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Post by Iakus on Mar 5, 2022 1:55:50 GMT
Third in an alternate history trilogy: Pearl Silver was happy. She had a good job teaching young nurses. She was married to a good man who loved her. She had a son who made her proud every day. Most of the time, her memories of her time fighting in the skies over Europe remained a distant part of her past. Something she was proud to have done, but that time was over. Her life twenty years later was very different, and she didn’t have much reason to tap into her psychic power—or to stay in touch with her old comrades in arms.
But when her son signs up to fight for his country in Vietnam, it puts a strain on her perfect life. And when her baby boy goes missing, Pearl doesn’t question what she has to do.
Twenty years ago, Pearl went to war at the behest of her nation. This time, she’s going to war to find her son.
And she will leave no sky unconquered.
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Mar 10, 2022 20:02:48 GMT
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Post by Iakus on Mar 10, 2022 20:02:48 GMT
The war between Almacia and the Empire of Kolakolvia is in its hundredth year. Casualties grow on both sides as the conflict leaves no corner of the world untouched.
Illarion Glaskov’s quiet life on the fringes of the empire is thrown into chaos when an impossible tragedy strikes his village. When he is conscripted into the Tsarist military, he is sent to serve in The Wall—an elite regiment that pilots suits of armor made from the husks of dead golems.
But the great war is not the only—or even the worst—danger facing Illarion, as he is caught in a millennia-old conflict between two goddesses. He must survive the ravages of trench warfare, horrific monsters from another world, and the treacherous internal politics of the country he serves.
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Post by dmc1001 on Apr 18, 2022 10:11:19 GMT
I'm in the middle of a couple of books. Once is Ethan Wright and the Curse of Silence by Kimbro West. It's okay. Hard to fully get into. Early on we get a premise about how it's been ages since anyone could get to some other world. Then, once you do, not only does everyone you know go there but at least were already there. That put me off but I've been slogging along a little at a time. Next is Blood Mountain. It's was written by someone I know, Chris DeLeo, under a pseudonym that was needed at the time. It's horror and not my thing. Makes me anxious and I can only read a chapter or two at a time. Third is The Boystown Prequels: Two Nick Nowak Novels, by Marshall Thornton. It's set in the late 70s or early 80s. Ex-cop current detective. Boring as hell. Then there's Iron Man: Demon in a Bottle by David Michelinie. The stories in it were written in 1979 where Iron Man finds out he has an alcohol problem. No, he's not named as an alcoholic and I know the writer intended for him to vanquish the problem. Later writers had a different opinion. Anyway, this one is moving along nicely. There was one I was starting to read until I realized it was about vampires. I don't read about vampires. It was free on Kindle so it's no concern for me to pass on it. I also started reading another book (since I'm stuck on others) but if it doesn't pick up in the next 20 pages I'm over it.
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Apr 19, 2022 3:27:54 GMT
Post by Iakus on Apr 19, 2022 3:27:54 GMT
I haven't read the storyline, but I heard Demon in a Bottle is a classic Iron Man storyline, and started paving the way for James Rhodes to eventually become War Machine.
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Apr 19, 2022 3:34:54 GMT
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Post by Iakus on Apr 19, 2022 3:34:54 GMT
A young adult book, but still proving to be a good read. Part of a shared world superhero series called Heroes Unleashed Unfortunately, its original publisher is now defunct so currently not available on Kindle (I got it before that happened) Penance Copper is tired of being a tool for evil. She's been working for Acid ever since she was small. She had no other choice, he owned her. Even with her superpowers, she's never been able to escape. But at least he only has her steal. Never anything worse than that.
Until he orders her to use her powers to kill the superhero Justice for investigating trafficked girls.
Penance doesn't want to be a murderer. She uses the opportunity to run away from Acid and make a new life. One where she can make up for everything she did on Acid's orders.
But events larger than Penance are spinning into action, and soon she is embroiled in an intergalactic encounter with an alien boy named Kail, who is perhaps as lonely and broken as she is. Even if he is infuriatingly arrogant.
The first young adult series in the shared Heroes Unleashed universe launches with the Teen Heroes Unleashed series. Readers will love hardworking, sassy Penance as she tries to learn to use her superpowers to save the world instead of to steal.
Can Penance and Kail find the missing girls and save the Earth from an alien invasion? Or will Acid find her again and punish her for running away?
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Jun 7, 2022 19:31:23 GMT
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Post by Iakus on Jun 7, 2022 19:31:23 GMT
For more than a century, Winged Hussars has been the richest of Earth's mercenary companies, as well as the only one to specialize in space warfare. Led by Alexis Cromwell, they have carved out a reputation in the galaxy for being dependable, unflappable, and lethally efficient. Until people began shooting at them everywhere they went.Rick Culper left Earth in the hopes of finding a job as a merc. A natural at fighting in the armed suits known as CASPers, he finally caught on with one of the premier Four Horsemen companies, but it’s with the Winged Hussars, and the company's prospects are beginning to look bleak. Traps have been laid throughout a number of systems, and Commander Alexis Cromwell and her flagship, Pegasus, will be hard-pressed to make it back to their secret base. Even with Rick's help, the situation is much worse than anyone in the Hussars could have imagined. The Four Horsemen are being hunted, and the Hussars' future is dark. But there’s one thing Alexis’ enemies didn’t count on—Alexis Cromwell is nobody’s prey.
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Jun 16, 2022 16:11:18 GMT
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Post by Iakus on Jun 16, 2022 16:11:18 GMT
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Aug 20, 2022 0:35:13 GMT
Post by Iakus on Aug 20, 2022 0:35:13 GMT
A NEW NOVEL OF ALTERNATE HISTORY FROM MASTER OF MILITARY SF TOM KRATMAN, JUSTIN WATSON, AND KACEY EZELL. As WWI comes to a close a German general, an escaped prisoner of war, and the crew of an airship converge to effect THE ROMANOV RESCUE. Can there be a world without communism?
Mankind's history is bound up in the fabric of fate, a strong cloth, tough and closely woven.
It is the beginning of 1918, the last year of the greatest war in human history, to date. All the belligerents stagger on their feet. Starvation is an ever present reality, while disease waits in the wings. In Russia, no longer a belligerent but, instead, rapidly descending into civil war and chaos, a lone family—Father, Mother, four beautiful young girls, and a brave but sickly boy—await their own fate, shivering and hungry in the dark, hoping and praying for salvation.
Their relatives in England have turned their backs. The guards set over them do little but torment them. They look Heavenward, but God doesn't answer. They know they're a threat to the new regime, a threat that will, in time, be eliminated.
But even the strongest fabric has flaws. An escaped prisoner of war, caught, injured, and punished, but still highly capable, might be one. An airship, returned and at loose ends after a failed mission to Africa might be another. A German general, taking a wrong turn on his nightly walk and suddenly coming face to face with the reality of the monster rising in the east, would be a third.
Follow, then, as the general gives the orders, the prisoner of war raises the men from among his fellows, and the airship launches itself forward, to contest fate, to tear the fabric of time, and to effect The Romanov Rescue.
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