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Orphan of Creation

By: Allen, Roger MacBride

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An anthropologist stumbles across a stunning secret that will put the very definition of humanity suddenly in doubt. Are the bone she discovers buried on a old Mississippi plantation the remains of humans, or apes -- or something else?The answer will turn her life, and the world, upsidedown. What the critics said about ORPHAN OF CREATION 'Allen's attention to detail is sterling...totally believable...well portrayed...dead accurate.... This book goes a long way toward doing for anthropology what Timescape did for high-energy particle physics: humanizing it, making its real workings accessible to a new audience. Anyone who likes good hard science in their fiction will have to go a long way to find a better-done book.' --Locus 'a novel that reminds us that moral and social evolution depends not only on our knowing where we are going, but remembering where we have been.' --Christian Science Monitor 'Allen's writing technique is a well-balanced blend of dialogue, action, description and narrative-each in proper proportion to the other... a fine read ... word of mouth will bring acclaim that is more than deserved.' --Otherrealms Orphan of Creation takes an interesting scientific premise and lets it loose upon real human beings revealing to the reader a higher level of understanding of the world. Orphan is science and fiction; in examining the human condition, it does what both ideally intend to do.' --The New York Review of Science Fiction 'Mr.Allen has found an idea worthy of his talent. The book has that unmistakably correct feel of authenticity. A very readable as well as thoughtful story. Bravo to Mr.Allen for writing this risky book. Read it. Then pass it on to your mundane friends. With any luck, it will drive them crazy.' --Lan's Lantern FoxAcre Press is proud to present its books on the Google Play store.

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1936771012

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BSI: Starside: Death Sentence

By: Roger Macbride Allen

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BSI: Starside: Death Sentence

By: Roger Macbride Allen

They are the elite agents of interstellar investigation and their duty is to preserve and protect humanity throughout the galaxy. They are the men and women of the Bureau of Special Investigations (BSI) and their case files are literally out of this world. It was just a simple courier job, but it ended in disaster. More than six months after BSI agent Jamie Mendez’s predecessor was sent out on a mission, his ship has been found, the twenty-five-year-old agent inside dead—of old age. The urgent message he sacrificed his life to deliver has survived in the form of a highly encrypted datafile. The encryption has kept the sensitive information safe from alien code-breakers—so far. But with the decryption key lost, the file is just as useless to BSI. Now agents Mendez and Hannah Wolfson must travel off-world in the ill-fated ship on a desperate mission to discover what happened to one of their own . . . and to search for the key to a secret that could set off an interstellar, interspecies war—one that may end with humanity’s extinction. From the Paperback edition.

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0553903748

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The Ocean of Years

By: Roger Macbride Allen

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The Ocean of Years

By: Roger Macbride Allen

Time Is Up In a far-flung universe--where history is a timeshaft away--a manhunt begins to determine the future of a world.... Oskar DeSilvo was the founder of the planet Solace. As the director of its terraforming project, he literally made the world--but he’s been dead for over a hundred years. Or so Anton Koffield thought. Now, as Solace slides into ecological collapse, Koffield discovers that DeSilvo may still somehow be alive--and that the secrets he holds could save not only Solace but all of humanity. But Koffield has his own reasons to find DeSilvo. Once a decorated officer of the Chronologic Patrol, he now battles against all they stand for to find the man who nearly destroyed him. Driven by a ruthless sense of justice and honor, Koffield takes his crew back through a timeshaft wormhole to a time and a place none of them have ever seen: Earth of the next century. There the search begins. A quest not only to explore the past--but to free the future from the clutches of a genocidal madman.... From the Paperback edition.

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Assault at Selonia: Star Wars Legends (The Corellian Trilogy)

By: Roger MacBride Allen

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Assault at Selonia: Star Wars Legends (The Corellian Trilogy)

By: Roger MacBride Allen

Imprisoned on the planet Corellia, Han Solo finds himself at the mercy of his evil cousin, Thracken Sal-Solo. Thracken plans to restore the Imperial system and seize total power -- no matter what the cost. Han has one chance to stop him. But to do so he must turn his back on his human cousin and join forces with a female alien. Dracmus was arrested as a ringleader in a plot against the corrupt Human League. Now she and Han will attempt a daring escape to Selonia in time to warn Leia, Luke Skywalker, and Lando of Thracken's plan. But can Han trust the alien to keep her word? Meanwhile, other questions threaten the New Republic -- and the lives of millions. Who is behind the deadly Starbuster plot? Why is someone attempting to take possession of Corellia's powerful planetary repulsors? And what is the secret behind the mysterious Centerpoint Station, and ancient, artificial world of unknown origin that has suddenly -- and inexplicably -- come alive? Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a primer on the Star Wars expanded universe, and over half a dozen excerpts from some of the most popular Star Wars books of the last thirty years!

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Ambush at Corellia: Star Wars Legends (The Corellian Trilogy)

By: Roger MacBride Allen

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Ambush at Corellia: Star Wars Legends (The Corellian Trilogy)

By: Roger MacBride Allen

A trade summit on Corellia brings Han Solo back to the home world he left many years before. Arriving on the distant planet with Leia, their children and Chewbacca, Han finds Corellia overrun with agents of the New Republic Intelligence and finds himself part of a deceptive plan whose aim not even he understands. One thing is clear: the five inhabited worlds of the sector are on the brink of civil war and the once peaceful coexistence of the three leading races -- human, Selonian, and Drallan -- has come to an end.

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BSI: Starside: Final Inquiries

By: Roger Macbride Allen

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BSI: Starside: Final Inquiries

By: Roger Macbride Allen

It’s the most dangerous assignment of their careers—a mission so top-secret, not even their commanding officer has been permitted to know the details. Within minutes, BSI agents Jamie Mendez and Hannah Wolfson are whisked aboard an Elder Race ship as massive as a small moon, hurtling across the galaxy at unheard-of speed toward the scene of a crime no one dares to put into words. They’ve been partnered on the case with Brox 234—an agent of the Kendari, humanity’s chief rival in the endless game of interstellar diplomatic threat and bluster. Mendez and Wolfson quickly learn one thing for certain: they’re about to face a threat so deadly that only an alliance between the human race and its fiercest foes will give any of them even the slimmest chance of survival. And even that chance is about to slip away.… From the Paperback edition.

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0553904639

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BSI: Starside: The Cause of Death

By: Roger Macbride Allen

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BSI: Starside: The Cause of Death

By: Roger Macbride Allen

They are the elite agents of interstellar investigation. Their mission: solve off-Earth crimes and protect humanity’s starside interests. They are the men and women of the Bureau of Special Investigations–BSI–and their cases are literally out of this world. The message was garbled, but it appeared to be a simple enough request: escort a human prisoner convicted of murder back to Earth for punishment. But when BSI agents Jamie Mendez and Hannah Wolfson arrive on a planet settled by the enigmatic Pavlat, it seems that everyone is determined to kill them before they can complete their mission–or even find out what it is. And on a planet where murder is a time-honored tradition, Death is a cause everyone believes in. Mendez and Wolfson must find a way to untangle the web of Pavlavian intrigue obscuring the case and sort out what’s really going on. But there’s far more than just one man’s life at stake–and soon they’ll have a fresh murder to solve…. From the Paperback edition.

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Assault at Selonia: Star Wars Legends (The Corellian Trilogy)

By: Roger MacBride Allen

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Allies and Aliens

By: Roger MacBride Allen

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Allies and Aliens

By: Roger MacBride Allen

Newlyweds Lt. MacKenzie and Joslyn Larson have just finished training in the League of Planets Survey Service. Their new mission is to sneak into an occupied system, and open the way for a liberating counterstrike by an experimental matter transmitter that could materialize an army onto the surface of the planet.

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0671876589

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1789

George Washington and the Founders Create America

By: Thomas B. Allen

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1789

George Washington and the Founders Create America

By: Thomas B. Allen

[Historian Allen] recreates in this meticulous and fast-moving posthumous account the events of the pivotal year 1789 in America. It’s a superb distillation of a complex moment in U.S. history.”— Publishers Weekly, Starred Review 1789: George Washington and the Founders Create Americadraws on hundreds of sources to paint a vivid portrait of the new nation, setting out to show the world at large that a new—and very American—form of government was calling itself into being. “No future session of Congress will ever have so arduous and weighty a charge on their hands,” the New York Gazette observed in summer 1789. “No examples to imitate, and no striking historical facts on which to ground their decisions—All is bare creation.” The Constitution had been written in 1787 and ratified in 1788. But 1789 was the year the government it described—albeit only in the broadest of terms—had to be brought into being. Veteran journalist Thomas B. Allen brings decades of experience and a gifted storyteller’s eye to the long-hidden history of how George Washington and the Founders set the federal government into motion.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538183102

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World War II: the Encyclopedia of the War Years, 1941-1945

By: Norman Polmar,Thomas B. Allen

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World War II: the Encyclopedia of the War Years, 1941-1945

By: Norman Polmar,Thomas B. Allen

This authoritative and comprehensive survey features over 2,400 entries. Subjects range from battles, soldiers, and military activities to politics, culture, and the Holocaust. Enlivened by 85 illustrations, its panoramic perspective encompasses WWII's enduring influences on the American way of life. "A unique and valuable look at the war."—General James Doolittle

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0486479625

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Declassified

50 Top-secret Documents that Changed History

By: Thomas B. Allen

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Declassified

50 Top-secret Documents that Changed History

By: Thomas B. Allen

Presents a collection of some top-secret documents - taken from museum and archive collections around the world. Chapters in this title include: Secrets of War; The Art of the Double-Cross; Spy vs Spy; A Bodyguard of Lies; Espionage Accidents; In Defense of the Realm; and, The Secret State.

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National Geographic Books

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1426202229

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The Depths of Time

By: Roger MacBride Allen

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The Depths of Time

By: Roger MacBride Allen

Science fiction roman.

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Bantam

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0553574973

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9780553574975

Isaac Asimov's Caliban

By: Roger MacBride Allen,Isaac Asimov

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Isaac Asimov's Caliban

By: Roger MacBride Allen,Isaac Asimov

When an experiment with a new type of robot brain goes awry, the unthinkable happens and Caliban is created. A robot without guilt or conscience, a robot with no knowledge of or compassion for humanity--a robot without the Three Laws.

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0441004822

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Tories

Fighting for the King in America's First Civil War

By: Thomas B. Allen

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Tories

Fighting for the King in America's First Civil War

By: Thomas B. Allen

An “evocatively written examination” of the Americans who fought alongside the British during the American Revolution (American Spectator). The American Revolution was not simply a battle between the independence-minded colonists and the oppressive British. As Thomas B. Allen reminds us, it was also a savage and often deeply personal civil war, in which conflicting visions of America pitted neighbor against neighbor and Patriot against Tory on the battlefield, on the village green, and even in church. In this outstanding and vital history, Allen tells the complete story of the Tories, tracing their lives and experiences throughout the revolutionary period. Based on documents in archives from Nova Scotia to London, Tories adds a fresh perspective to our knowledge of the Revolution and sheds an important new light on the little-known figures whose lives were forever changed when they remained faithful to their mother country.

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Harper Collins

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0062010808

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Orphan of Creation

By: Allen, Roger MacBride

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Orphan of Creation

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1936771012

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Mr. Lincoln's High-tech War

How the North Used the Telegraph, Railroads, Surveillance Balloons, Ironclads, High-powered Weapons, and More to Win the Civil War

By: Thomas B. Allen,Roger MacBride Allen

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Mr. Lincoln's High-tech War

How the North Used the Telegraph, Railroads, Surveillance Balloons, Ironclads, High-powered Weapons, and More to Win the Civil War

By: Thomas B. Allen,Roger MacBride Allen

Shows the part technology played in the North winning the Civil War over the South and how Lincoln appreciated technology after awhile.

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The Shores of Tomorrow

By: Roger Macbride Allen

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The Shores of Tomorrow

By: Roger Macbride Allen

On the verge of extinction, only the gravest imaginable crime against humanity can save it...A bold new plan seeks to ignite a new Sunspot over Greenhouse, saving the habitat domes crucial to the survival of the Solacian people. But a secret clouds this symbol of much-needed hope: human space is contracting at a startling rate, threatening to wipe out all living worlds—including Earth. The only answer lies in the hands of the founder of the planet Solace: Oskar DeSilvo, seemingly returned from the dead to save the worlds his frauds had doomed to destruction. But as the work begins, agents of the Chronologic Patrol step in to prevent interference with the past—even at the risk of dooming humanity. Thwarted at every turn, DeSilvo and his onetime nemesis, Anton Koffield, propose one last wildly grandiose idea—one final, desperate gamble. But if the only choice lies between madness and certain catastrophe—is there any choice at all? From the Paperback edition.

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Showdown at Centerpoint: Star Wars Legends (The Corellian Trilogy)

By: Roger MacBride Allen

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Showdown at Centerpoint: Star Wars Legends (The Corellian Trilogy)

By: Roger MacBride Allen

In this third and final volume of the Corellian trilogy, Han and Luke lead the Alliance in a mad scramble against the Selonian rebels for control of the planetary technology. When a loyalist ship approaching Selonia is blasted out of space, Han Solo quickly realizes that rebel forces are turning planetary repulsors into weapons of immense destruction. Meanwhile, Luke Skywalker and Lando Calrissian manage to discover the terrifying secret of Centerpoint Station. It is the infamous Starbuster itself, and its next programmed nova, hard-wired in, is set to annihilate a chosen star, its inhabited worlds, and millions of innocent lives. There's only one way to stop it: blow up the station. But as a massive rebel fleet closes in on Centerpoint, Han, Luke, and their friends will discover time is running out. Then the true leaders of the rebellion reveal their identities and issue their final ultimatum: The New Republic must withdraw all claim to power over the entire Corellian sector. With the future of Corellian freedom at stake, Han and those loyal to the Republic must somehow resist. But how can they possibly stop the deadliest weapon the galaxy has ever known? Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a primer on the Star Wars expanded universe, and over half a dozen excerpts from some of the most popular Star Wars books of the last thirty years!

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Ambush at Corellia: Star Wars Legends (The Corellian Trilogy)

By: Roger MacBride Allen

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Showdown at Centerpoint: Star Wars Legends (The Corellian Trilogy)

By: Roger MacBride Allen

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War Games

the secret world of the creators, players, and policy makers rehearsing World War III today

By: Thomas B. Allen

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War Games

the secret world of the creators, players, and policy makers rehearsing World War III today

By: Thomas B. Allen

Startling and disturbing, this is an up-to-date look at today's high-tech rehearsals for war. Political scenarios, military strategies and frightening, true-to-life maneuvers--all the games played by today's leaders are here, based on information gained through the Freedom of Information Act.

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0425116476

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The Shores of Tomorrow

By: Roger Macbride Allen

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Ambush at Corellia: Star Wars Legends (The Corellian Trilogy)

By: Roger MacBride Allen

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The War Machine

By: David Drake,Roger MacBride Allen

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The War Machine

By: David Drake,Roger MacBride Allen

What's worse than a corrupt, decadent, autocratic, oppressive regime? Corrupt, decadent, autocratic, oppressive aliens... "For Reasons of State" they ripped his marriage apart and forced his wife into the bed of another man. Now their empire is in danger and he is the one man in place to stop the alien threat. But there's a problem: when the Empire ruined this loyal servant's perfect marriage¾and his life¾with its political maneuverings they turned Captain Allison Spencer into a junkie. But sometimes necessity can bring out the best in a man, no matter how far he's fallen. In a story of personal heroism and individual boldness Drake & Allen bring The Crisis of Empire to a rousing climax. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

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Baen Publishing Enterprises

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1618249673

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The Ocean of Years

By: Roger Macbride Allen

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Isaac Asimov's Inferno

By: Roger MacBride Allen,Isaac Asimov

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Isaac Asimov's Inferno

By: Roger MacBride Allen,Isaac Asimov

When a key politician is murdered, suspicion falls on Caliban...the only robot without guilt or conscience, with no need to obey or respect humanity... a robot without the Three Laws. But the stakes go deeper than one man's life. Caliban is challenging long-held ideas of a robot's place in society. Will he lead his New Law robots in a rebellion that threatens all of humanity?

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