The Drawing of The Three: A Book Review, Part 1

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A Game of Thrones Book

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George R. R. Martin began a fantasy series of books under the name of A Song of Fire and Ice. The adventure began in 1996 with the publication of A Game of Thrones book. The first book was intended to be the beginning of a trilogy, but its popularity grew so much after publication, Martin has continued to publish books in this series. Currently there are five in publication with two more planned in the future.

According the Bantam Books, the publisher of the series, more than seven million copies of the series has been sold in the United States, more than 15 million copies have been sold throughout the world. The series has been published in about 20 different languages and fans all point back to A Game of Thrones being the novel that started it all.

The novel is set in the fictional world with two different continents, Essos and Westeros. Being the first novel in a series, A Game of Thrones book, has to set the story lines for the entire series. In this book, three different story lines are being told simultaneously. The first story lines introduce the reader to the Seven Kingdoms. King Robert has died and a fight for the Iron Throne has begun. The throne is originally claimed by the son of King Robert, Joffrey, but another main character, Lord Eddard Stark, has found out that all the King's children are illegitimate. This makes the Stannis the rightful king. Another of Stannis' brothers, the youngest, makes a claim for the throne. This begins the struggle for the Iron Throne.

Lord Eddard Stark's heir, Robb Stark, is declared King in the North, where he is seeking to return that region to self-rule. Within the same time frame, another situation develops on the Iron Islands. Balon Greyjoy has finally reclaimed the throne in this region of the fictional continents.

The next story line moves you to the northern borders of the continent of Westeros. The leaders of this part of Westeros built an ice wall, with the help of some magic, to prevent an attack from The Others. The wall has protected this area for thousands of years. The Others have not been seen for more than 8,000 years and the defenders of the wall, the Night's Watch, have deteriorated into a band of refugees and criminals. Since it had been so long since the last attack by those mythical creatures, The Others, the Night's Watch seemed to have turned into a penal colony. The main character in this story line is the bastard child of Lord Eddard Stark, Jon Snow. As Snow realized the real threat from The Others, he attempts to prepare the northern borders for a war.

The last story line takes place in the fictional continent of Esos. This huge eastern continent finds you reading about the adventures of another legitimate claimant to the Iron Throne, Dearneys Targaryen. She is the last of the House of Targaryen, which was placed in exile long ago. You follow Targaryen's growth from a pauper who had been sold into marriage to the barbarian warlord she eventually becomes. She is helped by three dragons, which had been thought to be extinct at the time. However, someone had given her three dragon egg fossils, which she nurtured and eventually hatched. Targaryen's main goal throughout this story line is to reclaim the Iron Throne which is rightfully hers.

A Game of Thrones book has become so popular that a comic book series has been adapted from the story lines, as well as a card game, role-playing game, board game and at least two video games. April 2011 saw the launch of a new series on HBO called "Game of Thrones", which is primarily based on A Game of Thrones book.

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Increase of the CEC: a science fiction novel overview

"Rise of the CEC" finds between the year 2018 and 2108. It chronicles the life of Jeremy ash, who is the most important man in the solar system and a space agency of Hedemora Fund Heritage dollars. This is actually the first book in a planned trilogy. The most important elements of this story belongs to travel costs with time delay between the stars. If a man 43 years traveling light close to Lightspeed, 43 years is on the Earth have passed, although he has not aged.

The story begins with the KEK-invasion of the Cideba. A Cideban named Piren, who use Earth for thousands of years the time dilation effects the neutrino drive motor has studied to extend his life, as he back and forth between the Earth and his travels, puts his mission on Earth to be with the evacuation. He receives a unsecured neutrino drive motor with it take get the KEK from it and improve to prevent their own version of the engine. A warning had arrived sent by the High Council of Cideban on a number of less-developed planets, beacon of where on Earth in the year 2018.

When Piren on Earth arrives, he is confronted with the dilemma of whether people have matured enough to neutrino technology receive the. He decides to be a young man, Alec Strickland, the unsecured neutrino provides drive motor in the Earth future uses to recruit the engine itself to the task. If Piren lands to Alec, a KEK to contact directly, which even the Piren ship to Cideba, had back spun off breaks and escapes. It begins to multiply cloning. Start reports on large, man-eating "super spiders", surface and finally triggers a day war with Chinathat kills a quarter of a billion people.

Alec is retrofit capable of an a man solo u-boot for the trip. Shortly before Alec debarks, steals Jeremy the foreign data Crystal which accompanied it. The Crystal contains information about the module design and operation, and the complete genome of an organism to transform of Venus. Alecs meeting is also the book of Alec, a pseudo-religious text, Alecs departure Chronicles legend, and predicts the time of his return to spawn. Jeremy accidentally transfers one of the equations from the foreign data Crystal Microcore Microcore space systems, Inc. is the clear market leader in space-based technologies, with hundreds of asteroids crushers platform complete with a solar oven, a space station and an underground moon base nibble an orbital station on so many asteroid,. The Federal Government starts the transmission, and is now known that Jeremy in possession of technical data, which is unknown to modern science. This begins Jeremy rise to power and his persecution by the Federal Government.

Government officials from the national security agency of the arrival of Jeremy's apartment. Ask for his presence at a press conference in Washington, D.C., where he is shown pictures of an operation of mining on the moon. The NSA officials inform Jeremy that Microcore carries out secret operations on the moon. Jeremy is confused the unique way out of his League, his role in these matters. They inform Jeremy that they know the remarkable formula he transferred to Microcore and accuse him as a threat to national security. Already on the next day, Jeremy's railcars from the far Microcore is redirected to where he winds on the investment in a large tour of the plant. Jeremy is finally brought face to face with Cecil Millikan, President and CEO of Microcore. Cecil promises to Jeremy that he can protect him from the Federal Government and finally buys millions data contained in the external crystal for $30.

Cecil has his top scientists, Professor Klein, to analyse the Crystal. Small, the complete genome discovered a Microbe encoded on the Crystal. You determine that the germ could be the Venusian atmosphere terraforming used. The super secret Venus project was born. The germ is laboriously created from the DNA fragments. Trillions of them are bred and then started to Venus, where they are scattered in the upper layers of the Venusian atmosphere. Produce their waste is molecular carbon which combines together under the extreme pressure of the atmosphere. It builds up a dark orbital band around the planet form. The Government is trying to find out what is up to Microcore. Grown, some suspected that Cecil were found trying to terraform Venus to alien spacecraft to record, approaching the Earth.

If a Microcore prototype neutrino engine towards the stern start up drive, the signal comes from 2018 (Cideba), is seen as an attempt on the aliens. Military vehicles swarm in Microcore. The plant is wanted after detection of unknown technology, evidence of Cecil's relationship with the aliens and all the data in connection with the Venus project. Nothing significant found. The Chairman of the people Republic of China President why she can secure evidence against Microcore for the cooperation with these aliens, confronted while continue to proliferate the KEK. Reply of the President is not enough. The Chairman brings a final value of nuclear strike against the United States the United States foul. Take four nuclear weapons of American defense systems to avoid and so many large cities. Several atomic bombs strike China. Thousands of conventional missiles rain down on the United States and China.

Jeremy finally inherits Microcore of Cecil and the company uses enormous resources to America rebuild. Microcore by Jeremy inherits, and then, in 2108, Alec returns to Earth. Soon after several ships of the KEK Earth reach and be destroyed. Unfortunately, their destruction leads also the destruction of Washington, D.C. The mass murder in the history of America's many see the annihilation of Washington as the greatest Act. Others see it as an act which saved the human race. In the meantime, China has sealed off completely on your own with the rest of the world. If only the world knew that the KEK had infiltrated the Chinese Government and building ships a new fleet of KEK were here on Earth.

John Joseph Burhop is the author of the science fiction novel "Rise of the CEC." The story plays on is first and foremost the Earth between 2018 and 2108. John twenty years needed to the finishing touches on his novel. Increase of the CEC is online available on the Amazon Kindle store and also Smashwords.com. Try the first few chapters for free here: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/47173