Böcker av Michael Wallace

Eight One-Act plays by Michael Wallace spanning the last two decades. "Survival of the Unfittest" includes plays that explore power, gender and the disease of moral superiority. Comical, tragic, fantastical...crawling out of the past and diving well into the future, these are plays the bridge reality and the imagination with vital questions.

The Dream Electric is a study in Artifical Intelligence, based on Nano-Bots that become conscious. At first they appear to be the greatest boon that man has ever invented, but they go past their programming and now threaten all of existence with rampant, uncontrolled evolution. But a saviour appears, not your conventional hero, but an archaic and long thought decomissioned Old Earth A.I. Can a thirteen hundred year old piece of machinery save mankind?

Pulp Adventures for Today! is a high-speed, low-drag Role-playing game based on the science fiction stories of yesteryear, such as Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Tarzan of the Apes, John Carter of Mars, etc These rules are designed to be used with any sort of campaign which doesn't rely too much on realism The only things required to play Pulp Adventures for Today! are a group of friends, a handful of standard six-sided dice, a pencil, and your imagination So strap on your blaster, sharpen your saber, climb aboard your war zeppelin and look for adventure Included in this rulebook are: * Rules for character creation, * Skills and how to use them, * Equipment from the past through the future, * A small number of vehicles, * A sampling of critters, * And two sample campaign settings: Terra Reich, in which a horde of evil aliens invade Earth while WW2 is underway and The Atlantean Age, a more typical swords & sorcery setting.

A book about why history matters. It shows how popularized historical images and narratives deeply influence Americans' understanding of their collective past.