β Scribed by Harry Turtledove
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
When the Viking lander on the planet Minerva was destroyed, sending back one last photo of a strange alien being, scientists on Earth were flabbergasted. And so a joint investigation was launched by the United States and the Soviet Union, the first long-distance manned space mission, and a symbol of the new peace between the two great rivals.
Humankind's first close encounter with extraterrestrials would be history in the making, and the two teams were schooled in diplomacy as well as in science. But nothing prepared them for alien war -- especially when the Americans and the Soviets found themselves on opposite sides...
From the Paperback edition.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
Natasha Seychelle, heiress to the vast Seychelle Enterprise, has been on a crumbling road ever since losing her mother. Losing her friends, falling away from her work responsibilities, and sinking deeper into depression, rumors are she wonβt be able to succeed the company at the end of the summer.
Japanese schoolgirl Kana Shimizu is more than a little shocked to find herself transported to a different world on her fifteenth birthday. She has been summoned to be the hero who will defeat a demon lord, just like in the manga. Except that sheβs the wrong hero for the job and they canβt send her h
****In this alluring, melancholic novel --Peter Stamm at his best--a writer haunted by his double blurs the line between past and present, fiction and reality, in his attempt to outrun the unknown.**** "Please come to Skogskyrkogarden tomorrow at 2. I have a story I want to tell you." Lena agrees
"They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea." \- Horace Twelve stories and two poems of power and powerlessness, of tragedy, of courage, of loss, of love, of regret and of never looking back, of transition and transcendence. Twelve tales and two poems about things that people fi
A tale of manlove and menage sex in the wild, wild West! Little Joe and Callie grew up together. A victim of abuse, Callie found safety and security in Little Joe-s arms and he wanted to take care of her for the rest of their lives. Only, Callie had a fascination, a fantasy of sorts. She wanted to b