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Jon Walter
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Samuel and his younger brother, Joshua, are free black boys living in an orphanage during the Civil War, but when Samuel takes the blame for his brother's prank, he is sent South, given a new name, and sold into slavery--and somehow he must survive both captivity and the war, to find his way back to his brother.
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Series
Publisher
Random House Worlds
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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The time of reckoning is close at hand. Events in the New York Times bestselling Star Wars The New Jedi Order series take a decisive turn, as the heroes of the New Republic prepare for their most volatile clash yet with the enemy—from without and within.
In the war against the ruthless Yuuzhan Vong, the fall of Coruscant leaves the New Republic divided by internal strife, and on the verge of bowing to conquest. But those...
In the war against the ruthless Yuuzhan Vong, the fall of Coruscant leaves the New Republic divided by internal strife, and on the verge of bowing to conquest. But those...
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Worlds
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
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No Star Wars fan will want to miss this exciting eBook exclusive adventure from Nebula Award-winner Walter Jon Williams, author of the Star Wars The New Jedi Order hardcover novel, Destiny’s Way.
That’s Jedi Knight Kyp Durron’s opinion about the planet Ylesia, home base of the so-called Peace Brigade, a group of traitors dedicated to hindering the war efforts of the New...
That’s Jedi Knight Kyp Durron’s opinion about the planet Ylesia, home base of the so-called Peace Brigade, a group of traitors dedicated to hindering the war efforts of the New...
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Walter Jon Williams
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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"Walter Jon Williams is a visionary of tremendous power and originality . . . He kills every damn time."—Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning authorGame designer Dagmar Shaw is skilled at creating vast online entertainments with millions of players. But Dagmar is haunted by her past, and by memories of a burning city, and of the friends who died as a bloody vengeance plot played to its conclusion around her.Dagmar is an expert at manipulating the...
Author
Publisher
Walter Jon Williams
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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"Walter Jon Williams is a visionary of tremendous power and originality . . . He kills every damn time."—Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning authorSean Makin was a washed-up child actor, until Dagmar Shaw made him a star. Now he's starring in a big-budget action thriller that offers him the chance to become a box-office titan.Except the action and the thrills aren't just in the movie. Dangerous and destabilizing new technology is floating around...
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Dread empire's fall volume 2
Publisher
HarperTorch
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The Dread Empire of the Shaa is no more, following the death of the last oppressor. But freedom remains elusive for the myriad sentient races enslaved for ten centuries, as an even greater terror arises. The Naxids- a powerful insectoid species themselves subjugated until the recent Shaa demise- plan to fill the vacuum with their own bloody domination, and have already won a shattering victory with superior force and unimaginable cruelty. But two...
7) The praxis
Author
Series
Dread empire's fall volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
All will must bend to the perfect truth of The Praxis. For millennia, the Shaa have subjugated the universe, forcing the myriad sentient races to bow to their joyless tyranny. But the Shaa will soon be no more. The dread empire is in its rapidly fading twilight, and with its impending fall comes the promise of a new galactic order... and bloody chaos. A young Terran naval officer marked by his lowly birth, Lt. Gareth Martinez is the first to recognize...
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Series
Star Wars the new Jedi order volume 14
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
As events build towards a massive battle to save the New Republic from the Yuuzhan Vong, involving characters from many books in the various Star wars series, the question arises: will the New Republic unleash a weapon of genocidal mass destruction and thus become the thing it has sworn to fight against?
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Having 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...
Author
Publisher
Walter Jon Williams
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"Walter Jon Williams is a visionary of tremendous power and originality . . . He kills every damn time."—Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning authorDagmar Shaw is back in Hollywood, with a plan to lasso a series of emerging technologies into a revolutionary new form of entertainment.Sean Makin is a washed-up child actor clinging to life on reality television, until Dagmar offers him the chance to be a star.Sean's past, however, holds the darkest...
11) Metropolitan
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Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Aiah has fought her way out of poverty and discovers a limitless source of plasm, the mysterious substance that powers the world-city. Her discovery soon involves her with Constantine, the charismatic, dangerous, seductive revolutionary who plans to overthrow the government and upend the cosmic order.
Author
Publisher
Walter Jon Williams
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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"Walter Jon Williams is a visionary of tremendous power and originality . . . He kills every damn time."—Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief, Wonderful Life of Oscar WaoWhen you play one of Dagmar's online games, you can't just shut down the computer and walk away. The games pursue you into real life: you start getting emails and phone calls from fictional characters, perfect strangers ask you to help solve their problems, and...
13) Wild cards I
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories about heroes gifted with strange, superhuman powers.
14) Rogues
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Twenty-one all-original stories, by an all-star list of contributors, will delight and astonish you in equal measure with their cunning twists and dazzling reversals. And George R. R. Martin himself offers a brand-new A Game of Thrones tale chronicling one of the biggest rogues in the entire Ice and Fire saga.