Books with author Alan Blackwood

The sequel to #1 best selling science fiction novel Metal Boxes. Blackmon Perry Stone hasn't gotten over his fear of being outside and he still hasn't settled into life in the Empire's Navy. After months of legal wrangling over his last assignment, he has been given a new assignment. He was looking forward to getting an new posting on a spaceship or a station. The problem is that his new job is on a planet. Worse, once there, the base is overrun by the enemy aliens and now Stone is trapped outside on a hostile planet, injured, and hunted by aliens bent of killing him.

This book is the story of William Tell. It was set in Switzerland, where a tyrant named Gessler ruled over the people with an iron fist. One day this tyrant set up a tall pole in the public square, put his cap on top of it, and then gave orders that every man who came into town should bow down before it. William Tell would not do this, and laughed at the cap. Gessler became very angry and to punish Tell, who was famous in the land as a hunter, ordered that Tell's little boy stand in the square with an apple on his head, and then told Tell to shoot the apple with one of his arrows. If he failed, soldiers were to shoot the boy immediately. William Tell succeeded, to the delight of the crowd which had gathered. As he was turning away a second arrow fell from his coat. When Gessler questioned Tell about the second arrow, he replied: "This arrow was for your heart if I had hurt my child." In the 1800's Giochini Rossini composed an opera about William Tell. In the opera there was a musical piece called the William Tell overture. Part of it became the familiar theme song for "The Lone Ranger."

How can a pint-sized,self-avowed word nerd master otherworldly forces when she hardly has thewherewithal to master calculus? That's exactly the conundrum for ArielRobinson, who arrives at Montana State University and quickly encounters farmore than the normal share of freshman woes. Siren Song: Book 1 of the Siren Song Trilogy is author B.A.Blackwood's first of three wildly inventive, humor-inflected young adultfantasy novels starring fallen angels who roam the earth, and the unsuspectingwho happen across their high-flying paths.With wit, suspense, and a romance that transcends the human plane, it'sa smart, fantastical foray certain to absorb readers who relish a read that'sequal parts fantastical and downright funny. When Ariel receives the glossy brochure from MontanaState University, the outdoorsy tomboy feels like a lifer who's been shown thesecret escape passage from her parents' Dallas socialite scene. But when shearrives in Bozeman with her trunk load of books and headful of ten-dollarwords, the welcoming committee is far from what she had hoped for. Ariel'sactually been lured into the training grounds of two battling factions of theFallen Angels, who are convinced that she can lead them to the Piece of Home, amysterious, coveted object that will determine who wins their war. All is notlost, however. A ridiculously good-looking senior named Michael seems intent onpopping up everywhere to chaperone her home. While her blonde bombshell roommate Kristin and geekyclassmate Todd insert themselves into their relationship in various vexingways, Ariel is soon initiated into a world of Fallen Angels, including thekindly, patriarchal Achimalech, snooty Daniel, robotic Cyrus, and superstarlawyer Lucian. Can Ariel find the Piece of Home and settle the age-oldscore--and snag a super hot boyfriend in the process?