Venusia
Title | Venusia PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Von Schlegell |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2005-08-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1584350261 |
A novel about life under enlightened totalitarianism in the twenty-third century and the efforts of a mild-mannered junk dealer to change the human condition. Primitive literacy is redundant. Mere words are expelled. We inaugurate a world of pure presence. The mind, that intrudes itself between ourselves and those memories too terrible to know, must keep us moving beyond the grasp of their claw. To control the flow, it will be necessary that political order be imposed always temporarily. The state shall enjoy direct, creative access to the real. It's the end of the twenty-third century. Earth has violently self-destructed. Venusia, an experimental off-world colony, survives under the enlightened totalitarianism of the Princeps Crittendon regime. Using industrialized narcotics, holographic entertainment, and memory control, Crittendon has turned Venusia into a self-sustaining system of relative historical inertia. But when mild-mannered junk dealer Rogers Collectibles finds a book about early Venusian history, the colony—once fully immersed in the present—begins losing its grip on the real. With his Reality-V girlfriend Martha Dobbs, neuroscop operator Sylvia Yang, his midget friend Niftus Norrington, and a sentient plant, Rogers wages a war to alter the shape of spacetime, and in the process, revisions the whole human (and vegetable) condition.
Venus IA
Title | Venus IA PDF eBook |
Author | Alex James |
Publisher | Angel Phoenix Media |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2013-10-08 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9829109127 |
A full-throttle, fem-powered sci-fi actioner in the vein of Taken, Blade Runner and Riddick, from Alex James (The Pandora Sequence). Set against a bleak, morally-warped future dystopia, corporation employed secret agents battle for the galaxy's most sort after commodity, Ambrosia. White can’t remember her real name, or anything much about her real life – all she remembers is that slavers kidnapped her sister, the only thing she loves, and that that she has less than twelve hours to steal her back – or she will be lost forever in a lawless, immoral and barbaric moral vacuum of a galaxy where humanity has run rampant, limitless and uncontrolled, for centuries. Totally desperate, White has sold her body to the Celestia Corporation – receiving deadly skill and memory upgrades from Celestia’s most feared assassin – the cold sexual predator and emotionless psychopath known as Venus; a cruelly efficient, genetically engineered, galaxy-scale super-weapon in the body of a goddess. But even with these advantages, White knows that time is running out, and only the deep emotional bond with her sister will keep her going; White’s determination – and newfound brutality – cannot waver... even if it means leaving a devastating trail of death and wreckage in her wake, even if it means that what she finds at the end of her path of destruction – and what she has become – is more horrifying that anything she could have imagined...
Angelwitch: Book Two, Triumvirate Part One
Title | Angelwitch: Book Two, Triumvirate Part One PDF eBook |
Author | Pat McNamara |
Publisher | Angel Phoenix Media |
Pages | 367 |
Release | 2013-06-26 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9829109070 |
200+ stunningly illustrated pages of epic fantasy and adventure by Pat McNamara, writer of the trailblazing ‘The Legend of Spacelord Mo Fo’ digital comic, and acclaimed pin-up artist and illustrator, Michal Dutkiewicz (Wolverine, Batman, Lost in Space). The almighty Dragonscarpe has fallen. The fate of the Realms hangs in the balance. The Outcast Velcca, has led the Triumvirate to a flawless victory over the Dragonscarpe's revered ruler, the Angelwitch Syrreis – or so she believes. The last surviving Paladin, Zayd Mon Awes, reeling from the murder of his beloved, Braede, by the Dragonscarpe's betrayer, his best friend, Wyun, is shocked by the revelation that the power of the Angelwitch has been passed to him. He is the new Angelwitch. Hunted by Velcca's brutal brother, Veccun, Zayd's only hope for escape from the ravaged Dragonscarpe, lies with four other survivors – the four young Elementalists, whose fragile truce threatens to unravel, as secret agendas are revealed. As the unlikely band of fugitives fight for freedom, a storm of chaos spreads across the Realms and, all the while, Velcca's army grows ever stronger...
Forty Years of Astronomy in the USSR, 1917-1957: Text- v. 2. Bibliography
Title | Forty Years of Astronomy in the USSR, 1917-1957: Text- v. 2. Bibliography PDF eBook |
Author | A. A. Mikaylov |
Publisher | |
Pages | 626 |
Release | 1964 |
Genre | Astronomy |
ISBN |
American Poland-China Record
Title | American Poland-China Record PDF eBook |
Author | American Poland-China Record Association |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1092 |
Release | 1919 |
Genre | Poland |
ISBN |
Vincent Family Records: 1900 census index
Title | Vincent Family Records: 1900 census index PDF eBook |
Author | Sheridan Eugene Vincent |
Publisher | |
Pages | 640 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Municipal Freedmen and Intergenerational Social Mobility in Roman Italy
Title | Municipal Freedmen and Intergenerational Social Mobility in Roman Italy PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey A. Easton |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 381 |
Release | 2023-12-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004686355 |
This book challenges prevailing models of the ways formerly enslaved individuals in Ancient Rome navigated their social and economic landscape. Drawing on the rich epigraphic evidence left behind by municipal freedmen and freedwomen, who had been owned and manumitted by the communities of Roman Italy, it pushes back against ameliorating views of slavery as a temporary condition and positive notions of a prosperous and consciously proud Roman freedman class. Manumission was a far more complex process, and it did not always put former slaves and their descendants on the straight and narrow path of upward mobility.