How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About Michael Strogoff or, The Courier of the Czar by Jules Verne Michael Strogoff: The Courier of the Czar (French: Michel Strogoff) is a novel written by Jules Verne in 1876. Critics, including Leonard S. Davidow, writing from Reading, Pennsylvania, in his 1937 introduction to The Spencer Press reprint as a volume in its ”Classic Romances of Literature” series consider it one of Verne’s best books. Davidow wrote, ”Jules Verne has written no better book than this, in fact it is deservedly ranked as one of the most thrilling tales ever written.” Unlike some of Verne’s other famous novels, it is not science fiction, but a scientific phenomenon (Leidenfrost effect) is a plot device. The book was later adapted to a play, by Verne himself and Adolphe D’Ennery. Incidental music to the play was written by Alexandre Artus in 1880. The book has been adapted several times for films, television and cartoon series. Views: 202
Renie Sulaweyo, a teacher in the South Africa of tomorrow, realizes something is wrong on the network. Kids, including her brother Stephen, have logged into the net, and cannot escape. Clues point to a mysterious golden city called Otherland, but investigators all end up dead. Views: 201
The Indescribable Joy of Destruction has to choose between his human friends and his fellow Artificial Sentiences.Legate Olivia Johnson struggles to adjust to life without her enhanced brain implants.Decurion Anastasia Seivers rejoins the Legion to face her biggest challenge - command.Together they are closing in on the war criminals in the Red Fleet. Will they succeed in bringing its commander to justice or will he evade their clutches once more?Fraternity is the last in the trilogy of novels: Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. Views: 201
A surprise arrest sends Handsome Rob, Assassin, off planet after one of the worst arms smugglers known. But he needs a team for this, so Mac comes with him. How deep into their cover identities will they go to catch a criminal? ============Another Handsome Rob Gig, full of espionage and action, set in the Jessica Keller universe. Be sure to catch the rest of the series, starting with Can't Shoot Straight Gang. The Future was never so cool. Views: 201
A brand new series from the Author of TIMERIDERS! Views: 201
The Talbot clan has settled in to life at Etna Station. Mike has earned the rank of Lieutenant, but there's no time to rest. Colonel Bennington has ordered Mike and his squad of misfits on a secretive mission to New York City where they are tasked to complete a complicated rescue that rapidly becomes nearly impossible to accomplish. Cut off from all support, they face what may be the single most dangerous threat to all mankind as a super predator emerges from the rubble of the once vibrant city, now a broken shadow of its former self. As their mission becomes more covert and questionable than they had originally been told, Mike, BT, Gambo and their team are forced to choose between the security of their families and what's best for Humanity. Will they succeed in what must be done? Or will they fall along the way as their ever-adapting, quickly evolving zombie enemies press the attack? Views: 201
Simak's stories often repeat a few basic ideas and themes. First and foremost is a setting in rural Wisconsin. A crusty individualistic backwoodsman character literally comes with the territory. But the rural setting is not always as idyllic as here and it is largely dominated by intolerance and isolationism. Views: 200
The return of the famous shared-world superhero books created and edited by George R. R. Martin, author of A Song of Ice and Fire. For decades, George R.R. Martin – bestselling author of A Song of Ice and Fire – has collaborated with an ever-shifting ensemble of science fiction and fantasy icons to create the amazing Wild Cards universe. In the aftermath of World War II, the Earth's population was devastated by an alien virus. Those who survived were changed forever. Some, known as jokers, were cursed with bizarre mental and physical mutations; others, granted superhuman abilities, became the lucky few known as aces. Queen Margaret, who came to the English throne after the death of her sister Elizabeth, now lies on her death-bed. Summoning the joker ace Alan Turing, she urges him to seek the true heir: Elizabeth's lost son. He was rumoured to have died as a baby but, having been born a joker, was sent into hiding. Margaret dies and her elder son Henry becomes king and at once... Views: 200
