An interstellar fugitive with cyberware and a wiped memory chip. A shaman yogi with a broken heart, making a fresh start. A secret agent unsure if a mystery in the mafia is quantum mechanics or magic. YuFu only wanted to retire peacefully with his wife and six children, not get abducted by space pirates and replace his memory with that of a mass murderer. Believing he's someone he isn't, he finds himself in trouble when he reaches the Firesnake. A redhead rescues him and hides him in her Master's temple, but this woman can do stuff, supernatural stuff. When he gains snippets of memories from his past life, can he return to what he once was? Or must he hide from the interstellar police for the rest of his life? *** Aedre is a spiritual young woman, broken by the tragic death of her mother. With few work opportunities, she travels five light-years to the Firesnake in search of a new life. But when she's faced with interstellar sex slavery and murder, she quickly becomes the mafia's target. She discovers an alternate reality when a man offers her a ticket home. In return, she must find a key to a time portal. But her spirit guardian keeps telling her about prophecies of becoming the saviour of slaves. There's unknown magic behind everything which is happening, and time travel which makes revenging the Godfather more urgent. When she unearths the power of shape-shifting and teleportation, revenging the Godfather and freeing his slaves becomes her strongest desire. Can she rescue thousands of slaves, while taking her villagers to a safer future? She must risk her life and sacrifice her freedom to do so. Unknown to her, the secret service is watching her every move. As her complete story unfolds, will Aedre smash interstellar slavery and stay alive? *** Akachi is a secret agent on a mission to obliterate human trafficking rings. He's never forgotten his little sister who was abducted as a child, and he hopes to find her. Instead, he and a quantum physicist discover someone paranormal who is trying to do his job--a woman called Aedre. She can teleport, shape-shift, and body-snatch at the speed of thought. She's rescued thousands of sex-slaves from the most notorious mafia in the Firesnake and is harbouring a mass murderer in her master's temple. Akachi should concentrate on finding his long-lost sister, but his curiosity leads him down a crazy path involving shape-changing and time travel. Will he ever find his sister with all this chaos around him? Should he give in to the secret service and tell them what he's discovered so more agents can adopt Aedre's supernatural abilities? *** This box set contains the following books: #1 Five Light-Years to the Firesnake #2 Slaves of the Firesnake #3 Catastrophe in the Firesnake #4 Time Travel in the Firesnake #5 Invaders of the Firesnake. This series is a wacky mishmash of futuristic sci-fi and mysticism, where multiple characters take your mind to different worlds and unexpected realities.

Space Travel, Time Travel, or River and Rain Travel? There are many ways to smash interstellar slavery.But when the mafia and an extinct alien race desperate for their survival are involved, things can get messy.***Book 1: Five Light-Years to the FiresnakeGrieving her mother's death, Aedre goes to another planet for a fresh start. Little does she know she's headed into something much more threatening. Faced with slavery and murder, she quickly becomes the mafia's target.After the Godfather slaughters her friends, what can she do? She's trapped there.In another solar system, YuFu fishes diamonds from a gas giant's atmosphere and anticipates retiring peacefully with his wife and children.When his vessel gets hijacked by space pirates, all his dreams evaporate.Desperate to protect his employer's secret, will he wipe his memory and be forced to believe fake recollections of a criminal named YuFang? Or will he escape before these villains view his real memory chip?***Book 2: Slaves of the FiresnakeA man with prophecies about Aedre offers her a ticket home if she recovers a key to a time-travelling pyramid.The proposal seems too good to be true. But when she unearths the power of shape-shifting by river and rain, she discovers more potential in revenging the Godfather, freeing his slaves, and bringing her friends to justice.Can she become a superhero?Meanwhile, YuFu believes he's a criminal called YuFang. He escapes the mafia by secreting poisonous gas from his palms and slaying his assailants, executing anyone impeding his escape. But the Godfather's mosquito drones keep following him, and the syndicate wants to butcher him for his bio weaponry.Where will he hide?***Book 3: Catastrophe in the FiresnakeAfter Aedre overturns the mafia and hides two victims in her master's temple, she discovers one of them--YuFang--is a mass murderer.But the rain has stopped, and she can't return to the temple. She lays paralysed in a hospital bed too far from a magic river.When she finally grabs the chance to river and rain travel in her new, the island's volcano explodes ten years earlier than prophesised.Can she find that key to lead villagers to a safer future?***Book 4: Time Travel in the FiresnakeAlthough Aedre rescued a thousand villagers, the future she guided them to is treacherous. Alien invaders massacred the human population and built cities in the sky.Can she help survivors rebel? Not likely--she's still paralysed and can't shape-shift.However, she can return to the safety of her home--to be with her father and sister--through a time portal. Will she save herself?At the temple, YuFu's memories flood back, along with the guilt of killing so many innocents. He teams together with an elderly master, a slave, and a spy. Together, they shape-shift by river and rain to bring down a lunar sex-slave camp.But will the secret service help? The female victims waiting in cryosleep require pilots to fly their spaceships to a secure world.***Book 5: Invaders of the FiresnakeIt's bad enough telling your five-year-old his mom died. It's worse losing him through a time portal.When Akachi left the secret service, he planned to protect his son and leave all metaphysical transport behind, but other people had other agendas, and the boy was useful.Akachi's five-year-old gets into all kinds of trouble when he imitates his favourite superhero and saves a bunch of slaves from future alien invaders. Will Akachi find his son? Or will the apocalyptic future find Akachi?Meanwhile, Aedre, YuFu, Yasmin, Noomy Foster, and Inga travel through interstellar space to seek utopia on a fertile moon.What will meet them when they arrive? Will the secret service be interested in these shape-shifting warriors with secret knowledge?Will Aedre find a cure for her paralysis?

This is a solo adventure for the Call of Cthulhu game. It is a horror story set in the 1920s where you are the main character, and your choices determine the outcome. It is also designed to lead you through the basic rules of the game in a gradual and entertaining fashion. Although most such adventures are played with your friends, this one is just for you.

Psychic Self-Defense Dion Fortune - "Psychic Self-Defense" is one of the best guides to detection and defence against psychic attack from one of the leading occult writers of the 20th century. After finding herself the subject of a powerful psychic attack in the 1930's, famed British occultist Dion Fortune wrote this detailed instruction manual on protecting oneself from paranormal attack. This classic psychic self-defence guide explains how to understand the signs of a psychic attack, vampirism, hauntings, and methods of defence. Everything you need to know about the methods, motives, and physical aspects of a psychic attack and how to overcome it is here, along with a look at the role psychic elements play in mental illness and how to recognise them.

Describes daily life in the Aztec world, including coverage of geography, foods, trades, arts, games, wars, political systems, class structure, religious practices, trading networks, writings, architecture and science.

"Contains material originally published in magazine form as Fantastic four #150 and annual #3; Incredible Haulk Ŀ Avengers #59-60 and Amazing Spider-man annual #21 and X-men #30"--P. 2 of cover.

Roland Boer draws on a vast depth of scholarly knowledge to reclaim the rich contribution of Marxism to theological studies