Download or read book Serial Fiction Sideshow written by Liam Gibbs and published by Plot Device Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Futurama meets The Avengers in this crazy space comedy! The galaxy’s most unhinged lunatic has an extinction-level death ray...​and an itchy trigger finger. Master Asinine has hatched his most psychotic scheme. He’s merged the galaxy’s largest crime gangs into a crushing force he calls the Bad Guys. Stay classy, Asinine. With a death ray at his disposal, he’s taking over the galaxy and putting everyone on a four-day notice. And if they don’t like it… ...he’ll nuke them instead. The galaxy’s only hope is Major Legion, Asinine’s ex-best friend. Tortured over his failure to stop Asinine from murdering their mutual buddy long ago, Legion must overcome inner demons to stop this army of thousands from exterminating everyone. But Asinine’s got a big surprise for an old friend... There’s nothing more dangerous than a psychopath who controls all crime. In a Galaxy Far, Far AwRy is an even mix of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Spaceballs, Avengers, and awkward eye contact from across crowded rooms. And it’s low sodium, if it comes to that.

Download or read book The Story So Far Vol 1 written by Liam Gibbs and published by Plot Device Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-03 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You don’t have to change any diapers here. We don’t go back that far. Sit back and wonder what Schizophrenic was like as a college dropout. What happened to Harrier after he won the Nobel Peace Prize. How Multipurpose rose to become one of the greatest weight-loss gurus the universe had ever come to trust. Because none of that actually happened. Cooler junk did, though. Like Multipurpose eating an entire bagel. Singlehandedly. Read about the history of your favorite In a Galaxy Far, Far AwRy jackasses: how they became who they are today. Who used to work as a recharge station attendant? Who set fire to a pile of old laundry? Whose urine smells most like asparagus? Or don’t. Don’t read about it. But you’ll always wonder about that asparagus urine. They all do. They all do.

Download or read book Power Tool written by Liam Gibbs and published by Plot Device Publishing. This book was released on 2020 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It ain’t easy keeping the most powerful man in the galaxy out of evil’s grasp. Military field leader Reef is about to begin his hardest mission yet: protect a man with a strange ability. The ability? To communicate with himself across millions of timelines. With the knowledge and experience of millions of himself, he’s a very wanted man. So when the galaxy’s foremost criminal leader, Master Asinine, captures him to harness his ability, nobody is safe. Because Asinine loves galactic domination almost as much as sausages. Now Reef must lead his squad behind enemy lines on a near-hopeless rescue operation, with the fate of the galaxy hanging in the balance. No pressure. Can Reef keep this immense power out of criminal hands? Or will Asinine exploit it for his own evil intentions? Will I ever shut up and let you read the book? Fine!

Download or read book Home Sweet Home Invasion written by Liam Gibbs and published by Plot Device Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two soldiers, one mindless robot, zero weapons...​130 decibels. Soldiers Power Plant and Franchise aren’t the first choices for a stealth mission. Brash and mischievous, at least they’ve got heart. But stealth becomes desperate survival when they crash-land on enemy ground. With a hunting party dogging them, their every move is a frenzied act to keep one step ahead. But that’s impossible when your robotic pilot speaks in car alarms. Can Power Plant and Franchise outwit the enemy long enough for rescue...​when rescue is half a galaxy away? Did Power Plant even remember to brush his teeth this morning? It’s a race against death...​with a robot that has no indoor voice!

Download or read book The Genetic Equation written by Liam Gibbs and published by Plot Device Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology can now melt your face off. Disaster strikes at home for Lieutenant Colonel Matross Legion when archenemy Master Asinine attacks with a weapon that unravels your genetic makeup. Suddenly it sucks to have DNA. Now Legion and his squad must dodge laser beams raining death from above, because the slightest touch turns anybody to genetic soup. And when Asinine takes Legion hostage, what stands in the way of total galactic domination? This book pairs best with a red wine.

Download or read book Technophobia written by Liam Gibbs and published by Plot Device Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the future, disco is a weapon of mass destruction. Lieutenant Colonel Matross Legion and his Good Guys come under attack from archenemy Master Asinine’s newest scheme: infecting their automated space station with a virus that murders its victims to disco. Public-domain disco. With the station’s defenses turned against the Good Guys, death lurks around every corner and down every hall. Now they must find a way to deal with the virus...​or die. With no place to take cover, can Legion and his squad survive the enemy’s onslaught...​when the enemy is their own home? In a Galaxy Far, Far AwRy books are 15 percent more absorbent than the next leading book series.

Download or read book Armageddon Trigger Finger written by Liam Gibbs and published by Plot Device Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doomsday’s sitting only one floor down. When Lieutenant Colonel Matross Legion is invited to speak at the Intergalactic Peace Symposium, all he wants is a quiet weekend. But work follows when archenemy Master Asinine and his enclave of idiots take the building by storm. Their plan: capture and clone Legion. For some stupid reason. But a mysterious third faction joins Legion and Asinine, a new faction hell-bent on liberating the galaxy from itself...​by destroying it. Their method of attack: a bomb that harnesses the power of every other bomb in its vicinity. A bomb waiting in the building’s basement. Now, as much as they despise it, Legion and Asinine must put aside their differences to stop the shadowy cloaked figures before doomsday strikes. And just who is this Lord Alpha who sent them anyway? Absolute hijinks ensue—or at least percolate—in this newest installment of the In a Galaxy Far, Far AwRy series. So get reading. But take a break around lunch.

Download or read book Sideshow written by William Shawcross and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-12-21 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although there are many books and films dealing with the Vietnam War, Sideshow tells the truth about America's secret and illegal war with Cambodia from 1969 to 1973. William Shawcross interviewed hundreds of people of all nationalities, including cabinet ministers, military men, and civil servants, and extensively researched U.S. Government documents. This full-scale investigation—with material new to this edition—exposes how Kissinger and Nixon treated Cambodia as a sideshow. Although the president and his assistant claimed that a secret bombing campaign in Cambodia was necessary to eliminate North Vietnamese soldiers who were attacking American troops across the border, Shawcross maintains that the bombings only spread the conflict, but led to the rise of the Khmer Rouge and the subsequent massacre of a third of Cambodia's population.

Download or read book American Silent Horror Science Fiction and Fantasy Feature Films 1913 1929 written by John T. Soister and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 831 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Silent Era, when most films dealt with dramatic or comedic takes on the "boy meets girl, boy loses girl" theme, other motion pictures dared to tackle such topics as rejuvenation, revivication, mesmerism, the supernatural and the grotesque. A Daughter of the Gods (1916), The Phantom of the Opera (1925), The Magician (1926) and Seven Footprints to Satan (1929) were among the unusual and startling films containing story elements that went far beyond the realm of "highly unlikely." Using surviving documentation and their combined expertise, the authors catalog and discuss these departures from the norm in this encyclopedic guide to American horror, science fiction and fantasy in the years from 1913 through 1929.

Download or read book Geek Love written by Katherine Dunn and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award Finalist • Here is the unforgettable story of the Binewskis, a circus-geek family whose matriarch and patriarch have bred their own exhibit of human oddities—with the help of amphetamines, arsenic, and radioisotopes. One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Their offspring include Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan . . . Iphy and Elly, the lissome Siamese twins . . . albino hunchback Oly, and the outwardly normal Chick, whose mysterious gifts make him the family’s most precious—and dangerous—asset. As the Binewskis take their act across the backwaters of the U.S., inspiring fanatical devotion and murderous revulsion; as its members conduct their own Machiavellian version of sibling rivalry, Geek Love throws its sulfurous light on our notions of the freakish and the normal, the beautiful and the ugly, the holy and the obscene. Family values will never be the same.

Download or read book The Cambridge History of the Novel in French written by Adam Watt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This History is the first in a century to trace the development and impact of the novel in French from its beginnings to the present. Leading specialists explore how novelists writing in French have responded to the diverse personal, economic, socio-political, cultural-artistic and environmental factors that shaped their worlds. From the novel's medieval precursors to the impact of the internet, the History provides fresh accounts of canonical and lesser-known authors, offering a global perspective beyond the national borders of 'the Hexagon' to explore France's colonial past and its legacies. Accessible chapters range widely, including the French novel in Sub-Saharan Africa, data analysis of the novel system in the seventeenth century, social critique in women's writing, Sade's banned works and more. Highlighting continuities and divergence between and within different periods, this lively volume offers routes through a diverse literary landscape while encouraging comparison and connection-making between writers, works and historical periods.

Download or read book The Routledge Handbook to Nineteenth Century British Periodicals and Newspapers written by Andrew King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2017 winner of the Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize Providing a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of scholarship on nineteenth-century British periodicals, this volume surveys the current state of research and offers researchers an in-depth examination of contemporary methodologies. The impact of digital media and archives on the field informs all discussions of the print archive. Contributors illustrate their arguments with examples and contextualize their topics within broader areas of study, while also reflecting on how the study of periodicals may evolve in the future. The Handbook will serve as a valuable resource for scholars and students of nineteenth-century culture who are interested in issues of cultural formation, transformation, and transmission in a developing industrial and globalizing age, as well as those whose research focuses on the bibliographical and the micro case study. In addition to rendering a comprehensive review and critique of current research on nineteenth-century British periodicals, the Handbook suggests new avenues for research in the twenty-first century. "This volume's 30 chapters deal with practically every aspect of periodical research and with the specific topics and audiences the 19th-century periodical press addressed. It also covers matters such as digitization that did not exist or were in early development a generation ago. In addition to the essays, readers will find 50 illustrations, 54 pages of bibliography, and a chronology of the periodical press. This book gives seemingly endless insights into the ways periodicals and newspapers influenced and reflected 19th-century culture. It not only makes readers aware of problems involved in interpreting the history of the press but also offers suggestions for ways of untangling them and points the direction for future research. It will be a valuable resource for readers with interests in almost any aspect of 19th-century Britain. Summing Up: Highly recommended" - J. D. Vann, University of North Texas in CHOICE

Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Film Serials written by Geoff Mayer and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From their heyday in the 1910s to their lingering demise in the 1950s, American film serials delivered excitement in weekly installments for millions of moviegoers, despite minuscule budgets, nearly impossible shooting schedules and the disdain of critics. Early heroines like Pearl White, Helen Holmes and Ruth Roland broke gender barriers and ruled the screen. Through both world wars, such serials as Spy Smasher and Batman were vehicles for propaganda. Smash hits like Flash Gordon and The Lone Ranger demonstrated the enduring mass appeal of the genre. Providing insight into early 20th century American culture, this book analyzes four decades of productions from Pathe, Universal, Mascot and Columbia, and all 66 Republic serials.

Download or read book Sideshow written by Anne D. LeClaire and published by Onyx Books. This book was released on 1995-11 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confronting the abusive ex-lover who devastated her life, Soleil Browne finds her intentions complicated by a Boston serial killer and haunting dreams about an imperiled orphan girl from sixty years in the past. Reprint.

Download or read book Murder Under Her Skin written by Stephen Spotswood and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice • Rex Stout meets Agatha Christie with a fresh twist in the new Pentecost and Parker Mystery, a delightfully hardboiled high-wire act starring two daring women sleuths dead set on justice as they set out to solve a murder at a traveling circus “A delight.... It’s a pleasure to watch [Pentecost and Parker] sifting through red herrings and peeling secrets back like layers of an onion.” The New York Times Book Review Someone’s put a blade in the back of the Amazing Tattooed Woman, and Willowjean “Will” Parker’s former knife-throwing mentor has been stitched up for the crime. To uncover the truth, Will and her boss, world-famous detective Lillian Pentecost, travel to the circus, where they find a snake pit of old grudges, small-town crime, and secrets worth killing for. Will called Hart & Halloway’s Traveling Circus and Sideshow home for five years, and Ruby Donner, the circus’s tattooed ingenue, was her friend. To make matters worse, the prime suspect is Valentin Kalishenko, the man who taught Will everything she knows about putting a knife where it needs to go. To uncover the real killer and keep Kalishenko from a date with the electric chair, Will and Ms. Pentecost join the circus in sleepy Stoppard, Virginia, where the locals like their cocktails mild, the past buried, and big-city detectives not at all. The two swiftly find themselves lost in a funhouse of lies as Will begins to realize that her former circus compatriots aren’t playing it straight, and that her murdered friend might have been hiding a lot of secrets beneath all that ink.

Download or read book The Phony Reformer written by and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging translation presents an authentic period document that reflects aspects of Chinese life and society as seen through a contemporary's eyes. Portraying a "phony" reformer who rode the tide of the Qing court's post-Boxer reform initiatives to career success and personal wealth, this satire conveys the author's hope for a new, improved China, one that could stand proudly alongside Western nations and Meiji Japan in the modern world. His vivid descriptions of various situations shed light on late Qing elite behavior and Chinese foreign relations capture the clash between tradition and modernity, the old and new, as educated Chinese stood at a cultural and political crossroads.

Download or read book Crime Fiction from a Professional Eye written by Lili Pâquet and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-08-22 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a new category of authors blurring the line between fiction and nonfiction: women who work or have worked in criminal justice--lawyers, police officers and forensic investigators--who publish crime fiction with characters that resemble real-life counterparts. Drawing on their professional experience, these writers present compelling portrayals of inequality and dysfunction in criminal justice systems from a feminist viewpoint. This book presents the first examination of the true-crime-infused fiction of authors like Dorothy Uhnak, Kathy Reichs and Linda Fairstein.