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Imagine the Cinderella fairytale without the sweet fairy godmother, that Prince Charming was a louse, and Cinderella was a witch capable of cruelty and spitefulness. Sharpe’s retelling of the classic tale includes lust, deception, and violence. Nothing you’d ever expect in the Cinderella myth, but still the heart of the story survives in this re-imagining for mature readers. . . .
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Most folks reckoned that when humankind finally up and destroyed itself, it would do so with bombs, blades, brimstone and all those other things that politicians and priests had warned about. Turns out it was a poet who guessed the right of it. The end came more with a whimper than a bang. There were no great wars, no . . .
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Everything you know is wrong- there are plenty of gods but no afterlife, wizards plot rebellion against eldritch horrors with marketing departments, the Chinese Mafia runs the phone company, every tarot card is a prophesy waiting to happen and most vampires live in trailer parks. Read on to visit a world where every cliche is a parable, every fairy . . .
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What’s it like to be a zombie? When a small town bank is surrounded and attacked by the zombie horde, not everyone makes it out alive. The story of the survivors, human and zombie alike, unfolds one chapter at a time. . . .
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Welcome to Curio Killed the Cat—an occult shop in Kensington Market, Toronto. Meet the employees (a lazy hoodoo spellcaster, a feminist succubus, and a snobbish Wiccan priest), their perpetually drunk (and confused) boss, and their strange customers, as they try to keep the shop from closing. . . .
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They descended from the trees . . . But fell short of the stars They plummeted to Earth trailing flames and screams. And emerged from the ruins of their ship to find a world finer and greener than the deepest, oldest dreams of their race’s life aloft . . . but had no idea it was inhabited. And no preparation for the fact that the biggest . . .
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A world of fantasy and fairytales, twisted together. This story begins when a “Red Riding Hood” appears in the Northlands, domain of the troubled and aloof Wolf. Unlike his Grimm Brothers counterpart that is all beast, the Wolf is a key figure in a world filled with strange halflings (as it were), who are neither human or creature . . .
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It’s 2042 in the California Free State metroplex of Bay City. Kat and Mouse are a pair of ronin—guns for hire—trying to eke out a living. They have the skill. They have the will. And they have the bad habit of getting in over their heads. Which usually means run-ins with rival ronin, punkergangs, the mob, the . . .
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Railroad is a fast pace story of gadgetry, gunplay and grit. Join us as we follow the strange stand-alone train known as the Sleipnir (pronounced Schlipnear); eight cars of free traveling steam powered might. Able to lay her own tracks, as well as pick them up again, the train is a marvelous feat of engineering, and as an unbound . . .
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Death doesn’t have to feel like the end of the world. Zombie’s lives as they’ve known them are over, yet somehow they’re still standing. In the wake of all-consuming tragedy, they stagger forward, hands reaching out for the same people who once gave their lives hope and meaning. They need them. They’re hungry. Unable to use their own brains, . . .
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Guts and Sass is the story of when semi-suicidal vet Hannah Roverton gets transported to a magical land, thus abandoning her cat, her sister, and her therapist. Except actually, it’s not. Welcome to a land embroiled in war and invasion with a pinch of magic, meet pirates, shapeshifters, and chicks with swords. Now throw your expectations out the window. Got . . .
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And the only one who knows the true story is a teenaged Mexican streetpunk who deals dope, smuggles wetbacks, and breeds gamecocks in Tijuana. And he wishes he didn’t know. Fatherless boys often have the fantasy of a Dream Dad showing up; rich, powerful and ready to pluck them out of squalor and insecurity into the lap of luxury. . . .
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asa kraiya is the sequel “that never should have happened” to my two traditionally-published fantasy novels, Lion’s Heart and Lion’s Soul (Baen Books, 1991). Greatest of warriors and greatest of leaders, Fourth Chevenga Shae-Arano-e lives “the life of other men’s dreams”—except that he faces certain death by the age of thirty. When a healer with the gift of seeing . . .
The Valley of the Sun is a completed story told through the Sims 3. I read Alice and Kev a while back, and while both stories use images from the game for illustration, VotS is not a simple observational story. It has an author generated plot. The story begins with a reporter named Lilith being given the assignment of researching [more . . .]
This author draws you in with characters you care about and an engrossing story-line. The writing is clear and flowing and the attention to detail brings the story to life. It is not often that you find an author who can create a world as vividly real as this.