Download or read book Lizard s Lair written by Derek Laurens and published by Wordclay. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN LIBERATING HUMAN SLAVES IS AGAINST THE LAW? In this prequel to the highly regarded science-fiction novel, The Survivors, Colonel Kendrick Landry and Major Will Adams return as the crew of the starcraft Aurora travels to Alpha Centauri B-III and learns that the descendants of the crew of The Green Horizon, Earths first interstellar starcraft, are living in centuries-old enslavement to a lizard-like race. The lizards manage the humans with the help of renegade effete and decadent human council members that the author describes as wearing flowing robes reminiscent of ancient Roman emperors. The First Intergalactic Alliance does not permit liberation of the human slaves because the planet is not a member of the Alliance and subject to Alliance law. Alliance law, however, would sanction the Auroras defenseincluding even offensive action against the lizard government, permitting its overthrow by human resistance fighters on the planetbut only if the lizard government has first attacked the Aurora. Without knowledge or consent of Colonel Landry, Major Adams devises a scheme to provoke such an attack by the lizard command. The lizards attack the Aurora, in orbit around the planet, with devastating force. Now, the crew of the Aurora will be fortunate to ensure their own survival, let alone assist in the liberation of the lizards human slaves! The events of Lizards Lair occur one solar year earlier than the central story of The Survivors and sets out in full narrative detail the plot of a story briefly summarized early in The Survivors. For those readers who might not take immediate notice, this dandy novel is not just about alien lizards! It is a modern satire on governmentoverreaching and institutionalized slavery, and is a highly relevant moral parable of our time. FROM A JULY 2008 PRESS RELEASE TO THE SACRAMENTO BEE: Lizards Lair is written in the paradigm form of a science-fiction novella--defined to have a word count of between 17,500 and 40,000 by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Nebula Awards for Science Fiction. This novella is an original dandy thriller and proves that indeed good things can come in small packages. A worthy complement to Derek Laurens already getting noticed premier science-fiction novel, The Survivors.

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Download or read book Lair of the Fire Lizard written by Adam Blade and published by Orchard Books. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic new adventure series from bestselling author Adam Blade! Ordinary kids with extraordinary powers gather in a secret school to be trained to fight the forces of darkness. Hero Academy teacher Ms Steel is missing and Jack, Ruby and Danny are determined to find her. Their quest takes them to an underground swamp: the lair of the dreaded Tartania!

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Download or read book In the Balance Worldwar Book One written by Harry Turtledove and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2002-01-08 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suppose Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill, Hitler, and Hirohito had united to conquer an even greater foe? No one could top their power—not the Germans, not the Japanese, not the Russians, not the United States. From Pearl Harbor to panzers rolling through Paris to the Siege of Leningrad and the Battle of Midway, war seethed across the planet as flames of destruction rose higher and hotter. And then, suddenly, the real enemy came. The invaders seemed unstoppable, their technology far beyond human reach. And never before had men been more divided. For Jew to unite with Nazi, American with Japanese, and Russian with German was unthinkable. But the alternative was even worse. As the fate of the world hung in the balance, slowly, painfully, humankind took up the shocking challenge. . . .

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Download or read book Worldwar In Tilting the Balance written by Harry Turtledove and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2002-01-15 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the height of World War II, lizard-like extraterrestrials arrive on Earth determined to conquer the planet, and American, British, German, and Russian forces begin fighting a whole new battle

Download or read book The Dream Seers written by Nathan Skaggs and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2017-07-16 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intergalactic conflict reaches the Milky Way when two alien factions battle near Earth. The talented, young veterinarian, Dr. Jason Maze, can somehow sense he and his family are in jeopardy. While the aliens secretly approach Earth, Jason must convince his wife, Xenia, trouble is forthcoming. Only when the alien creatures appear does Xenia believe Jason's warning. But what are the aliens' missions? Jason must quickly decide who is friend and who is foe. Xenia fears she and Jason will become prey or specimens in an alien zoo. Once the aliens reveal their intentions, Jason and Xenia make an alliance which will take them beyond the solar system. Regardless the outcome, human kind will have a new purpose in the universe.

Download or read book Horror Lizards Pyrrus and Kerk 8 written by Stig Granfors and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-07-22 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The big and dangerous horror lizards have survived the asteroid rain and are tormenting the small colony on Southworld again. The hormone mixture, which is supposed to reduce the aggressive behaviour of the Tyrannosaurus beasts, doesn't help this time. The big lizards are about to wipe out both humans and the intelligent raptors on the planet. Pyrrus and Kerk intercept the emergency signal and rush to the rescue. An ancient temple gives them a clue as to how to fight the violent attacks. The temple also shows that man is not alone in the Andromeda Galaxy. Traces of other intelligent life are obvious. The eighth novel about the space adventurers Pyrrus and Kerk, whose motto is 'It will get better'. "The big horror lizards were now concentrating entirely on their meal. Only the leader sometimes stretched his nose up in the air and sniffed. Their species had existed on the planet for millions of years before man. If they were left in peace, they would take over all niches of life again. There would be no new species of any other kind on Southworld. Evolution would halt for millions of years." "The other horror lizard didn't have much power left either. But the irrational hatred gave the big horror lizard new powers. The predator crawled along the tree trunk ever closer. The alpha male realized that he could no longer escape. It was time for the final fight. The one he had always tried to avoid, and the one the big horror lizards were just waiting for. He got up and waited for his opponent. His thoughts rushed. The big lizards are slow in their movements. Clumsy. Heavy-footed. Move fast, he told himself. The problem was that he felt tired and weak. He didn't know was he flexible enough to outsmart this much heavier opponent. However, the big lizard's hanging tongue was a good sign. They were both equally exhausted."

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Download or read book Dreams Unseen written by Walter Pierce and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final book in the ever unpredictable "Dreams Unseen" series. The day of destruction has come. The Pergillion, the apocalypse of the Yellow Realm has arrived! The Valeron, Maubuus, the Ibla, Sadastra, Hideo and many more are all back. Dragons, magic, supertechnology, larger than life battles, and a secret plan of immortality swirl together and explode in thrilling revelations. Hideo is once again sucked into the whirlpool that is Dreams Unseen: Cry of The Dragon.

Download or read book Thunderscape written by Peter Olafson and published by Prima Games. This book was released on 1995-10-25 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the world of Aden where steam-age technology meets ancient sorcery. Great warriors ride across the battered lands to battle the evil hordes, known only as nocturnals. Unless a leader, a true hero, rises to lead the way, many fear that Aden will fall.

Download or read book The Lizard King written by Jerry Hopkins and published by Plexus Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim Morrison, lead singer of the Doors, has achieved a bizarre cult status since his death in 1971. Morrison was one of the most popular and controversial figures to emerge during the sixties; described as an 'erotic politician', poet, shaman, Dionysian drunk, his style and influence have grown steadily in the twenty years since his death, so that the real man has gradually disappeared behind the legend. Now, in The Lizard King: The Essential Jim Morrison, Morrison's biographer Jerry Hopkins, co-author of No One Here Gets Out Alive, reassesses Jim's life and provides fresh insights into him as a human being rather than the myth that he has become. But this reassessment is only part of this remarkable book. At its heart is a series of interviews with Jim Morrison by journalists including Hopkins himself, Ben Fong-Torres, John Tobler, Bob Chorush, Salli Stevenson, Richard Goldstein and the late John Carpenter, Morrison shows himself to have been articulate, intelligent and witty. Published uncut, these interviews provide a unique insight into a man who consciously created his own myth, then lived to regret it. Stripping bare the facts from the fantasies of Jim's death in Paris in 1971, and taking a long hard look at what has happened since to the people who he left behind, The Lizard King: The Essential Jim Morrison brings sharply into focus the broken dreams and unreachable ideals of one of the sixties' most enduring icons.

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Download or read book Apocalypse for Beginners written by Nicolas Dickner and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Canada Reads winner Nikolski comes a sweet, smart and occasionally surreal romantic comedy, featuring two young friends who could become lovers—if only one of them hadn't convinced herself that the end of the world is nigh. The Randall family was always a little strange. For generations, each member receives a prophetic vision of the apocalypse—but always on a different date. When the End of Days fails to materialize, yet another Randall goes mad. In the summer of 1989, Hope Randall's mother, in an attempt to forestall the latest imminent apocalypse, loads up the Lada and heads west from Yarmouth. After their car dies in Rivière-du-Loup, the mother and daughter put down roots, as yet another day of reckoning comes and goes. Mickey Bauermann has never seen the likes of the red-headed wonder that is Hope, whose idea of a good time is spending Friday nights watching David Suzuki reveal the mysteries of science on TV. The Bauermann family has been in the concrete business for generations, but Mickey has other ideas of what he wants to do with his life. For now, he spends every available second with Hope, whose mother has become increasingly unhinged. The teens take refuge in Mickey's bungalow basement, aka The Bunker, where they watch the twentieth century crumble and transform on the small screen. But when Hope's destiny as a Randall is revealed by chance—and by a bomb shelter's worth of ramen noodles—the time for hiding out is past. For Hope, the only way to deal with the end of the world is to confront it head on. The journey begins...

Download or read book Insectoid Invasion written by Anna Nilsen and published by DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley). This book was released on 1998 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imaginary insects follow a continuous maze through the core of Planet Holox.