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| "The Horus Heresy: Primarchs Corax Lord of Shadows Hardcover – 21 Feb 2019" |
| "Book 10 of the succesful 'Horus Heresy Primarchs' Series Focuses on Corax the Primarch of the Raven Guard During the Great Crusade it falls to the primarch Corax of the Raven Guard to humble the immense void-cities of the Carinae Determined to bring these worlds into compliance he unleashes the might of his Legion and a massive war host of the Imperial Army But the lords of Carinae are well defended and without remorse At the height of the conflict at the void-city of Zenith a dread bio-weapon from an ancient time is unleashed At once the Imperial force is brought to its knees as allies are turned against each other and the Raven Guard left to face almost insurmountable odds As the campaign teeters on the brink of failure Coraxs desire for vengeance is severely tested against the need for a swift and certain resolution to the war"
Price: 10.49 |
| "The High Ways" |
| "Humanity has not yet reached for the stars but the Solar System is still a busy exciting and sometimes very dangerous place as young Eddie Wallace is about to discover when he joins the crew of a freighter that hauls cargo along The High Ways! - An all-new space-faring story by John Byrne!"
Price: 10.99 |
| "Warhammer 40,000 Blood Angels – The Complete Rafen Omnibus Paperback – 24 Jan 2019" |
| "This omnibus edition collects together for the first time the four Blood Angels novels of author James Swallow and includes several bonus short stories The full story of Blood Angels Brother Rafen From humble battle-brother to war-hardened sergeant Rafen survives civil war Chaos plots and the calling of destiny in four novels by James Swallow In this epic tale of brotherhood and darkness the Blood Angels face strife from within when Brother Arkio claims to be a reincarnation of Sanguinius the Blood Angels spiritual father His message is clear follow me or die With no other choice his brother Rafen kneels before this prophet of the Blood and swears an oath of devotion But in his heart Rafen knows that Arkio cannot be allowed to lead the Chapter into darkness A reckoning is coming one that they will not both survive As the ashes settle on the devastating by civil war the Blood Angels face a dire crisis and must call together their Successor Chapters or face extinction But the sons of Sanguinius have many enemies and this audacious scheme to rebuild their ranks comes under threat by the machinations of the arch-traitor Fabius Bile"
Price: 11.49 |
| "Warhammer 40,000 The Lords of Silence Paperback – 7 Feb 2019" |
| "The Cadian Gate is broken and the Imperium is riven in two The might of the Traitor Legions kept shackled for millennia behind walls of iron and sorcery has been unleashed on a darkening galaxy Among those seeking vengeance on the Corpse Emperors faltering realm are the Death Guard once proud crusaders of the Legiones Astartes now debased creatures of terror and contagion Mighty warbands carve bloody paths through the void answering their lord primarchs call to war And yet for all their dread might in arms there is no escape from the vicious legacies of the past ones that will pursue them from the ruined daemon-worlds of the Eye of Terror and out into the smouldering wastes of the Imperium Nihilus"
Price: 7.99 |
| "The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North (Paperback, 2014)" |
| "Featured in the Richard and Judy Book Club Featured in the Waterstones Book Club Featured on BBC Radio 2 Book Club Harry August is on his deathbed Again No matter what he does or the decisions he makes when death comes Harry always returns to where he began a child with all the knowledge of a life he has already lived a dozen times before Nothing ever changesUntil nowAs Harry nears the end of his eleventh life a little girl appears at his bedside 'I nearly missed you Doctor August' she says 'I need to send a message'This is the story of what Harry does next and what he did before and how he tries to save a past he cannot change and a future he cannot allowPraise for Claire North'North's talent shines out' Sunday Times'Little short of a masterpiece' Independent'Poignant and intensely gripping' Guardian'Well-paced brilliant and balanced' New York Times'Extraordinary wildly impressive' Lucy Hughes-Hallett BBC Radio 4'Utterly readable utterly believable and compelling one of the fiction highlights of the decade' Judy Finnigan Richard and Judy Book ClubAlso by Claire NorthNovelsTouchThe Sudden Appearance of Hope (winner of the World Fantasy Award 2017)The End of the Day (shortlisted for the Sunday TimesPFD Young Writer of the Year Award 2017)Digital novellasThe Serpent Gameshouse Novella 1The Thief Gameshouse Novella 2 The Master Gameshouse Novella 3"
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| "Feet Of Clay by Terry Pratchett (Paperback, 2013)" |
| "'Sorry?' said Carrot If it's just a thing how can it commit murder? A sword is a thing' - he drew his own sword; it made an almost silken sound - 'and of course you can't blame a sword if someone thrust it at you sir' For Commander Vimes Head of Ankh-Morpork City Watch life consists of troubling times linked together bywell more troubling times Right now it's the latter There's a werewolf with pre-lunar tension in the city and a dwarf with attitude and a golem who's begun to think for itself but that's just ordinary trouble The real problem is more puzzling - people are being murdered but there's no trace of anything alive having been at the crime scene So Vimes not only has to find out whodunit but howdunit too He's not even sure what they dun But soon as he knows what the questions are he's going to want some answers"
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| "Rendezvous With Rama" |
| "The multi-award-winning SF masterpiece from one of the greatest SF writers of all timeRama is a vast alien spacecraft that enters the Solar System A perfect cylinder some fifty kilometres long spinning rapidly racing through space Rama is a technological marvel a mysterious and deeply enigmatic alien artefactIt is Mankind's first visitor from the stars and must be investigated Winner of the HUGO AWARD for best novel 1974Winner of the NEBULA AWARD for best novel 1973Winner of the JOHN W CAMPBELL AWARD for best novel 1974Winner of the BSFA AWARD for best novel 1973"
Price: 6.49 |
| "The Hanging Tree: The Sixth PC Grant Mystery by Ben Aaronovitch (Paperback, 2017)" |
| "Suspicious deaths are not usually the concern of PC Peter Grant or the Folly even when they happen at an exclusive party in one of the most expensive apartment blocks in London But Lady Ty's daughter was there and Peter owes Lady Ty a favourPlunged into the alien world of the super-rich where the basements are bigger than the house and dangerous arcane items are bought and sold on the open market a sensible young copper would keep his head down and his nose clean But this is Peter Grant we're talking aboutHe's been given an unparalleled opportunity to alienate old friends and create new enemies at the point where the world of magic and that of privilege intersect Assuming he survives the week"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 14 : 14" |
| "Ken Kaneki is an ordinary college student until a violent encounter turns him into the first half-human half-Ghoul hybrid Trapped between two worlds he must survive Ghoul turf wars learn more about Ghoul society and master his new powers As Kaneki and the fiercest fighter in the CCG Arima finally face off several investigators launch an assault on Yoshimura unaware of the danger that awaits them The massive battle takes a turn for the worse when the One-Eyed Owl appears leaving the fate of Kaneki and the CCG hanging in the balance"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton (Paperback, 2014)" |
| "The first part of the epic Commonwealth Saga Pandora's Star by Peter F Hamilton is a fantastic galaxy-spanning novel from the master of space operaEarth AD 2329 Humanity has colonized over four hundred planets all interlinked by wormholes For the first time in mankind's history there is peaceThen a star over a thousand light years away suddenly vanishes imprisoned inside a force field of immense sizeOnly a faster-than-light starship captained by ex-NASA astronaut Wilson Kime can reach that distance to investigateBut there was a good reason for sealing off an entire star system And getting in may not be as difficult as stopping something from getting out The Commonwealth Saga concludes with Judas Unchained"
Price: 10.49 |
| "Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "The second novel in Kim Stanley Robinson's massively successful and lavishly praised Mars trilogy The ultimate in future history' Daily MailMars can be plundered - for the benefit of a ravaged Earth It can be terraformed to suit Man's needs - frozen lakes form lichen grows the atmosphere slowly becomes breathable But most importantly Mars can be owned On Earth countries are bought and sold by the transnationals Why not Mars too?Man's dream is underway but so is his greatest test The survivors of the First Hundred - Hiroko Nadia Maya and Simon among them - know that technology alone is not enough Trust and co-operation are need to create a new world - but these qualities are as thin on the ground as the air they breathe"
Price: 9.99 |
| "Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy (Paperback, 1987)" |
| "Tom Clancy's second classic No 1 bestselling thriller - a chillingly authentic vision of modern war - now reissued in a new cover Three Muslim terrorists who destroyed the Soviet Union's largest petrochemical plant thought they were striking a blow for freedom What they had done unknowingly was fire the first shots in World War III Desperately short of oil the Kremlin hawks see only one way of solving their problem seize supplies in the Persian Gulf To do that they must first neutralise NATO's forces and eliminate their response - and so they develop Red Storm a dazzling master plan of diplomatic subterfuge and intense rearmament The battle lines are drawn and Armageddon beckons"
Price: 11.99 |
| "The Children of Hurin by J. R. R. Tolkien (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "Painstakingly restored from Tolkien's manuscripts and presented for the first time as a fully continuous and standalone story this illustrated paperback of the epic tale of The Children of Hurin will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves dragons Dwarves and Orcs and the rich landscape and characters unique to Tolkien It is a legendary time long before The Lord of the Rings and Morgoth the first Dark Lord dwells in the vast fortress of Angband in the North; and within the shadow of the fear of Angband and the war waged by Morgoth against the Elves the fates of Turin and his sister Nienor will be tragically entwined Their brief and passionate lives are dominated by the elemental hatred that Morgoth bears them as the children of Hurin the man who dared to defy him to his face Against them Morgoth sends his most formidable servant Glaurung a powerful spirit in the form of a huge wingless dragon of fire in an attempt to fulfil the curse of Morgoth and destroy the children of Hurin Begun by JRR Tolkien at the end of the First World War The Children of Hurin became the dominant story in his later work on Middle-earth But he could not bring it to a final and finished form In this book Christopher Tolkien has constructed after long study of the manuscripts a coherent narrative without any editorial invention"
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| "The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien, Alan Lee (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "Read the classic edition of Bilbo Baggins' adventures in Middle-earth Featuring more than 60 colour paintings and pencil drawings by the award-winning artist Alan Lee Conceptual Designer on Peter Jackson's THE HOBBIT AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable unambitious life rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag End But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of thirteen dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an unexpected journey there and back again' They have a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent a large and very dangerous dragon The prelude to The Lord of the Rings The Hobbit has sold many millions of copies since its publication in 1937 establishing itself as one of the most beloved and influential books of the twentieth century It is now available in a smart new package and is illustrated throughout in gorgeous watercolour and delicate pencil by Alan Lee Conceptual Artist for Peter Jackson's films THE HOBBIT AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY and THE HOBBIT THERE AND BACK AGAIN"
Price: 9.99 |
| "Servant of the Empire by Janny Wurts, Raymond E. Feist (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "Second in Feist & Wurts' wonderful epic trilogy - one of the most successful fantasy collaborations of all time THE EMPIRE TRILOGY BOOK II Nobody knows how to play the Game of the Council better than Mara of the Acoma But when you're surrounded by deadly rivals intent on toppling you at every turn you need to be the best simply to survive"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Warhammer: Age of Sigmar Champions of the Mortal Realms Paperback – 22 Aug 2019" |
| "Across the war-torn lands of the Mortal Realms each day is a struggle for survival Some cower behind the walls of vast citadels while others hide in forgotten corners hoping to remain unnoticed But in rare souls the potential for greatness arises Individuals who will be remembered throughout the ages for their deeds their names stamped into the annals of history Some like Darkoath Warqueen Vedra the Sworn must do battle with the blood-crazed warriors of Khorne even while deceit and treachery festers at the heart of her forces Others such as the ruthless Fleetmaster Arika Zenthe must complete an impossible task to halt the inexorable empire-building of her hated father At the edge of Chamon disgraced Freeguild Captain Byrun Hess finds his new posting filled with ill-disciplined almost heretical soldiers but discovers that the true danger comes from an unexpected and terrifying source While in the wastes of the Bone Desert the heroic Gotrek Gurnisson embarks on a quest to find the mighty axe of Grimnir but finds himself beset by an ancient enemy In this collection are the novellas Warqueen Heart of Winter The Red Hours and Bone Desert by Darius Hinks Nick Horth Evan Dicken and Robbie MacNiven "
Price: 7.99 |
| "Warhammer 40,000 Lords and Tyrants Paperback – 17 Oct 2019" |
| "Wracked by the ravages of war the galaxy has known no peace for untold millennia To exist is to fight To thrive is to conquer Once-proud worlds lie in ruins at the hands of traitorous warlords and vile alien despots Cowed by the unstoppable march of the Ruinous Powers humanity stands on the precipice of oblivion All hope is banished Yet there are many who take up arms against these horrors Noble heroes of the Imperium sally forth to do battle while enigmatic Inquisitors explore the shadowy secrets of this benighted era In the terror of the 41st Millennium righteous lords and iron-willed tyrants clash to decide who is worthy of inheriting the galaxy"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Realm Quest Forest of the Ancients Volume 3 Paperback – 5 Sep 2019" |
| "The third book in the Warped Galaxies series An exciting new series of fantasy for middle-grade readers from Black Library Epic heroes mighty armies and terrifying monsters clash against the backdrop of magical landscapes As Elio lies stricken under a powerful curse the only way his friends Thanis Alish Kiri and Kaspar can cure him is to venture into the Forest of the Ancients Rumour tells of a race of healers who dwell there the mysterious tree-folk known as the Sylvaneth but are they allies or enemies?"
Price: 6.99 |
| "Necromunda Underhive Paperback – 11 Jul 2019" |
| "In the sprawling polluted hive cities of Necromunda life is a constant fight for scraps From the highest peaks to the lowest depths rival gangs war and spill blood in a desperate battle to increase their standing with the decadent Great Houses Life is short and brutal especially for those on the climb Underhive rogue Kora Zekk makes a delivery of weapons to House Orlock expecting betrayal A sinner tries to win his life with a story of star crossed lovers Goliath ganger Topek Greel seeks out an underhive legend a killer with a terrifying record And when a House Escher ambush goes wrong Jarene of the Wild Cats finds herself outlawed She has to take control and save her sisters in arms from enforcers bounty hunters even other gangs Can she restore her honour and bring the true culprits to justice?This anthology contains the novella Wanted Dead by Mike Brooks and nine short stories by some of the Black Librarys finest authors"
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| "The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "When Bill Masen wakes up blindfolded in hospital there is a bitter irony in his situation Carefully removing his bandages he realizes that he is the only person who can see everyone else doctors and patients alike have been blinded by a meteor shower Now with civilization in chaos the triffids - huge venomous large-rooted plants able to 'walk' feeding on human flesh - can have their day The Day of the Triffids published in 1951 expresses many of the political concerns of its time the Cold War the fear of biological experimentation and the man-made apocalypse However with its terrifyingly believable insights into the genetic modification of plants the book is more relevant today than ever beforeJohn Wyndham was born in 1903 After a wide experience of the English preparatory school he was at Bedales from 1918 to 1921 Careers which he tried included farming law commercial art and advertising and he first started writing short stories intended for sale in 1925 During the war he was in the Civil Service and afterwards in the Army In 1946 he began writing his major science fiction novels including The Kraken Wakes The Chrysalids and The Midwich Cuckoos"
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| "The Bonehunters: Malazan Book Of Fallen 6 by Steven Erikson (Paperback, 2007)" |
| "The Seven Cities Rebellion is over Sha'ik is dead but a last rebel force remains holed up in the city of Y'Ghatan under the fanatical command of Leoman of the Flails The prospect of laying siege to this ancient fortress makes the battle-weary Malaz 14th Army uneasy - for it was here that the Empire's greatest champion Dassem Ultor was slain and a tide of Malazan blood spilled But agents of a far greater conflict have made their opening moves The Crippled God has been granted a place in the pantheon a schism threatens sides must be chosen but whatever each god decides the rules have changed - and the first blood spilled will be in the mortal world a world in which a host of characters familiar and new search for a fate that they might fashion by their own will If only the gods would leave them alone But gods are disinclined to be kind There shall be war war in the heavens And the prize? Nothing less than existence itself"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Soulless by Gail Carriger (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "Alexia Tarabotti is labouring under a great many social tribulations First she has no soul Second she's a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead Third she was rudely attacked by a vampire breaking all standards of social etiquette Where to go from there? From bad to worse apparently for Alexia accidentally kills the vampire - and then the appalling Lord Maccon (loud messy gorgeous and werewolf) is sent by Queen Victoria to investigate With unexpected vampires appearing and expected vampires disappearing everyone seems to believe Alexia responsible Can she figure out what is actually happening to London's high society? Or will her soulless ability to negate supernatural powers prove useful or just plain embarrassing? Finally who is the real enemy and do they have treacle tart? SOULLESS is a comedy of manners set in Victorian London full of werewolves vampires dirigibles and tea-drinkingAlso available as a manga adaptation"
Price: 5.99 |
| "Citizens by Brian M. Thomsen, John Ringo (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "Citizens is a new kind of science fiction anthology The names appearing between its covers are not only veteran authors among the very best in the field they are military veterans as well New York Times bestselling author John Ringo (a veteran of the 82nd Airborne) and Brian M Thomsen a Hugo finalist and one of the most respected editors in the field have selected a treasure trove of gems written by writers who know first hand what it means to wear their country&39;s uniform Among the top writers appearing in Citizens are Isaac Asimov Robert A Heinlein Arthur C Clarke Elizabeth Moon Gordon R Dickson David Drake Joe Haldeman Harry Harrison Keith Laumer Frederik Pohl Jerry Pournelle Gene Wolfe and more nearly all authors of bestsellers and recipients of Hugo and Nebula awards"
Price: 11.49 |
| "Galactic Courier by A. Bertram Chandler (Book, 2013)" |
| "Book 3 in a three-volume collection of the legendary John Grimes of the Galactic Rim series! If space travel is going to be anything like sailing the oceans then A Bertram Chandler has surely caught its absolute essence in his Grimes novels Here are the crowning tales of Grimes career - the Grimes Commodore stories In these tales Grimes has found his true calling out on the edge of galactic civilization He the sheriff of a realm where pioneer colonies and parallel dimensions overlap and a starship captain must be prepared for adventure in ALL possible worlds Includes an astounding (as in mostly published in Astounding and Analog by legendary editor John W Campbell) cornucopia of Grimes novels bringing together all previous Commodore Grimes tales in Star Courier To Keep the Ship Matilda Stepchildren and Star Loot"
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| "Guardian of Night by Tony Daniel (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "The Hunt for Red October in space complete with a fascinating alien “Sean Connery” ship commander heroic human space-naval officers and a rousing blast-off of a final battle on the edge of the Solar System For alien commander Arid Ricimer there was no going home His species was winning the war with Earth but the civilization he had fought for was gone destroyed from within by ideologues and bureaucrats So he does the only thing that makes sense to a person of integrity—he attempts to defect to Earth with his officers and an entire spaceship a vessel that mounts a superweapon of almost unimaginable power Hot on his heels is his former fleet a force that has already devastated Earth once and is poised to wipe humanity from existence forever ready to do almost anything to deny Earth a chance To the defenders of Earth he is an enigma—and potentially a Trojan horse Yet after years of battling back from the brink of destruction the US space navy has the war-tested heroes to rise to the challenge Ricimer represents—and the danger that follows him—if only those in charge will listen The players are in motion and the greatest confrontation this sector of the galaxy has ever witnessed is at hand Now all depends on the courage of an honorable alien warrior and the intelligence and daring of his human allies About the Author Tony Daniel is the author of five science fiction books the latest of which is Guardian of Night as well as an award-winning short story collection The Robot’s Twilight Companion He is Hugo finalist for his story “Life on the Moon” which also won the Asimov’s Reader’s Choice Award Daniel’s short fiction has been much anthologized and has been collected in multiple year’s best compilations Daniel has also cowritten screenplays for SyFy Channel horror movies and during the early 2000s was the writer and director of numerous audio dramas for critically-acclaimed SCIFICOM’s Seeing Ear Theatre Born in Alabama Daniel has lived in St Louis Los Angeles Seattle Prague and New York City He now lives in North Carolina with his wife and two children"
Price: 9.99 |
| "Miles Mutants and Microbes by Lois McMaster Bujold (Book, 2008)" |
| "Two complete novels and a short novel in one large volume Falling Free—The Nebula Award-winning novel Leo Graf was just your typical efficient engineer mind your own business and do the job But all that changed on his assignment to the Cay Habitat where children had been bio-engineered to have four arms (and no legs) to function in zero gravity Now that they’re no longer needed a heartless mega corporation is getting rid of them before they eat into the profit margin Leo Graf adopted 1000 quaddies—now he had to teach them to be free “Labyrinth”—When Miles Vorkosigan is captured while on a secret mission to a lawless world his only hope of escape is an unlikely pair of allies a quaddie and a teenage werewolf Diplomatic Immunity— Miles Vorkosigan and his wife were heading home for the births of their first children but a major diplomatic disaster is looming at Graf Station colonized by the descendants of the original quaddies and duty calls Unfortunately diplomatic immunity doesn’t carry over to immunity from a very nasty biological weapon The downside of being a troubleshooter comes when trouble starts shooting back About the Author Lois McMaster Bujold is one of the most honored writers in the fields of science fiction and fantasy and has won six Hugo Awards and two Nebula Awards including a Nebula Award for Falling Free included in Miles and Metallurgy She immediately attracted attention with her first novel Shards of Honor which began her popular Vorkosigan series and quickly followed it up with The Warrior’s Apprentice which introduced young Miles Vorkosigan one of the most popular characters ever in science fiction Her recent fantasy series for Harper-Collins has been a top seller and its second entry Paladin of Souls took home her latest Hugo Award The mother of two Ms Bujold lives in Minneapolis MN"
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| "Three Faces of Asprin SC" |
| "Three action packed science fiction novels by New York Times best-selling author and creator of the Myth Adventures series Contains “The Cold Cash Wars” “The Bug Wars” and “Tambu”"
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| "1635: A Parcel of Rogues SC" |
| "Book 20 in the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series When the diplomatic embassy from the United States of Europe was freed from the Tower of London during the Baltic War most of its members returned to the continent But some remained behind in Britain including notorious enemy to the crown Oliver Cromwell Now the hunt for Cromwell is on with King Charles himself demanding Cromwell’s head When the diplomatic embassy from the United States of Europe was freed from the Tower of London during the Baltic War most of its members returned to the continent But some remained behind in Britain Oliver Cromwell and a few companions including the sharpshooter Julie Sims her Scot husband Alex Mackay and Cromwell’s Irish-American self-appointed watchdog Darryl McCarthy Soon the hunt is on for the most notorious rebel in English history with King Charles himself demanding Cromwell’s head The new chief minister Richard Boyle Earl of Cork brings over from Ireland a notorious crew of cutthroats led by a man called Finnegan to track down and capture the escapees from the Tower The hunt passes through England and into Scotland where the conflict between Cromwell and his companions and their would-be captors becomes embroiled in Scotland’s politics which are every bit as savage and ruthless as Finnegan and his men To make things still more conflicted and confused the time Darryl McCarthy spends fighting alongside Cromwell forces him against his will to admire and respect—and even like—the man despite Cromwell’s demonic reputation among all self-respecting Irish nationalist families like Darryl’s own It’s a Gordian knot anywhere you look—until Julie Sims brings out her rifle Now it’s the turn of Scot partisans and English lords and Irish toughs to learn the lesson already learned on the continent A safe distance isn’t what you think it is Not after the American angel of death spreads her wings"
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| "The Best Of Bova Volume 3" |
| "VOLUME 3 IN A STERLING COLLECTION OF STORIES FROM LEGENDARY HARD SCIENCE FICTION MASTER BEN BOVA Selected stories from Bova&39;s amazing career at the center of science fiction and space advocacy He is the creator of the New York Times best-selling Grand Tour science fiction series a six time Hugo award winner and past president of the National Space Society Volume 3 of 3 of the very best of Ben Bova a grandmaster of science fiction storytelling These stories span the five decades of Bova&39;s incandescent career Here are tales of star-faring adventure peril and drama Here are journeys into the mind-bending landscapes of virtual worlds and alternate realities Here you&39;ll also find stories of humanity&39;s astounding future on Earth on Mars and in the Solar System beyond—stories that always get the science right And Bova&39;s gathering of deeply realized totally human characters are the heroic brave tricky sometimes dastardly engineers astronauts corporate magnates politicians and scientists who will make these futures possible—and those who often find that the problems of tomorrow are always linked to human values and human failings that are as timeless as the stars Meet the Author Ben Bova has written more than one hundred twenty futuristic novels and nonfiction books and has been involved in science and high technology since the very beginnings of the space age President Emeritus of the National Space Society and a past president of Science Fiction Writers of America Bova received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Arthur C Clarke Foundation in 2005 "for fueling mankind&39;s imagination regarding the wonders of outer space" His 2006 novel Titan received the John W Campbell Memorial Award for best novel of the year In 2008 he won the Robert A Heinlein Award "for his outstanding body of work in the field of literature" Bova is a frequent commentator on radio and television and a widely-popular lecturer His articles opinion pieces and reviews have appeared in Scientific American Nature The New York Times The Wall Street Journal and many other newspapers and magazines Earlier he was an award-winning editor and an executive in the aerospace industry Bova has taught science fiction at Harvard University and at the Hayden Planetarium in New York City where he has also directed film courses Bova currently lives in Florida"
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| "The Complete Psychotechnic League Volume 1" |
| "The first of three volumes collecting ALL of the Psychotechnic League future history stories from multiple Hugo- and Nebula-award-winning author Poul Anderson After World War III ravages the globe humanity led by the Psychotechnic Institute bands together to create peace on Earth and to spread that peace throughout the solar system and beyond But soon the cycle of war and destruction begins anew Includes short stories never before collected in a Psychotechnic League volume FROM THE ASHES OF WORLD WAR III About the Author Poul Anderson was one of the most prolific and popular writers in science fiction He won the Hugo Award seven times and the Nebula Award three times as well as the Grand Master Award of the Science Fiction Writers of America With a degree in physics and a wide knowledge of other fields of science he was noted for building stories on a solid foundation of real science as well as for being one of the most skilled creators of fast-paced adventure stories He was author of over a hundred novels and story collections and several hundred short stories as well as several mysteries and nonfiction books"
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