The Enemies and Friends Thru the Vortex
The Enemies and Friends Thru the Vortex

Author: Bobbie Kaald

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2013-08-08

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1483680525

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The Making of an Enemy is the fi rst book of a series. The apocalypse happens and strands several colonizing ships in space. They eventually decide that the silence from Earth means the worst happened and join up with the other colonizing vessels. From there, they set out to fi nd a new home, and many, many years later, the story really starts. Soon, you meet the leading lady who leaves the shipyard in a fi t of anger alone on a small ship. The ship is hit by one or more asteroids and disabled. She is rescued by the villainous marauders and eventually rescued from them by her shipyard friends. From there the chase is on with a culmination in a fi nal disaster. The Unmaking of an Enemy begins where the fi rst one ends. There is a birth in space proving that it is possible after many generations of not being able to carry a pregnancy to term in space. They fi nd that their nemesis is still alive and the chase is on again. The book ends with the discovery that the explosion created a rift in space. The Enemies Become Friends begins by the enemies and friends fi nding out that all of the space debris from the explosion is disappearing into the anomaly. Eventually, everyone is pardoned if they help evacuate all of mankind from all of the settlements. The book ends by fi nding out that the probes and a ship navigated the anomaly to the other side, and messages are coming back thru. The Enemies and Friends thru the Vortex is the continuation of a story which refuses to end. The fl eet of combined mankind sends a volunteer vessel thru the vortex. It is manned with enough volunteers to man the empty ship if found intact. With a great deal of diffi culty, a message eventually gets back to the fl eet about their safety and the diffi culties experienced on the ride thru the vortex. One by one the fl eet attempts to travel thru the vortex.

The Enemies Become Friends
The Enemies Become Friends

Author: Bobbie Kaald

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2012-05-07

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 1477102159

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The Enemies become Friends continues the story of the conflict between the federation and the populous they protect and the marauding criminals. They must rescue mankind from the space anomaly.

The Enemy of My Enemy
The Enemy of My Enemy

Author: Dan Devine

Publisher: Writers Exchange E-Publishing

Published: 2012-05-09

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1921636882

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Jason Cull has never really imagined he'd carry the title of captain. But when the resistance movement Freedom's launch is botched and their leader is killed, Jason ends up the man in charge. Since the Grath conquered the Earth and started putting humans to work, Jason has struggled to believe he's special despite being one of the select few chosen to help fight battles in place of humanity's new masters. Being kidnapped by the resistance movement and made their leader has put him in the uncomfortable position of being the one to figure out how to literally save the world. His only consolation is that the Freedom's former leader at least left him with a vague idea what to do next: Find the alien race, the Bettarians, who are already at war with the Grath and strike a deal with them to help win back Earth. The Bettarian's empire may be rumoured to be vast, but Jason's seemingly fruitless ferreting from one end of the galaxy to the other has him concluding the universe is one pretty enormous haystack. Beyond that, the mission to scour outer space for allies gives Jason lots of time to mull over the former leader's ill-conceived plan. He's left with a question he has no answer to by the time his search is successful: What can one ship full of refugees from a backwards planet possibly offer a sweeping and ancient alien empire in exchange for their assistance? Especially when it turns out that they all have much bigger problems than the Grath...

Vortex
Vortex

Author: S. J. Kincaid

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2013-07-02

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 0062093045

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S. J. Kincaid has created a fascinating dystopian world for Insignia, her futuristic science-fiction adventure series perfect for fans of Ender's Game. Earth is in the middle of WWIII, a war to determine which governments and corporations will control the resources of the solar system. Teen Tom Raines grew up with nothing—some days without even a roof over his head. Then his exceptional gaming skills earned him a spot in the Intrasolar Forces, the country's elite military training program, and his life completely changed. Now in Vortex, the second book in the series, Tom discovers that the Pentagonal Spire, where he and his friends are being trained as superhuman weapons, is filled with corruption. He is asked to betray his friends—the first real friends he's ever had—for the sake of his country. Will he sacrifice his new life to do what he believes is right?

War's Other Voices
War's Other Voices

Author: miriam cooke

Publisher: Syracuse University Press

Published: 1996-08-01

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9780815603771

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This book challenges the assumption that men write of war, women of the hearth. The Lebanese war has seen the publication of many more works of fiction by women than by men. Miriam Cooke has termed these women the Beirut Decentrists, as they are decentered or excluded from both literary canon and social discourse. Although they may not share religious or political affiliation, they do share a perspective which holds them together. Cooke traces the transformation in consciousness that has taken place among women who observed and recorded the progress towards chaos in Lebanon. During the so-called "two year" war of 1975-76 little comment was made about those (usually men in search of economic security) who left the saturnalia of violence, but with time attitudes changed. Women became aware that they had remained out of a sense of responsibility for others and that they had survived. Consciousness of survival was catalytic: the Beirut Decentrists began to describe a society that had gone beyond the masculinization normal in most wars and achieved an almost unprecedented feminization. Emigration, the expected behavior for men before 1975, became the sin qua non for Lebanese citizenship. The writings of the Beirut Decentists offer hope of an escape from the anarchy. If men and women could espouse the Lebanese women's sense of responsibility, the energy that had fueled the unrelenting savagery could be turned to reconstruction. But that was before the invasion of 1982.

A Dangerous Friend
A Dangerous Friend

Author: Ward Just

Publisher: HMH

Published: 1999-05-03

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 0547561423

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Well-meaning American civilians make an attempt at nation-building during the Vietnam War, in this “powerful” novel by a National Book Award finalist (Newsweek). Named one of the Best Books of the Year by Time and the Los Angeles Times In this “extraordinary,” beautifully constructed large-canvas novel of Saigon in 1965, Ward Just takes a penetrating look into America’s role in the world (The New York Times). Sydney Parade, a political scientist, has left his home and family in an effort to become part of something larger than himself, a foreign aid operation in the South Vietnamese capital. Even before he arrives, he encounters French and Americans who reveal to him the unsettling depths of a conflict he thought he understood—and in Saigon, the Vietnamese add yet another dimension. Before long, the rampant missteps and misplaced ideals trap Parade and others in a moral crossfire. “Emotionally wrenching and always beautifully observant,” this is a story of conscience and its consequences among those for whom Vietnam was neither the right fight nor the wrong fight but the only fight (Entertainment Weekly). The exotic tropical surroundings, coarsening and corrupting effects of a colonial regime, and visionary delusions of the American democratizers all play their part. “A literary triumph that transcends its war story” and a New York Times Notable Book, A Dangerous Friend can be justly compared to Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo or Graham Greene’s The Quiet American—a thrilling narrative roiling with intrigue, mayhem, and betrayal (San Francisco Chronicle). “Makes you want to run screaming into the street to protest retrospectively the war he has so movingly recreated.” —The New York Times