Flight Of The Maita Book Thirty Six Gothic World

The first book of the Maita series. Introduces characters and situations, and is the story of the overthrow of the Pweetoo slavers.

Winner of the 2020 National Indie Excellence Award for Chick Lit Freedom! Excitement! Adventure! That's what's missing in Marianne's life. Apparently, it's all available in Los Angeles. When the Bright Lights beckon, she packs her meager belongings and leaves her small town and domineering mother behind. But she finds that freedom is lonely, excitement can be scary, and adventures aren't always pleasant. Sometimes she thinks of giving up and going home to her mother. On second thought, can anything be that bad? So, she perseveres. Awful landlord? Become roommates with a handsome law student. Disagreeable boss? He's nothing compared to Mom. And she gets a raise, so she's rewarded for putting up with him. Lonely? Not anymore. She has new friends and she's fallen in love--well, in a serious case of like--with that handsome law student. Life finally seems to be going her way--until she and her law student are evicted. Marianne has moved twice in two years and she's tired of packing. Where should she go now? The handsome law student comes up with a solution. They should get married so they can buy property together. Marianne considers his proposal. Sure, it's a solution to her immediate problem. But would her search for freedom, excitement, and adventure be squelched? Would she be replacing her mother with a husband?

Vaudeville: mad, mercenary, dreamy, and absurd, a world of clashing cultures and ferocious showmanship and wickedly delightful deceptions. But sixteen-year-old pianist George Carole has joined vaudeville for one reason only: to find the man he suspects to be his father, the great Heironomo Silenus. Yet as he chases down his father's troupe, he begins to understand that their performances are strange even for vaudeville: for wherever they happen to tour, the very nature of the world seems to change. Because there is a secret within Silenus's show so ancient and dangerous that it has won him many powerful enemies. And it's not until after he joins them that George realizes the troupe is not simply touring: they are running for their lives. And soon...he is as well.

It all begins next year in California. A maladjusted computer industry billionaire and a somewhat crazy US President initiate a radical transformation of the world through sentient nanotechnology; sort of the equivalent of biological artificial intelligence. At first they succeed, but their plans are reversed by Chu, an autistic boy. The next time it isn't so easy to stop them. Most of the story takes place in a world after a heretofore unimaginable transformation, where all the things look the same but all the people are different (they're able to read each others' minds, for starters). Travel to and from other nearby worlds in the quantum universe is possible, so now our world is visited by giant humanoids from another quantum universe, and some of them mean to tidy up the mess we've made. Or maybe just run things. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The first English-language study of German-Japanese interwar relations to employ sources in both languages.