Chaos Vault


Book Description

*Warning* This book contains graphic materials that some may not find suitable. Read at your own risk. This book is a collection of all the short stories I wrote in 2022 that didn't make it into a paperback. I hope you enjoy them. This book contains Demons, Revenge, Book of fears, and I eat people.




Giga


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Ever since their world-shattering war ended, the slumbering mecha called 'Giga' have been both gods and habitats for the surviving humans. Then disgraced engineer Evan Calhoun discovers a murdered Giga, and the very fabric of society starts unraveling around him. A GIANT MECH MURDER MYSTERY. Nobody knows why the skyscraper-sized mechs known as ‘Giga’ fought their bitter, centuries’ long war. All they know is that when the fighting finally stopped, the dormant Giga became humanity’s new habitat and new gods in one. When disgraced engineer Evan Calhoun finds an apparently murdered Giga, his society and the fascistic tech-centered religious order that controls it are rapidly thrown into chaos.. From writer Alex Paknadel (Friendo, Turncoat, Incursion) and rising star John Le comes another Vault & White Noise partnership about what happens after the mechs stop fighting. Collects the complete five-issue series. For fans of Neon Genesis Evangelion, Ultra Mega, and the Department of Truth




Vault's Promise


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In a world ravaged by an AI Uprising, hope lies buried deep underground. Sarah has spent a decade in an underground vault, safe from the chaos above. But as supplies dwindle, she must confront her deepest fear: venturing into the unknown world. Thirteen-year-old Wally has never gone outside her sanctuary’s protective walls thanks to her overprotective robot father. When a deadly outbreak threatens her community, she discovers a map to a hidden vault rumored to contain a life-saving vaccine. Vacuubot, once a simple cleaning robot, is now a combat-ready drone who searches for purpose in a world that fears AI. An evolving consciousness becomes both an asset and a challenge on a high-stakes mission. This unlikely trio must navigate a treacherous landscape where nature has reclaimed civilization and scavengers roam. With time running out for the sick, they race to unlock the vault's secrets. Vault's Promise is Book 1 in the Robots and Ruins series, a hopepunk, post-apocalyptic sci-fi adventure that explores the enduring power of hope, the bonds of found family, and the blurring lines between human and machine. An unforgettable journey where the fate of humanity rests in the hands of the most unexpected heroes.




Prince: Life and Times


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"The definitive chronological guide to the life and times of one of popular music's true mavericks ... Prince: Life & times is a large format, lavishly illustrated, authoritative chronicle of his career, covering every album, every movie, and every tour."--Back cover.




The headphones


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*Warning* This story may contain graphic materials that some may not find suitable. Read at your own risk. Beatrice loved music more than anything in the world. It was the only thing that allowed herself to ignore the world. During a family holiday Beatrice finds an unusual shop that allows her to create her own headphones. However, things go from good to worse in just a matter of hours. There is something wrong with these new headphones and Beatrice finds herself thrown into a world she no longer understands. A dark twisted world full of blood.




I am the villain


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*warning* This story may have content that some may not find suitable. Read at your own risk. Akira was born into a world that she didn’t belong in. She was born with special abilities that kept her from being in a loving family, with friends or a loved one. She ends up fighting for her very survival, etching her existence as a terror not quickly forgotten. Misty was a normal woman who fell in love with the wrong man. Her path merges with Akira’s and together they become unstoppable. Dr. Ruby was an esteemed psychiatrist who treated both Akira and Misty. However she becomes addicted to the darkness that surrounds the two women and finds herself in prison. When all three paths collide, disasters and chaos are all that remains.




Literature and Weather


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"Literature and Weather. Shakespeare – Goethe – Zola" is dedicated to the relation between literature and weather, i.e. a cultural practice and an everyday phenomenon that has played very different epistemic roles in the history of the world. The study undertakes an archaeology of literature’s affinity to the weather which tells the story of literature’s weathery self-reflection and its creative reinventions as a medium in different epistemic and social circumstances. The book undertakes extensive close readings of three exemplary literary texts: Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Goethe’s The Sufferings of Young Werther and Zola’s The Rougon-Macquarts. These readings provide the basis for reconstructing three distinct formations, negotiating the relationship between literature and weather in the 17th, the 18th and the 19th centuries. The study is a pioneering contribution to the recent debates of literature’s indebtedness to the environment. It initiates a rewriting of literary history that is weather-sensitive; the question of literature’s agency, its power to affect, cannot be raised without understanding the way the weather works in a certain cultural formation.




Cursed Items Anthology


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*warning* This book may contain graphic materials that some may not find suitable. Read at your own risk. This short story anthology is all about one item that is cursed for its original owner. The items do not affect anyone else but the original owner. These stories are twisted! A must read for anyone's collection!




Faithful Labourers: a Reception History of Paradise Lost, 1667-1970


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"Volume one attends to questions of style and genre. The first three chapters examine the longstanding debate about Milton's grand style and the question of whether it forfeits the native resources of English. Early critics saw Milton as the pre-eminent poet of 'apt Numbers' and 'fit quantity', whose verse is 'apt' in the specific sense of achieving harmony between sound and sense; twentieth-century anti-Miltonists faulted Milton for divorcing sound from sense; late twentieth-century theorists have denied the possibility that sound can 'enact' sense. These are extreme changes of critical perception, and yet the story of how they came about has never been told. These chronological chapters explain the roots of these changes and, in doing so, engage with the enduring theoretical question of whether it is possible for sound to enact sense"--




The World's Greatest Unsolved Mysteries


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Accompany the Fanthorpes on their intriguing investigations in Canada and worldwide, through years of research into the unexplained.