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Author: Hayford Peirce
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2002-04-01
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 1587156989
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A tough and witty British agent fights for his life against KGB assassins, Albanian torturers, and perhaps even his own mysterious agency, moving at jet-speed from London to Los Angeles to Albania to upend a fiendish plot to instigate World War III.
Author: Hayford Peirce
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2011-01-01
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 1434430375
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Hayford Peirce
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2010-03-01
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1434412490
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Dinosaur Park" is a loving homage to the works of Jack Vance. Thousands of years from now, the human race has expanded throughout the galaxy, colonizing millions of worlds and creating myriads of bizarre new religious cults and sects. One of these worlds is Stohlson's Redemption, where the human settlers raise dinosaurs for their religious ceremonies. When the ten-year-old Kerryl Ryson creates an unseemly incident that upsets a visiting Important Person, his father is fed to a dinosaur -- as an object lesson in politeness -- and his remaining family are sold into slavery. For sixteen years Kerryl has plotted his revenge. Now, with the aid of a beautiful noblewoman, a time machine, a race of aliens who use the Mesozoic Era of Earth as a setting for adventure videos, and a stampede of ravaging dinosaurs, Kerryl gets his chance to even the interstellar score. But first he has to escape from several death sentences. . . . In fact, he must come back from the dead! "Space opera took a unique form in the hands of Jack Vance, as he transformed two-fisted swash-buckling to an artistry of pungent, subtle ironies. . . . [Dinosaur Park] is a very faithful effort, chock-a-block with poignant nomenclature, strange lands, and dinosaurs (cf The Dragon Masters), and featuring the requisite grim young hero out for revenge. " --Locus "This book is a screamingly funny sendup of Jack Vance's writing style by the author of ' Napoleon Disentimed' and the Chap Foey Rider stories in Analog magazine. If you are a Vance fan, do not miss it!" -- Raymond's Reviews "Of all the writers I discovered during my years as an editor, Hayford Peirce is the most original stylist and undoubtedly the one with the wickedest sense of humor." -- Ben Bova "Hayford Peirce is debonair, witty, and a keen student of the cosmopolis: all of which is reflected in his writing. He also displays a knack for seizing and holding a reader's attention: certainly he is among the most entertaining of all science-fiction writers." -- Jack Vance
Author: Hayford Peirce
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2005-01-01
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 0809589443
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Third or fourth death? thought Yuri uneasily. Have I heard him right? What can he mean? once again he was about to be zombed into imbecilic docility.
Author: Hayford Peirce
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2005-03-01
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 0809589435
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Included in this volume are "Unlimited Roquefort," "With a Bang," "The Iceback Invasion," "The Great Nashville Jailbreak of 1811," "Unlimited Warfare," ..."With the Bathwater," "The Better Mousetrap," "None So Blind," "The Resurrection of the Republican Party," "Progress," "Calling Card," "Side Effect," "Probability Zero," "Taking the Fifth," "The Golden Age," "Who Steals My Name," and "The Reluctant Torturer."
Author: Mark Clapson
Publisher: University of Westminster Press
Published: 2019-04-02
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 1911534491
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Blitz Companion offers a unique overview of a century of aerial warfare, its impact on cities and the people who lived in them. It tells the story of aerial warfare from the earliest bombing raids and in World War 1 through to the London Blitz and Allied bombings of Europe and Japan. These are compared with more recent American air campaigns over Cambodia and Vietnam in the 1960s and 1970s, the NATO bombings during the Balkan Wars of the 1990s, and subsequent bombings in the aftermath of 9/11. Beginning with the premonitions and predictions of air warfare and its terrible consequences, the book focuses on air raids precautions, evacuation and preparations for total war, and resilience, both of citizens and of cities. The legacies of air raids, from reconstruction to commemoration, are also discussed. While a key theme of the book is the futility of many air campaigns, care is taken to situate them in their historical context. The Blitz Companion also includes a guide to documentary and visual resources for students and general readers. Uniquely accessible, comparative and broad in scope this book draws key conclusions about civilian experience in the twentieth century and what these might mean for military engagement and civil reconstruction processes once conflicts have been resolved.
Author: Hayford Peirce
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2002-11-01
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1592249353
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Remo Rydel, an Aussie spacetug captain, thought he had troubles enough already. His gorgeous wife, Kalpurna, was dying. The nearest human hospital was a light year away. There wasn't much more that could go wrong, or so he thought, until he stumbled on the Black Hole Planet.
Author: Patrick Hill
Publisher: CarTech Inc
Published: 2018-12-14
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 1613254180
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial} Apple Pie. Baseball. Tri-Five Chevys. The iconic three-year run of arguably the most recognizable body style of all time continues to resonate with enthusiasts more than 60 years after these cars were first created. What stands out to most fans besides the styling is the vast amount of configurations these cars were offered in. Stripped down (One-Fifty) or dolled up (Bel Air convertible), a Tri-Five could be ordered in as many as 21 different models in 1956. This extensive assortment of offerings make a book of this nature a must have for hobbyists. What interior color combos could be had in a Two-Ten Delray Club Coupe? Could you get fuel injection on a ’57 Nomad? How do I decipher my cowl tag? Author Patrick Hill addresses these questions fully to assist you in returning your Tri-Five back to its factory stock appearance. Full of codes, charts, parts numbers, and facts, this book will be a resource for decades to come. With the Tri-Five Chevrolet Data and ID Guide: 1955, 1956, 1957, you will have a book capable of fitting in your back pocket that has so much information you will feel as though you were a salesperson at a Chevy dealership in the mid 1950s.
Author: Margaret Gaskin
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9780151014040
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A historical narrative of Germany's 1940 Luftwaffe attack on London vividly reconstructs the events of December 29 during which Hitler's forces attempted to burn the city to the ground, in an account told from the perspectives of everyday survivors as well as such figures as Edward R. Morrow and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
