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The Regiment (novel)
''The Regiment'' is a novel by John Dalmas published by Baen Books Baen Books () is an American publishing house for science fiction and fantasy. In science fiction, it emphasizes space opera, hard science fiction, and military science fiction. The company was established in 1983 by science fiction publisher an ... in 1987. Plot summary ''The Regiment'' is a novel about a mercenary regiment and the reporter who joins them to work as their publicist. Reception Lynn Bryant reviewed ''The Regiment'' in '' Space Gamer/Fantasy Gamer'' No. 79. Bryant commented that "''The Regiment'' is a good read. It is a long book that could have benefited by being a bit shorter, but the prose reads easily and while Dalmas could have packed in more battles, there is plenty of action. if you are looking for a good militarily oriented story that challenges you to think, you'll enjoy this book." References 1987 science fiction novels Baen Books books {{1980s-sf-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Regiment (novel)
''The Regiment'' is a novel by John Dalmas published by Baen Books Baen Books () is an American publishing house for science fiction and fantasy. In science fiction, it emphasizes space opera, hard science fiction, and military science fiction. The company was established in 1983 by science fiction publisher an ... in 1987. Plot summary ''The Regiment'' is a novel about a mercenary regiment and the reporter who joins them to work as their publicist. Reception Lynn Bryant reviewed ''The Regiment'' in '' Space Gamer/Fantasy Gamer'' No. 79. Bryant commented that "''The Regiment'' is a good read. It is a long book that could have benefited by being a bit shorter, but the prose reads easily and while Dalmas could have packed in more battles, there is plenty of action. if you are looking for a good militarily oriented story that challenges you to think, you'll enjoy this book." References 1987 science fiction novels Baen Books books {{1980s-sf-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dalmas
John Robert Jones ( – ) wrote science fiction as John Dalmas. He wrote many books based on military and governmental themes throughout his career. His first published novel was ''The Yngling'', serialized beginning in the October–November 1969 issue of ''Analog''. Bibliography Collection of short stories * ''Otherwhens, Otherwheres: Favorite Tales'' (2002) Fanglith * ''Fanglith'', Baen Books, 1985, 1987 * ''Return to Fanglith'', Baen Books, 1987 Lion of Farside * ''The Lion of Farside'', Baen Books, 1995: a simple American farmer marries a beautiful redhead with green eyes. When she is kidnapped by her family and taken back to the magical world she was born in, he buys a revolver and rifle and follows to rescue her. Complications occur. His guns do not work, magic abounds, and he is captured by slavers the moment he crosses into the new world. * ''The Bavarian Gate'', Baen Books, 1997 * ''The Lion Returns'', Baen Books, 1999 Lizard War * ''The Lizard War'', Baen Books, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baen Books
Baen Books () is an American publishing house for science fiction and fantasy. In science fiction, it emphasizes space opera, hard science fiction, and military science fiction. The company was established in 1983 by science fiction publisher and editor Jim Baen. After his death in 2006, he was succeeded as publisher by long-time executive editor Toni Weisskopf. History Baen Books was founded in 1983 out of a negotiated agreement between Jim Baen and Simon & Schuster. Simon & Schuster was undergoing massive reorganization and wanted to hire Baen to head and revitalize the science fiction line of its Pocket Books division. Baen, with financial backing from some friends, counteroffered with a proposal to start up a new company named Baen Books and provide Simon & Schuster with a science fiction line to distribute instead. According to ''Locus''s 2004 Book Summary, Baen Books was the ninth most active publisher in the U.S. in terms of most books published in the genres indicated, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Space Gamer
''The Space Gamer'' was a magazine dedicated to the subject of science fiction and fantasy board games and tabletop role-playing games. It quickly grew in importance and was an important and influential magazine in its subject matter from the late 1970s through the mid-1980s. The magazine is no longer published, but the rights holders maintain a web presence using its final title ''Space Gamer/Fantasy Gamer''. History ''The Space Gamer'' (''TSG'') started out as a digest quarterly publication of the brand new Metagaming Concepts Metagaming Concepts, later known simply as Metagaming, was a company that published board games from 1974 to 1983. It was founded and owned by Howard Thompson, who designed the company's first game, '' Stellar Conquest''. The company also inven ... company in March 1975. Howard M. Thompson, the owner of Metagaming and the first editor of the magazine, stated "The magazine had been planned for after our third or fourth game but circumstances demand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diverse Talents, Incorporated
Diversity, diversify, or diverse may refer to: Business *Diversity (business), the inclusion of people of different identities (ethnicity, gender, age) in the workforce *Diversity marketing, marketing communication targeting diverse customers * Supplier diversity, the use of diverse suppliers Politics * Diversity (politics), the political and social policy of encouraging tolerance for people of different cultural and racial backgrounds * Diversity Immigrant Visa or Green Card Lottery, a United States immigration program * Diversity jurisdiction, a concept under which U.S. federal courts can hear suits between parties from different states * Diversity training, the process of educating people to function in a diverse environment * Cultural diversity, the respect of different cultures and interculturality * Functional diversity (disability), a term for special needs, disability, impairment and handicap * Gerodiversity, a multicultural approach to issues of aging * Multiculturalis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1987 Science Fiction Novels
File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, killing everyone except a little girl; The King's Cross fire kills 31 people after a fire under an escalator Flashover, flashes-over; The MV Doña Paz sinks after colliding with an oil tanker, drowning almost 4,400 passengers and crew; Typhoon Nina (1987), Typhoon Nina strikes the Philippines; LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055 crashes outside of Warsaw, taking the lives of all aboard; The USS Stark is USS Stark incident, struck by Iraq, Iraqi Exocet missiles in the Persian Gulf; President of the United States, U.S. President Ronald Reagan gives a famous Tear down this wall!, speech, demanding that Soviet Union, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev tears down the Berlin Wall., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 Zeebrugge disaster rect 200 0 400 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
