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Julie doesn't know what to think when the man she's had a crush on her entire life--a man she thinks is meant to be her sister's mate--starts flirting with her after she returns home from college. The harder she tries to distance herself, the harder he works to win her over. He can't want to mate with her...a freak born a full human among shifters. So why won't he accept her rejection?
Brendan's waited years for Julie's return. Now that she's finally home, there's nothing to keep him from her...not even her three alpha wolf brothers. But he's not the only one after Julie. Something is stalking her and Brendan's protective instincts toward her kick in, but at what cost?
When the unthinkable happens, will Julie and Brendan's love give them the strength they need to persevere?
All wolves are predators, but not all predators are wolves...Why is someone—or something—killing campers in remote False Cape Park? Autopsies reveal their throats have been torn out by a large canine. Locals recall a colonial-times legend of the "wolfwraith." New ranger, Shadow Fletcher, a one-handed Native American, feels ancient evil as he finds body after body, while park authorities try to cover everything up. He becomes the main suspect, which dredges up old secrets, yet he finds romance in the midst of an F.B.I. investigation. Finally a clue: the hair of a long-dead wolf clutched in the fingers of his murdered best friend. Shadow battles a raging hurricane to confront the Wolfwraith, save his new love, and solve the mystery of the cover-up.
1855. Lucknow, India. As tensions simmer in the heat of repressive colonial India, romance does not seem a likely prospect between an Indian prince and an English girl. Yet after discovering a common delight in music, Salim, son of the last Nawab of Avadh, and Rachael Bristow, daughter of an English colonel, defy their own and their societies' preconceptions and prejudices to fall in love. As the two are drawn closer together, their privileged lives in northern India are about to be torn apart. Trouble begins when the British annex Avadh banish the rightful Nawab, inflaming Salim's hatred of the colonisers, complicating his love for Rachael. Determined to recover what is rightfully his, Salim fights back when a small Sepoy mutiny flares into bloody rebellion against British rule. As unrest spreads across the subcontinent, the fiercely contested ancient city of Lucknow proves one of the most dangerous places to be. Amid the chaos of a city and society consumed in hatred and devastation, Salim and Rachael are forced to choose between their loyalty to each other, their families, and the opposing sides that threaten to raze Lucknow to the ground. Will their love prove strong enough to rise above the violence and survive to a world beyond?
'Raft is fast paced, strong on suspense, efficiently written, and has moral weight, but it is in the creation of a genuinely strange and believable new universe that Baxter excels! rigorous, vigorous SF at its enjoyable best' Time Out 'Almost perfect! Raft is very, very hard SF and it's great fun' Interzone 'This debut novel polishes its ideas with such realistic brilliance you can see a whole civilization in it' The Times
About the Author
Stephen Baxter applied to become an astronaut in 1991. He didn't make it, but achieved the next best thing by becoming a science fiction writer, and his novels and short stories have been published and have won awards around the world. His science background is in maths and engineering. He is married and lives in Buckinghamshire.
EDITORIAL REVIEW:
2000 years in the future, the solar system has fallen under the domination of an alien species, the Quax. But into this world appears a spaceship launched over 1500 years ago, intended to establish a link through which time travel is possible. To the humans this is a chance to reverse time.
'Arthur C. Clarke, Poul Anderson, Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein succeeded in doing it, but very few others. Now Stephen Baxter joins their exclusive ranks -- writing science fiction in which the science is right, the author knowledgeable, and the extrapolations a sheer pleasure to read, admire, enjoy. The reaction is that which C.S. Lewis referred to when he described science fiction as the only genuine consciousness-expanding drug. Flux is a highly imaginative and moving novel .. It is a rare thing to find such a good read. Wonderful stuff!' Harry Harrison, New Scientist 'Flux puts Stephen Baxter in the front line of world-spinners.' The Times
From the Publisher
'The best SF author in Britain' -SFX
'_Flux_ puts Stephen Baxter in the top league of the world-spinners' - The Times
'Stephen Baxter proves what a cosmic thinker he is' - Washington Post Book World
'Baxter has emerged as a master of cosmological hard SF, a writer enamored of alien viewpoints and radical settings, with a sense of sublime immensities and an ingenuity at working permutations on the question of what is human' - Locus
A two-time winner of the Philip K. Dick Award and recipient of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, Stephen Baxter has also been a Hugo nominee as well as the winner of numerous other literary prizes for his novels and short fiction. A trained engineer who took a first-class honors degree in mathematics at Cambridge University, he also has a doctorate in aeroengineering research from Southhampton University. He is the author of eleven science fiction novels and four novels for young adults. Mr. Baxter lives in Prestwood, England.
SUMMARY:
"And everywhere the Humans went, they found life ..."This dazzling future history, winner of the 2000 Philip K. Dick Award, is the most ambitious and exciting since Asimov's classic Foundation saga. It tells the story of Humankind -- all the way to the end of the Universe itself.Here, in luminous and vivid narratives spanning five million years, are the first Poole wormholes spanning the solar system; the conquest of Human planets by Squeem; GUTships that outrace light; the back-time invasion of the Qax: the mystery and legacy of the Xeelee, and their artifacts as large as small galaxies; photino birds and Dark Matter; and the Ring, where Ghost, Human, and Xeelee contemplate the awesome end of Time.Stephen Baxter is the most acclaimed and accomplished of a brilliant new generation of authors who are expanding the vision of science fiction and taking itto a new golden age.
"Burke's style is reminiscent of Stephen King" - _Green Man Review
"...a newcomer worth watching" - Publishers Weekly _ "one of the most clever and original talents in contemporary horror" - Booklist
Product Description
For years the Wickerwood Inn has stood abandoned, home to nothing but dust and the trapped echo of past celebrations...and tragedy.
For a down on his luck ex-gambler, the inn's reputation is a thing of myth, and certainly not reason enough to turn down the first paying job to come his way in months. The inn will soon be renovated in preparation for a new lease on life. So tonight, from midnight till six, Peter Haskins will watch over the machinery.
And he will soon discover that there is something else in the hotel with him, something that needs no new lease on life, for it has never died.
Key Selling Points- Four-time Hugo and two-time Nebula winner Lois McMaster Bujold has a huge audience, and a string of novels that sell and sell and sell. . . .- This Miles Vorkosigan compendium will hit the stores a month after her newest Vorkosigan novel, Diplomatic Immunity, has been issued in mass market, and will ride the wave of enthusiasm generated by that best-selling novel.- Diplomatic Immunity (05/02), went through four hardcover printings and was on the New York Times general best-seller list for three weeks, reaching #25. Like nearly all of Bujold's novels, it was a Science Fiction Book Club main selection. Bujold's previous novel, A Civil Campaign (09/99) was also a New York Times general best seller.
No coach journey is ever dull with Miss Pym aboard, and this one proves no exception: Hannah meets Yvonne Grenier, fleeing the Horror in France, and very soon determines to find a suitable match for this beautiful and charming Frenchwoman.
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