With the loss of an extremely powerful weapon known as the Antiquitas Trident, a great tragedy has befallen the Shamalan Empire of Pangrelor, the one true world. The benevolent Shamalans have been betrayed and nearly wiped out, and... Read More

Love ’em or hate ‘em (there is no in-between!), the New York Yankees have dominated one hundred years of professional baseball like no other team has dominated any other sport. The twenty-seven World Series titles and forty American... Read More

By the fourth millennium, the capital of the United Planetary States is the pinnacle of civilization. Andropolis is a sparkling city at the foot of the Himalayas. Even the poorest citizens have clean water and cheap, pre-fabricated... Read More

Everything most of us think we know about how nature works is wrong. In fact, the traditional or “classic” mechanical explanations for why objects behave the way they do are fundamentally incorrect. Only with an understanding of... Read More

In 2071 AD, clones are grown for spare parts. They live like subhumans in harsh conditions in the Clearances, a vast area run by a nefarious and secretive government. Virtually no one thinks about his or her clone, or the ethical issues... Read More

Lawyers are a profoundly miserable lot. They are overworked, depressed, and unfulfilled, and most say that, in retrospect, they wish they had chosen another profession. The downward spiral begins in law school, where the “Socratic... Read More

Harry Houdini declared that false mediums had plans to do him in, that they would go to any ends to stop him. “When I die,” Houdini was often quoted as saying, “the fraudulent mediums will declare the day a national holiday.”... Read More

Dr. Watson is flabbergasted at the landlady’s bombshell, though Holmes merely shrugs until Watson starts to remonstrate with Holmes about financial matters. After all, with Holmes retiring, how is Watson to sell any more of his... Read More