Steam up a bowl of popcorn, pop a tape in the VCR, and focus your quantum awareness on the season! Yes, it's the Steam Wars Holiday Special, featuring a host of your favorite stars gathered together to celebrate the wonders of crass commercialism Life Day the holiday spirit!

Time once again to fire up the boilers, focus your quantum awareness and charge that storm foil to ignite the holiday lighting! It’s the Day of Life, and everyone’s celebrating! As long as the Hegemonic Crux forces don’t shut down the bars, that is.

Driven by greed, on the edge of the law, their business is blood. They are the killers, the assassins, the merciless trackers of the underworld, and if you're their enemy, you're probably dead. Remember, a bounty hunter only follows the Rule of Gold.

In 19th-century London, mysterious fiends stalk the unwary, but their hour is at hand! The able aristocrat Lady Greystoke, barbarian beauty Rula, and melee maid Mary Riley dare to defy the worst the world can offer. But with the sinister warlord Wang Fu Ho and his ally, Dr. Frankenstein, scheming for the power of the Mars Stone, they may need help from another world!

Pursued by the Hegemonic Crux's mounted cavalry, a desperate rebel noble heads for cover in the Dead Forest. The troopers believe they have the target at their mercy, but the predators will soon become prey themselves to the hairy horrors of the woods!

Gina is literally beside herself with confusion when she comes back to life in a strange place among a horde of duplicate Ginas! She and her sister selves must find out who they really are, where they are, why they're there, and what to do about a sudden invasion of half-crystal minions of the *Umbra,* specter of the last universe!

The hilarious, irreverent guide to world history you never knew you needed, featuring 366 profanity-filled tales of triumph and terror, science and stupidity, courage and cowardice Those who cannot remember the past . . . need a history teacher who says “f*ck” a lot. Nazis are bad. The worst kind of bad. There are no very fine people among them. If you disagree, you won’t like this book. Still here? Cool. You are about to receive an education unlike any you’ve previously experienced. In this uproarious and informative tour from ancient times to the modern day and everything in between, James Fell, the self-proclaimed “sweary historian,” reveals a past replete with deeds both noble and despicable. Throughout the book, he provides insightful analysis of all the sh!t that went down. Behold! • In 1927, actress Mae West was sent to jail for “corrupting the morals of youth” with her first Broadway play, titled Sex. She served the time and followed up with a play about homosexuality. • In 1419, church reformers in Prague, vexed over their leader having been burned at the stake, defenestrated city leaders from a high window. They died, because those kinds of Czechs don’t bounce. • If you were in the province of Shaanxi in China on January 23, 1556, then it sucked to be you. It wasn’t the biggest earthquake ever, but it was the deadliest day in history. • In 362 B.C.E., a battle between Greek city states debilitated both sides, making the region ripe for conquering by Phillip of Macedon—aka Alex the Great’s dad—and spelling the end of Greek democracy. • In 1343, the husband of noblewoman Jeanne de Clisson was unjustly executed by the king of France. Furious, Jeanne became a pirate, selling all her possessions to fund a fleet and exact revenge. • During World War II, three Dutch teens used their beauty to lure Nazis into the forest with the promise of a good time, then out came the guns and BLAM! They sent them off to Nazi hell. If reading history doesn’t make you want to swear like a mom with a red-wine hangover walking barefoot through a LEGO-filled living room, then you’re not reading the right history. Across the ages, over 100 billion humans have lived and died. Some were motivated by greed, others by generosity. Many dedicated themselves to the art of killing, while others were focused on curing. There have been grave mistakes, and moments of greatness. And that is why . . . sh!t happens. Every day.