Book Description
Somehow, Conrad Stargard, faithful Roman Catholic and stalwart Socialist of the Peoples Republic of Poland, 20th Century, had been marooned in Poland, A.D. 1231.
Somehow, Conrad found himself under investigation by the Inquisition, got himself knighted, was granted his own fief, and made a few enemies.
Somehow, he had to round up a few vassals, build himself a city, and figure out how to survive armed combat against the Champion of the Teutonic Knights, one of the Toughest Men Alive.
Then he'd have time to worry about the Mongols . . .
Customer Reviews:
A Great, Classic Series!.......2005-08-15
This series is a real favorite of mine. Great story line, great characters, and unique ideas. Now (as of Summer 2005) the latest Conrad book, "Conrad's Crusade" is now available from Leo Frankowski, on line! It is solid action on par with the best in the series. An e-copy is available at X(...), and I recommend it highly.
A book for multiple generations!.......2002-10-06
This is the single greatest book I have ever read. And the great part is, that anybody who enjoys a good book can sit down and enjoy reading this. I am only 16 years old, and I read this book my first time when I was only 13. It may seem slightly advanced for a teenager through most people's perspectives, but we know the score just as well as anyone.
Conrad is a heroic man, throughout this entire book, whether its Conrad or Vlad telling the story, this novel holds you attention in an iron grip. Leo Frankowski is a fantastic writer, and I would recommend this book to anybody and everybody. I cant seem to get enough of it, and I hope that nobody can either! Its truly a spectacular book!
I have read this book multiple times, probably averaging once-a-month for about 3 years and 2 months now. (about 30-40 times, and Im reading it right now again.) and I love it every time I read it!
I would like to have the rest of the series, but I have no means of finding them. I have scoured bookstores all over Southern Alberta and I have not seen a single book, nor a place that could order one.
If you could help me in the respects of finding one of these books, please e-mail me at koitiz@hotmail.com with any information (no credit cards please)
If you took the time to read this, I thank-you for hearing me out, despite my age.
Five Stars is Not Enough.......2000-08-30
This is the best time travel series in a realistic timeline ever written. Before these books, L. Sprague De Camp had held that title for decades with his "Lest Darkness Fall", but it was too short. Mark Twain may be the most famous with his "Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court", but that is more light hearted than serious, and disappointing at the end. The Conrad series delivers on all the promise, and even after 5 books, it still leaves you wanting more. (There is a sixth book now, but Conrad is a minor character, and I've reviewed it separately.)
I say realistic timeline, because Conrad isn't really from our timeline. I was a little suspicious right from the start, but it wasn't until Conrad reminisced about the Mongols invading France that I thought "Hey, wait a minute". It turns out that it didn't happen to us (even without Conrad). But the historians I read agree that it would have, except the great Khan died and the Mongols had a war of succession which they never recovered from. This is often used as an example of the actions of one person changing history. I never even heard the story, until Conrad got me to look it up. Go figure.
This is an action story, with fighting and sex, where Conrad overcomes insurmountable obstacles, and usually has a good time along the way. The author doesn't just ignore the time travel though. He writes a science fiction sub-plot about that too. In fact, the author is obviously an engineer, not just because it takes an engineer for Conrad to build the things he does, but also from the way the books were planned out and crafted. Obviously the author planned the Mongol invasion and built the series around it, but he also foreshadows romantic sub-plots 3 books in advance.
I love these books, and share other reviewers disbelief that they haven't been reprinted since 1993. If you've already read them, and love them too, you might want to try "The Misplaced Legion (Videssos Cycle, Book 1)" by Harry Turtledove, about elements of one of Caesar's legions travelling into Rome's future of the Byzantine Empire. Only it's not the real Byzantine Empire, it's a parallel universe where magic works. Aside from that, it's Byzantium during the 1100's written by a Byzantine historian. And of course you'll want to read the "Island in the Sea of Time" series by S. M. Stirling, about modern day Nantucket going back in time to the Trojan War. These works are different, but also 5 stars.
Possibly the best series yet!.......1999-04-01
I have read all 5 of the "original" books at least ten times and had to put them down for years and hope to forget them. They have been, by far, some of the best science fiction I have ever read. Being an engineer myself I find his methods of getting things done and especially the way they get "Polishly" done hilarious. I have made the mistake of lending these books to people over the years and thought I was doomed when I found they were out of print and my books had never been returned. But joy of joys, Mr. Frankowski has finally re-emerged and with a sequel. Now it's time to start over and read the entire series. Except for the fact that Book 2 is not being reprinted and unavailable. Please beseech the powers that be to find it wihin their scaly hearts to reprint and allow me to move forward again! They really are the kind of book/s you just can't put down once you get started. Give number 1 a try!
Movin' on Up!.......1999-04-01
Where the Cross-time Engineer basically had our hero Conrad as the outsider trying to convince the nobility, this book has the well-established Sir Conrad being pulled in all different directions....and then there is the matter of the duel........highly recommended!
Book Description
This collection brings together the early Company stories in one volume for the first time with three previously unpublished works, including "The Queen in Yellow," written exclusively for this compilation. In these tales sci-fi fans follow the secret activities of the Company's field agents—once human, now centuries-old time-traveling immortal cyborgs—as they attempt to retrieve history's lost treasures. Botanist Mendoza's search for the rare hallucinogenic Black Elysium grape in 1844 Spanish-held Santa Barbara, facilitator Joseph's dreamlike solicitation of the ailing Robert Louis Stevenson in 1879, and marine salvage specialist Kalugin's recovering of an invaluable Eugène Delacroix painting from a sunken yacht off the coast of Los Angeles in 1894 are included.
Customer Reviews:
The truth about the angels: post-modern Time Patrol.......2007-01-26
Rich and evocative, funny and moving, these stories are a real gem in modern science-fiction. The characters are original and sympathetic, and I couldn't help compare those stories to the Time Patrol stories of Poul Anderson. "Zeus" seems a rather more sinister employer than Anderson's organization, and certainly it's more like Asimov's "Eternity" in ruthless engineering of human history. I find this book and the "Company" series a very pleasant, intriguing and worthy read. Asimov would have loved the Shakespeare story, I think.
Great writing, shaky science fiction.......2006-03-16
I have very mixed feelings about these stories. I don't know how comprehensible they would be to someone who hasn't had Baker's universe explained to them, but the stories are enthralling, wise and witty. One might want to first read at least the beginning of In the Garden of Iden (The Company) where the premise is explained. I thoroughly enjoyed reading most of them. They just aren't very good science fiction - Baker's universe is losing the integrity that separates science fiction from fiction with fantastic touches.
The Company novels are based on the premise that written history cannot be altered, but unrecorded history can. This is apparently "cannot" in the strict sense of the word, as in not possible, not "cannot" in the sense of forbidden or imprudent. This is a pretty weak premise: how can being recorded fix history, especially given that historical accounts are often contradictory? If the only account is actually inaccurate, does that alter history? What happens when the accepted account is altered by new material or archeological evidence? However, I am generally willing to allow one weak premise to get a good story going.
There is a distinction here: there are anomolies that the characters notice, and which supply part of the plot. I am referring here to oddities that none of them seem to see.
Reading these short stories seriously strains the premise: in one story, an operative saves a doomed infant - are we to understand that this must mean that the infant's society wouldn't have recorded his early death? Or that at no time in his life will his existence be noted, he won't have children? Would the medical procedures would have mysteriously failed if he belonged to a society that kept detailed records, or if his mother kept a diary or if he had descendents who would one day enter the written record?
Much of the activity of the Company agents is recovering and secreting items that were historically lost. Logically, however, the items could not be found before the order went out to rescue them (in the 24th century) or written history would be altered if the rediscovery of the artifact is noted. The recovery is often the focus of the plot in these stories: in one of the short stories, papers are taken out of an Egyptian tomb opened in 1914; at least one of them shows up in the 22d century and thereafter dramatically affects history. The story is gripping and hysterically funny, but this violation of the logic of Baker's universe bothers me.
I found the story "The Hotel at Harlan's Landing" haunting and reminiscent of the Twilight Zone. I was spellbound while reading it, but later I couldn't help wondering why the Courier cyborg in "Facts Relating to the Arrest of Dr. Kulagin" has a locater beacon that goes off when it is damaged and the damaged cyborg in this story doesn't. And why would someone unnecessarily force a physical confrontation when at a numerical disadvantage?
Several of the stories are about Alex, who I suspect is connected with Nicholas and Edward, featured in the novels. I enjoyed the stories as a comment on overly-organized and protective societies, but his sidekick "Captain Henry Morgan" is a bit too twee for me. I have this horrible feeling that Alex will be appearing in a swooning novel in the future.
Readers presumably know their own tastes. The reader that doesn't avoid science fiction, or who isn't bothered by logical inconsistencies will have some wonderful writing to enjoy.
cyborgs and time travel?.......2005-10-29
Obviously running around in time and space would take a lot out on a body so why not use cyborgs? Why not use robots actually? Perhaps cyborgs look and act more human and thus can mingle better. As interesting as Kage Baker's "Company" is I liked the Alex Checkerfield stories the best. The boy who isn't as "made for" his society is a very real character and an interesting commentary on the idea that society must protect people can be taken to the extreme.
Snapshots from the Kage Bakers excellent world of Cyborgs.......2005-07-22
Kage Baker has created a fascinating world where cyborgs, human beings who have been enhanced, augmented and made immortal live through the ages doing the bidding of the Dr Zeus Corporation in the 24th century. They collect artifact, rare plants, and anything else that has monetary value in the dreary world of the future. This collection of short storys, some previously published, shows snippets of the very longs lives of Mendoza, Budu, Lewis and other cyborgs who appear in the novels of the Company.
Alec Checkerfield, also a creation of Dr Zeus but not a cyborg - well, not like the others - is featured in four stories. These are part of the foundation for the novel `The Life on the World To Come', also by Baker.
I love what Baker has created and enjoyed each of the stories. While they stand alone as written, the reader will enjoy them more if the previous novels in this series are read as well. They fill in many of the holes that the stories expose (but cannot fill without turning into a novel). Since the setting of the series is the entire planet and all of recorded history (plus the future up until 2355) there is plenty of room for more stories of this type and I hope to see more soon.
In Good Company.......2004-12-14
Before reading the Company novels, I was introduced to the idea through her short stories in the pages of Asmiov's. I feel that the shorter works are the strength of Baker and are better than the novels.
The idea of immortal cyborgs hiding in the shadows of history to plunder artifacts recorded as lost or destroyed is clever and provides the opportunity to place stories in a myriad of periods and cultures as well as dealing with famous and not so famous historical characters.
We not only get to see the two main characters, Joseph and Mendoza in these stories, but some more amusing operatives such as Kalugin and Lewin, providing more breadth on the operations of the company. In fact we get to see the early cyborgs, pre homo sapiens designed for enforcement rather than preservation or faciliation. A broad history of the company is painted in these short tales.
All the stories are quite good, as enjoyable in this collection as they were on the first read. The one caveat is that all together they are a bit much particularly if read in one sitting. Other than that I think the Company tales are first rate storytelling and Kage Baker a wonderful author.
Customer Reviews:
Fun read.......2007-07-05
Fairly good take on the supernatural existing side by side with the world as we know it. I liked it.
Dull and Banal.......2007-05-28
This work is actually a collection of short stories under the guise of a novel. Each story is connected to each other by clumsily written literary threads, providing cover for the fact that the author hasn't the imagination or the creativity to expand each story into a full-length book. I was looking forward to reading about vampires and werewolves, but they only appeared briefly in the stories, I found that immensely disappointing. More than that, I found that the actions and motivations of the characters to be inconsistent and unrealistic. The author failed to make me care about what happened to them.
It was a poorly written book, overall. And dull. I can see why this book is out of print.
Enjoyable light urban fantasy.......2007-01-23
Information researcher Jason Wood has used digital image enhancement to hone the photograph and the result is obvious. A bribe is being paid. The only problem is, only one person is shown. So, what happened to the other. Wood is a modern guy and doesn't want to believe in magic, but someone is on the other side of that bribe--and there are even footprints showing where he should be. So, exactly what can pay bribes, press footprints down on the earth, yet not be seen in photographs. A vampire jumps to mind, and there aren't a lot of good alternatives.
When Wood threatens vampire Verne Domingo, he doesn't begin to understand how much trouble he's in. Domingo is as old and powerful as vampires get--and that's saying a lot. Strangely, though, he seems amused by Wood and the two become friends. Being friends with a powerful vampire has its upside, but it also puts Wood in harm's way when some of Domingo's enemies become Wood's enemies as well. Wood finds himself experimenting with wood and silver bullets, garlic, crystals, and all other manner of devices against the undead and other paranormal forces.
Author Ryk E. Spoor brings a light touch to the urban fantasy genre. With Wood's help, Domingo becomes an benefactor of the arts, and turns priceless antiques he's hoarded for thousands of years over to museums. As the story progresses, we learn more about Domingo's past and the vampire continues to grow as a character. Spoor's writing is interesting and inobtrusive, making DIGITAL KNIGHT an involving read.
Fairly fun first novel.......2006-07-19
Digital Knight is a pleasant piece of fairly light entertainment. It's not quite a novel, rather a series of closely linked novelettes and novellas, with a hint of a larger story arc that isn't resolved in this book.
Jason Wood is a specialist in computer-based research in roughly present-day Morgantown, NY. His clients include the police, for whom he does high-tech photo enhancement, and image comparison to track down suspicious characters, and such stuff. In the opening story he is analyzing some pictures of a drug deal when he deduces (against his will) that one of the principals must be a vampire (because he doesn't show up in a picture taken by a camera that uses mirrors in its optics). Before long he's got a vampire friend, a psychic girlfriend, and he's famous for having brought the werewolf menace into the open -- as well as rich for having designed a werewolf detector. And as the story goes on the supernatural backgrounding gains depth, as a long history involving something like Atlantis, and good vampires and bad vampires, and werewolves and other strange beings, is slowly sketched in.
As I said, it's mostly pretty fun. I'm not sure it all holds together as well as it might, and there are one or two missteps partly traceable to its serial origins. The central love story is not terribly involving. But the general working out of the magical conflicts is pretty clever, and the book reads nicely and keeps the reader interested. No masterpiece, but not bad.
Okay Ryk E., We are ready for the next one.......2005-10-06
I thought this was a fantastic little book. The style was a bit "noir", with plenty of hackneyed prose and one reference to the cosmic mind-woogie!!! Read it... you'll understand :) Ryk has created an interesting world here with inter-related themes, baddies, good guys and all kinds of directions in which to spin yarns. You'd almost think this writer was a gamer on his day job! The logic and how the hero solved his problems and explained the solutions without taking away from the story was incredible!! I rate this a definite should-read. No sex, no too bad gore.... okay for the kids too!
Average customer rating:
- Wonderful jaunt thru ancient history!
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The High Tech Knight
Manufacturer: Del Rey
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 9994786156 |
Customer Reviews:
Wonderful jaunt thru ancient history!.......1996-12-15
In this book and it's three companions (The Radiant Warrior,
The Flying Warlord, and Lord Conrad's Lady) Frankowski takes
us on a wonderfull tale of a young, modern-day engineering
student accidently(sp?) returned to midevil (sp?!) Poland
where he attempts to reconstruct modern civilization before
the mongol hordes arrive to wipe everybody out. This book
really appealed to my "engineer's" side but with few
exceptions, kept very realistic. Good mixture of real
history and plausible science. The story is one part SF
(time travel), 40 parts history, 50 parts hard science
(engineering), 5 parts wenching, drinking, and generally
being a normal guy in those days, and 2 parts court intrigue.
(lost a part or two in there somewhere).
All in all- an excellant read!
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The Internet Hero: Darc Fyber Is the Hero With the Knights of the Router Table
B. T. Slader
Manufacturer: Writers Club Press
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Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 0595203744 |
Book Description
The Internet Hero not only attempts to tell a good story, but also gives examples of good and bad leadership, principles of teamwork, and tries to make technical Internet terms easy to understand. In addition, there is some Darc psychology and sociology splattered amongst the pages. If you're a novice to the Internet, please see the glossary for a reference to the meaning of technical terms. The glossary may also be read for the sheer enjoyment of it, but watch out for "Brain Overload". The appendix contains the contents of my website, which includes tips and links on how to be a more secure Internet surfer.
So "Bit Down" with Darc Fyber.
"Bytes For Rights!!"
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Vagabond Knights: The Destruction of Chaos
Drew Evans
Manufacturer: iUniverse, Inc.
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Binding: Hardcover
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ASIN: 0595857469 |
Book Description
This time its personal...
The threat of extinction seemed all but gone after Gideon struck the final blow that sent Zadock tumbling back down into the bowels of Hell. Still, Zadocks defeat only fueled Gideon's lust for power. He blamed himself for the deaths of friends and loved ones, and, he all but vanished for two years, as peace slowly settled over the lands. It was during this time that Gideon found many reason to continue what Zadock had initially begun. His self-blame soon turned to hatred that he in turn intends to unleash upon mankind. His only son, Lars must now confront his father and convince him to stop his evil ways. If he fails he will have no choice but to challenge him to a battle to the death. Could Lars actually kill his own father or will he simply follow in his footsteps? The fate of mankind rests in his hands.
"Brace yourself...Drew Evans is back!"
Book Description
This digital document is an article from Plastics Technology, published by Gardner Publications, Inc. on November 1, 1996. The length of the article is 1099 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
Citation Details
Title: High-tech solutions, new materials highlight thermoforming meeting. (Sixth Annual Thermoforming Conference)
Author: Mikell Knights
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Plastics Technology (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 1996
Publisher: Gardner Publications, Inc.
Volume: v42
Issue: n11
Page: p21(2)
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Book Description
Thorough explanation of sixty-nine ethical and philosophical arguments sometimes given to defend a proDchoice position and persuasive proDlife responses to each.
Customer Reviews:
Absolutely Outstanding.......2005-06-18
Author Beckwith utterly destroys the pro-abortion arguments using reason and logic. No author I have read so far has done such an extraordinary job of demonstrating that the unborn child is a human being and has the same God-given rights as the rest of us. If I had to use one book to cram for a debate on this issue, I would not hesitate to choose this one.
Not 100% Pro-Life.......2003-04-29
I have used this book for research purposes, and from what I've read so far, I find this to be an overall excellent resource. However, just today I saw that it has at least two fundamental flaws: Beckwith is not 100% pro-Life.
On page 115, for instance, he writes: "...there could be times at which abortion is justified." An example case he mentions is where a woman's pregnancy will probably result in her death due to, say, a tubal pregnancy. Says Beckwith: "Because it is a greater good that one human should live rather than two die, the pro-lifer believes that in this case abortion is justified."
This is preposterous. First, *he* believes this, but certainly not all pro-lifers! Secondly, in the case he mentions, abortion would NOT be justified still as one would be engaging in an instrinsically immoral act in order to bring about a good. In other words, he is implicitly saying that the end justifies the means--but this is consequentialism. It is always wrong to kill an innocent human being deliberately, and therefore we could NOT kill the baby in the fallopian tube even if the result will be that both mother and baby die. The only possibility to save the life of the mother would be if the circumstances would allow us to make use of the Principle of Double-Effect -- that is, if saving the mother's life would only *unintentionally* and *indirectly* entail the death of the baby, such as when a cancerous uterus has to be removed and the woman happens to be pregnant. But direct killing of a human fetus is never permissible, no matter what "good" might come out of it.
Think about it. Beckwith's position here entails that if we can prevent 100,000 people from dying of, say, cancer by killing one innocent person, then that's a good thing to do. But this is morally reprehensible.
Another unacceptable thing Beckwith says on page 114: "Biological human life without the natural inherent capacity to function as a person (that is, the metaphysical grounding of human personhood that makes human function possible) is probably not fully human." This is a preposterous assertion. To say that there can be human life that's not fully human is first of all a logical contradiction. Secondly, his statement implies that someone who does not fulfill whatever criteria of "personhood" he may consider necessary, then he is "sub-human" or something. I am puzzled that Beckwith would make such an argument, because it contradicts his otherwise keen intellect and good argumentation.
Unfortunately, I can only endorse this book with strong reservations now. Most of the other things I have read were very good. I want to make this point clear. It is definitely a terrific book to have, but, alas, not uncompromisingly pro-Life. I also wish to caution about the author's theology, as he is a Protestant.
Do not read this book if you want to stay numb to reality.......2002-06-12
I will put this review simply:
This book will forever end for the debate over whether abortion is morally correct, or whether it is the taking of a human life for the convenience of another.
Period.
I was what I will call abortion-agnostic prior to reading this book, and considered myself "pro-choice". I now understand just how much the pro-choice movement, along with its strongest supporter: Planned Parenthood, has fooled millions of people with rhetoric and politically charged spin control. This is truly tragic. The truth is so obvious everyone! Open your eyes!
Every single argument that the pro-choice liberal agenda tries to throw at you is false, and not even close to reality.
As I said, if you want to stay numb to reality, and go along with the crowd, do not read this book. No one who reads it will be able to refute that abortion is a horrible act of brutally murdering a human being.
Top pro-life book around.......2002-06-03
This book by an eminent Christian philosopher, Francis Beckwith, supports the traditional Christian pro-life position that human life begins at conception (fertilization) and that it is wrong to take this life except where the mother's actual life is in danger.
Beckwith thoroughly refutes pro-abortion arguments, both the popular rhetoric in the media and political circles, as well as the sophisticated philosophical arguments by more intellectual abortion advocates (who are contemptuous of much popular pro-abortion 'reasoning'). He knows how to use logical arguments to show that pro-abortionists use both false premises and invalid reasoning from both false and true premises to support their view. There is even a chapter refuting an article purporting to be 'A Pro-Choice Bible Study'. Finally there is a fictional Socratic dialogue aimed to support non-violent civil disobedience such as Operation Rescue.
It has been very useful to me recently in my own writing projects on topics like embryonic stem cells. Beckwith already anticipated such specious arguments such as,
*'Identical twins prove that life doesn't begin at conception' (twinning may be a form of asexual reproduction, where one embryo divides into two, but this doesn't mean that s/he wasn't an individual before then),
* The early embryo doesn't look human? (yes it does -- just the way it should look at that age. Also, appearances are defective -- Statues and store mannequins look human, but are not; abnormal-looking humans like the 'elephant man' are still human).
* 'Most zygotes never make it to term?' (but all we humans have virtually a 100% mortality rate, but this doesn't mean it's OK to actively murder someone!)
* The Clintonian pseudo-Biblical argument that the account of Adam's creation shows that life begins when breathing starts (First, unborn babies do 'breathe' or at least respire, just not through their lungs. Secondly, the creation of Adam and Eve was a special case -- 'neither of them had mothers or came from an embryo, so it's illegitimate to extrapolate from their example. It would be just as (il)logical to claim that since they began lives as adults, human life today doesn't begin till adulthood!)
This is easily the most comprehensive pro-life defence around, so is very important for Christians. This is not to say that it's totally without flaws, although they are not enough to detract from a five-star rating.
One obvious deficiency is the lack of pictures, which are often highly effective in convincing the general public of the humanity of the unborn.
I also think Beckwith deals unfairly with the adoption argument on p. 15. Of course, if the unborn baby is human and murder is wrong, this would not change even if there were no couples willing to adopt. But the point of the adoption argument is well in line with what Beckwith practises so effectively --' both demonstrating the falsity of the premise(s) as well as showing that the conclusion would not follow even if the premise(s) were true. So the adoption argument is really demonstrating that the pro-death premise 'there are many unwanted babies' is false, without conceding at all the inference 'if a baby is not wanted, then it can be killed'.
Also there is some downplaying the need for an objective moral lawgiver who has revealed His will in the Bible. When evolution has replaced the Bible as authority, anything goes. This is epitomised by the neo-Nazi views of Peter Singer who supports infanticide of physically 'defective' infants and elderly people with Alzheimer's -- because in an evolutionary world view, there is nothing to say that human life is any more sacred than animal life. This is why it's not always enough to show that the baby is human.
But I repeat, this book is probably the single most valuable specialist defence of the pro-life view around, so is essential reading for all those who wish to stand up for unborn babies.
fantastic presentation of the pro-life position.......2002-03-21
Dr Beckwith does a fine job here of offering refutations to the argumentation provided by the pro-choice crowd - from the popular "run of the mill/ garden variety" to the more philosophical objections to the pro-life position. This is a must read for anyone involved in the pro-life movement, as it gives the necessary introductory scientific background on embryology and catalogs the different pro-choice objections that are often raised. Additionally, I think it would behoove the pro-choicer to read this work; to reconsider their own position in light of Dr. Beckwith's argumentation.
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- The Illustrated Brief History of Time, Updated and Expanded Edition
- The Infinity Race (Doctor Who)
- The Lazarus Effect
- The Man Who Fell to Earth (Del Rey Impact)
- The Man With the Golden Torc
- The Monsters of Morley Manor: A Madcap Adventure
- The New Essential Guide to Droids (Star Wars)
- The Only Witness (Star Wars: Jedi Apprentice, 17)
- The Quantum Connection (Warp Speed)
- The Quantum Rose (The Saga of the Skolian Empire)
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