Nicholas Nicholas: 2917 books

"In the aftermath of a failed financial coup d'etat in Kuwait the man known as George Liani, the intelligence world's most wanted terrorist, flees to safety in Iran. Once there he will be used by the extremist leadership to mount an even bigger attack against the hated west, the reach of which...

War looms in northern T’har, and with it the prospect of easy money for mercenaries and unscrupulous merchants alike. The promise of blood and gold lures warriors like the exiled dwarf Tryon Thunderslayer to Fort Dragon’s Spine, one of a series of battlements near the border of Morvis, where he...

An argument in favor of finding a place for humans (and humanness) in the future digital economy. In the digital economy, accountants, baristas, and cashiers can be automated out of employment; so can surgeons, airline pilots, and cab drivers. Machines will be able to do these jobs more efficiently,...

The rapid developments in technologies — especially computing and the advent of many 'smart' devices, as well as rapid and perpetual communication via the Internet — has led to a frequently voiced view which Nicholas Agar describes as 'radical optimism'. Radical optimists claim that accelerating...

Zacharia Tobias has retired from The United Western Navy. This might be considered ‘just cause’ for a celebration, but visiting Daisy’s Bar after consuming such a large amount of alcohol, proved not to be one of Zack’s best ideas.Zack does not normally ‘play well with others’, but despite...

Captain Daltir Stone is up to his eyeballs in problems. If it isn’t his ship breaking down, it’s his empty pockets, the Council’s security forces, or other brigands in the wide open space that are getting him down. His quartermaster, Merrill Rynn, and his loyal old friend and crew member, Thad...

Cocktails & Other Stories is the debut collection of Nicholas Trandahl’s contemporary short fiction. Within these pages, the reader will follow Trandahl’s delicate and vivid prose through fifteen tales that are focused on the beauty and tension of human interaction and the drama of modern relationships.

These stories serve as an introduction to Nicholas Hagger’s five volumes totalling 1,001 stories (an echo of The Thousand and One Nights, or Arabian Nights). They are grouped in two parts which reflect the two aspects of the fundamental theme of world literature outlined in his A New Philosophy of...

Nicholas Hagger’s Collected Stories covered five volumes containing 1,001 very short stories detailing five decades (from the 1960s to the 2000s) in the life of Philip Rawley, whose demise was misleadingly announced at the end of the fifth volume. This sixth volume contains 201 stories and deals with...

After an invigorating trip through the Rocky Mountains, recent graduate Carlson Veitch lands his first real job. The idealistic young man thinks success will require nothing more than wearing a tie, a regular bedtime and a daily shave. Little does Carlson know that a labour dispute, impossible students...

"Eine spannende und nervenaufreibende Geschichte" [Lesermeinung] "Die detaillierten, schon fast epischen Beschreibungen lassen gleich einen Film im Kopf ablaufen." [Lesermeinung] "Die Grundgeschichte, die Nicholas Bennett da erzählt, ist, ganz pur und rein für sich genommen,...

Ogres are a species from another planet. The ones that live on Earth are aware they are different, not that they are aliens. Kip is happier than a dog with two tails, that Jevin, his pet Ogre has found love with Sally. Sally thought her pottery fairies were fairly realistic, but it was only...

Who'd have thought cheating death would be so complicated?Zoe Victoria isn't sure how she feels about her classmate Sean. There's his so-called personality; half gallant gentleman, half angry little twerp. There's the issue of him being six inches shorter than she is, making...

In Track Faults and Other Glitches, journalist and author Nicholas Yong takes us on a journey into an alternate Singapore, where the impossible becomes real. Deep in the heart of the Zombie Civil Service, a secret meeting is held to pre-empt an impending disaster. In the heartlands, a devoted Shiba...