Le Mur de Tempêtes

The Dandelion Dynasty #2 Part 2

by Ken Liu

Après de multiples épreuves, Luan Zya est enfin parvenu à franchir le Mur de Tempêtes, mais ce n’est là que le début de son odyssée. Pendant plusieurs mois, il dérive sur un océan sans fin, à bord des restes de son cerf-volant, devenu radeau de fortune. Alors qu’il commence à perdre tout espoir – et la raison –, les fabuleuses crubènes viennent à son secours et lui indiquent la terre des Lyucu.
Ces derniers ont pris le contrôle des îles de Dara, grâce à leurs prodigieux garinafins et à la cruauté de leur chef. Si l’empereur Kuni apparaît désormais désemparé depuis que son fils Timu s’est constitué prisonnier afin de sauver son peuple – en vain –, sa fille, la princesse Théra, et l’ingénieuse Zomi, refusent de courber l’échine. Et c’est en secret qu’elles vont mettre leurs compétences et savoirs en commun afin de percer les failles des Lyucu, à commencer par celles de leur fantastiques créatures, les garinafins.

Genres: Fantasy

Paperback

First published October 4, 2016

About the author

Ken Liu (http://kenliu.name) is an American author of speculative fiction. A winner of the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy awards for his fiction, he has also won top genre honors abroad in Japan, Spain, and France.

Liu’s most characteristic work is the four-volume epic fantasy series, The Dandelion Dynasty, in which engineers, not wizards, are the heroes of a silkpunk world on the verge of modernity. His debut collection of short fiction, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories, has been published in more than a dozen languages. A second collection, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories, followed. He also penned the Star Wars novel, The Legends of Luke Skywalker. His latest book is All That We See or Seem, a techno-thriller starring an AI-whispering hacker who saves the world.

He’s often involved in media adaptations of his work. Recent projects include “The Regular,” under development as a TV series; “Good Hunting,” adapted as an episode in season one of Netflix’s breakout adult animated series Love, Death + Robots; and AMC’s Pantheon, with Craig Silverstein as executive producer, adapted from an interconnected series of Liu’s short stories.

Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Liu worked as a software engineer, corporate lawyer, and litigation consultant. He frequently speaks at conferences and universities on a variety of topics, including futurism, machine-augmented creativity, history of technology, bookmaking, and the mathematics of origami.

In addition to his original fiction, Liu also occasionally publishes literary translations. His most recent work of translation is a new rendition of Laozi’s Dao De Jing.

Liu lives with his family near Boston, Massachusetts.