Libriomancer
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- $5.99
Publisher Description
Le ore a sognare tra le pagine dei libri, le storie vissute al fianco dei protagonisti, la sofferenza di non poter varcare fisicamente quel foglio di carta, porta invalicabile tra la vita reale e il mondo della fantasia. E se qualcuno, questo limite, lo potesse superare?
Isaac, bibliotecario stregone appartenente all’ordine dei libromanti, in grado, letteralmente, di infilare le mani nei libri e di portare nella vita di tutti i giorni gli artefatti più strabilianti in essi presenti. Tutto questo e altro ancora tra le pagine di Libriomancer, il capolavoro di Jim C. Hines.
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“Troppo figo per descriverlo a parole” –Will Wheaton, scrittore e attore in Star Trek, TheNext Generation, parlando di Libriomancer
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This funny and fast-paced series opener, Hines's first hardcover for DAW, will be sure to surprise and entertain urban fantasy fans. Isaac Vainio is a Libromancer, a rare kind of magic user who can make objects from the pages of books manifest in reality. After leaving the magic field for mundane work at the Copper River Library, he's sorely out of practice, but a sudden attack by Meyerii vampires forces him to brush up on his magical talents. The vampires are targeting members of Die Zwelf Portenaere, or the Porters, declaring war because of perceived assaults on their kind. Isaac, accompanied by dryad Lena Greenwood and pet fire-spider Smudge (familiar from Hines's Jig the Goblin books), sets off to put a stop to the attacks and find Johannes Gutenberg, founder of the Porters, who has recently disappeared. The book is amusing and action-packed from page one; Isaac is sure to be an instant fan favorite, and the secondary characters are vivid and multidimensional.
