![]() ![]() Since they are really one long story with no gaps in between, I am reviewing them as a group. Hamilton's Void Trilogy consists of (obvi) three separate books. Know any others? Message #scifi and let your friendly mods know! Imaginary Mindscapes - The Art of Imagination.The Orville (Star Trek Comparisons NOT allowed).The Orville (Star Trek Comparisons allowed).Ghost in the Shell and Ghost_in_the_Shell.Previously interviewed authors in the Ask an SF Author series: To write spoilers in comments, use the following method: (/s "Darth Vader is Yoda's father")Īward Winning SF author Nancy Kress answers questions from the Reddit Scifi Community If you see a title with a spoiler in it, downvote it as hard as you can and then message the moderators. PLEASE DO NOT POST SPOILERS IN YOUR SUBMISSION TITLE. New Rule: This rule was stupid and it's gone.Science Fiction, or Speculative Fiction if you prefer. ![]()
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![]() ![]() As he acknowledges in the book’s preface, all definitive statements about Jesus are subjective and based on faith-on religious faith about the nature of the universe, or on intellectual faith in one’s interpretation of a largely undocumented history. In Aslan’s view, the facts of Jesus of Nazareth’s biography should inform any belief system that calls itself Christian-though he acknowledges the impossibility of piecing together a full or conclusive historical record. In Aslan’s telling, Jesus was a political revolutionary who fought for social justice, championed the downtrodden, and sought actively to disrupt Rome’s dominion and bring forth a new worldview. ![]() In Zealot, Aslan aligns himself with the scholars-Christian and otherwise-who argue for a clear distinction between Jesus Christ, leading man of the four Christian Gospels, and Jesus of Nazareth, the Jewish peasant and itinerant leader who was crucified for insurrection in the First Century. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was about scientists discovering a way to artificially bring dinosaurs back to life using DNA discovered in amber. When I was in college in the early 1990s a paleontology professor in a class I was taking told us about a new book to be published by the author Michael Crichton. And it turns out that tech-savvy millennials, aging hippies, and New-Age devotees are on the Bigfoot menu. What they hadn’t planned on was the catastrophic eruption of Mount Rainier AND the subsequent descent of the local Sasquatch population in search of food. ![]() Set in today’s Pacific Northwest, the story follows a small group of tech-savvy millennials, aging hippies, New-Age devotees, and a war-hardened senior citizen who build a utopian Back-to-Earth settlement deep in the nearly unpassable forests of Washington State. ![]() When I delve into fiction, it’s usually very dark, hard-boiled crime novels or equally dark and existential 1000-page Russian tomes from 150 years ago.īut when I heard the premise of Brooks’ newest novel, I could not resist. I typically read non-fiction – history, philosophy, and true-life disaster accounts. I’ll admit right up front, Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre by Max Brooks, the author of the wildly successful novel and film World War Z, is not my kind of book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sand, who wrote fast and rather improvisationally herself, was also an inspiration to write scholarship fast and for pleasure, outside of the incentive structures of the tenure track. Stalking Jack the Ripper (Stalking Jack the Ripper 1) by Kerri Maniscalco. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. Reading Sand's novels, about an improvvisatrice's romantic and political adventures, had the strange effect of bringing me back to American literature, as I found traces of the novels', and Sand's, effects everywhere in the nineteenth-century US writers I'd been reading. Consuelo George Sand - Customize your reading environment. Among these were George Sand's novels Consuelo and The Countess von Rudolstadt. I'd set aside many books and essays while writing the dissertation. I had time in my hands, because - thanks to COVID - there were no jobs available. The story is significant to womens issues and concerns because it. ![]() Author(s): Gerard Holmes (see profile) Date: 2022 Subject(s): Improvisation (Music), Composition (Music), American literature, Nineteenth century, French literature, Academic writing Item Type: Essay Tag(s): covid-19, Compositional improvisation, 19th-century American literature, 19th-century French literature, Precarity Permanent URL: Abstract: In spring 2020, I finished my dissertation, on nineteenth-century American literature and improvisation, and decided to read for pleasure for a while. It reflects George Sands own love of freedom and adventure, as well as her love of music. ![]() ![]() What follows is a surprising and unforgettable odyssey that takes Arthur from London to Paris and as far as India in an epic quest to find out the truth about his wife's secret life before they met-a journey that leads him to find hope, healing and self-discovery in the most unexpected places.įeaturing an unforgettable cast of characters with big hearts and irresistible flaws, The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper is a joyous celebration of life's infinite possibilities. ![]() Sorting through Miriam's possessions, Arthur finds an exquisite gold charm bracelet he's never seen before. He dresses in the same gray slacks and mustard sweater vest, waters his fern, Frederica, and heads out to his garden.īut on the one-year anniversary of Miriam's death, something changes He gets out of bed at precisely 7:30 a.m., just as he did when his wife, Miriam, was alive. Check out these other heartwarming stories from Phaedra Patrick. ![]() Sixty-nine-year-old Arthur Pepper lives a simple life. Featuring an unforgettable cast of characters with big hearts and irresistible flaws, The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper is a joyous reminder of lifes infinite possibilities. ![]() In this poignant and curiously charming debut, a lovable widower embarks on a life-changing adventure. ![]() ![]() ![]() Burgess" reading Sonnet 147, in which Shakespeare describes his love for his mistress as a fever. Burgess" is delivering his final lecture on the life of Shakespeare before returning to the United Kingdom, while progressively becoming more drunk on rice wine and gradually less inhibited as the lecture progresses. ![]() ![]() : 1–2 Synopsis Īs Burgess reminds readers in his foreword, the novel has a frame story in which a professor of a Malaysian college named "Mr. The title refers to the first line of Sonnet 130, "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun", in which Shakespeare describes his love for a dark-haired woman.īurgess recounted in his Foreword added to later editions that the novel was a project of his for many years, but the process of writing accelerated so that publishing would coincide with the quatercentenary of Shakespeare's birth, on 23 April 1964. It tells the story of Shakespeare's life with a mixture of fact and fiction, the latter including an affair with a black prostitute named Fatimah, who inspires the Dark Lady of the Sonnets. Nothing Like the Sun is a fictional biography of William Shakespeare by Anthony Burgess first published in 1964. ![]() ![]() ![]() Present, too, was the tumultuous aftermath of the xenophobia- and misogyny-rich American presidential election, kept as much top-of-mind as a girl’s personal milestone by the coming inauguration, two days hence, of Donald Trump. ![]() Present were her younger brother her paternal grandparents, Trinidadian immigrants to Canada her white mother, a prominent academic voice in the evolving reconciliation of Canada and its Indigenous peoples and her Toronto-born father, who had won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for his novel Brother two months earlier. ![]() In January 2017, the daughter and eldest child of David Chariandy and Sophie McCall celebrated her 13th birthday in Vancouver. ![]() ![]() In Daughter of the Siren Queen, Tricia Levenseller brings together the perfect mix of thrilling action, tense battle scenes, and a heart-pounding romance. after all, she is the daughter of the Siren Queen. Praise for Daughter of the Siren Queen: 'Deadly sirens join the ranks of strong, smart females in this book, giving it a definite feminist edge.' Booklist. Despite the danger, Alosa knows they will recover the treasure first. In Daughter of the Siren Queen, Tricia Levenseller brings together the perfect mix of thrilling action, tense battle scenes, and a heart-pounding romance. When Vordan exposes a secret her father has kept for years, Alosa and her crew find themselves in a deadly race with the feared Pirate King. And she takes great comfort in knowing that the villainous Vordan will soon be facing her father's justice. Still unfairly attractive and unexpectedly loyal, first mate Riden is a constant distraction, but now he's under her orders. Not only has she recovered all three pieces of the map to a legendary hidden treasure, but the pirates who originally took her captive are now prisoners on her ship. ![]() ![]() The capable, confident, and occasionally ruthless heroine of Daughter of the Pirate King is back in this action-packed sequel that promises rousing high seas adventures and the perfect dash of magic.Īlosa's mission is finally complete. ![]() ![]() ![]() This time around, she’ll be the one in the driver’s seat…and she plans on driving him wild. He wants her back? He’ll have to work for it. If Logan expects her to roll over and beg like all his other puck bunnies, he can think again. She’s not a charity case, and she’s not the quiet butterfly she was when they first hooked up. A sexy encounter with freshman Grace Ivers is just the distraction he needs, but when a thoughtless mistake pushes her away, Logan plans to spend his final year proving to her that he’s worth a second chance.Īfter a less than stellar freshman year, Grace is back at Briar University, older, wiser, and so over the arrogant hockey player she nearly handed her V-card to. For this hockey star, life is a parade of parties and hook-ups, but behind his killer grins and easygoing charm, he hides growing despair about the dead-end road he’ll be forced to walk after graduation. Synopsis: He’s a player in more ways than one…Ĭollege junior John Logan can get any girl he wants. ![]() ![]() ![]() The net effect of these three decades, according to Johnson, has been salutary. With the 1980s, he says, came ``the Decade of Realism,'' during which Margaret Thatcher's government in Britain and Ronald Reagan's administration in the United States encouraged a return to ``old-fashioned virtues.'' ![]() ``Then in the 1970s came the Decade of Disillusionment,'' he continues, marked by the end of the postwar economic boom, the energy crisis, and the ``particular crisis of government and confidence in the United States'' known as Watergate. The demographic trend, says Johnson, will bring into positions of authority a group of leaders for whom the lessons of the recent past will be no more than ``ancient history.'' These lessons, he explains, arise from a study of the past three decades.įirst came what he calls an earlier ``Decade of Illusions'' in the 1960s, when Western nations imagined that they could ``increase state spending, welfare spending, defense spending, all kinds of investment, and at the same time increase personal spending almost indefinitely - with full employment, too.'' Johnson noted that two trends now in the making will by then have peaked. `IT wouldn't at all surprise me,'' warns author and columnist Paul Johnson, ``if the first decade, or at any rate the second decade, of the 21st century is a decade of illusions - grand expectations, all kinds of rosy dreams.'' The reason? Settling into an easy chair in his third-floor London pied-`a-terre, Mr. ![]() |