Product DescriptionFar in the future, the craftsmen of the distant planet Halma create goods which are the wonder of the galaxy. But they know little of this. Their society is harshly regimented, its religion austere and unforgiving, and primitive -- to maintain standards, even the most basic use of automation is punishable by death. When Amiante, a wood-carver, is executed for processing old documents with a camera, his son Ghyl rebels, and decides to bring down the system. To do so, he must first interpret the story of Emphyrio, an ancient hero of Halman legend. About the AuthorSALES POINTS * #19 in the Millennium SF Masterworks series, a library of the finest science fiction ever written * 'All Vance's novels have exotic locales and cultures, resourceful heroes and vigorous action, but in Emphyrio they are raised to the pitch of perfection, making the novel a tremendous pleasure to read, and giving it also a mysterious beauty' - Kim Stanley Robinson * 'Jack Vance is our greatest living SF writer, and Emphyrio is one of his very best books, a magical tour de force of mystery, marvel, invention, incident, world-building and wordplay. But be warned: reading Vance is addictive' - George R.R. Martin Views: 67
American Survival follows a family fighting in the last stages of a guerrilla war, against a group of countries using infiltration across our borders, of soldiers and bio-weapons. After high tech transfers to Red China, and the breakdown of our border security result in four long years of war. The pace quickens as the family encounters the last desperate assault from the enemies arrayed against them.
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Ace James is the definition of a bad boy. Kynlee Adams is the definition of an attention whore.Ace James loves three things in this world aside from his brothers, tattoos, cars, and music. He swore he’d never fall in love after losing his mom to cancer while he was still a kid. He dates, he hooks up but nothing else crosses his mind. No serious relationships and no love until Kynlee Adams shows up and turns his world upside down.Kynlee is no girl next door. She’s returning to L.A. fresh out of high school to live with her best friend and pursue her goal of becoming a playmate. Kynlee lives for the attention she gets from guys, she needs that attention to feel confident in her own skin. Before her family moved during high school she had wanted on guy…Ace James. Now, that she’s back she still wants the one guy she never got.Ace and Kynlee find themselves in uncharted territory as their relationship begins to bloom but notwithout obstacles. Kynlee is in love with Ace but Ace can’t say the words leaving her to question theirentire relationship. Add in a co-worker hell-bent on making Kynlee his who also happens to be an enemy of Ace’s.Ace can’t understand why Kynlee needs the attention of prancing around in lingerie. Ace is jealous bynature but with Enzo pursuing Kynlee whom Ace loves even if he can’t admit it. Enzo goes out of his way to remind Ace just how unworthy he is of Kynlee.After a near death experience, Ace is more determined than ever to make things work with Kynlee but Kynlee has secrets of her own. Secrets that involve Enzo and it could end her relationship and future with Ace if they get out. Views: 67
In the bestselling Island in the Sea of Time, 20th-century Nantucket was inexplicably hurled back to the Bronze Age. In the sequel, Against the Tide of Years, the villainous renegade William Walker introduced muskets, cannon, and other deadly anachronisms to Odysseus's Greece, making himself king and positioning himself to overthrow the democratic Republic of Nantucket and destroy his archenemy, Commodore Marian Alston. Now, in the trilogy's rousing conclusion, On the Oceans of Eternity, Walker's powerful army conquers Troy and invades Babylon, Nantucket's last great ally, as Walker's blood brother, the king of Tartessos, blocks Commodore Alston's Nantucket navy at the straits of Gibraltar. If Nantucket's tiny forces cannot defeat Walker's army and allies, the world will be plunged into a Dark Age bleaker and more devastating than any known in our history. Views: 67
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