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SUMMARY: "Niven has come up with an idea about as far out as one can get. . . . This is certainly classic science fictionthe idea is truly the hero." Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine When leaving Earth, the crew of the spaceship Discipline was prepared for a routine assignment. Dispatched by the all-powerful State on a mission of interstellar exploration and colonization, Discipline was aided (and secretly spied upon) by Sharls Davis Kendy, an emotionless computer intelligence programmed to monitor the loyalty and obedience of the crew. But what they weren't prepared for was the smoke ringan immense gaseous envelope that had formed around a neutron star directly in their path. The Smoke Ring was home to a variety of plant and animal life-forms evolved to thrive in conditions of continual free-fall. When Discipline encountered it, something went wrong. The crew abandoned ship and fled to the unlikely space oasis. Five hundred years later, the descendants of the Discipline crew living on the Smoke Ring no longer remember their origins. Earth is more myth than memory, and no recollection of the State remains. But Kendy remembers. And just outside the Smoke Ring, Discipline waits patiently to make contact with its wayward children. SUMMARY: In the free-fall environment of the Smoke Ring, the descendants of the crew of the Discipline no longer remembered their Earth roots -- or the existence of Sharls Davis Kendy, the computer-program despot of the ship. Until Kendy initiated contact once more.Fourteen years later, only Jeffer, the Citizens Tree Scientist, knew that Kendy was still watching -- and waiting. Then the Citizens Tree people rescued a family of loggers and learned for the first time of the Admiralty, a large society living in free fall amid the floating debris called the Clump. And it was likely that the Admiralty had maintained, intact, Discipline's original computer library.Exploration was a temptation neither Jeffer nor Kendy could resist, and neither Citizens Tree nor Sharls Davis Kendy would ever be the same again...<

SUMMARY: Larry Greenberg's telepathic tendencies had been trained and developed to a critical level. The trouble was that if these psychic interchanges were strong enough, a man could end up not knowing who he really was. But when Larry's mind is taken over by an alien force, he has to fight to retain his sanity - and divert a disaster that threatens all mankind. And when Larry's mind is taken over by a sinister alien force, he has to fight to retain his sanity - and divert a disaster that threatens all mankind...<

SUMMARY: ABOUT THE BOOK: This is the first community edited fiction novel published under a Creative Commons license. It has received tens of thousands of reader contributions, after being posted online as a rough draft in late 2005. It has received good reader reviews, and has been downloaded over 16,000 times. THE STORY: The flip of a switch gives Joe, an ordinary mechanic, superhuman abilities. He discovers his new powers after his aunt saves his life with restricted nanites. When the corporation sanctioned by the military to control all nanotechnology discovers his secret, everyone he knows is thrust into a world of deception and treason. Can Joe give the people of the world life-saving superhuman powers, or will the attempt claim his life?<

Beste lezers,
Dit is een brievenroman.
Het is ook een misdaadverhaal.
Misschien ook nog iets anders.
Het is in ieder geval een boek over twee vrouwen die elkaar na een stilte van bijna twintig jaar op een begrafenis weer tegenkomen. En over een geplande moord.
Het verhaal is tijdens een warme zomer in het Griekse Kavala ontstaan.

Bevat: Eerste wacht Hondenwacht Dagwacht De trilogie Varen en vechten is de spannende weergave van de geschiedenis van de Nederlandse koopvaardij en marine in de Tweede Wereldoorlog. De auteur heeft vele gesprekken gevoerd met zeelieden, dagboeken gelezen die sommigen hebben bijgehouden en allerlei publicaties bestudeerd over de marine in oorlogstijd. Op basis van deze gegevens schreef hij een aangrijpend relaas over de periode die velen in het geheugen zal zijn gegrift.

Julia werkt freelance als journaliste. Voor haar werk gaat ze naar een symposium waar ze de vijftien jaar oudere psycholoog Hans leert kennen. Hans is gescheiden en vader van twee kinderen. Zijn twee pubers van zeventien en vijftien zien de nieuwe relatie van hun vader niet zitten en doen er van alles aan om te zorgen dat de relatie geen stand houdt. Als de ex van Hans, de moeder van zijn kinderen, een ernstig ongeluk krijgt, veranderen de zaken drastisch.<