Bøger af Bonnie Brunish

"Upward or downward?" thunders the monster. Puflet doesn't know if the monster is a deep-level being, the echo of a once-living creature, a part of her own mind, or a mirage woven by unknown forces of the universe. She does know that the power it gives her is real, and so is the choice it offers. To choose "upward" would be to experience love, and to unleash wonders of creativity that could lead humanity to a new pinnacle of evolution. To choose "downward" would be to indulge in the vilest of emotions, laying waste to everything around her and launching cataclysms that might culminate in humanity's extinction. Puflet intends to choose "upward," but somehow she finds herself plunging "downward" into hatred, depravity, and destruction, and all her efforts to make things right are in vain.

This is a collection of family pictures and memories from the years 1957 to 1958.

Carolina and Ryan, teens from the struggling Mars colony of New America, find their way into the deeper reality of Focus Mars, a realm of horses, canals, giant insects, and feudal city-states. There they join a quest for the Stairway of Ice that leads to the center of space and time. The greatest knights, kings, and time tourists have assembled for the Quest. Some believe that they will find God at the top of the Stairway, others think that an elegant mathematical equation awaits them. But songs of Focus Mars hint that bridging the gap between the human mind and forces that hold the universe together will unravel all of creation.

United Earth quantum security is unbreakable. It is impossible for two people to swap cards.What if the impossible happens? What if one of the cards belongs to the leader of Earth?All Arnie wants is to get away from his boxlike hab and his mindless job, perhaps to find a girl more likable than his cynical ex-girlfriend. Things look promising when he meets Nikki on his dream vacation in Swedish Lapland. But their ski tour goes terribly wrong when they become entangled in murder and intrigue. Amid the confusion of identity swapping, Arnie is faced with the impossible task of protecting Nikki from threats both external and internal while preventing the takeover of Earth by department heads gone berserk.

You can survive on Mars-all you need to do is focus.Sixteen-year-old Carolina never wanted to be part of the American Separatist Mars colony. She wanted to live on United Earth with her mother. She can't understand why her mother made her go with her father and stepmother. Didn't Mom see how much stepmother hates her?When a mysterious teenager turns up at the colony, claiming that he comes from a different, Mars, one with cities, canals, and horses, Carolina leaps at the chance to escape. Lleellaatt tells her that his Mars appears when different possible states of the universe are merged by the exertion of a certain kind of mental focus.Carolina doesn't care what her father, or colony president Lance-who's so obviously in love with her-want. She will join Lleellaatt in Focus.

The race is on for the galactic throne. "Chosen One!" the newser pursuing Mana shouts. "The galaxy is waiting for your words!" Rocked by a succession of crises, the empire has returned to its ancient tradition of Challenge on Horseback to determine the next emperor or empress. Riding Torsa horses adapted to deeper levels of reality where multiple universes intersect, contenders for the throne must race through deadly deep-level obstacles. Mana is not a serious contender. She is far less talented than the mindseas-those who can manipulate spacetime and probability with their minds. Unwanted by her family, passed over by the men she finds attractive, Mana is loved by no one except her horse. The only reason she is taking part in the Challenge is to escape the trouble that awaits her should she leave the heavily-guarded environs of the racetrack. So why have the media fixed on her as their "Chosen One"?