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Vancouver Island, British Columbia. The year 2021. Major Royale has been posted to Sidney as the new Liaison Officer, as the war for Canada slowly winds down.<br><br>Although the war may have been won, the battles continue. Islamic terrorists, military traitors, suicide bombers and the threat of nuclear destruction provide the backdrop for this second and final book in the Rita Royale series. Toss in a homeless teenaged artist, a harlot in the heat wave, the suspected Antichrist, a...
| Автор | Terry JD Anderson |
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea – Jules Verne<br>Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen<br>The Count of Monte Cristo- Alexandre Dumas<br>Treasure Island- Robert Louis Stevenson<br>Heart of Darkness- Joseph Conrad<br>Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte<br>Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte<br>The Island of Doctor Moreau- H. G. Wells<br>Oliver Twist- Charles Dickens<br>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- Mark Twain<br>The Adventures of Sherlock...
| Автор | Charles Dickens |
Although it has become relatively easy to self-publish, it's also easy to make serious mistakes in writing, design and marketing that can seriously limit the acceptability and sales of a self-published book.<br><br>It's sad—and funny—that some of the worst self-published books, and the majority of the books discussed in this book, are books that try to provide advice to other authors.<br><br>This book will help you avoid the worst...
| Автор | Michael N. Marcus |
Science Fantasy blends science fiction AND fantasy, so it tends to be bolder and more highly colored than pure science fiction. In the middle of the last century, the British magazine SCIENCE FANTASY created its own distinctive strains of fantasy narrative, most famously by such writers as Brian W. Aldiss, J. G. Ballard, John Brunner, Michael Moorcock, and Thomas Burnett Swann, among others. This book looks closely at the whole trajectory of that lost magazine, from its birth in 1950 through...
| Автор | Damien Broderick |
This is a compilation of a unique writing style. I recall some of my childhood memories as best I can. Some details are sketchy, for it's been such a long time since I left the harbour behind to seek my fame and fortune upalong. That being the case, I exaggerate a bit to fill in the blanks. So my stories are mostly truth with a bit of fiction thrown in. I coined a word to describe it. Triction. Livens it up a bit, don't ya t'ink. And of course some is all fiction, but I'll...
| Автор | Wilbur Dean |
A definitive look at the life and work of horror writer H.P. Lovecraft, by a leading scholar of the fantasy and horror field. INTRODUCTION, by Darrell Schweitzer NOTES ON AN ENTITY, by Robert Bloch A LITERARY COPERNICUS, by Fritz Leiber, Jr. THE FOUR FACES OF THE OUTSIDER, by Dirk W. Mosig THE FIRST LEWIS THEOBALD, by R. Boerem STORY-WRITING: A Letter from H. P. Lovecraft CHARACTER GULLIBILITY IN WEIRD FICTION, by Darrell Schweitzer SOME THOUGHTS ON LOVECRAFT, by Arthur Jean Cox THE...
| Автор | Darrell Schweitzer |
Although the problems of writing fantasy and science fiction include all those pertaining to the writing of any kind of fiction, particular problems arise in stories in which unprecedented things can and do happen, as well as stories that often involve unhuman characters of various sorts, and that might require the elaborate design of entire imaginary worlds. This book provides an elementary introduction to problems of those kinds, and the ways in which they modify the general problems of...
| Автор | Brian Stableford |
The English for Life Reader for Grade 4 contains examples of a novel, folklore, short stories, dramas, and various information and media texts, such as newspaper and magazine articles, poems, advertisements, brochures, posters, and notices. These are the texts suggested as teaching support material for Grade 4 by the Department of Basic Education. The English for Life Reader provides a volume of reading material that is easy to access, and which has been chosen specifically for the Grade 4...
| Автор | Lynne Southey |
This book contains Christopher Caudwell’s 1937 treatise, “Illusion and Reality”. It is a work of Marxist literary criticism that develops the idea that each individual era of British poetry stems from a novel economical paradigm in bourgeois society. Christopher St John Sprigg (1907–1937), more commonly known by his pseudonym 'Christopher Caudwell', was a British Marxist poet and thinker. In early life, he made his way to Marxism and set about rethinking everything in light of it, from...
| Автор | Christopher Caudwell |
Sport, fitness, games and murder are the main themes of this collection of wicked and witty crime fiction and poetry by the Ladies’ Killing Circle, who brought you Menopause is Murder and Cottage Country Killers. From the gym to the golf course to the supposedly peaceful practice of tai chi, murder, rage and revenge refuse to respect the human quest for immortality through fitness and can victimize the most tanned and toned bodies as easily as those of couch potatoes and gourmands. Excessive...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
This newest anthology of short crime fiction from the Ladies’ Killing Circle takes a spirited look at baby boomers as they go from young, hairy and hip to old, bald and bad. The children of the sixties are are up to no good in another wicked anthology from this prolific collective of writers. The editors, themselves celebrated short crime fiction writers, have assembled such luminaries of crime fiction as Barbara Fradkin, H. Mel Malton, Vicki Cameron and Melanie Fogel, as well as Arthur Ellis...
| Автор | Joan Boswell |
Do not go gentle into that good night, wrote Dylan Thomas, and Canadas notorious Ladies Killing Circle has taken his advice to heart. In Going Out With a Bang, the dangerous dames have brought together an explosive mix of authors from across the country. Whether its the boom of drums, the cacophony of a train wreck, or the thud of a body crashing down the stairs, no one goes out without a fight. Twenty authors, along with poet Joy Hewitt Mann, will chill you, entertain you or plain blow you away...
| Автор | Barbara Fradkin |