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Countdown to Armageddon / A Stranger in Paradise
In this amazing double-sized volume are some of Edward M. Lerner's best In Countdown to Armageddon, terrorists have obtained an atomic bomb and a would-be martyr eager to deliver it—and that's the good news. The bad news, unknown even to the terrorists, is that their physicist has also found a way to take his new bomb back in time to a turning point in European history. Harry Bowen, an American physicist, and Terrence Ambling, a British agent turned historian, are determined to stop Abdul Faisel — but time is running out... A Stranger in Paradise collects five of the bestselling author's science fiction stories, spanning microengineering to Big Brother to planetary ecologies in "The Night of the RFIDs," "Two Kinds of People," "Better the Devil You Know," "Small Business," and "A Stranger in Paradise."
336 pages, Hardcover
First published April 29, 2010
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About the author
Edward M. Lerner
120 books57 followersI'm a physicist and computer scientist (among other things). After thirty years in industry, working at every level from individual technical contributor to senior vice president, I now write full-time. Mostly I write science fiction and techno-thrillers, now and again throwing in a straight science or technology article.
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July 28, 2010
designed like the old Ace doubles: read a book, flip it over for a second book.
Countdown To Armageddon has a Lebanese physicist working secretly on two projects. Hezbollah terrorists hire him to build an atomic bomb for them, furnishing the plutonium bought from a Russian. Abdul Faisel has other ideas.
His second project is a working time machine and he disappears into the past with his A-bomb.
It's left to two men, physicist Harry Bowen and former British agent Terrence Ambling, who stumbled into it by accident, to follow him into the past.
A Stranger In Paradise is a collection of short stories combining old tropes with new sensibilities. Demons, recycling, worlds hiding secrets discovered to late.
A nice concept and two interesting books to showcase them.
Countdown To Armageddon has a Lebanese physicist working secretly on two projects. Hezbollah terrorists hire him to build an atomic bomb for them, furnishing the plutonium bought from a Russian. Abdul Faisel has other ideas.
His second project is a working time machine and he disappears into the past with his A-bomb.
It's left to two men, physicist Harry Bowen and former British agent Terrence Ambling, who stumbled into it by accident, to follow him into the past.
A Stranger In Paradise is a collection of short stories combining old tropes with new sensibilities. Demons, recycling, worlds hiding secrets discovered to late.
A nice concept and two interesting books to showcase them.
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