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Puede que la capitana Lana Fiveworlds vuele con la misma variopinta tripulación de inadaptados, pero sus problemas son totalmente nuevos. Lana cree que un cliente exigente y difícil a bordo de su querida nave estelar -la Gravity Rose- es la suma de sus males. Pero eso fue hasta que tiene que sumergirse de emergencia en un sistema estelar que esconde toda una serie de secretos mortales. Hay que enfrentarse a las intenciones asesinas del gobierno local, con su aristocracia esclavista, por no mencionar a los despiadados rebeldes que intentan derrocar al régimen. Y luego está la nave ...

Seline Templar no ha tenido una vida fácil. Primero, su padre murió por razones que le han sido escandalosamente ocultadas. Después, la madre de Seline, Molly, desapareció en circunstancias sospechosas. Así que ha sido criada como pupila del Rey Vapor... en el Estado Libre de Steamman, lejos de los peligros potenciales de su hogar en el Reino Jackelian. Criada en relativa soledad entre la raza de las máquinas... hasta que un viejo amigo de la familia, el científico Coppertracks, aparece en la capital con noticias del descubrimiento más asombroso. Esto hará que Seline y sus ...

BURNING ANGELS (Book 2 of The Vigil series). >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> DESCRIPTION When Eleanor Lythe was invited to attend a charity art ball with the rest of her children’s home, she wasn’t sure what to expect – but being fed on by semi-immortal vampires, bitten and turned into a slave of their evil race, certainly wasn’t it. Luckily, for Eleanor, the Vigil – the covert branch of the U.S. Secret Service formed to fight the forces of the supernatural – is on hand to cure her and protect her. But save her for just what sort of life? As Eleanor struggles to master her new powers, she ...

The future is beautiful ... just not for everyone! Ash must escape from his broken war-torn country, fleeing towards mythical Europe, or face murder at the hands of a brutish local warlord. The one slight problem is, few ever survive the horrifying packs of ravenous hunting machines roaming across the depopulated border zone! But his perilous odyssey might be worth it. For in this future Europe, nobody goes hungry or poor. Crime has been as good as abolished, and everyone can pursue their dreams, whatever their passions may be. But when you have the perfect utopia, just how far do the ...

La capitana Lana Fiveworlds tiene un montón de problemas. Se desliza por el vacío en una vieja nave espacial de setecientos años de antigüedad, recorriendo los límites del espacio civilizado intentando encontrar un cargamento lo bastante lucrativo como para pagar sus facturas sin que resulte tan arriesgado como para matarla. Tiene como navegante a un alienígena religioso, como primer oficial a un androide poco de fiar, como negociador comercial a un lagarto caído en desgracia y como ingeniero jefe a un desertor de la flota. Y eso antes de que apareciera un ex tripulante que quería ...

Estamos en un futuro lejano.Las inteligencias artificiales creadas por la humanidad son ahora dioses, y la humanidad meras hormigas que se escabullen en sus sombras a través de un millón de mundos. Los Señores de las Grandes Casas de la siempre nocturna Luna de Hexator son sospechosos del asesinato de uno de los suyos. Y el mercader William Roxley, antaño magistrado-sacerdote, se ve involuntariamente cooptado para descubrir la verdad que se esconde tras los asesinatos. Con la única ayuda de su joven e ingenua ayudante y de un brutal guardaespaldas robot, el hombre al que llaman "Dulce ...

Seline Templar hasn't experienced an easy life. First, her father died for reasons that have been shockingly concealed from her. Then Seline's mother, Molly, went missing in suspicious circumstances. So she's been raised as a ward of King Steam in the Steamman Free State, far away from the potential perils of her home in the Jackelian Kingdom. Raised in relative solitude among the machine race . . . until an old friend of the family, the steamman scientist Coppertracks, turns up in the capital with news of the most amazing discovery. It will set Seline and her companions off on a dangerous ...

Captain Lana Fiveworlds has a hell of a lot of problems. She's sliding void in an ageing seven-hundred-year-old space ship, scrabbling around the edges of civilised space trying to find a cargo lucrative enough to pay her bills without proving so risky that it'll kill her. She's got an alien religious freak for a navigator, an untrustworthy android for a first mate, a disgraced lizard for a trade negotiator and a deserter from the fleet acting as her chief engineer. And that was well before an ex-crewman turns up wanting Lana to rescue a barbarian prince from a long-failed colony world....

Captain Lana Fiveworlds has a hell of a lot of problems. She's sliding void in an ageing seven-hundred-year-old space ship, scrabbling around the edges of civilised space trying to find a cargo lucrative enough to pay her bills without proving so risky that it'll kill her. She's got an alien religious freak for a navigator, an untrustworthy android for a first mate, a disgraced lizard for a trade negotiator and a deserter from the fleet acting as her chief engineer. And that was well before an ex-crewman turns up wanting Lana to rescue a barbarian prince from a long-failed colony world. ...

THE DARKNESS OF THE VIGIL (Book 1 of The Vigil series) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> DESCRIPTION When Eleanor Lythe was invited to attend a charity art ball with the rest of her children’s home, she wasn’t sure what to expect – but being fed on by semi-immortal vampires, bitten and turned into a slave of their evil race, certainly wasn’t it. Luckily, for Eleanor, the Vigil – the covert branch of the U.S. Secret Service formed to fight the forces of the supernatural – is on hand to cure her and protect her. But save her for just what sort of life? As Eleanor struggles to master her new ...

Porque a veces, la locura y el genio son indistinguibles... Agatha Witchley fue espía en la Guerra Fría, pero ahora está encerrada en la principal institución mental de máxima seguridad del Reino Unido. Cree que los fantasmas de las celebridades muertas visitan su celda acolchada y le susurran al oído los secretos del mundo. Esto supone un gran problema para el gobierno británico, porque ella es la única que puede ayudarles cuando un multimillonario americano es asesinado en Londres en uno de los asesinatos más extraños hasta la fecha. El Ministro del Interior necesita que el caso...

It should have all been so easy for Captain Lana Fiveworlds, owner of Fiveworlds Shipping and master of the free trader starship ‘Gravity Rose’. A simple supply run to a mining operation in deep space on a world called Abracadabra. Alright, so the mining operation was illegal and the world unclaimed… that’s why the job paid so damn well. But now she’s stuck on a hothouse jungle planet, sweltering under the light of a dying red sun with not only oddly missing miners, but vanished crewmen too. The exiled barbarian prince Calder Durk had disappeared, presumed dragged over the mining ...

Querido lector, ¿pensabas que Spiderman y Iron Man eran la pareja definitiva? ¿O el Capitán América y Hulk? Pues no. Esas míseras alianzas fueron mucho antes de que los autores Charles Dickens y Stephen Hunt se unieran para traer al mundo la adaptación steampunk de Cuento de Navidad. Este tomo imaginativamente titulado Un Cuento de Navidad STEAMPUNK... la adaptación fantástica que nadie pidió, pero que todo el mundo necesitaba desesperadamente". Sí, este cuento clásico -spoilers- sobre la redención navideña de un avaro gruñón ha sido refundido en el Reino Jackeliano, una ...

Retired spy Agatha Witchley and her fellow agents from the Office are drawing very close to solving the mystery of the faked autoerotic asphyxiation of billionaire Simon Werks. But, the nearer the group get to the secret reasons behind the murder, the more bizarre, shocking and deadly is the conspiracy they stumble across. Soon, Agatha and her companions may regret coming so close to the truth . . . as the final truth could demand a lot more than assistance from the ghosts of Churchill, Elvis and Groucho Marx to survive. Because when the world needs saving, you don't send for Bourne, Bond...

As the self-proclaimed biggest coward in the galaxy, Horatio has it easy on what passes for 40th century America. A much-favoured sycophant in the court of the King of Earth, Horatio lives in a genetically engineered paradise where there's a vat-grown slave waiting around every marble column with a bunch of grapes to drop into his oh-so-perfectly designed mouth. Unfortunately for Horatio, the artificial intelligence that rules the great mass of humanity spread across the stars has other plans for this feckless seducer. So, if you ever wonder how the galaxy's biggest coward finds himself ...

The Thebes State Penal Farm in Mississippi is up a dark river, surrounded by swamps and impenetrable piney woods. It’s the Old South at its most brutal - a place of violence, racial terror, and even more horrific rumors. Of the few who make the journey, black or white, even fewer return.

Are aliens visiting Earth, right now, even as you’re reading this? For a long-time, best-selling science fiction author Stephen Hunt believed - as you might do - that UFOs and the chance extraterrestrials are presently calling on Earth was a load of... (let’s keep this family-friendly), complete old nonsense! What was it that changed his mind? Interestingly, not his encounter with an alien probe in 2001. He wrote that off as a council pollution-monitoring drone - even though the first commercial drone wasn’t used until 2006. No, it was the New York Times’s article revealing that the...

Ludmilla "Mili" Petrova was once the most hunted woman on Earth, having raised the fury of two of the most powerful leaders on either side of World War II: Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler. But Kathy Reilly of The Washington Post doesn’t know any of that when she encounters a brief mention of Mili in an old Russian propaganda magazine, and becomes interested in the story of a legendary, beautiful female sniper who seems to have vanished from history.

Four famed '60s radicals are gunned down at long range by a sniper. Under enormous media scrutiny, the FBI quickly concludes that Marine war hero Carl Hitchcock, whose 93 kills were considered the leading body count tally among American marksman in Vietnam, was the shooter. But as the Bureau, led by Special Agent Nick Memphis, bears down, Hitchcock commits suicide. But Nick is suspicious and asks his friend, the retired Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger, to examine the data.

American Gunfight is the fast-paced, definitive, and breathtakingly suspenseful account of an extraordinary historical event: the attempted assassination of President Harry Truman in 1950 by two Puerto Rican Nationalists and the bloody shoot-out in the streets of Washington, D.C., that saved the president's life.