epub |eng | 2001-05-31 | Author:Jack Chalker [Chalker, Jack]

* * * Norman Sanders almost choked on his claret. “Half? Half!” “It’s reasonable considering the odds,” An Li pointed out. “You get an expert crew and the only front ...

epub |eng | 2011-03-28 | Author:James Axler [Axler, James]

Chapter Twelve Standing guard on the roof of the federal building, Doc checked his windup pocket chron. The timepiece said noon, but the sky above beguiled the fact with streaming ...

epub |eng | 2010-11-18 | Author:Hayashi, Jyouji & Hubbert, Jim [Hubbert, Jim]

“All right. All we have to do is contact Tetsu and tell him not to land until we can solve this.” “He won’t do it, Mikal. The deceleration sequence has ...

epub |eng | 1987-01-12 | Author:Anne McCaffrey [McCaffrey, Anne]

I had a very selfish reason for being glad that Master Capiam had elected to stay above. I wished to change my identity as well as my Hold. One or ...

epub | | 1986-08-03 | Author:Lois Bujold [Bujold, Lois]

CHAPTER TWELVE Miles swore in frustration. Of course! Oseran full-feedback space armor logically implied an Oseran monitor nearby. He should have realized it instantly. Fool he was, to have simply ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Seeds of Earth [Earth, Seeds of]

'That is fascinating.' The look of bland regard in Julia's face didn't change. 'You know, it's such a shame that your enhancements failed at the last - poor Catriona, it ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Jack L. Chalker [Chalker, Jack L.]

* * * A HELL OF A MESS THE CAPTAIN CAME FORWARD IN A HURRY. “Transfer command to me and get back there, both of you! Strap in, take sedatives, ...

epub, mobi | | | Author:Keith Laumer [Laumer, Keith]

31 Carnaby half jumped, half fell the last few yards to the narrow ledge called Halliday's Roost, landed awkwardly in a churn of powdered wind-driven snow. For a moment, he ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2007-07-31 | Author:Neal Asher [Asher, Neal]

(audience interruption) Pardon (audience response) I will state again that there is no such thing as an APW! What you are referring to is a proton weapon—highly destructive and tending ...

epub |eng | 2006-11-01 | Author:Neal Asher [Asher, Neal]

In a shower of burning wood Ellanc landed on the cowling of a big hydraulic motor. Fluid was squirting from a damaged ram, and the back end of the huge ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-21 | Author:Neve Maslakovic [Maslakovic, Neve]

Awhile later Bean knocked once on my door, called out, “I got it, meet us downstairs,” and left just as abruptly. I took a moment to stretch my limbs, having ...

epub |eng | 2017-05-23 | Author:Alan Dean Foster [Foster, Alan Dean]

XIII She whirled. Though she wouldn’t have been able to tell the difference between the two neomorphs, the fully grown ogre that now rose up on two legs behind her ...

epub |eng | 2010-01-31 | Author:David Niall Wilson & Patricia Lee Macomber [Wilson, David Niall]

Chapter 20 The team was led down several passageways. Each time they turned, the floor slanted down a little more. There were four guards, two in front and two bringing ...

azw3, epub |eng | 2016-12-16 | Author:Alexander Freed

BAZE HAD ALLOWED CHIRRUT TO lead them up the ridge. He’d taken point often enough—pushed Chirrut to the side to stomp at a crumbling stretch of narrow rock, or gone ...

epub |eng | | Author:Kieran Shea

13. TOP UP, HOMUNCULUS After lassoing the loop of an IV bag around the neck of the life-sized cardboard cutout of Miss Jupiter 2772 and piercing his left arm with ...