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Team Yankee is a techno-thriller novel written in 1987 by Harold Coyle, then a major in the United States Army.Set during the World War III scenario outlined in Sir John Hackett's novel The Third World War: The Untold Story, the novel follows the titular United States Army armored company-sized team in combat against the Soviet Union after the Warsaw Pact invades Western Europe.
First and Only is the first novel in the series (and, in fact, was Abnett's first published novel), introducing Gaunt, his regiment, and the Sabbat Worlds Crusade. While deployed in the theatres of Fortis Binary and Menazoid Epsilon, the Ghosts become embroiled in a plot by an ambitious general officer to supplant Warmaster Macaroth as supreme ...
The first book published in the series occurs near the end of the overall story, with subsequent books jumping further into the past to expand on elements of history. The author recommends reading the books in publication order. As of the most recent novel, Overcaptain, the saga covers 10 different time periods and 12 major story lines. The ...
Bolos and their human commanders are assigned to an elite Concordiat unit called the "Dinochrome Brigade", which traces its lineage back to various units on Earth. Individual Bolos are generally identified by a three-letter prefix which is generally extrapolated into a given name —this name is generally used as the default access code for a ...
In the Zork series of games, the Great Underground Empire has its own system of measurements, the most frequently referenced of which is the bloit. Defined as the distance the king's favorite pet can run in one hour (spoofing a popular legend about the history of the foot), the length of the bloit varies dramatically, but the one canonical conversion to real-world units puts it at ...
Network Effect won the 2021 Nebula Award for Best Novel, [24] the 2021 Hugo Award for Best Novel, and the 2021 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. [25] The Murderbot Diaries won the 2021 Hugo Award for Best Series. [26] Wells turned down nominations of "Fugitive Telemetry" for both the Hugo and Nebula Awards in 2022. [27]
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Anima (Japanese: エヴァンゲリオン ANIMA, Hepburn: Evangerion ANIMA), shortened as Evangelion Anima, and formerly Neon Genesis Evangelion (3 Years After) -Anima-, is a Japanese light novel series written by Takuma Kageyama and later by Ikuto Yamashita, based on the Neon Genesis Evangelion series created by Khara.
The sensation novel, also sensation fiction, was a literary genre of fiction that achieved peak popularity in Great Britain in between the early 1860s and mid to late 1890s, [1] centering taboo material shocking to its readers as a means of musing on contemporary social anxieties.