wow. just wow. the author seems to have the perfect flair for camp and usefulness. weapons like the double-bladed chainsaw are awesome to just read, while the asassin's poison thorn can be a great addition for bad guys. a lot of the weapons took a great deal of imagination to come up with, too. all the descriptions are really, really fun to read. if you have never bought a book from this website, and if you like books about lots of guns and knives then this is the book for you. and its cheap!

Defiantly worth the price. This is something I?d like to see more of.

I've only begun skimming this book, but, based on a few minutes scanning and the author's writing style -- this book rocks. It reminds me of early-80s supplements in its exuberant, over-the-top, "who cares if it's realistic, what matters is -- is it COOL?" attitude. UNLIKE those early supplements, all the words seem to be spelled properly. :) I can't comment on mechanics and game balance yet, but, purely as idea source/catalog of every twisted weapon in SF history, this book is easily worth the nine bucks. Print it out at work. :)

The author also avoids doing what I half-feared the book would be -- endless lists of the same weapons with only the most trivial variants ("Laser Sword" "Laser Long Sword" "Laser Short Sword" "Laser Slightly Less Short Sword" "Laser Very Short Sword" "Glaive glaive glaive guisarme laser"), or page after page of flavor-text less statistics. While the book is 99 44/100 percent pure crunch (Mmmm....crunch!), there is enough flavor text for the weapon categories and individual weapons to make it readable.

I wish to stress this is a preliminary, not in-depth review, and my particular tastes in gaming may not be everyone's.

I wished to contact the author directly, but he seems to have no email. Phooey.