Author: Paul Drye
Publisher: Steve Jackson Games
ISBN: 9781556347467
Category : Fantasy games
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The struggle between the First Imperium and the Terran Confederation has always been a pivotal era in Marc Miller's Traveller universe. Now, for the first time, Traveller players can explore this rich setting.
Interstellar Wars
Author: Paul Drye
Publisher: Steve Jackson Games
ISBN: 9781556347467
Category : Fantasy games
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The struggle between the First Imperium and the Terran Confederation has always been a pivotal era in Marc Miller's Traveller universe. Now, for the first time, Traveller players can explore this rich setting.
Publisher: Steve Jackson Games
ISBN: 9781556347467
Category : Fantasy games
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The struggle between the First Imperium and the Terran Confederation has always been a pivotal era in Marc Miller's Traveller universe. Now, for the first time, Traveller players can explore this rich setting.
The Forever War
Author: Joe Haldeman
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312536631
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
"Private William Mandella hadn't wanted to go to war against the Taurans ...."--p. [4] of cover.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312536631
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
"Private William Mandella hadn't wanted to go to war against the Taurans ...."--p. [4] of cover.
Man-Kzin Wars IV
Author: S.M. Stirling
Publisher: Baen Books
ISBN: 1625796382
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Welcome to the hottest pocket in Larry Niven’s Known Space: the time of the assault on pacifist humanity by berserker felinoids from the planet Kzin. This time humanity’s representatives to the Warrior Race are Donald Kingsbury, Greg Bear, and Steve Stirling. As is traditional in this war for species survival, in all cases “monkey cleverness” (i.e., human cunning) is more than a match for felinoid ferocity. But as is also traditional, victory never comes cheap to those out on the sharp edge of The Man-Kzin Wars. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Publisher: Baen Books
ISBN: 1625796382
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Welcome to the hottest pocket in Larry Niven’s Known Space: the time of the assault on pacifist humanity by berserker felinoids from the planet Kzin. This time humanity’s representatives to the Warrior Race are Donald Kingsbury, Greg Bear, and Steve Stirling. As is traditional in this war for species survival, in all cases “monkey cleverness” (i.e., human cunning) is more than a match for felinoid ferocity. But as is also traditional, victory never comes cheap to those out on the sharp edge of The Man-Kzin Wars. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
The Great Silence
Author: Milan M. Ćirković
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192552864
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The Great Silence explores the multifaceted problem named after the great Italian physicist Enrico Fermi and his legendary 1950 lunchtime question "Where is everybody?" In many respects, Fermi's paradox is the richest and the most challenging problem for the entire field of astrobiology and the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (SETI) studies. This book shows how Fermi's paradox is intricately connected with many fields of learning, technology, arts, and even everyday life. It aims to establish the strongest possible version of the problem, to dispel many related confusions, obfuscations, and prejudices, as well as to offer a novel point of entry to the many solutions proposed in existing literature. Ćirković argues that any evolutionary worldview cannot avoid resolving the Great Silence problem in one guise or another.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192552864
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The Great Silence explores the multifaceted problem named after the great Italian physicist Enrico Fermi and his legendary 1950 lunchtime question "Where is everybody?" In many respects, Fermi's paradox is the richest and the most challenging problem for the entire field of astrobiology and the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (SETI) studies. This book shows how Fermi's paradox is intricately connected with many fields of learning, technology, arts, and even everyday life. It aims to establish the strongest possible version of the problem, to dispel many related confusions, obfuscations, and prejudices, as well as to offer a novel point of entry to the many solutions proposed in existing literature. Ćirković argues that any evolutionary worldview cannot avoid resolving the Great Silence problem in one guise or another.
Star Wars Multiverse
Author: Carmelo Esterrich
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1978815271
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Star Wars may have started out as a film about a Manichean battle between good and evil, but as countless filmmakers, novelists, animators, fan artists and even cosplayers have taken the opportunity to play in the fictional world George Lucas created, it has expanded into something far greater, resulting in a richly layered and diverse Star Wars multiverse. Drawing from a full range of Star Wars media, including comics, children’s books, fan films, and television shows like Clone Wars and The Mandalorian, Carmelo Esterrich explores how these stories set in a galaxy far far away reflect issues that hit closer to home. He examines what they have to say about political oppression, authoritarianism, colonialism, discrimination, xenophobia, and perpetual war. Yet he also investigates subtler ways in which the personal is political within the multiverse, including its articulations of gender and sexuality, its cultural hierarchies of language use, and its complex relationships between humans, droids and myriad species. This book demonstrates that the Star Wars multiverse is not just a stage for thrilling interstellar battles, but also an exciting space for interpretation and discovery.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 1978815271
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Star Wars may have started out as a film about a Manichean battle between good and evil, but as countless filmmakers, novelists, animators, fan artists and even cosplayers have taken the opportunity to play in the fictional world George Lucas created, it has expanded into something far greater, resulting in a richly layered and diverse Star Wars multiverse. Drawing from a full range of Star Wars media, including comics, children’s books, fan films, and television shows like Clone Wars and The Mandalorian, Carmelo Esterrich explores how these stories set in a galaxy far far away reflect issues that hit closer to home. He examines what they have to say about political oppression, authoritarianism, colonialism, discrimination, xenophobia, and perpetual war. Yet he also investigates subtler ways in which the personal is political within the multiverse, including its articulations of gender and sexuality, its cultural hierarchies of language use, and its complex relationships between humans, droids and myriad species. This book demonstrates that the Star Wars multiverse is not just a stage for thrilling interstellar battles, but also an exciting space for interpretation and discovery.
The Mammoth Book of SF Wars
Author: Ian Watson
Publisher: Robinson
ISBN: 1780335466
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
War is becoming increasingly 'SF-ized' with remotely controlled attack drones and robot warriors already in development and being tested. Over the past 100 years the technology of war has advanced enormously in destructive power, yet also in sophistication so that we no longer seem to live under the constant threat of all-out global thermonuclear cataclysm. So what will future wars be like? And what will start them: religion, politics, resources, refugees, or advanced weaponry itself? Watson and Whates present a gripping anthology of SF stories which explores the gamut of possible future conflicts, including such themes as nuclear war, psychological and cyberwars, enhanced soldiery, mercenaries, terrorism, intelligent robotic war machines, and war with aliens. All the stories in this collection of remarkable quality and diversity reveals humankind pressed to the limits in every conceivable way. It includes 24 stories with highlights such as: The Pyre of the New Day' - Catherine Asaro. The Rhine's World Incident' - Neal Asher. Caught in the Crossfire' - David Drake. Politics' - Elizabeth Moon. The Traitor' - David Weber. And others from: Dan Abnett, Tony Ballantyne, Fredric Brown, Algis Budrys, Simon R. Green, Joe Haldeman, John Kessel, John Lambshead, Paul McAuley, Andy Remic, Laura Resnick, Mike Resnick & Brad R. Torgersen, Fred Saberhagen, Cordwainer Smith, Allen Steele, William Tenn, Walter Jon Williams, Michael Z. Williamson, Gene Wolfe.
Publisher: Robinson
ISBN: 1780335466
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
War is becoming increasingly 'SF-ized' with remotely controlled attack drones and robot warriors already in development and being tested. Over the past 100 years the technology of war has advanced enormously in destructive power, yet also in sophistication so that we no longer seem to live under the constant threat of all-out global thermonuclear cataclysm. So what will future wars be like? And what will start them: religion, politics, resources, refugees, or advanced weaponry itself? Watson and Whates present a gripping anthology of SF stories which explores the gamut of possible future conflicts, including such themes as nuclear war, psychological and cyberwars, enhanced soldiery, mercenaries, terrorism, intelligent robotic war machines, and war with aliens. All the stories in this collection of remarkable quality and diversity reveals humankind pressed to the limits in every conceivable way. It includes 24 stories with highlights such as: The Pyre of the New Day' - Catherine Asaro. The Rhine's World Incident' - Neal Asher. Caught in the Crossfire' - David Drake. Politics' - Elizabeth Moon. The Traitor' - David Weber. And others from: Dan Abnett, Tony Ballantyne, Fredric Brown, Algis Budrys, Simon R. Green, Joe Haldeman, John Kessel, John Lambshead, Paul McAuley, Andy Remic, Laura Resnick, Mike Resnick & Brad R. Torgersen, Fred Saberhagen, Cordwainer Smith, Allen Steele, William Tenn, Walter Jon Williams, Michael Z. Williamson, Gene Wolfe.
47 Trees: A Cosmic Crusade Part 1
Author: Thom Costea
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 1398481394
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
47 Trees: A Cosmic Crusade An Enthralling Spiritual Fantasy of Wondrous Exploration and Discovery This new millennium tale is a clever, intricately meshed tapestry of dimensional metaphysics, thrilling action with ancient hybrid tree warriors, perhaps a philosophical quagmire or two, and of course really cool spiritually organic space vessels. Sometimes you just have to keep climbing and searching for the truth, yet still seeking the excitement and satisfaction that can bring you contentment. Come fly with veteran journalist and author Thom Costea on this gripping literary flight: unrestrained riding the crest of an etherial wave through spiritual corridors and across interstellar trails, searching for universal truth and embracing the spirit of exploration and discovery on an electrifying journey, and maybe indulging in the occasional moral conundrum or a binge of intoxicated debauchery and exotic exploits.
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 1398481394
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
47 Trees: A Cosmic Crusade An Enthralling Spiritual Fantasy of Wondrous Exploration and Discovery This new millennium tale is a clever, intricately meshed tapestry of dimensional metaphysics, thrilling action with ancient hybrid tree warriors, perhaps a philosophical quagmire or two, and of course really cool spiritually organic space vessels. Sometimes you just have to keep climbing and searching for the truth, yet still seeking the excitement and satisfaction that can bring you contentment. Come fly with veteran journalist and author Thom Costea on this gripping literary flight: unrestrained riding the crest of an etherial wave through spiritual corridors and across interstellar trails, searching for universal truth and embracing the spirit of exploration and discovery on an electrifying journey, and maybe indulging in the occasional moral conundrum or a binge of intoxicated debauchery and exotic exploits.
The Stars at War II
Author: David Weber
Publisher: Baen Books
ISBN: 0743499123
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 789
Book Description
The war wasn't going well. The alien Arachnids were an enemy whose like no civilized race had ever confronted.
Publisher: Baen Books
ISBN: 0743499123
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 789
Book Description
The war wasn't going well. The alien Arachnids were an enemy whose like no civilized race had ever confronted.
FOUNDED
Author: G.D. Kessler
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1483448053
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
FOUNDED While UFO's have been reported for decades, some people have gone so far as to search historical records and art works of ancient civilizations for evidence of their existence and visitation in times past. And they have found clues that seem to show this. Are they really here? Are they our benefactors or our worst enemies? And if so, why? Giles Ryleigha, a senior scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories pursuing his own research, and his ex-wife Carol Kilha, have found more answers to these questions than they ever wanted to know. Caught in the cover-up of a system wide crime spree and kidnapping, sought by alien assassins as well as the FBI, and teamed with some of the strangest looking alien races to befriend mankind that you will ever meet, take a journey with humans and aliens as they go on a trip out into the galactic neighborhood and visit the Teklass Hegemony.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1483448053
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
FOUNDED While UFO's have been reported for decades, some people have gone so far as to search historical records and art works of ancient civilizations for evidence of their existence and visitation in times past. And they have found clues that seem to show this. Are they really here? Are they our benefactors or our worst enemies? And if so, why? Giles Ryleigha, a senior scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories pursuing his own research, and his ex-wife Carol Kilha, have found more answers to these questions than they ever wanted to know. Caught in the cover-up of a system wide crime spree and kidnapping, sought by alien assassins as well as the FBI, and teamed with some of the strangest looking alien races to befriend mankind that you will ever meet, take a journey with humans and aliens as they go on a trip out into the galactic neighborhood and visit the Teklass Hegemony.
War to the Knife
Author: T S Paul
Publisher: T S Paul
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
War is on the horizon for the Galaxy. The Empire of Man has been thrust into civil war as the Cabal makes it's presence known. Earth is on the rise as plans within plans come to fruition. Mars and the new Alliance intends to take the war to Earth directly and Athena Lee is smack-dab in the middle of it all. Again. Will she survive or will Earth and its clone army win as they reconquer the galaxy?
Publisher: T S Paul
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
War is on the horizon for the Galaxy. The Empire of Man has been thrust into civil war as the Cabal makes it's presence known. Earth is on the rise as plans within plans come to fruition. Mars and the new Alliance intends to take the war to Earth directly and Athena Lee is smack-dab in the middle of it all. Again. Will she survive or will Earth and its clone army win as they reconquer the galaxy?