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Matthias is master of the black fires. But Matthias is haunted by the memory of terrible conflict, and has no greater desire than personal peace. Hyrn must convince Matthias to help him stop a coming Armegeddon between bodiless Spirits and humans.
Second edition. Originally published through Mundania Press.
The world isnt what it once was. An uneasy balance lies between frail humanity and the bodiless powers, incorporeal spirits able to possess a man in the blink of an eye. Stability and prosperity have begun to grow in human lands protected by soulsteel barriers. In the Riverlands, the conflict has faded sufficiently to allow leisure, the accumulation of wealth, and the growth of culture.Matthias is a product of the safety of the barriers. He has seen the chaos of rampaging Powers first hand. He has turned his back on the world outside the Riverlands, and has turned his talent from war to art.Hy | |  | | A Slow and Silent Stream
War has come to the Border. The young and growing Lucian empire faces the ancient and magical lands of the Moghan, and the Borderlands are their chosen battleground. Fighting his own mixed heritage, denied and denying his birthright, Tornin comes of age making war on his own people. By the author of CrossTown.
The young Lucian empire, with its new king, is at war with the Moghan. Rumor has it that the Moghan enemies have a Soulslayer wizard on their side. Is there any truth to the rumor? Several Border Lords are mysteriously going insane, so it seems to be true.
The story follows Tornin "Torn" of Lontrain. His father had died in a previous war. Torn was raised by his mother and a tutor. As the book begins, war is about to be declared. Torn will ride into battle beside his uncle, Caitrin. He also meets up with his friend Callin. Callin is part of Lord Scaon's group of soldiers called the Wol | |  | | Chain of Ghosts: Resonance in Language, Story, and the Brain
Chain of Ghosts is a look at why stories work. The book looks at techniques from modern writing disciplines and maps those against Aristotle's Poetics and the Epic of Gilgamesh and modern Neuroscience. The thesis is that storytelling techniques transcend language and culture because of underlying aspects of how the brain processes and associates.
From the Introduction:
I have a damning confession to make: I am convinced that storytelling and story appreciation is a subjective process. There's no secret formula. There's no hidden key. If you were looking for that, put this book back on the shelf.
But wait! On the other hand, I do believe there are powerful aspects of storytelling that lie behind the techniques we learn. And I believe these things can be observed by their recurrence over time and across cultures, as well as by the frequency with which they crop up in teaching writing. I believe research into brai | |  | | CrossTown
"In Crosstown, fantasy and folklore wake up in the bed of science fiction... and it works!"
--Bruce Holland Rogers, World Fantasy, Nebula, and Pushcart award winner.
Zethus is a sorcerer—a self-described spiritual thug for hire. He makes his living in CrossTown, a place where the manyworld hypothesis of modern physics manifests itself, where possibilities and probabilities overlap. Caught up in a web of intrigue as he investigates the death of his master, Corvinus, and pursued by agents that want to erase all knowledge of Corvinus’s work, Zethus discovers that the key to his master’s murder lies in the last project he had pursued before his death. The roots of this project lie deep in the past, at the origin of CrossTown’s fractured reality. Once he unders | |  | | The Gates of Sleep
The world of dreams and the world of waking collide.
The Gates of Sleep is a science fiction/fantasy novel set in a near, dark future. Below the waking world, where the US has become a fallen power slipping into seedy obsolescence, a war is raging for the zeitgeist, for the hopes and dreams of mankind. Will is an agent of industrial espionage and a lucid dreamer. He finds himself caught in the middle of that war in both worlds, fighting for self and the soul of mankind as all the systems that man has created collectively struggle to awaken. | |  | | The Lives of Ghosts and Other Shades of Memory
SF and Fantasy Short Stories themed around hauntings.
C Penn at Wordweaving wrote of the original edition that "THE LIVES OF GHOSTS AND OTHER SHADES OF MEMORY by Loren Cooper is a haunting reminder that ghosts aren't the only things that trouble us. Blurring the lines between the genres of fantasy and science fiction, and likewise the lines between good and evil, THE LIVES OF GHOSTS AND OTHER SHADES OF MEMORY offers sweeping philosophical questions of history and human culture. Comprised of eleven short stories, each is riveting in its intensity, fascinating in its depth, mesmerizing in its narration. Very highly recommended. " |
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The Sea of Stars
by Frank Ryan
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 This is book 2 of my new fantasy trilogy, The Twins of Moon. As Quimbre warns Eefa, 'No world is more riddled with secrets than the eldritch waters we now blithely sail.' Here in the Sea of Stars the twins discover their extraordinary true destiny. |
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