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Vintage Tomorrows
What would today’s technology look like with Victorian-era design and materials? That’s the world steampunk envisions: a mad-inventor collection of 21st century-inspired contraptions powered by steam and driven by gears. In this book, futurist Brian David Johnson and cultural historian James Carrott explore steampunk, a cultural movement that’s captivated thousands of artists, designers, makers, hackers, and writers throughout the world. Just like today, the late 19th century was an age of rapid technological change, and writers such as Jules Verne and H.G. Wells commented on their time with fantastic stories that jumpstarted science fiction. Through interviews with experts such as William Gibson, Cory Doctorow, Bruce Sterling, James Gleick, and Margaret Atwood, this book looks into steampunk’s vision of old-world craftsmen making beautiful hand-tooled gadgets, and what it says about our age of disposable technology. Steampunk is everywhere—as gadget prototypes at Maker Faire, novels and comic books, paintings and photography, sculptures, fashion design, and music. Discover how this elaborate view of a history that never existed can help us reimagine our future.
Heartbreakers Superdigest
Two women, clone from the same DNA-exact duplicates right? Wrong! Queenie and Delta share their creator's genes as well as her memories. But each of these clones has her own personality and purpose: Delta's a scientists, Queenie's a soldier. In their world, genetic engineering is an everyday event, clones are second-class citizens, and big business runs the show. But that doesn't stop this feisty, brains-and-brawns duo from tackling problems both big and small. Averting a global food crisis, shopping for a new spaceships, fending off street thugs-it's all in a day's work for the Heartbreakers!
Age Of Bronze Vol. 1: A Thousand Ships
Daring heroes, breathtaking women, betrayals, love and death--the most spectacular war story ever told: The Trojan War. When a lustful Trojan prince abducts the beautiful Queen Helen of Sparta, Helen's husband vows to recover her no matter the cost. So begins the Trojan War. From far and wide the ancient kings of Greece bring their ships to join the massive force to pledge their allegiance to High King Agamemnon. Featuring the greatest of the Greek heroes: Achilles, Odysseus, and Herakles, along with a cast of thousands. AGE OF BRONZE: A THOUSAND SHIPS reveals hidden secrets of the characters` pasts, serving up joy and sorrow, leading up to the brink of war, and foreshadowing the terror to come. Age of Bronze will be included in a major international exhibition travelling to three German museums in 2002. The exhibit is centered on the current excavations at Troy and features Age of Bronze in an exhibit devoted to modern interpretations of Troy. Age of Bronze has been nominated for numerous Eisner (The comic industry's Oscar) Awards. Rack it in your mythology and historical fiction sections for even more sales success.
Nexus Omnibus Volume 6
When a near-death experience pushes the current Nexus into his work with a brutal vengeance, it's up to classic Nexus Horatio Hellpop to step in before he goes too far! But as the Nexuses square off against each other, the mysterious Bad Brains and the nefarious Ursala X. X. Imada plot further doom! Created by Mike Baron and Steve Rude, Nexus is a superhero/science-fiction masterpiece. This value-priced omnibus collects issues #66-#80 of the multiple Eisner Award-winning Nexus volume 2 and The Nexus Files!
Steaming Into a Victorian Future
This collection of essays explores the social and cultural aspects of steampunk, examining the various manifestations of this multi-faceted genre, in order to better understand the steampunk sub-culture and its effect on--and interrelationship with--popular culture and the wider society.
The Steampunk Bible
“Wonderful essays on everything steampunk, written by well-known names in the movement who are living steampunk every day” (Wired.com). Steampunk—a grafting of Victorian aesthetic and punk rock attitude onto various forms of science-fiction culture—is a phenomenon that has come to influence film, literature, art, music, fashion, and more. The Steampunk Bible is the first compendium about the movement, tracing its roots in the works of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells through its most recent expression in movies such as Sherlock Holmes. Its adherents celebrate the inventor as an artist and hero, re-envisioning and crafting retro technologies including antiquated airships and robots. A burg...
Aliens Epic Collection
The galaxy's most terrifying creatures are coming for Earth! Years after the first two Aliens films, a Xenomorph attack in space leads the Colonial Marines to take action. Soon, the badly scarred Hicks and the now-grown Newt find themselves swept up in a dangerous mission to locate and destroy the creatures' homeworld! But when Earth itself is overrun by a Xenomorph outbreak, Hicks and Newt must join a renegade group fighting to reclaim the planet. Can an obsessed military man train Aliens to wipe out their own kind? And can an old friend help Hicks and Newt turn the tide - by capturing an Alien Queen Mother? Plus: An outer-space treasure hunt becomes a battle for survival when Aliens attack! Collecting ALIENS (1988) #1-6, ALIENS (1989) #1-4, ALIENS: EARTH WAR #1-4 and material from DARK HORSE PRESENTS (1986) #24 and #42-43.
BODY BAGS: Father's Day #1
15 seconds into the future: criminals are protected by so many laws the police are no longer effective. Enter the bounty hunters...or, as they're known on the street, "BODY BAGGERS." When the cops can't take the bad guys down, they hire out to bring the most dangerous fugitives in. Dead or alive. The action begins when a rival "bagger" goes after Mack (a.k.a. Clownface) the best bounty hunter in the business. Fuel is quickly added to the fire with the sudden arrival of Panda, Mack's estranged daughter. How will the baddest man in Terminus, GA handle a 14-year-old girl determined to follow in her daddy's footsteps, and does she really know what she's getting into?
Aliens Omnibus
This volume collects more exciting 'Aliens' stories, featuring nearly 400 story pages in full colour. It includes the complete story arcs of 'Rogue', 'Labyrinth' and 'Salvation'.
Star Wars Legends Epic Collection
Collects Star Wars Special: The Constancia Affair, Classic Star Wars: The Early Adventures #1-9, Classic Star Wars: Han Solo at Stars' End #1-3, Classic Star Wars #1-3, material from Classic Star Wars #4 and Star Wars newspaper strips 3/11/1979-7/26/1981. Classic tales of Star Wars, from the funny pages to your bookshelves! Beginning in 1979, fans got a daily dose of a galaxy far, far away in their newspapers now, with this volume, you can savor those stories without the 24-hour wait! C-3PO chronicles the adventures of the Rebel heroes! Luke takes his chances on a gamblers world! A sojourn on Tatooine is anything but peaceful! Princess Leia is put to work as an Imperial servant! Han Solo makes another Kessel Run! Han and Chewie get more than they bargained for on a job! And Boba Fett makes his comic debut!
