Wild Stars The Book Of Circles Recalibrated

75,000 years ago, mankind made their first migration into space, colonizing planets circling the brightest stars in the night sky, known as the Wild Stars. Now, their war with a genocidal enemy has spread back to Earth. The Wild Stars are a series of comics created, written, rendered, sometimes illustrated, and once even printed by Michael Tierney. With a publishing history that goes back to 1984, the Wild Stars is one of the oldest creator-owned comic titles still publishing today. This 25th Anniversary edition contains both new and previously unpublished material.

75,000 years ago, mankind made their first migration into space and colonized planets circling the brightest stars in the night sky. Every story of UFOs, Space Gods or Aliens are the result of visits from these distant cousins. Now they've become embroiled in a galactic war with the genocidal Brothan, who will either rewrite Earth's history so that fascism rules the world, or annihilate the planet by igniting Jupiter into a second sun. Wild Stars is a complicated and fast-paced multi-genre tale, combining backwoods dirty dealings with space opera on a galactic scale. The 30th Anniversary Edition hardcover of Wild Stars: The Book of Circles - Recalibrated collects all the Wild Stars comics published between 1984 and 2009, with the color from the original covers restored for the first time in a collected edition. Reviewers have raved about the artwork; "Real Treasure," "Absolutely beautiful stuff," and the story; ..". filled to bursting with subplots and hidden storylines ..." ..". the damned thing just wouldn't leave my hands until I got to the end." ..". an elegantly simple ending, leaving the reader feeling much like a stupefied Watson at the end of a Sherlock Holmes adventure." Created and written by Michael Tierney, with artwork by comics industry icon Frank Brunner, Dave Simons, David Brewer, and Michael Tierney. Forward by John Jackson Miller, writer of Iron Man and Star Wars comics. To quote another review: "It's a long ride with a lot to see. Settle in and have your tickets ready, because once it starts there's nowhere to get off until the last page."

75,000 years ago, mankind first migrated into space and colonized the brightest stars in the night sky -- calling them the WILD STARS. Now, in modern times, their war against the planet destroying Brothan has reached Old Atlantis, the world also known as Earth. THE BOOK OF CIRCLES is the culmination of a 20 year project: a 288 page graphic novel that collects both new and remastered material from the 9 WILD STARS comics and portfolio. This time-traveling saga delves into the briny deep and the seas of space with equal aplomb, was the review from The Comic Shop News. Comic Book Electronic Magazine said the WILD STARS comics contain Real Treasure, and Comic Book Resources described them as Absolutely beautiful stuff. Created, Written and Illustrated by Michael Tierney, artwork is also provided by comics legend Frank Brunner (Dr. Strange, Howard the Duck) and veteran illustrators Dave Simons (Savage Sword of Conan), David Brewer (Legion of Super-Heroes), and Tom Smith (JLA/Avengers). Also featured are the incredible landscape paintings of Mary Tierney. Michael Tierney is a former Journeyman printer, printing division manager, and a veteran comic book retailer with two stores in Central Arkansas. A long-time advisor to the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide, he has provided numerous articles and market reports to Comics and Games Retailer, Overstreet Monthly Magazine and Fan Magazine, Comic Book Marketplace Magazine, and ICv2.com. Since his first creative story publication in 1972 while in High School, he has been a small press publisher since 1977, and was a Technical Consultant for the University of Arkansas at Little Rock's Crazyhorse and Equinox Literary Journals. He was nominatedfor the Will Eisner Spirit of the Comics Retailer of the Year Award in 1999, and the Star*Reach Comics Retailer of the Year Award in 1985. He also serves on the Business License Committee for the City of Little Rock, Arkansas.

A sailor from earth's distant past must join with the Ancient Warrior's Wild Stars companions to help them navigate the great gulfs of space, free Phaedra from her black-hole prison, and stop the extra-dimensional squids that could destroy the universe if they can meet up and mate!

Vengeful enemies have kidnapped a child of the Wild Stars and escaped through time travel. Searching a billion years in a single day, how would you deal with discovering that the survival of Earth depends upon abandoning your child to her fate? Featuring a multiethnic cast of characters, this fast-paced space opera reveals the origin of zombies and voyages to a distant planet where dragon vampires evolve into something far more fearsome. What are the Wild Stars? 75,000 years ago, mankind made their first migration into space and colonized planets circling the brightest stars in the night sky. Every story of UFOs, Space Gods or Aliens are the result of visits from these distant cousins. The sequel to the highly acclaimed Wild Stars: The Book of Circles -- Recalibrated graphic novel is a novel with graphics; 83,000 words wrapped around 38 pages of comics art, including new pages and the 2002 Force Majeure: Prairie Bay comic with pencils by Armando Gil, along with 50 Dave Simons flashback illustrations from the first 25 years of the Wild Stars. Reviewers have raved about the artwork from the first volume; Absolutely beautiful stuff, and the story; ... the damned thing just wouldn't leave my hands until I got to the end. ... leaving the reader feeling much like a stupefied Watson at the end of a Sherlock Holmes adventure. Force Majeure s twisting tale of time travel will surpass even that lofty praise. Created and written by Michael Tierney, Wild Stars: Force Majeure has uniform packaging with the new trade paperback edition of the prequel, Wild Stars: The Book of Circles - Recalibrated, being simultaneously released in celebration of the Wild Stars 30th Anniversary."

LONGLISTED 2015 – International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award The Circle is the exhilarating new novel from Dave Eggers, bestselling author of A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award. When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users’ personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work, she is thrilled with the company’s modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae can’t believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world—even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. What begins as the captivating story of one woman’s ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge.

National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry