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Poker Without Cards is fiction framed as nonfiction, presented as a transcription of 6 meetings between a psychiatrist, Dr. William Fink, and a brand strategist, Howard Campbell. Howard Campbell is fucking with Dr. Fink's perception of the world. Campbell presents Buckminster Fuller's Cosmography, as only a character in Fuller's work could do.

WHEN TIME mysteriously stops, young Max Quick must travel across America to find the source of this 'temporal disaster'... Along the way, he and his companions encounter ancient mysteries, quantum Books, and clues to the riddle of stopped Time. But the more Max learns, the more it seems that his own true identity is not what he once believed. Now he must race against a clock that can no longer tick, before the very world itself is altered forever... FOREWORD MAGAZINE'S 2004 "BOOK OF THE YEAR" FINALIST driven -- and driven well -- by good old-fashioned sci-fi storytelling." - Kirkus Reviews ForeWord Magazine 'Book of the Year' Finalist 2005! SEQUEL NOW AVAILABLE: MAX QUICK Book Two: The Two Travelers FREE AudioBook Podcast of THE POCKET AND THE PENDANT at podiobooks.com

This is the very first biography on that grand pulp master and illustrator of the fantastic, J. Allen St. John, most famous for his work on Tarzan and other fantastic works by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Author Darrell C. Richardson, a friend of the artist during his final years, recounts personal experiences with St. John, with an insight to the man few people can claim. The book is profusely illustrated in FULL COLOR and is a beautiful cross section of the career of this amazing and talented artist. This is the first volume of a projected series of books on St. John. Designed by Dennis McHaney.

Epics have lost their charm. There was a time when you finished an epic. When an epic left you feeling not discontent and exhausted, but joyous, melancholy, rejuvenated, satisfied -- left you feeling that you were a better person for the experience. TWENTY EPICS will bring that feeling back. In ten thousand words or less. All-new stories from Christopher Rowe, Tim Pratt, Alan DeNiro, Rachel McGonagill, K.D. Wentworth, Marcus Ewert, Christopher Barzak, Meghan McCarron, Stephen Eley, Jon Hansen, Paul Berger, David Schwartz, Sandra McDonald, Jack Mierzwa, Mary Robinette Kowal, Zoe Selengut, Ian McHugh, Yoon Ha Lee, Benjamin Rosenbaum, and Scott William Carter. Edited by David Moles and Susan Marie Groppi. Finalist for the 2007 World Fantasy Award for best anthology.

Illya has always been different - fey, quiet, and cursed with the ability to see the lingering spirits of the dead. A younger son of a younger son from a backwater mountain province, he is a nobody in the king’s army until he comes to the notice of the Prince Knight himself, the spoiled, stubborn heir to the kingdom of Aldania. Caught up in a war that has raged for generations between Aldania and a neighboring kingdom, captured and imprisoned by a mad king, Illya and Prince Ashe discover a history of lies, betrayal and assassination, and the ghostly truth beneath it all. Opposites in every way, they forge a common bond that pain, war and betrayal will test to the very limit of their strength. To end a dynasty of madness and suffering, Illya must embrace the ability he has always hated, and look to the dead for answers.

(Superhero Fantasy Text Novel, Not A Graphic Novel) This is the first story of a very unique and different style of super hero. Nygel Spinner lived a normal life as a college student, until one fateful night he became something more than human. With advanced technology and superhuman abilities he suddenly became the ultimate hunter. As Nygel tries to balance his normal life with the dangers of being Knight Seeker, evil forces are at work attempting to dominate the world of the living. Join Knight Seeker as he battles Warlord Sage, a demon bent on opening the gates of hell and unleashing doom for all mankind.

[ www.TheTTAcademy.com ] In time travel theory, there is an unknown aspect of the grandfather paradox. If a person does anything that will affect the future, some force in nature will stop them. In The Time Travelers Academy, this force comes within a hair’s breadth of destroying humanity when a comet brings a new and unstoppable plague to Earth. The President makes a choice that will either save Earth’s inhabitants or annihilate them. At a secret military academy, ten cadets are selected to travel to the future of Earth’s sister planet, in the hope that planet has found a cure for the plague. The mission’s leader, John Richards, knows that past time travel risks encountering time eliminators: entities that will absorb him and his crew out of existence before their actions can literally reset the universal timeline. But when Richards learns that his fiancé was killed in a contract hit, he’s determined to go back in time and prevent her death, even if it risks the destruction of the current Earth.

The New York Times writes, "Pickover contemplates realms beyond our known reality." From one of the most original voices in imaginative nonfiction comes a stunning novel of speculation on the afterlife, immortality, and the existence of the human soul. "The Heaven Virus" is inspired by virtual universes making headlines today and offers readers a glimpse of ultimate spiritual technologies for the 22nd century and a mystic encounter in an age of electronic gods. "The Heaven Virus" blends humor, psychedelia, and hope in a meditation on the outer limits of our culture, evolutionary destiny, and inner space. This novel will draw readers who have wondered about their own passage from this existence into the world to come. Cliff Pickover is the author of forty books on science, mathematics, art, religion. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University. His website, Pickover.com, has received several million visits.

Content to live a simple life, a young woman, raised in an academy for girls, is suddenly faced with the truth regarding her heritage. Those who know her background and latent powers secretly orchestrate her life and education to prepare her for a dangerous future. But despots, fearful of any of her line, strive to eliminate or manipulate her. Despite the daunting terror of the choices she must make, her only hope for deliverance is to go, Into the Blood of the Sun.

The Element of Fire was first published in the US by Tor Books in 1993, and has been published in six languages. This edition has been revised by the author. The kingdom of Ile-Rien is in peril, menaced by magical threats and court intrigue. As the weak King Roland, misled by treacherous companions, rules the country, only his ruthless mother, the Dowager Queen Ravenna, truly guards the safety of the realm. But now Urbain Grandier, the dark master of scientific sorcery, has arrived to plot against the throne and Kade, bastard sister of the king, has appeared unexpectedly at court. The illegitimate daughter of the old king and the Queen of Air and Darkness herself, Kade's true goals are cloaked in mystery. Is she in league with the wizard Grandier? Or is she laying claim to the throne? It falls to Thomas Boniface, Captain of the Queen's Guard and Ravenna's former lover, to sort out who is friend, who is foe in a deadly game to keep the Dowager Queen and the kingdom she loves from harm.