Pyramid Scheme

✍ Scribed by Eric Flint, Dave Freer

• Publisher: Baen
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 271
• Edition: First Edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

An alien pyramid has appeared in the middle of Chicago, destroying the city as it grows, and snatching people to be transported into worlds of mythology. One of the victims, Dr Lucas, an expert on mythology, finds that modern weapons don't work, and the Greek gods are out to kill them all.

✦ Table of Contents

by Dave Freer and Eric Flint......Page 1
Science Fiction eBook Collection......Page 3
Rudyard Kipling,Introduction to the Barrack-Room Balladsin "The Seven Seas"......Page 4
Baen Books by DAVE FREER & Eric Flint......Page 5
Prologue......Page 6
1......Page 8
No borrower may removemore than three books.......Page 9
A bibliophile's progress.......Page 12
Anyone causing a disturbance within the library will beasked to leave.......Page 15
I don't think so . . .......Page 18
It looks fishy to me.......Page 21
So get me a fisherman!......Page 24
Hold the anchovies.......Page 27
Between Orient and accident.......Page 30
It's all Greek to me.......Page 34
To hell with theConnecticut Yankee.......Page 40
Gambling with the lambs.......Page 46
A time for perspiration.......Page 55
We will rock you.......Page 58
Meanwhile, back at the ranch.......Page 63
Killing me softly with their song.......Page 65
The Enchanted Isle:no tradesmen or hawkers.By order: the management.......Page 68
This little piggy went to market.......Page 73
Alias Allium.......Page 77
Get a bigger hammer.......Page 83
Misleading Medea reports.......Page 88
Pigging out with Circe.......Page 96
You can go to Hades.......Page 105
Cam' ye o'er fra' France?......Page 108
A grave undertaking.......Page 113
We've all got to make sacrifices.......Page 115
Wind instruments,percussion and strings . . .......Page 123
Employees must givetwo weeks' notice.......Page 132
Lotus-eaters.......Page 137
Not so wily, after all.......Page 143
You can't breakwhat you can't touch.......Page 148
I want my Mummy.......Page 151
A sew-sew job.......Page 160
Heavy on the soul, please.......Page 169
Old crocs never die.They just smell that way.......Page 177
To get to the other side,for some fowl reason.......Page 184
Radio-active car-park.......Page 190
Sitting on a tuffet.......Page 193
The parting of ways.......Page 199
Besida spida.......Page 204
The rage of Olympus.......Page 209
Getting fleeced.......Page 212
La Mort du Francais.......Page 217
Prometheus bound.......Page 219
Nymphomania.......Page 222
Spies, lies and delusions.......Page 227
As ye sew, so shall ye reap.......Page 230
Spiderwebs and moonshine.......Page 234
Picking up fallen women.......Page 242
Put no faith in promises.Cash only.......Page 248
Dwarves untossed.......Page 252
Not hiring or taking applications.......Page 259
Acknowledgements......Page 263
APPENDIX......Page 265