![]() Readers awed by explorations of either inner or outer space will want to sign up for this ride. While the plot starts off dryly, emphasizing the possibilities that QUADAR creates, the pace quickens when the protagonists discover an otherworld intellectual utopia, and as they fight to keep that paradise free from violent takeover by evil politicians. ![]() There, they are experimenting with QUADAR, a machine that ""enhances"" mental faculties, allowing for a heightened sense of truth and a knowledge of the possible paths the future may take these revelations in turn lead the scientist to a method for scientifically exploring alternative worlds. The plot focuses on a group of scientists working at a secret laboratory in Los Alamos. 1995 The Immortality Option, 1995 Paths to Otherwhere, 1996 Bug Park, 1997. ![]() In a not-too-distant future, the United States is slowly rotting from within, with. Source for information on Hogan, James P(atrick): Writers Directory 2005. Current problems have festered until resources are scarce, scientific discoveries are governmentally controlled, Western culture is globally despised and the Earth teeters on the brink of violent disaster. Hogans novel starts out in a world heading towards crisis. ![]() The near-future Earth envisioned here is both familiar and dystopian. ![]() The possibility of moving a person's consciousness between our world and others comes alive as Hogan (The Immortality Option), a dean of hard SF, parlays a standard SF gambit into an entertaining, imaginative yarn. ![]()
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The night watch pratchett7/6/2023 ![]() The Cable Street Particulars, an unpopular and much-feared group of secret policemen who spied, jailed citizens without arrest warrants, and tortured them to death, had been taken down during the transition from Lord Winder to Lord Snapcase as the Patrician (see Night Watch). Cable Street Particulars were housed in Cable Street, Palace Guards worked at the palace Day Watch and Night Watch shared the same police stations, using hour-of-daylight instead of geographic districts to delineate their jurisdictions. ![]() ![]() The Watch and Ward of the Cities of Ankh and Morpork was founded in 1561 UC by King Veltrick I, who also bestowed upon them his personal motto, "Fabricati Diem, Pvncti Agvnt Celeriter," Latatian for "Make the Day, the Moments Pass Quickly." The Ward, originally the city gate guards, eventually took over thief-taking during daylight hours and became known as the Day Watch, the Watch becoming the Night Watch.Īt the time Sam Vimes enlisted, the Watch comprised four divisions: Day Watch, Night Watch, (the Patrician's) Palace Guards, and the secret police Cable Street Particulars. ![]() Marvels comic kurt busiek7/6/2023 ![]() In each of the five issues (somewhat confusingly numbered #0 to 4), Busiek and Ross touch upon the many different corners of the burgeoning Marvel Universe. ![]() Marvels follows the path of young New York photographer Phil Sheldon, who bears witness to the birth of superheroes with the Human Torch and follows their rise through the 1960s. When Marvels debuted in 1994, combining the ultra-realistic art of Alex Ross and storytelling skills of Kurt Busiek, fans were struck with that same feeling of what it must have been like living among superpowered humans, monsters, and villains, all larger than life. ![]() When Stan Lee and Jack Kirby launched Marvel Comics into the stratosphere with characters like the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man and the Hulk in the early 1960s, fans were drawn to the fact that these new superheroes were written as real folks, with real problems, living in the real world. ![]() Michael c grumley7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Due to this fact, Shaw finds it exceedingly difficult to find a tolerable balance between protecting the dolphins and advancing science. As expected, she has an exceedingly strong emotional connection to the dolphins, which in turn takes antecedence over everything else. ![]() She is not only obsessed with science, but she is also willing to put herself in danger to get her will done. Shaw is your ideal female character, which is found in many scientific thrillers. However, the two main characters in the series a lead researcher and a marine biologist, Alison Shaw and John Clay who serves a military analyst, who is part of what is referred Electronics and signaling teams. Several characters are constant throughout the book series. This, in turn, created an exceedingly interesting and unique plot line, which looks into the interaction between human beings and our fellow creatures on a completely new level. ![]() ![]() The focus on the Breakthrough series entails a computer technology that has the capability of acting as a translator between dolphins and human beings and in the later books in the series between gorillas and human beings. Because dolphins have always been a man’s favorite, it did not come as a surprise as the Breakthrough book series, would become an international bestseller, because the main characters are dolphins. ![]() ![]() He travels to her home to fetch her back to the family seat at Everleigh Park.Īlthough she adored him once, Maria now loathes Justin, and her friend Lady Estelle Lamarr can see immediately how his very name upsets her. A dark, dour man, he nonetheless takes it as his responsibility to care for his half-sister Maria when her mother dies. ![]() And sometimes, it just takes one person to pull it back together. For fans of Bridgerton, New York Times bestselling Regency Romance author Mary Balogh shows how love truly conquers all in this new Friends of the Westcott novel.Īs a young man, Justin Wiley was banished by his father for mysterious reasons, but now his father is dead, and Justin has been Earl of Brandon for six years. ![]() Sometimes, just one person can pull a whole family apart. ![]() Fantômas by Marcel Allain7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() Its passage was marked by whistling, shaking of fists, even a motorcycle from the Préfecture of Police in hot pursuit but Juve was undismayed and continued to urge on his Automedon: “Drive on! drive on!” screamed Juve once more-and the man started off his taxi at racing speed. The Paris cabby and taxi-man is well used to being mixed up in the most sensational affairs, but the knowledge that he was driving the great Juve, the police officer of genius and gallantry, and that his fare had just arrested Fantômas, put the man in a perfect fever. “Fantômas! Fantômas a prisoner!” stammered the fellow, his face white with excitement, “and you are Juve!” ![]() “Drive on! drive on!” Juve reiterated-and a sharp jolt of the cab told him the driver had realized the news. All Paris, all France, the whole earth would be holding high holiday in a few hours’ time, soon as ever the news should be known-scattered broadcast by the Press, by telephone, by wireless, to the uttermost confines of the universe. Nor was it any exaggeration to say his guarantee would clear the poor Jehu of all pains and penalties for excessive speed and breach of bylaws.įantômas arrested, Fantômas a prisoner-a noxious beast in chains and harmless henceforth-here was the end of a hideous nightmare that had brooded over the world for long years. Hanging halfway out of the window of the taxi he had hailed at the Paris barrier, the renowned police officer was yelling to his driver. “Yes, Juve, by God! Get on, my lad, get on! I’ve just arrested Fantômas.…” ![]() “Perhaps not you, sir, but what about me?” ![]() The Truth by Stephen Briggs7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Which came first: your interest in acting or in writing plays? I remember seeing you in The Truth at the Unicorn Theatre in Abingdon many years ago-your association with Studio Theatre Club obviously goes back a long way. Stephen in a recent production of Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s MacbethĬaroline: Stephen, thanks for letting me interview you. He’s also actively involved in amdram, and has directed and acted in many shows over the millennia. Stephen’s won awards for several of his recordings of Terry’s books and was on the BAFTA-winning team which created the online PR for Sky’s ‘ Hogfather’. Stephen needs little introduction, but here’s a quick run-down on who he is: writer, narrator, playwright and actor, best known for his extensive work on plays, maps and books pertaining to Terry Pratchett’s Discworld. For this post, I’m excited to feature an interview with Stephen Briggs. ![]() Edward 2 by marlowe7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() Yes, he bears a close resemblance to him, but only in the second phase of his career in the drama. He has the power, and the courage of conviction to contradict the king from the beginning and ends up in the murder of King Edward II in the play. King Edward considers kingship as a ‘talisman’ to be used even in the last phase of his life, and Mortimer is proud of his stock. In one respect King Edward II and Mortimer are of the same fibre both are proud of their station in life. The character of Mortimer is of a different cast altogether. The king is without power and is one who considers it to be a privilege to be honoured as such. These two characters have been conceived in a diametrically opposite way. He is the type of man who would beard the lion in his own den, and he does it, though in the second round of his character rather cunningly, ignoring even the public opinion which might be there casting aspersions on him. The ferments in him are, obviously, the ferments of the most rebellious spirit. ![]() Right from the beginning he is seen contradicting the king. Historically too he is a very powerful baron, one who ruled England till October 1330. ![]() His one hand readily goes to the hilt of the sword as if by reflex action. He has been delineated as the most spirited creature in the play, one who has the traits of leadership. The character of Mortimer Junior has been drawn with a firm hand by Marlowe. ![]() A skinful of shadows7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Resource is provided as a PDF but a digital copy of the pack is available for editing and sharing on Google Classroom and Seesaw available with download. Non-Fiction Tasks related to content of the novel (Puritans, King Charles, Lambeth Palace, Traitor's Gate, witchcraft). Sometimes, when a person dies, their spirit goes looking for somewhere to hide. ![]() A teen is on the run from ghosts during the English Civil War in this YA historical fantasy from award-winning author Frances Hardinge. Digging Deeper Opportunities (includes character studies and plot studies) 10.99 22 Used from 2.34 18 New from 4.08. Background information on the historical context (English Civil War) As she flees the pursuing Fellmottes across war-torn England, she accumulates a motley crew of her own allies, including outcasts, misfits, criminals, and one extremely angry dead bear.ĪBOUT THE RESOURCE: Designed in alignment with the 2014 National Curriculum of England’s reading objectives for Year 6, the pack includes: Reluctant to accept her appointed destiny as vessel for a coterie of her ancestors, she escapes. Makepeace is an illegitimate daughter of the aristocratic Fellmotte family, and as such, she shares their unique hereditary gift: the capacity to be possessed by ghosts. This resource is designed to be used during Reading Workshop and is to be used with A Skinful of Shadows by Frances HardingeĪnd has been updated for deeper learning with additional tasks for character analysis, literary motifs, themes, and extracts from the text.ĪBOUT THE NOVEL: A Skinful of Shadows is a dark YA historical fantasy set in the early part of the English Civil War. ![]() ![]() ![]() 35,000 first printing Mystery Guild selection Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club alternate. Combining a fierce affection for her family with indefatigable independence, stalwart Amelia proves once again an immensely likable heroine. ![]() Peters ( The Deeds of the Disturber ), who also writes as Barbara Michaels, laces her usual intricate plotting with Amelia's commonsense approach to hygiene and manners, and coyly delicate references to vigorously enjoyed connubial pleasures. Excavating the usual sort of antiquities in the. There, entangled in two half-brothers' battle for the throne, Amelia and family fight for the freedom of the slave class while ferreting out the fate of Forth and his bride, and arranging to escape with their lives. But in this, Book 6 of the series, the Emersons find themselves in the Sudan this time. Rescued in the desert after every camel in their caravan dies, the Emersons are taken to a lost city where ancient Egyptian customs have been carried into modern times. ![]() This time Amelia, her handsome, fearless husband, Radcliffe, and their precocious 11-year-old son, Ramses, are in the Sudan, searching for archeologist Willoughby Forth, who disappeared 14 years earlier with his new wife. If Indiana Jones were female, a wife and mother who lived in Victorian times, he would be Amelia Peabody Emerson, an archeologist whose extraordinary adventures are guaranteed entertainment. ![]() |