Just to prove nothing ever goes as planned, Jared had a surprise for Joe when he arrived to retire him.
Trapped in hyperspace, Joe escapes with the help of a new friend; the runaway and original Navigator Cassandra. In return for her help, Joe agrees to help her with a problem she is having with a community of gifted people.
After saving the remaining people on the Citadel, Joe visits the Council to enlist their aid with Cassandra’s people and to offer his suggestions for the recreation of the Citadel.
What will the Council decide when they learn that some of Cassandra’s people are targeting the Council as the agency that has been trying to capture them. What will the real agency do if the Council helps?
To make matters more complicated, one of the explorations teams finds a planet with old human ruins forty light years from Earth. Which begs the question, is Earth the only ‘enemy’ here?
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Half-breed tinkerer Kali McAlister doesn’t care that the gold rush has stormed into Dawson and prospectors are flooding the north—all she wants is to finish construction of her airship, so she can escape the Yukon and see the world. Unfortunately, the world keeps chucking wrenches into her machinery: a mysterious gambler is pumping her for information on her... Views: 29
-a Firehawks Hotshots romance story- Wildfire engine driver Jill Conway-Jones loves driving the big engines, but her real goal is to get up close and personal with a fire, just like the Interagency Hotshots. She gets a little too close when a burning tree crashes onto her fire engine. Hotshot Jess Monroe loves the fire's heat, but can't seem to find a woman who sparks his own. At least not until he arrives to rescue the driver of the shattered truck—just in time to watch her kick out the windshield. And that's only the first turn on the Road to the Fire's Heart. Views: 29
Taking the events and characters of the Iliad as his jumping off point Dan Simmons has created an epic of time travel and savage warfare. Travellers from 40,000 years in the future return to Homer's Greece and rewrite history forever, their technology impacting on the population in agodlike fashion. This is broad scope space opera rich in classical and literary allusion from one of the key figures in 1990s world SF and marks a return to the genre for one of its greats. Views: 29
