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"When artists and designers explore or create a fictional setting, the milieu must be completely fleshed out, explained, and designed. Comics and gaming art veteran Mark Nelson explores and demonstrates his methods for fashioning visually stunning, believable environments for fantasy creatures and characters. Scores of images and step-by-step examples illustrate how variation and experimentation lead to fresh, original designs for otherworldly beings...
2) Pellucidar
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"In the incredible world inside the Earth David Innes discovers a new frontier for Mankind. He strove to carve a civilization out of its Stone Age perils. But the kidnapping of the beautiful cave woman Empress, Dian, made him drop his fight for advencement and enter into a still greater battle against all the primitive monsters of Pellucidar!" -- Cover.
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"The Time Machine" relates the story of The Time Traveller, a Victorian inventor who creates a machine that allows him to travel to any time period. He chooses to rocket forward into the unknown world of the future, landing in the year 802,701 where he encounters the humanoids descendants of Earth, the seemingly friendly and benign Eloi and the subterranean and primitive Morlocks.
The Time Traveller rescues and befriends a young Eloi girl named Weena...
4) Dynamicist
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Would it kill you to create something genuinely new?
In Robert's world, it used to. Supernatural vengeance for invention is now a thing, of the past.
Young, optimistic, quick of mind and quick to act, Robert thinks being, invited to the New School is an invitation to change the world. But, change is difficult when there is no history of innovation.
He is initially successful in his studies, but nothing is as simple as he naively imagines. His classmates...
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Learn everything you need to make your own comic books, superheroes, and story lines with The Art of Comic Book Drawing. Featuring step-by-step tutorials, helpful tips, and dozens of drawing and illustration techniques, aspiring cartoonists, graphic illustrators, and comic book artists will discover all of the basics, from creating characters to mastering features and expressions to bringing it all together with unique and interesting story lines....
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Matthews lang ersehnte Freiheit ist nicht das Paradies, das er sich erhofft hatte. Das Leben an der Seite seines Bruders bringt Herausforderungen mit sich, mit denen er nicht gerechnet hatte, und in seiner Überforderung wendet er sich wieder Bishop zu. Dieser offenbart ihm eine Realität, die noch abstruser und unberechenbarer ist als jeder Tag hinter Gittern. Währenddessen steht Rose im Zentrum eines Sturms, den sie selbst entfacht hat. Nach dem...
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Matthew stößt im Gefängnis an seine Grenzen. Während sein Bruder nun in Chicago lebt und dort seine Heilung vorantreibt, bekommt Matthew immer mehr Druck von der Gang. Doch eines Tages erhält er eine Nachricht von Bishop. Und alles scheint sich zu ändern.
Rose lebt sich langsam in ihrer Welt ein. Sie erledigt ihre Aufgaben und sucht weiterhin nach der Balance zwischen den strengen Regeln der Seelenwächter und ihrem Moralempfinden. Als sie mit...
8) Bird Magic
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Some say he's still out there
One thousand years ago in the city of Libalele, magic was declared a crime, and the magician Iwizadi was imprisoned by his brother Umwahu for his magic power. He outlived Umwahu and escaped from his cell, but by that time there was no magic left in the city or its people. Iwizadi disappeared with his secret book, and nobody knows what happened to him next...
Others say he's just a character in a fairytale
The birds...
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The darkness is always there, lurking in the corners, skulking behind the shelves, waiting under the stairs, sleeping between the stars. But there is always hope, a light to show the way!
Michael R. Collings delves into modern and historical horror in his essays; explores the edges of sanity and reality in his fiction; and visits far shores, distant planets, and the hapless programmer next door in his poetic musings.
Join the three-time...
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El estilo poético y la grandeza de La hija del rey del País de los Elfos la ha convertido en una de las novelas fantásticas más entrañables de todos los tiempos. La desgarradora historia de la unión entre un mortal y una princesa élfica es un tapiz magistral que sentó las bases del cuento fantástico desde su primera aparición en 1924.
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Publicada en 1947, "Su nombre era Muerte" no tiene ninguno de los elementos comúnmente asociados con la ciencia ficción que se hicieron populares en aquel period, robots, naves espaciales, planetas lejanos, etcetera, pero sí, en cambio, una especulación muy interesante sobre la posibilidad de una inteligencia no humana, paralela a las de obras que van de "Hacedor de estrellas" (1937) de Olaf Stapledon a "Solaris" (1961) de Stanisław Lem.
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A poetry book full of dark emotions, sadness and broken-dreams. This book dives deep into the psyche of our heartaches and provides a window to our sad souls. No one wants to hurt, but unfortunately, we all do sometimes, as it is part of life. This book will help you come face to face with your demons, your sorrows, and all that you could not express to others. The poems describe life and its meaning in ways that will leave the reader perplexed and...
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The year is 1427. The Great Revolution has been raging for eight long years, effecting every aspect of life in the Isobellian Empire. Countless are dead, and thousands of families have been, torn apart. But, the Empire still has hope to be freed.
Andreas Bellbrook is the Kingslayer, a prophesied hero destined by fate to steal the legendary sword Excelsior from the Black King Tiberius. With it, Andre will end the war by killing the Black King despite...
14) Circe Syndrome
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Muriel is a modern wizard. She has the ability to change things with a wave or a hand or a thought. The thing is having this power is full of responsibilities. Every interaction involves this internal struggle of ethics. She believes everyone has the right to free will, conquering their own troubles and that struggle is sometimes necessary. She also knows if she has the power to change something and she does nothing, she is part of the problem.
She...
15) Oliver Twist
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En una época llena de moralismos y reglas, con prejuicios exagerados, prohibiciones severas y valores «puritanos», donde los formalismos religiosos eran deberes incuestionables, surge una obra que cae como balde de agua fría sobre el orgulloso Imperio británico. En forma de sátira y crítica frontal a las instituciones que operaban como una industria del hambre, de la mortandad, del suplicio y del abuso descarado envuelto en la hipocresía,...
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A storm is coming, and a drowning man is about to uncover a 400-year-old secret that is more important than life itself.
The chase begins. Struggling art expert Peter Morgan stumbles across an enigma that offers a chance at redemption, but turns his life upside down. He is not alone, from across the world, competing adventurers converge on an abandoned Tibetan city, seeking knowledge, power, and the answer to an ancient mystery
17) Dragon This
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Dragons are the keepers of consciousness. They removed themselves from human consciousness roughly 5000-years ago, when people stopped looking to the sky and began looking to the Earth for answers to the fundamental questions. Dragons have maintained a presence in every culture on every continent, through legends, statues and effigies. When the People's Business Party start tearing down dragon symbols and replacing them with their logos, the dragons...
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"El Multiverso está conformado por una infinidad de diferentes dimensiones, cada una protegida por su respectivo guardián. Un joven es condenado a morir y renacer en diferentes épocas y en diferentes dimensiones por toda la eternidad. Conforme cumple su condena, su destino se entrelaza con el del Multiverso en el que habita. Éste es el comienzo de su travesía.
Cuando el Jeath abrió los ojos lo primero que vio fueron las fauces de un dragón...
19) Peter Pan
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Todos los niños, menos uno, crecen». Así comienza la historia de ese jovencito que se resiste con vehemencia a convertirse en adulto, ese atribulado y domesticado engranaje necesario para el sistema social. El País de Nunca Jamás es su hogar, su resistencia; allí es un pequeño caballero, valeroso guerrero espadachín. Alicia lo saluda desde el País de las Maravillas, seguro. Pinocho, desde «la eternidad pueril de la madera encantada», como...
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On the lush and verdant backwater world of Genoserit, the peace is fragile. Rumours of the tremors within the crystal of Thanlossit are threatening to unbalance the carefully poised planet apart.
The only option is for the Miscreants to draw together to Reap the Whirlwind in a ceremony. Regalis Idabee, her husband Max, her indomitable mother Eda, and their friends must overcome their differences and work together as they try desperately to restore...
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