Ortog - Aux Armes d'Ortog & Ortog et les Ténèbres

Kurt Steiner

Hollywood Comics

2010

288 páginas

9h 36m

ISBN-13: 9781935558286

Português

Ortog sequence comprising Aux Armes d'Ortog ["Ortog's Call to Arms"] (1960) and Ortog et les Ténèbres ["Ortog and the Shadows"] (1969), by André Ruellan [aka] Kurt Steiner, both assembled as Ortog (omni trans Brian Stableford 2010), a Science Fantasy epic set in a future Earth featuring space travel in a Medieval Futurism frame. Ruellan has remained active well into the twenty-first century. |...| These two classic French fantasy novels, written in 1960 and 1969, star Knight-Navigator Dal Ortog of Galankar who lives on a 50th century Earth where space travel cohexists with a medieval society. First, Ortog is sent by Sopharch Karella to the far reaches of space to find a cure for the slow death that is killing humanity after a devastating interplanetary war. Ortog returns with a cure, but too late to save his love, Karella's daughter, Kalla. In the sequel, Ortog and his friend, Zoltan Charles Henderson de Nancy, embark on a quest through the dimensions of Death to find Kalla's soul and bring her back to Earth. "Kurt Steiner" is the pseudonym of André Ruellan -- French medical doctor and author, usually as by Kurt Steiner, though sometimes as by Kurt Wargar, and intermittently under his own name. One of France's best-known science fiction and horror writers, as well as one of its most distinguished film writers. Brian M. Stableford has been a professional writer since 1965. He has published more than 60 science fiction and fantasy novels, as well as several authoritative non-fiction books.