Beyond the aquila rift pdf download

Toggle navigation. ISBN Your tags:. Send-to-Kindle or Email Please login to your account first Need help? Please read our short guide how to send a book to Kindle. The file will be sent to your email address. But will their combined power be enough? Or will they fall before the coming darkness? Some comprise the New Madrid fault, the most dangerous earthquake zone in the world.

Other fracture lines are social—— economic, religious, racial, and ethnic. What happens when they all crack at once?

Caught in the disaster as cities burn and bridges tumble, young Jason Adams finds himself adrift on the Mississippi with African-American engineer Nick Ruford. A modern-day Huck and Jim, they spin helplessly down the river and into the widening faults in American society, encountering violence and hope, compassion and despair, and the primal wilderness that threatens to engulf not only them, but all they love I would not have even glanced at The Rift if it weren't backed by Walter Jon Williams' reputation for excellence.

And I definitely would not have kept reading if Williams hadn't demonstrated on every page that he deserves his reputation. The result? I was so engrossed in—— and engaged by ——The Rift that I forgot that I don't like disaster novels. This book is an impressive achievement. Williams brings an historic disaster back for an encore and metaphorically flattens it again.

This is the stuff for which sleep is lost--and awards are made. Patrick and Ethan experience events that lead them to a place, beyond the supernatural, beyond sanity, beyond reason, and beyond the rift. Every thirty-three years, a rift in space connects the Federation with a mysterious race called the Calligar who live on a planet hundreds of light years away -- much too far to travel in a Starship. Captain Kirk and the U. Spock leads the Federation party as they travel by shuttle through the rift just as a group of the aliens arrive in Federation space.

The meetings go smoothly until the Calligar take Spock's party hostage and Kirk discovers that the aliens are keeping a deadly secret. With angry Tellarite and Andorain fleets ready to attack the Calligar, Kirk must save Spock and the others before war breaks out and the rift closes for another fifty years.

As corporate greed is pitted against supernatural forces, two young friends must try to protect the precious Old Herd — and their island itself.

For generations, the rangers of Black Water Island have guarded the Old Herd against the horrors released by the Rift. And Cal West, an apprentice ranger, fights daily to prove he belongs within their ranks. But even greater challenges await with the return of his childhood friend Meg Archer and the onset of a new threat that not even the rangers are prepared for. Now Meg and Cal, while struggling with their mutual attraction, must face their darkest fears to save the island from disaster.

This second book in a trilogy of high adventure and alternate history combines rousing pulp action with steampunk style, bringing epic political themes to life within a story of heartbreaking romance, sacrifice, and heroism. Princess Adele struggles with a life of marriage and obligation as her Equatorian Empire and their American Republic allies stand on the brink of war against the vampire clans of the north. However, the alliance's horrific strategy for total victory drives Adele to abandon her duty and embark on a desperate quest to keep her nation from staining its hands with genocide.

Reunited with her great love, the mysterious adventurer known to the world as the Greyfriar, Adele is pursued by her own people as well as her vengeful husband, Senator Clark. With the human alliance in disarray, Prince Cesare, lord of the British vampire clan, seizes the initiative and strikes at the very heart of Equatoria. As Adele labors to bring order to her world, she learns more about the strange powers she exhibited in the north. Her teacher, Mamoru, leads a secret cabal of geomancers who believe Adele is the one who can touch the vast power of the Earth that surges through ley lines and wells up at the rifts where the lines meet.

These energies are the key to defeating the enemy of mankind. If Princess Adele could ever bring this power under her command, she could be death to vampires. After Thom checks with Ray and Suzy if the ship is ready to enter the gate, they all enter their surge tanks in preparation for the faster-than-light journey.

Thom and Suzy wake up in the ship - having been docked in a repair facility instead of its destination - and are greeted by an old friend of Thom's - Greta - who explains that they're in Saumlaki Station in Schedar Sector, that there was a routing error in the ship's navigation systems, and that Arkangel Dispatch must have had a glitch in their syntax launch patterns.

Suzy responds with disbelief and attempts to get up, but she stumbles over and Thom and Greta put her back into her tank. A while passes, and Thom is now in the station's bar. Greta - now dressed in an alluring night dress - walks towards him and sits down on the sofa next to him.

They admire the view outside the bar and she leans towards him to tell him a secret: that she was hoping to bump into Thom again after the fling they had together four years ago. They then proceed to have sex in Greta's cabin. Some more time passes, and Thom is sitting on Greta's bed. His mind continues to be troubled by the events that had folded.

Greta confesses that she hasn't been completely honest with Thom. She admits that they're not actually in Schedar Sector, and that the routing error has taken him far beyond what she originally let on. She gets out of the bed and presents a holographic map demonstrating that Saumlaki Station is, in fact, , light-years from Earth. Thom - upset by the news - asks Greta how long he and his crew were in their tanks for. Greta responds that - in subjective time - they were in their tanks for only a few months, but several centuries have passed back home on Earth.

Thom struggles to come to terms with what Greta just told him, and yells at her that he may as well be dead. Greta tells him that he is still alive, and that she ended up in Saumlaki Station in the same way he did: a routing error.

She tells him that it's always the same routing error, and that it has brought everyone to the station. She then suggests that he should wake up his crew from their tanks. Thom wakes up Suzy and asks her to recall the last thing she can remember. Suzy describes Arkangel in unpleasant terms, then dreams: dreams like the encounter she is in right now. She notices Greta in the corner and asks Thom who she is.

When Thom responds that it's his old friend Greta, Suzy immediately counters this by stating that it's not Greta. Suzy yells at Greta demanding to know who and "what" she is, implying that she might be aware of the true nature of Greta and the environment the Blue Goose crew are in.

So for film, they needed a more solid vision, nothing fleeting but instead for Thom to awaken into the world as it really is. But before he does, Greta is emotionally distraught, crying, her voice cracking as Thom angrily pins her to a window, odd flashes of something as he does.

This is genius. I do care for you. I care for all of the lost souls that end up here. Suzy and Ray area dead, with no explanation. And all around is an amalgamation of abstract matter that looks like nothing so much as an intergalactic trash heap. No alien ships, no eldritch horrors with too many legs wandering the caverns. Then, from a nearby cave mouth, what looks like parts of the armor Greta was wearing at the start of the movie… then revealed to be a gigantic thing with too many limbs, too many eyes.

The visual transition is fantastic and cements that this thing was what was pretending to be Greta and really does want to care for Thom. Heck, there are some things it does brilliantly. The character design is top-notch, and the faces of the characters who are in the film have already supplanted whatever vague images I had in my head. Beyond the Aquila Rift is a gorgeous and tremendously well-made film. Unit Image has been doing this for a long time, both feature-length and short-form, and they know what works.

Look, in the end, I preferred the short story to the film. I finished it and while I already had Thoughts on it, I immediately wanted to show it to people. Even writing this out has tempered my original reaction a bit. Neither of these are wrong. And in the end, they are each a magnificent companion piece to the other.

You can consume both in less time than it takes to watch a feature film. Boter is a gamer and a filmmaker, and to combine the two, a Let's Player. He fills the space between as a full-time bookseller at Northshire Bookstore in Saratoga Springs. Say "science fiction" and his ears perk up, but don't say "Star Wars" unless you have nothing else to do that day. You can check out his gaming series and other videos on his YouTube channel youtube. Also check out www.