Brian Miller: Dragon-Stars at War


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Flummoxed with a sparring match among the top two saurians, Brian Miller doesn’t know where to turn. Joan of Arc must save the day, and she innocently suggests a football game before the inevitable clash. Every reptilian is ‘more than game’ and a brutal match is fought in Portland, Oregon. It is a wild ride and you won’t believe the outcome! Brian Miller worms his way into decisions about the ‘new’ ninth planet and has an incredible dragon-star-ride with Clareina. She deploys the Black World swords to seek out lightning events, which are spectacular. Meanwhile, just after the football game, Larry King does an interview with the dragon-stars. Sitting Sphinx-style on Persian rugs, Littorian is charmed by these carpets, suggesting just before they leave the Earth, Brian should make arrangements to “go East” just for a look-see. Join us again for all of these dragon-star adventures! Find more at www.stardragons.org




Brian Miller: Joan of Arc and the Dragon-Stars


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Earth has been saved from the Twins of Triton (two asteroids on a collision course) by the saurians and the Starfinder Tiperia. Just before leaving the planet, Brian Miller has a small request: save Joan of Arc from the fires of execution in France 1431! The lord of the lizardanians’ second, Soreidian, supports Brian in his bizarre entreaty (he has something more diabolical in mind). Brian and Soreidian have a surprising fight. The captain capturing Joan of Arc challenges the shape-shifted Littorian, who also needs a rescue from an unexpected source. The quest gets more difficult as Death Incarnate engages in a chess game with Brian, and dragons in Romania need a rescue too! Anakimian, a young alligatorian, featured in Brian Miller and the young star dragons, wishes to make Joan his companion but is hampered by the Time Keeper and must make a very dire decision. Can Joan survive?




Brian Miller Nine Tales of Dragon Star Terror (A Non-Novel)


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Action and sinister-adventure are here again with these Nine Dragon Star Tales of Terror. Even Alfred Bester (~~might~~) be proud of the crazy ride of Brian Miller and Katrina Ivanovna Chakiaya trying to save the world with the help of (very) reluctant dragon stars. Of the stories, just this: Terrifier in the Middle Kingdom is about the horrific things a dragon star can do...Godzilla, take a back seat to this! This story has two stories in it: The Donner Party and The Dyatlov Incident, and you’ll see why they are told! The rest, companionship reunited—just fiction (for now!)




Brian Miller: Joan of Arc & Danillia, Terran Destroyer


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Darkest, deepest dragon spells besiege Terra. Is there any hope for the despairing companions? Danillia’s revenge on the Earth, combined with a saurian of infinite evil, Jezebellian, consume whole countries in a dragon Tsar Bomba field of inferno. Japan, Taiwan even Hawaii, on the saurian dinner plate. Brian Miller, desperate as he’s ever been, enchants the star dragons with stories about the 47 Ronin, the Dyatlov Pass incident, and the Donner Party affair. With rollicking comment in the meantime! Jezebellian, with a sparring debt owed Danillia, consigns Brian Miller, to annihilation in Carcosa—along with the author and his boss! They ride on the saurian to meet their end in Lizardania at the shadowy palace of the Yellow King and his sinister agents. Can anyone survive? Also, the story ends with a Letter by Joan of Arc! She takes over the 30 companions and creates her own Book of Revelation.




Infinite Stars


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The biggest names in space opera and military science fiction share 20+ new short stories set in their most famous universes—including Dune, Honor Harrington, and Ender’s Game! Join Nebula and Hugo Award winners, New York Times-bestselling authors, and Science Fiction Grand Masters as they take you to uncharted worlds . . . distant galaxies . . . and the unknown threats lurking in the cosmos . . . This space opera and military science fiction anthology includes short stories set in wildly popular sci-fi universes. Herein lie canonical tales of the Honorverse, the Lost Fleet, Dune, Vatta’s War, Ender Wiggin, the Legion of the Damned, the Imperium, and more. Also included are past masterpieces by authors whose works defined the genre—including a Miles Vorkosigan adventure, a story from the author of the Dragonriders of Pern, and a rare tale co-authored by the screenwriter for The Empire Strikes Back. Featuring over 20 thrilling stories perfect for space opera fans, Infinite Stars will take you on a wild ride to the farthest regions of space.




What Do I Read Next?


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By identifying similarities in various books, this annual selection guide helps readers to independently choose titles of interest published in the last year.Each entry describes a separate book, listing everything readers need to know to make selections. Arranged by author within six genre sections, detailed entries provide: Title Publisher and publication dateSeriesNames and descriptions of charactersTime period and geographical settingReview citationsStory typesBrief plot summarySelected other books by the authorSimilar books by different authorsAuthor, title, series, character name, character description, time period, geographic setting and genre/sub-genre indexes are included to facilitate research.




The Rise and Fall of American Science Fiction, from the 1920s to the 1960s


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 By examining important aspects of science fiction in the twentieth century, this book explains how the genre evolved to its current state. Close critical attention is given to topics including the art that has accompanied science fiction, the subgenres of space opera and hard science fiction, the rise of SF anthologies, and the burgeoning impact of the marketplace on authors. Included are in-depth studies of key texts that contributed to science fiction's growth, including Philip Francis Nowlan's first Buck Rogers story, the first published stories of A. E. van Vogt, and the early juveniles of Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke and Robert Heinlein.




There Will be Dragons, Second Edition


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Now with all new content by John Ringo! Paradise Lost In the future there is no want, no war, no disease nor ill-timed death. The world is a paradise¾and 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. . . . At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). Praise for the Science Fiction of John Ringo "MARVELOUS!" ¾David 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." ¾Publishers 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." ¾Booklist ". . . fast-paced military sf peopled with three-dimensional characters and spiced with personal drama as well as tactical finesse." ¾Library Journal "If Tom Clancy were writing SF, it would read much like John Ringo . . . good reading with solid characterizations¾a rare combination." ¾Philadelphia Weekly Press "Ringo provides a textbook example of how a novel in the military SF subgenre should be written. . . . Crackerjack storytelling." ¾Starlog




New York Magazine


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New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.




Dawn of the Jedi Into the Void


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Thousands of years before the time of Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader, on the remote world Tython, ancient philosophers and scientists share their mystical knowledge and study the ways of the Force. They establish the order of the Je'daii - which, in years to come, will become the Jedi. But first these visitors from so many different planets must colonise a dangerous new homeworld and surmount societal conflicts as the burgeoning Rakatan Empire prepares to conquer the known galaxy.




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