Lizards Lair

WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN LIBERATING HUMAN SLAVES IS AGAINST THE LAW? In this prequel to the highly regarded science-fiction novel, The Survivors, Colonel Kendrick Landry and Major Will Adams return as the crew of the starcraft Aurora travels to Alpha Centauri B-III and learns that the descendants of the crew of The Green Horizon, Earths first interstellar starcraft, are living in centuries-old enslavement to a lizard-like race. The lizards manage the humans with the help of renegade effete and decadent human council members that the author describes as wearing flowing robes reminiscent of ancient Roman emperors. The First Intergalactic Alliance does not permit liberation of the human slaves because the planet is not a member of the Alliance and subject to Alliance law. Alliance law, however, would sanction the Auroras defenseincluding even offensive action against the lizard government, permitting its overthrow by human resistance fighters on the planetbut only if the lizard government has first attacked the Aurora. Without knowledge or consent of Colonel Landry, Major Adams devises a scheme to provoke such an attack by the lizard command. The lizards attack the Aurora, in orbit around the planet, with devastating force. Now, the crew of the Aurora will be fortunate to ensure their own survival, let alone assist in the liberation of the lizards human slaves! The events of Lizards Lair occur one solar year earlier than the central story of The Survivors and sets out in full narrative detail the plot of a story briefly summarized early in The Survivors. For those readers who might not take immediate notice, this dandy novel is not just about alien lizards! It is a modern satire on governmentoverreaching and institutionalized slavery, and is a highly relevant moral parable of our time. FROM A JULY 2008 PRESS RELEASE TO THE SACRAMENTO BEE: Lizards Lair is written in the paradigm form of a science-fiction novella--defined to have a word count of between 17,500 and 40,000 by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Nebula Awards for Science Fiction. This novella is an original dandy thriller and proves that indeed good things can come in small packages. A worthy complement to Derek Laurens already getting noticed premier science-fiction novel, The Survivors.

Schoolio: pets, projects and pandemonium is pure edutainment for intermediate readers and parents who enjoy reading to their children. In this three part story, Katie, Islay and Gauge learn from, engage in, and are impacted by their surroundings. Come along and share in their adventures in school and out of school. You will be thoroughly entertained. Islay's pet lizards cause chaos and hilarity in her classroom during Show and Tell. Katie is challenged by a science project and becomes intrigued with the idea of flowering up her neighbourhood in order to attract ruby-throated hummingbirds. Pandemonium ensues at Echo Lake during the summer holidays when Gauge sets out to prove that his sister hadn't lied when she said she saw a minnow that was thirty centimetres long. Schoolio will make you smile, instill you with interesting information and help you grow in love with life. You will be moved to get out there and explore the fascinating world around you with your eyes wide open and your ear to the ground.

Play Money explores a remarkable new phenomenon that's just beginning to enter public consciousness: MMORPGs, or Massively MultiPlayer Online Role-Playing Games, in which hundreds of thousands of players operate fantasy characters in virtual environments the size of continents. With city-sized populations of nearly full-time players, these games generate their own cultures, governments, and social systems and, inevitably, their own economies, which spill over into the real world. The desire for virtual goods -- magic swords, enchanted breastplates, and special, hard-to-get elixirs -- has spawned a cottage industry of "virtual loot farmers": People who play the games just to obtain fantasy goods that they can sell in the real world. The best loot farmers can make between six figures a year and six figures a month.Play Money is an extended walk on the weird side: a vivid snapshot of a subculture whose denizens were once the stuff of mere sociological spectacle but now -- with computer gaming poised to eclipse all other entertainments in dollar volume, and with the lines between play and work, virtual and real increasingly blurred -- look more and more like the future.

Suppose Roosevelt, Stalin, Churchill, Hitler, and Hirohito had united to conquer an even greater foe? No one could top their power—not the Germans, not the Japanese, not the Russians, not the United States. From Pearl Harbor to panzers rolling through Paris to the Siege of Leningrad and the Battle of Midway, war seethed across the planet as flames of destruction rose higher and hotter. And then, suddenly, the real enemy came. The invaders seemed unstoppable, their technology far beyond human reach. And never before had men been more divided. For Jew to unite with Nazi, American with Japanese, and Russian with German was unthinkable. But the alternative was even worse. As the fate of the world hung in the balance, slowly, painfully, humankind took up the shocking challenge. . . .

All the top gang leaders have been replaced. But nobody told Jacob Smith, leader of the Beefeaters. Hired to provide security for an old friend’s gang, Jacob receives the surprise of a lifetime. Now he scrambles to unite his people and defend London against something so terrible, nobody believes his tale. To save his pub and his wedding plans, he must heist a bank used by the crookedest of crime bosses. Can two Christian gang members make a difference in the coming battles?

The final book in the ever unpredictable "Dreams Unseen" series. The day of destruction has come. The Pergillion, the apocalypse of the Yellow Realm has arrived! The Valeron, Maubuus, the Ibla, Sadastra, Hideo and many more are all back. Dragons, magic, supertechnology, larger than life battles, and a secret plan of immortality swirl together and explode in thrilling revelations. Hideo is once again sucked into the whirlpool that is Dreams Unseen: Cry of The Dragon.

Kat believed she would be a wizard someday. She believed in a land called Kimyra where dragons skimmed the skies and wallacatoons whirled along the ground on three legs. She believed it because her father said his stories were true. Then, when Kat was almost a teenager, she began to doubt it all. That's when the ribek showed up.

Imaginary insects follow a continuous maze through the core of Planet Holox.