A Difficulty with Dwarves

A Difficulty with Dwarves
Author: Craig Shaw Gardner
Publisher:
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1987
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780441147793

When a wizard is unable to cure his malady of magicks, he sends his apprentice Wuntnor to seek aid in the distant land of the Eastern Kingdoms which are ripe with fiendish peril.

Getting Started with Dwarf Fortress

Getting Started with Dwarf Fortress
Author: Peter Tyson
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2012-05-25
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1449339816

Dwarf Fortress may be the most complex video game ever made, but all that detail makes for fascinating game play, as various elements collide in interesting and challenging ways. The trick is getting started. In this guide, Fortress geek Peter Tyson takes you through the basics of this menacing realm, and helps you overcome the formidable learning curve. The book’s focus is the game’s simulation mode, in which you’re tasked with building a dwarf city. Once you learn how to establish and maintain your very first fortress, you can consult the more advanced chapters on resource management and training a dwarf military. You’ll soon have stories to share from your interactions with the Dwarf Fortress universe. Create your own world, then locate a site for an underground fortress Equip your party of dwarves and have them build workshops and rooms Produce a healthy food supply so your dwarves won’t starve (or go insane) Retain control over a fortress and dozens of dwarves, their children, and their pets Expand your fortress with fortifications, stairs, bridges, and subterranean halls Construct fantastic traps, machines, and weapons of mass destruction

The Ebenezum Trilogy

The Ebenezum Trilogy
Author: Craig Shaw Gardner
Publisher: Crossroad Press
Total Pages: 618
Release: 2015-10-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

A MALADY OF MAGICKS "Guxx Unfufadoo is my name. And killing wizards is my game!" Thus spoke the dreaded rhyming demon, come from the Netherhells, to munch a bunch of the great Ebenezum.Only it didn't quite work out that way. Ebenezum lived, cursed by Guxx with a mighty curse that he should henceforth be allergic to magic.So Ebenezum and his hapless apprentice Wuntvor must journey to the City of Forbidden Delights to seek a cure. They find the road fraught with peril and dark magic, from tap-dancing dragons to enchanted chickens, slobbering trolls, winsome witches and sinister shrubbery.It's up to Wunt to see them through, to utter the sounds of power and speak the spells that will insure their health, wealth and continued life. It only he could remember the words... A MULTITUDE OF MONSTERS I've got you now, you wizardly pest, in my stomach you soon will rest! Thus spoke Guxx Unfufadoo to the mighty wizard, Ebenezum. The dreaded rhyming demon had cruelly cursed the mage with a malady of magicks and now he was determined that the suffering sorcerer never reach Vushta, the City of Forbodden Delights, where he might find a cure. A NIGHT IN THE NETHERHELLS In the conclusion of the Ebenezum trilogy, the wizard Ebenezum and his hapless apprentice, Wuntvor, must do everything in their power to save Vushta, City of Forbidden Delights, from Guxx, the rhyming demon.

Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction

Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction
Author: Don D'Ammassa
Publisher: Infobase Learning
Total Pages: 2061
Release: 2015-04-22
Genre: Fantasy fiction, American
ISBN: 1438140630

Presents articles on the horror and fantasy genres of fiction, including authors, themes, significant works, and awards.

The Cylons' Secret

The Cylons' Secret
Author: Craig Shaw Gardner
Publisher: Tor Books
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2007-04-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429910518

Sometimes no news is bad news. It's been twenty years since the end of the Cylon war. The twelve human colony worlds are rebuilding, and the Cylons . . . the Cylons have been just too quiet. They are nowhere to be found. The robotic race that tried to obliterate their creators has gone to parts unknown in deep space. The aftermath of the war has created a new, illegal profession: scavenger. Tom Zarek is one, scouring the outer settlements for valuable Cylon technologies and artifacts and usually returning empty-handed. But now, he and the crew of the Cruiser Lightning have found the Omega Station, a scientific station shrouded in secrecy beyond the edge of charted space. This is it, the big score, except something is wrong...the base is still occupied, not by humans alone; by Cylons too! The Battlestar Galactica, one of the oldest warships in the fleet, receives the Lightning's distress call, a cryptic one-word message: "Cylons." William Adama, newly promoted to second-in-command, is worried. Most of his crew are green, new recruits, not prepared for anything but the most routine missions. And, as Adama soon discovers, this mission is anything but routine. Omega is indeed full of Cylons, but also something much more disturbing . . . At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Dragon Waking

Dragon Waking
Author: Craig Shaw Gardner
Publisher: Crossroad Press
Total Pages: 406
Release: 2015-12-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

In Dragon Sleeping, bestselling author Craig Shaw Gardner began an unforgettable adventure that stretched from the everyday reality of 1967 to stunning vistas beyond the imagination where a mighty dragon slept, and two warring brothers struggled to control it. Now, the spellbinding saga of The Dragon Circle continues, Craig Shaw Gardner’s most ambitious and stunning work to date. The people of Chestnut Circle know what it means to fight. The wizard brothers, Nunn and Obar, have brought them from their quiet suburban homes into a world of magnificent magic and devastating war. Now, with loyalties formed and friendships shattered, neighbors battle neighbors. And seventeen-year-old Nick Blake must once again shed blood for his friends and family. But as they are all about to learn, the struggle between Nunn and Obar is no longer a simple choice between good and evil. There are many choices, each with its own consequences. And Nick Blake must fight to keep what he holds dear as everything he knows is torn apart. As the ultimate power stirs beneath him—the power that can cleanse the world with flame, and destroy them all. The dragon has awakened. Epic in scope, brilliant in its depth and originality, The Dragon Circle: Dragon Waking is a magnificent adventure that launches Craig Shaw Gardner into the front ranks of the fantasy field.

Through a Glass Darkly

Through a Glass Darkly
Author: Frances Di Lauro
Publisher: Sydney University Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2006
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1920898549

Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections on the Sacred is a collection of research articles on the influence of religion on music, literature and art. The book was edited by Frances Di Lauro with an introduction by Victoria Barker.

The Magic Dead

The Magic Dead
Author: Craig Shaw Gardner
Publisher: Crossroad Press
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2018-02-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

May the best world win … The war between Earth and Castle has taken its toll on both worlds. Now, the ruler of Castle—the insidious Pale Man—plans to resolve the conflict by melding the technology of Earth with the magical powers of Castle. For the Pale Man, it means absolute victory. For all others … utter annihilation. To stop him, long-embittered enemies must unite, and wage one final assault against their common foe. The ultimate battle for the fate of two worlds is about to begin …

A Little Purple Book of Peculiar Stories

A Little Purple Book of Peculiar Stories
Author: Craig Shaw Gardner
Publisher: Crossroad Press
Total Pages: 107
Release: 2021-01-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Continuing the first series of Little Books from Borderlands Press is A Little Purple Book of Peculiar Stories. This mini-collection of short fiction is by Craig Shaw Gardner, author of the Temporary Magic and Ebenezum series. Stories in this collection: One More Song Before I Go The Sinister Cheesecake God's Eyes How Much Would You Pay? A Planet Called Elvis