LEES REEF – The MessageLees Reef is set in the year 102,021 off the east coast of Australia, which is predominately covered in water due to climate change and the rising of sea levels. The oceans are acidic, with massive rubbish rafts that float in the currents and eddy back towards what land is left exposed.Land and sea animals have hybridised and live in a pristine environment called Lees Reef. These unique animals live in symbiosis, all with important tasks to protect th...

Who is Wyatt Osgood?Where is the financial world headed?Emerging technology provides the means to free people, but also to control them in new ways. Nation-states struggle to adapt in battles increasingly fought in a digital arena and across the globe. Those who would prefer a borderless world and freedom struggle to assert their right to privacy and distribute their operations as they see fit, free of interference.In Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, Galt's G...

Who is Wyatt Osgood?Where is the financial world headed?Emerging technology provides the means to free people, but also to control them in new ways. Nation-states struggle to adapt in battles increasingly fought in a digital arena and across the globe. Those who would prefer a borderless world and freedom struggle to assert their right to privacy and distribute their operations as they see fit, free of interference.In Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, Galt's Gulch...

Pearl Harbor and the tentacles of Word War II turn San Francisco into a raucous, electrifying city. Twenty-year-old Carmel St. John moves into this maelstrom with dreams of winning the heart of Dr. Phillip Barron and becoming a big band singer.There, Carmel meets Caesar Almalto, a black-market kingpin, and Jerry Cassidy, a musician who helps her and hopes to win her love. Nightclub life, lust, and murder swirl around her, as does her tenuous relationship with Phillip, who leaves as...

This is a story of high-tech vigilante justice. It was inspired by a steamy tropical atmosphere, cold drinks, and lithe, sweaty bodies. It's the story of how the temptation to deliver justice overcame common sense and perhaps whatever common decency I once had. But then, betrayal for a worthy cause can taste mighty sweet.

This is modern fiction, a story of high-tech vigilante justice. It was inspired by a steamy tropical atmosphere, cold drinks, and lithe, sweaty bodies. It’s the story of how, ultimately, the temptation to deliver justice and satisfy my own desires (to possess both the tangible and intangible) overcame common sense and perhaps whatever common decency I once had.But then, betrayal for a worthy cause can taste mighty sweet. Even if it’s never quite clear, at the end, who seduced whom,...

Who is Wyatt Osgood?Where is the financial world headed?Emerging technology provides the means to free people, but also to control them in new ways. Nation-states struggle to adapt in battles increasingly fought in a digital arena and across the globe. Those who would prefer a borderless world and freedom struggle to assert their right to privacy and distribute their operations as they see fit, free of interference.In Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, Galt's Gulch was a physi...

Ideas can be powerful...and dangerous...When the CIA sends a financial analyst named Tyler Blake to go undercover at the Anarchapulco conference in Mexico, the idea is to have eyes and ears on anarchist plots. Somehow things don’t go as planned. Despite good intentions, the ideas of freedom he’s exposed to might just be too contagious to resist.~~~~~ Excerpt ~~~~~"You want me to go undercover?" Tyler Blake looked at Ralph, his boss. He realized he was blinking stupi...

Ideas can be powerful...and dangerous...When the CIA sends a financial analyst named Tyler Blake to go undercover at the Anarchapulco conference in Mexico, the idea is to have eyes and ears on anarchist plots. Somehow things don't go as planned. Despite good intentions, the ideas of freedom he's exposed to might just be too contagious to resist.

When the CIA sends a financial analyst named Tyler Blake to go undercover at the Anarchapulco conference in Mexico, the idea is to have eyes and ears on anarchist plots. Somehow things don't go as planned. Despite good intentions, the ideas of freedom he's exposed to might just be too contagious to resist.

This volume explores the intricate relationships that the universe of Frank Herbert's Dune portrays between faith, prophecy, and spirituality.The Dune universe is a large and complex place where social, political, and cultural structures are intricately interwoven with religious, theological, and philosophical ideas. From the syncretism of the Ecumenical Translation Project and the Orange Catholic Bible, through to the messianic aspirations of the Bene Gesserit, an...

e-artnow presents to you the greatest Christmas novels, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry) The Holy Night (Selma Lagerlöf) A Merry Christmas & Other Christmas Stories (Louisa May Alcott) A Letter from Santa Claus (Mark Twain) Silent Night The Night After Christmas The Child Born at Bethlehem The Adoration of the Shepherds The Visit of the Wise Men As J...