![]() Windsor’s earlier work, Veni Vadi Vici, updating the translation and the introduction. Please note it does not include a facsimile of the manuscript, but that may be downloaded from a link provided in the text. ![]() The Art of Sword Fighting in Earnest includes a detailed introduction, setting Vadi and his combat style in their historical context, a complete translation of the manuscript, and a detailed commentary from the perspective of the practising martial artist. Dedicated to one of the most famous Italian condottiere of the age, Guidobaldo, Duke of Urbino, this book covers the theory of combat with the longsword, as well as dozens of techniques of the sword, the spear, the pollax, and the dagger. “Guy has the rare talent of making this material accessible” -Neal Stephenson (from his Foreword to Swordfighting) “Guy Windsor's greatest gift to WMA/HEMA is his marvellous ability to translate period language into a meaningful experience for modern WMA/HEMA practitioners and he has once more shown his ability to do exactly that.” - Adam (review of Veni Vadi Vici) NOTE: THIS EDITION DOES NOT INCLUDE A FACSIMILE OF THE MANUSCRIPT From the late fifteenth century comes a detailed manuscript on knightly combat, written by Philippo Vadi. Aristide must surmount war, plague, death, the loss of love, and cosmic havoc in order to finally confront the enemy, whose secret brings all reality into questions. While exploring the pre-technological world of Midgarth, Aristide discovers a plot that threatens to shake the multiverse to its foundations, a sinister enemy intent on laying all humanity in his thrall. Stirling The mysterious swordsman Aristide wanders the multiverse with his talking cat Bitsy, both of them in search of the "implied spaces," the accidents of architecture in a world that is itself artificial and created by a supreme intelligence. Williams combines fantasy tropes believably with nanotech, bleeding-edge infotech speculation, classic smashing-planets space opera, and intriguingly human, or possibly post-human characters along with a fast-moving plot and a quirky sense of humor in a melance that's cosmological, theological, ontological, comic, and thoroughly entertaining." -S.M. "Walter Jon Williams really knows how to play power chords in the 'key of wonder' and in Implied Spaces he's gone to town on the guitar solo!" -Charles Stross "Implied Spaces pioneers a new genre of SF- the 'Sword and Singularity' novel. Some of the advice here is lockdown-specific, but most of it is applicable to all sorts of crises. Guy’s Lockdown Survival Guide, or, Swords in the Time of Corona. I started blogging these ideas as they came up, between March and June 2020, and before long was getting requests from readers to create a book of them. Then I thought of the things that were working for me: the mental postures learned from swordsmanship training, that were easing my way through lockdown with minimal stress. And not all the help they needed was directly sword related. Normally, that means help them with their sword problems, but the whole point of practising swordsmanship is to improve your quality of life. ![]() I realised that I had to focus on my core mission, which is to help my students. Things they depended on for their physical, mental, and economic health were simply gone. ![]() As lockdown progressed it was soon obvious that many of my students were struggling. Then bit by bit things started to change-the twin threats of death by plague and economic ruin came front and center into our collective awareness. There was nothing for me to do, so I just ignored it. ![]() When this coronavirus, SARS-CoV-19, emerged at the beginning of 2020, I didn’t worry too much about it, because I recognised it as being outside my area of control. ![]()
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