Book Preview Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html Copyright © 1977 by Robert Adams All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form. Published by arrangement with the author SIGNET TRADEMARK REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. AND FOREIGN COUNTRIES REGISTERED MAKCA XEGISTBADA HECHO EN CHICAGO, U.S.A. signet, signet … Read more
Book Preview Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html Briskly, the column of horsemen trotted onto the long, ancient bridge, steel-shod hooves ringing on the worn stones. Behind them, an oncoming dustcloud heralded the advance of their army; before them, across the width of the river, the empty road wound into the dark density of … Read more
Book Preview Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html Reviewer:An Amazon.com Customer from Robert Adams really knows how to build a complete world all his own! A post-apocalyptic realm of nomads and Ehleenee lords, he brings it to real, and sometimes all too graphic life.A wonderful escape into a strange and almost familiar world. If … Read more
Book Preview Wind howled and wailed about the stone walls and lofty spires of ancient Eboracum-once called Jor-vik, now called York. The day preceding had been as bright and sunny and balmy as a summer’s day might be, but in the night this toothed storm had blown in from Thule by way of the North … Read more
Book Preview In one of the larger cities of an Eastern Seaboard state of the United States of America, in the first year of the last quarter of the twentieth century, a man sat at a desk in a modest office which was located in a building that, though it once had been the mansion … Read more
Book Preview Arsen Ademian was not in the least superstitious. Old tombs and dead bodies held no terrors for him: if he had lived and fought in proximity to too many corpses to consider them anything more than what they were—dead meat, sometimes stinky, but in no way harmful to the living. Therefore, he felt … Read more
Book Preview The big, burly man in half-armor and plumed, open-faced net strolled, seemingly aimlessly, along the top of the outer wall of the city, glancing from time to time at the massive bombards ranged at odd intervals. Each of the archaic pieces was covered with waxed tarpaulins against the frequent misty drizzles, and under … Read more
Book Preview Whyffler Hall, it had once been called, the stark, rectangular tower built of big blocks of gray native stone, in centuries long past—motte, stronghold, residence of the generations who had held this stretch of the blood-soaked Scottish Marches for king after king of England and Wales. But when first Bass Foster saw that … Read more
Book Preview Raibert Armstrong sat his fine, tall, long-legged horse—spoils of this extended reaving—atop a low-browed ridge, just above the sleeping camp of his largish band. Every so often, he would take the slowmatch from out the clamp and whirl it around several times in the air before once more securing it back into the … Read more
Book Preview Table of Contents Preface The Last Survivors Prologue Chapter 1: Ella Chapter 2: Father Winthrop Chapter 3: Ella Chapter 4: Minister Beck Chapter 5: Ella Chapter 6: Minister Beck Chapter 7: Muldoon Chapter 8: Oliver Chapter 9: Ella Chapter 10: General Blackthorn Chapter 11: Ella Chapter 12: Oliver Chapter 13: Bray Chapter 14: … Read more
Book Preview Slow Burn This Special Edition Contains All Nine Books in the Slow Burn Series and a Bonus Novella ZERO DAY, Book 1 INFECTED, Book 2 DESTROYER, Book 3 DEAD FIRE, Book 4 TORRENT, Book 5 BLEED, Book 6 CITY OF STIN, Book 7 GRIND, Book 8 SANCTUM, Book 9 ALPHA, Bonus Novella … Read more
Book Preview 2 Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov 7 This Is Your Brain on Tetris 8 From Behind the Iron Curtain 10 The Russians Are Coming 11 “A Diabolical Plot” 13 Tetris Takes Las Vegas 14 Tetris into Infinity 17 The Gathering Storm 19 Enemies at the Gate 20 “Meet at the Chicken” 21 A Tale of Two Tetrises 22 The Cognitive Vaccine Epilogue: The Final Bricks Selected Bibliography … Read more
Book Preview The heart of the goddess, her new temple—her true temple—had neither the grandeur of the cities nor the simple dignity of the Sinir Kushku. In Camnipol, it was said that her banner hung from the great tower of the Kingspire, goddess and throne made one. In Kaltfel, the temple was ancient stone, and … Read more
Book Preview Prologue Inys, the Last Dragon The dragon rose. With every stroke of his great wings, his sinews creaked. Before—only hours before, it seemed—he had flown this same coast, this same air, with ease. Now, rising above the ice-cracking waves taxed him. The strength he assumed was gone, and the weakness was also testimony … Read more
Book Preview Milo slipped in the darkness, falling to one knee. The stones of the beach cut his skin, and the blood darkened the oiled wool of his leggings. The old fisherman, Kirot his name was, paused and looked back at him, lifting his lantern and one white eyebrow in query. Are you coming, or … Read more
Book Preview The apostate, called Kitap rol Keshmet among other things, stood in the soft city rain, the taint in his blood pressing at him, goading him, but being ignored. Fear and dread welled up in his throat. In any of the cities and villages of the Keshet or Borja or Pût, the temple would … Read more
Book Preview Prologue The Apostate The apostate pressed himself into the shadows of the rock and prayed to nothing in particular that the things riding mules in the pass below him would not look up. His hands ached, the muscles of his legs and back shuddered with exhaustion. The thin cloth of his ceremonial robes … Read more
Book Preview This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental. Copyright © 2022 by Daniel Abraham Cover design by Lauren Panepinto Cover illustration by Daniel Dociu Cover … Read more