Word: fictions
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Bowing to political pressure, a city commander prepares to downsize his troops and head back into the frontlines. Elsewhere, peacekeepers on an exploration mission drift serenely moments before discovering a secret that sends them screaming into oblivion. And with that, British author James Roberts kick-starts _Eugenesis_, a science-fiction adventure that roars from start to finish with considerable verve. At first glance, there is nothing at all unusual about this novel. The old standards are there: the embattled heroes, shifting alliances, explosive secrets, and a mysterious and nigh-invincible enemy. The book design cleverly apes the Penguin Classics standard...
...works range from fiction and medical essays to a classical music album by faculty members, scholars, and other affiliates of the house?...
...furthest reaches of the globe, bringing him into conflict with such formidable adversaries as a neo-Nazi organization that is planning the rise of the Fourth Reich. Quite frankly, FM is unimpressed. After careful consideration, however, it appears that certain parallels do exist between fact and fiction...
Truth is truly stranger than fiction because before she even saw her doctor, Hall won the Harvard Club of New York Invitational on Jan. 22 by defeating the legendary Khan sisters, the top two women in the nation. The tournament was the first of six qualifications for the U.S. national team traveling to the Pan American games, held this summer in the Dominican Republic. What’s more, Hall had never beaten these players before...
...Army Soldier Systems Center in Natick, Mass., a mannequin models timeless military fashion: black beret, battle-dress uniform and lace-up boots. But elsewhere within the 50-year-old cinder-block buildings, plans are afoot to clothe the future warrior--and perhaps us--in the stuff of science fiction...