Best Selling Books by Karl Schroeder

The Complete Vigra Series discounted ebundle includes: Sun of Suns, Queen of Candesce, Pirate Sun, Sunless Countries, Ashes of Candesce Futurist Karl Schroeder groundbreaking space opera series envisions a world of endless sky, with no land, no gravity. This is Virga, a fullerene balloon universe three thousand kilometers in diameter. In this saga, we are given a rare and penetrating look into the post-human condition. Beginning in the seminal science fiction novel Sun of Suns, the saga of Virga introduces us to the people of stubborn pride and resilience who have made this world their home. But lurking beyond the walls of Virga is the mysterious threat known only as Artificial Nature. Virga is hard science fiction space opera taken to the next level. “Schroeder is a master.” --Cory Doctorow Tor books by Karl Schroeder Lady of Mazes Permanence Ventus Lockstep The Million At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A manual of midwifery - Including the pregnancy and the puerperal state is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1873. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Clarkesworld is a Hugo Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art. Our January 2015 issue, supersized for our 100th issue, contains: Original Fiction by Aliette de Bodard ("Three Cups of Grief, by Starlight"), Tang Fei ("A Universal Elegy"), Naomi Kritzer ("Cat Pictures Please"), Kij Johnson ("The Apartment Dweller''s Bestiary"), Zhang Ran ("Ether"), Catherynne M. Valente ("The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild"), and Jay Lake ("An Exile of the Heart"). Classic stories by Damien Broderick ("This Wind Blowing, and This Tide"), and Karl Schroeder ("Laika''s Ghost"). Non-fiction by Jason Heller (Song for a City-Universe: Lucius Shepard''s Abandoned Vermillion), an interview with Xia Jia, an Another Word column by Cat Rambo, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.

Sun of suns: It is the distant future. The world known as Virga is a fullerene balloon three kilometers in diameter, filled with air, water, and aimlessly floating chunks of rock. The humans who live in this vast environment must build their own fusion suns and "towns" that are in the shape of enormous wood and rope wheels that are spun for centripetal gravity.

"In spring 2005, the Directorate of Land Strategic Concepts of National Defense Canada (that is to say, the army) hired me to write a dramatized future military scenario. The book-length work, Crisis in Zefra, was set in a mythical African city-state, about 20 years in the future, and concerned a group of Canadian peacekeepers who are trying to ready the city for its first democratic vote while fighting an insurgency. Both the peacekeepers and the insurgents use a range of new technologies, some fantastic-sounding, but all in development in 2005. Needless to say, the good guys win, but not without consequences; the document explores everything from the evolution of individual soldiers'' kits to strategic considerations in world of pervasive instant communications. The project ran to 27,000 words and was published by the army as a bound paperback book." [http://www.kschroeder.com/foresight-consulting/crisis-in-zefra] -- From author''s website.

Dans un futur lointain, l''espèce humaine a colonisé la galaxie. Les intelligences artificielles qu''elle a créées ont fini par s''émanciper, enfantant des entités surpuissantes comme 3340 et Choronzon, de véritables dieux. 3340 a voulu conquérir l''univers, asservir l''humanité. Il a été vaincu par Calandria May, une mercenaire bio-améliorée ; mais le général Armiger, son âme damnée, a réussi à survivre. Réfugié sur la planète Ventus, Armiger y prépare la résurrection de son maître. Calandria May et un autre mercenaire, Axel Chan, sont envoyés pour l''empêcher de mener à bien son projet. Pour vaincre Armiger, ils devront percer le secret des Vents, ces entités intelligentes et meurtrières qui veillent jalousement sur l''équilibre écologique de Ventus.