Larry Hodges

Third Flatiron's speculative fiction anthology, "Monstrosities," contains 20 stories about things that are dauntingly large or outrageous. A flash humor section, "Grins and Gurgles," is also featured. An international group of new and established contributors to "Monstrosities" makes this an original and varied collection that is sure to please fans of science fiction/fantasy, humor, and horror. Writers include Keyan Bowes, Larry Hodges, Carl R. Jennings, Mark Pantoja, Ray Daley, Brian Trent, James Dorr, Liam Hogan, Salinda Tyson, Jennifer R. Povey, Ville Merilainen, Sita C. Romero, Martin M. Clark, Sharon Diane King, Julia August, Robert Bagnall, Barry Charman, Russell Hemmell, and Joseph Sidari. With a special reprint from Edward Bryant. Edited by Juliana Rew.

Can Captain Exasperation Woman Save the Planet from Complete Exasperation? Captain Exasperation Woman, the world's greatest superhero, has the power to exasperate anyone and anything into utter perplexity by simply telling the truth. Fences, helicopters, secret service agents, and many others will face her wrath. When she goes up against the mighty T-Rump known as President Trump, she will confront him with his countless lies, scams, business and moral failings, and the utter ineptitude of his presidency. But she will find her powers are useless against one who is not fettered by truth or conscience. She must bring out her full bag of tricks, from the Spirits of Presidents Past, Present, and Future, to the Devil himself. Ultimately, she may need assistance from the Exasperation of the Galaxy itself to solve this problem

Here are 150 Tips to help your table tennis game, by Larry Hodges - a member of the U.S. Table Tennis Hall of Fame and a National Coach.They compile in logical progression three years' worth of Tips of the Week (2014-2016) from TableTennisCoaching.com. They cover all aspects of the game: Serve, Receive, the Strokes, Grip and Stance, Footwork, Tactics, How to Improve, Sports Psychology, Equipment, and Tournaments. (This is a sequel to "Table Tennis Tips," which covered the 150 Tips from 2011-2013.)

Here are 25 stories from the feverish mind of Larry Hodges. God cheats to save Earth from a bad critique and annihilation in a planetary workshop...An English professor and a supercomputer battles a muse who turns all writing into masterpieces...A dead kid joins the high school track team and battles his killer and the Mile Mafia...A wizard and a warrior battle in the belly of a dragon...William Shakespeare has ten trillion typing chimpanzees in his basement...A city of lost souls lives in the backbone of the Devil...An underground society battles to hide their secret - their emotions weren't surgically removed at age 13...A man becomes a universe and battles his vengeful tendencies...A 4-D artists messes with a 3-D fly and ends up at war...The first ten U.S. presidents battle each other and alien vacationers in an alien computer...The U.S. president gets sucked into the Galaxy Girding Grid...A huge dragon swoops out of the sky and lands on the U.S. Capitol - what's the president to do?...and many more

Andy "Shoes" Blue wants to be a table tennis champion, but he's just another wannabe American. And so he goes to China to learn the secrets of table tennis. He is trained by the mysterious Coach Wang, and begins an odyssey where he learns the secrets of table tennis from the spirits of Japan's Ichiro Ogimura (who helped spawn China's greatness), Rong Guotuan (China's first world champion in 1959, whose tragic story Andy must relive), and others, and must face the mysterious "Dragon." Can he overcome treachery and learn the final secret of table tennis in time to defeat his ultimate nemesis?

Apprenez le tennis de table avec Larry Hodges, entra neur national et membre du Temple de la Renomm e am ricain. Ce livre revient sur les tactiques mettre en place face diff rents styles de jeu ou rev tements et incite galement le lecteur mener une r flexion tactique et strat gique. Comme le rappelle d'embl e cet ouvrage, " laborer une tactique, c'est passer au crible des millions de tactiques envisageables et n'en retenir que quelques-unes susceptibles de convenir". Ce livre explore ensuite le cheminement tactique et strat gique qu'il est n cessaire de mener pour d velopper les "armes tactiques" pour faire face tous types de situations.

Here are 150 Tips to help your table tennis game, by Larry Hodges - a member of the U.S. Table Tennis Hall of Fame and a National Coach.They compile in logical progression three years' worth of Tips of the Week from TableTennisCoaching.com. They cover all aspects of the game: Serve, Receive, the Strokes, Grip and Stance, Footwork, Tactics, How to Improve, Sports Psychology, Equipment, and Tournaments.

Table Tennis Tales & Techniques contains the best published work of USATT Hall of Famer Larry Hodges. This well-known author, coach, editor, promoter, and club, tournament, and league director has penned some of the best table tennis writings you will find. Much of the book contains excellent table tennis instruction including, but not limited to: Serving, Receiving, Rallying, Footwork, Tactics, How to Improve, Miscellaneous Coaching, and Hardbat. This volume goes into much greater depth than Larry Hodges' earlier book published by Human Kinetics, and offers more than other table tennis instructional books. That in itself is a reason to read this book. But also compiled here are Larry's most humorous and insightful writings about table tennnis, such as his essays "How Marty Reisman Ruined My Life", and "Death of a Backhand". There are table tennis movie reviews, an article on the Secrets of Chinese Table Tennis, an article about table tennis exhibition tricks, and so much more. This book is delightful reading for anybody with a brain who likes table tennis.

To read the first six chapters FREE go to www.SorcerersInSpace.com.It is 1969, at the height of tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Neil, 13, badly wants to be someone. Instead he's stuck as a sorcerer's apprentice for Gus, the "meanest sorcerer in the world." Gus creates a magical talisman to spy on the Soviets, but instead it spies on them and sends text into space. A Giant Face in the Sky shows up, reading the text.Since whoever gets to the Face first can lob down spells and have the world at their mercy, the Race to the Face begins. The Soviets invade the U.S. in their attempts to kill Neil, who is prophesied to defeat them. A floating, talking meteor assassin named Buzz becomes Neil's constant companion--but in one week, Buzz must kill Neil.President Kennedy puts together a motley crew that includes Neil, Gus, Buzz, a dragon, the god Apollo, a 2-D sorcerer, and the sorceress Jackie Kennedy. Can they make it to the Face before the Soviets? And before Buzz kills Neil?