Six and Grace are in grave danger, but the morphics can’t be reached. They are far, far away in the Luzon Great Void. It will be down to the next generation to travel into the void to get help. But, even with the help of the canths, will they succeed in finding the morphics? And will they be in time, or will they all be forced into a last, desperate, cataclysmic confrontation?
Six, Diva and Grace are back laughing together in the sun on Xiantha. Grace seems to have come to terms with the wounds from her fall, and Diva, still blissfully unaware of what a recipe for disaster it might be, is determined to take Six to Coriolis. Then Ledin arrives for a visit, and the magnificent black canth linked to the orthogel entity is discovered to be desperately ill. But Arcan is well, so how can that be possible? And why are the other canths excited, instead of worried? The answers can only be found on Pictoria, but once there, they find the visitor missing, pulled across the galaxy by the force of the Dessite minds. To rescue him will mean risking their own lives on the Dessite homeworld. —But have the Dessites already learned enough to conquer Pictoria and the binary system?
Six and Diva need time to get used to the changes in their relationship, but it looks as if everything will have to wait, because the two trimorphs have disappeared. Only the canths can dimly sense where they are, and what they see appears to greatly distress the animals. Even so, two of the canths insist on accompanying Six and Diva on an insanely suicidal rescue mission, one which will take them right into the heart of the galaxy and the supermassive black hole which lurks there.
ATOMIC - BACTERIAL - CHEMICAL The ABC Warriors - hard-bitten robotic soldiers designed to fight in the worst Atomic, Bacterial and Chemical theatres of war. They are the hard-drinking liberators of Mars and a deadly fighting force that has slipped into legend. On the dead plains of Mars, human terraformers awake an ancient lifeforce known as Medusa that is determined to stop the planet becoming an alien world. When the ABC Warriors learn of this new threat, a two thousand year-old program is activated that compels them to return to the red planet, but in doing so they know that they will be rendered obsolete and self-destruct. Facing a guaranteed suicide mission, the ABC Warriors lock and load and begin the Medusa War! A war-torn tale of heroism and carnage from comics legend Pat Mills - creator of the ABC Warriors.
Six and Diva are coming to terms with family life on Xiantha, but on the other side of the galaxy storm clouds are gathering. The Dessites have managed to reach Enara, and have proposed an alliance to conquer both Arcan and the lost animas. Suddenly Arcan finds himself trapped on the Dessite homeworld, fighting a losing battle to survive... ... And everything changes.
This book is devoted to applications of complex nonlinear dynamic phenomena to real systems and device applications. In recent decades there has been significant progress in the theory of nonlinear phenomena, but there are comparatively few devices that actually take this rich behavior into account. The text applies and exploits this knowledge to propose devices which operate more efficiently and cheaply, while affording the promise of much better performance.
War is a dirty job - too dirty for humans! The ABC Warriors - hard-drinking robotic soldiers designed for combat in the worst Atomic, Bacterial and Chemical theatres of war. They are a tough fighting force that has slipped into legend. Led by the fearless Sergeant Hammerstein, the elite unit of warriors carry out the worst suicide missions available. When the tide of war turns against them on the Martian battlefield and all hope of victory slips away, the ABC Warriors are forced to disband their unit. They must go separate ways in a final, desperate attempt to save mankind from the alien terror.
Adjusting to changes past and present isn't easy but Nivala's depleted crew is just about managing ... ... Until a devastating surprise attack forces more than one generation to risk their lives. This book begins six months after the end of Exceptional Point (Book Three in the Interstellar Enforcement Agency trilogy), features the same characters and is also set in the Major Shells. It is an interquel between the Enforcement Agency trilogy and teh Quantum Heritage series. Useful keywords for this book ... Aliens Extraterrestrial AI Sentient Cosmic Contact First Encounter Quantum Entanglement Exploration Outer Space Galactic Patrol Universe Starship Spaceship Spacer Spacecraft Spacewalk Humor Upbeat Banter Good over Evil Moral Kind Spacetime Wormhole Black hole Timeline Teleport Hyperspace Warp Drive Faster than Light FTL
Nivala is scheduled for a routine tour of duty in the Major Shells, but the Chakrans have other ideas — ideas that will take the small ship and her unique crew light years away from home. In another part of the galaxy, Maise Avalon is having a bad day. A really bad day. Her unreliable stepbrother just wagered their ship away, and no ship means no income. She needs a job, and there is only one thing she might get someone to pay her for ... navigating the deadly tides of the infamous Slipstream Alley, where the odds of survival are the lowest in the system. Just when things are beginning to look up, she realizes that her new employers are not the usual adrenaline seekers, their ship is older than Methusalah — and they are on a wanted list. This isn’t going to end well. Nivala is on her way to join them in one of the most inhospitable places in the universe, but will she get there in time? For those reading the series in order, this book is set a decade after the end of Supershell Storm. The series starts with the Interstellar Enforcement Agency trilogy, then Supershell Storm, then Slipstream Alley. Gillian Andrews is also the author of the award-winning Ammonite Galaxy series, and the stand-alone book, Kelfor. Useful keywords: Aliens Extraterrestrials AI Sentient Being Cosmic Contact First Encounters Quantum Entanglement Exploration Outer space Galactic Patrol Universe Star-ship Spaceship Spacer Spacecraft Spacewalk Humor Upbeat Banter Good over Evil Moral Kind Spacetime Wormhole Black Hole Timeline Teleport Hyperspace Warp drive Faster than light F.T.L.
