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Moon Flights<\/span> by Elizabeth Moon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n Over the past two decades, few authors have garnered the critical acclaim and fan following of Elizabeth Moon, Nebula Award-winning author of The Speed of Dark<\/span><\/a>, The Deed of Paksenarrion<\/span><\/a>, and Remnant Population<\/span><\/a>. Moon Flights<\/span>, the definitive Elizabeth Moon short story collection, represents the highlights of an impressive career. Gathering together fifteen tales of fantasy, alternative history, and science fiction, Moon Flights<\/span> features an original story, "Say Cheese," set in the Vatta’s War cosmology, and an all-new introduction by Anne McCaffrey, legendary creator of the Dragonriders of Pern series.<\/p>\n After the Downfall<\/span><\/a> by Harry Turtledove<\/span><\/p>\n Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n From Harry Turtledove, the master of alternate history, comes After the Downfall<\/span>, a novel of magic, epic warfare, and desperate choices. 1945: Russian troops have entered Berlin, and are engaged in a violent orgy of robbery, rape, and revenge. Wehrmacht officer Hasso Pemsel, a career soldier on the losing end of the greatest war in history, flees from a sniper’s bullet, finding himself hurled into a mysterious, fantastic world of wizards, dragons, and unicorns. There he allies himself with the blond-haired, blue-eyed Lenelli, and Velona, their goddess in human form, offering them his knowledge of warfare and weaponry in their genocidal struggle against a race of diminutive, swarthy barbarians known as Grenye. But soon, the savagery of the Lenelli begins to eat at Hasso Pemsel’s soul, causing him to question everything he has long believed about race and Reich, right and wrong, Ubermenschen and Untermenschen. Hasso Pemsel will learn the difference between following orders… and following his conscience.<\/p>\n The Princes Of The Golden Cage<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n The King’s Daughters<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n by Nathalie Mallet<\/p>\n Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n The first two installments in the Prince Amir<\/span> series.<\/p>\n The Princes Of The Golden Cage<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Prince Amir lives in a lavish and beautiful cage. He lives in a palace with hundreds of his brothers, all barred by law from ever leaving the palace until he, or one of his brothers, becomes the next Sultan. Living under constant threat of death at the hands of his scheming brothers, Amir has chosen a life of solitude and study. His scholarly and alchemical pursuits bring him under suspicion when his brothers begin to die from seemingly supernatural means. Amir finds himself thrown together with his brother Erik, the son of a barbarian princess. Together they must discover the dark secret that is stalking the halls of their golden cage.<\/p>\n The King’s Daughters<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Far to the north of the hot desert land of Telfar lies the frozen kingdom of Sorvinka. Prince Amir has traveled there, leaving his sultanate in the hands of his half-brother Erik as he seeks to ask the king, the father of the beautiful Princess Eva, for her hand in marriage. But Sorvinka has grown dangerous during Princess Eva’s absence, as she and Amir discover to their terror, when their force of guards and eunuchs is cut down by ruthless brigands. And upon their arrival, their welcome to Eva’s family stronghold is as bitterly cold as the land itself. Accustomed to the golden cage of his upbringing, Prince Amir must navigate his way through the strange and cold-blooded customs of the Sorvinkans, and somehow find the truth behind the kidnapping of the king’s youngest daughter, the Princess Aurora, by the Sorvinkan’s traditional enemies, the neighboring Farrellians. But what can a stranger in a foreign land do?<\/p>\n \nMore in Part 2<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived in the mail here at the Geek Compound. Moon Flights by Elizabeth Moon Promo copy: Over the past two decades, few authors have garnered the critical acclaim and fan following of … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51izn5qmnjL._SL500_AA240_.jpg\")
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