Download or read book Shattered Skies written by Alice Henderson and published by Rebel Base Books. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Earth ravaged by an environmental catastrophe now faces its greatest threat—from space. And only the woman known as H124 can harness a lost technology to save it from absolute destruction. The Skyfire Saga As a deadly asteroid careens towards Earth, H124 and her Badlander companions race against time to piece together the ancient ruins of a spaceship that can intercept it. But this is not their only mission. In case their plan is not successful, they must warn the residents of Delta City of the impending impact, giving them a chance to seek shelter. Aligned against a power-hungry media empire that feeds off an apathetic and unsuspecting populace, H124 knows that knowledge is her greatest weapon. And as news of the incoming asteroid spreads, the citizens begin to turn away from those who have kept them shackled in ignorance. Backed into a corner, Earth’s corrupt rulers will do anything to stop H124, even if it means sacrificing the planet itself . . .

Download or read book ZWEIHANDER Grim Perilous RPG written by Daniel D. Fox and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 1618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powered by HTML, this Zweihander eBook edition is published with a nuanced reflowable document layout. It includes: Reflowable text and images Sidebar navigation via device contents Hyperlinked Table of Contents and Index for fast, easy searches Hyperlinked cross-references throughout the book Tap and zoom illustrations This digital format differs from standard fixed layouts and PDFs. We highly suggest users download a sample before purchasing. WELCOME TO GRIM & PERILOUS GAMING Featured on Forbes.com, ranked one of the best-selling fantasy tabletop role-playing games at DriveThruRPG, and having sold over 90,000 copies worldwide, ZWEIHÄNDER Grim & Perilous RPG is a bloodier, grimmer, and grittier version of classical tabletop role-playing games. This revised edition is published in celebration with Andrews McMeel Publishing and features a refreshed layout, new artwork, rules clarifications, color plates by Dejan Mandic, and errata. ZWEIHÄNDER Grim & Perilous RPG is a game where your characters will: Live in a gritty, "realistic" fantasy world Make morally grey decisions & enact vicious reprisals Uncover insidious plots & political intrigue Take part in heart-pumping chase scenes Venture into the wilderness & survive its perils Desperately fight in clandestine & open field combat Defend themselves from injuries, madness, & mutations Encounter sanity-blasting creatures & their minions Using the Powered By ZWEIHÄNDER d100 game engine, you will create grim characters, write perilous adventures, and build your own low fantasy & dark fantasy campaigns. These rules are a perfect fit for Renaissance and medieval-styled adventures, too. You can also use this book to create your own home-brewed worlds, whether inspired by the works of Andrzej Sapkowski’s The Witcher, George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones, Glen Cook’s Black Company, Myke Cole’s The Armored Saint, Robert E. Howard’s Solomon Kane, Scott Lynch’s Gentlemen Bastard series, or other "grimdark"-inspired media. This all-in-one game includes most of what you need to play: a character creation guide, game mastery rules, and a bestiary brimming with creatures both fair & foul. All that’s left are a few friends, pencils, and a handful of dice. ZWEIHÄNDER Grim & Perilous RPG awaits, and the fate of your grim & perilous tale hangs in the balance!

Download or read book Noir Now and Then written by Ronald Schwartz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-06-30 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This examniation of the cinematic style of film noir originals and their neo-noir remakes compares thirty-five films, beginning with Billy Wilder's classic Double Indemnity and concluding with Jim McBride's Breathless. In-depth analysis of the films explain the qualities and characteristics of film noir, while providing critical readings of both the originals and the remakes. The most significant films since 1944 are reviewed and reveal the ever-changing values in American society. As this study reveals, the noir style significantly impacted American film and neo-noir remakes attest to its continued popularity in cinematic art. This work will appeal to film scholars and to fans of film noir. Filmogrpahies and video information follow each chapter. Appendices briefly explain the roots of many noir films discussed in the text along with their subsequent remakes.

Download or read book Badlanders written by David Robbins and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INHERITED TROUBLE When Alexander Jessup moves with his two daughters to the Badlands to run a ranch, he’s unprepared for the West’s deathly perils. But despite the dangers, his daughter Edana is determined to manage the Diamond B. And it may be possible, thanks to ranch’s foreman, Neal Bonner, and his partner, Jericho, an expert gunman. But Edana’s headstrong sister, Isolda, has other plans. She has no interest in herding cows—or in polite society, for that matter. So she latches onto cutthroat conman Beaumont Adams, and the two scheme to take over the Diamond B with the help of the worst criminals in the Badlands. Now Edana, Neal, and Jericho must face down a pack of stone-cold thieves and murderers to save their ranch—or die trying.

Download or read book The Land You Never Leave written by Angus Watson and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The David Gemmell Award-shortlisted author of Age of Iron returns with the second book in his epic West of West trilogy, in which a mismatched group of refugees must battle animals and monsters, an unforgiving land and each other as they cross a continent to fulfill a prophecy. Welcome to the Badlands. . . Newly and uneasily allied, two tribes from different worlds set off across the Ocean of Grass. Their mission is to fulfill a prophecy and take Ottar the Moaner west of west, to save mankind. In their way are the denizens of the Badlands, the most terrifying and powerful collection of murderers and monsters the world has ever seen.

Download or read book Parched written by Georgia Clark and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2014-03-07 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In sixteen-year-old Tessendra Rockwood's world, natural resources are at an all-time low. Most of the remaining supplies are funneled into Eden, known as the "powerful city of shining abundance," while citizens of the Badlands eat gelatinous gray porridge and drink reddish iron water. Tess was born an Edenite, but after the death of her scientist mother she decides to combat this inequality by joining a rebel group called Kudzu. Together they uncover a shocking government plot to carry out genocide in the Badlands using artifical intelligence. Unofrtunately, Tess has some complicated ties to the project that test her loyalty. Robots, renewable resources, and romance get tangled together as Tess risks her life to bring justice to Eden.

Download or read book You Die When You Die written by Angus Watson and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You die when you die . . . You can't change your fate -- so throw yourself into battle, because you'll either win or wake up drinking mead in the halls of your ancestors. That's what Finn's people believe. But Finn wants to live. When his settlement is massacred by a hostile nation, Finn plus several friends and rivals must make their escape across a brutal, unfamiliar landscape, and to survive, Finn will fight harder than he's ever fought before. The David Gemmell Award-nominated author of Age of Iron returns with You Die When You Die -- an epic fantasy adventure in which a mismatched group of refugees battle animals and monsters, determined assassins, an unforgiving land and each other as they cross a continent to fulfil a prophecy. "I loved every second of it . . . More please, as soon as is humanly possible!." -- The Eloquent Page "Hugely entertaining." -- SFX "A rip-roaring, swiftly paced adventure set in a sprawling and beautifully detailed world . . . sure to win the devotion of plenty of fans." -- RT Book Reviews "The first book in Watson's new fantasy trilogy is raw, violent, and gritty . . . You Die When You Dieblurs the lines between hero and villain into who lives and who dies. He who survives another day wins for the moment; tomorrow might be another story." -- Booklist

Download or read book Shattered Roads written by Alice Henderson and published by Rebel Base Books. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a future laid waste by environmental catastrophe, one woman in a shielded megacity discovers a secret hidden within—and the nightmare of what lies beyond. The Skyfire Saga Her designation is H124—a menial worker in a city safeguarded against the devastating storms of the outer world. In a community where consumerism has dulled the senses, where apathy is the norm and education is a thing of the past, H124 has one job: remove the bodies of citizens when they pass away in their living pods. Then one night, H124’s routine leads her into the underground ruins of an ancient university. Buried within it is a prescient alarm set up generations ago: an extinction-level asteroid is hurtling toward earth. When her warning is seen as an attempt to topple the government with her knowledge of science, H124 is hunted—and sent fleeing for her life beyond the shield of her walled metropolis. In a weather-ravaged unknown, her only hope lies with the Rovers, the most dangerous faction on Earth. For they have continued to learn. And they have survived to help avert a terrifying threat: the end of the world is near.

Download or read book ReFocus The Films of Delmer Daves written by Matthew Carter and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Destination Tokyo (1943) to The Battle of the Villa Fiorita (1965), Delmer Daves was responsible for a unique body of work, but few filmmakers have been as critically overlooked in existing scholarly literature. Often regarded as an embodiment of the self-effacing craftsmanship of classical and post-War Hollywood, films such as Broken Arrow (1950) and 3:10 to Yuma (1957) reveal a filmmaker concerned with style as much as sociocultural significance. As the first comprehensive study of Daves's career, this collection of essays seeks to deepen our understanding of his work, and also to problematize existing conceptions of him as a competent, conventional and even naAve studio man.

Download or read book The Han Solo Adventures Star Wars Legends written by Brian Daley and published by Random House Worlds. This book was released on 1992-04-22 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Han Solo's extraordinary exploits continue in this awesome trilogy. HAN SOLO AT STARS’ END Han Solo trusts no one, and does no favors. But when the best illegal ship rebuilder in the galaxy disappears, Han and Chewbacca agree to go after him—after all, the Millennium Falcon needs some very special repairs. Their search pits them against powerful and ruthless enemies out to destroy them, and finally leads them to an airless speck of desolate asteroid—the Authority prison planet known as Stars’ End. HAN SOLO’S REVENGE For a cool ten thousand credits, Han and Chewbacca will do just about anything—except transport slaves. For one thing, it means an instant death sentence. So when a high-paying cargo shipment turns out to be a consignment of slaves, Han and Chewie have to think fast. But Han forms a plan to turn the tables on the slavers and free the captives. Then, good deed accomplished, he scours the skies for the nasty joker who set him up—because revenge can be so sweet. HAN SOLO AND THE LOST LEGACY There’s a fabled treasure at stake and a price on Han’s head. So he and Chewbacca head for a planet rumored to hide undreamedof riches. But once they get there, Han’s beloved spacecraft, the Millennium Falcon, is hijacked by a band of assassins and killer robots. Their chances for survival are so slim, they might as well risk it all.

Download or read book Blood Rules written by Christine Cody and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the man named Gabriel came to the Bloodlands, Mariah Lyander was forced to face her true nature, and the horrible things she had done. To redeem herself, she embarks on a quest to find a rumored cure for her were-creatures hoping to recover her own humanity-and Gabriel's love.

Download or read book Dragon Mage written by Shéa R. MacLeod and published by Sunwalker Press. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After leaving Fossil on a mission to discover the truth about his past, genetically enhanced super soldier, Ben, found a new home as right hand man to the head of the Triad of China Town. Fighting dragons and protecting citizens is all he cares about, until the day he meets Bella. When Bella is kidnapped by a psychopathic cult that believes women are witches and witches need burning, Ben risks everything to save her. But in saving her, he might unleash a greater evil on them all. This fast-paced adventure is the sixth in a mesmerizing and addictive post-apocalyptic romance series (with dragons). Read what others are saying about USA Today Best-Selling author Shéa MacLeod's Dragon Wars series: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ " Well written, very engaging, and imaginative." – W. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ " This story kept me wanting more. It was intriguing, well-paced, with strong characters." – K.C. Read the entire Dragon Wars post-apocalyptic romance series: Dragon Warrior Dragon Lord Dragon Goddess Green Witch Dragon Corps Dragon Mage Dragon’s Angel Topics: Shéa, Shéa MacLeod, Shéa R. MacLeod, post-apocalyptic paranormal romance, urban fantasy, strong female characters, dragons, post-apocalyptic, apocalyptic, dystopian, hopepunk, futuristic, science fiction, scifi, science fiction romance, speculative fiction, apocalypse, romance, action and adventure, genetic engineering Other readers of this book enjoyed books by: Joss Ware, Colleen Gleason, Ellen Connor, Ruby Dixon, Rebecca Zanetti, Eve Langlais, Zoey Indiana, Sarah Addison Fox, Krista Street, Jami Gray, Becca Fanning, Christine Pope

Download or read book Where Gods Fear to Go written by Angus Watson and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The David Gemmell Award-shortlisted author of Age of Iron returns with the final book in his West of West trilogy, in which a mismatched group of refugees must battle monsters, an unforgiving land and each other as they cross a continent to fulfil a prophecy Battling across the Shining Mountains, the questers discover a land more terrifying and filled with more dangerous creatures than they could ever have imagined. The tentatively allied Wootah and Calnians must survive monster attacks, flash floods and tornadoes to uncover the secret of The Meadows. And then comes the hard part. To save themselves and everybody else they will travel west of west, deeper into danger, and do all that they can to defeat a goddess who has already killed all the other gods. Praise for Angus Watson: 'Unflinchingly bloodthirsty and outrageously entertaining' Chris Brookmyre 'It simply grabbed me by the throat and wouldn't let go' Bibliosanctum 'Watson's tale is gore-soaked and profanity-laden - full of visceral combat and earthy humour' Publishers Weekly 'Would I read the next one? Yes, absolutely. Bring me my hammer, bring my beer, bring it on!' SF Crowsnest 'Fun and addictive' Fantasy Faction

Download or read book In Blood We Trust written by Christine Cody and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They are monsters: Mariah, the reluctant rebel who has become a god to others of her kind, and Gabriel, the vampire, who loves her at his own peril. They have returned to the Bloodlands, where their story began-to face the horrors of Mariah's past and the uncertainties of Gabriel's future- and to make a final stand, for their lives-and their love.

Download or read book The Fifth Musketeer written by L. L. C. Re'Al "Bull" Oney and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only love can break a heart, only love can mend it again, when two of love's compassionate souls hurt each other, but still care deeply for the other. Like a fork in the road, two lovers come to that divide in their lives, reconcile their friendship, but is it too late for love? She, swept away by her infatuation, falls like a "ton of bricks" for her new "Don Juan" professor, departs the one who cares the most, but soon finds the professor to be a real wimp and she's burned her bridges behind her. He, the significant other, who has been discarded and hurt, is astonishingly inserted into his new position as her boss, becomes vainly resistant to her ways, and then commits to another who carries a badge. The Fulton College Musketeers football team finds direction inspired by their coach's tragedy, and evolves into a gutwrenching, very stirring upheaval; all to the jeers of the maddening crowds.

Download or read book Shattered Lands written by Alice Henderson and published by Rebel Base Books. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental devastation has left Earth a wasteland, but an even more nightmarish fate looms if the woman known as H124 can’t stop an extinction-level asteroid from destroying the planet. The Skyfire Saga On the run from a dangerous media empire, H124 places her hope in learning more about the Rovers, the last bastion of humans to embrace science as a solution to Earth’s ongoing environmental catastrophe. But with the planet under imminent threat from plummeting asteroid fragments, H124 must take on a perilous new mission: find and assemble the pieces of an ancient spacecraft capable of pushing the deadly projectiles off course. Her journey will lead her to the hurricane-ravaged remains of the east coast, and onto the brutal streets of Murder City, where she learns a startling secret about her own past. Death Riders and night stalkers prowl the badlands, but an even greater danger lurks above as H124 fights to build the craft that is humanity’s only hope for survival.

Download or read book Empire s End written by David Dunwoody and published by Permuted Press. This book was released on 2011-04-08 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dead refuse to stay dead. The Reaper is here to put them down. As winter sets in and America’s survivors struggle to rebuild a semblance of civilization, terrifying new enemies are gathering—both in the lawless badlands and within the walls of the safe zone. Most fearsome of all is the “King of the Dead.” His zombified troupe of sideshow curiosities is but a fraction of his growing pack. The Reaper’s quest to safeguard the humans he has befriended places him on the trail of these feral undead. But he is sorely unprepared for the return of the zombie transformed by his own flesh, the Omega—a fiend driven by something more sinister than any virus. Meanwhile, Death’s questions about his origin haunt him, and he is close to the answers... but the worst of both the living and the dead are rising in his path, and he’ll have to cut them all down to reach the cosmic endgame.