Bøger af Larry W Miller

In the hands of Rogues: The once great city of Azmar is governed by three major monasteries. The Monks of Avarice who seek wealth and power. They use their magic in aid of the highest bidder. The Guardians of Faith, once they aspired to the most noble of goals of mankind but they have fallen into little more than a mercenary role for the average merchant of person of wealth. The Caustic Assassins, specialists in eliminating any opposition with stealth and poison, their influence has only shifted the balance of power even farther towards the greedy. Finally, the Rogues, members of the other clans that have either fallen from grace or simply become disgruntled with their roles and left band together to help the often overlooked common people. But times are becoming difficult for the Rogues as the other clans lock themselves away, afraid of each other and the influence that can be brought against them. Evil has moved into Azmar and the Rogues are losing this silent war. Each clan produced a champion in secret from each other. Individually they are not strong enough to defeat this new threat. Only the Rogues can combine their powers and the spells of the Gods into something that may have a lasting effect on the evil scourge. Can the champions unite before the city is lost forever or will the petty squabbles of their clans prevent salvation and doom Azmar to eternal darkness?

The weather around the world has been changing radically for the past few years and April is among the top Air Force Pilots tasked with dropping sensors into violent storms to try and find the cause. The answers they seek come from the stars so mankind sets out to find out who or what is doing this only to find aliens are currently terra-forming our world! April Summers and her small shuttle crew must find a way to stop this alien threat before all human life is erased from Earth to make way for a new race of plant people. Prejudices on both sides could destroy everything as April races against time to save our planet from certain doom.

Myrlita is a young businesswoman who works hard but gains little recognition. Her father's company, the Alvarez Shipping Company, is a massive intergalactic transport company with a number of bases and an impeccable on-time record. A run-in with space pirates for one ship evolves into a scandalous public relations nightmare and Myrlita finds herself in the middle of the trouble. Can she find the strength to be what the company and her new crew need her to be and bring home the ship in order to stop the presses and save the company from financial ruin?

Travelling through space on a gigantic colony ship, the people from Earth find themselves living day to day for generations not knowing who is in charge or how their lives are being manipulated. There are those among them that have been "enhanced". Very long live spans and a host of other special abilities given to people who hide among the general population everyday. A group of teens discover that something is amiss and their investigation brings them more trouble than they ever thought possible. Now they are running from a man who was on board the ship at launch more than five hundred years ago! Can they evade his employees as they conduct a manhunt for our fugitives? The teens' very lives hang in the balance unless they can expose the Eternals and show everybody that they are not alone.

Hope for Eternity is a an illustrated series of poems chronicling the struggle to find a new place to live in the stars as humanity tears itself apart on Earth.

Sarah's home is a colony planet in the outer reaches of human-occupied space. The harsh living environment forces the colonists to live a reverse day cycle. An enemy, cold and calculating, wants them all gone to take the planet for themselves and only a little girl with strange dream visions and a voice in her head knows what to do about it. If she can't convince her Aunt Aggie and even the local Governor of what she has seen, then the humans don't stand a chance and the colony will be wiped out forever. Can Sarah find the strength of faith to make her voice heard and save them all from the impending destruction?

Caitlin is a shepherdess from a small village in the rolling green hills of Ireland and recently she lost one of her sheep to an accident with an old rusted truck. That's how she met the old man that would change her destiny. Encounters with soldiers and a surprising new friend change her life with a huge secret she can't even tell her family. The struggle to do the right thing causes more trouble than she could ever have imagined. Is she strong enough to help those that cannot help themselves or will she just disappear forever?

The world slowly became unlivable. Mankind retreated indoors into massive buildings called Arcologies. These Corporate owned and run buildings became home to the entire human race. As the world slowly burnt itself up outside, the controlled environments allowed people to live their entire lives under the protection of the mighty constructs. But the problems people faced before going in still persisted. The rich lived at the top of the Arcology and had much while the masses lived in the lower levels, barely surviving. This went on for hundreds of years and the outside world was forgotten. Unrest became commonplace and one particular attack breached the outer wall of the Arcology. The outside world, hostile and dangerous, was suddenly rediscovered. There was now an escape from the corporate tyranny. Hunters began providing food from the outside world. The Corporation felt the shift in their profit margins and developed tiny robots to act as a spy network. But the tiny robots linked and combined to become sentient. A new war began with humanity on the brink of destruction. The refugees fleeing the mechanical menace need a leader, a First Citizen. Violet is a huntress. Her skills at survival and her caring heart will be key in making a new life in the hostile world outside. She is strong, but is she strong enough to save the last remnants of humanity, or are we all doomed to extinction?

ELIO: It is the far distant future. Mankind has moved out into the universe and spread far and wide. Having survived an interstellar war for control of the vast resources of space, people finally settled down to a peacetime balance where weapons on ships have been banned. It is a time of prosperity and exploration. A team of archeologists come across an abandoned space station floating in the void. Its trajectory will take it into the range of our colonies so it must be diverted or destroyed. But something aboard that space station surprises everyone. A small maintenance robot is recovered and it is not long before they begin to realize that it is also a surveillance robot with a vast memory of all things human. It is a remarkable once-in-a-lifetime find for an archeological team. But ELIO also has information on weapons and defense systems for spacecraft, technology long since banned. Who will control the sensitive data? Normally, this would be an easy choice, but ELIO is not just a robot, he is alive. His request to become crew take all of the humans by surprise. Can the crew protect their newest crewmember from the corporate people that commissioned this journey? Or will illegal weapons fall into the wrong hands? This fight is for all of humanity and one little robot holds the key.

The people of Dried River Gulch live in fear. Once a great university, this town has been reduced to the rules of the old west. Kill or be killed. Bandits are harassing all the stagecoaches and even the farmers are afraid to go out into their fields. The leader of this community, Norris Dickerson, took action by hiring the Dark Rider to eliminate the bandit threat. The Dark Rider is good at his job, but how can any one man solve the problem that seems to be everywhere? Things escalate as the battle lines are drawn and the bandits form an army. The army is at the gates and the Dark Rider is also on a mission of his own. Can he possibly pull everything together before it is too late? If not, then Dried River Gulch will fall.

Cody is a hero. His life has not been all that great, but he does what he feels is right no matter how bad it gets. His job is lousy as he slaves away for an unappreciative boss and he is constantly tired. This is because he lives two lives. Cody fights a war on crime at night. The crime lords have targeted him and he is having doubts about what his future should be. Then something happens, a strange old man in an amazing house that can be nowhere and anywhere at once changes his perspective. Now he must figure out his own heritage and search for himself before he can defeat the newest threat, Miedo. Miedo is an ancient god of unimaginable power and Cody is all that stands in his way. Add to that a mythical hunter that is bent on bagging this most dangerous game and the city will never be the same.

Darren is a gifted young man who's research may have saved his colony by providing plant food for the struggling Earth crops. now another colony has experienced a catastrophic change in its ecology and Darren and his family are tasked to help save the young colony that had been planted there. The problems are difficult and they are running out of time. Darren and Wally, an aged botanist who knows about Darren's work, have only the time it takes to get to the target planet to come up with a solution. Can they find the answers before all life on the colony starves?

Dissension of the Gods Cody has faced evil before. But evil comes in so many forms that this new one threatens to take his very soul. How do you defeat something you cannot afford to touch? Worse yet, the evil knows about Zoe and her non-dimensional existence. Cody's access to the gods of Olympus becomes the very link that draws the attention of the darkest evil that ever existed. Enter the Huntress, a woman with resources of her own and the desire to clean up the streets. Though she is not as strong or powerful as Cody, her soul is strong and pure. It is a battle of light and dark with the fate of Cody, Zoe, Earth and even the gods of Olympus hanging in the balance. If this mission fails then all of existence can be un-made.

Many know Shooter as a Rock and Roll singer in a band. But did you know how that came to be? From a rebellious kid on a bicycle to a punk on a motorcycle, to a musician behind the microphone, we examine the life of a man who defies common description. Like all good icons, his story is fraught with trouble as well. Come along for a ride and see just how Shooter's life unfolded.

Space Station Blues: Congratulations! You found it! This is your book, your story. This is the book you wondered if anyone actually wrote. It is a piece of your life. Come on now, don't be bashful, you know you're worth it. Don't roll your eyes at me, you know that you are special and your story is worth telling! With a little help from remote sensor arrays, daily blogs, interviews with friends and coworkers, and even direct observation, I have painstakingly compiled your adventure for you to read. Enjoy these pages because you've earned it. I hope you are feeling the same sense of pride at seeing your story in print as I am in telling it to you. Perhaps you're worried about the embarrassing bits of your life. Don't worry about that. You can rest assured that I only put in the embarrassing stuff when it illustrated how you overcame something. But don't delay, turn the page and live your adventure. It's in there, waiting for you and only you. Enjoy your story!

Flight of the Nostos: A Community ApartAs the Nostos nears planetfall, the demand for supplies and equipment increases. On a generational ship in space, the balance of consuming and recycling must be maintained. New innovative designs for some common equipment cause a surge in manufacture. The order queue is growing and the raw materials required to meet the demand have dwindled and are dangerously low. Investigating the lack of materials leads to a new discovery: An entire community of people are living off the grid on the Nostos! Building lives for themselves by salvaging scrap and refuse from the recyclers. Who are these people? How many are there? Where did all the raw materials go. If they do not answer these questions soon, production on the Nostos will grind to a halt.

ELIO2. The little sentient robot and his crewmates follow a historic trail to a very inhospitable world. But that world holds many secrets as well as dangers. Elio's long history of surveillance gives him a good chance of success but he is bound by old promises to an ancient people. He must walk a fine line between loyalty to a long-lost people and loyalty to his new crew. Just visiting the planet could be considered a violation of trust.Worse yet back at the home office there is political strife over Elio's status as a crewmember. Can Elio become a full-fledged citizen in order to not be considered an archeological find, and thus property? People on both sides of the argument are heated up and violence is pending. Can Elio fight for himself while still protecting those around him? This will test his loyalties on the basest of levels.

The Gods are afraid. For countless eons, the ancient Gods have maintained their security throughout the universe by keeping the citizens of each planet oblivious to their existence. Long ago they set up a web of watch-dog guards known as Sentinels to monitor for forbidden knowledge within a given culture. When the people on a monitored planet discover the hand of God, that planet is wiped and reseeded to start again. This has happened to Earth before resulting in the loss of all the people and the dinosaurs that roamed the surface of the little Blue-Green planet. No planet has ever had to be wiped twice. But events on Earth take a sour turn and a Sentinel is dispatched to ascertain the threat level of our world. Cody must convince the Sentinel that the knowledge that mankind possesses is harmless or lose the entire population of his home to the Sentinel's wipe. Can he change the minds of Sentinels and Gods alike when they have been following their rules steadfastly for eons? If he can't there won't be an Earth left to come home to.

Fade to Gray is the story of many lives caught in a dream of escape through music amidst a world of violence and decay. Memories and regrets flavor this introspective tale of struggle and rewards as life loses its color allowing the gray to take over and watching the glimmer die. Through the promise of a good soul, hope yet remains.

We return to the story or Pern, the Arch-Mage, and Jack as they try to find their way back home. But the journey is fraught with peril and they soon discover that it is a long way home. Sinister agents still hunt for them and the people who survived the war have rebelled against all things magic. Albert and Derek also try to find their way home, and their adventures are nearly as difficult as Pern's. But they finally meet up with the young mages at the giant evil forest that seems to be taking over the Southland. It is the final barrier between them and their beloved homes.