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The profoundly original and wildly entertaining short stories of a legendary Twilight Zone writer It is only natural that Charles Beaumont would make a name for himself crafting scripts for The Twilight Zone—for his was an imagination so limitless it must have emerged from some other dimension. Perchance to Dream contains a selection of Beaumont's finest stories, including five that he later adapted for Twilight Zone episodes.Beaumont dreamed up fantasies so vast and varied they burst through the walls of whatever box might contain them. Supernatural, horror, noir, science fiction, fantasy, pulp, and more: all were equally at home in his wondrous mind. These are stories where lions stalk the plains, classic cars rove the streets, and spacecraft hover just overhead. Here roam musicians, magicians, vampires, monsters, toreros, extraterrestrials, androids, and perhaps even the Devil himself. With dizzying feats of master... Views: 38
Saving her from terrorists was the easy part...Still smarting from a failed mission, bodyguard Wyatt Hawk is to escort photographer Carrie Mitchell to a meeting where she'll testify about a terrorist plot. Instead, a near-deadly ambush sends the two on the run from a fiery blast of bullets.Forced into close proximity with wealthy Carrie, Wyatt has little interest in her; their differences couldn't be bigger. But somewhere between a compromised safe house and the discovery of a shocking conspiracy, the cool and distant bodyguard finds himself succumbing to Carrie's seductive allure. He'll even risk his life to save hers...because all he's left unguarded is his heart. Views: 38
It's well established now that the way you put a question often determines not only the answer you'll get, but the type of answer possible. So ... a mechanical answerer, geared to produce the ultimate revelations in reference to anything you want to know, might have unsuspected limitations. Views: 38
Janeane Linson is dead, and the impossible has happened: Every recorded detail of her murder has been erased.
It’s Special Agent Katie Pratt’s first day with Ghost Targets, the division of the FBI that tracks elite, powerful criminals with the ability to disrupt the all-seeing Hathor monitoring system. And Katie’s first case is the murder of a young business woman who, according to video surveillance, has been strangled by a seemingly invisible attacker.
In her search for the killer, Katie finds a threat far more dangerous. Now she must find a way to use the system, her wits, and her instincts to defeat an enemy as powerful as the system itself.
Surveillance, the first book in the Ghost Targets series, will satisfy your hunger for a murder mystery and leave you thirsty for more cases in its realistic, fascinating sci-fi setting.
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DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES… Except to Harry Keogh, Necroscope. And what they tell him is horrifying. In the Balkan mountains of Rumania, a terrible evil is growing. Long buried in hallowed ground, bound by earth and silver, the master vampire schemes and plots. Trapped in unlife, neither dead nor living, Thibor Ferenczy hungers for freedom and revenge. The vampire's human tool is Boris Dragosani, part of a super-secret Soviet spy agency. Dragosani is an avid pupil, eager to plumb the depthless evil of the vampire's mind. Ferenczy teaches Dragosani the awful skills of the necromancer, gives him the ability to rip secrets from the mind and bodies of the dead. Dragosani works not for Ferenczy's freedom but world domination. he will rule the world with knowledge raped from the dead. His only opponent: Harry Koegh, champion of the dead and the living. To protect Harry, the dead will do anything-even rise from their graves! Views: 38
Bonus Story: Cyncerely
YoursIt was a warm, sunny morning in Washington,
DC. Scraps of white fluff trailed across the bare dome of the sky, a lacy
lingerie more tease than cover. The air was damp and fragrant; the grass was
just damp.It had rained yesterday. Rain was forecast for tomorrow. But
it was not raining this morning. Cullen regarded it all—wet grass,
sweet-smelling air, blue sky—with exhilarated wonder. “No rain,” he pointed out
to his best man. “They were predicting rain, you know.”“True,” Rule
said. “It has remained true every time you’ve mentioned it.” Views: 38
Sorcery. Seduction.
Deduction.
Archibald
Clare is a detective of truly uncanny abilities—a mentath, capable of feats of
deduction and logic that border on the supernatural. He is also abruptly,
uniquely, the only unregistered mentath left alive in Londoninium. Someone has
murdered the others and, if not for the timely intervention of the Prime
sorceress Emma Bannon, there would have been no one left to stop... whatever is
coming.
Mentaths
and sorcerers are dying—or worse, being seduced into betraying Queen and
Country. Bannon and Clare must uncover treachery, conspiracy, and sorcery of
the blackest hue. And in a Britannia where magic has turned the Industrial
Revolution on its head, time is short.
The game is afoot...
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EDITORIAL REVIEW:
The concluding volume of the trilogy which began with "The Ragged Astronauts" and "The Wooden Spaceships" finds the twin worlds of Land and Overland facing a strange new threat. Bob Shaw's previous novels have earned him a world-wide reputation and he has won the British Science Fiction Award. Views: 38
Making new memories.
Silas has returned to Earth after living in space for nearly ten years. He doesn’t expect much except for bad memories of the surfing accident that injured him and convinced him to work as a cyborg for the government. But back on his old beach, he finds a sexy man named Peter who helps him to remember what he loved about the waves. Views: 38
