James Vance: 11 books

Early fifties science-fiction comics can seem light years from contemporary tastes, but Jet Powers, from cult favorite Bob Powell remains as entertaining and eye-catching as ever! This deluxe hardcover collects the complete adventures of Jet Powers, known as "The Captain of Science," as...

Auf dem Drahtseil erzählt die Geschichte des jungen Fred Bloch, der als Assistent des Entfesselungskünstlers Gordon Corey arbeitet. Corey ist die Hauptattraktion eines großen Wanderzirkus, der durch die USA tourt. Aber der Held hat viele dunkle Seiten. Alkoholmissbrauch, Selbstzweifel und die Geister...

Recent college grad and jobless outsider Eric McKenna kills the son of a Boston mob boss in self-defense, and escapes into the chaos of 1970's America. Twenty years later he returns home, a tormented but successful businessman with two sons of his own. When the brother of the thug he killed finds out he's back, he plots an insidious revenge.

A plane crashes in the vast Northern Territory of Australia, and the only survivors are two children from Charleston, South Carolina, on their way to visit their uncle in Adelaide. Mary and her younger brother, Peter, set out on foot, lost in the vast, hot Australian outback. They are saved by a chance...

Jennifer Hale’s life changed forever once she literally uncovered (in a crate at the museum she worked out) the ingenious steam and watchwork contrivance known as Mr. Hero. She, herself, remains as full of life and humor as ever, and perhaps at first welcomed the exciting and weird adventures that...

From the mind of New York Times Best-selling author and Eisner Award-winning author Neil Gaiman, comes Mr. Hero! Created by the villainous Henry Phage (aka Teknophage) as a sleeper agent, steampunk robot Mr. Hero is the toast of the late 19th century carnival scene. But when an accident during...

A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A. Heinlein and and Jack Vance, from E.E. "Doc" Smith and Clifford D. Simak to Ted Chiang and Charles Stross-- and everyone in between. More than one million words of classic fiction and essays!

e-artnow presents to you this meticulously edited thriller collection, formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Excerpt from Content: Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes Series True Crime Stories Edgar Wallace: Four Just Men P.-C. Lee The Angel of Terror…...

To preserve the memory of their service during the tumultuous decade since their commissioning as Army officers, members of the West Point class of 2004 have written The Strong Gray Line. This class suffered the highest casualty rate since those that graduated during the Vietnam War. In this book,...

Rock Brands: Selling Sound in a Media Saturated Culture, edited by Elizabeth Barfoot Christian, is an edited collection that explores how different genres of popular music are branded and marketed today. The book's core objectives are addressed over three sections. In the first part of Rock Brands,...

The lights reflecting off of the saxophone looked like a sequence of stars beaming out from the back of the cafe. The lights belong to the Troy Mellow Cafe. The saxophone belongs to a man named Mickey Roe, a man who has great admiration and love for his music and the talent for creativity in his profession....