James Follett - Earthsearch I, Earthsearch II, Earthsearch - Mindwarp (Prequel)
The BBC radio dramatisation of the story about the crew of a starship who were born in space, but whose spiritual home is Earth- Which has somehow vanished from the solar system. They have studied holograms and videos of Earth and long to find it and return there - after half a million years.
If you've seen The Phantom Menace in a theater--and, judging from the 1999 box-office figures, who hasn't?--you've probably been a bit frustrated by the speed with which the fantastic images and creatures fly past. There's no such problem with this book. All the excitement of the Star Wars prequel is there, but this time there's breathing room, a chance to meet the characters, let them walk around in your imagination, hear their thoughts.
Added by: Au_claire | Karma: 26.92 | Fiction literature | 9 January 2011
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It Had to Be You: The Gossip Girl Prequel
In this prequel to the Gossip Girl series, we learn how Serena left Constance Billard School for Girls after falling in love with Nate; Blair's obsession with Audrey Hepburn; and how Nate came in between best friends Serena and Blair.
During the war against D'Hara, a young woman meets with Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander, Wizard of the First Order.
Much later in the plot, Wizard Zorander, during a coup attempt from the D'Haran Empire, summoned a massive ball of wizard's fire while invoking a spell of threes. With one of the three wishes the spell effectively grants, he gained the knowledge to summon barriers, barriers wrought from the underworld that split the Midlands, D'Hara, and Westland...
