![]() ![]() What if someone wrote “a jaw-droppingly, gob-smackingly, breath-takingly accurate literary description of lockdown life” under COVID in 2021? What if they wrote it in 1909? “In time… there will come a generation that had got beyond facts, beyond impressions, a generation absolutely colourless, a generation ‘seraphically free from taint of personality.’”.They are but the physical impressions produced by love and fear, and on this gross foundation who could erect a philosophy? Let your ideas be second-hand, and if possible tenth-hand, for then they will be far removed from that disturbing element - direct observation. ![]()
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Series: Agent Cormac Format: PaperBack Category: Science Fiction. For the wilderness of Masada lacks breathable air� and out there roam monstrous predators called hooders and siluroynes, not to mention the weird and terrible gabbleducks. Title: The Line of Polity Author: Neal Asher Publisher: UK Group ISBN: 9781509868407. Sent out on a titanic Polity dreadnought, the Occam Razor, agent Cormac must investigate the disaster.Meanwhile, on the remote planet Masada, the long-term rebellion can never rise above-ground, as the slave population is subjugated by orbital laser arrays controlled by the Theocracy in their cylinder worlds, and by the fact that they cannot safely leave their labour compounds. The politics of caste has encompassed every aspect of Indian social and cultural lives, including quotidian food preparation and consumption practices. Print The Line of Polity (Agent Cormac #2)Īgent Cormac is back in this full-scale sci-fi novel by the master of space opera, Neal Asher.Outlink station Miranda has been destroyed by a nanomycelium, and the very nature of this sabotage suggests that the alien bioconstruct Dragon - a creature as untrustworthy as it is gigantic - is somehow involved. ![]() ![]() One thing that’s fun about writing epic fantasy is an author gets to throw every geeky thing they have immense love for into the mix. And be sure to check out her Pinterest page, where she has a lot of images of her inspirations as well! ![]() ![]() Please welcome Laurie Forest to this week’s Geek Speaks…Fiction! as she tells us what made her geek out while she was writing her debut novel. The themes of the book are certainly highly charged, especially in today’s political environment, and the journey of the heroine of this book from a place of extreme prejudice to a position of acceptance and activism, overcoming hate and racism, is something that could bring hope to readers as we live in a world with some sad parallels to that in The Black Witch. The book has received glowing praise from authors like Tamora Pierce and Robin Hobb, and starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews.Ī lot of readers weren’t prepared to see the world through the eyes Elloren and live in her ordinary world that is so focused on cultural purity and conservatism, however, and made their opinions known on social media. The book takes a fearless and direct approach to the topics of prejudice and injustice, with a complicated and highly-flawed main character who enters a world that will open her eyes to integration and diversity. ![]() Laurie Forest’s young adult fantasy novel, The Black Witch, was released amongst some controversy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Spinning Silver is one of the best standalone novels I’ve read. ![]() So here I am, nodding my head and adding my opinion to their praises they were all 100% right. She said that Spinning Silver is one of the best standalone novels she has ever read. And then, another good friend of mine-Mary-who also disliked Uprooted decided to sent me a copy of Spinning Silver. However, after hearing from many readers-one of them being my friend, Elliot Brooks-who disliked Uprooted that Spinning Silver worked wonderfully for them, my curiosity was piqued. I consider Uprooted one of the worst fantasy novels I’ve read, and I had no motivation in trying out more of Novik’s works for five years. Honestly speaking, I never intended to read Spinning Silver. It’s been exactly five years since I’ve read Uprooted by Naomi Novik. If Uprooted is my Hell, then Spinning Silver is my Heaven.įive years. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What is not a hobby? What is NOT Hobby Drama? They are not blink-and-you'll-miss-it catfights with no consequences or internet influencers being rude to each other. ![]() Hobby Drama-worthy events might have ousted someone from the community, shaped perception of the hobby, altered the rules the hobby uses, divided the community, created a new faction, caused significant outrage, etc. Hobby Drama is an event which happened in a hobby that created meaningful controversy within the community involved. ![]() Join the official r/HobbyDrama discord here!įor the purposes of our subreddit, a hobby community is "a group of people who are connected by their active participation in a particular activity during their free time for personal enjoyment".Įxamples of hobbies include: cosplay, model rocketry, fanfiction, blogging, historical reenactment, gaming, fanart, participating in forums, gardening, cooking, playing sports, composing music, making memes, collecting, backpacking, knitting, reading, and many, many more. "The most interesting subreddit about things you're not interested in."Ī place where people can post dramatic and controversial stories, events and situations within their specific circles, usually consisting of events others may not have heard of. ![]() ![]() ![]() She understands what it's like to look back on four generations of women and a beloved quilt that her great-great-grandmother made from an uncle's shirt, an aunt's nightdress, another aunt's apron, and her daughter's dress and babushka. They don't realize that the baby blanket they've so callously dropped in the donation box is one that they're going think about later, when they have their first kid. ![]() ![]() Does no object in this house hold sentimental value for them? They toss book after book in the "giveaway" piles, and they do not turn back to retrieve them.īut that's how kids are though, aren't they? They're young, they're always in motion, and they don't cry because they aren't producing enough estrogen. I'm proud of my kids they've been incredibly diligent, packing for our big move. We've purged approximately 400 books in the past week, and this one, The Keeping Quilt, was at the bottom of a last pile of books that my kids had declared “giveaways.” I picked it up and almost broke out in a rash at the thought of giving it to anyone but me. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jack wonders why he’s reliving this time loop and blows off so much to be with Kate, whose time may or may not be limited in this run. Kate is clueless as to who he is (though she has a weird feeling that she already knows him), or that they have somehow respawned, but Jack remembers everything. Suddenly, he’s back at the party where he first met Kate. Upon hearing the news, Jack rushes from his house, falls down the stairs, and BAM! time starts over again. Jack and Kate are only just really getting to know each other, to fall for each other, when Kate dies from sickle cell anemia. This completely enjoyable story asks what you would do differently-or the same-if you got a second chance. ![]() Reliving the same chunk of time over and over? Bring it on! Then I read the summary, and as someone who obsessively quotes Groundhog Day, the premise sold me. I picked this up initially because I love the cover. ![]() And when one choice turns deadly for someone else close to him, he has to figure out what he’s willing to do to save the people he loves. However, Jack will learn that his actions are not without consequences. Even if that means believing in time travel. Still, if he has a chance to prevent Kate’s death, he’ll take it. Yet Kate’s death sends Jack back to the beginning, the moment they first meet, and Kate’s there again. ![]() ![]() but virtually every urban center in the nation. Why? Why did her cousin, a precocious young man who dreamed of being a firefighter and a writer, end up dead? Why did he languish in prison? And why, at the age of fifteen, was he in an alley in South Central Los Angeles, holding a gun while trying to steal someone's car?Ĭuz means both ''cousin'' and ''because.'' In this searing memoir, Allen unfurls a ''new American story'' about a world tragically transformed by the sudden availability of narcotics and the rise of street gangs-a collision, followed by a reactionary War on Drugs, that would devastate not only South Central L.A. In a shattering work that shifts between a woman's private anguish over the loss of her beloved baby cousin and a scholar's fierce critique of the American prison system, Danielle Allen seeks answers to what, for many years, felt unanswerable. ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, Trixie has stumbled into the path of a desperate man and a woman in love and on the run. Trixie Joanes has come to the Carpathian mountains in search of her wayward granddaughter, fearing that she has been lured there by something unspeakable. And she isn’t the only one in search of answers in the corners of the unknown. But Gabrielle soon learns that promises made in the dark can pierce the heart like a dagger. All she wants is a life far away from the Carpathian mountains, far from vampires and the shadows cast by the crumbling monastery that hides so many terrible secrets. Now he’s a fearless and lethal Carpathian warrior with the blood of an ancient lineage coursing through his veins-a man Gabrielle still needs and desires and dreams of with every breath she takes. Once he was a gentle and very human researcher. Lovers challenge destiny and risk their lives in the new Carpathian novel by the #1 New York Times bestselling “queen of paranormal romance.”* Gabrielle has had enough of battles, of wars, of seeing Gary Jansen, the man she loves nearly lose his life when it isn’t even his fight. ![]() |