From a snowbound inn, high in the Alps, four unlikely allies will turn against the might of Byzantium to secure the English throne for Richard, Duke of Gloucester, and make him Richard III.A noble Byzantine mercenary.A female Florentine physician.An ageless Welsh wizard.And Sforza, an uncanny duke.Together, they will alter the fate of millions . . .Available for the first time in nearly two decades, with a new introduction by New ...

Contents: Plays by Ford- The Queen, The Lover's Melancholy, The Broken Heart, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Love's Sacrifice, The Chronicle of Perkin Warbek, Fancies Chaste and noble, The Lady's Trial Co-Written by Ford: The Laws of Candy, The Witch of Edmonton, The Welsh Embassador, The Spanish Gypsy, The Sun's Darling, The Fair Maid of the Inn, Non-Dramatic works: Funeral Elegye, A Line of Life, Christ's Bloody Sweat, Honor Triumphant, Shall I die?, The Golden Mean, Fame's Memorial Critical E...

"’Tis Pity She’s a Whore" is perhaps the most popular and frequently performed play by John Ford, whom many scholars consider the last major dramatist of the English renaissance. The play was first published in 1633 and is a family drama with a plot line of incest. The play's title has often been changed in new productions, sometimes being referred to as simply "Giovanni and Annabella"."'Tis Pity She's a Whore" tells the tale of an incestuous love between Giovanni and his sister An...

Klingon Captain Krenn is a ruthless war strategist. But on a mission to Earth, Krenn learns a lesson in peace. Suddenly he must fight a secret battle of his own. His empire has a covert plan to shatter the Federation. Only Krenn can prevent a war -- at the risk of his own life!

From the brilliant author of The Dragon Waiting and Growing Up Weightless, a novel that saw the cyberpunk future with stunning clarity, years before anyone else.Originally published in 1980, the legendary John M. Ford’s first published novel was an uncannily brilliant anticipation of the later cyberpunk genre—and of the internet itself.The Web links the many worlds of humanity. Most people can only use it to communicate. Some can retrieve ...

Out of print for more than two decades, John M. Ford's Growing Up Weightless is an award-winning classic of a "lost generation" of young people born on the human-colonized Moon.Matthias Ronay has grown up in the low gravity and great glass citadels of independent Luna—and in the considerable shadow of his father, a member of the council that governs Luna's increasingly complex society. But Matt feels weighed down on the world where he was born, where there ...

"The best mingling of history with historical magic that I have ever seen."—Gene WolfeIn a snowbound inn high in the Alps, four people meet who will alter fate.A noble Byzantine mercenary . . .A female Florentine physician . . .An ageless Welsh wizard . . .And Sforza, the uncanny duke.Together they will wage an intrigue-filled campaign against the might of Byzantium to secure the English throne for Richard, Duke of Gloucester—and ...

John M. Ford's The Scholars of Night is an extraordinary novel of technological espionage and human betrayal, weaving past and present into a web of unbearable suspense.Nicholas Hansard is a brilliant historian at a small New England college. He specializes in Christopher Marlowe. But Hansard has a second, secret, career with The White Group, a "consulting agency" with shadowy government connections. There, he is a genius at teasing secrets out of documents...

Six mummified corpses appearing in young Taoist priest Xiao Bai's apartment, along with a nightmarish vision that blurred the line between reality and illusion, transformed him from a charlatan into a fugitive. The gruesome incidents he witnessed in his dreams began to unfold in real life. Determined to clear his name, Xiao Bai rapidly matured, and one truth after another was uncovered along the way... It turned out that...

A thrilling Star Trek: The Original Series adventure featuring Captain James T. Kirk and the USS Enterprise in a strange battle for dilithium crystals against the Klingons.Dilithium. In crystalline form, the most valuable mineral in the galaxy. It powers the Federation’s starships...and the Klingon Empire’s battlecruisers. Now on a small, out-of-the-way planet named Direidi, the greatest fortune in dilithium crystals ever seen has been found....

Are you ready to transform your garden into a thriving, high-yield oasis? Do you wish to harness the power of electricity to supercharge your plants' growth, increase their resistance to disease and pests, and do it all in a sustainable, eco-friendly way? Are you looking for a comprehensive guide that not only explains the theory behind electroculture but also provides detailed instructions on how to build and set up your own electroculture tools? If so, this book is your golden ticket! Th...

I've been transported to another world and, right off the bat, dumped in a poor mountain village to serve as village chief. What should I do? Don't worry-I'll learn how to lead the villagers out of poverty from *The Mountain and the Sea*; how to run a business from *The Great River*; and how to do business from *Feathers in the Sky*... Ran Jiang felt confident he had it all figured out.