Bøger af Douglas Milewski

A family feud of galactic proportions threatens everyone.Windy has a chance to stop a galactic war. To prevent the Royalists from reviving the galactic throne, she volunteers to deliver a critical packet containing data that could revive the Empire.She fails. It's not even close. Her own school roommate, Cherryh Pariah, betrays her by shoving her into an escape pod with nothing but coffee and donuts. At least the donuts are fresh.Drifting in deep space, her air running out, Windy must find a way to rescue herself, recover that packet, and strangle her roommate.Never trust a Pariah.

Macbeth is a faithful general of the King's army, putting down rebellions and defending the throne, but when the King selects his own son as heir to the throne. After being cursed by witches at a crossroad, Macbeth betrays his sovereign. Seizing the throne, MacBeth's begins a cascades of tragedies that plunges Scotland into civil war.

The last battleship!The fate of the solar system hangs in the balance. Whoever gets the last battleship wins the game and the losers get blown into atoms.The Empress commands the solar system, but she needs the keys.The Tomato pirates have they keys, but they don't have Cherryh.Cherryh doesn't have a body, but she's still got plenty of snark. (There's no keeping Cherryh down.)As for Windy, she's stuck eighty years in the past, with no job prospects and no references. Can she blend into society, penetrate the Imperial government, and lay the groundwork for victory?

It's five teenage girls, three pooka, and a sheepdog against an invading army.This isn't looking so good.Anybody got a plan yet?Now that the war's begun, it's all worse, and we're losing. It's androids verses intruders, and our androids are dumb as rocks.Whose idea was all this? The Prime Caretaker? I think we've got to have a word with her.So, it's off to Toka City and the last stand of humanity. We don't have a chance unless that chance is a giant mech, but who's got one of those just lying about?

It's five teenage girls, four giant robots, three pooka, two army companies, and one airship against the whole of the Oversky.You've got to be kidding.Whose plan was this?Lennia!In good news, Lekodias has been defeated.In bad news, Lekodias is even more dangerous in retreat. If we chase her down, she's got all the resources of the Oversky at her disposal. Victory now looks impossible with a side of impossible sauce.But if we do nothing, she'll regroup and invade us again, this time bringing an even bigger army.We've got to go through with the plan. We don't know what we'll find in the Oversky, but we have no choice. If we want to end this war, we have to take the battle to her.

Fashion crisis!The Tomato pirates have crippled the fashion industry by looting every shipment. The entire population is stuck in last season's clothes. Public morale is tanking. If the Royalist want to keep in power, they must defeat those pirates.Now is Sub-Prince Akuma's big moment. He seizes this opportunity to exceed maximums by diversifying innovations and creating new synergies, releasing unknown potentials, leading to a new market dominance.Translation: he gets bigger guns.Meanwhile, Windy is stuck in Croquet Online, as the one and only human player in a vast empty game world. Can she escape her strange trap, rejoin her friends, and defeat Sub-Prince Akuma?

Effarna was only supposed to be in charge for a little while. You know the drill, find lost kids and answer questions. How hard could that be?There wasn't any mention of "invasion" in the job description.Nor was there any mention of traveling the world, acquiring new powers, delving into dungeons, fixing the Great Crystals, and battling insane bosses.Whose idea of fun was this?To win, all they need is boatload of ambition and a good plan. Fortunately, they've already got ambition.Anybody got a plan?Crystal Hope brings all the fun of a JRPG to the epic novel experience.

Neb wants the girl next door. She only dates vampires.To win her heart, Neb starts a journey into deepest, darkest Ohio, traveling from the shopping malls to the video arcades, determined to win his girl by losing his life. Along the way he is beset by ghosts, werewolves, his mother, a strange girl down the street, and a little brother who is too smart for his own good.Can Neb become a vampire and win his love? Or is he just another teenage idiot over-convinced of his own self-superiority?What would Frampton do?Seven other stories are also included in this collection.

Targa thought herself forever blessed with exile, but when her sainted mother summons her back, she dares not disobey. Saint Dominia has ambitions of rule Astrea itself, if not through cunning, through threats and violence. This has been the work of her entire lifetime.All Targa needs to do is marry the First Minister. Mother has a well negotiated marriage ready to be signed, and it's a very good contract.Her other job will be killing whoever Mother orders, because Targa's sword is The Wind Before the Storm, a blade even capable of killing the deathless saints. It is her arm that will give her Mother's threats credibility.In her former life, this task would have been easy, but Targa has reformed, choosing the path of the hero, so backing a bloody dictator is not compatible with her morals. Her two sworn and unbreakable duties lie in opposition, one to the gods and one to her mother. To end her inner conflict, she must choose her allegiance, knowing that whatever choice she makes, she will leave a path of death and destruction in her wake.