6/30/2023 0 Comments Paul dune messiah![]() ![]() ![]() After Marla’s dragoning, Alex’s parents raised the two girls as sisters, but questions about Marla’s disappearance lingered at the edges of Alex’s consciousness.īarnhill writes from Alex’s point of view as an adult, looking back on a remarkable period in history that coincided with her formative years. She was also one of the most influential people in Alex’s life after all, Marla gave birth to Alex’s cousin and best friend, Beatrice. Perhaps this is how we learn silence-an absence of words, an absence of context, a hole in the universe where the truth should be.”Īlex’s Aunt Marla was one of the disappeared women. I was four years old when I first learned to be silent about dragons. The mass dragoning meets a similar fate, but despite her best efforts, Alex Green can’t forget: “I was four years old when I first saw a dragon. The women didn’t vanish they became dragons.Īs Kelly Barnhill writes in When Women Were Dragons, “people are awfully good at forgetting unpleasant things.” Just look at our own world, in which willful silence around the injustices of the past affects how history is taught (or isn’t taught) in American schools. Later reports-at least, those that were publicly acknowledged-omitted a key detail about this mass disappearance. They were brides on their wedding days and switchboard operators harassed by their male managers. In 1955, hundreds of thousands of women disappeared. ![]()
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6/30/2023 0 Comments Star maker olaf stapledon![]() ![]() ![]() Spheres detected in astronomical searches could be an indicator of extraterrestrial life. Dyson speculated that such structures would be the logical consequence of the escalating energy needs of a technological civilization and would be a necessity for its long-term survival. The concept was later explored by the physicist Freeman Dyson in his 1960 paper "Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infrared Radiation". The first modern imagining of such a structure was by Olaf Stapledon in his science fiction novel Star Maker (1937). Because only a tiny fraction of a star's energy emissions reaches the surface of any orbiting planet, building structures encircling a star would enable a civilization to harvest far more energy. The concept is a thought experiment that attempts to imagine how a spacefaring civilization would meet its energy requirements once those requirements exceed what can be generated from the home planet's resources alone. ![]() Freeman Dyson, the first scientist to explore the conceptĪ Dyson sphere is a hypothetical megastructure that encompasses a star and captures a large percentage of its solar power output. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Nexus mike baron![]() ![]() I could easily see this book being picked up as a TV series for FX or Netflix. Barons recent projects include the revival of the science-fiction tale Nexus, the science-fantasy adventure Black Ice, the multiple-personality. ![]() ![]() Mike’s writing style has an easy flow with a bit of gritty realism that reminds me of Elmore Leonard. “This book is a crazy ride that follows the living embodiment of every Florida-man story I’ve ever heard. by dreams of mass murderers, as Nexus he is forced to seek the killers out and assassinate them. Anderson, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Dune: House Atreides Buy Nexus: One by Mike Baron from Waterstones today. Witty, profound, and deeply moving, this novel is serious science fiction.”-Kevin J. “Comic fans have long loved Nexus, and now Mike Baron’s Nexus novel brings his award-winning superhero to life in ways we haven’t seen before. Baron is bringing back “funny books” with this one and the quintessential “Florida Man” is finally getting defined in all his outrageous glory from the heart of one of the most magical and bizarre states in America. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Cl clark the unbroken![]() This reflects real world colonization playbooks implemented by European nations and the United States. ![]() Naturally, both groups are pitted against each other by the Balladairan colonial powers precisely because it benefits them for their colonies to not be united. There are those who are able to assimilate into Balladairan norms and standards, and those who resist. This creates a massive divide amongst the Qazāli themselves. ![]() Not to mention deriding the local language as “barbaric”. We’re shown the swift and ruthless suppression of the Qazāli identity, such as banning poetry and songs. For Princess Luca, heir to the throne of Balladaire, the trip is a chance to prove herself to her uncle. For Tourine, leader of the military unit called the Sands, the assignment is a nightmare – but also a chance to prove her unit worthy of Balladaire. Inspired by the colonization of North Africa by the French, Clark takes us on a journey to Qazāl, a southern colony of the great Balladaire empire. The effects of colonization at the macro levelĪt its heart, The Unbroken is a story about colonization. ![]() Content Warnings: Imperialism, colonization, execution by hanging, torture, sexual assault, violence ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments L'Immortalite by T.R. Heinan![]() ![]() TRH: I write almost every day, or perhaps I should say, every night. ![]() SPS: What are your perfect writing conditions, and how often do you write? Writing is my way of keeping myself somewhat sane while working with children who have been abandoned, abused, or been victims of drug violence and sex trafficking Most of the children served by this project are in Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico which is about a two hour drive from my home in Tucson, Arizona. TRH: After a career in investment banking financing major motion pictures, I “retired” to manage a non-profit organization which I helped form in order to support and operate orphanages. SPS: For any of our readers that haven’t come across your work previously, can you take a moment to tell us all a little about yourself? Heinan, author of L’immortalité: Madame Lalaurie and the Voodoo Queen. Self-Publisher’s Showcase: Today we are joined by T.R. ![]() |