Author: Gorg Huff
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781948818230
Category : Fantasy games
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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The West Wing meets the X menHow does politics deal with people often citizens who are suddenly gifted with special powers, and an extra set of memories. Magic has started working But it's not legitimate magic. Not the magic of Merlin or the powers of psychics. Instead it is the magic of a "silly" game. A Role Playing Game called Warspell and other games like it. The sort of games played with oddly shaped dice and little lead figurines by even odder people. And now not only is this silly sort of magic working, but the oddballs who play the games suddenly have special powers. Some of them are gifted with combat, or other skills. Others can do magic. They're riding magical horses through the sky or healing the sick in the name of false gods. They say they've merged with a character they played in one of their games. But is that really true? Have they merged, or been possessed?To the Merged, things look a bit different. Suddenly, with no warning, they have the memories of a whole other life. Not a game life, a real life with a real mother and father, real friends and enemies. For many, even most, a life filled with violence and pain. Yes, they have skills and abilities, but those skills and abilities were learned and earned in a hard school. Yes, they are changed, but anyone would be when they suddenly had a whole other life added to their own. But they are still themselves. Aren't they?This and many other fine stories are also available at Eric Flint's Ring of Fire Press Website https: //ericflintsringoffire.com/
Author: Gary Snyder
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 9781429096348
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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An impassioned poem with Buddhist imagery and messages of environmentalism, social justice, and enlightenment. Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet Gary Snyder composed "Smokey the Bear Sutra" one spring night in 1969 at a Sierra Club conference. Smokey the Bear is not the U.S. Forest Service's Smokey Bear, the latter being a highly recognized advertising symbol protected by Federal law. Rather, the imagery of this Smokey comes from Buddhism; according to Snyder, Smokey the Bear Sutra is a dharma protector, modeled after Fugo, the Japanese patron of ascetics and yogis. The message of the Sutra is that we as beings are responsible to protect all other life down to the smallest forms-- do no harm, protect our collective selves, and honor the great impermanence. This short work is part of Applewood's "American Roots" series, tactile mementos of American passions by some of America's most famous writers.
Author: Gorg Huff
Publisher: 1632, Incorporated
ISBN: 9781953034946
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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A WarSpell novel, in a world where war ships are just starting to make the change from ballistas to cannon that use a magically created gunpowder. Tensy Teasdale is forced by financial hardship to give up her studies of magic and join the Kingdom Navy as a midshipman. It's a hard life for her. While women have been serving in the Navy for decades, not everyone accepts them. It's even harder if you're a studious introvert who incurs the ire of a brute of a senior Midshipman who's just failed his Lieutenant's test again. And that's just the first of Miss Midshipman Teasdale's misadventures. After that, she has to deal with a Merged mugger who's learning how to deal with this world, an elven carpenter who's considered worse than a necromancer because he works with the dead bodies of trees-not to mention the shell and shot of battle on the high seas. And if she survives all that, there's the politics of the Admiralty Court to deal with... Hornblower meets Martin Padway in a WarSpell gameworld. Miss Midshipman Tensy Teasdale is a new middy in the kingdom navy. She, like Horatio, doesn't start out well and things go downhill from there. Pete the Cudgel Banyan is a thief and a bully with little thought beyond his next beer, next lay, or how unfair it was that he wasn't born the son of a lord. As a pressed man, his lot may be even worse than Tensy's, because the first officer is a sadist who wants everyone broken to the navy. And Pete's the sort to die in the breaking. Pete's rebellion offers Tensy a chance to-if not win-at least take her tormentors down with her. Tensy makes her play at Pete's Captain's Mast and Pete determines to take his lashes like a man. Enter Peter Bradley, a mechanical engineer who played Pete Banyan years ago in a game of WarSpell. As the 21st lash falls, Pete's heart stutters and would have failed, but Peter Merged with him. Leaving Peter Banyan hail and healthy to take the last three blows of the cat. And that was just the beginning. The Captain wanted them both off his ship ahead of any sort of investigation. The ship they end up on has its own problems and they all get shipped to Amonrai and the Merged Peter with his knowledge of chemistry knows a much cheaper way to make the wizard's powder that is used in the cannon.
Author: A. Chandavarkar
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230371507
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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This is a comprehensive state-of-the-art survey which analyzes institutions, policies and issues of central banking in developing countries including interest-free Islamic and transition economies. It discusses objectives and functions; monetary, exchange, supervisory and developmental roles; financial liberalization; informal finance; causes and implications of central bank losses. It critically evaluates currency boards, central bank independence, ceilings on government credit and suggests radical organizational reforms, divestiture of quasi-fiscal activities and partial privatization of central banks.
Author: Sadashiv Ambadas Dange
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hindu hymns
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Author: Paula Goodlett
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Not every hero stands at the forefront of battle, chopping up, or gunning down the foe. Johan Kipper, an old and worn mercenary who had done more than his share of chopping up and gunning down, finally found his hero, his liege lord, not in a great captain, but in David Bartley, a fourteen year old boy who was just trying to make sure his family could get by. A lad who was trying to protect his family by making rather than taking, by building rather than destroying. And, more, a lad who didn't need to knock Johan down to feel tall or make Johan afraid to feel brave. Never in his long life of war and hate had Johan met someone courageous enough to be kind. This is the story of Johan Kipper, known across the Germanies as Bartley's Man. How he went from down-and-out mercenary to, well, you know what he became. Everyone knows what he became. Bartley's Man. Bartley's Man Started out as several stories in The Grantville Gazette. We, Paula Goodlett and Gorg Huff, were filling in the gaps just for the fun of it. Later, we were asked to rewrite and add to it so that it could stand alone as a novel. This expanded edition of Bartley's Man is written expressly for Eric Flint's Ring of Fire Press which sadly passed with Eric. But it's still a good read and introduction to Eric's 1632 universe.
Author: Hervey Allen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 696
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Author: Robert A. Frezza
Publisher: Del Rey
ISBN: 9780345375162
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Tired of life aboard the trading ship Rustam's Slipper, Ken MacKay finds things changing when Catarina, a mysterious, unsettlingly smart woman who demands a berth on Ken's ship, arrives. Original.
Author: William Stanley Braithwaite
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 1334
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Author: Darren Shan
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007159218
Category : Children's horror tales
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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As Darren faces the final showdown with his archenemy, Steve Leopard, he seeks a way to trick destiny and avoid the requirement that one of them die and the other become Lord of the Shadows, fated to destroy the world.
