Minecraft: The Voyage
An Official Minecraft Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
Join a daring expedition into strange new lands with this official Minecraft novel! When a young man is ripped from his quiet life and stranded far from home, he must learn not only how to survive, but how to live.
Stax Stonecutter has lived a...
Stax Stonecutter has lived a...
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Join a daring expedition into strange new lands with this official Minecraft novel! When a young man is ripped from his quiet life and stranded far from home, he must learn not only how to survive, but how to live.Stax Stonecutter has lived a peaceful-if unremarkable-life in his small town in the Overworld. The son of great adventurers and wise builders, Stax prefers an easier life. He loves to tend to his gardens and play with his cats all day, rather than venturing out to explore the surrounding lands. It's quiet on his estate, even lonely sometimes, but it suits Stax well enough.
His solitude is shattered when a mysterious stranger arrives with a band of merciless raiders. In one terrible night, Stax's old life is taken from him, and he is left stranded in the middle of nowhere, angry and alone. He's never left home, and now he knows why: everything beyond the boundaries of his little town is scary and dangerous! But as he begins his long journey back, Stax encounters fascinating travelers who show him that there's more to the Overworld than marauding pirates and frightening mobs; there are beautiful lands to explore, fantastical contraptions to build, and new friends to meet. It may have taken losing everything he once knew, but on his adventure Stax finds something more valuable than all the diamonds in the Overworld: a whole wonderful world that's just waiting to be explored.
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Chapter 1The House by the Sea
Of Stax Stonecutter and his three faithful companions
In a house by the sea there lived a young man.
In a few minutes I ll tell you about the young man, who after all is the hero of this story. But first you ought to know something about the house, because it s important to our tale as well.
The house wasn t a palace. You probably wouldn t even call it a mansion. But it was big, and most people who saw it thought it was beautiful. It was built out of black-and-white speckled diorite, pink granite, and glass. The diorite and the granite had been carefully polished, so the first rays of the morning sun made the house seem to glow, like it was lit from within.
The house had been built into the side of a green hill dotted with white birches, so it looked like it was part of the landscape, instead of something artificial that had been stuck in the middle of it. And the land around the house had been carefully reshaped to make it pleasing to the eye.
If you approached the house by sea, you d step off your boat at the end of a broad green lawn, with a line of birch trees to either side. To your right, you d find a low hill covered with flowers of every color: roses and peonies and tulips and cornflowers and daisies. To your left, beside another low hill, you d see pens for cattle and pigs and chickens and sheep, and above them you d find lovingly tended rows of crops: wheat, beetroot and carrots, and the squat squares of pumpkins and melons. Ahead and above you, you d see the house. To reach it, you d pass between the white birch trees, perhaps thinking they looked a little like soldiers on parade, walk around a cheerful fountain that splashed and burbled in a square of green lawn, and climb a broad flight of polished diorite steps until you stood at the front door.
The young man who lived in the house was named Stax Stonecutter, and he was the third in the line of Stonecutters to call it home. Stax s
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grandmother, the first Stonecutter anyone had ever heard of, had built a simple dwelling in the side of the hill many years before little more than a cave chopped out of the dirt and rock. It was her son, Stax s father, who d enlarged the house and planted the trees and flowers and made the Stonecutter home into an impressive estate.
Stax s father and grandmother were dead now, buried alongside the rest of his family in a place of honor in the back garden. Stax lived alone, or almost alone. Three cats lived with him: a black one with golden eyes, a gray-striped one with green eyes, and a Siamese with blue eyes. They were called Coal, Emerald, and Lapis, after some of the rocks and minerals the Stonecutter family had mined from the ground over the years.
Stax loved Coal, Emerald, and Lapis and considered them company enough for a happy life. In recent years he d begun to talk with them, even though they never offered answers beyond swishes of the tail, purrs, or the occasional meow. Visitors to the Stonecutter estate had grown used to coming across Stax somewhere on the grounds, planting flowers or pruning tree limbs while chatting companionably with one or more of the cats, who more often than not would be asleep in the sun.
The people who lived near the Stonecutter estate thought this behavior was a bit strange, but then everything about Stax struck them as at least a bit strange. His oldest neighbors remembered Stax s grandmother as a skilled miner who never shied from marching into a dark hole in the ground and returned weighed down with rich minerals and marvelous treasures. The younger ones recalled Stax s father as a great adventurer, a smiling man who loved traveling the world and meeting new people. Stax s father had loved tales and he was pretty good at telling his own stories, and at convincing
Stax s father and grandmother were dead now, buried alongside the rest of his family in a place of honor in the back garden. Stax lived alone, or almost alone. Three cats lived with him: a black one with golden eyes, a gray-striped one with green eyes, and a Siamese with blue eyes. They were called Coal, Emerald, and Lapis, after some of the rocks and minerals the Stonecutter family had mined from the ground over the years.
Stax loved Coal, Emerald, and Lapis and considered them company enough for a happy life. In recent years he d begun to talk with them, even though they never offered answers beyond swishes of the tail, purrs, or the occasional meow. Visitors to the Stonecutter estate had grown used to coming across Stax somewhere on the grounds, planting flowers or pruning tree limbs while chatting companionably with one or more of the cats, who more often than not would be asleep in the sun.
The people who lived near the Stonecutter estate thought this behavior was a bit strange, but then everything about Stax struck them as at least a bit strange. His oldest neighbors remembered Stax s grandmother as a skilled miner who never shied from marching into a dark hole in the ground and returned weighed down with rich minerals and marvelous treasures. The younger ones recalled Stax s father as a great adventurer, a smiling man who loved traveling the world and meeting new people. Stax s father had loved tales and he was pretty good at telling his own stories, and at convincing
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Autoren-Porträt von Jason Fry
Jason Fry is the New York Times bestselling author of the young adult space-fantasy series The Jupiter Pirates, as well as Star Wars: The Last Jedi and many other works set in a galaxy far, far away. He is an advocate for birch trees, lawns free of tall grass, boats made of dark oak, and houses built out of dark prismarine. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, son, and (sadly) no cats.
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- Autor: Jason Fry
- Altersempfehlung: Ab 10 Jahre
- 2020, Internationale Ausgabe, 304 Seiten, Maße: 14,1 x 20,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Random House
- ISBN-10: 0593159233
- ISBN-13: 9780593159231
- Erscheinungsdatum: 18.05.2020
Sprache:
Englisch
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