A discounted ebundle of author Robert Charles Wilson's Hugo Award-winning and critically-acclaimed Spin Saga Trilogy, which includes: Spin, Axis, and Vortex“Robert Charles Wilson is a hell of a storyteller.” —Stephen King on Spin“Wilson does so many fine things, it’s hard to know where to begin to praise him.” —The Washington Post on SpinSpinOne night in October w...

"One of the most impressive bodies of work in contemporary science fiction . . . The Chronoliths stands with his best." — The New York TimesOne day in Thailand, 21st-century slacker Scott Warden witnesses an impossible event: the violent appearance of a 200-foot stone pillar. Its arrival collapses trees for a quarter mile around its base. It appears to be composed of an exotic form of matter. An...

An American Marine recounts his ordeal as a World War II POW forced by the Japanese to build the railway immortalized in The Bridge on the River Kwai.From June 1942 to October 1943, more than 100,000 Allied POWs who had been forced into slave labor by the Japanese died building the infamous Burma-Thailand Death Railway, an undertaking immortalized in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai. One of the few who survived was American Marine H. Robert Ch...

In today’s culture, we all seek rational answers to events that we can’t explain, don’t believe or have trouble comprehending. Curious Journey: Origins is the first in a series of books in which nationally known civic leader and business entrepreneur Robert Charles Hunter introduces readers to various perspectives of our world, many known as elements of the New Age. A lot of us are quick to dismiss anything New Age as a possible path to answers about our planet, but even the most logic-bas...

Following the success of their Locus Award–winning anthology The New Space Opera, editors Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan up the ante with The New Space Opera 2, in which more of the most beloved names in science fiction spin stunning tales of interstellar adventure and wonder. Authors include:Neal AsherJohn BarnesCory DoctorowJohn KesselJay LakeJohn MeaneyElizabeth MoonGarth NixMike ResnickJustina RobsonKristine Kathryn RuschJohn ScalziBruce SterlingPeter Wat...

Although humankind today can peer far deeper into the universe than ever before, we still find ourselves surrounded by the unknown and perhaps the unknowable. All great science fiction has used the human imagination to explore that realm beyond the known, just as theistic religions have done since long before the genre existed. As Hugo Award-winning author Robert Charles Wilson argues in Owning the Unknown, the genre’s freewheeling speculation and systematic world-building make it it a uni...

What would happen if an Alien Queen was free on earth? What would happen if the only creature in the universe that has evolved to prey upon and feed exclusively on alien flesh made its way to earth? What would happen when galactic predators learned of this activity? What would happen if the United States Military learned of missing people in the Adirondack Mountains and observed an alien vessel landing in the Adirondack Mountains? The Alien Queen has grown her hive to mass proportions and ...

Managing Your Leadership is the first in a series of e.books on business topics that provide and insight and useful approaches to leading and managing a business, an organization, an association, or your own personal life. The CEO Perspective gives you the benefit of the author's more than forty years of proven business perspective along with techniques that can make anyone a better leader. It can be used as a quick reference guide in stratetic vision development as well as day to day resp...

This is a story of a man living an ordinary life, or so he thought. But reflecting back after seventy-five years, he realized how extraordinary it really was. He knew, like others, the answer to any question is always no until you ask the questions. In high school, his dream was to become a famous DJ. He was a DJ at the time but never really that famous. Then he wanted to be a TV celebrity. He worked in TV but never became world famous. He wanted to become a captain for a major airline, he...

"The Book of Enoch" is an ancient Jewish religious text that is widely believed to have been written between the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE. The book is attributed to the biblical figure Enoch, who is described in the book of Genesis as having been taken up to heaven by God.The text is considered one of the most important non-canonical books of the Old Testament and is particularly significant for its elaborate descriptions of celestial realms, angelic beings, and the end of the world. It i...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The Book of Jubilees, or, as it is sometimes called, "the little Genesis," purports to be a revelation given by God to Moses through the medium of an angel, and containing a history, divided up into jubilee-periods of forty-nine years, from the creation to the coming of Moses. Though the actual narrative of events is only carried down to the birth and early career of Moses, its author envisages the events of a later time, and in particu...

Within each of us, God has deposited a dream, but it is only by faith that we will see those dreams manifest. One cannot drive a car forward and in reverse at the same time, neither can faith and fear coexist in the life of a believer. Faith Forward was written to encourage readers to take God at His Word, regardless of the obstacles we will face. Just because God has given us a promise, it does not mean that promise will come to pass without any opposition. More often than not, there will...