The Last Enemy - Parts 1,2 & 3 - 1934-2054

The Last Enemy - Parts 1,2 & 3 - 1934-2054

Luca Luchesini

Psychology / Politics / Philosophy

Thirty-four years have gone by since an ingenious biochemist, named Louis Picard, invented the ultimate anti-aging drug in 1981, that is known as Telomerax. An apocalyptic novel based on political and scientific facts, “The Last Enemy” blends reality and fiction with a reflection on human nature and her possible future. This volume collects the first three parts, available also as separate ebooks“The last enemy to be destroyed shall be death”, wrote St. Paul in his letters. But what if someone has already managed to defeat it? Thirty-four years have gone by since an ingenious biochemist, named Louis Picard, invented the ultimate anti-aging drug in 1981, that is known as Telomerax. Louis was obliged to form a selected group of technology entrepreneurs, finance mavens, and secret service professionals to help strategically spread knowledge of the drug. The discovery of Telomerax carried obvious dangers with it, eventually leading to the collapse of society and the near-extinction of mankind, in the ruthless war that broke out. Survivors set out to design a new society, specially designed for the half-gods that individuals were becoming. An action-packed and thrilling apocalyptic novel, “The Last Enemy”, brings to light many issues that we face today, from the clash between the power of the state and the right of citizens, to respecting our limits and controlling the human drive to push ourselves beyond those very limits.
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Governor's Tribute

Governor's Tribute

Sharon L Reddy

Science Fiction & Fantasy / Fantasy / Philosophy

A Relatross Treaty sector Governor was the last thing the Turon bureaucrats wanted, and why one was needed. They thought "The Great Boar" would reject their choice of advocate in his family and repudiate the treaty. Where had the methods they used come from? The Treaty of Relatross was the most carefully-worded treaty ever written. "The team Destiny created" was defined in what it didn't say.A Relatross Treaty sector Governor was the last thing the Turon bureaucrats wanted, and why one was needed. They thought "The Great Boar" would reject their choice of advocate in his family and repudiate the treaty. The bureaucrats weren't smart enough to have come up with the methods they'd used to hide the oppression on their world. Where had they come from? The Treaty of Relatross was the most carefully-worded treaty ever written. "The team Destiny created" was defined in what it didn't say.Why were the bureaucrats running for Yarrow sector. The emperor of the empire that didn't rule was sworn to protect the sector. He sent his cousin, the Relatross governor to learn what was happening there. The answer was horror and a desperate race to save the people of nine worlds.
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Childhood, Boyhood, Youth

Childhood, Boyhood, Youth

Leo Tolstoy

Fiction / Philosophy / Nonfiction

Leo Tolstoy began his trilogy, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, in his early twenties. Although he would in his old age famously dismiss it as an ‘awkward mixture of fact and fiction’, generations of readers have not agreed, finding the novel to be a charming and insightful portrait of inner growth against the background of a world limned with extraordinary clarity, grace and color. Evident too in its brilliant account of a young person’s emerging awareness of the world and of his place within it are many of the stances, techniques and themes that would come to full flower in the immortal War and Peace and Anna Karenina, and in the other great works of Tolstoy’s maturity.
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Land Of My dreams

Land Of My dreams

Tom Morris

Philosophy

Dreams may be pleasant or some times a little disturbing. Nightmares are all too different. For the dreamer the best thing about a nightmare is waking up. For the narrator however this was not actually the case.A boy is being bullied. But that happens all the time, doesn't it? For this boy, however, life takes an unexpected turn, and he will discover what he is really made of when he finds that which was hidden a long time ago.A short story suitable for all ages, from young adult and upwards.
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The Green Knight

The Green Knight

Iris Murdoch

Fiction / Philosophy

Full of suspense, humor, and symbolism, this magnificently crafted and magical novel replays biblical and medieval themes in contemporary London. An attempt by the sharp, feral, and uncommonly intelligent Lucas Graffe to murder his sensual and charismatic half-brother Clement is interrupted by a stranger—whom Lucas strikes and leaves for dead. When the stranger mysteriously reappears, with specific demands for reparation, the Graffes’ circle of idiosyncratic family and friends is disrupted—for the demands are bizarre, intrusive, and ultimately fatal.
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The Age of Defeat

The Age of Defeat

Colin Wilson

Literature & Fiction / Nonfiction / Philosophy

This is a complex compendium, by the author of The Outsider, which all too often resembles a brilliant term paper. Wilson has read very widely and calls on more authors than the average reader can hope to have read in order to support his thesis. This is that the inner-directed Hero is dying out of society and literature, being replaced by the other-directed man, who is haunted by a sense of insignificance, "hell is other people", Billy Graham religions, the Organization Man--and occasional crimes of violence as a desperate compensation. This interesting problem has already been treated widely by sociologists, psychologists, philosophers and writers. Wilson's attempt to include them all makes this book rather crowded. His proposed cure, that man must try turning inward "and then turning outward again" bears a strong unacknowledged resemblance to Toynbee and there are other echoes in this book. The question of redirection is certainly a pressing and absorbing one, and is pointed up in an odd way by this book, in which a man who speaks in favor of inner-direction does so largely in terms of other people's ideas.
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A Hundred Thoughts Volume 2

A Hundred Thoughts Volume 2

Tehreem Ali

Fantasy / Fiction / Philosophy

The second volume of A Hundred Thoughts, this is a collection of notes and phrases written here and there, in between voices and images in my head, among lost moments and undefined events, in the here and now.The second volume of A Hundred Thoughts, this is a collection of notes and phrases written here and there, in between voices and images in my head, among lost moments and undefined events, in the here and now. Jump in if you want to get lost in a mess words that may resonate the deepest rhythms of your heard and the unseen thoughts of your mind. It doesn't always have to make sense, as long as it makes you feel something deep down inside.
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Better off Dead Book Two

Better off Dead Book Two

Odette C. Bell

Science Fiction & Fantasy / Romance / Philosophy

Sonos has saved her life again. But does Eve Trust him? Hell no.She'll never forget those who fell at his hands. But when she starts to learn there's more to the orphanage case, her world is thrown upside down.Hilliker comes for her, and he's content to rip this world in two to get to her. Soon, Eve finds there's only person she can hide behind. Sorry, person? She means demon....Tune in for the thrilling second book in the action-packed urban fantasy, Better off Dead. It's sure to please fans of Odette C. Bell's Legal Rites.
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The Gambler

The Gambler

Molly O'Keefe

Philosophy / Nonfiction / History

Ten years ago, I walked away from Bonne Terre. No explanations. No good byes. Leaving behind Juliette Tremblant who had no business giving her heart to the likes of me. Now, I'm coming back to town a rich man to try and repair the mistakes I've made. Juliette is not the heart-broken girl I left behind. She's Chief of Police and, she's in trouble – real trouble. And I'm the only one who can help her. She might be immune to my wealth and my charm, but she can't resist my touch. The fire that burned between us is as hot and sweet as it ever was. Can I convince her that gambling on us is a safe bet? Or am I all out of luck?
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Knight Progenitor

Knight Progenitor

Sharon L Reddy

Science Fiction & Fantasy / Fantasy / Philosophy

Published in 1991, winner of two fan-Qs in 1992, this is the first work by prolific author Sharon L Reddy.Ms. Reddy's characterizations of the crew of the Next Generation Enterprise and the Fourth through Seventh Doctors won kudos from the fan readers, especially the dialog.This isn't a deep book about first loves or self-discovery. If you want a book like that, I'd be happy to recommend one, but I don't have that kind of story to tell. Instead my story is about rash decisions and finding out that your dream guy is bad in bed. It's the story of when I finally went skinny dipping, and how my life was never the same again. Oh, and it's also the story of my freshman year of college and realizing Mr. Right might have been there all along.*New Adult Romance- contains sexual situations*
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