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Thinking Outside the Box
Almost immediately after their Pyrrhic victory in An Eighty Percent Solution, the remaining members of the Green Action Militia begin mysteriously to disappear. Their leader, Tony Sammis, orders the team further underground than ever before as they try and discover who is exterminating them. Metro Commissioner Yuri Krylov needs to prove to the fledgling CorpGov that the Metros have value and at the same time protect the perks of the rank and file policeman to continue to dominate and intimidate everyone around them. As many who have tried to pick up the pieces after a successful coup Nanogate finds that everyone is not pulling in the same direction. As one of the few remaining CEOs of the former Cabal, Nanogate tries to forge a new government out of the shattered remnants left to him. Within this chaotic soup, a new and influential power block rears its head from the most humble of origins to demand its concerns and rights be addressed. With Earth itself on the edge of anarchy, drastic measures will be needed to prevent a civil war or to win one once it starts. Tony and the GAM are once again pulled into the center of the maelstrom to place their lives on the line for humanity.
Well... It's Your Cow
In the throes of a convention full of geeks, Frog Jones told a story. That story is found in this book's foreword, but the key line from the story became the title of this anthology. The authors seized upon that line, much like an out-of-control bovine seizing its own halter, and stampeded into the volume you see before you. This is not just a comedy anthology. Nor is it horror, or romance, or literary, or…well, any one thing. Rather, it is all those things. Each story starts exactly in the same place. But each author immediately leaps from there into their own world. This anthology celebrates the creativity of these authors, because it does not shackle them to a theme. The starting line is the same—the finish line is on other planets, in other times, and in alternate realities. You’re not going to feel cohesiveness reading this thing. It’s not going to be several stories hitting the same note. But you are going to experience a wider panoply of stories than you would in other anthologies. And as to what you make of them, or what stories they may inspire in you? Well…that’s your cow.
Toy Wars
Don wakes from a normal manufacturing process as a two-meter, sentient teddy bear sporting purple fur. He learns he is the result of a desperate gamble by an autonomous factory with hashed programming. To protect his home, his way of life, and his creator, Don must lead other killer toys across a harsh alien landscape to battle the native fauna of Rigel-3 and even his own kind. His discoveries change not only his view of the wars, but his own Human gods. In spite of these trials, Don's harshest test may be getting his own brethren to believe his adventures and the soul-churning changes needed to survive.
Toy Reservations
For years the living toys of Rigel-3 live in the peace that their president for life, Don Quixote, fought so hard to achieve. Their former masters, the Factories, watch on in silence as President Quixote leads his people through many of the growing pains of a new society. Yet two new explosive issues threaten to tear apart their nascent people - race and procreation. In the middle of this internal maelstrom, on the anniversary of their tenth year of peace, the exiled and mentally unbalanced Isp returns at the head of a massive new Army of the Humans. He openly announces his intent to replace President Quixote's democracy with a theocracy, either peacefully or by force. With most of his military people modified to peacetime purposes, Don Quixote must make a horrific decision for the very soul of his people.
Enter the Rebirth
Every reaction, no matter how violent, always reaches some equilibrium state. This final anthology in the "Enter the..." apocalyptic trilogy shares stories of what the new normal looks like after the end of days.
Enter the Apocalypse
Thirty-two authors from all over the world have created a wide range of apocalypses for your reading pleasure. Within the pages of this anthology, you will find exceptional works focusing on hungry zombies, virulent viruses, nuclear missiles, malevolent fey, vindictive aliens, challenging crustaceans, and more - each of these maelstroms creating massive disturbances within human society. While works of holocausts tend toward a uniform darkness, Enter the Apocalypse contains a number of catastrophes that are humorous enough to cause hysterics and others that are so black as to cause the devil himself to shrink away. Contributing authors include: Kim Alan, Mike Barretta, Nick Barton, Gustavo Bondoni, Matthew Buscemi, Jessica Conoley, Lana Cooper, Jonathan Cromack, Michael Cummings, Lisha Goldberg, Bruce Golden, Russell Hemmell, Tom Jolly, Madison Keller, Simon Kewin, Morgen Knight, Janice Law, John A. McColley, Donna J.W. Munro, Katrina Nicholson, Naomi Brett Rourke, Jacalyn Schnelle, Jay Seate, Eric James Spannerman, T.M. Starnes, Stephanie Vance, Rachel Verkade, Aaron Vlek, John Walters, Filip Wiltgren, Brigitte Winter, Trevor James Zaple
Mining Justice
Stella Ochoa, Mistress Earth Witch, finds herself surprised as she learns she has many more relatives than she knew. Lucy, her cousin, turns up begging our heroine to help save her husband and his colleagues who've been trapped in a mining collapse. But first, this newfound relative leads Stella to confront the father she never knew and her mother denies. And if the trip to the mining site isn't dangerous enough, upon her arrival, the very earth itself, her own element, swears that it will kill her.
Enter the Aftermath
Continuing the theme started with Enter the Apocalypse, TANSTAAFL Press brings you another anthology of the end of mankind as we know it. In this volume writers were asked to explore the height or burnout of a disaster. Thirty-eight international authors offer dominating warlocks, ironic phone calls, thoughtless kaiju, frozen ecology, survival mutations, misbehaving aliens, and even two disparate takes on artificial intelligence - just to name a few. Enter the Aftermath provides insights into all humans and even some non-Homo sapiens that we anthropomorphize. Come inside and enjoy the darkness and humor woven by our storytellers.
Of Demons and Coal
As a witch, widow Stella Ochoa makes her living at the soul grinding job of spelling coal dust out of the air. But infrequently, she and her team of Hellfighters are called on to do the dangerous task of capturing an escaped demon. Now, years after demons have been put to use as power in steam engines, they are getting loose at an alarming rate. Each one kills and causes massive destruction of property. For King, God, and country, Stella investigates the increase only to unravel a plot only humans themselves could devise.
Courting Witchcraft
In the familiar America of the Acorn and Strips, Mistress Witch Stella Ochoa has been hailed as the heroine of Boston for finding and exposing the perpetrators of the demon releases. It seems obvious that Stella may now relax. To everyone's surprise, the chaos on the east coast continues. But the chaos continues. Instead of being able to rest on her laurels, Stella must evade an assassin, testify in a murder trial, deal with even more escaped demons, avoid a society of witch-haters, and find a new home and new employer, all while dealing with too many suitors and her own ignoble ancestry.
