Bitter Seeds (Tregillis Ian)(Paperback / softback) - diskuze

''A major talent'' George R. R. Martin''A confident and thrilling debut'' SFXBitter Seeds is the first novel in Ian Tregillis''s Milkweed Triptych series - a dark and thrilling masterpiece featuring a twentieth century much like our own, but also chillingly different.The year is 1939. Raybould Marsh and other members of British Intelligence have gathered to watch a damaged reel of film in a darkened room. It appears to show German troops walking through walls, bursting into flames and hurling tanks into the air from afar.If the British are to believe their eyes, a Nazi scientist has been endowing German troops with unnatural, unstoppable powers. And Raybould will be forced to resort to dark methods to hold the impending invasion at bay.But dealing with the occult exacts a price. And that price must be paid in blood.Praise for Bitter Seeds:''A white-knuckle plot, beautiful descriptions, and complex characters - an unstoppable Vickers of a novel'' Cory Doctorow''Bitter Seeds may rival Naomi Novik''s Tales of Temeraire as a sustained historical fantasy'' Booklist''Tregillis delivers a dynamite first novel'' SFREVU''Exciting and intense . . . The clash of magic and science meshes perfectly with the tumultuous setting'' Publishers Weekly''Receives my highest recommendations'' SFFWORLDThe Milkweed TriptychBitter SeedsThe Coldest WarNecessary EvilAlso by Ian Tregillis:The Alchemy WarsThe MechanicalThe RisingThe Liberation
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