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RAINBOW RUN is a novel of the far future, detailing a world where
the normal rules have been turned over, and upside down. When one
of its denizens awakens from a stupor, he discovers he's in the
Rainbow Room, a triangular room filled with pitfalls where the
first misstep will be the last. He quickly discovers that his
memory has been stripped away, and he's left with no knowledge of
himself or the world he finds himself inhabiting. With the help of
Errox, a mysterious and malevolent stranger, who names him Rathe,
he manages to escape the Color Wheel, only to discover that the
danger outside in the urbodes is omnipresent and difficult to
evade. Everywhere Rathe turns, everyone he meets is only interested
in using him for their own advancement in the war of shades. In a
world where the color of your wristlock determines your fate, Rathe
is a lost soul desperately trying to learn the rules of a game that
has no rules. Meanwhile, Rathe is on a quest to find out his true
identity and why he was brainwiped. The answers are everywhere and
nowhere. Most of the people he meets are so busy playing the Color
Game they have little or awareness of the larger world they
inhabit. In this world, only those wearing the rainbow wristlocks
have universal access and immortality. Not only does he have to
figure out who he is, but how to survive in the midst of growing
chaos....
War World: Jihad is the third volume in a grand reissue of the War
World anthologies presenting Haven's history in a chronological
fashion. Jihad is a trade hardcover and includes seven new stories,
a short novel and one previously published yarn. The CoDominium is
fraying apart at the seams, and to save itself the Soviet/American
coalition is exporting Earth's problems to the outer worlds,
including exiling millions of Earth's fanatic Muslims on Haven. Nor
is this volatile situation helped when off-worlders from Levant
arrive to support the rebels with military advisors and advanced
weaponry. When Dire Lake dries up, famine and pestilence arrive
with a vengeance. The Faithful believe that this is a sign from
Allah: the time has arrived to overthrow the corrupt CoDominium
lackeys and their Company sponsors in the Northern Steppes. So the
Mahdi declares a Jihad and warfare breaks out with only a thin blue
line between the jihadists and what remains of civilization on
Haven. In a last-ditch attempt to save the Haven colony, Admiral
Lermontov sends in the 42nd Marines. Will the Marines arrive in
time? And if they do, can they stop the jihadists and save the
overwhelmed CoDominium Marine garrison at Fort Camerone? Or will
they be undone by the Brotherhood and other off-world powers
seeking the dissolution of the CoDominium?
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