Ten brilliant seminal hard-edged nerve-enhancing stories from the most influential science fiction writer of our time. Ten brilliant seminal hard-edged nerve-enhancing stories from the most influential science fiction writer of our time. Since they were first published in the 1980s Gibsons vision has become a touchstone
- his lapidary prose seethes with buzz-phrases newly minted yet destined to be current well in to the future. Lowlife characters ghosts & hallucinations haunt the malls & plazas of an intensely realized holographic world a name-brand society with cloned Ninja bodyguards retro fashions stunning ideas. Gibson in the year 2000 is the unchallenged guru prophet & voice of the new cybernetic world order & virtual reality.
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If only our country hadnt been invaded. If only we could have carried on the way we used to watching other peoples wars on television. Ellie & her friends are more determined than ever to make an impact on the enemy. But the constant fighting is beginning to take its toll on the group. Kevin is suffering an emotional breakdown & the friendship that has kept the gang together for so long is under strain. & while there is no time for love in a time of war Ellie cant forget her feelings for Lee...A tale of relentless action & gripping intensity from one of the worlds best storytellers. (Book 5 of The Tomorrow Series.) ...

A MAN WHO KILLS FOR MONEY X marks the spot
- & when that spot is a corpse's naked back & the X is carved in blood DI Tom Thorne
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More than three centuries ago Nicholas Winters irrevocably altered his genetic makeup in an obsession-fuelled competition with alchemist & Arcane Society founder Sylvester Jones. Driven to control their psychic abilities each man's decision has reverberated throughout the family line rewarding some with powers beyond their wildest dreams & cursing others to a life filled with madness & hallucinations. At the heart of this curse is the Burning Lamp. In BURNING LAMP by Jayne Ann Krentz writing as Amanda Quick FIRED UP by Jayne Ann Krentz & MIDNIGHT CRYSTAL by Jayne Ann Krentz writing as Jayne Castle you will meet the three men
- past present & future
- of the Burning Lamp descendants of Nicholas Winters. There is only one hope for them: each must find the artefact & a woman who can work the dreamlight energy that the device produces in order to reverse the dangerous psychical changes brought on by the curse
- or risk turning into a monster...


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The latest in the bestselling Alfred series from number one historical novelist Bernard Cornwell. In the last years of the ninth century King Alfred of Wessex is in failing health & his heir is an untested youth. The Danes who have failed so many times to conquer Wessex smell opportunity... First comes Harald Bloodhair a savage warrior leading a Viking horde who is encouraged to cruelty by his woman Skade. But Alfred still has the services of Uhtred his unwilling warlord who leads Harald into a trap & at Farnham in Surrey inflicts one of the greatest defeats the Vikings were ever to suffer. This novel the fifth in the magnificent series of England's history tells of the final assaults on Alfred's Wessex that Wessex survived to become England is because men like Uhtred defeated an enemy feared throughout Christendom. ...

A strongly issue-led play Burning Monkey relates the story of a teenage couple & their interactions with an older war veteran trying to rebuild his fractured relationship with his daughter. While their exchanges initially show a hostile & unsympathetic clash of generations it soon becomes apparent that they share similar pain
- based on their damaged family relationships & absent parents/children
- & they begin to feel empathy for one another's plight. In the background the presence of war looms; the character of Old is haunted by memories of his time as a soldier & the character of Monkey looks forward to a time when he can escape the depressing realities of his life & join the army. In the midst of this Shell is fifteen madly in love with Monkey & pregnant with his child. Her attempts to try & make the irresponsible immature Monkey stay with her become increasingly desperate. Burning Monkey is a play that raises important issues for teenagers addressing themes such as war violence separated families & responsibility.

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Take one complex scientific discipline. Add the future of energy economics & geopolitics. Season with human nature... Entertaining & authoritative The Curve" shines a fascinating new light on the world's energy & climate change challenges. Combining accessible explanation & cutting-edge analysis Berners-Lee & Clark join the dots between the science politics economics & psychology of this sprawling issue to uncover surprising & overlooked truths. Human energy use & carbon emissions it turns out have been rising exponentially
- following a smooth upwards curve
- for hundreds of years. Nothing we've done so far has made any difference because saving energy is like squeezing a balloon: gains made in one place reappear as bumps elsewhere. But if previous efforts have failed what would it take to flatten off the curve? & what happens if we fail to do so? In answering these questions " The Curve" reveals climate change as an intriguing intellectual social & political puzzle that will enthral readers of popular science economics & psychology alike."

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In 1915 the first euphoria of the war has worn off but the nation is more determined than ever to win. When Ned is sent to the Front ahead of his battalion Jessie already involved in various charity works feels the need to do more & becomes an auxiliary nurse. But life on the wards is harder than she expects. Meanwhile Helen & Jack settle in a home of their own at last & Helen takes on a surprise war role of her own. & for violet in London a chance meeting with talented young artist threatens to destroy her calm & ordered life. With stalemate on the Eastern Front everything now hangs on the new September offensive on the Western Front the Battle of Loos. Both Ned & Bertie will be leading their men over the top leaving the rest of the family to pray for their safe return. ...

' Centaine screamed & drove the point of her stave down into the jaws with all her strength. She felt the sharpened end bite into the soft pink mucous membrane in the back of its throat saw the spurt of scarlet blood & then the lion locked its jaws on the stave & with a toss of its flying mane ripped it out of her hands & sent it windmilling out & down to hit the earth below.' The passionate love of a beautiful French aristocrat for a courageous South African aviator is begun & extinguished in the blazing skies of war-torn France. But Centaine de Thiry is bent on realizing some of the dreams which she & Michael Courtney had shared
- & sets out to seek a future for his unborn child in the country of Michael's birth. But in a monumental odyssey of disaster & adventure she must first brave all the combined terrors of war shipwreck thirst fever & the burning vastnesses of Namibia's Skeleton Coast before she sees another living soul...
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1935: Harry Jardine is a soldier of fortune. Forced to flee Hamburg after helping Jews escape Nazi Germany he is recruited by a secretive British committee to smuggle guns from Rumania into Abyssinia under threat of Italian invasion. Taken to the Horn of Africa the guns are transported over the harsh landscape a slave trader's route full of danger into the hands of the Ethiopian Army. On his travels Jardine acquires more baggage than he cares for including a beautiful but difficult American female in search of her archaeologist mother a drunken British reporter & a daredevil French flyer. But the Ethiopians are ill-equipped to face a modern Italian army using tanks bombers & poison gas. Trained for war can Jardine just walk away? Or will he be drawn into a bloody conflict against massive odds & still save those who now depend on him? ...