Coming in fast and low, the huge ship made planetfall. Three years out from Terra, the colony ship Omega had reached her destination, and the crew began to off-load the cargo and passengers. Then the ship vanished. Against the vast panorama of an unexplored universe, Keith Laumer sets this first volume of the history of the world called Colmar - mankind's first venture among the stars.
In this brand-new collection of stories, such masterful forecasters of the future as Jack Williamson, Alan Dean Foster, Mike Resnick, Allen Steele, Robert J. Sawyer, and Pamela Sargent take readers to distant worlds where alien races thrive.
Set on a colony ship from Earth in the 21st century, the creator of Red Dwarf has created a new set of comedy characters, including a doctor who exists as a pickled mind in a pickle jar as the result of an accident.
For many years following Confederation, Canada remained an absurd country: with its vast West still free of agricultural settlers, John A. Macdonald's vision of a great nation bound together by a transcontinental railway and a nationalist economic policy remained an unfulfilled dream. On the other side of the Atlantic, the present-day Ukraine was vastly overpopulated with "redundant" peasants. Their increasingly precarious existence triggered emigration: more than 170 000 of them sailed for Canada. Life in the promised land was hard. Many Canadians seemed to think that the only good immigrants were British; some went so far as to suggest that the Ukrainian newcomers were less than human. But on the harsh and remote prairies, the Ukrainians triumphed over the toil and isolation of homesteading, putting down roots and prospering. Peasants in the Promised Land is the first book to focus on the formative period of Ukrainian settlement in Canada. Drawing on his exhaustive research, including Ukrainian-language archival sources, Jaroslav Petryshyn brings history to life with extracts from memoirs, letters and newspapers of the period. His text is illustrated with maps and historical photographs.
Twinkie has been bullied by other young stars because she wasn't like any other star in her home galaxy of Twinkle-Twinkle. Her life changed when she met Santa Claus and some angel messengers, and through their meeting, she began to change. After learning about a problem her new friends encountered, her newfound courage allowed her to help them. In return, she is transformed by receiving a gift she never thought she could have. Demonstrating courage, persistence, and self-belief, Twinkie leads her friends into the light.
This, the fourth book in the "Tom Corbett" series by "Carey Rockwell" (whoever he was in real life) -- is, like all of the "Tom Corbett" books, something special. It's another tale of the three young men who serve in the Solar Guard as Space Cadets. The Solar Guard is establishing its first colony on a star far away in space, and of course, our heroes are in on the mission. But somehow a villain named Paul Vidac has wormed his way into the Cadets' assignment -- replacing Capt. Strong as Lt. Governor. The man means nothing but evil, and if the cadets don't catch him at it, it'll be the end of them for certain. . . .
