Paul Hecht
61) The dark design
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1998.
Edition
First Ballantine Books edition.
Language
English
Description
Genghis Khan, Alice, Sir Richard Burton, Mark Twain, Peter Frigate, and millions of others mysteriously resurrected on the planet Riverworld wander along the planet's twisting river in search of the master beings who brought them all back to life.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1998.
Edition
First Ballantine Books edition.
Language
English
Description
Philip Jose Farmer created one of SF's most mind-blowing, critically acclaimed, and popular series of all time with the installments of his Riverworld series. In The Gods of Riverworld, Sir Francis Burton and his band have challenged the mysterious leaders of Riverworld and now control the mechanism that once held them in its sway. But the tower stronghold awaits, and the realm still houses awesome forces that could bring about their ultimate destruction....
Author
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
If your tastes run to Victorian mysteries and murder, you'll enjoy Peter Ackroyd's special blending of fact and fiction in this magnificent recreation of the bizarre murders that rocked Victorian England. Drawing on surviving police records and court transcripts, Ackroyd paints a fascinating portrait of a savage murderer, the terror that rippled across London, and the innocent woman charged with the crimes.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1998.
Edition
First Ballantine Books edition.
Language
English
Description
Samuel Clemens, resurrected on the banks of Riverworld with the rest of humanity, wants to build a riverboat and steer it up his new home planet's waterway to discover its source, but first he must undertake a dangerous voyage to unearth a fallen meteor.
66) Wireless
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In this collection of short stories, novelist Stross moves the U.S.-U.S.S.R. conflict onto a massive disk in another galaxy in "Missile Gap, " offers a spam-filter solution to the Fermi paradox in "MAXOS, " suggests clever bargains with the devil in a newly frozen Scotland in "Snowball's Chance, " and sets the stage for appearances by Carl Sagan and Stephen Jay Gould in "The Colder War."
67) Bull Run
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Northerners, Southerners, generals, couriers, dreaming boys and worried sisters describe the glory, the horror, the thrill, and the disillusionment of the first battle of the Civil War.
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