Those
war-crazed fur-balls from the planet Kzin just won’t give up, even though the
canny pseudo-pacifists from Planet Earth cut through the Kzinti like a laser
through catmeat (once the humans rediscovered old technologies and old
instincts that never quite bred out). The ferocious Kzinti never seemed to be
able to come up with a more complicated strategy than “Scream and Leap.”
But after three hard-fought
wars, a few of the powerful pussycats have learned from their foes. Now, they
are ready, and all that stands
between freedom and a feline-filled universe is the human race. Good luck,
monkey-boys. Views: 519
They never thought that a ride in the snow would turn into a tragedy.When Chris Sainz comes into his family’s heritage of becoming a medium/psychometrist, he pays a heavy price for it. He pays for his gifts by going into seizures, comas or developing hypothermia after each paranormal experience. If that’s not all, the legendary Pirate Games are about to take place just off Puerto Rico and the Eagle’s Rook and its crew have a long history winning these games. In the end, the crew of the Eagle’s Rook wins the Pirate Games. Chris and his father find his old friend, Sam, aboard an old enemy’s ship and bring him to the Eagle’s Rook where he is reunited with his old friend. Views: 519
Leonidas, freeman, former slave gladiator and champion of the Roman Colosseum, now must fight the full might of the Roman Empire. A man who owed him money was murdered, and Leonidas is a prime suspect. With the formidable assistance of Cassia, a greek scribe who is also his unwanted slave, Leonidas fights the treachery of justice in the courts and back lanes of Imperial Rome. And if he loses, he faces a short, painful future back in the Colosseum, without friends, arms, or hope. Views: 519
It's been a long time since I published a new book of poetry. When writing these, I was attempting to breathe new life into old cliches, not an easy task in the information age, Hopefully I will bring with them some of the complexity and beauty of love as I see it. I hope you enjoy this short book with 22 poems. It was a labor of loIt's been a long time since I published a new book of poetry. As promised this is all recent poems, written from 2016-2017. When writing these, I was attempting to breathe new life into old cliches, not an easy task in the information age, Hopefully I will bring with them some of the complexity and beauty of love as I see it. I hope you enjoy this short book with 22 poems. It was a labor of love. Views: 519
Over a year on the New York Times bestseller list and more than a million copies sold.The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist.What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson.But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly, with sparkling wit, in tasty chapters consumable anytime and anywhere in your busy day.While you wait for your morning coffee to brew, for the bus, the train, or a plane to arrive, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry will reveal just what you need to be fluent and ready for the next cosmic headlines: from the Big Bang to black holes, from quarks to quantum mechanics, and from the search for planets to... Views: 518
In a world reduced to walled cities of survivors, only the pure are allowed into mainstream society. Anyone displaying signs of genetic mutation is immediately ripped from their homes and cast into a Compound. Here they are tattooed, forever marking them as an outcast. On the day of their sixteenth birthday, they are forced into the Trials and tested for the extent of their mutation. If they Fail they will be Banished into the wilderness of a world three hundred years after the DNA Wars, a certain and unpleasant death.Keira has lived in Keimusho Red Compound all her life, training with her knives, hoping she will survive her sixteenth birthday. Born with orange eyes, she’d been taken from her family too early to remember them, cast into the compound with all the other twists.But when her best friend is taken by the guards she must decide; rescue him and expose a mutation she has carefully kept hidden and risk immediate execution or leave him to die.‘I stare at my reflection, noting how the anger simmers just below the mask of my indifference. I grimace and try to dampen down. I will need to add extra whorls today, a distraction I hope. When the minders get a look at my face this morning I want them to see arrogance and disdain in my embellished tattoo… not the expression of someone fighting for control. My sixteenth birthday isn’t here yet, I reminded myself. Today is not my day to die.’ Views: 518
