Poul Anderson
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English
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This acclaimed fantasy classic of men, elves, and gods is at once breathtakingly exciting and heartbreakingly tragic.
Published the same year as The Fellowship of the Ring, Poul Anderson’s novel The Broken Sword draws on similar Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon sources. In his greed for land and power, Orm the Strong slays the family of a Saxon witch—and for his sins, the Northman must pay with his newborn son. Stolen...
Published the same year as The Fellowship of the Ring, Poul Anderson’s novel The Broken Sword draws on similar Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon sources. In his greed for land and power, Orm the Strong slays the family of a Saxon witch—and for his sins, the Northman must pay with his newborn son. Stolen...
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English
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Description
On a post-nuclear Earth, visionaries who dream of reaching for the stars attempt to revive the forbidden technology that destroyed their world.
Centuries ago, humankind was nearly destroyed in a nuclear apocalypse. Many generations have passed since that terrible time, and the remnants of civilization have re-formed into separate, vastly different societies. The dominant culture of a widely diminished Earth, the ecologically sensitive...
Centuries ago, humankind was nearly destroyed in a nuclear apocalypse. Many generations have passed since that terrible time, and the remnants of civilization have re-formed into separate, vastly different societies. The dominant culture of a widely diminished Earth, the ecologically sensitive...
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Description
College student, ex-marine, and martial artist Malcolm Lockridge is in prison awaiting his trial for murder when he receives an unexpected visit from an extraordinarily beautiful woman named Storm. Claiming to be a representative of the Wardens, a political faction from two thousand years in the future, Storm offers the astonished young man a proposition: freedom in return for his assistance in recovering an unspecified lost treasure. But it is not...
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Series
Harvest of stars ; 4
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
To keep themselves in power, machine intelligences which govern Earth, Moon and Mars claim machines have always been rulers and they point to past machine-run civilizations. But as one man finds out this is pure propaganda, those civilizations never existed. A study of the relationship between man and machine.
8) The avatar
Author
Pub. Date
1978
Language
English
Description
Having utilized the "gate" to colonize the Phoebus star system, man-kind now embarks on a desperate search for the great alien race known as The Others.
10) The time patrol
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
A member of the Time Patrol, which is charged with preserving history as they know it in order to protect the future, Manse Everard, the Patrols finest temporal troubleshooter, is torn between his conscience and desire to alleviate human suffering and the absolute necessity to not change history.
13) Operation Chaos
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Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1971.
Language
English
Description
He was a werewolf and his wife was a witch. And, they both journeyed into the endless black pit to find their kidnapped daughter.
