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 Member Posts: 7 Location: Washington, DC | Colonel Pyat Quartet by Michael Moorcock: Byzantium Endures (1981) -- I just got a newly republished 2012 edition, which is why I am asking  ) The Laughter of Carthage (1984) Jerusalem Commands (1992) The Vengeance of Rome (2006) | ||
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 Member Posts: 27  Location: Canada | Re: Emil's request If you havent got the Homecoming series uploaded yet (didnt appear to be the other day, but havent checked every thread) here are all but the last (which I havent read yet) The Memory of Earth (Homecoming Volume 1) (1992) High above the planet harmony, the Oversoul watches. Its task, programmed so many millennia ago, is to guard the human settlement on this planet to protect this fragile remnant of Earth from all threats. To protect them, most of all, from themselves. The oversoul has done its job well. There is no war on Harmony. There are no weapons of mass destruction. There is no technology that could lead to weapons of war. By control of the data banks, and subtle interference in the very thoughts of the people, the artificial intelligence has fulfilled its mission. But now there is a problem. In orbit, the Oversoul realizes that it has lost access to some of its memory banks, and some of its power systems are failing. And on the planet, men are beginning to think about power, wealth, and conquest. The Call of Earth (Homecoming Volume 2) (1993) As Harmony's Oversoul grows weaker, a great warrior has arisen to challenge its bans. His name is Moozh, and he has won control of an army using forbidden technology. Now he is aiming his soldiers at the city of Basilica, that strong fortress above the Plain. Basilica remains in turmoil. Wetchik and his sons are not strong enough to stop an army. Can Rasa and her allies defeat him through intrigue, or will Moozh take the city and all who are in it? The Ships of Earth (Homecoming Volume 3) (1994) The city of Basilica has fallen. Now, Wetchik, Nafai, and all their family must brave the desert wastes, and cross the wide continents to where Harmony's hidden spaceport lies silent, abandoned, waiting for the command to make the great interstellar ships ready for flight again. But of these sixteen people, only a few have chosen their exile. The others, Rasa's spiteful daughters and their husbands; Wetchik's oldest son, Elemak, have been forced against their will. Their anger and hatreds will make the difficult journey harder. Earthfall (Homecoming Volume 4) (1995) The oversoul of the colony planet Harmony selected the family of Wetchik to carry it back to long-lost earth. Now grown into a tribe in the years of their journey to Harmony's hidden starport, they are ready at last to take a ship to the stars. But from the beginning there has been bitter dispute between nafai and Elemek, Wetchik's youngest son and his oldest. But the oversoul is truly in control of this journey. It has downloaded a complete copy of itself to the ship's computers. And only Nafai, who wears the Cloack of the Starmaster by the Oversoul's command, really understands what this will mean to all their plans for the future. Book cover images (hopefully) below (Card homecoming3.jpg) Attachments ----------------  Card homecoming3.jpg (40KB - 0 downloads) | ||
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Member Posts: 27 Location: Canada | Also by OSC, and worth a listing, is his take on the Baba Yaga myth Enchantment (1999) The moment young Ivan stumbled upon a clearing in the dense Carpathian forest, his life was forever changed. Atop a pedestal encircled by fallen leaves, the beautiful princess Katerina lay as still as death while a malevolent presence stirred in the hidden depths below. Now, years later, Ivan is compelled to return. He finds the clearing just as he left it. This time he does not run... (Card Enchanted.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Card Enchanted.jpg (47KB - 0 downloads) | ||
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Member Posts: 27 Location: Canada | Another Orson Scott Card... Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996) ...interweaves a compelling portrait of Chriostopher Columbus with the story of a future scientist who believes she can alter human history from a tragedy of bloodshed and brutality to a world filled with hope and healing. (Card Pastwatch.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Card Pastwatch.jpg (45KB - 0 downloads) | ||
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Member Posts: 27 Location: Canada | More OSC to add (if you don't mind) The Worthing Saga (1978) It was a miracle of science that permitted human beings to live, if not forever, then for a long, long time. Some people, anyway. The rich, the powerful they lived their lives at the rate of one year every ten. Somec created two societies: that of people who lived out their normal span and died, and those who slept away the decades, skipping over the intervening years and events. It allowed great plans to be put in motion. It allowed interstellar Empires to be built. It came near to destroying humanity. After a long, long time of decadence and stagnation, a few seed ships were sent out to save our species. They carried human embryos and supplies, and teaching robots, and one man. (Card Worthing saga.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Card Worthing saga.jpg (45KB - 0 downloads) | ||
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Member Posts: 27 Location: Canada | And OSC's latest series... Empire (The Empire Series Book 1) (2006) The American Empire is growing too fast, and the fault lines at home are stressed to the breaking point. The war of words between Right and Left has collapsed into a shooting war, though most people just want to be left alone. The battle rages between the high-technology weapons on one side and militia soldiers on the other, devastating the cities and overrunning the countryside. But the vast majority, who only want the killing to stop and the nation to return to more peaceful days, have technology, weapons, and strategic geniuses of their own. Hidden Empire (The Empire Series Book 2) (2009) When the American dream shatters into violence, who can hold the people and the government together? Now a threat has appeared in Africa one that President Torrent has been waiting for. A deadly virus running like wildfire, killing nearly everyone who contracts it. Torrent's plan is to consolidate America's new imperial power by taking control of the chaos and finding an American cure. And, incidentally, to remove some troublesome former allies from the playing board. For good. (Card Empire1-2.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Card Empire1-2.jpg (84KB - 0 downloads) | ||
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Member Posts: 27 Location: Canada | This is highly recommended for the next "halloween" read. RAYMOND E FEIST Faerie Tale (1988) Phil Hastings was a lucky man he had money, a growing reputation as a screenwriter, a happy, loving family with three kids, and he'd just moved into the house of his dreams in rural upstate New York. Life was wonderful, full of magic and about to be altered irrevocably by a magic more real than any he dared imagine. For with the Magic came the Bad Thing, and the Faerie, and then the Fool... and the resurrection of a primordial war with a forgotten People a war that not only the Hastings but the whole human race could lose. (Feist FaerieTale.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Feist FaerieTale.jpg (87KB - 0 downloads) | ||
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Member Posts: 27 Location: Canada | Hi again Here is my list of overlooked Larry Niven (& co-authored) novels. KNOWN SPACE (Ringworld Prequels) LARRY NIVEN AND EDWARD M. LERNER Fleet of Worlds (2007) Humanity has been faithfully serving the Citizens for years, and Kirsten Quinn-Kovacs is among the best and brightest of her people. She gratefully serves the gentle race that rescued her ancestors from a dying starship, gave them a world, and nurtures them still. If only the Citizens knew where Kirsten's people came from. A chain reaction of supernovae at the galaxy's core has unleashed a wave of lethal radiation that will sterilize the galaxy. The Citizens flee, taking their planets, the Fleet of Worlds, with them. Someone must scout ahead, and Kirsten and her crew eagerly volunteer. Under the guiding eye of Nessus, their Citizen mentor, they explore for any possible dangers in the Fleet's path - and uncover long-hidden truths that will shake the foundations of worlds. LARRY NIVEN AND EDWARD M. LERNER Juggler of Worlds (2008) For too long, the Puppeteers have controlled the fate of worlds. Now Sigmund is pulling the strings... Covert agent Sigmund Ausfaller is Earth's secret weapon, humanity's best defense against all conspiracies, real and potential - and imaginary - of foes both human and alien. Who better than a brilliant paranoid to expose the devious plots of others? He may finally have met his match in Nessus, representative of the secretive Puppeteers, the elder race who wield vastly superior technologies. Nessus schemes in the shadows with Earth's traitors and adversaries, even after the race he represents abruptly vanishes from Known Space. As a paranoid, Sigmund had always known things would end horribly for him. Only the when, where, how, why, and by whom of it all had eluded him. But even Sigmund has never imagined how far his investigations will take him - or that his destiny is entwined with the fates of worlds. LARRY NIVEN AND EDWARD M. LERNER Destroyer of Worlds (2009) The brilliant, xenophobic Pak are fleeing the chain reaction of supernovae at the galaxy's core. Any civilization that could possibly interfere lies shattered in their wake. And now the Fleet of Worlds is in their sights. The trillion Puppeteers who inhabit the Fleet might have the resources to confront this threat - but Puppeteers don't confront anyone. They need allies to investigate the situation and then take action. Sigmund Ausfaller, former Earth intelligence agent and current paranoid, finds himself leading the war against the Pak. With his own allies the enigmatic, aquatic Gw'oth Sigmund prepares to face the enemy. And neither humans nor Gw'oth have any intention of becoming cannon fodder. (NivenLerner Fleet.jpg) Attachments ---------------- NivenLerner Fleet.jpg (89KB - 0 downloads) | ||
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Member Posts: 27 Location: Canada | This one has been very overlooked. LARRY NIVEN, JERRY POURNELLE, MICHAEL FLYNN Fallen Angels (1991) As a new Ice Age imperils the world, a lunatic fringe of the environmental movement has taken control of the U.S. government. Finding themselves abandoned by the new regime, the once-thriving space colonies must now replenish their air from scoopships that illegally dive into the atmosphere. But when Alex and Gordon's ship is hit by a missile, they are sent tumbling to Earth - only to be hunted by authorities with ghastly plans for the two... (Niven et al Fallen Angels.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Niven et al Fallen Angels.jpg (43KB - 0 downloads) | ||
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Member Posts: 27 Location: Canada | LARRY NIVEN AND STEVEN BARNES Saturn's Race (2001) The future is a strange and dangerous place. Chaz Kato can testify to that. He is a citizen of Xanudu, a city-sized artificial island populated by some of the wealthiest men and women on future Earth. A place filled with hidden wonders and dark secrets of technology gone awry. Lenore Myles is a student when she travels to Xanadu and becomes involved with Chaz Kato. She is shocked when she uses Kato's access codes to uncover the grizzly truth behind Xanadu's glittering facade. Not knowing who to trust, Lenore finds herself on the run. Saturn, a mysterious entity, moves aggressively to break the security breach. With interests of the world's wealthiest people at stake, and powerful technology at its fingertips, Saturn, puts Lenore racing for her life, against a truly formidable foe. (Niven Barnes Saturns Race_.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Niven Barnes Saturns Race_.jpg (49KB - 0 downloads) | ||
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Member Posts: 27 Location: Canada | Read a lot of Moorcock as a teen, borrowing from the local library. So I don't have many that I can scan and forward. An exception... MICHAEL MOORCOCK THE CHRONICLES OF CASTLE BRASS (Omnibus of: Count Brass, The Champion of Garathorm, and The Quest for Tanelorn) In the wild marshlands of the Kamarg... Five years after the Battle of Londra and the destruction of the Dark Empire, Castle Brass is rebuilt, and there Dorian Hawkmoon lives with his beautiful wife Yisselda, Count Brasss daughter, and their two children. Suddenly their peaceful life is interrupted as ghosts from Hawkmoons past his old friends DAverc, Bowgentle, and Oladahn, his old enemies Baron Kalan of Vitall and Taragorn, Master of the Palace of Time, even Count Brass himself appear to sweep Hawkmoon back in time to do battle once more against the forces of evil... (Moorcock.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Moorcock.jpg (33KB - 0 downloads) | ||
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