The Mindblower Orbs


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The Braun family of Ben, Jenny, and Max, along with their friends, the United States Space Force, the CIA, and the President of the United States, all lead the way for freedom as they uncover the secret plans of the Mytown Corporation. As it expands and dominates energy markets, banking, and the flying-car industry in America, Mytown capitalizes on the slow-motion coup d'état of the U.S. government completed by corporate power earlier in the twenty-first century. As democracy declines and the country suffers financial hardship, heartache, and bloodshed, the growing fleet of USSF fighting spacecraft must protect the Earth, the Moon, and Mars. When the economy and its flying cars crash, Mytown only grows stronger by buying back its stock, driving up its market value and the wealth and power of its surreptitious owners. Then can anyone stop Mytown's steady frontier march as it skyrockets its horde of biologically enhanced androids and kidnapped humans in slave spaceships from the Earth to the Moon and Mars? In The Mindblower Orbs, the aim is to recognize, contain, and fight against the spread of inverted totalitarianism in this concluding saga of the Mindblower trilogy, beginning with The Mindblower Families and continuing with The Mindblower Androids. Randall Edward Foss lives in Phoenix, Arizona. He holds a bachelor's degree in English and a teaching certificate with endorsements in English and Economics. keywords: sci-fi, thriller, delightful, suspenseful, evocative, heartfelt, moving, romantic, action-packed, insightful




The Mindblower Androids


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As androids proliferate, become highly skilled, and become difficult to tell apart from humans, Mytown Mining, Inc. takes full advantage of the situation to secretly rise up from below and give those responsible for top secret plans in the United States Air Force all that it can handle in the remotest western skies. Meanwhile, the three members of the Braun family, Ben, Jenny, and Max, are plucked from their normal routine to participate voluntarily in the top secret plans along with a few others to battle the crooked corporation sometimes underground, but mostly in the air. Ben, the inventor and manufacturer of the Mindblower, a sleek electronic device that boosts memory and enhances mental acuity, disappears on a family hike in the rain forest. When Jenny, his wife and a traveling pharmaceutical sales representative, and Max, his teenage son, try to find him in Jenny’s small plane, they discover the USAF top secret facilities and its latest top secret aircraft and androids. Then as they and their friends continue their search for Ben, they find themselves fighting for their lives and for those humans and androids beside them until they discover much more about what really goes on between the military and the bad mining corporation and the future for both humans and androids. The Mindblower Androids is the second novel in a trilogy by Randall Edward Foss, beginning with The Mindblower Families. The story continues with The Mindblower Orbs, coming soon. Gradually, the recurring characters develop into greater importance as they are thrust deeper into the mysteries behind corporate control over the U.S. government and over energy economics. Mytown Mining, Inc., using android miners instead of human labor to dig deeper in remote regions first on earth and then in space for new energy reserves, must fight off both human and android heroes seeking to curtail its overbearing dominance threatening all human safety and freedom.




New Self, New World


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In the tradition of Quantum Healing and Guns, Germs and Steel, Philip Shepherd's New Self, New World makes an intellectual inquiry into how we might restore freedom, creativity, and a sense of presence in the moment by rejecting several fundamental myths about being human New Self, New World challenges the primary story of what it means to be human, the random and materialistic lifestyle that author Philip Shepherd calls our “shattered reality.” This reality encourages us to live in our heads, self-absorbed in our own anxieties. Drawing on diverse sources and inspiration, New Self, New World reveals that our state of head-consciousness falsely teaches us to see the body as something we possess and to try to take care of it without ever really learning how to inhabit it. Shepherd articulates his vision of a world in which each of us enjoys a direct, unmediated experience of being alive. He petitions against the futile pursuit of the “known self” and instead reveals the simple grace of just being present. In compelling prose, Shepherd asks us to surrender to the reality of “what is” that enables us to reunite with our own being. Each chapter is accompanied by exercises meant to bring Shepherd’s vision into daily life, what the author calls a practice that “facilitates the voluntary sabotage of long-standing patterns.” New Self, New World is at once a philosophical primer, a spiritual handbook, and a roaming inquiry into human history.




New Insights Into Astrology


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"New Insights into Astrology" covers extensive highly technical topics ranging from number symbology to the Uranian planets. It includes a complete listing (in alphabetical and in zodiacal order) of the heliocentric nodes of the asteroids.




Six Months, Three Days, Five Others


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"A master absurdist...Highly recommended." —The New York Times Before the success of her debut SF-and-fantasy novel All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders was a rising star in SF and fantasy short fiction. Collected in a mini-book format, here—for the first time in print—are six of her quirky, wry, engaging best: In "The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model," aliens reveal the terrible truth about how humans were created—and why we'll never discover aliens. "As Good as New" is a brilliant twist on the tale of three wishes, set after the end of the world. "Intestate" is about a family reunion in which some attendees aren't quite human anymore—but they're still family. "The Cartography of Sudden Death" demonstrates that when you try to solve a problem with time travel, you now have two problems. "Six Months, Three Days" is the story of the love affair between a man who can see the one true foreordained future, and a woman who can see all the possible futures. They're both right, and the story won the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novelette. And "Clover," exclusively written for this collection, is a coda to All the Birds in the Sky, answering the burning question of what happened to Patricia's cat. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.




The Thesaurus of Slang


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Includes jargon, sports slang, and ethnic and regional expressions




Angelbound (Angelbound Origins #1)


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Eighteen year old Myla Lewis is a girl who loves two things: kicking ass and kicking ass. She's not your every day quasi-demon, half-demon and half-human, girl. For the past five years, Myla has lived for the days she gets to fight in Purgatory's arena. When souls want a trial by combat for their right to enter heaven or hell, they go up against her, and she hasn't lost a battle yet. But as she starts her senior year at Purgatory High, the arena fights aren't enough to keep her spirits up anymore. When the demons start to act weird, even for demons, and the King of the Demons, Armageddon, shows up at Myla's school, she knows that things are changing and it's not looking good for the quasi-demons. Myla starts to question everything, and doesn't like the answers she finds. What happened seventeen years ago that turned the quasi-demons into slave labor? Why was her mom always so sad? And why won't anyone tell her who her father is? Things heat up when Myla meets Lincoln, the High Prince of the Thrax, a super sexy half-human and half-angel demon hunter. But what's a quasi-demon girl to do when she falls for a demon hunter? It's a good thing that Myla's not afraid of breaking a few rules. With a love worth fighting for, Myla's going to shake up Purgatory.




The Solar Patrol


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Tom was only 13 years old when he vanished without a trace, so it is not surprising that the stranger who shows up 36 years later claiming to be Tom is thought to be an imposter. But what if he is the boy grown to be a young man, returned not from the past but from the future—a future with faster-than-light spacecraft, death-dealing ray guns, humanoid robots, menacing aliens, bug-eyed monsters, heroic spacemen, captivating spacewomen, megalomaniacal madmen, sentient dinosaurs, and bioengineered cats? If Tom is telling the truth, an interstellar conflict whose origin lies centuries in the future has spilled over into the present—and the past, present, and future are entwined in a riddle for which there appears to be no answer. The Solar Patrol is a blend of space opera and hard science fiction set in the past as it never was and the future as it used to be. The Solar Patrol is a tale of a future once imagined. Unsolicited Reviews: “The Solar Patrol is more than your typical science fiction novel. It attempts to answer such timeless questions as, ‘Is being in the eighth grade worse than being thrown into the midst of an interstellar war?’” – Unsolicited reviewer “The author’s depth of character development is unsurpassed, especially with regard to cats.” – Neutronium (Cyber-cat) “The exobiology found in Miller’s novel far exceeds that of most science fiction. Want to know what a bilaterally inverted Polluxian Snerg Blat is, then read this book.” – Another unsolicited reviewer “I read the book and I still don’t know what a bilaterally inverted Polluxian Snerg Blat is. Perhaps the author will get around to explaining it in the next book of the series?” – A disgruntled unsolicited reviewer




Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God


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If God is in control of everything, can Christians sit back and not bother to evangelize? Or does active evangelism imply that God is not really sovereign at all? J. I. Packer shows in this classic study how both of these attitudes are false.




Anarchy for the Masses


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An in-depth look at the most groundbreaking and controversial comic book series of the last decade.