...p.com ISBN: 978-1-60911-286-8 Printed in the United States of America Book Design: Rolando F. Santos This book is dedicated to my wife, my mother, Mi... ...d about various ways that the world would end - plague, foods, sunbursts, nuclear war, the Wrath of God, amongst others. The truth is, the world did... ...vivors. Conficts broke out. The Middle East was annihilated with the very nuclear arsenals that were meant as a deterrent. It truly seemed that the... ...ough it was quite a distance away, they could see that there were various weaponry systems on it, includ- ing chain guns and missile launchers. “Come... ...ost frightening. “Okay, okay, here ya go, geeze,” Josh handed Vincent the weapon just in time to see something pop up from the trees on the side of ... ...hings inside, but noticed 13 7 Scorpions: Rebellion that there were some weapons and rations. Waiving his hands in the air Talbot said, “Why the hel... ...ithin the alloted time frame. In the meantime, have we accounted for all nuclear weapons?” asked Zodiac. “Yes sir. The commanders have been diligent... ...one at once. It’s time to come of the defensive.” 120 Chapter 13 “T hese design plans are FLAWED!” Zodiac yelled. He was standing in his command ce... ... I still need a bit more time, I have to recheck the calculations and the designs to make sure that the place can support its own weight, and I am s...

...e Author of the Work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. Apart from any u... ...dead, is purely coincidental. Published by Elucidox Ltd www.elucidox.com Cover design Andrew Clarke www.clarke-design.co.uk For more news on the C... ... weird. But it had also hammered home how she felt so cut off from everything. A nuclear bomb could have gone off in the rest of the hospital and sh... ...f vest. None of the individuals on the top floor was thought to be carrying any weapons, but it was standard procedure. The taser is a non-lethal, ... ...any weapons, but it was standard procedure. The taser is a non-lethal, hand-held weapon, often used by Special Firearms Officers to subdue potential... ...ostiles without causing permanent injury. It has a distinctive black and yellow design and it fires a small projectile that is connected to the gun ... ...s the hostile immobile. Stannard still wasn’t sure how she felt about firing the weapon at a child. She looked up. Two, possibly three, floors abov...

...meretricious tool to conjure plausible scenarios of itself being used as a weapon. No, he thought, he did not seriously dislike this fetid sloven bene... ...ness was not so much for a return to the confines of a space that had been designated to him but to end a silence that was becoming more disconcerting... ...occurrences recorded by the other's senses. On this day, it was ornamental designs engraved on tombstones, xanthic blooms of Magnolia trees, the fligh... ...ideously. He saw this perennial cycle of victims going on forever and only nuclear bombs falling like cleansing rain stopping it. He knew how like a m... ...was lost like an insect crawling on a seat of a roller coaster ride which, designed for thrills as it was, lacked purpose. This ride on and of the wor... ...e through nature's hand and bidding but as such arsenal all the same; live weaponry shot from a missile launcher that could not be said to be possesse... ...ectual, and physical disparity whose only ablution would come in a rain of nuclear bombs. The postcard which he had picked up for her in Nongkhai he h...

...and drank milk he obtained from the bus station vendor while waiting for his designated departure. The noxious smell of bus exhausts filled the open ... ...a (who thought of herself as Lily), with blonde hair and glasses, and that a nuclear bomb had gone off somewhere nearby Ithaca--maybe Salem for the st... ...lent; having taken them to the social security office to get them cards with designated numbers; having taken the Cambodian boy into the clothes room ... ...e cards patterned out as a cross; meditated on each motto; and then drew her designs. The first motto that she encountered was "Happy Birthday To A Gr... ...th the environment and Islamic extremists; more and more societies possessed weapons of mass destruction that had the potential force that was beyond ... ...bases for another confrontation with Iraq. Pyongyang had recently dismissed nuclear monitors. The troops at the Itaewon base and at the DMZ were on ... ...nto the dirt with a stick. There was talk of getting access to North Korean nuclear fuel rods, a strange epidemic that they had manufactured and prol... ...ed innate aggression behind terms like axis of evil, rogue country harboring weapons of mass destruction, links to Al Queida, and liberation for the I... ...n its quest for meaning was like the Bush administration's groping for these weapons of mass destruction to disprove the obvious: that Bush's hallucin...

...these indescribable hideous life forms worshipped advanced technology and weaponry. No surface dweller could prove what was thought, fact. Fabricate... ...ched and disarmed the Rider out in the field. No matter how primitive the weapons, security confiscated any threat to the underworld. Experience had... ... be armed. Masking his fears in facade of calm, he glanced over the four weapons now pointing at him. Such an abrupt demand to hand Alex over to ano... ...is sights to her. "It’s like this; Alex holds the codes to some fandangle nuclear platform. She dies, we die, comprehend?" With the man remaining si... ...ines and somewhat calmly answered David. "The earth will be bombarded with nuclear warheads." Shaun's eyes became down cast. Angered, David wanted no... ... man's actions and sought to explain that which he knew to be untrue. The nuclear disarmament program gave birth to the orbiting space fortress, hou... ...insight into David's plan, a prepared Atlas brought out the architectural designs, believing these to be the original specifications of Project Noah... ...olutionise work bots. Not only would they look human, but the programs we designed would enable them to make decisions and run unsupervised." "Sound... ...d confidence. "The guardian program?" "Yes. It is not just a program; it's designed to work with a specific hardware." "Tell me, this guardian progra...

...rling Building 440 Friday Road Department T-1 0 1 Pittsburgh, PA 15209 Cover design & Typesetting: Drawing Board Studios All rights reserved. No ... ...ed. Seattle knew the fate of his brothers who had stood against the white man's weapons. He would sign the Treaty and let the White Chief buy the l... ...road pathway that wove through the teepees. Each one was painted with a unique design, or picture of an animal, no two were the same. They passed c... ...rifted in columns toward the jeweled horizon. Richard rec­ ognized the Suquamish design on the teepee as the symbol of the High Chief. The Soul Bea... ...uranium contractor to the military, as well as more than half of the commercial nuclear power plants in this country and the rest of the world. Your... ... plu- The Soul Bearer toni urn, and so called, low level waste from commercial nuclear power plants. Your dumpsites are so numerous, and secret, th... ...eing." "Events," the young intern repeated. "It's the same word they use for a nuclear melt down." "There hasn't been a nuclear melt down," Shipley... ...information. And I mean that literally. It seems that your ex-lover is stealing weapons­ grade plutonium." "How do you know?" she asked suspiciously... ...y serious. "If that's the case, Pierce may be more sinister than we imag­ ined. Weapons-grade plutonium is stored there." The words sent shock waves...