Download or read book Broadswords and Blasters Issue 12 written by Cameron Mount and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-01-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First up is J. Rohr's "Riding the Rails," a story he claims he had to rewrite from memory after a catastrophic file failure. Well, that one may have been good, but this alternate history-of a world we know but besieged by monsters of myth and legend-is great. Returning author Richard L. Rubin gives us another two-fisted retro sci-fi tale in "Commander Saturn and the Air Bandit of Mars." And DJ Tyrer brings back his acclaimed Nyssa of Abanos for her second (and Tyrer's third!) appearance in B&B-this time in "Journey to Mount Argaeas." In Kristen Reid's "American Appetite," Connor Wescott comes across some deserters with a strange sort of hunger. Yes you read the title of the next story correctly, "Callahan and the Bomb Squid." Laughs are few and far between in our pages, but every once in awhile we get a cracker like Jonathon Mast's, so savor it. Because S. Gepp's "No Stand" will knock that laughter right out of your belly with this gut-punch of a hard-boiled Western. Ben Serna-Grey dropped his weird-ass "Smoke and Hamsters" in our laps and cackled with glee as he then shat in a bucket and tried to get cash for it. That'll make perfect sense once you read this thing. We love it. Ready for more gut-punches? Hope so, because "The Drive Home" is about as pure and depressing a noir tale as we've ever published. Be safe driving, dear readers. "The DSD" by E.G. Thompson is a dual-pronged narrative set in a dying and dangerous frontier after the fall of civilization, and the stories herein can't all end on downers (though they damn sure tried!), so here's your happy ending. You'll need it. "Crowbait" by T.L. Simpson traces the line between vengeance and justice, with a clear emphasis that the former may cause more problems than just accepting your grief and moving on. Andrew Miller sent us this noir tale about a "Shootout at Namaste Mart" and the title alone almost sold one editor on the story. "Spaceman and Freakshow" by Roger H. Stone had a similar effect, and we think the stories do both of these titles justice. Longtime supporter and just all-around great writer Steve DuBois hit us with another tale of supreme oddity in his "The Professionals" about-well, his November 19th tweet says it better than we can- "magically-enhanced urban professionals escorting a Kennedy baby to the ruins of Dallas for inauguration as God-Emperor." Next up is "Aces and Rogues" by Anthony Pinkett, a two-fisted dogfighting space actioner that we both said we'd be "stupid not to publish." "Don't Let the Law Hit Ya Where the Good Lord Split Ya" is a mouthful of a title that came off Russell W. Johnson's keyboard, but it sure is an apt one for the crime story he sent in. After that we've got "Starstruck" by Kristen Brand, a sci-fi tale of solar guardsmen, mixed loyalties, and, ultimately, duty. Scott Forbes Crawford's "A Lone Man Is No Warrior" traces the story of a man who lost a king and his own warrior nature only to be spurred back to it by a woman's attempted murder of his boss. Lastly, we have Matt Spencer's "The Radiant Abyss." We've been blessed to have some stalwart supporters over the three years of the magazine's existence, and Spencer is the first and perhaps staunchest of those. It just so happens he writes stories we like, too.
Download or read book Broadswords and Blasters Issue 3 written by Matthew Gomez and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue, dear readers, brings the first year of Broadswords and Blasters to a close. We've got a weird Western kind of tale where people are missing their skins, and a special kind of video game that's more immersive than ever. We also have a simple act of theft leading to much deeper trouble, and a pirate ship that gathers curses like other ships collect treasure. You'll meet a man living in the future in a compartment, noticing the strangeness creeping in on him. Two strangers share a fire, but there's a dark connection there that will end in blood. And a crew of space pirates takes a salvage job that goes badly wrong.
Download or read book Broadswords and Blasters written by Matthew Gomez and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-30 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulp isn't dead! In this, the debut issue of Broadswords and Blasters, readers will encounter subterranean horrors, time traveling lovers, space Mafia, two-fisted private investigators, and torturers turned political activists.
Download or read book Broadswords and Blasters Issue 2 written by Matthew Gomez and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Issue 2 of Broadswords and Blasters! In this issue, you will find stories from our new favorite authors. You'll read about a Hawaiian hero fighting off sea demons, a hard-case detective and his sassy artificial intelligence friend, a stone-builder with serious ethical conundrums, an alien farmer and his strange crop, and the conclusion to Island of Skulls, the story of siblings in-over-their-heads that started in Issue 1. You'll also meet the retired, grizzled war veterans you see on the cover, a tough bounty hunter in a newly purloined dress, Spanish conquistadors who meet an unfortunate end, and a Wild West sheriff caught in a town that is not what it seems.
Download or read book Broadswords and Blasters Issue 5 written by Matthew Gomez and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-04-02 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this issue we've got a tale loosely based on the legend of Yennenga of Burkina Faso. What happens when the prophesied warrior wants something more out of life than warfare? When the palace guards stage a coup against the royal family, will the young daughter of the family escape to a new world or stay where her home and heart are? What happens when a small town calls out to the evil that dwells in dark places, and the evil answers? Can a small contingent of warriors hold back the villainous forces of Kagan Kadir, whose lieutenants are each more horrific than the last? Stranded on a planet, can a frontier space man escape? If he leaves, what will he be forced to leave behind? A man can't remember how he got on the train. He doesn't know the other passengers, but each has a story to tell. What kind of destination is Oblivion anyway? And finally, our cover story-to what ends will an emperor go to become a god, and what might it cost a man to oppose him?
Download or read book Swords and Blasters written by Cynthia Woolf and published by Firehouse Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-02 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SWORDS AND BLASTERS – Two complete sci-fi romance series in one box set, The CENTAURI Series and THE SWORDS OF GREGARA series. In the CENTAURI SERIES we have: CENTAURI DAWN – Meet Audra and Darius. She’s a princess and he’s her knight in shining armor on the planet Centauri. Just one problem, she’s promised to his brother. CENTAURI TWILIGHT – Anton Coridian has promised his queen to find her sister, but Lara is not the pampered princess he expected. Lara, Audra’s twin sister has been a sex slave for most of her life, she deserves a happily ever after, but first she vows to see all of her people freed. CENTAURI MIDNIGHT – Kitari Dolana is on a mission to find the man responsible for her brother’s death. Garrick Marcus, spaceship captain is after the same man. Together they discover that good friends sometimes make the best lovers. In the SWORDS OF GREGARA SERIES we have: JENALA – Alone after her father’s murder, Jenala Delasa must fight for survival against the man who murdered him. Santro Baltin is just the man she needs to help her bring the killer to justice. RIZA – Plastic surgeon, Riza Lamrona, was the only one left who could identify him. Now she’s on the run from one of her patients. Darick Remaul, former Space Patrol officer is the one man on the planet who can help her survive. HONORA – She gave up everything to become a member of the Gregarian Guard. Now captured and enslaved, Honora Reyestat must fight for her life. Joridan Dolana was assumed dead when he was captured by the slavers that hold Honora. Together they must escape or die.
Download or read book Broadswords and Blasters Issue 10 written by Julie Rea and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our tenth issue brings you the fantastic: Eddie Generous with his tale of a "Sunday Speed Trap," the ensuing police chase, and maybe some ritual sacrifice to ancient Old Ones. E.F. Sweetman with her tale of ecological horror on the high seas and a narrator who says, "Hello from Garbage Island."Joanna Maciejewska's "Yet Another Vessel" where we encounter terrifying enchanted artifacts and the kinds of psychopathic individuals who seek them out. Brian McNett's "Armageddon and the Way Out West" where he introduces us to Doctor Thaddeus Armageddon and his helmsman Delrick Borograve in their exploits through the Wild West aboard the skyship Devastation.Paul Alex Gray and his tale of artificial intelligence, giant mecha, and romance, "Battle Borne Dreams Never Die." Julie Rea, who takes us to the flooded future of 2202, where scavengers "Lela and Bat" comb through the remains of Philadelphia. Joshua Grasso's "Barbarians in the Boudoir" where we see the magician Hildigrim, previously imprisoned for black magic, paroled but only so he can help the Archduke avert a war with barbarians from a far distant land.Paul Starkey's "Below Noon," a tale of existential horror in the Wild West, as a man comes to grips with the reality of Hell.Patrick S. Baker, who takes us home with the further adventures of the warrior hero Kauahoa, as he takes on "The Cannibals in the Mist.
Download or read book Broadswords and Blasters Issue 8 written by Kent Rosenberger and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-13 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our first story in this issue is from returning Broadswords and Blasters author David F. Shultz, who we last published in Issue 5 with his neo-classic "Jerold's Stand." This time he's back with another neo-classic, "Addrassus," which contains shades of Odysseus and some of the best action sequences you'll read this year.Next up is "Temporally Out of Service" from Jason E. Maddux, about a private investigator, an elevator with a quirky sign, the nature of free will, time paradoxes, and a kick-ass recipe for chocolate cake. Cynthia Ward, whose novellas we've reviewed on the blog, has graced us with "Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat," a disturbing story of a child and his dysfunctional relationship with his friends and family.Look, if you aren't familiar with DJ Tyrer yet, his third appearance in our magazine should highlight just how great we think his stories are. This time around you get to read our cover story, "Talons of the Snatcher," featuring the warrior Nyssa and her deadly spear.New to us, Kent Rosenberger, joins the Broadswords and Blasters family with the dystopian near-future world of "Lawbreaker" and the disturbing court system which isn't nearly so far-fetched as it may seem.Next in queue is Michael DeCarolis' wonderful "Thunderbolt Colt" about a gunslinger and his faithful steed, a buffalo, from a not-quite-right Wild West tradition by way of the Greek gods if they had made it across the pond to settle in the Sonoran desert.Weird West not your thing? How about a change of pace, to a world where wizards work as detectives cleaning up slave rings and investigating murders? Austin Worley's "Lightning Between Your Fingers" has you covered.Sunday evenings may be times of peace and respite, but you know that's not the Broadswords and Blasters way. Myke Edwards is here to disabuse you of the idea that driving back country roads on a "Sunday Evening" is in any way peaceful and calm.Batting cleanup this issue is yet another returning author, Steve DuBois, with his brilliantly comedic take on pre-pubescent super villains and their most-hated classmate. If you don't laugh at "Screaming Timmy Must Die," then what do you laugh at?
Download or read book Broadswords and Blasters Issue 9 written by R. A. Goli and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-04-12 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R.A. Goli returns to Broadswords and Blasters with a tale of how far a mother will go for her daughter in "Griffon Eggs." Rex Weiner, veteran writer probably best known as the creator of Ford Fairlane, graces us with "Camera Obscura," a noir tale of a shady real estate developer's fall into obsession. Ethan Sabatella hits us with a tale of ancient Nordic horror in "The Pole-House." Cara Fox spins a steampunk revenge tale with a twist in "The Corsair's Daughter." Scotch Rutherford, the madman behind the crime/noir mag Switchblade, decides to drop by with "Termination Clause," a blood-soaked bit of crime fiction. Matt Spencer is no stranger to anyone who knows us, having had a two-part story, "Island of Skulls," back when we were just starting out. Well, Spencer is back, this time with another sword and sorcery tale distilled through hardcore punk rock circa 1981 in "Old Haunting Grounds." C.W. Blackwell might be new to these pages, but it takes a steady hand to write a Western as weird as "Quarter Past Ordinary." What happens when two master thieves fall in love, or at least lust? You probably end up with something like Vince Carpini's "Courtship of the Queen of Thieves." Finally, we round out the issue with returning author, Adam S. Furman, and his tale of supersoldiers, revolutions, and unexpected explosions, "Olympian Six."
Download or read book Broadswords and Blasters Issue 4 written by Matthew Gomez and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-06 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fantastic issue you will be introduced to the most badass grandmother that has ever existed in print, a retro space opera adventure about a two-fisted blaster wielding pilot, an epistolary tale of the corrupting influence of depraved love, and a new adventure for Benedict Arnold, Josh Gibson, and Genghis Khan in an afterlife of their own making. You'll also be taken on a journey through the sewers of Paris where tentacled creatures reside, meet a cross-dressing French spy plying his trade for Louis XV, follow a body-hopping demon across a Wild West that may or may not be our own, and catch up with a world-weary detective tricked into solving a case when he'd rather be watching the Yankees and getting drunk.
Download or read book Broadswords and Blasters Issue 7 Pulp Magazine with Modern Sensibilities written by Sara Codair and published by Volume 2. This book was released on 2018-10-14 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coil written by Ren Warom and published by Apex Publications. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ren Warom weaves a tale laced with gang crime, underground body mod shops, and shocking murders. Bone Adams is a legend, the best mortician in the spires. When a new killer begins leaving bodies twisted and bent into grotesque pieces of art, City Officer Stark tasks Bone to unravel the clues. As more victims are discovered, Bone and Stark are drawn deeper into a world where pain and personal statement blend and blur, and finally end up hunting for a semi-mythical man-machine named Burneo deep within the sewers. But things aren't what they seem. While searching for Burneo, Bone and Stark discover a hidden lab full of evidence of horrific abuses of science and experimentation. Meanwhile, the killer is still on the loose, and, as Stark becomes more and more obsessed with the case, Bone is forced to a shattering realization. Everything is connected: the killings, the gang activity, the labs, and his own past. Unless he can figure out how, he won't survive.
Download or read book The Socialist Decision written by Paul Tillich and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-05-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Contributor(s): Paul Tillich (1886-1965), an early critic of Hitler, was barred from teaching in Germany in 1933. He emigrated to the United States, holding teaching positions at Union Theological Seminary, New York (1933-1955); Harvard Divinity School (1955-1962); and the University of Chicago Divinity School (1962-1965). Among his many books are Theology of Culture, Dynamics of Faith, and the three volumes of Systematic Theology.
Download or read book The Best of Star Wars Insider Volume 4 written by Jonathan Wilkins and published by Titan Comics. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Calibri} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Calibri; min-height: 14.0px} Explore the galaxy far, far away. Four decades after the original Star Wars was released, changing cinema forever, the saga continues with all-new movies, books, comics, video games, and TV spin-offs. This collection of interviews and behind-the-scenes features includes: Daisy Ridley on playing Rey in The Force Awakens, an exploration of rare prototype toys that never made it into stores, and Mark Hamill’s thoughts on working with Sir Alec Guinness. “The Best of Star Wars Insider proves we don’t know all there is to know about Star Wars.” – New York Journal of Books
Download or read book The Fisherman written by John Langan and published by Canelo. This book was released on 2023-10-09 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Illusory, frightening, and deeply moving, The Fisherman is a modern horror epic. And it’s simply a must read’ Paul Tremblay In upstate New York, within the woods, Dutchman’s Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reservoir. Steep-banked and fast-moving, it offers the promise of fine fishing, and of something more, a possibility too fantastic to be true. When Abe and Dan, two widowers who have found solace in each other’s company and a shared passion for fishing, hear rumours of the Creek and what might be found there, the remedy to both their losses, they dismiss them. Soon, though, the men find themselves drawn into a tale as deep and old as the Reservoir. It's a tale of dark pacts, of long-buried secrets, and of a mysterious figure known as the Fisherman. It will bring Abe and Dan face to face with all that they have lost, and with the price they must pay to regain it. ‘An epic, yet intimate, horror novel. Langan channels M. R. James, Robert E. Howard and Norman Maclean. What you get is A River Runs Through It... straight to hell’ Laird Barron More praise for The Fisherman ‘Reading this, your mouth fills with worms. Just let them wriggle and crawl as they will, though—don’t swallow. John Langan is fishing for your sleep, for your soul. I fear he’s already got mine’ Stephen Graham Jones ‘What starts as a slow, melancholy tale gains momentum and drops you head first into a churning nightmare from which you might escape, but you’ll never forget, and the memory of what you saw will change you forever’ Richard Kadrey ‘The Fisherman is a treasure, the kind of book you just want to snuggle up and shiver through. I can’t say enough good things about the confidence, the patience, the satisfying cumulative power of this book. It was a pleasure to read from the first page to the last’ Victor LaValle ‘Stories within stories, folk tales becoming modern legends, all spinning into a fisherman’s tale about the one he wishes had gotten away. Langan’s latest is at turns epic and personal, dense yet compulsively readable, frightening but endearing’ Adam Cesare
Download or read book Pimp My Airship written by Maurice Broaddus and published by Apex Publications. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warning: Don’t Believe the Hype! All the poet called Sleepy wants to do is spit his verses, smoke chiba, and stay off the COP’s radar—all of which becomes impossible once he encounters a professional protestor known as (120 Degrees of) Knowledge Allah. They soon find themselves on the wrong side of local authorities and have to elude the powers that be. When young heiress Sophine Jefferson’s father is murdered, the careful life she’d been constructing for herself tumbles around her. She’s quickly drawn into a web of intrigue, politics and airships, joining with Sleepy and Knowledge Allah in a fight for their freedom. Chased from one end of a retro-fitted Indianapolis to the other, they encounter outlaws, the occasional circus, possibly a medium, and more outlaws. They find themselves in a battle much larger than they imagined: a battle for control of the country and the soul of their people. The revolution will not be televised!
Download or read book The Book of Skulls written by Robert Silverberg and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How far will four friends go for immortality? This novel is Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author “Robert Silverberg at his very best” (George R. R. Martin). After Eli, a scholarly college student, finds and translates an ancient manuscript called The Book of Skulls, he and his friends embark on a cross-country trip to Arizona in search of a legendary monastery where they hope to find the secret of immortality. On the journey with Eli, there’s Timothy, an upper-class WASP with a trust fund and a solid sense of entitlement; Ned, a cynical poet and alienated gay man; and Oliver, a Kansas farm boy who escaped his rural origins and now wants to escape death. If they can find the House of Skulls where immortal monks allegedly reside, they’ll undergo a rigorous initiation. But do those eight grinning skulls mean the joke will be on them? For a sacrifice will be required. Two must die so that two may live forever . . . Stretching the boundary between science fiction and horror, Robert Silverberg masterfully probes deeper existential questions of morality, brotherhood, and self-determined destiny in what Harlan Ellison refers to as “one of my favorite nightmare novels.” This ebook features an illustrated biography of Robert Silverberg including rare images from the author’s personal collection.
