El Hassan, would-be tyrant of all North Africa, was on the run. His followers at this point numbered six, one of whom was a wisp of a twenty-four year old girl. Arrayed against him and his dream, he knew, was the combined power of the world in the form of the Reunited Nations, and, in addition, such individual powers as the United States of the Americas, the Soviet Complex, Common Europe, the French Community, the British Commonwealth and the Arab Union, working both together and unilaterally...A novel of colonialism set in North Africa, continuation of “Blackman’s Burden”. First serialized in Analog magazine in Jul–Aug 1962; published in book form in 1972.
Im D?mmerlicht des plumpen Empfangsgeb?udes, dessen schmutziggraue Farbe den d?steren Eindruck noch verst?rkte, scharten sich der Botschaftsrat, zwei Botschaftssekret?re und die Attach?s um den Gesandten Spradley. Die bunten Orden der Diplomaten brachten ein wenig Farbe in die tr?be Halle. Ungeduldig sah der Gesandte auf seine Fingeruhr. „Sind Sie sicher, Ben, da? die Zeit unserer Ankunft genau mitgeteilt wurde?“
Tenebra, die Welt der Extreme, hatte sie eingefangen und lie? sie nicht mehr los. Nur der irdische Robotlehrer — eine Maschine konnte den Versuch zur Rettung der beiden Sternenkinder aus der H?lle von Tenebra unternehmen. Eine Temperatur von ?ber 180 Grad, und ein Luftdruck von 800 Atmosph?ren und eine planetare Oberfl?che, die t?glich tiefgreifenden Ver?nderungen unterworfen war, machten der Maschine nichts aus.Der Autor hat seit Jahren in den Kreisen der SFAnh?nger einen ausgezeichneten Ruf, weil er es wie kaum ein anderer versteht, die Reaktionen von Lebewesen in einer fremden Umgebung lebensecht zu schildern.
The president is calling. Dr. Harold W. Smith, head of the secret agency known as CURE, took the phone from the bottom left drawer of his desk and answered with a sigh, "Yes, sir." The President of the United States could not directly assign CURE to do anything, he could only suggest. The one and only order any president could give CURE would be for its immediate dissolution. And five presidents now hadn't quite done that. Though all five were often tempted. "What do you know about the Lippincott case?" the Southern voice asked. Smith regurgitated a two-page, single-spaced ...
The damned will be sucking snow cones in hell before Gregor Faustin succumbs to love and marriage. Or so he thinks. Until he ploughs his BMW straight into destiny. Madelena, with her smart mouth and her luscious ass, her old-man wardrobe and pointed questions, affects him like no woman he's ever met. Gregor can't decide if he'd rather throttle her, suck every sweet drop of blood from her body, or lock her in a room and make love to her until they both die of exhaustion.Maddy begs the man who ran her over to keep her out of the hospital. In answer, he heals her with a kiss that leaves her haunted by erotic, soul-stealing dreams. But she's got too many problems to risk what's left of her heart on any man.Gregor would like nothing better than to pull his usual disappearing act, but he finds himself entangled with Maddy in a way that goes beyond obsession. By tasting a few precious drops of her blood, he's bound his life to hers. Now both their days are numbered.
In the darkness, demons come out to play . . . and someone must bring their sins to light.Part vampire, part werewolf, Riley Jenson knows what can happen when vamps don't play well with others. But she's never seen anything like this: a series of brutal murders surrounding the latest hot spot for vampire-human hookups — and the victims aren't just killed, they're beheaded. Now Riley is launching into action, toying with a seductive — and highly suspicious — club owner, and finding herself in the middle of another mystery: women being killed one by one, without a trace of violence....
In this first collaboration by science fiction masters Larry Niven () and Gregory Benford (), the limits of wonder are redrawn once again as a human expedition to another star system is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space: a bowl-shaped structure half-englobing a star, with a habitable area equivalent to many millions of Earths…and it’s on a direct path heading for the same system as the human ship.A landing party is sent to investigate the Bowl, but when the explorers are separated — one group captured by the gigantic structure’s alien inhabitants, the other pursued across its strange and dangerous landscape — the mystery of the Bowl’s origins and purpose propel the human voyagers toward discoveries that will transform their understanding of their place in the universe.
Artists, composers, and writers are being mutilated and destroyed in the bloodiest murders in police history. This maniac is taking one thing - their brains! The chief of CURE nearly ends up as the next corpse . . . Remo and Chiun are acting fast, and discovering the killer's an old enemy, stockpiling brains to extract the creativity he's lacking . . . They are tracking him to Hollywood - top brain center - where work can be fun! A sexy agent wants Remo for a new career . . . Chiun meets his soap opera idol . . . and there's a great spectacle coming: irresistible force, Sinanju, meeting indestructible object, Mr. Gordons.
It's computer crime of the highest order when an electronic shadow force steals all of CURE's secrets, including those of Remo and the Master of Sinanju, and begins manipulating them for their own mysterious purposes. It's up to Remo to crack this secret organization before they can begin the downloading of the unimaginable threat--the Fourth Reich.
Malone lives in a world where psionic powers such as telepathy and teleportation exist. He must cope with them as well as an FBI Director who leaves Malone continually confused about what situation he is being asked to handle and what he is expected to do about it. Malone is charged with investigating leaks in a secret government program. For assistance, he recruits a powerful psi from a mental institution who believes she is Queen Elizabeth I of England. The problem is, she may be right. marries SF adventure with slapstick comedy for hilarious results.A shorter version of this work appeared in in 1959 under the title . First published in the present form in August 1962 (Pyramid Books).Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1960.
Milk run. That’s what they told Ronny Bronston this job would be. “Just like a vacation,” his boss had said. All he and the giant Dorn Horsten would have to do is visit the planet Einstein and see if there was any reason not to admit them to United Planets. The planet was a paradise, where the people had bred themselves for intelligence and beauty, where everyone was completely free. Free, sometimes, to get into more trouble than they could handle. Only Ronny could get them out of that trouble; and that’s how he wound up on the Dawnworld, in a gladiator’s arena!
Becker's slender debut novella is an unusual take on the zombie genre: part Grapes of Wrath, part postmodern memoir. A virus outbreak turns millions of people into mindless zombies, and the remaining humans declare war on the undead. Zombified English professor Jack Barnes discovers that he has retained his memories and his consciousness. Joined by several other sentient zombies, Barnes sets off to find the virus's creator in hopes of presenting a treatise on zombie civil rights. Barnes's dogged entitlement and self-centeredness make him both uninteresting and unbearable, and while Becker's writing is crisp, the plot meanders like its characters, consisting of little more than cannibalistic feasts and tin-eared literary and pop culture references (Hell is other zombies; Perhaps life as a zombie is better than no life at all).
Dzika magia szaleje w Toronto, Adept Ciemno?ci wdar? sie do ?wiata ?miertelnik?w. W czasach, gdy tylko g?upcy i niewinni wierz? w czary, kto ma walczy? z atakiem z?a?Szcz??liwym trafem w Toronto znalaz?o si? kilku niespodziewanych obro?c?w ?wiat?o?ci: Rebecca obdarzona darem Widzenia; ROland, uliczny grajek, kt?ry pewnego dnia mo?e zosta? bardem; pani Ruth, bezdomna kobieta z kilkoma niezwyk?ymi sztuczkami; Daru, przepracowana opiekunka spo?eczna, kt?rej liczba podopiecznych ro?nie tak samo szybko jak moc Mroku; Tom, kot o rzadko spotykanej przenikliwo?ci i odwadze. Jest te? Evan, Adept ?wiat?o?ci, kt?ry wesprze ?miertelnik?w w walce o to, by Ziemia nie pogr??y?a si? w ostatecznej, ca?kowitej Ciemno?ci…
Bramy w piasku to powie??, w kt?rej wydarzenia tocz? si? w osza?amiaj?cym tempie: terrory?ci, Obcy, pracownicy naukowi obdarzeni niezwyk?ymi talentami staraj? si? wyja?ni? zagadk? tajemniczego kamienia z pradziej?w Kosmosu…
Though DarkRiver sentinel Mercy is feeling the pressure to mate, she savagely resists when Riley Kincaid, a lieutenant from the SnowDancer pack, tries to possess her. The problem is not simply that he pushes her buttons; the problem is that he’s a wolf, she’s a cat, and they’re both used to being on top.But when a brilliant changeling researcher is kidnapped from DarkRiver territory, Mercy and Riley must work together to track the young man—before his shadowy captors decide he’s no longer useful. Along the way, the two dominants may find that submitting to one another uncovers not just a deadly conspiracy, but a passion so raw that it’ll leave them both branded by fire…
