Christopher Paolini

Three new stories of Eragon set a year after he left Alagaësia to find a home to train the newest generation of Dragon riders. It's been a year since Eragon left Alagaësia. He is searching for the perfect home to train a new generation of Dragon Riders. Instead he finds himself struggling with an endless sea of tasks. -- adapted from jacket.

"The world is no longer safe for the Dragon Rider Murtagh and his dragon, Thorn. An evil king has been toppled, and they are left to face the consequences of the reluctant role they played in his reign of terror. Now they are hated and alone, exiled to the outskirts of society. Throughout the land, hushed voices whisper of brittle ground and a faint scent of brimstone in the air--and Murtagh senses that something wicked lurks in the shadows of Alaga͡sia....

Kira Navárez soñaba con vivir en mundos nuevos. Ahora ha despertado una pesadilla. Durante una misión de inspección de rutina en un planeta no colonizado, Kira encuentra una reliquia alienígena. Al principio está encantada, pero la euforia se convierte en terror cuando el polvo antiguo que la rodea comienza a moverse. Mientras la guerra estalla entre las estrellas, Kira se lanza a una odisea de descubrimiento y transformación que abarca...

The world is no longer safe for the Dragon Rider Murtagh and his dragon, Thorn. An evil king has been toppled, and they are left to face the consequences of the reluctant role they played in his reign of terror. Now they are hated and alone, exiled to the outskirts of society. Throughout the land, hushed voices whisper of brittle ground and a faint scent of brimstone in the air--and Murtagh senses that something wicked lurks in the shadows of Alaga͡sia....

The first book John Steinbeck read as a child was the Caxton Morte d'Arthur, and he considered it one of the most challenging tasks of his career to modernize the stories of King Arthur. "These stories are alive even in those of us who have not read them, " he says. "And, in our day, we are perhaps impatient with the words and the stately rhythms of [Thomas] Malory. I wanted to set the stories down in meaning as they were written, leaving out nothing...