Bøger af Tim Fox

Afterlands Convergence Trilogy is a story set 14,000 years from now, at the close of the next ice age, when a small group of outcasts will decide the fate of a world endangered by long lost technologies melting from the ice. Ice Watch, Book 1, follows a team of relic hunters searching for ancient technologies in a race to advance a perilous industrial resurgence. But the path ahead offers them a chance to find something else they don't yet know they've forsaken: a lasting future.

It's 2182 AD and Orbital Systems Technician, Wil Jantz, just wants to explore the cosmos. Instead, he's stuck servicing derelict satellites high above a slowly freezing Earth.Then a minor mishap shakes his reality and sets in motion a cascade of events that could not only fulfill his dreams in ways beyond his wildest imaginings, but cast ripples across millennia. Ebb and Ice includes the bonus backstory "The Zookeeper's Revolt."

Pro Oracle Application Express 4 is your key to mastering one of the most innovative products to come out of Oracle in years. Application Express, termed "APEX" for short, is fast becoming one of the easiest and most widely-used of tools for creating enterprise-level applications that run against an Oracle database. APEX is easy enough for power users to create ad-hoc applications atop something more reliable than a spreadsheet. Yet APEX is powerful and extensible enough to enable fully-scalable, enterprise-level applications that are accessed by thousands of users.Authors Tim Fox, John Scott, and Scott Spendolini take you to the professional level in developing for Application Express. They show how to handle user authentication in enterprise environments and how to extend APEX by writing components based upon Oracle's new plug-in architecture. You'll learn to deal with localization issues such as time zones and translations, and to customize the look and feel of an APEX website to blend in with your corporate branding strategy. The authors also cover web service development, performance and scalability, and the production issues that you encounter in enterprise-level deployments. Many years of experience in solving the "hard problems" are coalesced in this book to help you, the reader, take advantage of all that APEX has to offer. Focuses on high-end, enterprise-level development Covers new features such as plug-ins and Websheets Introduces the new interface released with APEX 4.0

Wow!For those of you who have been playing along ("Scavengyr Hunt" and "Wytch Hunt,") you know our boy Tal is, as the young people say, "All up in it now." If there's such a thing as a literary rollercoaster (suggested new word options being "Litercoaster" or "Rollerrarry") Tal is on one.This term's Hunts School 'winner take all" hunt is a Treasyre Hunt and any team that wants to rule the known universe for the next three hundred years has to go big. Which in the Folk Realms always means the possibility of death (or worse.)Here's a little foreshadowing for you: Notos has a really big secret, Nord has cranked his jackassery to stratospheric heights, Kati meets The Simurgh, Helblad, Kingbossdaddy of the Undead, may yet end up serving Tal as the main course at the next draugr feast, our hero has conversations with talking stone heads, Tal meets a (lesser) Roman god who runs an apothecary store, there are fun tymes in othertyme, watch out for the mean grimoires that torture their readers, a meute of werewolves get their disco groove on, and Tal's girlfriend seduces him into going to hell. Well, actually it's Five-Hells, and technically Tal sends himself. Regardless, it's a major relationship bummer.Some Folks win. Some Folks lose. Some Folks get their just desserts. Some Folks get other Folk's just desserts.Some other Folks-unless they snag bigger roles when Hollywood monetizes these insanely brilliant literary masterpieces-get no dessert at all.It's all terribly good fun and by the time you finish, I'm sure we'll all be in agreement-THAT IT WAS ABOUT TIME.

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When Tal Smith woke up on the morning of his eighteenth birthday, the main thing on his mind was earning a full ride scholarship at a college somewhere far, far away. That changed pretty quickly. First thing that morning he was kidnapped by the local high school bullies, who then drove him out to the middle of nowhere, before throwing him out of the back of their still moving pickup truck. After pulling the burlap bag off his head, Tal discovered they'd dumped him at some tired, old, beat down gas station out in the middle of absolutely nowhere. When he pulled himself together to start the long trek back home he saw a note addressed to him, taped to the service bay door. Then the Air Hose started hissing at him, and both of the out of order Gas Pumps start ringing up text messages. All of them telling him that he had to go to the Ladies' Room because worlds (yes, plural) depended on him. So, he went to the Ladies' Room. When he opened the door he found himself at a place called Hunts School. The students there are in their final year of a hundred year school session, and there are nine teams competing to be the ruler of all of the known worlds (again, the plural) for the next three hundred years. Tal has the recurring problem of a ghoul that hides under his bed and tries to steal his face. He meets a draugr whose primary goal is to kill him (and eat him.) There are also some luscious siren mermaids (also trying to kill him and eat him.) He meets one amazing young woman-who he seems to get sideways with at every turn-so he's pretty much permanently in the doghouse with her. There's another really hot girl who's totally into hooking up with him (she also wants to kill him, but at least she doesn't want to eat him.) His team helps him make a simulacrum golem (who is him, but not him.) He meets Merlin (well, kinda sorta Merlin) and King Arthur (again, that would be kinda sorta King Arthur.) He learns that whoever wrote all of those old myths and stories totally got most of the details wrong. Everyone's spelling at Hunts School is completely jacked up, the use of the letter "y" is rampant. Tal is supposed to be Seeking the Center (whatever that is) but it seems like every time he turns around someone says, "your life is forfeit," or "you're dead, human." Which seemed at first to be unnecessarily negative, but apparently might be true. Since at the end of the first term he has to fight to the death for his team to advance to the next Hunt. "Finals," takes on a completely new meaning for him. Enjoy the Journey!

So, here's the tale, thus far. Tal Smith, your basic run of the mill high school genius, is the first Dust Child ever admitted to the Hunts School, and allowed to participate in the Folk Tyrning Hunts. In retrospect, things might could have gone a little smoother the first term. Sure, Tal's team, the Omada, did well on the Scavengyr Hunt, and they're still in the running to be the Ruling Council of the known universe for the next three hundred years. That's a plus. There were a couple of small hiccups. Tal was pretty much killed by his Hunts School squeeze in a Combat Challenge. And, if he doesn't return Helblad the draugr's long lost love by the year end Coronation Ceremony, Helblad gets to eat Tal for dinner. What's on tap for this term? The sadistic HuntsMistress picked a Wytch Hunt-which has a high student mortality rate. If that's not bad enough, it turns out the wytches are really not very nice people. Oh, and there's the little matter of someone dying at this year's Winter Formal.