Rebel's Construct (Sim-Verse: Book 1)
Rebel's Construct (Sim-Verse: Book 1)

Author: Allen Kuzara

Publisher: Smashwords

Published: 2019-05-27

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 0463002857

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What price would you pay to have it all? What would you be willing to forget? Astro-miner Taven Smith is on his final day of a long tour of duty in the Belt. He’s looking forward to an early payload bonus and returning home to Earth. But when a stray chunk of asteroid smashes into the Hudson, a hidden ship, his hopes are dashed. Taven boards the vessel after all attempts to contact it fail. He soon finds himself lost in a dizzying maze of computer-generated simulated worlds. Taven’s mind-bending odyssey quickly turns into a race against time as he learns of the Hudson’s headlong path toward destruction. After rescuing the construct’s inhabitants proves next to impossible, Taven is left with one simple wish: Getting out alive!

The Anti Life Series Box Set
The Anti Life Series Box Set

Author: Allen Kuzara

Publisher: Smashwords

Published: 2019-04-29

Total Pages: 467

ISBN-13: 0463172523

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Collected for the first time, read the complete three-book box set of the Anti Life series! Ride shotgun with Colonel John Alvarez as he goes head to head with anti-life, a foe too great to merely be called an enemy. It’s more than humanity’s nemesis; anti-life promises to destroy life itself. How do you kill something that isn’t alive? And how can you win after you’ve already lost? Find out in Allen Kuzara’s sci-fi adventure full of page-turning action, galactic battles, political deception, heart-wrenching tragedy, and courageous hope.

The Meaning of Superhero Comic Books
The Meaning of Superhero Comic Books

Author: Terrence R. Wandtke

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-01-10

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 0786490152

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For decades, scholars have been making the connection between the design of the superhero story and the mythology of the ancient folktale. Moving beyond simple comparisons and common explanations, this volume details how the workings of the superhero comics industry and the conventions of the medium have developed a culture like that of traditional epic storytelling. It chronicles the continuation of the oral/traditional culture of the early 20th century superhero industry in the endless variations on Superman and shows how Frederic Wertham's anti-comic crusade in the mid-1950s helped make comics the most countercultural new medium of the 20th century. By revealing how contemporary superhero comics, like Geoff Johns' Green Lantern and Warren Ellis's The Authority, connect traditional aesthetics and postmodern theories, this work explains why the superhero comic book flourishes in the "new traditional" shape of our acutely self-conscious digital age.

Valiant
Valiant

Author: Sarah McGuire

Publisher: Carolrhoda Books ®

Published: 2015-01-01

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1606845535

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Saville hates sewing. How can she not when her father, the Tailor, loves his bolts of velvet and silk far more than he's ever loved her? Yet, when he is struck ill shortly after they arrive in the city of Reggen, Saville must don boy's clothes in the hopes of gaining a commission from the king to keep them fed. The kingdom is soon on edge when stories spread of an army of giants led by a man who cannot be killed. But giants are just stories, and no man is immortal. And then the giants do come to the city gates, two larger-than-life scouts whom Saville cunningly tricks into leaving. The Tailor of Reggen is the hero of the kingdom, the king promises his sister's hand in marriage, and by the time Saville reaches the palace doors, it is widely known that the Tailor single-handedly killed the giants. When her secret—that she's a girl—is quickly discovered by Lord Galen Verras, the king's cousin, Saville's swept into the twists and turns of court politics. The deathless man is very real, and he will use his giant army to ensure he is given the throne freely or by force. Now, only a tailor girl with courage and cunning can see beyond the tales to discover the truth and save the kingdom again. Debut author Sarah McGuire artfully crafts a story of understanding, identity, and fighting to protect those you love most in Valiant, a rich reimagining of "The Brave Little Tailor."

The Silk Road
The Silk Road

Author: British Library

Publisher: Serindia Publications, Inc.

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 9781932476132

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