Author: Michael John Grist
Publisher: Soul Jacker
ISBN: 9781799014058
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
2364. A terrified girl flees a brutal slumlord... It's been a long time since Ritry risked his sanity on a deep-brain Soul-jack. Once renowned for hacking the most lethal minds, now he peddles cheap memory implants on the neon-lit slums of the Arctic Circle - staying out of trouble, mostly. Then a terrified girl bolts into his jack-site, seeking a unique brain-hack to escape Don Zachary, the vicious slumlord. Ritry's no hero, but he won't stand by and watch while another innocent dies. Yet the Don does not forgive. Hounded from the slums, Ritry flees into the forgotten ruins of the old world, only to find a far crueler predator lying in wait, one with a dark taste for living Souls - plunging Ritry into one last desperate jack with the Souls of all humanity on the line... If you love Neuromancer, Altered Carbon or Ghost in the Shell you'll love the cyberpunk thriller Soul Jacker. Pre-order the trilogy today to plunge into Ritry's battle for his Soul. Available as ebook and paperback. Series order: 1. Soul Jacker2. Soul Breaker3. Soul Killer
Soul Jacker: A Cyberpunk Thriller
Author: Michael John Grist
Publisher: Soul Jacker
ISBN: 9781799014058
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
2364. A terrified girl flees a brutal slumlord... It's been a long time since Ritry risked his sanity on a deep-brain Soul-jack. Once renowned for hacking the most lethal minds, now he peddles cheap memory implants on the neon-lit slums of the Arctic Circle - staying out of trouble, mostly. Then a terrified girl bolts into his jack-site, seeking a unique brain-hack to escape Don Zachary, the vicious slumlord. Ritry's no hero, but he won't stand by and watch while another innocent dies. Yet the Don does not forgive. Hounded from the slums, Ritry flees into the forgotten ruins of the old world, only to find a far crueler predator lying in wait, one with a dark taste for living Souls - plunging Ritry into one last desperate jack with the Souls of all humanity on the line... If you love Neuromancer, Altered Carbon or Ghost in the Shell you'll love the cyberpunk thriller Soul Jacker. Pre-order the trilogy today to plunge into Ritry's battle for his Soul. Available as ebook and paperback. Series order: 1. Soul Jacker2. Soul Breaker3. Soul Killer
Publisher: Soul Jacker
ISBN: 9781799014058
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
2364. A terrified girl flees a brutal slumlord... It's been a long time since Ritry risked his sanity on a deep-brain Soul-jack. Once renowned for hacking the most lethal minds, now he peddles cheap memory implants on the neon-lit slums of the Arctic Circle - staying out of trouble, mostly. Then a terrified girl bolts into his jack-site, seeking a unique brain-hack to escape Don Zachary, the vicious slumlord. Ritry's no hero, but he won't stand by and watch while another innocent dies. Yet the Don does not forgive. Hounded from the slums, Ritry flees into the forgotten ruins of the old world, only to find a far crueler predator lying in wait, one with a dark taste for living Souls - plunging Ritry into one last desperate jack with the Souls of all humanity on the line... If you love Neuromancer, Altered Carbon or Ghost in the Shell you'll love the cyberpunk thriller Soul Jacker. Pre-order the trilogy today to plunge into Ritry's battle for his Soul. Available as ebook and paperback. Series order: 1. Soul Jacker2. Soul Breaker3. Soul Killer
Soul Killer
Author: Michael John Grist
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781097555604
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
2376. The war for all Souls has just begun... It's been a year since Ritry broke his Soul into pieces. Now embodied as six rugged marines captained by Me, those pieces roam from bunker to bunker blinded by loss - mopping up holdouts from the last war. But the war isn't over. It's only just begun. From the ashes of defeat a godlike power rises, one that understands the Soul better than Ritry ever did, and means to bring a flood so vast it will erase every Soul from history - catapulting Me into a jack beyond the border of death itself... If you like Heinlein, Haldeman or Bradbury you'll love Soul Killer, the epic closing book in the Soul Jacker cyberpunk trilogy. Pre-order the trilogy today to plunge into Ritry's battle for all Souls. Available as ebook and paperback. Complete trilogy: 1. Soul Jacker2. Soul Breaker3. Soul KillerPreviously published as God of Ruin.
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781097555604
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
2376. The war for all Souls has just begun... It's been a year since Ritry broke his Soul into pieces. Now embodied as six rugged marines captained by Me, those pieces roam from bunker to bunker blinded by loss - mopping up holdouts from the last war. But the war isn't over. It's only just begun. From the ashes of defeat a godlike power rises, one that understands the Soul better than Ritry ever did, and means to bring a flood so vast it will erase every Soul from history - catapulting Me into a jack beyond the border of death itself... If you like Heinlein, Haldeman or Bradbury you'll love Soul Killer, the epic closing book in the Soul Jacker cyberpunk trilogy. Pre-order the trilogy today to plunge into Ritry's battle for all Souls. Available as ebook and paperback. Complete trilogy: 1. Soul Jacker2. Soul Breaker3. Soul KillerPreviously published as God of Ruin.
Saint Justice
Author: Mike Grist
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781739951115
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
They stole his truck. Big mistake. CIA black-ops legend Christopher Wren pulls over on a Utah highway after three weeks on the road. An arbitrary decision he's about to regret. A biker gang attacks Wren, leaves him for dead and steals his truck. Now he's going to get it back. From a secret warehouse in the desert. Ringed with fences. Filled with human cages. As the body count mounts and a shocking national conspiracy unravels, one thing is for certain. Justice will be done.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781739951115
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
They stole his truck. Big mistake. CIA black-ops legend Christopher Wren pulls over on a Utah highway after three weeks on the road. An arbitrary decision he's about to regret. A biker gang attacks Wren, leaves him for dead and steals his truck. Now he's going to get it back. From a secret warehouse in the desert. Ringed with fences. Filled with human cages. As the body count mounts and a shocking national conspiracy unravels, one thing is for certain. Justice will be done.
Nordic Larp
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789163378560
Category : Acting games
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789163378560
Category : Acting games
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
The Thesaurus of Slang
Author: Esther Lewin
Publisher: Checkmark Books
ISBN: 9780816036615
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Includes jargon, sports slang, and ethnic and regional expressions
Publisher: Checkmark Books
ISBN: 9780816036615
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Includes jargon, sports slang, and ethnic and regional expressions
Play, Performance, and Identity
Author: Matt Omasta
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317703243
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Play helps define who we are as human beings. However, many of the leisurely/ludic activities people participate in are created and governed by corporate entities with social, political, and business agendas. As such, it is critical that scholars understand and explicate the ideological underpinnings of played-through experiences and how they affect the player/performers who engage in them. This book explores how people play and why their play matters, with a particular interest in how ludic experiences are often constructed and controlled by the interests of institutions, including corporations, non-profit organizations, government agencies, religious organizations, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Each chapter explores diverse sites of play. From theme parks to comic conventions to massively-multiplayer online games, they probe what roles the designers of these experiences construct for players, and how such play might affect participants' identities and ideologies. Scholars of performance studies, leisure studies, media studies and sociology will find this book an essential reference when studying facets of play.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317703243
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Play helps define who we are as human beings. However, many of the leisurely/ludic activities people participate in are created and governed by corporate entities with social, political, and business agendas. As such, it is critical that scholars understand and explicate the ideological underpinnings of played-through experiences and how they affect the player/performers who engage in them. This book explores how people play and why their play matters, with a particular interest in how ludic experiences are often constructed and controlled by the interests of institutions, including corporations, non-profit organizations, government agencies, religious organizations, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Each chapter explores diverse sites of play. From theme parks to comic conventions to massively-multiplayer online games, they probe what roles the designers of these experiences construct for players, and how such play might affect participants' identities and ideologies. Scholars of performance studies, leisure studies, media studies and sociology will find this book an essential reference when studying facets of play.
Jerusalem
Author: Gonçalo M. Tavares
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 1564785556
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
"One morning late in May, between three and six A.M., a group of lonely men and women wait to be brought together, like the elements in an equation. Ernst Spengler is about to throw himself out his window. Mylia, terminally ill and in enormous pain, goes out to visit a church. Hinnerk Obst, who's always been told by the neighborhood children that he looks like a murderer, walks the streets with a loaded gun. As these characters are manipulated and brought together, a world of violence, fear, pain, and uncertainty is portrayed, where human nature itself, and the mechanisms determining our actions, our fictions, and the elements of our imagination, are laid bare. Jerusalem is a terrifying and grimly humorous summation of the possibilities and limits of the human condition at the beginning of the 21st century." --Book Jacket.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 1564785556
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
"One morning late in May, between three and six A.M., a group of lonely men and women wait to be brought together, like the elements in an equation. Ernst Spengler is about to throw himself out his window. Mylia, terminally ill and in enormous pain, goes out to visit a church. Hinnerk Obst, who's always been told by the neighborhood children that he looks like a murderer, walks the streets with a loaded gun. As these characters are manipulated and brought together, a world of violence, fear, pain, and uncertainty is portrayed, where human nature itself, and the mechanisms determining our actions, our fictions, and the elements of our imagination, are laid bare. Jerusalem is a terrifying and grimly humorous summation of the possibilities and limits of the human condition at the beginning of the 21st century." --Book Jacket.
The Saint's Rise
Author: Michael John Grist
Publisher: Michael John Grist
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
No heroes endure... Three thousand years ago the world fell into darkness, when the great black mouth of the Rot ravaged the land. Across the glorious library city of Aradabar its dark tongues hammered down, leveling the glass towers of learning and entombing the bookyards in a thick blanket of lava. Only a single child survived the devastation; an infant with a prophecy carved into his skin, promising the rise of a hero powerful enough to slay the Rot for good. Now that child is a young man, beginning to question the meaning of his many scars… Now those scars are hunted by a jealous King, ruler of a brutal industrial city, where a thousand bizarre castes toil away like slaves… Now a dark beast is watching, an Unforgiven, seeking to fulfill a promise made long ago… And now the Rot has returned, its great black mouth gaping large in the sky, bringing chaos and fear to a world where no heroes endure… The first book in The Ignifer Cycle, a new epic fantasy series.
Publisher: Michael John Grist
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
No heroes endure... Three thousand years ago the world fell into darkness, when the great black mouth of the Rot ravaged the land. Across the glorious library city of Aradabar its dark tongues hammered down, leveling the glass towers of learning and entombing the bookyards in a thick blanket of lava. Only a single child survived the devastation; an infant with a prophecy carved into his skin, promising the rise of a hero powerful enough to slay the Rot for good. Now that child is a young man, beginning to question the meaning of his many scars… Now those scars are hunted by a jealous King, ruler of a brutal industrial city, where a thousand bizarre castes toil away like slaves… Now a dark beast is watching, an Unforgiven, seeking to fulfill a promise made long ago… And now the Rot has returned, its great black mouth gaping large in the sky, bringing chaos and fear to a world where no heroes endure… The first book in The Ignifer Cycle, a new epic fantasy series.
The Pleasures of Horror
Author: Matt Hills
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780826458872
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Pleasures of Horror is a stimulating and insightful exploration of horror fictions—literary, cinematic and televisual—and the emotions they engender in their audiences. The text is divided into three sections. The first examines how horror is valued and devalued in different cultural fields; the second investigates the cultural politics of the contemporary horror film; while the final part considers horror fandom in relation to its embodied practices (film festivals), its "reading formations" (commercial fan magazines and fanzines) and the role of special effects. Pleasures of Horror combines a wide range of media and textual examples with highly detailed and closely focused exposition of theory. It is a fascinating and engaging look at responses to a hugely popular genre and an invaluable resource for students of media, cultural and film studies and fans of horror.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780826458872
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Pleasures of Horror is a stimulating and insightful exploration of horror fictions—literary, cinematic and televisual—and the emotions they engender in their audiences. The text is divided into three sections. The first examines how horror is valued and devalued in different cultural fields; the second investigates the cultural politics of the contemporary horror film; while the final part considers horror fandom in relation to its embodied practices (film festivals), its "reading formations" (commercial fan magazines and fanzines) and the role of special effects. Pleasures of Horror combines a wide range of media and textual examples with highly detailed and closely focused exposition of theory. It is a fascinating and engaging look at responses to a hugely popular genre and an invaluable resource for students of media, cultural and film studies and fans of horror.
Contain
Author: Saul Tanpepper
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781511871556
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
flense /flens/ (v) to slice or strip away the skin and fat from a carcass. (n) a highly contagious disease capable of stripping away an individual's life essence. THE FLENSE SERIES DESCRIPTION (BUNKER 12 companion series)Hundreds die in a fiery train crash in northern China. A cargo ship smuggling refugees is lost to calm seas off Libya. Entire villages in Ghana are abandoned overnight.Contracted by a prepper group to investigate a series of seemingly disconnected global tragedies, a young freelance reporter, Angelique d'Enfantine, uncovers a disturbing pattern: each event is preceded by the sudden spread of a mysterious ailment and is followed by the appearance of a man dressed in black and silver who witnesses claim is the devil himself.With each event more grisly than the last, and the risk to her life growing, Angel begins to doubt that the tragedies are harbingers of an impending biblical catastrophe, but rather practice runs of a fanatical organization bent on global annihilation. Could her sponsors be using her to advance their own paranoid agenda? THE FLENSE consists of 12 installments scheduled for release beginning Jul '15Sign up to be notified of new releases & exclusive giveaways, including advance access: https://tinyletter.com/SWTanpepper CONTAIN (BUNKER 12 series pilot) Three years. That's how long Finnian Bolles has been hiding inside the impregnable walls of the hydroelectric complex known as Bunker 8. Three years, with enough resources to last him and the other thirty survivors three more.But then a series of disturbing events culminates in the sudden appearance of a stranger at their door. Before he too falls victim to the mysterious sickness known as the Flense, he warns them of a fate more horrific than the one they've been avoiding. But to prevent it, they must leave and seek a place many insist doesn't exist, a mythical twelfth bunker.SERIES DESCRIPTION: Requiring no more than the slightest skin-to-skin contact, the Flense spreads with ruthless speed and stealth, decimating mankind before it's even aware of it. The infected are turned into soulless creatures, Wraiths, which wreak destruction upon anyone and anything in their path.Secure inside ten isolated bunkers are Humanity's tattered remains, each working tirelessly to unravel the mystery of the scourge. But the bunkers were never meant to protect forever. In fact, they were never meant to protect at all.CONTAIN is the first book in the new thriller cyberpunk series BUNKER 12.Future installments scheduled for Nov '15, May '16, and Nov '16 From the creator of the highly acclaimed epic cyberpunk series GAMELAND GAMELAND SERIES DESCRIPTION Built in the middle of Long Island's abandoned industrial wasteland is a hundred-square-mile virtual reality arcade where the rich and privileged compete in a high-stakes game and the undead are their real-life avatars. There are only two ways to get into this horrifying yet wildly addictive game. The first is by paid invitation. The second is by volunteering to become an Undead Player.After finding themselves trapped inside a massive gaming arcade in the middle of Long Island's abandoned wasteland, a group of young computer hackers must figure out how to escape while staying out of the clutches of its undead inhabitants and their living controllers. Episode One: Deep Into the Game: A reckless end-of-summer prank sends six hackers trespassing onto abandoned Long Island hoping for a glimpse of the victims of the decade-old outbreak. But if they find breaking was easy, they'll soon learn that getting back out is a killer.Get the first two GAMELAND books for free while you still can!
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781511871556
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
flense /flens/ (v) to slice or strip away the skin and fat from a carcass. (n) a highly contagious disease capable of stripping away an individual's life essence. THE FLENSE SERIES DESCRIPTION (BUNKER 12 companion series)Hundreds die in a fiery train crash in northern China. A cargo ship smuggling refugees is lost to calm seas off Libya. Entire villages in Ghana are abandoned overnight.Contracted by a prepper group to investigate a series of seemingly disconnected global tragedies, a young freelance reporter, Angelique d'Enfantine, uncovers a disturbing pattern: each event is preceded by the sudden spread of a mysterious ailment and is followed by the appearance of a man dressed in black and silver who witnesses claim is the devil himself.With each event more grisly than the last, and the risk to her life growing, Angel begins to doubt that the tragedies are harbingers of an impending biblical catastrophe, but rather practice runs of a fanatical organization bent on global annihilation. Could her sponsors be using her to advance their own paranoid agenda? THE FLENSE consists of 12 installments scheduled for release beginning Jul '15Sign up to be notified of new releases & exclusive giveaways, including advance access: https://tinyletter.com/SWTanpepper CONTAIN (BUNKER 12 series pilot) Three years. That's how long Finnian Bolles has been hiding inside the impregnable walls of the hydroelectric complex known as Bunker 8. Three years, with enough resources to last him and the other thirty survivors three more.But then a series of disturbing events culminates in the sudden appearance of a stranger at their door. Before he too falls victim to the mysterious sickness known as the Flense, he warns them of a fate more horrific than the one they've been avoiding. But to prevent it, they must leave and seek a place many insist doesn't exist, a mythical twelfth bunker.SERIES DESCRIPTION: Requiring no more than the slightest skin-to-skin contact, the Flense spreads with ruthless speed and stealth, decimating mankind before it's even aware of it. The infected are turned into soulless creatures, Wraiths, which wreak destruction upon anyone and anything in their path.Secure inside ten isolated bunkers are Humanity's tattered remains, each working tirelessly to unravel the mystery of the scourge. But the bunkers were never meant to protect forever. In fact, they were never meant to protect at all.CONTAIN is the first book in the new thriller cyberpunk series BUNKER 12.Future installments scheduled for Nov '15, May '16, and Nov '16 From the creator of the highly acclaimed epic cyberpunk series GAMELAND GAMELAND SERIES DESCRIPTION Built in the middle of Long Island's abandoned industrial wasteland is a hundred-square-mile virtual reality arcade where the rich and privileged compete in a high-stakes game and the undead are their real-life avatars. There are only two ways to get into this horrifying yet wildly addictive game. The first is by paid invitation. The second is by volunteering to become an Undead Player.After finding themselves trapped inside a massive gaming arcade in the middle of Long Island's abandoned wasteland, a group of young computer hackers must figure out how to escape while staying out of the clutches of its undead inhabitants and their living controllers. Episode One: Deep Into the Game: A reckless end-of-summer prank sends six hackers trespassing onto abandoned Long Island hoping for a glimpse of the victims of the decade-old outbreak. But if they find breaking was easy, they'll soon learn that getting back out is a killer.Get the first two GAMELAND books for free while you still can!