Writing is a rough gig. Get paid where you can. Here’s a bunch of places that will pay professional rates for genre (fantasy/science fiction/horror) short stories. All these markets take (and actually publish) unsolicited submissions – you don’t need an agent, and you don’t need to have previously published works.
Remember to format your shit, write a simple cover letter, don’t send the same story to more than one place at a time, make sure submissions windows are actually open, and never respond to rejection letters ever. Have fun!
(Information gathered from both Submissions Grinder – an essential resource for people actively submitting their work – and my own excessive and somewhat ridiculous reading habits.)
Current as of May 2018. Markets are listed alphabetically. Detailed info below the cut.
Classic Bookshelf: This site has put classic novels online, from Charles Dickens to Charlotte Bronte.
The Online Books Page: The University of Pennsylvania hosts this book search and database.
Project Gutenberg: This famous site has over 27,000 free books online.
Page by Page Books: Find books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and H.G. Wells, as well as speeches from George W. Bush on this site.
Classic Book Library: Genres here include historical fiction, history, science fiction, mystery, romance and children’s literature, but they’re all classics.
Classic Reader: Here you can read Shakespeare, young adult fiction and more.
Read Print: From George Orwell to Alexandre Dumas to George Eliot to Charles Darwin, this online library is stocked with the best classics.
Planet eBook: Download free classic literature titles here, from Dostoevsky to D.H. Lawrence to Joseph Conrad.
The Spectator Project: Montclair State University’s project features full-text, online versions of The Spectator and The Tatler.
Bibliomania: This site has more than 2,000 classic texts, plus study guides and reference books.
Online Library of Literature: Find full and unabridged texts of classic literature, including the Bronte sisters, Mark Twain and more.
Bartleby: Bartleby has much more than just the classics, but its collection of anthologies and other important novels made it famous.
Fiction.us: Fiction.us has a huge selection of novels, including works by Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Flaubert, George Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.
Free Classic Literature: Find British authors like Shakespeare and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, plus other authors like Jules Verne, Mark Twain, and more.
TEXTBOOKS
Textbook Revolution: Find biology, business, engineering, mathematics and world history textbooks here.
Wikibooks: From cookbooks to the computing department, find instructional and educational materials here.
Italian Women Writers: This site provides information about Italian women authors and features full-text titles too.
Biblioteca Valenciana: Register to use this database of Catalan and Valencian books.
Ketab Farsi: Access literature and publications in Farsi from this site.
Afghanistan Digital Library: Powered by NYU, the Afghanistan Digital Library has works published between 1870 and 1930.
CELT: CELT stands for “the Corpus of Electronic Texts” features important historical literature and documents.
Projekt Gutenberg-DE: This easy-to-use database of German language texts lets you search by genres and author.
HISTORY AND CULTURE
LibriVox: LibriVox has a good selection of historical fiction.
The Perseus Project: Tufts’ Perseus Digital Library features titles from Ancient Rome and Greece, published in English and original languages.
Access Genealogy: Find literature about Native American history, the Scotch-Irish immigration in the 19th and 20th centuries, and more.
Free History Books: This collection features U.S. history books, including works by Paul Jennings, Sarah Morgan Dawson, Josiah Quincy and others.
Most Popular History Books: Free titles include Seven Days and Seven Nights by Alexander Szegedy and Autobiography of a Female Slave by Martha G. Browne.
RARE BOOKS
Questia: Questia has 5,000 books available for free, including rare books and classics.
ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT
Books-On-Line: This large collection includes movie scripts, newer works, cookbooks and more.
Chest of Books: This site has a wide range of free books, including gardening and cooking books, home improvement books, craft and hobby books, art books and more.
Free e-Books: Find titles related to beauty and fashion, games, health, drama and more.
2020ok: Categories here include art, graphic design, performing arts, ethnic and national, careers, business and a lot more.
Free Art Books: Find artist books and art books in PDF format here.
Free Web design books: OnlineComputerBooks.com directs you to free web design books.
Free Music Books: Find sheet music, lyrics and books about music here.
Free Fashion Books: Costume and fashion books are linked to the Google Books page.
MYSTERY
MysteryNet: Read free short mystery stories on this site.
TopMystery.com: Read books by Edgar Allan Poe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, GK Chesterton and other mystery writers here.
Mystery Books: Read books by Sue Grafton and others.
POETRY
The Literature Network: This site features forums, a copy of The King James Bible, and over 3,000 short stories and poems.
Poetry: This list includes “The Raven,” “O Captain! My Captain!” and “The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde.”
Poem Hunter: Find free poems, lyrics and quotations on this site.
Famous Poetry Online: Read limericks, love poetry, and poems by Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Lord Byron and others.
Google Poetry: Google Books has a large selection of poetry, fromThe Canterbury Tales to Beowulf to Walt Whitman.
QuotesandPoem.com: Read poems by Maya Angelou, William Blake, Sylvia Plath and more.
CompleteClassics.com: Rudyard Kipling, Allen Ginsberg and Alfred Lord Tennyson are all featured here.
PinkPoem.com: On this site, you can download free poetry ebooks.
MISC
Banned Books: Here you can follow links of banned books to their full text online.
World eBook Library: This monstrous collection includes classics, encyclopedias, children’s books and a lot more.
DailyLit: DailyLit has everything from Moby Dick to the recent phenomenon, Skinny Bitch.
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Ecumenopolis Cuisine: The basis for the native cuisine of world-cities is grown in the algae vats in the cisterns beneath the skyscrapers that cover the planet, churned every hour of the day by massive impellers and harshly lit by the glaring lights that are optimized to feed the algae. The algae is genetically tailored to make a rough flour that provides starch and dietary fiber and almost no flavor. The tailored krill used in some of the stages of water purification provide protein; there are numerous breeds that express proteins from popular meat animals. They can be easily processed into patties and sausage; processing them into something with the consistency of an actual cut of meat is more expensive, and never matches the quality of even vatgrown tissue.The algae can be fed to other bacteria that churn out useful things like a variety of sugars, or milk and egg proteins, or fermented into alcohol, vinegar, etc. and used in condiments comparable to worcestershire sauce, soy sauce, or catsup. With these basic ingredients and some yeast, a wide variety of things can be produced: noodles, cheese, butter, bread, syrups. Add krill protein, and you have the basics of lower-class ecumenopolis cuisine. The quintessential dish is the algae-flour krill dumpling. Some various brands:
Gluto: the basic cereal algae, full of gluten protein and starch. Can easily be processed into flour, rice-like grains, pasta, and so on.
Protato is another cereal algae creation, using the genes from a topato.
Lacto: cranks out all the usual milk proteins, usually based on the genes for bantha milk. Can be then processed into butter, cheese, etc.
Yovo and albovo: yellow and white egg proteins, fats, cholesterols, vitamins, and minerals, usually based on the genes for gizka eggs.
Cooking oil
Vita-fruct: contains all the vitamins you need, easily packaged with cellulose to make fruit-and-fiber bricks.
Synthcaf: all the important genes from the caf bean are expressed here, producing the get-up-and-go coffeine beverage for trillions. People who have drunk true caf disdain the stuff as harsh and lacking nuance.
The middle class, living well above the vats but lucky to get natural sunlight piped in from outdoors, use hydroponics and artificial lights to cultivate fruits and vegetables. Meat on a middle-class table is usually grown in a vat whose nutrient fluid was derived from processed algae. In prosperous times, they often have grain coming from offworld.
Only the upper class, able to afford the luxury of rooftop gardens, ever sees fruit trees growing in soil. They dine on real cuts of meat brought in refrigerated containers on hyperspace container carriers, a few luxuries tucked in amongst the huge amount of grain.
Galactic Travelers: Xenosnax® contain all the nutrients your species needs that local cuisine doesn’t provide. Often in candy-bar or soft-drink form. They even make ones for species subtypes, like dark-skinned humans living in conditions where they’re underexposed to the sunlight they need to manufacture Vitamin D. Major species can always find Xenosnax for themselves at any spaceport; for minor species, it can come down to proximity to their homeworld and luck.
Corellian Cuisine: Native Corellian ingredients include kavasa fruit, hsuaberries, charbote root, traladon milk and meat.
Hutt Space Cuisine: The distinctive foods of Hutt Space. Some of it is purely Hutt food, with appeal limited to beings that evolved in swamps, but much of it is derived from the numerous worlds in Hutt Space and the cuisines of their various client species. The most common restaurant style, Yafullkee Mikiyuna, is comparable to terrestrial Mongolian barbecue; it adapts well to the varied needs of a Hutt’s retinue, which are apt to include at least half a dozen species.
Soft drinks: Howdunga™
Liquor: boga noga, gardulla, yatooni boska
Meat: candied rennet is considered a delicacy by Hutts; beer-battered gorg legs; Carnovian eel-pup; fried dianoga; roasted effrikim worm; hotsa chuba; Klatooine paddy frog;
Vegetables: pickled zogs.
Raw Ingredients
Aola is a cooking oil from Kashyyyk.
Spices:
Barcarian claw salt
Canta salt
Produce and Nuts:
37-leaf salad: made from plants that evolved under a variety of suns, ranging from the dark foliage from red dwarf suns to red and green chlorophyll from yellow stars to the violet and yellowish-orange of plants adapted for yellow-white subgiants. The salads can be very pretty, and the leaves adapted to brighter stars are usually full of healthy antioxidants.
Belsavian bowvine fruit
Blatberries are tiny, tart berries that grow in clusters on thorned vines. They are good in pie
Bristlemelon
Dameapple:
Dricklefruit
Endrolian Ground-apple
Grakkyn (2): a tart fruit native to Kashyyyk, which the Wookiees then ferment and distill into a potent, dry liquor.
Kyrf both a fruit and the fermented beverage created from it.
Lipana berries
Moonglow: an expensive, difficult-to-harvest fruit. Muja fruit (2): a reddish-orange fruit about the size of a fist, hardy and able to thrive on many worlds.
Namana
Nutmeat
Pta fruit: a tasty treat for Hutts.
Stinkmelon
Tashru:
Tatooinian Berry Fruit
Tatooinian Fruit
Vweilu nuts
Zella nut
Zoochberry: a tart lavender-colored berry that serves as an effective stain, though it takes a lot of brewing and distilling to get a deep-colored dye out of it.
Cereals, Legumes and Tubers
Bang-corn is a grain that explodes into a puff of carbohydrate-rich cellulose, like popcorn on Earth.
Corellian domesticated wheat: a lavender grain.
Corellian potatoes are a tuber that originated on Corellia that can be converted into an amazing variety of foods, including fries, hash browns, chowders…
Ebla grain: native to Bonadan, comparable to barley.
Tatooinian Vegetable Tubers
Tritacale: a Dantooine cereal crop.
Vac shrooms are radiotrophic fungi that are grown in unshielded compartments in space stations.
Variform bean: a crop plant on Sulon.
Verdian vine beans
Yot beans: a Dantooine food crop.
Pasta
Algae noodles
Pashi noodles: similar to macaroni
Telier Noodles
Meats
Bantha: red meat, comparable to terrestrial mutton.
Barve: white meat, comparable to terrestrial pork.
Bukk: red meat, comparable to terrestrial goat.
Butter Newt: white meat, comparable to terrestrial frog.
Coruscant game fowl: white meat, comparable to the terrestrial Cornish game hen.
Craw-maw: white meat, comparable to terrestrial turkey.
Dianoga: white meat, comparable to terrestrial calamari.
Eopie: red meat, comparable to terrestrial camel.
Fleek eel: white meat, comparable to terrestrial Japanese conger eel.
Giant Ithorian snail: comparable to terrestrial escargot.
Gizka: white meat, comparable to terrestrial chicken.
Gorg: white meat, comparable to terrestrial frog, often found fried, roasted, fricasseed, or dried. Hutts call them “chuba”, and “hotsa chuba”— fried chuba in hot sauce— is a common dish in Hutt space. Eating them alive is usually only for Hutts.
Gornt: white meat, comparable to terrestrial pork.
Groat: red meat, comparable to terrestrial goat.
Nerf: red meat, comparable to terrestrial beef.
Ladnek: comparable to terrestrial lobster.
Tortuce: comparable to terrestrial lobster.
Traladon: red meat, comparable to terrestrial beef.
Bantha steaks are often served with a gannesa juice glaze and kiwip grass garnish, while bantha kabobs are good with dioche sauce
Milks:
Blue milk: milk from the dairy bantha, and considered the baseline for milk in galactic culture.
Eopie milk: has more fat and protein than bantha milk; it’s easy to turn into yoghurt, tricky to convert to butter or cheese; the flavor is generally both sweet and sharp, but varies with the eopie’s diet.
Groat milk: very creamy, but often containing unpleasant surprises if the groats aren’t on a controlled diet— the milk produced by groats deployed to clear weeds is generally considered undrinkable.
Nerfmilk: sweeter than bantha milk.
Synthmilk: churned out by tailored bacteria that digest cellulose and crushed limestone and create something bearing a vague resemblance to real milk.
Traladon milk: a rich and flavorful milk; the cream is a superb complement to vine-coffee.
Cheeses:
Byss cheese: a cheese that forms with trapped bubbles inside, comparable to terrestrial Swiss cheese.
Neonan red cheese
Cantina Cuisine
Beer:
Agaric ale: a beer-like brew made from fermented mushrooms, only pleasing to Duros; other species find it musty and bitter.
Alderaanian ale: a full-bodied ale with complex fragrance, smooth and rich.
Algaebrew: cheap beer brewed from the output of algae vats.
Bavva Ale: a sour, musty brew made from fermented moss on Bavva; the flavor appeals to Nothoiins.
Bellorian Ale: A malty ale fermented on the Outer Rim in what will one day be known as the Elrood Sector.
Bendbelly Dark: A heavy, full-bodied beer brewed in the Core Worlds.
Boga noga: highly intoxicating Huttese ale. Humans who enjoy bitter beers can appreciate its virtues.
Chagarian ale (2): a cheap brew popular in dive bars.
Corellian ale (2): a sweet purple ale brewed from Corellian domesticated wheat, available in a spiced variety. Commonly available throughout the galaxy.
Dalkash ale: a flavorful export from Lianna.
Drale: a draught beer from Kodai.
Dressellian beer: a cheap, evil-smelling beer made on Dressel.
Duros Ale (2): a heady brew made from a native Duro recipe, with a pleasant aftertaste.
Ebla beer (2): a frothy lager brewed on Bonadan from ebla grain, best served chilled.
Forvish ale: an aromatic beer with a distinctive scent.
Fozbeer, aka fox beer: a malt liquor from the Outer Rim. mentioned GG9 p86
Fromish ale:
Fungus Ale (2): a Twi’lek beverage fermented from munch-fungus.
Gingenny Grog: a sweet lager, not really a grog at all.
Gizer ale: a blue ale fermented from ????, with a tasty pale variety. Many worlds brew their own blue ales.
Gravdinian ale: a sweet beer, but dangerous to the brewers; it gives off a strong vapor as it ferments, which can be lethal in high concentration. Named for its inventor, Jalkor Gravdinian, it is brewed in numerous locations around the galaxy.
Hapan ale: brewed in the Hapes cluster.
Harmon Kizzlebrew: a beer favored in the Mid Rim, and was an excellent accompaniment to steamed yazstrimskizzies.
Jawa beer (2), also known as Jawa juice, is a sour beverage made by Jawas from fermented grains stored in bantha hide. It picks up a fair amount of flavor from the leather, which makes it an acquired taste. Its primary virtue is that an evening of drinking it will cause the drinker to secrete the same sourness from their pores, masking their natural scent, so it is popular among hunters.
Kenley’s lager: a microbrew.
Kibshae brandale: this is to ale what sherry is to wine: a fortified beer instead of a fortified wine. It’s like a sweeter beer with a kick.
Lomin ale (2): the name given to the house lager in cantinas that brew their own ale from a recipes descended from one spread by the entrepreneur Kelan Lomin, who traveled the galaxy selling robotic fermentation vats in bygone generations. Some travelers make a point of testing the Lomin ale in every cantina they visit; discussing it is a common conversational gambit. It is usually both bitter and spicy, with a foamy green head.
Megavegiton Ale (2): an orange variety of ale.
Oshmahr: a Devaronian beer commonly served with the midday meal of the same name.
Osskum ale:
Phibian beer:
Polanis ale (2): potent stuff, best served tepid.
Potwa beer: a powerful brew prepared by Gamorrean females.
Rodian ale (2 3): a Rodian malt liquor; thick, green, pungent, and strong.
Rydan beer: brewed on Rydar II by the rodentlike Ranat.
Ryll beer: a lager made with a touch of ryll spice. mentioned GG9 p86
Shasa ale:
Spicebrew (2):
Tarisian ale: a highly alcoholic beverage brewed on the planet Taris. It requires enzymes from a particular gland from a tach, which they usually import from Kashyyyk now that all available land surface on Taris is covered in city. The tach enzymes increase the effective potency of the alcohol in the drinker’s system, causing it to pack a wallop more like distilled spirits
Tatooine Yagbitter: a dry, bitter ale produced on Tatooine.
Thurabaads ale: made in the city of Glastro on Bimmisaari.
Thuris Stout: brewed in Thuris Sector from a strain of grain common to the worlds there. mentioned GG9 p86
Tyrellian ale: an export from Tyrel, favored on Yelsain.
Tyrusian Red Ale: an evil-smelling red ale.
Utoz: a fermented malt liquor made from toz grain, primarily grown on Merisee. The locals in Elrood Sector enjoy it, though visitors find it a bit sour.
Venaarian Cringe-Ale: a bitter yellow beer brewed on Venaari.
Vinta Harvest Ale: brewed on Malastare by the Dugs.
Weg Brew: a flavorful dark beer popular in the Mid and Outer Rim territories. The recipe originally came from a single microbrewery, though they have had to drastically scale up production in order to meet offworld demand.
Wroonian ale: a malt liquor from Wroona with a smoky flavor.
Yatooni Boska: a Huttese beer, sweeter than boga noga, more like a wheat beer.
Zairana Ale: an expensive full-flavored ale with a subtle nutty overtone.
Wines
Alderaanian spiced wine (usually served steam-heated) is an excellent way to warm up on a cold night. (CatCW p42)
Algarine wine: A dry wine brewed on Algara II. Best served at 10° in a 4° glass. (The galaxy is obviously on the metric system, so the original “50 degrees in a 40 degree glass” just doesn’t make sense.)
Andoan Ale: A green, alcoholic beverage made from fermented kelp-fruit on Ando by the Aqualish. Somewhat minty-tasting.
Andoan Wine: This distinctive wine is produced on Ando, and is aged in heavy casks. Cuttlewine is one brand.
Bespin Port: a sweet port wine fermented from a mixture of Tatooinian fruits. mentioned GG9 p86
Blumfruit cooler is made from fermented blumfruit.
Bubblezap: a popular, low-budget sparkling wine.
Cambrian wine is not produced yet.
Celanon Semi-Dry (2): a wine from Celanon, on the Outer Rim.
Chimbak wine: an Alderaanian red.
Claing juice: a strong, red wine fermented from the berries of the thorny claing bush that grows on Nierport VII.
Coruscant blush wine: an incredibly expensive wine made from grapes grown in precious rooftop space on Coruscant.
Crème D’Infame: one of the best wines in the galaxy.
Deltron Spice Wine (2): a spicy wine whose final stage of fermentation is accomplished by microwaving it immediately before serving. It contains mildly addictive stimulants that counteract the depressant effect of the alcohol without improving the drinker’s coordination.
Derellium Wine: a Lianna vintage.
Drilbian Wine: A tasty fermentation, a well rounded vintage.
Doan wine
Gardulla: a fermented blend of fruit juices favored by the Hutts, much like an alcoholic fruit punch.
Garwillian champagne
Glastroan wine: made in the city of Glastro on Bimmisaari.
Gorimn wine: considered mild by its wookiee makers and rather potent for humans.
Green champagne: a green sparkling wine.
Mandalorian wine
Naiana: a Cearan wine.
Namana nectar (2) is a mildly addictive euphoric; a thick, pale orange, liqueur with a delicate, floral aroma.
Necr’ygor Omic wine (2): an expensive wine.
Nectarwine (2): fermented from fruit grown on the planet Nepoy. Also called Nepoy Juice.
Polanis wine: an expensive, full-bodied red.
Renan wine: an excellent wine from Rena, on Kodai. mentioned GG9 p86
Sand wine: made on Tatooine.
Tallian wine (2): from a line of grapes popular in the Core Worlds.
T’iil-T’iil (2): A sparkling Twi’lek wine notable for the triple carbonation and filtering process used in its creation.
Veronian berry wine (2): a sweet concoction of fermented berries that sits lightly on the tongue; usually served as a dessert wine.
Zeltronian Spiced Wine (2)
Meads
Arkanian sweet milk: a creamy, potent mead brewed on Arkania. TO DO: figure out where the near-human mad scientists who became the Arkanians are at this time in history. Dates in the back of the New Essential Guide to Alien Species don’t match those in Wookieepedia.
Blossom wine (2): a fermented mixture of honey and fruit juices made on Naboo. The delicate flavor masks the beverage’s potency.
Ottegan mead: a slightly-sweet malted mead brewed on Ithor. mentioned GG9 p86
Spore-mead: (2): made from fermented fungal spores on Ord Cestus.
Tatooni Junko: a mead made from fermented Tatooine cactus nectar.
Yeade: a Dathomir beverage, fairly rare outside the galaxy, but praised by rancor hunters who visit the planet to pick up beasts for the arena.
Exotics
Doesn’t fall into a particular category. Basically other fermented beverages
Altorian Milk-ale: A strange, khoomis-like beverage fermented on Altor 14.
Bantha-blood fizz (2): alcoholic drink made from clarified bantha blood, popular among carnivorous species.
Bloodsour: favored by Barabels.
Danaru: a potent and flavorful beverage from Parein II 4, made from sweetgreen fruit, terrberries, and spicy nuts, and fermented in the sweetgreen fruit shells. Highly refreshing going down, with an alcohol load that takes about half an hour to really hit.
Dentarian Ripple: a deceptively strong drink. GG9 p85
Ebranite Lu-ramin Oilmead: a beverage fermented from Lu-ramin.
Garrmorl: Another rough Wookie beverage made from dried bone and hide mixed with alcohol stock.
Gav: a Mon Calamari beverage.
Gralinyn juice (2): A fermented Wookiee beverage. Light by Wookiee standards, mild enough for humans to drink.
Gruvian tovash (2): a distilled spirit exported from Gruvia. It has the rather interesting property of forming flammable blue smoke when it comes into contact with ryll spice. Usually served over ice to bring out the flavor.
Jaar: a sweet drink fermented from vineberry fruit and alcoari milk, favored by Wookiees.
Juma juice
Juri juice has addictive properties disproportionate to its alcohol content.
L’lahsh (2): a blue-green distillate of mead. It is extremely expensive, the saffron of liquors.
Likstro
Liquid galaxies
Mandallian Narcolethe
Membrosia
Nikta (2 3): a strong, frothy beverage, comparable to terrestrial pulque, created by the Nikto.
Norvanian Grog (2): made on the island of N’van on Ban-Satir II. It is a distillate of a reed similar to sugarcane that grows in the shallows of the island; it contains enzymes that allow it to age in the bottle, and over centuries it can develop an exquisitely subtle flavor.
Orgone Bubbler: a sweet licorice-like beverage with a frothy, purple head, which enhances tactile sensations as it intoxicates; prized as an aphrodisiac among most humans and para-humans.
Orryxian Catsblood (2): a reddish brew of rum and meat broth made by Orryxians, often served with a whipped topping of Mince Creme. mentioned GG9 p86
Pludris (2): traditionally served chilled, but in a heated glass.
Randoni Yellow Plague
Renan Irongut GG9 p84
Retsa
Snillik: the Jägermeister of the Core Worlds.
Somnaskol Red
T’ssolok (2): T’ssolok is an intense Twi’lek liquor that is always served in a decorative decanter. While the standing flavor of T’ssolok is not particularily good, the aftertaste is delicious.
Urrqal
Vayerbok (2 3): a thick, green beer brewed from a mixture of vegetable greens and fungi. Its flavor is best appreciated at 18°C.
Vlizz-kick: a potent Quarren beverage made from Calamarian seaweed. Most species find it to be a mixture of sour and bitter that appeals only to determined drinkers.
Xinphar
Spirits
Abrax: a pale blue cognac.
Alderaan Ruge
Algae vodka: the white lightning of the lower levels of ecumenopoleis.
Antakarian Fire Dancer
Applejack: freeze distilled on cold worlds.
Bothan brandy
Breath of Heaven (2)
Cassandran brandy
Chadian rum: distilled from fermented sugar cane on the planet Chadra.
Chandrilan brandy: a pricey and delectable brandy; makes a good bribe.
Churban brandy: a delicious export from Churba.
Corellian brandy (2). Corellian double-brandy is distilled twice and packs a wallop.
Corvani rum:
Corellian whisky. The really good stuff is called Corellian Reserve, and the best is Whyren’s Reserve. GG9 p86
Cortyg (2: a potent and harsh distilled spirit created by wookiees.
Dodbri whisky: a double-distilled whisky with a very high alcohol content.
Dorian quill: a distilled spirit that benefits from cask aging.
Dornean brandy: a high-quality export from Dornea.
Doth brandy: an expensive aged spirit, an excellent match to tranna nougat.
Kareas brandy (2): dark and rich.
Dun Brandy: a favored Krish drink.
Ergesh rum: an expensive spirit fermented and distilled by the Ergesh, one of the rare sapient plant species.
Halmad Prime: an expensive grain alcohol exported from Halmad.
Ithorian Mist: a smooth whiskey made by Ithorians.
Jargridian brandy: cheap but effective.
Johrian whiskey (2): a blue-green alcoholic beverage.
KyLessian Fruit Distillate: a fine brandy popular on the Outer Rim, made on KyLessia. mentioned GG9 p86
Lum: a Corellian spirit distilled from fermented sugar cane. There’s a spiced variety as well. Spot-luma lum is made on Adarlon, named after a kind of flashlight. If you simply order lum, you’ll get a dilute form comparable to grog; you have to order it neat to get the pure stuff. GG9 p84
Luranian brandy (2): a high-quality distillate of fermented fruit.
Jet-juice: vacuum-distilled moonshine.
Mad Mrelf: a potent Corellian liquor popular with poor spacers.
Menkooro Whiskey (2): a bourbon whiskey, with a slightly spicy flavor.
Namana liquor: is a mildly addictive potent euphoric.
Nectarot: an inexpensive mead distillate.
Noonian Fixer: guaranteed to make you forget your troubles… you’ll be too busy remembering the hangover the next day.
Old Trusty: white lightning.
Quanya: a vacuum-distilled whiskey prepared on many space stations.
Renan Irongut: a cheap and nasty liquor from Rena, on Kodai.
Sacorrian grain whiskey: distilled on Sacorria.
Savareen brandy (2): GG9 p86
Shesharilian Vodka: distilled on the moons of Shesharile (2 3 4
Skannbult Likker (2: brewed on the planet Skann. GG9 p85
Sullustan gin (2): produced on Sullust, made by redistilling a concoction of neutral mushroom spirits with a particular breed of slime-mold. (Compare to mundane gin.)
Tatooquila: distilled fermented cactus juice from Tatooinean agave, a cactus pollinated by bats. (Borrowing from real agave.)
Thikkiian Brandy: brewed by wookiees from fruit that grows on a parasitic vine that climbs the wroshyr trees. Very potent.
Vasarian brandy (2): an expensive brandy made from fruit and berries grown on Talus.
Vaschean rye: a rye whiskey from Vasch.
Yardle: a strong minty spirit, cool as pepper vodka is hot. Makes the room feel ten degrees cooler; popular in desert bars.
Zadarian brandy: smooth.
Liqueurs
Cassandran Choholl: an expensive and delectable liqueur, running Average cost per bottle. GG9 p86
Durindfire (2): a phosphorescent liqueur.
Gralish liqueur: a blue-green liqueur.
Idlewil liquor: a rare and expensive beverage distilled by the Shashay.
Isothane: a potent spirit that is usually diluted with water and ice before serving.
Merenzane Gold (2): another expensive and delectable liqueur, subtle and sweet.
Randoni Yellow Plague: a potent liqueur developed on Randon, with many imitators throughout the galaxy. Best served chilled. Spice liquor: mentioned GG9 p86
Mixed Drinks
Afterburner: A potent drink indeed. Like the Flameout, this is served on fire.
Angerian Fishak Surprise: This mixed, alcoholic drink is a favorite at the Binary Bar on Venaari.
Bantha blaster: pink and green and fizzes all the way down.
Barium Frizz: leaves the mouth tingling.
Blue dwarf: an opaque blue-white mixture, served hot.
Cassandra Sunrise
Cometduster: a mixed drink served in a glass containing a small force field generator that leaks energy into the surface of the drink, effectively raising the vapor pressure and giving it more of an aromatic kick.
Coruscant Cooler: a mixture of wine and fruit juice favored in the middle tiers of Coruscant.
Dark Side Daiquiri: not invented yet.
Desert Bloom: a popular Tatooine thirst-quencher.
Deuterium-pyro (2): a potent beverage that is based on the equivalent of a pepper vodka. A favorite drink of ruffians, due to its terrible flavor and strong aftertaste. You have to be tough to put down a Deuterium-pyro.
Double-Dip Outer Rim Rumdrop:
Elshandruu Pica Thundercloud (2): a fancy mixed drink, made with all the pomp and circumstance of a Borneo Fogcutter. The chemical reactions taking place in the head the drink make it a roiling grey cloud that emits flashes of light. GG9 p84
Eyeblaster: a mixed, alcoholic drink. It could be served fizzed or atomized, although the fizzed version was considered a drink for occasional drinkers.
Fizzbrew: a carbonated alcoholic beverage.
Flameout (2): a powerful mixed drink that burns the tongue while at the same time freezes the throat.
Frosty Sulphate: a drink based on pepper vodkas, sold chilled enough to make it bearable to most species.
Ice Blaster: made from Sullustan gin and served at 0° C.
Meltdown (): similar to a Reactor Core, made from spice liquor and lum. GG9 p85
Mutant Zombie Cooler (2): a concoction of liquors of contrasting color, flavor, and viscosity. Etiquette demands that the drink be finished before it achieves a uniform color.
Pink Lizard Thunderbolt: a variant of the Elshandruu Pica Thundercloud, named for the reptilian bartender who invented it.
Polyquaternium-7: an alcoholic concoction used as a mixer with the eponymous multicarbonator, part of a marketing gimmick for creating a wide variety of mixed drinks.
Reactor Core: a cocktail of Spice Liquor and Blue Tonic. GG9 p85
Red Dwarf: a strong drink with a dark red color.
Rummy Tonic (2):
Remote Terminator
Rhuvian Fizz:
Rylothan yurp
Savareen Brandy Stinger:
Sith Scorcher: a flaming-rum drink.
Settov Hammer: a potent mixture of distilled spirits that will challenge your liver’s ability to prevent a hangover.
Starshine Surprise: powerful enough to leave a normal human reeling. GG9 p85
Stimufrost: a drink served chilled well below the freezing point of water, enough for a spill to cause freezer burn; it must be sipped carefully, and savored as the drink warms and releases a cascade of different aromatic compounds.
Talmog (2): half pepper vodka, half Lyme’s rose juice; aromatic and fiery. Tarkenian Nightflower: a dark purple drink mixing rum, mead, and fruit juices.
Tatooine Sunburn, aka the Tatooine Sunrise, consists of two Starshine Surprises in the same glass (like the two suns of Tatooine). GG9 p85 TrooperBreath: a chartreuse concoction.
Twistler, sometimes called a Corellian Twistler: a mixture of Corellian brandy and a tart fruit extract.
Vishay Water: a sweet, fizzy concoction.
Wookiee-wango: an astringent drink made primarily with Sullustan gin.
Zoochberry cream: zoochberry juice with nerf cream; fatty, delicious, and intoxicating.
Zoochberry juice: much like a screwdriver, but made with zoochi (the actual juice of a zoochberry) instead of orange juice.
Juices
Belaria Juice This fruit beverage is favored by the Iotran race.
Bribb juice
Friz: a sweet, carbonated fruit juice beverage, served frozen or iced.
Fruit fizz: a sweet, carbonated fruit juice beverage.
Ganno juice: black, syrupy juice from the fruit of the ganno cactus on Tatooine. Pleasing to Jawas, rather bitter to most species.
Jaffa cider: a fragrant nonalcoholic cider pressed from the Jaffa strain of gorapples.
Kothtri (2): a spiced fruit juice from Bothawui.
Muja juice: made from the berries of the muja tree.
Pawei juice: a tart drink pressed from pawei berries.
Ruby bliel (2): a tasty fruit drink, popular with the kids.
Coffees and Teas
Adira VineSpider Tea: Strange, almost mossy tea. Very narcotic hallucinogen, not for humans at all.
Caf (2) or Caffa: a popular coffeinated beverage, brewed from roasted caf beans that originated on Garqi; often adulterated with cream or sugar to offset the bitter taste. When processed with steam, it is called espcaf. Vine-coffee: a similar beverage to caf, but brewed from the roots of a vine native to Belsavis.
Chandrilan herb tea: a soothing tea, comparable to chamomile.
Gamorrean tisane: a sour tea brewed from flowers native to Gamorr.
Grub-tea (2): a bitter tea steeped from the dried shells of Geonosian insects.
Gwethh: an Ithorian spiced tea.
H’kak Bean Tea: a relaxing tea made from H’kak beans, which grow on Tatooine. It is known for its saturated orange color.
Jeru tea (2): syrupy and sweet, with a mild calming effect.
Kopi tea: a deep orange tea from the planet Frego.
Misti: a spicy beverage brewed like coffee.
Naris-bud tea: a mild stimulant.
Orotay: a bitter, sour stimulant beverage that is popular for keeping soldiers awake at a fraction of the cost of caf. Served hot, often with spices to counter the flavor.
Paricha (2): a spicy beverage brewed from paricha root.
Pepper tea: spicy and highly coffeinated.
Snig: made from the boiled root of the snigvine, served hot and bitter or iced with sugar.
Spiced Tea (2):
Stim tea: another coffeine delivery system.
Stimcaf: a synthesized coffee equivalent, beloved of late-night workers and despised by caf aficionados.
T’iil tea: brewed from the leaves of the T’ill plant, native to Alderaan.
Tanque tea: a Corellian beverage.
Tarine tea: a ceremonial drink brewed on Kuan.
Wake-tea (2): a coffeine delivery system native to Ord Cestus.
Other Non-Alcoholic
Aitha protein drink (2): a hot protein drink favored by athletes and spacers.
Anoat Malted: This is a rich, sweet beverage has a deep, smoky flavor.
Aquilie water
Blue Tonic: a form of tonic water with a spearmint-and-menthol taste.
Charde (2): a refreshing beverage comparable to lemonade, best served cold.
Chav: a mildly euphoric beverage, served hot, popular on Beheboth, sometimes used in sauces.
Corellian noale is a refreshing drink.
Ebla Water (2): a beverage created from ebla grain, comparable to barley water. (“Elba” is a misspelling.)
Endrolian Ground-apple Juice: a sweet fruit juice that ferments into an excellent cider. GG9 p86
Fizz-pop: a sweet carbonated drink.
Fizzy-Bip: a carbonated soft drink, a competitor to Fizz-pop.
Fizzyglug (2): a dark, carbonated cola-flavored beverage.
Hot chocolate
Howdunga™: a competitor to Fizzyglug in the cola market.
Ksaa: a red Ssi-ruuvi drink.
Leena: a cinnamon-and-orange flavored drink.
Mistwater
Phizz (2): a soft drink.
Ragnook spring water: a luxury beverage from springs in the Ragnook Mountains on Kothlis.
Rush: a carbonated beverage containing a cocktail of stimulants that can keep a human awake for a couple of days.
Silika water: a mineral water that is intoxicating to Silika. Single-celery soda
Skoa (2): a refreshing beverage, best served cold.
Turbofizz: an alternative coffeine delivery system that comes with glucose, carbonated water, fruit flavorings, and essential nutrients for people on the go.
Vitawater: distilled water with vitamins. Sold by the bottle and consumed by busy office workers.
Yartigan Well Water: a popular sparkling mineral water.
Snacks
Chandad: a pastry filled with rice and fruit, popular as a snack food.
Cracknut: a salty nut that is often placed in dishes on bars.
Crispic (2): a fried snack often served in cantinas; somewhat like a spicy wonton.
Doughtnuts: toroidal fried bread with frosting.
Loop pastry
Nut-beetles are fed into torpidity with meal that enhances their flavor; they taste good to Humans, though cracking open live beetles for the meat inside takes some getting used to.
Desserts
Air cake (2): a Corellian dessert.
Almond-kwevvu Crisp-munchy (2): pastries.
Barnaban Mist-pudding
Banja cake: a confection served as finger food. Blumfruit muffins are a tasty breakfast treat.
Canron: a jellied sweet, worth smuggling.
Caramelized Pkneb: a sweet meat rolled in crushed bone and caramelized. Popular with carnivorous species.
Citros snow cake
Custard
Deneelian fizz-pudding (2): a pudding treat that crackles and pops as you eat it.
Dew cake
Dricklefruit pie
Gelmeat: a meat-flavored jello popular with carnivorous creatures.
Glazed glucose pâté: a pâté of sugar crystals in a sticky syrup.
Gorrnar: A frozen dessert favored by Wookiees, who make it during the snowbound Kashyyyk winters; there are a number of variants around berries inside pastry.
Herglic algae ice cream; a creation of the Herglic
Kiwik clusjo swirl: a creamed mixture of fruits.
Parwan nutricake: an attempt at creating a nutritional supplement turned out unexpectedly delicious and became a popular dessert.
Para-roll: a pastry.
Pikata pie: a rich, thick pie.
Pyollian cake (2): Extra sweet gooey cake made with carbosyrup.
Hello!!! First off you should check out my resource tag, it’s got some decent stuff in it.
Second, introduce yourself to the tarot community! We’re all super nice and love helping newbies join our cult family 🙂 I’m paging tarot-sybarite, innerselfnotes, and arcanemysteries who all have excellent resources for newbies.
*CRASHES THROUGH WALL* Did someone say they needed to beginner info to learn tarot?!
A while back I went online to gather the best—IMHO—free resources I could about tarot for use by them as wants to learn. Below are the fruits of my labor.
Book T, by MacGregor Mathers Intro the the Golden Dawn system of tarot interpretation. Very dense reading, not keyed to the Rider-Waite-Smith deck, and not for beginners
Tarot of the Bohemians, by Papus. References the Tarot de Marseilles and the Oswald-Wirth Tarot.
Color-Your-Own Rider-Waite-Smith Deck via tarotinstitute.com. Coloring your own deck is a simple and effective way to fix the image in your mind and internalize its many meanings.
The Tarot de Marseilles is one of the oldest known tarot decks, and is the basis for the Rider-Waite-Smith deck. Click here to download a full-color Marseille Tarot Deck
Once you’ve decided which deck(s) you want to print, save the printable tarot cards to your computer. Avoid printing directly from the browser as you might end up with some weird and unwanted results (trust me on this).
Print out the tarot cards on your chosen paper. Make sure that you print them in the standard tarot deck size. If you’re not sure that the size is right, do a test print of one card so you don’t destroy the entire paper. If you printed the images on regular paper and want a good backing, then you need to use spray adhesive to glue the paper to the actual cards.
Carefully trim the edges of the cards – some people like rounded edges, so make sure you have enough place for the borders.
Once the cards are printed, let them dry and then seal them with a varnish spray. After that, run them through a laminator. These days laminators are pretty affordable, and if you find yourself creating lots of tarot decks, you might want to invest in one. You can also take the files to office supply stores (such as Office Depot in the USA) for printing and laminating.
The following is NOT free, and some of the information on the Internet is dated, but the bulk of information contained within is outstanding: Christine Jette’s book Professional Tarot. Highly, highly recommended.
Organizations That Support/Promote Tarot
Tarosophy Tarot Association – “We teach methods of Tarot to divine your life, and make your way better through it – understanding more along the way.” This organization runs TaroCon US, TarotCon Australia, and TarotCon UK.
American Tarot Association – “The American Tarot Association is a professional and social organization for Tarot enthusiasts, students, scholars, and readers. We promote the study and appreciation of Tarot by supporting a variety of educational programs.”
Tarot Association of the British Isles – “TABI is a not-for-profit association run by unpaid volunteers with a passion for Tarot and the esoteric. We were formed in 2001 to provide support, information and resources for Tarot enthusiasts of all levels.”
Tarot Guild of Australia – “The TGA represents a community of Tarot enthusiasts, readers and teachers from across Australia and worldwide.”
Tarot Publishers
Tarot Media Company – “…our goal [is] promoting the work of Tarot authors, artists, and scholars to make their creations available to the Tarot public and to support them in their goal of right livelihood.”
US Games Systems – Publisher of classic and contemporary tarot decks, Rider-Waite, Crowley Thoth, divination and oracle decks
Lo Scarabeo – Born in 1987 in Torino, Italy, Lo Scarabeo is now a leading international company in the mind, body and spiritual health publishing, with a main focus in Tarot publishing. Lo Scarabeo is one of the most important Tarot publishers in the world.
The Game Crafter – “the world’s first web-to-print game publishing company and offers a print on demand game publishing service…The Game Crafter gives designers an easy-to-use system to make a board game, card game, or custom playing cards. TGC offers templates, instructions, videos, and proofing tools to help designers create a quality product”.
If you’re browsing decks on AeclecticTarot, you can usually click a link on the deck’s page and be taken to a web site to order. Those affiliate links usually help the site, too.
History of Women’s Tarot – Tarot as a keystone of the Women’s Spirituality movement branches off in a different direction from the mainstream in the mid-1970’s.
Make sure you do some reading about Pamela Colman Smith. Smith is the artist who designed the artwork for the Rider-Waite-Smith deck (the world’s most popular tarot deck, and the one most people think of when they hear the word “tarot”) in 1909.
Smith’s creation of individual scenes on the cards of the minor arcana was a huge leap forward in tarot deck design, and contributed mightily to the enduring popularity of the RWS deck.
One thing to keep in mind about Pamela Colman Smith is that she made a deliberate decision to reduce or eliminate the Christian imagery found in the early tarot decks. For example….
The Hanged Man image comes from the medieval Italian practice of hanging traitors upside down (Fun Fact: at the end of WWII, Mussolini was hanged upside down to mark him as a traitor; and please be warned that link is GRAPHIC and TOTALLY NSFW). That practice was inspired by the death of Judas Iscariot in the Bible, where Iscariot is described as falling “headlong” (Acts 1:18). In the earliest tarocchi decks, the Hanged Man is depicted with bags of money, or with coins falling out of his pocket, a reference to the infamous thirty pieces of silver Iscariot was paid for betraying Jesus Christ.
The World card can be seen in many churches and ancient Christian manuscripts, usually showing Christ ascending into heaven surrounded by symbols of the Four Evangelists.
Smith’s High Priestess replaced La Papessa (the Papess, a female ‘Pope’ figure) in the deck. Lots of folks assumed that this image was inspired by the legend of Pope Joan, but evidence suggests that the image is a female allegorical figure for the Roman Catholic Church (which claims the title ‘The Bride of Christ’)
General Cartomancy
Origins of Playing Card Divination – Mary K. Greer’s Tarot Blog. An illustrated presentation of theories and research on the origin of playing cards.
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