(Science Fiction)

This Shining Sea

Meet Eclipse.

She's pretty, hardworking, bright, self-reliant, good with tools.  Everything a twelve-year old girl should be.  She also flies and reads minds.

Now she's here on our Earth. But even her powers may not be enough to stop The Invisible Menace.

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(Science Fiction)

The Minutegirls

Minutegirls...

Nice young women
who just want some good clean fun
with power armor,
plenty of high explosives,
and a few cute Minuteboys.

It is 2174.

From the hills of American Manchuria
to the depths of Outer Space.
America's Girl Militia
battles Franco-German Treachery
to shield the American Stellar Republic.

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(Short Fiction)

Nine Gees

Nine Gees...eight short stories and an epic poem by George Phillies.

Nine Gees...spanning medieval fantasy, space piracy, mentalic duels, aliens, classical theology, and the monster that hides under the bed.

Modern literary heroes drown in their own angst. Phillies' heroines prefer sword, pistol, spell, weapons of mass destruction...and courage and determination.

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(Political Philosophy)

Stand Up For Liberty!

Had enough? Are you tired of elections in which our candidates work hard, do all the right things, and are delighted when they break into double digits? Would you like to become the majority party?

Then read Stand Up for Liberty! and stand up.

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(Political Philosophy)

Funding Liberty!

Funding Liberty!

1994 — 2002

The Libertarian Presidential campaigns:

 Campaign spending:

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(Game Design)

Contemporary Perspectives in Game Design

Contemporary Perspectives in Game Design delivers interviews with the peers of the game design community, the designers and publishers whose work defines excellence in game design.  From Costikyan to Nestel, from Besinque to Garfield to Seyfarth, Contemporary Perspectives in Game Design presents observations and insights from the men and women who design contemporary games.  Over 100 Discussion Problems based on the interviews support an academic course, leading students to deeper insights into the nature of the design, publishing, and use of modern board games.

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(Game Design)

DESIGN ELEMENTS OF CONTEMPORARY STRATEGY GAMES

For centuries, great artists have had a secret.

If you paint, don’t just study painting.

Great painters study every medium: painting, ceramics, sculpture, glassblowing... because the perspectives from every other medium make them better painters.

But you say: I’m a computer game designer!

That’s right.  Just as great painters study textiles, great computer game designers study other sorts of games.  Strategy games.  War games.  Miniatures.  Role playing games.  If you don’t believe us, ask yourself: Who designed Quake and Doom, and what did he design first?

In the words of Greg Costikyan: Don’t be a vidiot!  If your sole experience of games derives from the arcade, the console, and the home PC...You will see only what exists in the here and now...Your palette of techniques, your grasp of the possible, will be limited.

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