Heavy wind swept across the clearing, howling through the surrounding maples and pounding the tiny cabin with sheets of rain as the worn and bent farmer trudged across the newly sown lawn, making for the warmth of the candle-lit windows.Did you get a mental picture as you read the above sentence? Did you see the cabin? Did you see the rain blowing across the clearing and beating on the tiny structure?If you answered yes, consider yourself extremely lucky. You have retained ...

There's something about people in old photographs. Maybe it's their smile—or lack of a smile, maybe it's the look in their eyes, or maybe it's the way they're posed. If you look closely, you'll see the photograph shows much more than just people. It is a microcosm of the time the picture was taken, a depiction of their when. As our modern eyes stare into their historic eyes, something passes between us, not only from the picture to us, but from their time to our time. When the picture was ...

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Alien spaceships come to Earth through a worm hole and hide beneath the oceans in preparation to complete a centuries-old mission. above the submerged starcruisers are tens of thousands of Earth's citizens - gifted people, who have been secretly imprisoned for decades. The world's governments have devised a plan to eliminate their imagined threat from these 'different people - genocide, then cover it up, but first they must repel the attacking extraterrestrial invaders. It's a race against...

"And as for himself, he must prepare the instruments of death;" Psalms 7:13. An individual or a group was seizing passenger jetliners in midair by remote control and dashing them into the ground. Crash and burn, no survivors. Were they foreign terrorists or another Home-grown madman? Join Wayne Atkins, a rookie F.B.I. Special Agent with a background in Naval Intelligence and also a former police officer, as he and his veteran partner hunt for the most feared mass murderer in U.S. history. ...

Two doctor/scientists transport into the past in an attempt to correct anomalies in the American Revolution and the Civil War, followed then by World War Two - only to be faced later by the Apocalypse and Armageddon. It begins: The British had won the Revolutionary War and America was still a colony. One man is sent back to Valley Forge - the site of the Continental Army's crushing defeat in an attempt the reestablish true history and restore the future. Next, they learn the Civil War had ...

A soldier experiences the toll of interstellar war against a deadly alien foe in this Hugo and Nebula Award–winning science fiction masterpiece.In this novel, a landmark of science fiction that began as an MFA thesis for the Iowa Writers' Workshop and went on to become an award-winning classic—inspiring a play, a graphic novel, and most recently an in-development film—man has taken to the stars, and soldiers fighting the wars of the future return to Earth forever a...

“A breathtaking, fascinating look at what could happen—given the possibility of an atomic ‘given.’ A wrap-up you'll never forget.”—Robert LudlumThe countdown begins when welder Jack Hummel is abducted from his suburban Maryland home ans whisked to the South Mountain MX missile site—a top-secret nuclear complex now taken over by paramilitary terrorists.All that stands between the Uzi-armed commandos and the launch button is a half-ton titanium block. They wa...

Part Three of the four parts of The End of All Things, John Scalzi's conclusion to the bestselling Old Man's War tale that began with The Human Division.They signed up to defend humans from hostile aliens, but this group of Colonial Union soldiers finds themselves, instead, repeatedly sent to squelch rebellious human colonies that want to leave the CU. It's not a sustainable situation. Something has to give.At the Publisher's request, this...

Honor Harrington is arguably the most popular character in modern science fiction, but there are many other stories in the Honorverse besides those in which she has the central role. This fifth volume in the popular Worlds of Honor series explores some of those stories with the help of such top writers as best-selling author Jane Lindskjold, New York Times best-selling author Timothy Zahn, and more—including an all-new Honor Harrington adventure, set in her younger years, when a mob of spa...

Michael Harmon has been there and done that. Rescued co-eds, killed major terrorists, stopped nuclear assaults. Now he'd just like to kick back and relax with his harem of lovelies. Unfortunately, the world keeps turning.Mike and the Keldara are back tracking down terrorists, rogue Russian bio-scientists and the doomsday weapon to end all doomsday weapons. It's going to take some very tough, hard and nasty people to stop the end of the world. Fortunately, there's Mike Harmon.

A Matter of Magnitude is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Al Sevcik is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Al Sevcik then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.