Download or read book The Trilisk Ruins written by Michael McCloskey and published by Squidlord LLC. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Telisa Relachik studied to be a xenoarchaeologist in a future where humans study alien artifacts but haven't ever encountered live aliens. Of all the aliens whose extinct civilizations are studied, the Trilisks are the most advanced and the most mysterious.Telisa refuses to join the government because of her opposition to its hard-handed policies restricting civilian investigation and trade of alien artifacts, despite the fact that her estranged father is a captain in the United Nations Space Force.When a group of artifact smugglers recruits her, she can't pass up the chance at getting her hands on objects that could advance her life's work. But she soon learns that her expectations of excitement and riches come with serious drawbacks as she ends up fighting for her life on a mysterious alien planet.
Download or read book The Trilisk Supersedure written by Michael McCloskey and published by Squidlord LLC. This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trilisk Supersedure is the third book in the PIT series. Having secured an amazing new base of operations that provides for their every material need, Telisa, her fellow smuggler Magnus, the alien Shiny, and the new recruit Cilreth head out on their third expedition in style with robots and advanced Vovokan technology at their fingertips. Their target is the fourth planet in the Chigran Callnir system, a place known to be the site of a Trilisk colony. The team soon finds out the ruins are not as dead as they thought, and they aren’t the only ones interested in the legacy of the Trilisks.
Download or read book Insidious written by Michael McCloskey and published by Squidlord LLC. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leaked stories of strange new rules and codes of behavior indicate something's gone sour in the deep space retreats of the superrich corporate execs. Some say that it's only the eccentricities of the powerful leaders of capitalistic society. But others speak of dark, twisted rituals, human slavery and illegal experiments in banned technologies.Bren Marcken is a robot handler and strategist on a special team of the United Nations Space Force, formed to occupy the corporate space stations and seize their technological secrets. To accomplish the mission, he's been authorized to field artificial intelligences that he considers just as dangerous as the enemy.Chris Adrastus is an aggressive young executive whose careful machinations have carried him to a high position at the powerful European Union company, Vineaux Genomix. Instead of finding satisfaction, he's become disillusioned with what he discovers at the top of the executive world.Aldriena Niachi is a covert operative of Black Core, a Brazilian software company with a global sphere of influence. She's about to find out what Black Core will do for a technological lead. Do some kinds of knowledge come at inordinate cost, even for a supercorporation?
Download or read book The Rovan Binary written by Michael McCloskey and published by Squidlord LLC. This book was released on 2018-10-21 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rovan Binary is the 12th book in the PIT series. The PIT team continues to pull at the thread of the Rovan mystery by visiting another suspected colony. Though they find more clues, the next choice they must make threatens to tear the team apart...
Download or read book The Celaran Ruins written by Michael McCloskey and published by Squidlord LLC. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Celaran Ruins is the sixth book in the PIT series. Telisa Relachik studied to be a xenoarchaeologist at a time when humans had found alien artifacts but hadn't encountered live aliens. She joins a group of artifact smugglers and ends up with a life more amazing than she could have imagined. Forced into service by an alien she once befriended, Telisa, along with Cilreth, Siobhan, Caden, Jason and Imanol are sent to a distant world to investigate a mysterious alien race for their new master.
Download or read book The Rovan Ruins written by Michael McCloskey and published by Squidlord LLC. This book was released on 2018-05-13 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rovan Ruins is the 11th book in the PIT series. Avoiding their alien master at Sol, the PIT team has taken up new homes with the Celarans on a huge space habitat, aided by their Trilisk technology. As they ponder their next move, they hear of new alien ruins in a distant system, discovered by a Celaran probe ship. Uncertain of their future, the PIT team decides to do what they do best, so they leave on a fresh voyage of discovery.
Download or read book The Ruins written by Scott Smith and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2006-07-18 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Trapped in the Mexican jungle, a group of friends stumble upon a creeping horror unlike anything they could ever imagine in "the best horror novel of the new century" (Stephen King). Also a major motion picture! Two young couples are on a lazy Mexican vacation—sun-drenched days, drunken nights, making friends with fellow tourists. When the brother of one of those friends disappears, they decide to venture into the jungle to look for him. What started out as a fun day-trip slowly spirals into a nightmare when they find an ancient ruins site ... and the terrifying presence that lurks there. "The Ruins does for Mexican vacations what Jaws did for New England beaches.” —Entertainment Weekly “Smith’s nail-biting tension is a pleasure all its own.... This stuff isn’t for the faint of heart.” —New York Post “A story so scary you may never want to go on vacation, or dig around in your garden, again.” —USA Today
Download or read book The Kriseel Ruins written by Michael McCloskey and published by Squidlord LLC. This book was released on 2021-02-20 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kriseel Ruins is the 16th book in the PIT series. When Blackhab scientists report evidence of a live civilization in a system known by the Rovans and Vovokans to be an ancient ruin site, the PIT team investigates.
Download or read book The Rovan Catastrophe written by Michael McCloskey and published by Squidlord LLC. This book was released on 2019-09-08 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rovan Gate is the 14th book in the PIT series. Having escaped the Rovan trap, the PIT team returns to the binary star system Guiholda Conchallon, hoping to learn more about how the Rovans lived, but instead, they discover more about the Rovan’s demise.
Download or read book The Rovan Trap written by Michael McCloskey and published by Squidlord LLC. This book was released on 2019-03-24 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rovan Trap is the 13th book in the PIT series. The PIT team struggles to survive in all-too-close proximity with a Rovan battleship designed to exterminate all who fall into its trap. If Telisa and her team cannot escape this uncaring death machine-- who can save them?
Download or read book The Trilisk Hunt written by Michael McCloskey and published by Squidlord LLC. This book was released on 2013-08-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Telisa Relachik studied to be a xenoarchaeologist at a time when humans had found alien artifacts but hadn't encountered live aliens. After a harrowing brush with a real Trilisk on Chigran Callnir Four, the PIT team, fresh with four new members, heads out on a new type of expedition: hunting a live Trilisk. Telisa can’t imagine more deadly creature to pursue, but she’s determined to stop the representative of an elder race she’s come to see as a threat to Earth, even an Earth run by her enemies. The Trilisk Hunt is the fourth book in the PIT series.
Download or read book Hell on a Leash written by Michael McCloskey and published by Michael McCloskey. This book was released on 2011-01-02 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nergal, Ralcander, Avawo and Kreen are the meanest, most dangerous brigands in the Three Kingdoms. A disparate group, they find in common between themselves only brute strength, consumate skill, and ruthless drive. Having just made the heist of their career, they simply wish to escape from the soldiers hunting for them, but soon they become enslaved to an evil greater than themselves.
Download or read book The Rovan Gate written by Michael McCloskey and published by Squidlord LLC. This book was released on 2020-05-25 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rovan Gate is the 15th book in the PIT series. Just as it seems that the PIT team has learned the answers they sought about the Rovans, the team uncovers one last lead so tempting that they decide to stall the coming confrontation with Ambassador Shiny to investigate another legacy of the Rovan civilization.
Download or read book The Celaran Pact written by Michael McCloskey and published by Squidlord LLC. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Flutes of Aeran written by Michael McCloskey and published by Squidlord LLC. This book was released on 2014-01-04 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ex-soldier-turned-wanderer Keran travels into the wasteland, fleeing an unknown horror that has killed his friends. He finds safety in an isolated tower by an oasis, but the tower slowly becomes his prison, for the creature awaits him beyond its walls. During his enforced isolation, Keran slowly unravels the mysteries of his sanctuary and the monster that hunts him. Eventually all hope of resuming his previous life is lost and he becomes obsessed with seeing the creature destroyed.
Download or read book The Apocalypse Codex written by Charles Stross and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For outstanding heroism in the field (despite himself), computational demonologist Bob Howard is on the fast track for promotion to management within the Laundry, the supersecret British government agency tasked with defending the realm from occult threats. Assigned to External Assets, Bob discovers the company (unofficially) employs freelance agents to deal with sensitive situations that may embarrass Queen and Country. So when Ray Schiller—an American televangelist with the uncanny ability to miraculously heal the ill—becomes uncomfortably close to the Prime Minister, External Assets dispatches the brilliant, beautiful, and entirely unpredictable Persephone Hazard to infiltrate the Golden Promise Ministries and discover why the preacher is so interested in British politics. And it’s Bob’s job to make sure Persephone doesn’t cause an international incident. But it’s a supernatural incident that Bob needs to worry about—a global threat even the Laundry may be unable to clean up…
Download or read book Industrious written by Michael McCloskey and published by Michael McCloskey. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The People's Republic of China dominates half the globe, balanced only by the combined power of the decaying Western world. As main players in a new age of expansion, the Chinese reach outward to establish many stations throughout the solar system.Sun Xinmei is a bold and devious young graduate of Tsinghua University in Beijing who becomes intimately embroiled in the system wide slave trade as an agent of the Ministry of State Security.Li Feng is a brave young man destined to serve as an officer in the Divine Space Force of the PRC. As such he's trained to lead robotic weapons as much as the men who follow them into battle.Promised to each other, Xinmei and Feng hope to lead successful careers and someday cross paths again to share prosperous lives.Though space itself proves to be a harsh frontier, they discover that the greatest obstacles to their plans are the inhabitants of the space stations that dot the solar system.
