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I loved these books and having one set in the future, kind of the Time Machine series'' version of a science fiction adventure, was a great thrill for me. -A ReviewerRadio signals have been detected from the rings of Saturn. Due to the pattern, scientists believe the signals will soon halt and resume in the year 2085. Your mission is to go into the future and find the source of the broadcast. You could be the first Earthling to meet an alien civilization. On the way you will visit many planets and meet many people of the future. Your decisions will change the future and decide if mankind makes contact with an alien life-form.

Your mission is to go back in time and discover the identity of the man who fired the first shot of the American revolution, and bring back his musket.From 1775 to 1781, the thirteen colonies on the North American continent fought a war of independence from England, then the mightiest power in the world.By the rude bridge that arched the flood,Their flag to April''s breeze unfurled,Here once the embattled farmers stood,And fired the shot heard round the world.So begins Ralph Waldo Emerson?s famous poem ""Concord Hymn,"" sung at the dedication of the Battle Monument in 1837.Even then, the identity of the man who fired the first shot of the war, beginning the Battle of Lexington and Concord, in April 1775, was a mystery.The Time Machine series challenges young readers to use their imagination and decision-making skills to write their own story. Options in the text allow readers to choose any path they like within the plot. Readers must draw on background information about the period to make the right choices. This makes the series a great educational device for youngsters to learn about history and all the different cultures, events, and periods that shaped it.

Your mission is to find the controversial diamond necklace that helped trigger the French Revolution.In 1785 France was ready to burst into the flames of revolution. That year a Church official, the cardinal de Rohan, ordered a diamond necklace to be made in the name of the queen, Marie Antoinette. The French people assumed that the necklace was another example of the queen''s extravagance. They were enraged.A scandal erupted. The queen denied any knowledge of the necklace. Eventually it was proven that the cardinal had actually intended all along to give the necklace to his court favorite, the comtesse de La Motte.The cardinal and the comtesse were punished for their trickery. Soon after, the angry French people revolted, and the necklace disappeared.You must travel back to eighteenth-century France to find the missing necklace and learn what role it played in the Revolution. But be careful. The era of the French Revolution was one of the most turbulent in history!The Time Machine series challenges young readers to use their imagination and decision-making skills to write their own story. Options in the text allow readers to choose any path they like within the plot. Readers must draw on background information about the period to make the right choices. This makes the series a great educational device for youngsters to learn about history and all the different cultures, events, and periods that shaped it.

THE NEBULA NOMINEE'S MOST FAMOUS NOVEL - "e;A LOVE STORY SET IN A MUTATION-RIDDLED POST-DISASTER WONDERLAND THAT ATTEMPTS TO CREATE A HUMANLY MOVING OUTCOME."e; Science Fiction EncyclopediaIn The Wasteland. . . The seasons changed in a matter of minutes . . . glistening foliage caressed the senses . . . giant furry worms screeched their horror . . . occasionally, a simurgh dug his claws into the shoulder of a human being—and stayed until he had drained his victim of life and knowledge.Here, Michael St. Claire, revolutionary and exile, had come to find his answers. He was afraid—not so much for himself as for Elizabeth, a deaf-mute child-woman, his sister. But as their coach entered the prohibitive plains of the Wasteland, as sudden snow encompassed them, and a giant worm appeared on the horizon, Elizabeth seemed to come alive. Her miraculous transformation had begun …A World Of Sudden Deaths . . .The man, dressed in black fur breeches and a white fur coat, his skin and shoulder-length hair as pure white as the snow itself. As Michael and Elizabeth watched, the man bellowed, leaped, and charged the giant worm with uncanny speed. His spear penetrated the raging creature's eye . . .The giant worm emitted a terrible scream, high-pitched, excruciating, unlike anything in Michael's experience. Michael covered his ears. Elizabeth, in her silent world, continued to watch the drama—fascinated but unafraid . . ."e;The post-apocalyptic wasteland of The Sound of Winter is a place where giant worms roam, seraphim hunt them, and immortal birds with human masks devour the life and knowledge of whomever they land upon. The wasteland is where the seasons change in seconds and lives can change just as quickly."e;The Sound of Winter is clearly satirical in nature. Every page seeps with irony and contradiction. I genuinely believe that the handful of other reviewers who read this book completely misinterpreted what they were reading. The satire and irony is subtle, saying that unemployment will not be a problem under democracy, and claiming that only those that volunteer for the military can participate in voting even though the leaders of the revolution have never been in the military, thus deciding that they would be the special exception to the rule. The entire book is a critique and commentary on democracy and monarchy, and how both are quite similar and flawed systems of government."e; —Goodreads"e;The Sound of Winter is considered by many to be his best work."e; -Encyclopedia Of Science Fiction

Three new novellas by the creator of the Universe of God-like Men series. Author of Autumn Angels, Platypus of Doom and Planetfall, among others, and novels in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Flash Gordon and Robot City series. "e;… under near-farcical trappings, an examination of such things as love, hate, motivation, and the meaning of existence itself."e; (Amazon reader review) In "e;Dream Weaver,"e; a missing persons detective on a future Earth opened to the distant places and times by dimensional gateways seeks a missing woman, and instead awakens to his own unimaginably strange destiny. In "e;Stratosfear,"e; Sarah, a celestial being who moves easily through dimensions and universes, and possesses the power to alter realities with flawless precision, discovers that intervening in the affairs of hominids is not as simple as she would have thought. And in, "e;Editorial Prerogative,"e; a drugged out screen writer in a near tomorrow, who prides himself on his unflinching honesty, unleashes societal forces he can not control when he becomes involved with issues of homogeny. According contemporary readers posted at Goodreads, Arthur Byron Cover's work "e;… brilliant … takes weird to a whole new level! Highly recommended!"e; "e;… very strange … entertaining."e; "e;… outrageous and plausible."e; "e;… for those who enjoy a novel which plunges you into an original sci-fi world which raises thought provoking questions …"e; "e;… astonishingly amusing and amazingly odd … full of wonderful ideas and imagery ... excellent."e; And at "e;… a feast of strangeness populated by extraordinarily exotic, and yet deeply human characters. In part satire, in part thought experiment … an exploration of the meaning of humanity … filled with enough wild images and witty dialogues to equal five books by a lesser writer. A must read … creative to the max."e; "e;… thoughtful stuff … highly readable."e;

"e;A steeping in noir and crime story fiction colors most of Cover's major sf writing, and in both The Quantum Pirate and The 7 Rules of Life, the most delightful characters are the most ruthless.… Here, we find chaos struggling to assert itself. It's as if a small, cunning animal—like a fox, say—has gotten lost in a vast ground-meat factory, and is trying to get at the enticing ground meat without becoming ground meat itself, stepping sinuously to avoid the chewing steel teeth."e;The prose framing these tales reminds me somewhat of certain works by Jack Vance, and, even more, of James Branch Cabell. Like Cabell, Cover offers a fusion of adventure and satire, humor and potent theme. Like Cabell, Cover has a command of the omniscient voice; unlike Cabell he can segue into prose approaching Raymond Chandler; a truly unjarring smooth move from the omniscient voice to the earthily subjective. And it works; it works eerily well. How does Cover do it? He can write like Melville or Bukowsky in the same novel, and it's all of a piece. With wit, with bold sentence structure, with that remarkable ability to make the general pregnant with the particular, Cover carries us into the delicious world of his imagination."e;His symbols are potent, inherently ironic, and always entertaining. Consider this passage from The Quantum Pirate in which Coppeweb, the very personification of a trapped bureaucrat, living an endless life of being literally fixed in place at his work station, gets the courage to set himself free by pressing a certain red button. A red button he's never really supposed to use. Now, this set-up, this predicament, is not uncommon in literature—think of EM Forster. A man is horribly bound into the social machine in some way, and it's painful to break free. Suddenly we find that we are on Coppeweb's side, even though he's gone a bit mad for a woman who is perhaps one of the most dangerous females in the galaxy…"e;What wicked enchantment you have ahead of you,! Just trust him, give him control, let him mesmerize you, soothe you…then enjoy the ride as he startles and even disorients you. Yet the internal logic of The Quantum Pirate and The 7 Rules of Life is watertight. You won't drown, I promise! So with luck—you'll still be sane when you finish reading this book. But if you're not quite as "e;sane"e;, after…you may well be glad of it."e;-John Shirley, author A Splendid Chaos