Before email,before the world wide web,before hackers,Before sexting,before always-on GPS,before titanium implants,before Alexa, Cortana, and Siri,before the computer in your pocket was more powerful than the one that sent astronauts to the moon,there was cyberpunk.And science fiction was never the same.Cyberpunk writers—serious, smart, and courageous in the face of change—exposed the naiveté of a society rushing headl...

1872: The shattered South is struggling under the yoke of Reconstruction; the North has turned its attention to lands west of the mighty Mississippi. The United States is haunted by the blood that has been spilled, and only a few are ready to stand against the coming darkness.During the War, Elmore Stonebrook was a celebrated Sharpshooter for the Army of the Potomac. Known as God's Finger for the deadly accuracy of his rifle, Stonebrook fought for freedom for all men, but lost his ...

For more than a hundred and fifty years, the Night Office has been in your neighborhood. When someone on your street mysteriously vanishes, it is because the Night Office shoved them in a van in the dead of night. When stray dogs go feral, it is the Night Office that gets bitten so your children stay safe. When cats make strange noises at night, it is because the Night Office is standing on their tails.This Psychological Assessment Exercise puts you on a Night Office field operatio...

It's been almost a hundred years since the first occult expedition to Antarctica. Others followed, and many of them did not make it back. Recently, a privately-owned research station has gone dark, and strange signals are being broadcast from the desolate Antarctic Plateau.For this Advanced Psychological Strategies assessment, you will take on the role of a Closer, part of the second team which has been sent to investigate mysterious transmissions coming from MacReady Station. Once...

The frontier continues to move west, and what was a booming railroad town less than a year ago is little more than a dying company town now. In the desperate town of Citrine Springs, Elmore Stonebrook and Judge Willard Vernon Wallace encounter the Longspur Mining Company, which keeps the town alive by moving dirt from one hole in the ground to another.This is the sort of fool's effort that always hides corruption and malfeasance, and the Judge is eager to discover the true purpose ...

The Night Office never sleeps. For more than a hundred and fifty years, the Night Office has worked in the shadows, keeping all manners of tentacled beasties, gibbering madnesses, and slavering six-eyed goats from devouring you, your neighbor, and your neighbor's dog. And now, the Night Office needs you.This Advanced Psychological Strategies assessment is meant for field operatives who have just returned from a mission. It will validate your mental integrity, verifying that you hav...

What's the most annoying thing about writing a novel? They don't write themselves.What's the second most annoying thing about writing a novel? No, really, they don't write themselves.What the hardest thing about writing a novel? Actually turning your sexy outline into a real book. With words, and stuff.Sure, you've got a really awesome outline, a notebook full of character sketches, and your work space is overflowing with "research" materials, but that blank page is...

• Learn how books write themselves!• Discover secrets for making words!• Find out what happens when you have a decent idea and apply a plot to it!It's all here, in this handy guide to jumpstarting your novel. It doesn't matter if you've just started thinking about writing a novel or have done a dozen of them, getting started on a new project is always the hardest part. That's where this book saves the day. Inside, you'll discover all sorts of techniques and tips, in...

The Brethren of Perpetual Silence were a monastic order who sought to build a sanctuary within the Sprawl. A place where people could escape from the noise and chaos that was life in the city. Until death came to their sanctuary and killed them. All but one, who was transformed into an unholy instrument.Now, Mistral, an ex-cop with an unnatural connection to the streets of the city, must find their killers, and learn why some fear silence so much that they must destroy those who em...

Rudolph! is a first-person account of the behind-the-scenes workings at the North Pole. Narrated by Bernard Rosewood, one of the elves of the North Pole Consortium, the story begins with Santa's realization that a young girl's request to get her dad back for Christmas isn't going to happen. Dad, you see, died in a car accident on a snowy road shortly after Thanksgiving. The NPC can do a lot, but they can't do miracles. Enter Rudolph, who has been hairless, cranky, and perpetually ...

The Earth is dying. Humanity — over-breeding, over-consuming — is destroying the very planet they call home. Multinational corporations despoil the environment, market genetically modified crops to control the food supply, and use their wealth and influence and private armies to crush anything, and anyone, that gets in the way of their profits. Nothing human can stop them. But something unhuman might. Once they did not fear the sun. Once they could breathe the air and sleep where they chos...

For more than a hundred and fifty years, the Night Office has stayed up late, fighting off all sorts of whistling horrors, shrieking monstrosities, and drooling frog monsters. One of the secrets to their success is lots and lots of coffee.This Education Assessment Exercise is meant to introduce you to the perils of working for the Night Office. Instead of throwing you into the field, where all kinds of terrible things could happen to you, the Night Office wants to know if you can m...