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Very early in the First Century, three entire Roman legions, plus auxiliaries, cavalry, and camp followers were ambushed by a coalition of proto-Germanic tribal warriors and totally destroyed in a days-long battle that probably changed the course of ancient European history. Arminius was the name by which Roman scribes of that era identified the tribal leader, and this is a biography of his early years.
div>A barbarian tribal princeling who became an auxiliary Roman Legionary, later a Roman citizen and full-fledged Legioary, and later still was appointed to the social rank of Roman a equestrian knight, in year nine of the Common Era Arminius, as the Romans dubbed him, led a vast, loosely organized army of warriors selected from his own and other tribes dwelling in Germania Magna, to victory in a famous battle that annihilated three entire Roman legions. Certain contemporary historians revere this distant figure from the shadows of European antiquity as a culture hero, the defender of the cul | |  | | It's Too Late to Leave Early, An Aerospace Fable
A satirical spoof of the American aerospace industry.
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">It's lighter than air! Joseph Heller?s rollicking "tour de farce," CATCH-22, used black humor to illustrate the inanities and insanities experienced by men at war. In a similar vein, this satirical novel employs plain vanilla humor to dramatize the idiocies and frustrations afflicting those employed in an industry the author, a former longtime aerospace engineer, knew only too well. You'll encounter a one time porn queen who's into blackmail; the wealthy great-grandson of a Ru | |  | | Memo to the Leader
Could the course of World War II, particularly its outcome, be changed? Sure, all you need is time travel -- and practice. But it still may not be quite that simple. So even when you think you've got the hang of it, you'd best be very, very careful . . .
span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;">It is year 142 of/span>span style="font-size: large;">span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-family: Arial;"> /span>i style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center; font-size: 12px;">Deutsches Weltreich,/i>/span>i style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; text-align: center; font-size: 12px;"> /i>span style="font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0px; font-family: Arial;">the German World Empire as reckoned from 1933. when Adolph Hitler became German | |  | | Mind Games
An interstellar criminologist and planetary security director schooled in advanced empathic perception conducts an investigation into a royal assassination accompanied by two unwanted "assistants," the prince and prime minister of Kraan.
span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; color: rgb(61, 61, 61); ">big>big>big>K/big>/big>/big>lavik, Security Director of Kraan, a massive world governed by the only remaining monarchy in far-flung neohuman interstellar society, has been conditioned to acutely perceive the emotional state of others. After Kraan’s reigning monarch is assassinated while on holiday in parsecs-distant Eden, a terraformed pleasure world operated by a distant alien syndicate, a pair of companions force themselves upon Klav | |  | | No One Goes There Now
Imperial interstellar explorers discover the remote, idyllic planet Dan, but the enigmatic indigenes are unhappy over Code Duello, a facet of Convention males of Imperium Terrestriana live by, and also die by.
span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">Millennia after a thermonuclear holocaust decimates civilization, the myriad, mutated children of Earth have spread their wings and colonized the galazy’s near reaches. Imperium Terrestriana, loosely governed by an elite oligarchy of elders forsters Convention, the body of civil law/span>span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"> /span>span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">featuring Code Duello, a cust | |  | | Olympus Mons
Several hundred "Marsrats," residents of a martian enclave in the shadow the gigantic Olympus Mons volcano experiences a water crisis, forcing Jesperson to devise a means of restoring the aqueduct or allowing the enclave to become known as the "lost colony."
span style="font-size: larger;">span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> /span>/span>span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">An obscure medical researcher develops Bevvinase, a “miracle enzyme capable of driving carbon dioxide-to-olygen conversion withing the human organism, thus opening mars’ hostile environment to pernament colonization. Decades later, a pair of deported, convicted felons, former intelligence officer and alpinist Jesperson, and his work-partner, Barnes, are amon | |  | | Sometimes the Dragon Wins
The successful deployment of a space elevator system allows China to virtually monopolize international commerce, and U.N. Intelligence Agency Asset Rudy Cateel is blackmailed into accepting what amounts to a "mission impossible" espionage assignment.
p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">i>Chin Zhonghua Renmin Conghehuo,/i> The Peoples Republic of China, achieves a staggering economic triumph with its “Great Leap Upward,” the successful late-21st Century development and installation of a “space elevator” rising from an equatorial mountain peak in the Kalimantan region of Borneo to an enormous microgravity production satellite in a geosynchronous orbit, and beyond toa spacecraft inertial launch and retrieval complex that permits commercial produ | |  | | Tomorrow, the Stars
The advent of starflight presents serious problems both domestic (Solar System) and alien extraterrestrial to the innovators, a select group of scientists and technicians laboring in the asteroid base in Ceres.
span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">P/span>/span>span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;">erplexed after a series of inexplicable appearances by a tall, mysterious individual Cosmologist Roger Shore is dismayed when the same unearthly stranger materializes aboard orbiting Galileo Observatory and pointedly questions him about faster-than-light spacecraft development. Further baffled when only his own voice registers on a recording of the “verbal” exchange, Shore is fascinated to hear G | |  | | Touchstone
"The Stockholder," a trillionaire and industrial magnate, funds the development of controlled nuclear fusion power generation, and fends off threats to hinder his efforts by a leading member of the fossil fuel cartel
span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;">A more immediate threat than climate change, the mid-21st Century energy dilemma inspires reclusive trillionaire Lyman Dysart — called “The Stockholder” by his privately owned megacompany’s employees — to finance the research and development of humanity’s ultimate energy panacea: controlled nuclear fusion. Viable plasma constituents of the patented “Omega Pinch” process are relatively plentiful deuterium, or “heavy hydrogen,” and an ultra-scarce, fusible | |  | | Triage
A draconian solution to global overpopulation dismays the Christian community, although a necessity to restrict re-growth in the wake of climate change disasters which make the environment no longer able to sustain a decimated population, let alone permit an increase.
p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Arial;">span style="font-size: larger;">span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">i>Be fruitful,/i> advocates Judeo-Christian Scripture, i>and multiply, and replenish the earth. /i>Historical demographics reveal how diligently we have complied with this “Eleventh Commandment.” Eight millennia before the Savior’s birth, global population in inferred to have been roughly five millions. When Julius Caesar fell to the daggers of envious man, the centuries-old Roman Republic fell with him, and the esti |
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Shanghai Escapist
by Robert Liu
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 Shanghai Escapist grabs the faint-of-heart right from the get-go and serves up an ultimatum: What would you do if caught in the same circumstances? From the opening scene, the reader is tossed into the maze of daily intrigue as it existed in 1960s-70 |
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