Showing posts with label Fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fiction. Show all posts

William C Dietz - [The Legion of the Damned 08] When Duty Calls

Posted by D on Saturday, August 29, 2015

As the war with the Ramanthian continues, Captain Antonio Santana and his force of biobods and cyborgs find themselves surrounded by enemy forces, faced with annihilation at every turn. On the home front, diplomat Christine Vanderveen finds herself torn between her love for Santana and her new loyalty towards the charismatic, [...]
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Roger Zelazny - Doorways in the Sand

Posted by D on Monday, December 15, 2014

Humanity is not alone in the cosmos. The aliens have given a precious relic to the people of Earth: star-stone. The harmony of the galaxy is at stake when they discover the disappearance of their star-stone. Likeable Fred Cassidy is an eternal undergraduate. All he thinks he knows about the star-stone is that it came [...]
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Roger Zelazny - Roadmarks

Posted by D on Sunday, December 7, 2014

The Road runs from the unimaginable past to the far future, and those who travel it have access to the turnoffs leading to all times and places--even to the alternate time-streams of histories that never happened. Why the Dragons of Bel'kwinith made the Road--or who they are--no one knows. But the Road has always been [...]
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Catherine Asaro - [Saga of the Skolian Empire 13] Diamond Star

Posted by D on Thursday, September 11, 2014

Del Valdoria was an heir of the Ruby Dynasty, rulers of the interstellar empire called the Skolian Imperialate. But he had no interest in being associated with the draconian measures his brothers used to maintain power. He just wanted to sing holo-rock—not a respectable activity for a Ruby prince. To make things more [...]
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Catherine Asaro - [Saga of the Skolian Empire 12] Ruby Dice

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Roll the Dice of Empire! The Eubian Interstellar Concord. Dominating. Static. A pyramid of cosmic power built on the bones of slaves. Their opponents The freedom-loving, telepathic Skolian Imperialate. Now centuries of war come to head and a new galactic Dark Age looms as rival emperors -- related by blood, love, and [...]
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Catherine Asaro - [Saga of the Skolian Empire 11 | Triad 02] The Final Key

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The Skolian Empire comes under all-out assault from its nemesis, the Euban Concord, who have undermined the Empire via subterfuge and assassination, leaving it ripe for conquest. The Skolian Empire's only hope? A young woman barely out of her teens who hasn't even complete her training as a cadet. Get The Final Key [...]
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Catherine Asaro - [Saga of the Skolian Empire 10 | Triad 01] Schism

Posted by D on Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Schism harkens back to the early years of the Skolian Empire, back to the beginning of the war between Skolia and the Euban Traders. Twenty-three years have passed since the fateful vote in the Skolian Assembly that Roca missed in Skyfall. It created the first open hostility between Eube and Skolia, which has only deepened [...]
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Catherine Asaro - [Saga of the Skolian Empire 09] Skyfall

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Kurj, a provincial ruler on a primitive planet, is plagued by inner demons. But when he meets Roca, a beautiful and mysterious woman from the stars, he whisks her away to his mountain retreat, inadvertently starting a great interstellar war, and birthing the next generation of rulers for the Sklolian Empire. Skyfall [...]
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Catherine Asaro - [Saga of the Skolian Empire 08] The Moon's Shadow

Posted by D on Tuesday, September 9, 2014

At the age of seventeen the young nobleman named Jaibriol Qox became ruler of a vast galactic empire-- and lost everything he had ever valued. Born of a clandestine liaison between a renegade daughter of the Skolian Imperialate and a scion of the genetically engineered Eubian Traders, Jai Qox grew up in exile, unaware [...]
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Catherine Asaro - [Saga of the Skolian Empire 07]Spherical Harmonic

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Separated for decades by circumstance and political machinations, the Ruby Dynasty, hereditary rulers of Skolia, struggle to bring together the tattered remnants of their family in the shadow of a disastrous interstellar war. Too many have died, others are presumed lost, yet Dyhianna, the Ruby Pharaoh, must move quickly [...]
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Catherine Asaro - [Saga of the Skolian Empire 06] The Quantum Rose

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Kamoj Quanta Argali is the young ruler of an impoverished province on a backward planet. To keep her people from starving, she has agreed to marry Jax Ironbridge, the boorish and brutal ruler of a prosperous province. But before Argali and Ironbridge are wed, a mysterious stranger from a distant planet sweeps in and [...]
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Catherine Asaro - [Saga of the Skolian Empire 05] Ascendant Sun

Posted by D on Monday, September 8, 2014

Ascendant Sun is the direct sequel to The Last Hawk. After 18 years of living in their gilded cage, Kelric finally made his escape. Kelric returns to Skolian space, only to find the Empire in control of the Allied forces of Earth. With little more than the clothes on his back, Kelric is forced to take work on a merchant [...]
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Catherine Asaro - [Saga of the Skolian Empire 03] The Last Hawk

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Kelwin, heir to the throne of the Skolian empire, crash-lands his fighter on the off-limits planet of Coba, a world ruled by women. He figures it will be only a short time before he makes his way home. But he fails to account for the powerful matriarchy of Coba, the mistresses of the great estates who do not want the [...]
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Catherine Asaro - [Saga of the Skolian Empire 01] Primary Inversion

Posted by D on Sunday, September 7, 2014

The Skolian Empire rules a third of the civilized galaxy through its mastery of faster-than-light communication. But, A rivalry between the Skolian and Trader empires escalates into all-out war, a war that can only lead to slavery for the Skolians or the destruction of both sides. Destructive skirmishes have already [...]
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Dan Brown - Inferno

Posted by D on Monday, September 1, 2014

THE DARKEST PLACES IN HELL ARE RESERVED FOR THOSE WHO MAINTAIN THEIR NEUTRALITY IN TIMES OF MORAL CRISIS. Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon awakens in a hospital in the middle of the night. Disoriented and suffering from a head wound, he recalls nothing of the last thirty-six hours, including how he got [...]
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Tom Clancy - [Splinter Cell 02] Operation Barracuda (with David Michaels)

Posted by D on Sunday, August 17, 2014

WHEN IT COMES TO AMERICAN FREEDOM, ONE MAN IS ABOVE THE LAW. He is quiet, invisible, deadly --- and the newest weapon on the front lines of a technologically advanced war. As part of a top-secret initiative called Third Echelon, National Security Agency special operative Sam Fisher has been given license to [...]
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Tom Clancy - [Splinter Cell 01] Splinter Cell (with David Michaels)

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In response to the growing use of sophisticated digital encryption to conceal potential threats to the United States, the National Security Agency has ushered forth the new dawn of intelligence-gathering techniques. The top-secret initiative is dubbed Third Echelon. Its existence denied by the US government, Third Echelon [...]
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Steven R Boyett - [Change 02] Elegy Beach

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Thirty years ago the lights went out, the airplanes fell, the cars went still, the cities all went dark. The laws humanity had always known were replaced by new laws that could only be called magic. The world has changed forever. Or has it? In a small community on the California coast are Fred Garey and his friend Yan, [...]
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Steven R Boyett - [Change 01] Ariel

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At four-thirty one Saturday afternoon the laws of physics as we know them underwent a change. Electronic devices, cars, industries stopped. The lights went out. Any technology more complicated than a lever or pulley simply wouldn't work. A new set of rules took its place—laws that could only be called magic. Ninety-nine [...]
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Tom Clancy - [Splinter Cell 03] Checkmate (with David Michaels)

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HE OPERATES OUTSIDE OF EVERY LAW ... AND KILLS IN THE LINE OF DUTY. Few know he exists. But when millions of American lives are at stake, Third Echelon special operative Sam Fisher is the man to depend on. He handles covert missions either too sensitive or too risky for even the CIA or FBI. And he operates alone. Fisher [...]
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