Turning her body into chemical weapons was not an option she was given in school.
Abitika grew up with a talent for changing the way people think. When she used that talent on behalf of her sister, it gained her five years of confinement.
The Citadel has been checking Jrinka colony for years, and Abitika was one of the most promising sightings. They pry her out of her confinement and send her to Morganti in the nick of time.
Recovering from her incarceration, Bits is shocked to find out that her talent for pheromonal manipulation also extends to her mind.
Turnari is the only one willing to take the risk of training the new specialist and teaching her what her mind was capable of. They have a true meeting of the minds but the both want more. Views: 51
-a Night Stalkers Wedding story- Before the end of Night Stalkers #2, I Own the Dawn... Sniper Kee Smith knew two things for certain: 1) she'd never be a mother 2) she'd never be a bride Wounded in battle, Captain Archie Stevenson will never fly again. He knows that he can't ask the woman and the war orphan they both love to take on such a burden. Kee and Archie have fought many battles together, but can they face the hard truths and reach the altar for Kee's Wedding. Views: 51
The idea of a missing link between humanity and our animal ancestors predates evolution and popular science and actually has religious roots in the deist concept of the Great Chain of Being. Yet, the metaphor has lodged itself in the contemporary imagination, and new fossil discoveries are often hailed in headlines as revealing the elusive transitional step, the moment when we stopped being “animal” and started being “human.” In The Accidental Species, Henry Gee, longtime paleontology editor at Nature, takes aim at this misleading notion, arguing that it reflects a profound misunderstanding of how evolution works and, when applied to the evolution of our own species, supports mistaken ideas about our own place in the universe. Gee presents a robust and stark challenge to our tendency to see ourselves as the acme of creation. Far from being a quirk of religious fundamentalism, human exceptionalism, Gee argues, is an error that also infects scientific thought. Touring the many features of human beings that have recurrently been used to distinguish us from the rest of the animal world, Gee shows that our evolutionary outcome is one possibility among many, one that owes more to chance than to an organized progression to supremacy. He starts with bipedality, which he shows could have arisen entirely by accident, as a by-product of sexual selection, moves on to technology, large brain size, intelligence, language, and, finally, sentience. He reveals each of these attributes to be alive and well throughout the animal world—they are not, indeed, unique to our species. The Accidental Species combines Gee’s firsthand experience on the editorial side of many incredible paleontological findings with healthy skepticism and humor to create a book that aims to overturn popular thinking on human evolution—the key is not what’s missing, but how we’re linked. Views: 51
From New York Times bestselling author Andrew Smith comes the stunning, long-awaited sequel to the groundbreaking Printz Honor Book Grasshopper Jungle.It's been sixteen years since an army of horny, hungry, six-foot-tall praying mantises forced Arek's family underground and into the hole where he was born; it's the only home he's ever known. But now, post-end-of-the-world, the army of horny, hungry praying mantises might finally be dying out, and Arek's ready to leave the hole for good. All he has are mysterious letters from Breakfast, a naked, wild boy traveling the countryside with his silent companion, Olive. Together, Arek and his best friend Mel, who stowed away in his van, navigate their way through the ravaged remains of the outside world. This long-awaited sequel to the irreverent, groundbreaking Printz Honor Book Grasshopper Jungle is stunning, compelling, and even more hilarious and beautifully bizarre than its predecessor. Views: 51
Londuo is a Qinant teenager. She is stranded in Colorado, USA, one hundred and forty-three thousand light years from home after the spaceship Aurora is destroyed. The year is 1964. Meanwhile in 2019, James is living in the English countryside and thinks he is just a normal teenager; no different to many others. However, his mother has kept a secret from him, one that will change his life and ultimately the fate of his race. As teenagers, Londuo and James’ paths have crossed before, in a timeline where every world in the galaxy is under threat. Time was supposed to have been rewritten, but yet it seems they are destined to meet again. After the untimely death of his mother, James discovers that he is not human, in fact, he is Qinant. He starts a journey into space in search of his people and discovers that his home world has been destroyed by the Treitans. He meets an inseparable and inestimable travel mate, Kalrea, and the love of his life, Londuo. Together they fight against the Treitans. But are the Treitans their real enemies…?The Aurora is a science fiction adventure written for Young Adults, but is perfect for anyone who likes this genre. It is a cocktail of action and drama, mixed with a healthy helping of romance. Views: 51
The Strange Bird—from New York Times bestselling novelist Jeff VanderMeer—is a digital original that expands and weaves deeply into the world of his "thorough marvel"* of a novel, Borne.The Strange Bird is a new kind of creature, built in a laboratory—she is part bird, part human, part many other things. But now the lab in which she was created is under siege and the scientists have turned on their animal creations. Flying through tunnels, dodging bullets, and changing her colors and patterning to avoid capture, the Strange Bird manages to escape.But she cannot just soar in peace above the earth. The sky itself is full of wildlife that rejects her as one of their own, and also full of technology—satellites and drones and other detritus of the human civilization below that has all but destroyed itself. And the farther she flies, the deeper she finds herself in the orbit of the Company, a collapsed biotech firm... Views: 51
Celtic Magic is Book 1 of the Abby Kane Trilogy Views: 51
The second book in an epic science fiction adventure series that chronicles the creation of the first interplanetary Starforce to battle humanity's descent into crime and corruption. When the Bureau Commander investigates a powerful Earth Senator, an attempt is made on his life. Faced with threats against the officers and families of the organisation, Captain Kaufman must lead his crew of the Intrepid against the Senator and his ruthless mercenaries before they are shut down or killed. Struggling with the conflicting paths of saving his colleagues from destruction and pursing a personal vendetta, Kaufman fights for the survival of everything they have built. Battling against a corrupt and powerful politician, Kaufman must be willing to break all the rules. The alternative is to see the Bureau he had sworn to protect destroyed forever. Starforce Ganymede is a classic action adventure set against the background of humanity's colonisation of the Solar System in the 24th century. Views: 51
