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Star Wars Cmg Clone Wars Booster Pack
Posted on February 18th, 2009 No commentsThe Clone Wars expansion for the Star Wars Miniatures Game features both new and familiar characters from the Star Wars saga, including characters drawn from the new Star Wars animated TV series debuting in Fall 2008. This expansion is introduced in Starter Sets containing six, non-random, pre-painted, plastic miniatures and stat cards, plus a complete rulebook, a full-color battle map, a 20-sided dice, and Damage counters. Supplement your game with boosters packed with seven randomized, pre-painted, plastic miniatures and stat cards, plus a Clone Wars set checklist.
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Doktor Sleepless #8
Posted on February 18th, 2009 No commentsDoktor Sleepless returns to a regular schedule! Heavenside has seen better days. Bodies are starting to pile up, more are starting to get sick, and all the things people have always taken for granted are starting to not work. The promises of the future may all have been broken, but the Doktor has stayed true to his word - it’s getting so the only constant in people’s lives is the nightly Doktor Sleepless broadcast. And although that may be just how he wants it, that’s what frightens Sing the most. But with everyone listening intently to the Doktor’s every word, there may be no one left to listen to what she has to say! Warren Ellis’ satirical-political science fiction novel continues its on-going run!
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Geek / Nerd Star Trek fan Stein
Posted on February 18th, 2009 No commentsFunny science fiction humor gifts for the Captain Kirk, Star Trek fan, Trekkie or Trekker on your gifts list. Fun, retro vintage 60s & 70s sci-fi gifts for your favorite nerd or space fantasy Geek.
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Spyboy: The M.A.N.G.A. Affair TPB
Posted on February 18th, 2009 No commentsWhen Japan’s premiere spy is both the nation’s leading comedienne and an expert secret agent, it’s often tricky to sneak away to spoil the latest evil villain’s global plot…but SpyGirl does her best! The beautiful Yukio, a.k.a. SpyGirl, finds an old photograph on the set of her television show that throws her into a complete frenzy. Why was she photographed with Japan’s Minister of Defense? More importantly, why doesn’t she remember any of it? And what does SpyBoy have to do with it? * Collecting the three-issue miniseries * This manga-inspired Spyboy storyline is sure to appeal to readers who have become comics readers because of their interest in manga!
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Engaging the Enemy
Posted on February 18th, 2009 No commentsFor fans of fast-paced adventure and compelling characters, the military science fiction of Nebula Award?winning author Elizabeth Moon is the perfect choice. The brilliantly unorthodox Kylara Vatta, black-sheep scion of Vatta Transport Ltd., one of the galaxy?s wealthiest merchant houses, is a heroine like no other, blessed with a killer instinct for business and for battle. Now, in the aftermath of cold-blooded assassinations that have left her parents dead and the Vatta shipping empire shattered, Kylara faces her greatest challenge yet. There is a time for grief and a time for revenge. This is decidedly the latter. Placing her cousin Stella in command of the trading vessel Gary Tobai, Ky embarks aboard the captured pirate ship Fair Kaleen on a twofold mission: to salvage the family business and to punish those responsible for the killings . . . before they strike again.Since the network providing instantaneous communication between star systems has been sabotaged, news is hard to come by and available information impossible to trust. But as she travels from system to system, with Stella a step behind, Ky pieces together the clues and discovers a conspiracy of terrifying scope, breathtaking audacity, and utter ruthlessness.The only hope the independent systems and merchants have against this powerful enemy is to band together. Unfortunately, because she commands a ship known to belong to a notorious pirate?her own relative Osman Vatta, whom she killed for his part in her parents? deaths?Ky is met with suspicion, if not outright hostility. Rumors swirl about her intent, her very identity. Soon even Stella begins to question her cousin?s decisions and her authority to make them.Meanwhile, the conspiracy Ky hunts is hunting her in turn, with agents insinuated into every space station, every planetary government, every arm of the military, and every merchant house?including her own. Before she can take the fight to the enemy, Kylara must survive a deadly minefield of deception and betrayal.From the Hardcover edition.
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I Love Aliens Mousepad
Posted on February 18th, 2009 455 commentsI Love Aliens Shirt, T-Shirt, Tees, Bumper Sticker, Gift, Ufo, Ufos, Et’s, Extraterrestrials, Martians, Grays, Science, Fiction, Sci, Fi, People, Red Heart, Lover, Ilovestore
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Nanoconvergence
Posted on February 18th, 2009 26 commentsThe Next Scientific and Technological Revolution, and What It Will Mean to You: Explains the core principles and tools that are increasingly driving scientific and technical progress; Previews today’s rapidly converging revolutions in cognitive science: from psychology to linguistics, artificial intelligence to anthropology; Tours the shifting border between nanotechnology and biotechnology. Nanoconvergence is the coming unification of all significant technologies based on control of structures at the nanoscale. As biotechnology, information technology, cognitive science, physics, chemistry, and material science come together, their power will increase exponentially. This book is the first authoritative but easy-to-understand guide to the coming nanoconvergence revolution—and how it may reshape your life. In Nanoconvergence , William Sims Bainbridge tours the future of science and technology in plain, nontechnical English. Bainbridge draws on an extraordinary breadth and depth of knowledge, based on his unique role at the epicenter of the nanoconvergence revolution. He successfully integrates insights from far-reaching scientific fields into a compelling human story—offering powerful insights you can use to plan your career, seek new investment opportunities, or simply understand what’s coming next.: Discover new breakthroughs in measuring, manipulating, and organizing matter at the nanoscale and the implications of those advances; See why science fiction’s view of nanotechnology is wrong and why the truth is even more exciting; Preview new technologies built on the principles of cognitive science and enabled by nanotechnology; Learn how nanotechnology may save Moore’s Law, allowing computers to double in power every year for the next two decades; Discover why nanoconvergence may spark a renaissance in the social sciences; Examine the potential impact of scientific and technological convergence on human society and diversity.
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Neozoic #8
Posted on February 18th, 2009 No commentsby Paul Ens & J. Korim Lilli Murko may be hated by her father, her mentor, her fellow warriors and her own people, but she is returning to bring the battle for Monanti City full circle… and with a dinosaur army at her command.
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Kamakiriad
Posted on February 18th, 2009 50 commentsIf the firmament of pop were a high-school yearbook, Donald Fagen would qualify for either class beatnik or class nerd. The sensibility he brought to Steely Dan and to his 1982 solo album, The Nightfly, was the self-conscious voice of a cerebral hipster who wallows in science fiction, gadgets, jazz and soul. Fagen’s new solo album, Kamakiriad (produced by his Steely Dan partner, Walter Becker), is very much in the spirit of its predecessors but is even drier in tone and more enigmatic. A futuristic song cycle, it suggests the fantasy of an overgrown kid who dreams of touring the galaxy in the coolest automobile ever built. In the opening song, “Trans-Island Skyway,” the narrator takes the wheel of his magical steampowered vehicle, which comes with its own hydroponic vegetable garden. Over the next few songs he stops at various locations in a future world that suggests a sleek, ultratechnologized caricature of the one we live in. “Springtime” finds him visiting such locales as Laughing Pines, Lake Nostalgia and Cape Sincere. “Tomorrow’s Girls” creates a superwoman-from-outer-space scenario that is part War of the Worlds (via Orson Welles), part Invasion of the Body Snatchers, part Barbarella. The journey eventually takes him to the Florida Keys (”Florida Room”), where he fantasizes being murdered (”On the Dunes”). It ends in Flytown (”Teahouse on the Tracks”), an end-of-the-road honkytonk from which the singer manages to tear himself away at the last minute. Fagen’s new songs are sleek, witty confections, delivered in his familiar sweet-and-sour bray and enveloped in immaculate pop-jazz arrangements that have a pointillistic precision. Although the songwriting is supple, the songs lack the passion of the best Steely Dan. It all sounds as though it were coming from a pop-music laboratory inside a climate-controlled glass bubble. (RS 662) STEPHEN HOLDEN
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Star Trek Engineering Red T-Shirt XXL
Posted on February 18th, 2009 3 commentsNow you can be ready for the next Star Trek convention or for Boldy Going anywhere and everywhere sporting one of these t-shirts patterned after those worn by the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise on TV’s Star Trek. Choose from Command (Gold), Engineering (Red), or Science (Blue), each with its corresponding delta shield insignia printed on the chest.