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【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Dragon's Fire: Novellas 4,5, & 6【電子書籍】[ Danielle Kazemi ]

＜p＞Sometimes, even four dragons aren't enough.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Frozen Flames＜br /＞ A new Unseen, creature of darkness, roams the city. As the dragons attack it in their usual fashion, they soon find themselves in deeper than they expected. This creature dodges their attacks and winds up testing the strength of the group.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Draco Ex Machina＜br /＞ With two members of their team gone, the dragons must call upon the help of the elder dragons. When Thane arrives, he seems more of a liability than a help. The elder dragons show up and help restore order to the group once more - with a warning.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Circle of Flames＜br /＞ The large Unseen continues attacking those within the city, imitating them to get its way. It will only be through the concentrated efforts of the entire team that they'll get this creature into a prison. If they fail, the entire city will fall.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Eighth Science Fiction MEGAPACK ? 25 Modern and Classic Stories【電子書籍】[ George R.R. Martin ]

＜p＞"The Eighth Science Fiction Megapack" presents another stellar lineup of classic science fiction, new and old. Here are 25 stories (plus a bonus interview with best-selling author George R.R. Martin) by some of the field's greatest authors. Included are:＜/p＞ ＜p＞THE TRUE DARKNESS, by Pamela Sargent＜br /＞ PERMANENT FATAL ERRORS, by Jay Lake＜br /＞ ADJUSTMENT TEAM, by Philip K. Dick＜br /＞ ROBOTS DON’T CRY, by Mike Resnick＜br /＞ NO GREAT MAGIC, by Fritz Leiber＜br /＞ ESCAPE HATCH, by Brenda W. Clough＜br /＞ BACKLASH, by Winston K. Marks＜br /＞ THE PICK-UP, by Lawrence Watt-Evans＜br /＞ POPULATION IMPLOSION, by Andrew J. Offutt＜br /＞ WAY DOWN EAST, by Tim Sullivan＜br /＞ THROUGH TIME AND SPACE WITH FERDINAND FEGHOOT: 28, by Grendel Briarton＜br /＞ TO INVADE NEW YORK, by Irwin Lewis＜br /＞ THEY WERE THE WIND, by C.J. Henderson＜br /＞ STOPOVER, by William Gerken＜br /＞ CONSEQUENCES OF STEAM, by Michael Hemmingson＜br /＞ OUTSIDE LOOKING IN, by Mark E. Burgess＜br /＞ DEAD WORLD, by Jack Douglas＜br /＞ NEFERTITI'S TENTH LIFE, by Mary A. Turzillo＜br /＞ QUICKSILVER, by Lonni Lees＜br /＞ AFTER ALL, by Robert Reginald＜br /＞ THE BARBARIANS, by Algis Budrys＜br /＞ EX MACHINA, by Cynthia Ward＜br /＞ MONKEY ON HIS BACK, by Charles V. De Vet＜br /＞ THE SURVIVORS, by Tom Godwin＜br /＞ THROUGH TIME AND SPACE WITH FERDINAND FEGHOOT: 99, by Grendel Briarton＜br /＞ SPEAKING WITH GEORGE R.R. MARTIN: Interview conducted by Darrell Schweitzer＜/p＞ ＜p＞And don't forget to search this ebook store for "Wildside Megapack" to see more entries in this series, covering classic authors and subjects like mysteries, science fiction, westerns, ghost stories -- and much, much more!＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Nightfall【電子書籍】[ Eric Dulin ]

＜p＞Mark Preston is a government Exterminator for Sector 7. He and his brother John hunt down dangerous indigenous creatures that survived terraforming on the relatively new planet Salvadon. Business seems to be going as usual until they crash into a mysterious woman, Karen, who joins them by circumstance. Mark finds himself fond of her as time passes, but as their relationship blossoms, he tries to juggle his dangerous career with the thoughts of a family and a future. Thoughts that his brother has long abandoned.＜br /＞ His decision becomes even more complicated as he uncovers daunting facts about Karen's mysterious past, as well as secrets within Sector 7 that had been locked and buried away from the galaxy.＜br /＞ Secrets that could change the fate of the entire world.＜/p＞ ＜p＞(This novel was written several years ago and is set in the same universe as Condemned, Book One of the Deus Ex Machina Series. However, this story, (due to its setting) involves many concepts and additions that couldn't be addressed in Condemned. It is NOT a prequel to Condemned: it only shares many aspects of the setting and some plot elements/characters that I took into Condemned.)＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Mill on the Floss【電子書籍】[ George Eliot ]

＜p＞Tom and Maggie have a close yet complex bond, which continues throughout the novel. Their relationship is colored by Maggie's desire to recapture the unconditional love her father provides before his death. Tom’s pragmatic and reserved nature clashes with Maggie’s idealism and fervor for intellectual gains and experience. Various family crises, including bankruptcy, Mr. Tulliver’s rancorous relationship with Philip Wakem’s father, which results in the loss of the mill, and Mr. Tulliver’s untimely death, serve both to intensify Tom’s and Maggie’s differences and to highlight their love for each other. To help his father repay his debts, Tom leaves his desultory schooling to enter a life of business. He eventually finds a measure of success, restoring the family’s former estate. Meanwhile Maggie languishes in the impoverished Tulliver home, her intellectual aptitude wasted in her socially isolated state. She passes through a period of intense spirituality, during which she renounces the world, spurred by Thomas ? Kempis’s The Imitation of Christ.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This renunciation is tested by a renewed friendship with Philip Wakem, with whom she had developed an affinity while he was a fellow pupil with Tom. Against the wishes of Tom and her father, who both despise the Wakems, Maggie secretly meets with Philip, and together they go for long walks through the woods. The relationship they forge is founded partially in Maggie’s heartfelt pity for broken and neglected human beings, as well as an outlet for her intellectual romantic desires. Philip’s and Maggie’s attraction is, in any case, inconsequential because of the family antipathy. Philip manages to coax a pledge of love from Maggie. When Tom discovers the relationship between the two, however, he forces his sister to renounce Philip, and with him her hopes of experiencing the broader, more cultured world he represents.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Several more years pass, during which Mr. Tulliver dies. Lucy Deane invites Maggie to come and stay with her and experience the life of cultured leisure that she enjoys. This includes long hours conversing and playing music with Lucy's suitor, Stephen Guest, a prominent St. Ogg’s resident. Stephen and Maggie, against their rational judgments, become attracted to each other. The complication is further compounded by Philip Wakem’s friendship with Lucy and Stephen; he and Maggie are reintroduced, and Philip’s love for her is rekindled, while Maggie, no longer isolated, enjoys the clandestine attentions of Stephen Guest, putting her past professions for Philip in question. In the event Lucy intrigues to throw Philip and Maggie together on a short rowing trip down the Floss, but when Stephen unwittingly takes a sick Philip’s place, and Maggie and Stephen find themselves floating down the river, negligent of the distance they have covered, he proposes they board a passing boat to the next substantial city, Mudport, and get married. Maggie struggles between her love for Stephen and her duties to Philip and Lucy, contracted as it were in her past, when she was poor and isolated, and dependent on either of them for what good her life contained. Upon arrival in Mudport she rejects Stephen and makes her way back to St. Ogg's, where she lives for a brief period as an outcast, Stephen having fled to Holland. Although she immediately goes to Tom for forgiveness and shelter, he roughly sends her away, telling her that she will never again be welcome under his roof. Both Lucy and Philip forgive her, she in a moving reunion, he in an eloquent letter.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Maggie’s brief exile ends when the river floods. The flood is considered by some to be a deus ex machina. Those who do not support this view cite the frequent references to flood as a foreshadowing which makes this natural occurrence less contrived. Having struggled through the waters in a boat to find Tom at the old mill, she sets out with him to rescue Lucy Deane and her family.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Ghosts, Girls, & Other Phantasms【電子書籍】[ Stephen Goldin ]

＜p＞GHOSTS, GIRLS, & OTHER PHANTASMS is a comprehensive collection of Stephen Goldin’s solo short fiction, containing most of the stories from his earlier collection THE LAST GHOST AND OTHER STORIES. (The "Angel in Black" stories have been broken out into their own volume.) It includes some of his best-known stories, such as the Nebula Award finalist story “The Last Ghost” and the oft-anthologized “Sweet Dreams, Melissa.” The complete Table of Contents lists:＜/p＞ ＜p＞Sweet Dreams, Melissa＜br /＞ The Girls on USSF 193＜br /＞ Nice Place to Visit＜br /＞ When There's No Man Around＜br /＞ Xenophobe＜br /＞ Grim Fairy Tale＜br /＞ Of Love, Free Will, and Gray Squirrels on a Summer Evening＜br /＞ Stubborn＜br /＞ But As A Soldier, For His Country＜br /＞ The World Where Wishes Worked＜br /＞ Apollyon Ex Machina＜br /＞ Prelude to a Symphony of Unborn Shouts＜br /＞ Portrait of the Artist as a Young God＜br /＞ The Last Ghost＜br /＞ Haunted Houses＜/p＞ ＜p＞The stories in this book run the gamut from humor to pathos, and demonstrate the evolution of a prolific writer in the speculative fiction field. Enjoy!＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】American Busboy【電子書籍】[ Matthew Guenette ]

＜p＞In American Busboy, a wry anti-mythology, the anti-hero busboy in an anonymous Clam Shack! tangles with the monotonous delirium of work, the indignities and poor pay of unskilled labor, the capricious deus ex machina of mean-spirited middle management, the zombified consumption of summer tourists, while jostling for the goddess-like attentions of waitresses and hostesses-all battered up in sizzlingly crisp wit and language, and deep-fried in a shiny glaze of surrealism. -Lee Ann Roripaugh＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Machine at Work Technology, Work and Organization【電子書籍】[ Keith Grint ]

＜p＞This highly topical book is a concise and accessible account of the relationship between technology and work. Firstly, it reviews and critically assesses a variety of recent approaches to the social and cultural dimensions of technology. Secondly, it examines the implications of these new approaches for existing ideas about the nature of technology and work organization.＜/p＞ ＜p＞At the core of much thinking about technology is the assumption that the technical character and capacity of artefacts is given. The enduring image of ＜em＞deus ex machina＜/em＞ captures the idea that it is the essential capacity 'within' a technology which, in the end, accounts for the way we organize ourselves, our work and other life experiences. Recent work in the sociology of technology, by contrast, sets out relativist and constructivist accounts of technology, which begin to challenge this central assumption.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞The Machine at Work＜/em＞ includes a reinterpretation of the Luddites; a review of the social processes of development in information technology; a reassessment of theories of the role of technology in work; and an analysis of the common limitations of some constructivist and feminist perspectives on technology. The book argues that only a commitment to a particular conception of constructivism enables the kind of radical rethinking about technology and work relations that is needed.＜/p＞ ＜p＞This engaging and informative text will be of interest to students in a range of subject areas - from sociology, organizational theory and behaviour, to industrial relations, management and business studies.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Shaken【電子書籍】[ Lisa Mason ]

＜p＞“The Net” meets “Conspiracy Theory” with Earthquakes＜/p＞ ＜p＞Emma “J” for Joy Pearce is at her editorial offices on the twenty-second floor of Three Embarcadero in downtown San Francisco when the long-dreaded next Great Earthquake devastates the Bay area. Amid horrific destruction, she rescues a man trapped in the rubble. In the heat of survival, she swiftly bonds with him, causing her to question her possible marriage to her long-time boyfriend.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But Jason Gibb is not the charming photojournalist he pretends to be. As Emma discovers his true identity, his mission in the city, and the dark secrets behind the catastrophe, she finds the choices she makes may mean the difference between her own life or death.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Shaken, a thriller, is an ebook adaptation of “Deus Ex Machina,” published in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, republished in the anthology Transcendental Tales From Asimov’s (Donning), and translated and republished worldwide.＜/p＞ ＜p＞A list of Sources follows this short novel.＜/p＞ ＜p＞From the author of Celestial Girl (A Lily Modjeska Mystery), The Garden of Abracadabra, Volume 1 of the Abracadabra Series, Summer of Love, A Time Travel (A Philip K. Dick Award Finalist and San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book), The Gilded Age, A Time Travel (A New York Times Notable Book and New York Public Library Recommended Book), Strange Ladies: 7 Stories ("A must-read colllection" The San Francisco Review of Books), Arachne (a Locus Hardcover Bestseller), and Cyberweb (the sequel to Arachne.).＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Blue Moon Over Fenway【電子書籍】[ Alden C. Glass ]

＜p＞ . . . The year is 2018; the rare occurrence of two blue moons, tragic events at Fenway, the appearance of a mysterious scorekeeper, the deal for a Yankee superstar, and several mystical forces challenge the powerful new team owner, the beleaguered Red Sox team, and the fans in the city of Boston . . .＜/p＞ ＜p＞ ＜br＞ Blue Moon Over Fenway follows the peculiar events that occurred over the course of a season when the Red Sox won the American League pennant and played the Chicago Cubs in a rematch of the World Series of a hundred years before. After the Red Sox won their second World Championship in eighty-nine years, the team and everything related to it deteriorated rapidly. Ten disastrous seasons, a series of new owners, and the decline of the Fenway Park locale plagued the club, and Red Sox fans began to doubt that there had actually been atonement for the “original sin” of selling Babe Ruth. It appeared that the Curse had not been brokenーonly interrupted. Then, a scandal that involved the best pitcher in the majors forced a miraculous midseason deal that sent the Yankee ace, C. J. Panthro, to the rejuvenated Red Sox, who were chasing their first championship in over a decade. The time had come to truly purge the sin that had been committed so many lifetimes before and to finally redeem the Boston Red Sox Baseball Club . . .＜/p＞ ＜p＞ ＜br＞ Table of Contents＜br＞ 1. The Ticket 2. The Death of the Hero 3. The Genesis 4. The Elders 5. The Bambino＜br＞ 6. The Curse, Only Interrupted 7. The Carpetbaggers 8.The Golden Year 9.The Fan＜br＞ 10. The Town 11. The Hero 12. The Owner 13. The Scorekeeper 14.The Doves 15. The Blue Moon 16. The Tree 17. The Deluge 18. Opening Day 19. The Sisters 20. The Team (Part I) 21. The Team (Part II) 22. The Dog 23. The Manager 24. The Glove 25. The Sacrifice 26. The Sportswriter 27. The Midseason Game 28. Deus Ex Machina 29. The Bat 30. The Cape League 31. The Lighthouse 32. The Labyrinth 33. The Cardinal＜br＞ 34. The Seventh Game 35. The Miracle 36. The Redemption.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Jo's Boys - The Original Classic Edition【電子書籍】[ Alcott Louisa ]

＜p＞This is a story of how the Little Men turned out. Will Tom be able to get Nan to marry him? Or will Nan turn him down? What about Dan? Does he ever marry? And what about the Princess? Will Mrs. Meg Brooke ever let Nat marry Daisy? Read the book to find out the rest of the story!＜/p＞ ＜p＞For Jos Boys, which she intended to be the last in her series about the March family, Louisa May Alcott pulled out all the stops. It is with great fanfare that the beloved characters of former books make their last appearance.＜/p＞ ＜p＞All sorts of incredible developments are described in the course of the novel--and some of them fairly stretch the imagination. My favorite is the emigration of the whole extended family to Plumfield: Meg has a house close by, Laurie and Amy have a mansion on an adjacent hill, and even Mr. March and Mr. Laurence have become neighbors to the school. Of course, this and all the rest make the story more fun.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The school itself has become a college--a convenient twist that allows the characters from Little Men to still be in the same area years after they ought to have moved away. Though not all the Plumfield students make a second appearance, Alcotts famous favorites remain.＜/p＞ ＜p＞A decade later, Demi is having trouble deciding on a career and declaring himself to a certain young lady. Tommy is in pursuit of his childhood sweetheart, Nan, who has vowed to be a spinster for life. Nat is sent to Germany, far away from his beloved Daisy, for musical training. Emil is shipwrecked, Dan tangles with the law, and young Ted gets into scrapes worthy of his namesakes youth. There is enough lovering and spooning here to make up for the lack in Little Men, but some characters brought in for the romance are ex machina.＜/p＞ ＜p＞I loved this book, but I thought that little men and little Woman were better. Perhaps it is the long times span she took writing it. I thought, however, it was clever. I was worried that things wouldnt work out in the end, but they did. You really must read this book if you have read the others it is top notch.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】A Brief History of Time Travel【電子書籍】[ John Rasor ]

＜p＞A Brief History of Time Travel ? while indeed relatively brief ? is quite a comprehensive compilation of fictional time travel. It is chock-full of detailed recaps and interesting facts about time travel stories from books, films, and television. If you aren't a time travel enthusiast yet, you will be after reading this ? because, as Mr. Spock might have said, "Time travel is fascinating."＜br /＞ The book covers the history of time travel stories ? from the 19th century with H. G. Wells' The Time Machine, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, and Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ? all the way through to 2013. It includes such movies as Back to the Future, The Terminator, The Time Traveler's Wife, Galaxy Quest and many others. Also included are TV shows like Lost, Fringe, and Star Trek, along with many other time travel stories from television, including episodes of The Twilight Zone and Doctor Who. The book also takes a look at the big names in sci-fi who have contributed to time travel, including Robert A. Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Spider Robinson, Connie Willis, and Douglas Adams.＜br /＞ Many time travel methods and theories are discussed, including The Butterfly Effect, alternate realities, and timelines ? along with time travel devices of many designs and capabilities. The concepts of Deus ex Machina, paradoxes, and the rules of time travel are also reviewed, as the author tries to touch upon most everything related to time travel through the years＜br /＞ Take a ride into the past that leads to the future. You are certain to learn some new things along the way.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】In Search of El Dorado: A Wanderer's Experiences【電子書籍】[ Alexander MacDonald & Harry Collingwood ]

＜p＞Good wine needs no bush, but because a man does not always himself see the full scope of what he has written, an introduction may have its uses for author and readers alike. And to meーthe adventure of whose own career has reached the inexorable Finisーthese true stories of gold and gem seeking have an interest beyond the mere record of peril and achievement, though, in the words of Sir Philip Sidney, it "stirs the heart like a trumpet-blast" when brave men come to grips with dangers which (like the treasure-guarding dragons of fairy-tales) yield not only their hoard, but their own strength, as reward to the conqueror. And these are true romancesーno fiction with its Deus ex machina at the psychological moment, but the unadorned risks, escapes, and failures of adventurers on the quest of those strange commodities, seemingly haunted by death and fear, from their secrecy in the recesses of the earth till they shine with a sinister light in the crowns of kings or make rough, for better handling, the sword-grips of warriors. The quest of "El Dorado" begins with the history of man, and in pursuit of the glittering phantom have "many souls of heroes gone down into Hades," only that others might step into their empty places in the ranks. For whatever is found, always just beyond reach flits what is not foundーwhat never will be, be it the golden city of Manoa, with its palace of the Inca, "all the vessels of whose house and kitchen are of gold, and in his wardrobe statues of gold which seemed giants, and ropes, budgets, chests and troughs of gold," or the mysterious jewels of the wisdom of Solomon, or the genie-guarded gems of the Arabian Nights. The instinct of delight in this adventure which has dazzled the mind of man from time immemorial is universal: it is a relish of youth which persists into the old age of the world; it warms the coldest blood; and our author, who has himself followed the mirage and felt the fascination so keenly, is able to transmit the magic of the search to his readers. Whether toiling over the Chilcoot Pass, hunger-pinched, and desperate with cold and exhaustion, or thirst-tormented in the burning deserts of Central Australia, the indomitable desire that drives him forward with his comrades, drives us also on this modern Odyssey, where the Siren sings on beaches of dead men's bones, and perils as terrible as any man-devouring Cyclops lie in wait for the wanderers. The author, leaving his book to the verdict of the public, is once more an explorer in the Australian deserts, collecting who knows what strange experiences for future use, so I may, in his absence, characterise him as a born leader of men, a very prudent Odysseus; for what lesser qualities could have held together so strangely assorted a band as the rough-hewn Mac and Stewart and the gentleman adventurer Phil Morris? Reticence is perhaps unavoidable, but one would willingly see and hear more of the central figure than his own modesty allows him to give us. Yet, as I said before, it is not only the adventure which gives a charm to these studies of wild life. They are little epics of comradeshipーimpressions of men to whom gold and jewels are much, but to whom loyalty is the one thing better. It is good to see the yellow gleam in the washings, and the milky fire of the Australian opal is worth the perils endured, but there is also the abiding knowledge that quite other and less elusive treasures reward the questーcourage, endurance, and above allー"the manly love of comrades." And to meーto whom some of these studies recall in keenest remembrance scenes which I shall never behold again with my living eyesーthere is another point of view and one of wider interest. Such men, in working out their own destiny, are evolving also the imperial destiny of the Mother-Country. They break the path, and other feet follow.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。