It's known for aging nearby stars by eons virtually overnight, and being untraversable as ships break apart in the gravity anomalies shortly after entering.

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Presented in a lavish slipcase, it includes all three novels in the series, Priests of Mars , Lords of Mars , and Gods of Mars , as well as short story Zero Day Exploit (included with book three). There’s very little complexity in characterization or plot, but it can be a nice violent grimdark read. Animal Motifs: The Princepses of the Titans accompanying the Speranza appear to have all come from a hostile frozen environment similar to Fenris, and they associate with each other as if they were wolves or feral dogs, considering their group to be a "pack", battling for leadership of the group or "alpha", and giving their Titans animal-like features. The mission fleet has two ships who share names with Iron Maiden songs ("Moonchild" and "Wrathchild").A Lesson in Defeat: Dahan is far too overconfident in his belief that combat can be reduced to a pure science, the Black Templars wish to teach him otherwise so they shock him by having him duel their youngest member, the 24 year-old new initiate Yael. It is said one has to wait an entire Barsoomian year before the room the prisoner is in revolves back to the entrance.

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When Telok unleashes them to hunt down Kotov, they tear through a squad of Howling Banshees and give the Black Templars some serious trouble. Roborte Surcorf takes a minor role in this novel, where in the first the rogue trader was a central character. When Blaylock protests that he can’t do this, Kotov retorts, "I am an archmagos of the Adeptus Mechanicus.Surprise, at the mid point in the story where things promise to get more interesting but I honestly didn't care at that point and stopped reading. The Markandeya Purana contains the astrological Mangala Kavacha Stotram, which includes a prayer to be recited to Mangala for seeking protection.

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Like many of Burroughs' heroines, she is tough, courageous, proud, and strongly identified with her aristocratic position in Martian society. As per usual his novels are guided more into character development than anything else and he does and excellent job in that regard. My only quibble is that the climax, as in nearly all W40K novels, devolves into a lot of war making. This genre is a subset of science fiction, similar to sword and sorcery, but including scientific elements.Alien Geometries: The physical form of the Breath of the Gods is a mass of metal blades whirling around a core of glowing energy.

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Crazy-Prepared: Almost, rarely has there been such a mighty fleet especially for an exploration mission.

For added irony, Saiixek actually tries to dissuade Kotov from doing this, because losing the ratings would set the expedition behind. Mind Hive: The artificially intelligent construct Galatea claims to be this, but the brains it totes around seem to be there for it to leech knowledge from more than anything else.