Steam-driven Sci-fi in an alternative 1920s BritainWinter grips Western Europe. Splinterton is an oasis of volcanic warmth in a frozen sea.Martlet is trapped far beyond help. An unlikely alliance is forged to reach out to her, hoping to bring her back.The enigmatic Tudor Jones, always cheerful, pathologically unreliable, haunts the undertown. Whether he will be a force for good or ill is a question balanced on a knife-edge.Its people scattered, Splinterton s...

Splinter Town takes you to an alternate Britain where geography and history have been fractured by an ancient cataclysm into an environment that is excitingly new, yet eerily parallel to our own.Operating in the 1920s of a distorted reality, Martlet is a strong female agent for hire, combining espionage skills with a mythic undercurrent. Her story is as compelling at the height of her power as in her unravelling after a disastrous assignment. Martlet's psychological and political j...

"Crowds gathered on the northern and eastern promenades, straining against the glare of the cloudless early-morning sky for their first glimpse of the airship."The wild pod of Syrenis beneath the town is dwindling. Gentleman explorer Basil Foagues and his airship offer a chance to revitalise the population, but the Syrenis hold a dark secret that threatens the voyage.Martlet is working with Splinterton's diplomatic team. Her violent past and unconventional methods ...

A post-technology retelling of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - A Modern Prometheus. This is not a horror story.The time of cities has passed. The Long War left only fragmented villages linked by the travelling Trader families.Edgar Henge is an outcast. Despised for his profession, tolerated for the necessities that only he can bring to the village. He walks a line on the edge of the Lore, until a discovery in his landfill site pushes him far, far beyond.Prometheus Fou...

This collection commemorates the occasion of the honorary symposium that celebrated the 75th birthday and lifelong contributions of Professor K.L. Murty. The topics cover the present status and recent advances in research areas in which he made seminal contributions. The volume includes articles on a variety of topics such as high-temperature deformation behaviors of materials (elevated temperature creep, tensile, fatigue, superplasticity) and their micromechanistic interpretation, underst...

PRAISE FOR C.J. ARCHER'S GLASS AND STEELE SERIES:"Part romance, part mystery, part magic; all of which a joy to read." - Dreamer J's Book Reviews"This story has everything I look for in a quality, entertaining piece of fiction. 1) A strong female lead, 2) a dark and mysterious male character (I admit, they are my weakness), 3) eloquent writing, and 4) lots of quirky humor and banter." - Danaye from Young @ Art book reviews"a page-turner with great c...

An Instant New York Times, USA Today, and Indie BestsellerA Barnes & Noble Best Horror Book of 2024A Goodreads Best Horror Choice Award NomineeEnter a cold, silent forest and find out what feasts at night in this new gothic tale from bestselling and award-winning author T. Kingfisher, set in the world of What Moves the Dead**.***A very specia...

Crude oil development and production in U.S. oil reservoirs can include up to three distinct phases: primary, secondary, and tertiary (or enhanced) recovery. During primary recovery, the natural pressure of the reservoir or gravity drive oil into the wellbore, combined with artificial lift techniques (such as pumps) which bring the oil to the surface. But only about 10 percent of a reservoir's original oil in place is typically produced during primary recovery. Secondary recovery technique...

* A Financial Times and Evening Standard Book of the Year ** LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2020 *'Masterly . . . A signal achievement . . . Remarkable.' Guardian'A 1984 for our times.' Daily ExpressKavanagh begins his time patrolling the Wall.If he's lucky, if nothing goes wrong, he o...

Multiple award winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman returns to dazzle, captivate, haunt, and entertain with this third collection of short fiction following Smoke and Mirrors and Fragile Things—which includes a never-before published American Gods story, “Black Dog,” written exclusively for this volume.In this new anthology, Neil Gaiman pierces the veil of reality to reveal the enigmatic, shadowy world that lies beneath. ...

In the four decades since his first book appeared in print, Terry Pratchett has become one of the world's best-selling and best-loved authors. Here for the first time are his short stories and other short form fiction collected into one volume. A Blink of the Screen charts the course of Pratchett's long writing career: from his schooldays through to his first writing job on the Bucks Free Press,; to the origins of his debut novel, The Carpet People; and on again to the di...

Ceramic Engineering and Science Proceedings Volume 34, Issue 2 - Mechanical Properties and Performance of Engineering Ceramics and Composites VIIIA collection of 21 papers from The American Ceramic Society’s 37th International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, held in Daytona Beach, Florida, January 27-February 1, 2013. This issue includes papers presented in Symposium 1 -Mechanical Behavior and Performance of Ceramics and Composites.