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Author | : John F. Carr |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2010-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780937912065 |
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Kalvan Kingmaker is the 3rd in the Kalvan Saga, after H. Beam Piper's groundbreaking parallel world's SF novel, Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen, and the sequel, Great Kings' War by John F. Carr and Roland Green. The Paratime Police patrol an infinity of alternate earths. Their prime directive is to protect the Paratime Secret thereby keeping this infinity of worlds from mixing and destroying each other, or from learning the parasitical Home Time Line is secretly looting their resources. When Penn. State Policeman Calvin Morrison is accidentally dropped off from a cross-time conveyer onto Styphon's House Subsector, he threatens both the Paratime Secret and leadership of the gunpowder theocracy, who owe their power to their secret knowledge of the "fireseed" formula. In just a few weeks, by the use of his knowledge of military strategy, Kalvan saves the small princedom of Hostigos from an invasion orchestrated by Styphon's House. Kalvan Kingmaker opens right after Kalvan's decisive victory over the Holy Host of Styphon. With Great King Kaiphranos of Hos-Harphax in mourning over his eldest son's death, the time is ripe for the Army of Hostigos to invade Harphax and topple the Iron Throne. At the holy city of Balph, the Inner Circle is reeling. Archpriest Roxthar, a rare true believer in Styphon, is conducting a full-blown inquisition of Styphon's corrupt upper priesthood. Once his reformation is complete, Roxthar's next job will to rebuild the Holy Host and defeat and destroy the Usurper Kalvan. Meanwhile, there is a great migration of nomads across the Sea of Grass; they are the wild card. As the nomads pour across the Great Middle River, pushing the clans and tribes that live there into the Great Kingdoms, the big question soon becomes: Will Styphon's House be buried by the human wave, or will they use the nomads in their war to the death with Kalvan and Hos-Hostigos?
Author | : H. Beam Piper |
Publisher | : Wildside Press LLC |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1479466468 |
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Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen—Piper's last science fiction novel—is part of his Paratime series and recounts the adventures of a Pennsylvania state trooper who is accidentally transported to a more backward parallel universe. It is an expanded version of his novelet "Gunpowder God."
Author | : John F. Carr |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2014-01-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1476614571 |
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H. Beam Piper is one of science fiction’s most enigmatic writers. In 1946 Piper appeared seemingly from out of nowhere, already at the top of his form. He published a number of memorable short stories in the premier science fiction magazine of the time, Astounding Science Fiction, under legendary editor John W. Campbell. Piper quickly became friends with many of the top writers of the day, including Lester Del Rey, Fletcher Pratt, Robert Heinlein and L. Sprague de Camp. Piper also successfully made the turn from promising short story writer to major novelist, authoring Four-Day Planet, Cosmic Computer, Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen and Little Fuzzy, which was nominated for a Hugo award. Even those who counted Piper among their friends knew very little about the man or his life as a railroad yard bull in Altoona, Pennsylvania. This biography illuminates H. Beam Piper, both the writer and the man, and answers lingering questions about his death. Appendices include a number of Piper’s personal papers, a complete bibliography of Piper’s works, and an essay on Piper’s Terro-Human Future History series.
Author | : Karen Hellekson |
Publisher | : Kent State University Press |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780873386838 |
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What would the world be like is history had taken a different course? Science fiction literature has long contemplated this question, and this text analyzes alternate history science fiction through a variety of historical models. It raises questions of narrative, writers, temporality and time.
Author | : John F. Carr |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 520 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780937912188 |
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The fourth book in the Kalvan Saga begins right after Kalvan Kingmaker's resounding military success over the invading nomad clans. Unfortunately, Kalvan has awakened the sleeping tiger of Styphon's House and it is out for blood.
Author | : Robert Adams |
Publisher | : Baen Books |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780671698188 |
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Science fiction comes home with a volume of stories that twist history for a more alternative picture. Camelot becomes real, Constantinople falls seven centuries earlier, and the Constitution is never ratified . . . Earth as it could have been!
Author | : John F. Carr |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2014-02-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0786477318 |
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H. Beam Piper is one of science fiction's most enigmatic writers. In 1946 Piper appeared seemingly from out of nowhere, already at the top of his form. He published a number of memorable short stories in the premier science fiction magazine of the time, Astounding Science Fiction, under legendary editor John W. Campbell. Piper quickly became friends with many of the top writers of the day, including Lester Del Rey, Fletcher Pratt, Robert Heinlein and L. Sprague de Camp. Piper also successfully made the turn from promising short story writer to major novelist, authoring Four-Day Planet, Cosmic Computer, Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen and Little Fuzzy, which was nominated for a Hugo award. Even those who counted Piper among their friends knew very little about the man or his life as a railroad yard bull in Altoona, Pennsylvania. This biography illuminates H. Beam Piper, both the writer and the man, and answers lingering questions about his death. Appendices include a number of Piper's personal papers, a complete bibliography of Piper's works, and an essay on Piper's Terro-Human Future History series.
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Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Science fiction |
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Author | : Dmitry Glukhovsky |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2016-11-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781365563508 |
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First English U.S. PREMIUM HARDCOVER Edition of the cult dystopia "METRO 2033". * * * Metro 2033 tells the story of a young man named Artyom who goes a long way to save his world from mortal danger. The book describes the consequences of an atomic war. Its only survivors strive for existence in the mazes of the Moscow subway (Metro) some two decades after the nuclear Holocaust. Formally a sci-fi novel, Metro 2033 describes a dystopia, in which Russia's present-day society is superficially analyzed and described. It also critically examines communism in the former Soviet Union and the rise of fascism in modern Russia. Over 2,000,000 copies of Metro 2033 have been sold worldwide. Foreign book rights have been sold to more than 37 countries. The franchise gave birth to two cult video games, Metro 2033 and Metro Last Light. Film rights were optioned by MGM Studios in Hollywood.
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Total Pages | : 1520 |
Release | : 2003 |
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