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![]() Jaryd saves Sasha from treachery after a fight, and the consequences accelerate toward war between the overlord Hadryn and the common Udalyn. ![]() But do Captain Debogande and Major Thakur have any other choice? Read onlineįrom Publishers WeeklyShephard's epic gets off to a slow start as feisty bladeswoman Sasha, her master, her princely brothers and Jaryd, a local heir, lecture one another about religious differences amid a hodgepodge of names and invented terms. Shali insists it's suicide, and every bit the existential threat to humanity that Nia is. But this will mean placing the most powerful AI war fleet in known space into the hands of Styx. To free her, Phoenix and Styx must win control of an AI fleet known as Raka, derived from Nia's deepynine technology long ago, and used by the Reeh Empire for special missions. And Chion, of course, will be defended by the full might of the Reeh Empire. Freeing Chion could be the key to beating Nia, and saving humanity.īut Phoenix's allied drysine queen Styx, and Chion's AI former sidekick Shali, both want Chion for their own purposes. ![]() Within her vast knowledge lies the most intimate data on Nia, the deepynine queen now threatening humanity's very existence. ![]() This one is named Chion, and she has been installed at the heart of Reeh Empire power, enslaved against her will, for the past 8,000 years. Deep within hostile Reeh Empire space, the UFS Phoenix is hunting another AI queen. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I especially have to laugh about the „psychological thriller“ argument that was used to sell it, because Crichton's characterization and dialogues are so terrible in this one. Possibly, in its time, when there were not much of similar techno- and science-thriller works with Sci-Fi elements for a broader audience, it could have been seen as not so bad because of a lack of alternatives, but especially compared with what today's genre writers produce on a yearly basis and very high level, it sucks. ![]() It tried to be mindfu**ing, but the realization was poor. Some seem to see some kind of deeper philosophical meaning in this one, especially towards the end with something one could call a subtle plot twist, but to me, it was a too constructed, not well designed novel. ![]() I still remember how boredom and disappointment grew, after the first few chapters showed the setting and some suspense was built up and then it got lengthy and neither the psychological inner character plot nor the other big mystery plot made much fun or sense, especially because the logic of motivations and thinking capacities and abilities of the protagonists were… average. Very much yada yada, humanities vs natural sciences and a wasted plot idea with far too less action and twists. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The mythology of Star Wars from the time of the films and beyond has been so developed, and it currently involves so many creative people, that it’s nice to be working in my own little niche. What attracts you to that period?ĭK – Creatively, I like the freedom that period affords. Lightsabre – You seem to enjoy the historical aspects of Star Wars, tales set thousands of years before the trilogies. After that I went as a Sandperson or Jawa for Halloween for the next five years. Lightsabre – For the viewing and reading public your entry into the Star Wars universe was via Knights of the Old Republic and the Darth Bane novels, but what started you off on your own personal Star Wars journey?ĭK – I actually saw the original movie at the theatre in Canada when I was seven years old. ![]() Lightsabre – Drew, welcome to Lightsabre.ĭK – Thanks, it’s a pleasure to be (virtually) here. Our one hundred and thirty-first guest was the author of the darth Bane series – Drew Karpyshyn. Between 19 .uk brought news, fanfic, podcasts and much, much more to the masses. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Through her trips and interviews, she refined an idea she calls “racial zero sum.” Many other cities, North and South, did the same. On her research journey, McGhee traveled around the country to understand how race infuses questions of “belonging, competition and status,” and how restrictive policies aimed at Black people can also hurt white people.įor example, she went to Montgomery, Alabama, where in the late 1950s, city leaders drained a public swimming pool rather than integrate it, leaving everybody, Black and white, without the public pool. Her marriage is only a sentence in the book, but on the phone she said she included it as a “revelation of our common humanity.” Part of her journey was to marry a man - her best friend from high school - whose father was white and whose mother was an immigrant from Pakistan, meaning her children would have grandparents who were Black, white and South Asian. McGhee often uses the word “journey” to describe her thinking. But the education from her mother and her hometown stuck with her. On the East Coast, she said, Black community feels “thin,” as opposed to the “thick” Black culture of Chicago. “Friends who had fridges full of snacks and food, everything that was on the commercials.”īy the time she finished Yale, she moved in a very different world. “I saw an entirely different relationship to money,” she said. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gabriel Roberts, reading African Literature class. “Kola nut indeed, last longer in the one who cherishes it.”I remember our teacher, Mr. That is why “The Gods Are Not To Blame.”Though it portrays the African Traditions, there is a lot to learn from irrespective of whom you are and where you come from. But unfortunately, in the process, it helps to bring about its fulfillment. Ola Rotimi’s tale is about a man’s struggle to avert fate. Like Sophocles, an ancient Greek tragedian whose plays have survived. However, what really stricks me about this book now is Rotimi’s title. Through this book, I first became acquainted with Oedipus’ tale. This classic book is one of my favorite books from my literature class in High School.”The Gods Are Not To Blame” is Ola Rotimi’s retelling of Sophocles’ “Oedipus The King” using a traditional African setting and characters. An adaptation of the Greek classic Oedipus Rex, set in an indeterminate Yoruba kingdom, the story centers on Odewale, who is lured into a false sense of security, only to get somehow caught up in a somewhat consanguineous trail of events. The Gods Are Not to Blame is a 1968 play and a 1971 novel by Ola Rotimi. What are some of the sayings you remember from this novel?įatoumatta: True African classic. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() On one hand, it's really funny in places, generally fun, light-hearted and fast-paced. "Kitty Kitty", by Michele Jaffe, is a really mixed bag. Until- What? That is for inside the book too? Okay, fine.ħ Only part of the time. What? I'm supposed to keep the scary stuff inside the book?ĥ Who may or may not have perfect hair and boobs and be able to communicate with dolphins.Ħ Not that anyone believes it. Ģ No, this was the work of Dadzilla, smiter of life's happiness.ģ They ask to be called by their faerie names, Sapphyre and Tiger's*Eye. 7 1 Rock star boyfriend, homicidal hair, fabulous pals, iNsAnO father. But before she can face off against a dangerous adversary, she has to face herself. 6 Faster than you can say "gelato," Jasmine is caught up in a catastrophic caper featuring a runaway heiress, a smoldering gondolier, 142 kinds of pizza, and a bothersome kitty. Until Jasmine's Evil Hench cousin, Alyson, and her Best Fiend Veronique arrive, 3 Jasmine's secret plan to jet to California is foiled, 4 her boyfriend starts hanging with someone named Candy, 5 and her only friend in Venice turns out to be in deadly peril. 1 So it wasn't her idea of SuperFun to move halfway around the world to Venice, Italy, leaving her fab pals and hot new boyfriend back in Los Angeles. ![]() Jasmine had everything a girl could want. ![]() ![]() ![]() Months ago, when they broke up, shortly after Mav decided to make out with Iesha, a girl known for banging a fair collection of guys. Lisa’s mother and brother Carlos are the absolute worst at being welcoming to him. Many reasons are around for why Mav and Lisa struggle to make their relationship work. Well, gears will end up having to shift when we learn a bit of a backstory. ![]() The rep his father left behind earns Mav the nickname L’il Don. Maverick’s father, Adonis, was the ruler of the streets for a very long time but is now serving a sentence of forty to life, which isn’t a prison sentence. He’s a very close friend and ally of the main drug dealer on the streets, young King, and he’s pretty adapted in the field despite the fact his ma Frey and on-again off-again girlfriend Lisa have no idea. He’s just beginning twelfth grade, but doesn’t really have plans to go past college. The prequel to The Hate U Give, we meet Starr’s father, Maverick Carter, when he was 17, in the year 1998, coincidentally the year I was born, a fact that has nothing to do with this book whatsoever. The young but grown up guy looking indifferently at us through that cover asks us questions through that stare: Are you going to treat me any different than you would a white person? Do you have expectations of me? Do you accept me for who I am? Do you accept others for who they are? If you have problems in your life, are you gonna own up to them or run away like a coward? I stare at that man, and I want to salute him. ![]() ![]() Its difference from previous works lies in its emphasis on quantum physics and our capacity to access the quantum field, what Dispenza calls the “field of unlimited possibilities,” via meditations and heart coherence. In the past, he’s partnered with other scientists and institutes like The HeartMath Institute to research the science behind the effects of meditation, visualization, and patients’ ability to heal themselves.īecoming Supernatural is no less ambitious, written in Dispenza’s big-hearted, amiable prose. ![]() The idea that we can control our own biological and spiritual healing, central to his famous You Are the Placebo, appears again in Becoming Supernatural, but with new force.ĭispenza is a scientist and lecturer, “driven by the conviction that each of us has the potential for greatness and unlimited abilities.” His niche lies in his explorations of the science behind spiritual acts, endeavors, and beliefs. It applies to everyone and everything-if only we believe it.ĭispenza’s latest book, Becoming Supernatural: How Common People Are Doing the Uncommon incorporates many of the principles readers can find in his former works. ![]() In Joe Dispenza’s perspective, the supernatural is actually the natural. ![]() It may refer to capabilities or beliefs that do not seem very human. The term “supernatural” is often applied to anything society labels as “beyond the real.” ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sidney and Beatrice Webb, in their comprehensive study Soviet Communism – A New Civilisation referred to “the great, and, as it is often suggested, the growing evil of bureaucracy. “Bureaucracy: a system for controlling or managing a country, company or organisation that is operated by a large number of officials who are employed to follow rules carefully, or the officials, or the system of rules.” – not particularly helpful. ![]() The Cambridge international dictionary gives us the following definition: It could imply a lack of democracy it could imply corruption it could imply inefficiency through excessive red tape it could imply excessive centralism it could imply that the USSR was run by pure paperwork with insufficient ‘action’ and so on. VI Lenin and Josef Stalin certainly never hesitated to complain about the state of bureaucracy in the USSR, but presumably they used the term in a completely different way to the average bourgeois historian, for whom the term is nothing less than a convenient blanket dismissal of the Soviet Union and communism. It leaves the reader with a ‘carte blanche’ to assume whatever negative things about the Soviet Union he might like. Herein lies its advantage for critics of the Soviet Union. ‘Bureaucracy’ is a vague term, with a hundred possible meanings. The first question presents the first problem. ![]() The following presentation was given by Carlos Rule to the Stalin Society in September 2001. ![]() |