Product DescriptionAn eclectic collection of all-original science fiction stories from some of the foremost luminaries in the genre. Featuring new tales of far future murder, first contact, love and war from such well-regarded and award winning authors as Peter F. Hamilton, Stephen Baxter, Adam Roberts, Jeffrey Thomas, Eric Brown, Paul Di Filippo, Neal Asher, Jay Lake and Ian Watson, this collection is sure to delight all fans of good science fiction.ContentsIn His Sights by Jeffrey ThomasBioship by Neal AsherC-Rock City by Jay Lake & Greg van EekhoutThe Bowdler Strain by James LovegrovePersonal Jesus by Paul Di FilippoIf At First... by Peter F. HamiltonA Distillation of Grace by Adam RobertsLast Contact by Stephen BaxterCages by Ian WatsonJellyfish by Mike Resnick & David GerroldZora and the Land Ethnic Nomads by Mary A. TurzilloFour Ladies of the Apocalypse by Brian AldissThe Accord by Keith BrookeThe Wedding Party by Simon IngsThird Person by Tony BallantyneThe Farewell Party by Eric Brown Views: 33
*Adams breathed through the thick weave of his pulse. Hobbs. Again. His return likely meant trouble. Care and trouble.The uneasy friendship between Fremont Adams and C. D. Hobbs worked best when both men had a job to do, when they could fall into the rhythm of hard labor. Neglected by his mother at an early age, Hobbs found his way into the Adams family. But everyone could tell he was always a bit off. Fremont resigned himself to watching out for Hobbs, who had the innocence and optimism that can come only from ignorance. After a grueling tour of duty in Korea, however, Adams and Hobbs return to the ranch marked in dangerous ways.In four parts--alternating between the Wyoming ranch and Korea--Alyson Hagy reveals the intricacies of a profound friendship between two very different men. Snow, Ashes is a suspenseful, engaging exploration of survival and failure and of how the most vulnerable among us can have a wisdom beyond measure. Views: 32
Richard Feynman -- Nobel Laureate, teacher, icon and genius -- possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled gift for telling the extraordinary stories of his life.In this collection of short pieces and reminiscences he describes everything from his love of beauty to college pranks to how his father taught him to think. He takes us behind the scenes of the space shuttle Challenger investigation, where he dramatically revealed the cause of the disaster with a simple experiment. And he tells us of how he met his beloved first wife Arlene, and their brief time together before her death. Sometimes intensely moving, sometimes funny, these writings are infused with Feynman's curiosity and passion for life. Views: 32
When Lady Meriden's eldest
stepson and husband die within days of each other, the estate passes to the
second stepson. No one has seen him in years, yet he inherits everything,
including his father's gambling debts and guardianship of his seven siblings.
Jane Ash rushes to her aunt's aid. Months go by before the new baron comes, and
Jane is left to cope with her ailing, self-dramatizing aunt and bewildered
cousins, all of whom have problems. Lady Meriden alternately spoils and
neglects them. Julian, the heir, has his own problems and wants nothing less
than to play the heavy parent to his unknown siblings. When he does come, will
he and Jane form an unexpected alliance that leads to romance?
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Sculptor Sam Foundling is
the obvious suspect when his wife Cecilia is found beaten to death in
his studio. Trish acted as Sam's barrister years
ago, when he was an abandoned child being brutalised in care. Trying to protecting him now will bring her up against DCI Caro Lyalt, the
senior investigating officer, who is also her own best friend.Evidence
against Sam mounts up. Cecilia's powerful mother is pressing for his
arrest and the police hierarchy want him charged for the brutal murder. If
Trish is to save Sam's sanity, and her own, she must find out exactly what happened in the studio that morning. Views: 32
Trapped underground, Kyle Reese struggles to stay alive and prevent the ultimate Skynet infiltration. Amidst the ruins of the VLA lab, Resistance fighters Barnes and Blair sift through the remains of their fallen comrades, searching for the body of Barnes’s brother. On the forested slopes of the mountains, a man battles through the trees relentlessly pursued by a Terminator. ____________
Following the dramatic events of Terminator Salvation , a recovering John Connor grants Barnes permission to return to the destroyed VLA lab and bury his brother, killed in the explosive opening of the movie. At the ruins Barnes and Blair Williams hunt through the debris for the remains of their comrade but instead uncover a mysterious cable leading up into the mountains. The two Resistance fighters head into the wilderness to investigate.
What the pair discovers is an entire village that appears largely untouched by Judgment Day and its aftermath. Suspicious of the villagers, Barnes and Blair decide to dig deeper....
An official novel exploring the post-Judgment Day world of the hit movie Terminator Salvation . Views: 32
New York Times bestselling author Joy Fielding takes readers on a terror-charged hunt for a serial killer holding a small South Florida town in a vice-like grip of fear, suspicion, and violence. As Sheriff John Weber would attest, the deadliest predators in Torrance, Florida, were the alligators lurking in the nearby swamps. But that was before someone abducted and murdered a runaway teenage girl...and before the disappearance of popular and pretty Liana Martin. The pattern is chilling to Sandy Crosbie, the town's new high school English teacher. With a marriage on the rocks, thanks to her husband's online affairs, and a beautiful teenage daughter to protect, Sandy wishes she'd never come to the seemingly quiet town with shocking depths of scandal, sex, and brutality roiling beneath its surface. And as Sheriff Weber digs up more questions than answers in a dead-end investigation, one truth emerges: the prettiest ones are being targeted, the heartstoppers. And this killer intends to give them their due.... From Publishers WeeklyBestseller Fielding (Mad River Road) delivers another dependably entertaining thriller. When Sandy Crosbie and her physician husband, Ian, move to Torrance, Fla. (pop. 4,160), from Rochester, N.Y., to make a new start, Sandy quickly discovers that the real new start is Ian's affair with "Barbie clone" Kerri Franklin, whom he met on an Internet chat line. Sandy, who's irritatingly docile about being deserted, trudges forward, getting a job teaching at the local high school and keeping an eye on her two teenage children, Megan and Tim. The author convincingly portrays the Crosbie siblings and other students, while examining in more depth than some readers might prefer teenage angst and puppy love. A popular girl, Liana Martin, disappears and her body later turns up in a swamp. Amid the offstage drama of the school play rehearsals, Sandy's painful blind date and Ian's affair, tension builds and cracks appear within and among local residents. Every few chapters, the anonymous killer offers an entry, which adds to the suspense, though the generous time spent with our mystery villain takes some of the kick out of the ending. (Apr.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From BooklistIn Fielding's latest suspense novel set in tiny Torrance, Florida, a serial killer's journal entries are interspersed with the stunned reactions of various of the town's citizens when two teenage girls go missing. Sandy Crosbie, a high-school English teacher and the mother of two teenagers, has relocated to remote Torrance from Rochester, New York, at the urging of her handsome doctor husband. But his reasons for the move soon become apparent when he leaves her for Kerri Franklin, a "Barbie clone and Internet paramour extraordinaire." Sandy, along with the rest of the town's citizens, is jolted out of her self-absorption when the body of the most popular girl in school is found buried in a shallow grave. Now it's up to exhausted, overweight Sheriff John Weber, unhappily married to the TV-addicted Pauline, to calm residents' fears and find out what happened to the pretty blonde teen. But even as he fends off the town's obnoxious mayor, intent on calling in the FBI, Sandy's daughter goes missing. Fielding crafts a suspenseful plot, with a stunner of a twist, while giving her characters a depth of humanity not frequently found in formula fiction. Exciting and unexpectedly touching reading from the talented Fielding. Joanne WilkinsonCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved Views: 32
The fantastic story of the semimythical folk hero who has delighted generations of readers all over the world Published anonymously in 1785, The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen defies logic, the laws of physics, and even rational thought. Karl Friedrich von Munchausen, also known as the Baron of Lies, was a retired army captain famed for his outlandish accounts of his war and hunting exploits. In this "memoir," Munchausen regales readers with stories of dancing in the belly of a whale and riding on a horse cut in two. Other escapades include a balloon expedition to the moon, an encounter with the goddess Venus, a fiery battle with the Turkish army, and the experience of being swallowed up by a monstrous creature in the South Seas. It was not until 1824 that Rudolf Erich Raspe was revealed as the book's author. Although most of Munchausen's tales sprang from Raspe's imagination, the author is reputed to have known the... Views: 32
In this third Adventure, Attorney Peter Sharp is retained to represent a man accused of murder, by the planting of bombs in vehicles. The client is also suspected of being part of a conspiracy to assassinate the President of the United States in an upcoming Fourth of July parade. With the assistance of his legal ward Suzi, Peter cracks the case, identifies the real murderer, and at the same time solves the mystery of a dead body found in his friend Stuart's automobile trunk... all while falling for a lesbian lawyer, winning a Will contest, breaking up a stolen car ring 4,000 miles away, and battling with his ex-wife, who has been elected to the office of District Attorney. In the hectic finale, Suzi miraculously manages to get `Bernie,? her huge Saint Bernard into a courtroom, where she makes her first official court appearance, holds her first press conference, and becomes a local television hero. Views: 32
