When Earth's Axis tilted, a fiercer new world was born! The Book of Shai. After science had slipped out of the hands of scientists into the hands of political fanatics, there finally came the time of the Great Burning, followed by centuries of disaster, the tilting of the world's axis, the shifting of the continents, and the slow horrid rise of a Newer Order of mankind... Out of one of the last strongholds of stability, the Citadel of the Serpent, came the young man Shai. At first a student believing the fabrications of an unnatural faith, then thrust into the terribly changed world by a catastrophe the Serpent could not prevent, Shai's first quest became a testing for manhood among the ruins of the older barbarisms once called Civilization... A power action novel of future adventure by a master of the fantastic, translated by C. J. Cherryh, and introducing a hero of legendary proportions.

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Troisième tome d'une trilogie incontournable et vintage de la S.F. française à découvrir chez 12-21 ! Swa et ses compagnons fuyaient droit devant eux. Ils erraient entre les sortilèges d'un monde bouleversé, se heurtaient aux brisants de la mémoire. Derrière eux galopait, parmi des spectres sans visage, l'ombre de Dmitr Vashar, le Tétrarque de la nuit. Pendant que, dans la cité souterraine de Mahagonny Dumdum, la civilisation entrait dans une nouvelle phase de son évolution, Swa se préparait à affronter, presque à mains nues, le Zélateur du Grand Serpent. Troisième tome de la trilogie Le livre de Swa de Daniel Walther : Tome 1 : Le livre de Swa Tome 2 : Le destin de Swa Tome 3 : La légende de Swa