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Political Fantasies is a series that takes names for governments and plays around with them to see how far they can be pulled. In the tradition of Strange Nations, the results of each exploration can be dropped into your setting with little-to-no adaptation required.
This volume explores corporatocracy, or "rule by corporations." The first chapter, Market Analysis,... [click here for more] |
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One of the quickest ways to start building cultures for your setting is to take inspiration from actually-existing cultures. What do you do when you don't want to crib off the same culture cultures that everyone else has used a hundred times before?
Essential Ethnographies offers the convenience of building from preexisting cultures and the flexibility and novelty of working with cultures... [click here for more] |
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One of the quickest ways to start building cultures for your setting is to take inspiration from actually-existing cultures. What do you do when you don't want to crib off the same culture cultures that everyone else has used a hundred times before?
Essential Ethnographies offers the convenience of building from preexisting cultures and the flexibility and novelty of working with cultures... [click here for more] |
WMB Saltworks |
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One of the quickest ways to start building cultures for your setting is to take inspiration from actually-existing cultures. What do you do when you don't want to crib off the same culture cultures that everyone else has used a hundred times before?
Essential Ethnographies offers the convenience of building from preexisting cultures and the flexibility and novelty of working with cultures... [click here for more] |
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Generally, designing a culture for a book or a game presents you with a choice: either you base it on real-world cultures and likely end up with something that could be described as "Fantasy Bedouin with some Navajo bits tacked on" or you run hog wild and run the risk of overlooking something that, however innocuous, turns out to be vitally important for that type of culture.
There's another way... [click here for more] |
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Generally, designing a culture for a book or a game presents you with a choice: either you base it on real-world cultures and likely end up with something that could be described as "Fantasy Bedouin with some Navajo bits tacked on" or you run hog wild and run the risk of overlooking something that, however innocuous, turns out to be vitally important for that type of culture.
There's another way... [click here for more] |
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Generally, designing a culture for a book or a game presents you with a choice: either you base it on real-world cultures and likely end up with something that could be described as "Fantasy Bedouin with some Navajo bits tacked on" or you run hog wild and run the risk of overlooking something that, however innocuous, turns out to be vitally important for that type of culture.
There's another way... [click here for more] |
WMB Saltworks |
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Generally, designing a culture for a book or a game presents you with a choice: either you base it on real-world cultures and likely end up with something that could be described as "Fantasy Bedouin with some Navajo bits tacked on" or you run hog wild and run the risk of overlooking something that, however innocuous, turns out to be vitally important for that type of culture.
There's another way... [click here for more] |
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Humans Are Weird is chock full ideas for making humans stand out from other beings in your setting, letting you avoid both well-worn tropes like "Humans are average at everything" or "Humans are, um, adaptable, I guess?" and nonsensical traits like "Only humans come from a multi-biome world."
This book contains 21 scenarios, from a galaxy where humans are the only bipeds to a fantasy world... [click here for more] |
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Moon is a collection of fifteen stories that take place on and below the moon, from new authors and award-winners alike: tales of alienation, punishment, or transformation. ... [click here for more] |
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Political Fantasies is a series that takes names for governments and plays around with them to see how far they can be pulled. In the tradition of Strange Nations, the results of each exploration can be dropped into your setting with little-to-no adaptation required.
This volume explores necrocracy or "rule by the dead," with possibilities like restricting the... [click here for more] |
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Worldbuilding can be hard, especially when it comes to aliens. All too often, fictional aliens feel like they're really just humans in costumes. Even when they are weird enough to feel truly nonhuman, they're usually still suffering from a serious case of monoculture-itis. Species Shock aims to supply you with truly alien extraterrestrials, covering everything from planet of origin to biology,... [click here for more] |
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Strange Nations is a collection of more than thirty cultures ready to be dragged and dropped into your world, with cultures appropriate for every kind of setting from high fantasy to contemporary horror to space opera. While each entry has certain setting assumptions, there are also suggestions for adapting them to other genres.
Here is the city-state of Iditt, where necromancy is an accepted... [click here for more] |
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Political Fantasies is a series that takes names for governments and plays around with them to see how far they can be pulled. In the tradition of Strange Nations, the results of each exploration can be dropped into your setting with little-to-no adaptation required.
This volume explores thalassocracy, or "rule by the sea." The first section discusses the common traits... [click here for more] |
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There are many good resources out there for creating new languages, but they tend to focus more on how words change over time than on the meanings of place-names. This booklet is intended to fill the gap. It not only includes lists of historical place-names but discusses the patterns and logic behind these names.
Don't forget to buy the companion to this booklet, The Meaning of Names: Persons and... [click here for more] |
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There are many good resources out there for creating new languages, but they tend to focus more on how words change over time than on the meanings of personal or group names.
This booklet is intended to fill the gap. It not only includes lists of historical names (personal, family, and ethnic) but discusses the patterns and logic behind these names.
Don't forget to buy the companion to this booklet,... [click here for more] |
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Your average book on mythology will tell about, say, Hades, and in the course of it mention that he was a death divinity. If you want to learn about death divinities in general, then you've still got a lot of work ahead of you.
This book approaches things from the opposite direction, which should be useful for worldbuilders. Rather than tell you about individual gods, this book explains... [click here for more] |
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"The Wrong Ship" is a 1,600 word short story about a programmer on the run from the authorities, who winds up stowing away on, you guessed it, the wrong spaceship. It features an artificial intelligence named Charlie, one 1980s film reference, and a stunning lack of helpfulness from the laws of physics.
This story's release was funded on Kickstarter, and it is now available under a Creative... [click here for more] |
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This special bundle product contains the following titles. How-To: Far North Peoples Regular price: $2.95 Bundle price: $2.36 Format: Watermarked PDF Generally, designing a culture for a book or a game presents you with a choice: either you base it on real-world cultures and likely end up with something that could be described as "Fantasy Bedouin with some Navajo... [click here for more] |
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The United States' Interstellar Fleet's unprovoked destruction of the research and terraforming starship Demain forces a young woman to flee for her life, even as she is running away from herse;lf.
It also forces Starship Commander Stephanie Rhoads and the crew of the Commonwealth Combat Starship Unbroken to come to terms with their own nightmares, while on Earth, a veteran Marine... [click here for more] |
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A novel of war and survival in the 23rd century. ... [click here for more] |
William S. Signs |
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When the dead rise in Houston, Dave and Chris Thompson find themselves stranded on the top floor of the Liberty Medical Center, with nowhere to run and no help in sight. With Dave's broken leg making movement impossible and the disintegration of civilization accelerating around them, they have to act fast, or be consumed by the seething horde below. Note: This story is about 10,000 words, or... [click here for more] |
William Esmont |
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It's been three years since the undead dragged mankind kicking and screaming from the top of the food chain and sent him scurrying into the dark corners of a dead world. For a beleaguered band of survivors in southern Arizona, life is about to go from bad to worse. The rains have failed and, they have no choice but to leave the safety of their home in search of water. But before they can make their... [click here for more] |
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For a while, it seemed as if the good times would never end, that mankind had truly become masters of our own universe, gods in our own right. Little did we know, our time was almost up. No one knows where it started. No one knows why. By the time the scientists figured out what was happening, it was already too late. Most of humanity perished in the first few weeks, stricken down by a fast-moving... [click here for more] |
William Esmont |
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On a drilling rig off the coast of Texas, Megan Pritchard and a desperate group of survivors cling to a meager existence in the aftermath of the zombie apocalypse. When they hear rumors of a safe zone on the far side of the ocean, they must decide whether to risk all in search of a better life or to stay and accept what they have. Unbeknownst to them, a new threat, one worse than anything they've... [click here for more] |
William Esmont |
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When we travel, what—and who—do we take with us? Frank's job takes him to destinations throughout the world, when what he really wants is to spend time with his ailing wife. This sad yet uplifting short story about love and travel, romance and distance, considers how technology can impact our affections (and vice versa). This stand-alone short story is part of Hindmarch's collection of... [click here for more] |
Will Hindmarch |
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Robots just took Kyle's programming job. Now he's out to fulfill his dream of designing games like his favorite robot-controlling MMO title: CRAFTWORLD. But the intersection of life and gameplay isn't what Kyle was expecting. Can play change a world? "Craftworld" is a speculative short story, part of Will Hindmarch's ongoing collection of tales based on modern technology writing. The package... [click here for more] |
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Will Hindmarch pregrets poems and poems know it. The poems in this book are honest and sometimes funny, using line breaks and surreal imagery to revise themselves, to doubt, and to play — to try and be more than one thing at a time. Have at them.
The electronic edition of this product includes a PDF and a non-flowing epub version of the book in a single ZIP file. ... [click here for more] |
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In the world of pharmaceutical software for artificial intelligence, perception is vital. A new diagnostics manual definition for AI mental illness could undermine a burgeoning industry of medicine for machines. Joe's job as a pharmaware rep may be on the line on this next business trip — his self-image certainly is. "The Pharmaware Rep" is part of Will Hindmarch's ongoing collection... [click here for more] |
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Not long from now, in a war-torn city, a journalist embedded with a military force confronts a contrast between the wars we idolize and the wars we fight. Stranded in a blasted metropolis, the journalist travels with her wounded unit on a dangerous mission to use next-generation weaponry and support robots to locate and eliminate a hidden rebel base. But in the fog of war, the story we want isn't always... [click here for more] |
Will Hindmarch |
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This volume collects both of Sasscer Hill's Nicki Latrelle short stories, featuring the jockey/amateur detective in the world of horse racing: GAME and STEAMROLLER.
If you miss the late Dick Francis’s racetrack thrillers, you’ll be intrigued by Sasscer Hill’s Racing From Death.” —The Washington Post, August 29, 2012"
Note: This digital edition includes... [click here for more] |
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In the alternate Earth called Nova Europa, two countries have fought a great battle over the future of that world. But now the King of Kórynthia seems to be going mad: some evil mage is eating away at the very fabric of the the state. The King's heir, Prince Arkády, must rally the forces of good to push back the darkness--and if he fails, then Nova Europa will experience only chaos, calamity, and... [click here for more] |
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Dr. Brutus Lloyd is no more than four feet ten inches tall, an amazingly gnome-like man. He's not a dwarf, simply vest-pocket size. His head has a brow like a baby cliff, capped by a tuft of jet-black hair that curled down the immense forehead. His face, though overbalanced by the brow, is powerful for all its smallness. The most surprising thing about him is his deep bass voice. A brilliant scientist... [click here for more] |
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Den Milnan, a Tecton Donor, accompanies his cousin, channel Rital Madz, to an experimental Sime Center in the town of Clear Springs, deep in hostile Gen Territory.
Rital plans to offer selyn technology to the Gens in trade for selyn, the energy that only Gens can produce. Selyn is the fuel that could power a new revival of civilization, as fossil fuels did for humanity of the 19th and 20th centuries.... [click here for more] |
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A beautiful city with ugly traditions of corruption and racism. A black man set to hang for a murder he didn't commit. A world-famous author -- and detective -- who isn't about to let it happen...
"An enjoyable tour of 1890s New Orleans... Twain can take a bow for his perfomance. Heck takes a colorful city (New Orleans) an a colorful character (Mark Twain), adds a murder, a duel, some voodoo and... [click here for more] |
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“Dick Donovan” was the pseudonym of James Edward Preston Murdock (1843–1934), an author of mysteries, thrillers, and horror stories. For a time, his popularity rivaled that of Arthur Conan Doyle—and he was certainly more prolific than Doyle. Between 1889 and 1922, he published nearly 300 mystery stories (many in series that were collected as books, such as this one.)
Many of Muddock’s mystery... [click here for more] |
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In the distance Kelsey House stood framed against the sky, its windows gleaming brightly. There was an eerie glow to the scene, that seemed to come not so much from the moon, now rising, but from things themselves, as if she were seeing the very essence of them. But there was more to the scene than the house alone. Between where she stood and where the house stood, a group of ghostly figures danced... [click here for more] |
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The masters of the Euchronian Millennium are panicking. The fabric of their ideal society on the platform built over the Earth has been ripped, and the order that they hold so precious seems to be teetering on the brink of collapse. In order to save it, the Hegemon has decided to obliterate all life in the perpetually covered Underworld of Earth from which the threat comes--but his followers are of... [click here for more] |
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Mike Lantry, the tough, hard-bitten chief of World Wide Investigations, is on his way back to New York after a restful vacation when he gives a ride to a lone girl on an Indiana highway. Lantry's up to his neck in from that moment on, coming into contact with gun-wielding hoodlums and crooked cops and the head of the Mafia in the Midwestern United States. When he joins forces with plucky Joanne Kilvert... [click here for more] |
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A HOUSE OF POMEGRANITES
Oscar Wilde's collection of fairy tales for adults includes four classic stories "The Young King," "The Birthday of the Infanta," "The Fisherman and his Soul," and "The Star-child." ... [click here for more] |
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They hopped a boxcar and made a run for it.
He was a wanted man -- she was a woman who thought she's found her man.
It was an outlawed passion, and it was doomed from the start...for crime always has a cost, and a life on the run is no life at all -- unless you're willing to risk everything!
Note: This digital edition includes the PDF, EPUB and MOBI (Kindle) versions of the book.
... [click here for more] |
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Explorations of Science Fiction and Fantasy Films
This book gathers together many of the illuminating essays on science fiction and fantasy film penned by a major critic in the SF field. The pieces are roughly organized in the chronological order of when the movies and television programs being discussed first appeared, with essays providing more general overviews clustered near the beginning... [click here for more] |
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A Stranger in Paradise, by Edward M. Lerner, collects five of the bestselling author's science fiction stories: The Night of the RFIDs, Two kinds of People, Better the Devil You Know, Small Business, and A Stranger in Paradise.... [click here for more] |
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Jaguar is sent back to Planetoid One, her first Planetoid assignment, to investigate a prisoner convicted of killing Supervisor Diane Lasher, once her friend. As she walks the corridors of her own past, Jaguar is haunted by ghosts who might or might not be real, and plagued by attempts to kill her before she gets to the truth. Alex takes extreme measures to make sure he's there to protect her, before... [click here for more] |
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Something is wrong in England. In and around the London area, people are suddenly becoming bad-tempered, with a rapid increase in crime and murder, and a clear decline in self-respect. Linked to this strange behavior is an excavation site, now a mighty smoking crater emitting clouds of noxious gas that appear to be causing the sudden change in human behavior. And then, from within the vast fissure... [click here for more] |
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The definitive 10-volume set of Robert E. Howard's weird fiction and poetry (with all texts meticulously restored to the original versions as published in Weird Tales and other magazines) continues with volume 10!
This collection of classic Howard fiction and poetry begins with the story "Pigeons from Hell" and includes: "The Last Hour," "Ships," "Lines Written in the Realization That I Must Die,"... [click here for more] |
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A Johnny Merak Classic Crime Novel, Book Three
The murder of Carlos Galecci, a kingpin of organized crime, was not unexpected.
Only three days earlier, fearing for his life, he'd hired Los Angeles private eye Johnny Merak to discover who was threatening him. Then he's found seated in his private vault with a knife in his back--a vault whose combination only he knows, a vault no... [click here for more] |
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A VELVET OF VAMPYRES: Tales of Horror, by Don Webb. It's a "murder" of crows and a "parliament" of owls. For bats, the genus is "velvet," and hence also for vampires. We like the older spelling, the one John Polidori gave us when he alerted the world to their presence. They're here--dominating our dreams, our fears, our media. But what if they aren't boy-band-pretty with diamond sparkly skin? What... [click here for more] |
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The people of the Euchronian Millennium had been reminded of the Underworld that existed beneath the platform on which they had constructed their better, cleaner, safer world--leaving the original surface of Earth a dark, dreary, and forgotten place. That awareness had become a political pawn, which many different people were trying to manipulate in their own interests. In the meantime, the search... [click here for more] |
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Claire Hayes was an Englishwoman with pale blonde hair and dark, burning eyes. Soon she was crossing the wild, wide American continent. Its roughness would strengthen her, and five men would help make her a woman: Peter, the husband drawn to prayer and the golden California sun; Morton, the trapper who saved her life and wanted full payment; Lone Eagle, the tall chief who bought her, loved her, and... [click here for more] |
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