Download or read book The Quiet War Omnibus written by Paul McAuley and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 1520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE QUIET WAR Who decides what it means to be human? Twenty-third century Earth has been ravaged by climate change, and is now dominated by a few powerful families, with millions of people in prison and millions more labouring to rebuild ruined ecosystems. Meanwhile on Jupiter and Saturn, live the Outers. They have built a wild variety of scientific utopias crammed with exuberant creations of the genetic arts. Now they want to colonise Earth and drive human evolution in a new direction. On Earth, some want to launch a pre-emptive strike against the Outers while others wish to exploit the talents of the gene wizards. It is clear that the fragile detente between the two branches of humanity is breaking down and they may be heading towards war . . . GARDENS OF THE SUN The Quiet War is over. A century of enlightenment, rational utopianism and exploration of new ways of being human has fallen dark. But victory is fragile, and riven by vicious internal politics. While seeking out and trying to anatomise the strange gardens abandoned in place by Avernus, the Outers' greatest genius, the gene wizard Sri Hong-Owen is embroiled in the plots and counterplots of the family that employs her. The diplomat Loc Ifrahim soon discovers that profiting from victory isn't as easy as he thought. And in Greater Brazil, the Outers' democratic traditions have infected a population eager to escape the tyranny of the great families who rule them. After such a conflict only one thing is clear. No one can escape the consequences of war - especially the victors.
Download or read book The Quiet War written by Paul Mcauley and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2009-12-04 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-third century Earth, ravaged by climate change, looks backwards to the holy ideal of a pre-industrial Eden. Political power has been grabbed by a few powerful families and their green saints. Millions of people are imprisoned in teeming cities; millions more labour on Pharaonic projects to rebuild ruined ecosystems. On the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, the Outers, descendants of refugees from Earth's repressive regimes, have constructed a wild variety of self-sufficient cities and settlements: scientific utopias crammed with exuberant creations of the genetic arts; the last outposts of every kind of democratic tradition. The fragile detente between the Outer cities and the dynasties of Earth is threatened by the ambitions of the rising generation of Outers, who want to break free of their cosy, inward-looking pocket paradises, colonise the rest of the Solar System, and drive human evolution in a hundred new directions. On Earth, many demand pre-emptive action against the Outers before it's too late; others want to exploit the talents of their scientists and gene wizards. Amid campaigns for peace and reconciliation, political machinations, crude displays of military might, and espionage by cunningly wrought agents, the two branches of humanity edge towards war...
Download or read book Gardens of the Sun written by Paul Mcauley and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Quiet War is over. The city states of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, founded by descendants of refugees from Earth’s repressive regimes, the Outers, have fallen to the Three Powers Alliance of Greater Brazil, the European Union, and the Pacific Community. A century of enlightenment, rational utopianism and exploration of new ways of being human has fallen dark. Outers are herded into prison camps and forced to collaborate in the systematic plundering of their great archives of scientific and technical knowledge, while Earth’s forces loot their cities and settlements and ships, and plan a final solution to the ‘Outer problem.’ But Earth’s victory is fragile, and riven by vicious internal politics. While seeking out and trying to anatomise the strange gardens abandoned in place by the Outers’ greatest genius, Avernus, the gene wizard Sri Hong-Owen is embroiled in the plots and counterplots of the family that employs her. The diplomat Loc Ifrahim soon discovers that profiting from victory isn’t as easy as he thought. And on Earth, in Greater Brazil, the democratic traditions preserved and elaborated by the Outers have infected a population eager to escape the tyranny of the great families who rule them. Meanwhile, in the outer reaches of the Solar System, a rag-taggle group of refugees struggle to preserve the last of the old ideals. And on Triton, fanatical members of a cabal prepare for a final battle that threatens to shatter the future of the human species. After a conflict fought to contain the expansionist, posthuman ambitions of the Outers, the future is as uncertain as ever. Only one thing is clear. No one can escape the consequences of war -- especially the victors.
Download or read book My Quiet War written by Mark Kemp Venables and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Quiet War written by John Browning and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Silent War written by John Ames Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Silent War written by John Ames Mitchell and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Silent War is a novel by John Ames Mitchell, first published in 1907. The novel tells the story of a secret war waged between the United States and an unnamed European power, fought with submarines and other advanced technologies. The novel explores themes of nationalism, militarism, and the ethics of war. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Silent War Classic Reprint written by John Ames Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-27 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Silent War As the ostrich who buries his head in the yellow sand for too long a period ceases to be an authority on events about him, so the reveller in the golden harvest, dazzled by his own prosperity and ignoring the ravenous faces that watch him from barren fields, may lose taken edge of his perception. Eyes too reverently fixed, and for too long a period, upon the glories of the treasure house discern but vaguely the hungry toilers among the shadows - in the malodorous places. Occasional mutterings from the owners of empty stomachs, from the fathers of fading children, from the overworked and the unemployed, make discordant and unwelcome music for cultivated ears. Sounds of this kind, as is natural, annoy the more comfortable people, who continue to expound the law of the Survival of the Fittest. To these happy philosophers this brief tale is dedicated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Quiet American written by Graham Greene and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2004-11-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover Graham Green’s prescient political masterpiece ‘The novel that I love the most is The Quiet American’ Ian McEwan Into the intrigue and violence of 1950s Indo-China comes CIA agent Alden Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'. As his naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch. But even as he intervenes he wonders why: for the greater good, or something altogether more complicated? WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ZADIE SMITH **One of the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**
Download or read book The Great Martian War written by Scott Washburn and published by Winged Hussar Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-10 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the defeat of the Martian invasion of Britain, a new threat to humanity lands in the American west. President Roosevelt musters the captains of industry and leading scientists to find a way to turn back the Martian tide
Download or read book All Quiet on the Western Front written by Erich Maria Remarque and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book All Quiet on the Western Front written by Erich Maria Remarque and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1996-09-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now repackaged--the timeless classic of World War I Germany that speaks to generation after generation.
Download or read book A Quiet Cadence written by Mark Treanor and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of 2020 W.Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction Military Writers Society of America Award Winner: Gold Medal in Historical Fiction Winner of the 2021 William E. Colby Award Sometimes it takes years for a combat vet to understand what war did to him when he was nineteen. With the perception and reflection of a man on the cusp of retirement from a career teaching high school kids, Marty McClure recalls the relentless intensity of prolonged combat as a teenaged Marine machine gunner facing booby traps and battles in a war with few boundaries. Family and friends know Marty as a kind, peaceful man. They aren‘t aware that when he was young, he plumbed the depths of terror, hatred, and despair with no assurance he‘d ever surface again. Now he needs to reveal what happened in Vietnam and how, with the help of Patti, his wife, Corrie Corrigan, a disabled vet, and Doc Matheson, a corpsman turned trauma surgeon, he works to become a good husband, father, and teacher while he fights to bury the war. Only if he accepts help from his wife and his friends will he find real peace.
Download or read book City of Lies written by Sam Hawke and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A master poisoner works beside his sister to defend their city-state when the chancellor he worked undercover to protect is assassinated with an unknown poison at the same time an army lay siege to the city.
Download or read book ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT written by ERICH MARIA REMARQUE and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book That Quiet Earth written by Bruce Fellows and published by Troubador Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That Quiet Earth combines a heartbreaking love story with a stunningly accurate portrait of life as a pilot during the Great War. George Bridge has a secret that he doesn’t want to carry to his grave; a wrong he did a lifetime ago that he must confess. A newspaper story about the sale of the Victoria Cross won by his friend Billy Love in 1918 sends him back to the time when any moment could have been his last; when he lived life at a pitch he never again experienced; the time when he flew in France with the RAF. That Quiet Earth gives a stunning portrait of the life led by pilots of single-seater scout aircraft on the Western Front and of the physical and psychological stresses they suffered. Daily, George and Billy climb into their wood and canvas biplanes and without oxygen fly up to two thirds the height of Everest. There are no parachutes and therefore no escape from a burning or crippled aeroplane and death might appear around any cloud or at any moment announce its presence with bullets from an unseen enemy. Back on earth, their next flight into danger is always threatening. George (Grammar school) and Billy (Eton) have entirely different backgrounds but both are scout pilots and both are absurdly young for the job they are doing. Back home, their families wait for them and Jessica waits for Billy. Then Billy flies into history to become a hero and everything changes. That Quiet Earth is about fear, betrayal and guilt, but above all it is a love story.Bruce Fellows lives in Bristol. He has written many pieces for performance and his play Rabbit Ears, about army wives and the Afghan War, was produced by Theatre West in 2010. He has had a lifelong interest in early aviation. That Quiet Earth is his first published novel.
