Download or read book Khaos Chronicles written by Rex Crownen and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into the boots of beings with phenomenal powers raging at their fingertips. Discover the conflicting struggle of a creature that can turn a glorious city to salt and ash, or have the strongest person weeping like a baby with a single thought . For over three hundred years, the elves of Aiol have lived in an era of peace, awaiting the fulfillment of an ancient prophecy. A cynical game among gods, both evil and good, plays out on Khaos, a planet hidden beneath cosmic dust and billions of stars. Khaos' High God, Pholkachious, creates Tavestyde, the first of those he makes in his own image, and grants him control over Khaos. Pholkachious' brother, who has many names in different realms, comes to Khaos as Abbadon and brings his first child, created to destroy. Centuries after King Tavestyde's rule, his great grandson now reigns on the eternal throne as monarch. In a land where there are the faithless and the faithful, the two legions are unaware that their fates have been preordained eons ago by higher, all-powerful beings. Now the realm of the deities and the world of mere mortals collide in an epic battle for cosmic survival.
Download or read book Orphans of Chaos written by John C. Wright and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John C. Wright burst onto the SF scene with the Golden Age trilogy. His next project was the ambitious fantasy sequence, The Last Guardians of Everness. Wright's new fantasy is a tale about five orphans raised in a strict British boarding school who begin to discover that they may not be human beings. The students at the school do not age, while the world around them does. The children begin to make sinister discoveries about themselves. Amelia is apparently a fourth-dimensional being; Victor is a synthetic man who can control the molecular arrangement of matter around him; Vanity can find secret passageways through solid walls where none had previously been; Colin is a psychic; Quentin is a warlock. Each power comes from a different paradigm or view of the inexplicable universe: and they should not be able to co-exist under the same laws of nature. Why is it that they can? The orphans have been kidnapped from their true parents, robbed of their powers, and raised in ignorance by super-beings no more human than they are: pagan gods or fairy-queens, Cyclopes, sea-monsters, witches, or things even stranger than this. The children must experiment with, and learn to control, their strange abilities in order to escape their captors. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Cast in Chaos written by Michelle Sagara and published by LUNA. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kaylin Neya is a Hawk, part of the elite force tasked with keeping the City of Elantra safe. Her past is dark, her magic uncontrolled and her allies unpredictable. And nothing has prepared her for what is coming, when the charlatans on Elani Street suddenly grow powerful, the Oracles are thrown into an uproar and the skies rain blood…. The powerful of Elantra believe that the mysterious markings on Kaylin's skin hold the answer, and they are not averse to using her—how ever they have to—in order to discover what it is. Something is coming, breaking through the barriers between the worlds. But is it a threat that Kaylin needs to defend her city against—or has she been chosen for another reason entirely?
Download or read book Neptune Crossing written by Jeffrey A. Carver and published by Starstream Publications. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When John Bandicut encounters an alien intelligence on Neptune’s moon Triton, his life changes irrevocably. Urged by the alien quarx now sharing his mind, he accepts an audacious mission—to steal a ship and hurtle across the solar system in a desperate bid for Earth’s survival. Book 1 of The Chaos Chronicles, by the Nebula-nominated author of Eternity’s End—with an Afterword by the author. Appeared in print from Tor Books. DRM-free ebook edition. REVIEWS: One of the best SF novels of the year — Science Fiction Chronicle “Masterfully captures the joy of exploration.” — Publishers Weekly “One of the very best things Carver has written, a traditional adventure filled with mystery and wonder and featuring a likable and believable protagonist thrust onto a stage for which he is ill prepared.” — Science Fiction Chronicle “Jeff Carver is a hard sf writer who gets it right—his science and his people are equally convincing. Neptune Crossing combines his strengths, from a chilling look at alien machine intelligence, to cutting-edge chaos theory, to the pangs of finite humans in the face of the infinite. If you like intriguing ideas delivered in an exciting plot, this is your meat.” —Gregory Benford, author of the Galactic Center series “Reveals an alien encounter brushing hard against a soul, and takes us from there to the far reaches of the cosmos, all with the sure touch of a writer who knows his science. Jeff Carver has done it again!” —David Brin, author of Existence “A complex and believable protagonist—an ordinary man rising to extraordinary circumstances—and an alien presence that is at once convincingly strange and deeply real. I’m really glad to have read this one.” —Melissa Scott, author of Dreamships and Trouble and Her Friends “A roaring, cross-the-solar-system adventure of the first water. The kind of stuff that made us all love science fiction.” —Jack McDevitt, author of Seeker and Chindi “High-octane space adventure: mystery, humor, theoretical physics, and one of the more interesting SF aliens you’ve likely encountered in a long while.” —Allen Steele “With works such as The Infinity Link... and his popular Star Rigger novels, Carver won acclaim as a master craftsman of compelling hard science fiction. This captivating opener to a new series incorporating the emerging science of chaos theory should keep that reputation flourishing... Carver has created yet another electrifying scenario as well as a winning combination in Bandicut and the sometimes vulnerable yet superintelligent quarx. First-rate entertainment.” — Booklist
Download or read book The Child of Chaos written by Glen R Dahlgren and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-16 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Galen's imagination always got him into trouble, but now it may be the only thing that can prevent Horace from opening the Vault of Chaos and unraveling the world.
Download or read book The Chaos Chronicles written by Jeffrey A. Carver and published by Starstream Publications. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boxed set of three novels: Neptune Crossing, Strange Attractors, and The Infinite Sea. When John Bandicut encounters alien sentience on Triton, his life changes forever?from sacrificing everything to save Earth, to confronting a malicious entity at the edge of the galaxy, to fathoming the abyss of an alien ocean. A major hard-SF adventure from the Nebula-nominated author of Eternity's End. Individual novels appeared in print from Tor Books. DRM-free ebook edition.
Download or read book Brave Chronicle The Ruinmaker written by Kenya Atsui and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 1901-01-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Secrets of Chaos written by A.C. Veteran and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2016-01-25 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you could travel back in time to save the one you love, would you? Would you give them up? Would you go back with the sole purpose of pushing them into another's arms in an effort to change the timeline; to ensure that they survive the event that takes them from you? “Love is a dangerous game. Every move must be perfectly executed or the results will be devastating.” Reia woke up two years ago to a devastating tragedy that changed her life, sending her into hiding. After two years of flying under the radar, her haunting past comes back to haunt her. As she starts senior year, she finds comfort in old friends, complications with old flames, and suddenly finds herself falling for someone completely off limits. Between her duties to Kedron Industries, school, and hiding more secrets than the entire U.S. government, there just isn't room on her crowded plate for a boyfriend. It kills her to keep her distance, but the secrets she keeps, the lies that she tells, and the reasons behind the way she plays the game keeps everyone around her alive. She is an unwilling pawn in a dangerous game and the people behind the puppet strings keep changing the rules. “If you’re not careful, the ocean of deceit you are swimming in will swallow you alive.” He is dangerous. Lethal. A brilliant actor. All it takes is one night, one moment of weakness, of the need to feel something again, to send his perfectly crafted world into a dangerous tailspin. The Fates conspire against him, time becomes his enemy, and trust becomes a commodity better traded than given. As he unravels the layers of a deadly plot, he realizes that sometimes love is the only redemption worth fighting for. **Recommended for Readers 16 + due to language, some violence, and suggestive content.**
Download or read book Advances in Machine Learning Applications in Software Engineering written by Zhang, Du and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book provides analysis, characterization and refinement of software engineering data in terms of machine learning methods. It depicts applications of several machine learning approaches in software systems development and deployment, and the use of machine learning methods to establish predictive models for software quality while offering readers suggestions by proposing future work in this emerging research field"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book The Creation of Chaos written by Frederick J. Ruf and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book-length study of William James' style, arguing that the manner in which James writes The Principles of Psychology and The Varieties of Religious Experience serves to construct a chaotic world for his readers. The book examines the uses of chaos in western literature and philosophy and reaches two conclusions: that chaos may be "utter confusion and disorder," but, paradoxically, that disorder is communicated through some particular order -- in Joyce's term, all chaos is "chaosmos." Secondly, what is essential about chaos is what it does: nothing is inherently chaotic, rather chaos is used to contrast with or challenge something that is more structured or formed. Finally, the author presents an examination of the religious function of James' chaotic worldview as a disorientation which orients.
Download or read book The Infinite Sea written by Jeffrey A. Carver and published by Starstream Publications / Book View Cafe. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beneath an alien sea! Flung to an alien ocean world, John Bandicut and his companions find themselves plunged into the deep-sea realm of the Neri. What will they find in the Neri’s failing undersea city, or in the terrifying object of the deep abyss? Book 3 of The Chaos Chronicles continues the hard-SF saga inspired by chaos theory–with an all-new Afterword by the Nebula-nominated author of Eternity’s End. Print publication by Tor Books. REVIEWS: “Another splendid adventure, with intriguing puzzles, first-rate problem-solving, and an impressive array of alien characters, motives, and methods.” —Kirkus Reviews “An absolutely terrific book. Carver is heir apparent to Larry Niven as the king of hard SF: his stories revolve around ideas that are every bit as big as Niven’s, and his aliens are every bit as fascinating. Chaos theory says outcomes are unpredictable, but here’s one that’s a sure thing: if you start reading The Infinite Sea, you won’t be able to put it down until the very last page.” —Robert J. Sawyer Carver scores again. Gives us mystery, high adventure, and the sense of wonder in the grand old tradition. —Jack McDevitt, author of Seeker and Chindi
Download or read book My Life is Failure written by James Johnson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-02 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100 Things You Should Know to Be a Successful Project Leader. My Life in Failure is a summation of over two decades of work on project failure. The Standish Group has been collecting case information on real-life IT environments and software development projects since 1985. Standish's cumulative research encompasses 20 years of data on why projects succeed or fail, representing more that 50,000 completed IT projects. Note: Updated 17 charts with 2015/2016 data.
Download or read book 2010 Comic Book Checklist Price Guide written by Maggie Thompson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-10-08 with total page 5414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No other guide on the market covers the volume of comic book listings and range of eras as Comic Book Checklist & Price Guide does, in an easy-to-use checklist format. Readers can access listings for 130,000 comics, issued since 1961, complete with names, cover date, creator information and near-mint pricing. With super-hero art on the cover and collecting details from the experts as America's longest-running magazine about comics in this book, there is nothing that compares.
Download or read book Power Awakens written by Shaun McInerney and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jaac wanted to live a simple life, all was going as planned until his Naming Day. A day that would change his life and that of the world he lived in forever. The Nexii would change everything. Jaac starts an incredible adventure that sees him dodging assassins, pursued by demonic creatures, attacked by fanatical warriors and all the while in possession of the greatest power the world has ever seen. He is not alone in his quest, can Jaac and his friends stop chaos from reigning and save the world and all the people he loves.
Download or read book What Were We Thinking written by Carlos Lozada and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this “crisp, engaging, and very smart” (The New York Times Book Review) work, The Washington Post’s Pulitzer Prize–winning book critic digs into books of the Trump era and finds that our response to this presidency often reflects the same polarization, contradictions, and resentments that made it possible. It is an irony of our age that a man who rarely reads has unleashed an onslaught of books about his tenure and his time. Dissections of the white working class. Manifestos of political resistance. Works on identity, gender, and migration. Memoirs on race and protest. Revelations of White House mayhem. Warnings over the future of conservatism, progressivism, and of American democracy itself. As a book critic for The Washington Post, Carlos Lozada has read just about all of them. In What Were We Thinking, he draws on some 150 recent volumes to explore how we understand ourselves in the Trump era. Lozada’s characters are not the president, his advisers, or his antagonists but the political and cultural ideas at play—and at stake—in America. Just as Trump’s election upended the country’s political establishment, it shocked its intellectual class. Though some of the books of the Trump era skillfully illuminate the challenges and transformations the nation faces, too many works are more defensive than incisive, more righteous than right. Lozada offers a provocative argument: Whether written by liberals or conservatives, activists or academics, true believers or harsh critics, the books of Trump’s America are vulnerable to the same failures of imagination that gave us this presidency in the first place. In What Were We Thinking, Lozada’s selections range from bestselling titles to little-known works, from thoroughly reported accounts of the administration to partisan polemics, from meditations on the fate of truth to memoirs about enduring—or enabling—the Trump presidency. He also identifies books that challenge entrenched assumptions and shift our vantage points, the books that best help us make sense of this era. The result is an “elegant yet lacerating” (The Guardian) intellectual history of our time, a work that transcends daily headlines to discern how we got here and how we thought here. What Were We Thinking will help today’s readers understand America, and will help tomorrow’s readers look back and understand us.
Download or read book Sunborn written by Jeffrey A. Carver and published by Starstream Publications. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stars are dying. John Bandicut and his companions are summoned to a star-cloud called Starmaker, known to humans as the Orion Nebula, to discover what force threatens newborn stars—and possibly every world within a thousand light-years. Their journey takes them not just into the perils of a stellar nursery, but into confrontation with the Mindaru, a billion-year-old AI and adversary of life as they know it. The task is daunting. But with the aid of Deep and Dark, sentient clouds who are perhaps the strangest beings they have met yet in their exceedingly strange journey, there may be hope. Back on Triton, Julie Stone—briefly Bandicut’s lover before he was transported away to a new life at the edge of the galaxy—encounters the enigmatic translator, the alien entity that first drew Bandicut into his extraordinary adventures. Julie must face her own life-or-death decision in defense of the Earth—while for Bandicut and company, whatever chance they have of stopping the terrifying Mindaru will be found only in the fiery heart of an intelligent sun. Sunborn continues the harrowing journey through the tumultuous worlds of The Chaos Chronicles, from the Nebula-nominated author of Eternity’s End. REVIEWS: “Leaps quite madly from pot to kettle to frying pan to fire. The pace never lets up...[a] remarkably expansive vision.” —Analog “Carver gives us the ultimate cosmic aliens while juggling stars and supernovas. Dazzling.” —Jack McDevitt, author of Seeker and Chindi “Carver’s latest addition to The Chaos Chronicles... ensures his place among the most inventive of contemporary authors of hard sf and speculative theory. Filled with startling ideas and ingenious plot twists, this sf adventure (along with its series predecessors) belongs in most sf collections. —Library Journal “Carver does his usual outstanding job of juggling multiple viewpoints and plot threads while casting his protagonists’ adventures against a sweeping, intergalactic backdrop. Yet Bandicut’s story is ultimately a very human one about determination, seat-of-the-pants ingenuity, and courage in the face of overwhelming danger.” —Booklist
Download or read book Comics Shop written by Maggie Thompson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-09-27 with total page 3356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ESSENTIAL COMICS VALUES ALL IN COLOR! COMICS SHOP is the reliable reference for collectors, dealers, and everyone passionate about comic books! THIS FULL-COLOR, INDISPENSABLE GUIDE FEATURES: • Alphabetical organization by comic book title • More than 3,000 color photos • Hundreds of introductory essays • Analysis of multi-million dollar comics' sales • How covers and splash pages have evolved • An exclusive photo to grading guide to help you determine your comics' conditions accurately • Current values for more than 150,000 comics From the authoritative staff at Comics Buyer's Guide, the world's longest running magazine about comics, Comics Shop is the only guide on the market to give you extensive coverage of more than 150,000 comics from the Golden Age of the 1930s to current releases and all in color! In addition to the thousands of comic books from such publishers as Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, and Image, this collector-friendly reference includes listings for comic books from independent publishers, underground publishers, and more!
