Author: F Stephan
Publisher: Fabrice Stephan
ISBN: 2956555693
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
To cross wormholes, human pilots need the help of nanorobots. Great? Not really. Overuse them and they will kill you. Those nanorobots are delivered by a Human Federation trading among stars. Earth is the latest planet who has joined it and requires its help to overcome its ecological collapse. The deal is simple: Earth will face help if it can provide starpilots able to survive those nanorobots. These books follow the adventures of different starpilots, the challenges they face, the rivalries and old secrets found across the stars.
Human Starpilots 1 - 4
Author: F Stephan
Publisher: Fabrice Stephan
ISBN: 2956555693
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
To cross wormholes, human pilots need the help of nanorobots. Great? Not really. Overuse them and they will kill you. Those nanorobots are delivered by a Human Federation trading among stars. Earth is the latest planet who has joined it and requires its help to overcome its ecological collapse. The deal is simple: Earth will face help if it can provide starpilots able to survive those nanorobots. These books follow the adventures of different starpilots, the challenges they face, the rivalries and old secrets found across the stars.
Publisher: Fabrice Stephan
ISBN: 2956555693
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
To cross wormholes, human pilots need the help of nanorobots. Great? Not really. Overuse them and they will kill you. Those nanorobots are delivered by a Human Federation trading among stars. Earth is the latest planet who has joined it and requires its help to overcome its ecological collapse. The deal is simple: Earth will face help if it can provide starpilots able to survive those nanorobots. These books follow the adventures of different starpilots, the challenges they face, the rivalries and old secrets found across the stars.
Interstellar starpilot
Author: F Stephan
Publisher: Fabrice Stephan
ISBN: 1695518225
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Surviving was just the beginning. Now, can Brian faces his deepest fears ? He has already faced the dangers of the outlying worlds, pirates and mad AIs, surviving, but with deep scars. He has also made powerful enemies along the way. Separated from his friends, facing both jealousy from colleagues and hatred from enemies, and with a new set of skills to master, the odds stack up against Brian while everyone else is betting against him. Can he find new allies and new strengths? In the paradise of the perfectly balanced Core World, can Brian find his own place? Interstellar Starpilots continues the explorations that began in Human Starpilots. If you like classic Robert Heinlein tales mixed with speculative L. E. Modesitt Jr. adventure you are going to love this exciting new adventure
Publisher: Fabrice Stephan
ISBN: 1695518225
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Surviving was just the beginning. Now, can Brian faces his deepest fears ? He has already faced the dangers of the outlying worlds, pirates and mad AIs, surviving, but with deep scars. He has also made powerful enemies along the way. Separated from his friends, facing both jealousy from colleagues and hatred from enemies, and with a new set of skills to master, the odds stack up against Brian while everyone else is betting against him. Can he find new allies and new strengths? In the paradise of the perfectly balanced Core World, can Brian find his own place? Interstellar Starpilots continues the explorations that began in Human Starpilots. If you like classic Robert Heinlein tales mixed with speculative L. E. Modesitt Jr. adventure you are going to love this exciting new adventure
Starpilot's Grave
Author: Debra Doyle
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0812517059
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Beka Rosselin-Metadi is on the trail of Ebenra D'Caer, the man who arranged her mother's muder. Beka must penetrate the Magezone to find him plus stop the Magelords from exploting a weakness in the Republic's defenses and wreaking vengaeance.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0812517059
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Beka Rosselin-Metadi is on the trail of Ebenra D'Caer, the man who arranged her mother's muder. Beka must penetrate the Magezone to find him plus stop the Magelords from exploting a weakness in the Republic's defenses and wreaking vengaeance.
Will Destroy the Galaxy for Cash
Author: Yahtzee Croshaw
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
ISBN: 1506721567
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Will Destroy the Galaxy for Cash is the follow up tale to Will Save the Galaxy for Food from the mind of writer Yahtzee Croshaw (Mogworld, Jam, Differently Morphous). With the age of heroic star pilots and galactic villains completely killed by quantum teleportation, the ex-star pilot currently named Dashford Pierce is struggling to find his identity in a changing universe. Then, a face from his past returns and makes him an offer he can't refuse: take part in just one small, slightly illegal, heist, and not only will he have the means to start the new life he craves, but also save his childhood hero from certain death. What could go wrong? If you need to ask--you don't know Dashford Pierce. Before long, Pierce is surrounded by peril, and forced to partner with the very same supervillains he'd spent his heroic career thwarting. But when he's confronted by the uncomfortable truth that star pilots might not have been the force for good, they had intended to be, he begins to wonder if the villains hadn't had the right idea all along...
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
ISBN: 1506721567
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Will Destroy the Galaxy for Cash is the follow up tale to Will Save the Galaxy for Food from the mind of writer Yahtzee Croshaw (Mogworld, Jam, Differently Morphous). With the age of heroic star pilots and galactic villains completely killed by quantum teleportation, the ex-star pilot currently named Dashford Pierce is struggling to find his identity in a changing universe. Then, a face from his past returns and makes him an offer he can't refuse: take part in just one small, slightly illegal, heist, and not only will he have the means to start the new life he craves, but also save his childhood hero from certain death. What could go wrong? If you need to ask--you don't know Dashford Pierce. Before long, Pierce is surrounded by peril, and forced to partner with the very same supervillains he'd spent his heroic career thwarting. But when he's confronted by the uncomfortable truth that star pilots might not have been the force for good, they had intended to be, he begins to wonder if the villains hadn't had the right idea all along...
Banner of the Stars: Volume 1
Author: Hiroyuki Morioka
Publisher: J-Novel Club
ISBN: 171834256X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
You journeyed with Jint and Lafier through three volumes of interplanetary-scale action and intrigue in CREST OF THE STARS. Through pain and companionship, they forged their way through an impossible ordeal unscathed. But that adventure, though grand, was just the introduction to a larger, decades-spanning chronicle of galactic war. Join our two heroes, now bona fide starpilots appointed to a warship in an Abh Empire fleet, as they participate in their very first official military operation. They are tasked with helping defend a strategically crucial star system from the Three Nations Alliance. Complications arise, however, when they learn that their commanding officer is none other than the sister of the Abh baron they killed three years prior!
Publisher: J-Novel Club
ISBN: 171834256X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
You journeyed with Jint and Lafier through three volumes of interplanetary-scale action and intrigue in CREST OF THE STARS. Through pain and companionship, they forged their way through an impossible ordeal unscathed. But that adventure, though grand, was just the introduction to a larger, decades-spanning chronicle of galactic war. Join our two heroes, now bona fide starpilots appointed to a warship in an Abh Empire fleet, as they participate in their very first official military operation. They are tasked with helping defend a strategically crucial star system from the Three Nations Alliance. Complications arise, however, when they learn that their commanding officer is none other than the sister of the Abh baron they killed three years prior!
The Price of the Stars
Author: Debra Doyle
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 146680209X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Mageworlds Book One: The war with the Mageworlds is over. Now it's time for the real struggle to begin. Freebooter at heart, spacer by trade, Beka Rosselin-Metadi doesn't want to hear about her father whose rugged generalship held back the Mageworlds--or her highborn mother whose leadership has held the galaxy together ever since. Beka pilots spacecraft--as far from her famous family as possible, thanks very much. Then Beka's mother is assassinated on the Senate floor, and her father offers her Warhammer, prize ship from his own freebooting youth--if she'll use it to deliver the assassins to him "off the books." Looking for assassins has a tendency to make assassins look for you. In short order Beka's arranged her own very public death and adopted a new identity; now all she has to do is leave a trail of kidnappings and corpses across five star systems, and blow the roof off the strongest private fortress in the Galaxy. If her own family can just get off her case long enough...! At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 146680209X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Mageworlds Book One: The war with the Mageworlds is over. Now it's time for the real struggle to begin. Freebooter at heart, spacer by trade, Beka Rosselin-Metadi doesn't want to hear about her father whose rugged generalship held back the Mageworlds--or her highborn mother whose leadership has held the galaxy together ever since. Beka pilots spacecraft--as far from her famous family as possible, thanks very much. Then Beka's mother is assassinated on the Senate floor, and her father offers her Warhammer, prize ship from his own freebooting youth--if she'll use it to deliver the assassins to him "off the books." Looking for assassins has a tendency to make assassins look for you. In short order Beka's arranged her own very public death and adopted a new identity; now all she has to do is leave a trail of kidnappings and corpses across five star systems, and blow the roof off the strongest private fortress in the Galaxy. If her own family can just get off her case long enough...! At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
A History of Aeronautics
Author: Evelyn Charles Vivian
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Sixty Squadron, R.A.F.
Author: Alan John Lance Scott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Our Frontier Is the World
Author: Mischa Honeck
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501716190
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Mischa Honeck’s Our Frontier Is the World is a provocative account of how the Boy Scouts echoed and enabled American global expansion in the twentieth century. The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has long been a standard bearer for national identity. The core values of the organization have, since its founding in 1910, shaped what it means to be an American boy and man. As Honeck shows, those masculine values had implications that extended far beyond the borders of the United States. Writing the global back into the history of one of the country’s largest youth organizations, Our Frontier Is the World details how the BSA operated as a vehicle of empire from the Progressive Era up to the countercultural moment of the 1960s. American boys and men wearing the Scout uniform never simply hiked local trails to citizenship; they forged ties with their international peers, camped in foreign lands, and started troops on overseas military bases. Scouts traveled to Africa and even sailed to icy Antarctica, hoisting the American flag and standing as models of loyalty, obedience, and bravery. Through scouting America’s complex engagements with the world were presented as honorable and playful masculine adventures abroad. Innocent fun and earnest commitment to doing a good turn, of course, were not the whole story. Honeck argues that the good-natured Boy Scout was a ready means for soft power abroad and gentle influence where American values, and democratic capitalism, were at stake. In other instances the BSA provided a pleasant cover for imperial interventions that required coercion and violence. At Scouting’s global frontiers the stern expression of empire often lurked behind the smile of a boy.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501716190
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Mischa Honeck’s Our Frontier Is the World is a provocative account of how the Boy Scouts echoed and enabled American global expansion in the twentieth century. The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has long been a standard bearer for national identity. The core values of the organization have, since its founding in 1910, shaped what it means to be an American boy and man. As Honeck shows, those masculine values had implications that extended far beyond the borders of the United States. Writing the global back into the history of one of the country’s largest youth organizations, Our Frontier Is the World details how the BSA operated as a vehicle of empire from the Progressive Era up to the countercultural moment of the 1960s. American boys and men wearing the Scout uniform never simply hiked local trails to citizenship; they forged ties with their international peers, camped in foreign lands, and started troops on overseas military bases. Scouts traveled to Africa and even sailed to icy Antarctica, hoisting the American flag and standing as models of loyalty, obedience, and bravery. Through scouting America’s complex engagements with the world were presented as honorable and playful masculine adventures abroad. Innocent fun and earnest commitment to doing a good turn, of course, were not the whole story. Honeck argues that the good-natured Boy Scout was a ready means for soft power abroad and gentle influence where American values, and democratic capitalism, were at stake. In other instances the BSA provided a pleasant cover for imperial interventions that required coercion and violence. At Scouting’s global frontiers the stern expression of empire often lurked behind the smile of a boy.
Science Fiction Literature in East Germany
Author: Sonja Fritzsche
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039107391
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
East German science fiction enabled its authors to create a subversive space in another time and place. One of the country's most popular genres, it outlined futures that often went beyond the party's official version. Many utopian stories provided a corrective vision, intended to preserve and improve upon East German communism. This study is an introduction to East German science fiction. The book begins with a chapter on German science fiction before 1949. It then spans the entire existence of the country (1949-1990) and outlines key topics essential to understanding the genre: popular literature, socialist realism, censorship, fandom, and international science fiction. An in-depth discussion addresses notions of high and low literature, elements of the fantastic and utopia as critical narrative strategies, ideology and realism in East German literature, gender, and the relation between literature and science. Through a close textual analysis of three science fiction novels, the author expands East German literary history to include science fiction as a valuable source for developing a multi-faceted understanding of the country's short history. Finally, an epilogue notes new titles and developments since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039107391
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
East German science fiction enabled its authors to create a subversive space in another time and place. One of the country's most popular genres, it outlined futures that often went beyond the party's official version. Many utopian stories provided a corrective vision, intended to preserve and improve upon East German communism. This study is an introduction to East German science fiction. The book begins with a chapter on German science fiction before 1949. It then spans the entire existence of the country (1949-1990) and outlines key topics essential to understanding the genre: popular literature, socialist realism, censorship, fandom, and international science fiction. An in-depth discussion addresses notions of high and low literature, elements of the fantastic and utopia as critical narrative strategies, ideology and realism in East German literature, gender, and the relation between literature and science. Through a close textual analysis of three science fiction novels, the author expands East German literary history to include science fiction as a valuable source for developing a multi-faceted understanding of the country's short history. Finally, an epilogue notes new titles and developments since the fall of the Berlin Wall.