Title: State of Change Author: Christopher Bulis File Type: Mobi Subject:Science-Fiction:Doctor Who Description:meta charset=utf-8span class=Apple-style-span style=font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 64); font-size: 13px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font class=minus1 style=font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; b‘In less than 25 years the Romans have invented electricity generation, airships, radio and who knows what else. Is that reasonable?’bAncient Egypt, 41 BC. The Doctor and Peri watch as Cleopatra’s pleasure barge glides up the Nile in preparation for her fateful meeting with Mark Antony. And an alien presence observes the TARDIS, waits for it to dematerialize, then pounces.fontfont class=minus1 style=font-size: 13px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; When the time ship lands, the Doctor and Peri find themselves in ancient Rome, in the tomb of Cleopatra. But something is very wrong. The tomb walls depict steam-driven galleys and other disturbing anachronisms. The Roman Empire is preparing for a devastating war - using weapons from the future capable of destroying the entire world.fontspan
Title: Wireless
Author: Charles Stross
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Science-Fiction
Description:
**Science fiction guru Charles Stross sizzles with ideas (*Denver Post*) in his first major short story collection.**
The Hugo Award-winning author of such groundbreaking and innovative novels as *Accelerando, Halting State*, and *Saturn's Children* delivers a rich selection of speculative fiction- including a novella original to this volume- brought together for the first time in one collection, showcasing the limitless imagination of one of the twenty-first century's most daring visionaries.
Title: Writing Popular Fiction
Author: Dean Koontz
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Reference
Description:
Writer's Digest Hardcover, 1974 2nd printing with 232 pgs., size: 8 34 x 5 34 approx. - Fan of popular fiction, professional writer, new writer looking for markets-whoever you are, you'll enjoy this book. It takes you behind the publishing scene and shows you how popular novels-science fiction, mysteries, suspense thrillers, Gothic-romances, adult fantasy, Westerns, and erotica are created and how you can write them too. This book offers you, whatever you write, the chance to perfect your craft while earning income, building your reputation, and experiencing the encouragement of seeing your work in print. Dean Koontz has sold since 1967, over twenty-four (copyright of this book 1974) popular novels. Before becoming a full-time free-lance writer, he worked as a supermarket check out clerk, a drummer in a rock band, a foredt ranger, a tutor for underprivileged children with the Appalachian Poverty Program, and as a suburban school English teacher, among other things.
Title: Lucifer's Lottery
Author: Edward Lee
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Horror
Description:Just before he’s about to enter a seminary, a young man learns he’s the winner of Lucifer’s Lottery, a lottery held every 666 years, in which the winner receives eternal youth and wealth and a personal tour of Hell.About the Author Lee has been published at Zebra, Berkley, Cemetery Dance, and Necro Publications. Dorchester is now his exclusive paperback publisher. Lee was one of the co-founders of the Splatterpunk movement in horror and is one of the most influential writers in the genre today. Several of his short stories have been nominated for HWA’s Bram Stoker Award, such as 1994’s Mr. Torso. He has also received many preliminary nominations for HWA’s Best Novel Stoker, including both _Portrait of the Psychopath as a Young Woman (1998) and Sacrifice_ (1995).
Title: Doctor Who_ War of the Daleks
Author: John Peel
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Science-Fiction:Doctor Who
Description:Doctor Who is repairing the Tardis systems when it is swept up by the Quetzel, a garbage ship roving space. When another ship takes the Quetzel by force, the Doctor discovers that he and Sam are not the only unwitting travellers abroad - there is a strangely familiar survival pod in the hold.
Title: Boston Blitz
Author: Don Pendleton
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Pulp Adventure
Description:He rarely kills in anger; his is a war of cold methodology and precise maneuvers - but in this Boston campaign we find our warrior moving with a blazing determination to shake that town apart and to reduce its underworld to ashes. His only fear is that he may also destroy the only two persons in the world who are near and dear to him. Johnny and Val. They have been snatched by the mob.
It is a hellish nightmare come to flesh. The one and only pressure point which the mob could ever use against Bolan has now been found. . . and he sees confronting him not only the certain loss of these two cherished people but also the loss of a very important war.
There is only one strategy, and Bolan knows it. Boston is to be the site of the Executioners most daring and deadly battle yet. There would be no ending this one until Bolan was victorious, or dead.
Title: Sister of the Dead
Author: Barb Hendee
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Fantasy:Vampires
Description:Test Data
The Noble Dead saga continues as Magiere and Leesil, the slayers of the undead for DHAMPIR and THIEF OF LIVES, embark on a quest to uncover the secrets of their mysterious origins - and those responsible for orchestrating the events that brought them together.... Magiere is a dhampir - half human, half vampire - sired for the purpose of slaying the undead. Outside the village of Chemestúk, where she was born and raised, stands her father's keep. Within its walls, she hopes to discover the secrets of her past and figure out why a vampire would wish to breed a creature capable of slaughtering his own kind.... But there are those who don't want Magiere to learn the truth—and when her half-elf partner, Leesil, makes a startling discovery in the keep, he can understand why. Before Leesil can reveal the truth to Magiere, they must vanquish a creature of unimaginable and unlimited power who has damned a small village of people with a horrifying curse...
Title: The Call
Author: Michael Grant
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Fiction:Young Adult
Description:FromStarred Review Tongue firmly planted in cheek, Grant sends a lad with a serious case of mediumness up against not only the minions of an ageless and evil Pale Queen but also a truly impressive list of phobias in this opener to the Magnificent 12 series. Prompted by the urgent warnings of an ancient, spectral mage (In just a few months the Dread Foe will be loosed in all her fury, all her rage, all her sphincter-clenching, heart-clutching, throat-gobbling, spit-drying, blood-freezing, bowel-loosening terror!), a murder attempt, and the arrival of plane tickets with a million-dollar debit card, Mack sets out for Australia. This is just the first leg of a mission to gather the other 11 supposed Magnifica necessary to defeat the evil that is about to escape 3,000 years of imprisonment. Hooking up with the first of his allies entails not only long, screaming drops into the ocean (Mack is powerfully thalassophobic) and down a shaft into a cave beneath Uluru (he is also awfully claustrophobic) but also battles with a variety of the queen’s magical warriors and an encounter with her daughter, Ereskigal—an insanely beautiful young sorceress with the eating habits of a female praying mantis. Grant fills out the historical backstory for this promising scenario in alternating flashback chapters, provides a sturdy supporting cast for his reluctant young hero, and keeps up the rapid pace from first page to last. A terrific start, with an elaborate website festooned with games and contests to ease the wait for sequels. Grades 5-8. --John Peters Twelve-year-old Mack MacAvoy suffers from a serious case of mediumness. Medium looks. Medium grades. Medium parents who barely notice him. With a list of phobias that could make anyone crazy, Mack never would have guessed that he is destined for a more-than-medium life. And then, one day, something incredibly strange happens to Mack. A three-thousand-year-old man named Grimluk appears in the boys’ bathroom to deliver some startling news: Mack is one of the Magnificent Twelve, called the Magnifica in ancient times, whatever that means. An evil force is on its way, and it’s up to Mack to track down eleven other twelve-year-olds in order to stop it. He must travel across the world to battle the wicked Pale Queen’s dangerous daughter, Ereskigal—also known as Risky. But Risky sounds a little scary, and Mack doesn’t want to be a hero. Will he answer the call? A laugh-out-loud story filled with excitement and magic, The Magnificent Twelve: The Call is the first book in bestselling author Michael Grant’s hilarious new fantasy adventure series.
Title: Blue Dragon
Author: Kylie Chan
File Type: Mobi
Subject:Fantasy
Description:
The forces of Hell are poised to strike'Ś Emma's beloved, John Chen, is a 3000 year old Chinese god. He is becoming weaker by the day in his battle to protect her and his daughter from the Demons who pursue them relentlessly. But it is Emma who is nagged by doubts about her own nature, and must find the courage to save them all'ŚDark Heavens, Book One.Emma Donahue went to Hong Kong to become a nanny to John Chen's daughter. But John's world is different, and he is no ordinary businessman - all the gods, demons and dragons in hell want him dead. And though she doesn't know it, Emma holds the power to save them all'ŚKylie Chan's Dark Heavens trilogy is the most exciting Urban Fantasy debut of 2010. Already a smash-hit in the author's native Australia it brings a world of Oriental Gods, martial arts action and romance to the genre.FILE UNDER: Modern Fantasy [Martial arts Chinese Gods Magical action Save the child!]