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When Edward the Confessor, King of England, died in January 1066 without an obvious heir to the throne, his death precipated two invasions of England and a series of battles for the crown by three men: King Harold II of England, King Harold Hardrada of Norway, and Duke William of Normandy (later King William I of England). The outcome determined the course of western civilization for a thousand years to come. Robert Silverberg, writing under the name Franklin Hamilton, brings alive the human participants of the conflict, making them relevant to the modern-day world.
Abel Debenker was a proud man. But it takes more than determination to handle property, in the shape of a six-foot Black slave--and a glistening, voluptuous woman. To handle that kind of property, Abel needed help: the help of a slavemaster and a whipping post. But all of that isn't enough to turn back the clock, or to erase the struggle of a people in bondage--a struggle that can end only one way!
Lance Olsen's discerning critique was the first extended study ever published on the work of William Gibson, whose mindbending science fiction novel, Neuromancer (1984), created the subgenre of Cyberpunk, and became the first novel to win the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards for best SF novel of the year. Olsen covers Gibson's major early works, including Neuromancer, Burning Chrome, Count Zero, and Mona Lisa Overdrive. Complete with bibliography, notes, and index.
Twelve stories of fantasy and romance by Algernon Charles Swinburne, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones, William Fulford, and R. W. Dixon, including several tales previously unreprinted. The writers were poets, painters, sculptors, architects, designers, and craftsmen--exceptionally talented in many different fields. Editor John Howard Weeks provides an informative introduction.
When medical Dr. John Naysmith reports to his new assignment on Mars, he's immediately confronted by a crisis: the outbreak of an alien virus among several men who've been exploring the Martian landscape. The entire base is quarantined, and the Security Chief tells Naysmith that he has just 72 hours to find a solution, or the base will be destroyed by nuclear bombs to prevent the infection from spreading. With time running out, there's just one more option: visiting the crater that's the source of the infection. Can the doctor develop a vaccine in time?
When 57-year-old Ethan Zachary is struck by lightning, he starts growing progressively younger. Suddenly his plans to run for Congress, as well as marriage, are ruined. And although he now finds himself able to attract the young ladies, his internal clock keeps winding inexorably backwards, tick, tick, tick--until he knows that the hours are running out, any way you count them. There's just one more thing he can try! An exciting science fiction adventure.
The Dictator of Earth and his retinue have been banished into deep space on a 1,000-year voyage of no return to Alpha Centauri. The spacecraft has been completely automated to prevent tampering with the controls, and in any case, all of the original inhabitants of the craft will be long-dead by the time they reach their new home. Only their descendants will survive to propagate this brave new world. Or will they??? A grand space adventure.
The Shoggoths attack: "They had been so horrible before that I dare not say that they were any MORE horrible when they came again.... They were still unspeakable, still unthinkable--but whether I could speak or think of them or not, they were HERE." Auguste Dupin is one of the few persons who can identify the rare Cthulhu Encryption etched in the flesh of a dying woman. The Comte de Saint-Germain owns a companion cryptogram that he believes is the key to finding a fabulous treasure buried by the pirate Levasseur. Harassed by Shoggoths and tracked by Saint-Germain, Dupin must find the key to the complex puzzle. Can the might of Cthulhu be held at bay? And even if he finds an answer, can he and his friends escape with their lives? A riveting horror novel.
This French adaptation of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream focuses on the magical transformation of the would-be actor, Bottom, into a ludicrous ass, who is then pursued by the enchanted fairy queen, Titania. Meurice's version is a smooth, timeless, humorous, and modern rewrite of the original in prose.
Who WAS that gorgeous model? When a helicopter loses power and plunges into the icy waters of scenic Lake Tahoe, killing its only passenger, millionaire Albert Crocker Vansittart, what looks like a routine claim against a life insurance policy turns into a mystery for investigator Hobart Lindsey and his sometime collaborator Marvia Plum. The reason: half a century ago, the youthful Vansittart had come across a hardboiled mystery novel and become obsessed with the glamorous model who'd posed for the cover painting. Now, Vansittart's multimillion dollar policy is to go to "the girl on the cover of Death in the Ditch." Lindsey's pursuit of the now-aged model (if she's even still alive!) leads him into a maze of violence and deception with its roots in the politics and wars of past decades. Another first-rate combination of crime, collectibles, and American history--and the fifth book in this bestselling series!
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