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John Grimes: Lieutenant of the Survey Service
by A. Bertram ChandlerA. Bertram Chandler was born in the United States but spent most of his writing career in Australia. His most enduring contribution to science fiction is John Grimes who he and others have described as the Horatio Hornblower of space. All of these novels were written between 1964 and 1984. In this first omnibus the novels are: The Road to the Rim; To Prime the Pump; The Hard Way Up; Spartan Planet; and John Grimes will one day be a Commodore in the cessionist Rim World Navy, out at the edge of the galaxy here the laws of men are nonexistent and those of nature sometimes tenuous. But for now he is just a very green senior officer in the service of the Federation. If he keeps out of trouble, he'll rise to the rank of Admiral; all he has to do is follow the rules-and he is determined to do just that, but being John Grimes, he'll find it more difficult than he imagined....
John Grimes: Reserve Commodore
by A. Bertram ChandlerIn this fourth Omnibus of Grimes, he is a reserve Commodore. Included are the novels: The Last Amazon; The Wild Ones; and Catch the Star Winds. There are also six short stories.
John Grimes: Rim Runner
by A. Bertram ChandlerIn this the fifth omnibus of the series, we are approaching the end of John Grimes career as we will ever know it. Included are: Into the Alternate Universe; Contraband from Otherspace; The Rim Gods; and The Commodore at Sea.
John Grimes: Survey Captain
by A. Bertram ChandlerA. Bertram Chandler was born in the United States but spent most of his writing career in Australia. His most enduring contribution to science fiction is John Grimes who he and others have described as the Horatio Hornblower of space. All of these novels were written between 1964 and 1984. In this second omnibus the novels are: The Broken Cycle; The Big Black Mark; The Far Traveller; and Star Courier.
John Grimes: Tramp Captain
by A. Bertram ChandlerA. Bertram Chandler was born in the United States but spent most of his writing career in Australia. His most enduring contribution to science fiction is John Grimes who he and others have described as the Horatio Hornblower of space. All of these novels were written between 1964 and 1984. The novels in this third omnibus are: To Keep the Ship; Matilda's Stepchildren; Star Loot; and The Anarch Lords.
John Howe's Ultimate Fantasy Art Academy: Inspiration, approaches and techniques for drawing and painting the fantasy realm
by John HoweCreate your own fantasy art with this comprehensive guidebook by the lead conceptual designer on The Lord of the RingsTM and The HobbitTM trilogies. Discover the creative processes and intriguing inspirations behind the work of John Howe – lead conceptual designer on The Lord of the RingsTM and The HobbitTM movie trilogies. Through step-by-step drawings and finished paintings, Howe reveals his artistic approach in action: from developing characters to creating atmospheric landscapes, extraordinary architecture and fantasy beasts. In this practical guide, Howe shares tips on everything from building a portfolio to book illustration, graphic novels and designing for the big screen. Develop your own personal style of fantasy art with help from the best in the business with this must-have book. Features a foreword by groundbreaking film director Terry Gilliam, and an afterword by Alan Lee, John&’s partner on the conceptual design for The Lord of the RingsTM movie trilogy and Oscar-winning illustrator.
John Landis Presents The Library of Horror – Haunted Houses: Classic Tales of Doors That Should Never Be Opened (The Library of Horror)
by DKClassic haunted house ghost stories curated by world-renowned filmmaker and horror genre expert John Landis.This beautifully presented, highly collectible anthology features ghost stories that have enthralled, terrified and inspired readers decade after decade. Some are relatively well known; others are long-lost treasures, awaiting rediscovery.The selection includes tales of terror by Bram Stoker, H. P. Lovecraft, and Percival Landon; studies of creeping dread by Edgar Allan Poe and Henry James; short, sharp shockers by Ambrose Bierce, M.R. James and Lafcadio Hearn; and comedic masterpieces by Oscar Wilde and Saki.Mr. Landis' own introduction explores each tale's fascinating impact on the contemporary horror genre.Step inside these ghost-ridden repositories of supernatural evil, if you dare..."The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." H. P. Lovecraft
John Night: El misterio cuántico
by UENIO PAULO DE GOMESJohn siempre ha visto su mundo de una forma completamente opuesta a los demás a su alrededor. Pasó buena parte de su infancia y adolescencia en conflicto consigo mismo debido a los eventos ocurridos en determinadas situaciones por las que él pasó. Mal sabía que estos acontecimientos harían que su vida fuera modificada de forma sorprendente al punto de ponerlo en conflicto con la propia realidad presentada a todos nosotros. La respuesta para todos sus cuestionamientos existenciales forma un rompecabezas que John Night sólo conseguirá resolver al comprender tales eventos.
John Night: The Quantum Mystery
by Uenio Paulo de Gomes“John Night” tells the story of a poor boy who lives in the periphery and suffers from recurrent bullying at school. The action takes place in a town located in the Midwest of a country in South America. He has a hard life. Despite being very young, he has to find a job due to his family’s financial problems. Besides the strong competition and lack of opportunities, he still has to deal with unscrupulous people. In the midst of all these issues, and thanks to his learning about Quantum Physics, he believes we can live in a better world, either in another dimension or in a parallel universe.
John Pig's Halloween
by Jan L. WaldronJohn Pig's friends think he's going to be bored and lonely on Halloween because he's too scared to go trick-or-treating with them. After they leave, a witch knocks on his door and helps him fill the house with cupcakes, pies, cakes and other goopy, yummy treats. Then her friendly pals in their costumes show up and John is in the middle of a great Halloween party! Three pictures have been described.
John Sladek SF Gateway Omnibus: The Reproductive System, The Muller-Fokker Effect, Tik-Tok
by John SladekFrom the vaults of The SF Gateway, the most comprehensive digital library of classic SFF titles ever assembled, comes an ideal introduction to the razor-sharp wit of John Sladek.An important voice in the New Wave movement, Sladek had stories published in Harlan Ellison's seminal anthology, DANGEROUS VISIONS, as well as in Michael Moorcock's ground-breaking NEW WORLDS magazine. Perhaps best known for the ambitious robot tales RODERICK and RODERICK AT RANDOM, he is now recognized as one of SF's most brilliant satirists. This omnibus collects novels THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM, THE MULLER-FOKKER EFFECT and BSFA AWARD-winning TIK-TOK.THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM: Wompler's Walking Babies aren't selling like they used to, so the company develops Project 32, producing self-replicating mechanisms designed to repair inter-cellular breakdowns. But then the metal boxes begin crawling about the laboratory, feeding voraciously on metal and multiplying...THE MULLER-FOKKER EFFECT: Bob Shairp - a writer and dreamer - has agreed to be a guinea-pig in a military experiment to find out if his personality can be turned into data and stored on computer. But a computing error quickly destroys Shairp's physical body, leaving his mind stranded in an encoded world. Can the process be reversed?TIK-TOK: Something has gone very seriously wrong with Tik-Tok's 'asimov circuits'. They should keep him on the straight and narrow, following Asimov's First Law of Robotics: 'a robot shall not injure a human being, or through inaction allow a human being to come to harm.' But they don't. While maintaining the outward appearance of a mild-mannered robot, albeit one with artistic tendencies and sympathy for the robot rights movement, Tik-Tok's real agenda is murderously different. He seems intent on injuring - preferably fatally - as many people as possible. Almost inevitably, a successful career in crime and general mayhem leads to a move into politics and Tik-Tok becomes the first robot candidate for Vice President of the United States.
John Sladek SF Gateway Omnibus: The Reproductive System, The Muller-Fokker Effect, Tik-Tok
by John SladekFrom the vaults of The SF Gateway, the most comprehensive digital library of classic SFF titles ever assembled, comes an ideal introduction to the razor-sharp wit of John Sladek.An important voice in the New Wave movement, Sladek had stories published in Harlan Ellison's seminal anthology, DANGEROUS VISIONS, as well as in Michael Moorcock's ground-breaking NEW WORLDS magazine. Perhaps best known for the ambitious robot tales RODERICK and RODERICK AT RANDOM, he is now recognized as one of SF's most brilliant satirists. This omnibus collects novels THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM, THE MULLER-FOKKER EFFECT and BSFA AWARD-winning TIK-TOK.THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM: Wompler's Walking Babies aren't selling like they used to, so the company develops Project 32, producing self-replicating mechanisms designed to repair inter-cellular breakdowns. But then the metal boxes begin crawling about the laboratory, feeding voraciously on metal and multiplying...THE MULLER-FOKKER EFFECT: Bob Shairp - a writer and dreamer - has agreed to be a guinea-pig in a military experiment to find out if his personality can be turned into data and stored on computer. But a computing error quickly destroys Shairp's physical body, leaving his mind stranded in an encoded world. Can the process be reversed?TIK-TOK: Something has gone very seriously wrong with Tik-Tok's 'asimov circuits'. They should keep him on the straight and narrow, following Asimov's First Law of Robotics: 'a robot shall not injure a human being, or through inaction allow a human being to come to harm.' But they don't. While maintaining the outward appearance of a mild-mannered robot, albeit one with artistic tendencies and sympathy for the robot rights movement, Tik-Tok's real agenda is murderously different. He seems intent on injuring - preferably fatally - as many people as possible. Almost inevitably, a successful career in crime and general mayhem leads to a move into politics and Tik-Tok becomes the first robot candidate for Vice President of the United States.
John the Balladeer
by Manly Wade WellmanJohn the Balladeer appeardd in fantasy magazines for over two decades. He is one of the most enigmatic and down-to-earth heroes in the fantasy genre. He is just a wandering minstrel with a silver-stringed guitar who wandrs the hills and valleys of rural America and finds magic there.
John the Baptizer: A Novel
by Brooks HansenA vivid, moving, and unprecedented biographical saga of John the Baptist. Traditionally, John the Baptist is seen as little more than an opening act—“the voice crying in the wilderness”—in the great Christian drama. In presenting the epic of John’s life, novelist Brooks Hansen draws on an extraordinary array of inspirations, from the works of Caravaggio, Bach, and Oscar Wilde to the histories of Josephus, the canonical gospels, the Gnostic gospels, and the sacred texts of those followers of John who never accepted Jesus as Messiah: the Mandeans.Gripping as literary historical fiction, and fascinating as a diligent exploration of ancient and modern sources, this book brings to eye-opening life the richly textured world—populated by the magnificently sordid, calculating, and reckless Herods, their families, and their courts—into which both John and Jesus were born. John the Baptizer is a captivating tapestry of power and dissent, ambition and self-sacrifice, worldly and otherworldly desire, faith, and doubt.
John's Empire: Book 1 - Pela Dir
by Philipp M. PfeilschmidtBan Rotha- the land of the Fishers – is in danger. A gigantic horde of northlanders is gathering under the banner of a vindictive sorceress. In their need her former sisters, the liegelords of Ban Rotha, call heroes from various times and cultures to help them. Eleven men, who are ready to step up as their champions, succeed in following their call. One is Cuchulainn, a powerful warlord from mystical Eira. Another is John, a nearly normal man of the 21st century. Two heroes who could not be more different. To successfully lead the forces of the south into battle they and the other champions must overcome their difference despite all opposition. The magician Thoran, the last of his fellows, knows that not only the fate of Ban Rotha hangs in the balance, but that of all worlds. The invasion must be stopped at any cost, but the witch queen also has a champion at her side: a being from the realm of the dead, a nightmare made flesh, an apparently invincible foe …
Johnny Mackintosh and the Spirit of London
by Keith MansfieldWhen thirteen-year-old Johnny's talking computer Kovac, detects an extraterrestrial signal, his life is set to change forever. Until then, stuck in his children's home in Castle Dudbury New Town, with the nasty cook Mr. Wilkins watching his every move, football had been his only escape. But soon things start happening around him that Johnny doesn't understand: why is his mother, who is on life support in a hospital for the criminally insane, being guarded by sinister looking men? And why was a journalist murdered shortly after Johnny talked to him? When Johnny finds out he has a sister, he decides to run away to find her. But his search for answers take him beyond Earth and into a spectacular adventure through time and space where he visits new worlds, meets aliens, and discovers the truth about his parents and who he really is.
Johnny Mackintosh: Battle for Earth
by Keith MansfieldWhile trying to keep up with his school studies and ensuring his soccer team stays top of the league, it's Johnny's job to safeguard planet Earth. Suspicious of the strange occurrences, Johnny investigates to find that alien enemies are feeding humans to their Queen on a nearby planet. He then discovers a more terrifying secret: the aliens are planning a devastating invasion of Earth. The battle for Earth will take all of Johnny's and his friends' strength and resolve. Can they win? If they do, what price will they pay to save the world?
Johnny Mackintosh: Star Blaze
by Keith MansfieldInvaders have exploded the sun's nearest star. Will the death of Earth's sun be next?While trying to keep up with his school studies and ensuring his soccer team stays top of the league, it's Johnny's job to safeguard planet Earth. When invaders turn a nearby star into a supernova, Johnny must act to protect the sun.Johnny and his sister Clara prepare to travel in their space ship to the galactic capital for help, but their mission is stalled when Johnny discovers that his mysterious elder brother Nicky is on the side of the invaders . . . So begins an epic adventure across space, involving killer clones, a spy trial and devious alien twins. Will Johnny save his brother, and planet Earth, in time? Keith Mansfield's vivid space adventure will wow fans of action stories and science fiction.
Johnny and the Bomb
by Terry PratchettTwelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell has a knack for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. This has never been more true than when he finds himself in his hometown on May 21, 1941, over forty years before his birth!An accidental time traveler, Johnny knows his history. He knows England is at war, and he knows that on this day German bombs will fall on the town. It happened. It's history. And as Johnny and his friends quickly discover, tampering with history can have unpredictable--and drastic--effects on the future. But letting history take its course means letting people die. What if Johnny warns someone and changes history? What will happen to the future? If Johnny uses his knowledge to save innocent lives by being in the right place at the right time, is he doing the right thing? Mixing nail-biting suspense with outrageous humor, Terry Pratchett explores a classic time-travel paradox in Johnny Maxwell's third adventure.
Johnny and the Dead (Johnny Maxwell Trilogy #2)
by Terry PratchettSir Terry Pratchett, beloved and bestselling author of the Discworld fantasy series, explores the bonds between the living and the dead and proves that it's never too late to have the time of your life—even if it is your afterlife!Johnny Maxwell's new friends do not appreciate the term "ghosts," but they are, well, dead.The town council wants to sell the cemetery, and its inhabitants aren't about to take that lying down! Johnny is the only one who can see them, and and the previously alive need his help to save their home and their history. Johnny didn't mean to become the voice for the lifeless, but if he doesn't speak up, who will?Read more of Johnny Maxwell's adventures in Only You Can Save Mankind and Johnny and the Bomb!
Join
by Steve ToutonghiWhat if you could live multiple lives simultaneously, have constant, perfect companionship, and never die? That's the promise of Join, a revolutionary technology that allows small groups of minds to unite, forming a single consciousness that experiences the world through multiple bodies. But as two best friends discover, the light of that miracle may be blinding the world to its horrors.Chance and Leap are jolted out of their professional routines by a terrifying stranger--a remorseless killer who freely manipulates the networks that regulate life in the post-Join world. Their quest for answers--and survival--brings them from the networks and spire communities they've known to the scarred heart of an environmentally ravaged North American continent and an underground community of the "ferals" left behind by the rush of technology.In the storytelling tradition of classic speculative fiction from writers like David Mitchell and Michael Chabon, Join offers a pulse-pounding story that poses the largest possible questions: How long can human life be sustained on our planet in the face of environmental catastrophe? What does it mean to be human, and what happens when humanity takes the next step in its evolution? If the individual mind becomes obsolete, what have we lost and gained, and what is still worth fighting for?
Joining the Boston Tea Party (The Time-Traveling Twins)
by Diane StanleyLiz, Lenny, and Grandma are back for another time-traveling adventure. With the Fourth of July fast approaching, there's only one thing for them to do ... Join the Boston Tea Party! With the help of Grandma's magic hat, the twins journey back to Boston in 1773. From powdered wigs and petticoats to Indian pudding and chamber pots, Liz and Lenny get a firsthand look at life in colonial America. But best of all they actually join the "Mohawks" as they dump tea into Boston Harbor and help begin the American Revolution. Diane Stanley once again blends humor and historical detail in this exciting second installment of the Time-Traveling Twins series. Featuring word balloons packed with comedy and lots of information, and Holly Berry's inviting illustrations, this book will make readers jump at the chance to join the twins as they learn about history by living it!
Joker Moon: A Wild Cards Novel (Wild Cards #29)
by George R. MartinIn Joker Moon, the next Wild Cards adventure from series editor George R. R. Martin, we follow Aarti, the Moon Maid, who can astrally project herself onto the surface of the moon and paint projections across the lunarscape.Theodorus was a dreamer. As a child, he dreamt of airplanes, rockets, and outer space. When the wild card virus touched him and transformed him into a monstrous snail centaur weighing several tons, his boyhood dreams seemed out of reach, but a Witherspoon is not so easily defeated. Years and decades passed, and Theodorus grew to maturity and came into his fortune . . . but still his dream endured.But now when he looked upward into the night sky, he saw more than just the moon . . . he saw a joker homeland, a refuge where the outcast children of the wild card could make a place of their own, safe from hate and harm. An impossible dream, some said. Others, alarmed by the prospect, brought all their power to bear to oppose him. Theodorus persisted . . .. . . never dreaming that the Moon was already inhabited. And the Moon Maid did not want company.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Jokers Wild (Wild Cards III)
by George R. R. MartinOn Wild Card Day, an evil genius unleashes the forces of darkness under the streets of Manhattan.