The Art Of The DealBudget cuts are every administrator's nightmare, but CURE's own Dr. Harold Smith has a real whopper. A battle over bullion prompts Chiun to seek better pastures, and he's dragging Remo along.Word spreads like wildfire: the fabled assassins of the House of Sinanju are hiring out to the highest bidder. While the desperate Dr. Smith is panicking big-time, rogue nations are trying to beat out, burn down and bump off the competition - before the highest bid gets the goods.It's a seller's market for the lethal duo, and their success is assured - if there's anything left of the planet after the bidding way.
Rookie cop Wayne witnesses a mob hit and must make a swift getaway. But waking up 300 years in the future is more extreme than he’d planned. Putting his only skills into use, he joins GalactiCop, but becomes entangled in a gang war for control of Bikini Planet - pleasure capital of the universe.
„Ne akarj ember lenni, Bill! Te is tudod, hogy ?gysem fog menni. Te h?s vagy, Bill, egy igazi galaktikus h?s. ?s ha nem ?rted a tr?f?t, mi?rt ?llt?l katon?nak?”Bill bel?p a Galaktikus Birodalom hatalmas haderej?be, s Heliorba utazik, ebbe az ac?llabirintusba, a S?t?t ?rkor k?zpontj?ba.S ahogy ? mondogatja: „A h?bor? maga a pokol” — ?m egy embernek a lelki ?dv?t is fel kell ?ldoznia, hogy a Birodalmat szolg?lja.A galaxisban h?bor? d?h?ng a chingerek ?s az emberek k?z?tt. Bill v?letlen?l leleplez egy chinger k?met, s az azt k?vet? csat?ban vit?z?l harcol. Kit?ntet?sre terjesztik fel, melyet Heliorban kell ?tvennie, a Birodalom f?v?ros?ban. ?m v?rosn?z?s k?zben ellopj?k a t?rk?p?t, ?s menthetetlen?l elt?ved a labirintusban. Amikor h?napok m?lt?n siker?l eljutnia egy katonai b?zisra, bilincsbe verik dezert?l?s?rt, ?s egy pokoli bolyg?ra viszik k?nyszermunk?ra…
to jeden z najbardziej cenionych utwor?w Harrisona i jednocze?nie przyk?ad humorystycznego nurtu jego pisarstwa. Jest on satyryczn? polemik? z niekt?rymi aspektami tw?rczo?ci najpopularniejszego z autor?w ameryka?skich — Roberta Heinleina. jest odpowiedzi? satyryczn? na militaryzm, imperializm i szowinizm, na typ edukacji, kt?ry — zdaniem Harrisona — produkuje nie supermen?w, ale odm??d?one roboty. O ile Heinlein igra z ide? nadcz?owieka, a jego nie?miertelni lub superinteligentni manipulatorzy s? przedstawiani z sympati?, o tyle Harrison nie ma w?tpliwo?ci, ?e superman jest szkodliwy!
es el relato despiadado y sat?rico de las aventuras de un campesino incorporado a la fuerza al servicio militar del Imperio m?s decadente y corrupto de toda la historia humana. Bill no lleg? a ser h?roe a cambio de nada. Le hab?a costado un brazo. Claro que le injertaron otro, pero no hacia juego con el que le quedaba (incluso su color era diferente) .Al Imperio no le importaba lo m?s m?nimo sus h?roes o ciudadanos. Vivian como cerdos y eran tratados como ratas. ?Qu? pod?an esperar? El Universo entero se hallaba en guerra, y la guerra en el espacio era tan sucia y terrible como en cualquier otro lugar.
In the 22nd century, interstellar travel is possible but expensive, so human efforts are concentrated on Isis, the only nearby Earth-like world. Isis is rich with life, but toxic, so people like Zoe are genetically engineered from before birth to explore the planet and face its terrors.
It's the end of World War II. FDR's New Deal has redefined American politics. Taxes are at an all-time high. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has brought a fear of total annihilation. The rise of secret government agencies and sanctions on business has many watching their backs. America's sense of freedom is diminishing… and many are desperate to take that freedom back. Among them is a great dreamer, an immigrant who pulled himself from the depths of poverty to become one of the wealthiest and admired men in the world. That man is Andrew Ryan, and he believed that great men and women deserve better. And so he set out to create the impossible, a utopia free from government, censorship, and moral restrictions on science—where what you give is what you get. He created Rapture—the shining city below the sea. But as we all know, this utopia suffered a great tragedy. This is the story of how it all came to be… and how it all ended.
New York TimesBefore Cirque Du Freak…Before the war with the vampaneze…Before he was a vampire.Larten Crepsley was a boy.As a child laborer many centuries ago, Larten Crepsley did his job well and without complaint, until the day the foreman killed his brother as an example to the other children.In that moment, young Larten flies into a rage that the foreman wouldn't survive. Forced on the run, he sleeps in crypts and eats cobwebs to get by. And when a vampire named Seba offers him protection and training as a vampire's assistant, Larten takes it.This is his story.
Editorial Reviews Ingram Birth Of Fire is the story of Garrett Pittston, wrongly convicted of murder. Pittston faces a choice: life in prison, or near-slavery on Mars. Under the appalling conditions imposed by those who run the mines from Earth, Pittston and his fellow workers start a revolution to wrest their freedom from the penal colony. Display advertising in science fiction publications. Previously published by Pocket Books. Customer Reviews Avg. Customer Review: One of the Best Mars Colonization Novels Ever, November 7, 2001 Reviewer: I had not read any of Jerry Pournelle's other books, when I ...
Morganville, Texas is a quiet college town where humans and vampires live in relative peace. But lately a great deal of blood is being spilled — not in a feeding frenzy, but for someone's twisted idea of entertainment. After discovering that vampires populate Morganville — and surviving a number of adventures with her new night-dwelling friends — college student Claire Danvers has come to realise that for the most part, the undead just want to live their lives. But someone else wants them to get ready to rumble. There's a new extreme sport being broadcast over the Internet: bare-knuckle fights pitting captured vampires against one another — or, worse, against humans. Tracking the out-of-town signal leads Claire — accompanied by a loyal group of friends and frenemies — to discover that what started as an online brawl will soon threaten everyone in Morganville. And if they want to survive, they'll have to do a lot more than fight...
Raybould Marsh is a British secret agent in the early days of the Second World War, haunted by something strange he saw on a mission during the Spanish Civil War: a German woman with wires going into her head who looked at him as if she knew him. When the Nazis start running missions with people who have unnatural abilities—a woman who can turn invisible, a man who can walk through walls, and the woman Marsh saw in Spain who can use her knowledge of the future to twist the present—Marsh is the man who has to face them. He rallies the secret warlocks of Britain to hold the impending invasion at bay. But magic always exacts a price. Eventually, the sacrifice necessary to defeat the enemy will be as terrible as outright loss would be.
The long-awaited companion to bestsellers and Eight years after , Bitterblue is now queen of Monsea. But the influence of her father, a violent psychopath with mind-altering abilities, lives on. Her advisors, who have run things since Leck died, believe in a forward-thinking plan: Pardon all who committed terrible acts under Leck's reign, and forget anything bad ever happened. But when Bitterblue begins sneaking outside the castle—disguised and alone—to walk the streets of her own city, she starts realizing that the kingdom has been under the thirty-five-year spell of a madman, and the only way to move forward is to revisit the past.Two thieves, who only steal what has already been stolen, change her life forever. They hold a key to the truth of Leck's reign. And one of them, with an extreme skill called a Grace that he hasn't yet identified, holds a key to her heart.
At an old manor house on a remote Scottish island, six managers of a large corporation arrive for a week-long stay. Within days they will all suffer horrifying deaths and their bodies will never be found. The government assigns the case to Department 18, the special unit created to investigate the supernatural and the paranormal. However this is no mere haunted house. The evil on this island goes back centuries, but its unholy plots and schemes are hardly things of the past. In fact, while the members of Department 18 race to unravel the island's secrets, the forces of darkness are gathering… and preparing to attack.
The dark history and dire secrets of a peaceful small town are summoned from the shadows of the past. Unholy forces are stirred from long slumber to monstrous new life. And two young misfits discover the chillingart of turning persecution into retribution. With these eerie ingredients, bestselling master John Saul once again works his unique brand of sinister magic to conjure an unforgettable tale of unspeakableterror.For most of her young life, thirteen-year-old Angel Sullivan has been on the outside looking in, enduring the taunts of cruel schoolmates and the angry abuse of a bitter father. ThenAngel's family ...
