Steven Gordon

The Graftonites had incredible reflexes, making them superior bounty hunters and almost unstoppable gunmen. They could draw and fire a blaster in a blink of an eye. Grafton II had evolved into a planet with no government--a purely libertarian society where all services were privatized and civil disputes were mediated by one-on-one gunfights. But when the Graftonites banded together to take over the galaxy, only superspy Clifford Croft, aided by Red Sally the always angry firestarter, the Clapper, an eccentric telekinetic who liked to clap, and the legendary bounty hunter known as the Silencer could stop them.

Attack of the Bounty Hunters

Sharon Steuer

Sandra Alves

Written by Illustrator artist Sharon Steuer with many new and improved features, the Illustrator 9 Wow! Book has grown over 100 pages, and covers step-by-step material for beginners through advanced users. In addition, readers get the goodies that come with full-color Wow! books, making this book educational and inspiring.

The Illustrator 9 Wow! Book

Jonathan Kelly

The Domes of Ishaq Zahur adventure is a 5th Edition RPG module featuring challenging combat and traps, a gamut of mind-bending puzzles, a completely custom cast of NPCs and monsters, detailed backstory and plot, and guidelines detailing the best ways to run the sessions standalone or incorporate them into your ongoing campaign.

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Domes of Ishaq Zahur

Star Trek: Enterprise was really the story of two different television shows. The first featured super-moral characters who could spend much of an episode talking about Malcolm Reed's favorite food or writing letters to school children back home, still leaving time to solve an important ethical issue that was vexing the captain.After two seasons of this, the ratings did not reward the show quite as much as producers would have hoped, so Enterprise became that second, very different kind of television show. The ship was given a life or death mission, the characters became serious, and antagonists suddenly appeared. Gone were the episodes full of moral masturbation, and in every episode Captain Archer seemed to compete with himself to become even tougher than in the previous one. The third season was one long story arc, and for the most part was quite a good one.The fourth season was a mixture of the first and the third, sometimes relying on the standard morality plays, and sometimes harkening back to the action and adventure of the third season.The purpose of this book is twofold: (1) to show how the weaker episodes could have become good episodes, and (2) to show how the good episodes could have become great episodes, by analyzing the plots and characterizations in each episode.

Analysis - Making Star Trek: Enterprise Even Better (Second Edition)

Ryan Servis

Total Party Kill Bestiary

This book is an unauthorized summary and literary criticism of the plot and characters of George R.R. Martin's novel "A Dance With Dragons", with a detailed chapter by chapter analysis. It is written humorously, but covers a lot of serious topics.We don't cover the hundreds and hundreds of character names, we focus on the central characters and central events of the story, to give you a fighting chance to understand what is going on.A sampling of the questions which will be addressed:Does Tyrion really expect to find Shae by asking "where whores go"?How did Brown Ben Plumm expect that Tyrion would be able to pay him?Was it a good idea for Daenerys to spread the plague in Meereen?Why would Littlefinger pick Jeyne Poole to play the part of Arya?How did blind Arya know that it was the Kindly Man who had been beating her with a stick?Did Theon have his cock cut off?Why does Tyrion's slave overseer call Tyrion his child?Why did Tyrion repeatedly rescue Jorah Mormont?Why does Martin like facial disfigurement so much?Why did Dany choose Daario to be a Yunkai hostage?Why doesn't Theon tell Abel that Arya is really Jeyne Poole?Who killed Little Walder?Did Ramsay Bolton make Arya have sex with a dog?Why didn't Tyrion reveal himself to Dany in the arena?Why is this book called "A Dance with Dragons?"How many people did Arya kill in this book?Why is Stannis stuck in the snow when no one else is?Why didn't Jon Connington cut off his greyscale fingers?Why does Roose Bolton not mind if Ramsay kills his kids?

Summary and Analysis of a Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin

This book is an unauthorized summary and literary criticism of the plot and characters of George R.R. Martin's novel "A Feast for Crows", with a detailed chapter by chapter analysis. It is written humorously, but covers a lot of serious topics.A sampling of the questions that will be addressed:How do we know Balon Greyjoy was murdered?Why didn't Jaime want Cersei to give him the Hand job?Why do the Ironmen call sex slaves "salt wives"?Why is Prince Doran's gout compared to a exotic fruit?How could Margaery possibly be a virgin?Why do the Silent Sisters have private parts that are "cold and as wet as ice"?Why is it called the House of "White and Black"?Why do kings let themselves be cut by the Iron Throne?What is the symbolism of Euron's eye patch?Why did Arys charge Areo Hotah?Why do Faceless Men have to be "no one"?Why isn't Jaime upset that Lancel had sex with Cersei?Why did the Hound let the monks cut the balls of his horse?Why did Genna say that Tyrion, not Jaime, was Tywin's true son?Why do the Faceless Men make Arya sell seafood?Why did Arya tell the Kindly Man she killed Dareon?Who is the younger brother who will kill Cersei?What kind of a boy takes a job to be a whipping boy?When Brienne sees a man with a giant foot long tongue, what is she really thinking about?Why do so many characters get terrible face wounds?Why is Lady Stonehenge more interesting than Catelyn Stark?

Summary and Analysis of a Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin

This book is an unauthorized summary and literary criticism of the plot and characters of George R.R. Martin Book "A Storm of Swords", with a detailed chapter by chapter analysis. It is written humorously, but covers a lot of serious topics.A small sampling of the questions and issues which will be addressed:Did Margaery know of the plan to have Joffrey killed?How did Jeyne Westerling seduce Robb?The real reason why Jaime's hand was cut off.Why are Unsullied called Unsullied?Why does Melisandre say that Davos works for R'hllor?What happened to Craster's 18 wives left behind?Do the zombies snack on Craster's babies like Doritos?Why does R'hllor keep reviving Beric?The real reason the Hound hates knights.Why has Prince Oberyn waited so long to get justice for his murdered sister Elia?How can brainwashed Unsullied really make the choice to work for Dany?Why did Jaime give Brienne his highly valuable Valyrian sword?What was fundamentally wrong with the surprise appearance of the Small Paul Zombie?How does one become a zombie?The real reason why Tywin didn't want Tyrion having sex with whores.

Summary and Analysis of a Storm of Swords, by George R. R. Martin

This book is an unauthorized summary and literary criticism of the plot and characters of J.R.R. Tolkien's almost-novel "The Silmarillion", with a detailed chapter by chapter analysis. It is written humorously, but covers a lot of serious topics.Most people who think of The Silmarillion, if they think of it at all, think of it as an uncompleted work of J.R.R. Tolkien, written in pieces many years before the Lord of the Rings but never finished. It reads like a historical appendix with thick, descriptive paragraphs and relatively little dialogue.But what is it really? If you dig into it, The Silmarillion is really ELVISH MURDER PORN. It's the story of the suffering, torture, and murder of large numbers of elves, and, sometimes for a little variety, the suffering, torture, and murder of large numbers of men. You may think it's just a fairy tale, and that's how fairy tales are written. But in most fairy tales the good guys aren't slaughtered over and over. In most fairy tales nearly all the main characters do not die in spectacularly horrible deaths, which is what the Silmarillion is all about. Tolkien creates big, extended families of elves and describes how each one dies, usually in combination with humiliation and/or betrayal and/or immense frustration. I have to wonder if Tolkien conceived this as elvish murder porn, that is, entertainment for people who love to read about the suffering and death of elves, and this analysis will go through the book step by step and explore the unusual nature of it.

Steven Gordon

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