{"id":242,"date":"2011-01-17T01:33:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T01:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2011\/01\/17\/books-received-11611-del-rey-edition\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:18:33","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:18:33","slug":"books-received-11611-del-rey-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/geekcurmudgeon\/2011\/01\/17\/books-received-11611-del-rey-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Books received 1\/16\/11 Del Rey edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived at the Geek Compound. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/513O1HZOz5L._SL500_AA300_.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Homefront-Voice-Freedom-John-Milius\/dp\/0345527151\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1295226208&amp;amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Homefront: The Voice of Freedom<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nby John Milius and Raymond Benson<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>HOME IS WHERE THE WAR IS<\/p>\n<p>America may be reeling from endless recessions and crippling oil wars, but hack reporter Ben Walker never expected to see his homeland invaded and occupied by a reunified Korea\u2014now a formidable world power under Kim Jong-il\u2019s dictator son. <\/p>\n<p>The enemy\u2019s massive cyberattack is followed by the detonation of an electromagnetic pulse that destroys technology across the United States. Communications, weapons, and defense systems are rendered useless; thousands perish as vehicles suddenly lose power and passenger jets plummet to the ground.  <\/p>\n<p>Fleeing the chaos of Los Angeles, Walker discovers that although America\u2019s military has been scattered, its fighting spirit remains. Walker joins the soldiers as they head east across the desert, battling Korean patrols\u2014and soon finds his own mission. Walker reinvents himself as the Voice of Freedom, broadcasting information and enemy positions to civilian Resistance cells via guerrilla radio.  <\/p>\n<p>But Walker\u2019s broadcasts have also reached the ears of the enemy. Korea dispatches its deadliest warrior to hunt the Voice of Freedom and crush the ever-growing Resistance before it can mount a new war for American liberty.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">John Milius?!?!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/5181Z6jIBrL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Heart-Exiled-Pati-Nagle\/dp\/0345503864\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1295226558&amp;amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Heart of the Exiled<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nby Pati Nagle<br \/>\nCover by Gene Mollica<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Bitter Wars left a world divided. Now the \u00e6lven governors convene a Council at Glenhallow, while the savage kobalen gather in numbers not seen in five centuries. Vastly outnumbered, the \u00e6lven clans will send barely trained guardians to confront the kobalen, and a young female warrior, Eliani, will be entrusted with the most crucial mission of all: to reach distant Fireshore and learn why their governor has not responded to the call to war. Bound to her lover Turisan by the power of mindspeech, Eliani will feed vital information to the \u00c6lven Council across vast distances. But Eliani cannot see the dark force watching from the Ebon Mountains. There, Shal\u00e1r, the ruler of exiled Clan Darkshore, has given the mindless kobalen both power and a plan to cut off the \u00e6lven from their brave and gifted mindspeaker\u2014and to reclaim for Shal\u00e1r\u2019s nearly extinct vampiric clan their ancestral land: Fireshore. But Shal\u00e1r guards her secrets carefully, and even Eliani cannot know what terrible purpose lurks in the heart of the exiled.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51BNmHjhKnL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Star-Wars-John-Jackson-Miller\/dp\/0345522648\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1295226948&amp;amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Star Wars: Knight Errant<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nby John Jackson Miller<br \/>\nCover by John Van Fleet<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>An original adventure featuring Jedi Kerra Holt\u2014star of the hot new Dark Horse <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkhorse.com\/Comics\/17-156\/Star-Wars-Knight-Errant-Aflame-1-Joe-Quinones-cover\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Knight Errant<\/span><\/a> comic series<\/p>\n<p>A thousand years before Luke Skywalker, a generation before Darth Bane, in a galaxy far, far away . . . <\/p>\n<p>The Republic is in crisis. The Sith roam unchecked, vying with one another to dominate the galaxy. But one lone Jedi, Kerra Holt, is determined to take down the Dark Lords. Her enemies are strange and many: Lord Daiman, who imagines himself the creator of the universe; Lord Odion, who intends to be its destroyer; the curious siblings Quillan and Dromika; the enigmatic Arkadia. So many warring Sith weaving a patchwork of brutality\u2014with only Kerra Holt to defend the innocents caught underfoot.<\/p>\n<p>Sensing a sinister pattern in the chaos, Kerra embarks on a journey that will take her into fierce battles against even fiercer enemies. With one against so many, her only chance of success lies with forging alliances among those who serve her enemies\u2014including a mysterious Sith spy and a clever mercenary general. But will they be her adversaries or her salvation?<\/p>\n<p>Includes a special, full-color excerpt from the Dark Horse comic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkhorse.com\/Comics\/Previews\/17-156?page=0\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Star Wars: Knight Errant<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51ciyd0YbUL._SL500_AA300_.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Midnight-Riot-Ben-Aaronovitch\/dp\/034552425X\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;qid=1295227588&amp;amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Midnight Riot<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nby Ben Aaronovitch<br \/>\nCover by Wes Youssi<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Probationary Constable Peter Grant dreams of being a detective in London\u2019s Metropolitan Police. Too bad his superior plans to assign him to the Case Progression Unit, where the biggest threat he\u2019ll face is a paper cut. But Peter\u2019s prospects change in the aftermath of a puzzling murder, when he gains exclusive information from an eyewitness who happens to be a ghost. Peter\u2019s ability to speak with the lingering dead brings him to the attention of Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Nightingale, who investigates crimes involving magic and other manifestations of the uncanny. Now, as a wave of brutal and bizarre murders engulfs the city, Peter is plunged into a world where gods and goddesses mingle with mortals and a long-dead evil is making a comeback on a rising tide of magic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived at the Geek Compound. 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