War is brutal. Colonel Wes Stauer gets it. He ought to. He was once one of war's most brutal practitioners & not to mention one of its most effective and least bloody. Now, not only must Stauer command his crack outfit of former comrades and pull off yet another miracle mission, he must also harness and direct the brute within himself
One of Vonnegut's most highly praised novels. Filled with humor and unforgettable characters, this apocalyptic story tells of Earth's ultimate end, and presents a vision of the future that is both darkly fantastic and funny, as Vonnegut weaves a satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. ...Cat's Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalypt…
When the alien Mimics invade, Keiji Kiriya is just one of many recruits shoved into a suit of battle armor called a Jacket and sent out to kill. Keiji dies on the battlefield, only to be reborn each morning to fight and die again and again. On his 158th iteration, he gets a message from a mysterious ally--the female soldier known as the Full Metal Bitch. Is she the key to Keiji's escape or his …
He lived in the dark ages of the future. In a loveless world, he dared to fall in love. In an age that had lost all trace of science and civilization, he had the courage to seek and find knowledge. But these were not the crimes for which he would be hunted. He was marked for death because he had committed the unpardonable sin: standing out from the mindless human herd. Ayn Rand’s classic tale…
It's tuesday morning in february, and i get up as usual, and i stumble into the bathroom to take a shower in the dark. Which is my school-day method because it's sort of like an extra ten minutes of sleep. It's after the shower. That's when it happens. It's when i turn on the bathroom light and wipe the fog off the mirror to comb my hair. It's what i see in the mirror. It's what I don't see. …
In the future, in a place called Satellite city, cosmo hill enters the world, unwanted by his parent. He's sent to the clarissa frayne institute for parentally challenged boys. Freight class. Here, the boys are put to work by the state, testing highly dangerous products. Cosmo realizes he must get away, and escapes with the help of the supranaturalists, a group of kids who have the same specia…