Julian Comstock

Julian Comstock
Author :
Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 704
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781429956543
ISBN-13 : 1429956542
Rating : 4/5 (43 Downloads)

Synopsis Julian Comstock by : Robert Charles Wilson

From Robert Charles Wilson, the Hugo Award-winning author of Spin, comes Julian Comstock, an exuberant adventure in a post-climate-change America. In the reign of President Deklan Comstock, a reborn United States is struggling back to prosperity. Over a century after the Efflorescence of Oil, after the Fall of the Cities, after the False Tribulation, after the days of the Pious Presidents, the sixty stars and thirteen stripes wave from the plains of Athabaska to the national capital in New York. In Colorado Springs, the Dominion sees to the nation's spiritual needs. In Labrador, the Army wages war on the Dutch. America, unified, is rising once again. Then out of Labrador come tales of the war hero "Captain Commongold." The masses follow his adventures in the popular press. The Army adores him. The President is...troubled. Especially when the dashing Captain turns out to be his nephew Julian, son of the President's late brother Bryce—a popular general who challenged the President's power, and paid the ultimate price. As Julian ascends to the pinnacle of power, his admiration for the works of the Secular Ancients sets him at fatal odds with the Dominion. Treachery and intrigue will dog him as he closes in on the accomplishment of his lifelong ambition: to make a film about the life of Charles Darwin. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Julian Comstock

Julian Comstock
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Publisher : Tor Science Fiction
Total Pages : 624
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0765359235
ISBN-13 : 9780765359230
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis Julian Comstock by : Robert Charles Wilson

From Robert Charles Wilson, the Hugo Award-winning author of Spin, comes Julian Comstock, an exuberant adventure in a post-climate-change America. In the reign of President Deklan Comstock, a reborn United States is struggling back to prosperity. Over a century after the Efflorescence of Oil, after the Fall of the Cities, after the False Tribulation, after the days of the Pious Presidents, the sixty stars and thirteen stripes wave from the plains of Athabaska to the national capital in New York. In Colorado Springs, the Dominion sees to the nation's spiritual needs. In Labrador, the Army wages war on the Dutch. America, unified, is rising once again. Then out of Labrador come tales of the war hero "Captain Commongold." The masses follow his adventures in the popular press. The Army adores him. The President is...troubled. Especially when the dashing Captain turns out to be his nephew Julian, son of the President's late brother Bryce—a popular general who challenged the President's power, and paid the ultimate price. As Julian ascends to the pinnacle of power, his admiration for the works of the Secular Ancients sets him at fatal odds with the Dominion. Treachery and intrigue will dog him as he closes in on the accomplishment of his lifelong ambition: to make a film about the life of Charles Darwin.

Shadow Captain

Shadow Captain
Author :
Publisher : Orbit
Total Pages : 398
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780316555685
ISBN-13 : 0316555681
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Shadow Captain by : Alastair Reynolds

The gripping sequel to the Locus award winning science fiction adventure, Revenger, tells a story of obsession and betrayal as two sisters hunt for the greatest treasure in the universe. Adrana and Fura Ness have finally been reunited, but both have changed beyond recognition. Once desperate for adventure, now Adrana is haunted by her enslavement on the feared pirate Bosa Sennen's ship. And rumors of Bosa Sennen's hidden cache of treasure have ensnared her sister, Fura, into single-minded obsession. Neither is safe; because the galaxy wants Bosa Sennen dead and they don't care if she's already been killed. They'll happily take whoever is flying her ship. Shadow Captain is a desperate story of cursed ships, vengeful corporations, and alien artifacts, of daring escapes and wealth beyond imagining . . . and of betrayal.

Julian Comstock: A Story of the 22nd Century

Julian Comstock: A Story of the 22nd Century
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Publisher : Hachette UK
Total Pages : 520
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780575117525
ISBN-13 : 0575117524
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis Julian Comstock: A Story of the 22nd Century by : Robert Charles Wilson

From the Hugo-winning author of Spin, an exuberant adventure in a post-climate-change America In the reign of President Deklan Comstock, a reborn United States is struggling back to prosperity. Over a century after the Efflorescence of Oil, after the Fall of the Cities, after the Plague of Infertility, after the False Tribulation, after the days of the Pious Presidents, the sixty stars and thirteen stripes wave from the plains of Athabaska to the national capital in New York City. In Colorado Springs, the Dominion sees to the nation's spiritual needs. In Labrador, the Army wages war on the Dutch. America, unified, is rising once again. Then out of Labrador come tales of a new Ajax-Captain Commongold, the Youthful Hero of the Saguenay. The ordinary people follow his adventures in the popular press. The Army adores him. The President is...troubled. Especially when the dashing Captain turns out to be his nephew Julian, son of the falsely accused and executed Bryce. Treachery and intrigue dog Julian's footsteps. Hairsbreadth escapes and daring rescues fill his days. Stern resolve and tender sentiment dice for Julian's soul, while his admiration for the works of the Secular Ancients, and his adherence to the evolutionary doctrines of the heretical Darwin, set him at fatal odds with the hierarchy of the Dominion. Plague and fire swirl around the Presidential palace when at last he arrives with the acclamation of the mob. As told by Julian's best friend and faithful companion, a rustic yet observant lad from the west, this tale of the 22nd Century asks- and answers-the age-old question: "Do you want to tell the truth, or do you want to tell a story?"

Burning Paradise

Burning Paradise
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 320
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780765332615
ISBN-13 : 0765332612
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis Burning Paradise by : Robert Charles Wilson

"Cassie [Iverson], eighteen years old, lives in the United States in the year 2014--but it's not our United States and it's not our 2014. Cassie's world has been at peace since the Great Armistice of 1914. But Cassie knows the world isn't what it seems. Her parents were part of a group who gradually discovered the awful truth: that for decades--back to the dawn of radio communications--human progress has been interfered with, made more peaceful and benign, by an extraterrestrial entity"--

Last Year

Last Year
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 298
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781466800786
ISBN-13 : 146680078X
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis Last Year by : Robert Charles Wilson

Two events made September 1st a memorable day for Jesse Cullum. First, he lost a pair of Oakley sunglasses. Second, he saved the life of President Ulysses S. Grant. In the near future of Robert Charles Wilson's Last Year, the technology exists to open doorways into the past--but not our past, not exactly. Each "past" is effectively an alternate world, identical to ours but only up to the date on which we access it. And a given "past" can only be reached once. After a passageway is open, it's the only road to that particular past; once closed, it can't be reopened. A passageway has been opened to a version of late 19th-century Ohio. It's been in operation for most of a decade, but it's no secret, on either side of time. A small city has grown up around it to entertain visitors from our time, and many locals earn a good living catering to them. But like all such operations, it has a shelf life; as the "natives" become more sophisticated, their version of the "past" grows less attractive as a destination. Jesse Cullum is a native. And he knows the passageway will be closing soon. He's fallen in love with a woman from our time, and he means to follow her back--no matter whose secrets he has to expose in order to do it. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Julian Comstock

Julian Comstock
Author :
Publisher : Heyne Verlag
Total Pages : 527
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9783641035433
ISBN-13 : 3641035430
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis Julian Comstock by : Robert Charles Wilson

Ein neuer Bürgerkrieg - ein neuer Held Infolge einer Wirtschaftskrise greift eine religiöse Clique nach der Macht in Washington – mit verheerenden Konsequenzen: Das Land versinkt in einem Bürgerkrieg, der auf frappierende Weise an den letzten erinnert. Und inmitten der Wirren dieses Krieges findet sich Julian Comstock wieder, Held wider Willen und möglicher Schlüssel für eine neue Art der Zivilisation ...

Julian

Julian
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 86
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1905834276
ISBN-13 : 9781905834273
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis Julian by : Robert Charles Wilson

Darwinia

Darwinia
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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages : 322
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781429956185
ISBN-13 : 1429956186
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Darwinia by : Robert Charles Wilson

In 1912, history was changed by the Miracle, when the old world of Europe was replaced by Darwinia, a strange land of nightmarish jungle and antedeluvian monsters. To some, the Miracle is an act of divine retribution; to others, it is an opportunity to carve out a new empire. Leaving American now ruled by religious fundamentalism, young Guilford Law travels to Darwinia on a mission of discovery that will take him further than he can possibly imagine...to a shattering revelation about mankind's destiny in the universe. Darwinia is a 1999 Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Affinities

The Affinities
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 302
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780765332622
ISBN-13 : 0765332620
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis The Affinities by : Robert Charles Wilson

After becoming a part of the Tau, one of twenty-two large global network Affinities in the near future, young Adam Fisk thinks his life has improved for the better until the different Affinities begin to go to war with one another in a conflict that will change Adam's world forever.