John E : 941 books

Space fiction is no longer fiction in the same way that it used to be. There was an element of distance and strangeness about it a few years back. Now, fact has caught up and threatens to overtake. Science fiction today has become science prediction. An atom is a miniature solar system in some...

When Special Agent Trevor Byrne investigates the hasty approval of an experimental AIDS treatment, he uncovers a plot by genetics lab DNAY to unleash a deadly toxin on the world. Can Trevor stop DNAY before it's too late?

This history of HMI since World War II shows how its independence derives from the work of the 19th century inspectors and examines the relationship between HMI and school, local education authorities and the government. It considers the effect of the 1988 and 1992 Education Acts.

FBI AGENTS TOM MERRITT AND STEVE FRANKANO arent accomplices to murder, but theyre beginning to feel that way. As they watch a young womans mangled body being removed from a landfill, they know who committed the crime. They also know hes an evil man of powera politician who stays beneath the law enforcement...

It was the last image however, taking shape just before the entrance to his treasure room, that shook Thirds very soul and filled him with more terror and dread he had ever felt before*. An imposing human warrior stood barring Thirds entrance into his destiny of power and fame. The man stood* resolute...

Björn was raised in the Northland, a mountainous country of almost unbearable cold. In this unforgiving environment, the survivors became quick, agile, and incredibly strong. Because the land could support only a limited number of people, a select number of people were expelled to make their...

This is a near-future science fiction novel. The year is 2025. The scientists and engineers at the Deep Space Research Institute are very intelligent people -- so intelligent, in fact, that they have figured out how gravity works. More importantly, they've figured out how to make gravity work as a method...

If a man from the mid-1920s had picked up today's paper he would have mistaken it for a science fiction magazine. In the same way, if a man from the mid-1960s could be confronted with a national daily from thirty years hence he would shake his head and regard the whole thing as preposterous. Stop....

It should have been routine. Nothing could go wrong. The anode and the cathode were behaving perfectly. The meters and dials were recording accurately. A faint effervescence stirred in the chemical solution. There was a subtle change in the speed - the experiment seemed to freeze in its tracks...

Because of her past, Detective Inspector Helen Ross of the Metropolitan Police is coerced into working for Colonel Nash, who heads up a special group set up in MI5. Her mission is to go undercover and infiltrate a known IRA terrorist cell that is preparing to carry out a bombing blitz on the nation's...

Our story is set in 1970's Brooklyn with a backstory in the Colonial-African slave trade. As our story begins, we meet fifteen-year-old, Shelby Simmons, who dreams of someday becoming a famous author. She and her siblings, Wade and Todd, have been allowed by their parents to stay up on a balmy summer...

Henderson was a brilliant nuclear physicist until the night he staggered home a pathetic wreck of his former self, raving wildly about flying saucers and a strange being named Ravan. No scientific nation could afford to lose a genius of Henderson's capacity and Parnell Scott, an experimental psychiatrist,...

Aliens kidnap Manhattan; read all about it. Manhattan is taken away and placed under a huge clear dome, through which the trapped residents can see dozens of similarly trapped alien cities. First published in 1993. Very much in the same spirit and scope as the 1996 film Independence Day. Echoed...