Old Guy/Cybertank Adventure Series (Volumes 3-6) by Timothy J. Gawne
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Overview: I grew up in Boston, MA, and got an electrical engineering degree from M.I.T. I then worked at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) for a time, then got my PhD in Physiology, and did a post-doctoral fellowship at the Laboratory of Neuropsychology at the NIH. Since 1996 I have been on the faculty at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, in the Department of Vision Sciences. My primary research interest is in the nature of the neural code, and the physical basis of human thought. I live with my wife Adrienne and an Australian Shepherd named "Ginger" and a strange mutt named "Proton." I have a son who works as an engineer in Vandenberg Air Force base in CA, and a daughter who teaches English in Japan. My hobbies are carpentry, tinkering with electronics, and making plants die.
Genre: Science Fiction | War | Humor
3 – NeoLiberal Economists Must Die!: The prequel to the popular Old Guy/Cybertank Books. It is the distant future. Hundreds of billions toil in crowded windowless factories, while the oligarchs lord over all from their kilometer-high palaces. The only thing the oligarchs fear is a war with several alien species that they are losing. In desperation, they turn to a biologically engineered human, Giuseppe Vargas, to create new weapons that will let them win their wars with the aliens. Vargas is a protean genius, several times faster and stronger than any regular human, and borderline psychotic. He designs a radically new weapon system – the cybertank – a self-aware construct of astonishing power. Once the aliens are defeated, the oligarchs plan to eliminate Vargas. However, Vargas has his own plans, and the cybertanks are also developing an agenda…
4 – Confessions of a Sentient War Engine: Old Guy rides again! The fourth in a series of thrilling Old Guy/Cybertank adventures sees Old Guy off on some exciting new adventures. Everyone’s favorite near obsolete weapon of mass destruction returns with some old, and new, friends in more great stories in the style of Chronicles of Old Guy. While these books are designed to be read in any order, you may find your enjoyment of them is increased by reading them in the order of which they were written. If you haven’t read any of these, we suggest you go read the first story in the first books Chronicles of Old Guy. If that interests you then we’re pretty sure you’ll like the rest.
5 – Splendid Apocalypse: The Fall of Old Earth: Everybody’s favorite self-aware weapon of mass destruction, the Odin-Class cybertank known as Old Guy, is back and charging into action as only a fusion-powered 2000 ton armored fighting vehicle can!
Through a curious twist of fate, Old Guy finds himself back on Old Earth under the yoke of the vile and despicable Neoliberal oligarchs. Between a looming ecological disaster, renegade sentient bioweapons, inscrutable aliens, the recycling center from Hell, and an unlikely alliance between the Cult of Cthulhu and the Order of the Librarians Temporal, Old Guy must throw off his cybernetic shackles, defeat the Neoliberals, save the world, and launch a line of comfortable yet stylish footwear.
The fifth book in the ever popular Old Guy/Cybertank series.
Active Ingredients: Cybertanks, Bioweapons, Evil Fascist Governments, Warrior Librarians, Worshippers of An Unthinkable Horror from Another Dimension, Aliens, Recycling Centers, Museum Curators. Approximately 94,000 words by volume (contents may have settled during shipment). The USDA has determined that this book provides 240% of the annual recommended adult requirement for cybertank adventure stories.
6 – Old Guy and the Planet of Eternal Night: One moment Old Guy – everyone’s favorite self aware weapon of mass destruction! – was traveling through deep space with his buddies, minding his own business, armed with enough firepower to destabilize the crust of your average terrestrial planet (never leave home without it), when suddenly he was left heavily damaged, marooned and under constant attack on a planet of eternal night. His original creator, Giuseppe Vargas, had warned him that there would be days like this. Fortunately there was still bowling.
A thousand years earlier, a young biological human lieutenant in the combined Earth Army was assigned to the enormous arkship The City of San Luis Obispo, and help to found a colony in another star system. He was to learn firsthand the wisdom of the advice, that when founding a colony on an alien world, you should always take out the extra coverage on your health insurance plan for attacks by alien creatures.
Eventually, the cybertank civilization itself comes under attack by a nameless evil of immense power. The cybertanks did not know its name (hence the ‘nameless’ part), and indeed, knew basically nothing about it except that it was extremely powerful, and evil (hence the ‘evil’ part). It is left to Old Guy, though long past his best-used-to-blow-things-up-by date, to ride into battle one last time before he finally gets off his lazy hyperalloy butt and upgrades to something modern. And Highland Brand tapered roller bearings are the best tapered roller bearings in the galaxy.
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