Le sabbie di Marte by Arthur C. Clarke5/23/2023 ![]() Hi! This was my first year taking part, and what a month it was. on Twitter? we’re and we use #VintageSciFiMonth. Reviewing or discussing a vintage SF/F book during the month of January? Leave the title, author and a link to your blog post in the comments below. You too, can be on red alert for the Interstellar Patrol by using the badge above in your posts, or blog side bar, or wherever you’d like. To see previous posts about Vintage Science Fiction Month, just type “Vintage” into the little search box-thing. The only “rule” for this not-a-challenge is that your blog post must be during the month of January. Haphazardly, the defining year for “vintage” is 1979. ![]() ![]() ![]() Welcome to the Vintage Science Fiction not-a-challenge! Through out the month of January, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, every year since 2012 I will be reading and discussing as much “older than I am” science fiction and fantasy that I can, and everyone is invited to join me! We’ll be talking about time travel, laser guns, early robotics, first contact, swords and sorcery, predictions for humanity and the authors who came up with it all. ![]()
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They all saw a cat point of view5/23/2023 ![]() "Both simple and ingenious in concept, Wenzel's book feels like a game changer."- The Huffington Post "An ingenious idea, gorgeously realized."- Shelf Awareness, starred review RAVE REVIEWS: This bestselling book has earned multiple honors and starred reviews. In addition to the Caldecott Honor-winning They All Saw a Cat, he's also the creator of Hello, Hello! and A Stone Sat Still, and he has illustrated a number of other picture books focused on animals and nature. INCREDIBLE TALENT: Brendan Wenzel is a New York Times bestselling author and illustrator. ![]() When you see a cat, what do you see?ĮNGAGING AND THOUGHT-PROVOKING: Children will love following along with the simple, fun story, while parents will appreciate the book’s clever and thoughtful lessons about how everyone has a unique perspective. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this glorious celebration of observation, curiosity, and imagination, author and illustrator Brendan Wenzel shows us the many lives of one cat, and how perspective shapes what we see. The cat walked through the world, with its whiskers, ears, and paws. New York Times bestseller and Caldecott Medal winner They All Saw a Cat is a visual delight and a charming read-aloud that invites kids and parents to explore the concept of perception. ![]() An unkindness of ghost5/23/2023 ![]() How do the challenges of life in space, cut off from the land, reflect the struggles of real-life diasporic peoples?Ħ. How does Flick’s conversation with Aster paired with Flick’s great-grandmother’s speech shortly after affect Aster? Would Aster have gone on to do all she did without her interactions with them?ĥ. Why do Tarlanders speak so frequently of the Ancestors, and how does this affect Aster personally as someone who’s an orphan with little knowledge of her heritage?Ĥ. Who or what are the “ghosts” referred to in the title? Are they literal? In what ways can artifacts of the past, wisdom from elders, and extraordinary events triggered by people of the past be seen as ghosts?ģ. In what ways does this organization mirror places in the real world and in what ways does it differ?Ģ. Aboard Matilda, different peoples occupy different wings and decks, with few opportunities for interaction between them. ![]() ![]() ![]() To download a printable copy of this Discussion Guide, please click here.ġ. Discussion Guide for An Unkindness of GhostsĬlick here to return to the book page. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She turns out to be a supporter of czarist rule who recently escaped the carnage of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917. To confound matters further, he later finds out that his uncle, Lord Melrose, has recently asked the very same Sophia to marry him. ![]() Lennox has no idea who the man might be nor how he ended up delivered, like a parcel, to his property, but then he finds a sheet of paper hidden in the corpse’s coat with a stranger’s name written on it: Countess Sophia Androvich Zerevki Polyakov. Heathcliff Lennox, a veteran of the First World War, receives distressing news from his butler, Greggs: There’s a dead man lying on his doorstep-truly an uncommon circumstance in sleepy rural England-which kicks off Menuhin’s often humorous story. An English gentleman finds his inheritance threatened as he’s accused of murder in this mannered comedic mystery. ![]() ![]() ![]() He also teachers you how to effectively compost and dispose of human waste. The author goes into great detail on how to improvise and build stand-in toilets and outhouses. I really got a lot out of the chapter on sanitation. His expertise in practical self-reliant skills comes from a lifetime of personal experience, including designing his own off the grid, passive solar earth home in which he has an ingenious rain catchment system. He and his Aboriginal Living Skills School have made numerous appearances in the media, including The Today Show, Dateline NBC, CBS News, Fox News, USA Today, CNN, The Discovery Channel Field and Stream magazine, and on the cover of Backpacker magazine. About the AuthorĬody Lundin is the author of this and one other title ( 98.6 Degrees: The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive!). It is full of pictures, illustrations and point making, yet still funny cartons. The book is written in an easy to comprehend, elementary monologue. Part Two: Hand Candy is all about physical preps and gear. ![]() Capitalism and freedom5/22/2023 ![]() ![]()
Necroscope the touch5/22/2023 ![]() Several of his early books were published by Arkham House. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos cycle of stories, including several tales and a novel featuring the character Titus Crow. Lovecraft but featuring the new character Titus Crow, and went on to greater fame in the 1980s with the best-selling Necroscope series, initially centered on character Harry Keogh, who can communicate with the spirits of the dead.īorn in County Durham, he joined the British Army's Royal Military Police and wrote stories in his spare time before retiring with the rank of Warrant Officer Class 1 in 1980 and becoming a professional writer. He came to prominence in the 1970s writing in the Cthulhu Mythos created by American writer H. ![]() ![]() ![]() Brian Lumley (born 2 December 1937) is an English author of horror fiction. ![]() We free the stars5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Zafira battles a very different darkness festering in her through her bond with the Jawarat-a darkness that hums with voices, pushing her to the brink of her sanity and to the edge of a chaos she dare not unleash. He must learn to hone his power into a weapon, to wield not only against the Lion but against his father, trapped under the Lion’s control. But they are low on resources and allies alike, and the kingdom teems with fear of the Lion of the Night’s return.Īs the zumra plots to overthrow the kingdom’s darkest threat, Nasir fights to command the magic in his blood. Altair may be captive, but Zafira, Nasir, and Kifah are bound for Sultan’s Keep, determined to finish the plan he set in motion: restoring the hearts of the Sisters of Old to the minarets of each caliphate, and finally returning magic to all of Arawiya. ![]() Morningside heights henkin5/22/2023 ![]() He is also the author of the novels SWIMMING ACROSS THE HUDSON, a Los Angeles Times Notable Book MATRIMONY, a New York Times Notable Book and THE WORLD WITHOUT YOU, which was named an Editors' Choice Book by The New York Times and The Chicago Tribune and was the winner of the 2012 Edward Lewis Wallant Award for Jewish American Fiction and a finalist for the 2012 National Jewish Book Award. ![]() Joshua Henkin's new novel, MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS, has recently been published by Pantheon. ![]() ![]() He lives with his wife and daughters in Brooklyn, NY, and directs and teaches in the MFA program in Fiction Writing at Brooklyn College. ![]() ![]() ![]() She just hopes the zoning commissioner she might be falling for isn't caught up in the danger. ![]() Ruby is determined to find out the truth behind the curtains of Ozcorp, the company that owns the heavenly megamall and has the most to gain from her client's death. And then her favorite client Estelle turns up dead. It's the expired Dollar Store condoms she finds that feel too real. Ruby's does when she wakes up after a one-night stand with the town's sexy zoning commissioner, Noel West. The shoes! The lighting! Prince Charming spotted in the food court! It's a dream, right? But all dreams must come to an e. ![]() ![]() Lawyer Ruby O'Deare might not be living the American dream, but it feels like it every time she visits her small town megamall. RUBYS MISADVENTURES WITH REALITY by Samantha Bohrman a Romance Contemporary book ISBN-1633753638 ISBN13-9781633753631 with cover, excerpt, author notes, review link, and availability. Ruby's Misadventures with Reality (Trade Paperback / Paperback) Rubys Misadventures with Reality is a quirky fun mystery with a slightly manic shopaholic, totally confused lawyer. ![]() |