Resurrection dreams richard laymon5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() In my teens, in addition to being a rabid comic reader, I was also a fanatical video hirer… so much so that my local video shop ended up HIRING me!! The movies that I loved the most were the slasher films, and whilst discussing this with a man at a local second hand book shop, he told me if I liked ‘those’ sorts of films, I’d love the books of Richard Laymon, and he sold me a $1.50 of a book called ‘Beware!!’ and I was immediately hooked. … until I discovered a gentleman by the name of Richard Laymon. Sure as a younger kid I had read adventure stuff like Doctor Who, the Famous Five and Secret Seven, and of course movie novelizations like Raiders of the Lost Ark or Star Wars, but I was always more interested in the monthly tales of Daredevil and the Fantastic Four, or being totally engrossed in the latest Famous Monsters of Filmland, or if I was lucky, the gory pics in a new mag known as Fangoria… ![]() ![]() As a teen in the eighties, just like now, I was always more of a comic and magazine reader than a book reader. ![]()
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Tigana novel5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The Silmarillion was the core work that Tolkien started writing immediately after World War 1, but the text of that basic document was not put together and published until 1977, four years after Tolkien’s death. Tolkien’s son Christopher edit The Silmarillion in the 1970s. And it has particular application to the work of Guy Gavriel Kay, who helped J.R.R. Certainly that is true in high fantasy, with its autonomous, secondary worlds. In the field of fantasy, eras are measured as B.T. ![]() Thanks to Clinton Hammond for typing it up. This piece was written by Professor James Gunn as an introduction to a leatherbound edition of Tigana published by Easton Press, as part of a series ‘the leatherbound masterpieces of fantasy’. ![]() Green creek series by tj klune5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() The Bennett family has a secret: They're not just a family, they're a pack. The Green Creek Series is for adult readers. ![]() Some bonds, no matter how strong, were made to be broken. And this time, it's crawling from within. Green Creek has settled after the death of Richard Collins, and Gordo constantly struggles to ignore Mark and the song that howls between them. Now, a year later, Gordo has found himself once again the witch of the Bennett pack. In the end, they faced the beast together as a pack. And it was, until the wolves came back, and with them, Mark Bennett. ![]() Hardened by the betrayal of a pack who left him behind, he sought solace in the garage in his tiny mountain town, vowing never again to involve himself in the affairs of wolves. The beloved fantasy romance sensation by New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune, about love, loyalty, betrayal, and joy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Someone from their past who has every intention of making the impudent criminals pay for their sins. Under the cloak of false identities, they meticulously make their climb-until they are closer to the spoils than ever.īut someone in Tal Verrar has uncovered the duo's secret. ![]() For there is one cardinal rule, enforced by Requin, the house’s cold-blooded master: it is death to cheat at any game at the Sinspire.īrazenly undeterred, Locke and Jean have orchestrated an elaborate plan to lie, trick, and swindle their way up the nine floors…straight to Requin's teeming vault. Its nine floors attract the wealthiest clientele-and to rise to the top, one must impress with good credit, amusing behavior…and excruciatingly impeccable play. This time, however, they have targeted the grandest prize of all: the Sinspire, the most exclusive and heavily guarded gambling house in the world. But even at this westernmost edge of civilization, they can't rest for long-and they are soon back doing what they do best: stealing from the undeserving rich and pocketing the proceeds for themselves. ![]() After a brutal battle with the underworld that nearly destroyed him, Locke Lamora and his trusted sidekick, Jean, fled the island city of their birth and landed on the exotic shores of Tal Verrar to nurse their wounds. ![]() Unstable by Muhhamed Faizon5/9/2023 ![]() Though classified as a rare-earth element, samarium is the 40th most abundant element in Earth's crust and more common than metals such as tin. The mineral itself was named after a Russian mine official, Colonel Vassili Samarsky-Bykhovets, who thus became the first person to have a chemical element named after him, albeit indirectly. Compounds of samarium(II) are also known, most notably the monoxide SmO, monochalcogenides SmS, SmSe and SmTe, as well as samarium(II) iodide.ĭiscovered in 1879 by French chemist Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, samarium was named after the mineral samarskite from which it was isolated. ![]() Being a typical member of the lanthanide series, samarium usually has the oxidation state +3. It is a moderately hard silvery metal that slowly oxidizes in air. ![]() Samarium is a chemical element with symbol Sm and atomic number 62. ![]() Amy reed beautiful5/9/2023 ![]() She ignores the dangers of her fast-paced life.but she can't sidestep the secrets and the cruelty.Ĭassie is trapped in a swift downward spiral tinged with violence and abuse, and no one-not even the one person she thought she could trust-can help her now. Swept into a world of illicit parties and social land mines, she sheds her virginity, embraces the numbness she feels from the drugs, and floats through it all, knowing that she is now called beautiful. ![]() Stepping into her new identity turns out to be easier than Cassie could have ever imagined.one moment, one choice, changes everything.Ĭassie's new existence both thrills and terrifies her. This is Cassie's chance to stop being invisible and start being the kind of girl who's worth noticing. When Cassie moves from the tiny town where she has always lived to a suburb of Seattle, she is determined to leave her boring, good-girl existence behind. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I interrogate these claims not only by building on existing and extensive critiques that have problematized the emancipatory claims of democratic political projects, but also by examining understandings of freedom that are left out or excluded – quite specifically, non-liberal understandings. Liberal freedom is based on two common assumptions: first, that freedom is a progressive, external pursuit, which is owned or possessed second, related to the first, that freedom originates or is accessed through the consciously exerted will of a finite, thinking, individual subject. 3 Rather, my intention is to pursue a philosophical inquiry into the common assumptions on which liberal freedom in the context of human rights is based, and how these become the basis of unfreedom. I do not attempt to provide a comprehensive account of liberal freedom, an elusive and paradoxical concept that has also already been the subject of extensive dispute and debate. ![]() This chapter delineates how the concept of liberal freedom, which is central to the pursuit of human rights, is structured and articulated within what I metaphorically describe as the fishbowl. Of these chains, though its links glitter in the sun In truth that which you call freedom is the strongest ![]() A memory called empire book5/9/2023 ![]() The Wall Street Journal: ‘Science Fiction: Bright Girls and Boys Learn to Spell Trouble’ - (3/29/19) The Guardian: ‘The best recent science fiction - review roundup’ - (4/12/19) LA Times: ‘Stellar sci-fi: India's 'Game of Thrones,' killer cars and the Teixcalaanli empire’ - (5/13/19) ![]() The Verge: ‘ A Memory Called Empire is a brilliant blend of cyberpunk, space opera, and political thriller: how a society’s memory steers cultural and political events’ - (5/17/19) ![]() The New York Times: ‘Otherworldly: Got Any Time-Travel Plans This Summer?’ - (Amal el-Mohtar, 5/29/19) Library Journal Starred Review listed as a Library Journal Debut of the Month Publishers Weekly Starred Review listed on Publishers Weekly Top 10 Spring Debuts WYPR On The Record: ‘A Memory Called Empire’ - (radio interview, 3/20/19)Ĭooking the Books: ‘Edible Flowers and Occasional Poison: Cooking the Books with Arkady Martine’ - (podcast, 3/20/19) WIRED Magazine’s Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy: Arkady Martine - (podcast interview, 7/31/20) ![]() Atatürk by Andrew Mango5/9/2023 ![]() The Treaty of Sèvres which the Sultan's government signed put an end to Ottoman independence. When the Sultan sent his emissaries to the Paris peace conference they could not win a reprieve. With these two in the lead, the Allies sought to impose partition on the Sultan's state. ![]() The chief proponent of partition was Lloyd George, heir to the Turcophobe tradition of British liberals, who fell under the spell of the Greek irredentist politician Venizelos. ![]() But Vahdettin and his ministers could not succeed because the victorious Allies had decided on the final partition of the Ottoman state. The last Sultan Mehmet VI Vahdettin thought he could salvage the Ottoman state in something like its old form. It may have been doomed in any case, but he was the agent of its doom. Enver's decision to enter the war on the side of Germany destroyed the Ottoman state. Adventurous rulers - Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany and Enver Pasha in the Ottoman Empire - hastened it. But prudent statesmen could delay the death of empires, rulers such as Emperor Franz Josef II of Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Sultan Abdü'lhamid II. The forces of disintegration affected several empires simultaneously. ![]() World War I sounded the death knell of empires. ![]() Cry the beloved country author5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() Most of all, they opposed violence, which set them at odds with the armed struggle that was ANC policy after 1961. ![]() ![]() Paton and the Liberals were gradualists: they believed in constitutional talks. The Indian National Congress also kept at arm's length. Paton had given defence evidence for Mandela at the 1964 treason trial, but Liberals tended to be antipathetic to ANC communist members. Though the Liberals sought links with it, the African National Congress (ANC) kept its distance. Its members dissolved it in 1968, rather than abandon their principles and comply with a new apartheid law that made it a criminal offence to belong to a non-racial political party. ![]() He was president of the South African Liberal party, which could never win parliamentary seats in Cape Town, and did not expect to. This led to conflict with the Afrikaner state, but also produced uneasy relationships within the anti-apartheid movement - another reason, arguably, why he is less well known today. Paton went where his beliefs led him, whatever the cost to himself. His Christianity was not only why apartheid was so offensive to him its emphasis on forgiveness and reconciliation also showed him the only way forward for the new South Africa. It shows his belief that religious faith, personal conduct and social action are inextricable one from the other. His one, short devotional book, An Instrument Of Thy Peace, was a meditation on the prayer of St Francis. ![]() |