Showing results for "Lenz" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

THEY DIDN’T NEED TO WIN A WAR OF BULLETS. THEY JUST NEEDED TO TURN OFF THE LIGHTS. On a Tuesday evening, every circuit from the Pacific to the Atlantic dies at once. No warning. No coming back. Fire Captain Jacob Rome is twenty-five miles from home. He walks. Past stalled cars, past the first...

The residents of Ellis County and Waxahachie, Texas, continue their fight to survive in a mysterious, prehistoric world. Alone, and with no hope of rescue, those in charge struggle to maintain order and feed the hungry citizens of Ellis County. To save their starving population, they must look beyond the seam and explore the vast, untouched wilderness. What they discover in the Pleistocene wilds will change their world forever—the only question is if it’s for better or worse.

Leah has spent her entire life believing magic isn’t real… until the day her only family member vanishes on her eighteenth birthday—leaving behind a forbidden book bound to her blood. The moment she opens it, her power awakens, tearing open visions and glimpses of the past and future she cannot control. Eighteen years ago, her entire bloodline was slaughtered for possessing this power. Now, the Order wants it back. Dragged into a hidden world she never knew existed; Leah discovers the book doesn’t predict fate—it reveals where fate can be broken.

Dieses Hörbuch von Siegfried Lenz enthält die kurzgeschichten "Rivalen", "Die Maske", "Die Sitzverteilung", "Ein Entwurf" und "Das Interview". Siegfried Lenz' spannende Erzählung handelt davon, wie eine Maskierung das wahre Gesicht des Menschen zum Vorschein bringen kann. Es ist Sommer. An einer kleinen Insel in Norddeutschland wird eine mysteriöse Kiste eines chinesischen Containerschiffs angeschwemmt. Neugierige Touristen finden darin Masken, die für ein Hamburger Museum bestimmt sind. Aus Spaß probieren sie die Masken an - mit verheerenden Folgen.

In den "kleinen Erkundungen der masurischen Seele" bringt Siegfried Lenz eine Gesellschaft höchst skurriler Gestalten ans Licht, beheimatet in der Gegend zwischen Suleyken und Schissomir...