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Large print edition, with easy-to-read text, of Payn's classic work.

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Rarely do books have such a great influence on a genre as Lest Darkness Fall has had on science fiction. Frequently quoted as one of the 'favorite' books of many of the masters of the field, this book by L. Sprague de Camp helped establish time-travel as a solid sub-genre of science fiction. ** An indication of the influence and longevity of the book is by the number of best-selling writers who have written stories in direct response to, or in...

Another mind-bending science fiction epic from a true visionary, Centuries explores a barely recognizable future where humans control their own evolution. Genetic manipulation and artificial intelligence shape an astounding destiny for our species. *** With these wondrous changes come unexpected new truths of heart and mind that challenge the very definition of human-and that threaten not only our existence but the universe itself as our surpr...

One of the original novels of post-nuclear holocaust America, The Long Tomorrow is considered by many to be one of the finest science fiction novels ever written on the subject. The story has inspired generations of new writers and is still as mesmerizing today as when it was originally written. ** Len and Esau are young cousins living decades after a nuclear war has destroyed civilization as we know. The rulers of the post-war community have ...

Mr. Charlie is a brain without a body, revived after being frozen for a thousand years. ** Charlie Outis has no idea of what the world might be like in the far future after he decides to have his brain frozen with the slim hope of it being revived one day. ** But even a thousand years from now, brains are a valuable commodity-even brains without heads. But who does the brain belong to? And who controls a mind without a body. ** Solis is a thou...

A virtual-reality novel from a time before virtual reality, Simulacron-3 is a prophetic tale of a future where nothing is as it appears to be. *** Douglas Hall is part of a team that builds an artificial environment to simulate reality. This enables them to get public opinion polls without waiting for the opinions of people around them. But then something goes terribly wrong and his partners on the program start disappearing. *** But is it a s...

Space travel is tough. No air, cosmic radiation, absolute lack of other life-sustaining essentials. *** What better way to deal with space travel than to man ships with creatures that regenerate or don't need air, or are immune to various maladies? *** In a future world where zombies, vampires and werewolves co-exist with 'normal' humans on Earth, these ships are staffed by a motley crew of various types of undead or near-dead creatures. *** O...

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A scientist from Earth at heart, Rod Gallowglass has come to terms with the "magic" of Gramarye, and is just beginning to understand his own powers. *** But when his family accidentally goes through a portal to what appears to be an alternate universe, he must follow them into a world where magic really does seem to work and where the laws of the universe seem to have been rewritten. *** Bringing his renowned blend of science fiction a...

Full legnth book, typset in special newspaper (journal) column style.

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Special Student Edition has a special margin on each page to allow students to make notations. Complete translated text with an introduction on the life of Machiavelli.

For the first time ever, three of the greatest treatises on politics and war ever written, in one beautiful volume.******This book contains the complete texts of Machiavelli's The Prince and Jomini's The Art of War, and an abridged version of On War by Clausewitz.

This edition faithfully reprints the full text of the classic translation by W.K. Marriott with the translator's introduction. It also includes two additional pieces by Machiavelli. The first provides a fascinating description of the methods of murder adopted by Duke Valentino, and the second is a writing on the life of Castruccio Castracani of Lucca.****** Machiavelli's The Prince is the ultimate guide to power politics and is still considere...

A fascinating collection of early speeches to Parliament from perhaps the greatest orator and statesman of the twentieth century and the winner of the 1953 Nobel Prize in Literature. **** In 1904 Winston S. Churchill crossed the parliamentary floor and became a member of the Liberal Party. When the Liberals took office, Churchill became the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies becoming the most prominent member of the Government outside t...

A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy ISSUE 21: July 2016 Mike Resnick, Editor Jean Rabe, Assistant Editor Shahid Mahmud, Publisher Stories by: Martin L. Shoemaker, Thomas K. Carpenter, Nancy Kress, George Nikolopoulos, Eric Leif Davin, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, George Eklund, Alex Shvartsman, David Gerrold, Larry Hodges, Michael Swanwick Serialization: The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett Columns by: Barry Malzberg,...

Excursions contains the complete texts of nine of Thoreau's most popular essays. These include Natural History of Massachusetts, his first essay to appear in The Dial (a quarterly periodical edited by Margaret Fuller), as well as other well known early works like A Winter Walk and The Landlord. Later works include his famous essays Walking, Autumnal Tints and Wild Apples, the last of which was based on a lecture he gave during the Concord Lyce...

Large print edition, with easy-to-read text, of Ouida's classic work.

Large print edition, with easy-to-read text, of Kingsley's classic work.