Author: Harry Harrison Publisher: Gateway ISBN: 9781473228375 Category : Languages : en Pages : 576
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The planet was called Pyrrus, a strange place where all the beasts, plants and natural elements were designed for one specific purpose: to destroy man. The settlers there were supermen, twice as strong as ordinary men and with milli-second reflexes. They had to be. For their business was murder. It was up to Jason dinAlt, interplanetary gambler, to discover why Pyrrus had become so hostile during man's brief habitation. This omnibus contains all three novels in the Deathworld trilogy!
Author: Harry Harrison Publisher: Faber & Faber ISBN: 9780571087129 Category : Life on other planets Languages : en Pages : 249
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The planet was called Felicity. The name was a joke except for those compelled to settle there. Inhabiting it were beings bred for thousands of years for a single purpose: to attack and kill. Jason dinAlt knew this, but he also knew the planet on which he lived was moving towards certain disaster. And, Felicity was the only spot in the universe where he and his companions could survive. He thought he had worked out the perfect plan. But what awaited him on Felicity went far beyond his wildest imagining.
Author: Corey McCullough Publisher: Corey McCullough ISBN: Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 504
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Lost in a parallel universe of swords, shields, magic, and monsters, a young man searches for a way home. When seventeen-year-old Justin Holmes wakes up in a strange, fantastic world, all he wants is to find a way back to his ordinary life in small-town America. But his search for answers takes an unexpected turn when he and a band of unlikely allies are attacked by dark forces wielding otherworldly power. Forced to flee into the wilderness, Justin feels farther than ever from discovering how he accidentally arrived in this strange realm. Can he help his new friends in their desperate quest? Will he ever see home again? And was his transportation from Earth an accident at all? Ancient secrets are revealed that could shake the foundations of this alternate world... and might unlock Justin's portal home. The start of a four-book epic fantasy series that readers call FUN, ENGROSSING, and JAW-DROPPING.
Author: John Vornholt Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 067104270X Category : Interplanetary voyages Languages : en Pages : 292
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Lieutenant Melora Pazlar, first seen in the Deep Space Nine episode that bears her name (Melora), is the only Elaysian in Starfleet. Stationed on board the USS Enterprise, six years after her short-lived romance with Dr Bashir, she receives a desperate call for help from her crystalline, multi-species homeworld. When subspace contact fails, Captain Picard sends the Enterprise to investigate, only to find the ship nearly torn apart by a dimensional rift and stranded, badly damaged, below the shields that protect the carefully constructed planet. With both escape and rescue impossible, Picard and crew set out to discover the cause of the rift and the strange, cancerous growth in the crystal choking the planet itself. A Federation ship attempts to reach the Enterprise but is destroyed, and when thoron radiation threatens to kill the crew, all signs on the planet point to sabotage...
Author: Harry Harrison Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 0575115939 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 141
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The planet was unknown¿ a savagely primitive place where every man had to kill every other man - or live as a slave. The inhabitants lived in the early Bronze Age one minute, and in the early Machine Age the next. Technology had degenerated into a number of mysteries jealously guarded by separate brotherhoods. But Jason dinAlt was a gambler. He realised that if he was ever going to get a winning hand in this game, the brotherhoods would need a shuffle¿
Author: Harry Harrison Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 1466822732 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 189
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“The funniest science fiction book ever written” is a space military parody about a hapless soldier from a Science Fiction Hall of Fame inductee (Terry Pratchett, New York Times–bestselling author of the Discworld novels). It was the highest honour to defend the Empire against the dreaded Chingers, an enemy race of seven-foot-tall lizards. But Bill, a Technical Fertilizer Operator from a planet of farmers, wasn’t interested in honour—he was only interested in two things: his chosen career, and the shapely curves of Inga-Maria Calyphigia. Then a recruiting robot shanghaied him with knockout drops, and he came to in deep space, aboard the Empire warship Christine Keeler. And from there, things got even worse . . . Praise for Harry Harrison “A perfectly grand storyteller.” —David Brin, Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of Star Tide Rising “Few commercial writers are more deserving of their popularity than Harrison, a fine writer who occasionally reaches brilliant heights.” —Publishers Weekly
Author: Deborah Scott Publisher: ISBN: 9780380973569 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 164
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When Flattop Kincaid buys a used video game at a flea market, he finds himself in the Middle Ages among peasants who think he is a deranged member of the nobility.
Author: Hilary Wagner Publisher: Holiday House ISBN: 0823431541 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 222
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“Fans of Redwall and the Warriors series will love this heroic tale of good versus evil in a subterranean society of rats.” —Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series When the albino rat Billycan left Trillium at the end of The White Assassin, he fled to the island of Tosca. There, here learns that a former ally, working undercover in Nightshade City, is plotting to free Killdeer's imprisoned evil generals and seize power. He races back to Trillium to join in the coup—but on which side? So begins the gripping conclusion to Hilary Wagner's Nightshade Chronicles. But something even more sinister is afoot in Trillium City. Rats are disappearing, and so Juniper leads a search party topside, where they discover that Prince Pharmaceuticals, the insidious corporation that tortured so many rats, is back in business, still searching for the secret of Trillium rats' incredible intelligence and longevity. The fate of the Nightshade rats is in Billycan's hands, but can he be trusted? Can he use his connection to the human scientists to ensure the safety of the Lords of Trillium forever?
Author: Doug Wallace Publisher: ISBN: 9781695463301 Category : Languages : en Pages : 304
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The Hades Galaxy is so far from Earth, its light hasn't even reached our most powerful telescopes. It's a strange place-familiar, yet different. A place where stars erupt at a moment's notice, planets crumble like glass, and the laws of physics push the limits of the impossible. It's also inhabited. Or it used to be. So how did Paul Johnson get from his grandpa's ranch in Montana to the shores of alien waters in a distant galaxy? How did he and millions of colonists become trapped there, with no hope of ever returning home? He did what men throughout history have done: he chased after a beautiful woman. And he got her. Sort of.The promise of land grants on virgin worlds and first contact with alien races are now in the rear-view mirror. Do battleships even have rear-view mirrors? Promoted out of turn, Paul leads a crack team of corporate marines in the fight to re-establish the Rift, the mysterious wormhole that joined Hades to the Milky Way. To make matters worse, Earth's largest corporations have engaged in an all-out free-for-all to control the new galaxy's plentiful-yet-very-alien resources. But Hades won't give up its secrets so easily. Menacing forces conspire to keep the human visitors from their aims, and possibly, from returning home.Fans of military sci-fi, space opera, and speculative physics will enjoy reading Hades' Star: Hostile Takeover. Think a cross between Star Trek and Starship Troopers. It's a story of alien worlds littered with technology, romance, action, mystery, and characters that will make you wish you could suit up right beside them and take the fight to the bad guys. The pace never slows in this throwback to the page-turning sci-fi of yore.
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