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Imperium in Imperio (Foundations of Black Science Fiction)
by Sutton E. GriggsA chilling tale of living dystopia in the Jim Crow era and a utopian shadow state that exposes the conflict between loyalty, morality and the forces of poverty, racism and supremacism.Written in 1899, Grigg's moving, terrifying book describes the Jim Crow era life of a black man inhabiting a living dystopia. Belton Piedmont is from a poor background, he works hard to become educated but is subjected to the full range of discrimination and racism as he grows older. At the point where he has lost all hope he is introduced to the notion of a shadow state, 'Imperium in Imperio', a utopia where black people are treated equally and attempt to bring their values into the heart of government in Texas, altering his life forever. Grigg's unflinching narrative explores nationalism, civil disobedience, voter suppression, poverty and education, all still familiar themes today.Foundations of Black Science Fiction. New forewords and fresh introductions give long-overdue perspectives on significant, early Black proto-sci-fi and speculative fiction authors who wrote with natural justice and civil rights in their hearts, their voices reaching forward to the writers of today. The series foreword is by Dr Sandra Grayson.
Impersonations: A Story Of The Praxis
by Walter Jon WilliamsNew York Times-Bestselling, Nebula Award–Winning Author: “One of the great space opera series of all time continues . . . [a] masterful writer.” —James Patrick Kelly, Hugo Award–winning author of The First Law of ThermodynamicsHaving offended her superiors by winning a battle without permission, Caroline Sula has been posted to the planet Earth, a dismal backwater where careers go to die. But Sula has always been fascinated by Earth history, and she plans to reward herself with a long, happy vacation amid the ancient monuments of humanity’s home world.Sula may be an Earth history buff, but there are aspects of her own history she doesn’t want known. Exposure is threatened when an old acquaintance turns up unexpectedly. Someone seems to be forging evidence that would send her to prison. And that’s all before someone tries to kill her . . . If she’s going to survive, Sula has no choice but to make some history of her own.“Well-drawn characters, and excellent wordsmithing . . . It feels like Williams is having a great time with Impersonations.” —Locus“Readers will savor this intriguing glimpse into the life of a woman who struggles with her own identity and the price of her action.” —Publishers Weekly“Interstellar adventure has a new king.” —George R.R. Martin
Implacable (The Lost Fleet: Outlands #3)
by Jack CampbellAdmiral John &“Black Jack&” Geary fears the greatest threat to humanity may be itself in this gripping continuation of the New York Times bestselling series.As far from explored space as any human has ever been, Geary and the Alliance fleet are on their own, protecting a diplomatic mission in territory belonging to an alien species with still-unknown motives.His already complex and dangerous mission is further imperiled by deadly challenges from other human factions seeking to harm or exploit the aliens. When another alien species whose technology is far more advanced than humanity&’s arrives, the stakes are raised to the highest possible level.Only the most serious danger comes from an unexpected source.Presented with orders to carry out actions he believes not only are mistaken, but would be contrary to the ideals of the Alliance, Geary has to decide whether he must invoke the power that his long-revered name holds--even though this might endanger his entire fleet, tear apart the Alliance, and destroy everything he has fought for.
Implacable Alpha (Team Psi #2)
by W. Michael GearNew York Times bestselling author Gear continues the thrilling sci-fi mystery of Prisoner Alpha in book two of the Team Psi novels.Called the 'Ennoia,' the woman who came within a heartbeat of killing prisoner Alpha in the Grantham parking garage is back. This time she's snatched Dr. Timothy Ryan. The Psi Team find themselves caught in a battle that has been raging across timelines for 2000 years. But, can they trust the Ennoia? Or is she using our timeline for her own purposes? Meanwhile, Bill Stevens has his own agenda, and his goons have already crossed blades with Psi Team. Now they are coming for Alpha, and all the revenge they can get. Because just as things seemed like they could get no worse, Alpha is back. And this time, she's coming for blood.
Implant
by Liliana Marchesi Barbara M. PatriziThe second chapter of a Dystopian saga built on the belief that man knows about and uses only a fraction of the brain's real ability. A saga in which heart and mind collide against a backdrop of unrest, passions, plotting, and extreme actions. A story that will shock you! After being torn from a life that she believed hers, Kendall finds herself immersed in a world completely different from what she believed. And just as she was about to discover the origin of the bond between her and Trevor, the leader of the Orphans, a succession of unpredictable events forced them apart. Kendall is now in the hands of Axel, who more than anyone want to resurrect her lost memories so that he can get hold of the information he desperately craves. But how will he convince her to cooperate? What effect will the Root implant have on her? Will the days spent at the Mind's headquarters change her view on the Orphans? Or will she do everything in her power to find a way to return to the Mausoleum and to Trevor? Can you really lose yourself in someone else's eyes? Well, that's what just happened to me. Sucked into an ocean in which warm and cold currents swirl into an incredible blue giving life to a unique color, I was incapable of resurfacing. Or maybe I simply didn't want to. It was as if my soul had migrated towards that magnetic gaze and had no intention of returning. Who was that man? And why was he staring at me with such an intensity I wanted to cry? To find out more about the R.I.G. Saga and about the author herself, please stop by her website: www.lilianamarchesi.it
Implante
by Marcela Gutiérrez Bravo Liliana MarchesiEl segundo capítulo de una Saga Distópica, construida sobre la creencia de que el hombre conoce y utiliza solamente una mínima parte de la capacidad del cerebro. Una Saga en la que el corazón y la mente se encontrarán en un escenario de trastornos, placeres, complots y actos extremos. Una historia que trastornará tu mente. Después de haber sido atrapada en una vida que creía suya, Kendall se encuentra inmersa en un mundo completamente diverso de lo que era hasta aquel momento. Y justo cuando estaba a punto de descubrir el origen de lo que la liga a Trevor, el Líder de los Huérfanos, una sucesión de eventos imprevistos la obligan a separarse de él. Kendall ahora está en las manos de Axel, que más que otra cosa, desea buscar en sus recuerdos perdidos para poseer la información que desesperadamente anhela. Pero ¿Cómo la convencerá para colaborar? ¿Qué efecto tendrá la Raíz en ella? ¿Los días que transcurrirá en la sede de La Mente comprometerán la opinión que se había hecho de los Huérfanos? ¿O hará lo posible por encontrar el modo de volver al Mausoleo de Trevor?
Implanted
by Lauren C. TeffeauThe data stored in her blood can save a city on the brink... or destroy it, in this gripping cyberpunk thriller. <p><p>When college student Emery Driscoll is blackmailed into being a courier for a clandestine organisation, she's cut off from the neural implant community which binds the domed city of New Worth together. Her new employers exploit her rare condition which allows her to carry encoded data in her blood, and train her to transport secrets throughout the troubled city. New Worth is on the brink of Emergence - freedom from the dome - but not everyone wants to leave. Then a data drop goes bad, and Emery is caught between factions: those who want her blood, and those who just want her dead.
Implied Spaces
by Walter Jon Williams[from inside flaps] "When mankind's every need is serviced by artificial intelligence, and death itself is only a minor inconvenience, what does it mean to be human? The answer lies hidden, deep within the Implied Spaces. Aristide, a semi-retired computer scientist turned swordsman, is a scholar of the implied spaces, seeking meaning amid the accidents of architecture in a universe where reality itself has been sculpted and designed by superhuman machine intelligence. While exploring the pre-technological world Midgarth, one of four dozen pocket universes created within a series of vast, orbital matrioshka computer arrays, Aristide uncovers a fiendish plot threatening to set off a nightmare scenario, perhaps even bringing about the ultimate Existential Crisis: the end of civilization itself. Traveling the pocket universes with his wormhole-edged sword Tecmesssa in hand and talking cat Bitsy, avatar of the planet-sized computer Endora, at his side, Aristide must find a way to save the multiverse from subversion, sabotage, and certain destruction."
Implosion
by Berinn RaeHumans and the Sephians have reached a tentative truce and combine forces to pursue the Draeken threat.A cataclysmic war is brewing...Sephian warrior Nalea's world is black and white. She exists only to kill Draeken, and she's good at her job. That is, until during a particularly bloody battle she finds herself captured by Roden Zyll, a Draeken commander known for his good looks and cruel brutality. Over time, her captor ignites a forbidden passion in Nalea, and she despises him for it. Though a future together is both impossible and unwanted, she fears he has no intention of letting her go.Meanwhile, tensions between humans and Nalea's people - the Sephians - have reached a dangerous precipice. To make matters worse, a Draeken tyrant has devises a plan that threatens to obliterate life on earth. Roden has spilled plenty of blood in his time, and he cares little for humans. But when he realizes his leader's plan could lead to his people's extinction, he plans a war of his own, a war that needs Nalea's participation to succeed.Desperate times call for desperate schemes.To save her friends - and her enemies - Nalea must become a traitor to her own people. But does earth stand a chance if its survival depends on her opening her heart to a man who'd enslaved her people?Sensuality Level: Sensual
Implosion
by D. F. JonesBreeding machines and fertility camps. When a foreign power puts a sterility drug in Britain's reservoirs, the result is all too predictable. The birth-rate plummets and the country's future looks bleak. There is only one way to save the nation; all women with a natural immunity to the drug must be placed in special camps where they can be bred from like prize cattle. They must be given special hormone treatment and artificial insemination so that they can produce triplets, quads, quins time after time until they die of exhaustion. They must become Nation Mums, the sole hope of a desperate people. They must be pampered and disciplined to accept their role. Even if one of them happens to be the wife of the Minister in charge of the whole terrifying affair...
Implosion (Panther Science Fiction Ser.)
by D. F. JonesBreeding machines and fertility camps. When a foreign power puts a sterility drug in Britain's reservoirs, the result is all too predictable. The birth-rate plummets and the country's future looks bleak. There is only one way to save the nation; all women with a natural immunity to the drug must be placed in special camps where they can be bred from like prize cattle. They must be given special hormone treatment and artificial insemination so that they can produce triplets, quads, quins time after time until they die of exhaustion. They must become Nation Mums, the sole hope of a desperate people. They must be pampered and disciplined to accept their role. Even if one of them happens to be the wife of the Minister in charge of the whole terrifying affair...
Implosion: Part 2 of the Colliding Worlds Trilogy
by Berinn RaeHumans and the Sephians have reached a tentative truce and combine forces to pursue the Draeken threat.A cataclysmic war is brewing...Sephian warrior Nalea’s world is black and white. She exists only to kill Draeken, and she’s good at her job. That is, until during a particularly bloody battle she finds herself captured by Roden Zyll, a Draeken commander known for his good looks and cruel brutality. Over time, her captor ignites a forbidden passion in Nalea, and she despises him for it. Though a future together is both impossible and unwanted, she fears he has no intention of letting her go.Meanwhile, tensions between humans and Nalea’s people - the Sephians - have reached a dangerous precipice. To make matters worse, a Draeken tyrant has devises a plan that threatens to obliterate life on earth. Roden has spilled plenty of blood in his time, and he cares little for humans. But when he realizes his leader’s plan could lead to his people’s extinction, he plans a war of his own, a war that needs Nalea’s participation to succeed.Desperate times call for desperate schemes.To save her friends - and her enemies - Nalea must become a traitor to her own people. But does earth stand a chance if its survival depends on her opening her heart to a man who’d enslaved her people?Sensuality Level: Sensual
Implosion: Part 2 of the Colliding Worlds Trilogy
by Berinn RaeHumans and the Sephians have reached a tentative truce and combine forces to pursue the Draeken threat.A cataclysmic war is brewing...Sephian warrior Nalea’s world is black and white. She exists only to kill Draeken, and she’s good at her job. That is, until during a particularly bloody battle she finds herself captured by Roden Zyll, a Draeken commander known for his good looks and cruel brutality. Over time, her captor ignites a forbidden passion in Nalea, and she despises him for it. Though a future together is both impossible and unwanted, she fears he has no intention of letting her go.Meanwhile, tensions between humans and Nalea’s people - the Sephians - have reached a dangerous precipice. To make matters worse, a Draeken tyrant has devises a plan that threatens to obliterate life on earth. Roden has spilled plenty of blood in his time, and he cares little for humans. But when he realizes his leader’s plan could lead to his people’s extinction, he plans a war of his own, a war that needs Nalea’s participation to succeed.Desperate times call for desperate schemes.To save her friends - and her enemies - Nalea must become a traitor to her own people. But does earth stand a chance if its survival depends on her opening her heart to a man who’d enslaved her people?Sensuality Level: Sensual
Important Mission: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Xiao YuGenius teenager chen hao through their own opportunities in a rookie competition to get the corresponding good results all the way into the rookie competition top eight just when he secretly happy but found his body appeared a strange and this strange with the auction to sell that black jade jet is the name of the face there is a very powerful he gave the morning s son a lot of benefits but at the moment he was lost in a bad situation need to consume a morning haosantian force of jing yuan to recover but the morning s son didn t promise because he didn t know this have any effect on the back of the game
Importunate Ghost King Husband: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Mo XiaobeiI worked late into the night and walked out of the company. I was the only one left on the street, and suddenly a man appeared on the street corner. I didn't know if he was a human or a ghost, but he was talking to the air! This sloppy-looking man has his eyes on me. He walks over to me and buys my hair and nails! It's strange that when the man forcibly took away my hair, I would dream shamefully night after night … Stealing money mysteriously appeared in my backpack. The police came to find me and found out that the sudden death of the weird man was related to me. I actually encountered the weird video that was going around on the internet … Strange things keep happening, disturbing my life.
Importunate Ghost King Husband: Volume 2 (Volume 2 #2)
by Mo XiaobeiI worked late into the night and walked out of the company. I was the only one left on the street, and suddenly a man appeared on the street corner. I didn't know if he was a human or a ghost, but he was talking to the air! This sloppy-looking man has his eyes on me. He walks over to me and buys my hair and nails! It's strange that when the man forcibly took away my hair, I would dream shamefully night after night … Stealing money mysteriously appeared in my backpack. The police came to find me and found out that the sudden death of the weird man was related to me. I actually encountered the weird video that was going around on the internet … Strange things keep happening, disturbing my life.
Importunate Ghost King Husband: Volume 3 (Volume 3 #3)
by Mo XiaobeiI worked late into the night and walked out of the company. I was the only one left on the street, and suddenly a man appeared on the street corner. I didn't know if he was a human or a ghost, but he was talking to the air! This sloppy-looking man has his eyes on me. He walks over to me and buys my hair and nails! It's strange that when the man forcibly took away my hair, I would dream shamefully night after night … Stealing money mysteriously appeared in my backpack. The police came to find me and found out that the sudden death of the weird man was related to me. I actually encountered the weird video that was going around on the internet … Strange things keep happening, disturbing my life.
Impossible
by Nancy WerlinA beautifully wrought modern fairy tale from master storyteller and award-winning author Nancy Werlin Inspired by the classic folk ballad "Scarborough Fair," this is a wonderfully riveting novel of suspense, romance, and fantasy. Lucy is seventeen when she discovers that she is the latest recipient of a generations-old family curse that requires her to complete three seemingly impossible tasks or risk falling into madness and passing the curse on to the next generation. Unlike her ancestors, though, Lucy has family, friends, and other modern resources to help her out. But will it be enough to conquer this age-old evil?
Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures #1)
by Katherine Rundell#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Two kids race to save the world&’s last magical place in the first book of a landmark new fantasy series, from &“a writer with an utterly distinctive voice and a wild imagination.&” (Philip Pullman, author of The Golden Compass) &“An instant classic from one of the most gifted storytellers of our time, Impossible Creatures is an astonishing miracle of a book.&” —Katherine Applegate, Newbery Medal Winner for The One and Only IvanA WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR • A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, KIRKUS REVIEWS, AND SHELF AWARENESS BEST BOOK OF THE YEARThe day that Christopher saved a drowning baby griffin from a hidden lake would change his life forever. It&’s the day he learned about the Archipelago—a cluster of unmapped islands where magical creatures of every kind have thrived for thousands of years, until now. And it&’s the day he met Mal—a girl on the run, in desperate need of his help.Mal and Christopher embark on a wild adventure, racing from island to island, searching for someone who can explain why the magic is fading and why magical creatures are suddenly dying. They consult sphinxes, battle kraken, and negotiate with dragons. But the closer they get to the dark truth of what&’s happening, the clearer it becomes: no one else can fix this. If the Archipelago is to be saved, Mal and Christopher will have to do it themselves.Katherine Rundell&’s story crackles and roars with energy and delight. It is brought vividly to life with more than 60 illustrations, including a map and a bestiary of magical creatures.
Impossible Odds
by Dave DuncanElite warrior swordsmen, they are unequalled in any time or realm . . . The King's Blades The King has decreed that new Blades must be sworn into the service of the Grand Duke Rubin, deposed by a foul usurper and currently on the run. But none of the rough youths being readied at Ironhall possess the seasoning to survive what better, more skilled Blades already have not. Still, two woefully unprepared candidates are approached with an offer of early bonding and probable death: deft but dense, rude Ranter, and eager, impetuous Ringwood . . . with a third, the inadequate swordsman but potentially able spy Bellman, enlisted into their threadbare ranks. Joining the Duke's entourage along with the courageous and prescient White Sister Trudy, the would-be champions must restore a rightful ruler to the throne or die in the process. But before them waits an army of the dead. And the Duke whom the Blades must protect to the last drop of their lifeblood is not the liege they imagined . . .
Impossible Odds: A Chronicle of the King's Blades
by Dave DuncanThis stand-alone novel takes place some two years after Paragon Lost. Once more, one of the King's blades must go to a foreign country and try to prevent a war.
Impossible Places
by Alan Dean FosterFor three decades science fiction legend Alan Dean Foster has captivated readers around the world, from his debut classic The Tar-Aiym Krang and his inspired scenario for the first Star Trek movie to a host of New York Times bestsellers, including Splinter of the Mind's Eye and Flinx in Flux. In this collection of twenty brilliant odysseys of the imagination, Foster once again soars beyond the limits of reality--where the real thrills begin. . . .NASA Sending Addicts to Mars!: It was the most insane idea in the annals of space travel--and the only one that would work.Diesel Dream: Sometimes on dark, lonely highways dreams do come true, and this trucker's hope was the best one of all. Sideshow: Flinx hadn't a clue about the alien dancer, but Pip knew trouble when she saw it. Empowered: A magnificent male discovers the not-so-super part about being a superhero. The Question: A bold adventurer determines to solve one of life's profound mysteries.. . . and fifteen other amazing stories! From the Paperback edition.
Impossible Places
by Alan Dean FosterFor three decades science fiction legend Alan Dean Foster has captivated readers around the world, from his debut classic The Tar-Aiym Krang and his inspired scenario for the first Star Trek movie to a host of New York Times bestsellers, including Splinter of the Mind's Eye and Flinx in Flux.In this collection of twenty brilliant odysseys of the imagination, Foster once again soars beyond the limits of reality - where the real thrills begin...NASA Sending Addicts to Mars!: It was the most insane idea in the annals of space travel - and the only one that would work.Diesel Dream: Sometimes on dark, lonely highways dreams do come true, and this trucker's hope was the best one of all.Sideshow: Flinx hadn't a clue about the alien dancer, but Pip knew trouble when she saw it.Empowered: A magnificent male discovers the not-so-super part about being a superhero.The Question: A bold adventurer determines to solve one of life's profound mysteries....and fourteen other amazing stories!
Impossible Things
by Connie WillisWinner of six Nebula and two Hugo awards for her fiction, Connie Willis is acclaimed for her gifted imagination and bold invention. Here are eleven of her finest stories, surprising tales in which the impossible becomes real, the real becomes impossible, and strangeness lurks at every turn.The end of the world comes not with a bang but a series of whimpers over many years in "The Last of the Winnebagos."The terror of pain and dying gives birth to a startling truth about the nature of the stars, a principle known as the "Schwarzschild Radius."In "Spice Pogrom," an outrageous colony in outer space becomes the setting for a screwball comedy of bizarre complications, mistaken identities, far-too-friendly aliens--and even true love. From the Paperback edition.
Impossible Things
by Kate JohnsonIn a savage land of magic and majesty, the only thing deadlier than an enemy’s blade is trusting someone with your heart . . . Ishtaer is a beautiful mystery. A blind slave, beaten and broken by her sadistic mistress, she has no memory of a time before her enslavement. Kael Vapensigsson is one of the elite Chosen—a warlord whose strength comes from the gods themselves. But despite all his power and prestige, he is plagued by a prophecy that threatens to destroy everything he loves. When Kael summons Ishtaer to his room and discovers the marks of the Chosen on her body, both warlord and slave seem to have met their match. But as their lives become increasingly entangled—and endangered—both slave and master will test whether the Chosen truly have the ability to choose their own fate . . .