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Edoardo Alessi, consulente finanziario di successo in crisi di identità, ritrova sette scatoloni pieni di diari, fotografie e lettere, conservati nella casa di montagna dei nonni paterni. I suoi scritti di gioventù si mescolano con le memorie del padre adolescente e rivoluzionario a formare una strana commistione di storie mai raccontate, sensi di colpa e recriminazioni. Il racconto di una storia familiare complessa. L'assenza dei genitori, mi...

Paratime Trouble is a new novel based on H. Beam Piper's Paratime series, featuring Verkan Vall and Dalla Hadron. Unfortunately for our two intrepid Paratimers, they both end up on the Beria Belt, where the Cuban Missile Crisis is going nuclear. Verkan has to find Dalla and bring her back to home before the whole time-line collapses into chaos!

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War World: The Patriotic Wars is the fourth volume in the grand reissue of the War World series presenting Haven's history in a chronological fashion. This new release is a collection of stories featuring the dissolution of the CoDominium, the Soviet/United States world government that has kept the peace for the past century.

THE SAURONS ARE HERE! The battle between the Sauron Coalition of Secession and the First Empire of Man in the twenty-seventh century ended in a war of extermination and the all-out bombardment of the planet Sauron. The only surviving Sauron spaceship, the Fomoria, is commanded by Vessel First Rank Galen Diettinger. Fleeing Imperial pursuit, the Saurons land on Haven, a hardscrabble world of extreme temperatures, hard radiation, deadly flora an...

SPACE VIKING'S THRONE by John F. Carr & Mike Robertson is the concluding sequel to The Last Space Viking, which is set at the end of the First Interregnum of H. Beam Piper's galaxy spanning Terro-Human Future History. A century after H. Beam Piper's seminal novel Space Viking, a new powerful entity, the Mardukan Empire, has arisen from the ashes of Lucas Trask's League of Civilized Worlds. This new Empire has set, as its primary mission: the c...

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Fitzgerald Baker may well have been conceived in an act of erotic terrorism. That was what his mother had told him and it can be verified that Felix Pendragon initiated her into the League of Erotic Terrorists. However, she was also known to sacrifice truth for entertainment in most of what she said." With these words, Phillip Wendell, lifestyle crisis counselor, relates to the reader the initial phase of the counseling of Fitzgerald Baker who...

On the pleasant backwater planet of Zarathustra, things had been relatively quiet since the famous duel between Jack Holloway and his recently discovered son, Morgan. Unless one considers the potential ramifications of the alien rocket ship discovered on the secondary landmass of Beta Continent.

In the far future, the normal rules have been turned upside down. When one of its denizens awakens from a stupor, he discovers he's in the Rainbow Room, filled with pitfalls where the first misstep will be the last. With the help of a mysterious and malevolent stranger, he manages to escape the Color Wheel, only to discover that the danger outside in the urbodes is omnipresent and difficult to evade.

FUZZY ERGO SUM by Wolfgang Diehr is the first new Fuzzy sequel in almost 30 years. This revised 2nd Edition continues H. Beam Piper's most well-known and beloved series, featuring the characters readers have come to know and love, Jack Holloway, Little Fuzzy, Victor Grego, et al., who all return in this new and exciting continuation of Piper's original novel, Little Fuzzy. Things have been quiet on Zarathustra-maybe too quiet-for the Colonial ...

Space Viking is recognized as one of H. Beam Piper's finest works and a science fiction classic. In the words of legendary SF Editor, John W. Campbell: "Space Viking itself is, I think, one of the classics-a yarn that will be cited, years hence, as one of the science-fiction classics. It's got solid philosophy for the mature thinker, and bang-bang-chop-'em-up action for the space-pirate fans. As a truly good yarn should have!" Lord Lucas Trask...

Time Crime" was originally published in "Astounding Science Fiction" in 1955 as a two-part serial. Many readers have long believed that this short novel was incomplete, due to its abrupt ending. Carr, who has continued Piper's Kalvan series, has written a new third part to this intriguing novel, adding vital information about the depths to which the Wizard Traders have infiltrated Home Time Line.

King Trask's plans for a new galaxy order are brought to a sudden halt when a new power emerges from the ashes of the Old Federation. Will King Rodrik the First of Tanith be able to salvage his grandfather's dream, or become a tool of the new Mardukan Empire? 294 pp.

WAR WORLD: TAKEOVER is the second volume in a grand reissue of War World that will present Haven's history in a chronological fashion for the very first time. Takeover is a trade hardcover volume and includes eight new stories as well as two previously published yarns. On Earth, overpopulation and rising nationalism require the resettlement of millions of troublesome minorities or the fragile peace between the USSR and the USA will go down in ...

The fourth book in the Kalvan Saga begins right after Kalvan Kingmaker's resounding military success over the invading nomad clans. Unfortunately, Kalvan has awakened the sleeping tiger of Styphon's House and it is out for blood.

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War World: Jihad! is the third volume in a grand reissue of the War World anthologies presenting Haven's history in a chronological fashion. Jihad! is a trade hardcover and includes seven new stories, a short novel and one previously published yarn. The CoDominium is fraying apart at the seams, and to save itself the Soviet/American coalition is exporting Earth's problems to the outer worlds, including exiling millions of Earth's fanatic Musli...

THE MERLIN GAMBIT by John F. Carr & Dietmar Wehr opens five years after the events in H. Beam Piper's classic novel, The Cosmic Computer. The planet Poictesme is in the middle of an economic boom and Conn Maxwell is both happily married and a new father. The Maxwell Plan is working even better than expected. Tri-System Interstellar spaceships are moving Poictesme's products throughout the Terran Federation and it looks like the bad times are f...

H. Beam Piper's The Cosmic Computer has long been recognized as a science fiction classic and a major foundation of Piper's Terro-Human Future History. The planet Poictesme was the headquarters of the Terran Federation Third Army-Fleet during the war against the System States Alliance. While Federation commander General Foxx Travis was preparing for the final phase of the war, his plans came to a sudden halt when the System States unexpectedly...