Return to your first love. They will eat from the tree of life. Endured persecution and poverty. Do not fear martyrdom. They will receive the crown of life. Remains true to Christ. Hidden manna, White stone, New Name. Christian Graces, Faithful Service. False teaching of Jezebel. Some good deeds, reputation of "life". Keep on Keeping on! Overcomers will eat and rule with Christ. Exodus Event Rev Event So Moses went up. Before the throne, seven lamps were blazing. These are the seven spirits of God. They were inscribed on both sides, front and back.
It was the worst storm since Egypt had become a nation. A third of the sea turned into blood. That is why the place is called Marah. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter. A third of the day was without light. Just and true are your ways, King of the ages. The Book of Revelation. Revelation contains its own title, unlike most of the other books of God's Word: This word always refers to something or someone, once hidden, becoming visible. So this book is our final, and perhaps greatest revealing or unveiling of our Lord Jesus Christ in all His glory.
The Apostle John identifies himself as the human author of this final book of God's Word four times in Revelation 1: Church tradition unanimously identified him as John the apostle, who is also the author of the Gospel by John and his three epistles. Some of the early testimonies to John's authorship are the second century writers: Some of the original readers of John's writings would still have been alive during the lifetimes of both Justin Martyr and Irenaeus-both which affirmed John's apostolic authorship.
Revelation fits into the final decade of the first century ca. Some have tried to date this book during Nero's reign A. For example, Irenaeus wrote that Revelation was written near the end of Domitian's reign. After those earliest writers, other writers through the next centuries also affirm the Domitian time frame, like: Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Victorinus who also wrote one of the earliest commentaries on Revelation , Eusebius, and Jerome.
A strong factor is the declared state of spiritual decline that Jesus exposes in some of the 7 churches chaps. There is not enough time between Paul's ministry and the end of Nero's reign for such a decline to have occurred. The extra decades can also explains the rise of the heretical sect known as the Nicolaitans 2: John was banished 1: There during his exile, God gave to John a series of revelations that outline the end of days for humanity on Earth.
While on Patmos, John received a series of visions that laid out the future history of the world. When he was arrested, John was in Ephesus, ministering to the church there and in the surrounding cities. Seeking to strengthen those congregations, he could no longer minister to them in person and, following the divine command 1: The churches had begun to feel the effects of persecution; at least one man-probably a pastor-had already been martyred 2: But the storm of persecution was about to break in full fury upon the 7 churches so dear to the apostle's heart 2: To those churches, Revelation provided a message of hope: God is in sovereign control of all the events of human history, and though evil often seems pervasive and wicked men all powerful, their ultimate doom is certain.
Christ will come in glory to judge and rule. The book's vivid imagery and striking symbolism have produced 4 main interpretive approaches: The preterist approach interprets Revelation as a description of first century events in the Roman Empire see Author and Date. This view conflicts with the book's own often repeated claim to be prophecy 1: It is impossible to see all the events in Revelation as already fulfilled. The second coming of Christ, for example, obviously did not take place in the first century. The historicist approach views Revelation as a panoramic view of church history from apostolic times to the present-seeing in the symbolism such events as the barbarian invasions of Rome, the rise of the Roman Catholic Church as well as various individual popes , the emergence of Islam, and the French Revolution.
This interpretive method robs Revelation of any meaning for those to whom it was written. It also ignores the time limitations the book itself places on the unfolding events cf. Historicism has produced many different-and often conflicting-interpretations of the actual historical events contained in Revelation. The idealist approach interprets Revelation as a timeless depiction of the cosmic struggle between the forces of good and evil.
In this view, the book contains neither historical allusions nor predictive prophecy. This view also ignores Revelation's prophetic character and, if carried to its logical conclusion, severs the book from any connection with actual historical events. Revelation then becomes merely a collection of stories designed to teach spiritual truth. The futurist approach insists that the events of chaps. It describes the events surrounding the second coming of Jesus Christ chaps.
Only this view does justice to Revelation's claim to be prophecy and interprets the book by the same grammatical-historical method as chaps. An Overview of Revelation In Revelation , 16, and find living hope for the end of days in the return of the real King, Jesus. Imprisoned monsters run wild. And then Christ comes: His eyes ablaze, His Words unleashed, and His feet once again standing on earth. In Revelation find living hope for the end of days in the mysteries Jesus reveals. Countering every nefarious attack of that old serpent, Satan, Christ's truth is unleashed.
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Whatever life brings, God is providentially weaving His good handiwork into the fabric of our lives. In Revelation find living hope for the end of days in meeting the true bride Christ calls out. In this chapter we see the stark contrast between the false harlot of religion and the true bride of faith in Christ. As deceptions abound, as false teachings multiply, and as religion replaces the revelation from God through His Word, nothing is more vital than the truth.
In Revelation find living hope for the end of days in the true riches Christ gives. As Christ reveals the coming meltdown of human civilization, He shows us that our real worth is found in what remains after losing our health, wealth, prosperity, possessions, and power. We must be sure that we are invested in the "stocks" that we know will survive the collapse. In Revelation 20 through find living hope for the end of days in the mansions Jesus has prepared for us.
It is out of this world! The curse is restrained. Sinners are eternally judged. And heaven's gates are finally opened. These concluding chapters in Revelation embody every promise God has made. For the answer to the problems of mankind, the end of suffering, and the joys of heaven, here is God's final Word. Note what happens in Revelation The angel tells John: Focus your worship on God! William Temple , the Archbishop of Canterbury from to , defined worship as follows: Worship is the submission of all our nature to God.
Quickening of our conscience by His holiness-being renewed through the life and power of our endless lives in Christ; Nourishing our minds by His truth; Purifying our imaginations by His beauty; Opening our hearts to His love; Submitting our wills to His purpose. All of this gathered together in adoration is the greatest of all expressions of which we are capable.
One clear way God invites our worship is by revealing himself through His divine names. Since Revelation is a revelation of Jesus and His person, its twenty-two chapters are a gold mine as the Lord unveils His deity through more than sixty-seven names and titles.
The greatest insight into adoring the Lord comes by way of His names and titles in His Word. They are real treasures to find! He is the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, ruler over the kings of the earth, the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the Almighty, the First and the Last, the Son of Man, the living One!
He is the administrator of the church who has the sharp two-edged sword, eyes like a flame of fire, and feet like fine brass! He is the One who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars, who is holy and true, who has the key of David, who is the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the Creation of God! He is the One who sits on the throne in heaven! He is the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, and the Lamb who was slain-who lives forever and ever!
He is the wrathful Lamb! He is the redeeming Lamb and the providing Lamb! He is the patient collector of our prayers! He holds back the monsters from the abyss! He is the Creator of heaven and earth and sea! He is Christ, the Lord God Almighty! He is the Christ, the Lamb, Jesus! He is the Lamb, whose is the Book of Life! He is the One who was and is and is to be, the Lord God Almighty! He is Jesus, the Lamb-Lord of lords and King of kings!
He is the Lord God! He is Jesus, the Christ! Worship Christ in His majesty-worship Him in all His glorious names! Nothing can possibly come into your life that the all-powerful, all-knowing, and ever-present Christ didn't know about long before it happened. As Creator, He made you as you are; he picked your family, limitations and all. The Lamb has paid the price for sin. And the Lamb is the only One who has the reservation book, the Book of Life, which is the key to enter into the paradise He has prepared for His bride.
Make a choice to live in hope: Have you made your reservation? Is your name written there? Are you in touch with Him to prepare for what is ahead? Are you worshiping the manufacturer and owner of your life in grateful awe that He knows and cares for you? What's Next for Planet Earth: Please open with me to Matthew The disciples ask Jesus a question that interests all of us, I'm so glad they did. Follow along as they ask in Matthew This week I was examining just how much God has left for us to know about the future. This one book, made up of 66 books has a total of 31, verses.
Of all the verses in the Bible 8, verse are prophetic or spoke to future events. All Biblical predictions about the future in these thousands verses can be grouped into different predictions. God Gives the Specific Details on the End of the World That leaves just about 2, verses with specific predictions from God about the end of the world that are in process of being fulfilled.
So, the Bible contains many specific events that would signal the end of days for life on planet earth as it has been for the past several thousand years. Each of the prophetic signs Christ and His apostles gave are specific and not vague. Jesus explained to us in Matthew 24, verses 8 and that these events would begin at the same time, run concurrently, and crescendo like the pains of a woman giving birth-the closer we get to His Second coming.
The list of Biblical Signs of Christ's Return will not actually be full blown until the Tribulation time. Each of the signs of Christ's Return He said--are trends. These trends are speeding up-the last seconds of the countdown clock of Christ's return are clicking down. Each day the prophetic picture Christ painted grows clearer. Each of these signs were captured by the apostles and prophets between 2, and 3, years ago. Now they are happening in our lifetime! All of the yet to be completed prophecies fit within these seven major events.
Probably the most exciting of all are the signs of Christ's Second Coming. There are dozens of them. Jesus described many of them in incredible detail. But here is what I want you to see-Jesus said these signs would not suddenly appear. He said that they would rather become a trend that amplified and strengthened until it became overwhelming like "birth pangs". Let me give you just a handful of the precise, clear, specific predictions that Christ's Words in this Book give us. You may be startled. Every one of the signs Christ gave are present in your world today.
You are the first generation in all of history to experience these trends, these signs-all at once! What are some of them? We will actually in the days ahead look at these in detail, but here they are in summary. Prior to the industrial revolution, few individuals traveled beyond their community.
Until recently, horse, foot, and boat were the only modes of transportation. Yet, in our day hundreds of millions travel to and fro great distances every year. We have gone from kilobyte, the megabyte, to gigabyte, to terabytes, to petabytes, to exabytes, to zettabytes, and soon to yottabytes… The last time that records were finalized was four years ago in and on Earth we humans produced 4 zettabytes of information, that is a one with 21 zeros or million years not hours of 4K HD video, or the equivalent of every human on earth getting the information in newspapers every days.
This month saw the introduction of a new generation of computer chip. Each generation has basically doubled the processing speed and power. The newest chip called the AMD Ryzen is using 14 nanometer architecture. Just in common talk that means the chip the size of a quarter can pack 1 billion lines of information storage from side to side by 1 billion lines of storage from top to bottom, that equals 1 quadrillion lines of information architecture and one-billionth of an inch-wide spaces.
Jesus foresaw those seas and the waves roaring in the last days, and compared these trends to birth pangs.
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The Greek word odin, often translated as sorrows in Matthew Paul explains to us that all of creation is under the curse of sin. While creation awaits the coming of the Liberator Himself, Christ the Lord-just as when delivery draws near, birth pangs always increase in both intensity and frequency--so the universe itself will travail as the time of delivery draws near.
Of course chaotic weather has always existed, but there are indications that we are witnessing an increase in strange weather. When the world fastest know means of travel was the speed of a horse-God says the whole world will see an event and all at the same time, celebrate that event! Truly global communication was foreseen. This past summer I was standing in the Med on the foundation of Herod's Palace.
I pulled out my phone, poked a button and began narrating what I was seeing. Instantly via FB Live the bubbles of dozens of people began to cross my screen.
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They were watching and listening instantly across the world what I was seeing. And those who dwell on the earth will marvel, whose names are not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world, when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. The Bible predicts that the entire world will "see" certain events unfold. The invention of the television and the deployment of global satellite networks during the 20th century allow news to travel the world at the speed of light for the first time ever. Remember that in the Apostle John's day, news traveled at the speed of horseback.
Never was it possible to see the entire planet, let alone reach it all. Today we can send an email anywhere, bounce a radio or television wave anywhere, travel anywhere and most of all-get the Gospel anywhere on this planet. My little website alone has visitors from over different nations on earth.
The Christian gospel would be preached as a warning to all nations. Remember what Jesus said? Just this week here in Michigan at GR's Butterfield Hospital, a man with strep throat barely survived after multiple amputations because the strep traveled into his abdominal cavity. That was not even one of the dreaded, looming, circling ominously close "super-pathogens" waiting on the edges of civilization. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. Emerging CRE superbugs have medical scientists worried. Ironically, just a few decades ago, some scientists were forecasting that advances in medicine might soon eradicate deadly diseases.
With ApplePay, ePay, PayPal, Venmo, and on it goes we can have instant electronic access to payments, and each one is tagged exactly when and where it took place. God says that at the end of the world--Mankind would be capable of destroying all life. Consider that when Jesus made this prediction the armaments of His day were swords and spears. But today, with nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons, it is possible to wipe out all flesh on planet earth. God promised over 26 centuries ago that at the end of the world--Jews would begin to regather in Israel.
I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters, In a straight way in which they shall not stumble; For I am a Father to Israel, And Ephraim is My firstborn. In the latter years you will come into the land of those brought back from the sword and gathered from many people on the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate; they were brought out of the nations, and now all of them dwell safely. Since the world has witnessed the call of God deep within the hearts of 5.
And more arrive each day! Jesus said that it would be just like the days of Noah. There are seven major events. I call these seven steps from Now to Eternity! And the dead in Christ will rise first. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. He who sat on it had a bow; and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer. And it was granted to the one who sat on it to take peace from the earth, and that people should kill one another; and there was given to him a great sword. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him.
And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death, and by the beasts of the earth. Salvation and glory and honor and power belong to the Lord our God! Her smoke rises up forever and ever! For the Lord God Omnipotent reigns! But he said to me, "See that you do not do that! I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren who have the testimony of Jesus.
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And He who sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war. He had a name written that no one knew except Himself. And He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He Himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. These two were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone. And all the birds were filled with their flesh. But after these things he must be released for a little while.
Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. This is the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years. And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
And there was found no place for them. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books. And they were judged, each one according to his works. This is the second death. Also there was no more sea. God Himself will be with them and be their God. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
They need no lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. And they shall reign forever and ever. Christ said here is something anyone in my family can do! Here is what you do that I love, and I make your investments in these areas last forever. I collect all of your prayers - PRAY!
But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. KJV 1st thes 2. To obey Jesus we must "watch and pray". That is how we can resist the temptations that lure us. Then we will be ready when our Lord returns. Christ's Throne of Judgment is a part of His overall plan. These are the steps from here tonight to Eternity that God's Word has mapped out for all who study His Word. What does the Judgment Seat of Christ always boil down to? Time is the only thing we can't recover, earn more of, get from someone else, or do over again. It is an irreversible river flowing by ceaselessly at sixty seconds per minute, sixty minutes per hour.
Are you giving significant, regular, sacrificial time to God? Revelation 6 opens with the period that is known in the Bible as the Great Tribulation. To some, hearing talk about the impending arrival of Tribulation, such as this world has never known, may seem like just another science fiction story, or simply the delusion of alarmist Christians.
Thus, scoffers often mockingly ask: For … all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation" 2 Peter 3: Why God delays in reclaiming the kingdom for himself is an inexplicable mystery-the mystery of the presence of evil. For thousands of years, God has allowed Satan to wrap his vicious, slimy, filthy, cruel tentacles around human life and around this earth. There is no village or town without its seething, and there is no human heart without its insidious darkness.
There is no life without its tears and its sorrows. There is no home that ultimately does not get broken by death; there is no family that does not see the circle of the home dissolved by the depths of the grave. The pages of history, from the time of the first murder until this present hour, are written in blood, tears, and death.
Does God know all this? Is He indifferent to it? Is He not able to overcome it? The mystery of how and why God allows sin and suffering to run its deadly course through human history has been one of the most persistent questions that skeptical unbelievers have asked Christians. The infidel, the atheist, the agnostic, and the unbeliever laugh and mock us, and God allows them to laugh and mock. God seemingly just looks on as our missionaries are slain, our churches are burned to the ground, and countless millions upon millions of people on this earth are oppressed and living in despair.
He apparently does not intervene-nor does He say anything, and neither does He move. It goes on and on. Oh, the mystery of the delay of the Lord God! But somewhere beyond the starry sky there stands a herald angel with a trumpet in his hand, and by the decree of the Lord God Almighty, there is a day, there is an hour, there is a moment, there is an elected time when the angel shall sound the trumpet and the kingdoms of this world shall become the kingdoms of our God and of His Christ!
But until then, you and I can find hope in knowing that some day God will right all wrongs! My Prayer for You in Revelation 6: Oh Father, the question You inspired John to write in his rocky exile on Patmos 2, years ago is a great one for each of us to ponder: I pray that this will be a sobering thought for any who are not spiritually prepared to stand before Your wrath, oh Christ, the Lamb. In the privacy of their wills, may they realize that You wrote a love letter in blood on a cross of wood; there You gave Your life for our sins, and shed Your own blood to cleanse us.
May they, without delay, realize their need of a Savior. As for Your children, may we all realize what You want us to do during the closing hours as this world heads toward a ghastly ending. May we dispense Your antidote with our lips, speaking Your wonderful Words of life! May we not hesitate to do so because people are headed toward the horrors of the pit.
I pray that You would touch each Christian's heart, oh Lord, to be Your good and faithful servant. May Your Word be magnified in every life! I pray this all in Your lovely name, Lord Jesus. Note the rapid devastation. We begin in chapter 6 with the Lord beginning to unroll the seven seals, as each one breaks open it reveals another event that's going to happen on the earth.
By the sixth seal in Rev. When God makes the earth shake, it is a big one. The sun becomes as black as sackcloth of hair and the moon becomes like blood. The stars of heaven fell to the earth. Imagine a day when the sun goes black, the moon goes blood-red, and the stars all fall out of heaven, as the sky departs like a scroll.
As those scenes flash by above, below, every mountain and every island get shaken out of their places. This is like a:. These will be scary time in verses 15 to The shaken inhabitants of Earth scream for the rocks and the mountains to fall, to hide them from the face of him that sits on the throne; and from the wrath of the Lamb. For the great day of His wrath has come and who shall be able to stand?
That was only the first of the 14 chapters of tribulation horrors. Next, jump to the last seal in Revelation 8: This seal unleashes the seven trumpet judgments, another way to signify terrifying, wide-spread judgment. And hail and fire followed, mingled with blood, and they were thrown to the earth. And a third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up". Like in one of the countless computer-generated science-fiction movies: Only it wasn't a computer-generated theater disaster, it actually happens.
Most people will probably just stand there in unbelief. They had seen New York and LA destroyed so many times on screen, but never heard the ear-shattering concussive blast of impact, or felt the skin- searing heat of the devastation. Soon a tsunaminous-tidal wave that would be absolutely beyond imagination, follows the flaming ball of fire that plunged into the sea, joining the other fires that come down to the earth that burn up a third of everything on the globe.
But we know that:. While all the implications of that horrible scene is being digested by our minds, note the 5th trumpet in Rev. John sees an angelic creature falling like a burning meteor to earth with a key. What a key he holds. This is probably Lucifer, the Devil who is allowed to let out all the imprisoned terrorist-like demons, locked up by God over thousands of years. All the bound up, out-of-control demons that have been imprisoned down there for centuries gush out of the prison pit in verse 2, like: If the terrifying quake of chapter 6 seemed bad, this is so much more terrifying.
Like the sound of locust cloud screeching overhead is this cloud of evil, that envelopes the Earth. There is nowhere to go, there is no escape, because there is no secure room to hide from creatures that transcend any physical barrier. This is one of the main reasons why the Tribulation is going to be such a terrible time.
Think of all the bound demons of the Pit being turned loose in addition to the ones that are already running all over the earth. Then, as if these hordes were not bad enough, out of the smoke rising from the Pit in v. This is the angel of the bottomless pit whose name in the Greek tongue, Apollyon. Both languages capture this creatures name, it means destroyer.
But all these demons are allowed to do is inflict pain, not death. Death is coming, but not quite yet. The searing pain is about to be replaced by horrific death. Destroying, horse-like creatures and those who sat on them, it says, are riders with breastplates the color of fire and of brimstone; and the heads of the horses are like the heads of lions.
With fire, smoke, and brimstone: Brimstone is like volcanic lava, which proceeded out of their mouths. Either this is some kind of graphic figurative description of a great fiery force, or maybe God just opens the earth and turns loose the Earth's volcanic capacity. In deadly destruction, a third of the world's inhabitants are plunged into Hades.
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But, that's just a preview, a little taste of what's coming at the end of the thousand-year Kingdom. Skip over the next 7 chapters of the Beast, False Prophet, and the seven bowls of scorching fire, blackness of darkness, and Armageddon, and turn with me to Rev. That's how it's going to end. But the end really hits with that furious fire, that is going to come upon that great rebellious army that are going to fight Jesus Christ at the end of His earthly Kingdom.
It is at that moment in Rev. Blood in the Hills. Soldier of Fortune- May Thirty Days Has September: An Iraq Military Thriller. Ghosts The Ultimate Game Guide. A Handful of Hell. The World on Edge: Brassey's Air Combat Reader. Philip Handleman; Walter J. Another Day In Paradise. A Walk In The Park. What do you mean I can't stay for Dinner? A Life in After World. A Life in After World: How to write a great review. The review must be at least 50 characters long.
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While the old entrenched rulers and manipulators continue to plot against this new upstart nation, everyday life goes on in Grantville, even under the shadow of war, as this lost outpost of American freedom and justice must play David against a 17th century Goliath of oppressive feudalism. A splendid example of character-centered alternate-history, this is a must read for its series' growing fandom. Fans of alternate history and military sf should enjoy this rousing tale of adventure and intrigue.
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When the historian sent him a photo of the 19th century Jack Naile, what had seemed like an interesting coincidence immediately became much more bizarre. The four people in the photo, dressed in the style of the time, were unmistakably Jack, his wife, their grown son and teenage daughter. Jack decided he would have to take a trip to that town to investigate further.
And if he and his family were somehow going to travel back in time, he was going to be prepared—and be well-armed. Jerry and Sharon Ahern have published over 80 novels in the categories of general fiction, science fiction, horror and adventure, with sales figures in excess of ten million copies. Decades after the last footprints were left on the Moon, the U. It would have to be a rescue mission. Unbeknownst to the rest of the world China had sent its own Lunar expedition.
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Captain Dominic Flandry has been knighted for his many services to the Terran Empire—an Empire which is old, jaded, and corrupt, as Flandry well knows—but he also knows that the Empire is better than anything that is likely to take its place. What it is not likely to do is make him more of an object of interest to the alien Merseians, whose plots against the Empire he has repeatedly foiled.
They already are as aware as they can be of how much simpler their plans to rule the galaxy would be if their most dangerous adversary were the late Sir Dominic Flandry. For too long, they say, have hot blooded babes in brass bras and chain link bikinis been held up to scorn as the embodiment of male fantasy wish-fulfillment and non-fictionality.
You think they look cute? Well, maybe not too seriously. In fact, they made a lot of people laugh. And now the first three books in the series are combined in one volume. The swordswomen like a good laugh as much as the next amazon. She lives in Connecticut with her husband, two children, and two rambunctious cats. Athena Hera Sinistra never wanted to go to space. Never wanted see the eerie glow of the Powerpods. Never wanted to visit Circum Terra. Never had any interest in finding out the truth about the DarkShips. You always get what you don't ask for.
Which must have been why she woke up in the dark of shipnight, within the greater night of space in her father's space cruiser, knowing that there was a stranger in her room. In a short time, after taking out the stranger—who turned out to be one of her father's bodyguards up to no good, she was hurtling away from the ship in a lifeboat to get help. But what she got instead would be the adventure of a lifetime— if she managed to survive. About the Author Sarah A. Hoyt has sold a dozen novels in various genres, including her new Musketeers Mysteries series, starting with Death of a Musketeer , and her acclaimed Shakespearean fantasy series, which started with the Mythopoeic award finalist, Ill Met by Moonlight.
An avid history buff and longtime reader of sci-fi, fantasy, and mysteries Sarah has published over three dozen short stories in esteemed magazines such as Asimov's , Analog , Amazing and Weird Tales , as well as several anthologies. Residing in Colorado with her husband, two teen boys and a pride of cats, Sarah is hard at work on her next dozen novels. Between the Solar Array Pumped Laser and Troy, the two trillion ton nickel-iron battlestation created by eccentric billionaire Tyler Vernon, Earth has managed to recapture the Sol system from their Horvath conquerors and begin entering the galactic millieu.
But when the Rangora Empire rapidly crushes humanity's only ally it becomes clear the war is just beginning. At the heart of nickel iron and starlight are the people, Marines, Navy and civilians, who make Troy a living, breathing, engine of war. Survivors of apocalypse, they know the cost of failure. Val Con has been playing a deep game, far from the orderly life of clan and kin. Fleeing his latest mission, he saves the life of ex-mercenary Miri Robertson, a Terran on the run from interplanetary assassins.
Thrown together by circumstances, Val Con and Miri struggle to elude their enemies and stay alive without killing each other-or surrendering to the unexpected passion that flares between them. Which name — or face — will the agent choose when the game gets tough and an escape for only one of them seems possible? On the run from interplanetary assassins and a ruthless interstellar crime cartel, covert operative Val Con yos'Phelium and former mercenary sergeant Miri Robertson formed an alliance of necessity and wound up stranded on a planet with no rescue in sight.
Their on-world problems were looking manageable after they assumed new identities as musicians, that is until a local war forced them to reveal their alien combat skills — and doubt their own growing partnership of trust and love. By then the relentless hound of an agent on Val Con's trail was closing in with the very weapon Val Con and Miri most feared, and the game got very rough indeed. About the Authors Sharon Lee and Steve Miller live in the rolling hills of Central Maine with two insistent muses in the form of cats and a large cast of characters.
Someone is assassinating the leaders of both the Star Kingdom of Manticore and the recently liberated former slave planet of Torch. Though most believe the Republic of Haven is behind the murders, Anton Zilwicki and Havenite secret agent Victor Cachat believe there is another sinister player behind the scenes. Queen Berry of Torch narrowly escaped one assassination attempt, and a security officer from Beowulf has been assigned to protect her, a task complicated by the young monarch's resentment of bodyguards, and the officer's growing attachment to her.
Meanwhile, powerful forces in the Solarian League are maneuvering against each other to gain the upper hand, not realizing or, perhaps, not caring that their power struggle is threatening the League's very existence and could plunge the galaxy into war. Of the once innumerable battle clans of the Posleen only a handful survive.
And that on the sufferance of a group of despised Indowy and Himmit. Plucked from the maelstrom on Earth they are cast out into the eternal blackness of the stars with only a slighltly insane Indowy and a computer virus to guide them. What follows is a trail of tears and remembrance as the Posleen retrace the footsteps of their ancestors in a search for their homeworld.
A search to determine if the Posleen posess the one thing no Human would give them credit for: A veteran of the 82nd Airborne, Ringo brings first-hand knowledge of military operations to his novels of high-tech future war. Tom is currently an attorney practicing in southwest Virginia. Now the smarter Kzin see the writing on the wall and form alliances of convenience with humans. But the battle rage on! A strange OLD world seemingly settled by pre-Romans is about to have the honor of Kzin enslavement—unless a human and mercenary-Kzin team can stop it.
And a Kzin horde is racing toward a huge anti-matter cache in deep space as one reluctant human protector stands against this ultimate threat! A hard-hitting, spellbinding addition to the 'Man-Kzin Wars' shared universe created by multiple New York Times best-seller, incomparable tale-spinner, and Nebula- and five-time Hugo-Award-winner, Larry Niven! Tasmarin is a place of dragons, a plane cut off from all other worlds, where dragons can be dragons and humans can be dinner. It's a place of islands, forests, mountains and wild oceans, filled with magical denizens.
Fionn—the black dragon—calmly tells anyone who will listen that he's going to destroy the place. Others strive to refresh the magics that built this place. To do so they need the combined magics of all the intelligent species, to renew the ancient balance and compact. There is just one problem. They need a human mage, and dragons systematically eliminated those centuries ago.
Their augury has revealed that there is one, and they seek her desperately. Unfortunately, she's fallen in with Fionn, who really doesn't want them to succeed. He has his own reasons and dark designs. The part he hadn't worked out is that she will affect his plans too. Honor Harrington is arguably the most popular character in modern science fiction, but there are many other stories in the Honorverse besides those in which she has the central role.
This fifth volume in the popular Worlds of Honor series explores some of those stories with the help of such top writers as best-selling author Jane Lindskjold, New York Times best-selling author Timothy Zahn, and more—including an all-new Honor Harrington adventure, set in her younger years, when a mob of space pirates made the mistake of tangling with Commander Harrington. That was a fatal mistake—for the pirates. David Weber is the science fiction phenomenon of the decade. He has also written the popular Safehold series for Tor, and a best-selling epic SF adventure series in collaboration with John Ringo, with four novels so far: Mike sets out to find his brother, never suspecting that he is about to be shuttled back and forth in time, and between alternate universes.
Fred Saberhagen was the top-selling author of many popular science fiction and fantasy series, told in over forty novels and sixty short stories. His Berserkers menaced the universe for over 40 years. Equally intriguing are his exploits in the area of historical fantasy where figures such as Hitler and Lincoln, Daedalus and the pharaohs, populated his alternate worlds. On the border of history and fantasy he created a unique picture of an old favorite, Dracula.
Many of his works also appeared in audio and e-book format. Before abandoning himself to imagination, he served in the US Air Force, worked as a civilian electronics technician, and wrote and edited articles on science and technology for the Encyclopedia Britannica.
Born and raised in Chicago, he later lived and worked with his wife, Joan Spicci, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he died in Old soldiers never die Old soldier Wes Stauer is dying inside, from sheer lack of purpose. And then comes the knock on the door: We don't know where he is. We need you to get him back for us. The people who have him are numerous, warlike, and well armed.
But money is no object. Two development teams have utterly vanished planet-side. A third is on the way to set things back on track. Clarke or Stanislaw Lem's sentient oceans. And behind it all a new physical law so unexpected and fundamental that it may change the universe forever! New York Times best-seller James P.
Hogan delivers another stunningly visionary tale in the grandest tradition of SF! Hogan's Mission to Minerva. At twenty-three, Jazen Parker has completed his Legion hitch a hero. But in four months, he'll have a price on his head. Worst of all, he's chosen to search for them on the deadliest planet known to mankind. When Jazen reluctantly hires on to a Trueborn Earthman tycoon's safari to bag a deadly trophy, the reluctant mercenary finds himself shipped out to Downgraded Earthlinke , the outpost at the end of the universe known to everyone except its tourism bureau as "Dead End.
But the hunt goes terribly wrong, and Jazen must survive a tough, beautiful local guide who hates mercenaries, an eleven ton beast that can crush main battle tanks with one claw tied behind its back, and the return of a nightmare that has haunted Jazen since birth. Then Jazen learns that the stakes are not merely his own life, but the fate of an entire alien race. Robert Buettner was born July 7, in Manhattan, grew up in Cleveland and eventually slid west to Colorado.
He earned a B. He worked in mining as a rig hand and prospector in the Sonoran Desert of Southwest Texas and the mountains of Alaska, and worked his way through law school as a petroleum geologist. He practiced natural resources law while serving out his Army Reserve Intelligence Commission as a Captain. He has been writing fiction since He currently lives in the foothills of the Blue Ridge north of Atlanta with his family and more bikes than a grownup needs. John Grimes will one day command his own starship, and change the course of Galactic history, but right now he's a wet-behind-the-ears junior officer who finds that he keeps running into problems which were never covered in his courses at the Academy.
Bertram Chandler was born in England in and grew up to sail the world in everything from tramp steamers to troop transports. He was a frequent contributor to the legendary magazine Astounding Science Fiction later retitled Analog during it's Golden Age, and contributed the classic novella "Giant Killer" to the magazine during the s. In the s through the s he contributed stories to the leading science fiction magazines, and published a steady stream of novels, most, but not all of them, chronicling the exploits of his popular hero, John Grimes, who has often been called the Horatio Hornblower of science fiction.
He wrote more than 40 novels and shorter works and was the Guest of Honor at the World Science Fiction Convention. He died in The most popular alternate history series of all continues. When an inexplicable cosmic disturbance hurls your town from twentieth century West Virginia back to seventeenth century Europe—and into the middle of the Thirty Years War—you'd better be adaptable to survive. And the natives of that time period, faced with American technology and politics, need to be equally adaptable.
Here's a generous helping of more stories of Grantville, the American town lost in time, and its impact on the people and societies of a tumultuous age. And much more, including stories by the New York Times best-selling writers Eric Flint and Virginia DeMarce, in the latest installment of this best-selling alternate history series.
With David Drake he has written six popular novels in the Belisarius series, and with David Weber collaborated on , and Flint received his masters degree in history from UCLA and was for many years a labor union activist. When Lieutenant Gerald Yamato of the Republic of California Air Force bailed out of his doomed fighter he had no idea he would land in a culture that would forever change his life. But they are not alone.
Alaska Republik is a love story replete with artillery barrages and aerial dog fights that resonates long after the last page. IX and Jim Baen's Universe. After 31 years in Alaska he now lives in the Las Vegas metro area with his wife, Colette, their ever changing number of cats, and Pullo, their energetic Australian Blue Heeler. He is an avid hiker and velocipede enthusiast. Nicholas van Rijn, the most flamboyant member of the Polesotechnic League of star traders, could see dark times ahead. Fellow league members were using tactics verging on outright piracy, and others were all too eager to sell starships and high-tech weapons to alien barbarians.
A planet not previously known for interstellar commerce suddenly revealed a secret fleet of armed starships, and started building an empire. Even if Van Rijn and his right-hand man David Falkayn could find a way to stop this blatant aggression, the glory days of the League were over. Hereafter, for its own protection against well-armed alien marauders the Earth must maintain a strong military fleet, and one charismatic man would found an empire that would learn nothing of the lessons history taught about the fates of other empires as it began annexing other star systems, whether they wanted to join the Terran Empire or not.
This is the third volume in the first complete edition of Poul Anderson's Technic Civilization saga, and it includes a classic novella which appears here in book form for the first time. So, when Gustavus invades Poland, managing to unite all the squabbling Polish factions into repelling the common enemy, the time-lost Americans have to worry about getting dragged into the fight along with the Swedish forces. But Mike Stearns has another problem.
So Gustavus orders Mike Stearns to go to Saxony and restore order. But he makes one mistake. Eric Flint is the author of the New York Times best sellers The Galileo Affair with Andrew Dennis , The Baltic War and On the colony planet of Terra Nova, Carrera has achieved his revenge, destroying those who had destroyed his life by killing his wife and children in a terrorist strike.
And, with this help of his second wife, he has thwarted an attempted coup that would have restored the rule of the oligarchy and undone his hard-won victory. But his fight is not over yet The problem of the Tauran Union's control of the Transitway between Terra Nova and Earth remains, as does the problem of the nuclear armed United Earth Peace Fleet, orbiting above the planet.
The Taurans will not leave, and the Balboans—a proud people, with much recent success in war - will not tolerate that they should remain. And yet, with one hundred times the population and three or four hundred times the wealth, the Tauran Union outclasses little Balboa in almost every way, even without the support of Old Earth.
Sadly, they have that support. Everything, everyone, will have to be used to finish the job of freeing the country and, if possible, the planet. The children must fight. The old must serve, too. Before turning to writing, he practiced law in southwest Virginia. Sir Dominic Flandry is now an Admiral, but takes little joy in his new rank. He sees the rot in the Terran Empire on every hand and knows that the Long Night will inevitably fall upon the galaxy.
His consolation is that measures he has taken while doing what he can to postpone the Empire's final collapse may shorten the coming galactic dark age and hasten the rise of a new interstellar civilization. In the meantime, he'll enjoy the comforts of a decadent civilization-and he'll always be ready for one more battle against the Empire's enemies.
This concluding volume of the Technic Civilization saga, one of the milestones of modern science fiction includes two full-length novels:. Flandry's daughter, Diana, and her feline-like alien friend have discovered the conspiracy, but can they stop it in time? Plus three novellas and a novelette set in the time of the Long Night and the renaissance of civilization which followed it, concluding one of the grandest adventure sagas in science fiction.
Poul Anderson was one of the most prolific and popular writers in science fiction. He won the Hugo Award seven times and the Nebula Award three times, as well as many other awards, notably including the Grand Master Award of the Science Fiction Writers of America for a lifetime of distinguished achievement. With a degree in physics, and a wide knowledge of other fields of science, he was noted for building stories on a solid foundation of real science, as well as for being one of the most skilled creators of fast-paced adventure stories.
He was author of over a hundred novels and story collections, and several hundred short stories, as well as several mysteries and nonfiction books. The fabric of the world, on both sides of the keleigh , is unraveling. The survival of the trees, the sea, and the world depend upon two wounded people -- Meripen Longeye, a Fey desperately tortured by humans; and Rebecca Beauvelley, a human enchanted and enslaved by Fey.
Longeye is the final book in the duology begun in Duainfey. The husband-and-wife writing team, authors of the "Liaden Universe" series e. Sharon Lee and Steve Miller are adept at creating characters and societies that, no matter how removed from our own experiences, seem as real as those in our own world. A crumb from the upper crust, he's eager to uphold the traditions of his family, and in particular, his mother, a distinguished Admiral of the Imperium. Of course, he's aware of the importance of always having simply smashing tailored uniforms on hand, and having his camera ready to record memorable moments for his scrapbook.
In the meantime, a charismatic leader has arisen who seems able to control the minds of anyone he meets, and may be on his way to taking over the entire galaxy. Can Kinago's aristocratic bearing and unbridled snobbery stand up to such a challenge? Fortunately, his constant companion, the unflappable Jeeves, er, Parsons, is on hand to look after the young, impulsive master, and somehow help his charge bumble his way through, perhaps even saving the galaxy in the process.
Jody Lynn Nye lives in Illinois with her husband and two cats of superior bearing. The gigantic starship Ark was launched on a voyage of ten thousand years from an Earth on the brink of collapse. Its mission was to carry a portion of the human race to a new home circling another star, but, centuries after its departure, the descendants of the original crew no longer remember that they are on a city-sized spaceship, and know nothing of the Ark's mission, nor of the starry universe outside.
The Prophetsy, a theocracy based on slavery and terror, has ruled over most of the Ark for longer than anyone now living can remember, and it has just succeeded in conquering the few remaining free regions of the ship. Yet there are chinks in the monolithic tyranny. Danil has been a slave since he was a young boy, but his spirit has never been broken, and his keen mind sees ways that the theocracy might be overthrown and envisions new weapons that could achieve that victory.
Annaya is the daughter of the Prophet Polldor, undisputed ruler of the Prophetsy. She is far more intelligent and strong-willed than her brother, but only a male heir can become the next Prophet. To her father, she is only a pawn, to be married off to a powerful ally. But she is determined that will not happen, even if she has to somehow overthrow both her father and the Prophetsy itself.
Olen , the Prophet's son, is anxious to become the next Prophet. He will cooperate in his sister's plans as long as he thinks they will lead to his assuming the throne and gaining absolute power, but he is a more dangerous ally than Annaya realizes. These three, each with a different motive, will strive to change the course of history for the Ark.
But even if they restore freedom to their artificial world, can they discover the nature of that world, and regain the knowledge necessary for the successful completion of its mission? Master storyteller Paul Chafe presents Exodus: The Ark , the gripping second book of the Ark trilogy. Paul Chafe was born in Toronto, Ontario in He is an infantry officer in the Canadian forces Reserve and has served with four regiments. When he isn't writing he devotes his spare time to flying sailplanes, parachuting, cycling and travel. He has one son, Christian, who is 8.
The fight to free the Earth from alien domination began in Live Free or Die , and continued in Citadel. Now Tyler Vernon, and his troops aboard the gigantic battle station Troy, face a desperate battle with the forces of galactic tyranny. And the very survival of the Earth and its people is not all that is at stake. The galaxy itself must choose to live free or die-and if the tyrants win this battle, darkness will fall across the galaxy for millennia to come.
John Ringo began writing for Baen in with his first release A Hymn Before Battle -the first novel in his Posleen Wars-which has become a New York Times best-selling series with over one million copies in print. In addition, Ringo has penned the Council War series: His latest techno-thriller, The Last Centurion , was also a national best seller. A more playful twist on the future is found in novels of the Looking-Glass series: His audience was further enhanced with four collaborations with fellow New York Times best-selling author David Weber: There are an additional five collaborative spinoffs from the Posleen series: The Hero , written with Michael Z.
A veteran of the 82nd Airborne, he brings first-hand knowledge of military operations to his fiction. Gannon to carve another notch in the Starfire adventure saga. A resurrected star navy hero attempts to keep a fragile interstellar alliance together while battling an implacable alien adversary. An implacable foe with telepathic cohesion in battle, near-immortality, and eons-advanced engineering skills threatens to wipe humanity from the galaxy.
But humans are the master of adaption, and have got a counterpunch of devastating proportions in reserve. Now a hard-bitten and brilliant admiral must face down renewed alien attack and somehow communicate to the enemy that if he is forced to use his ultimate military option, galactic civilization itself may come to a fiery end. Jake Sullivan is a war hero, a private eye-and an ex-con. He's free because he has a magical talent, being able to alter the force of gravity in himself and objects in his vicinity, and the Bureau of Investigation calls on him when they need his help in apprehending criminals with their own magical talents.
But the last operation he was sent along to help with went completely wrong, and Delilah Jones, the woman the G-men were after, who just happened to be an old friend of Jake's in happier times, had a lot of magical muscle with her, too much muscle for the cops to handle, even with Jake's help. Jake found out that the Feds had lied to him about Delilah being a murderer as well as a bank robber, and they had lied about this being his last job for them-he was too valuable for them to let him go. And things were even worse than Jake imagined.
There was a secret war being waged by opposing forces of magic-users, and Jake had no idea that he had just attracted the attention of one side, whose ruthless leaders were of the opinion that Jake was far too dangerous to be permitted to live Larry Correia is hopelessly addicted to two things: He has been a gun dealer, firearms instructor, accountant, and is now a very successful writer. He shoots competitively and is a certified concealed weapons instructor. Larry resides in Utah with his very patient wife and family.
His first novel, Monster Hunter International is now in its third printing. Val Con yos'Phelium is a fugitive. The heir of Clan Korval is wanted by the covert Liaden agency known as the Department of the Interior, whose rulers have declared unofficial war against the entire clan.
With only his love, Miri Robertson, by his side, Val Con plans a desperate gamble by forming an alliance with Clan Erob on the planet where Miri was born. But Val Con's cousin, Shan yos'Galan, can't wait for help that may never arrive. With enemy agents closing in, he invokes Plan B—setting in motion a series of events that will have dire consequences, not only for him and his life-mate, Priscilla Mendoza, but all of Liad Shan, Val Con's cousin, and Shan's life-mate Priscilla, continue to search for him, believing that he's the Clan's last hope for survival.
Pat Rin yos'Phelium—Val's ne'er-do-well, nearly identical cousin, gambler and con artist-is offered control of the clan. The DOI believes they can manipulate him into serving their agenda. Hard-SF master and renowned John W. Campbell Analog regular Christopher Anvil astounds with mind-bending ideas and their often deadly and darkly humorous consequences. Morton Hommel, erstwhile Director of Banner Drug and Vitamin Laboratories, applies the science of pharmacology and the art of sweet reason to a world on the verge of a technological nervous breakdown.
First entry in a new series with three big all new linked novellas from multiple best-sellers S. We mammals have achieved human-like shapes, but now it's cold-blooded, magic-using reptiles against the hot-blooded, hot-tempered descendants of cats. In a heroic, bronze-age world similar to , the Mrem Clan of the Claw and its sister warbands are expanding their rough-and-tumble territory, but now they face the Lishkash, masters of a cold-blooded empire of slave armies and magic. It's mammalian courage and adaptation against reptile cunning in a clash of steel and will that will determine which line shall inherit the Earth.
What if there really are aliens and they do attack? Read what two scientists reveal in this "how-to" survival manual for the space age. Some events such as a deliberate asteroid strike produce such a massive setback to life, the Earth and humanity that we must understand and prepare for them, even if the chances are low that they'll come about.
But where to begin?