The Mania of the Nations on the Planet Mars and Its Terrific Consequences
The Body Heist
On the harsh world of Anaranjado, alien refugees and abandoned humans fight for their right to exist. But are they choosing this battle or merely the puppets of mysterious forces with dark agendas?Karl wants nothing more than to settle down with Stefani and help her raise her daughter, Ella. But their family isn't whole. Stefani's adopted daughter Marri-a girl Karl also cares deeply for-is missing. Karl volunteers to go undercover in enemy territory to find her.Meanwhile, Stefani teams up with uneasy ally Iaz Delgassi and her band of resistance fighters to establish a stable foothold for their people. When a targeted attack goes horribly wrong, Marri pops up in a pirate broadcast calling out the resistance.Sporting a new name and looking years older than she should, Marri's sudden reappearance sets off a planet-wide race to discover where she is and what she plans next. Her family is desperate to find her. Anaranjado's shattered government is even more determined to remove her from the board. Marri, however, only answers to a strange, godlike entity. Yet, despite the fact she always seems one step ahead of her pursuers, even she is unaware of the big picture.As each group distracts themselves with infighting and rebellion, they're ignoring the only question that matters: Who-or what-is manipulating all these factions, and why?
The Martian Chronicles
Mars was a distant shore, and the men spread upon it in waves... Each wave different, and each wave stronger. The Martian Chronicles Ray Bradbury is a storyteller without peer, a poet of the possible, and, indisputably, one of America's most beloved authors. In a much celebrated literary career that has spanned six decades, he has produced an astonishing body of work: unforgettable novels, including Fahrenheit 451 and Something Wicked This Way Comes; essays, theatrical works, screenplays and teleplays; The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, The October Country, and numerous other superb short story collections. But of all the dazzling stars in the vast Bradbury universe, none shines more luminous than these masterful chronicles of Earth's settlement of the fourth world from the sun.Bradbury's Mars is a place of hope, dreams and metaphor-of crystal pillars and fossil seas-where a fine dust settles on the great, empty cities of a silently destroyed civilization. It is here the invaders have come to despoil and commercialize, to grow and to learn -first a trickle, then a torrent, rushing from a world with no future toward a promise of tomorrow. The Earthman conquers Mars ... and then is conquered by it, lulled by dangerous lies of comfort and familiarity, and enchanted by the lingering glamour of an ancient, mysterious native race.Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles is a classic work of twentieth-century literature whose extraordinary power and imagination remain undimmed by time's passage. In connected, chronological stories, a true grandmaster once again enthralls, delights and challenges us with his vision and his heart-starkly and stunningly exposing in brilliant spacelight our strength, our weakness, our folly, and our poignant humanity on a strange and breathtaking world where humanity does not belong.
The Timeslot Paradox
Empowering time travelers to communicate across decades, an eager and gifted temporal engineer develops a secret mail drop, hidden in plain sight on a university campus. Codename: the Timeslot.A charismatic physicist and a focused, revenge-driven hacker go to daring lengths to escape the man who murdered their best friend and fianc矇-his boss.A grieving musician in search of closure uncovers her late father's notebook, written before she was born but, impossibly, dated twenty-five years in the future.Generations later, another engineer, brilliant but disorganized, struggles to repair the abandoned Timeslot equipment after years of disuse. Her unexpected discovery draws this disparate group of men and women into a cascade of events which echo across a century of recent-past and near-future history.Journals from five intertwining lives, Black, White, Asian, queer, straight, disabled, and not, blend time travel with mystery, revenge, found family, vintage music, sci-fi references, and even a little romance.
