Phoenix Phoenix: 1848 books

François Tessier is an employee of the ministry. He takes the bus every morning at Batignolles to get to central Paris. There he met an employee of store that makes the same trip . Small smiles, handshakes , a few words : this half- hour in the bus is currently the " most charming "...

Two old men are walking in a spring garden. The pollen flies . One of them drew a parallel between germination and the many bastards would have had the other . He believes he has had intercourse with two or three hundred women , and as such , it is right to think that it can have descendants that he does not know. This revives her pain on an old case ...  

The Bronze God of Rhodes is written as the memoirs of Chares of Lindos.Chares of Lindos was a Greek sculptor born on the island of Rhodes. A pupil of Lysippos, Chares eventually built the Colossus of Rhodes, now considered to be one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.These memoirs...

~~This will not be one of those tales where the hero rises up from the depths to attain the pinnacle and through some duplicitous trick of fate loses everything. Reaching the bottom he pulls himself up by his bootstraps and reaches even higher heights. This won’t be some crazy adventure tale.  ...

Critically-acclaimed author Ed Kovacs presents Book Three in his thrilling Cliff Saint James series of murder mystery crime novels set in New Orleans. Publisher’s Weekly, Booklist, Kirkus, the Associated Press, and many other major reviewers have given great reviews to this series of private detective...

Whitey O’Thraight, the Ship’s Armorer on the first interstellar vessel launched by his home planet Vespucci, finds himself stranded on a strange planet with just one other survivor. Captured by the local Baron, they are freed by a group of monks who are much more than they initially appear...

Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge is one of the most celebrated novellas ever written. It not only won both the Hugo and Nebula, but also the HOMer award and the SF Chronicle Poll and was a nominee for the Locus Award and the Sturgeon Award. It was also nominated for a number of international awards, winning...

Mike Resnick introduces us to Lucifer Jones, a con man traveling in Africa presenting himself as a missionary. As the author puts it, Lucifer unfortunately "isn't the brightest bulb in the lamp" and mirth rather than wealth is often the result of his endeavors. Volumes II and III...

In Volume I, Adventures, Mike Resnick introduced us to Lucifer Jones, a con man traveling in Africa presenting himself as a missionary. As the author puts it, Lucifer unfortunately "isn't the brightest bulb in the lamp" and mirth rather than wealth is often the result of his exploits. This...

Robert ole Buthelezi is a man of destiny. He is the one the Zulu nation has waited for. He is the ancient one the prophesies talk about. He is the reincarnation of the great  leader Shaka. He will unite his people, he will lead massive forces of spaceships to conquer...

In Volume I, Adventures, Mike Resnick introduced us to Lucifer Jones, a con man traveling in Africa presenting himself as a missionary. As the author puts it, Lucifer unfortunately "isn't the brightest bulb in the lamp" and mirth rather than wealth is often the result of his endeavors. Volume...

In March 1909, Theodore Roosevelt went on a safari to central Africa. In this fictionalized account of that trip, Mike Resnick takes us on an amusing “what-if” with Roosevelt deciding to “liberate” the native Africans from Belgian rule and to set up a model democratic state in the heart of Africa.

 “Truly a love story of the ages.”—The Orlando Sentinel“Will keep you on the edge of your seat.”—David Brin“One of the most imaginative, exciting talents to appear on the SF scene.”—Publishers Weekly“Ambitious, elegiac, and ultimately satisfying.”—San Francisco...

Jay Hara is an ordinary young man growing up on the isolated planet of Erin. But Jay dreams of adventure and escapades and the legend of the lost “Godspeed” drive which allowed humans to travel at faster-than-light speeds. His life changes when he joins up with the seedy spacer, Paddy Enderton...