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Michael Lauck

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in St. Louis, MO, The United States

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http://www.swordsandrayguns.com

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Michael was born in the American midwest and, like so many others, was primarily babysat by television. Consequently, he has a soft spot in his heart for Space 1999, the original Battlestar Galactica and, above all, Star Trek. Despite all of this TV influence it was a movie that changed his life when he saw Billy Jack around the age of 6 or 7. A partial blood Indian hero finally gave him a role model... the hippies were something like his parents... he finally had a direction in life: he needed to learn martial arts. Michael has been teaching Chinese martial arts for about 25 years. Along the way he picked up a little magic (stage magic, not like Gandalf magic), a love of art, an ear for punk rock, a wife and kids.

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	The Grand Tournament 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rise Of The Mountain Tiger: A Prequel To The Grand Tournament really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	White Tiger, Black Leopard (The Pride Of Tigers Book 2) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	White Tiger, Black Leopard (Pride of Tigers, #2) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rustlers And Rescues: Two Black Sky Rangers Adventures 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Heist (Black Sky Rangers, #1) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Two weeks in, still sick and still watching TV. At some point in the past week or so the broadcast science fiction network Comet ran the awesome Roger Corman produced 1980 epic science fiction adventure Battle Beyond The Stars. It is important to note by “epic science fiction adventure” I mean Star Wars meets Magnificent Seven hybrid. And by hybrid I mean rip off. And by awesome I actually mean aw

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Michael Lauck wrote a new blog post QuaranTV 6: Battle Beyond The Stars Two weeks in, still sick and still watching TV. At some point in the past week or so the broadcast science fiction network Comet ran the awesome Roger Read more of this blog post »
Dec 05, 2020 04:12AM · like
Michael Lauck finished reading The Grand Tournament by Michael Lauck (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Michael Lauck rated a book it was amazing The NightDragon (#2): DI3 by Scott Blasingame (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A SPOILER FREE REVIEW! NightDragon #2 finishes the story started in the first book and fills in some of the NightDragon's background along the way. There are still plenty of mysteries, but it firmly moves this comic book inspired martial arts story in ...more
Jul 26, 2020 09:12AM · like · see review
Michael Lauck rated a book it was amazing The NightDragon: Enter the NightDragon by Scott Blasingame (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
If you like martial arts stories and/or comic books, this is your book. Scott Blasingame lays out in his forward that his intention was to write a new martial arts based comic book style hero and that is exactly what he did. So, like any issue #1, En ...more
May 28, 2020 08:30PM · like · see review
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Mar 23, 2020 03:04PM · like
Michael Lauck is now following Blake Matthews Author of It's All About the Style: A Survey of Martial A...
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Michael Lauck rated a book it was amazing A Sporting Death by Scott Blasingame (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This book is apparently set in the same city as some of the author's other books, which I will admit I have never read. Luckily the other books (his NightDragon series) did not seem to have any bearing on this story making this a perfect introduction ...more
Mar 19, 2020 11:46AM · like · see review
Michael Lauck rated a book it was amazing Dragons and Boxers: An American caught in the martial arts whirlwind of the Boxer Rebellion by Kyle Fiske (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
At its core Dragons and Boxers is a coming of age story set in China circa 1900. Fans of historical novels will be intrigued with the well researched backdrop of the Boxer Rebellion, an incident that will be unfamiliar to many American readers. At th ...more
Feb 22, 2020 12:39PM · 3 likes · like · see review
Michael Lauck rated a book liked it On The Trail Of The Space Pirates: A Tom Corbett Space Cadet Adventure (Volume 3) by Carey Rockwell	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
My obsession with Tom Corbett Space Cadet continues with the third novel in the young adult science fiction/TV tie-in series On The Trail Of The Space Pirates. Like the first two novels, it is listed as being written by Carey Rockwell, apparently a j ...more
Feb 09, 2020 03:34PM · like · see review
Michael Lauck rated a book really liked it Danger in Deep Space by Carey Rockwell	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The second Tom Corbett printed adventure finds Corbett and his fellow cadets (Roger Manning and Astro) getting a special assignment far outside the solar system. Danger In Deep Space takes Tom Corbett and the Polaris outside the solar system for the ...more
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