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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Fitzgerald Baker may well have been conceived in an act of erotic terrorism. That was what his mother had told him and it can be verified that Felix Pendragon initiated her into the League of Erotic Terrorists. However, she was also known to sacrifice truth for entertainment in most of what she said.' With these words, Phillip Wendell, lifestyle crisis counselor, relates to the reader the initial phase of the counseling of Fitzgerald Baker whose crisis was triggered by viewing Roald Vallen's documentary, The Crying Clown Rites. The painful initiation of youth into manhood, the bizarre clown makeup and the hunt that ended in a thrill kill were disturbing parts of the film to Fitz, a disenchanted architect in his thirties who is tired of the lifestyle of transient personalities and throwaway relationships. Baker-the great grandson of John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe-believes that maturity has evaded him and he fears both assassination and suicide because both run rampant in his ancestry. The film about the secret rites of the Jackson Hole Enclave bring these fears to the surface. Phillip takes Fitz on a Candide-like journey through the psychiatric cults and treatments of the late twenty-second century. This strange journey culminates when Phillip uses hypnodrug psychodrama to recreate in Fitz's mind the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas with Fitz over-identifying with the victim. 'The best psychological science-fiction novel since The Demolished Man.the tension mounts and mounts.I couldn't put it down.it might do your head as much good as an Encounter Group with the Marx Brothers!' Robert Anton Wilson, Coauthor of the Illuminatus Trilogy.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - War World: The Falkenberg Protectorate-a new novel by John F. Carr & Mark Moeser-is the bridge between Jerry Pournelle's The Mercenary and Prince of Mercenaries. John Christian Falkenberg III was created by Jerry E. Pournelle and made his first appearance in Analog Science Fiction and Fact in 1972. That and other Falkenberg stories appeared in his fix-up novel, The Mercenary, Colonel Falkenberg and his 42nd Marine Regiment serve as the last line of defense of the CoDominium and its many colonial words. The book will be released in September 2023. After the 42nd Regiment was disbanded, Falkenberg created Falkenberg's Legion, which acted as an unofficial arm of the CoDominium, sponsored and supported by both Grand Admiral Lermontov and the Grant family. The Legion fought throughout CoDominium space on worlds as far-flung as Sparta and Haven-otherwise known as War World-in an attempt to strengthen the fragile coalition and contain break-away worlds. This book continues the Falkenberg story, detailing his adventures and those of Falkenberg's Legion on the twin worlds of Franklin and New Washington, where he creates the Falkenberg Protectorate, as a base of operations as well as a home for the Legion. This novel chronicles Falkenberg's military adventures as the Legion attempts to assert its control over the two worlds. In addition, the Legion is faced with an attack from a CoDominium fleet sent by the Bronson Family to disrupt and, if possible, eradicate Falkenberg's Legion. This is the last gasp of the CoDominium as it falls apart after the nuclear war, which kills most of Earth's diverse human population. The Falkenberg Protectorate is once again dedicated to my old friend and mentor, Jerry Pournelle, who died in his sleep on September 8, 2017. Jerry was one of the Grand Old Men of science fiction and will be missed. We worked together at Chaos Manor for over 20 years and put out over 30 anthologies and short story collections. Wikipedia, in their piece on Military Science Fiction, states: 'The series of anthologies with the group title There Will Be War edited by Pournelle and John F. Carr (nine volumes from 1983 through 1990) helped keep the category active, and encouraged new writers to add to it.'.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Way of the Sword-Worlds is the prequel to H. Beam Piper's Space Viking novel and is the story of Otto Harkaman, and his loyal crewmates. Before Otto Harkaman joined up with Lucas Trask and became a famous Space Viking captain feared on hundreds of worlds, he was an ordinary trooper with big dreams but little to show for them. To achieve his dreams, to advance in status and to become someone that other Space Vikings would follow to riches and glory, Otto Harkaman had to learn the Way of the Sword Worlds. And learn it he did! Otto Harkaman and his crew of Space Vikings stormed and raided more than a score of neo-Barbarian and semi-civilized worlds of the former Terran Federation. When Harkaman purchased the Corisande, they were on their way to become one of the most successful Space Viking crews in the Old Federation. But along the way, Otto and his crew faced off some dangerous opponents, such as Crown Prince Viktor of Xochitl, Fedrig Barragon, the Lord Protector and ruler of Dagon, and a flotilla of Gilgamesh ships intent upon destroying Otto's ship, even if it cost them their lives.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Paratime Trouble is a new Paratime Police novel by John F. Carr featuring Verkan Vall and Dalla Hadron. Dalla leads Verkan on a merry chase through Paratime as Verkan--once again--attempts to save her bacon! This time she's searching for the noted 20th Century psychic, Jeanne Dixon, who has predicted the death of John F. Kennedy and the coming of a third world war on several Europo-America belts. Unfortunately for our two intrepid Paratimers, they both end up on the Beria Belt, where the Cuban Missile Crisis is heating up into an all-out nuclear war! In his search for Dalla, Verkan arrives in New York just in time for the bombs to hit Manhattan. He and Ranthar Jard end up traversing the subway tunnels underneath New York City as they attempt to escape rising radioactivity and hordes of fleeing survivors. Cut off from contact with Paratime Police headquarters, the two Paratimers not only face desperate survivors, but gangs of black-jacketed thugs intent on making the best out of a bad situation. On top of that, they have to find out where Dalla has gone into hiding and bring her back to First Level before the whole time-line collapses into complete chaos. …

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - At the end of Caveat Fuzzy, it appeared that things had settled down on Zarathustra since the slavers' reign of terror at the Fuzzy Reservation was brought to a halt. But it is only the calm before the storm. Suddenly, Fuzzies are disappearing from the Reservation, while people are spacing in from all over the Terran Federation to the colony planet of Zarathustra. The question is why Hundreds of spaceships, from luxurious yachts to rusty freighters, are orbiting Mallorysport and flooding the spaceport with visitors. And they only want one thing: their very own Fuzzy! Fuzzies are the cutest, cuddliest and most intelligent pet in all of known space. Now, on top of that, owning one has become the ultimate status symbol. Jack Holloway is at his wits' end. Even if he wanted to, there's no way he, or anyone else, could allow this swarm of tourists to each have their very own Fuzzy. There just aren't enough of the little critters to go around; plus, the free Fuzzies living on north Beta continent don't want a thing to do with the Big Bad Ones. However, there are a number of low-life characters who are attempting to abduct as many Fuzzies as they can for transport to Terra. Moreover, there is a new danger to Fuzzies that travel off-world: Jack and company had better figure it out before they unwittingly drive the Fuzzies to extinction. …

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Paratime was one of H. Beam Piper's most inspired creations and this collection contains all three of John F. Carr's Paratime Police novelettes featuring Lord Kalvan: 'Kalvan Kingmaker,' 'Siege at Tarr-Hostigos' and the never before published 'Sea of Grass,' a new story about the infiltration of Kalvan's Time-Line by the Wizard Traders. Another new story, 'The Alexander Affair,' tells the tale of what happens when an ambitious Paratimer decides to raise his con game to a new level-godhood! And, finally, 'Paratime War: ' the story that answers the questions raised in Kalvan novels Gunpowder God and Down Styphon! why Verkan Vall, the Paratime Police and the Kalvan Study Teams suddenly disappeared from Kalvan's Time Line. In Paratime War the Home Time Line civilization faces its greatest threat since the Mystic Wars! Will 10,000 years of civilization come to an end due to the evil machinations of a madman and his henchmen This is one collection that you do not want to miss.H. Beam Piper's Paratime stories concern the Home Time-Line on First Level, an advanced civilization based on the outcome of Martian colonization of the Earth some 75,000 years ago. The five Paratime levels met with vastly different outcomes, ranging from the highly-civilized Paratimers on First Level, where colonization was successful, to Fifth Level-the probability of the complete failure of Martian colonization where no human population was established and only indigenous quasi-human life evolved on Earth. For over 12,000 years the people of First Level have been using temporal transposition travel to loot and steal from the innumerable other worlds of alternate probability on the lateral dimension of time. Smart parasites never injure their hosts, nor do they reveal their existence. It's up to the Paratime Police to guard the Paratime Secret and their outtime activities, as well as hunt down and prosecute First Level criminals and illegal syndicates.…

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Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorJohn F. Carr lives in Boalsburg, Pennsylvania with his wife Victoria, an editor and columnist they have two children, Jeremy and Nicole, and two cats, Gemma and Jessica. Carr was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania but.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - War World: Andromeda Flight is a new War World novel by Doug McElwain, which takes place as the First Empire begins to collapse under the Sauron Coalition of Succession's relentless attacks on the worlds of the First Empire of Man. Emperor Lysander V, worries that the Empire of man is losing the war against Sauron and the Secessionists. He conceives of a fallback strategy; a dangerous plan to use the predicted Betelgeuse supernova to make an interstellar Jump to the Andromeda galaxy. The only place where the Empire can safely plant a colony outside the reach of the Sauron Supermen and their goal of enslaving mankind. War World: Andromeda Flight tells the stories of these brave explorers and their odyssey into the unknown.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Paratime Parasites contains a new introduction to Paratime, four never before published Paratime stories by John F. Carr and all of H. Beam Piper's Paratime stories except 'Time Crime' and the Lord Kalvan yarns. Newer stories include: 'Paratime Parasites,' a story about a conveyor missing for 10,000 years and Verkan Vall's efforts to find out what happened to the original Paratime Survey Team. 'Back From the Dead, a story about a man who returns from the dead only to find himself in his twelve-year-old body. 'Paratime Paradox,' where an outtimer threatens the Paratime Travel secret itself through his dreams. 'The Transtemporal Man,' a story about what happens when an outtimer suddenly appears with the ability to transpose to different timelines without a transtemporal conveyer. This is one collection you do not want to miss.…

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Zustand: New. KlappentextOn the pleasant backwater planet of Zarathustra, things had been relatively quiet since the famous duel between Jack Holloway and his recently discovered son, Morgan. Unless one considers the potential ramifications of the ali.

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