![]() Regelence society is patriarchal – so patriarchal that male-male relationships are the norm for the aristocracy. Langley makes everything fit together in a surprisingly seamless way. ![]() While some might think the two genres wouldn’t play well together, Ms. At the same time, there are elements familiar to sci-fi readers – starships, computers of all sorts (including AI butlers!), fragger guns and more. This gives the books a familiar feel for Historical Regency readers – we see members of the aristocracy going to balls and the opera and discussing matters in Parliament. ![]() The planets Regelence and Englor both have societies based on the English Regency period. To catch new readers up to speed: This series is set in the far future. Most of the major world-building and the Admiral’s decision to return to Englor to see what he can discover about the kidnapping plot is found in MFC, too. The blurb makes it sound like his brother is still missing but that isn’t true. Langley’s first story in her Sci-Fi Regency series. ![]() The Englor Affair picks up just after the end of My Fair Captain, J.L. Gay Erotic Sci-Fi Romance eBook released by Samhain Publishing 11 Nov 08 (print release Fall 2009) C2‘s review of The Englor Affair (Sci-Regency Series, Book 2) by J.L. ![]()
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![]() ![]() A woman with a perilously absurd request, no less. The man she won’t let destroy her again…The last thing Damien Beecham, Viscount Quint, needs is an intrusion on his privacy, especially from the beautiful, exasperating woman he’s never stopped wanting. ![]() But only one person can help her: Lord Quint, the man who broke her heart years ago. All she needs is instruction on how to shoot it. Now her fate is in her own hands, along with a loaded gun. She’s not concerned about the criminals who will cross her path, for Sophie has mastered the art of deception-including the art of wearing trousers. Especially when she’s roaming London’s seedy underground…dressed as a man.A rabble rouser for justice, Sophie’s latest mission is to fight for the rights of the poor, the wretched-and the employees at Madame Hartley’s brothel. Lady Sophia Barnes doesn’t take no for an answer. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The terror is really felt when the alien shows its ugly head! Not my favorite of the three but still on par with the first. His voice lets the listener fall into the story and forget that there is a real world around them. Brilliant work, yet again, by Peter Guinness. The second is still my favorite but the plot twists and the things that happen in this one were not foreseen. ![]() ![]() Being on a prison world filled with me, what else would Ripley do? This book held up to the first two, which is surprising. Although, she gets herself into quite a few messes in this one. Surprisingly there are quite a few characters in this that are heroic and even outshine the marines! I was worried at times but at others so glad that Ripley had some of these individuals around her. I was on the edge of my seat wondering where there danger was going to come from. Not having an idea of this book made it all the more scary. Thank goodness she is more determined than ever but the beginning of this really made me feel for her. The beginning was tragic, yet again, and Ripley is set on another quest to kill aliens. I know them and have know them for years. The great part about these novelizations is that I can already see the characters. I know I have seen it at some point but after listening to the first three books, now I really want to watch it again. This is the movie I did not remember as well as the first two. ![]() ![]() ![]() You see how that whole blue-tent street seems to be on a hill?’”(161). When they cleared this land for houses, they just set fire to all the trees and plowed them under. Also, on the same trip, Wayne said, “‘it was all groves around here. Take for example, when Wayne, a volunteer firefighter took Paul to deal with the infestation, he said, “‘it looks like that whole street has them, all along the west side’” (161).This is saying that all those termites are the lies told since there were a ton of termites. Edward Bloor uses the infestation of the mosquitoes and termites to symbolize all the lies told, which connects to the theme that you shouldn’t spend your life hiding from the truth. Overtime, Paul finds out the secrets of those around him. ![]() To summarize the novel, Paul and his family adjust to life in Tangerine. ![]() And honesty is telling the truth to other people.” Tangerine by Edward Bloor uses symbolism to show that you shouldn’t hide from the truth. Spencer Johnson stated, “Integrity is telling myself the truth. ![]() ![]() So begins an unexpected journey into the covert war on slavery that takes Hiram from the corrupt grandeur of Virginia's proud plantations to desperate guerrilla cells in the wilderness, from the coffin of the deep South to dangerously utopic movements in the North. Spurred on by his improvised plantation family, Thena, his chosen mother, a woman of few words and many secrets, and Sophia, a young woman fighting her own war even as she and Hiram fall in love, he becomes determined to escape the only home he's ever known. ![]() This strange brush with death forces a new urgency on Hiram's private rebellion. ![]() Hiram almost drowns when he crashes a carriage into a river, but is saved from the depths by a force he doesn't understand, a blue light that lifts him up and lands him a mile away. About the Book "Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage-and lost his mother and all memory of her when he was a child-but he is also gifted with a mysterious power. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() danforth's first novel-The Miseducation of Cameron Post- is a coming of GAYge story set largely in Miles City, Montana, the cattle ranching town where she was born and raised. The Miseducation of Cameron Post is a stunning and unforgettable literary debut about discovering who you are and finding the courage to live life according to your own rules.Įmily m. But just as that starts to seem like a real possibility, ultrareligious Aunt Ruth takes drastic action to "fix" her niece, bringing Cam face-to-face with the cost of denying her true self-even if she's not exactly sure who that is. She and Cam forge an unexpected and intense friendship-one that seems to leave room for something more to emerge. Beautiful, pickup-driving Coley is a perfect cowgirl with the perfect boyfriend to match. Survival in Miles City, Montana, means blending in and leaving well enough alone (as her grandmother might say), and Cam becomes an expert at both. She knows that from this point on, her life will forever be different. Relief they'll never know that, hours earlier, she had been kissing a girl.īut that relief doesn't last, and Cam is soon forced to move in with her conservative aunt Ruth and her well-intentioned but hopelessly old-fashioned grandmother. When Cameron Post's parents die suddenly in a car crash, her shocking first thought is relief. ![]() ![]() ![]() While there are “eluders” like Bix’s son Gregory, who refuse to share their private thoughts with strangers, many are seduced by the convenience and power of this collective tool. One of those instruments of change is Bix, an NYU classmate of Sasha in Goon Squad but here a vastly rich social media magnate who, in 2016, makes the next leap in the “Self-Surveillance Era” by creating, first, Own Your Unconscious, which allows people to externalize their consciousness on a cube, and then Collective Consciousness, which offers the option of “uploading all or part of your externalized memory to an online ‘collective,’ ” thereby gaining access to “the anonymous thoughts and memories of everyone, living or dead, who had done the same.” Egan explores the impact of this unnervingly plausible innovation with her habitual panache, ranging from her characters’ pre-internet youths to the 2030s. ![]() ![]() Egan revisits some characters from A Visit From the Goon Squad (2010) and their children to continue her exploration of what fiction can be and do in the 21st century.Īs Manhattan Beach (2017) showed, Egan is perfectly capable of writing a satisfying traditional novel, but she really dazzles when she turns her formidable gifts to examining the changes to society and individuals wrought by the internet and social media. ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, she offers this: “A real withdrawal of attention happens first and foremost in the mind.”Īs this aspirational if vague prescription makes clear, there’s a disconnect between offering concrete tips for staying off your phone and trying to capture the existential urgency of our plight. ![]() She acknowledges the difficulty of withdrawing from social media platforms when our lives, both social and professional, are ever-more dependent on them. “I’m looking for a broader shift in how we even conceive of what is worthwhile.” ![]() “There is such a craving for quick fixes in general, self-help books, things you will download,” she said. For Odell, these include the corrosive concept of “productivity,” the idea that time is money and what matters is making more of it. ![]() Inevitably, an author’s larger concerns are embedded in any meditation on attention. The sentiment behind “How to Do Nothing” is one of defiance, pushing back against the notion of being perpetually plugged in, whether we are working or simply managing our online “brands.” Odell grew up in Cupertino, just blocks away from what is now the Apple campus (her mother was an employee at Hewlett-Packard), and as she was working on her book, she would sit for hours in the Morcom Rose Garden in Oakland, noticing her surroundings, with no particular agenda. ![]() ![]() That is, with the exception of one ship, the Britannia. Organized pirates, known as Boskonians, have gained a great advantage with a new type of space drive, making their ships far faster than anything the Patrol can build. The book deals with the earliest stages of Kinnison's career, starting with his graduation as a Lensman from the Patrol's academy. Kinnison and Clarissa MacDougall are the penultimates of the human breeding program the Arisians set up many eons earlier. Galactic Patrol introduces Kimball Kinnison, who will be the hero of the next three books - Gray Lensman, Second Stage Lensmen and (to a lesser extent) Children of the Lens. First Lensman was written later to bridge the events in Triplanetary to those in Galactic Patrol. It was later published in book form in 1950 by Fantasy Press.Īlthough portions of Triplanetary were written earlier, they were not originally part of the Lensman story and were only later revised to connect them to the rest of the series. The stories in this volume were the first parts written of the original Lensman saga. ![]() The novel was originally serialized in the magazine Astounding in 1937. ![]() Galactic Patrol is a science fiction novel by American author E. ![]() ![]() Translations: German, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Polish, Turkish.edition published by Simon Pulse April 3, 2018 But can Zorie and Lennon’s rekindled connection survive out in the real world? Or was it just a result of the fresh forest air and the magic of the twinkling stars?Īmazon | Barnes & Noble | BAM | Bookshop.Org| IndieBound | Indigo | Libro.FM| Target ![]() ![]() But fighting each other while also fighting off the forces of nature makes getting out of the woods in one piece less and less likely.Īnd as the two travel deeper into Northern California’s rugged backcountry, secrets and hidden feelings surface. With no one but each other for company, Zorie and Lennon have no choice but to hash out their issues via witty jabs and insults as they try to make their way to safety. ![]() It doesn’t hurt that their families are the modern day, Californian version of the Montagues and Capulets.īut when a group camping trip goes south, Zorie and Lennon find themselves stranded in the wilderness. A teen girl’s way-too-ordinary life is driven off the beaten path when she’s abandoned in the wilderness with her worst adversary-the boy who broke her heart.Įver since last year’s homecoming dance, best friends-turned-best enemies Zorie and Lennon have made an art of avoiding each other. ![]() |