5/21/2023 0 Comments Vacuum Flowers by Michael Swanwick![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Personas (or personae) are wetware programmes with which users can augment, supplement or overlay their personality. In ‘Vacuum Flowers’ – the title refers both to the genetically engineered blue flowers which grow in vacuum on the surface of asteroids and to the many societies which have flowered in various exotic habitats within the Solar System – the element sought is the persona of Rebel Elizabeth Mudlark. The basic pursuit scenario is either that the protagonist is in search of something or someone, the discovery of which is of vital importance to the outcome of the story, or else the protagonist is the pursued and his or her capture, or that of whatever he or she possesses, is of vital importance. If she survives.’īlurb from the 1989 Legend paperback edition. So she does what anybody sane would do – she escapes.Īnd in the sprawling, mad civilisations of the future, she’s in for a very interesting time indeed. If she stays in the Medical Centre, she has No Future. The body she awakes in isn’t her own: her mind is unique the agency owning her is deadly. ‘Rebel Elizabeth Mudlark is hot property. ![]()
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5/21/2023 0 Comments We are eight years in power![]() ![]() In this sweeping collection of new and selected essays, Ta-Nehisi Coates explores the tragic echoes of that history in our own time: the unprecedented election of a black president followed by a vicious backlash that fueled the election of the man Coates argues is America's "first white president." But the story of these present-day eight years is not just about presidential politics. ![]() ![]() New York Times Bestseller * Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times * USA Today * Time * Los Angeles Times * San Francisco Chronicle * Essence * O: The Oprah Magazine * The Week * Kirkus Reviews * Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "We were eight years in power" was the lament of Reconstruction-era black politicians as the American experiment in multiracial democracy ended with the return of white supremacist rule in the South. In this "urgently relevant"* collection featuring the landmark essay "The Case for Reparations," the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me "reflects on race, Barack Obama's presidency and its jarring aftermath"*-including the election of Donald Trump. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Fever mary beth keane review![]() ![]() On the one hand, how understandable at a time when worker’s rights were nearly completely absent and to be both a woman and Irish in America was not a good combination. These sentences were spoken with a combination of fear and awe. But some people (mainly other children) told tales of her purposefully infecting those she served. ![]() I grew up hearing the cautionary tale of Typhoid Mary, who was mostly mentioned within hearing range in combination with an admonition to wash your hands. Until she’s released and begins cooking again. Captured and held against her will on North Brother Island, it’s easy to empathize with her plight. This was the early ages of germ theory, and most didn’t realize you could pass on an illness without any symptoms. What many don’t know is that she was an asymptomatic carrier. Have you ever heard of Typhoid Mary? The Irish-American cook in the early 1900s who was lambasted for spreading typhoid through her cooking. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘Lost in the vastness of the sky, I have only myself to confront.’Ī fascinating play about the enigmatic 1930’s aviator Amelia Earhart. ![]() ‘A moving and delicately crafted piece on the part of the actor, the writer and director Claire Parker… features a beautifully nuanced performance from Edie Campbell.’ 2nd from bottom ‘Apples in Winter is really, really good, with an immensely powerful one-woman performance from Edie Campbell that will leave you feeling shaken and devastated and furious. Directed brilliantly by Claire Parker…with Elisabeth Tooms’ lighting and Andrew Hodson’s bleak set design really enhancing the emotional impact.’ The Family Stage ‘beautifully written… Campbell gives an astonishing performance. The play offers a cathartic journey into the heart of barely resolvable questions about justice, forgiveness and love. As Miriam shows us how to make the perfect pie, we watch her grapple to understand what happened to her son - and how that night 22 years ago changed everything. In a prison kitchen a mother is baking an apple pie: her death-row son’s last request. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Redeeming love author![]() ![]() It’s about the Prophet Josiah, whom God says should marry a prostitute. Redeeming Love is based on the Book of Hosea, and it’s a book from the Bible. If you are a Christian fiction reader, you will like this 10 Christian romance books review. ![]() They’re a woman’s projection of what she wants a man to do, and that’s very different than a real man. The guys in these novels are not actual men. The women authors are writing the men processing things in the books as women would because the author is a woman, which makes sense.īut the problem is that we then think men in our lives need to live up to these guys’ standards in these novels. ![]() Women write Christian romance books for women, and we cannot hold men in our lives up to men’s standards in these books. But you’ll never inappropriately find them, so people don’t get offended. They talk about guys, muscles, and things all the time. That’s not true! They don’t talk about the features of a girl. ![]() The authors want to make sure they never talk about the typical things you notice when attracted to someone of the opposite gender. That doesn’t make any sense because modesty was so different now. It’s not uncommon that the author will point out obscure things to be alluring. Christian romance is not sexual because ninety-five percent of the books in this genre are set between the 1750s-1920s. ![]() 5/21/2023 0 Comments Paul dini batman omnibus![]() ![]() (He also took zoology classes at Harvard University.)ĭuring college, he began doing freelance animation scripts for Filmation, and a number of other studios. He attended Emerson College in Boston, where he earned a BFA degree in creative writing. He attended the Stevenson School in Pebble Beach, California on an art scholarship. ![]() ![]() In early 2004, Dini went on to write and story edit the popular ABC adventure series Lost. He also developed and scripted Krypto the Superdog and contributed scripts to Animaniacs (he created Minerva Mink), Freakazoid, Justice League and Justice League Unlimited. He is best known as a producer and writer for several Warner Bros./DC Comics series, including Star Wars: Ewoks, Tiny Toon Adventures, Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series, The New Batman/Superman Adventures, Batman Beyond and Duck Dodgers. Paul Dini is an American television producer of animated cartoons. ![]() ![]() ![]() His innovative management style, success, and innate sense of fair play inspire intense loyalty. ![]() Relating to the Internet as if it’s an extension of his own mind, he discovers that he has a talent for conceiving innovative enterprises and building teams that can develop them, becoming “a Pied Piper” of geeks. As a young man, despite suffering from what would eventually be diagnosed as bipolar disorder, he begins his pilgrim’s journey through the ups and downs in the brave new world of computers. Growing up in working-class Boston, English discovers a medium for his talents the first time he sees a computer. Tracy Kidder, the “master of the nonfiction narrative” ( The Baltimore Sun) and author of the bestselling classic The Soul of a New Machine, now tells the story of Paul English, a kinetic and unconventional inventor and entrepreneur, who as a boy rebelled against authority. “A perfectly executed, exquisitely reported parable of the Internet age and the wild, mad adventure that is start-up culture.”-Charles Duhiggįortune, mania, genius, philanthropy-the bestselling author of Mountains Beyond Mountains gives us the inspiring story of Paul English, the founder of Kayak and Lola. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments The witches graphic novel![]() ![]() ![]() Witches are real, and they are very, very dangerous. Roald Dahl's darkly funny masterpiece, The Witches, now available as a graphic novel from Eisner Award-winning artist Pénélope Bagieu! Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J. 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Some of my favourite comic book stories are multiverse stories, and I think the Jonathan Hickman remake of Secret Wars with a patchwork planet from different realities was genius. You can have any story you like, as long as it's Batman. You like Batman? Well here's a Batman in feudal Japan, or one where he's really the Joker, or one where he's Jack The Ripper. And the appeal of the multiverse is strong, it takes something you like and regurgitates it in hundreds of different ways. ![]() What began as a fun "What If" became comic book publishing lines, before spilling over into the superhero TV cartoons, shows and movies, and where Crisis On Infinite Earths, Doctor Strange and Spider-Verse treads, Everything Everywhere All At Once follows and mops up the Oscars. Everything is multiverse now, and that's a problem. ![]() 5/20/2023 0 Comments Eric stanley captive genders![]() ![]() ![]() Drawing on an archive of suicide notes, AIDS activist histories, surveillance tapes, and prison interviews, they offer a theory of anti-trans/queer violence in which inclusion and recognition are forms of harm rather than remedies to it. Rather than suggesting that such violence is evidence of individual phobias, Stanley shows how it is a structuring antagonism in our social world. Stanley shows how this seeming contradiction reveals the central role of racialized and gendered violence in the United States. ![]() In Atmospheres of Violence, theorist and organizer Eric A. “Advances in LGBTQ rights in the recent past-marriage equality, the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, and the expansion of hate crimes legislation-have been accompanied by a rise in attacks against trans, queer and/or gender-nonconforming people of color. Please join us for Eric Stanley’s talk about his recent book, Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable (Duke UP, 2021). ![]() |