In The Light Fantastic only one individual can save the world from a disastrous collision. Unfortunately, the hero happens to be the singularly inept wizard Rincewind, who was last seen falling off the edge of the world…
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L. E. Modesitt, Jr's first major work was a trilogy of SF adventure novels published as paperback originals in the 1980s: Dawn for a Distant Earth, The Silent Warrior, and In Endless Twilight. Together they form The Forever Hero. Thousands of years in the future, Earth is a desolate ruin. The first human ship to return in millennia discovers an abandoned wasteland inhabited only by a few degenerate or mutated human outcasts. But among them is a boy of immense native intelligence and determination who is captured, taken in, and educated, and disappears—to grow up to become the force behind a plan to make Earth flower again. He is, if not immortal, at least very long-lived, and he plans to build an independent power base out in the galaxy and force the galactic empire to devote centuries and immense resources to the restoration of the ecology of Earth. At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital... Views: 66
Jill investigates the death of a chef who was mysteriously poisoned by his own soupUntil the helicopter crash, Jill Smith never knew fear. A homicide detective in the leftist enclave of Berkeley, California, she has faced down her share of thugs, thieves, and killers, but since surviving the downed helicopter, her nerves have been shot. Unwilling to submit to her anxiety, she goes back to work. The chef and owner of Paradise, an upscale restaurant in Berkeley’s so-called “Gourmet Ghetto,” is found on the floor of his own kitchen, poisoned by the soup he was seasoning. On his way to the top of the foodie pyramid, the chef made enemies of his dishwasher, his neighbors, and Earth Man, a hippie holdout who lives on kitchen scraps. To pinpoint the killer, Jill will have to remember what it means to be fearless.This ebook features an illustrated biography of Susan Dunlap including rare images from the author’s personal collection. Views: 66
Could she stir passion where once she stirred pity?For the intensely shy Clarry Kingston, life would have been unbearable without her very special friend, Robert Randall. In every crisis he had been there to run to.Even when they married, it seemed only natural, because be doing so Robert saved Mirrabill -- the Australian homestead Clarry's family had been in danger of losing.But now it was time to grow up. Her husband needed more than a little girl to protect -- he needed a real wife. Views: 66
New Egypt is a village somewhere in the South of England. A village that nobody has ever left. Peach, the sadistic chief of police, makes sure of that. Then, one misty morning, a young couple secretly set their baby son Moses afloat on the river, in a basket made of rushes. Years later, Moses is living above a nightclub, mixing with drug-dealers, thieves and topless waitresses. He knows nothing about his past - but it is catching up with him nevertheless, and it threatens to put his life in danger. Terror, magic and farce all have a part to play as the worlds of Peach and Moses slowly converge. Views: 65
First published in 1986 and nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, Early Reagan is still the most in-depth portrayal of the pre-government years of the late president. The book uncovers Reagan's formative years: childhood poverty, film stardom, and his politicization via the Screen Actors Guild. Anne Edwards interviewed more than two hundred people important in the life of Reagan as well as those of his two wives, Jane Wyman and Nancy Davis. The book concludes with Reagan's entry into politics in 1966, when he announced his candidacy for Governor of California in the living room of his hilltop San Onofre home. As the late historian Barbara Tuchman noted, "For anyone who wants to know about the circumstances . . . that formed Ronald Reagan into a political figure, this is the book to read." Views: 65
The Barracuda, the most advanced attack submarine in the U.S. undersea arsenal.
The Potemkin, a shattering breakthrough in Soviet underwater weaponry.
Facing each other in a deadly contest, vessel against vessel becomes man against man.
Jack Sorenson, the sonar genius,against Nikolai Federov, the beleaguered Soviet captain.
The hunter and the hunted.
Who would win and who would lose? And would the world survive the lethal reality of two nuclear-powered predators...? Views: 65
Quatre personnages anonymes, une femme, un soldat, le joueur et le vieil homme, réunis par l'aventure de l'espace quotidien le découvrent au fur et à mesure qu'il s'étend devant eux - le plus proche devient un paysage lointain, un terrain vague devient l'immensité, une étendue dénudée le désert. À chaque pas naissent des paysages inconnus, c'est le regard qui les fait apparaître. Les endroits les plus banals deviennent des terres inconnues. Peut-être le voyage s'est-il déroulé à travers un grand pays vide ou aux confins immédiats d'une ville, on ne sait, mais il révèle aux voyageurs les lignes du sol, sa consistance, ses dimensions et les transforme en lieux d'être. La fin du voyage, aussi fortuite que le début, sépare ce groupe rassemblé par le visible et rend chacun des voyageurs à sa solitude initiale. Le 'guide' qui les a conduits est peut-être l'absence. Ce qu'ils ont en commun, c'est ce qu'ils ont vu. Views: 65
Channing Stuart, a beautiful, brilliant young scientist and amateur magician, is recruited by the U.S. State Department to use her unique magic skills to retrieve a piece of passport film from a master terrorist. With veteran agent Bill Ellery, Channing plays a lethal game of cat and mouse against a cold-blooded killer and must perform her sleight of hand amidst a blaze of bullets. Views: 64
FREEDOM’S CHAMPION
Nearly a hundred years have passed since Russia’s nuclear first strike on an unprepared United States. As America struggles out of the radioactive rubble, a leader emerges to guide the American rebels in their most desperate hour. He is the ultimate soldier of survival, the Doomsday Warrior himself, Ted Rockson.
But even Rockson can’t evade the clutches of the brutal Soviet invader. Captured and tortured by the KGB, Rockson manages to escape into the searing western desert where, hungry and delirious, he is suddenly swept into the whirling vortex of a violent postnuke mega storm . . .
. . . and awakes in the time-trapped streets of 20th Century Salt Lake City—a city held prisoner by the hallucinatory powers of a demonic tyrant called The Chessman. Whether real or imagined, the Doomsday Warrior has no choice but to battle The Chessman in the most dangerous game of all—the game of life and death. At stake is the survival of an American city . . . and the future of the free world!
DOOMSDAY WARRIOR Views: 64
First published in Azimov’s Science Fiction in Oct 1987. Later published as part of Escape from Kathmandu collection (Tor Books, 1989). Views: 63
Code Blue — Emergency is a 1987 science fiction novel written by author James White and is part of the Sector General series. White said in an interview that originally he intended to end the series with Star Healer (1985), by which time the central characters had reached the top levels in their careers. However Ballantine Books persuaded him to continue, and he extended the stories’ range by introducing new central characters beginning with Code Blue — Emergency . The protagonist of the story is Sommaradvan healer Cha Thrat. She bravely saved a human pilot who crashlanded on her planet, despite a complete lack of knowledge about his physiology. Contact with her species was established by the accident, so knowledge of their social customs is still virtually non-existent. However, she is invited to join the Sector General staff. Cha Thrat innocently wreaks havoc by following her instincts and social customs. First she befriends a hypochondriac Chalder. Next, she is invited to assist at a therapeutic surgery operation to amputate the limb of a Hudlar, which will prolong its life (see Star Healer.) When given the honor of cutting the limb, she obliges — and then deliberately cuts her own arm off as well, in accordance with the custom of her people. Next she saves the untouchable patient Khone (see Star Healer), and then finds a weird parasite species on a derelict spaceship. Due to the chaos she causes, every department in the hospital now refuses to allow her near their patients. O’Mara values her unusual approaches, and decides to add her to his staff. Views: 63
SUMMARY:
Swordplay and sorcery leads to unexpected adventures in a strange and exotic land. Views: 63
'Cause a poker face aint' just a song by Lady Gaga' Crang is a criminal lawyer. He loves jazz, old movies, Polish vodka, his Volkswagen convertible, and his girlfriend Annie, not necessarily in that order. A wise-cracking WASP with a moral code that owes little to the Law Society of Upper Canada, Crang is equally quick with his lip and fists, but he can tell a fish fork from a pair of brass knuckles when he has to. The clients who come to Crang's second-floor walk-up office on Toronto's Queen Street strip--street punks, two bit robbers, and small-time scam artists--are usually guilty. Crang likes it that way. Mostly he gets them off and they're grateful. So when Matthew Wansborough, wealthy financier and scion of a fine old family, comes to Crang with the novel problem that his $300,000 investment in Ace Disposal Services is too profitable, Crang is puzzled. Wansborough isn't Crang's usual kind of client and Ace isn't Wansborough's usual kind of blue-chip operation. Crang's unorthodox investigation of Ace reveals that it's a dirty player in a dirty business, run by men who oil the wheels of commerce with kickbacks, fraud, muscle--and murder. Mystery and comedy mix in this entertaining novel, written with the in-depth knowledge of the legal scene and the easygoing style that have made bestsellers of Batten's previous books. Once readers have made the acquaintance of Crang, they will be eager to read of his future cases in what promises to be a long and successful series. Views: 63
Product Description:For a thousand years and more, The Worlds of Man had been dominated by the Laowon Imperium. The aliens thought humans made good slaves and better pets, and they were fond of creating new breeds. And the Laowon made sure that their playthings never grew too powerful.But one day, on the edge of Human Space, Jon Iehard was ordered to hunt Eblis Bey, a terrorist from Old Earth. And that was the beggining of the end for the Laowon. Because Iehard had been a Laowon slave. And Eblis Bey held half the key to a weapon that could destroy the Laowon tyranny and bring freedom once more to Mankind! Views: 63
