Bøger af Clay Gilbert

In the third novel of Clay Gilbert's Children of Evohe series, a quest to help their new friend Maria Cantrell save the life of her lover and mentor, their old compatriot the Maestro, has led Annah, Holder and their Circle on a search for Gracegate Prison, a legendary penitentiary beneath the surface of the planet Holdfast, built by Earth for the detainment of Offworlders and Offworlder sympathizers during the last Big War. What Annah and the others find waiting for them in the depths of Gracegate will test the boundaries of friendships and love, threaten lives, uncover secrets and illuminate Annah's own greater purpose: her role as the An-Rhyel, a savior who figures in the faith and mythology of more than one world. It is a purpose that Annah has been prepared for since she began her training in the ancient art of Shaping on her home world of Evohe under the former Elder Shaper, Serra. It was Serra who told her about the importance of the figure the children of Evohe call the Restorer: the one who would close the gap in the missing racial Memories of the planet's native race, and restore the art and faith of Shaping to that world. All her life, Annah has struggled with a need to belong, not to be set apart from the rest of her kind. But she has also harbored the dream of making a difference-of using her curiosity, her Talent in song and Shaping, and her compassion for others to make life better for others. Can Annah use her gifts and her will to be the Restorer not only of her people, but perhaps of the lost and struggling dissidents on Holdfast as well? Amidst all of this turmoil, Annah another challenge-impending motherhood, and the role she and her mate, Gary Holder, and their children, will play in the yet-undetermined future of her homeworld of Evohe. The adventure continues, in ANNAH and the GATES of GRACE Book three of the children of Evohe.

The histories written by the Children of Memory say this of the time Before: no one in the black City knew how it had all begun. But there are tales that contain a thread of truth, woven here and there among legends, fantasies, and lies. And such was the tale whispered from birth into the minds of every child born in the City, in hopes they might never look into the darkness and wonder if there were, somewhere, a larger world. This is the story of one of those who dared to question, and how his questions-and the course on which they led him, changed his life, and the lives of many. This is the story of a boy called Eternity, and the City he led to freedom.

Annah of Evohe, who had come to be known, on that world and others besides, as the An-Rhyel-the Restorer-has been gone for three years. Most of the universe seems to have given her up for dead. The government of Earth, unable to sense anything on the surface of the planet, has moved on to other concerns-such as a possible alliance with a mysterious new ally. On Evohe, though, things are different. Both Annah's followers and her enemies remember that she said she would return. One of Annah's closest friends, the seed-maiden Liara, struggles with the responsibilities of leadership in Annah's absence. An old enemy from the planet's distant past seeks to use the void of Annah's absence to seek a power she has long been denied. Annah and Holder's twins, Linnah and Laren, are three years old now and might never see their mother again. And through all this, Annah's mate, Gary Holder, still keeps watch over the tree near the homeground of Annah's parents, where he and a small band of her friends and followers lay her to rest. One morning, Holder wakes to find the trunk of the Mother-Tree split in half, and Annah's grave lying empty. What will this mean for the universe beyond Annah's homeworld and the course of galactic history? And what consequences will there be for the CHILDREN OF EVOHE ? The answers lie waiting in the fourth and most thrilling chapter yet of Clay Gilbert's CHILDREN OF EVOHE series

A new story from the universe of Annah and the CHILDREN OF EVOHE. Meet RYNN HANDEL and NORTHROP WYNN. Theirs is a boy meets girl story, when you get right down to it, with a few differences. North Wynn is a young man with a brain like a computer, thanks to a unique condition called thalamic hypercognition, which has also put him on the fast track to life in a wheelchair at less than thirty years of age. Rynn Handel is a young woman with a brain that is, at least in part, a computer: she is the cyborg offspring of Project Prometheus, the Earth government's attempt to create new life by blending human tissue and DNA with cybernetic technology. But although she's a miracle, Rynn's creator, Dr. Mark Handel, left part of the job unfinished, and now Rynn is heading to the Edge of the universe, to a planet where the native species, the Rycosians, are known for making the best cyborg bodies anywhere. North's circumstances are different. He's gone on the run to protect his family back on Earth from whomever is behind the assassination of his best friend, Connor Reynolds, who just happens to be the recently-deceased head of Earth's planetary government. He thinks his loved ones and the friends he still has will be safer if he leaves them behind. But who knows who's decided to follow him in his attempt to escape? Finding themselves on two different ships sharing the same forty-day journey to the planet Holdfast, from which they both intend to travel to the Edgeworld called Mercy Prime-for what begin as distinctly different reasons-Rynn and North are brought together by the common bonds of difference, loneliness, and the distance between them. And the shortest distance between any two people, they learn together, is a conversation. Author Clay Gilbert describes Rynn and North's story as "The Fault in Our Star Wars", blending the modern sensibilities, dark humor and quirky romance of John Green with the space adventure and interstellar intrigue of a George Lucas movie, mixed with a mild seasoning of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and combining these ingredients with characters you will not easily forget. Get ready for a new journey, to a place you've never been before, with people you won't want to leave behind.

In the second novel of Clay Gilbert's Children of Evohe series, Annah has gone to Holdfast Station, an Earth outpost situated above a contested world called Aurora-Prime by some, but Holdfast by the dissidents and former Earth colonists who call it their home. Prompted by a vision, she has set out, along with Kale Goodman, to rescue her mate Gary Holder from captivity aboard the station. But Annah's brave decision places her in the center of a personal and political nightmare, for Gary Holder, believed by many to be dead following a catastrophic accident near the station, may no longer be the man she knows and loves. Holdfast Station does not occupy the Sea of Stars alone: down on the planet that shares its name, a community of outsiders, political prisoners and freedom fighters are engaged in a struggle against the corrupt and power-hungry planetary government of Earth, who do not recognize Holdfast's independence and seek to retake the planet for themselves, by diplomatic means if possible, and by armed invasion if necessary. Even if Annah does manage to save Holder from his uncertain fate, will her compassion for the fate of those on the planet below allow her to remain uninvolved in their struggle for freedom? The adventure continues, in ANNAH and the EXILES Book two of the children of Evohe.

"What if forever can end?" It's been a year since Cassie Edwards left Auburn, Alabama behind for Atlanta, Georgia, and a new life with Martin Cabot, the Night-Kind who saved her from certain death. She's Cassie Cabot now. The love she always looked for, a freedom from the illness that had dominated her life, the gifts of eternal life and youth: leaving the mortal world behind should be a small price to pay for these, but Cassie can't stop looking back. She's plagued by dreams of her friends and family, and unable to fully come to terms with her new life. And that's not all. All around Atlanta, something is happening that shouldn't be able to: the Change that separates vampires from humankind is breaking down, and Night-Kind are dying. The dark secret behind this mystery seems to lie with a new sect of Night-Kind called "new-bloods," but Cassie's search for answers and a new sense of belonging among them makes new enemies. Soon, she's on the way back to Auburn, to make peace once and for all with her own daylight and darkness-or else die trying.

Annah, a young female of a world on the Edge of the Sea of Stars named Evohe, feels there is no place for her among her people. She is seen as strange both for her appearance, which is different than that thought to be normal for an eighteen-cycle old seed-maiden, and for her dreams, not of finding a mate and making a homeplace and a family with him, but of exploring the Sea of Stars that she looks up at every night and longs to see. Her parents lie at rest in the Elder Grove deep in the woods near her home ground, and, since the passing of Lilliane, the elder who had been her guardian since she was fourteen cycles old, Annah has lived alone; the 'girl who walks with no one.' She remains alone until the night she sees a great fire streak from the starry sky above her parents' home ground and, following its path, finds the wreckage of what she knows from the shared Memories of her people is a star-vessel of the sort her own people had once traveled in. Inside the ruined craft, she finds a human male, badly injured and close to death. Torn between the Memories that tell her the people of Earth were responsible for the near-extinction of her own world and the voice of Spirit that insists all life is the same, she nurses him back to health, finding in the human Gary Holder a mirror of her own search for belonging and desire for a larger purpose. Their growing connection, and the Evoetians' sense of humans as enemies sets in motion a chain of events that may either destroy Annah's world a second time or lead to a new future of understanding: a new age of the Shapers. This is a new, re-edited edition of the first novel in Clay Gilbert's science-fiction/fantasy adventure series, Children of Evohe, a saga that combines the drama of classic stories like Jane Eyre with the adventure and mysticism of well-known science fiction masterpieces like Frank Herbert's Dune and Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land. The Children of Evohe series is also under development for television by executive producer Joel Eisenberg and Council Tree Productions. The adventure begins here!

"Will you come travel with me? Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?" They are lines from the poet Walt Whitman, but for Cassie Edwards, they become something different entirely. Spoken to her by the man she loves, Martin Cabot-who is also one of the Night-Kind-what humanity calls vampires-the words frame a choice between certain death and eternal life. The year is 1991. Cassie Edwards has lived most of her life under a shadow-she has been HIV positive since a car accident when she was ten. At nineteen, she's finally getting out into the world, leaving her hometown of Knoxville, Tennessee behind to start college at Auburn University. There are no guarantees for the future, she knows, but she's determined things are going to get better. Meeting Cassie by chance, Martin thinks that he may have found a way to escape the hold his own past has on him, and the horrors he left behind on the West Coast, where he first left behind the daylight life to claim a dark immortality. When Cassie's illness takes hold at last, Martin must decide whether to tell her the truth about himself-a truth that will leave him exposed-and leave Cassie with a fateful choice. As if this weren't enough, the shadows of Martin's past aren't content to remain buried, and they are coming for him, and for Cassie. Enter a new world of supernatural horror and romance from Clay Gilbert, the author of the "Children of Evohe" science fiction series.

Sooner or later, everybody finds someone to call home. Sooner or later, everybody finds their tribe. History, family and home are what you make of them. Sometimes by birth, sometimes by choice, and sometimes a combination of the two. Aiden Kincaid and Avery Meadows meet on the first day of their freshman year at Oxford College in Georgia, in the fall of 1991. They bond over their loneliness and their common love of a rock band called Coventina's Well, a legendary holdout from the counterculture of the 1960s.The day they meet each other, they also meet a strange, sweet girl with the unlikely name of Lucifer Button. Luci's life is intertwined with the history of Coventina's Well, and with a deeper history Aiden and Avery come to find involves them as well: the history of a hidden tribe of humanity sometimes called the Children of Memory, but more often, merely called The Kind. Following what seems to be an ordinary tour by a rock band across the country to a huge music festival in California, Aiden and Avery come to realize they have a place in something much larger and older than themselves. What's at stake isn't just the career of a faded but fabled rock band from the Sixties, but the balance between Light and Shadow itself, destined to be set right at an event called the Great Alignment, scheduled to be held in one of the Kind's ancestral seats of power: the natural amphitheater known as Red Rocks, in Colorado, at the tour's end. Who are the forces determined to make sure the Alignment never happens-and what does Luci Button's missing sister have to do with all of this? Enter a world of music and magic, hiding just beyond the world of the everyday. A world where the balance between Light and Shadow is sometimes held by the strings of a guitar, and the notes of a song. Where history is sometimes a secret, and love is a key to understanding

Return to the story of THE CONVERSATIONALIST.RYNN and NORTH could live happily ever after...if theUniverse would let them. Rynn Handel and Northrop Wynn have seen wonders and mysteries in places far across the Sea of Stars, but finding love and understanding was still unexpected for both of them. They're planning to be united face-to-face at last, on the world called Holdfast, location of the Portal that will give them passage to Mercy Prime, the planet where Rynn hopes to get the cyborg body she has dreamed of for years. But the next step of their journey doesn't seem to be its end.Now there's a riddle that must be solved: who are the mysterious race called the Aynari-Ahn, known to humanity as the "God-Builders"? Did they play a part in giving Rynn her life? What hold do they have over Rynn's human mother, Dr, Carolyn Schirer, who has turned up on board Rynn's ship, the Broken Road, missing pieces of her memories. On board North's ship, the Heart of Light, an old friend of his, David Penn, turns up in a similar state. The one link: both have been to the same mysterious world on the edge of the Sea of Stars; the world that is the planned endpoint of Rynn and North's own journey: a world called Mercy Prime.There are still obstacles in the way: a gravity-field in space called the Charybdis Spectre, which both ships must pass through in order to reach Holdfast, Rynn's own doubts about herself and her chances at a future with North, and an angry officer of the Earth government named Jessica Starger, who has a grudge to settle with Rynn, and will stop at nothing to capture North. Will Rynn and North reach their destination in time to play their part to bring balance and peace to the universe, and find a new life together? Or will the Aynari-Ahn, and the Shadow they serve, overcome all in their path?The answers are waiting. THE CONVERSATIONALIST Book Two: MiSSioN tO MeRcY PrIMe