![]() But not even Hari Seldon could have predicted the birth of the extraordinary creature called the Mule-a mutant intelligence with a power greater than a dozen battle fleets.a power that could turn the strongest-willed human into an obedient slave. When an ambitious general determined to restore the Empire's glory turns the vast Imperial fleet toward the Foundation, the only hope for the small planet of scholars and scientists lies in the prophecies of Hari Seldon. Isaac Asimov’s seminal Foundation trilogyone of the cornerstones of modern speculative fictionin a single hardcover volume. Yet now it must face the Empire-still the mightiest force in the Galaxy, even in its death throes. Isaac Asimov Foundation and Robot Series 12 Books Collection Set (Prelude To Foundation, Earth, Edge, Foundation,Second Foundation, Empire, I Robot,Robots. Thanks to the founding great Harry Seldon and. ![]() ![]() Led by its founding father, the great psycho-historian Hari Seldon, and taking advantage of its superior science and technology, the Foundation survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Isaac Asimov - Foundation and EmpireFoundation and Empire is the second part of Isaac Asimovs famous trilogy. ![]()
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![]() Which doesn't really excite me as a goal. And perhaps the idea was to take a known or familiar news story and then track a little back in time in order to create empathy for the criminal. Anna Jordans 2013 Bruntwood Prize winning play examines a childhood without boundaries or. and so is seen and reported on much more widely. Please see ticket information below for dates. The state takes over, suddenly there are laws that are actually enforced rather than negotiated, and this felt much more familiar since the part of their lives that is subject to the state is the part that is covered by media, etc. I was wanting to see more of Hench/Jessica navigating the terms of a relationship where there has been no clear example for Hench to follow, but we arrive at the crisis of this failure to navigate very suddenly, and much of what follows just seems like the plodding through consequence rather than a pushing forward through (for me) not entirely familiar territory. ![]() ![]() I think I would have been more interested in a play without the assault and without the really explicit tragedy which, in my eyes, overwhelms the ending of the play. Nothing that's immediately "wrong" in a way that other plays will hook audiences in a game of identifying what kind of world we are operating in. Was ultimately disappointed by where the play ended - but I was excited by the first seven scenes before the turn into crisis. ![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps this is why, strangely, it rings least true at moments of maximum declared honesty. It's not that Open reads as if it's been written with a view to a lucrative serial deal (normal enough) it reads as if it's already a serialisation of itself with potential headlines (Agassi took crystal meth!) and pull quotes ("I always hated tennis") thrown in. The problem with JR, Andre's book coach, is that he makes Writing Easy. We are dealing, let's not forget, with someone who had roughly the same formal education as Wayne Rooney or Gazza.Īgassi credits the dramatic, mid-90s revival in his fortunes to his new coach, Brad Gilbert, author of Winning Ugly. I agree, this does come as a disappointment, even if we accept that it's as unreasonable to expect Agassi to sit down and actually write a book as it is to expect Martin Amis (to whom we shall return) suddenly to make the Wimbledon finals. ![]() ![]() Um, who? He's Agassi's collaborator, the guy who turned hundreds of hours of taped conversations into plausible prose. ![]() If Andre Agassi's Open is anything to go by, great tennis players begin to have minds like JR Moehringer. N orman Mailer reckoned that, as big fights loomed, great boxers "begin to have inner lives like Hemingway or Dostoevsky, Tolstoy or Faulkner, Joyce or Melville". ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The bigger obstruction is those who take the story of Moth and Sani to heart and become fully invested emotionally in their relationship. It is poetry, of course, but despite that is still very much a novel so there is simply no helping those who face that obstruction. Some will simply not be able to stick with a cohesive narrator conveyed through poetry without rejecting the idea that they are reading a novel. The plot twist comes really late in the story and certainly by the point at which it arrives, readers will either be all in with the two main characters or will have become emotionally disconnected by the means of telling the story. And it is on this point that the roots of this particular analysis shall be watered, fertilized and nurtured. Not to give away anything, but it also a story that rests precariously upon whether one can predict before its revelation the big plot twist that comes near the end. It is a girl meets boy who take a road trip together story told in the guise of a YA novel using poems. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own.Īmber McBride’s Me ( Moth) is one of the latest additions to what seems to be something close to an explosion taking place in the literary genre of verse novel. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It has since then gone on to become an international bestseller and literary classic even outside of its genre, as well as being an integral part in founding a new understanding of the vampire myth. Interview with the Vampire, Rice's debut novel and at the same time the first novel in the now two-digit numbered Chronicles of the vampires series, was published in 1976, but written in 1973, following the tragic passing away of Rice's young daughter Michele of leukemia in 1972. ![]() As he sets out in pursuit of vengeance, entering the nightmarish Court of the Ruby Grail, increasingly more enchanted (and confused) by his love for the mysterious Ursula, he finds himself facing demonic adversaries, war and political intrigue.Īgainst a backdrop of the wonders - both sacred and profane - and the beauty and ferocity of Renaissance Italy, Anne Rice creates a passionate and tragic legend of doomed young love and lost innocence. In the midst of this upheaval, Vittorio is seduced by the vampire Ursula, the most beautiful of his supernatural enemies. Now, in the second of her New Tales of the Vampires, she tells the mesmerizing story of Vittorio, a vampire in the Italian Age of Gold.Įducated in the Florence of Cosimo de' Medici, trained in knighthood at his father's mountaintop castle, Vittorio inhabits a world of courtly splendor and country pleasures - a world suddenly threatened when his entire family is confronted by an unholy power. With Pandora, Anne Rice began a magnificent new series of vampire novels. ![]() ![]() Epstein’s exploration brings out novel discoveries to old mysteries such as L’Affaire d’Asgill which distinguishes him as a historian and author. Their plight, in these pages, elevates them from what might otherwise be merely a footnote in history. However, through it all, the Franklin women bear the worst of the circumstances. ![]() In particular, the reader may find most gripping the account of Governor Franklin isolated in a squalid jail cell, accused of treason, as his famous father appears indifferent while negotiating an alliance in France. Poignantly written, Epstein brings out the conflicting emotions between three generations of Franklins through a variety of witnesses on both sides of the Atlantic. The risk William posed to the whole family–not to mention the cause of American Independence–was too great for him to consider any other policy.” The Loyal Son: The War in Ben Franklins House - Kindle edition by Epstein, Daniel Mark. “…Benjamin had been forced, against his nature, to break off all communication with his son. Epstein pulls the bed sheets back to expose the Franklin family dysfunction in a way that allows us an intimate view of the Revolutionary War and its irrevocable breach between father and son, the Royal Governor of New Jersey, William Franklin. And placing somewhere near the top is the esteemed Benjamin Franklin, who holds a prominent place in history. ![]() For reasons of nostalgia and self-delusion, we tend to idolize the Founding Fathers, ranking them by a mythological morality. ![]() ![]() ![]() Go whale watching, visit the historic Montauk lighthouse and discover what life was like as a seafaring sailor, or take a trip back in time at one of the countless museums - as you’re about to see, the list of things to do on Long Island is as impressive as any! 1 – Check out the Long Island aquariumsįor exploring all things under the sea, there’s no shortage in Long Island’s family attractions that are full of animals, education shows and hands-on experiences. ![]() It’s one of the only places in the region where you can screech your heart out on some thrilling amusement park rides, soak up the scents of fresh lavender, come face to face with sharks in the open water, then enjoy some world-class food and drink… all in one day! Whether you’re on the hunt looking for historical attractions, award-winning dining, or thrilling outdoor adventures, not to mention the long list of opportunities to immerse yourself in nature, Long Island has it all. ![]() Widely overlooked in favor of the concrete jungle that is Manhattan and hipster paradise of Brooklyn, Long Island has a heck of a lot to offer - there is a reason, after all, that millions of Big Apple folk flock to its white sandy shores for much-needed getaways year after year! ![]() ![]() Yet under the unyielding hands of Master Dan, she not only participates, but gives him everything he asks for. Despite her steamy fantasies about BDSM, the inexperienced schoolteacher plans to simply observe. After he discovers her interest in BDSM, he can't resist tying her up and unleashing the passion she hides within.Īfter Kari breaks up with her date during Beginner's Night at Club Shadowlands, she's given the option to continue with an experienced dominant. But the little sub who has wandered into his club intrigues him. Master Z hasn't been so attracted to a woman in years. But she's a professional woman-an accountant-and surely isn't. At first shocked, she soon becomes aroused watching the interactions between the Doms and their subs. ![]() ![]() But she's a professional woman-an accountant-and surely isn't a submissive. Her car disabled during a tropical storm, Jessica Randall discovers the isolated house where she's sheltering is a private bondage club. Her car disabled during a tropical storm, Jessica Randall discovers the isolated house where she's sheltering is a private bondage club. ![]() Contemporary BDSM erotic romance (contains Club Shadowlands & Dark Citadel) ![]() ![]() ![]() A trail of gray smoke snaked up to the sky, merging with the clouds. She could, however, smell the charring pine, tinged with… what? She sniffed deeper-it was acrid, harsh. Jojo pressed himself closer to her in answer.īesides the traitorous leaves, Stella could hear a pair of bullfrogs ba-rupping to each other, but nothing, not a single human voice, from across the pond. “Do you know what would happen if they saw us?” she whispered, shifting her stinging feet, the crushing of dry leaves seeming far too loud. Even though her toes were numb with cold and she knew they needed to get out of there, she could not take her eyes from the horror glimmering toward them from across the pond. Stella covered her brother’s lips with her fingers to quiet him. “You’d still be ’sleep if I hadn’t come and got you. ![]() ![]() “It was me that saw ’em first!” he protested. “Shh!” she whispered, holding him tightly. ![]() Stella yanked the boy close, dry leaves crunching beneath his bare feet. Dressed only in nightshirts, Stella Mills and her brother Jojo shivered in the midnight October chill. Two children, crouched behind the low-hanging branches of a hulking oak tree on the other side of the pond, watched the flickers of scarlet in the distance in fearful silence. Reflections of peppery-red flames shimmered across the otherwise dark surface of Kilkenny Pond. Against the black of night, a single wooden cross blazed. Chapter 1: Flames Across the Water 1 Flames Across the Water ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This thrilling adventure-based on existing records of Bernard Cornwell's ancestors, depicts a time when law and order were ripped violently apart by a pagan assault on Christian England, an assault that came very close to destroying England altogether. Above all, though, he wishes to recover his father's land, the magical fort of Bebbanburg by the wild northern sea. By now he is a young man, in love, trained to fight and ready to take his place in the dreaded shield wall. He certainly has no love for Alfred, whom he considers a pious weakling and no match for Viking savagery, yet when Alfred unexpectedly defeats the Danes and the Danes themselves turn on Uhtred, he has to decide which side he is on. The story is seen through the eyes of Uhtred, a dispossessed nobleman, who is captured as a child by the Danes and then raised by them so that, by the time the Northmen begin their assault on Wessex, Alfred's kingdom and the last territory in English hands, Uhtred almost thinks of himself as a Dane. This is the exciting-yet little known-story of the making of England in the 9th and 10th centuries, the years in which King Alfred, his son and grandson defeated the Danish Vikings who had invaded and occupied three of England's four kingdoms. ![]() |