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Steve Perry (author)
Steve Perry (born August 31, 1947) is an American television writer and science fiction author. Biography Perry is a native of the Deep South. His residences have included Louisiana, California, Washington, and Oregon. Prior to working full-time as a freelance writer, he worked as a swimming instructor, lifeguard, assembler of toys, a clerk in a hotel gift shop and car rental agency, aluminum salesman, martial art instructor, private detective, and nurse. His wife is Dianne Waller, a Port of Portland executive. They have two children and five grandsons. One of their children is science fiction author S. D. Perry. He is a practitioner of the martial art Silat, which inspired him to create the fictional martial arts Sumito and Teräs Käsi, both of which are essentially fictionalized versions of Silat. Literary career Perry has written over fifty novels and numerous short stories, which have appeared in various magazines and anthologies. Perry is perhaps best known for the Mata ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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The Man Who Never Missed
''The Man Who Never Missed'' is the first book in the Matador series, by Steve Perry. It was first published in August 1985. Plot ''The Man Who Never Missed'' concerns an ex-soldier Emile Khadaji, formerly in the service of the "Confed", a generic star-spanning empire (formally a confederacy, hence the name) of solar systems. The Confed has grown large and old, and to maintain its fading grip on power, uses its powerful military to brutally suppress any resistance and to colonialize further worlds. During one such campaign which results in the slaughter of three-quarters of a million people in a single pitched battle, Khadaji snaps and deserts while experiencing a religious epiphany which instills him the belief that taking the lives of sapient beings is wrong and that the Confed must be overthrown. He escapes and is believed dead by his military superiors. While wandering in the nearby city and pondering his experience, the young Khadaji runs into the mysterious priest "Pen" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nightmare Asylum
''Aliens: Nightmare Asylum'' is the title of a sci-fi novel by Steve Perry, set in the fictional Alien movie universe. It is a sequel to '' Aliens: Earth Hive''. The book was published by Bantam Books Bantam Books is an American publishing house owned entirely by parent company Random House, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House; it is an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group. It was formed in 1945 by Walter B. Pitkin Jr., Sidney B. K ... on April 1, 1993. Plot Wilks, Billie, and Bueller are the last survivors of a devastating assault on the aliens' home planet. They are again refugees when they return to the Solar System, fleeing Earth's Alien infestation in a military transport that hurtles them through unknown space and an unknown destination. They are unaware that the remote colony and military outpost they will approach is at the mercy of a general named Spears with an agenda all his own. Now Billie, Wilks, and Bueller face a new nightmare, and it is nothing t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earth Hive
''Aliens: Earth Hive'' is a 1992 novel by Steve Perry, set in the fictional Alien movie universe. It is an adaptation of the story "Outbreak" which was the first in the ''Aliens'' comic book series, written by Mark Verheiden. Setting It is the first book in a trilogy of novels written by Perry, and deals with events on Earth and in other locations in space set a number of years after the movies ''Aliens'' and ''Alien 3''. This book introduces two main characters, a Colonial Marine named ''Wilks'', and a young woman named ''Billie'', both survivors of a previous alien attack on the colony world of Rim. Plot summary The book begins with a routine space junk cleanup mission in Earth orbit, with a small derelict spaceship being prepped for de-orbit and burnup. The crew doing the cleanup investigate the ship, and, much to their horror, an alien xenomorph stowaway on the derelict manages to board the cleanup crew's ship, and kill them. The ship is destroyed when one of the cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Death Star (novel)
The Death Star is a fictional space station and superweapon featured in the ''Star Wars'' space-opera franchise. Constructed by the autocratic Galactic Empire, the Death Star is capable of obliterating entire planets, and serves to enforce the Empire's reign of terror. Appearing in the original film ''Star Wars'' (1977), the Death Star serves as the central plot point and setting for the film, and is destroyed in an assault by the Rebel Alliance during the climax of the film, with the prequel film ''Rogue One'' (2016) and the television series '' Andor'' (2022-2025) exploring its construction. A larger second Death Star is being built in the events of the film ''Return of the Jedi'' (1983), featuring substantially improved capabilities compared to its predecessor, before it is destroyed by the Rebel Alliance while under construction. Since its first appearance, the Death Star has become a cultural icon and a widely recognized element of the ''Star Wars'' franchise. It inspire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
