Patricia A. McKillip

Premio Locus 1980El final del viaje del Portador de Estrellas y la respuesta a todos los misterios de su mundo.Se acerca el final de la partida iniciada en Maestro de enigmas. Tras reencontrarse por fin con Raederle en Anuin, Morgon, el Portador de Estrellas, invoca al ejercito de los reyes muertos de An para ponerlos al servicio de la proteccion de Hed, su patria. Mientras tanto, los hechiceros, liberados de su esclavitud de siglos tras el enfrentamiento de Morgon con Ohm, el antiguo maestro de enigmas y usurpador del trono del Supremo, se dirigen a la antigua ciudad de Lungold, donde planean desafiarle. Alli acudiran Morgon y Raederle para descifrar los ultimos enigmas sobre la identidad del arpista Deth, la herencia de los Señores de la Tierra y la guerra con los cambiaformas.Patricia A. McKillip, ganadora de dos Premios Mundiales de Fantasia, dos premios Mythopoeic y un Locus, se encuentra entre las voces mas respetadas de la fantasia internacional, y la trilogia del Juego de Enigmas es una de las cumbres de su extensa obra."McKillip ha creado poderosas imagenes de un silencio embrujado, un universo lleno de motivos secretos y terribles posibilidades."The National Observer"Su trama, sus personajes y su estilo son memorables, con una riqueza que si acaso ha mejorado con el paso del tiempo."SF Site"Una obra solidamente narrada (...) La madurez intelectual y emocional de su pacifico heroe y de su resuelta heroina esta trazada con meticulosa delicadeza."The Encyclopedia of Fantasy

"La trilogía entera es un gran enigma, un nexo de diversos acertijos, códigos secretos y enigmas que el lector, junto con los héroes, debe resolver, desentrañar, descifrar, siguiendo las oscuras y misteriosas sendas de los indicios."Andrzej Sapkowski¿Quien es el Portador de Estrellas y que desatara que esta atado?En una tierra donde los hechiceros desaparecieron hace mucho tiempo, la sabiduria se conserva en enigmas. Morgon, principe de Hed y maestro de enigmas, se enfrenta a un desafio como nunca han conocido los pacificos gobernantes de su reino: acosado por cambiaformas que salen del mar y suplantan a amigos y enemigos, se ve forzado a buscar el destino que le han otorgado las estrellas que lleva en la frente. En su busqueda vagara por lejanas y exoticas tierras plagadas de magia salvaje, espectros que plantean enigmas, arpistas que proponen misterios, coronas que prometen la felicidad yespadas encantadas que le urgen a empuñarlas. Sus viajes desvelaran la historia oculta de un mundo que oscila entre el cambio y la destruccion a manos del Portador de Estrellas.Patricia A. McKillip, ganadora de dos Premios Mundiales de Fantasia, dos premios Mythopoeic y un Locus, se encuentra entre las voces mas respetadas de la fantasia internacional, y la trilogia del Juego de Enigmas es una de las cumbres de su extensa obra."Patricia McKillip ha logrado una proeza extraordinaria: escribir una trilogia de fantasia tan buena que resiste la comparacion con Tolkien."A Readers Guide to Fantasy"Su trama, sus personajes y su estilo son memorables, con una riqueza que si acaso ha mejorado con el paso del tiempo."The SF Site"Una obra solidamente narrada (...) La maduracion intelectual y emocional de su pacifico heroe y de su resuelta heroina esta trazada con meticulosa delicadeza."The Encyclopedia of Fantasy

Tres heroínas en busca del Portador de Estrellas.Raederle de An, la segunda mujer más bella del reino y prometida de Morgon, príncipe de Hed y maestro de enigmas, se consume de impaciencia esperando noticias de este. ¿Que ha sido de Morgon, desaparecido en su viaje a la montaña de Erlenstar para solicitar consejo del Supremo sobre su destino como Portador de Estrellas? ¿Y que ha sido de Deth, arpista del Supremo, que le acompañaba? Poco dispuesta a seguir permitiendo que decidan por ella, Raederle se echa al camino junto con Lyra, la heredera de Herun, y Tristan, la hermana de Morgon. En su viaje, descubrira poderes ineditos en ella, sabra la verdad sobre el Supremo y el papel de Deth en su peligroso juego, y conocera mas sobre la historia de su mundo y la oscura herencia de los cambiaformas.Patricia A. McKillip, ganadora de dos Premios Mundiales de Fantasia, dos premios Mythopoeic y un Locus, se encuentra entre las voces mas respetadas de la fantasia internacional, y la trilogia del Juego de Enigmas es una de las cumbres de su extensa obra."McKillip ha creado poderosas imagenes de un silencio embrujado, un universo lleno de motivos secretos y terribles posibilidades."The National Observer"Una trama intrincada, acentuada por una escritura personal y una imagineria evocadora."ALA Booklist"Una obra a la altura de los clasicos: la intrincada narrativa de su historia de busquedas resuena con una complejidad moral practicamente desconocida en las trilogias de fantasia; el protagonista de McKillip tiene una especial habilidad para desentrañar enigmas y, a traves de una serie de estrategias (incluyendo indicios subliminales tan poco obvios como hojas en un bosque) no muy distintas de las usadas por Gene Wolfe en su Libro del sol nuevo, McKillip fuerza al lector a convertirse tambien en un descifrador de codigos. De esta forma, el significado del libro se pone de manifiesto en la forma en que debe ser leido."The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

When bookstore owner Sylvia Lynn returns to her childhood home in upstate New York, she meets the Fiber Guild - a group of local women who meet to knit, embroider, and sew - and learns why her grandmother watches her so closely. A primitive power exists in the forest, a force the Fiber Guild seeks to bind in its stitches and weavings. And Sylvia is no stranger to the woods...

With hair the colour of the moon, Corleu was different from the other Wayfolk. He alone tried to free his wandering tribe from the unearthly swamp that ensnared them - and he alone dared to cross the forbidden threshold. There he found a strange dark house, a place of legends and gods, foreseen in the stars. And there, to save his people, began Corleus search for the heart of the Cygnet - and impossible treasure...But if legends are real, nothing is impossible.

Brenden Vetch has a gift. With an innate sense he cannot explain to himself or describe to others, he connects to the agricultural world, nurturing gardens to flourish and instinctively knowing the healing properties each plant and herb has to offer. But Brendens gift isolates him from people, and from becoming part of a community - until the day he receives a personal invitation from the wizard Od, to serve as a gardener in her great school of wizards. But even Brenden isnt fully aware of the full extent of his power - and the true reason Od has recruited him ...

Though Morgon the Riddle-Master was reunited with his beloved Raederle, his purpose in life and the reason for the stars on his forehead remained a mystery. All around him, the realm shook with war as mysterious shape-changers battled against mankind. Without the missing High One, Morgon must assume responsibility for all his world.

Somewhere in a far galaxy a being inconceivably alien is surging tumultuously from an unimaginable womb.In a solitary prison cell on the Underworld, the vast prison-satellite in perpetual Earth-orbit, Terra Viridian is tormented by a vision, an imperative which has already driven her to an insane bloodletting.On an Earth embalmed in peace by a ubiquitous bureaucracy, the Magician weaves his musical spells and tried to close his mind to the thoughts of others. - just three links in a chain stretching across space and time towards a testing as awesome as it is unpredictable.

Eager to graduate from the school on the hill, Phelan Cle chose Bone Plain, oft immortalised by poets and debated by scholars, for his final paper because he thought it would be an easy topic. It was commonly accepted - even at a school steeped in bardic tradition - that Bone Plain, with its three trials, three terrors and three treasures, was nothing more than a legend, a metaphor. But as his research leads him to the life of Nairn, the Wandering Bard, the Unforgiven, Phelan starts to wonder if there are any easy answers...

Since the day her fathers fishing boat returned without him, Peri and her mother have mourned his loss. Her mother sinks into a deep depression and spends her days gazing out at the sea. Unable to control her anger and sadness any longer, Peri uses the small magic she knows to hex the sea. And suddenly into her drab life come the Kings sons-changelings with strange ties to the underwater kingdom-a young magician, and, finally, love.

Long ago, the wizards had vanished from the world, and all knowledge was left hidden in riddles. Morgon, prince of the simple farmers of Hed, proved himself a master of such riddles when he staked his life to win a crown from the dead Lord of Aum. But now ancient, evil forces were threatening him. Shape-changers began replacing friends until no man could be trusted. Morgon was forced to flee to hostile kingdoms, seeking the High One who ruled from mysterious Erlenstar Mountain. Beside him went Deth, the High Ones Harper. Ahead lay strange encounters and terrifying adventures. And with him always was the greatest of unsolved riddles; the nature of the three stars on his forehead that seemed to drive him toward his ultimate destiny.

A fantasist without equal, Patricia A. McKillip has created worlds of intricate beauty and unforgettably nuanced characters. For many years, shes drawn readers into her spell, spinning modern-day fables with a grace rarely seen.Now she presents a book of short stories, full of beautiful dragons, rueful princesses, and handsome bards, and written in the gorgeous - and often surprisingly funny - prose shes known for. This is her world, wrapped up in the finery of fairy tales

Deep inside a palace on the edge of the world, the orphan Nepenthe pores over books in the royal library, translating their languages and learning their secrets. At sixteen, she knows little of the outside world. But when a young mage gives Nepenthe a book that has defied translation - a book written in a language of thorns - it speaks to Nepenthes soul, and becomes her secret obsession. As the words escape the brambles they reveal themselves - and begin to reveal Nepenthes destiny ...

Sorrow and trouble and bitterness will bound you and yours and the children of yours...Some said the dying words of Nial Lynn, murdered by his own son, were a wicked curse. To others, it was a winters tale spun by firelight on cold, dark nights. But when Corbet Lynn came to rebuild his family estate, memories of his grandfathers curse were rekindled by young and old - and rumours filled the heavy air of summer.In the woods that border Lynn Hall, free-spirited Rois Melior roams wild and barefooted in search of healing herbs. She is as hopelessly unbridled - and unsuited for marriage - as her betrothed sister Laurel is domestic. In Corbets pale green eyes, Rois senses a desperate longing. In her restless dreams, mixed with the heady warmth of harvest wine, she hears him beckon. And as autumn gold fades, Rois is consumed with Corbet Lynn, obsessed with his secret past - until, across the frozen countryside and in flight from her own imagination, truth and dreams become inseparable...

Hidden away from the world by his mother, the powerful sorceress Heloise Oliver, Pierce has grown up working in her restaurant in Desolation Point. One day, unexpectedly, strangers pass through town on the way to the legendary capital city. Look for us, they tell Pierce, if you come to Severluna. You might find a place for yourself in King Arden s court. Lured by a future far away from the bleak northern coast, Pierce makes his choice. Heloise, bereft and furious, tells her son the truth: about his father, a knight in King Arden s court; about an older brother he never knew existed; about his father s destructive love for King Arden s queen, and Heloise s decision to raise her younger son alone. As Pierce journeys to Severluna, his path twists and turns through other lives and mysteries: an inn where ancient rites are celebrated, though no one will speak of them; a legendary local chef whose delicacies leave diners slowly withering from hunger; his mysterious wife, who steals Pierce s heart; a young woman whose need to escape is even greater than Pierce s; and finally, in Severluna, King Ardens youngest son, who is urged by strange and lovely forces to sacrifice his father s kingdom. Things are changing in that kingdom. Oldmagic is on the rise. The immensely powerful artifact of an ancient god has come to light, and the king is gathering his knights to quest for this profound mystery, which may restore the kingdom to its former glory or destroy it..."

Kyreols small world begins at the Face, a high rock cliff, and ends at Fourteen Falls, a series of rapids. Each year, her people celebrate Moon-Flash-a spark of light that seems to come from and go into the moon, a symbol of life and joy. When a mysterious stranger arrives, Kyreol wants to know more about him, as well as the Moon-Flash, and soon she and her childhood friend Terje leave their home to look for answers. Those answers will pluck Kyreol from Riverworld and transform her life forever-by fast-forwarding her into a future she can barely comprehend.

Riverworld was a planet of Eden whose people possessed the power of dreaming the future. Kyreol, daughter of a Healer, pierced the vision veil to discover the ultimate truth - that her home world unknowingly hosted the way station of a vast interstellar civilisation.An evil star shone on Kyreols first mission as an interplanetary agent. Her ship fell out of space, cracking on a lonely, mysterious moon. Rising from its endless plains was the white city - awesome, abandoned, eons-dead - a silent world of secret wonders.Only her prophetic dreams linked Kyroel to Riverworld, but she was hopelessly marooned light-years away. And she was not alone...

Twenty years ago, the powerful mage Atrix Wolfe unleashed an uncontrollable force that killed his beloved king. Now, the Queen of the Wood has offered him one last chance for redemption. She asks him to find her daughter, who vanished into the human world during the massacre he caused. No one has seen the princess-but deep in the kitchens of the Castle of Pelucir, there is a scullery maid who appeared out of nowhere one night long ago. She cannot speak and her eyes are full of sadness. But there are those who call her beautiful.

They have lived among us for centuries-distant, separate, just out of sight. They fill our myths, our legends, and the stories we tell our children in the dark of night. They come from the air, from water, from earth, and from fire. What are these creatures that enjoin out imagination? Faeries.Megan is an artist who draws seascapes. Jonah owns a shop devoted to treasures from the deep. Their lives, so strongly touched by the ocean, become forever intertwined when enchanting people of the sea lure them further into the underwater world-and away from each other.

During the wedding festivities of his king, Cyan Dag, a knight of Gloinmere, is sought out by a mysterious bard and told a terrifying tale: that the king has married a false queen - a lie cloaked in ancient and powerful sorcery. Spurred on by his steadfast honour and loyalty, Cyan departs on a dangerous quest to rescue the real queen from her tower prison - to prevent war, and to awaken magic in a land that has lost its way ...