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 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 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 225 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 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 Weedless Gardening written by Lee A. Reich and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2000-01-08 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Garden like Mother Nature, with an organic system that’s good for plants and good for people. Say good-bye to backaches and weed problems! Lee Reich’s organic Weedless Gardening eschews the traditional yearly digging up and working over of the soil. It’s is an easy-to-follow, low-impact approach to planting and maintaining a flower garden, a vegetable patch, trees, and shrubs naturally. "If you love to knock yourself out digging beds, buy a better shovel. If you're looking for a no-nonsense alternative, buy this book!" -Ketzel Levine, National Public Radio's Doyenne of Dirt) "Thoroughly practical, easy-to-follow guide to good gardening Lee Reich make it sound simple, and if you follow his methods and philosophy, it is." -Dora Galitzki, Gardening Columnist, The New York Times, and Author of The Gardener's Essential Companion "Finally, a book filled with science-based information that insures success and frees us from busywork in the garden." - Dr. H. March Cathey, President Emeritus, American Horticultural Society

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 Perihelion Summer written by Greg Egan and published by Tor.com. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greg Egan's Perihelion Summer is a story of people struggling to adapt to a suddenly alien environment, and the friendships and alliances they forge as they try to find their way in a world where the old maps have lost their meaning. Taraxippus is coming: a black hole one tenth the mass of the sun is about to enter the solar system. Matt and his friends are taking no chances. They board a mobile aquaculture rig, the Mandjet, self-sustaining in food, power and fresh water, and decide to sit out the encounter off-shore. As Taraxippus draws nearer, new observations throw the original predictions for its trajectory into doubt, and by the time it leaves the solar system, the conditions of life across the globe will be changed forever. Praise for Perihelion Summer “Egan here doubles down on climate change with his typically rigorous exploration of a cosmic accident’s effect on Earth and all its people. His characters are sharp and funny and their courageous response to the massive challenge they face works as a spur to cause us to think—why couldn’t we do as well with our own great challenge? This is what the best science fiction can do that no other genre can, and we need it now more than ever. Bravo!” — Kim Stanley Robinson At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book Ultraverse Roleplaying System written by Bruce Adams and published by Bruce Adams. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ultraverse is a fast-paced system designed to create superheroic, fantasy, science fiction and countless other types of adventures for players. Each player assumes their own role as a character in each campaign that the Gamemaster (GM) creates. Ultraverse is designed to emulate the fictional powers and abilities found in the pages of four-color comic books. Polyhedral dice such as d20, d12, d10, d8, d6 and d4 are required for play in Ultraverse. Hexagonal or Square maps are useful but not required for playing. I have tried to make the system easy to understand, fast-paced, and simple for players to get started. I am proud to have created Ultraverse and hope the readers have fun gaming!

Download or read book Sword Fighting in the Star Wars Universe written by Nick Jamilla and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike most makers of modern or futuristic films, George Lucas turned away from the standard special operatives or secret agents when he created the heroes for his epic Star Wars saga. Part knight, part monk, the Jedi Knights were an order of swordsmen that helped rule the universe in accordance with law and lofty principles of justice and honor. Without the Jedi, there could be no Star Wars, and without the lightsaber sword, there could be no Jedi. This examination of the Jedi Knights, their adversaries the Sith and their lightsaber swordplay throughout all six episodes of the franchise evaluates the ways in which Lucas blended science fiction with the most ancient and epic tales of traditional samurai and Western swordsmen. It presents swordsmanship as a way to better understand the Jedi Knights, focusing on the human movement and activity surrounding the weapon and the ways in which traditional Japanese martial arts were adapted for use in the films. Topics of discussion include the powerful effects of the master-apprentice relationship; the technical choreography used in the lightsaber scenes of the Star Wars films; and the historical precedents for the Jedi order, including the Sohei fighting monks of Japan, the Janissaries and Mamelukes of Islam, and the knights of the Templar, Hospitaller and Teutonic orders.

Download or read book The Drifting Soul written by Matt Spencer and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2004 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pop Song written by Larissa Pham and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A warm and expansive portrait of a woman’s mind that feels at once singular and universal," this collection of essays interweaves commentary on modern life, feminism, art, and sex with the author's own experiences of obsession, heartbreak, and vulnerability (BuzzFeed). Like a song that feels written just for you, Larissa Pham's debut work of nonfiction captures the imagination and refuses to let go. Pop Song is a book about love and about falling in love—with a place, or a painting, or a person—and the joy and terror inherent in the experience of that love. Plumbing the well of culture for clues and patterns about love and loss—from Agnes Martin's abstract paintings to James Turrell's transcendent light works, and Anne Carson's Eros the Bittersweet to Frank Ocean's Blonde—Pham writes of her youthful attempts to find meaning in travel, sex, drugs, and art, before sensing that she might need to turn her gaze upon herself. Pop Song is also a book about distances, near and far. As she travels from Taos, New Mexico, to Shanghai, China and beyond, Pham meditates on the miles we are willing to cover to get away from ourselves, or those who hurt us, and the impossible gaps that can exist between two people sharing a bed. Pop Song is a book about all the routes by which we might escape our own needs before finally finding a way home. There is heartache in these pages, but Pham's electric ways of seeing create a perfectly fractured portrait of modern intimacy that is triumphant in both its vulnerability and restlessness.

Download or read book Intergalactic Medicine Show written by Orson Scott Card and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2009-11-30 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling writer Orson Scott Card founded the online magazine Intergalactic Medicine Show in 2006. It has been a big success, drawing submissions from well-known sf and fantasy writers, as well as fostering some amazing new talents. This collection contains some of the best of those stories from the past year. There is fiction from David Farber, Tim Pratt, and David Lubar among others, also four new Ender's Game universe stories by Card himself. This collection is sure to appeal to Card's fans, and be a great ambassador to them for these other talented writers. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book Halo Shadows of Reach written by Troy Denning and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA TODAY BESTSELLER A Master Chief story and original full-length novel set in the Halo universe—based on the New York Times bestselling video game series! October 2559. It has been a year since the renegade artificial intelligence Cortana issued a galaxy-wide ultimatum, subjecting many worlds to martial law under the indomitable grip of her Forerunner weapons. Outside her view, the members of Blue Team—John-117, the Master Chief; Fred-104; Kelly-087; and Linda-058—are assigned from the UNSC Infinity to make a covert insertion onto the ravaged planet Reach. Their former home and training ground—and the site of humanity’s most cataclysmic military defeat near the end of the Covenant War—Reach still hides myriad secrets after all these years. Blue Team’s mission is to penetrate the rubble-filled depths of CASTLE Base and recover top-secret assets locked away in Dr. Catherine Halsey’s abandoned laboratory—assets which may prove to be humanity’s last hope against Cortana. But Reach has been invaded by a powerful and ruthless alien faction, who have their own reasons for being there. Establishing themselves as a vicious occupying force on the devastated planet, this enemy will soon transform Blue Team’s simple retrieval operation into a full-blown crisis. And with the fate of the galaxy hanging in the balance, mission failure is not an option…

Download or read book Etherea Magazine 2 written by JD Harlock and published by Sunburnt Fox Press. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Etherea Magazine # 2 In this issue we have eight short speculative fiction stories from some utterly talented writers. “Why can’t I type like that? How come he gets all this inspiration to write and then it just flows out of him?” – The Price of Inspiration, by Nick Marone “I’ve come to muster the town. The realm is in peril and the king’s envoys have traversed the land with the call to arms.” – Those Olden Shackles, by Jason Restrick “That while there was a seven percent probability of the enemy ship escaping there was a sixty percent chance that I would contract food poisoning from the dishes piled up in the galley” – In Space No-One Can Hear You Clean, by Scott Steensma “She’s there when I open my eyes. All 7 foot 2 of her, perched on the edge of my bed.” – Dream a Little Dream, by Emma Kathryn “I walk down the ramp toward the command center. Today, I destroy IGAP.” – This is How the Revolution Begins, by Aaron Emmel “I tried not to think of how she would cope during the next Cycle, torn from the only family—the only life—she’d ever known, and dropped into a new one. Could anything be more cold or vicious?” – Assignment Day, by Jon Gauthier “Jaya palmed the Charakar stone in her hand and stood up. It was time.” – The Mineral Thief, by Sangeetha Thanapal “But only when one is abandoned does he come to truly understand his fellow man.” – A Hundred Souls for the Dark Master, By J.D. Harlock Also including a scintillating interview with Fiona McIntosh, two Indie Author Spotlights, and a book review of Nolyn – the latest novel from Michael J Sullivan

Download or read book The Night and the Land written by Matt Spencer and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-13 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While hiding out in Brattleboro, VT, Sally finds unexpected love with Rob, a bristly young man freshly awoken to alien sensations and ancestral memories of a long-forgotten realm. Meanwhile, Sally's cruel, relentless family leaves a trail of mangled corpses on the road to Brattleboro.

Download or read book Strange Adventures 2020 2021 6 written by Tom King and published by DC Black Label. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How determined is Mr. Terrific to find the truth? The answer becomes more challenging as the whole world starts to turn against him. Adam Strange is a hero who can save the Earth from alien invasion, and who is Mr. Terrific to say otherwise? The extent of the denial only makes the man more suspicious. Not that the warmongering Pykkts care one way or the other. If Strange is to be believed, they only have one thing on their minds: taking over the planet. Adam and his wife beat them back once before, and the key to doing it again is to dig into the past that Mr. Terrific is so hell-bent on destroying. Read the series IGN calls one of the most anticipated comics of the year!How determined is Mr. Terrific to find the truth? The answer becomes more challenging as the whole world starts to turn against him. Adam Strange is a hero who can save the Earth from alien invasion, and who is Mr. Terrific to say otherwise? The extent of the denial only makes the man more suspicious. Not that the warmongering Pykkts care one way or the other. If Strange is to be believed, they only have one thing on their minds: taking over the planet. Adam and his wife beat them back once before, and the key to doing it again is to dig into the past that Mr. Terrific is so hell-bent on destroying. Read the series IGN calls one of the most anticipated comics of the year!