The inhuman Rulers of the galaxy sent three fleets to learn what had happened to the world located by Captain North and the Survey Team he led. Neither a soul nor a message returned. The fourth time, the Rulers sent a single man: Nils Hansen.
Commissioner Hansen had a mind that saw the shortest path to each task's completion and a ruthless determination to do what the task required. The cost - to himself and whoever happened to be in the way - didn't matter. Hanson's Special Units had kept his planet safe from the most sophisticated and violent criminals in the galaxy. Now Hansen was being sent to penetrate a spacetime enigma which had made gods or demons of the first humans to discover it. He would succeed or die.
Northworld: a place of slashing violence and mystic transformation
Northworld: a place of treachery and dazzling beauty
Northworld: a place of honor, of faith, and of love.
Northworld: a place of treachery and dazzling beauty
Northworld: a place of honor, of faith, and of love.
Hansen's iron will and strong arm confront godlike power and godlike cunning while a galaxy trembles for the outcome. And if Hansen dies - he will not die alone!
Praise for The Northworld Trilogy:
"Down and dirty . . . this one blazes!" — Los Angeles Daily News
"Fast-paced adventure with convincing depth!"
—Publishers Weekly
—Publishers Weekly
"Good military SF . . . the action is fast and the tension is high!"
— Locus
— Locus
" Northworld is that rare work-a novel that works on more than one level. A stunning tapestry . . . highly recommended!" — The SFRA Newsletter
Click the above link to go to Baen's site and download the free novel in numerous ebook formats or if you don't have an ebook reader, you can download it as html or micosoft word rtf format.
A review from their site is below.
Paradise Lost
In the future there is no want, no war, no disease nor ill-timed death. The world is a paradise—and then, in a moment, it ends. The council that controls the Net falls out and goes to war. Everywhere people who have never known a moment of want or pain are left wondering how to survive.
But scattered across the face of the earth are communities which have returned to the natural life of soil and small farm. In the village of Raven's Mill, Edmund Talbot, master smith and unassuming historian, finds that all the problems of the world are falling in his lap. Refugees are flooding in, bandits are roaming the woods, and his former lover and his only daughter struggle through the Fallen landscape. Enemies, new and old, gather like jackals around a wounded lion.
But what the jackals do not know is that while old he may be, this lion is far from death. And hidden in the past is a mystery that has waited until this time to be revealed. You cross Edmund Talbot at your peril, for a smith is not all he once was. . . .
Praise for the Science Fiction of John Ringo
"MARVELOUS!" —David Weber
"Explosive. . . . Fans of strong military SF will appreciate Ringo's lively narrative and flavorful characters. . . . One of the best new practitioners of military SF." —Publishers Weekly
". . . since his imagination, clearly influenced by Kipling and rock and roll, is fertile, and his storytelling skill sound, [When the Devil Dances] is irresistible."—Booklist
". . . fast-paced military sf peopled with three-dimensional characters and spiced with personal drama as well as tactical finesse." —Library Journal
"If Tom Clancy were writing SF, it would read much like John Ringo . . . good reading with solid characterizations—a rare combination." —Philadelphia Weekly Press
"Ringo provides a textbook example of how a novel in the military SF subgenre should be written. . . . Crackerjack storytelling." —Starlog
Published 11/1/2003
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Astounding Stories of Super Science was a Golden Age Magazine featuring many of the greatest writers of the genres of that time. Below are links to an issue of it.
- The Beetle Horde / Victor Rousseau
- The Cave Of Horror / Captain S. P. Meek
- Phantoms Of Reality / Ray Cummings
- The Stolen Mind / M. L. Staley
- Compensation / C. V. Tench
- Tanks / Murray Leinster
- Invisible Death / Anthony Pelcher
I thought you'd enjoy this link to the Golden Age author Ray Cummings: https://archive.org/details/TheFirePeopleByRayCummings-All-storyWeekly-Oct21ThruNov181922
All-Story Weekly - Oct 21 thru Nov 18, 1922 - [Only Contains - The Fire People by Ray Cummings] - 110 pages
PLOT: Invasion from Mercury. This is how the invasion began. The farmer saw a huge fire burning near the center of his field. "It was circular in form and about thirty feet in diameter. He was astonished to see it there, but what surprised him more was its peculiar aspect." A glow began to emanate from it. The thing was later to be called the "Mercutian Light". And whatever entered the light was destroyed.
The fate of the Earth was in the hands of Bob Trevor, a newspaperman, Professor Newland, and others. Would the Earth be saved from the invaders from Mercury?
Is this story similar to H G Wells' War of the Worlds? Read it to find out.
Ray Cummings was called the "American H.G. Wells" and one of the "founding fathers of the science fiction pulp genre". THE FIRE PEOPLE is one of his early space adventures. It was originally serialized in 5 parts in All-Story Weekly Magazine (Oct 21 thru Nov 18, 1922). This upload only contains the complete text of "The Fire People." There are no other stories from All-Story Magazine.
Available in quite a few formats for e-reading.
Below is a link to one of his stories, which also includes some illustrations.
www.wondersmith.com/scifi/madplan.htm
Try the following link for a copy of Edgar Rice Burroughs Pellucidar a story of the Center of the Earth. A very fun series.
http://sfbook.com/pellucidar.htm
October 25, 2013
Check out Henry Kuttner's novel "The Dark World," which is a fine adventure fantasy about parallel worlds.
October 19, 2013
Another great novel to read. One of his finest. Was made into a great sci-fi movie back in the sixties by Ray Harryhausen. "The Mysterious Island."
Click the link below to get a free copy of this wonderful novel, generously offered by the Guttenberg Institute.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8993
October 11, 2013
I wanted to share some of the work that enthralled and pushed me to become a writer.
My first share can be found at the following link:
http://www.authorama.com/book/the-war-of-the-worlds.html
Yup! H.G.Wells, the author of the original War of the Worlds is in public domain, and available to read.
Enjoy!
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