Paragaea

Author : Chris Roberson
Publisher : Pyr
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781591028093

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Paragaea by Chris Roberson Pdf

Paragaea: A Planetary Romance is the story of Akilina "Leena" Chirikov, who shortly after launching from Star Town in the Soviet Union, finds herself thrown into another dimension, a world of strange science and ancient mystery. There she meets another time-lost person from Earth, Lieutenant Hieronymus Bonaventure of the Royal Navy—who left home to fight the forces of Napoleon and never returned—and his companion, Balam—outlaw prince of the jaguar men. Bonaventure is interested only in adventure and amusement, while Balam only wants distraction until the day he can reclaim his throne. Having little better to do, they agree to help Chirikov find a way home. In the tradition of the planetary romances of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Leigh Brackett, Paragaea is in fact a "hard" science fiction adventure, grounded in the latest thinking in the fields of theoretical physics, artificial intelligence, genetics, and more. There is a rigorously rational explanation behind all of the unearthly elements, with most of the "magic" the protagonist encounters being the products of a forgotten, transhuman, post-singularity culture that has long since disappeared. Chirikov, a strictly rational Soviet cosmonaut, interprets these as best she can, using the framework of early 1960s science. Being a dutiful Soviet, she wants only to return home to Earth, to inform her superiors about what she has discovered. But she soon finds herself developing ties to her companion Bonaventure that make her wonder whether she really wants to go home at all.

Author : Lonely Planet,Korina Miller,Kate Armstrong,Alexis Averbuck,Michael S Clark,Anna Kaminski,Vesna Maric,Craig McLachlan,Zora O'Neill,Leonid Ragozin,Andrea Schulte-Peevers,Helena Smith,Richard Waters,Greg Ward
Publisher : Lonely Planet
Page : 1502 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781787019492

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Lonely Planet Greece by Lonely Planet,Korina Miller,Kate Armstrong,Alexis Averbuck,Michael S Clark,Anna Kaminski,Vesna Maric,Craig McLachlan,Zora O'Neill,Leonid Ragozin,Andrea Schulte-Peevers,Helena Smith,Richard Waters,Greg Ward Pdf

Lonely Planet Greece is your most up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Stand in the shadow of the Acropolis, compare sunsets and beaches as you hop from island to island, or sample the freshest flavours and most succulent seafood; all with your trusted travel companion.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCSD:31822034377747

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The Publishers Weekly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nancy Farmer
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0142405523

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Firebirds Soaring by Nancy Farmer Pdf

A collection of fantasy and science fiction stories includes contributions by such authors as Ellen Klages, Jane Yolen, and Nancy Farmer.

Author : Chris Roberson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781416510758

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X-Men: The Return by Chris Roberson Pdf

The multi-book publishing programme from Pocket Books and Marvel Comics continues with this original novel featuring some of the world's most famous superheroes - the X-Men.

Author : Keith R. A. DeCandido,Chris Roberson,Geoff Trowbridge
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781416578956

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Star Trek: Myriad Universes #2: Echoes and Refractions by Keith R. A. DeCandido,Chris Roberson,Geoff Trowbridge Pdf

It's been said that for any event, there are an infinite number of possible outcomes. Our choices determine which outcome will follow, and therefore all possibilities that could happen do happen across countless alternate realities. In these divergent realms, known history is bent, like white light through a prism -- broken into a boundless spectrum of what-might-have-beens. But in those myriad universes, what might have been...is what actually happened. THE CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT: In a continuum where Spock died during childhood, an Andorian named Thelin became Captain Kirk's stalwart friend and first officer. But at the moment of Khan's final defeat, history takes an even stranger turn, and the emerging potential of Project Genesis is revealed as the galaxy's greatest hope...and its most ominous threat. A GUTTED WORLD: Terrorist Kira Nerys -- from a Bajor that was never liberated -- may hold the key to winning a war that has engulfed half the galaxy. But with the Romulans and the Klingons at each other's throats, and the Federation pulled into the conflict, even victory may not bring salvation. BRAVE NEW WORLD: Dr. Noonien Soong's dream has been realized: androids are now woven inextricably into the fabric of the Federation, revolutionizing Starfleet and transforming the quality of humanoid life. But when Soong's long-missing breakthrough creation, Data, mysteriously resurfaces, civilization reaches a crossroads that could lead to a bright new future, or to ruin.

Author : Chris Roberson
Publisher : Start Publishing LLC
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781597805940

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Firewalkers by Chris Roberson Pdf

After reopening a long-closed murder investigation, FBI agent Izzie Lefevre and police detective Patrick Tevake have uncovered a bizarre connection between a dangerous new drug on the streets of Recondito, California, and a series of mass murders and serial killings carried out around the coastal city going back at least one hundred years. Their discovery has unlocked a secret history of mystics and madmen who believed that Recondito is a special place, where it was possible to make contact with beings from other planes of existence, beings best described as demons. For generations there have been those who secretly dedicated themselves to protecting humanity against threats from beyond our world, but Izzie and Patrick realize that their investigation not only eliminated the last remaining defender, but they are now the only ones standing in the way of a full scale invasion.

Author : Richard Hatch
Publisher : BenBella Books, Inc.
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781932100945

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So Say We All by Richard Hatch Pdf

The science-fiction television series Battlestar Galactica is known for raising thought-provoking questions concerning martial law, artificial intelligence, power and corruption, and ultimately what it means to be human. What ethical complexities come into play when one mistake could mean the anihilation of the human race? How do you maintain faith in the Gods when you're involved in an Armageddon of your own creation? What is the distinction between a terrorist and a freedom fighter? These questions are given an intelligent and insightful examination in this engaging collection of essays.

Author : Chris Roberson
Publisher : Pyr
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781591028390

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End of the Century by Chris Roberson Pdf

At the eve of the new millennium, teenager Alice Fell is alone on the streets of a strange city, friendless and without a pound to her name. She is not sure whether she's losing her mind, or whether she is called by inescapable visions to some special destiny. Along with a strange man named Stillman Waters, a retired occultist and spy – or so he claims – she finds herself pursued by strange creatures, and driven to steal the priceless "vanishing gem" that may contain the answers to the mysteries that plague her. A century earlier, consulting detective Sandford Blank, accompanied by his companion Roxanne Bonaventure, is called upon to solve a string of brutal murders on the eve of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. The police believe that Jack the Ripper is back on the streets, but Blank believes that this is a new killer, one whose motive is not violence or mayhem, but the discovery of the Holy Grail itself. And what of the corpse-white Huntsman and his unearthly hounds, who stalks the gaslit streets of London? And in the sixth century, Galaad, a young man driven by strange dreams of a lady in white and a tower of glass, travels to the court of the high king Artor in Londinium, abandoned stronghold of the Roman Empire in Britain. With Galaad’s bizarre dreams as their only guide, Artor and his loyal captains journey west to the Summerlands, there to face a threat that could spell the end of the new-forged kingdom of Britain. These three adventures—Dark Ages fantasy, gaslit mystery, and modern-day jewel heist—alternate until the barriers between the different times begin to break down, and our heroes confront the secrets that connect the Grail, the Glass Tower, and the vanishing gem. And lurking behind it all, the entity known only as Omega.

Author : Chris Roberson
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780857660114

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Book of Secrets by Chris Roberson Pdf

IT'LL TAKE MORE THAN ANGELS AND DEMONS TO STOP HIM. Reporter Spencer Finch is a journalist embroiled in the hunt for a missing book, encountering along the way cat burglars and mobsters, hackers and mysterious monks. At the same time, he's trying to make sense of the legacy left him by his late grandfather, a chest of what appear to be pulp magazines from the golden age of fantasy fiction. Following his nose, Finch gradually uncovers a mystery involving a lost Greek play, secret societies, generations of masked vigilantes - and an entire hidden history of mankind. It's like The Da Vinci Code retold by the Coen brothers in this blockbuster blur. File Under: Urban Fantasy [ Conspiracy! | Angelic Mysteries | Pulp Fiction | Blow Your Mind ]

Author : George R. R. Martin,Gardner Dozois
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345538598

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Old Mars by George R. R. Martin,Gardner Dozois Pdf

Fifteen all-new stories by science fiction’s top talents, collected by bestselling author George R. R. Martin and multiple-award winning editor Gardner Dozois Burroughs’s A Princess of Mars. Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles. Heinlein’s Red Planet. These and so many more inspired generations of readers with a sense that science fiction’s greatest wonders did not necessarily lie far in the future or light-years across the galaxy but were to be found right now on a nearby world tantalizingly similar to our own—a red planet that burned like an ember in our night sky . . . and in our imaginations. This new anthology of fifteen all-original science fiction stories, edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, celebrates the Golden Age of Science Fiction, an era filled with tales of interplanetary colonization and derring-do. Before the advent of powerful telescopes and space probes, our solar system could be imagined as teeming with strange life-forms and ancient civilizations—by no means always friendly to the dominant species of Earth. And of all the planets orbiting that G-class star we call the Sun, none was so steeped in an aura of romantic decadence, thrilling mystery, and gung-ho adventure as Mars. Join such seminal contributors as Michael Moorcock, Mike Resnick, Joe R. Lansdale, S. M. Stirling, Mary Rosenblum, Ian McDonald, Liz Williams, James S. A. Corey, and others in this brilliant retro anthology that turns its back on the cold, all-but-airless Mars of the Mariner probes and instead embraces an older, more welcoming, more exotic Mars: a planet of ancient canals cutting through red deserts studded with the ruined cities of dying races. FEATURING ALL-NEW STORIES BY James S. A. Corey • Phyllis Eisenstein • Matthew Hughes • Joe R. Lansdale • David D. Levine • Ian McDonald • Michael Moorcock • Mike Resnick • Chris Roberson • Mary Rosenblum • Melinda Snodgrass • Allen M. Steele • S. M. Stirling • Howard Waldrop • Liz Williams And an Introduction by George R. R. Martin! Praise for Old Mars “Strong, fun and evocative.”—Tordotcom “A fantastic anthology . . . Pulp magic lives in these pages.”—Bookhound

Author : David Louis Edelman
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781591028109

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Infoquake by David Louis Edelman Pdf

How far should you go to make a profit? Infoquake, the debut novel by David Louis Edelman, takes speculative fiction into alien territory: the corporate boardroom of the far future. It's a stunning trip through the trenches of a technological war fought with product demos, press releases, and sales pitches. Natch is a master of bio/logics, the programming of the human body. He's clawed and scraped his way to the top of the bio/logics market using little more than his wits. Now his sudden notoriety has brought him to the attention of Margaret Surina, the owner of a mysterious new technology called MultiReal. Only by enlisting Natch's devious mind can Margaret keep MultiReal out of the hands of High Executive Len Borda and his ruthless armies. To fend off the intricate net of enemies closing in around him, Natch and his apprentices must accomplish the impossible. They must understand this strange new technology, run through the product development cycle, and prepare MultiReal for release to the public—all in three days. Meanwhile, hanging over everything is the specter of the infoquake, a lethal burst of energy that's disrupting the bio/logic networks and threatening to send the world crashing back into the Dark Ages. With Infoquake, David Louis Edelman has created a fully detailed world that's both as imaginative as Dune and as real as today's Wall Street Journal.

Author : Edgar Rice Burroughs
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781598532005

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A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs Pdf

Rediscover the adventure-pulp classic that gave the world its first great interplanetary romance—now featuring an introduction by Junot Díaz In the spring of 1866, John Carter, a former Confederate captain prospecting for gold in the Arizona hills, slips into a cave and is overcome by mysterious vapors. He awakes to find himself naked, alone, and forty-eight million miles from Earth—a castaway on the dying planet Mars. Taken prisoner by the Tharks, a fierce nomadic tribe of six-limbed, olive-green giants, he wins respect as a cunning and able warrior, who by grace of Mars’s weak gravity possesses the agility of a superman. He also wins the heart of fellow-prisoner Dejah Thoris, the alluring, red-skinned Princess of Helium, whose people he swears to defend against their grasping and ancient enemy, the city-state of Zodanga. John Carter first appeared in 1912 in the pages of The All-Story magazine and immediately entered the dream-life of American readers young and old. He was Edgar Rice Burroughs’s favorite among his many creations and remains a favorite of lovers of science fiction and fantasy everywhere.

Author : Chris Roberson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0670062367

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Iron Jaw and Hummingbird by Chris Roberson Pdf

In a far future in which Mars is controlled by the Chinese, teens Gamine and Huang, one the leader of a sham religious movement, the other chief tactician of a gang of bandits, form an unlikely alliance to fight the corrupt government that has determinedtheir lives.

Author : Jonathan Strahan
Publisher : Start Publishing LLC
Page : 873 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781597802680

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The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year by Jonathan Strahan Pdf

The depth and breadth of what science fiction and fantasy fiction is changes with every passing year. The two dozen stories chosen for this book by award-winning anthologist Jonathan Strahan carefully maps this evolution, giving readers a captivating and always-entertaining look at the very best the genre has to offer.