Download or read book Z Lensman written by David A. Kyle and published by Red Jacket Press. This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The strangest of all Second Stage Lensmen is Nadreck, the multidimensional extraterrestrial guardian of Palain VII. When the spawn of Boskonia threaten an inter-planetary Armageddon, only Nadreck's Z-powers can save the Lensmen and civilization from a deadly mind attack from another plane of existence! Book jacket.
Download or read book Lensman From Rigel written by David A. Kyle and published by Red Jacket Press. This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An assassin's attack has nearly killed Second Stage Lensman Tregonsee, the brilliant telepathic intelligence chief of the Galactic Patrol. Their forces in disarray, the Rigellian Tregonsee and a rookie Tellurian Patrolman named D.D. Cloudd plan a desperate shell game to avoid intergalactic devastation! Book jacket.
Download or read book The Dragon Lensman written by David A. Kyle and published by Red Jacket Press. This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The entire planet was an awesome time-bomb set to explode at the slightest provocation. Worsel's first mistake was merely lethal. His next promised to be positively catastrophic! Book jacket.
Download or read book The Vortex Blaster written by E. E. "Doc" Smith and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-10-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neal "Storm" Cloud failed his Lensman exam, But life has a strange way of making heroes of even those who sometimes fail. Cloud's family is tragically killed when a misguided attempt to blow out a vortex lands one of the fragments right on his house. Devastated by the loss of his family, Cloud takes a leave of absence from the Radiation Lab where he works studying the vortices. As he drives he is struck with an idea for "blowing out" a vortex. It is slightly technical (Smith explains it so it can be easily followed), but the general idea is that Cloud's brain works so fast that he can calculate exactly where the center of the vortex will be at a moment in time and how big an explosive is needed, then hit it with a bomb that is set at the exact strength to actually extinguish the vortex instead of blowing it apart and making more vortices. As it continues the book tells of Cloud's new job as the universe's one and only vortex blaster. This job takes him from planet to planet where he blows out vortices, matches wits against drug dealers and gangsters, meets new life forms, and acquires a crew for his small scout ship. His adventures are many and varied, and the lifeforms he meets are strange and interesting.
Download or read book Lickshot written by Ben Watts and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2009-09-02 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He is always ready to swap his professional camera for a Polaroid so that his subjects can see the photos immediately and tag them with shout-outs or trash talk. His photo shoots are like block parties where his subjects drop their guard to reveal an honest sense of self-pride, and love of life."
Download or read book Galactic Patrol written by Edward Elmer Smith and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book E E Doc Smith written by Joseph Sanders and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Smith's life and work as well as the impact that his fiction has had upon literary culture.
Download or read book Children of the Lens written by E. E. "Doc" Smith and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was beginning to look as if no one could prevent the destruction of the Universe. For a strange intelligence was directing the destruction of all civilization from the icy depths of space. Kim Kinnison of the Patrol was one of the few men who knew how near the end was. And in the last desperate plan to save all life, he knew he had to use his children as bait for the evil powers of the planet Ploor
Download or read book Songs in the Key of Z written by Irwin Chusid and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2000-04-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outsider musicians can be the product of damaged DNA, alien abduction, drug fry, demonic possession, or simply sheer obliviousness. This book profiles dozens of outsider musicians, both prominent and obscure—figures such as The Shaggs, Syd Barrett, Tiny Tim, Jandek, Captain Beefheart, Daniel Johnston, Harry Partch, and The Legendary Stardust Cowboy—and presents their strange life stories along with photographs, interviews, cartoons, and discographies. About the only things these self-taught artists have in common are an utter lack of conventional tunefulness and an overabundance of earnestness and passion. But, believe it or not, they're worth listening to, often outmatching all contenders for inventiveness and originality. A CD featuring songs by artists profiled in the book is also available.
Download or read book The Lensman Series written by E. E. Smith and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-18 with total page 1752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Triplanetary - Arisians, the alien race is breeding two genetic lines to become the ultimate weapon in Arisia's cosmic war with their arch-enemies, the Eddorians... First Lensman - The novel chronicles the founding of the Galactic Patrol by Virgil Samms, the first sentient being in our cosmos to wear the "Lens", a unique badge of authority which is actually a form of "pseudo-life" that grants telepathic powers to the defenders of Civilization... Galactic Patrol - Kinnison and Clarissa MacDougall are the penultimates of the human breeding program the Arisians had set up many eons earlier... Second Stage Lensmen - The four superior Lensmen: Kinnison, Worsel, Tregonsee, and Nadreck, are armed with mental powers allowing them to control the minds of others and see, hear, and feel without using their physical senses (the "sense of perception")... The Vortex Blaster or, Masters of the Vortex - Neal "Storm" Cloud is not a Lensman. Instead he is a nuclear engineer with an amazingly mathematical mind. He is a high level genius and a lightning calculator...
Download or read book Galactic Patrol written by E. E. "Doc" Smith and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-10-09 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kimball Kinnison is one of the greatest Lensman to ever live. Galactic Patrol follows his early career and his rise to prominence. The Boskonians are the most feared pirates in the galaxy. Their ships are much faster than almost anything the Galactic Patrol posses. The one exception is their new experimental ship the Britannia. Built to be the fastest ship in space, she has abandoned the traditional ray armament of a star ship for weapons much older - explosive artillery. Her mission is to capture a Boskonian ship intact so that the Lensman my find the secret to the Boskonin phenomenal speed. The experimental nature of the Britannia’s weapon means that she would be useless to a man experienced only in using the standard weapons of the time, so she is given to the inexperienced Kinnison to command and a legend is born!
Download or read book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Pulitzer Prize Winner written by Junot Díaz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of: The Pulitzer Prize The National Book Critics Circle Award The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award The Jon Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize A Time Magazine #1 Fiction Book of the Year One of the best books of 2007 according to: The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, People, The Village Voice, Time Out New York, Salon, Baltimore City Paper, The Christian Science Monitor, Booklist, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, New York Public Library, and many more... Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Oscar is a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd who—from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister—dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fukú—a curse that has haunted Oscar’s family for generations, following them on their epic journey from Santo Domingo to the USA. Encapsulating Dominican-American history, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao opens our eyes to an astonishing vision of the contemporary American experience and explores the endless human capacity to persevere—and risk it all—in the name of love.
Download or read book Phoenix Rising written by Ryk E. Spoor and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new breakout fantasy epic filled with strong world building, engaging characters, and wondrous adventure. Kyri: a highborn young woman whose life is shattered by the murder of her kin. But even as Kyri flees her beloved land Evanwyl, she knows that she is her family's only hope for justice, and Evanwyl's only chance to escape a growing shadow of corruption and destruction. Now Kyri must venture across Zarathan, a world on the brink of a long foretold Chaos War. It is a struggle that may usher in a long age of darkness¾ that is, if Kyri and her companions do not succeed in holding back the tide of evil that is rising. Those companions include valiant swordsman Tobimar Silverun, Prince of Skysand, exiled on the turn of a card and a prophecy, who is now seeking his people's lost homeland; and Poplock Duckweed, an unlikely hero whose diminutive size is as much a weapon as it is a weakness. Kyri's quest is as simple as it is profounfind a legendary ancient weaponsmith, take up the sword and armor of a new order of warrior defenders, and bring the power of justice and vengeance to the evil and corruption that has darkened her native land. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Download or read book Gianluca Galtrucco written by Peter Frank and published by Hatje Cantz Verlag. This book was released on 2017 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like no other city in the world, Los Angeles encourages the observer to play with illusions -- and to be played with in turn. At every street corner one wonders if they are still in ordinary life, have stepped onto a movie set, or have entered a heat-induced mirage. Wandering as far afield as Nevada and Mexico, Los Angeles-based Italian photographer Gianluca Galtrucco discovers comedic and dramatic images throughout L.A. and its region that blur the boundary between reality and artifice. Indeed, it is not clear in which of his pictures Galtrucco has created dream tableaux and in which he has simply carried existing situations to extremes. Sometimes the titles provide the key; other times they only enhance the disorientation. Many of the words and names allude to the world of cinema, underscoring how thoroughly Los Angeles has been shaped by its best known industry -- and how much movies shape our view of the city in turn. As much showman as lensman, Galtrucco urges us to suspend disbelief and to trust his imagery. That way, everything can fall into place.
Download or read book The Wiki Way written by Bo Leuf and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2001 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanying CD-ROM contains the public-license Wiki sources discussed in the book plus the means to run them as stand-alone or using the industry-strength Apache Web server, as well as complete Perl and Apache server packages for both Linux and Windows. Contents: two perl programs, ActivePerl and IndigoPerl; three different stages of customized basic QuickiWikis; additional Wiki packages, PythonWiki, Ruby, and RWiki; Apache HTTP server version 1.3.
Download or read book Caretaker written by Josi Russell and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2015-09-02 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bestselling story of survival and love in the deep, dark depths of outer space is like none other. Josi Russell’s ideas captivate readers’ imaginations and hearts as one young man shoulders the responsibility of keeping 4,000 passengers alive as their ship heads wildly off course.
Download or read book The Probability Broach written by L. Neil Smith and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-12-12 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Denver detective Win Bear, on the trail of a murderer, discovers much more than a killer. He accidentally stumbles upon the probability broach, a portal to a myriad of worlds--some wildly different from, others disconcertingly similar to our own. Win finds himself transported to an alternate Earth where Congress is in Colorado, everyone carries a gun, there are gorillas in the Senate, and public services are controlled by private businesses.
