Begin aan een epische reis door een uitgestrekt universum waar geavanceerde technologie diepe mystieke krachten ontmoet. Volg het verhaal van de eerste Terranen terwijl ze een wereld ontdekken waar draken niet alleen echt zijn, maar worden vereerd als goden. Deze saga verkent thema's als ontdekking, geloof en de botsing van beschavingen, en biedt een meeslepende mix van sciencefiction en fantasy.
Acclaimed author Irene Radford returns to her beloved Dragon Nibmus universe with book one of The Stargods . Here is the tale of the first Terrans, gifted with both psi powers and technology, who discovered a world where dragons are real...and are worshiped as gods.
THE IMPS ARE COMING...and time may well be running out for the three O'Hara brothers.When Konner O'Hara unearthed a tracking device hidden in his spaceship--undoubtedly by his own ruthless ex-wife--he had no w ay to tell whether his discovery had come too late. The brothers had thought they'd found a safe haw en on this oft-the-star-charts planet w here they'd taken refuge from the Imperial Military Police, the law and order forces of the Galactic Terran Empire. In the months since their landing, the O'Haras had made a place for themselves among the locals--lost colonists who had returned to a hunter-gatherer level of society. Revered as gods for the technology they'd brought, the brothers had defeated a treacherous priest called Hanassa, who'd ruled in the name of the dragon Simurgh, a terrifying, legendary creature that demanded human sacrifice.Now., just when they've begun to concentrate on repairing their spaceship, and on dew eloping the psychic powers that are their heritage, they must suddenly find a way to protect themselves and this world from the Galactic Terran Empire. But the Imps are tar from the only threat the O'Haras face. For unbeknownst to them another enemy is determined to wreak a terrible vengeance on them all....
Three brothers take shelter on a pretechnological world where dragons are worshiped as gods. When the off-world forces they have fled track them down, they must find a way to save the world they've made their own.
It is a time for legends to be born....Operating on the wrong side of interstellar law one time too many, the three O’Hara brothers find themselves in a life-or-death flight from intergalactic police forces. In a last desperate escape attempt, they stumble across what must be a lost or abandoned colony world.Forced to bring their shuttle down in search of repair facilities, the O’Haras encounter humans who have returned to a hunter-gatherer level of society. Here is a place where technology can make them seem like gods—a land where they will remain trapped unless they can find a way to mine and manufacture the things they need to repair their ship.They don’t believe the legends about dragons and magic, and they are certain technology will see them through—at least until they confront their first dragon and feel their own unique powers expanding beyond their control....Here, together for the first time, are the three novels which reveal the truth behind the legend of the Stargods, the events which changed the future of an entire world.