Nanotroopers Episode 18: Geoplanes

      Philip Bosshardt
     Nanotroopers Episode 18: Geoplanes

Episode 18, Nanotroopers. John Winger has returned from a mission against Lions Rock. But Red Hammer has geoplanes too; they’re threatening New York. A new weapon is developed. It works but nearly kills Winger; only an Inuit shaman saves his crew from a grisly underground death. Now Table Top itself is threatened. Nanotroopers must work together with rockhead geoplane drivers to save it.Episode 18, Nanotroopers. Johnny Winger has returned from a successful mission against Lions Rock. But now Red Hammer has geoplanes too; they’re threatening New York and other major cities. A new weapon called a sonic lens is developed. It works but a test nearly kills Winger and his crew. Only an Inuit shaman saves them from a grisly underground death in the Canadian Arctic. Now the Table Top base itself is threatened. Nanotroopers must somehow work together with rockheads from Boundary Patrol to save the base from being destroyed in a series of man-made quakes.

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    The Silver Dream

      Neil Gaiman
     The Silver Dream

Sixteen-year-old Joey Harker has just saved the Altiverse—the dimension that contains all the myriad Earths—from complete destruction. After mastering the ability to walk between dimensions, Joey and his fellow InterWorld Freedom Fighters are on a mission to maintain peace between the rival powers of magic and science who seek to control all worlds. When a stranger named Acacia somehow follows Joey back to InterWorld’s Base, things get complicated. No one knows who she is or where she’s from—or how she knows so much about InterWorld. Dangerous times lie ahead, and Joey has no one to rely on but himself and his wits—and, just maybe, the mysterious Acacia Jones. Full of riveting interdimensional battles, epic journeys between worlds, and twists and turns along the way, this sequel to the New York Times bestselling InterWorld is a thrilling, mind-bending adventure through time and space.

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    Thief of Souls

      Neal Shusterman
     Thief of Souls

A group of monumentally powerful teens must face an ancient, soul-eating foe in this second book of The Star Shards Chronicles. A cataclysmic explosion has given earthly teens astronomical powers—when the star Mentarsus-H went supernova at their conceptions, the teens absorbed the shattered soul of the star and inherited unimaginable abilities. Now the Star Shards have become like gods, drunk on their own power—and ripe for manipulation by The Bringer, a creature who would turn them against one another and transform the planet into his own personal feeding ground. But who is more dangerous: The Bringer or the Star Shards? Acclaimed author Neal Shusterman presents “a story which is grippingly unexpected” (The Bookwatch) that sets the stage for the riveting conclusion to The Star Shards trilogy. *Originally published by Tor Fantasy in 1999. *

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    The Walls Have Eyes

      Clare B. Dunkle
     The Walls Have Eyes

Martin may have seen his sister, Cassie, to safety at the end of The Sky Inside, but his adventure is far from over. There’s still a totalitarian regime in place, murderous game shows on the air, and a couple of government agents on Martin’s tail. When Martin and his AllDog, Chip, go back to his old suburbs to check up on Mom, they get a lot more than they bargained for when they end up escaping with both parents. But the biggest surprise is yet to come—the heart of the government’s central power is closer to Martin than he ever suspected.

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    The Waking Dark

      Robin Wasserman
     The Waking Dark

THEY CALLED IT THE KILLING DAY. Twelve people dead, in the space of a few hours. Five murderers: neighbors, relatives, friends. All of them so normal. All of them seemingly harmless. All of them now dead by their own hand . . . except one. And that one has no answers to offer the shattered town. She doesn't even know why she killed—or whether she'll do it again. Something is waking in the sleepy town of Oleander, Kansas—something dark and hungry that lives in the flat earth and the open sky, in the vengeful hearts of upstanding citizens. As the town begins its descent into blood and madness, five survivors of the killing day are the only ones who can stop Oleander from destroying itself. Jule, the outsider at war with the world. West, the golden boy at war with himself. Daniel, desperate for a different life. Cass, who's not sure she deserves a life at all. Ellie, who believes in sacrifice, who believes in fate, who believes in evil. Ellie, who always goes too far. They have nothing in common. They have nothing left to lose. And they have no way out. Which means that they have no choice but to stand and fight, to face the darkness in their town—and in themselves. 

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    Assignment: Eternity

      Greg Cox
     Assignment: Eternity

Captain Kirk first encountered Gary Seven on twentieth-century Earth. Now Seven, a time-traveling operative for unknown alien forces, makes a surprise visit to the U.S.S. Enterprise. Kirk is on an urgent mission to bearing relief to a disaster ravaged planet, but Seven has an agenda of his own-- and he's not above hijacking the Starship Enterprise and sending it on a perilous journey deep into the heart of the Romulan Empire. Kirk must date to trust Gary Seven once again, as he confronts the possibility that the enigmatic stranger may bring death and destruction to Kirk's own era.

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    The Plague

      Teddy Keller
     The Plague

The Plague is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Teddy Keller is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Teddy Keller then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.

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    The Whole World in Shards

      Ben Darrow
     The Whole World in Shards

Merinel embarks on a journey across the Great Ship's patchwork of functional outposts and fallow settlements in search of a therapy for her husband's fractured persona.Bob never should have taken that last bite of cake. After all, he was supposed to save the last piece for Sara! While trying to escape Sara's cake-driven wrath, he stumbles into a rip in time and space and finds himself lost in a world of giants, witches, werewolves, and dragons. All Bob wants to do is get home--but what if his destiny lies in this strange new world?This work, edited and compiled by Jason N. Beil, is a collaboration of the following authors: Derek E. Keeling, J Bryden Lloyd, P.L. Blair, Kellie, Recluse, Ella Stradling, Eric C. Zawadzki, Kenneth J. Mayer, Homecooking, Marc Iverson, Martin D. Gibbs, Pipeline, and Jason N. Beil.

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    Alien Apocalypse - The Hunger

      Dean Giles
     Alien Apocalypse - The Hunger

In this prequel to the Alien Apocalypse short story series by Dean Giles, witness the murder of eight-year-old Elliott’s mother, his father’s brutal execution of vigilante justice that lands him in prison, and the malevolent consciousness approaching earth on the tail of a comet. The hunger within this being will make all other worldly problems trivial.Contents:67 Feet in the Air - "The Fifteenth of May is a hell of a day to look at. One of those big, sprawling blue Minnesota masterpieces when the sky looks like the domed ceiling of some ancient church."Drain Bamage - "If he wasn't seeing it, actually feeling it all around him, Jay would never believe Neil Wood's old Dodge capable of doing seventy miles per hour."

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    Rhea's End

      Adam Howell
     Rhea's End

Three people are forced to land on the planet Rhea. A world now known as the planet of the damned. What happened to this once great civilisation is clouded in rumour and legend. A cautionary tale for those who wish to hand their lives over to machines. The crew take the opportunity to explore the planet and, in doing so, they uncover exactly how much of the nightmare is still in play.People often ask what inspires me to write poetry.I would have to say like many poets we are not creatures of habits, but instead are free spirits full of compassion and mellow drama, and are inspired by things that touch us. For me poetry is therapeutic and a way of cleansing my troubled soul. Purging my emotional suffering into ink on paper allows me to share with others who might be going through the same growing pains most experience in life. Due to the absence of the Deity in our country we are a nation of dysfunctional families, but there are some who still put God first. A family who attends my church is the example of how we as a nation should be raising our children. Having adult children they still unselfishly foster children. They are not a young couple, but have so much to give by opening their home to the least of these precious little ones. I have great admiration, love, and respect for them. Their love is not temporary as they eventually adopt many of these children. More oft than not it is the precious little ones that are the pistons that keep my wheels turning. It is easy to be inspired by a child because they are of a pure heart. Children are easily amused by the simplest things, such as turning a box into a car or perhaps a plane or even a playhouse. It is the smile on the face of a child and their precious busy little hands that give me the most joy. There are no sour grapes in their household, only sweet ones on the vine, because they receive constant nurturing from everyone around them.

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    the Project Bolero

      Farhad Mammadov
     the Project Bolero

After signing project Bolero initiated by UN agency allegedly called Global Unemployee Exchange Organizition bum named Malik is send to USA, employed in a little store.But something strange happens around him.People sacrifice their lives for his being alive, as his roomate witnessed he spends all night long in bathroom without knowing it.Then it comes out that bum Malik was an artificial memory..Short stories and some poems. Stories up to 2500 words in length. Some are a bit tense; some are amusing, some border on nonsense. The poems are whatever the reader sees in them.

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    The Last Hurrah

      L. S. King
     The Last Hurrah

Colonel Leslie Bayleson visits the star base she designed for one last time before her forced retirement. Instead of old memories, she finds a new threat.(a short story in the Deuces Wild universe—approximately one thousand years in the past)Rob Hinds is a secret agent who is quite used to combating alien spies, unfortunately, he is increasingly being asked to combat demons, and the Satanists who conjure them up. His opponent this time is the daughter of his last such enemy. Moira Bourbon wants her father back, unfortunately, the only way is to steal the knowledge from Tartarus, a demon dimension. To this end she kills, kidnaps and sacrifices to ensure she is successful. She even blackmails Rob Hinds into obtaining an ancient satanic device that will be necessary, if she is to enter Tartarus, her lever are the lives of his wife and her young sister.

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    Bluescreen

      Dan Wells
     Bluescreen

Los Angeles in 2050 is a city of open doors, as long as you have the right connections. One of those connections is a djinni—a smart device implanted right in a person’s head. In a world where virtually everyone is online twenty-four hours a day, this connection is like oxygen—and a world like that presents plenty of opportunities for someone who knows how to manipulate it. Marisa Carneseca is one of those people. She might spend her days in Mirador, the small, vibrant LA neighborhood where her family owns a restaurant, but she lives on the net—going to school, playing games, hanging out, or doing things of more questionable legality with her friends Sahara and Anja. And it’s Anja who first gets her hands on Bluescreen—a virtual drug that plugs right into a person’s djinni and delivers a massive, non-chemical, completely safe high. But in this city, when something sounds too good to be true, it usually is, and Mari and her friends soon find themselves in the middle of a conspiracy that is much bigger than they ever suspected.

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    Tales of Riverworld

      Philip José Farmer
     Tales of Riverworld

In a collection of new Riverworld stories, all the world's dead awaken in Riverworld and play out the grand saga of human history by a new set of rules along the banks of the ten-million-mile river. Contents: ix · Foreword · Philip José Farmer · fw 1 · Crossing the Dark River [Part 1 of 2] · Philip José Farmer · n. * 65 · A Hole in Hell · Dane Helstrom · ss * 73 · Graceland · Allen Steele · nv * 101 · Every Man a God · Mike Resnick & Barry N. Malzberg · nv * 141 · Blandings on Riverworld · Phillip C. Jennings · nv * 173 · Two Thieves · Harry Turtledove · nv * 207 · Fool’s Paradise · Ed Gorman · nv * 237 · The Merry Men of Riverworld · John Gregory Betancourt · na * 283 · Unfinished Business · Robert Weinberg · nv *

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