The Rats, the Bats & the Ugly

The Rats, the Bats & the Ugly PDF Author: Eric Flint
Publisher: Baen Books
ISBN: 0743488466
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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A team of mentally uplifted rats and bats, and their vat-born human leader must convince the military bureaucracy that invading aliens are really under the control of alien enemies who the naive humans think are their allies.

The Rats, the Bats & the Ugly

The Rats, the Bats & the Ugly PDF Author: Eric Flint
Publisher: Baen Books
ISBN: 0743488466
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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Book Description
A team of mentally uplifted rats and bats, and their vat-born human leader must convince the military bureaucracy that invading aliens are really under the control of alien enemies who the naive humans think are their allies.

Rats, Bats and Vats

Rats, Bats and Vats PDF Author: Dave Freer
Publisher: Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN: 1618242490
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 458

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ALIENS: BEWARE OF LOW-FLYING AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY Chip Connolly was a conscripted grunt in trouble. Here he was, stuck behind enemy lines with a bunch of cyber-uplifted rats and bats. Rats with human speech, but with rat values. Rats that knew what was worth fighting for: sex, food and strong drink. True, they were holed up on a ruined wine-farm with enough brandy to swim in. Trouble was, there wasnt much food. And with shrew-metabolism the rats had to eat. He was next on the menu. The bats were no help: they were crazy revolutionaries planning to throw off the yoke of human enslavementwith high explosive. As if that wasnt bad enough, there was the girl theyd rescued. Rich. Beautiful. With a passionate crush on her heroic rescuer. She came with added extras: a screwball Alien tutor, and a cyber-uplifted pet galagoa tiny little lemurlike-critter with a big mouth and delusions about being the worlds greatest lover. So: hed volunteered for a suicide mission. Of course things only got worse. The whole crew decided to come along. Seven rats, five bats, a galago, two humans, a sea-urchin-like alien and an elderly vineyard tractor without brakes . . . against several million inimical aliens. He was going to die. Mind you, not dying could be even more terrible. That girl might get him. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Rats, Bats & Vats

Rats, Bats & Vats PDF Author: Dave Freer
Publisher: Baen Books
ISBN: 067131940X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 247

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"Chip Connolly was a conscripted grunt ... stuck behind enemy lines with a bunch of cyber-uplifted rats and bats," in a ruined wine-farm with plenty of brandy but not much food.--Jacket.

Dirty Rats?

Dirty Rats? PDF Author: Darrin Lunde
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN: 1580895662
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Book Description
Nobody likes a rat. And we're not talking about a snitch here. We're talking about those disgusting bald-tailed rodents that scurry around alleys and in the subway. But, hold on . . . are rats really so bad? There are hundreds of rat species all around the world that defy common stereotypes. Rats help predators survive, allow plants to spread their seeds, and even contribute to medical research that helps humans stay healthy. Simple, clear text introduces many of the rats that crawl on the earth today, where they live, what they eat, and how they survive. Next time you see a rat, take a second look.

Rats!

Rats! PDF Author: Richard Conniff
Publisher: Crown Books For Young Readers
ISBN: 9780375912078
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35

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Book Description
Discusses the physical characteristics, behavior, origins, various types, interaction with humans, and more of rats.

Pyramid Power

Pyramid Power PDF Author: Dave Freer
Publisher: Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN: 1618245929
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 517

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Alien Ragnarok! A mysterious pyramid appears in Chicago, oozing fantastic creatures and sucking humans into our own mythological past. It's an alien invasion from within! When a special forces team sent to capture an AWOL official gets into deep trouble with a certain one-eyed Norse god, redoubtable comparative mythologist Jerry Lukacs must rescue them, strike a deal with the droll and dangerous Loki, and risk bringing on Ragnarok itself to once again save human myth from alien domination. The rollicking sequel to New York Times best-seller Eric Flint and David Freers's action-packed romp through everything humankind holds sacred begun in the groundbreaking Pyramid Scheme. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). "[A] charmingly picaresque journey." ¾Publishers Weekly on Flint and Freers's Pyramid Scheme.

By Tooth and Claw

By Tooth and Claw PDF Author: S. M. Stirling
Publisher: Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN: 1625793723
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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ORIGINAL TRADE PAPERBACK. New York Times best-selling authors S.M. Stirling, Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint, and Jody Lynn Nye return with four novellas. The cat-like Mrem, our heroes, battle the deep reptilian intelligence of humanoid dinosaurs in a Bronze Age world. SEQUEL TO EXILED: CLAN OF THE CLAW. Second entry in a series with four linked novellas from multiple best-sellers S.M. Stirling, Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint and Jody Lynn Nye! After the extinction asteroid does not strike Earth, the dinosaurs keep evolving–but so do the mammals. We mammals have achieved humanlike shapes, but now it’s cold-blooded, magic-using reptiles against the hot-blooded, hot-tempered descendants of cats.In a heroic, Bronze Age world similar to 300, the Mrem Clans expand their rough-and-tumble territory, but now they face the Lishkash, reptilian masters of a cold-blooded empire of slave armies and magic. It’s mammalian courage and adaptation against reptile cunning in a clash of steel and will that determine who shall inherit the Earth. Exiled Series Exiled: Clan of the Claw By Tooth and Claw At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

1635: The Cannon Law

1635: The Cannon Law PDF Author: Eric Flint
Publisher: Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN: 1618245368
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 614

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The Dark Ages Strike Back! After a cosmic accident sets the modern West Virginia town of Grantsville down in war-torn seventeenth century Europe, the United States of Europe is forged in the fire of battle. Now Spain makes its countermove on the Enlightenment brought by the West Virginians, as Cardinal Gaspare de Borja y de Velasco sets into motion a plot to establish Spanish hegemony over the city-states of Italy and to disgrace and assassinate a pope who has been friendly to the new ideas. But there are those ¾ up-timers and locals alike ¾ who are determined that the fire of sweet reason so recently lit will never again be extinguished. To do so they must summon all the willpower and political craft they can muster. For they face the Heart of Medieval Darkness Itself, an implacable foe determined to use force of imperial arms and treasonous deceit to retain its grip on power ¾ and to be sure that life for all but the wealthy and connected remains nasty, brutish, and very short. None of which is a surprise. You see, it's 1635. Everyone expects the Spanish Inquisition! Alternate history master Eric Flint teams again with Andrew Dennis (1634: The Galileo Affair) in a return to war-torn Italy for the latest idea-laced thriller in Flint's massive "Assiti Shards" saga! At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Slow Train to Arcturus

Slow Train to Arcturus PDF Author: Eric Flint
Publisher: Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN: 1618246976
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 459

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Make Tracks to the Stars! 0 Ye civilized of Earth: send forth your outcasts, your primitive throwbacks, your religious fundamentalists, your sexual separatists¾and heck, you can even toss in your totalitarian crackpots in the bargain. Pack them all in sealed habitats, rocket them into space, and pronounce good riddance to those lunatics, oddballs and losers! But if you happen to be an alien explorer stranded on that ship and looking to find a way home Well then, your one chance lies in seeking out the true iconoclasts in a sea of nutcase societies¾for verily, it is only the absolutely original and terminally weird who shall inherit the stars! At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). "[T]he sharpest moments in this giddy entertainment are those where [Flint and Freer] blithely skewer human mores." ¾Publisher's Weekly on Rats, Bats & Vats

Grantville Gazette, Volume I

Grantville Gazette, Volume I PDF Author: Eric Flint
Publisher: Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN: 1618244582
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 367

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Ed Piazza, the Secretary of State of the small United States being forged in war-torn Germany during the Thirty Years War, has a problem on his hands. A religious conference has been called in nearby Rudolstadt which will determine doctrine for all the Lutherans in the nation. The hard-fought principle of religious freedom is at stake, threatened alike by intransigent theologians and students rioting in the streets. As if that weren't bad enough: the up-time American Lutherans are themselves divided;a rambunctious old folk singer is cheerfully pouring gasoline on the flames;and a Calvinist "facilitator" from Geneva is maneuvering to get the U.S. involved with the developing revolutionary movement in Naples. Virginia DeMarce's "The Rudolstadt Colloquy" is just one of the stories in the Grantville Gazette. In others: In Loren Jones' "Anna's Story," a young German girl whose family was ravaged by mercenaries is taken in by an old American curmudgeon living on borrowed time. "Curio and Relic," written by Tom Van Natta, tells a story about Eddie Cantrell before he wins glory and loses a leg at the Battle of Wismar. Eddie learns some lessons in life as well as marksmanship from a Vietnam war tunnel rat who is himself making a difficult transition to the new world created by the Ring of Fire. In Gorg Huff's witty "The Sewing Circle," four American teenagers set themselves the goal of launching a new industry, waging an uphill battle against adult skepticism as well as the intrinsic difficulty of the project itself. Just to make their life more complicated, an ambitious seventeenth-century German blacksmith is angling to marry into their budding commercial empire and take it over lock, stock and barrel. In addition to these stories, the Grantville Gazette contains factual articles written by some of the people who developed the technical background for the novels 1632 and 1633. And Eric Flint has assembled a collection of portraits of prominent figures of the seventeenth century who figure in the 1632 series, along with a commentary explaining who they were and why they were important. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).