Hyperion is a Hugo Award-winning 1989 science fiction novel by American writer Dan Simmons. It is the first book of his Hyperion Cantos. The plot of the novel features multiple time-lines and characters. It follows a similar structure to The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.
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Hyperion, Part 1 by Dan Simmons
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“Xas Irkalla” - a dark, insane RPG inspired by black metal
Warning! This game features MAJOR Adult themes! It believe it has been inspired by satanic black metal music and includes a lot of insanity and gruesomeness.
Today we are playing the "Nightmares of the Dead Dreamers" intro adventure from the Core Rulebook. Xas Irkalla uses the "Strain" RPG mechanic, which we will be explaining briefly at the start of the game.
Beneath grey skies of falling ashes, corpse-like denizens beckon for scraps of flesh, kneeling in filth and ecstasy before their slumbering god-kings. Wasteland tribes fight against the armies that come to take them as cattle. Witches are hunted and bred to serve as psychic slaves to sorcerers at war, and things of nightmare are birthed from the cracks in the earth, where reality is twisted into surreal labyrinths of intersecting worlds. This is the world of Xas Irkalla.
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Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology
With their hard-edged, street-wise prose, they created frighteningly probable futures of high-tech societies and low-life hustlers. Fans and critics call their world cyberpunk. Here is the definitive "cyberpunk" short fiction collection.
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Philosophy of True Detective
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The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 2 of 7
The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn’s masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators and also of heroism, a Stalinist anti-world at the heart of the Soviet Union where the key to survival lay not in hope but in despair. The work is based on the testimony of some two hundred survivors, and on the recollection of Solzhenitsyn’s own eleven years in labour camps and exile. It is both a thoroughly researched document and a feat of literary and imaginative power. This edition has been abridged into one volume at the author’s wish and with his full co-operation.
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Agent of the Imperium, Part 2
A Story of the Traveller Universe Kindle Edition. Jonathan Bland is a Decider, empowered by the Emperor himself to deal with the inevitable crises of empire. In the service of the Empire, he has killed more people than anyone in the history of Humanity, to save a hundred times as many.
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Agent of the Imperium, Part 1
A Story of the Traveller Universe Kindle Edition. Jonathan Bland is a Decider, empowered by the Emperor himself to deal with the inevitable crises of empire. In the service of the Empire, he has killed more people than anyone in the history of Humanity, to save a hundred times as many.