A Presidency under siege. A worldwide pandemic, followed by a global economic collapse. Is a happy ending even possible? Does real life emulate fiction? Or does fiction emulate real life? All five books of the BrainTrust examine topics ripped from today’s headlines: Pandemic, Global Economic Meltdown, Deportation. How closely will the world follow the BrainTrust script? Warning: Political satire included in this near-future hard sf techno-thriller. Please remember the Golden Question: How do you tell if a politician is lying? His lips are moving! Long ago, the President for Life expelled all foreign engineers from Silicon Valley. They moved to... The BrainTrust: A fleet of immense cruise liners jammed with teams seeking the next great breakthrough. A locus freed of bureaucracy and autocracy, a thorn in the side of every dirtside power. A home for creativity where no problem is unsolvable, but no crisis is as simple as it seems. A clean, well-lighted place for ... ferocious commando assaults, and desperate copter combat. The Heroines: Dash: the plucky mad scientist. Ping: the bouncy itty bitty ninja with the Real Big Gun. Jam: the quiet, resilient commando with the grace of a dancer. The Frightening Fact: A little too much of it is coming true. If you can’t laugh about your favorite politician, journey elsewhere. Otherwise, Come Aboard the BrainTrust. Every book a Prometheus Award nominee. ​If you like Robert Heinlein, Michael Crichton, Charles Stross, or Ayn Rand, buy your ticket and come aboard.

This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Terro-Human Future History is an account of the next 6,000 years of human history. In 1973, a nuclear war devastates the planet, eventually laying the groundwork for the emergence of a Terran Federation, once humanity goes into space and develops antigravity technology. Table of Contents: Uller Uprising Four-Day Planet The Cosmic Computer Space Viking The Return Omnilingual The Edge of the Knife The Keeper Graveyard of Dreams Ministry of Disturbance Oomphel in the Sky A Slave is a Slave Naudsonce Little Fuzzy

After INFINITE CRISIS, the DC Universe had its most eventful year ever. It was a year without Superman, Batman or Wonder Woman…but not a year without heroes! Collects the entirety of the ground-breaking, critically acclaimed DC Comics weekly series by award-winning writers Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka and Mark Waid!

The seminal series by Christopher Priest and M.D. Bright collected in its entirety for the very first time ? with more than 50 pages of extras and bonus material! Sometimes the best friends make the worst partners. Once inseparable, childhood friends Eric Henderson and Woody Van Chelton haven?t seen each other in years. Reunited by the mysterious deaths of their research scientist fathers, the unlikely duo find themselves stuck together all over again when a catastrophic lab accident transforms their bodies into pure energy ? energy that will completely dissipate if they don?t ?klang!? their control bands together every 24 hours! Now, armed with an array of high tech gadgets?and two horribly mismatched personalities?and a goat for a sidekick?this pair of misfits has has decided to set the world straight as the world?s worst superhero team, Quantum and Woody?if they can manage to quit fighting each other first. Now, for the first time in one complete volume, discover the defining masterwork of legendary creators Christopher Priest (Black Panther, Deadpool) and M.D. Bright (Green Lantern, Iron Man) as the complete, classic Quantum and Woody gets the deluxe oversized omnibus treatment! Collecting QUANTUM AND WOODY (1997) #0, 1?21 and #32, THE GOAT: H.A.E.D.U.S. #1, and X-O MANOWAR (1996) #16 (guest-starring Quantum and Woody), as well as the original backup stories from the QUANTUM AND WOODY trade paperback collections, and the never-before-collected story ?Thunk,? along with rarely seen sketches, character designs and process art from inside the Valiant vaults!

The Vatican Assassin Trilogy under one cover - Vatican Assassin - Vatican Ambassador - and Vatican Abdicator - an original science fiction series by Mike Luoma! Follow the career of ""BC"" - Bernard Campion - from hit man for the Pope to the heights of human power - from holy killer to champion of all humanity... Kinda. In Vatican Assassin, it's 2109 and BC poses as a priest - But he's really an assassin for the New catholic Church. His assignment: assassinate Meredith McEntyre, Governor of Lunar Prime, the non-aligned city-state on the Moon. They tell him she's about to help the wrong side in an out of control interplanetary War between the west and Islam. BC's next move will change everything! In Vatican Ambassador, the old pope has died. Seemingly unaware of BC's role, the new one names BC acting Vatican Ambassador to Lunar Prime. Can BC handle it? And in the trilogy's finale, Vatican Abdicator, BC tries to help humankind survive in the face of a massive external threat!

Bounty hunters, detectives, mercenaries—people with a particular set of skills. Four people with secrets to keep, each drawn to the fringes of human space. Three tales of mystery and suspense. A bounty hunter arrives on a mining colony, desperate for work, which she finds. But is she ready for what awaits her deep underground? A mercenary takes an assignment on a frontier colony world where a small group of religious zealots threaten to undo the fragile balance with the colonial government. Is she there to rescue the man who hired her team, or is there some other game at play? A private detective on the run finds himself caught up in the machinations of a research firm on the edge of collapse and the criminal underworld. And there’s more—a hidden threat that could undo everything the detective has worked so hard to accomplish. Grab this collection today, and launch yourself into the world of the Lancers.

This Omnibus E-Book brings together all three of Colin A. Palmer's books on the making of the modern Caribbean. Included are: Freedom's Children: The 1938 Labor Rebellion and the Birth of Modern Jamaica This is the first comprehensive history of Jamaica's watershed 1938 labor rebellion and its aftermath. The rebellion produced two rival leaders who dominated the political life of the colony through the achievement of independence in 1962. Alexander Bustamante, a moneylender, founded the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union and its progeny, the Jamaica Labour Party. Norman Manley, an eminent barrister, led the struggle for self-government and with others established the People's National Party. Palmer sheds new light on the nature of Bustamante's collaboration with the imperial regime, the rise of the trade-union movement, the struggle for constitutional change, and the emergence of party politics in a modernizing Jamaica. Cheddi Jagan and the Politics of Power: British Guiana's Struggle for Independence Palmer here tells the story of British Guiana's struggle for independence. The work details the rise and fall of Cheddi Jagan--from his initial electoral victory in the spring of 1953 to the aftermath of the British-orchestrated coup d'etat that led to the suspension of the constitution and the removal of Jagan's independence-minded administration. Bringing the larger story of Caribbean colonialism into view, this work shows how violence, police corruption, political chicanery, racial politics, and poor leadership delayed Guyana's independence until 1966, scarring the body politic in the process. Eric Williams and the Making of the Modern Caribbean In this first scholarly assessment of Williams (1911-1981), founder of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago's first modern political party and the nation's first prime minister, Palmer explores his life as a scholar and politician and his tremendous influence on the historiography and politics of the Caribbean. Palmer focuses especially on a 14-year period of independence struggles in the Anglophone Caribbean, when Williams helped resolve regional disputes and promoted the creation of a pan-Caribbean federation.