From the "New York Times"-bestselling author comes the third volume in the exceptional Legends of the Riftwar series, which continues the story begun in "Honored Enemy" and continued in "Murder in LaMut."
It's spring on Nantucket and everything is perfectly normal, until a sudden storm blankets the entire island. When the weather clears, the island's inhabitants find that they are no longer in the late 20th century, but have been transported instead to the Bronze Age. Now they must learn to survive with suspicious, warlike peoples they can barely ...
In the years since their arrival, the fledging Republic of Nantucket has striven to better the primitive world in which they now exist. Their prime concerns are establishing a constitution and handling the waves of immigrants from the British Isles. But a renegade time traveler plans his own future by forging an empire for himself based on ...
Rudi MacKenzie continues his journey toward Nantucket, where he hopes to learn the truth behind the Change that has rendered technology across the globe inoperable. But one fanatical officer in the Sword of the Prophet has been dispatched to stop Rudi from reaching Nantucket by any means necessary.
An electrical storm over Nantucket island causes all electrical devices to cease function, and as some people band together, others are building armies for conquest.
The sequel to "Dies the Fire" opens ten years after technology has been rendered inoperable, and two leaders have built two thriving communities in Oregon. Now the armies of the totalitarian Protectorate are preparing to wage war over the priceless farmland.
Tensions between survivors in western Oregon and those living in northwest Oregon have been building for some time, and the only reason they haven't met on the battlefield is because the Warlord of Portland's daughter is in Clan MacKenzie's hands. A plan to retrieve her threatens to plunge the region into open warfare.
In 1946, a soldier just back from the Pacific discovers a portal that permits him to travel between the America he knows and a virgin America untouched by European influence in the 21st century: But the two realities soon collide.
First in a new trilogy, this book continues the successful alternate history saga of "A Meeting at Corvallis, The Protectors War," and "Dies the Fire," all of which have been selections of the Science Fiction Book Club.
This is a landmark anthology of four original novellas by the reigning masters of alternate history. Set in different eras, different places, and different times, these forays into "what might have been" showcases the stunning breadth and far-reaching possibilities the genre represents.
In the late 1800s, a number of meteors fell to Earth, damaging large areas of the nascent infrastructure of Europe and the Americas. Now, in the 21st century, the British Empire controls much of southern Asia, and one Captain Athelstane King commands the Peshawar Lancers, charged with keeping the "peace" among the locals.
An electrical storm over the island of Nantucket causes all electrical devices in the United States to cease function. But even as some people band together to help one another, others are building armies for conquest.
First in a new trilogy, this book continues the successful alternate history saga of "A Meeting at Corvallis, The Protectors War," and "Dies the Fire."
Marc Vitrac was born in Louisiana in the early 1960's, about the time the first interplanetary probes delivered the news that Mars and Venus were teeming with lifeeven human life.
On planet Bellevue, isolated for centuries after the collapse of interstellar civilization, a sentient computer still functions. When it and Raj, a young military officer, discover each other, a spark is struck which offers hope to benighted Bellevue. But first Raj must become the General.
Tells how the Harrington family and its tradition of distinguished service in the defence of the realm was founded, and how they discovered treecats. Weber is joined in Honor's universe by two leading science fiction writers, David Drake and S.M. Stirling.
Ten years ago, inhabitants of the 20th century and the Bronze Age were tossedtogether by the Event. But as two worlds converge, only one can be the victorin a battle to lead this strange new world.
This novel, based on the popular TERMINATOR movies, introduces a new cyborg sent from the future to rid the world, once and for all, of Sarah Conner and her pesky son (who will grow up to lead the rebel forces against a robot coup in the far future).
Hoping to settle old scores with the Kolnari who destroyed her home and with an unscrupulous uncle, Joat is challenged to overcome a "breakout" disease that destroys its victims' minds and is threatening the entire universe.
This novel, based on the popular TERMINATOR movies, introduces a new cyborg sent from the future to rid the world, once and for all, of Sarah Conner and her pesky son (who will grow up to lead the rebel forces against a robot coup in the far future).
Raj Whitehall and his hard-bitten troops must conquer a continent of barbarians descended from the crews of a squadron of starships. But Raj's biggest problem is the cowardice and envy among his own officers.
The Kzinti were born and bred for hunting. They had never encountered a species they couldn't treat as prey - until they met the soft-looking, cunning inhabitants from Planet Earth. After a close-run encounter on first contact, the humans' strategic thinking had the felines reeling.
Egyptian chariots carry shotgunners and haul heavy cannon into battle, Roman centurions fight at the whims of bug-eyed monsters, vigilant National Guardsmen hold the line against cannibalistic illegal aliens, and American soldiers wander savage lands, leading a massive AI-controlled BOLO tank, as they struggle to return home to a United States ...
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