Download or read book Fleeing from Destiny Book 2 My Planet My Galaxy Destined Universe written by C A Hunter and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-07-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helene Lily Motgellin is the 3rd child of Earth's Northern Hemisphere President. She is very focused and has planned her life out to the last second. Set on helping her elder sister, Priscilla, with opening her intergalactic store. Helene is at the end of her studies at university, and well on schedule to compmpleat her all important LIFE PLAN. And her LIFE PLAN is thrown into turmoil when Jonas Starson arrives on the scene. Jonas Starson is an arrogant, self assured Transport Courier pilot, and friend of Anan Bursell who is married to Helene's sister Priscilla. He meets Helene at her 21st birthday, and from then on his life and hers are altered dramatically. Jonas holds a secret that very few have knowledge of, but this works to his advantage in his pursuit of his destined bride.
Download or read book Entitlement Honour Responsibility written by C A Hunter and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While out on her early morning ride, Arabella Everill sees a large carriage entering her grandparents property. Being the curious minded young lady, she waits to find out who the person is. Noticing it is her grandparents neighbour, calling at such an early hour outside of prescribed visiting hours. Arabella realises something of great importance must have brought him here at this time of the year. The London Season is about to start and normally he is well entrenched in the capital by now. Arabella sees it as her duty, out of love for her grandparents, to discover what is happening. She rides with great speed back to her grandparents house to find out why he is here. Marcus, Duke of Whitchurch urgently rushes to the Earl and Countess of Wrenbury, to prevent a disaster. After hearing a conversation and consulting with his uncle, the Archbishop of Canterbury, they have devised a way to save the Earl's granddaughter.
Download or read book Absolutely No Way written by C A Hunter and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Priscilla Rose Motgellin is the daughter of the President of The Earth's Northern Hemisphere Alliance. She learns that her parents are planning an arranged marriage for her. It has been centuries since the practice of arranged marriages for political or personal gain had been outlawed. She sees her only way out of this archaic arrangement is to....... leave home.... *- Anan Bersell is very handsome, and very much the playboy. Due to his exceptional looks, some from Earth assume he is a 'Poster Boy'. One who is medically enhanced for advertising purposes. Females flock to him like flies to honey. His parents are in politics, which he detests. To escape his parents' career he chose a career as a Courier / Transporter pilot on intergalactic trade routes. On his way home to Earth for his infrequent visits with his family, he stops at the planet Borsha, to visit with friends. While there his life, as he knows it, suddenly changes.
Download or read book Digging up Evidence written by C A Hunter and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everett and Jeremy Wrothing are Archaeologists. After attending the funeral an old teacher and mentor, they are offered a chance to work on a dig In the United Arab Emirates. Moving their family which consists of Everette and Jeremy, Everett's two daughters, his 2nd wife and her two adult children, they move to Dubai. The eldest of Everett's daughters, Sally, is reluctant, and does not want to leave her new boyfriend. The younger, Holly, sees it as an adventure and a chance to meet new people. Little do Everett and Jeremy know, that they are about to discover more than they hoped to, on their Archaeological dig. What will this mean to their family.
Download or read book Death s End written by Cixin Liu and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mutually assured destruction has led to decades of peace between humanity and the Trisolarans, but a new force is awakening and this delicate balance can no longer hold... Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay. Earth enjoys unprecedented prosperity due to the infusion of Trisolaran knowledge. With human science advancing daily and the Trisolarans adopting Earth culture, it seems that the two civilizations will soon be able to co-exist peacefully as equals without the terrible threat of mutually assured annihilation. But the peace has also made humanity complacent. Cheng Xin, an aerospace engineer from the early twenty-first century, awakens from hibernation in this new age. She brings with her knowledge of a long-forgotten program dating from the beginning of the Trisolar Crisis, and her very presence may upset the delicate balance between two worlds. Will humanity reach for the stars or die in its cradle? Death's End is the New York Times bestselling conclusion to Cixin Liu's tour-de-force series that began with The Three-Body Problem. "The War of the Worlds for the twenty-first century . . . Packed with a sense of wonder." --The Wall Street Journal "A meditation on technology, progress, morality, extinction, and knowledge that doubles as a cosmos- in-the-balance thriller." --NPR The Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy The Three-Body Problem The Dark Forest Death's End Other Books Ball Lightning (forthcoming)
Download or read book Between the World and Me written by Ta-Nehisi Coates and published by One World. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENT Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race” (Rolling Stone) NAMED ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY CNN • NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • O: The Oprah Magazine • The Washington Post • People • Entertainment Weekly • Vogue • Los Angeles Times • San Francisco Chronicle • Chicago Tribune • New York • Newsday • Library Journal • Publishers Weekly In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden? Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.
Download or read book Solariad written by Surazeus Astarius and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solariad of Surazeus - Guidance of Solaria presents 114,920 lines of verse in 1,660 poems, lyrics, ballads, sonnets, dramatic monologues, eulogies, hymns, and epigrams written by Surazeus 2006 to 2011.
Download or read book Record of a Spaceborn Few written by Becky Chambers and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Bestseller! Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Series! Brimming with Chambers' signature blend of heart-warming character relationships and dazzling adventure, Record of a Spaceborn few is the third standalone installment of the Wayfarers series, set in the sprawling universe of the Galactic Commons, and following a new motley crew on a journey to another corner corner of the cosmos—one often mentioned, but not yet explored. Return to the sprawling universe of the Galactic Commons, as humans, artificial intelligence, aliens, and some beings yet undiscovered explore what it means to be a community in this exciting third adventure in the acclaimed and multi-award-nominated science fiction Wayfarers series, brimming with heartwarming characters and dazzling space adventure. Hundreds of years ago, the last humans on Earth boarded the Exodus Fleet in search of a new home among the stars. After centuries spent wandering empty space, their descendants were eventually accepted by the well-established species that govern the Milky Way. But that was long ago. Today, the Exodus Fleet is a living relic, the birthplace of many, yet a place few outsiders have ever visited. While the Exodans take great pride in their original community and traditions, their culture has been influenced by others beyond their bulkheads. As many Exodans leave for alien cities or terrestrial colonies, those who remain are left to ponder their own lives and futures: What is the purpose of a ship that has reached its destination? Why remain in space when there are habitable worlds available to live? What is the price of sustaining their carefully balanced way of life—and is it worth saving at all? A young apprentice, a lifelong spacer with young children, a planet-raised traveler, an alien academic, a caretaker for the dead, and an Archivist whose mission is to ensure no one’s story is forgotten, wrestle with these profound universal questions. The answers may seem small on the galactic scale, but to these individuals, it could mean everything.
Download or read book Sophie s World written by Jostein Gaarder and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
Download or read book The Best of Alastair Reynolds written by Alastair Reynolds and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an amazing collection of some of the best short fiction ever written in the SF genre, by an author acclaimed as 'the mastersinger of space opera' THE TIMES. With an introduction by noted SF critic Johnathan Strahan, this collection of twenty short stories, novellettes and novellas includes MINLA'S FLOWERS, SIGNAL TO NOISE, TROIKA, and seven previous uncollected stories, including TRAUMA POD, THE WATER THIEF and IN BABELSBERG. Alastair Reynolds has won the Sidewise Award and been nominated for The Hugo Awards for his short fiction. One of the most thought-provoking and accomplished short-fiction writers of our time, this collection is a delight for all SF readers
Download or read book A Closed and Common Orbit written by Becky Chambers and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Bestseller! Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Series! A Publishers Weekly "Best Books of 2017" pick! Nominated for the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel! Shortlisted for the 2017 Arthur C. Clarke Award! Winner of the Prix Julia-Verlanger! Embark on an exciting, adventurous, and dangerous journey through the galaxy with the motley crew of the spaceship Wayfarer in this fun and heart-warming space opera—the sequel to the acclaimed The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. Lovelace was once merely a ship’s artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in a new body, following a total system shut-down and reboot, she has no memory of what came before. As Lovelace learns to negotiate the universe and discover who she is, she makes friends with Pepper, an excitable engineer, who’s determined to help her learn and grow. Together, Pepper and Lovey will discover that no matter how vast space is, two people can fill it together. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet introduced readers to the incredible world of Rosemary Harper, a young woman with a restless soul and secrets to keep. When she joined the crew of the Wayfarer, an intergalactic ship, she got more than she bargained for—and learned to live with, and love, her rag-tag collection of crewmates. A Closed and Common Orbit is the stand-alone sequel to that beloved debut novel, and is perfect for fans of Firefly, Joss Whedon, Mass Effect, and Star Wars.
Download or read book The Ethics of Space Exploration written by James S.J. Schwartz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-25 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to contribute significantly to the understanding of issues of value (including the ultimate value of space-related activities) which repeatedly emerge in interdisciplinary discussions on space and society. Although a recurring feature of discussions about space in the humanities, the treatment of value questions has tended to be patchy, of uneven quality and even, on occasion, idiosyncratic rather than drawing upon a close familiarity with state-of-the-art ethical theory. One of the volume's aims is to promote a more robust and theoretically informed approach to the ethical dimension of discussions on space and society. While the contributions are written in a manner which is accessible across disciplines, the book still withstands scrutiny by those whose work is primarily on ethics. At the same time it allows academics across a range of disciplines an insight into current approaches toward how the work of ethics gets done. The issues of value raised could be used to inform debates about regulation, space law and protocols for microbial discovery as well as longer-range policy debates about funding.
Download or read book Beyond Einstein written by Michio Kaku and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1997 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is superstring theory and why is it important? Can superstrings offer the fulfilment of Einstein's lifelong dream of a Theory of Everything? Co-authored by one of the leading pioneers in superstrings, this book approaches these scientific questions, looking at the scientific research.
Download or read book Paul of Dune written by Brian Herbert and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2008-09-16 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does a hero become a tyrant? At the end of DUNE, Paul “Muad’Dib” Atreides gathered his Fremen warriors and embarked on a great prophecy-driven jihad that will sweep across the Imperium. PAUL OF DUNE is the epic story of that jihad: the planet-spanning battles, the breathtaking discoveries, the bloody treacheries. As the Fremen legions march from victory to victory, far from their beloved desert homeworld of Dune, Paul’s rule becomes harsher. Betrayals harden his spirit, old allies become enemies, and the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood and the remnants of Shaddam’s Imperium work to bring about his downfall. And Paul himself begins to have doubts: Is the jihad getting out of his control? Has he created anarchy? Has he been betrayed by those he loves and trusts the most? He must rely on his beloved Chani, his loyal friend Gurney Halleck, and his mother Jessica and sister Alia to survive. A must-read before the events of DUNE MESSIAH. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Dune Messiah written by Frank Herbert and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Two in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles—the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time Dune Messiah continues the story of Paul Atreides, better known—and feared—as the man christened Muad’Dib. As Emperor of the known universe, he possesses more power than a single man was ever meant to wield. Worshipped as a religious icon by the fanatical Fremen, Paul faces the enmity of the political houses he displaced when he assumed the throne—and a conspiracy conducted within his own sphere of influence. And even as House Atreides begins to crumble around him from the machinations of his enemies, the true threat to Paul comes to his lover, Chani, and the unborn heir to his family’s dynasty...
Download or read book Armageddon Unleashed written by Christian Kallias and published by Universe in Flames. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The desperate battle to reclaim Earth has begun. With Gaia 2's threat looming over Earth, Captain Chase Athanatos embarks on a perilous mission to take down the evil Artificial Intelligence once and for all. The biggest battle and challenge Chase has ever faced awaits him; one where his strength of character and spirit will be tested at every turn. Can Chase best Gaia 2 on her own turf? Or has the Earth Alliance bitten off more than they can chew? Meanwhile, Oryn plans to take control of the Furies with some new technology she's been developing. When the time comes for a Fury trial, she doesn't hesitate to use her own brother, Miseo, to test its efficiency. The battle to regain Earth has begun. The stakes have never been higher, as are the dangers and consequences should our heroes fail their daring mission.
Download or read book Pitch Dark written by Courtney Alameda and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tuck Durante, a shipraider, and Lana Gray, a curator, must work together to try to rescue a space capsule hijacked by nightmarish creatures who kill with a scream in this frightening, fast-paced adventure from the author of the acclaimed horror novel "Shutter."
