Download or read book The Veils of Azlaroc written by Fred Saberhagen and published by JSS Literary Productions, LLC. This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visit Azlaroc. The fantastic landscapes and singular cosmic occurrences on this double star system offer a unique tourist/reader experience. Dive into times past, perhaps encounter one of the planets original settlers trapped more than 400 years earlier. A word of caution, unless you wish to become a settler on this intriguing land, leave before the annual energy Veil-falls. The Veil traps everyone and everything on the planet, inescapably, freezing time itself. Settlers become virtually immortal. Reports are that some settlers for personal or financial motives are attempting to escape. Be aware, the exact time of Veil-fall cannot be accurately predicted. Encounter a returning traveler who is searching for a love left behind, an adventurer hired to steal back a poet’s lost book, an eccentric millionaire who would defy nature in an attempt to leave Azlaroc. And an early settler frantically attempting to warn tourists of an early Veil-fall. Enjoy an experience like non-other in the galaxy. Visit Azlaroc.

Download or read book Saberhagen The Early Tales written by Fred Saberhagen and published by JSS Literary Productions, LLC. This book was released on 2021-06-17 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide range of ideas are explored and worlds created in this collection of thirteen of Fred Saberhagen’s early short works of science fiction and fantasy. All the stories were written between 1960 and 1976. Included are two works set in Fred’s world of veils and startling landscapes known as Azlaroc. A story co-authored with Alexei Panshin takes us back in time, sort-of. Several stories are set in Chicago where alien visitations are recorded, one at the Art Institute another somewhere under Lake Michigan. And at what might be Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry, Fred takes a look into the mind of an early computer named Martha. An alternate history tale with psychic overtones, Life Force, has never appeared in any earlier collections of Fred’s work. So if you missed the July 1974 Galaxy printing, now is your chance to discover one fascinating possibility in a post-nuclear-war world. No Berserker stories appear in this volume. Fred’s Berserker short stories are collected separately in two volumes Berserkers The Early Tales and Berserkers The Later Tales. Entertaining, thought provoking stories from an accomplished science fiction and fantasy author await you.

Download or read book The Veils of Azlaroc written by Fred Saberhagen and published by Ace Books. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Of Berserkers Swords and Vampires written by Fred Saberhagen and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best-selling author Fred Saberhagen created three popular series: his Berserker stories and novels telling of the endless war of humans and their alien allies against the Berserkers, gigantic robot battleships programmed by an unknown extinct race to destroy all life in the galaxy; his high fantasy Lost Swords series; and his Dracula series, the first novels to tell a story from the vampire's point of view. In a book that will be irresistible for the thousands of Saberhagen fans, all three series are represented here, as well as gems from his other series, including his first-published story and his last-written story, marking the endpoints of a remarkable writer's remarkable career that spanned more than four decades. As Joan Spicci Saberhagen writes in her foreword, "Even Fred's most ardent fans will have a fresh look at his talents. Whatever the setting, Fred's stories provide fast moving action and a thought provoking theme." At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Download or read book Building Imaginary Worlds written by Mark J.P. Wolf and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark J.P. Wolf’s study of imaginary worlds theorizes world-building within and across media, including literature, comics, film, radio, television, board games, video games, the Internet, and more. Building Imaginary Worlds departs from prior approaches to imaginary worlds that focused mainly on narrative, medium, or genre, and instead considers imaginary worlds as dynamic entities in and of themselves. Wolf argues that imaginary worlds—which are often transnarrative, transmedial, and transauthorial in nature—are compelling objects of inquiry for Media Studies. Chapters touch on: a theoretical analysis of how world-building extends beyond storytelling, the engagement of the audience, and the way worlds are conceptualized and experienced a history of imaginary worlds that follows their development over three millennia from the fictional islands of Homer’s Odyssey to the present internarrative theory examining how narratives set in the same world can interact and relate to one another an examination of transmedial growth and adaptation, and what happens when worlds make the jump between media an analysis of the transauthorial nature of imaginary worlds, the resulting concentric circles of authorship, and related topics of canonicity, participatory worlds, and subcreation’s relationship with divine Creation Building Imaginary Worlds also provides the scholar of imaginary worlds with a glossary of terms and a detailed timeline that spans three millennia and more than 1,400 imaginary worlds, listing their names, creators, and the works in which they first appeared.

Download or read book Coils written by Roger Zelazny and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1988-06-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Angra Energy Corporation kidnaps Donald Belparti's lover in order to force him to use his special ability to directly influence computers.

Download or read book Gods of Fire and Thunder written by Fred Saberhagen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-09-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a unique twist to ancient tales, the legendary creator of the Berserker and Lost Swords sagas turns his gaze northward toward the fearsome and ferocious gods of Valhalla.

Download or read book The Mask of the Sun written by Fred Saberhagen and published by JSS Literary Productions, LLC. This book was released on 2022-02-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The finding of a valuable ancient Aztec mask off the coast of Key West leads the Gabrieli brothers on a harrowing adventure. Mysteriously transported to the 16th century Inca empire where the fate of an alternate timeline lies in the balance, Mike Gabrieli finds himself pitted against a most formidable Conquistador. Will it pay to have reached too fast for gold? Some additional time travel novels by Saberhagen: A Century of Progress After the Fact Pyramids Merlin’s Bones

Download or read book Octagon written by Fred Saberhagen and published by JSS Literary Productions, LLC. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starweb is a computer moderated role playing game. Pay your fee, read the rules, take on a persona and begin. Forge alliances, attack your enemies, build an empire. When a 12-year-old boy enlists the aid of a supercomputer to help him win the game, his actions lead to the spontaneous creation of an AI called Octagon. All great fun for computer savvy players, until something goes amiss and players begin dying.

Download or read book God of the Golden Fleece written by Fred Saberhagen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-08-11 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jason and his fellow Argonauts rescue a man, severely injured in a battle with a giant, who knows only that his name is Proteus, unaware that Proteus is really one of the Olympian gods.

Download or read book Ariadne s Web written by Fred Saberhagen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-01-15 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this latest installment of Saberhagen's Book of the Gods series, Theseus is sentenced to be sacrificed to the ancient gods. Deeply in love with him, Ariadne conspires to save Theseus from his fate, but doesn't count on Dionysus stepping in to complicate matters. Ariadne and Theseus must find their way through a maze of events that are as twisted as they are dangerous.

Download or read book Ardneh s Sword written by Fred Saberhagen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new generation confronts the ages-old battle between magic and technology in this new chapter of Saberhagen's Empire of the East.

Download or read book The Last Book of Swords Shieldbreaker s Story written by Fred Saberhagen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1995-06-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unsuspecting fourteen-year-old warrior, Prince Stephen is forced into manhood when he uses Shieldbreaker to protect the universe from the greedy hands of Vikata the Dark King.

Download or read book S ance for a Vampire written by Fred Saberhagen and published by JSS Literary Productions, LLC. This book was released on with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While investigating the drowning and mysterious re-appearance of a young girl, Sherlock Holmes and his faithful assistant, Watson, find themselves entangled with a medium and a vengeful vampire. When Holmes mysteriously disappears, Watson calls for help from the Prince of Vampires. From the quiet English countryside to the nightlife of St. Petersburg the investigators track the origins of a century old crime.

Download or read book Specimens written by Fred Saberhagen and published by JSS Literary Productions, LLC. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The terror began the very first night that Dan Post spent with his children in the old house on the hill. In his sleep he felt his identity dissolving, merging with human beings of the distant past, creatures who had somehow returned to life as they invaded his defenseless mind. At first Dan Post thought he was going mad. Then he discovered the truth about the house that he and his children lived in ... what waited for them at the end of the tunnel behind the basement wall ... And Dan Post could only wish that he was mad ... that the nightmare was only a dream that the horror was not inescapably real...

Download or read book The Space Force Chronicles written by Fred Saberhagen and published by JSS Literary Productions, LLC. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boris Brazil is a Planeteer in service to the Space Force. Planeteers are charged with the contact of alien life on planets within the Force’s area of control. Boris’ first big assignment is on the planet Aqua. The Force plans to study the planet, if the locals can be brought to some peaceful agreement. And, if they can come to accept the Force. Boris’ ingenuity and the Force’s technology may just save the day. Boris’ next assignment: The Space Force controls the planet Golden where years ago a planeteer’s ship mysteriously disappeared. The planet Golden boasts a technology busting force field and an alien life-theme curiously similar to the fantastic geryons described in Dante’s Inferno. Scientific investigation of the field and of the aliens continues along with settlement of a small area of the planet not affected by the field. When a group of high powered scientists arrive with new ideas for investigation, a former planeteer agrees to assist them. The planeteer finds himself not only up against an alien life force, but confronted with the megalomaniacal ambitions of an Earth-descended group of genetically engineered humans with extraordinary paranormal powers and resources. The Space Force and Boris’ skills will be needed to save this planet. Then, while on vacation on Kappa, an idyllic planet, Boris again is called to action by the Force. A powerful mind-altering native drug threatens the exploitation of the natives and the inevitable addictive behavior of earth-descended humans. Boris must fight his own drug induced demons while struggling to free himself and his companion Brenda from the crazed criminal smugglers. Space Force is a collection of three early Saberhagen works: Planeteer, The Golden People, and The Water Of Thought.

Download or read book A Coldness in the Blood written by Fred Saberhagen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-10-19 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bram Stoker Award–Winning saga continues . . . . Matthew Maule has seen many horrific things in his five hundred years as one of the most powerful vampires in the world. But even his formidable talents cannot predict the unthinkable acts about to occur within his own home. When the vampire Dickon and his human partner appear in the middle of the night frightened for their lives, Matthew offers them protection. They carry with them a small Egyptian statue of great value and many secrets. By morning, Matthew has woken from a mysterious trance to discover that Dickon's human friend has been brutally murdered, the vampire has gone missing, and their statue has been smashed to pieces. Matthew has also made a dangerous new enemy, one who possesses strength even Matthew may be no match for. For the statue is no ordinary artifact, but one of six replicas. However, only one contains a gem in the center, a stone of unimaginable magical power that could spell the end of humanity if it ever fell in the wrong hands. Matthew sets out on a heart-pounding journey to track down the remaining statues before his ancient foe finds them. Racing across the country, the vampire teams up with both the living and the undead, though not all are the allies they pretend to be. Using his wits, he must unearth the answers to a millennia-old mystery in order to prepare himself for a final showdown against the evil stalking him at every turn. Acclaimed fantasy and science fiction author Fred Saberhagen takes readers along for a trek of unbelievable suspense, action, and pure page-turning entertainment. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.