Originally published as an interactive novel on computer disk in 1986, "Portal" is the story of an astronaut who returns to earth from a mysteriously aborted mission prematurely awakened from suspended animation. One hundred years have passed; animals and plants thrive, cities stand intact. Every human being, however, has disappeared.
With the help of a slowly reviving computer network, the astronaut begins to piece together the events of the last century. He learns of the child prodigy Peter Devore, of a world orchestrated by stunning new technologies, and of Peter's race against time to...
Originally published as an interactive novel on computer disk in 1986, "Portal" is the story of an astronaut who returns to earth from a mysteriously ...
Professor Van Weathers has just revolutionized the teaching of Maya archaeology. His lifelike computer simulation Xibalba Gate places his students in the world of the Late Classic Maya, where political strife, overpopulation, warfare, and social disorganization are in evidence in the soon-to-collapse civilization. Weathers' real life is also under strain-- his wife is disenchanted, his son a cynic, his students disinterested, his excavation project blocked by a mysterious Latin American holding company. No wonder he loses himself in the world of King Knot Eye of Xultunich for days on end. But...
Professor Van Weathers has just revolutionized the teaching of Maya archaeology. His lifelike computer simulation Xibalba Gate places his students in ...
A Turkish farmer finds a large obsidian mirror on top of a mound. How did it get there? What did it mean for its creator, and what does it mean for us? In this teaching novel by writer Rob Swigart, the story toggles back and forth between a Neolithic village--and the changing fortunes of the family who finds this wondrous tool--and modern archaeologists whose excavated treasure stirs journalists, governments, and goddess worshippers alike. Through an engrossing tale across millennia, Swigart's novel provides both a basic reconstruction of Neolithic lifeways and a primer on contemporary...
A Turkish farmer finds a large obsidian mirror on top of a mound. How did it get there? What did it mean for its creator, and what does it mean for us...
A Turkish farmer finds a large obsidian mirror on top of a mound. How did it get there? What did it mean for its creator, and what does it mean for us? In this teaching novel by writer Rob Swigart, the story toggles back and forth between a Neolithic village--and the changing fortunes of the family who finds this wondrous tool--and modern archaeologists whose excavated treasure stirs journalists, governments, and goddess worshippers alike. Through an engrossing tale across millennia, Swigart's novel provides both a basic reconstruction of Neolithic lifeways and a primer on contemporary...
A Turkish farmer finds a large obsidian mirror on top of a mound. How did it get there? What did it mean for its creator, and what does it mean for us...
In "Vector," Rob Swigart introduced Detective Cobb Nakamura of the Kauai police and microbiologist Chazz Koenig in a potent thriller mixing myth, science and murder. "Toxin" returns to the tiny Hawaiian island with a gripping novel of a local shooting and international intrigue.
The quiet beauty of Kauai is disturbed when a wealthy developer is murdered. Then a satellite carrying an unknown toxin falls onto the island, poisoning several people and causing a panic.
Only Chazz Koenig's expertise in cell biology and Takamura's careful sleuthing can piece together the entire picture and...
In "Vector," Rob Swigart introduced Detective Cobb Nakamura of the Kauai police and microbiologist Chazz Koenig in a potent thriller mixing myth, s...
