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Tales of Capes and Cowls Paperback – June 30, 2022
C. T. Phipps (Author) Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author |
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Superheroes have conquered movies, television, video games, and (of course) the comic book. However, there's still a dearth of fantastic superhero literature out there. Tales of Capes and Cowls is a wonderful collection of nine short stories, novelettes, and a novella about the text-based adventures of superheroes.
Inside, you'll find stories about a supervillain recruited to kill Hitler before he wins WW2 using magic, a street level hero out to stop an insane AI, a group of young heroes befriending a powerful wizard, a daring jailbreak, and a 1960s romp with that era's modest heroes! Works by C.T. Phipps (Supervillainy Saga), David Niall Wilson (Hoods), Keith R.E. DeCandido (Super City Cops), Richard Roberts (Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm A Supervillain), and more!
- Print length348 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateJune 30, 2022
- Dimensions5.5 x 0.87 x 8.5 inches
- ISBN-101637898029
- ISBN-13978-1637898024
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- Publisher : Mystique Press (June 30, 2022)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 348 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1637898029
- ISBN-13 : 978-1637898024
- Item Weight : 1.15 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.87 x 8.5 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,052,792 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2,814 in Action & Adventure Short Stories (Books)
- #9,367 in Superhero Science Fiction
- Customer Reviews:
About the authors
Aaron Rosenberg is the award-winning, #1 bestselling author of the DuckBob SF comedy series, the Relicant Chronicles epic fantasy series, the Dread Remora space-opera series, and—with David Niall Wilson—the O.C.L.T. occult thriller series. He's written tie-in novels (including the PsiPhi winner Collective Hindsight for Star Trek: SCE, the Daemon Gates trilogy for Warhammer, Tides of Darkness and (with Christie Golden) the Scribe-nominated Beyond the Dark Portal for World of WarCraft, Hunt and Run for Stargate: Atlantis, and Substitution Method and The Road Less Traveled for Eureka), children's books (including two original series, Pete and Penny's Pizza Puzzles and The S.T.E.M. Squad, and work for PowerPuff Girls and Transformers Animated), roleplaying games (including original games like Asylum and Spookshow, the Origins Award-winning Gamemastering Secrets, and work on The Supernatural Roleplaying Game, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, and The Deryni Roleplaying Game), young adult novels (including the #1 bestseller 42: The Jackie Robinson Story, the Scribe-winning Bandslam: The Novel and two books for iCarly), short stories, webcomics, essays, and educational books. He has ranged from mystery to speculative fiction to drama to comedy, always with the same intent—to tell a good story. Aaron lives in New York with his family. You can follow him online at gryphonrose.com, on Facebook at facebook.com/gryphonrose, and on Twitter @gryphonrose.
C.T Phipps is a lifelong student of horror, science fiction, and fantasy. An avid tabletop gamer, he discovered this passion led him to write and turned him into a lifelong geek. He is a regular blogger on "The United Federation of Charles" (http://unitedfederationofcharles.blogspot.com/).
He's the author of Agent G, Cthulhu Armageddon, Lucifer's Star, Straight Outta Fangton, and The Supervillainy Saga.
Matthew Davenport hails from Des Moines, Iowa where he lives with his wife, Ren, and daughter, Willow. When his scattered author brain isn't earning weird looks from the ladies of his life, he enjoys reading sci-fi and horror, tinkering with electronics, and doing escape rooms.
Matt is the author of the Andrew Doran series, the Broken Nights series (along with his brother, Michael), The Trials of Obed Marsh, and Satan's Salesman among other titles.
He's also a self-styled student of the Cthulhu Mythos and exercises that influence in his stories and as an editor at the blog Shoggoth.net
You can keep track of Matthew through his twitter account @spazenport.
You can also support him and get regular chapter and novel postings at http://patreon.com/matthewdavenport
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As with all collections, the quality isn't always universal, but I have to say, there wasn't a single story here that I didn't at least enjoy, with a number being of exceptional quality.
The standout for me was the ones from C.T Phipps' Supervillainy universe. Full disclosure, I've read and loved all the Supervillainy books that I've read in the past, so I am a little biased there.
Having said that, I've actually taken to searching for a number of stories from the other writers, solely based on how much I loved the stories here.
This was a collection that I genuinely enjoyed, and if you like well crafted superhero stories, you won't be disappointed.
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This was an interesting book with a good variety of bad guys dealing with law enforcement. I'll be honest, a couple of them I found to be a little boring but the majority were pretty great. I really liked the super villain locked up in a special prison built just for supers. She could shrink to the size of Damsel fly. She also could shrink other things too! That was one of my favorites. I was thankful for the gifted copy.