. Queen Victoria is brutally murdered. Abraham Lincoln drops dead at a world peace conference. A Russian time travel experiment goes disastrously awry. A map of wormholes in the space...

As an immortal being with the ability to shift universes at will, Steven Giamotti has had an eternity to make enemies. Emerging one by one from the pages of great (and not-so-great) works of literature, they haven't been much threat to him-until they begin to organize themselves to strike him down at the height of his greatest accomplishment. Four random people-a sailor aboard a 19th century whaling ship, a welder at an Antarctic research stat...

This is not your English teacher's Beowulf. This is Beowulf with sex. Fire. Boobs. Battle scenes. Explosions. Human sacrifice. Ninjas. Hot chicks. Stuff blowing up. Cannibalism. Drinking. Did we mention boobs? Oh, there's still the requisite crap with Grendel, his mother, the dragon and ancient Anglo-Saxon legends. But this is Beowulf the way it should have been from the beginning. Which is to say, not boring. You have our word on that. Becaus...