This is the sequel to The Mote in God's Eye. Humankind has spent 100 years agonizing over the threat posed by the only aliens they have ever threatened, the Moties. The three-armed aliens have been quarantined within the confines of their own solar system - until now.

The Moat Around Murcheson's Eye

Science Fiction & Fantasy

LARRY NIVEN

Jerry Pournelle

Science Fiction

Orbit

As the Angostin battle hordes surge over the Southern Borders of the Highlands, the bandit, Jarek Mace, and his friend, the magicker and bard Owen Odell find themselves in a country in desperate need of heroes. The invaders have no respect for person or place, stealing and laying waste to everything in their path. Behind them evil sorcery is unleashed as a mad necromancer brings back to halflife the eons-dead Vampyre Kings. Only Mace has the courage to stand up to the Angostins and the Undead: soon he is hailed as a figure of myth, the legendary Morningstar come to save his people once more. But only one person really knows Mace: Odell remembers how the now famous bandit was once but a thief and philanderer, who would as soon cut a purse string or a throat for the price of a meal. As the final climactic battle approaches and strange manifestations occur, Odell wonders which of the two Maces will triumph: the self-serving thief or the saviour of his people, the Morningstar.

MORNINGSTAR

Gemmell,David

Fantasy

The Legend Druss, Captain of the Axe: the stories of his life were told everywhere. Instead of the wealth and fame he could have claimed, he had chosen a mountain lair, high in the lonely country bordering on the clouds. There the grizzled old warrior kept company with snow leopards and awaited his old enemy death. The Fortress Mighty Dros Delnoch, protected by six outer walls, the only route by which an army could pass through the mountains. It was the stronghold of the Drenai empire. And now it was the last battleground, for all else had fallen before the Nadir hordes. And hope rested on the skills of that one old man...

LEGEND

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

The Seventh Son

Card,Orson Scott

First King of Shannara

Brooks,Terry

Over and again, the aged seeress Tamis scried all the possible tomorrows. In every one, dark forces threatened Greece; terrible evil was poised to reenter the world. The future held only one hope: a half-caste Spartan boy, Parmenion. So Tamis made it her mission to see that Parmenion would before the deadliest warrior in the world -- no matter what the cost.Raised to manhood in Sparta, bullied and forced to fight for his life every day, Parmenion had no notion of the unseen dimensions of magic and mystery that shaped his fate. He grew in strength and cunning. His military genius earned him the title Strategos in Sparta. His triumphs for the city of Thebes made him a hero. And finally his fate led him to the service of Philip of Macedon.As Tamis had foreseen, Parmenion's destiny was tied to the Dark God, to Philip, and to the yet-unborn Alexander. All too soon the future was upon them. Parmenion stood poised to defeat evil -- or to open the gate for the Dark God to reenter the world.

LION OF MACEDON 1

DAVID GEMMELL

THE DARK PRINCE

Short stories deal with genetically altered humans, cyborgs, space travel, a world governed by multinational corporations

Crystal Express

bruce-sterling

Shadow's Edge: The Night Angel Trilogy, 2

WEEKS, BRENT

Poetry WINTER THE UNWELCOME VISITOR is a five section poetic cycle amending the ordinary with the extraordinary The work shows versatility in style and form and yet maintains poetic excellence a careful balance of metaphor imagery and thought Always experimental there is no one style that characterizes the book From brief and academic to wordy and effusive the style shifts according to the subject Unstintingly political unforgivingly critical of commonly held ideas about the relationship of humans to the natural world and to each other the relevance of this work to both a Canadian and an international audience is undeniable

Red Country (First Law World)

History

Abercrombie, Joe

Americas

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