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Incredible Science Fiction collates a collection of some of the very best science fiction stories published in the ‘50s in one volume. All these stories (with the exception of "The Goldfish") are now in the public domain and were original published in Worlds of IF Science Fiction magazine. This is a lovingly curated collection of some of the very best stories published in the ’50s. This collection includes the Hugo Award-nominated “Rat in the Skull” by Rog Phillips. It also includes an original story by the curator and editor of this collection: Andrew Gibson.

The land of Bosnia has suffered bloodshed, atrocity, and ceaseless misery. But there is one man the people fear above all else. His name is Markocevik, known throughout the region as the Butcher of Belgrade. For years, he and his team of Serbian commandos have been carrying out a merciless agenda of ethnic cleaning. And when Markocevik is declared a war criminal, Force Recon goes in after him.

They are known as Team Midnight, an elite force trained to disappear behind enemy lines, to wreak havoc where an enemy least expects it. Their job is simple, hide in the shadows, kill without hesitation, and complete the mission at all costs. They are America's secret warriors.

While on a search-and-destroy mission in the middle of Iraq, Marine Force Recon Team 2400 winds up on the wrong end of a life-or-death chase across the desert. After taking out a meeting of international extremists, the team finds itself tracked by the one terrorist who got away.

Every member of the Force Recon team is absolutely vital, so the loss of men has taken quite a toll on Team 2400. But the replacements keep coming in. So do the mission orders. This time, Team Midnight is getting sent into the heart of the Iranian desert to inflict maximum casualities on a terrorist group responsible for bombing a U.S. warship. The mission is complicated and more dangerous than anything they've seen before. Let's just hope the new guy can hold his own.

Accidents happen. But only when a Marine says so.

Despite the success of their last mission, the Marine Corps put one of Team Midnight's finest men on trial and sentenced their best shooter to a mental hospital. With half the team out of commission, Swayne and Greiner are sent to Afghanistan on a research operation, one that turns fatal when a CIA agent is captured by terrorists. Now it's up to this two-man team to get him back...and the clock is ticking.

When humanity reaches for the stars, our probes are destroyed. They crash into an incredibly advanced piece of technology: a massive force-field. Unknown beings have placed a barrier around our star and planets, enclosing us within. We’re locked inside a Great Sphere. Was this invisible obstacle built to imprison us - or to protect us? No one knows the truth, but it soon becomes clear the barrier has leaks. Aliens infiltrate and try to sabotage our efforts to escape our cage.

They are known as Team Midnight, an elite force trained to disappear behind enemy lines, to wreak havoc where an enemy least expects it. Their job is simple - hide in the shadows, kill without hesitation, and complete the mission at all costs. They are America's secret weapons. Books 4, 5 and 6 from the Force Recon series.

They are known as Team Midnight, an elite force trained to disappear behind enemy lines, to wreak havoc where an enemy least expects it. Their job is simple - hide in the shadows, kill without hesitation, and complete the mission at all costs. They are America's secret weapons. Books 1, 2 and 3 from the Force Recon series.

ബഹിരാകാശം എല്ലാത്തിന്റെയും കേന്ദ്ര ബിന്ദുവാണ്. ബഹിരാകാശത്തെ കുറിച്ചുള്ള ഒരു അന്വേഷണമാണ് ലൈക്ക. ശാസ്ത്ര കുതുകികളെ ഹഠാതാകർഷിക്കുന്ന ഒരു പക്ഷേ വി.ജെ ജയിംസിന്റെ ഏറ്റവും മികച്ച ഈ പുസ്തകം ആകാശത്തിന്റെ പരിമിതികളെക്കുറിച്ച് നമ്മെ സ്വയം അന്വേഷിക്കുവാൻ പ്രേരിപ്പിയ്ക്കുന്നു.

"അങ്ങനെ ആശിച്ചാശിച്ച് കള്ളന് നോട്ടംകൊണ്ട് പൂട്ടു തുറക്കുന്ന വിദ്യ സ്വായത്തമായി. ഗൂഢവിദ്യ പ്രാപ്തമായതോടെ എവിടെ, എങ്ങനെ ഇതാദ്യം പ്രയോഗിക്കണമെന്നതായി അവന്റെ ധര്‍മ്മസങ്കടം.

Truth Evaders is a concise primer and guide to the biggest human secret - known by a self-selecting few, but kept from the rest of us. How and why? On 26th of July 2023, three experienced retired senior military officers testified to members of US congress - their revelations at this tipping point event shattered the lies that have been told to us.

The question of artificial intelligence and how far we, as a people, should take the technology is one of our society's biggest debates at the moment; as AI generated art, texts, and even communications have increased as the technology grows altogether. The insight which each chapter provides into the concept of human consciousness and the evolution of that consciousness was so beautifully explored in this book, and the way evolution plays into the idea of adapting consciousness into the development of AI is remarkable.

James Thomson was born in Port Glasgow, Scotland, on the 23rd November 1834. Possessing a powerful and unique writing gift, unfortunately, his own demons curtailed him from leaving a larger literary legacy. Stories, essays and poems were submitted to various publications during his life and undoubtedly the creative high point of his life is ‘The City of Dreadful Night’. Within its bleak verse are the struggles of Thomson’s own chaotic tortures with depression, insomnia and alcoholism in the uncaring world that surrounded him.

Despite the fact that African American lineage has given rise to such undeniable talent, intelligence, and genius as that of Dr. Charles Drew, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler, and an exhaustive list of many, many others, the proverbial badge of honor in "the white coat" seems to exist as only a mirage of truth until it is achieved. For every budding and current Black doctor seeking guidance, if ever you've wanted to know what it takes to get in, how to stay in, and what it takes to win, consider this the blueprint.

Cassie Garnet hates the word mediocre. Yet her existence in a rural Indiana town could certainly be labeled that, if not for her place on the cross country team. With her senior year approaching, Garnet has been River Bend High's best runner...but she longs to be better. Cassie has never been challenged and pushed to reach her potential, and the Lady Coyotes are a terrible team. Then, everything changes. When the beautiful and charismatic Charna Rothstein Simon moves to River Bend to become a teacher and cross country coach, Cassie's senior year will be anything but ordinary.

James V. Schall is a treasure of the Catholic intellectual tradition. A prolific author and essayist, Schall readily connects with his readers on sundry topics from war to friendship, philosophy, politics, and to ordinary everyday living. In his newest work, The Mind That Is Catholic, he presents a retrospective collection of his academic and literary essays written in the past 50 years.

Als Daniel Whitman, der gefeierte Footballstar der Sanctuary Highschool, auf einer Party unter mysteriösen Umständen ums Leben kommt, ist die ganze Stadt in Aufruhr. Auf den ersten Blick deutet alles auf einen tragischen Unfall hin, doch jeder in Sanctuary weiß, dass Dans Ex-Freundin Harper die Tochter einer Hexe ist. Ist Harper, die mehr als einen Grund hatte, wütend auf Dan zu sein, möglicherweise selbst eine Hexe? Als Harper schwere Anschuldigungen gegen Dan vorbringt und die Polizei in diesem Fall zu ermitteln beginnt, steht Sanctuary kurz vor einer neuen Hexenjagd.

An anthology of short stories of spaceships, aliens, and the outer worlds by classic Science Fiction authors, from the Golden Age to the New Wave Era. This compilation includes stories by William Bender, Jr., Ray Bradbury, G. Gordon Dewey, Charles E. Fritch, Edward W. Ludwig, James V. McConnell, Stanley Mullen, Robert Silverberg, Jerry Sohl, Henry Slesar, and L.J. Stecher Jr.