The Adventures of the Carbide Kid (Volume II) is part of an ongoing collection of actual events that were exaggerated through many years of storytelling. Growing up in a rural county in Mississippi, the author and the Carbide Kid had many mischievous adventures and mishaps.

Warm, nostalgic and very funny, Mike Harding's memoir of his early life in post-war Manchester is as idiosyncratic and engaging as the man himself.

Seventeen hard science fiction tales by today's top authors Hard science fiction is the literature of change, rigorously examining the impact-both beneficial and dangerous-of science and technology on humanity, the future, and the cosmos. As science advances, expanding our knowledge of the universe, astounding new frontiers in storytelling open up as well. In Carbide Tipped Pens, over a dozen of today's most creative imaginations explore these frontiers, carrying on the grand tradition of such legendary masters as Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, and John W. Campbell, while bringing hard science fiction into the 21st century by extrapolating from the latest scientific developments and discoveries. Ranging from ancient China to the outer reaches of the solar system, this outstanding collection of original stories, written by an international roster of authors, finds wonder, terror, and gripping human drama in topics as diverse as space exploration, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, climate change, alternate history, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, interplanetary war, and even the future of baseball. From tattoos that treat allergies to hazardous missions to Mars and beyond, from the end of the world to the farthest limits of human invention, Carbide Tipped Pens turns startling new ideas into state-of-the art science fiction. Includes short stories by Ben Bova, Gregory Benford, Robert Reed, Aliette de Bodard, Jack McDevitt, Howard Hendrix, Daniel H. Wilson, and many others! At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

These are extracts of activities, events, and challenges of living from the 1940s to the present day in 2017a span of seventy-two years experienced by C. S. Po. He recollects memories of his young daysfrom the communist insurgence from 1948 to 1960 to the racial riots of 1969 in the Malaysian peninsula. He shares his experiences on some paranormal phenomena arising from cultural beliefs and practices that have intrigued and indeed mystified him and have remained unexplained over the years. He relates his emigration to Melbourne to face new challenges and savor Australias mateship, happy hours, and odd work practices in the 1980s and 1990s, which have been progressively eroded over the years. Further, he mentioned his simple, effective response to counteract racial taunts at work and in the streets of Melbourne. Through highlighting some heart, bladder, kidney, and other health issues, he alludes to be cautious in the use of certain medications, contrasting dye, and chemotherapy that can adversely affect kidney functions from his personal experience and observations. He has adopted a lifelong philosophy of experience with no regrets, and this book includes many near-death situations that he faced in his life and is happy, glad, and contented that he has had his fair share of nine lives.

Bryce Walton was a prolific short story writer as well as a popular novelist. He began his career writing for the science fiction pulp magazines, and later moved into the more respectable (and higher paying) mystery short story and Young Adult book fields. Wildside Press has been working to reissue many of his classic works. Here, then, are four of his action-adventure novels aimed at the Young Adult market (they are quite readable for adults, too): Cave of Danger Harpoon Gunner Hurricane Reef The Fire Trail If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 260+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!

Walt was born in Nelsonville, a small town in southeastern Ohio, whose population has been around 5,000 for the last hundred years. In this book he tells us about many extraordinary events that he survived from the age of three to eighteen while growing up in Nelsonville. Like the time he almost drowned in the creek below their home on 969 Pleasant View Avenue. Or taking rabies shots when their pet dogs got rabies from a pack of wild dogs that roamed the hills on the other side of the valley. Or surviving car wrecks when the cars were totaled and there were no seat belts then. He graduated from NHS in 1960 in a class of 56, so you knew everyone and everyone knew you and your business. You didn’t do anything without the whole town finding out very quickly what happened. So, when he broke the taillight in his Dad’s car, Dad knew about it before he got home. Or, when he drove that same car and took his girl friend all the way to Columbus to the Kahiki Supper Club for dinner one time, and, ruined his older brother’s white sport coat and Tanya’s new dress when an orange fountain exploded while they waited in the Kahiki’s crowded lobby, somehow people knew about the incident by the time they got back to Nelsonville. They quickly told a story to their friends first, then their parents, that some kid sprayed orange soda all over them at the high school dance that evening. And the best part of that adventure was, that the dinner was free if they didn’t take the free dry cleaning offer from the Kahiki. That is the way small towns were back then. Walt went on to work his way through Ohio University and eventually earned three degrees from there and a Master’s Degree from the University of Dayton in 1980. Walt’s adventures after finishing High School in 1960, like Ohio University, the party school, Western Electric in Columbus, and the Army and Vietnam, are in his next book, The Second Eighteen Plus.

Join me growing up in the wilds of Warwickshire, at Eathorpe between 1936 & 1959. We had very little but enjoyed every bit of it. We learnt about life "The Country Way" with all the fun, scrapes, lumps, bumps, hard graft, a "few" mistakes and love along the way. Meet Jumbo, Boxer, Lady & Drummer, the genuine workhorses and those who loved them.