Newly revised and redesigned, this is the human history of the company that powered the development of the electric system in British Columbia—and in turn played an integral role in shaping the province.“A utility is a thing with a heartbeat—a steady beat of progress brought about not by water and wire, turbines and transformers, but by all the people who put our resources and equipment to the benefit of all.”—Sam Weston of the BC Power CommissionFrom its e...

DRAUGR’S SAGA - THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE IN THE VIKING AGEOur Hero, and the fisherman’s daughter, Chivonne, escape savage villagers, intent on extracting vengeance for crimes they never committed.But the road to freedom turns out to be paved with dangers surpassing even rage-filled Scots.When they encounter a Viking Long-Ship, Aedan takes a chance and asks for passage, but is worried about what the Vikings might do to him, or worse, to Chivonne.

DRAUGR'S SAGA - THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE IN THE VIKING AGEOur Hero is rescued from the sea and unwittingly brings doom to a fisherman’s family. He escapes with their beautiful daughter, but can he keep her alive?After battling the evil Draugr, losing his foster-brother Erik, and being stranded at sea, Aedan is rescued by a fisherman. His fortune becomes their misfortune, and once he again Aedan is running for his life, only this time, with the fisherman’s daug...

DRAUGR’S SAGA - THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE IN THE VIKING AGEIn episode 5, our hero enlists the aid of a volva (witch) to unlock the secrets to defeating the Draugr horde.Using her shamanic powers, the volva takes Aedan and his companions to the trunk of the world-tree, Yggdrasil, where they begin a perilous journey to Jotunheim - land of the Giants!.In Jotunheim, under one of the great roots of Yggdrasil, lies Mimir’s well. It’s there that Aedan hopes to...

The Expendable Man is the second thriller published by Persephone Books (our first was the very successful The Blank Wall). But it is far more than a crime novel. Just as Hughes's earlier books had engaged with the political issues of the 1940s – the legacy of the Depression, and the struggles against fascism and rascism – so The Expendable Man, published in 1963 during John F. Kennedy's presidency and set in Arizona, evokes the emerging racial, social and moral tensions of the time. As de...

Draugr's Saga - The Zombie Apocalypse in the Viking AgeIn order to stem the swelling draugar horde, former Viking slave, Aedan, along with his allies, set out on a perilous journey to enlist the help of the Irish people, hoping to cement an alliance and build a cohesive army. This is their only hope of saving the islands, and indeed, perhaps the entire world.They first land in Viking controlled Vadrefjord, south west of Dubhlinn. There they get an unexpecte...

While bound and captive by the Irish, a war band of Vikings ravage the town of Carrick-On-Shure in an attempt to recapture Aedan and his friends.They narrowly escape the clutches of two groups of enemies while pursuing a new foe – Bishop Sheamus Skeehan, who’s stolen Draugr’s Bane, the key to their fight!Our heroes must now undertake a harrowing journey to reclaim the mighty weapon, all the while pursued by rival Vikings, the Irish, and under threat of attack by the evil dr...

DRAUGR’S SAGA - THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE IN THE VIKING AGEIn this episode, our hero barely survives a duel with the rapist Sixten, and faces the wrath of Amund and Finnr’s war party over his victory.As the men bed down for the night, their encampment is overrun by a countless horde of Draugr, and Aedan engineers their escape.On their voyage home they meet the infamous Black Spear, heading a fleet of fifty ships and commanding nearly a thousand men. Is ...

This volume of Wildside Press's best-selling MEGAPACK® series focuses on tales first published in the "Spice" line of pulp magazines. Here are 25 mystery tales considered quite titillating in their day, but mild by modern standards.

Draugr's Saga - The Zombie Apocalypse in the Viking AgeRich in Viking-era history and mythology, and exploding off the pages with gut-wrenching action, comes the next riveting installment in the serial about Viking Zombies, from the Best Selling Author of the Yggdrasil Codex.After battling a storm in the North Sea, a horde of Vikings make landfall on a mysterious island, only to discover an Evil far more terrible than themselves!It's Erik Ragnarsson...

**- “Evil, Vengeance, Politics, Romance and Galaxy spanning Action!” **Earth is still reeling from the Hrymar Holocaust. Many of her major cities are still burning after millions were exterminated in nuclear bombardment, and thousands more taken off-world as slaves.The SID is fractured and impotent, with no political will to attack the enemy; content to bide their time. But the threats are dire. A recently discovered network of inter-stellar gates built by ancient progenito...

A classic California noir with a feminist twist, this prescient 1947 novel exposed misogyny in post-World War II American society, making it far ahead of its time.Los Angeles in the late 1940s is a city of promise and prosperity, but not for former fighter pilot Dix Steele. To his mind nothing has come close to matching “that feeling of power and exhilaration and freedom that came with loneness in the sky.” He prowls the foggy city night—bus stops and stretches of ...