By Ian Douglas
The revelations on Mars -- a half-million year-old legacy of the vanished star-traveling developers -- have fed the flames of catastrophic battle. A beleaguered usa and its Russian and eastern allies fight to carry their very own opposed to the indomitable forces of the enemy United international locations. The bloody clash that has swept over the house planet now rages around the blackness of area -- with the U.S. Marine Corps within the forefront, major the cost as always.
But Mars isn't the sole repository of alien wonders. The Earth's moon hides unsettling mysteries of its own-and risky secrets and techniques pointing towards an unstoppable risk advancing from someplace past the sunlight approach. And as scientists on either side ract to make use of know-how they've got simply slightly began to appreciate, the UN makes the outlet circulate in a gambit which could finish the hostilities quick and decisively by means of bringing in regards to the dying of millions...without assistance from alien-inspired weaponry.
A undesirable state of affairs worsens via the nanosecond. And that suggests it's time to name within the Marines -- to make a lifestyles or loss of life stand at the grey shorelines of Luna.
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Parecia inquieto; em algum momento pareceu exasperado. Abriu a sacola de couro, apalpou-a por dentro, até a mão direita trêmula encontrar um cartão-postal. No rosto sério os lábios sumiram de sua boca, quem sabe um cacoete ou o gesto ansioso. Por favor, me acompanhe até essa casa, ele pediu, apontando a fotografia do cartão-postal. O tom da voz era quase de súplica; chegou a ser patético ao repetir o pedido em francês, e só não o fez em alemão porque dispensei mais salamaleques. Eu conhecia de vista a casa ilhada: u m bangalô atraente 70 e misterioso, que só parecia dar sinal de vida depois do anoitecer, quando as luzes iluminavam a fachada e o jardim.
Ela apareceu ao anoitecer. Notou o jeito esquivo dos convidados e perguntou logo de cara: Vocês ainda estão falando de política? Tirou os sapatos, mal cumprimentou Francine e Laure, disse: Ça vai a Gerardo, Gabriela e Jérôme, foi menos fria com Fabiana e Marcelo, beijando-lhes o rosto e perguntando a todos: Pelo menos me esperaram pra cantar parabéns? Lázaro apontou para Jean-Paul, sozinho e de pernas abertas no canto da sala, o rosto com ar entorpecido e blasé. Mas Bárbara o ignorou. Só ela estava de pé, observando a bagunça de copos, garrafas, pratos e talheres, então Fabiana disse que só estavam esperando por Bárbara para cantar parabéns e pediu a Marcelo que acendesse as velas do bolo.
Soube que deixara a Bretanha havia muitos anos; seu desejo era partir em busca do desconhecido. Para ele, viajar era uma forma de viver em tempos distintos. Um dia lhe perguntei se conhecia o dialeto bretão ou uma das tantas línguas indígenas do Amazonas. Vi seu rosto branco ruborizar: um rosto sem rugas, imberbe, os olhos azulados pareciam expressar dúvida ou indagação; de repente se levantou, foi até a varanda e, de costas para o rio, disse: Emilie me confundiu com Armand Verne. Ele, sim, é u m linguista aplicado e tutor dos nativos.