Download or read book Asteroid Made of Dragons written by G. Derek Adams and published by Inkshares. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the hilarious and uproarious world of Asteroid Made of Dragons, a lone goblin researcher has stumbled across an artifact of mysterious import that delivers a terrifying message: the world is ending. Soon. And the apocalypse will hail from the skies in the form of an asteroid made of dragons. When it falls, the planet will be plunged into nuclear winter — and there will also be many angry dragons wandering around nursing concussions. Asteroid Made of Dragons is not your average apocalypse tale. Too bad Our Heroes don't even know it's coming.
Download or read book Spell Sword written by Derek G. Adams and published by . This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rime is a wild mage. She can bend the very fabric of reality, but at a cost - a cost to her health and her sanity. Her power is unstoppable but it leaves her empty, weak, and often unconscious. Jonas is a squire on the run - running away from the shadow of murder. They travel together to find the one person that can save Rime from the wild magic, from the inexorable madness and death that comes to those who are born to ignore the rules of the universe. The Gray Witch of the Wheelbrake Marsh, a creature out of a fairy tale. The anti-epic fantasy, the nascent genre of SWORDPUNK: Fantasy Action A La Carte. Earnestly written in the shadow of Lieber and Moorcock. Love the book/ hate the book? www.spell-sword.com
Download or read book Asteroid Hunters written by Carrie Nugent and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, scientists could have the knowledge to prevent a natural disaster epic in scale—an asteroid hitting the earth and in this exciting, adventuresome book, Carrie Nugent explains how. What are asteroids, and where do they come from? And, most urgently: Are they going to hit the Earth? What would happen if one was on its way? Carrie Nugent is an asteroid hunter—part of a group of scientists working to map our cosmic neighborhood. For the first time ever, we are reaching the point where we may be able to prevent the horrible natural disaster that would result from an asteroid collision. In Asteroid Hunters, Nugent reveals what known impact asteroids have had: the extinction of the dinosaurs, the earth-sized hole Shoemaker Levy 9 left in Jupiter just a few decades ago, how the meteorite that bursted over Chelyabinsk in Russia could have started a war, and unlucky Ms. Anne Hodges—the only person (that we know of) in US history to be the victim of a direct hit. Nugent also introduces the telescope she uses to detect near-Earth asteroids. Ultimately, detection is the key to preventing asteroid impact, and these specialized scientists are working to prevent the unthinkable from happening. If successful, asteroid hunting will lead to the first natural disaster humans have the know-how and the technology to prevent. The successful hunt and mapping of asteroids could mean nothing less than saving life on earth.
Download or read book Reinvention Of Science The Slaying The Dragons Of Dogma And Ignorance written by Bernard J T Jones and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the history of science, different thinkers, philosophers and scientists postulated the existence of entities that, in spite of their not being visible or detectable in their time, or perhaps ever, were nevertheless useful to explain the real world. We started this book by looking at a handful of these entities. These included phlogiston to account for fire; the luminiferous ether for propagation of radiation; the homunculus to provide for heredity; and crystalline spheres to carry the wandering planets around the earth. Many of these erroneous beliefs had held up progress, just as dragons drawn on the edges of a map discouraged exploration. This pattern of science evolution continued through the centuries up to the present day.The book evolved into a more extensive history of how science evolved through controversy, suppression, and the desire to maintain the status quo. Our story passes from the Babylonians and Greeks through the middle ages, the renaissance and the scientific revolution to almost current events. We discuss the evolution of our world, the controversy about the extinction of dinosaurs, and open questions in contemporary science such as dark matter, black holes and the origin of the Universe, including how we understand the subatomic world of elementary particles.Most of the chapters deal with astronomy, cosmology and physics, but there are brief ventures into geosciences (continental drift), biosciences (the homunculus), atmospheric physics (Heaviside layer), paleontology (the extinction of dinosaurs), and computer science (artificial intelligence). The authors present a sequence of how mistakes and fallacies have been purged from our quest to understand nature. The way these changes have come about are skillfully set in their relevant historical contexts.
Download or read book The Seventh Age Dawn written by Rick Heinz and published by Inkshares. This book was released on 2017-01-17 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing magic back into the world could mean untold wonders—or unleash hell on earth.
Download or read book Dragon s Egg written by Robert L. Forward and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2011-02-16 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In science fiction there is only a handful of books that stretch the mind—and this is one of them.”—Arthur C. Clarke In a moving story of sacrifice and triumph, human scientists establish a relationship with intelligent lifeforms—the cheela—living on Dragon’s Egg, a neutron star where one Earth hour is equivalent to hundreds of their years. The cheela culturally evolve from savagery to the discovery of science, and for a brief time, men are their diligent teachers. Praise for Dragon’s Egg “Bob Forward writes in the tradition of Hal Clement’s Mission of Gravity and carries it a giant step (how else?) forward.”—Isaac Asimov “Dragon’s Egg is superb. I couldn’t have written it; it required too much real physics.”—Larry Niven “This is one for the real science-fiction fan.”—Frank Herbert “Robert L. Forward tells a good story and asks a profound question. If we run into a race of creatures who live a hundred years while we live an hour, what can they say to us or we to them?”—Freeman J. Dyson “Forward has impeccable scientific credentials, and . . . big, original, speculative ideas.”—The Washington Post
Download or read book Abomination written by Gary Whitta and published by Inkshares. This book was released on 2015-07-29 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abomination—a combination of historical fiction and fantasy—tells the tale of two very different, but equally tragic, heroes, each on their own path to damnation, but who ultimately find salvation in each other.
Download or read book Dawn written by Rick Heinz and published by 4 Horsemen Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-09-16 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, a global conspiracy of secret societies have hoarded magic, keeping it hidden from the rest of the world. Before the age of reason and science, magic ruled the world. Now, it’s coming back. If most of humanity gets wiped out in the process ... well, sometimes you have to break a few eggs. A group of anarchs and heretics in Chicago work to tear down the barrier that has kept humanity ignorant of demons, forgotten myths, and ancient legends. Obsessed with discovering evidence of the afterlife, Mike Auburn's death-defying stunts have brought him closer than ever to lifting the veil of reality. However, his ventures to the edge have not gone unnoticed. The boss of a tenebrous organization recruits Mike to their cause. Nothing can possibly go wrong. Right? Before long, a world ruled by the scientific method and rational thinking is challenged by the supernatural. Drawn out by the long-awaited return of magic, the dead, the damned, and the demonic will stop at nothing to bring it back for good. Suddenly, Mike is stuck at the center of a battle between the forces of reason, of good, of evil and everything in between. Dawn is a clash of American Gods, Constantine, and The Dresden Files.
Download or read book The Dragon Claims His Treasure written by Georgette St. Clair and published by Wordslinger Publishing. This book was released on with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone is always pushing “too nice for her own good” Rosamund around, but that’s it, no more, she’s had it. Unfortunately, when she finally decides to find her mojo, it’s sexy, terrifying Kodran Sky-Reign that she mouths off to.The leader of the clan of alien dragon shifters promptly takes her sass as a marriage proposal. Next thing she knows, Rosamund is being whisked away to Kodran’s home planet, with a fleet of wolf shifters in hot pursuit – and a teenaged robot stowaway hiding a secret. Kodran claims Rosamund is his “heart’s fire”, and he’ll never let her go – but Rosamund’s closest friends want her home yesterday, and they won’t tell her why.Plus, you’re supposed to end up happily ever after with the good guy. Yet the deeper Kodran and Rosamund get immersed in the cyborg war, the more her hot-in-bed, hot out-of-bed, hot every-damn-where dragon lover seems to be one of the scary bad guys… -- Keywords: Paranormal Romance, Shifter Romance, Alien Shifter Romance, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, Steamy, Pack, Romance series, Strong heroine, Claiming, Rival Packs, Jealous, Sexy, Alpha, Alpha shifter, BBW, Family, Cyborg, Robot, Alien life, Full figured, Paranormal Suspense, Paranormal Shifter Suspense, -- Other readers of Georgette St. Clair enjoyed books by: Milly Taiden, Sam Crescent, Lee Savino, Jasmine Mas , Reece Barden, Heather G. Harris, Alicia Montgomery, Linsey Hall, Kim Richardson, Sara Snow
Download or read book Draknos written by Daniel Willyard and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One thousand years ago, the Alpha Quadrant was in turmoil as a great civil war raged between planets. To put an end to the senseless fighting, King Acco, from the planet Delphinus, used superior technology to build an enormous fighting robot called DrakNos. After many fierce battles, DrakNos put an end to the war and the opponents, the Drakkaunes, were banished into the Great Void as punishment for their war crimes. With the war over, DrakNos was no longer needed. As years of peace followed, the robot became nothing more than a legend, until the Drakkaunes rebuilt their civilizations and started a new campaign to reclaim the Alpha Quadrant. With their fleet now ready to attack, DrakNos the legend has returned. Inspired by Star Trek and other sci-fi series and movies, Daniel J. Willyard created his robotic hero DrakNos, who will also be featured in the author's next book. Willyard is currently converting this story into a screenplay. He is an aircrew survival equipment man in the Navy, caring for aircrew flight gear. Willyard grew up in Paradise, California, and now resides in Oak Harbor, Washington.
Download or read book Dragons written by Cory Glaberson and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book There Will be Dragons Second Edition written by John Ringo and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now with all new content by John Ringo! Paradise Lost In the future there is no want, no war, no disease nor ill-timed death. The world is a paradise¾and then, in a moment, it ends. The council that controls the Net falls out and goes to war. Everywhere people who have never known a moment of want or pain are left wondering how to survive. But scattered across the face of the earth are communities which have returned to the natural life of soil and small farm. In the village of Raven's Mill, Edmund Talbot, master smith and unassuming historian, finds that all the problems of the world are falling in his lap. Refugees are flooding in, bandits are roaming the woods, and his former lover and his only daughter struggle through the Fallen landscape. Enemies, new and old, gather like jackals around a wounded lion. But what the jackals do not know is that while old he may be, this lion is far from death. And hidden in the past is a mystery that has waited until this time to be revealed. You cross Edmund Talbot at your peril, for a smith is not all he once was. . . . At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). Praise for the Science Fiction of John Ringo "MARVELOUS!" ¾David Weber "Explosive. . . . Fans of strong military SF will appreciate Ringo's lively narrative and flavorful characters. . . . One of the best new practitioners of military SF." ¾Publishers Weekly ". . . since his imagination, clearly influenced by Kipling and rock and roll, is fertile, and his storytelling skill sound, [When the Devil Dances] is irresistible." ¾Booklist ". . . fast-paced military sf peopled with three-dimensional characters and spiced with personal drama as well as tactical finesse." ¾Library Journal "If Tom Clancy were writing SF, it would read much like John Ringo . . . good reading with solid characterizations¾a rare combination." ¾Philadelphia Weekly Press "Ringo provides a textbook example of how a novel in the military SF subgenre should be written. . . . Crackerjack storytelling." ¾Starlog
Download or read book Nice Dragons Finish Last written by Rachel Aaron and published by . This book was released on 2023-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book #1 in the beloved Heartstrikers series, a unique and magic-filled Urban Fantasy about the messy lives--and even messier pasts--of a modern dragon clan. Now complete at 5 books!As the smallest dragon in the Heartstriker clan, Julius survives by a simple code: keep quiet, don't cause trouble, and stay out of the way of bigger dragons. But this meek behavior doesn't fly in a family of ambitious magical predators, and his mother, Bethesda the Heartstriker, has finally reached the end of her patience.Now, sealed in his human form and banished to the DFZ--a vertical metropolis built on the ruins of Old Detroit--Julius has one month to prove he can be a ruthless dragon or kiss his true shape goodbye forever. But in a city of modern mages and vengeful spirits where dragons are considered monsters to be exterminated, he's going to need some serious help to survive this test. He only hopes humans are more trustworthy than dragons...(Nice Dragons Finish Last is an urban fantasy set 90 years in the future - featuring a kind protagonist, a kick-ass female mage, and more grumpy dragons than you can shake a stick at.)Winner of the 2015 Audie Audio Book Award in Fantasy!Start the series that won back-to-back RT Magazine Reviewers' Choice Awards!Heartstrikers reading order:-Nice Dragons Finish Last-One Good Dragon Deserves Another-No Good Dragon Goes Unpunished-A Dragon of a Different Color-Last Dragon Standing
Download or read book Discovery of the First Asteroid Ceres written by Clifford Cunningham and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive primary sources, many never previously translated into English, this is the definitive account of the origins of Ceres as it went from being classified as a new planet to reclassification as the first of a previously unknown group of celestial objects. Cunningham opens this critical moment of astronomical discovery to full modern analysis for the first time. This book includes all the voluminous correspondence, translated into English, between the astronomers of Europe about the startling discovery of Ceres by Piazzi in 1801. It covers the period up to March 1802, at which time Pallas was discovered. Also included are Piazzi’s two monographs about Ceres, and the sections of two books dealing with Ceres, one by Johann Bode, the other by Johann Schroeter. The origin of the word ‘asteroid’ is explained, along with several chapters on the antecedents of the story going back to ancient Greek times. The formulation of Bode’s Law is given, as are the details on the efforts of Baron von Zach to organize a search for the supposed missing planet between Mars and Jupiter. Examples of verse created to commemorate the great discovery are included in this first volume. The author, who has a PhD in the History of Astronomy, is a dedicated scholar of the story of asteroids and his research on the discovery of Ceres is comprehensive and fully sourced. The discovery came at a time when rival astronomers were in hot competition with each other, and when the true nature of these celestial bodies was not yet known. With astronomers in France, Italy and beyond vying to understand and receive credit for the new class of astral bodies, drama was not in short supply--nor were scientific advances.
Download or read book Twin Dragons written by S. E. Smith and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melina Franklin was barely sixteen when she and her grandfather were kidnapped from their small farm in Georgia by an alien trader and sold to an Antrox mining asteroid in deep space. Mistaken for a young boy, she lives in fear of being found out and sold. Her only companionship for the next four years is her grandfather and the Pactors, a large creature used for hauling the mining ore that she takes care of. She dreams of the day when she and her grandfather will somehow escape and return home to the rolling green hills of their farm.Calo and Cree Aryeh have been secured as the personal guards for Creon Reykill's mate, Carmen Walker. The twin brothers are a rare species of dragon known for their fierceness in battle. Born to the mystic dragon clan of the Northern Mountains, they have given their allegiance to the Dragon Lords vowing to serve and protect the royal family and their new true mates. The brothers know they will never be able to have a true mate of their own. Never in the history of their clan have twin dragons been able to find a mate capable of handling two male dragons. They can only hope that they die in battle so they are not destined to be caged when the loneliness eventually drives their dragons insane.The twin dragons are confused when two humans are discovered on an abandon asteroid mine. The old man and his grandson appear normal enough but their dragons and their symbiots are driving them crazy, insisting the boy is their true mate. Neither know how to handle the other two parts of themselves or their need to remain close to the boy. On top of that, the young human male refuses to have anything to do with either of them. He hides and avoids them every time they get near him.Things become clearer when they discover Mel is really Melina. Unfortunately, finding out their true mate is really a woman does little to change her feelings toward them. She is even more determined to return to her world.When her wish comes true, the brothers know they have no choice but to kidnap her and hide her away. Can they convince her to give them a chance at happiness or will she seek protection from the royal family they have vowed to serve? If that is not bad enough, there is another who has his eye on their mate and will do whatever is necessary to keep her – including killing the twin dragons who have claimed her first.
Download or read book Imperial Dragon written by Steven Tomes and published by Steven Tomes. This book was released on 2021-05-02 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever wondered what happened to those who vanished without a trace? Ahab Valentine was contemplating just that when he became one of them. Given the task of protecting the nation he finds himself in from both itself and its enemies, alongside an unexpected marriage and family Ahab’s curiosity is soon set aside for this more daunting task. The question is can he do it, can he save the Imperium from its own darker self-destructive impulses?
Download or read book Evolution Fact or Faith written by Harold Lerch P.E. Ret'd and published by Word to the World Ministries. This book was released on 2020-05-13 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theory of evolution has become in a sense a scientific religion. Almost all scientists have accepted it and many are prepared to bend their observations to fit in with it.
