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Janette Oke has dreamed for years of retelling a story in a biblical time frame from a female protagonist's perspective, and Davis Bunn is elated to be working with her again on this sweeping saga of the dramatic events surrounding the birth of Christianity...and the very personal story of Leah, a young Jewess of mixed heritage trapped in a vortex of competing political agendas and private trauma. Caught up in the maelstrom following the death of an obscure rabbi in the Roman backwater of first-century Palestine, Leah finds herself also engulfed in her own turmoil--facing the prospect of an arranged marriage to a Roman soldier, Alban, who seems to care for nothing but his own ambitions. Head of the garrison near Galilee, he has been assigned by Palestine's governor to ferret out the truth behind rumors of a political execution gone awry. Leah's mistress, the governor's wife, secretly commissions Leah also to discover what really has become of this man whose death--and missing body--is causing such furor. This epic drama is threaded with the tale of an unlikely romance and framed with dangers and betrayals from unexpected sources. At its core, The Centurion's Wife unfolds the testing of loyalties--between two young people whose inner searchings they cannot express, between their irreconcilable heritages, and ultimately between their humanity and the Divine they yearn to encounter.

Jim Bayless dreams of nothing beyond the perfect marriage with Alyson. It fills the whole horizon of his thinking. So...how does he react when mysterious sudden catastrophe comes from out of nowhere to jeopardize all his dreams, his life...? Out of his despair, with Alyson's unexpected help, Jim goes after answers. But with each step forward the mystery only grows murkier, each adventure riskier than the last. Until what Jim finds at last is so startling it changes his whole concept of himself... Changes the world's concept of itself.

A mission bound in secrecy to explore the virgin planet, Earth. Bot, the only successful candidate, thought he was writing a history for this planet, not until he discovered that he was not the first, nor will he be alone as he thought. What happened to his home planet? Why is he travelling to Earth? Who was there with him? And most importantly, When ?

We all know that Google stores huge amounts of information about everyone who uses its search tools, that Amazon can recommend new books to us based on our past purchases, and that the U.S. government engaged in many data-mining activities during the Bush administration to acquire information about us, including involving telecommunications companies in monitoring our phone calls (currently the subject of a bill in Congress). Control over access to our bodies and to special places, like our homes, has traditionally been the focus of concerns about privacy, but access to information about us is raising new challenges for those anxious to protect our privacy. In Privacy Rights, Adam Moore adds informational privacy to physical and spatial privacy as fundamental to developing a general theory of privacy that is well grounded morally and legally.

In this volume the author describes more than 3000 short stories, novels, and plays with science fiction elements, from earliest times to 1930. He includes imaginary voyages, utopias, Victorian boys' books, dime novels, pulp magazine stories, British scientific romances and mainstream work with science fiction elements. Many of these publications are extremely rare, surviving in only a handful of copies, and most of them have never been described before.

INDEX CHAPTER I There Comes a New World CHAPTER II Escape CHAPTER III The Space Terror CHAPTER IV The Rescue in Space CHAPTER V The "Dark Moon" CHAPTER VI Trapped CHAPTER VII In the Labyrinth CHAPTER VIII The Half-Men CHAPTER IX The Throwers of Thunder CHAPTER X "But Awfully Dumb...." CHAPTER XI "Nothing to Be Done" A SCIENTIFIC HELL When Caverns Yawned By Captain S. P. Meek The Exile of Time PART TWO OF A FOUR-PART NOVEL By Ray Cummings WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE CHAPTER VIII The Murder of Major Atwood CHAPTER IX Migul—Mechanism Almost Human CHAPTER X Events Engraven on the Scroll of Time CHAPTER XI Back to the Beginning of Time CHAPTER XII A Billion Years in An Hour! CHAPTER XIII In the Burned Forest When the Moon Turned Green By Hal K. Wells The Death-Cloud By Nat Schachner and Arthur L. Zagat A BEE'S BREATH "The Readers' Corner"

"My God!" he yelled. "What's happening now?" Stevens stared. Then he started abruptly to his feet. Even afterwards, when he looked back on the incident, he could never actually decide what really happened. He had a persistent, oddly unshakable memory of a man flowing suddenly into liquid. Inside the blue and gray uniform of the Interstellar Passenger Service, the man began to melt, to change into a thick gooey substance that dripped and trickled away between the rising pillars of steel. Desperately, he fought down the rising sense of nausea that tugged at the muscles of his stomach. The picture was so utterly impossible that he screwed his eyes tightly to shut it out of his mind. When he looked again, there was nothing there and Blair was looking across at him, his jaw slack and an expression of stark disbelief in his dark eyes.

To save humanity, she must become the machine. Lizzie's squadron of elite starfighter pilots is the only thing standing between Earth and annihilation. But to stop the alien invasion, she must fight at near-light speeds, merging her mind with her starfighter's AI. With every new battle, she loses another piece of her humanity, and the world that she's fighting for slips further into the past. This story was originally published in issue 12 (August 2019) of Serial Magazine.