Frank herbert high opp5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It tells of one man's revenge, of the man watching from the window who is pushed over the edge of sanity by the senseless murder of his family and who, reappearing several months later as the so-called Madman, unleashes a terrible vengeance upon the human race. The White Plague is a marvelous and terrifyingly plausible blend of fiction and visionary theme. From the second-floor window of a building across the street, a visiting American watches, helpless, as his beloved wife and children are sacrificed in the heat and fire of someone else's cause.įrom this shocking beginning, the author of the phenomenal Dune series has created a masterpiece. ![]() Suddenly, a car-bomb explodes, killing and injuring scores of innocent people. A warm day in Dublin, a crowded street corner. ![]()
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Near by Cat Rambo5/31/2023 ![]() #1: If you like stories about strange places and strange creatures Her stories often pack an emotional punch or two, an ability to reach into a reader's guts and twist or squeeze." – Don Sakers, for Analog Magazine "Rambo specializes in what used to be called "sense of wonder"-her characters and worlds are skewed along several axes of imagination at once, familiar as old friends yet strange as figures from dreams. ![]() If you want more-and believe me, you will- I suggest you support her through Patreon, and get stories non-supporters don't get to see.īut first, read these stories and see why the entire sf field woke up and took notice when Cat's short fiction first hit print. ![]() Since she burst on the scene, she's published over 170 pieces of original fiction. Then she disappeared for a while from the publishing scene, only to stretch her wings in sf. Her early publications were in the literary mainstream in the early 1990s. Of course, as I looked her up to write this introduction, I discovered that she too has written fiction for decades. ![]() Her short stories were memorable gems, the kind of fiction that you can't forget once you've read it. First she made her name as the editor of Fantasy Magazine, but then we all started noticing her short fiction. ![]() Most of the women in this bundle have published science fiction for decades, but Cat Rambo burst onto the science fiction scene less than ten years ago. ![]() Dry augusten burroughs audiobook5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() What follows is a memoir that's as moving as it is funny, as heartbreaking as it is true. ![]() Because when his thirty days are up, he has to return to his same drunken Manhattan life - and live it sober. But when Augusten is forced to examine himself, something actually starts to click and that's when he finds himself in the worst trouble of all. are immediately dashed by grim reality of fluorescent lighting and paper hospital slippers. At the request (well, it wasn't really a request) of his employers, Augusten lands in rehab, where his dreams of group therapy with Robert Downey Jr. Loud, distracting ties, automated wake-up calls and cologne on the tongue could only hide so much for so long. But when the ordinary person had two drinks, Augusten was circling the drain by having twelve when the ordinary person went home at midnight, Augusten never went home at all. You've seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants: a twentysomething guy, nice suit, works in advertising. You may not know it, but you've met Augusten Burroughs. ![]() One fish red fish blue fish5/31/2023 ![]() Yet, each of them is an individual and, as such, different from one another. "One fish two fish red fish blue fish" (and every other kind of fish one can come up with in one's noggin) are all, at the end of the day, fish. On the one hand, he champions liberal individualism and on the other, he is alarmed at individualism as a potentially devouring and alienating force. Trusting the instinctive mind of the child more than the instructed mind of adults, Seuss holds up before them the fissures within democracy and the thin line that separates it from fascism. A children's writer, he believed, served democracy by teaching kids to respect and trust their internal responses to an unjust world. For Seuss, the child was born in an Edenic state, outside of adult corruption yet already possessing the virtue of a democratic citizen and, at the same time, naturally resistant to propaganda. Dr Seuss, as he is popularly known, donned many a hat in his lifetime - political cartoonist, film-maker, War-time propagandist and so on - but he was most successful in the role of a children's writer. ![]() This deceptively simple line best captures the tension that Theodor Seuss Geisel - who died 27 Septembers ago - explored in his works. One fish two fish red fish blue fish 'One fish two fish red fish blue fish' (and every other kind of fish one can come up with in one's noggin) are all, at the end of the day, fish. ![]() |