The Coming Conquest of England is a classic utopian novel that displayed the German lust for world domination long before either of the two world wars. The story that I shall portray in the following pages is not a chapter of the world’s past history; it is the picture as it clearly developed itself to my mind’s eye, on the publication of the first despatch of the Viceroy Alexieff to the Tsar of Russia. And, simultaneously like a flash of lightning, the telegram which the Emperor William sent to the Boers after Jameson’s Raid crosses my memory that telegram which aroused in the heart of the German nation such an abiding echo. I gaze into the picture, and am mindful of the duties and aims of our German nation. My dreams, the dreams of a German, show me the war that is to be, and the victory of the three great allied nations. Germany, France, and Russia and a new division of the possessions of the earth as the final aim and object of this gigantic universal war. Views: 51
Spenser earned his degree in the school of hard knocks, so he is ready when a Boston university hires him to recover a rare, stolen manuscript. He is hardly surpised that his only clue is a radical student with four bullets in his chest.
The cops are ready to throw the book at the pretty blond coed whose prints are all over the murder weapon but Spenser knows there are no easy answers. He tackles some very heavy homework and knows that if he doesn't finish his assignment soon, he could end up marked "D" -- for dead.
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Jonas Conrad inherited his father's fortune, his cunning - and his
beautiful wife. Rina Marlow's lush sexuality made her a movie goddess,
but together or apart they loved, fought and schemed in an all-out bid
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Vornan-19 fell from the sky, naked, and landed on the Spanish steps in Rome on Christmas afternoon toward the end of the Millennium. And for Leo Garfield things would never be the same. For he is an acknowledged expert in the time reversal properties of sub-atomic particles... and Vornan-19 claims to come from far in the future. Whether or not he is telling the truth, a nervous and edgy world accepts the charming and magnetically charismatic Vornan as some kind of messiah. Even Garfield and his fellow scientists fall under Vornan's spell. But, has he really traveled across time — or is he just a charlatan and a fraud? A compassionate and powerful novel worthy of comparison to Stranger in a Strange Land .
It was published in the United Kingdom under the title Vornan-19.
Nominated for Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1968. Views: 51
MISSING: ONE WINDOWONE VERY SPECIAL 'window'–the point of egress from an alien dimension–ceased to be and with its disappearance there vanished the means of return to our ownspatima continuum, our own universe of space and time and matter. Perry Rhodan learns whether a man can drown in an 'ocean of time'. And the crew of the spaceshipSherbourne –does coincidence, chance, a lucky accident or fate determine the outcome of their adventure in the Other Dimension? The lens-field generator and the dread Druufs are all part of the package of those who, like you when you read this breadth taking episode, sense—A TOUCH OF ETERNITY! Views: 51
Diva Mawrdew Czgowchwz (pronounced “Mardu Gorgeous”) bursts like the most brilliant of comets onto the international opera scene, only to confront the deadly malice and black magic of her rivals. Outrageous and uproarious, flamboyant and serious as only the most perfect frivolity can be, James McCourt’s entrancing send-up of the world of opera has been a cult classic for more than a quarter-century. This comic tribute to the love of art is a triumph of art and love by a contemporary American master. Views: 51
Set decades after the Earth’s population has been sterilised as a result of nuclear bomb tests conducted in Earth's orbit, the book shows an emptying world, occupied by an ageing, childless population. Views: 51
Just as "Cancelled in Red" took Inspector Luke Bradley, the soft-spoken, hard-boiled cop, through the intriguing maze of the stamp collecting racket, so this mystery tangles Bradley up in the fast tanbark crowd."The 24th Horse" gallops after a host of hard-faced people, some of them with more money than is good for them — and others, unfortunately, with far too little.From the minute Johnny Curtin drives a coupé with the body of a murdered girl in the rumble seat to Inspector Bradley's door, this novel keeps moving — fast! "The 24th Horse" is a tense, absorbing mystery novel that will hold the reader to the final page as Bradley sets a trap for a desperate killer — and finds himself face to face with death! Views: 51
A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness_ _is Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul[HTML_REMOVED]s profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an extraordinarily perceptive chronicle of his first encounter with India.Traveling from the bureaucratic morass of Bombay to the ethereal beauty of Kashmir, from a sacred ice cave in the Himalayas to an abandoned temple near Madras, Naipaul encounters a dizzying cross-section of humanity: browbeaten government workers and imperious servants, a suavely self-serving holy man and a deluded American religious seeker. An Area of Darkness also abounds with Naipaul[HTML_REMOVED]s strikingly original responses to India[HTML_REMOVED]s paralyzing caste system, its apparently serene acceptance of poverty and squalor, and the conflict between its desire for self-determination and its nostalgia for the British raj. The result may be the most elegant and passionate book ever written about the subcontinent. Views: 51
The classic thriller of Dr. Josef Mengele's nightmarish plot to restore the Third ReichAlive and hiding in South America, the fiendish Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele gathers a group of former colleagues for a horrifying project. Barry Koehler, a young investigative journalist, gets wind of the scheme and informs famed Nazi hunter Yakov Liebermann, but before he can relay the evidence, Koehler is killed.Thus Ira Levin opens one of the strangest and most masterful novels of his career. Why has Mengele marked a number of harmless aging men for murder? What is the hidden link that binds them? What interest can they possibly hold for their killers: six former SS men dispatched from South America by the most wanted Nazi still alive, the notorious "Angel of Death"? One man alone must answer these questions and stop the killings—Liebermann, himself aging and thought by some to be losing his grip on reality.At the heart of The Boys from Brazil lies a frightening contemporary... Views: 51
Thomas Carmody wins the Intergalactic Sweepstakes and leaves Earth behind. He ends up following his fast-talking Prize from place to place, seeing talking dinosaurs, a perfect city smothering its residents with motherly love, a giant, slightly bored God, and much more. The only problem is that death is chasing closely after him and there seems to be no way to get safely home . . . From the very beginning of his career, Robert Sheckley was recognized by fans, reviewers, and fellow authors as a master storyteller and the wittiest satirist working in the science fiction field. Open Road is proud to republish his acclaimed body of work, with nearly thirty volumes of full-length fiction and short story collections. Rediscover, or discover for the first time, a master of science fiction who, according to the New York Times, was "a precursor to Douglas Adams." Views: 51
"A hard-hitting novel of a big-time gambler and America's most fabulous resort - Las Vegas"--Cover Views: 51
