I definitely did not set out to write a book. Honest! That would have been shear madness. With a mark of 55% in my final High School English Course, I went straight into math and physics leaving the literary world to those who actually know how to spell. My logical mind is more suited to probing math problems than analysing prose. So this book’s existence is pure serendipity.After publishing 10 math books I started a Facebook page to create some interest in the guides. With two fin...

Enter the mind of science fiction hall of fame inductee, E.E."Doc" Smith. Early writer of science fiction and father of the space opera. This collection gathers 10 of Smith's finest works, including the entire Lensmen Series and the famed Skylark series. Boldly go into the mind of what many called "the pioneer of modern day science fiction."You'll certainly enjoy this one of a kind collection, which was reformatted and optimized for Kobo, includes original cover art and a hyperlink...

"They came from an alien time continuum with the sole intention of subjugating the Lensmen and ruling the entire galaxy and everything in it. But the Lensmen had no intention of letting that happen. Voted one of the two best science fiction series of all time, coming in behind only Asimov’s Foundation series.Collected together in one binding for the very first time are all six Lensman novels and the final book of Lensman short stories for 7 complete books with over eleven hundred pa...

This is a special issue—our 50th, as you may have noticed from our cover. To celebrate, all past and present editors were to contribute a story. (It helps that they are also amazingly talented writers.) So we have stories from Michael Bracken, Barb Goffman, Paul Di Filippo, Darrell Schweitzer, and Cynthia Ward in addition to our other fare.But wait! There’s more!This issue features four original tales—Elizabeth Zelvin has a fantasy/mystery stories, Phyllis...

Caveat venditor-let the seller bewareWhile marketers look for more ways to get personal with customers, including new tricks with big data,” customers are about to get personal in their own ways, with their own tools. Soon consumers will be able to: Control the flow and use of personal data Build their own loyalty programs Dictate their own terms of service Tell whole markets what they want, how they want it, where and when they sh...

Living Life In Short Chapters is a memoir in journal format written about a 20 year battle against prostate cancer. The author makes an attempt to find a little bit of dark humour in the day to day challenges.

A woman's journey into the depths of depravity as she searches for her place in the world of Dominance & Submission. Irene is a middle-aged divorcee who has struggled with the most extreme sexual fantasies for most of her life. She has always known that her desires to not just be dominated, but to be degraded and defiled, were beyond the bounaries of even most practictioners of kink. Now that she is finally free, she finds that a little isn't enough for her. A stay on a ranch as a slave tr...

The end of Queen Victoria's reign and the Edwardian period that followed witnessed some of the greatest social and political upheavals the world had ever seen. Patriarchal aristocratic dominance was gradually being replaced by the educated middle classes. In Great Britain, the House of Lords had lost its power of veto, and for the first time, a Liberal government had been voted into power. The fight for Irish independence was growing stronger by the year, as were the suffragettes, who had ...

Velocity is the most commonly used metric in agile software delivery. It is also perhaps the least effective metrics in agile software delivery. In "Escape Velocity", Doc Norton walks the reader through common issues with metrics and how to avoid them, altermative metrics that not only help agile teams perform better, but enable them to continuously improve, and techniques for forecasting that vastly outperform the use of velocity. In a quirky, casual, and information dense style, Doc Nort...

It turns out "Move fast and break things" is terrible advice when developing a time machine.To resuscitate his fading celebrity, tech CEO Stephen Lucas would sell his soul for one more hit. When the subspace network for his holographic gaming empire crashes, his hardware guru makes a discovery proving that Einstein was right once again— information can be sent backward in time.Lucas sees a dream product for procrastinators. Want a pizza now? Send y...

This book is NOT science fiction. The disclaimer is necessary because the late Edward Elmer "Doc" Smith made his literary name in writing science fiction. He was one of the earliest writers of interstellar and intergalactic adventure stories, fondly referred to as "space opera." His Skylark novels began to appear in the science fiction magazines in 1928, followed by his epic Lensman series starting in 1937. Doc's literary estate has now released to Advent the four stories which make up thi...

Lars Keller is history. Literally. Sentenced for temporal crimes he has not yet committed and exiled to the past with no technology and no way to get back home, Lars soon finds himself caught in an endless cycle of paradox. Unless he can find a way to restore the timeline, Keller will find himself being expelled from space and time over and over again. The catch? If he's going to restore the timeline, he has to do it from the outside.