Ringworld The Graphic Novel Part One

Author : Larry Niven
Publisher : Tor/Seven Seas
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781466838352

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Ringworld: The Graphic Novel, Part One by Larry Niven Pdf

A modern science fiction classic, Larry Niven's Ringworld won the Hugo and Nebula Awards for best novel in 1970. Now this SF classic is adapted into a thrilling manga adventure by Robert Mandell and Sean Lam. In Ringworld: The Graphic Novel, Part One, two-hundred-year-old human Louis Wu is recruited by a two-headed alien named Nessus to join him, a catlike warrior alien named Speaker, and the infinitely lucky human Teela Brown to explore an alien artifact. They find a Ringworld, a ribbon millions of miles long built around a distant sun. The civilization has fallen into savagery, though, and after crashing into the Ringworld, Louis must come up with a clever plan to get back to known space, hundreds of light years away. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Larry Niven,Robert Mandell
Publisher : Tor/Seven Seas
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 0765324636

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Ringworld: The Graphic Novel, Part Two by Larry Niven,Robert Mandell Pdf

Rocket with a group of intergalactic explorers to the Ringworld, a massive artificial world looped like a giant ribbon the size of Earth's orbit around the sun. Ringworld: The Graphic Novel, Part Two, based on Larry Niven's classic and illustrated by the talented manga artist Sean Lam, is the conclusion to the most exciting, action-packed science fiction adventure ever conceived! Stranded on this bizarre world, they soon discover that what was once conceived as a Garden of Eden has now reverted to savagery. Civilization has disappeared, leaving powerful machines in charge. Vast ruins litter the surface where mighty floating cities fell from the sky, deadly plants use sunlight to kill, terrifying hurricanes the size of worlds swallow everything in their paths, while roaming gangs of native humanoids stand ready to attack. Louis must now face the greatest challenge of his life. How can he and his friends possibly escape such a hostile place? What happened to the extraordinary treasures of this world? What kind of incredibly powerful alien could destroy the mightiest of the universe's worlds? And what happened to the legendary engineers who built the Ring?

Author : Larry Niven
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1985-09-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345333926

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Ringworld by Larry Niven Pdf

Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards for best novel Four travelers come to the ringworld. . . Louis Wu: human and old; bored with having lived too fully for far too many years. Seeking a challenge, and all too capable of handling it. Nessus: a trembling coward, a puppeteer with a built-in survival pattern of nonviolence. Except that this particular puppeteer is insane. Teela Brown: human; a wide-eyed youngster with no allegiances, no experience, no abilities. And all the luck in the world. Speaker-To-Animals: kzin; large, orange-furred, and carnivorous. And one of the most savage life-forms known in the galaxy. Why did these disparate individuals come together? How could they possibly function together? And where, in the name of anything sane, were they headed?

Author : Larry Niven,Edward M. Lerner
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0765357836

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Fleet of Worlds by Larry Niven,Edward M. Lerner Pdf

A brand-new novel set in Niven's Known Space, two hundred years before the discovery of the Ringworld.

Author : Larry Niven,Steven Barnes
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429935359

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Dream Park by Larry Niven,Steven Barnes Pdf

The beginning of a hard sci-fi series, Deam Park is a visionary science fiction classic from Larry Niven and Steven Barnes A group of pretend adventurers suit up for a campaign called "The South Seas Treasure Game." As in the early Role Playing Games, there are Dungeon Masters, warriors, magicians, and thieves. The difference? At Dream Park, a futuristic fantasy theme park full of holographic attractions and the latest in VR technology, they play in an artificial enclosure that has been enhanced with special effects, holograms, actors, and a clever storyline. The players get as close as possible to truly living their adventure. All's fun and games until a Park security guard is murdered, a valuable research property is stolen, and all evidence points to someone inside the game. The park's head of security, Alex Griffin, joins the game to find the killer, but finds new meaning in the games he helps keep alive. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Larry Niven
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1997-03-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345412966

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Ringworld Throne by Larry Niven Pdf

Come back to the Ringworld . . . the most astonishing feat of engineering ever encountered. A place of untold technological wonders, home to a myriad humanoid races, and world of some of the most beloved science fiction stories ever written! The human, Louis Wu; the puppeteer known as the Hindmost; Acolyte, son of the Kzin called Chmeee . . . legendary beings brought together once again in the defense of the Ringworld. Something is going on with the Protectors. Incoming spacecraft are being destroyed before they can reach the Ringworld. Vampires are massing. And the Ghouls have their own agenda—if anyone dares approach them to learn. Each race on the Ringworld has always had its own Protector. Now it looks as if the Ringworld itself needs a Protector. But who will sit on the Ringworld Throne? “Niven’s work has been an intriguing and consistent universe, and this book is the keystone of the arch. . . . [His] technique is wonderfully polished, his characters and their situations are nicely drawn . . . wraps up (maybe) a corner of a very interesting universe.”—San Diego Union-Tribune

Author : Tom Gauld
Publisher : Drawn & Quarterly
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781770461949

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Goliath by Tom Gauld Pdf

Since the 2011 release of Goliath, Tom Gauld has solidified himself as one of the world’s most revered and critically-acclaimed cartoonists working today. From his weekly strips in the Guardian and New Scientist, to his lauded graphic novels You're All Just Jealous of My Jetpack and Mooncop, Gauld’s fascination with the intersection between history, literary criticism, and pop culture has become the crux of his work. Now in paperback, with a new cover and smaller size, Goliath is a retelling of the classic myth, this time from Goliath's side of the Valley of Elah. Goliath of Gath isn't much of a fighter. He would pick admin work over patrolling in a heartbeat, to say nothing of his distaste for engaging in combat. Nonetheless, at the behest of the king, he finds himself issuing a twice-daily challenge to the Israelites: "Choose a man. Let him come to me that we may fight." Quiet moments in Goliath's life as an isolated soldier are accentuated by Gauld's trademark drawing style: minimalist scenery, geometric humans, and densely crosshatched detail. Simultaneously tragic and bleakly funny, Goliath displays a sensitive wit and a bold line--a traditional narrative reworked, remade, and revolutionized into a classic tale of Gauld’s very own.

Author : Larry Niven
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345336968

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A World Out of Time by Larry Niven Pdf

Jaybee Corbell awoke after more than 200 years as a corpsicle -- in someone else's body, and under sentence of instant annihilation if he made a wrong move while they were training him for a one-way mission to the stars. But Corbell picked his time and made his own move. Once he was outbound, where the Society that ruled Earth could not reach him, he headed his starship toward the galactic core, where the unimaginable energies of the Universe wrenched the fabric of time and space and promised final escape from his captors. Then he returned to an Earth eons older than the one he'd left...a planet that had had 3,000,000 years to develop perils he had never dreamed of -- perils that became nightmares that he had to escape...somehow!

Author : Larry Niven,Edward M. Lerner
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429972291

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Destroyer of Worlds by Larry Niven,Edward M. Lerner Pdf

Worlds closer to the galatic core than Known Space are --or were--home to intelligent speciers. Some learned of the core explosion in time to flee. Destroyer of Worlds opens in 2670, ten years after Juggler of Worlds closes; with refugee species fleeing in an armada of ramscoops in the direction of the Fleet of Worlds. The onrushing aliens are recognized as a threat; they have left in their trail a host of desolated worlds: some raided for supplies, some attacked to eliminate competition, and some for pure xenophobia. Only the Puppeteers might have the resources to confront this threat--but the Puppeteers are philosophical cowards... they don't confront anyone. They need sepoys to investigate the situation and take action for them. The source of the sepoys? Their newly independent former slave world, New Terra. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Dan Krokos
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781466809987

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The Planet Thieves by Dan Krokos Pdf

The Planet Thieves is the first thrilling installment of a new middle-grade series by Dan Krokos. Two weeks ago, thirteen-year-old Mason Stark and seventeen of his fellow cadets from the Academy for Earth Space Command boarded the SS Egypt. The trip was supposed to be a short routine voyage to log their required spacetime for summer quarter. But routine goes out the airlock when they're attacked by the Tremist, an alien race who have been at war with humanity for the last sixty years. With the captain and crew dead, injured, or taken prisoner, Mason and the cadets are all that's left to warn the ESC. And soon they find out exactly why the Tremist chose this ship to attack: the Egypt is carrying a weapon that could change the war forever. Now Mason will have to lead the cadets in a daring assault to take back the ship, rescue the survivors, and recover the weapon. Before there isn't a war left to fight. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Larry Niven
Publisher : Del Rey
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345293029

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Protector by Larry Niven Pdf

Author : Larry Niven
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1982-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0708880932

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The Magic Goes Away by Larry Niven Pdf

Larry Niven created his popular "Magic Goes Away" universe in 1967, and it has been a source of delight and inspiration ever since. By asking the simple question, What if magic were a finite resource?, Niven brought to life a mesmerizing world of wonder and loss, of hope and despair. The success of his first story collection, "The Magic Goes Away, " birthed two sequel anthologies, "The Magic May Return" and "More Magic." All three volumes are collected here for the first time, with stories by Niven himself, as well as contributions by such luminaries of fantasy as Roger Zelazny, Fred Saberhagen, Steven Barnes, and Poul Anderson. Featuring a brand-new introduction by Larry Niven, "The Magic Goes Away Collection" gives readers insight into the breathtaking world of Niven and Jerry Pournelle's "The Burning City" and "Burning Tower" and stands on its own as a landmark in fantasy fiction

Author : Karl Schroeder
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429938051

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Sun of Suns by Karl Schroeder Pdf

In Karl Schroeder's sci-fi thriller, Hayden Griffin has come to the city of Rush with one thing in mind: to take murderous revenge for his parents' deaths. It is the distant future. The world known as Virga is a fullerene balloon three thousand kilometers in diameter, filled with air, water, and aimlessly floating chunks of rock. The humans who live in this vast environment must build their own fusion suns and "towns" that are in the shape of enormous wood and rope wheels that are spun for gravity. Young, fit, bitter, and friendless, Hayden Griffin is a very dangerous man. He's come to the city of Rush in the nation of Slipstream with one thing in mind: to take murderous revenge for the deaths of his parents six years ago. His target is Admiral Chaison Fanning, head of the fleet of Slipstream, which conquered Hayden's nation of Aerie years ago. And the fact that Hayden's spent his adolescence living with pirates doesn't bode well for Fanning's chances . . . At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Mike Carey
Publisher : Vertigo
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781401247409

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The Unwritten: Tommy Taylor and the Ship That Sank Twice by Mike Carey Pdf

One of Publishers Weekly's Hot Fall Books of 2013! Tom Taylor has lived his life being mistaken for Tommy Taylor, the boy wizard from the world-famous series of novels penned by Tom's long-lost father Wilson. However, after a series of strange events start to parallel the lives of both Taylors--fictional and real--Tom realizes that he might be the character on page made flesh. In this first-ever original graphic novel spinning off from the pages of the critically acclaimed THE UNWRITTEN series, writer Mike Carey explores the origins behind Tom's mysterious powers and the odyssey his father has sent him on.

Author : Kieran Shea
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781783298990

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Koko Takes a Holiday by Kieran Shea Pdf

Five hundred years from now, ex-corporate mercenary Koko Martstellar is swaggering through an easy early retirement as a brothel owner on The Sixty Islands, a manufactured tropical resort archipelago known for its sex and simulated violence. Surrounded by slang-drooling boywhores and synthetic komodo dragons, Koko finds the most challenging part of her day might be deciding on her next drink. That is, until her old comrade Portia Delacompte sends a squad of security personnel to murder her.