***Third Edition with glossary

Noir was a mega-city plagued by a sun blocking mass called Dry Clouds that had mysteriously appeared three decades earlier. The Dry Clouds covered half the planet and forced those living under them to exist in endless night. On this world, corporations were in charge and breaking your contract with them could mean the termination of your life.

Kimberly Griffin, a Life Closer (legal assassin) existed in a world of death. She Closed people for a living. It was a lonely demeaning existence, though she wouldn’t admit it. There was nothing to drive her in the bleak reality until one day she ran into Kat.

Kat, also known as the Pandora Project, was hunted by bio-mechas called Un-Men. She was an experiment of the Sphinx Corporation, and they were testing her to see if she could be the ultimate weapon. Kat refused to be a killer and tried to discover the truth behind her existence. Could she be a new form of bio-mecha?

Kim discovered someone close to her had been murdered. Is Kat the key to finding out who did it? Or will her association with Kat only cause her more grief?
Pandora of ancient times opened a box and let all good escape. Would Pandora be the hope the planet needed? Or would she destroy the world?

**Complete list of Shades of Gray series**

(STARTING POINT QUADRILOGY)
1. Noir, City Shrouded By Darkness
2. From Moscow, With Love
3. Cerberus Versus Pandora
4. Sisters

(ZOMBIE TWILIGHT QUADRILOGY)
5. Night Of The Twilight- The Chimera Strain
6. Dawn Of The Twilight- Outbreak
7. Day Of The Twilight- Patient Zero
8. Land Of The Twilight- Closing of Days

(MYTHS AND DESPAIR QUADRILOGY)
9. Rise of the Gorgons
10. Woe To The Watcher **Coming 12/2012**
11. Woe To The One Who Has Held His Heart’s Tongue **Coming Soon**
12. Woe To The One Who Thought They Could Only Hurt **Coming Soon*****Third Edition with glossary

Noir was a mega-city plagued by a sun blocking mass called Dry Clouds that had mysteriously appeared three decades earlier. The Dry Clouds covered half the planet and forced those living under them to exist in endless night. On this world, corporations were in charge and breaking your contract with them could mean the termination of your life.

Kimberly Griffin, a Life Closer (legal assassin) existed in a world of death. She Closed people for a living. It was a lonely demeaning existence, though she wouldn’t admit it. There was nothing to drive her in the bleak reality until one day she ran into Kat.

Kat, also known as the Pandora Project, was hunted by bio-mechas called Un-Men. She was an experiment of the Sphinx Corporation, and they were testing her to see if she could be the ultimate weapon. Kat refused to be a killer and tried to discover the truth behind her existence. Could she be a new form of bio-mecha?

Kim discovered someone close to her had been murdered. Is Kat the key to finding out who did it? Or will her association with Kat only cause her more grief?
Pandora of ancient times opened a box and let all good escape. Would Pandora be the hope the planet needed? Or would she destroy the world?

**Complete list of Shades of Gray series**

(STARTING POINT QUADRILOGY)
1. Noir, City Shrouded By Darkness
2. From Moscow, With Love
3. Cerberus Versus Pandora
4. Sisters

(ZOMBIE TWILIGHT QUADRILOGY)
5. Night Of The Twilight- The Chimera Strain
6. Dawn Of The Twilight- Outbreak
7. Day Of The Twilight- Patient Zero
8. Land Of The Twilight- Closing of Days

(MYTHS AND DESPAIR QUADRILOGY)
9. Rise of the Gorgons
10. Woe To The Watcher **Coming 12/2012**
11. Woe To The One Who Has Held His Heart’s Tongue **Coming Soon**
12. Woe To The One Who Thought They Could Only Hurt **Coming Soon**

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There’s a satisfying sense of closure to the definitive noir kick achieved in The Big Heat: its director, Fritz Lang, had forged early links from German expressionism to the emergence of film noir, so it’s entirely logical that the expatriate director would help codify the genre with this brutal 1953 film. Visually, his scenes exemplify the bold contrasts, deep shadows, and heightened compositions that define the look of noir, and he matches that success with the darkly pessimistic themes of this revenge melodrama.

The story coheres around the suicide of a crooked cop, and the subsequent struggle of an honest detective, Dave Bannion (Glenn Ford), to navigate between a corrupt city government and a ruthless mobster to uncover the truth. Initially, the violence here seems almost timid by comparison to the more explicit carnage now commonplace in films, yet the story accelerates as its plot arcs toward Bannion’s showdown with kingpin Lagana (Alexander Scourby) and his psychotic henchman, the sadistic Vince Stone, given an indelible nastiness by Lee Marvin. When Bannion’s wife is killed by a car bomb intended for the detective, both the hero and the story go ballistic: suspended from the force, he embarks on a crusade of revenge that suggests a template for Charles Bronson’s Death Wish films, each step pushing Lagana and Stone toward a showdown. Bodies drop, dominoes tumbled by the escalating war between the obsessed Bannion and his increasingly vicious adversaries.

Lang’s disciplined visual design and the performances (especially those of Ford, Marvin, Jeanette Nolan as the dead cop’s scheming widow, and Gloria Grahame as Marvin’s girlfriend) enable the film to transcend formula, as do several memorable action scenes–when an enraged Marvin hurls scalding coffee at the feisty Debby (Grahame), we’re both shattered by the violence of his attack, and aware that he’s shifted the balance of power. –Sam Sutherland

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There’s a satisfying sense of closure to the definitive noir kick achieved in The Big Heat: its director, Fritz Lang, had forged early links from German expressionism to the emergence of film noir, so it’s entirely logical that the expatriate director would help codify the genre with this brutal 1953 film. Visually, his scenes exemplify the bold contrasts, deep shadows, and heightened compositions that define the look of noir, and he matches that success with the darkly pessimistic themes of this revenge melodrama.

The story coheres around the suicide of a crooked cop, and the subsequent struggle of an honest detective, Dave Bannion (Glenn Ford), to navigate between a corrupt city government and a ruthless mobster to uncover the truth. Initially, the violence here seems almost timid by comparison to the more explicit carnage now commonplace in films, yet the story accelerates as its plot arcs toward Bannion’s showdown with kingpin Lagana (Alexander Scourby) and his psychotic henchman, the sadistic Vince Stone, given an indelible nastiness by Lee Marvin. When Bannion’s wife is killed by a car bomb intended for the detective, both the hero and the story go ballistic: suspended from the force, he embarks on a crusade of revenge that suggests a template for Charles Bronson’s Death Wish films, each step pushing Lagana and Stone toward a showdown. Bodies drop, dominoes tumbled by the escalating war between the obsessed Bannion and his increasingly vicious adversaries.

Lang’s disciplined visual design and the performances (especially those of Ford, Marvin, Jeanette Nolan as the dead cop’s scheming widow, and Gloria Grahame as Marvin’s girlfriend) enable the film to transcend formula, as do several memorable action scenes–when an enraged Marvin hurls scalding coffee at the feisty Debby (Grahame), we’re both shattered by the violence of his attack, and aware that he’s shifted the balance of power. –Sam Sutherland

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In a history very different from our own, the Civil War rages on in Texas. Zeppelins fill the air, steam power vehicles battle horses for space on the roads and bodies lay strewn through the wreckage of the Sisters of the Merciful Truth Convent, innocent victims of a local turf war. Three sisters, raised in the convent, emerge from the horror to find their lives of family and devotion over, and their separate lives of crime about to begin.

In lawless times, where faith and love battle doubt and hate, Justice now sees the world from behind the barrel of a gun. She falls in with a handsome and mysterious miscreant as she attempts to carve a place in the ruined world and search for her lost sisters. But when her life of crime catches up to her, Justice will learn the meaning of true love, and family ties.

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Electric Shock Lie Detector -All liars beware, you could be in for a shock! Our shocking products have been very popular on the site ever since we started, and the theme has continued to evolve with shocking tanks and now this electric shock lie detector. This clever gadget works not on the basis of skill, or practical jokes, it is based upon whether you are telling the truth! As we all know, some people just can’t help but tell porkie pies so time to plug them in! This is how you play. You place your hand into the mould on the divide making sure that your hand makes contact with the sensors. Reset the unit and press the analyser button and the detector will take a baseline reading. Then, answer the truthfully to three simple questions and this will allow the electric shock lie detector to calibrate your readings. Then the real questions can begin! So long as you answer the truth, you will be fine. If you lie, you will get an electric shock. The Electric Shock Lie Detector is great fun and one of the most revealing games you can ever play. It uses 3 x AAA batteries, demonstration batteries are included however these should be replaced as soon as possible. Can you handle the truth? Warning: You may not like the truth, don’t blame us! Please note: The Electric Shock Lie Detector is not suitable for epilepsy sufferers or pacemaker wearers.

• Electric Shock Lie Detector -All liars beware, you could be in for a shock!
• Our shocking products have been very popular on the site ever since we started!
• This clever gadget works not on the basis of skill, or practical jokes.
• It is based upon whether you are telling the truth!
• As we all know, some people just can’t help but tell porkie pies so time to plug them in!

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At the turn of the century, London is bustling with energy. When James Mallet meets a strange man named Cyrus he quickly get pulled into a world of illusion and danger, uncovering a secret power struggle looming within Russia, one that could decide the fate of millions.

When feuding royal families seeking the Flame (the ultimate source of power) begin a series of events that will result in all out war, Cyrus caught in the middle must discover a way to undo the mistakes of the past and stop the inevitable destruction to come.

Captivated, James Mallet joins Cyrus and his band of unique individuals on their quest. Uncovering more then he bargained for, James Mallet begins to question Cyrus’s motives, wondering just which side Cyrus is really on. Throttled into a manic race across the globe, James Mallet will have to discover the truth behind the Flame, revealing how Cyrus became involved, and why their meeting was in fact not by chance after all.

Flame (Flame; the seven fires)

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At the turn of the century, London is bustling with energy. When James Mallet meets a strange man named Cyrus he quickly get pulled into a world of illusion and danger, uncovering a secret power struggle looming within Russia, one that could decide the fate of millions.

When feuding royal families seeking the Flame (the ultimate source of power) begin a series of events that will result in all out war, Cyrus caught in the middle must discover a way to undo the mistakes of the past and stop the inevitable destruction to come.

Captivated, James Mallet joins Cyrus and his band of unique individuals on their quest. Uncovering more then he bargained for, James Mallet begins to question Cyrus’s motives, wondering just which side Cyrus is really on. Throttled into a manic race across the globe, James Mallet will have to discover the truth behind the Flame, revealing how Cyrus became involved, and why their meeting was in fact not by chance after all.

Flame

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Dark Nights Over Neo-Tokyo A Life in the Shadows Among Generations: Film Noir and Cyberpunk – A Comparison using a Cyberpunk Film Canon

Cyberpunk and film noir have never been explicitly compared before. Therefore, the most thrilling part of this research is to enter virgin soil with the basic question: Does cyberpunk contain clearly recognizable elements of film noir? This complex question leads to a detailed examination: Firstly, the definitions of film noir and cyberpunk used in this work are presented. Secondly, a cyberpunk film canon including the most important films must be developed to enter this sub genre. Finally, the film canon is compared with defining elements of film noir. The results give conclusions as to the importance of the revolutionary character of film noir depending on the strength of influence on the authors and directors of cyberpunk. But can cyberpunk be described as: Film Noir + Science Fiction? In order to check the truth behind that thesis, you will undergo a little time travel from the 1940s through Los Angeles in 2019 until the dark age in which machines misuse us humans as batteries. Put on your trodes and dive into the gloomy world of cyberpunk.

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