Author: Christopher Anvil
Publisher: Baen
Keywords: patrol, interstellar
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2003-03-25
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0743436008
ISBN-13: 9780743436007

The starship crew was stuck on a planet where the well-meaning schemes of social engineers had created a nightmare of battling gangs. So they pretended to be the Royal Legions from a distant star kingdom pursuing an all-powerful villain hiding on the planet. Things went better than they could have hoped, and the planet was rapidly becoming civilised...and then the real Royal flagship showed up. They thought they were doomed - but instead they had shown just the type of initiative and intelligence that the new arrivals were looking for. So they were inducted into the Interstellar Patrol. And th

Author: Christopher Anvil
Publisher: Baen
Keywords: patrol, interstellar
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 2004-08-31
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0743488482
ISBN-13: 9780743488488

The crew of the ship were marooned on a planet with no ship repair facilities, where the well-meaning schemes of social engineers had created a nightmare of battling gangs. They had their own invention with them-an emotional amplifier, which could cause anyone to feel a heightened emotion, but this wasn’t useful at first. If they heightened the locals’ sense of pride, they took pride in becoming better criminals. So they pretended to be the Royal Legions, sent by a distant star kingdom in pursuit of an all-powerful villain who was hiding on the planet. Things were going better than

Author: Christopher Anvil
Publisher: Baen
Keywords: chaos
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2009-02-03
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 1416591435
ISBN-13: 9781416591436

Science and technology have made our lives easier, cured diseases, with achievements that an earlier age would have considered impossible. But once in a while, the law of unintended consequences breaks loose. Christopher Anvil considers the two faces of technological innovation: Sometimes the result is a literal life-saver; but at other times a breakthrough may not break quite the way it was supposed to.   ·         A new wonder drug has the unexpected side effect of making people happy. Not a problem—everybody should want to be happy, right? But should people be happy all of the t

Author: Christopher Anvil
Publisher: Baen
Keywords: aliens, trouble
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2006-08-08
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 1416520775
ISBN-13: 9781416520771

Humans on the space frontiers may have enough problems with befuddled bureaucrats, rules that don’t fit the realities of very dangerous situations, and general rear-echelon incompetence without bringing in unfriendly aliens, but it’s that kind of universe. On the other hand, as master satirist Christopher Anvil makes clear, the aliens are anything but omnipotent and have plenty of problems of their own. Here for the first time the stories and short novels of the war with the Outs are collected into a novel-length chronicle. The Outs had mental powers they could use to make humans s

Authors:Christopher Anvil, Eric Flint,
Publisher: Baen
Keywords: legions, pandora
Number of Pages: 379
Published: 2002-01-29
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0671318616
ISBN-13: 9780671318611

Authors:Christopher Anvil, Eric Flint,
Publisher: Baen
Keywords: anvil, christopher, complete, games, war
Number of Pages: 624
Published: 2010-03-30
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 1439133506
ISBN-13: 9781439133507

War is a serious business-or is it? Christopher Anvil turns his sardonic sense of humor loose on the subject and considers what might happen if:    Someone devised  a computer war game so realistic and addictive that the people in charge of battle on both sides didn’t have time or inclination to start a real war.   Another device gave every homeowner the power to block off his property from any inxursion, even by nuclear weapons.    A secret organization pulls the plug on an impending war by causing the commanders on both sides to be unable even to think of any of the words they

Author: Anvil
Publisher: Rockport Publisher
Keywords: perfect, color, pattern, design, choosing, guide, palette, sourcebook, complete, patterns
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2005-07-01
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 159253161X
ISBN-13: 9781592531615

This hardworking reference book is an invaluable tool for art directors, designers, and students working in the fashion, product, and graphic design fields, as well as anyone in the business of visual communication. The Pattern and Palette Sourcebook is a desktop library of colors and patterns that addresses the professional’s real-world needs in working with harmonies and contrasts. Divided into six unique style sections, the book provides readers with 15 appropriate colors for each section, which are then incorporated into 25 different patterns shown in six or eight color variations e