Forge Of Heaven

Author : C. J. Cherryh
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061743900

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Forge of Heaven by C. J. Cherryh Pdf

From C.J. Cherryh, one of science fiction′s greatest writers and a 3-time Hugo Award "Best Novel" winner, comes the exciting and long-awaited follow-up to Hammerfall, the second novel of the Gene Wars, now in mass market. In the second volume of "The Gene Wars," C. J. Cherryh further explores the captivating new universe where two interstellar empires, scarred by nanotechnology weaponry, hover in an uneasy detente. Perched at the edge of the galaxy, tiny Concord Station holds the balance of the universe within its carefully regulated worlds. For, created to carefully monitor the crucial desert planet below, it lies in the tenuous intersection between the territories of Earth and the alien Ondat. Marak Trin Tain has saved a planet′s people from total destruction, when the implacable ondat sent down a hammerfall to destroy the planet and keep its deadly nanoceles from changing life and evolution forever. But the regrowing planet is fragile, and a deadly cataclysm could destroy Marak--and with him, the hope for peace within the universe. Meanwhile, on Concord, an unexpected ship from Earth disrupts the uneasy truces between human and alien, and the consequences could restart the terrible Gene Wars that once destroyed most of humanity.

Author : C. J. Cherryh
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1417800038

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Forge of Heaven by C. J. Cherryh Pdf

From the Hugo Award-winning author of Hammerfall comes the second volume in the Gene Wars epic, which further explores this captivating new universe where two interstellar empires, scarred by nanotechnology weaponry, hover in an uneasy dtente.

Author : Yi ZhuXianCao
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781648844898

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Legend of Sword in Nine Heavens by Yi ZhuXianCao Pdf

A black fire lifted the mysterious veil of the Great Liang Mountain. An enormous, badly damaged sword that had cut through the ages of the Fiendgod continent. The young man who had lost his memory woke up in a daze. In that world where he could not see the light, he left countless breathtaking legends. Some people said that he was a demon, but he was only a swordsman, a lonely swordsman. 

Author : Michael DeForge
Publisher : Drawn and Quarterly
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1770464352

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Heaven No Hell by Michael DeForge Pdf

"One of the most inventive and prolific cartoonists working today."—Vulture In the past ten years, Michael DeForge has released eleven books. While his style and approach have evolved, he has never wavered from taut character studies and incisive social commentary with a focus on humor. He has deeply probed subjects like identity, gentrification, fame, and sexual desire. In “No Hell,” an angel’s tour of the five tiers of heaven reveals her obsession with a haunting infidelity. In “Raising,” a couple uses an app to see what their unborn child would look like. Of course, what begins as a simple face-melding experiment becomes a nightmare of too-much-information where the young couple is forced to confront their terrible choices. “Recommended for You” is an anxious retelling of our narrator’s favorite TV show—a Purge-like societal collapse drama—as a reflection of our desire for meaning in pop culture. Each of these stories shows the inner turmoil of an ordinary person coming to grips with a world vastly different than their initial perception of it. The humor is searing and the emotional weight lingers long after the story ends. Heaven No Hell collects DeForge’s best work yet. His ability to dig into a subject and break it down with beautiful drawings and sharp writing makes him one of the finest short story writers of the past decade, in comics or beyond. Heaven No Hell is always funny, sometimes sad, and continuously innovative in its deconstruction of society.

Author : Junius Podrug
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1149276298

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Frost of Heaven by Junius Podrug Pdf

Author : Michael Livingston
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466873315

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The Shards of Heaven by Michael Livingston Pdf

Julius Caesar is dead, assassinated on the senate floor, and the glory that is Rome has been torn in two. Octavian, Caesar's ambitious great-nephew and adopted son, vies with Marc Antony and Cleopatra for control of Caesar's legacy. As civil war rages from Rome to Alexandria, and vast armies and navies battle for supremacy, a secret conflict may shape the course of history. Juba, Numidian prince and adopted brother of Octavian, has embarked on a ruthless quest for the Shards of Heaven, lost treasures said to possess the very power of the gods-or the one God. Driven by vengeance, Juba has already attained the fabled Trident of Poseidon, which may also be the staff once wielded by Moses. Now he will stop at nothing to obtain the other Shards, even if it means burning the entire world to the ground. Caught up in these cataclysmic events, and the hunt for the Shards, are a pair of exiled Roman legionnaires, a Greek librarian of uncertain loyalties, assassins, spies, slaves . . . and the ten-year-old daughter of Cleopatra herself. Michael Livingston's The Shards of Heaven reveals the hidden magic behind the history we know, and commences a war greater than any mere mortal battle. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Dianne DeMarinis de la Vega PhD
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781426935992

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Heaven Knows, Anything Goes by Dianne DeMarinis de la Vega PhD Pdf

In 1979, Beverly Hills psychotherapist, Dr. Dianne de la Vega, meets movie star and vocalist, Dick Haymes. Dianne is enchanted with his remarkable baritone voice. After an intense fourteen-day courtship, she moves into his apartment. For Dianne, the first three months of their relationship is sheer bliss, a series of Hollywood banquets, parties, and hilarious housekeeping. Dianne learns the meaning of celebrity. Only references to ex-wife Rita Hayworth mar her excitement and break the spell. The two lovers are confident, in spite of Richard's health and financial problems, ex wives, and drinking. A second chance has been granted to them. Dianne flies to Detroit for the closing night of the Big Broadcast of 1944 with Harry James, starring Dick Haymes. Sitting on the edge of her seat in the audience, Dianne realizes Haymes has been drinking to find the strength to go on stage. The last song he ever sings is for her-:"The More I See You." Haymes tells the press from his hosipital bed when asked if he is ready to go, "I've had it all, known everybody, had everything except love. Now I have that, too." He glances at Dianne who is devastated. The morning after his death, she finds a single red rose wrapped in baby's breath on her doorstep with a card-"In Memory of Love." She knows it's from Haymes, who guides Dianne to Hawaii, Alaska, and Findhorn, Scotland. She learns life does exist after death and unconditional love lasts forever.

Author : Apollos Thorne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1733664459

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Heaven's Laws - Prodigies by Apollos Thorne Pdf

A dark cultivation fantasy epic.

Author : Oliver J. Noble-Wood
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191016998

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A Tale Blazed Through Heaven by Oliver J. Noble-Wood Pdf

A Tale Blazed Through Heaven examines developments in the representation of the classical tale of Mars, Venus, and Vulcan in the literature and painting of the Golden Age of Spain (c.1526-1681). Anchored in close analysis of individual primary texts, the five chapters that comprise this study assess how poets and painters breathed new life into the tale inherited from Homer, Ovid, and others, examining some of the ways in which the story of Mars, Venus, and Vulcan was disguised, developed, expanded, mocked, combined with or played off against different subjects, or otherwise modified in order to pique the interest of successive generations of readers and viewers. Each chapter discusses what particular changes and shifts in emphasis reveal about the tale itself, specific renderings, the aims and intentions of individual poets and painters, and the wider context of the literary and visual culture of Early Modern Spain. Discussing a range of poems by both canonical (Garcilaso de la Vega, Luis de Góngora, Lope de Vega, etc.) and less well-known writers (Juan de la Cueva, Alonso de Castillo Solórzano, Salvador Jacinto Polo de Medina, etc.), and culminating in detailed examination of select mythological works by Philip IV's court painter, Diego Velázquez, this book sheds light on questions relating to aspects of classical reception in the Renaissance, the rise of specific poetic styles (epic, mock-epic, burlesque, etc.), the interplay between the sister arts of poetry and painting, and the continual process of imitation and invention that was one of the defining features of the Spanish Golden Age.

Author : Tian XiaDiYiShuai
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 953 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781649751287

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Cultivating Master In City by Tian XiaDiYiShuai Pdf

coincidence, zhou yi seventeen years old, miss the girls, you still want to run? this world, will be able to stop the killing, god to kill god! this world, only willing to live up to the dust not qing, the sky again!

Author : C. J. Cherryh
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061744839

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Hammerfall by C. J. Cherryh Pdf

The Hugo Award–winning author and SFWA Grand Master delivers the first Gene Wars novel and “a brand-new universe with brand-new rules” (The San Diego Union Tribune). In this brilliant novel—possibly Cherryh’s masterwork—the fate of billions has come down to a confrontation between two profoundly alien cultures on a single desert planet. Marak has suffered the madness his entire life. He is a prince and warrior, strong and shrewd and expert in the ways of the desert covering his planet. In the service of his father, he has dedicated his life to overthrowing the Ila, the mysterious eternal dictator of his world. For years he has successfully hidden the visions of a silver tower that plague him, but when his secret is discovered, Marak is betrayed by his own father and forced to march in an endless caravan with the rest of his world’s madmen to the Ila’s city of Oburan. Instead of death, Marak finds in Oburan his destiny, and the promise of life—if he can survive an impossible mission given to him by the strange people in the towers. According to these beings who look like him yet act differently than anyone he has ever known, Marak has a slim chance to save his world’s people from the wrath of Ila’s enemies. But to do so, he must convince them all—warring tribes, villagers, priests, young and old, as well as the Ila herself—to follow him on an epic trek across the burning desert before the hammer of the Ila’s foes falls from the heavens above. “C. J. Cherryh remains at the top of her game.” —Tulsa World

Author : Josemaría Escrivá
Publisher : Scepter Publishers
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781594171062

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The Forge by Josemaría Escrivá Pdf

The Forge is the third collection of St. Josemaría’s refreshingly brief but profoundly weighty reflections and meditations on how to live the Christian life to its absolute fullest. Like The Way and Furrow, it gives you practical and pointed material for meditation that will help you take your spiritual responsibilities more seriously and move ever closer to the all-consuming forge of God’s love. St. Josemaría wrote these 1,055 aphorisms, observations, and exhortations in order to enkindle within you a desire for holiness and apostolate.

Author : Gregory Benford,Larry Niven
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429988223

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Bowl of Heaven by Gregory Benford,Larry Niven Pdf

SF masters Gregory Benford and Larry Niven spin a tale of alien encounters and strange technologies on an epic scale In Bowl of Heaven, the first collaboration by science fiction authors Larry Niven (Ringworld) and Gregory Benford (Timescape), the limits of wonder are redrawn once again as a human expedition to another star system is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space: a bowl-shaped structure half-englobing a star, with a habitable area equivalent to many millions of Earths...and it's on a direct path heading for the same system as the human ship. A landing party is sent to investigate the Bowl, but when the explorers are separated—one group captured by the gigantic structure's alien inhabitants, the other pursued across its strange and dangerous landscape—the mystery of the Bowl's origins and purpose propel the human voyagers toward discoveries that will transform their understanding of their place in the universe. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Tim Waggoner
Publisher : Wizards of the Coast
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780786956609

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Forge of the Mindslayers by Tim Waggoner Pdf

Living in the war-ravaged realm of Eberron, assassin-turned-priest Diran Bastiaan and his half-orc sidekick, Ghaji, make an unlikely pair. One looks like the stuff of nightmares, while the other is "a conduit through which the holy force of Good could work its will in the physical world." Together, they have traveled throughout the archipelagic Lhazaar Principalities sharing numerous wild adventures, but none were as dangerous as the one they currently face. When a gang of bloodthirsty pirates kidnaps Diran's former lover (a beautiful ex-mercenary killer named Makala), the priest of the Silver Flame and his half-breed wingman vow to get her -- and countless other abductees -- back no matter what the cost. But the seafaring raiders are no ordinary criminals; they're led by the infamous vampire Onkar, who in turn serves a being unfathomably more evil than himself…. From the Paperback edition.

Author : Bruce Balfour
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0441009549

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The Forge of Mars by Bruce Balfour Pdf

After stumbling upon some mysterious alien artifacts buried in the caverns of Mars, objects that have killed the first man who touched them, NASA sends researcher Tau Wolfsinger to unlock the secrets of the bizarre ruins, only to discover that others from a sinister international organization want to use him to reveal their powers. Original.