Download or read book Healing the Rift written by Leo Kim and published by Cambridge House PressInc. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outlines an organic chemist's long-standing efforts to bridge gaps between spirituality and twenty-first-century science, describing his experiences of working with cancer patients, his philosophies about the existence of God, and his beliefs about the universe's harmonious blending of mind and spirit.

Download or read book The Best of Alastair Reynolds written by Alastair Reynolds and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an amazing collection of some of the best short fiction ever written in the SF genre, by an author acclaimed as 'the mastersinger of space opera' THE TIMES. With an introduction by noted SF critic Johnathan Strahan, this collection of twenty short stories, novellettes and novellas includes MINLA'S FLOWERS, SIGNAL TO NOISE, TROIKA, and seven previous uncollected stories, including TRAUMA POD, THE WATER THIEF and IN BABELSBERG. Alastair Reynolds has won the Sidewise Award and been nominated for The Hugo Awards for his short fiction. One of the most thought-provoking and accomplished short-fiction writers of our time, this collection is a delight for all SF readers

Download or read book Summoned Chaos written by Joshua Roots and published by Carina Press. This book was released on 2014-07-28 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If there's one thing Warlock Marcus Shifter hates it's the Delwinn Council, the governing body of the magical community. Between the grudges many on the Council harbor because he walked away from magic, and his suspicions that someone is working to undermine a twenty-year peace with the non-magical Normals, they really don't get along. Marcus has spent months hunting the traitor, infiltrating the Council and helping with "menial tasks" like repairing unstable rifts in the fabric of reality. But when he accidentally thwarts an assassination attempt at Delwinn HQ, the Council does the unthinkable: they appoint him the poster child for the peace movement. Now Marcus has to not only figure out how to control his resurging powers but also navigate the potentially fatal waters of fame. Between the growing number of protestors, news-hungry paparazzi, and nightmarish beasts hounding his every move, he'll need more than a camera-ready smile to uncover the traitor and keep the peace. Don't miss Undead Chaos, available now! 99,000 words

Download or read book The Race written by Nina Allan and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2016-07-19 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A child is kidnapped with consequences that extend across worlds… A writer reaches into the past to discover the truth about a possible murder… Far away a young woman prepares for her mysterious future… In a future scarred by fracking and ecological collapse, Jenna Hoolman’s world is dominated by illegal smartdog racing: greyhounds genetically modified with human DNA. When her young niece goes missing that world implodes... Christy’s life is dominated by fear of her brother, a man she knows capable of monstrous acts and suspects of hiding even darker ones. Desperate to learn the truth she contacts Alex, who has his own demons to fight… And Maree, a young woman undertaking a journey that will change her world forever.

Download or read book Defying Reality written by David M. Ewalt and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating exploration of the history, development, and future of virtual reality, a technology with world-changing potential, written by award-winning journalist and author David Ewalt, stemming from his 2015 Forbes cover story about the Oculus Rift and its creator Palmer Luckey. You’ve heard about virtual reality, seen the new gadgets, and read about how VR will be the next big thing. But you probably haven’t yet realized the extent to which this technology will change the way we live. We used to be bound to a physical reality, but new immersive computer simulations allow us to escape our homes and bodies. Suddenly anyone can see what it’s like to stand on the peak of Mount Everest. A person who can’t walk can experience a marathon from the perspective of an Olympic champion. And why stop there? Become a dragon and fly through the universe. But it’s not only about spectacle. Virtual and augmented reality will impact nearly every aspect of our lives—commerce, medicine, politics—the applications are infinite. It may sound like science fiction, but this vision of the future drives billions of dollars in business and is a top priority for such companies as Facebook, Google, and Sony. Yet little is known about the history of these technologies. In Defying Reality, David M. Ewalt traces the story from ancient amphitheaters to Cold War military laboratories, through decades of hype and failure, to a nineteen-year-old video game aficionado who made the impossible possible. Ewalt looks at how businesses are already using this tech to revolutionize the world around us, and what we can expect in the future. Writing for a mainstream audience as well as for technology enthusiasts, Ewalt offers a unique perspective on VR. With firsthand accounts and on-the-ground reporting, Defying Reality shows how virtual reality will change our work, our play, and the way we relate to one another.

Download or read book Ripples In The Rift written by Maurice Smith (Mol) and published by Maurice Smith, ONVIEW BOOKS, ONVIEW.NET LTD. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic science fiction novel. A young woman (Beth) leads a science research team on a distant world at the same time as another team, protected by a large armed force, mine for precious ore. The science team genetically modify some members of one species, ape-like bipeds, to help provide labour. When the ruthless leader of the mining camp (Catanda) decides he will keep some of the ore for his personal gain, and he exterminates members of another mining group, the peaceful people of the science camp find themselves pitched in deadly conflict with Catanda and the armed forces. They seek refuge among the ape-people as a struggle begins for all their survival when Catanda threatens to exterminate them. They appear to have little hope of winning a conflict against a superior and technological armed force. A story of immortal love, ruthlessness, and the endless struggle of good against evil set in the jungle and desert of a young world. With links to videos, posters, and additional material on the internet to enrich the reader's experience. Authored by Mol Smith (Maurice Smith), a writer and creator of six feature films and numerous shorts for a small UK film production company: Onview Films; and a book which shares his unique style.

Download or read book Beyond the Rift written by Peter Watts and published by Tachyon Publications. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skillfully combining complex science with finely executed prose, these edgy, award-winning tales explore the always-shifting border between the known and the alien. The beauty and peril of technology and the passion and penalties of conviction merge in stories that are by turns dark, satiric, bold, and introspective. A seemingly humanized monster from John Carpenter’s The Thing reveals the true villains in an Antarctic showdown. An artificial intelligence shields a biologically-enhanced prodigy from her overwhelmed parents. A deep-sea diver discovers that her true nature lies not within the confines of her mission but in the depths of her psyche. A court psychologist analyzes a psychotic graduate student who has learned to reprogram reality itself. A father tries to hold his broken family together in the wake of an ongoing assault by sentient rainstorms. Gorgeously saturnine and exceptionally powerful, these collected fictions are both intensely thought-provoking and impossible to forget.

Download or read book The Rift in Our Reality written by Amy Proebstel and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for the readers of Midnight Sun by Trish Cook and John Green's A Fault in Our Stars.Winning means staying alive. Losing means giving up. I'm not a quitter.That's why I'm still alive when every doctor agrees I shouldn't be.Dealt a horrid genetic deck of cards, I live with Batten disease. It's rare, incurable, and always fatal.Since my diagnosis, my parents, family, and doctors have worked tirelessly to find a cure. Yet the disease still took things from me¿mostly my eyesight and my energy.But I refuse to give it my happiness. At almost seventeen, I'm still ticking off the boxes of my dream bucket list. I'll keep pushing for the seeing-eye dog¿but only because romance seems too far-fetched. A girl can dream. Right?Maybe this summer will be different¿Get it now.

Download or read book The Rift Impact written by Adair Hart and published by Quantum Edge Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-11 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When everything appears hopeless, sometimes all you need is a cosmic helping hand. Dylan Townsend didn’t expect to spend his twenty-second birthday on an alien moon in the Andromeda galaxy along with Isaac Barret, and Dr. Kate Minter. They have no idea how they were transported from Earth to an alien world and then put in quarantine. They’ve lost hope of being rescued and have resigned themselves to spending the rest of their lives on the moon. The Systral Empire, which captured the humans, has a bigger issue to deal with. A star entity orbits their sun and is growing, blocking out all sunlight. All attempts to remove it have failed. This would impact the moon the humans are on first. Another concern is that portals are opening on Varlon, their home world, and depositing strange aliens. Enter Evaran and M, two cosmic beings who travel through space, time, and beyond to help those in need. They, along with the Systrals and humans, will have their hands full with all the problems and deeper threats that have yet to reveal themselves. And the Systral Empire’s very existence is at stake.

Download or read book Passing Life s Tests written by Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, DHL and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-10-24 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges you to go beneath the brief, shocking story and ask: who is the tester, who is the tested and what motivates the test? Among stories so terrible they rend our hearts, so profound they touch the depths of our souls, and so exalted they reach to heaven, none is more poignant than the Bible story of Abraham's sacrifice of his son, Isaac. A story revered by Jews, Christians and Muslims, and turned over and over by great secular thinkers searching for meaning, this gripping tale shocks us into complete attention, then takes us—in nineteen short verses—on a roller coaster ride of emotion, challenge and hope. Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, known widely for making the Hebrew Bible relevant to our lives, draws on generations of Jewish sages, philosophers and scholars to explore this ancient story, known as the binding of Isaac or the test of Abraham. He invites us to use this powerful tale as a tool for our own soul wrestling, to transcend its words to confront our own existential sacrifices and our ability to face—and surmount—life’s tests. By applying this tale’s lessons to everyday events, Artson compels us to pay closer attention to our lives and, through our priorities, responsibilities, mindfulness and faith, ask ourselves if we are passing our own tests.

Download or read book The Secret Life of Movies written by Jason Horsley and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-10-21 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film blurs the line between myth and reality better than any other artistic medium, one could argue. Using movies to explore the unconscious realms of society in order to reach a better understanding of what drives it, this book examines filmmakers and films that center on schizophrenic themes of alienation, paranoia, breakdown, fantasy, dreams, dementia and violence, and that address--as entertainment--the schizophrenic experience. The loss of individual identity as reflected in the films is investigated, as well as the shamanic potential inherent in the broader theme.

Download or read book The Rift Walker written by Clay Griffith and published by Pyr. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second book in a trilogy of high adventure and alternate history combines rousing pulp action with steampunk style, bringing epic political themes to life within a story of heartbreaking romance, sacrifice, and heroism. Princess Adele struggles with a life of marriage and obligation as her Equatorian Empire and their American Republic allies stand on the brink of war against the vampire clans of the north. However, the alliance's horrific strategy for total victory drives Adele to abandon her duty and embark on a desperate quest to keep her nation from staining its hands with genocide. Reunited with her great love, the mysterious adventurer known to the world as the Greyfriar, Adele is pursued by her own people as well as her vengeful husband, Senator Clark. With the human alliance in disarray, Prince Cesare, lord of the British vampire clan, seizes the initiative and strikes at the very heart of Equatoria. As Adele labors to bring order to her world, she learns more about the strange powers she exhibited in the north. Her teacher, Mamoru, leads a secret cabal of geomancers who believe Adele is the one who can touch the vast power of the Earth that surges through ley lines and wells up at the rifts where the lines meet. These energies are the key to defeating the enemy of mankind. If Princess Adele could ever bring this power under her command, she could be death to vampires. But such a victory would also cost the life of Adele's beloved Greyfriar. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Download or read book Garro Collection written by Connor Whiteley and published by CDG Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-29 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore Garro's next thrilling adventure from the battlefield and treachery at Mortem 1 to the shocking battle of the Infernus System. Note: you can read this book without having to read books 1-3 first. Garro: Heresy An age of peace. An ancient threat. A conspiracy to end it all. After 40 years of peace, the Republic has never been more prosperous. Garro attends a festival with other officials. When Garro survives an attack that kills thousands, Garro knows something darker is afoot. Can Garro find the truth amongst the lies? Or will the galaxy burn in a new age? If you love gripping, explosive, action packed sci-fi fantasy stories with epic characters. You will love this book! The starting point of this fantasy and science fiction storyline is Garro: Heresy. Garro: Faithless An outlawed hero. Impossible odds. A hunt for an ancient apocalyptic weapon. Garro must find his faith again or risk the fate of the galaxy. Grand Master Garro finds a world burnt to ash. He knows Kortana killed it. Garro hunts his former friend. He knows he must stop her, but is he strong enough? Can Garro stop Kortana before she reaches her endgame? Or will she release the apocalypse on the galaxy? If you love gripping, explosive, action packed sci-fi fantasy stories with epic characters. You will love this book! BUY NOW! The starting point of this fantasy and science fiction storyline is Garro: Heresy. Garro: Destroyer of Worlds A final stand. An ancient mystery on a forgotten world. A threat to change the galaxy forever. The hunt is almost over. Garro knows the location of the virus. His hunt for Kortana is over. Yet can Garro fight his way through hordes of traitors in time? Can Garro reach the virus before disaster strikes? Or will the worst fate imaginable befall the galaxy? If you love explosive, action packed sci-fi fantasy stories with epic characters. You will love this book! BUY NOW!

Download or read book The Last Will Testament of Dr Samuel E Ulie The Forbidden Discovery written by Jonathon smith and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-10-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The journey of one man who embarks on a strange scientific investigation to prove the existence of something unknown. During this journey he encounters a race of creatures & it reveals that nothing is what it seems to be.

Download or read book Running the Rift written by Naomi Benaron and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Running the Rift follows the progress of Jean Patrick Nkuba from the day he knows that running will be his life to the moment he must run to save his life. A naturally gifted athlete, he sprints over the thousand hills of Rwanda and dreams of becoming his country’s first Olympic medal winner in track. But Jean Patrick is a Tutsi in a world that has become increasingly restrictive and violent for his people. As tensions mount between the Hutu and Tutsi, he holds fast to his dream that running might deliver him, and his people, from the brutality around them. Winner of the Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, Naomi Benaron has written a stunning and gorgeous novel that—through the eyes of one unforgettable boy— explores a country’s unraveling, its tentative new beginning, and the love that binds its people together.

Download or read book Revelations of the Fallen written by D. E. Phoenix and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 805 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revelation of the fall: The Blasphemy of Astrial Belthromoto The name of the book is called Revelation of the Fallen: The Blasphemy of Astrial Belthromoto. The story begins at the end of creation, the end of our lives in this universe and the destruction of them by a being called Eversor. The main character Astrial is a fallen angel telling the story from his perspective beyond the creation of this universe and into a reality where the a Creator of all Creator resides. He was the angel of intelligence and the most high scribe before he fell himself. He takes you through his torment by Evil and how he is forced to chose between these world that he doesn't really belong to. He shares insight into how evil was born and most importantly how everything we think we know about good and evil is really motivated by agendas. He introduces you to the four Eternals that have a lot to with how this story plays out. He then gives you insight into the war in heaven, the fall of the angels and how a small decision by a being led to this obsession with man. He gives you the history of the earth and the makers of mankind and their civilizations that still exist today. He leads you out of the garden of Eden and shows you the very rocky relationship between Adam and eve. Astrial finally leads you into the final wars of mankind when there was ordered a mass exodus from this planet leaving us totally alone.

Download or read book Rift written by Richard Cox and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2004-06-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age where reality and science fiction are colliding, Richard Cox’s extraordinary debut thriller takes its place as an all-too-believable novel of white-knuckle adventure. For when an ordinary man makes one great leap for mankind, he triggers a chain of events that endangers his life, fractures his certainty, and plunges everyone he knows into a place where nothing is what it seems. Cameron Fisher is bored. With his wife, Misty. With his job as an accountant at NeuroStor, the high-tech microchip firm. With everything about his life—until he is offered five million dollars to test a secret new technology that uses a wrinkle in quantum physics to transmit matter from one place to another. His employer’s high-stakes brainchild is ready for its first human test. And Cameron Fisher is all too happy to oblige. One moment Cameron is sitting naked in a seven-by-seven-foot metal room in Houston; the next second he is in a laboratory in Phoenix—trembling now not with fear but joy. Within hours, Cameron will be free to go home. But first there is a celebratory drink—and a strange and scintillating meeting with a spectacularly beautiful woman. Then he’s being followed by men with guns . . . and suddenly Cameron is running, stumbling, falling into a world that looks like his own, but in which he has become a ragged stranger, accused of murder and pursued by people who want him dead. It appears that NeuroStor’s invention has changed Cameron. Next, it will change the entire world. With its stunning twists, sensual adventure, and raw, psychological suspense, Rift takes readers on a thrill-a-second ride to one last amazing choice for Cameron Fisher. A gripping and utterly satisfying work of storytelling magic, Rift asks the ultimate question: What if you had to die to find out what it really means to be alive?