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Mondo9 is a desert planet, poisonous, lethal. Its inhabitants have applied themselves to a single science, mechanics, they have developed a single discipline, carpentry, making it the kingdom of machines, gears, rust. Boundless expanses of toxic sands, crossed by gigantic ships on wheels, titanic vehicles governed by dozens of men and who are also somehow alive. The most powerful, most ravenous of these sentient ships is called Robredo, and decades after the disappearance of its crew it refuses to die. For the first time in volume, the complete cycle of Cardanica by Dario Tonani, a best-selling electronic version in Italy, acclaimed by the public and critics in the United States.
World9 Delos Books 168 pages November 15, 2012 The Sweetest Water in the World by Jamil Ahmad The sweetest water in the worldIt was 1893, when Sir Henry Mortimer Durand drew a line on the desert sand with a stick to mark the border between Afghanistan and what was then north-western India, now Pakistan: one of the many far-sighted British interventions that Phone Number Dataheralded every kind of disaster . And disasters will come in that territory. In addition to the well-known ones, such as the Soviet invasion and the American attack, there are those that Ahmad recounts here, in novel form. The narrative begins in the 1950s, and ends about twenty years later. To lead the reader through the incredible vicissitudes of the local tribes, mostly nomadic, forced by wars and the advance of modernity to perish for lack of food and water, to tell us their stories, their fascinating legends and inscrutable wisdom of which they are carrying, is a child, Tor Baz, "the black hawk".
Tor Baz was born under the most ominous of auspices: the son of a woman guilty of adultery, he was born in a military outpost in the desert where his mother found refuge with his father. When the little boy is six years old, a band of warriors arrives led by his maternal grandfather, determined to avenge his offended honor by killing his daughter and her lover. However, he does not have the courage to kill even the little one, who will wander until adulthood from one tribe to another, from one father figure to another, also leading the reader into the darkest recesses of the territory and the most mysterious of the souls that populate it.
World9 Delos Books 168 pages November 15, 2012 The Sweetest Water in the World by Jamil Ahmad The sweetest water in the worldIt was 1893, when Sir Henry Mortimer Durand drew a line on the desert sand with a stick to mark the border between Afghanistan and what was then north-western India, now Pakistan: one of the many far-sighted British interventions that Phone Number Dataheralded every kind of disaster . And disasters will come in that territory. In addition to the well-known ones, such as the Soviet invasion and the American attack, there are those that Ahmad recounts here, in novel form. The narrative begins in the 1950s, and ends about twenty years later. To lead the reader through the incredible vicissitudes of the local tribes, mostly nomadic, forced by wars and the advance of modernity to perish for lack of food and water, to tell us their stories, their fascinating legends and inscrutable wisdom of which they are carrying, is a child, Tor Baz, "the black hawk".
Tor Baz was born under the most ominous of auspices: the son of a woman guilty of adultery, he was born in a military outpost in the desert where his mother found refuge with his father. When the little boy is six years old, a band of warriors arrives led by his maternal grandfather, determined to avenge his offended honor by killing his daughter and her lover. However, he does not have the courage to kill even the little one, who will wander until adulthood from one tribe to another, from one father figure to another, also leading the reader into the darkest recesses of the territory and the most mysterious of the souls that populate it.