Dead Stars

“Dead Stars is the London Fields of Los Angeles, the Ulysses of TMZ culture—an immensely literate, fearsomely interior novel about people who are neither.”—Tom Bissell, GQ At age thirteen, Telma is famous as the world’s youngest breast cancer survivor until threatened with obscurity by a four-year-old who’s just undergone a mastectomy…. Reeyonna believes that auditioning for pregnant teenage porn will help fulfill her dream of befriending Kanye West…. Jackie, a photographer once celebrated for arty nudes of her young daughter, is working at a Sears Family Portrait boutique…. And Oscar-winning Michael Douglas searches for meaning while his wife, Catherine, guest-stars on Glee. Moving forward with the inexorable force of a tsunami, Dead Stars is Bruce Wagner’s most lavish and remarkable translation yet of the national zeitgeist: post-privacy porn culture, a Kardashianworld of rapid-cycling, disposable narrative where reality-show triumph is the new American narcotic.

Dead Stars is a science fiction horror role-playing game powered by the alternate d20 Universal Decay rules system. Pick a race - from the ever-familiar humans to the amorphous gorbrasch or sleazy helizara - strap on some personal armor and pick up a sliver rifle or get a cerebral computer implant and grab your toolkit. Or both. Then get together with your friends to face a universe of dangers, wonders, opportunities, and quite possibly a messy death. This book contains everything you will need to play or run a game in Dead Stars as well as rules for using the Universal Decay system in alternate genres, incorporating everything from swords and sorcery to vehicle energy weapons, personal armor, nanotechnology and starships.

"North, is where the battle will take place. North, is where Farden must go. But to death, to glory, or to both?..." - DEAD STARS PART TWO is the second in the two-part finale to Ben Galley's debut fantasy series - THE EMANESKA SERIES. Blisteringly action-packed, stunningly epic, it pushes every boundary of the Series so far.

"Swimming with Dead Stars by Vi Khi Nao is a novel that follows adjunct literature instructor Maldon on a cross-country journey to undergo a medical procedure to repair a heart condition. The novel is a hallucinatory meditation on the stars and planets, the precariousness of human existence, the cruel inequities of labor and healthcare, chickens and ice cream, and the grace that comes from enduring the physical and psychic pain wrought by pernicious social forces that enslave us all"--

"The sky is falling. The world trembles beneath it. Emaneska is crying out for a saviour..." - DEAD STARS PART ONE is the beginning of the end, the first in a two-part epic finale to Ben Galley's debut fantasy series - THE EMANESKA SERIES. Join Farden the mage for one last incredible fight. Emaneska needs him now more than ever.

Written in an informal manner, this account tells the incredible story of the birth of an entirely new field of science called Astrobiology—a field that is now investigating whether life might exist on other worlds. From the discovery that other stars in our galaxy are circled by planets to the detection of single-cell organisms found living on Earth in extremely hostile environments, this account details the recent breakthroughs made by astronomers and earth scientists over the last few decades. Based on these findings, it argues that scientists now have the technology they need to move from speculating or fantasizing about extraterrestrials to possibly providing mankind with the first definitive proof that we are not alone.

The last hero passed away long ago and a period of peace has been in heavy supply. That means nothing to the mighty Queen Jappina, who wants to take the Earth as her own once again. Carlos Zane Manuel doesn't know it but he is going to be the one to stop her, wielding the ancient source of power known as Energy.

Dead Stars examines the American colonization of the Philippines from three distinct but related literary perspectives: that of anti-imperialist American writers Mark Twain, W. E. B. DuBois, and William James; American authors whose work was used to inculcate American values in the colonial education system; and early Filipino writers Paz Marquez Benitez, Maximo Kalaw, and Juan C. Laya.