The key is that it be speculative, not that it fit some arbitrary genre guidelines. History, Postmodern Lit., and more are all welcome here. Not sure what counts as speculative fiction? Then post it! Science Fiction, Fantasy, Alt. Canticle for Leibowitz Rendezvous with Rama Princess of Mars Altered Carbon Foundation Blindsight Accelerando Old Man's War Armor Cities in Flight A Brave New World Children of Dune Stranger in a Strange Land Dhalgren Enders Game Gateway A Fire Upon the Deep Neuromancer A Clockwork Orange Ringworld Diamond Age Lord of Light Hyperion Startide Rising Terminal World The Forever War Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Hunger Games Left Hand of Darkness Man in the High Castle The Martian Chronicles The Player of Games The Shadow of the Torturer Sirens of Titan The Stars my Destination To Your Scattered Bodies GoĪ place to discuss published Speculative Fiction
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Mundane concerns, by the standards of most American mysteries, but much of the charm of The No. Mma Ramotswe’s cases range from exposing a freeloader posing as a father, to discovering whether or not a young Indian girl has a boyfriend, to determining the legitimacy of a worker’s injury claim, to revealing the real reason behind a doctor’s inconsistent performance. There are no bludgeoned millionaires or murdered sexpots in The No. These mysteries aren’t the standard stuff of detective novels. It is my duty to help them to solve the mysteries of their lives. “They are my people, my brothers and sisters. What she also has is a deep love for Africa generally and for Botswana and its people especially. These she has in great supply, along with perseverance, a keen knowledge of the human mind and heart, a steadfast sense of right and wrong, and a personality that inspires trust and loquaciousness in nearly all who meet her. But she does possess the intangible assets of intuition and intelligence. After all, her only assets are a tiny white van, two desks, two chairs, a telephone, an old typewriter, a teapot, and three teacups. Mma Ramotswe herself feels unsure of her success. “Can women be detectives?” asks the bank’s lawyer. Introduction: When Precious Ramotswe decides to use the money her beloved father left her to open the first ever Ladies’ Detective Agency in Botswana, everyone is skeptical. Through real-life examples and simple exercises, Beyond Mars and Venus shows you how to bring you and your partner closer than ever before.Įlevated Existence Magazine – cover feature and author interview to run in a spring issue TVĬBS San Francisco - live author interview on February 24, 2017. In Beyond Mars and Venus, Gray takes the Mars-Venus framework to the next level, helping readers to grow together in love. To meet our new needs, we require a new kind of relationship. Our new needs in today’s evolving and stressful fast-paced world-to remain healthy and happy hormonally, and in the context of our relationships-are also fundamentally different.Īs the roles of men and women evolve, relationships must evolve as well. Men and women are still fundamentally different on a hormonal level. Both men and women are now more free to move beyond the restrictions of traditional gender roles to embrace their authentic selves.īut gender freedom shouldn’t mean gender blindness. Today, what it means to be a man or a woman is more nuanced and complex than ever. By learning to speak each other’s language, millions of people dramatically improved, even saved, their relationships. Men and women, it revealed, communicate so differently, we might as well be from different planets. For more than twenty years, John Gray’s Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus has helped couples deepen their intimacy and rejuvenate their love lives. PublishDateText mediaType Audiobook shortDescription Mycroft Canner is a convict. IsPublicPerformanceAllowed False languages OverDrive Product Record readingOrder 1 images Who can, it would seem, bring inanimate objects to life. And in this world, Mycroft and Carlyle have stumbled on the wild card that may destabilize the system: the boy Bridger, who can effortlessly make his wishes come true. To us it seems like a mad combination of heaven and hell. And most of the world's population is affiliated with globe-girdling clans of the like-minded, whose endless economic and cultural competition is carefully managed by central planners of inestimable subtlety. What seem to us normal gender distinctions are now distinctly taboo in most social situations. It is a hard-won utopia built on technologically-generated abundance, and also on complex and mandatory systems of labeling all public writing and speech. The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our 21st-century eyes as ours would be to a native of the 1500s. Carlyle Foster is a sensayer-a spiritual counselor in a world that has outlawed the public practice of religion, but which also knows that the inner lives of humans cannot be wished away. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, to wander the world being as useful as he can to all he meets. To be blunt, she lured them in, and then SQUISH! between the pages, smooshed and dried like flowers. It’s presented, tongue-in-cheek, as a pastiche of the Victorian fairy craze, purporting to be the true journal of one Angelica Cottington, who pioneered a unique method of capturing and recording fairies in her journal. The first of these is Lady Cottington’s Pressed Fairy Book, written with Terry Jones (of Monty Python fame, also the screenwriter for Labyrinth). (I weep for this misfortune, for the book truly is a work of art.) However, I do have three of Froud’s other offerings, which thoroughly show off his talent, his whimsy, and his skill at capturing the unknown which lurks all about us. I was going to review it, until I discovered it had somehow, somewhere along the way, suffered severe water damage and was in no shape to be read. One of the best and earliest of these is simply entitled Faeries. Possibly best known for his design work (with his wife, Wendy Froud) on cult-favorite movies Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal, he’s also released quite a few books of his own, both alone and with various collaborators. Brian Froud and Terry Jones’ Lady Cottington’s Pressed Fairy Bookīrian Froud and Terry Jones’ Strange Stains and Mysterious Smellsīrian Froud and Terri Windling’s Good Faeries, Bad Faeriesīrian Froud is one of those artists whose magical designs and whimsical creations stay with you long after you turn the page. 'No novel I've read this year has felt as relevant, as gut-wrenching or as essential' CAROLINE O'DONOGHUE - PRAISE FOR OCTAVIA E. This is the extraordinary story of two people bound by blood, separated by so much more than time. And each time Dana saves him, the more aware she is that her own life might be over before it's even begun. Neither of them understands his power to summon her whenever his life is threatened, nor the significance of the ties that bind them. She saves his life - and it will happen again and again. When Dana first meets Rufus on a Maryland plantation, he's drowning. One cannot exaggerate the impact she has had' JUNOT DIAZ - In 1976, Dana dreams of being a writer. 'A marvel of imagination, empathy and detail' NEW YORK TIMES 'The marker you should judge all other time-travelling narratives by' GUARDIAN 'One of the most significant literary artists of the twentieth century. Butler's ground-breaking masterpiece, with an original foreword by Ayobami Adebayo. On opening night, Tallulah steps on the tail of another mouse, causing a chain accident of fallen mice and soldiers. While spunky Tallulah is full of drive and passion for ballet, she also develops a bit of an attitude and begins to brag to her dance-class friends and brother. She and the other mice are taught by the ballet master, and Tallulah tries hard to be the most enthusiastic mouse in the cast. Tallulah is thrilled when she begins rehearsals with a professional ballet company for their holiday production. In the fourth entry in the popular series about budding ballerina Tallulah, she wins a part as a mouse in a professional production of The Nutcracker, but the performance doesn’t turn out as she imagines. Though Armand is likable enough, Rachelle’s love feels sudden and unfounded, and thus it’s never entirely convincing. Predictably, Rachelle falls in love with Armand, causing a love triangle to form between the pair and the rakish Erec, captain of the king’s bloodbound. However, orders to protect the king’s illegitimate son, Armand, impede her search. When she discovers the Devourer will soon return, she redoubles her efforts to find the sword that can defeat him. Three years later, Rachelle is one of the king’s bloodbound. Rachelle kills, and the story of the killing is revealed as she grapples with debilitating guilt. The forestborn marks Rachelle: In three days’ time she must either kill and become a bloodbound-destined to become a forestborn-or be killed. Hoping to save the world, 15-year-old Rachelle defiantly leaves the safe forest path to speak with a forestborn-one of those humans who gained supernatural powers by accepting the Devourer as their lord. A high fantasy loosely based on “Little Red Riding Hood” and the less well-known “The Girl with No Hands.” Hunter, like other privateers in the sometime employ of the British, earns his living by raiding Spanish merchant ships. It also is Great Britain’s precarious toehold in a Caribbean dominated by Spain. Port Royal is a city of riches that is little more than a den of thieves. He does not like to be called a pirate-a point he makes by nearly drowning a man in a plate of gravy-but in Jamaica’s Port Royal in 1665, that distinction is a fine one. The hero of this fast-paced novel is Charles Hunter, a Harvard-educated swashbuckler who is a privateer captain of some renown. In Michael Crichton’s posthumously published Pirate Latitudes, the grog is strong, the wenches are saucy, the blood is spilled by the bucket and the cutthroats do their slicing with fiendish regularity. I haven’t read very much that tackles this subject before reading this book. What piqued my interest was the use of henbane, datura, mandrake, etc. I really enjoyed the section that dived into the practice of shamanism in traditional Western societies. The final part explores the idea of the trans-cultural experience, or the concept that the substances produce similar experiences regardless of one’s cultural background. The first three parts focus on the locations that shamanism occurred: The Upper Amazon, Cultures Undergoing Westernization and In The Traditional Western World. It was definitely enlightening to read each individual study, and think about what the anthropologist experienced during his or her fieldwork. It is a fairly old book, so I was already familiar with its content. I think I first heard about this book from a Terence McKenna speech, and was pleasantly surprised to find it a few weeks ago in my local used bookstore. Michael Harner serves as the book’s editor, and does a good job of including studies that provide different sets of information to the reader. This is a collection of ten anthropological studies that explore the use of hallucinogens in shamanism. |